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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." STABLISHED 1882. Hon. G. H. White Given A Banquet Those who attended the banquet in honor of Ex. Congressman George H. White, of North Carolina, at Young's Casino on the evening of April 24 will doubtless be surprised at the announcement that New Yorkers, Virginiaans, Marylanders, South Carolinians, West Indians predominated; that of the 85 guests that sat down to dinner, comparatively few were from his native state. I am sorry to have to come forward to explain this peculiar coincident. This was not because North Carolina has not its share of patriotic, race loving, generous and hospitable people. I claim for the Old North State as cultured, as refined, as proud, as neighborly and hospitable colored people as any other southern state, but its in North Carolina and not at the North we find them. The great hordes of European immigrants that flock daily to American shores are in the main, of the undesirable element of their native land; the unsuccessful, seeking in the new world a new lease of life. The good, the prosperous, the contented European remains in Europe. So it is with the Southern Negro of our country; the prosperous, the best, the responsible remain in the southern states and patiently battle with the conditions that there exist. In the main, it is the floating, undesirable element, the jail bird, the bail jumper, the street walker that leaves the community for the good of said community. Twenty five years a resident in the Borough of Brooklyn has convinced me that my state, North Carolina has a larger representation of that class of Negroes than any other southern state—the criminal, the violent, envious, jealous, the crab in the basket element that would frustrate any design even for their own good if by doing so they might injure some individual against whom they held a grudge. This is the element against which the president of the Citizens Committee had to contend in the prosecution of this work of love. Actuated solely by jealousy of the promoter of the enterprise, they canvassed as vigorously against it as they would have an epidemic of smallpox, mainly because of fear that out of the affair there might come notoriety and financial gain to the promoter. Hon. George H. White was born in Bladen County, N. C., in 1852, of free parents and was brought up under very rigid discipline, hence his vigorous constitution, sterling worth and rugged honesty. The first school he attended was in Rosedale. He next attended a school taught by one Wm. Duncan, and graduated from the Whistier Normal School at Lumberton. He afterwards taught school, and then entered Howard University graduating in the class of '77. During his last two years in Howard University, Mr. White studied law. In 1880 he took up the practice of law in his native home, having read law for two years previously under Judge Clark. In 1880 he was elected to the Legislature and served two years. In 1884 Mr. White was made Solicitor and Commonwealth Attorney of the 2d Judicial District of North Carolina and served two terms of four years each. In 1896 he was elected to Congress from the 31. Congressional District of North Carolina and reelected in '98. It is as lawyer that Mr. White is most vividly and affectionately remembered by the people of Wilmington, where his bold defense of his race and superior knowledge of law bound them to him as with hoops of steel. About ten years ago Mr. White left the South and took up his residence in Philadelphia where he has built up lucrative law practice. Mr. White's pet hobby however, and the enterprise nearest his heart is "Whitesboro," New Jersey, so far the only town in the state whose inhabitants are all colored. Whiteaboro is situated between Cape May and Atlantic City. Its soil is rich and suitable both for farming and the raising of many varieties of fruit. The little-town boasts a post office, a school house, a large and commodious hotel and a growing thrifty population. This vast tract of land was purcosed by Mr White as a refuge for the people of his race driven North by the political upheaval of 1988. If he shall pass from the earth having done no more, Whitesboro will be his imperishable monument. Virginiaans boast of their Booker Washington and cherish the memory of their Langston, South Carolina is proud of her Robert Smalls the hero of the Planter, Georgians mention with pride the names of Lyons and the intrepid Pledger, Mississippi of Bruce and Revels, Louisianaians are proud of the fact that their native state bore Pinchback, and Lawis, whose names make dear the memory of the Old Guard, but North Carolina we regret to say, has not here in the North, enough of that element of race men and women who can cheerfully soar above petty jealousies. Five-year-old Girl Prodigy. St. Louis.—Wannetta Haverstick of 4259 Maryland avenue, just five years old, has developed in the last six months into a prodigy of learning, wit and wisdom under the teaching of her father, Dr. G. W. Haverstick, formerly a lecturer on children's diseases at the Physicians and Surgeons' hospital. She has mastered the first grade reader, knows more geography than the average twelve-year-old pupil, is well up in physiology, has taken a keen interest in politics and is so well versed in the Bible that she is excluded from the Sunday school class containing children of her age. SECRETARY BRYAN. Will Be Orator of the Day at West Virginia's Birthday Party. It can now be definitely announced that Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan will be the orator of the day at West Virginia's big birthday party in Wheeling June 20th. When the committee from the state commission visited Washington recently to ask President Wilson to come to Wheeling, the President courteously told them that he had decided not to leave Washington during the first year of his administration, but that he would use his influence to have Secretary Bryan come. "The President has a great deal of influence with me," said Mr. Bryan when the committee visited him and he promptly gave the committee his word that he would be in Wheeling on June 20. WARM RECEPTION FOR AMBASSADOR Arrival of Great Britain's New Representative Here. IS A VETERAN DIPLOMAT. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice Was Bost Man at Colonel Roosevelt's Wedding In 1880—Very Popular on Board Ship, Where He Made Many Friends Among Passengers and Crew. New York.—Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, the new ambassador from Great Britain to the United States, on his arrival here on the Carmania, accompanied by his secretary, D. G. Osborne, announced that his family would come over later, when he had prepared for them in Washington. The ambassador was met at the Cunard pier by George Wilson, vice president of the Pilgrims Society of Amer- 1 © 1913. by American Press Association. SIR CECIL ARTHUR SPRING-RICE. lea; Courtenay Walter Bennett, British consul general in New York, and his staff; L. David Campbell and Clark Kerr, attaches of the embassy, who came on from Washington. On the voyage Sir Cecil Spring-Rice sat at the captain's table and made himself popular with the Americans on board, which included 130 Clark tourists from the Egyptian cruise of the Laconia. In making the customary speech on behalf of the seamen's charities as chairman the ambassador said he occupied the same place as a bridegroom at a wedding—inconspicuous, but necessary. When asked if he had anything to communicate regarding European events Sir Cecil said, with a smile, that diplomats abroad in the service of their respective governments were not permitted to express their opinions. "I know very little of American affairs," said he, "as I have been out of touch for so long. It will probably be some time before I am familiar with all the details of my new post." The new ambassador to the United States is of medium height and medium build, with a good head and forehead, deep set blue eyes and a grizzled, gray Vandyke beard, giving a business air to a keen intellectual face. He is not of the physical type of the big, imposing, ruddy faced diplomat, picturing magnificent audacity, but his looks betoken rather methods of great affability, powers of analysis and the ability to use the launcet instead of the big stick. Sir Cecil is most approachable and democratic. He was a popular passenger and a good mixer on the Carmania. His manner is so easy and he is so responsive that his questioners forgive him when he talks and yet says nothing. The ambassador is Irish by descent. He is the grandson of Lord Montague of the second creation. His father was the Hon. Charles Spring-Rice, and in 1904 Sir Cecil married Florence, the daughter of Sir Frank Lascelles, who was his chief in the embassy at Berlin, when in February, 1905, Sir Frank sent him hurriedly to London to confer with Lord Lansdowne and King Edward. After the conference he made a hurried trip to this country, called with Sir Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador at Washington, upon President Roosevelt at midnight of a Sunday and set on foot the process of mediating between Russia and Japan. In eight days Sir Cecil was back in London. Ambassador Spring-Rice was born in 1859 and educated at Eton and Ballot, Oxford. He was clerk in the war office and the foreign office, assistant secretary to Earl Granville preds writer to Earl Rosebery, secretary of legation at Brussels, Washington, Tokyo, Berlin and Constantinople, charge d'affaires at Teheran, minister to Persia and on Sept. 1, 1908, he assumed the duties of British minister at Stockholm. In addition to English the new ambassador speaks French, German and Italian fluently and has a good knowledge of Russian and Swedish. When Theodore Roosevelt was married to Miss Edith Kernelt Carow in London on Dec. 2, 1886, the new ambassador was best man. PRESS DAY Will Be Observed at Semi-Center- nial Celebration on Friday, June 20. Friday, June 20 has been selected as Press Day at the celebration of West Virginia's Fiftieth Birthday in Wheeling. This day is West Virginia's Birthday; on this day the beautiful state ceremonies will take place; the University cadets and soldiers will pass in review; the school children from out of the city will march on masse; prizes will be awarded in the industrial and educational sections, our beautiful state song will be sung, Secretary of State Bryan and many other notables, including many governors and ex governors will be our guests; a grand concert by massed bands will be given; on this night a grand review of all pageants led by the spectacular historical pageant will be given; on this night will be the great state banquet to all distinguished guests, and this, of course, is the night of the "Press Feed," with three minute talks by West Virginia editors. And to cap it all, this is the night of the Grand State Ball, where the beauties gathered from every mile of our glorious state, will meet the cavalier descendance of the best the world has ever known in manhood. Yonkers, N Y. David B. Fulton. $5,000 WHEN HE EARNS $1,000 Uncle Leaves Legacy Under This Condition to Nephew. Minneapolis, Minn.-After he earns $1,000 "by his own efforts" S. E. Davis of Los Angeles will receive $5,000 under the will of his uncle, the late Spencer E. Davis of Minneapolis, just filed "S. E. Davis is not a bad young man but good and too freehearted," commented the uncle in the will. Mr. Davis died April 7 on a train returning from Pasadena, Cal. His estate is estimated at $110,000. He was the founder of the Monitor Drill works at St. Louis Park. The widow will receive the home and other real estate. Women Hold Five City Jobs. Kansas City, Kan. - With the appointment of a woman as city clerk in this city five important positions under the government of this municipality are now held by women. Miss Laura A. Jost was appointed city treasurer. Mrs. Merle Addison Cutler and Miss Esther Bower, deputy treasurers and Miss Beulah Reitz, city clerk. NO. 10 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. AMERICA AHEAD. An American and a Scotchman were near the foot of the Scotch mountains. The Scotchmann, wishing to impress the visitor, produced a famous echo to be heard in that place. When the echo returned clearly after nearly four minutes, the proud Scotchman, turning to the Yankee, exclaimed: "There, mon, ye canna show anything like that in your country." "Oh, I don't know," said the Yankee." But I guess we can do better than that; why in my country—in my camp in the Rockies, when I go to bed I just lean out of my window and call out, "Time to get up—wake up!" and eight hours afterward, the echo comes back and wakes me." GRBAT CAUTION. "Why did you refuse to shake hands with that man whose motives you respect?" "Because," replied the candidate. "you can't be too careful. About the only method of throwing a man down in politics that hasn't been tried yet is jiu jitsu." THE TEMPERATE MAN. James Thorpe, the champion of the Olympic games, is an Indian, and on the Oceanic, discussing the welfare of the Indian race, he said: 'Total abstinence is essential to my people. The average Indian cannot drink temporarily. His idea of temperance is like that of the country gentlemen who said:' "I drink brandy only on two occasions—when I have roast chicken for dinner and when I haven't." QUICK APPLICATION. A carping old woman said to her pastor one day: "Dear me, you ministers make so much ado about your work. What's two bit of sermons in the week to get up? I could do it myself." "Well," said the minister "let's hear you." "Give me a text, then" said the woman. He repeated with emphasis from Proverbs: "It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house." The woman fired up instantly: "What's that you say, sir, do you intend anything personally?" "Stop, stop," broke in the pastor, 'You would never do for a minister.' "And why not?" asked she sharply. 