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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. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Beccord Class Matter Mr. and Mrs. James Thornton, of Inwood, were visitors to our town on last Monday. Miss Matilda Green, who attends Storer College, was a recent visitor to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Green, at their home here. Children are going through rehearsals at the various churches in preparation for Children's Day exercises. Mrs. Emma Gray, of Washington, D.C., an aunt of Mrs. Percy R. Fie cher, was in attendance upon the latter during her recent illness. Just as we go to press we learn that Mr. James Roman had his eye hurt by a spawl at the West Quarry. It is hoped the injury will not prove serious, and his eyesight be endangered. Messrs. John F. Carter and George M. Miller have been very busy for the past several weeks painting houses and barns. Mrs. Palmer Jenkins, nee Clifford, formerly of Martinsburg, but now a resident of Uniontown, Pa., is here on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Clifford, her parents. Mee Virgie Brown, of Wheeling, passed through town on route home on Sunday last. She is a young lady of friendly mien, and acquaintances here were glad to see her. Dr. George W. Baylis, the popular Charles Street physician, made a business trip to Baltimore the other day, and while there renewed many old acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Israel Hunter, of Kearneyville, were in our city on a business errand the other day. They looked well, and friends were glad to see them. Mr. Tucker Ford, a well known Kearneyville gentleman, came here to attend to some business the other day, and dropped in on the Press forces for a few minutes. Mr. Ernest Gaither, a well known and energetic young man of our city, left on last Saturday for Philadelphia, in which city he will remain for a time. We wish him success in his new field of labor. Rev. W. P. Fisher, of Winchester, and Rev. J. C. Newman, of Hagerstown, were in our city the other day arranging for the annual Inwood Camp Meeting, which begins on the last Sunday in June. Mr. L. G. Fletcher, father of P. R. Fletcher, the West End grocer, and a former real estate dealer in Washington, D. C., was the guest of his son during last week. He is a pleasant gentleman, and seemed to enjoy his stay in our city. Mr. E Hassen, traveling representative for the Merchants Collection Agency, of Baltimore, with branch offices in all the principal cities, was a pleasant caller at our office on Tuesday. The gentleman in question is full of business, entertaining in conversation and of the sort that naturally at tracts attention by his genial disposition and interesting personality. Ford Fairfax, son of Mr. William Fairfax, died on Friday night last following a short illness from pneumonia. "Bud" as the deceased was called by hundreds who knew him in this city during all his life, will be greatly missed by his intimates, who sorely regret his untimely end. Funeral services over the remains of the dead young man were held as Mr. Zion M E. Church on Monday afternoon, Rev. Samuel M. Beane officiating. Mr. Fairfax is survived by his father, three brothers and two sisters, who have our sympathy in their loss. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. BY W. G. A HINT TO UNCLR. Miss Mary Garden, at a luncheon in Chicago, said apropos of Christmas: "To secure nice Christmas presents, there's nothing like a delicate hint or two." I know a Philadelphia girl whose uncle was rich, and who proposed to visit her at Christmas for the first time in twenty years. She wrote to him as follows: "It will be glorious to see you again, dear Uncle. I will meet you at Broad Street Station on your arrival at Christmas eve. But I might not recognize you, after all those years, and so I think it would be best for you to hold, for purposes of identification, a long string of pearls in the left hand, and in the right a bit of fur—such as anermine lined sable stole. THE ONE ESSENTIAL Will Irwin, the author, was holding torth upon the superiority of California over Florida as a winter resort. "Florida," he said, is too relaxing. This is due to the fetid air of the swamps. There's a story about a young man who was being examined for admission to the Florida bar. It ran as follows: "Young man, are you malaria proof?" "Yes sir." "Can you ride?" "Yes sir." "Do you own a horse?" "Yes sir." "Is he a good swamp swimmer?" "Yes sir." "Then, young man, I welcome you to the practice of the law in this district." NEVER ON. Senator Penrose, on a visit to Atlantic City, rang for a bellboy to take a telegram, but it was not until the twelfth or thirteenth ring that the boy appeared. "You've been a long time coming," said Penrose. "Yes, sir," said the boy, "you see its our dinner hour." Senator Penrose, smiling grimly, said: "I know why you bellboys are called buttons. You're always off." HIS MATCH. Dr. Lyman Abbot is an anti-suffragist, and many are the sharp shafts that he plants quivering in suffragism. At a tea in New York, however he mat his match in Mrs. Rose Phelps Stokes. "You are interested, Madam in woman's rights, I learn," said Abbot. "No, woman's wrongs," retorted Mrs. Phelps Stokes. KANSAS MEDICINE Mayor Gaynor, at a luncheon in Brooklyn, said to a prohibitionist, "It is spissitudinous on your part to think that prob bition would succeed in cosmopolitan New York. It would do worse than in Kansas. You know how it does thers; for there liquor can only be sold as a medicine. As a New York visitor was buying a toothbrush in a Kansas drug store, a brawny cowboy entered with a four gallon demijohn. He plumped it down on the counter. The druggist looked at him inquiringly, and he said: "Fill her up Jim; baby's took bad." Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of bustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. The lives of ten Italians were crushed out by fast Baltimore and Ohio train No S, at Doe Gulley tunnel on Monday morning. Whether they ran into the way of No. S, or were precipitated onto the track by a landslide is a matter of conjecture, but no one double that the poor fellows were terribly slaughtered. SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR ED INSTITUTE Commences June 16, 1913, and Lasts Seven Weeks. Two MAIN COURSES: Teachers Review and Professional. Expenses 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 unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. 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Repairing wheels of all kinds painted in new crank hangers, & that 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 of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs bicycles. RESCUED IRING WIFE I had gotten so weak I could not stand, and I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I commenced taking it. From the very first dose, I could tell it was helping me. I can now walk two miles without its tiring me, and am doing all my work." If you are all run down from womanly troubles, don't give up in despair. Try Cardui, the woman's tonic. It has helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of continuous success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardui for years. He knows what it will do. Ask him. He will recommend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Mt. Pointe Co., Lafayette, Admiralty Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Instruction on your case and 60-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain wristers. . STATE 50 YEARS OLD JUNE 20,1913 JUNE 20 WILL NOT ONLY MARK WEST VIRGINIA'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY BUT ALSO STATE-WIDE CELEBRATION. WEST VIRGINIA ABOUSED Official Celebration In Wheeling Will Be Supplemented By Observance Throughout the State of Golden Jubilee. Scene: Any free school in West Virginia. Time: Present. Characters: Teacher, pupils, parents and other visitors including school officials. Teacher: Willie Tell, please arise. What date are all West Virginians going to celebrate this year? Willie: Friday, June 20. Teacher: What anniversary falls on that date? Wille: The Semi-Centennial of the State. Teacher: Give us in a few words some facts about the birth of West Virginia. Willie: The first steps that led up to the formation of West Virginia as an independent state were taken in 1861. On January 7, of that year, the Virginia General Assembly met in extraordinary session, and a week later ordered an election held February 4, for delegates to a state convention at the Capitol February 13. This convention passed an Ordinance of Session April 17. The vote which was taken in secret was 88 in favor; 55 opposed. Meetings of protest followed, but on the 17th of June the Virginia Declaration of Independence was adopted in convention. Ordinance reorganizing and restoring the Virginia state government passed June 19, with Francis H. Pierpont as governor. Teacher: Very good, Willie. Now I shall ask Ima Speaker to take up the story from this point. Ima, what happened next? Ima Speaker: At a meeting of the convention August 20 an ordinance was passed ordering an election within the boundaries of the new state. Teacher: What was the date of this meeting? Ima Speaker: October 24, 1861. It was at this meeting that the questions of division and of delegates came up. The vote for a new state was largely in its favor, the vote being 18,889 for and 481 against. A new constitution was framed and ratified by the people April 8, 1862, by a vote of 18,862 to 514. The loyal assembly of restored government of Virginia met in Wheeling, May 13th, and gave consent of Virginia to formation of West Virginia. May 29th certified copy of the Constitution was presented by Senator Willey in the U. S. Senate. Bill for the admission of West Virginia passed Senate July 14th. In the House of Representatives, the bill was made the order of the day for December 9th. Passed the House, December 10th, and was approved, as a New Year's gift, by President Lincoln, the night of December 31, 1862. The Convention which had framed the Constitution, without emancipation, was recalled and reassembled February 12, 1863. The emancipation patch was put on, and the amended instrument ratified March 26, 1863. April 20th President Lincoln, having received the certificate of ratification, issued a proclamation declaring West Virginia a State in the Union sixty days from that date. June 20, 1863, West Virginia was inaugurated and first administrative officers assumed their duties, at the temporary capitol, the Linsley Institute, in