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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Departments of Archives, Ch Va. TH "HERE S ESTABLISHED 1882. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. NAGGIND. On this subject a father says; "My son taught me a lesson when a little boy,—one that I have never forgotten. He had been guilty of a small misdemeanor, and had tried to wriggle out of it by not telling the truth. I gave him a mild spanking, and talked the matter over afterwards. I began by saying; "Now Robert, if you had told me the truth, I should not have spanked you." He stood before me, scraping one foot along the carpet, looked up at me and said: "What would you have done? and I answered: "I should have only talked to you." "Well," he drawled; "how long would you have talked?" Now, when times arise, requiring a reprimand, I still hear that little voice—"How long would you have talked?" I go right to the point and cut it short." . "Bredren," said Parson Black, earnestly, "deream some folks in which de still, small voice of conscience keeps getten' stiller an' smaller, until at las' it bab ter larn de deef an' dumb langwige, ef it wants to attract dir attention." THE LAWN MOWEB. "How does you lawn-mower run?" acquired Nick,looking over the fence. "It doesn't run" replied Dick, nopping his face. "I have to push the blamed thing." WHAT UNCLE EZRA SAYS. When a feller gits above his job he's a long way from it. Ye kin allus tell when a man bez pin to an auction by the watch he displays. People who set 'round waitin' for somethin to turn up, never git very ar from their cheer. Some folks say this is a hard world on' full of rocks. That is because they never dig spy of them out. Mr. Spratt told his friends that he would attend a curtain smoker, and Mr. Spratt said very decidedly that he wouldn't. A non partisan acquaintance dropped in the evening if the smoker in question, to see who had won out, but found Spratt, and is wife both asleep in their chairs at the dining room table. Spratt, you see, had put sleeping powder in Mrs. spratt's coffee, so that he might go way, and she had put sleeping power in his to prevent him from going way. Wilbur Wright, at a tea, in Dayton, mentioned a rich young Philadelphian, who had recently taken upying. "I suppose they're making a seat splash, he and his new biplane," did a Dayton girl. "Well," admitted Mr. Wright, they did make rather a splash, the ay they fell into the Schuylkill riv. Landor, the great English poet, BY W. G. * * CONSCIENCE. ** * * THE 8PRATTS. A SPLA8H. ALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S MARTINSBURG, W. was, on the one hand a most violent and even brutal man, and on the other hand a most delicate and sensitive of man. He adored flowers. The gardens of his beautiful villa in Florence were full of flowers and the post walked among them daily, never, however, plucking any, but only bending over them reverently to admire their loveliness and perfume. Landor's cook one day served him a wretched dinner, and in his anger the poet threw the man out of the window into a bed of splendid roses. As the cook writhed with pain below, Landor, from his window, exclaimed in a horror-striken voice, "Good gracious! I forgot the roses." The Igorot (meaning "hill people") are of an ancient Malay stock, the most ancient in the Philippines, as may be inferred from the fact that they do not even have any traditions of ever having lived in any other place than in that which they now occupy. Despite the four centuries of Spanish domination the priests have not been able to convert these half million savages either to Christianity or to civilization. They have no system of writing and their reasoning is pragmatic rather than logical; that is to say, they judge actions by results. Their fathers and forefathers irrigated the mountain sides, built wonderful rice terraces, cultivated rice and camotes (sweet potatoes); drank tapoi (rice cider), ate roasted pig, and gave thanks to Lumawig (Great Spirit) when the harvest was done. It is all so simple, so clear to the Igorot. Under the old Spanish regime, the Igerote indulged in the gentle art of hunting each other's heads. To the Spaniards who traveled through the mountains armed to the tooth and as seldom as possible, these people were more or less enbrouded in mystery and were probably referred to as wicked heathen or bogie men. But Uncle Sam stepped in, and, owing largely to the wise efforts of Dr. Dean C. Worcester (now Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Insular Government) and of Governor Pack, together with their deputies, has discouraged this disconcerting practice so that it goes on only in very remote places and very quietly. Excellent mountain trails have been made into the unexplored interior and a single standard of justice to all tribes has been established. As far as possible the Igerote are allowed to retain their own customs, which have the force of law.