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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. Jackson Scores The G. O. P. Mr. Editor:—Bro. Thompson announces that he has reached the end of the discussion. Inseamuch as he began the argument I feel that it is my right to close it. I do this having the very highest appreciation of the ability and fairness of my opponent. He has not given or asked for quarters, and the old fossilized republican party should feel proud in having a member of the downtrodden race to put up such an able defence of its attitude toward the Negro. To all appearances it has stood by the Negro, because Negro votes have kept it in power, but when it became impossible for our Southern brother to deliver the goods by reason of disfranchisement and intimidation, it turned its back upon him and by its silence and inaction gave eloquent proof of its acquiescence in what had been done to deprive him of his legal and constitutional rights. I challenge Bro. Thompson to point to one single statutory enactment to discredit my statement. When Representative Crumpacker brought forth his bill, which had it been enacted into law, would have gone a long distance toward remedying the evil, why they just sat down hard upon him and crushed him into silence; and that was the end of the matter. The old party did lift its voice against that form of slavery called "Peonage." Why? Because white men were now and then getting a dose of it. All along down the line, insincerity and hypocracy have been rubbed into the Negro until at last he has come to realize that political pretensions and political promises as affecting his security or advancement don't amount to a hill of beans. With this little introduction I will now turn to Bro. Thompson's article in your issue of the 15th ult. I seem to have gained one little victory over Bro. Thompson in successfully showing the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde characteristics of Mr. Root. To begin with, he gives a very, very strange definition of coward. If we are to take him literally, then certain it is that there are no cowards in the Bull Moose camp. Is that man a coward who knows his rights and will dare to defend them? Is that man a coward who; rather than submit to discrimination and rebuff, will take a manly stand and contend for the right? I leave these questions to all fair-minded men to answer. No, not like the old colored man who would rather be a living coward than a dead hero, but like Clifford, I would rather be a dead bull dog than a fawning supplicant at the feet of a hypocritical and deceitful party who will promise the Negro heaven and earth before the election, and give him the other place after. To illustrate: a few years ago during a very hot state and county campaign, I went to one of our prominent citizens, who was a candidate for commissioner, and after reminding him of our loyalty to the party and pointing out to him the fact that many of us were taxpayers, I asked him if elected would he favor the appointment of a certain Department of Architecture, De Nation, W. Va. e Pi SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE' MARTINSBURG, W old, intelligent and respected colored man as one of the road supervisors or to be more explicit road foremen. He readily gave his promise and that was all there was to it. He and his republican associates were elected but he refused to make good his promise. Another case in point, which I recall. The brightest and most able colored man of this section was practically driven out of the state by the party, after having gratuitously promised to nominate him for the legislature. When the test came he was turned down and because he had the manhood and ability to expose their insincerity he at once became persona non grata. He died politically, but he died a bulldog. No, no, Bro. Thompson, I do not advocate Theodore Roosevelt as a panacea for the sina of omission on the part of the republican party. Not even Washington or Lincoln could lay claim to such a distinction. Parties should be based upon principles not men, but men as the representatives of principles. Upon this ground alone, I regard Roosevelt as the exponent, not simply of the "greatest good for the greatest number, but the greatest good for all, rich and poor, black and white. Infallibility is not found in human beings, hence we are frank to admit that we do not regard Mr. Roosevelt as one above mistakes. He has made them in the past and will doubtless make them in future. I frankly belive that Mr. Roosevelt is anxious to be president again. Whether this is wise or unwise is a matter of little moment. Now Bro. Thompson let us for the sake of argument eliminate Mr. Roosevelt as an ieene, and take a look at the Progressive Party with special reference to some of those who make up the leadership. You will admit that it is composed of a goodly number of strong, able and progressive men—men who would no more suffer themselves to be led where they do not wish to go than would an elephant allow himself to be pushed aside by a baby. Think of Bona parte, Wellington, Pearre, all able men, successful men, men of affairs, of influence and prestige. Men who stood up and fought the battles of republicanism at a time when it required the very best that was in them. Three sons of Maryland who were insistent in season and out of season when the true principles of that party were under fire. They never faltered and refused to surrender. When such men step aside and throw up their hands, there is certainly something wrong, and what is said of them can be said with equal force of men in every state in the union. They stood up and demanded progressive principles within the party. They demanded just and equitable treatment for all. They saw that these things could not be gotten—that special interest and special privilege had the old party by the throat, and that it was simply a waste of time and effort to further contend, that if the evils were remedied it must be done with a new party and new principles. Think of men like Beveridge, Johnson, Straus, allowing Col. Roosevelt to buckle a collar upon their necks and leading Continued on second page. DEATH IN WAKE OF GREAT DELUGE DEATH IN WAKE OF GREAT DELUGE 8,000 Drowned by Floods Throughout Middle West. HALF MILLION HOMELESS. Ohio, Indiana and Part of Pennsylvania Suffered Most Heavily In Worst Disaster of Its Kind In History—Work of Rescue Hampered by Rising Waters. Columbus, O.