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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The "HERE SHALL T ESTABLISHED 1882. JAPAN'S FAITH IN NATION'S JUSTICE Expects Equal Treatment With Whites Eventually. PRESS PRAISES WILSON. War Talk Is Denounced as Ridiculous and Calculated to Embarrass the Two Governments, Which Are Seeking to Reach Peaceful Settlement by Diplomacy—Count Okuma Cheered. Tokyo.—In spite of the fact that Governor Johnson has signed the so called "land bill," faith in the American people to see that justice is done the Japanese is the dominating note in the discussion here of the California alien land ownership legislation. War talk is denounced as ridiculous and calculated only to embarrass the two governments, which are laboring for a peaceful settlement by diplomacy. It is conceded, however, that failure on the part of the Americans to re 4 spend to the Japanese appeal for a discontinuance of the alleged discrimination would be likely to lead to some estrangement of the two peoples. The Japanese public generally is convinced that the land bill is a racial and not an economic measure and hence a blow to national pride, and it feels that the world must be taught the necessity of equal treatment of the whites and nonwhites. The Tokyo newspapers are loud in their praise of President Wilson's zeal in his endeavors to preserve the traditional friendship, and they recognize the difficulties which confront the president of the United States in the confusing conflict between state and federal rights. The Nichi Nicht is of the opinion that the question as to whether the Washington government can procure equal rights for the Japanese depends upon the strength of Japanese diplomacy, and it urges the government to take a firm attitude. A joint celebration of the Japanese and American peace societies here was attended by 1,000 Japanese. Speeches were made by Count Okuma, former minister of foreign affairs; Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, mayor of Tokyo, and Tsunejiro Miyanoka, who was councilor of the Japanese embassy at Washington in 1906. All of the speakers endeavored to clarify the situation, and all decried jingoism. Count Okuma was loudly applauded when he compared the attitude of the California legislators with the anti-foreign movement in Japan half a century ago, which he looked upon as an abased race prejudice. "We despised foreigners," he said, "because they looked different. We did not consider them human beings. Japan finally saw the falsity of its position and became an adverser of every the Japanese, the Californians will see the folly of their position, and truth and justice will triumph. "At some future day the Californians will laugh at their fathers and grandfathers for driving off the Japanese, just as we laugh now at the antiforeign absurdities of the samurai." NO DEGREES FOR PASTRY. Harvard Bans All Ple, Pudding and Cream Puffs. Cambridge, Mass.—The curfew for ple, pudding, cream puffs and charlotte russe has been sounded at Harvard. Recently the Memorial dining hall managers have substituted cereals in various popular forms at the noon and night meals as well as for breakfast. This experiment has proved a great success. A great many of the 900 students eat at "Mem" believe that the new form of dessert is much more healthful than pastry. Nowport, R. L.-A message from the revenue cutter Seneca saying that the ice fields are rapidly moving southward was picked up by the radio station here. The Seneca, which is protecting the Atlantic steamship lines, gave its position as latitude north 43.41, longitude west 40.01. HARVESTER TRUST'S PROFITS $16,500,000 Annual Report Gives Net Earnings For 1912. Chicago—Cyrus H. McCormick, president of the International Harvester company, made public here the report of the corporation for the year 1912, which shows a net profit of $16,305.507.16 on a total income of $126,518.237.62. The capital stock is $140,000.00, and the surplus on Dec. 31 was $31,586,544.06. In his comments on the general situation last year Mr. McCormick says: "The year 1912 was one of exceptional prosperity for the farming community throughout the world. The production of the principal grains increased almost 20 per cent over the preceding year and yielded a crop value considerably larger than any previous record. This created an increased demand for harvesting machinery, tillage implements and other farm appliances and enabled the company to make a substantial gain in the gross volume of sales. The increase effected in net earnings, however, was not proportionate to the gain in volume, owing to the reduction in selling prices of the company's principal lines. "The expansion of the foreign trade continues. The sales of harvesting machinery abroad increased 23 per cent, and the sales of other farm implements, engines and tractors increased 14 per cent over 1911. The foreign trade now exceeds 40 per cent of the total business of the company and contributes more than proportionately to the net earnings, while the domestic sales of harvesting machinery and twine in 1912 were less than two-thirds of the total business." HYPNOTIST TO PAY $5.000. Boy Gets Verdict For Cruelties Inflicted at Exhibitions. St. Paul. -- Because of cruelties he had suffered Oscar Larson, fifteen, of Minneapolis was awarded a judgment for $5,000 against Chris Neseth, alias George Newman, who posed as a hypnotist. The acts of cruelty complained of consisted of tortures inflicted on the boy during a course of hypnotic exhibitions throughout the northwest in the fall of 1911. In one act he was compelled, he said, to support three men on his body as he lay rigid with his neck on one chair and his heels on another. In another pins were thrust into his lips and he was sentenced to have them pulled out. Icebergs Fast Moving South. MEXICAN HATRED OF U. S. GROWING SERIOUS CONDITIONS ARISE Cueed by Refusal of Washington Government to Recognize Huerta as President—Ambassador Wilson's Recall Asked For—Smelting Company Sending Employees Away. Mexico City.—Resentment against the United States and Americans because Washington does not recognize the Huerta government seems to be growing here, although the anti-American movement has not yet assumed a menacing phase and probably will not. Thus far it has been confined principally to newspaper suggestion that a boycott be declared upon American products, coupled with the use of the word "Yankee" in editorials It is offensive a manner as the writers can employ it. Scores of shops have posted placards in their windows reading, "No American goods sold here." This is not especially significant, because the proprietors of most of the shops where the placards are displayed are either Spanishards or other foreigners, or ordinarily do not vend merchandise made in the United States. Thus far no Mexican, so far as known, has refused to sell goods to Americans or rejected United States money. One big dry goods store placed in its show window a manikin dressed like Uncle Sam bearing two satchels. One was lettered, "I am going away," and the other, "Goodbye, Mexicans." An other figure, that of a Mexican woman, an, was labeled, "I indorse the boy cott." Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the first secretary of the American embassy, when he saw the figures, booked up the proprietor of the store and suggested that probably some 5,955 American customers might not approve such pleasantry The proprietor promptly removed the figures. Some talk has been heard among the lower classes of an anti-American (1) by American Press Association. AMBASSADOR HENRY LANE WILSON. demonstration, but it is doubtful if any attempt at one will be made; besides, the police probably would put an end to it promptly. The more timid among Americans fear trouble unless something is done quickly either by the United States of Mexico to render the diplomatic situation between the two countries more amicable. States and Japan becoming embroiled over the California situation. They look upon the action of President Wilson in forbidding any naval or army movement calculated to arouse Japan's suspicions as a confession of weakness and a fear in Washington that Japan might declare war. The exodus of Americans continues. A report reached here that alarmed at the prospect of a total cessation of rail traffic due to the activity of the rebels, the American Smelting and Refining company is sending its families from Aguascalientes to Vega Cruz by a special train and is trying to charter a steamship to transport them from Vega Cruz to New York. Those Americans here whose opinions are worth while do not hesitate to pronounce the diplomatic situation as between Mexico and the United States Impossible. They favor recalling Ambassador Wilson and sending here a commissioner to take up the question of recognition with the government whose communication with Mexican officials would not be hampered by embarrassing personal and official relations in the past. It is not questioned that the continued ratification of Henry Lane Wilson here constitutes a grave impediment to an understanding being reached by the two governments. The sooner Washington appreciates this and acts the sooner will Americans in Mexico see a possible way out of the tangle. BEE WRECKS A TROLLEY CAR Buzzing Scares Motorman, Who Jumps—Thirteen Passengers Hurt. Philadelphia. — A big bumblebee scared A. W. Schluter, a motorman of a Wayne avenue car, that he deserted his post and the car ran wild, coming into collision with two wagons and causing a panic among the passengers thirteen of whom were injured in the wreck. Schluter said he first tried to chase the bee away. The more he waved his arms the harder the bee buzzed. Finally the buzzing so got on his nerves that he jumped from the car, forgetting to turn off the power. FINDS SHIP LOST 18 YEARS. Diver Stumbles Upon Wreck at Depth of Sixty Feet. Tacoma, Wash.—The cannery schooner Sadie F. Galler, lost at sea eighteen years ago, has been called back from the port of missing ships. Walter McCary of this city, a submarine diver "stumbled" upon the vessel in sixty feet of water near Chignik lagoon Alaska, recently and is preparing to take out of the wreck nearly $50,000 in tin bullion with which she is inden. He is on his way back to Alaska to salvage the cargo of the Galler. McCary was placing a fish trap when he found the wreck. Scraping away the weeds and barnacles he uncovered the name board. Investigation showed the schooner had cleared from San Francisco for the canneries eighteen years ago and foundered off the Alaska coast at a point far from her present resting place. McCary reached an agreement with the owners and consignees under which he will get 50 per cent of the salvage. JOKE ON "ARCHAEOLOGISTS." Boys Bury Skeleton and Profound Discussions Follow. Newton, N. J.-The Sussex County Historical society has acknowledged that it was housed by a band of schoolboys. Learned members of the society had held many profound discussions over a skeleton dug up recently by workmen at an excavation near the Barrett homestead, in Main street. The amateur archaeologists had about decided the skeleton was that of an Indian. Preparations were being made to have it set up in a private museum. The boys who perpetrated the joke, however, whispered their secret to their friends. Soon it was common property that they had found the skeleton in the garret of the Barrett house and barted it so that the beholders would elk it up. The boys then went to the woods. URGE NATIONS TO JOIN PEACE FETE MARKS CENTURY OF PEACE. Resolutions Are Unanimously Adopted Inviting Cooperation of Nations In Making Celebration of the Signing of the Treaty of Ghent In 1915 a World Event In Cause of Peace. Lake Mohonk, N. Y. At the conclusion of the international conference here to arrange for a fitting celebration of the signing of the treaty of Ghent in 1915, at which time one hundred years of peace between English speaking peoples will have been completed, the following manifesto was unanimously adopted by the conferences and is presented to the English speaking world and to those in other nations interested in the cause of universal peace: Representatives of Great Britain, of Newfoundland, of the United States, of the Dominion of Canada, of the commonwealth of Australia and of the municipality of Ghent, having been in conference concerning an appropriate celebration of the contenury of the signing of the treaty of Ghent, which marked the end of the last international war between the British and American peoples, unite in offering to the governments and the peoples of the civilized world an earnest invitation to take part in making this celebration in every way worthy of the hundred years of peace that it commemorates. We invite such co-operation to the end that it may be made clear and unmistakable to public opinion everywhere that the time has come when international rivalries and differences, though numerous and severe, may be settled without the carnage and the horrors of war. Although it be unreasonable to disregard the possibility of conflict arising in the future out of mutual or partial misunderstanding, yet we gratefully recognize that the chances of misunderstanding have been largely eliminated by the degree in which modern science has facilitated intercourse and accelerated communication. We are therefore encouraged to hope that the development of letters, science and the arts, of commerce, industry and finance, of mutual knowledge, trust and good feeling on the part of those who owe different allowances and who speak different terms may profitably absorb the energy of mankind as well as offer opportunity for the display of the noblest and finest fruits of mind and of character. Great Britain has been a colonizing nation, and the United States has drawn to the population various and powerful elements from different countries and from different flags. Therefore a century of peace between Great Britain and her dominions beyond the seas on the one hand and the United States on the other hand touches directly both the interests and the imposition of every land to which Great Britain's sons have gone as well as those of every nation from which the present day population of the United States has been drawn. Such a celebration will not only mark the close of a century of exceptional significance and importance, but it will call attention to an example and an ideal that we earnestly hope may be followed and pursued in the years to come. What nations have done nations can do. We respectfully request his majesty's secretary of state for foreign affairs and the secretary of state of the United States to transmit this invitation through the proper official channels to the governments of the world in order that both by the participation of governments and by the cooperation of men of good will in every land this te - 2 2 * “he Disneer Press Qu INDEPENDENT WKEKLY NEWSPAPER ‘OAVOTRD TO THRMORAL, RELIGIOUS AAD PUNANOIAL DEVELOP ALENT OF HUMAN- ace, Rates of Bubscription: JOBE esssescseeseecsecee mee soon $1,505 6 ODER ees ne sseececeecsmeesne TBC. F TOWNS eer cra veesessssessseererscssen 400, Pay foral!advertivemesis ia due in sdvence unlees advertising is ran by yearly contract, in Witca case the ad