—Southern Workman. The horribly mutilated body of the seventeen-year-old daughter of George Barham, a farmer living near Pleasant Ridge, Boone county, Ark., was found. The girl rode horseback to the post office at Pleasant Ridge, but failed to return. Searchers found her dismembered body. She had been dragged from her horse and attacked. Her head was cut off, both legs were severed from the body and the trunk was cut in two. Armed posses are searching for the murderer. A lynching is expected if he is caught. Sidna Allen Escapes Death. Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen clan which shot up the Carroll county court at Hillsville last March, resulting in the death of five people, was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Wytheville, Va., for killing Judge Massie. The jury fixed the penalty at fifteen years in the penitentiary. Fiend Mutilates Girl. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily distorted image with no discernible content. William Seymour Edwards, a leader of the progressive movement, a typical, rugged product of the West Virginia mountains, author, world-traveler and sincere advocate of the uplift movement in the political and social world, reiterated today his pre-election announcement that he would ask; the new State Legislature to elect him to the United States Senate as the successor of Clarence W. Watson, the overthrown Democratic leader. "My announcement as a candidate for the United States Senate was made several weeks prior to the election," said Colonel Edwarda today, "I came out in the open as a candidate against Mr. Watson and made a declaration to that effect in nearly all the principal cities of the State where I spoke for the Progressive cause and the success of the Progressive Republican State and legislative candidates: I feel if elected, that I can be of some service to West Virginia, for I was reared among those Mountaineers and have never gotten out of touch with our plain people. It is with them that I like to associate and it was for them that we made the brave sincere and effective fight, which terminated a few days ago in the election of a Progressive Republican State ticket and a Progressive Republican egislature. "This was a notable victory that was won in West Virginia. We gave Mr. Wilson an earnest battle for first place in the Presidential contest and we recovered a State Legislature from a misguided democracy which had failed to take note of the onward movement of the people and made the mistake of electing two reactionaries to the United States Senate in 1911. "It is preposterous to think for a moment that the mistakes of the Democratic party will be repeated by the incoming Legislature which was chosen by the people in demand for better things. The defeat of Mr. Watson proves conclusively that the voters of West Virginia are in accord with the great onward movement led by Theodore Roosevelt, and which has stirred not only the people of this country, but the poor ples of foreign nations as well, and they will neither sanction, condone nor forgive their betrayal of the public welfare by any political party. 'So for as I am concerned this will be a clean contest for the high office of Senator of the United States. At the very inception of my candidacy I announced that there would be no such saturnalia of debauchery in the new Legislature characterized the session of 1911 and the class of men who were elected to the new Legislature is efficient verification of my forecast. The day of the 'golden harvest' is past and the new Legislature will choose a man for the Senate who is in accord with this onward movement which our people demanded and have sanctioned. I expect to be that man and the next senator of the United States from West Va Col. Edwards is a man of ripe experience in the political world. He has been active in the support of the Republican party for many years and is a former speaker of the W.Va. House of Delegates. In the late campaign Colonel Edwards was active and effective, and without his efforts and aid the great victory won could not have been achieved. The Kanowha leader is thoroughly acquainted with the industries of the State. He is one of the pioneer oil and gas producers in West Va. and is responsible for the rediscovery of the immense gas fields in the southern section of the State. Col. Edwards, also has been active in the coal business, and the famous Coalburgh seam of coal was first discovered by his family at Coalbridge Knewha county, where he still maintains his residence. A graduate of the Columbia law school through which institution he worked his way. Mr. Edwards is a lawyer by profession but his life has been devoted to the development of his State and it has been partly through his energy and resources that West Virginia has risen to the front rank in the development of her natural resources. He is the author of several popular books of travel, is a scholar, and a man of fine literary taste. His charities and benevolences are many and large. He is a man of original ideas and a man who does things. [Bust of a man with a bald head and a mustache, wearing a suit and a tie.] Senator Rayner Dies. Senator Isidor Rayner, of Maryland, one of the leading Democratic members of the United States senate and a man whose name was offered to the Baltimore convention by William J. Bryan as a suitable compromise candidate for the presidential nomination, died