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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The "HERE SH ESTABLISHED 1882. TARIFF BILL RATES ARE LOW Would Reduce Customs Revenue $120,000,000 a Year. MADE UP BY INCOME TAX. Steel Rails, Sugar, Wood Pulp and Meats on the Free List, Woolen Goods and Machinery Reduced—Tax Would Affect Incomes of $4,000 a Year and Over. Washington—The special session of congress, which was called to revise the tariff, was addressed personally by President Wilson, who read his message to the houses. It was the first time that a thing of this kind has been done since John Adams was president. The new rates would reduce the government's customs revenue $120,000,000 a year, a sum which, it is proposed, shall be made up through the new tax on incomes. The purpose of the measure is to put the burden of governmental expense upon the wealthy and by reducing the price of necessaries lower the cost of living for the poor. The metals schedule; Steel rails free; steel and iron wire, now 35 per cent, to 20 per cent; forglings, now 30 per cent, to 15 per cent. Machinery to be generally reduced. Automobiles unchanged. Steam engines and machine tools reduced from 30 per cent to 15 per cent. Sugar to be on the free list in 1916. An immediate reduction of 25 per cent is proposed. Woolen cloths, knit fabrics and manufactured goods to be reduced from 55 per cent to 35 per cent. Cotton cloth is reduced from 30 and 40 per cent to $7 \frac{1}{2}$ and $27 \frac{1}{2}$ per cent. Meats are to be on the free list. Rates on live stock to be reduced generally—cattle, from 27% per cent to 10 明 1913, by American Press Association. PRESIDENT WILSON. per cent; sheep, from $1.50 each to 10 per cent; poultry, from 3 cents to a cent a pound; horses, from 25 to 10 per cent; swine from $1.50 a head to be free. Wood pulp will come in free. Print papers at 2½ cents a pound or less are also on the free list. Silk goods are reduced from 70 cents and $4 a pound to 45 per cent; ribbons from 50 to 40 per cent, and partially manufactured silk goods from 35 cents a pound to 15 per cent. Linen fabrics are cut from 60 per cent to 45 per cent. Handkerchiefs reduced from 50 per cent to 35 per cent. The income tax bill provides a --- nated tax upon every resident of the United States whose income is over $4,000 a year. In all cases the first $1,000 of income is exempted from taxation. From $4,000 to $20,000 the rate is 1 per cent. Thus on an income of $20,000 the tax would be $160. From $20,000 to $50,000 a surtax of 1 per cent is added, and from $50,000 to $100,000 a surtax of 2 per cent. On incomes in excess of $100,000 a surtax of 3 per cent is added. Thus on an income of $1,000,000 a year the tax would be $28,260. The bill would repeal the present corporation tax law imposing a 1 per cent tax on the earnings of corporations and stock companies. The salaries of the president of the United States, federal judges and all state officers and employees are exempted from the income tax. These are the principal administrative changes proposed: Trade with the Philippine Islands is placed upon an absolutely free basis. Commercial relations with Cuba are not changed. The president is urged to make reef-proofy treaties. These must be ratified by a majority of both houses of congress. The senate thereby loses its exclusive power to ratify trade treaties. The income tax is collectible at the source of the income. Thus stock owners will receive dividends less the government tax. SWIMS IN ICY BAY AT 112 Has Celebrated Birthday That Way For a Hundred Years William Bay, Wis. - Disregarding the advice of physicians and a cold wind that threw shivers into a crowd of curious spectators, Thomas Sullivan, keeper of a summer resort, celebrated his one hundred and twelfth birthday anniversary by donning a bathing suit and taking a plunge into the waters of the bay. "That's my one hundredth annual duck," shouted the old man as he emerged from the water and started on a trot to the house. Since he was twelve years old the old fisherman has made it a point to observe his birth date by a swim in the bay regardless of weather conditions. In seasonable weather he takes his morning plunge immediately after rising. "If I didn't do that I would have been dead long ago," he said. "It's the only thing that keeps the blood moving in my veins." ROLLS IN BARREL FROM JAIL. Prisoner Esoapes With Aid of a Steep Hill at Pittsfield. Troy, N. Y.—Walter Robinson, who has a remarkable record, was captured at Adams, Mass., after a hunt for him in this city, Pittsfield, Mass., North Adams and elsewhere. He was wanted for jailbreaking in Pittsfield and is also wanted by the New York state authorities as a convict who violated his prison parole. With but two weeks to serve in the Pittsfield jail he made his escape. He was working on the grounds about the jail when, unnoticed by the guard, he got into a barrel, starting it rolling down the steep hill on which the jail stands to the fence about the grounds, climbed the fence and decamped before the guard realized what had taken place. ZEPPELIN SECRETS SAFE. Germans Don't Believe French Could Reproduce Mechanism. Berlin—German army officers who were on board the Zeppelin air cruiser Z-IV. when she was captured by French officers after crossing the French frontier and landing at Luneville are of the opinion that the Frenchmen did not discover any of the secret workings of the aircraft. The German officers in their report say that, although General Hirschauer, inspector of the French aviation department, and other experts boarded the dirigible, they think the Frenchmen did not observe enough to enable them to reproduce the intricate mechanism of the airship. Some members of the Zeppelin crew say that they heard shots fired at the dirigible, but this is not confirmed by other persons on board. NAVY NEEDS MORE CADETS WOULD KEEP ACADEMY FULL Unless Statute is Removed Annapolis Will Have but 533 Students in 1917 and Cost of Graduates Will Increase, Says Secretary—To Revise Curriculum For First Year. Annapolis, Md.-Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced that he would seek to have congress extend the provisions of the law of 1903 authorizing the appointment of two midshipmen to the Naval academy every four years by each senator, representative and delegate in congress. This law expires this year, and unless it is extended the number of appointments to the academy will be cut in half and within four years the number of midshipmen will be reduced from 1,089 to 533 "The capacity of the Naval academy," said Secretary Daniels, "is sufficient without enlargement to furnish officers for the line and staff of the navy and marine corps in adequate numbers for many years to come, but if the number of appointments be reduced the relative cost of educating each midshipman will increase, while the existing shortage in the navy will grow rapidly worse. There is little likelihood of more graduates from the Naval academy than the government will require." Secretary Daniels has approved a recommendation of the academy board of the Naval academy that for subjects in which the only examination comes at the end of the year the term work shall count three-fourths instead of two-thirds, reducing the examination accordingly. Under this arrangement e 1913, by American Press Association. JOSEPHUS DANIELS, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. the work done during the term will hereafter count more in determining the scholastic standing than formerly. The effect of the revision of the curriculum on the first year's work has been shown by the decrease in the number of fourth class men dropped for deficiency in studies at the semiannual examinations. Last year nearly 17 per cent of the fourth class were recommended to be dropped. This year only 13 per cent failed. In determining the term work the examination now counts only one-sixth in subjects in which monthly examinations are given. The recent entrance examinations also showed an increase over the usual percentage in those who qualified for admission. Out of 135 examined in February 55 per cent passed, an against an average of about 41 per cent during the last six years. This increase it would hurt due to a lack ference in examination, but is due to a chance in examination dates. In order to limit the amount of expenditures of midshipmen for civilian clothing and huberdashery, as well as to prevent their running in debt, an order has been issued which forbids them from making purchases directly in Annapolis, but allows limited purchases from firms who send representatives to the academy. Local nurchants have no objection to the order as their payment is certain and facilities for taking orders are freely granted them. DOORWAY IN A BUDDER. Made Necessary For Work on the New Giant Cunard Aquitania. London—The rudder has just been placed in position on the 50,000 ton Cunard liner Aquitania, which will be launched at Clydebank, Glasgow, during the last week in April. The rudder is so large that a doorway was made in the lower part of it to admit workmen and enable them to work on a pin four feet long connecting the rudder with the ship. Middletown, N. Y.-The Rev. O. P. Crandall, who is ninety-eight years old and since his superannuation he lived at Ridgebury, near here, preached a sermon in the Methodist church there. BADIO STATION FOR PANAMA. Plans Are Completed For Towers Like Those In Use at Arlington. Washington.—Rear Admiral Stanford, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, has just completed plans for the construction of the second set of great naval wireless towers, which will be erected on the canal zone at Camito, practically duplicating the initial plant at Arlington reservation. There will be three 600 foot steel towers. With a 100 kilowatt radio set it is believed that this section should be able to communicate either directly or by relay with similar high power stations to be erected by the navy in the Hawaiian islands, Tutuila, Samoa, Guam and the Philippines. BRAVE HARRIEF JU MAN Scout, epy, war nurse, "underground railroad" manager, a memorable figure of the Civil War period has passed away in the death of Harriet Tubman Davis at Auburn, N.Y. Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland. Of Ashantee blood, descendant of tribal chiefs, she possessed an unconquerable spirit and immense physical strength, surpassing that of most men. To avoid being "sold south" in her youth, she followed the north star to freedom, but soon was back teaching other Negroes the road she had trod. Rewards amounting to $40,000 were offered in Virginia and Maryland for her arrest. Harriet Tubman was invaluable as an "underground railroad" agent in the North. While in this work she led the mob that rescued Coates Nalle, a fugitive slave, in Troy. Though beaten upon the head by policemen's billies, she thruched two of them and aided the rescue with her mighty muscles. In her station of the underground at Auburn, with the financial support of William H. Sward she sent away many a refugee to Canada. Appointed as a nurse to Colonel Shaw's famous Negro regiment in 1863, she soon appeared in a new capacity as a scout for the Union troops. In 1896 she founded the Harriet Tubman Davis Home for Indigent Aged Negroes, where she herself died at the supposed age of ninety-eight. Why dspair of the future of a race that can exhibit such courgege deviation and capacity for leadership in one of its lowest members? Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. A SIMPLE BUT TRUE FAITH. An eminent divine or other related this most impressive little incidid on a ship just after a fearful storm. A woman of the world was aboard, and discovering the presacher, she said; "O, sir, I want to be a christian. I would give anything to have been up the Negro steward in the storm. When I expected every moment to die, and was shaken with awful fear, this Negro woman was calm and spoke to me with perfect composure as follows: "Nobler mind, missus, look to Jesus. He rules the seas; don't fear the rocks; he can do Rock of Agnes himself." Sir, I would give everything for such a faith. STOLEN JURKEY The Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, in an interview during the Little Falls strike, said of a religious child labor millionaire. "That man reminisced of Uncle Calhoun Clay, who was accused of stealing a turkey and Sunday after the theft, was one of the first of the communicants at the little white church. His pastor, the Rev. Washington White, said to him reproachfully after the service: "Calhoun Clay, I'm ashamed of your coming to communion after stealing a turkey." "Lands a messy, parson," said the old Uncle Cal, "to you think I'd let a skinny old turkey, hardly worth ten cents a pound, stand betwixt me and the Lord's table?" POLITICAL CORRUPTION. Frank J. Rice, the reform mayor of New Haven, said: "The trouble about political corruption is, that its never open and straightforward. It is circuitous, indefinite. You can't put your finger on it." "No sir," said a man once to me, "I never cold my vote to nobody." But, George, said I, "I saw the royal candidate give you $5 only ten days ago—before the election." "Yes," said George, "I don't deny that. But he didn't give it to me for nothing. And when a man comes along and gives you $5 for nothing, why it's no more than common decency to vote for him for nothing in return. PUNCTUATION. Returning from school, the other day, a little girl informed her mother that she had learned to "puncuate." "Well, dear," said her mother, "and how is it done?" "Why, when you write "Hook!" you put a hat pin after it, and when you ask a question, you put a button book." KNOW BETTER Bessie—"What a lot of fashioned beliefs have been subscribed in these modern days." For instance—you never hear anybody advise a young couple now that they can live as cheap as one." Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg .Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Mason Roman left today for Mansington, this State, where he has secured a position. Mrs. John F Carter has been considerably indisposed for the past week or two, but at this writing she is considerably improved. Mr. John T. Runner is the proud father of a fine son. Although Mrs. Runner and the new baby were subjected to the rigorous experience of being routed by the recent flood, they are doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. James Hutton have returned home, after spending some time in Baltimore, in which city they attended the Washington Conference and visited relatives and friends. They report a pleasant time. Rav Samuel M. Brane, pastor of Mount Zion M. E. Church for the past five or six years, has been sent back again by Bishop Earl Cranston. Martinsburg came near losing Mr. Brane this time though, because we are informed he was at first sent to Lewisburg, this State. Through the kindness of Mr. Shirley Johnson, the well known and popular express man, of Harper's Ferry, the Pioneer Press is in receipt of an architectural drawing of the proposed new Hill Top House. The old Hill Top was the most famous summer hotel in this section of the country, but the new one bids fair to in every way onstrip its predecessor. Mrs. Sallie Lee, a former resident of Martinsburg, but now of Paula delphia, was a recent visitor to her father, Mr. Jacob Turner, of this city. She looked well, talked very entertainingly of the days when she was a girl in our 'burg, as well as gave ample evidence that life to her was worth living, and seemed to glory in the fact that she and her good husband were doing their utmost toward raising up a family of children who will make the country better by having lived therein. ELK For Oregon Forests. St. Anthony, Ida.—A carload of wild elk from Wyoming passed through here for Joseph, Ore. The shipment is in charge of a deputy warden from Oregon. The elk are all young, and the men in charge say they are even better than the herd received last year in Oregon. They will be placed in the big pasture in Oregon. THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN FOR APRIL In the current number of the Southern Workman (published by the Hampton Institute Press) there is an interesting discussion by Dr. George E Haynes of the Social Science Department of Fisk University, of the reasons for the movement of Negroes from the country to the city and a statement of the methods which are being employed to better the condition of those who remain in the city. It is a far cry from American cities to the center of Africa and yet in the Livingatonia Mission on Lake Nyass, described in the same issue, the methods of instruction used are as up-to-date as the most modern American ones. In fact, this mission, started in memory of Livingetone whose centenary the world is now celebrating, is but Hampton Institute in miniature. This number of the Southern Workman contains some excellent pictures illustrating these Hampton methods. Along the same line is a paper by Charles M. Buchanan of the Indian Service on "The Cultural Value of Vocational Training." Two folklore contributions are interesting and entertaining—"The folklore of the Menominti Indiance" and 'How the hog got his mulfoot.' The editorials treat of educational and sociological topics and meetings. MIND THE BABY MAYOR WINS. Candidate Holds Youngster White Mother Casts Deciding Vote. Glenwood Springs, Colo.