verliser pays every three monthe, Advertising lined one une Te, Standing - 5Uc ateduced Rates to Calbs, dena for Sivaple Copies. GF. K. Cliffurd, Editor & Propriaior Drawer 869, and Beli Phone, BUK Mar- tiesborg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1915, Yeosident Woodrow Wilson prow ised Ue colored people that if te were ohcled bey would never forg, bing, and we think they will nat, Colonel Roozeveit’s testiwouy in that libel vse, backed up by Aweri cs’s beet mew, is going to,—if justice be given bim, win bis cage—our wish. The Pioneer Press acknowledges the recoiyt of invitations to attend the commencement exercises at ‘Tuskepee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama; West Virginia Colored Institate, Institute: Storer College, Harper's Ferry; Wil- berforce University, Xenia, Ohio, aud Sumner High School, Parkersbury. Outio the interest of the Pioneer Press, to collect and solicit subeeri- bers, Please be prepared to pay poometly, for L bave a large terri- ‘ure to go over, and my tine is hm- ited, uwing to other preseing ust tere. Vory truly yours, J. R. Clifford. It pleased the Pioneer Press force to read What one of ,our former pupils— Jutian Lee Carter.did on business prin- ciples, when only 17 years old, to save tor the Dudley P. 12 Church its intend ed parsonage. ‘The Evening World did hot overrate this young man, and. as much, and rwore, Could be said of Mr. Job W Corsey, another one of ont pupils, and possessor of the finest real estate owned by a colored man in’ Mar. tinsburz. So erudite an editor as the Vion. Gar- ry C. Smith, of the Cleveland, Ohio, Gazette, in writing anent the Nation- a Association for the Advaneement of Colored People, should not mace bis writing {so ambiguous and expect a back woods editor like the one who runs the Pioveer Press to read Letween tines and get the kernel out of the shell. But Wwhcn so able an editor as John Mitch el, Jr. of the Riebmond Planet sew jy ag We 4c, We can’t see our way clear to make & correction, or eee through it as our confrer® seeing to wish we should. If, however, Bro. Smith will send by parce’s post his editorial glasses, we shail put thom on and reread it, and it maybe we shall see it in a different hent. Oar very effisien? gome and fieb warden, the Hon J. A, Viqueepey, has fered $25 reward for ony in fords ion chat wiil leod op to acon vieion of 9 gang ef people, whe have been ebarged recently with dynwmiticg Geb, end it ia the duty Of at good citizena to report on thro, if they know who they urcyand if they do vot know, it ia their duty to keep # vigilant louk ont for their nefarious condact. Do it, and help esve the fish, for they are valuable food and give thonands inexprossi- ble pleasure iu caccbing them ae. cording to law. The buwbug of humbuge, is the gracustion of the poor lithe Negroes from the poor litte one horge schools, How ebeurb for our school board sad its enperintendent to allow it, ‘This echool is sone story builiing, aod Jacks many adventages ward echoola ofthe whites bave. Now, why should Neoroes,s0 many balf taught. he graduated from a little insignificant school, when white cbiidren are eom= pelled fo go through alt (he grodes Of the ward echools. then token in boud by well edecstcd prineipals for Years, thence sent to the high or grammar scbool for four years before they can praduate? A few years ego a big crowd gath. ered et the old tink to see about a doz-n children get diplomes, They got thew, und not ose had enough education to get a cheap certificate to fesch schoolesd bad to go into ‘Kilchers or pley on their poor old wotheru? washbuards to live and dress, The parents are to be pitied from tha tne’, they suppose and take it fur granted-—oredulous theuscivee—tbat thir children are on the ip top. ef the cdacutioual tres, when, in reality, they juch the tout foucdation, Itigs ouly dune to make aebow end de-~ ceive the parente, and it ought not tobe ellowed. We tacght this echool ten years sed) threo mouths luring which Gise, we made nineteen tenclicis, and never thought of mok- ing festa hour pupils by graduate ing (7) them—focl fully. We quit teaching in 1886, aed never bas oa teachar been mace since in this achoot, Tbera is ubout s8 much 8 ves in the forthcoming graduation av ticre was in tie cxbibition this same school geve, to show bow much ihe pupile bad learned within three toniba, When really it was showing what Mr. Jobo W. Cors:y bad: done daring the yaats he labored there. Voiek of w principal of euch a scbool as Mertiusburg bes, teackiog some ofite poor little, ungrammatical, poor eentence builders, worse ep2ilers aud only theoretically, and poorly at thet, drilled ia mathematics, being faugbt latio. If pupiia and teacher were examingd by a latin ecuolar, befors as educsted audience, it would oreate wore laughter then a real jol- ly wiustrel troup. The well worded, aud choiceiy copnectad sectencec ins writeup in loot Monday’a Evening World, did notin eny way overrate Rev, fdr Rehard ER. Thompson, pastor of what ia known by all in the city as Dadley FB. Oherch, located on Raleigh et. Iie rach as he who give prospective sigus cf good for the foture of a dawn trodden people, As tbe World sayy; “He bas eeng to the crowned beads of the world,” and made many weep. Mra. Hattie Thompson, bie wife, is just as fis a2 be ie, aud we thank God for the union, Ifevery white obarch in this city would have them sing to the eweet etreina of Mre, Tbompson’s tere instrnmental chill, @ higber pope will be given to the race, end beaets would resolve ond eas, no saw, if two exelava products can vo fill ond thrill oar souls, we shall never again clase all Negroes ae: “Common and unolesr,” bot honor ibose who deserve to be, and thereby escovrnge others to sirive upward. We aek Rev, Drs, Wood, Meee, | Roaech, Grover, Tramp and others 0 give them eu audience: we don’t mean for (hem tobe paid to sing, land that any charges sdould be made . the door, buz simply to aing, und show the real engar of the soul in jmuetc. We once beard Mre, Tbamp: Be play and ving: “Lord ig it I,” ond sbeolutely the hair on cur head seemed to atond np,and the eweel tovea clung to ue for weeks, DON’? BEA LOAFER, Yonny man, don't be a Inafer: Work! You will fiod thas it 1s deed for whetsils you. Jt will raduce the tendency towards eulurgement of tue head aud prevent that disesss from beorming chronic. No» matter oa what line your werk may be—on the farm, in tho store, or at the (uctory— try to accomplish the beat porsib resulig. ‘“*Whatsoevor thy band find eth to do, do it with alltby might, with oll the etrongth you wre capabl: of—mors], mental aud phyrical, If younraa rational, sensible bomen being, yo ought to fied justaw keen enjoyment, just as substantial pleuse ure, in the honest accompli-bucnt of your day's work, ss you would in ihe result of any game of skill or chance. Try itaod eee. If ycur work is on the farm you ought to derive as much Satisfaction from the fact that your work is better done thao your neigh: bor's, 8s you would in helping defeat hiwin ® ball game. If you ere employed in a etore, the honeot per- formscce of your duties ought to Give you as greas ploseare aa » vio- tory 1 the bowling alley. Every faitbf.l workman finds his tagk a pastine. Don't worry about your cmpluyer bot appreciating your in- tellivect, conecientions work: Le knows what you are doing, Every day, all cver thio broed jasd, «om ployors are looking for young men that eccompliah reeulte, Tbera is plenty of roum at the top tor the indusiricns, and the byttom rungs of the Jadder are crowded with the indolent and the slotbful. Don't go around looking for a “soft snap, bat pitch righvinto the work that jain tiont of you; and when you have suecesefully accowplivhed that bew und greater cpportunities will open themaelyes to you. Lebor is au essential of buman axisterec; we must all wotk—or stesl or cheat from those that do work. It may be thatthe world owes every man o livipg, but be must collect it—either from the results of bis own Iubor jor from that ofothers, Tue e-ifeutis faction und the elf resp-ot are vot for vim who accumulates; but for him who produces. Therefore, make che prodnet of your Ishor a8 grest as you ere capable of, “Work while it is called tuday; for tbe nigbt cometh, whep no man can work.