'Because,' replied the minister, 'You are too soon with the application.' THE BUSY BEE "How doth the little busy bee . Improve each shiny hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower." He gallies forth at early morn, With vigor all alive, And never rests, until he's borne His load into the hive. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ERVOID TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- ITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year $1,50. 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Crawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1913. NOTICE-On the front page, first column, will be found an article relative to the banquet given Hon. G. H. White in New York. The name of David B. Fulton, Yonkers, N. Y. should have been signed thereto, but through an oversight of the printer it was omitted. The humblest citizen in this country, black or white, has the same privilege of aspiring for office under the Government at Washington as did Woodrow Wilson when he was seeking the nomination for the Presidency before the Democratio Convention at Baltimore last June. A certain Governor offers a reward of $2500 for the head of a colored fugitive from justice, or for any part of his body, "just so there is enough of it to be recognized." Maybe somebody would be willing to give a prize of 30 cents to anybody who could guess the name of the Governor or in 20 seconds.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. There can be no more honesty through the selection of jurors by Commissioners than through the medium of Sheriff unless the former are honest men. We say this too, in deference to Woodrow Wilson, who has lately made a pilgrimage to New Jersey in the interest of having law enacted in that state to legalize selections of jurors by Commissioners instead of by Sheriffs, as is now done Elsewhere in these columns will be found Governor Harfield's Mother's Day Proclamation. It is a beautiful portrayal of mother, her sense of duty, and as a moritious literary production, it range among the best. It also illustrates that the Governor had a good mother, know her love and duly appreciates her esteem in which all mothers ought invariably be held, and what a great force for good they are when their counsel is needed. Clarence Darrow, the noted labor attorney, of Chicago, is reported to be penniless in San Francisco as a result of the prosecution undergone by him for alleged brinkery. We are sorry for this great man, because while a long distance from him, and the conditions attached to his prosecution, it is an opinion with us that Mr. Darrow is being made the sopegoat tor the wickedness of some one other than himself. Being a friend of humanity, as we have invariably noted him to be, our conclusion is reached with the wish that Attorney Darrow may be successful in tome, his third trial for brinkery. The Inter State Commerce Commission is very solicitous as to the welfare of vegetables, stock, etc., when in transit, and has ordered certain railroads to comply with orders in regard to ventilation and heating, and that as soon as possible. So far, though, we have seen no mention anywhere with reference to anything it has said or done looking toward an improvement in train accommodations on many Southern railroads. In our opinion, looking to the comfort of passengers who pay for what they don't get should be of more importance than seeing to vegetables and animals. Recently, a company of Southerners bied themselves to the office of the Governor of Alabama, O'Neal by name, and petitioned that gentleman most fervently to pardon or commute the sentences of two white men who were under sentence of death for murdering a Negro. Looking grave, O'Neal politely, but firmly gave his petitioners to distinctly understand that the mandates of the law would be obeyed, ending his speech with the forceful, yet stern reminder, that when he assumed the reins of government in the great State of Alabama, the open season for killing Negroes therein had ceased. Thanks be to God for such a man and may the South turn out more like him is the wish of the Pioneer Press. In another part of our paper will be found a statement from Governor H. D. Hatfield with regard to the strike situation in the Paint and Cabin Creek regions of West Virginia. The Governor makes plain his position, and those who know him are aware that he means what he says. For our part, we admire the man, because he will stand no foolishness or further lawlessness from anybody, and that is the way to bring order out of chaos in the West Virginia trouble zone. Anyone who doubts the above ides, needs only to read Governor Hatfield's reply to Senator Kern, and he will see that the former has the courage of his convictions, and will brook no interference from any source when he is serving the cause of law and order. Negroes not only of Martiasburg, but elsewhere as well, are entirely to blame for the way they are treated. In this State no jimrow laws prevail and it is their duty to oppose all efforts to that end. Here they tacitly submit to the most outrageous infringements on their rights. It is safe to say, that seldom, if ever, this place has bad no first class plays, yet they flock to the kind that come like bees to a sweet smelling tree in full bloom, and get in by what is called "the nigger way." That is through a separate gangway and door, then up into the gallery, and even up there, they are forced to sit in a section exclusively for them. It has thus gone on so long, and they seem so well pleased with it, that