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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. SCHOOL BOARD CONTROVERSY Former Mayor Bacharach's Appointment of J. F. Bourne is Approved. BY WHITTET H. WRIGHT BY WHITTIER H. WRIGHT. Atlantic City, N. J.-The appointment by former Mayor Harry Bacharach of Mr. James F. Bourne to the board of education in this city has been affirme by the state supreme court. The board has been directed on a writ of mandamus by the supreme court to permit Mr. Bourne to take his seat and serve as a member of the board of education of Atlantic City for the term specified in the appointment of former Mayor Bacharach. This decides a bitter controversy involving the right of former Mayor Harry Bacharach to appoint Mr. Bourne to the school board because of his color. Mr. Bourne was appointed by Mayor Bacharach on July 10, 1912, at 10 o'clock a.m., as the commission government took effect and Mayor Bacharach retired at noon. This situation raised the question of the right of the mayor to make the appointment. It was charged that Bacharach made the appointment out of spite because he was not continued as mayor. The board of education appealed the case to the state board of education, which held that Bourne was entitled to his seat. The case was then carried to the supreme court by both sides. Mr. Bourne brought suit for the writ of mandamus to compel the board to seat him, while the board brought suit for a writ of certiorari to set aside the action of the state board of education. During the consideration of the case before the court it was found that quo warranto was the proper remedy, and by consent the whole proceedings were changed to a quo warranto action. This led to a speedy determination in favor of Bourne. Ke is not only given his seat, but also his costs in the case. The new method of court procedure permitted this change in the character of the action. Under the old law an entirely new suit would have been required. In speaking of the outcome of the case thus for Mr. Bourne says: "I am delighted with the decision of the supreme court. The matter is a somewhat delicate one from my standpoint. My object in carrying the case to the supreme court was for the purpose of ascertaining the legality of my appointment rather than a desire to push myself into the board. Every member of the board I have had the pleasure of meeting I sized up as an estimable gentleman of the type of men capable of conducting the affairs of the public schools." DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE ON THE INCREASE. Mobs Have Murdered Fourteen Afro- Americans Since Jan. 1, 1913. As shocking as it is and as strange as it may seem to the peaceable and law abiding white people of the United States, fourteen colored persons were lynched in the short period between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 1913. In no other civilized country in the world do we find such destruction of human life without some action taken on the part of the government to protect the lives of its citizens as is true of America. The departments of justice in nation, state and municipalities seem to be bent on passing or attempting to pass segregation ordinances and measures intended to prevent intermarriage between white and colored persons. Class legislation will yet bring America to grief. If the colored people composed the mobs which murder human beings there would soon be projected the bloodiest war the world has yet seen. But these murderers are white, and, according to the majority of the reports from the lynching camps, they constitute some of the best white people. The colored people of the United States have been hounded long enough. It is now high time for this matter of lynching to be brought squarely before the national government by the race itself. No more worthy effort could be made during this fiftieth year of freedom than to inaugurate a great ma- tional protective agency to defend the race against murderers. Within twenty-five years, as the record shows, over 2,500 colored men and women have been murdered in the United States. Therefore, instead of devoting so much time to plans for expositions and the like, the race should give the matter of protection from violence serious consideration before it is too late. The Institute School and Mission is the most recent educational organization started in Philadelphia. The movement is headed by the Rev. Dr. C. A. Thadley as president, and Mr. Edward T. Duncan is the secretary and manager. The school is located at 1227 South Seventeenth street. Literary and industrial subjects are taught. The Working Woman's retreat meets at the school weekly on Thursday afternoon for the discussion of such matters as pertain to the material benefit of its members. Research Society Receives Rare Gift. Miss S. E. Marples of Birkenhead, England, has presented the Negro Society For Historical Research, through its president, with "Memoirs of West African Celebrities" and "Race Consciousness." by Rev. S. R. B. Ottahua Abuma of Gold Coast and editor of Gold Coast Nation, and "The Story of Kwesi Quinnoo" as told by Maself. SAYS TRIP TO THE MOON IS POSSIBLE French Engineer Tells How It Can Be Done. Parls.