in Washington of nounitis. Senator Rayner had been in a serious condition for about six weeks and had been in a comatose condition for the most part since last Wednesday. The control of the United States senate after March 4 may hinge on the death of Senator Raynor. The Republican whom it is expected Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, will appoint in his place will hold office at least until the Maryland legislature meets in January, 1914, when a Democrat probably will be elected. Mr. Rayner's death removes one of the Democrats on whom the control of the senate depended in the new congress. With his vote the Democratic leaders counted on mustering forty-nine, or one more than a majority of the total membership of ninety-six. In any event, forty-eight votes, with the vote of the vice president in case of a tie, was looked upon as sufficient strength to insure control. While the Democrats still have an apparent strength of forty-eight, the death of the Maryland senator reduces the supposed majority to a point very near the vanishing point. Senator Kayner's illness from neuritis covers a ported of nearly five years. He attempted to enter actively into the recent presidents as Democratic campaign and met Bourge Cockran in joint debate at Baltimore late in September. The effort exhausted him and he became seriously ill immediately afterward. Carnegie to Pension Ex-Presidents. An annual pension of $25,000 for each future ex-president of the United States is the latest form which the beneficence of Andrew Carnegie is to take. This announcement of Mr. Carnegie's intention was made by the eight trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York at the close of their second annual meeting in his residence on Fifth avenue. "Provision has been made through this corporation for a pension for each future ex-president and his widow, unmarried, of $25,000 per year, as long as these remain unprovided for by the nation, that they may be able to spend the latter part of their lives devoting their unique knowledge gained of public affairs to the public good, free from pecuniary cares. "These pensions will be promptly offered to the ex-presidents or their widows, so that no application will be required from them." Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hottest of mothers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and colors. The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- ITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,50c. 6 months.....75c. 3 months.....40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Calba. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Cufford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Seal Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOV. 30 h., 1912. If elelation is produced by the absence of the sun, why is not ebony caused by the powerful rays of the sun in the torrid zone? Sad as it is to live in a state of suffering, it is possible that one may develop character and through pain may arrive at a better status in the world to come. Being a Jew, whose race has been, and is so unmercifully persecuted, what a pity that Isidor Rayner, a man of strong thinking faculties, should have poisoned his nerves by his constant abuse of the Negro race, and that not one honest Negro lives to mourn his departure. John Cain, the Negro who was set upon by a mob in New York, and who killed and wounded several of his prosecutors, has had his sentence of death in the electric chair committed to one of life imprisonment by Governor Dix, New York's democratic governor. This is as it should be, and all Negroes every where are deserving of—we mean justice. They should ask for nothing more, and be satisfied with nothing less. We are informed that the National Cash Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio, has incurred the wrath of your Uncle Samuel in having disobeyed his laws by being guilty of "restraint of trade" infractions in freezing their competitors out, and that he is likely to punish them for so doing. We hope he does, for we have it from undisputed authority that this gigantic corporation has been guilty of gross discriminations against Negroes in its plant at Dayton because they were Negroes. From the way the Progressive Party people go about their work, it would appear to the individual who sees as he walks, that the great start so suspiciously made by Theodore Roosevelt and his brave band of followers in the year 1912 shall not be allowed to leg. Hon. Joseph M. Dixon, National Chairman of the Progressive Party, has issued a call for a meeting of Progressives in Chicago on December 10, and State Chairman William M. O. Dawson, of West Virginia has also expressed a desire to have all the Bull Moose he can possibly get in Charleston on January 8; 1913 During the two years that Coleman Blease has been governor of South Carolina he has turned over five hundred men out of the penitentiary. If all of these men were innocent of any wrong doing, the exercise of executive clemency in their cases would be but just and proper, tho it is openly hinted at by those who are in a position to know, that the "Hon. Cole" is abusing the pardoning power in order to build up for himself a powerful political machine. This may be overdrawing matters considerably with regard to South Carolina's erratic governor, but if it is not, he should be im peached, and that without delay. There are plenty of good women in this section of the country, but none of them anywhere, that we know of, can excel Meadames. Lucinda Roper and Hattie Goens, of Kearneyaville, Jefferson County, for honesty of purpose, appreciation of high ideals, and a better understand ing of what is best for the race with which they are identified. They are the kind whom the Press loves to honor, and we hope they may be spared for many more years yet, so that they can continue their labor for humanity's betterment. Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso, the three men who in a manner, caused pandemonium to reign in Lawrence, Mass., and who have been just freed from a murder charge, don't seem satisfied with the mischief they have already wrought, but are going up and down the country proclaiming themselves as martyrs, and saying the Lawrence authorities were afraid of them. Such fire brands as those fellows have proven they are, can do the laboring classes no good, but much harm, and the sooner they and the propaganda they teach are frowned down good and hard, the better it will be for the whole country—and their kind. Circumstances growing out of the war between the Turks and the Balkan states, have so wrought up the more powerful European nations that the entente cordiale that has apparently existed among them for some time back is nearing a rupture. As we see it, and as is usually the case when recourse is had to war, encroachment and aggrandizement are the cause of the near-clash. Trained diplomate, with all the shrewdness at their command, may avert general war in Europe, and they should give busy at once, and thus prevent a war, which if started, is bound to be one of the bloodiest in the world's history. It certainly behooves our people to busy themselves in seeing after the youngsters. It is most important to do this, because, figuratively speaking, the boys and girls of today are the men and women of tomorrow. This being so, it puts it squarely up up to us to see that our boys eschew crap shooting, cigarettes, &c., as well as to be aware of the whereabouts of our young girls and their behavior at all times. Acting as above suggested, is our simple duty, and we should do it, or know the reason why. Character is a priceless jewel, and we should do our level best to make our children realize the value of being untarnished before the world. Albert T. Patrick, the New York lawyer who was convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice in 1900, has been finally rewarded with life and liberty, he having been pardoned by Governor Dix, of New York, on Wednesday last. Patrick's was an uphill fight, he having been confined in the Tombs prison and in the Sing Sing death house during all these long years, but his indomitable will, his keen legal mind, and the confidence he invariably displayed, as well as last, but not least, the noble and intelligent assistance rendered him by his devoted wife, went a long way toward helping him in achieving a victory which will go down in history as one of the greatest legal triumphs of modern times. People generally, are very well pleased with the final outcome of the Patrick affair. As is well known to all who followed the trial, the evidence against Patrick was rather direct, but it was given by a known incompetent, and there were many circumstances connected with the death of Rice which were worthy of the most careful scrutiny—conditions which, to both lay and legal minds, made it hard for people to believe that Patrick had murdered or instigated the murder of Rice. MINIMUM WAGE FOR ENGINEERS Arbitrators Point Out Danger to Public of Strikes and Federal and State Commission Suggested as Remedy. Thirty thousand locomotive engineers on fifty-two centern railroads gain a partial victory in their demand for more wages, under the award announced by the board of arbitration. In its decision, however, the board holds that the public, which had no voice in the controversy, and no choice but to abide by the decision, had more at stake than either engineers or railroads; and the report emphasizes the necessity of plans to safeguard the public against the possibility of a future strike, whose consequences it depicts in somber vein. "It would be difficult to exaggerate the seriousness of such a calamity," reads the report. "It is safe to say that the large cities of the east would find their supply of many articles of food exhausted within a week. Of so important a commodity as milk they would have no more than a day's supply. If a strike of the character lasted for only a single week, the suffering would be beyond our power of description. The interests of the public so far exceed those of the parties to a controversy as to render the former paramount. To this paramount interest both the railroad operators and the employees should submit." To place such a strike beyond the realms of probability, the board advocates the creation of federal and state wage commissions. These