—"I'll hold the baby while you go and vote," said Mayor James Zimmerman of Carbondale to a woman voter of that city. Five minutes before the polls closed Mayor Zimmerman, who was seeking re-election, learned that two of the fair voters of the town had not voted. Rushing to the home of one of the women, he explained his mission, and she hurried to the polls and cast her vote for him. Mr. Zimmerman then hurried to the residence of the other delinquent and found her rocking her baby. "Here" he said; "I'll hold the baby and you go and vote. I need every vote I can get." The mother put the baby in his arms, tied on her bonnet and went at a double quick to the polling place. The mayor walked the door, sang lullabies, whistled and made faces to amuse the baby, and when the votes were counted he found he had been elected by a majority of one vote. A GOOD INVESTMENT. Californian Lost One Wheel and Got Three Back. Palo Alto, Cal.—There is at least one man in Palo Alto who has profited by the philosophical way in which he looks upon the dark side of life. This unusual person is Van Dyke Works, whose bicycle was carried off by a thief. Works called upon his erring brother to return the missing wheel by posting the following words of wisdom in a conspicuous place: "If the cyclist who borrowed my bicycle and failed to return same had only waited until May he would have spared the owner considerable inconvenience. If he will be so good as to leave it on the lawn at 505 Embaradero road one of these dark nights he will have the reward of a clear conscience and the owner's blessing. During the next week the watchdog will be kept indoors." Works awakened in the morning to find three bicycles on his front lawn. He is advertising for the owners of the other two recovered wheels. Son of French Prefender Is Now Full Fledged Ruler. Paris.—A dispatch from Brindisi received here says that the Duke of Montpensier was proclaimed king of Albania by the provisional government of that country. The country which has now set up a government of its own was at the beginning of the Balkan war a vilayet of Turkey in Europe. Not long after the war started, however, finding itself harassed on one side by the Bulgarians, on another by the Greeks and on another by the Servians, it appealed to the great powers for protection and proclaimed a provisional government. Keamil Bey became president of the new government provisionally until the Albanians should have complied with the decrees of the ambassadors of the great powers resulting from the peace conference in London, which decreed said that Albania should not be partitioned among the Balkan states, but that it should be ruled over by a prince of some royal house of Europe and supervised by the powers. The Duke of Montpensier was approached several weeks ago on the subject of becoming Albania's new ruler, but as the prince is wealthy and already socially prominent, being related to the royal families of Bulgaria, Spain and Italy, he was not especially attracted by the idea of becoming king. Duke Montpensier, the new Albania ruler, is twenty-nine years old, only brother and heir of the Duke of Orleans, chief of the Royalist party in France. In spite of the fact that his exile prevents him from serving in the French navy, the people of France are attached to him because of his exploration services in the hinterland of Touking and French Cochin China and for the bravery he showed in the Moroccan campaign when he served under the banner of Spain. His most popular title of Duke of Montpensier comes from his mother, who was a Spanish infanta, the daughter of the Duke of Montpensier. His father, from whom he inherits his ample fortune, was the Comte de Paris. His sister married the Duke of Aosta, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. NOTES FROM THE NEWS. Senator Smoot has a bill appropriat ing $500,000 annually to experiment in home economics, which, if passed, he says, will rob the garbage can of millions every year by teaching housewives how to utilize food. A new trial was granted in an enactment case in Philadelphia when it was found that one of the jurors was a deaf nute. He had sat through the trial, and his affliction became known only when he was called on to give his verdict. The ten-year-old daughter of Harry Kramer of California, Pa., had a toy bank across the top of which was the motto, "In God we trust." A burglary looted the house, but left the bank after writing below the motto, "So did I—once." There was $50 in dimes in it. NEW WEAPON FOR ARMY. Automatics of 45 Caliber Will Replace the 38 Now Used. Hartford, Conn.