—A stir was caused by a paper read before the members of the French Physical society by Robert Esnault Pelterie, the brilliant young engineer, on how to get from the earth to the moon in forty-eight hours. M. Pelterie insists that his idea is practicable, based on scientific calculations and not reminiscent of Jules Verne's romance. The vehicle for the first travelers to the moon will, he says, be a closed vessel of extreme lightness, provided with a motor of great power, a combination which the astonishing advances of locomotion during the past hundred years brings well into sight. Since there is no atmosphere in the space between our planet and the moon no system of propellers would be of any use, and the only possible means of driving the vehicle forward would be an adaptation of the rocket principle, which, he says, works as well in a vacuum as in air. The motor then would work a kind of continuous rocket, and M. Pelterie has made calculations of just how much power the engine must have to carry the vehicle along the 240,000 odd miles between the earth and its satellite. For a vehicle weighing one ton the motor would have to be of 414,000 horsepower. For added weight the horsepower must be proportionately increased. When this combination was realized the journey would be divided into three parts. The first would be to drive the vehicle with increasing speed until the sphere of the earth's attraction was passed. During the second the vehicle would continue its journey by inertia until it reached the point where the moon's attraction began. while the third would be the simple matter of dropping on to the latter's surface, no motive force being necessary. The first of these phases, according to the lecturer, would last 24 minutes and 9 seconds; the second phase, 48 hours and 50 minutes; the third, 3 minutes and 46 seconds, giving a total of 49 hours 17 minutes 55 seconds. During the first 4,000 miles, he says, the passengers would have the sensation of weighing one-tenth more than usual, but afterward they would cease to weigh at all and have the sensation of falling indefinitely into space. To remedy the bad physical effects which might result from these phenomena special appliances, says M. Pelterie, might be installed. PLANS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS IN GOOD SHAPE Special Trains Arranged For Delegates and Visitors to Muskogee. Nashville, Tenn.—Country wide interest is being taken in the forthcoming national Baptist Sunday school congress to be held in Muskogee, Okla., from Wednesday, June 4, to Monday, June 9, inclusive. Secretary Henry Allen Boyd announces that the railroads in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma have already granted reduced rates for all delegates and visitors to the congress from the states named. Special trains from Nashville and other southern cities have been arranged for. A special train consisting of two sleepers, three day coaches and baggage cars will leave this city on June 3. At Memphis two Mississippi and one Alabama coach will be added to the special which will run over the Rock Island to McAlester, Okla. The Arkansas and Louisiana delegations will join the train party at Little Rock on Wednesday morning, June 4, and at noon the same day the Texas and southern delegations coming via New Orleans will meet the other delegations at McAlester, from which place the two special trains will go to Muskogee over the Katy. Muskogee is generally considered as the one southern town where the Negro business man is at his best. Handsome stores and store buildings owned and operated by Negroes are on the principal business streets. The colored people in and around Muskogee are the wealthiest in this country. For these reasons the officials of the Sunday school congress predict that the session this year will exceed by far all previous ones. General Conference For Education. The leading event scheduled to take place in Richmond, Va., in April is the conference for education in the south. The sessions of the conference will begin on Tuesday, the 15th, and hold for three days. There will be delegates present from nearly every southern state, according to invitations sent out by Governor William Hodge Mann. The general theme for discussion, aside from the literary topics, will be agriculture and general co-operation among farmers. Epworth Choir to Render Cantata. The Epworth league choir of the Warren Methodist Episcopal church, Pittsburgh, has made extensive preparations for its Easter cantata entitled "The Resurrection Hope," to be given on Friday evening, March 21, at the church, Center avenue and Watt street. There will be a chorus of twenty-five voices, under the direction of Mr. George F. Jones. Previous to the cantata the chorus will sing "Spring Song," "The Rosary" and "Remember Now Thy Creator." Conviction In Theater Case Uphold. By upholding the criminal conviction of the manager of a theater in New York city for excluding a colored man from the orchestra who held seats for that section of the playhouse the appellate division of the supreme court of New York gives a fair and impartial interpretation of the law governing the rights and privileges of citizens in such cases. The action of the court is stimulating indeed to the race and should serve as a warning to the thousands of public concerns of various kinds whose promoters delight in drawing the color line. Hiding In Oven, is Burned. Nashua, Ia.