* Don't be @ loafer. —Excbenge. NEW YORK NEWS NOTES. Weare bearing w great deal vow shout the euperiority of the white race, avd the inferiority of the black and colored races, which ia pauzeat- ing and diegasting. If white men who indulge in this sort of talk could make govd—(and they cannot), taere might be some justification for their arrogenk assumptions, groundless boasts acd fAsmboyant peetensiove to feupericrity over tho darker racee of mankind, We hoor this boast in the halis of Congress, priocipaliy from Southers statesmen who have shed human blood or who bavo encoar- aged the murderously icclined of their racetodo eo. Same of the Dewspr pcre end megazine writers cf chat rece are given to the babit of bosslivg of the superiority of what they erroneously etyle tbe “Anglo |Saxon race,” which bas lorg sinoe goneto seed, and cf commenting with pitying contgmp! on the inferi- roity of the darker rscea, ‘To one of vhis eocalicd “inferior race” this ‘waddie about “white euperiority” is as Urceome 28 it is inaccurate his toricslly asdin every other way. Thers are some decent upd modest white poopl, presumably familiar pean the history of their race who [for obviowG rostuns are wet proud of j buat history aed 80 do not boast of it ;Norace can escepe history, It is | wy purpose to Cie 8 liste bistory in convce'ion with the “euprrior race” or rather to cite my readirs to. the oldest bistury exssot, and jet (bem make the odivus comparison fur thimeelves, This history bus been translated aad revised a number ef titses by tue Savang and Scholara bie “superior race” and is acceptor by many of then nga staodard an \thority. 1 allude tothe Bibla, whieh |sowhere refers to the whtie rece ue ‘the superior reece, for re sach rece ver exigcd or ever will White |people ought to he willire to gtand phy the verdict cf history and to admit that they bare no justifiestion of other resson for cloiming experi ovily over otber receu of mankinn Tom todebted to Mr Gosree Wiso Brent, for these fac t om a fia stlo article Ong Phe Vio Rae The AM. Review, den ee Te eed ERE Tye Oe Seed aan of white people as a race into the history of the world. The record is not one to be especially proud cf | uecause it began with a falsebond javd sbarp preetices spd low cunuig Jon the part of the progenitor of the sMecperive race” wvick doce nut dite [cover coral eaperiority at feast on the part of thie race la Gen. 5:5, fe the coior of Japhetbs deacens juute (Who were yellow. Gen 86:25.- 27, gives tho origin sud color of tee red man and bis characteri«ics “Lev. 13:10, 13, 20, 30.37 42 minnte ly pctures the white wan ee we know him and ee him: Hxodus 467 provee that tbe orizinal races wer not white, bat black, brown and red Now. 12.10, und Leviticus 13:16 proves that this “superior” shit skin is §heresuitota disease, aod that disease tue kproay, tbe result of the curse proueaceed on Gehezi by the Prophet for = false. hood whicb be told King Naawen ip bis zeal to pesaess bimeelf diaboncet. ly of cortuin gifts of monsy which be bad brought to the prophet as « ead for curiog Lim of this Josth- some disease, which Gehszi eubse- quently inherited and transmitted to al! bis posterity—tbe preseat Caucasian race. In 2 Kenge, 7:3, is a record of the first white rece Bsa community. Look into verses 5 8.10, end nore some of the char acieristics of this community. The low of heredity like thet of the Medes aod Persians is witheut variablescse or shadow of turning. ~ ‘Phe white man bas ever been , true to the Gehazsie inwiices. he bus “sua after ali oluee races and taken suae. what of tbem,” and in the evme disboneet aud crafty spirit wuich hd Gebazi to become a lixr, anda thict aud deceived Naaman. He took this country from the Indians, He is faking Afiics from the Africans, end wherever he cen pet the thin edze of the wedge under weaker peoples he benevoleatly assimilates them and their worldly poseossions in the names of civilization end religion, beth of which be bas alao taken from other races. Iie been't even an aeient Gud of bis own, nor » ruined city or come crumbling monument of ‘bie deperted glory, Ho's the great ‘adapter, Teapisg where be hae pot sown, xtd boasting of a greatness ‘and aglory which never did, and now never will exist for hs bas reached bis highest ascension in big wed ambition to overawe and over ride other races sed his eter will soon set never to riee agsin. His succesees have made bim drank, ar rogant, haughty, imperiove aad insu- Jent. He believes bimeclf to ba in viccible and invulnerablo avd the superior race.” In what does his tupcriority coneist? | His’ great glanding armics and asview? Zarab, the Kikiopian King had on army of a thuusasd,yod three fbundred chariots. OF bie great cit. ies? | Tyne and Sidon, and Babylon, the work of black wen bed tiouriebed soe felien before bis race came upon ile stage of setion. ,Of his ships avd Feowmeres? : Lhe bincks of Timbuctoo; were merchsat princes and captsios of ‘industry, acd their ships dotted all ti GE Coatirued from first page.” of peice betscooun Eeelish speal peoples, bat the openine of what sincerely trust will be a fresh e1 pence and good will between all nations of the world. | YO POSTAL JCB APPLICAN Civil Service Instructions Out | Pasthanter Kitoiniaations Washington.—The eivil service mission has prepared’ instructions applicants for the fourth class post: tersbips to meet the demand expé to follow President Wilson's order quirting that appointments to office 1 ing $v a yeur or more be made competitive examinations. The instructions us to the exanil tions ure identics! with those sent following Preskient Taft's order Oct. 15, 1912, except that where present instructions ujply to applleal for all oliices paying $180 a year more, list year’s Insiructions applie offices paying $500 or more. Kill 4,237 Squirreta, Sne City, In—'The fermers Iving! the vicinity of Early held their ann squirrel hunt the other day, nen! elhty men and boys particlpath The hunters Hned up on two sides, | side winning the most points: agree! to furnish a dinner in the evening. the close ef the hunting the winui side wits 2.310 potuts in the lead, ane totul of 4.237 squirrels was report the dead bodies filing a dray wagon. ae, SaLTiMones OM oe RAILROAD, Corrected to Dec: tst. Igi2. Trains leave Martinsburg as follow: WEST BOUND No rs Palyat c1.2t am for Pittsbu Cinerinati, “Louisville and St. Lor Connect: foc Romney except Sunday a at Graften for Wheetiag, Nog Daily ait soa m fur Graft Pittsburg and Chicao, q No § Daily,at 3.17 p m for Graftd Pittsbur acd Chicayo. No, 7 Daily 7.42 pik for Wheeling,| ambus and Chicage, Wo, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m ror Cineinni Louisville and St, Louis. . No 3 Daily at 2.36 a m for Ciacian: Louisville and St Louis, For Cumberland and way Stations, 39 5.37 p.m. do. g Daily at 11.28 p m: for Pittsbi No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a for Curaberland andjinrermediate st tions, Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 4 Daily at.4.19 a.m