a one horse show like the one here last Monday, drew the color line. If there were some colored people who would contend for their common rights, and be one or two of these fly-by nights up for infringing on them, it would soon be stopped. But taking it for granted that we are waiting time and paper to as advice those here, we shall stop and let it end as it may. A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERN OR No Expression Of Proclamation is adequate to imply the devotion, the tenderness of the holy significance of the one who never turns away or ceases to love, oberish and admonish, regardless of what others may say or do. The storms never rage too severely, the rain and snow fall too fast, nor the arrows of scandal fly too thickly, to cause a mother to relinquish her love and devotion for a wayward son. There are no words with which to express the holiness, the purity, the significance of true motherhood. Who is it that calmly cares for the tender babe, guards it by night and day, watches over it in the innocence of its slumbers, and as it wakens in the light of a mother's smile? The observance of Mother's Day has been received with popular favor, and justly so. No worldly renown, achievement or environment should cause any man to be unmindful of the debt he owes his mother. The home, whether it be a hut in the wilderness or a stately mansion surrounded by all the comforts of life, will always be the place from which the highest and greatest sentiments of patriotism must come; checkered with fond remembrances, in many instances with heartaches for the loss of the one whom we, by the issuing of this memorial, are trying to commemorate. A home, be it ever so humble, presided over by a good mother, is more than a lodging or tenement. It is the foundation from which are gathered the elements of new inspirations, where the race recruits with greater and more noble thoughts. The immortal Lincoln said: "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." Emerson wrote: "Meh are what their mothers make them." How true are the words of Boseber: "The mother's heart is the child's school room." Believing that the greatest of all words is "Mother" and that all walks of life are ever ready to pay due homage to their mothers: I, H. D. Hatfield, Governor of the State of West Virginia, do hereby designate Sunday, May 11th, 1913 a day to be commemorated throughout the State as Mother's Day. May its proper observance by churches or other organizations, in the homes, and elsewhere, and the memories it occasions, serve to make us stronger and better men and women. In Testimony Whereof, I have here In Testimony Whereof, I have here unto signed my name and caused the Lea Seal of the State to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Charleston, this twenty fifth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the State the fifteenth. H. D. Hatfield Governor. By the Governor: Squart F. Reed, Secretary of State. SHIFTING RIVER MAKES CLAIM. Sacramento's Freaks Give Man a Fine 160 Acre Homestead. Hamilton City, Cal.-Taking advantage of the freaks of the Sacramento river in making land along its course, John P. Ryan, a well known young civil engineer of Hamilton City, will in a few years become possessor of 160 acres of the finest land in California, as he has filed a homestead on 160 acres on Packer island, in the river a short distance south of Butte City. The Mexican government made the west bank of the Sacramento river the eastern boundary of the Larkins grant. At that time there was a channel around Packer island which filled up on the west side as the years went by and the island became a part of the Larkins grant. The land on the opposite side of the river was surveyed and the island was not included. The owners of the Larkins grant claimed the island, and their right was not disputed. As Ryan has notified the other owners on the island, there are no more lucky acres to be obtained by homesteading. FLIES OVER PANAMA CANAL Fewler Makas Trip From Pacific to Atlantic In Fifty-five Minutes. Panama.-Robert G. Fowler, the aviator, successfully flew from the Pacific over the canal in a hydroaeroplane with a passenger, landing at the Atlantic side in fifty-five minutes. A picture was taken of the operator and machine in motion. The flight has frequently been termed impossible on account of the air currents over Culebra. Fowler flew directly over the cut and was able to carry out various evolutions despite wind obstacles. Leaving Panama Beach at 9:45 a.m., he circled over Panama City and the canal's entrance for awhile, then rose high and steered toward Colon, where he encountered a twenty-five mile breeze. In continuing to Cristobal the motor suddenly stopped, after missing fire, through the gasoline giving out Fowler succeeded in landing with ease on a reef. The pontoon was form, but otherwise the machine was undamaged. HATFIELD ANSWERS KERN. "I am informed that Senator Kern has made a statement that peonsge exists in West Virginia and that Mrs. Mary Jones has been on trial before a drumhead military court for the past thirty days. "In reply to the senator's statement relative to peonage, I wish to say that this allegation is a fabrication out of the whole cloth. Mrs. Jones is not now, nor has she at any time since her arrest, been in prison. She is being detained (and not in any way confined) at a pleasant boarding house with a private family on the banks of the Kanswha river at Pratt West Virginia. "I do not intend to permit Mrs. Jones or any other person to come into West Virginia and make inflammatory speeches that have a tendency to produce riot and bloodshed, such as was experienced under the administration of Governor Glasscock. We have evidence in abundance to prove that the class of speeches made by Mrs. Jones and her coworkers did bring about a riotous state which resulted in murder and destruction of property. We have a dozen of the same class of people confined in different jails of the state, some of them guilty of murder, others guilty of siding and abetting by furnishing the necessary fire arms and ammunition with which to commit murder. The honorable body of which Senator Kern is a member has a perfect right to investigate West Virginia or any part of it. I shall be delighted to have such an investigation and will use my best efforts to aid the investigating committee in any way I can, but Senator Kern must remember that I am responsible to the people of West Virginia for the maintenance of law and order, and it will be maintained by me during my term of office at any hazard, and when it becomes necessary to detain or jail people to accomplish this purpose it will be done unhesitatingly. "The long drawn out strike on Paint and Cabin Creek is at an end. Fewer than fifty people are today without work in that section and before the middle of the week every one will have been cured for. "Such twisters of the truth as Senator Kern seems to be, are largely responsible for these falsehoods and misrepresentations which work untold hardships upon those in office who have one respect for law and order and who are trying to carry out and maintain the principles of good government. 