—While Dayton, with 5,000 reported dead, suffered most from the floods that swept Ohio. Indiana and part of Pennsylvania, other cities were severely stricken. At Peru, Ind. it was said in reports to Governor Ralston that 500 or more lives had been lost. Columbus also suffered enormous damage from the flood. Railroad traffic was paralyzed. Flies raged for many hours and for a time threatened a considerable portion of the district. Because of the flood firemen were unable to respond to the appeals. Conditions at Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Kokomo and other places in central Indiana were the worst in many years. In every part of the state there were reported disastrous inundations. At Lafayette two spans of a 1. The image contains a line drawing of a building with a window and a door. The window is rectangular with a grid pattern, and the door is a rectangular shape with a door frame. The building is surrounded by a fence with a gate. SCENE IN ONE OF THE FLOODED TOWNS. bridge went out. Two were reported dead. West Lafayette, where Purdue university is situated was cut off when the levees were broken by the force of the waters of the Wabash river. The river is two-miles wide and rising rapidly. At indianapolis thousands were driven from their homes, and four deaths were said to have resulted from drowning. The pumping plant was forced to suspend operations, and the city is without fire protection. At Peru property damage of $500,000 was caused by the flood. it was reported. Logansport also was under water. Governor Rubston received a frantic appeal from Counersville, Ind., for aid for many sufferers there from the flood. It was said that the White river had broken over its banks and that there had ensured great loss of life. The entire business district of Rushville and part of the residence section is under water. One person is reported drowned. The courthouse practically was the only dry place in the city, and it was crowded with refugees who had been driven from their homes. Cincinnati experienced a cloudburst which started the Ohio river rising rapidly and flooded many of the streets. Panicles in the low lands below Milford, O., were warned in time and fled to higher ground before the sweep of waters reached that place. A big dam a short distance north of Akron, O.. burst, and horsemen were hurried through the valley in different directions to warn the people of the VOL. 32. impending danger. Hundreds of farmers with their families fled to higher ground. The great bridge over the Miami river at Middletown, O., collapsed. Fifteen persons were reported missing at that place. Several houses were seen floating down the river, which was a raging torrent. Sweeping up the Ohio valley from the west, the third storm in ten days devastated different sections between Louisville and Cincinnati, in Kentucky and in extensive districts in Illinois, southwestern Ohio and Indiana. At Louisville the wind maintained a velocity of sixty miles an hour. Several persons were reported killed at Mukanda, IL, although the report could not be confirmed. A freight train was blown from the tracks of the Illinois Central railroad, and two of the crew were injured. Other cities affected by the flood and storm are: Lima, O - Flooded by the Ottawa river. Ten miles of trains held up there by a washout at Middle Point. Larise, O.- Inundated. Many per- soins homeless and much suffering. West Liberty, O.-Mad river overrunning its panks. Fort Wayne, Ind.-St. Joseph, Mannee and St. Mary rivers on a rampage. Town without lights and water famine threatened. Highest water in twenty years. Marion, Ind.-Five hundred persons forced to flee for their lives. Ellwood, Ind.-Three hundred persons homeless. St. Louis.-One person known to have been drowning and many families in the western part of the city forced to leave their homes by sudden rise of the bees Peres river. Brodia Kipple, Ind.-One thousand feet of railroad track washed out. Youngtown, O.—Fourteen thousand men idle by reason of the closing down of mills and factories. The flood is the worst that this city has experienced in many years. At Delaware, twenty-five miles north of Columbus, from nineteen to fifty are reported drowned as a result of the flood. The town also is isolated, with the exception of intermittent telegraph service. One part of the town is cut off from the other because the river channel funs practically through its center, thus handicapping rescue work. At Middletown it is reported that fifteen were drowned when a bridge from which a crowd was watching the flood was swept away. Several bodies were recovered from the stream. Cleveland, Akron, Toledo and Springfield also have sent out reports which show that, probably a total of sixteen lost their lives. Because of the proportions of the flood which washed out practically every bridge of steam and electric roads leading out of Columbus, nearly all train service was annulled, and operations likely will be indefinite for several days. State troops at the order of Governor Cox patrol the streets in the flooded sections, and scores of automobiles are busy carrying the suffering to higher ground. It was estimated that the total deaths would reach 8,000, with hundreds of thousands homeless. To Raise Endowment Fund For College 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 persons 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 Cow. Corry. Pa.