—To replace the present 38 caliber pistols used by the United States army the federal government has decided to supply the enlisted men with 45 caliber automatics. The smaller revolvers are being recalled at once from the field artillery and signal corps and are being replaced by the 45 caliber guns, which have met all the severe tests for accuracy and safety to which the government experts subjected them. The tests have been in progress for a year under the supervision of the war department, which approved the automatics and supplied a few to each brand of the service for thorough testing. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D.C. STEPHEN M. NEW MAN, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy of capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph.D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Coog, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinhes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. s. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polychimic Edward A Balloch, M. D., Dean 5th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeill, M. D. Secretary, 901 R. St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Blood Was Wrong All women, who suffer from the aches and pains, due to female ailments, are urged to try Cardui, the reliable, scientific, tonic remedy, for women. Cardui acts promptly, yet gently, and without bad effects, on the womanly system, relieving pain, building up strength, regulating the system, and toning up the nerves. During the past half century, thousands of ladies have written to tell of the quick curative results they obtained, from the use of this well-known medicine. TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Mrs. Jane Callehan suffered from womanly trouble for nearly ten years. In a letter from Whiteville, N. C., she says: "I was not able to do my own housework. My stomach was weak, and my blood was wrong. I had backache, and was very weak. I tried several doctors, but they did me no good. I used Cardui for 3 or 4 months, and now I am in the best health I have ever been. I can never praise Cardui enough." It is the best tonic, for women. Whether seriously sick, or simply weak, try Cardui. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Teen, for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women." JM FOLAND CAN'T TASTE FOODY Frank Foland, who says he lives "so where in particular," was placed in the Biomeburg, Pa., lockup and fed. He has an injured neck, and all of his food must go down through a tube. For eight years, he declared, no solids have passed down his throat. Foland has a funnel, of tin, and a short piece of rubber hose. The hose is placed in his throat and the funnel inserted in it. Then soup is poured down through the funnel and it passes into the stomach. His neck was caught between two iron stringers while he was at work as a steel creator in Albany, N. Y. eight years ago, and since that time he has tasted nothing that went into his stomach. AIR CRAFT IN NAVY WARFARE Hydroaeroplane Demonstrates Usefulness In Atlantic Maneuvers. Washington.--The hydraeroplane in naval warfare has scored its first victory in connection with maneuvers of the Atlantic battleship fleet in Cuban waters by discovering a supposed enemy far at sea and directing the fleet to the place. Lionelman John H. Towers and Ensign Godfrey de C. Chevalier of the navy aviation corps put out from Guantanamo bay just before sunset to scout for the supposedly hostile fleet. Weather conditions were bad, there being frequent rain squalls, three of which the aviators passed through successfully. After proceeding seaward some distance the fleet of the enemy, composed of five battleships and two scouts, was discovered fifteen miles away. The aviation officers took observations of its location, course and speed without being detected. They returned to Guantanamo bay at dusk and reported to Rear Admiral Badger, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, who ordered out the torpedo boat destroyer fotillas, which engaged the enemy within an hour. BIOGRAPHY OF RIMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. 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EVERYONE WE work for BICYCLE RIVERED possible to make on one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $10 to $35 midsize bicycle and buy direct of us and have the manufacturer's guaranteed behind your BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive catalogues and learn our unhacked of factory price and remarkable retail offer from agents. BILLLES ASSISTED When you receive our beautiful catalogue for the new prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest price蓝宝车牌 less more cars we can sell our factory. We are assisted with $199 profit above factory cost. BY BICYCLE DEALER, you can sell our bicycle under your own name plate double our prices. BY SECOND HAND, you receive A number of hand taken trade by baggage is not regularly handled second faring from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargains is made half the regular COASTER-BRAKES, single whoops, imported rotor chains, equipment of all kinds half the regular $1000 MEDGETHORN Puncture-Pric Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE TO INTRODUCE The regular retail price of these tires is $10.00 per foot. Fanning from a number one band, Lionz in trade by our Chicago label, and second hand band bleges, but usually have a Coastier or Brakes single, single whoops, hiatused roller chains and nods. 105060 riding, very durable and lined inside, with a special quality of rubber, which never comes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. You have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the