for Washi ton, Baltimore, Pailadelphia and Ne York, No so Daily 6.26 a m for Washingt and Baltimore, No & Daily at 10.37 a m for Washin ton, Baitimore, Philadelphia and Ne! York, Connects for Lexington Va,, aa Hegerstown except Sunday and Frede: ick. No. go 9.41 a.m, for Washington an intermediate stations. No 2 Daily atro.17 2m for Washing ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Ne York, No 6 Daily at 2,38 p 1 for Washingto Ealtimore, Philadelphia and New Yor No 14 Daily at 8.09 p m for Washiagto Baltirsore, Philadelphia and New Yorl Noz2z Daily ‘Duquesne Limited” : 12,232, m, for Washiozton, Baltimor Philadciphia and New York, ‘ No 16 Daily except Suuday at 31,55 @ for ¥ycderick, Baltimore wad ali inte mediate stations via old line. Notk Laily except Sundsy at 6,30 pi for Washington and Saltimore and all it termediate stations, Connects for, Frede ick. G. W, SQUIGGINS, Gen, Pass Agent! Baltimor~ Md R, S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W, V ohAida, OVER 66 VEARST adie > EXPERIENCE > Sea vt J iis, ae <5 B ya cl un See rei Ss A re Whe a apt toss e mies if BA bats eR A: pS Trave Marks eee Desians ve Copynicnts &c. Angonerening a eketsh aud descr pon may gilekiy'aseortait our onion tres whether ea Tivention te propably gatennn, {eee e nether, an tons strictly contidenitial HANIOOOK on Patents Bent tices Oldest nectioy fon meena ak cee Patents taken throws sun Cen spectal notice, wit}orne charee: ha tie POvesh TiS A ORE, Scieutiiic Americas, A handsomely Musteated wookly. Tarvect cir. gnlation of any eeiortige Journal Awa tes Bors fave pantha, $i. Sold ny alk newarerere Ha aes RIGNIG 8 Gg s6tcro:a0 Nay Vork Brauch Ofte, (25 Fe Washington, Dy Gy. % Bateredin Post Ofice at Martinsburg W. Va. as Secoud Ciass Matter ——— Mr. and Mra, James Thornton, of Inwood, were vieiors to ovr sown on leet Monday. a Miss Matilda Green, who attends Storer College, wus a recent visitor to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Green, at their home here. Osildren wre going tbrougb rs heureals at the verious charcues iv preparation for Obildreo’s Day ex crores, Mra Boma Gray, of Waehing!on, D C,oeuanns cf Moe Percy B. Fie ober, vor in ottendance wpa the latier durtog ber receot iflaees. Just as we go to press we learn that Mr. James Roman had his eye burt by a spawl at the West Quarry. It is hoped the injary will vot prove serious, and his eyesight be endavgered. Messra, Jobn F. Corter and Georgs M. Miller bave been very busy for the past sever! weeks painting hoovees and barna, Mire, Palmer Jenkins, nee Clifford, formerly of Martinsburg. bat now s resident of Unicntown, Ps., iv bere ona visit to Mr. and Mre. Josn R Oisfford, ber parenta, Mive Virgie Brown, of Wheeling, passed through town en ronte home on Sanday leet, Sae ia a young lady of friendly mien, acd ecqaaivtancce bore were glad to ves her Dr. George W, Baylis, rhe popular Charlee S rect phyeician, made a boeinegs trip to Baltimore the other dey, and while there renewed many old ecqueintancee. Mr. end Mrs, Lervel Hanter, of Kearneyeville, were in oar city on a basinevs errend the other day, ‘fbey looked weil, and fricady were glad to see them. Mr, Tacker Ford, 2 well known Kearneysville genticman, came here to atteod to some businesa the otber day, and dropped in on the Press foros for a few miuntes, Mr. E:neet Gaither, a well known end energetic young mea of our city, left oo last Satarday for Philadel phia, in whicb city he will remviv fora time, We wish bim eaccess in bis vew fizld of labor, Rey. W. P. Fisher, of Winchester, end Rev. J.C. Newman, of HHageres town, were in our city the other dsy erravging for the annus! Inwood Camp Meeting, which begine on tbe last Sanday in Jone. Mr. L.G. Fletoher, fatber of P. R. Fletcber, the Wess Ead grocer, end aformcr real estate dealer in Washingtss, D, O., waa the guest of bia eon during inst week. He is a pleasant geotlemsn, and seemed to epjoy hie stay in one city. Mr. KE Haseen, treveling repree eentative for the Merchante Oollec ticn Agency, of Baltimore, with brench offices in all the principal cities, waa ao pleasant caller at our office on Tueaday, Tbe gen tleman io question is full of buai- nese, entertaining in conversation end of the sort that naturally ot tracte attention by bia genial diapo sition and interesting personality. Ford @sirfax, eon of Mr. William Fairfax, died on Fridey aight last following » hort illpese from pnen- movis, ‘Bad” og the deceased waa celled by bandreds who knew bim in this oity daring all bia life, will be greatly mieved by hia intimates, who sorely regret bis untimely end Foaneral services over the remaine of the dead sonng man were beld ul M:, Zioo M_ E, Obarch on Monday eftersoon, Rev, Samuel M, Beane officiating. Mr, Feirfax ie earvived by bie father, three brothere and two eis ere, who bave our eympathy ip their loss, Anecdotal Literature Miss Mary Garden, ats luncbeon io Cicxyo, eaid apropos of Chriet- miss: “To secure nice Christmes pres. ents, (bero'e nothing ike a deliente bint ortwo.” J knowa Philadelpti- git] whoa esclo was rich, end wh proposed to visit ber st Christmas forthe first time in twonty years She wrote to him es fellows: “It will be glorious to eee you again, dear Unelo. Iwiil meet you at Brosd Street Staticn on your arriva! et Cluristinas eve. Bat To might rot reengnize you, efter sll those years, and ao I think it wou'd be best for you to hold, for purpoecs of identification, 9 lowg string of pearis in the lett hand, ava in the right a bit of fur—eucd as an ermine lined -sable stole. * oe ° THe ONE Essential. | Will Irwie, the author, was bola- ing torth upon the superiority af ‘Calitornia ever Florida as @ winter ‘resort, | Florida," he asid, is too relaxing. ‘This in duo tothe fetid air of the swewpsa. ‘There’a n etory sbout o young wan who was being examined {0° admission to the Florida ber. It ran as followe: “Young map, are you malaria | provi?” | “Yes ein.” | © Can you ride?” “Yes sir.” “Do you own bors?” “Yeo cir” “Is be a good ewemp enimmer?” “Yee gir? “Thon, young man,'I welcome you fo the practice of the lew in this dis trict.” | +e | ° NB&VER On. Senator Penrose, on n visit to Atlantic City, rasg fore bellboy to tiie « telegram, but ft was not until toe twellth or thirgeenth ring that the boy appeared. “You've been a long time coming,’! ssid Penrose. “Yeo, sir,’ said tho boy, “you ece its our diuper hour.” Senator Ponrose, smiling grimly, said: “I know why you bellboys are calied buitons. You're always off” * * ° His Marc#H. Dr. Lyman Abbot is an anti-ouf. fragist, and wavy are the sharp gbatte that be plants quivering in sufiagiem, : Ata tes {on New York, however bo wea’ his match in Mrs. Rose Phelps Stokes “You are interested, Madem in wowan’s rizbts, I learn,” said Abbot. “No, woman's wrongs,” retorted Mrs. Phelps Stokes, ** ° Kansas MEDICINE Mayor Gaynor, at a luncheon in Brooklyn, said to a probibitionis:, “It is spissitudioous on your part to think that prob bition would succced in cosmopolitan New York. It would do worse than in Kansas, You know how it does thers; for there liquor csp only be avld a8 a medicine. As a New York visitor was buyirg 8 toothbrush in a Kansas drug stir, a brawny cowboy entered with a four gallon dsmijoho. He plamped it down on the counter. The drugyisi looked at him inquiringly, und he saiG: © Pili ber up Jim; baby’s took bad. - a ih gas Toompeon and Lbompron are ir reality the buatlers of puailere ir the clotbing line ond their saat ig up to date in etyle aod shader. The lives: of ten I[teliana were crashed oat by fast Baltimore and Obio train No S, at Doe Galley tn pel on Monday morning, Woather they ran into the way of