commissions, the board suggests, should be vested with practically the same powers over organized labor as public utilities commissions now exercise over quasi-public corporations. "It is the belief of the board," continues the decision, "that in the last analysis the only solution is to qualify the principle of free contract in the railroad service." From this suggestion P. H. Morrissey, the representative of the engineers on the board, dissents. While the award increases wages on some railroads and for some classes of service, it holds that a general increase on all roads is not warranted. The award dates back to May 1 last, and will hold for one year from that date. Mr. Morrissey, representing the engineers, has already indicated doubt as to its renewal. In the past, with several notable exceptions, the contracts between the roads and the engineers have been renewed annually. Following are the more important of the board's awards and the requests of the engineers: In passenger service, a minimum wage was granted of $4.25 for 100 miles or less; and an overtime rate of 50 cents per hour with an average speed of twenty miles per hour. The engineers asked $4.40 and $4.60 per day of 100 miles, according to the size of the locomotive cylinder, with an overtime rate of 70 cents per hour after five hours. In through freight service a minimum was granted of $4.75 per day of 100 miles or less, with overtime pro rata after ten hours. The engineers requested rates of $5.25, $5.50 and $5.75 per day of 100 miles, according to size of the engine; and $7 for Mallet engines; the same rates to apply to mine runs, work, wreck, helper or pusher, milk and circus traing. In local freight service, twenty five cents additional to the through freight rates was granted. This met the full request of the engineers. In switching service, a minimum of $4.10 a day of ten hours or less was granted. The engineers asked $4.50 per day of ten hours in switching service and for belt line service. All existing rates higher than the minimum granted by the board are continued in force. In fixing the minimum wage in passenger service at $4.25 per day, a higher minimum rate is established for the roads, parties to the arbitration with the exception of a few. In awarding the minimum through freight rate of $4.75 per day, the board establishes wages for the district that measurably approach the current minimum of roads now paying the better rates. In making the rate for local freight service twenty-five cents higher than through freight service a general increase of compensation is granted. The effect of the twenty-mile per hour basis of computing overtime in the passenger service, the rules regarding final terminal delay and other changes to the rules of service are all more favorable to the engineers than existing rules on many of the roads. After being held up in his barn and then being marched to his house with his hands behind him, Lee Insheep, a prosperous farmer living near Romney, W. Va., shot and killed one of his assailants. The dead robber proved to be Frank Hardy, a negro living in the vicinity. Mr. Insheep wounded the other robber, who is said to be Anjie Hardy, a brother of the dead bandit, and who managed to escape. Insheep narrowly escaped death, a bullet plowing its way through one cheek, and his housecheeper, Mary Heath, was beaten on the head with the butt end of a revolver and seriously injured. Officers and posses of citizens of Hampshire county, assisted by Police Lieutenant John Trieber, of Cumberland, Md., and bloodhounds, have been searching the woods and mountains for the fugitive, and so incensed are the citizens over the attempted murder and robbery of Inskep and his housekeeper that no one living in the vicinity expects to see the negro brought back alive. Elighteen Miners Hurt In Cave-In. Eighteen men were seriously injured by a cave-in at the Barnum mine, No. 2, of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Duryea, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The cave-in came without warning, and the injured men were partly covered by the slate and coal. Rescuers promptly went to work and the entombed men were taken to the surface before gas could accumulate. Thirty other men, who were in the mine at the time, escaped by a second opening. The most seriously injured are: A. E. Jetter, superintendent of the colliery, injured internally; John J. McNulty, miner and treasurer of the school district of Pistston; Frank Flannery, miner; Martin Reap, miner, and James Langan, miner. All the other victims are foreigners. Several of the injured are likely to die. Nearly all the physicians in the vicinity were summoned to the shaft to attend to the injured. Most of the victims were removed to the Pittston hospital. An investigation shows that the accident was caused by a depression in the surface, which caused the roof to fall and entombed the men in the place they were working. Commits Schrank to Asvium John Schrank, the New York man, who shot Colonel Roosevelt was committed by Judge A. C. Backus in Milwaukee, Wis., to the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh. This disposition of the case was taken after the commission