'I note that one of the statements of Senator Kern is to the effect that I knew positively that one newspaper correspondent was injected during the trial of "Mother" Jones and reported from the state. I can use in better term and cannot express myself more forcibly than to say that that this was a wilful and deliberate on the part of the one who informed Senator Kern, and it would not at all surprise me to learn that Senator Kern knew this to be the case when he made the statement.' FLAGS FOR 8,000 SCHOOLS Will Be Distributed to Commemorate States 50th Anniversary June 20. Several years ago the legislature adopted a design for a West Virginia state flag but on account of its difficult color scheme it was not possible to have the flags made at reasonable prices. Secretary of State Reed has at last succeeded in solving the problem and under his direction a beautiful flag has been evolved, having all the emblems and colors originally designated but arranged so as to make the lithographing and color printing possible at a minimum cost. Eight thousand of these state flags will be delivered about June first and distributed among the eight thousand schools in the state. Up to this time very few people have even seen the state flag or have any well defined idea as to what it is like. It was therefore a most happy conception of the Semi-Centennial Commission to place one in every school house in West Virginia. --- J.R. CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. SAINT JOAN OF THE ARMENICAS SALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec: 1st, 1012. No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connect for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheclia. No 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton Pittsbur, and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Col- umbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m or Cincinnati Lcuisville 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 Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m for Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11.55 a.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for, Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore-Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Vg. 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 charges only a few cents.--Editor. 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 Broadway, New City. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communication is probably confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for scanning patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notices, without charge, in the Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. Alice Briscoe, of Newville, Pa., has been visiting Mrs. Josephine Nash for eight or ten days. Mr. Mack Hopewell and wife, of Suepherdstown, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hopewell, on last Monday. Mrs. Victoria Keets, of Hagerstown, spent the past week in our city as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Christen South. Mr. Dade Green, leaves here on No. 12 tomorrow morning for his home in Luray, where he will visit his family for several days. We hope he may enjoy his stay. Rev S A. Lewis, of Harper's Ferry, and Rev. J. D. Brown, of Shepherdstown, circulated among friends in our city on Friday of this week. Master Horace Hanion, who is spending the summer at Falling Waters with his grandparents, visited his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Hanion, the other day. R. v Samuel M. Beane, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E Church, will preach the annual sermon to the local lodge of Odd Fellows at Dudley Baptist Church, on Sunday. Post Office Inspector E. I. Allen, of Parkersburg, who has been working for Uncle Sam many years, has been removed from his position. Mr Allen is well known in Martingburg, having repeatedly visited here in an official capacity. AGED MARE KNOWS DENVER MAIL ROUTE Needs No One to Guide Her on Trip About City. Denver.—There is probably no person in Denver who is able to start at the Union depot, traverse every street between there and Broadway, with Fourteenth street as the western limit and Nineteenth street as the eastern, and step without a mistake or a change of mind at every mail box in that area, but a horse, aged fifteen, yclept Bess, knows the hundreds of mail boxes and knows them so well that she can find them on the darkest of nights, with a bilizzard, a rainstorm or a ninety mile wind occupying all available space. Bess is the property of Frank Monroe, a mail collector. She has grown aged in the service of Uncle Sam's mail department. In the twelve years of her service as assistant mail collector for the aforementioned route she has missed only seven days, none of these in the last year. It is the boost of her master that a substitute mail collector can be placed on the route for the first time and return with the mail without the aid of any guide other than the sagacious Bess. As her master climbs into the wagon after gathering the mail from one box Bess heads directly for the next one, be it around the corner, across the street or down the block, and she never misses a box. Moreover, until the mail is in the rear of the wagon and she hears her master's voice, she will not leave the spot. Bess, says her master, intends to remain a government employee for many years yet. Except for the fact that she spends most of the day sleeping in her stall until time to go on duty at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, she exhibits no signs of advanced age. REPAYS FRIEND HE ROBBED. But Net Until Twenty-six Years Have Passed By. Louisville.