the city of Wheeling. School Official: I wish to compliment the teacher who has so successfully impressed upon the memories of these pupils this particular bit of history that we all, young and old, should be familiar with. I also wish to express to these two pupils my pleasure at the intelligent manner in which they have related the incidents leading up to the birth of West Virginia as a state. You all know that there is to be a great celebration in West Virginia in honor of the state's fiftieth anniversary. The official place where the exercises are to be held is the city of Wheeling. An elaborate program is being prepared. In addition, however, to this official recognition of the Golden Jubilee, there will be celebrations everywhere throughout the state. school system to take a lively interest in this great event, and assist in every way they can to make the day one long to be remembered. The Semi-Continental Commission has been very much interested in the schools and school children of our state and are going to present two flags to every school—one U. S. flag and one state flag—the latter made and designed especially for the celebration June 20. You young people should play a prominent part in the exercises in commemoration of the state's natal day and the Semi-Continental Commission will undoubtedly use it to that a place is reserved for you in the program. In addition to any formal part that you may take, however, there is nothing to prevent you from holding a meeting of your own, electing officers and preparing a day's outing for yourselves. Why not a picnic and games and a jolly good time after the official program is over? Think it over, and if it appeals to you call your meeting early, as June 20 is not far distant, and let your teacher assist you in formulating our organization or club. Why not call it after your school, the School Semi-Centennial Club, for instance. All children should observe June 20. Let our school be one of the first to take steps in that direction. PROFESSOR A HUMAN DYNAMO Thumb-Nail Sketch of the State Superintendent of Free Schools. "Good morning! Is Professor Shawkey busy?" "Professor Shawkey is always busy." The above question was addressed to an attractive stenographer in one of the offices of the Department of Free Schools in the Capitol building, and the reply came back from aforesaid young lady with the rapidity of a Gatling gun. There was nothing in the tone of voice to indicate to the visitor that he has asked foolish Question No. 4-11-44, but he has since learned that all who are acquainted with the State Superintendent of Free Schools never ask "Is Professor Shawkey busy?" He is one of the human dynamo of the state's public servants. He is magnetic, forceful, and quick to think and to act. There is a crispness in his speech; his sentences are well turned, yet he is not at all podantic. He is a man of tremendous energy and a glutton for work. He is intensely interested in his department, and is a leader—not a traffler. Those who are in a position to speak with authority have paid handsome tribute to Prof. Shawkey is an educator of the advanced school. As a member of the Committee on Celebration, Schools, etc., of the Semi Centennial Commission, he is proving an able assistant. He is doing all that he can to bring about the hearty cooperation of teachers and pupils in the forthcoming anniversary, June 20, which will be generally observed throughout the state. CATCHES PUMA WITH ROPE. Mountain Lion Measures Nine Feet From Nose to Tip of Tail. Montrose, Colo.—A mountain lion, the largest ever captured in this part of the country, was caught by Uri Hotchkiss, hunter and trapper of Colona, six miles east of here. The lion stands three feet high, is nine feet from tip of nose to end of tail and weighs 145 pounds. Hotchkiss heard of the lion and, in company with his son George and Roy Humphrey, started out with a pack of dogs. The dogs treed the lion. Hotchkiss climbed the tree armed only with a rope. The lion chased him down several times, but finally he threw the rope around the bear's neck. The other men hauled the animal down, secured him with ropes, and the party took the lion to Colona. TO MAKE SPARROWS DRUNK. When Intoxicated They Will Be Killed Humanely. Greeley, Colo. — This town, founded by Horace Greeley for the promulgation of temperance principles and which never has had a saloon, is soon to see drunks in large numbers if the plans of ten women are carried out. They plan to get intoxicated English sparrows and finches, especially the females, in order that the two may be separated and the sparrows put peacefully to death. The idea is to put out pans of seed soaked in alcohol. The birds flock to the pans, eat and soon are drunk. The English sparrows, which kill off the finches, will be killed, and the finches, which destroy harmful insects, will be allowed to get sober and fly away. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of bustlers in the clothing line and their stock Illuminated By 1,200,000 Candles—Wouldn't the Children Have a Picnic Licking the Dish That It Is Made In? And What an Ocean of Ice Cream It Would Take To Go With It --- (Special.)