of five alienists had filed its report declaring Sohrank insane and after ten or twelve witnesses had given testimony in connection with the shooting. The conclusions of the report signed by the alienists follow: "First — John Schrank is suffering from insane delusions, grandlose in character and of a systematic variety. "Second—In our opinion, he is insane at the present time." "Third—On account of the connection between his delucions an the act with which he stands charged, we are of the opinion he is unable to confer intelligently with counsel on the conduct of his defense." Family Slain With Axe The bodies of William Esley, his wife and four-year-old child were found in their home in Philadelphia, Miss. All had been murdered with an axe. The police believe that they were victims of the "sacrifice act," to which they were reported to have belonged. Clementine Barnabet, "high priestess" of the cult, who admitted taking eighteen human lives, is in prison at Lafayette, La., but she is believed to have knowledge of the killings in Philadelphia. Ferry Bumper Crushes Man. Frank Leaver, of Port Richmond, a suburb of Philadelphia, was at work repairing a weight box under the slip of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad ferry in Camden, N. J., when his head was caught between the bumper of a ferryboat and the end of the swing bridge. He was crushed to death. Weds Chauffeur Instead of Rich Man. Mrs. Almee Givins, formerly of Detroit, and divorced wife of Robert S. Givins, a member of Chicago's fashionable set, discovered that she was the central figure in a strange matriomal tangle. After eloping to Crown Point, Ind., Wednesday and marrying at 2 a. m. a man whom she believed to be a son of Marshall M. Kirkman, former vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, she was told that the man was William Boehm, Mr. Kirkman's chauffeur until recently. Detectives are searching for Boehm, who is said to have gone to Danville, Ill. JOHN MITCHELL'S BANK EASILY WITHSTANDS FOOL ISH "RUN." Richmond, Va.—The "run" on the Mechanics' Savings Bank, recently, fully tested the financial soundness of that institution. J. S. Stewart appeared at the bank to draw out $10.85, Oct. 28. As it was after banking hours, W. T. Davis, the paying teller, told him to come back the next day, which he did. In the meantime it appears that the bank could not meet its demands, and a "run" began. President John Mitchell, jr., directed Casbier Wyatt to pay all persons who demanded their money, and piles of money greeted the gaze of those who came after their deposits. The American National and the First National Banks offered President Mitchell aid that he might need, and pretty soon a truck filled with all kinds of money drew up before the door. The aid was not needed, however, as the bank's reserve was sufficient for all needs. On Oct. 30 and 31, $15.407 was withdrawn, but on Nov. 1 confidence seemed to have been restored as over $5,000 was redeposited, while $2,000 more came in on Nov. 2, and it was only a short time thereafter until business was moving along in its usual way at John Mitchell, Jr.'s palatial banking house. When State Banking Commissioner Bark-dale heard there was a run on the bank he stationed himself in the bank in order to assure all depositors that the institution was perfectly solvent. The Mechanics Bank is a member of the local Clearing House Association and observed the rules laid down by the association. It is run on the most up-to-date lines, and is capitalized at $100,000. It owns the new $50,000 four story store and office building, it built, and occupies part of, renting the remainder. The Bank's fixtures cost $15,000. There are 2,000 depositors and 350 stockholders. BANQUETS & CATERERS BALTIMORE & OIR RAILROAD. Corrected to May 26th, 1918. No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 15 Daily at 11.50 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 5 Daily at 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39.5.37 p. m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11.55 a.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore, Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. J. R. CLIFFORD. Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Thanksgiving Day was quietly and sittingly observed in and around Martinsburg. The young son of Mr. Samuel Brown has been sick during the week, but he is better now. John R. Clifford, Jr., has gone to Mechanicsburg, Pa., where he will be the guest of his brother for awhile. Miss Bridget Burryman, who was confined to her home on account of illness, is considerably better. Mrs. Bierie Roman was very much indisposed during the early part of the week, but is better now. Misses. Mary and Blanche Brane, of Keyser, sisters of Rev. Samuel M. Esane, passed through our town on route to Baltimore the other day. Follow the crowd to Fletchers West End Grocery. Everything nies and in a sanitary condition Phone 287K. P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Rsv. George H. Carter, the popular and energetic pastor of Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church, spent several days in Philadelphia during the week. Mr. Samuel Rector, the