—A cow belonging to fra Williams of Corydon dying after two weeks of unaccountable sickness 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. NO. 5 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. THE LAST STRAW. Some cowboys are hard cases. One time a traveling evangelist met a crowd of cowboys and converted Bill Jackson, the toughest among them, and Bill decided to attempt the conversion of his companions. He secured a hall, and the cowboys flocked together to hear his discourses. "Now," said Bill, "I'm going to show you the long sufferingness and patience a man gets when he is converted. I'll stand up here, and you fellers kill hep any indignity on me you feel like and I won't kick, although, before I was converted, I was the hardest cowpuncher on this range. I am now personifying meekness and patience, in the hope of winning some of you unregenerate some of the devil." Bill folded his arms across his breast, and the cow punchers began. They threw potatoes, cigar stumps, tobacco quids and other things. Bill made no move, and only smiled sweetly at this indignity. Then Greaser Jeff produced a rotten wild turkey egg, and let Bill have it smack in his face. The egg exploded and the contents bid that sweet smile. That was too much for Bill. He rushed into the crowd, shouting: "Fellers, there is now goin' to be an intermission in this hear long sufferin' business, until I lick the white flivered, bowlegged chicken thief who threw that egg. I ain't lost my faith in religion, but there ain't no Scripture that forbids me to whip bell outre a man who would throw an egg like that." A FASCINATAD SPECTATOR "What's the matter wish you?" asked the moving picture doorkeeper. "This is about the twentieth time you've looked this film over." "Yes, I can't keep away." "And it isn't such a great film at that." "You don't understand. My wife was the leading woman in that photo play. You don't know what it means to a man to be able to sit down and see his wife busy occupied day after day, and at the same time you hear her saying a word." TOO LITERAL A German minister who had but a slight knowledge of the English language was called upon to marry an English couple. He managed to go through the form, but desiring, in addition to impress upon them the relation between them by their marriage, that they were now one flesh, said: "You are now one beef." No CHOICE Senator Payeter of Kentucky was discussing the inauguration bill. "Of ten evile, you know," he said, with a smile, we should choose the lesser. We are not quite so badly off as the plain young lady." "I have taken a job," said the plain young lady "as a school teacher." At this her chaucer: What I teach school! Why I d Continued on Third Page, AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN EIT. 3 months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. branding 50c. B.J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer: 609, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mar- danburg, W. Va. J. Pierpoint Morgan, one of the greatest financiers the world has ever known, died in Rome, Italy, last Monday. While a great many people seem to have forgotten the services he use rendered his country, we are not numbful of them, and will pass him along to a Judge who is just. United States Court convened in this city Tuesday last, with Judge Alston Gordon Dayton, of Philippi, presiding. Judge Dayton's charge to the Grand Jury was along his usual vigorous lines, and embodied in it much that evinced his love of good citizenship and law abiding qualities in the American body politic. If the old and dead Republican party fail to control public affairs in the future, they have none other than themselves and their policies to lay at their own doors for their bad treatment and conduct to their abady men they have used as mudsills to step on to power and then allow them to be jimcrowed disfranchised and lynched by the wholesale The Informer of Detroit, Michigan, comes to our office with the information that it is a "a paper worth while for the family," and over said saying is the cut of a man, reading a newspaper (supposedly the Informer) with a cigar in his mouth, his left leg thrown over his right with cuffs on his pants. Down here in this neck of the woods men of grey of the brain, do without the cuffs and consider it impolite to smoke in close proximity to ladies. There is nothing that can be done of more importance to Martinsburg, than the putting in of a fine sewerage. It will make this healthy and most beautifully located city a mecca for additional health. By all means let us have a first class sewerage, for which future generations will rejoice and call us blessed. It changed Keyser from a hotbed of typhoid fever to a healthful town and it would make Martinsburg next to immune to contagious diseases. The Pioneer Press will head a subscript paper with $25.00 to that end. It seems next to impossible to pick up most Negro newspapers, but what team with worry, anxiety and condemnation because the Negro is barred from this, that and the other. Folly. Did ever any one ever hear a Jew complaining about hard times and deprivations? The harder he is oppressed, the harder he works, and in but a short time his oppressors are his praisers. You can go do like wise, for the more