No. S. or were precipiteted onto the tract by a landolide ies matter of covjectnre bat no one dodte that tbe poor fel- lows were territ!? clanghtered, SUMMER SCHOOL Av THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR : ED INSTITUTE Commences June 16, 1913, and Lasts Sev- | en Weeks. Two Main Courses: : Teachers Review and Professional, Ex | penses Low. ‘For further information, write Prof. Byrd Prillerman, Insti. ‘tute, W. Va. HOW A RD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. STEPIEN M, NEWMAN, D. 2 RESIDENT, Located in Capitol of the Nation. Cais pus of over Lwenby acies. Advan- tages unsurpassed. Modern seventitic and general equipuient. New Carnegie Library. New serence Hail. faculty of over one hundred, M3sz students from 87 states gud JO other countries, Unusual opportunities for self-support. No youn: man or wouan of Gaerey oe capacity ueed be deprived of ity advair tages. THE COLLEGE CF ARTS AND SCLENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in Isuylish, Mathematics, Latina, Crees , Vreneb, German, Physica, Chemistry Biology, History, Phiosophy, ana die Socitt beences, such as areyevea in ihe hest approved colleges. 16 professors. Keliy awer, A. BE, Dean. THE TEACHERS COLLEGL. Special opportunities fer wachers. Regutar college courses in Psyevoioay. Pedayeny, Education, d&., with dorrec of A. 33.5 Pedsgogreal courses leading to Dn. B! depres. Ligh-grady courses: in Normal ‘Traming, btusic, Manva! Alts, snd Domestic sciences. Gracu- ates heiped Lo positions. Lewis B. ivoire A.M.,, Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Threv courses of four years each. High grade jucparesory school. George J. Cummings, 4. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEG #. Coureos in Bookkegving, Stenugraps } Commercial Law, ilistory, Civics, &c Business and Buglisi high vehoot ec: cation comblued. George W. Cour, A I At. Dean, SCHOOL, OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SULENCES. Furinshes thorough courses, Six Instructors, Offers four-year Cour 6- in Mechanical and Civil dovgiueesins. and Architecture, - TAGE al Ge Te | Professional Scheels Interdevomiatuiowal. Five profes: sors, Jbroad and thorough 6G. S66. Ad vaulages of convection with a gical University. Suudems’ Aid. Low ex- penses, isaac Clark, D.D., eau. THE SCHOOL, OF MEDICINE Forty-nine proiessers. Modern inte oratones aud equipment. Connected With new Freedmen’s Hospital, costins halt million doilars. Cuaicad teciltbie not surpassed im America. Vost-grad uate School and Volyciinic. basened A. Balloch, M, D., Dean. dih avd Ww. Streets N. WW. W.C. McNeill, M. D., secretary, 1 Rou. N. We. "QUE SCHOOL OF LAW, Faculiy of echt. Courses of vine Yeas, Giving A HOFOUyh KnOWlEd. U + theory and prac ice of jaw. Occ OWs butiaing opousiie cae comm be benjamin. Leghten, LL. B., Dean, 40 Sun sere No We bor ewe d epeviad infor adUtess eal ui Vepai tiene FIST ARITA WRU PUL ERR HUSBAND te en) CdS 2 Mad Shad b DESPATNG Vor ao fala cag Ve fe th eB fy ES eee ie \ REC Sc eno N Are You a Wonca? | 4 ee QUA PERSE? Take ee PinbEne in el neranls * " The Warmers Tous } eeeomneae: r 1 FOR SALE AT ALL poussisTs SEGARA Sag! JR. CLUB P33 22 kr. AYTORNEY a! ’ MARTINSHURG, WEST V1 & gas~Practiceainalithe Coovie ¢ Va, the Sopreme Covert of Avy ond the United Statee Cou. WHAT IS tT? HAT IS iT? Ten year Combination Piste: ution Certificate of Memb erst as devised by the Americsn vorkinen Fraternal fosuran so Company, of Washinyton ©, ones of ths most hi strongest and valiahte f instituiions ia the field, further particulars see DE VION CES SEER Roma. BL Bui ‘ CHARLESTON, .. WW \ MIOGRAPEDY av EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF BUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. — Adzpted to the use of Students of race Iistery, aud of Negro youth. A valtvdbte ane handy reterenee book » Sques!iona and answers, is pointed on cbeavy paper in ood, larwe clear ty; 4 And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in ev ay Negto home, Price one dollar por vo! ume—$100 Cash must invari aL y ase company all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia No sataple outlits. Slewps nob aces ted. or further information and tosis to Agents, Address, John FE. Bruce Grit, Anthor end Pui Snnnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N.Y. Refers to J. 2. Clifford, Keq , Editoc Pioneer Py After Four Years of Discour2ging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Upin Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.—In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie [ullock writes as follows: “I suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, I could only sit up for a liitic while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, 1 would have severe pains in my ieft side. i The doctor was called in, and his ircat- ment relieved me for a while, but i was £00% confaed to my bed again. After thei, nothing seemed io 6a me any good. Mime. hi. ¥. JOHNSON | GRADUITS fC"° SPECIALIST JAD HE? © UNURISR Blaatowing, Fas’ itessags aod Ssleatitie Soin Treating. te ¥ gaye RE ae RSE “a i St . is oy i Suh 4 t A F l ; ‘ S50. Tec ne en Aes ges air, watt eedl PO Gee Reke OR OVA EN BAS ee oN OA Sua BR Se ANS EONS SUL BEET UCCAIS WSC. FONT. nay sty today, with ber am NAPS UAL AIM cultivated by the aor of curewn Haty Remedies, She can do for yewwwhat she Aas done for herselé and thos: weds ef ethers In every part of thie Use Johnren's Mate Food, vor growing cu bald beods and bare teaplen Te tke Nard, ary hairy soft, molt, a!saay noddusmient.” Per Jary.c.......0. fe. Use fohneon's Haly Grower, (9 fuvige croting, Strengthening, Newietine the toand Stimulating (he the 4 ottle, . . tee ees GUC, Johnson's Dandrui Cure. It cleans thes Gip of gam, grit, dandrass, series sand teaves Ht healthy and pore. Use John nh Core. Yt will top that Hohing Seaip. Per Jar, Bice Ure Johw ampeo Crean, for unpouiny the vale and Nate. I cleans ces ad beauties. Per} + £OC. * Une Jolnion's 3 tot Soap, for the © ion, sha planiueicg and ee RAKES. Ker take, de. A ay mite Cee t Cas ore It hr tiffes the beadeand nev Ree Hievey Neadachke atvt newistsla an? wlll grodually lighten the skin, “Per bot. 300, Use Johnson’a Sav: Hair Dye. Changes the griyeet lie dark atier a law 6; plicas tloas, Mer UWottley. cc eeceeee ee LOO Wo ane the Mionsor manufactarnrs of Scieutiic Fieir Preparations iui the Uaited Slates. We alo woke Wins, Switches, Pomps, Coronet Mille, Puli and front Parts to wmateh your hair. Best weule manship. Lowest prices. Send Le for # large vatple jarof Johns son's Heir Food and ieriis to Agenia, Write your letter wo. on We. ALERAHOER SCHISON ) le 08t a son Sentp Crocallsto Bisa, MARY 4, SanesoN G3T Shean Arona, - Boston, itis. Pleese men uu this poper. WILLIAM Hewat blOveLy REPAID SHOP. Reorieine: wheels of all kinds Givce da new erick teasers, & iy speaintty. Don't bother Fihongers, come to Sorars an@ Be ea nisesounable prices, sl6o terms nud oiter sundcies, Secon@ hand hieycles Sought «nd sold, 1 now have on nnd JO second band loess wood te new. To addition to hes: repairing, | do repairing of a pes, sud gin tha ovly man ip ‘ renainy Theeweteas E hed gotten so weak 1 could not stand, aad T yive tp in despair. Avast, my husband got mea hottie of Cardi, the women’s tonic, and | come mensud taking it, From the very first dose, | could tolt it was helping mae. f cai fiow walk twa miics without its tiring ma, and am doing ail my work.” | If you are ail run down from womanly troubles, don’t give up in despair, Try Cardui, the women’stonic. Whas helped more than a million wonien, in its 50 years of continuous success, and should surcly help you, too. Your