—The stricken conscience of an aged man in Germany was responsible for the return of German bank notes amounting to nearly $1,000 American money to Nicholas Wermelster of this city, who was robbed of that amount at his old home in Metz. Germany, twenty-six years ago. The letter enclosing the notes was dated March 10, 1913, the anniversary of the theft, and was unsigned. Although the writer referred to himself as a "trusted friend who betrayed the confidence of your household," Mr. Wermelster declared he was unable to identify him. STEFANSSON NOW READY FOR START Explorer Will Leave In June For Long Arctic Stay. WILL REMAIN FOUR YEARS. Party Will Study Blond Eskimos and Gather Scientific and Geographical Data About Arctic Sea and Vast Unexplored Regions Between Bering Strait and the North Pole. New York.—Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who discovered the blond Eskimos, in announcing his plans for his coming four year expedition in the north, said that it would be the party's object to gather geographical and scientific data about the vast unexplored territory between Bering strait and the north pole and between the western border of the arctic archipelago and the known open sea north of Siberia. "We shall start from the navy yard at Esquimalt, Victoria, for Bering strait, in the first week of June, in the steam whaler Karluk, of 247 tons, proceeding east along the north coast of Alaska," he said. "The expedition, planned as a private American expedition, has been taken over by the Canadian government, which has enabled us to double its size. "I have engaged as oceanographers James Murray of Glasgow, who was (1) the biologist with Shackleton in the British antarctic expedition, and Dr. A. Forbes Mackay of Edinburgh, who was Shackleton's surgeon. Two anthropologists engaged are Henri Beuchat, a Frenchman, a specialist in American archaeology and anthropology, and Dr. Edward Janess, who is now on his way from New Zealand. Dr. Fritz Johansen, a Dane, will go as zoologist. The second in command will be Dr. R. M. Anderson of the American Museum of Natural History. The skipper of the Karluk will be Captain C. T. Pedersen, a whaler of twenty years' experience, who will pick a crew of fourteen or fifteen hands. "My experience shows that explorers had best live off the country. As far north as land has been discovered there is plenty of bear, carlou, musk ox, seal and walrus. The provisions taken will be grains, like rice and oats, and only dried fruit. "One of the big things will be the study of the bloud Eskimos, and we are going to ascertain the depth of the arctic sea, character of its bottom, direction and speed of its currents, temperature of the water, its salinity and its vegetable and animal life." Mr. Stefansson expects to be gone four years, but may in summer send the ship back to Esquimault. Whether the territory to be explored is all ice, open sea, a continent or a series of islands is one of the few remaining mysteries of the world today, according to the explorer. The thirteen ton schooner Teddy Bear may be used as an auxiliary for establishing a base on Victoria island in the arctic, for discovering metals and studying tribes. If the Karluk should come across land the party may establish a base upon it. Mr. Stefansson, the child of Icelandic parents, was born at Winnipeg in 1878, was graduated from the University of Iowa with Dr. Anderson in 1893 and afterward became a professor of anthropology at Harvard. In 1908 he went with Dr. Anderson to the arctic, spent four years there and discovered the blond Eskimos, who, he says, cannot be descendants of whalers or survivors of the Franklin expedition. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Page, whose ailment was diagnosed as a tomorous growth by Dr. George W. Boylis, was taken to the City Hospital on last Thursday afternoon, where she was operated on by Dr. T. K. Oatee, and a tumor weighing seven pounds and three quarters was removed from her. SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR ED INSTITUTE. Commences June 16, 1913 and Lasts Seven Weeks. Two MAIN COURSES: Teachers Review and Professional. Ex- penses Low. For further information, write Prof. Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsuppassed. 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 or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND 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 first approved colleges. 16 processors. Kelly Sulliver, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers Regional college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A B; Pedagogical courses leading to B degree. High grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Material Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped postpositions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Pu D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 18. 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. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinches thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers tour-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. es. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. 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Repairing wheels of all kinds, putting in new crank hammers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing o all kinds, and am the only man o town who repairs Bicycles. POOR OVERTAXED MILLIONS A YEAR Representative Hull of Tennessee Defends Income Levy. CARNEGIE AN "EXAMPLE." Author of Income Tax Measure Declares That Public Is Compelled to Pay $1,000,000,000 Annually Into Pockets of "Selected Individuals." Properties Assessed Too Low. Washington.