—What would you think of a birthday cake nearly a mile in circumference and almost 500 feet high? And covered with delicious frosting. Wouldn't that be a plenite for the children? Just think of the fun in licking the spoon and the dish! Um! Yum! But suppose the cake was nearly ten miles around the edge and a mile high. Woukin't that just take your breath away? Strange what thoughts will come to a person; but as the writer sat day-dreaming about the coming 50th anniversary birthday party of West Virginia, the natural subject of birthday cakes came into his mind. He said to himself that there are more than 2,000 WEST 166 JUN WEST VIRGINIA 1863-1875 JUNE 20 communities in West Virginia that ought to celebrate, and if each one had a birthday cake to commemorate the event that would make 2,000 cakes. But let us put the 2,000 cakes in one big cake. A newspaper man is not, as a rule, much of a cake maker, but after it is made he is equal to any magician in making it disappear. The writer is no exception to the average newspaper man as a pastry cook and is not, therefore, as competent to compile figures as some of the women who may read this article. However, he has estimated that the 2,000 cakes in one would require 16,000 eggs, 750 pounds of butter, 300 pounds of sugar, and, of course, other ingredients such as flavoring extracts, flour, etc. It is estimated that one cake would cost the modest sum of 35 cents; therefore, the big birthday cake would cost $700. But let us suppose that in every community where they are going to have a celebration and undoubtedly something to eat in connection therewith, that there will be at least ten cakes; so we multiply our original estimate of FLAGS FOR 8,000 SCHOOL8 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. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell Cosmopolitan Magazine 1870 one take to a community and we have 20,000 cakes, 50,000 feet in circumference and 5,000 feet high. One can readily see how tremendous this cake can become if we keep increasing the multiple; but let us stop where we are with the 20,000 and multiply it once more by 51. Why? Whoever heard of a properly decorated birthday cake without a candle? And as West Virginia is going to be 50 years young on the 20th of next June, we should have to have 50 candles for each year and one to grow on. So we have a cake with 1,200,000 candles. It would be interesting to go along with this day-dream and show how great a distance the light from 1,200- VIRGINIA 1915 1820 000 candies would be thrown and other interesting oddities that might come to one's mind; the size of the pan in which to hold the cake, the size of the oven to bake it in, the size of the spoon to stir it, the length of the ladders necessary to climb to the top to put on the iceing, the number of tripe up the ladder to carry the white frosting, the size of the knife to cut it, and so forth and so on. If we can not have the mammoth West Virginia birthday cake, with its 1,200,000 candles to shed their radiance for miles around, we can have a rousing celebration in which 1,200,000 loyal patriotic and enthusiastic West Virginiaans will take part. And from these 1,200,000 bright lights of our state will radiate happiness and good cheer, loyalty and patriotism; love and kindness; good-will to our neighbors; best wishes to all our our sister states; a gratitude from hearts full of peace and contentment; a thankfulness for blessings received and an unwavering faith in the continued love and watchfulness of a kind Providence. One thousand sword fish were caught in ten days in August by Nova Scotia fishermen, one ship bringing in five tons. As a consequence the market was glutted, and some sales were made as low as two cents a pound. Fishing is increasing in Nova Scotia waters to the extent that recently a million dollar corporation, known as the North Atlantic Fisheries, Limited, was organized. Holland is an extensive exporter of fish, especially to Belgium. The latter's total imports of fish and mussels for the first six months of 1912 aggregated $1,228,740, an increase of $86,349 over the same period last year. Imports of fish by weight in the first half of this year totaled 6,518,500 kilios (kilo, 2.2 pounds), Dutch herring figuring at 2,536,128 kilios. Mussels from Holland are also much in demand in Belgium, the imports for the month of June alone being 1,789,017 kilios. She Says We're Much Too Slender. A Russian princess who is now in Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the American women for being much too thin. "American women of good breeding are slender to the point of emaciation," says the princess. "They hurry too much, that is the reason. Everywhere you see the American, whether she is going shopping, visiting or elsewhere, she is moving fast, as if she did not have a second to lose." The princess doesn't seem to realize that just now the one aim of the American woman is the extreme slenderness which she finds so unlovely. --- Some Fish Reports. ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. It contains reliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. It is safely recommended to you as a perfect newspaper for the home and family. IT LEADS in the quantity of original matter which it furnishes its patrons. IT LEADS in its spicy editorials and fearless sayings. IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pages. 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