drucgist hag. sold Cardui for years. Me brows what it will do, Ask him. [io will recome mend i. Begin taking Cardui (ody. na ie li ae Be Fscauimont cor Women,” sent tn piuin wtayyete JOR ine | | STATE ZA VERGE Apis Yeea * fe aX 3 hic JU PEARS ERY rien Ame ; Qi0 PUNE 20,1913 BS PN yi WUNE 20 WILL NOT ONLY MARK WEST VIRGINIA’S FIFTIETH ' PIRTHDAY BUT ALSO ite STATE-WiDE CELE BRATION, WEST VIRGINIA AROUSED Official Celebration In Wheeling Will Be Supplemented By Observance Througiiout the State of Golden Jubilee. ' Scone: Any free school in West Mirginia. Time: Present. » Characters: ‘Teacher, puptls, par. ents ond other visitors fucluding Bebou! ollictals. Teacher: Wile ‘Tell, plone arise. What date are all Wost Virginians go: ding to Colelante Unis yeur? Willie: Friday, June 20. i Teacher: What anstversary tails on bat date? * Willte: ‘he Beml-Centennial of the Btate. Toucher: Give us in a few words fome facis about the birth of West Virginia. Willie: ‘Tho first steps that Jed uy to the formation of West Virginix as an indepoadent state were taken tu $861. On January 7, of that year, the Wieginla Goneral Assembly inet tn ox. @reordinary session, and a week Inter ordered un election hold February 4, for delegates to a staic convention at the Cepitol February 12. ‘This com Wention passed an Ordinances of Be: weesion April 17. ‘The vote which was fakon jn secret was 88 In favor; 55 apposed. Meetings of protest — fol fowed, but on the 17th of June the Mirginja Deciaration of Independence was adopted In convention, Ordjuance reorganizing and restoring the Vir- @nla etate Kovernment passed June YW, with Francis H. Pierpont as gov- mor. Teacher: Very good, Willie. Now I shall ask Ima Speaker to take up the story from this poipt. © lna, what happened next? Ima Speaker: At a meeting of the wonvention August 30 an ordinance Was passed ordering an clection with: fm the boundaries of the new state. Teacher: Wha’ was tho date of this meeting? Ima Speaker: October 84, 1861. It was at this inceting that the quos- tions of division and of delegates ¢ame up. The vote for a new stato was largely in its favor, tho vote be- ing 18,889 for and 481 against. A new constitution was framed and retified by the people April 8, 1862, by a voie of 18,862 to S14. The loyal assembly of restored gov- ernment of Virginia met In Wheelin, May 18th, and gave consent of Vir- ginfa to formation of West Virginia, May 20(h'certified copy of the Con- etitution was presented by Senator Willey in the U. S. Senate. Bill for the admisston of West Vir- gina passed Senate July I4th. In tho louse of Representatives, the bill was made the order of the day for Dec ber 9th. Passed the House, Decent ber 10th, and was approved, as 1 New Year's gift, by President Lincoln, the night of December i, 1862 The Convention which had framed the Constitution, without emancipa tion, was recutied and reassembled February 12, 1863. ‘The emanicipation patch was put on, and the amended Instrument ratified March 26, 1262. April 20th President Lincoln, hav. ing received the certificate of ratifi- cation, issued a proclamation deciar- ing West Virginia a State in the Union eixty days from tai date. June 20, 1663, West Virginia was ine augurated and first administrative of- ficers assumed their duties, at the temporary eapitol, the Linsly Inst tute, in the city of Wheeling School Cilivial: T wish to compl Ment the teacher who has so success: fully impressed upon the memories of these pupils this particular bit of his tory that we all, young and old, should be familiar with. I also wish to ex. press to these two pupils my pleasure at the intelligent manner in which they have rel#**td the incidents lead- ing up to the birth of West Virginia as & state. You all know that there is to be a great celebration in Wost Virsinia in honor of th tate’s fiftieth anniver sary. The officiai he exercises are to be heid ‘3 ihe ey of Wheeling. Aa elaborate programm 4s being prepared. In addition, bow ever, to this official recognitien of the Golden Jubilee, there wii be celenra- tions evervwhe re rr Bee Bate ek ety way they exu to make the da one leng to be remembered. The SembCentennfel Comission has bean very iach interested dn the schools and sehool children oC eur state aid ae oink to present two fase to ev. ery Behool-—one U.S. flies and one state flag—the latter made and de- Signed especteily for the celebration Juno 29. You young people shonid play a promipent part ta the exer elves In commennoration of the etate'y natal day and the SemtCentountal Coumalasion wil undoubtedly me te It that a place We reserved for you In the program.” ty atdition te any fos wuul pert that yuu migy Uke, Lovesvcr, there Is nothing to prevent you from holting a meeting of your own, elect Jng oficers and preparing a duy's oat ing for yourselves. Why not a ptente and gaunes and a jolly good thee after the ofichu program is ovar? ‘Think tt over, and Hf it appeals to you call your meeting early, as June 20 1s now far distant, and let your toacher assist you in formulating our organization or-elub. Why not call it after your reheol, the School Semi-Centenntal Club, for instanes. All children should obverve June 20, Let our school be one of the fist lo take eteps In that direction. PROFESSOR A HUAN DYRANO ramp! ahatch ofthe ores Supes “Good morning! Ls Professor Shaw key busy “Professor Shawkey te always busy.” Tho above question Was addresesd tc &n attractive stenographer tn one of the offices of the Departinent of Crea Schoola ip the Caxptrol butldiug, and the reply cume back from aforecatd young Indy with the rapidity of a Gab ling gun. There was nothing in the tone of votcn to Indicate to the visstor that be has asked foolish Question No. 4-11-44, but ho bas since learned tat all whe re Koqualaited with the State Super intundent of Yroe Schooly uevor eek “Is Lrofessor Shuwkoy busy?" Ho 4 one of the human dyaaioa ot tho gtate’s public serveute, ile fa meg netic, forceful, and quick to tink and to aot. ‘Thero te a criappess in his tpeech; bie sentences are woll turned, yet ho fa not at all pedantic. Hie ts a ten of tremendous energy and 2 glut ton for work. He ts Intensely interest: ed fu iis department, and Is a loader (shot a traitor, Those who aro in 4 position to speak: with authority have paid handsome utbute to Prof. Shaw. key 18 an educator of the odvenced gehool, As a member of the Committee on Celebration, Schools, eto. of the Semt Centennial Commission, he is proving an oble assistant. Ho fs doing all that he oan to bring about the hearty co operaticn of tewohers and puplla in the Yorthcoming aiuntversary, June — 36, which will be generally observed throughout the etate, CATCHES PUMA WITH ROPE. Mountain Lion Mcasures Nine Feot From Nose to Tip of Tail. Montrose, Coto. mountain Hon, the largest ever captured in this part of the country, was eamht by Uri oteh- Kiss, hunter and trapper of Colona, six miles cast of here, ‘The Hon stands three feet high, is nine feet from tip of nose to ond of tall and weighs 146 pounds Jfotehkiss heard of the lion and, tn company With his son George and Roy Humphrey, started out with a pack of dogs. ‘The dogs treed the Hon, Hoteh- Kiss climbed the tree armed only with a rope. ‘The tion chased him down several times. but finally he threw the rope around the beast’s neck. The other men banted the animal down, secured iim with ropes, and the party took the lion to Colona. TO MAKE SPARROWS DRUNK. When Intoxicated They Will Bo Killed Humanely: Greeley, Colo. — This town, founded by Hornce Greeley for the promulga- tien of temperance prinefples and which never has had a saloon, is soon fo see drunks in kirge numbers if