well known and popular all around man who is employed in Katz's Department Store, made a flying business trip to Pinesburg, Md., the other day. SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address Lincoln Oil Co. Cleveland, Ohio. Mr George Mackey, one of Mar- tinsburg's older citizens, and a very industrious man, has been very sick for the past week or so, but as we go to press he is slightly improved. GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN One year ago last Tuesday, Nov ember 26th., 1911, Albert Franklin Clifford, Jr., beloved son of A. F. and Mrs. Bessie Clifford, departed this life, aged 7 years, 10 month and 6 days. He was a remarkable little boy, and the longer he is dead, the greater becomes the esteem in which he is held by his borneaved parents, and other loved ones, who are hoping that they will know and see him again at some future day. Upon a warrant sword out by—Brown, who occupies Dudley Baptist Church parsonage, Lewis Ford, a respectable youth, was arrested on the charge of housebreaking Friday last. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, the accused boy promptly proved his complete innocence to the full satisfaction of the prosecuting officers, and was given his freedom, which he richly deserved, because he is of a high toned nature and is always trying to improve himself. LEGS BROKEN 70 TIMES. The victim of a rare disease of the bones, Margaret Williams, daughter of a wealthy farmer leaving near Medora, Kansas, has suffered at least seventy fractures of the legs and more than a dozen fractures of the arms. Evor since she has been old enough to walk the bones of her legs and arms have snapped at the slightest jar or quick movement. Physicians say that her bones lack some element. They are soft and spongy. Fortunately, the girl does not suffer as much pain from these fractures as do others under normal conditions, but it is necessary to treat the fractures as other cases are treated, and the child has spent fully half her time lying with her legs in splints. The parents say they know of seventy breaks in her legs, but they have kept no count of other fractures. ```markdown ``` $\textcircled{6}$ 1913, by American Proes Association ETTOR ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE --- With Giovanni and Caruso Found Not Guilty. "Not guilty" was the verdict given by the jury in Salem, Mass., in the case of Joseph J. Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso, who were charged with the murder of Anna Lopizzo, who was killed in one of the many riots that marked the Lawrence textile strike last winter. When the three men heard the words frasening them from the charge or murder they embraced and kissed one another. Giovannitti then sprang to his feet in the prisoners' cage. "Gentlemen of the jury," he said, his face beaming with joy, "in the name of justice, truth and civilization, I thank you." The court announced to Caruso that there was another indictment against him charging assault with intent to kill, and that the court would release him on his own recognizance. Then he was released from the cage. His wife, waiting at the rail behind the prisoners' cage, fell into his arms and a dozen of his male companions rushed forward and kissed him. Ettor and Glovannitt also were held an another indictment charging them with William D. Haywood and others with conspiracy to indict riot. On this they were released in bonds of $500 each. The Lawrence strike leaders were then freed from the cage and begged by a crowd. For several minutes they were the recipients of kisses from the men and congratulations from the women. A few minutes later, followed by a cheering throng of mill workers, they marched through the streets to the local office of the Industrial Workers of the World. GUNMEN IN DEATH HOUSE Murderors of Rosenthal to Die Week of Jan. 6. The door of the death house at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N. I., has closed upon the four gunmen convicted as the actual assassins of Herman Rosenthal. Within this structure they will remain, presumably, until they march in rapid succession to the electric chair—to which they were sentenced by Justice Goff, who fixed the week of Jan. 6 as the time for the payment of the murder penalty. A mob of more than a thousand excited persons swooped down upon "Lefty Loule" Rosenberg, "Glb the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey Louis" Muller and "Dago Frank" Cirofiel as they left the train, and the prison guards had to be called out to conduct the prisoners safely to the prison. When the four men disembarked, handcuffed together and closely guarded by a dozen deputy sheriffs, they were being hurried along by their guard, while the crowd howled—when suddenly the tightly packed ranks of curiosity seekers broke in on the line of the sheriffs, nearly knocking the prisoners from their feet in their mad struggle to see the faces of the doomed quartet. As we go to pres. Mr. William Roman, of this town, and Charles Town, lies very ill at his son Clarence's on East Martin Street. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road WINTERTOURIST TICKETS TO FLORIDA NOVEMBER 1 TO APRIL 30. GOOD RETURNING UNTIL MAY 31. SECURE FULL INFORMATION FROM TICKET AGENTS. WASHINGTON, D. C. Located in Capitol of the Nation. 