you bowl and wail over spilt milk the more you encourage opposers are going to kick over your pail of milk and keep you crying. It is hard to tell what history will say was the intent and cause of the terrible floods this country is and has been undergoing. Did the people think in the days of Pharoah that those afflictions would be handed down to us as the results of sin? We think not. We believe the people of the United States, and other afflicted countries, must go back to the obedience of God's decrees to stop the punishment upon them. To illustrate. When a year or so ago and the Mississippi river was overflowing its banks, breaking down and rushing over the levees, poor Negroes were made at the points of guns work to prevent it, and many were shot dead who shirked from such deadly work, and yet, they are in many places in that country treated worse than brutes, and we say, shame on the American people for allowing it. We can't see it as the Scientific American does relative to the overflow of the Mississippi river. Let us suppose that deep channels made to have prevented the Johnstown break would have prevented that flood or dams would have done the same, would they have done so? No, and no again! Does not the Scientific American plainly see and know that daily climatic changes are taking place, and that yearly billions of tons of higher soil are being carried downward by floods? Could New Orleans been built where it is two hundred years ago? What is the cause of Lake Erie sinking? Where is its unknown water going? Why did the Missouri river change its channels within the past five years? What do all the signs indicate but that in due time, the low lands of this country are possibly bound to become sea territory, and that all man's efforts can no more stop it than their efforts could have prevented the flood that Noah sailed on. It was offered to us to prove that we could better our own condition and we have done it in opposition to the vilest wrongs. The one way to do this is the accumulation of property, and this has been done. You have been accustomed to hear that "money is the root of all evil." On the other hand, property—money if you please—will purchase for us the only condition by which any people can rise to the dignity of genuine manhood; for without property there can be no leisure; without leisure there can be no thought; without thought, there can be no invention; without invention, there can be no progress. Get property, love God and your fellow men, be sober, industrious and economical and hard times will never knock at your door. There are still a few Calbouns living who believe, or say they do, that Negroes have no souls. While this thinking is going on, the Negro is saying to the whites: "You may have all this world, give me Jesus," and since "What will it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul?" great blessings may be the answers in ways unknown to us finites. The Attorney General of Ohio, and a democrat at that, is bending his energies against the proposed amendment to prohibit the intermarriage of the races. He pities the whites who have to appeal for special legislation to keep white people from marrying colored people. He is right. Colorado has killed the thing, and California will not tolerate separate schools. Now, in the face of it all, colored men, women and children, take on new resolution to be the best men and women it is possible for you to be. We owe our success in life to the impartial white teachers in the lower and high schools of Chicago. The late Hon. John J. Healy put me through those schools and once on a time when we went back to that city, and found one of my schoolmates, Frank Lane, then Chief Clerk in the Appellate Court, he ebook our hand and tears of joy streamed down his chucks. He put some ore in his place, got his team and took us over the city—spending a delightful day. IT LOOKS VERY OD, BUT SOUNDS WEL Simplified Spelling Board Issues Fourth List. New York.-The simplified spelling board has issued a "fourth list of simplified spellings." The recommendations are comprised in thirty rules, some of which involve changes more noticeable than any hitherto set forth. list are: publisht, formd, varius, alredy, shal, anomalus, speld, wll, altord, preferd, executiv, characteristic, thruout, denit, filologic, cald, determind, ful, wer, od, clas, practis, serius, enterd, extensiv, catalog, anser, hav, fysiclans, frend, orthografic, dout, moegage, wel, themselva, yoman, spred, gla, obvlusly, alfabet, prevlus, paragrafs A circular sent out by the board says of its thousands of supporters: "Allowing for the necessity and indeed desirable proportion of criticism and dout which always accompanies new proposals, we may say that this great body of educated men and women, no matter in what degree they use the simplified spellings themselves, will hereafter advise teachers to teach and children to use these new spellings." The reader is urged not to be "too much influnst by the od appearance of the word. Any change must look od at first." GAS BOMBS FOR CRIMINALS Paris Police Use. Them In Capturing a Homicidal Lunatic. Paris.