—Lewis Porthum, eight-year-old son of W. H. Porthum, desiring to play at hiding from his mother, who had left the house for a few minutes, backed into the big oven of the kitchen range and sat down. He did not know that his mother had started a fire. Soon, however, he felt the heat. Then he tried to get out. His arms were in a position that held him fast. The oven was growing hotter every minute. His mother came in response to his cries and rescued him. 11,000 cold frame cabbage plant for sale VOL. 32. about 322. Until funds shall be appropriated for naval reserve purposes all exposure incident to this naval training of students must be borne by themselves. "It must be understood that this is no yachting trip or summer excursion. It will involve hard work, without much regard to the hours of the day or night, for such is the custom on board ship. It is believed that the result to the individual and to the country will more than compensate for the work done and money expended." At practically every big eastern college the plan has already been indorsed. Princeton remains the exception, the students there taking the view that it would be a good thing for the navy department, but a poor investment for the student. Presidents Lowell of Harvard and Finley of the College of the City of New York have expressed hearty approval. Professor Lowell being one of those responsible for putting it on foot, Chancellor Brown of New York university thinks "It ought to be possible to make such an arrangement extremely valuable to the students who should await themselves of it." The navy department has decided to sell the wooden frigate Nipsic, built at Washington in 1873. A Seattle man has bid $7,375 and will probably get her. INVENTS FOLDING WING AEROPLANE Englishman to Build New Type In This Country. New York.—Garnet Holmes, an electrical engineer of London, who is visiting this country, announces that he has completed and flown successfully a new type of aeroplane, which meets the problem of variable surface as the swallow meets it, and that he is in America to build an ocean flying machine of the same design. The location for its erection is Pacific, Wis. As Mr. Holmes explains his device, it is a monoplane with wings pivoted like the blades of a pair of scissors, flying with pivot end foremost. In full flight the wings close backward, like the swallow's, decreasing resistance. The folding is accomplished by the force of air resistance. In rising and alighting air slow speed, when more sustaining surface is needed, the wings are fully extended by a clutch worked by the motor. The power plant is an engine built by Mr. Holmes, which, he says, develops forty horsepower, or one horsepower per pound of weight—a single cylinder, double acting gasoline motor. The experimental machine, he says, carried one person only, but the latest model is to carry aviator and two passengers and to be equipped with floats. He is confident that it will achieve a speed of more than 100 miles an hour, equaling that of the lightest and swiftest existing racing mecaplanes with rigid wings, which carry no passengers. With the completion of this machine Mr. Holmes believes transatlantic flight more than possible. Man Sixty-four Years Old to Cover Four Thousand Miles. Washington, Pa.—Charles Studebaker of this town, sixty-four years old, started on a 4,000 mile journey on foot and pushing before him a cart bearing 865 pounds of luggage. Studebaker has taken a trip of this sort before. He took the national turnpike to Cumberland, Md. From there he will proceed to Philadelphia and then over the old York road on to New Jersey and into New York, where he will stay a few days and then push on to Buffalo and around the lakes to South Bend, Ind., and from there to Chicago. He expects to return to Washington about Nov. 1 next. He will be accompanied by an intelligent fox terrier. --- NAVY TO TRAIN COLLEGE YOUTHS But Must Pledge Compliance With All Orders and Regulations—Most College Heads Heartily Approve of Its Initial Cost Not Over $22 For the Men—Must Be Over Eighteen. Washington.