most costly listing qualities being given by several layers of this rubber, prepared fabrication the tread. The regular price of the tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $1.80 per day letter is received. Wo ship C. O. D. on approval. day letter is received. Worship C. O. D. on two per pair. All orders shipped same have examined and found them strictly as received. You do not pay a contract until you We will allow you each found them strictly as presented. We will allow our cash discount (thusely making the price $2.55 per WITH OVER and enclose this on our bill) no risk in sending us money returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not in good condition or on examinations and money paid to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of shoes these three affect, you must foot, wear them longer and look near them than any shoe you have. We know that you will be so well prepared a breeze you will you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable service will not be payable but any kind of price until your price quoted above; or write for our big box and Sunday Catalog which describes kinds of times at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF it only costs a postal to learn everything from anyone until you know the now and what J.L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, ON WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 WITH OWNER and your account of your rent (otherwise making the price $4.53 per pair) you need FULL CASH you run no risk in renting on an order as the three months returned at OUR expense if for any reason the rent is not recovery on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us less salaries in bank if you order items in stock you will find that they will ride better, less longer and look better than any else you may have, you will find that they will ride We know that you will rent at a better price, when you want a bicycle you will have covered or seen at any prices. you to send us a trial order at once, once the trial order is delivered you IF YOU NEED TRIAL ORDERS don't have a trial order priced quoted above; or write for our big Trio and Sunday catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of times at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write as a postal folder. DO NOT It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it ONLY. WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH - - That's $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 a Day Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof homes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and well-to-do farmers, all of whom realize the need of a safe, but do not know how easy it is to own one. Salesmen declare our proposition one of the best, clean-cut money-making opportunities ever received. Without previous experience you can duplicate the success of others. Our mannequin only illustrated 26-page catalog will enable you to present the subject to customers in as interesting a manner as though you were telling them through our factory. Men may be customers receive advice and instructions for selling safes, giving convincing talking points which it is impossible for a prospective customer to deny. Who needs You? You be the first to apply from your vicinity before someone else gets the territory we can force only one salesman out of each locality. Our New Home. Capacity 20,000 Guests annually. THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? Because it is a NEW CREA- TION, covering every field of the world's thought, nation and culture. The only new unbridled dictionary in many years. Because it defines over 400,000 Words; more than ever before appeared between two pages, 2700 Pages, 6000 Ill- ustrations. Because it is the only dictionary with the new divided page. A "Stroke of Genius." Because it is an encyclopedia in a single volume. Because it is accepted by the Counts, Schools and Press in the one supreme au- thority. because he who knows Wins Success. Let us tell you about this new work. WRITTEN for specimen of new divided paper. C. & C. CHEMICAL CO., Publishers, Springfield, Mo. Mention this paper, receive FREE a set of pocket maps. 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 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. BICYCLE Odor filled t RECORD will sell you a sample pair for $1,400 each unbound or $1,50 NOMORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks, or Class will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. ```markdown ``` OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION 4 Notice the thick rubbery top "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D" also rim strip "H" prevent rim outlining. This makes it easy to carry and make SOFT, SLABIC and EASY RIDING. ```markdown ``` The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by creating the most modern safe factory in the world. Wide swabs, men who received our special selling inducement and necessary to double our output, and women who spending many thousands of dollars luring our sales organization, but to learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. 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The Pioneer Press With its generally large and intelligent circulation will bring AND PROFITABLE RETURNS, TO ITS ADVERTISERS. Viewed from the standpoint of news merit, circulation or advertising power, THE PIONEER PRESS is the peer of its competitors and stands forth as a brilliant example of successful modern newspaper methods.