—A weapon for the firing of asphyxiating bombs, devised after the recent siege of the automobile bandits in their strongholds, was used for the first time in the capture of a negro who had become suddenly mad in the Auteull quarter, threatening every one with a loaded revolver. Detectives chased the man from room to room in a house where he had taken refuge, firing gas bombs as they went. The fugitive was finally cornered on the roof of the house in a state of semiasphyxiation. He was quite powerless and was transferred to a hospital. EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT. In Connection With West Virginia's Golden Jubilee Will Be Interesting Affair. Plans for an educational exhibit of state-wide scope at Wheeling, during the celebration of West Virginia's Golden Jubilee and Semi Centennial June 15 21, have about been completed. The affair is to be under the direction of Supt. H. B. Work of the Wheeling schools. Each school in the state having three or more teachers will be asked to take part. Space for the exhibit has already been set aside in the main exposition building. The beautiful cabinets and photographs of West Virginia schools displayed at the World's Fair in St. Louis and the Jamettown Exposition will be gathered together and given a prominent place in the Exposition hall. A feature of great interest in connection with this affair will be a reproduction of a West Virginia school room of fifty years ago as compared with a present day school room. An old time log cabin school with all the fittings of a school house of half a century ago will be constructed inside the exposition hall and alongside of it will be reproduced a modern day school room, thus illustrating the educational facilities of today and fifty years ago. To lend life to the exhibit each school will have a set of teachers and pupils in proper costume. A series of graphic charts showing the educational progress of West Virginia by years will be on display. Jackson Scores The G. O. P. Continued from first page. them whithersoever he lieteth. Think of our birth, our home, our native country. This is our home, our country, and we are oltizens, and whatever question, economical or otherwise, that affects the white man affects us also, because we are living under the same conditions: We do the same labor, pay the same prices for the commodities of life, pay taxes and are subject to laws. These things being true, we certainly have the right to change our political opinions when such change becomes a social and economical necessity. To believe a thing is so, does not make it so. Bro. Thompson in ollinging to the old Republican party is living upon past blessings. We are living in "the now" and we want to be a part and parcel of this great, heaving, throbbing twentieth century civilization. The Progressive party has made no special promises to the Negro, and it deserves special thanks for that. Northern Negroes have in the past made their votes and influence count and have been rewarded with promises, the Southern Negro bobs up every four years with delegates and they get the jobs. Roosevelt had the courage to change this policy and began to select Northern Negroes. And that's about all there is to it. Bro. Thompson goes back to the Jay Treaty to show that the voice of the people is not always raised in a righteous cause. We cheerfully concede this. While majorities rule, minorities are often right. This only goes to show that human knowledge has its limitations. It further shows that we are far from being wholly perfect in everything. He then drops down to the time of Lincoln and the storm that was raised against him when his acts were not in consonance with the popular will. Lincoln was cool headed, calm and deliberate, while the popular mind was exoited. The amazing intellectual plummet of this great man had sounded the depths of secession to a far greater degree than had the public. In every great crisis conditions of this character are likely to arise, hence you cannot gauge public opinion by this or any other similar rule. In present day politics we find that eight out of every ten are students of the questions of the day. The majority of fathers sit down with their voting sons about them and there is their action determined. As the great Garfield said in his speech nominating John Sherman: "Not here in Chicago in the heat of June, but in the sober quiet that comes between now and November, in the silence of deliberate judgment will this great question be settled." The stump speaker is not heard so often now. Why? Because the people are reading, thinking and acting according to the dictates of deliberate judgment. I almost regret that Bro. Thompson did not drop down a few more years to the reconstruction period, for had he done so he would have given me an excellent opportunity to show the rottenness and insincerity of the republican party at that early period. He says Roosevelt was too late in arriving at this conclusion to render this notion worthy of the consideration of a thinking mind. My brother it is never too late to do good, Mankind never stands still physically, mentally or morally. He is growing—developing physically. Mentally, he is ever broadening. The conservative man is the one who elects to stand still and content himself with existing conditions. We Bull Moosers are progressive. we will willingly hold onto a thing only so long as it is of value to the people. When it reaches the point where it becomes a monace to the progress of good government, we toss it overboard and sail on. Better get on the bandwagon Bro. Thompson; because we are going to wake this nation up and bring it to a realizing sense of the fact that it cannot exist and grow if the power is wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a few favored ones The fact that Mr. Roosevelt willingly received the votes of black and white in 1900 and 1904 and helped to hold them for Taft in 1908 does not altar the case one wait. It certainly would not have been wise on his part to request people from certain sections not to vote for them. It is a waste of time and space to argue such a proposition. Bro. Thompson lays great stress upon the defeat of a certain resolution in the convention of 1908,claiming that had this resolution been adopted it would have eliminated the colored