—"The richer a person grows the less he pays in relation to his property or income. Experience has shown that under the present tax system personal property practically escapes taxation for either local or state purposes." These statements were made in the house by representative Hull of Tennessee in defending the income tax, which is agreed in the Underwood tariff bill and is estimated to yield the government $70,000,000 a year in revenues. Andrew Carnegie is singled out as a abinning example of the rich who es- cape taxation. He holds $100,000,000 of United States Steel corporation se- curities. Until recently he has paid state taxes on $5,000,000 of personal wealth. New York city authorities have increased this assessment re- cently to $10,000,000. "The rich investor," said Mr. Hull, the money lender, the wealthy busi- PETER H. by American Press Association. REPRESENTATIVE CORDELL HULL. ness and professional men, cover up most of their taxable property. The intangible personal stock, bonds and other securities escape taxation almost entirely." According to Mr. Hull, manufacturers have been in a tariff partnership with the government and have waged fat. For more than half a century there has been a constant struggle by the wealthy to shift the burden of taxation to the shoulders and backs of those weaker, poorer and less influential citizens. Statistics of property valuations were given by Mr. Hull to show that wealth is not being traced and is not bearing its fair burden. The census Investigation, 1904, in New York, reported that the city had about $5,560,000,000 of personality, and the returns for taxation were about $1,500,000,000. The Kentucky tax commission reported in January, 1912, that the total amount of bank deposits from which the assessors were to make up their taxation lists against the depositors and taxpayers was about $12,000,000. The bank statement to the comptroller for the same month placed these deposits at $113,000,000. The mayor of Philadelphia recently told the councils there that property in that city had been undervalued more than $300,000,000. The census reports in 1904 valued all real property at $107,000,000,000. The ad valorem assessment was $39,000,000,000. The value of personality was placed at $44.600,000,000. It was assessed for taxation purposes at $3,000,000,000. Hull charged that under the former scheme of taxation the government, in forcing the people to turn over for government maintenance about $300,000,000 annually, gave a bonus of about $1,500,000,000 a year to selected individuals who were given special favors by the high protective tariff tax. Dental was made of the charge that the incorse tax was sectional in character. Him issued that wealth had made itself sectional. WRONG TO WATCH BASEBALL. Harvard Expert Says Spectators Get Too Wrought Up. Cambridge, Mass. - Beware. O ye baseball fans, for you are the product of a radically wrong attitude toward athletics. Witnessing professional baseball contests tends to harmful excesses and immorality. Thus spoke Harvard's world famous strength expert, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, recently. He said in part: "The excitement attending ball games as they are played at present is harmful. Our baseball fans nowadays are devotees of a game in exactly the same sense as are those fascinated by watching a roulette game or other games of chance. "Attendance at these games means that thousands of men and boys and even women become unduly excited over the athletic prowess of professional players. They leave the ball grounds with nerves tingling and spirits exalted if the game goes well, and the question is, What outlet do those men and women find for their emotions thus aroused? I am tempted to leave the subject with an interrogation point. "There is nothing wrong with a ball game as such any more than there is with a theatrical performance as such, but such games arouse emotion without furnishing a motor outlet. This would not be the case if the game were actually played instead of watched. We are overdoing one phase of the so called love of sport." "There is nothing in this bothouse form of athleticism, and the less we have of it the better." BISHOP PREPARES TO DIE. Chooses Grave, Orders Cross and Calms Monument Maker. Trenton, N. J.—Bishop McFaul of the Catholic diocese of Trenton, in good health, is preparing for death. He has just chosen his last resting place and ordered his monument, going about the business as though it were an every day incident. For his grave Bishop McFaul has chosen a plot of ground in front of Morris hall, a home for aged women at Lawrenceville, erected by the bishop several years ago. Dennis Dooley, a marble cutter, was somewhat shocked when Bishop McFaul ordered him to make a Celtic cross to be placed over his grave until the bishop assured him that he had no intention of dying soon. IS DONE WITH PULPIT BECAUSE OF CRITICS Pastor Resigns and Gets Job In Local Store. Fort Smith, Ark.-Members of the congregation of the Hemphill Presbyterian church have been balloting on whether they will accept the resignation of their pastor, the Rev. J. P. Hicks, just now a floorwalker in a hosiery department of a big department store. The preacher is hoping they accept his resignation, for a taste of floorwalking has spoiled him for the pulpit. Hicks' advanced ideas of theology invited criticism among his flock, and without apologizing he resigned. Many of his church members, however, sympathized with him, and the ballot was taken as the best means of determining his relative popularity. The preacher and W. G. Burton, department store head, are close friends. Burton not long ago commented on the lack of help during the Christmas rush of last year. "Hire me," Hicks said. "If they accept my resignation I'll need the money to meet old obligations." "You're on," the merchant said. And Hicks went to work. The floorwalker went home tired the first night of his new work, which was a Saturday night, and the next morning he preached a sermon on "Why I Resigned, or Cogs In the Wheels of Progress." Hicks is a deep student and until he took his new job never knew anything familiarly but theology. Some of the more staid members of his congregation regard his latest venture as the most daring and unconventional thing he ever attempted, but it is not his first departure from convention. Ball of Live Snakes. Peru, Ind.—Joseph Spangler and Robert Stanley, Chesapeake and Ohio railroad employees, found a ball of snakes near a pond in West Peru and killed twelve of the reptiles. The men were led to the snakes by a small one that had crawled to the track, and when they struck at the snake it made a dash for the ball, which was at least a foot in diameter. Some of the snakes were five feet long. WEST VIRGINIA'S NEW SONG. (Copyright applied for.) WEST VIRGINIA. BY S. E. KISER. These are the words of the prize poem a tenennial Committee, the music for which is by band master of Chicago. Preparations are out the words and music to all of the so throughout the state so that they may become and air in time to play and sing the song at th These are the words of the prize poem accepted by the Semi-Centennial Committee, the music for which is by F. H. Innes, well-known band master of Chicago. Preparations are now being made to send out the words and music to all of the schools and organizations throughout the state so that they may become familiar with the words and air in time to play and sing the song at the celebration on June 20. There are lands of milk and honey, There are lands with rulns gray, There are lands where only money May command the right of way; But beside a winding river There's a land where beauty reigns, And where manhood shall forever Have more worth than golden cains. Refrain. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania Each may seem a fairyland to the peop But no country holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all tog You grand old West Virginia. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Each may seem a fairyland to the people dwelling there; But no country holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together, sing it, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. There is one place of all places That upon the map are shown Where the girls claim all the graces And all glory as their own; Where at night time or in day time Honor wins a ringing cheer, Where the whole year is a playtime And where valor still is dear. Refrain. Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York, Arkansas and North Dakota, all are There's no state that holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all tog You grand old West Virginia. Now York, Connecticut, a, all are very splendid—but is a candle handle— so, all together, sing It, Oh, nia. Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York, Connecticut, Arkansas and North Dakota, all are very splendid—but There's no state that holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together, sing It, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. Refrain. California, Indiana, Texas, Utah, Tenn. Oklahoma and Montana, each a splend But no other holds a candle To the state that has the handle *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G You can guess the rest, and so, all tog You grand old West Virginia. Train. Utah, Tennessee, with a splendid state may be; le handle-- so, all together, sing it, Oh, inla. California, Indiana, Texas, Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Montana, each a splendid state may be; But no other holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together, sing it, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. *To be sung like college yell. This newspaper is heartily in sympathy with the desire of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission to have a general observance of the 50th anniversary of the state's admission to the union. The date is June 20, and our people should not too long delay preparations here for participation in a patriotic program of exercises. Already many places have notified the publicity department in Charleston that they will celebrate. Our citizens must not be backward about coming forward. Let our part in the state's program be as heavily charged with enthusiasm as that of any of our neighbors. It is to be hoped that everybody—men and women, girls and boys—will respond to the call and attend the meeting when called, due notice of which will be given in these columns. The big birthday party is June 20. West Virginia will be 50 years old as a state on that date. The official celebration is going to be in Wheeling and everybody is invited, but there will also be "doings" in every city, town, village and cross roads in West Virginia. Let our observance of the important milestone in the state's life be as jolly a jollification as there will be anywhere. Our citizens are noted for their patriotism, and they will readily respond to the call for a meeting, at which officers will be chosen and plans prepared for a fitting celebration here. Let us show by our spontaneity and heartiness that we are not only on the map, but that "we do things." June 20. That is a date to be remembered and observed. It should become as familiar to you as July 4 or January 1. The directory gives more than 2,000 postoffices in West Virginia. Let's have more than 2,000 celebrations --- Oh, the Yankee, lean and lanky, May excel in many ways, And the plowboys and the cowboys Of the west may merit praise; I've a very high opinion Of the Dixie lass and lad, But the lucky West Virginian Has good reason to be glad. *To be sung like college vell. SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMISSION Busy Man Who Have Generously Given Their Time for the State's Welfare. The members of the West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission are men who have many duties demanding their time and attention, but notwithstanding this, they have faithfully attended the meetings of the Commission and devoted themselves to the work in hand. There is no remuneration attached to the duties of the Commission, the appointment being purely honorary. As the original meeting dates back to 1909, it is readily observed that these gentlemen have been loyal to the trust reposed in them and are entitled to a hearty vote of thanks from all West Virginians. "Tall oaks from little acorns grow" is a familiar adage, and from the date of the meeting in Parkersburg, December 3, 1909, the original idea of a celebration of the state's semi-centennial has grown much like the acorn, until now it looks as if there will be very few places in West Virginia that will not be active in observing June 20—the date on which the state was admitted to the Union. Great strides have been made by West Virginia in the past fifty years. In 1860 we boasted a population of 376, 688; now it is in excess of 1,250,000; our total assessed wealth as late as 1870 was $140,338,273; now it is away beyond the billion mark. West Virginia has twenty-nine state institutions and thirteen private and denominational colleges and seminaries. West Virginia's buildings and school equipment are worth nearly $14,000,000. In 1912 our people had $142,000,000 on deposit. The state is well equipped with steam railroads and electric lines. It would take a volume to enumerate all of the reasons why we should be glad to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by our fiftieth birthday to heartily join in a patriotic celebration. Our people will undoubtedly respond to the call and prepare for a fitting observance in our home town of the state's Golden Jubilee, June 20. ```markdown ``` --- ATTEND THE PARTY JUNE 20 Our People Will Take Steps To Celebrate State's Birthday. JUNE 20 WILL BE OUR JULY 4 West Virginia's Fiftleth Anniversary To Be Celebrated Throughout the State. ```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. 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