—The navy department is preparing a plan in cooperation with college presidents for the training of their students during the summer months on board its ships, with the object of increasing and improving the personnel of the reserve available in emergency. Captain C. C. Marsh, U. S. N., in a letter to the various colleges, outlines a general order to be issued by the secretary of the navy. "Students recommended by the proper authorities of the institutions where they are pursuing courses," says Captain Marsh, "will be embarked in battleships and armored cruisers in full commission—not more than twenty students to one vessel—for a training period of about two months' duration. They must have completed two years $ \sigma $ more of their courses and be not under eighteen years of age. One of the senior fine officers of the ship will be designated in charge of the students. They will not be enlisted, but each one will be required to blind himself to observe the laws and regulations of the navy and of the ship and to obey the orders of all persons placed in authority over them. "Training will be given in the engineer department, electrical department J. Photo by American Press Association. gunnery, navigation and boats, besides general regulations and routine of shipboard life. "All students in one ship will be messed together, in the general mess, at a cost of about 40 cents a day each. They will berth and mess in a compartment set apart for them. The outfit required to be purchased will consist of a suit of blue dress uniform, two shirts of white undress, two white bats, two or more undershirts of uniform pattern, one blue channel shirt, one suit of dungarees, a bammock mattress and two mattress covers. The cost of all the articles, which must be obtained on board, will be NO. 3 OFF ON LONG HIKE. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO INSURAL, MORRIGUES AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- ITIES. States of Subscription: 1 year.....£1.50. 6 months.....75c. 3 months.....40c. For formal advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly condition, in which case the advertiser may three months. Advertising inch one cray. 75c. Shading.....50c. Red and white to Cinder. Black and white to Cinder. Not only vogue, but the good old summer time? is here—both welcome. Some one says the magician is the destiny that shapes our minds. Pray what ends do the terry, envy spiritually, church blutberskies share? ```markdown ``` It looks very much like Mrs. Eaton will have to eat a bitter dog of law. It also impoved the Admirals the quicker she gets in the better for the country of large. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. The women of Indiana went about getting their voting rights in the right way and they got them, and keep in mind that they are long every state in the union will fall in line. ```markdown ``` The business going to cultivate, and the thing to owe, is mainly character. It will build you up in this world, and be a perpetual capital with compulsive interest in the other. By the means of it. ```markdown ``` When General Hancock declared that the time is local issue, he was derivatively rejection. Put your foot on it anywhere in this country, and one of two things will occur—hands off, or you die right. ```markdown ``` Next Sunday will be Easter. If the people generally would try as hard to cleanse their hearts of sin and prejudice, as they will to have on new clothes, what a glorious Easter it would be. --- Congress will meet 11th. of April next to intros with tsruf. A child who has to walk on crutches all of its life can do, but little to make the world recover its country. The following are the results of the analysis of the data provided in the table. Governor. He field has bigger jobs on the ground in the settlement of strikes and noir results, between union and prosecution men than he had to be and governor. Never theless, we help the doctor's medicine will do the work. --- Like fashion of the past, the old blue bays spelling book is bobbing up for revision. The methods of spelling and reading of to-day are exceedingly weak in comparison with those of other days. J. McGuffey readers were universally used as of yore, but readers would be the result, and the same would be true in the old time spelling methods were reinforced. ```markdown ``` Clyde B. Tavener seeks: "Is Woodrow Wilson to be another Abraham Lincoln?" The only thing that will make him so, will be for him to carry out fully what Lincoln wiled to and died believing it had been done—all slaves made fullfledged American citizens. Some claim he will. If he does, Abraham Lincoln, instead of Abraham of old, will open wide his arms and receive him, and all the millions of Negroes will call him blessed. Mr. Tavener is right in that that, our man rights are supreme to all others. We believe as much harm is done by assuming that accusations are insane so there is in detectives telling what they have done to trap rachele. Every person who has enough sense to plan and murder is sane enough to be tried, condemned and executed. The miners trouble near Charles- ton has but one way to be settled and that should be the right one. The fact that men with families willing to work in fire and support them should be shot down or beaten al- most to death for taking the place that union men refused to fill fore- under on all omen for this country. ```markdown ``` Nothing read of is so absurd to us is that a certain class of New York doctors refusing to allow Dr. Fried- mann