the plans of ten women are carried out. They plin to get intoxicated English sparrows and finches, especially the fe- mates, in order that the two may be separated aid the sparrows put peace- fully to death. Tho idea is to put out pans of seed soaked in alcohol. ‘The birds flock to the pons. eat and soon are drunk. The English sparrows, which kill off the finches, will be killed. and the Faehes, which destroy harmfal iasecta, WI be ulowed to get sober and ty away. Taompeoo and Thompson are in reality the Foatlers Of baatlera in A UWILOT | MOEA A PEs asia ie AWEST Vinal BRL EMAY os i THOEE RAH E® EVEN pun mete eae coerce PHASE ENCES WIDE AND QAE HALE (isd Kluminated By 1,200,000 Cand!es-—Wouldn’ the Children Have a Picaic Licking the Dish Thot { is Made In? And What an Ocean of ice Cream It Would Take To Go With It a hy are j en UTD, 2 ea, Sar A WEST EKO oy | th one, Bo ee area SRO UR eo ae SES as HE FS caes ORS ay et Sy sing Beis bs ahh 1885 Soma FSCS CURE PY ke Fane 28 DONS RC fh ED aan See ee uRY PIS 2 SS ah Ne aly =| Se cil Hs ay Pe Sy es oa aaa = eu ty ry Nie er” gt Pring la eee. (ei Ss pth ON By a ng ee gio eee MAE clo EE ae bsp set, eRe Sone Sheen’ ee 4 Te te SS Ea ‘ee = SEER (Speetal—Whasg would you tink ef B birtidwy cake nearly w mile in elt cumference and almost 500 foot high? And covered wits deilcious frosting. Wouldn't that be « picals for tu: chil dren? Just Unk of the fun Jn Heking the bpoon and the dish! Um! Yum! Lut suppose the cake was nearly ten miles around the edge and a mile high Woukin’t thut just tle your breath away? Buunge what thoughts will come te A person; DUC as the writer sot day- Grounlag bout the comtag sath wani- versary Bivthday party of West Vin Kinia, the nature! eubsect of birthduy cakes exe Into hig antnd, He eid to Nimself Ghat there are more than 2 000 communities fn West Virginia that ought to celebrate, and if ench one had ® birthday cake to commemorate the event that would make 2,000 cakes. But let us put the 2,000 cakes tn ona bis cake. A newspaper man ts not, as ariic, mach of a cake maker, but after itis mado he Is equal to any magician in making tt disappear. ‘The writer is ho exception to the nverase newspaper man 4s a pastry cook and Js not, there- fore, as competent to compile figures as some of the women who may read this article. Howevor, he has esti- mated that the 2,000 oakes in one would require 16,000 eges, 730 pounds of butrer, 300 pounds of sugar, and, of course, other ingredients such as ‘fla voring extracts, tlour, ote. It fs esti- fated that one cake would cost the modest sum of 85 cents; therefore, the ‘big birthday cake would cost $700. | Rut let us suppose that In every com- munity where tiey ure going to have a celebration and undoubtedly sumo- thing to eat in connection therewith, that there will be at least ten cakes; 59 we multiply our original estimate of (erence er ETS | FLAGS FOR 8,000 SCHOOLS Will Be Distributed to Commemorate States 50th Anniversary June 20, Soveral years ago the logisinture adopted a design for a West Virginia state flag but on account of its dit cult color scheme ft was not possible to have the flogs made at reasonabie prices. Beoretary of Stato Reed hes at last succeeded in solving the prob- fem and undor his direction a bean tiful fag has been evolved, having all the emblems and colors originaliy dex Jenated but arranged so as to make the Ithograpaing snd color printing possible at a minimum cost. ftght thousind of theso state flags will be Gelivered about Juno first and distrib- uted among tho elght thousand schools in the tate, Up to this tima very few people bave even seen the state fing or have any well defined idea as te what It is Itke. It was thorefore a. most happy conception of the Semk Centennial Commission to place one in every school house in West Vir- cinia. | Wanted.—Coamopolitan Magazine ‘requires the services of a represen- tstive in Martinsburg to look siter enbzeription renewals and to extend firentotion by special methods «whic bave proved Uousually sucerss-ni salacy asd commission, Previons experience desirable hut + cesea Hol. Whole time or spare tines. Ad- tropa. wiih referese EL ©. Gamp lita ot Ent ene reka to a communtty and we have 0uy cakes, 64,000 feet in elroumfer- cxee and 5,000 fect high. Gue can readil¥ sco haw tremendous this cuke can become if we keep in- creasing the multiple; but let us stop where we are with the 20,000 aud muk tiply it once mere by 51. Why? Whoever heard of a properly deco rated birthday cake without a candlo? And as West Virginia Is going to be SU years young on the 20th of next Juno, we should have to have 50 cun- dies for exch year and one to grow on. No we have a cake with 1,200,000 candles. lt would he tnteresting to go along with this day-drenm and show how greet a distance the ight from 1,300, 000 candles would be thrown and other \nterceting oddities that might como to cne’s mind; the elze of the pan in which to hold the enke, {ke sizo of the oven to bake li In, the slze of ‘the spoon to stir it the length of the lad ‘dors necessary to climb to tho top to put on the telng, the number of trips up the ladder to carry the white frost ing, the size of the knife to cut {t and 80 fortit and go on If we can not have the mammoth West Virginia birthday cake, with Its 1,200- 000 candles to shed their radiance for miies around, we can hove a rousing celebration In which 1,200,000 loyal pa- triotic and enthusiastic West Virgin fans will take part. And from these 1,200,000 bright lights of our state will radiate huppiness and good cheer, tor jalty and patriotism; love and kind ness; good-will to our nelghbors; best wishes to all our our sister states; a gratitude from hearts full of peace and contentment: a thankfulness for bleas ings received and an unwavering faith in the continued love and watchtulnoss of a kind Providence, Some Fleh Reports. One thousand sword fish were caught in ten days in August by Nova Scotia fishermen, ono ship bringing in five tons. As a consequence the mar ket was glutted, and some sales were made as low as two cents a pound, Flishing is increasing {a Nova Scotia waters to the extent that recently a iillion dollar corporation, known aa the North Atlantio Fisheries, Limited, was organized. Holland is an oxten- sive exporter cf fish, especially to Bek glum. The latter's total imports of fish ond mussels for tho first stx months of 1912 aggregated $1,228,740, an increase of $86,549 over the sam@ period inst year. Imports of fish by. woight in the first half of this year tov taled 6,618,500 kilos (ktlo, 2.2 pounds), Dutch herring figuring ‘at 2,536,126 kilos. Mussels from Holland aro also ‘auch in demand in Belgium, the {uw yorts for the mouth of June alone be ing 1,789,017 kilos, —_——. Bhe Says We're Much Too Slenden A Russian princoss who is now ta Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the | Anserican women for being much too [thin, “American womon of good breeding aro siender to the point of emaciation,” says the princess, “They hurry too much, that is the reason. Everywhere you see the American, whether sha is going shopping, waite ing or elsewhere, eh> js moving fins, as af she did not have a second to Jose.” ‘The princess doesn’t seem to Tealize that just now the one aim of the American woman-is the extreme slendornesa whick YT, finde ao Ul a Ber Thirty Yeare THE ' PIONEER PRESS | Has been the iceder in this Btate und Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amclioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was uever known to lag or trifle in any matter where tbe interest of the race was involved. 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