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Repairing wheels of all kinds, cutting in new crank hangers, &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 or new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. with a weakness peculiar to a jones. of Kenny, Ill. "For walk, without holding my sides. ors, but I grew worse. Finally, did for my complaint. I was so Now, I weigh 103, and I am back as good as ever. I am in THE TURK TO GO AT LAST. The Balkan States have dared and their audacity has won. Europe is even now upon the eve of a reckoning between Slav and Ottoman such as has never before been seen. Centuries of repression have made the lines of Balkan evolution different from our own. Deeper hatred for greater wrongs, a keeper instinct to fight, and a more reckless expenditure of life have characterized this six weeks' war in the Near East than we of the West can clearly understand. It is perfectly clear new even to solemn ineffective European diplomacy that there can be no prosperity or peace in Macedonia or Albania without something which at least approaches autonomy. In both these states Christian populations have been the victims of persecution, which Europe, to its disgrace, has permitted to go on for generations. That the Christians may have retaliated in savage fashion does not alter the fact that the reforms which were demanded from Constantinople and promised by the Porte were put off because of the jealousies of the great powers, and are now made possible only by the gallantry of the little states themselves. The task of European statecraft is now to discover some formula,—"autonomy," "devolution," or what not,—which shall secure the freedom of these unhappy provinces, There is always present the danger of a general European war arising from the impossibility of agreement over what shall be done with the inheritance of the Turk when he has been expelled from Europe. The dream of Servia ever since it became a nation has been to secure an outlet in the Adriatic. Landlocked as she has heretofore been, surrounded by hostile neighbors, who not only hold up at the frontier supplies for her army in time of war, but enacted hostile tariffs against her in time of peace; the little kingdom of the Serbs has for many years dreamt of an Adriatic seaport. But Servia's big neighbor, Austria Hungary, has marked out the province of Nova Bizar as here because it is the way to Salonica, which she regards as her rightful inheritance. She has more over come to some understanding with Germany and Italy in accordance with which the shores of the Adriatic are to be forever barred to the Slav powers. Servia, therefore, must be denied a seaport on the Adriatic or the Egean. With the Servian army marching upon Durazzo, and Austria issuing warnings from Vienna and mobilizing her forces, it was this sharp clash of interests that constituted the danger point in the general European situation last month. This clash was seen to be dividing Europe into two camps. The Triple Alliance is generally favorable to Austria's contention, while the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France and Russia are opposed to anything which will rob the Balkan States of the fruits of their victory—From "The Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for December. AND PETERSBURG --- STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round trip only $3, and the distance being to other place and back. 87 miles Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor Mr. George Shank COLONEL WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS HIGHLY HONORED Charleston, W. Va.—It was decided the other day by the members of the Supreme Court of the state, that they would adjourn on December 3, to 6th, and go in a body to Buckhannon to attend the "Edwards Day" exercises at the West Virginia Wesleyan College. The Board of Trustees of Wesleyan College invited Colonel William Seymour Edwards, of Charleston to accept the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature, at their hands, and he accepted the distinguished honor some weeks ago. It was then decided by the Board to set apart Thursday, December 5, so 'Edwards Day' and a large party of distinguished citizens from all over the state, including Governor Glasscock, will attend the ceremonies. Quote a number of the state officials, the governor, the state Supreme Court judges and their wives, many prominent Methodist clergymen, and a couple of the Bishops of the church will be present. The attendance of these distinguished gentlemen is a mark of respect to Col. Edwards, who is known as both a traveler and author of distinction, and highly esteemed. Colonel Edwards is author of several books of note, among which are "In to the Yukon," 1903; "Through Scandinavia to Moscow," 1906; "On the Mexican Highlands." 1907-08 and others. This is the first time such an honorary degree has been conferred by the educational institution at Buckhannon and the signal honor is one which Colonel Edwards fully appreciates. 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