to prove that he has a cure for consumption. For ten years, it is said he has been applying his remedy in Germany successfully. Why not only allow him but aid him in apply- ing it? --- As a rule, the Negro race in politics, love of music, poetic imagination and social adaptability leads the world. Why then should the palafaced race that need more of those redeeming traits of character, object to receive them as men and brothers, because, and only because, they come on the market wrapped up in brown or black paper instead of white paper. ```markdown ``` If alma of times mean anything and prophecy adds to it, France and Germany will fight. Their war in the early seventies was enough to have ensured both for all time to come. Keep in mind you blood thirsty fellows that England lost her prestige, and earned the contempt of the world for causing to be killed one hundred thousand men and the expenditure of a billion dollars. If humanity was truly human, it is enough to stagger it. The Pioneer Press joins heartily in the proposed reformation relative to the desertion of U. S. soldiers from the army. As it stands, desertion means disfrachisement for life. Having been a soldier we know too well that the soldier's life is far from being one of roses. To deprive a deserter of his citizenship borders too much on elavery,—no phase of which should be allowed in this land of the free and home of the brave. Dont Mr. Secretary of war, and honour will go down your name. (1) No better offer to farmers, and gardeners could be made. Any and every one who will send one dollar and fifty cents to the Pioneer Press will not only get it for a year, but also two hundred and fifty first class cold-framed and guaranteed frost-proof cabbage plants free. They are grown by that well known firm, Wm. C. Geraty Co. of South Carolina. The subscriber to pay mail chargea only a few cents.--Editor. There has been considerable gossip as to where the prince should be located. The king did not feel that he could afford to keep Stafford House for his son, but a strong hint was put out that the Labor and Socialist members of parliament would oppose any special grant for the Prince of Wales. The queen was also opposed to giving the young man any separate establishment until he was married. Anecdotal Literature Py W. G. Pv W. G. THE LOVING DAY. "Mamma," said a little boy cue Sunday afternoon, "I pose they call this day a holy day because it's such a loving day." "Why, every day is a loving day," said his mother. "I love papa, he loves me, and we both love you and baby every day as well as on the Sabbath day." "I know it, Mamma," said the boy, "but other days you haven't time to say so, and papa can't take me on his knees, and tell me stories 'bout good boys 'cept Sunday. On yes, mamma, it is a loving day." GREENBACK5 ATTRACT. A wealthy American lady was attending a social function at a country house in England. An English duchess present, said to the lady. You American girls have not such healthy complexion as we have. I always wonder why our nobleman take such a fancy to your white faces." "It isn't our white faces that attracts them" responded the American lady; it's our greenbacks." "You're rather a young man to be left in charge of a drug store," said the funny old gentleman. Have you any diploma? "Wh—er—no, sir," replied the druggist, "but we have a preparation of our own, that's just as good." WANTED DOCTOR TO TELL HER. Doctor—"The increasing deafness of your wife is merely an indication of advancing years, and you can tell her that." Husband—"Hum! would you mind telling her yourself, doctor? SUCCESSFUL EXPEDIENT. "I tried to sing my youngest boy to sleep, said Senator Sorghum; 'but it wouldn't work. Then I told him a story, and that wouldn't work either." "Well, how did you get him to sleep?" "My wife came to the rescue with one of her clever suggestions. I delivered one of my speeches to him." IN PERPLEXITY "Josiah exclaimed the anxious mother. I wish you'd come here. "What's the trouble?" "I don't know whether Nellie is having a spasm or practicing one of them new dances." BUYING HIM CIGARS President Hadley of Yale, at the Carnegie Foundation's recent in- ceon in New York said of a certain charge: "Such a charge indicatee ignorance —ludicrous ignorance. It reminds me of the young lady who desired to buy a box of cigars for her fiance's Christmas." "This young lady entering the most fashionable tobaccoists on 5th avenue said: "I want to get a box of cigars for a fall, slender man with blue eyes and a pale brown moustache for my fiance. Now George wears dark colors usually and I suppose a long black cigar would suit him best, don't you think?" SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address Lincoln Oil Co. Cleveland, Ohio. TORPEDO THAT CANNOT MISS. Roman Genius Finds Way to Correct Errors in Aiming. Parth.