delegates from the South. Perhaps it would, and had the Crumpacker bill been passed by Congress it would have cut down Southern representation in the House of Representatives and perhaps prolonged the life of the republican party. But what do we find? The house with a large republican majority voted it down. Roosevelt made little or no claim to Southern delegates and the reason was obvious. They had all been corralled by Taft workers, and those who were unable to pay their forces to Chicago, Taft money footed the bill. I regret to say it, but with Col. Roosevelt I believe that a very large number of colored leaders of the South are purchaseable and the sooner this fact with all its attendant evils is brought home to them the better it will be for the welfare of the race. Frostburg, Md. J. W. Jackson. OHIO'S ATT'Y. GEN. A MAN. Columbus, O., March 11, 1913. Hon. James T. Carroll. Member Dear Mr. Carroll;—I thought I would get to see you before this but I did not have a chance. I do not know what your views are on the bill prohibiting marriage between Colored people and whites. For my part I am opposed to all this legislation regulating human conduct when that conduct is nobody else's business but those affected. It seems to me that it is bad policy for the Democratic party to get mixed up with such legislation, and I do hope that "our kind of people" will show their disapproval by voting against it. When one law of this kind is enacted it is a license to those who have power to go further. If the white man is not able to take care of himself without legislation, as against a Negro who is behaving himself, I do not believe such white man is entitled to such protection. The legislation looks narrow and bigoted, and I think the man who favors it would not stop with that kind alone. With best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Timothy S. Hogan, Atty. Gen. No better offer to farmers, and gardners 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 charges only a few cents. Editor. ```markdown ``` Attested in Post Office at Martinsburg Va. as Second Class Matter Mrs. Matilda Green, who attends er College, Harper's Ferry, was me for several days during last sk. Mr. Jacob Ramsey, of Berryville, so works on Auburndale Addition, at last Sunday at home with his master James Roman, Jr., one of rtinsburg's brightest youngsters, a recent visitor to Winchester, he reports a royal time. Mrs. Liillie Rowan is again' at me, after a stay of six or eight weeks in Anniston, Alabama. She joyed her trip. Mr. George M. Miller, the all bound man, was quite sick, but he is all again, a fact pleasing to his any friends. Mrs. A. C. Perry has gone to Washington to visit her daughter Ms. Sarah J. Hanter, of Washington, D. C., for a few days, and we now she will have a pleasant visit. Mr. Shadrach and Miss Mary hompson, nephew and niece, re- pectively of Mr. Samuel Rector, have returned to their home in Fau- nier County, after spending the winter in this city with their uncle. Mr. A. C Perry, the lumberman and farmer, and one of Berkeley County's most energetic citizens, was a pleasant caller at our office the other day. Master Horace Hanion, who is making his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hanion, of Falling Waters, spent Sunday last with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hanion, of North Charles Street, this city. Mr. M, D. McCollum, of Bound Brook, New Jersey, who travels in the interest of the Pillar of Fire and the Good Citizen, two publications issued by the Pentecostal Union, was an interesting caller on us the other day. He is a sect of true religious tendencies, and it is becoming more and more a power for good in this country. Never in the history of this country have floods been so general and so disastrous as they have been in the past two weeks, and the end has possibly not been reached yet. Billion of dollars have been lost in property, hundreds of people have been drowned, and thousands upon thousands are homeless, clothesless and foodless. Rev. Samuel M. Boane, the popular pastor of Mount Zion M. E. Church, preached his farewell sermon to a large and appreciative crowd in that edifice on Sunday night last. His work all done, bright and early on Tuesday morning, he left for Baltimore, where the Washington Conference is in session, and where he will render a report of the year's stewardship to his superior officers. We hope his stay at conference will be both profitable and enjoyable. Anecdotal Literature Continued from first page. rather marry a soft, fat, balheaded widow, with eight children, than teach school! The plain young lady said with a sigh. "Abt so would I." LEADERSHIP. Some one asked Senator Sorghum; "What is a political leader?" "Well replied the Senator;" "Some times he is very much like the or- chestra leader, the man who provides the gesticulation and general excitement, while somebody else is doing the real work." bered 101. There have been several other visitations of death dealing tornadoes in the United States. Two of the most fatal took place in Adams, Miss., on May 5, 1840, when 317 persons were killed, and on June 16, 1842, a storm killed 500. Early in April, 1880, the lower Missouri towns of Barry, Stone, Webster and Christian suffered life and property loss. Almost a hundred persons were killed and 600 injured, and $1,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. Twenty-two persons were killed and seventy-two injured on April 25 of the same year in Noxubee county, Miss. On May 28 forty were killed and eighty-three injured in Fam- nln county, Tex., and twenty killed in Pottawatomie county, Ia., on June 10 the same year. On July 15, 1881, 247 buildings were wrecked at New Ulm, Minn., and on Aug. 23 a cyclone swept from Savannah to Minnesota, killing 400. In the year 1882 more than 300 persons were killed in various towns. At McAlester, Indian Territory, on May 10, 120 were killed. On June 17 at Grinnell, Ia., 100 persons were killed, 300 injured and a property loss of $1,000,000 sustained. On June 24 that year at Emmetsburg 100 more were killed. In 1883 the loss of life numbered ninety-three. Fifty-one lost their lives in Mississippi on April 22, and on May 18 sixteen perished at Racine, Wis. In Dodge and Olmstead counties, Mian... twenty-six were killed and eighty injured on Aug. 21. On Feb. 9, 1884, an unparalleled series of storms struck eight states simultaneously. Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina STEPHEN M. NEWMAN. D. D Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. 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Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 420 5th street N.W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. MANY DEADLY WINDSTORMS South and Middle West Have Suffered Most Heavily. ST. LOUIS DEATH TOTAL 450 Great Storm of 1896 Recalled by Present Tornado—Property Loss of $8,000,000—Gulf States' Often Swops Fire Causes Great Damage In Wake of Wind—Recent High Winds. DEAD AND INJURED IN GREAT TORNADO. Estimated Dead. Dead. Injured. Omaha 80 200 500 Yutan, Neb. 15 25 50 Other Nebraska towns 18 35 150 Torre Haute 20 50 300 Council Bluffs, Ia. 8 15 20 Woodbine, Ia. 6 10 25 Flat Spring 5 10 50 Chicago 4 150 Totals 156 345 1,245 New York.—Tornadoes and destructive high winds have been of frequent occurrence in the United States in the last few years. Although these winds are commonly called "cyclones," scientists distinguish between the cyclone and the tornado. The cyclone is a widespread "low area storm" moving in an elliptical path. The tornado drops with a single burst of violence. Of these the most destructive to life and property was the St. Louis tornado, which took place on May 27, 1890, just before the time set for the national Republican convention. The THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE @ 1913, by American Press Association. WRECKAGE IN OMAHA. damage to property in St. Louis and its vicinity amounted to close to $8,000.000, and the loss of life was estimated at more than 450. The injured numbered twice that many. During the two weeks preceding the disaster of St. Louis the southern and western states had been visited by tornadoes which demolished everything in their path. On May 15 a storm plowed its way through northern Texas, killing 200 persons and damaging $1,000,000 worth of property. On May 17 Kansas and Kentucky were visited with great property loss, although the loss of life was small. Nearly every house in La Fontaine, Kan., was destroyed on May 23, and three days later eleven persons were killed as a result of a tornado at Cairo, Ill. In St. Louis 720 street blocks were a mass of ruins, and scarcely a building in the path of the storm escaped injury. In East St. Louis the devastation was as great as in St. Louis proper. Fire added to the destruction, and as the streets were littered with rubbish the fire department was helpless. The fire loss alone was more than $1,000,000. The dead in St. Louis numbered 202 and seventy-four missing, and in East St. Louis the dead num- HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. PRESIDENT. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. THE ACADEMY. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE THE SCHOOL OF LAW. were visited by more than sixty tornadoes. Eight hundred persons lost their lives, 2,500 were injured, and 10,000 buildings were destroyed. On Sept. 9 of that year in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin seventy-five persons were killed and $4,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. Coming down to recent times, eight states were swept by a tornado on April 24, 1908, which left a trail of dead numbering more than 300. Most of the deaths occurred in the black belts of Louisiana and Georgia, where the wind destroyed the cabins, burying the occupants in the debris. In Louisiana the dead numbered 88, and 350 were injured; in Mississippi 159 dead, 600 injured; Alabama, 31 dead, 113 injured, and in Georgia 25 dead, 100 injured, or more than 300 in four states. On April 30, 1909. Tennessee experienced one of the worst tornadoes ever known in that state. Sixty-two persons were killed, and the property loss was almost $1,000,000. Five other states were also visited on the same day, but the loss of life was small. On May 2, 1012, the village of Korn, Okla., was wiped out and twenty-one lives were lost. 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Half the required $100 Midgethorn Puncture-P Self-healing Tires 4 SAMPLE The regular retail price of these tires is WANTED--A RIDER AGENT Breach your land district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Range" bike and/or vehicles. Our agents everywhere are making money here. Please for full details and special offer at once. GO NOW! REQUIRED We will be here until you receive and approve of your biceps. We will be here anywhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit in advance for free biceps and ten DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which you can may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. You will be in not perfectly satisfied, but not wish to keep the bicycle back to us at our expense and be out one cent. FICIAL PRICE: We furnish the highest price. it is possible to make at one small price more a real factory cost. You save $10 to $5 middleness on profits by buying direct of and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO YOU BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our customer codes and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers for retail agents. MOTORCYCLE Receive our beautiful catalogue Fully low price we offer this year. Call us today for a wonderful less in less cost of our other factory. We call the highest grade bicycle BICYCLE You can call our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the day we arrive. SECOND HAND BICYCLE. We do not require a ranging from $3 to $9 or $15 take advantage of our Chicago tickets, but we clear out promptly at prices COASTER $24.99 RAMPART $19.99 riding, very durable and light inside with a special quality of rubber, which we have comes porous and which closely mimics punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers skating that they have only been bumped up once or twice in a whole year. They wish no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture causing qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The required price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of the tire. $4.00 per pair day later is received. We ship C. O. D. on shore. You do not have examination found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount and then therapy making the price $4.55 per WITH OFFER and enclose this notice. We will not risk in sending you returns our business if for any reason they are not in your examination and money goes to us in a loan. If you order a pair of tires you have easier, run faster, wear better. Look closer than they tire you have. We know that you will be so well pleased that this pamphlet may help you with your own tires. Or at once, honor this pamphlet by paying your gift price multiples quoted above; or write for our big tire and Sandy Cogburn which makes kinds of tires about that usual price. DO NOT WAIT It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write to J.L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY. WHY NOT MAKE $200,00 A MONTH $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 We will allow a cash discount of 10% (or 10% per pair). All orders shipped same with order and enclose this note, to the effect that you may not be required to send the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH and money sent to us has safe as much as possible. You must not be dissatisfied on explicating on an order as the tires may be too expensive, wear better, but longer and look better than they are in other cases. We are perfectly reliable. We know you will be so well pleased that when we have a bicycle you have a very good use of them and you will ride you to send us a offer at once. Here this is the result. If you need to be sent to the price $4.55 per pair, you will give you a full price of $4.55 per pair. We want a price quoted above; or write for our big tire and Sandy Cosmopolish which are in the special inflammatory. DO NOT WAIT until every time you send the price $4.55 per pair, you will be in your order. We want a price quoted above; or write for our big tire and Sandy Cosmopolish which are in the special inflammatory. It only costs a postal to learn everything. With it going, we know the new and wonderful offers we are making. WHY NOT MAKE $200,00 A MONTH -- That's $50.40 a Week, almost $10.00 a Day Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof boxes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and well-to-do farmers, all of whom realize the need of a safe, but do not know how容易 is town one. Salesmen declare our proposition one of the best, clean-out money-making opportunities ever received. Without previous experience YOU can duplicate the success of others. 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Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of bushler in in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades For cleaning, dyeing and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordner has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business Winchester Ava., P. O. 609 — Both Phones. will tell you a sample pair for $4.50 (can be reduced $1.50) NO MORE RETROBREAL FROM PUNCHTORES NAILS, Tackles, or clips may not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs of nail. DESCRIPTION: Made in small sizes. It is riding, very durable and lined inside with a very quality of rubber, which never becomes popped and which closes up small punctures without blowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of leathers from satisfied customers stalling that their tires have been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. The tire is no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture-resistant one being by several layers of thin, socially fabricated road. The regular price of these tires is $10.00 per pair for advertising purposes; we are making a special factory price to the order of only $4.50 per day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on parcel. Yo have examined and found Our New Home. Capacity 20,000 Safes Annually. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION --- Notice the thick rubber trend and puncture strips and "A" also run strip "B" to prevent riin cutting. This kira will outlast any other make--DOFT, ELASTIC and EASY FIRING. pair. All orders shipped same ou do not pay a cent until you 4.55 per pair) If you send FULL CASH ending us an order as the tires may be ours, you will find that they will ride on have overused or seen at any price, you will give us your order. We want until you send for a pair of Hedgethorn shades trip at the special introductory and endless and quotes all makes and NO OF SUIVING a bicycle or a pair of and wonderful ofers we are making. 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