—A Roman genius has invented a torpedo that cannot miss the mark, it is asserted by a French military periodical. The story is that this talented descendant of the Caesars has devised for his torpedo a steering mechanism which by means of magnetism and a needle will correct any errors in the original aim. In consequence this dreadful torpedo is sure to lift any ship, great or small, that gets in its way. Not only that, but it will seek out the ship it was discharged at, being drawn to that doomed craft by the attraction of magnetism. The only difficulty is that if a second ship appears to get within the sphere of influence the torpedo's needle will point closely toward it, and the torpedo will alter its first course and data toward the second ship at full speed. ```markdown ``` STILL WORKS ON FARM AF 103 Samuel Keefer III Only Cases in Long Life. Penn Fan, N. Y.-Samuel Keefer, who lives on his own farm near here, was 163 years old recently. He is the oldest living student of Albany Normal, from which he was graduated and afterward taught school. He still works, does most of his reading without glasses, can name the presidents of this country in the order in which they have served and give a sketch of their lives and has never had a bodily ailment with the exception of an attack of blood poisoning almost years ago. He takes medicines compounded by himself from roots and herbs. He has not used tobacco since young manhood and never liquor. He uscribes his long life to simple living and care in avoiding exposure. DOGS LEAD TO THE DEAD. Find Bodies of Blizzard Victims After Journey of a Hunted Miles Seward, Alaska—Gripped by pack dogs more than a hundred miles, rescuers recovered the bodies of C. C. Chittick and John Kesler, who perished early last month in a blizzard in the Happy river country, 250 miles from Seward. Three days after they had left a roadhouse on the illfated trail, four dogs in harness belonging to the men returned. Rescuers, led by the dogs, set out and were guided to a huge snowdrift, under which lay the bodies of the blizzard victims. ADOPT DOUBLE EDGED SWORD War Department Provides Blade For Striking or Thrusting. Washington.—A new type of cavalry sword, suitable for either striking or thrusting, has been adopted by the war department. The blade measures thirty-five inches, is sharp on both sides and tapers to a sharp point. The guard is strongly constructed, so as to afford complete protection to the hand, and also is roughened, so as to prevent slipping. The sword weighs a trifle more than the present type, but when in the scabbard the combined weight is about two ounces less than the old sword and scabbard. The officer's scabbard will be of dull finish. The metal portions will be noncorrosive steel. ```markdown ``` To Raise Endowment Fund For Colleges Among the larger organizations working for the extension of education among Afro-Americans is the American Missionary association. For the purpose of augmenting the endowment fund of five colleges for Afro-Americans and one school for white passions the association is making an effort to raise $1,000,000. Each of the five schools for which this financial assistance is intended is in the south Gold Ring In a Cow Corry, Pa.-A cow belonging to Iza Williams of Corydon dying after two weeks of unaccountable slothness was cut open, and a gold ring was found on the inside of the case around the heart. It is supposed the cow swallowed the ring, which worked through the stomach into the lining of the heart. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1879 Broadway, New City. JIM LEEFORD, APPROVED BY LAW MARTINSLURG, WEST VIRGINIA for Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. WILL SETTLE LABOR STRIKES New Federal Department to Assist Arbitration. WILSON TO BE NEUTRAL Although Secretary is a Union Man, He Will Be influenced by President and Other Members of the Cabinet. Result of Many Years of Agitation, Expect Good Results. Washington.—Reconciliation of the troubles between capital and labor was the thought in the mind of congress when it established the department of labor, with representation in the president's cabinet. The principal duty of the secretary of labor will be to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes. The government thus proposes to throw its influence toward the attainment of industrial peace. William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, the first secretary of labor, was born in Scotland. He came to this country with his parents and began working in the coal mines of Pennsylvania when he was nine years old. When he was eleven years old he was a half member in the Mine Workers' union. He has always been identified with trade union affairs. At the time of his election to congress and for eight years prior thereto he was international secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America. The creation of the department of labor is the result of long years of agitation. In 1884, responding to public contempt, congress established a bureau of labor in the interior department. A department of labor without representation in the cabinet was created in 1888. When the department 1926 © 1913, by American Press Association. WILLIAM D. WILSON, SECRETARY OF LABOR of commerce and labor was created in 1904 the department of labor was merged with it as a bureau. The bill creating the new department extends the principle embodied in what is known as the Erdman act. This act authorized the commissioner of labor and the chairman of the interstate commerce commission to act as mediators in cases of differences between railway employees and railway employees. Under this authority peace has been maintained to a large extent in the railroad world for many years. Time and again great strikes have been averted, and efforts have been made repeatedly to extend the scope of the law to all industries of an interstate character. This was done in the recent enactment. While the secretary of labor is empowered by the law to act as a mediator and to appoint a commissioner to adjust disputes, the language of the authorization is so broad that labor troubles in the future will come directly under the eye of the president and his cabinet in an official way. The secretary of labor will not act without consultation with the president and the other members of the cabinet. Therefore the power of the federal administration will be exerted to maintain peace in all industries of an interstate character. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS FROM THE ORIGINAL CABBAGE PLANT GROWERS ESTABLISHED 1868. Paid in Capital Stock $20,000.00 We grow the first FROST PROOF PLANTS in the city. Now have over twenty thousand satisfied customers. 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No. 7 Daily 7.42 p.m for Wheeling, Okl- umus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.25 p.m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No. 3 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 Pittsburgh No. 23 Daily connect Sunday at 8.50 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate sta- ons. Connects for Berkeley Springs. FAST BOUND. No 10 Daily except Sunday at 11.55 am for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 pm for Washington and Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore, Md. Martinsburg, W. Vg SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address Lincoln Oil Co. Cleveland, Ohio. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful. salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1879 Bostway New City. The A Hammerless Gun with Solid Prong. Easier operating and smooth operation. THE STEVENS Repeating Shotgun No. 520 MOVING AT $25.00, is offered by Shooters everywhere as "Superb for Trap or Field." Made in five styles and illustrated and described in Stevens Shotgun Catalog. Have your Dealer show you a Stevens Repeater. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P.O. Box 5004, CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. J. R. 411 FT 9M D. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. THE KEYSER, MOOREFIELD 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 together place and back, 87 miles. Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprieto Mr. George Shank. PATENTS Marlin NEW MODEL 29 Repeating Rifle The gun to use for rabbits, squirrels, hawks, crows and all small game. WHERE for purposes of peace and peace G.A.C. BERTHAM CO., PUBLISHERS, CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, PUBLISHERS, CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK money fast. Write for full particular and special offers as once. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone anywhere in the U.S. without a cost deposit in advance, freight free, and allow TEN DAYS FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and patrol to any test you wish. If you are to be a not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship' back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest THE STORE BLOWS possible to make the highest grade bicycles it is actual factory cost. You save $10 to $35 medium profit above anyuy. You can have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT buy a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive catalogues and learn our unhoused of factory prices and remarkable special offers from agents. WILL BE ASTONISHED and we receive our beautiful catalogue fully furnished and can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles BICYCLE DEALER you can sell your bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled by e-mail: We will send you a free delivery card. HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly buy second a number of tires taken in trade by our Chicago local stores. Those ranging from $3 to $8 or $10 may be bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES 9 equipment of all kinds at half the regular $1000 Nedgethorn Puncture-P Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE TO INTRODUCE The regular retail price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but to introduce us a number of hand tacos in trade by our Chicago retailer, and second hand bikes, but usually have mangling from a barn taco in trade by our Chicago retailer, and second hand bikes, but usually have coaster - brakes, sizes that make bikes mailed free, and we clear out promptly at prices After is received, Worship C. O. D. on approval. All orders shipped samo have been paid from them strictly as represented. You do not pay a cent until you withdraw a cash discount. WITH CORDER and enclose any receipt making the price $4.55 per pair) you send FULL CASH FOR THE REPRESENTATION. If my reservation they can send us an order as the order may be money and money is not in a bank. If you order a pair of these items we are perfectly reable easter, run faster, wear better. If you order a pair of these items they will ride know that you will be well pleased that you have ordered it at any price. We want you order a trial order at once, hence this payment is a bicycle you will give us your order. We want IF YOU NEED TIRES you may buy any kind of price until you send us a price of Helgthem priced above, or write for it Tire and Sunday Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual price. DO NOT WAIT but write in a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of It only costs a postal to learn everything. We know until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 a Day Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof boxes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and warehouse do farmers, all of whom realize the need of a fire-proof box, know how easy it is to own one. So much does people one of the best, clean-out honey building opportunity that ever received. Without previous experience YOU can complicate the success of others. Our hand-omely illustrated 20-page catalog will enable you to present the subject to our Our New Home. Capacity 20,000 Sefos Annually. THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? Because it is a NEW CRITERION, covering every field of the world's thought, action and culture. The only new unabridged dictionary in many years. Because it defines over 20,000 words, not only words appearing below the lower, but also later, classifications. Because it is the original and most complete page. A "Burke of Genius." Because it is an encyclopedia in a single volume. Because it is accepted by the Courts, Schools and Press as the one supreme authority. Because he who knows When I succeed. But us tell you about this new work. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and chodes Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition. Phone 287K P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. BICYCLE D Orders filled NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks, or Glass will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It riding, very durable and light inside with a special quality of rubber, which comes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. It has hundreds of letters from satisfied customers ratifying that they have only been pumped up once or twice in a while. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the manufacture making qualities being given by several layers of the totally prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes you make a special factory price to the rider of collar. $90 The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a large industrial facility with multiple buildings and machinery. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION --- Notice the thick rubbering "A" and puncture strips "B" "D" and also strip "H" and trim cutting. This tire will also stay on masks—SOFT, ELASTIC or EASY RIRING. for pair. All orders shipped same you do not pay a cent until you MASS per pair) If you send FULL CASH mending the order as the tires may be examination. We will pay you reliably tires you will lead that they will have even used on any price. you will give us your order. We want count you send for a pair of Hedgehorn and that is the introduction each described and quotes all makes and bank of buying a pair of new and wonderful offers we are making. CHICAGO, ILL. MONTH ... That's 0.00 a Day ```markdown ``` The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by erecting the most modern safefactory in the world. Whose awake men who received our selling inducement rendered it necessary to double our output. We have providing many thousands of dollars enlarging our sales organization, but to learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. It contains reliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. It is safely recommended to you as a perfect newspaper for the home and family. IT LEADS in the quantity of original matter which it furnishes its patron. IT LEADS in its spicy editorials and fearless sayings. IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pages. TAKEN all in all, we don't feel that we are exaggerating when we state that The PIONEER PRESS is one of the best all around weekly papers in this country today. WE ARE not alone in making this statement, for some of the best and most prominent men of the United States have done likewise. These persons above referred to were not confined to one particular race, either, but to both. 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