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The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882. ALIEN LAWS FOR CONGRESS ALONE INTRODUCES RESOLUTION Famous Peace Advocate Urges Amendment of Constitution to Place Sole Power of Alien Legislation in Hands of Federal Government. "Lack of Power Long a Defect." Washington.—To make it impossible in the future for a single state by the disregard of an international treaty to endanger the peaceful relations existing between the United States and a foreign power Representative Richard Bartholdt, a Republican, of Missouri, noted as a peace advocate, introduced in the house a resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution. In explanation of his resolution Mr. Bartholdt cited the delicate situation in which this country and Japan that themselves as a result of the enactment of the California allon land law Here is the text of the Bartholdt amendment: "The congress shall have the exclusive power to legislate on questions affecting the rights and privileges of citizens of other countries residing in the United States and the relations of the United States with other countries." The resolution was referred to the judiciary committee. Mr. Bartholdt in an interview stated that the weakest point in the constitution was its failure to give the federal government power to make treaties which it can promise to carry out. He said: "Long before the California trouble was even thought of the importance of [Image of a man in a suit and hat]. 1913, by American Press Association. REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD BARTHOLDT. our national government with regard to legislation by independent states affecting the rights and privileges of noncitizens or citizens of other countries or treaty rights of other countries was felt to be a serious defect in our scheme of government. The controversy with Japan has simply made this defect (a result of the compromise which made the adoption of the constitution possible) an acute question. "If we are really a nation with a big 'N' and not merely a federation of states the power to legislate on such matters should be reserved to congress exclusively, and the constitutional amendment which I propose provides for just that and nothing else. "One of the most important functions of every government is to preserve the peace. In fact, this is one of the cardinal reasons why governments are instituted among men, but how can our own national government succeed in this great mission when any state by its own independent action can cause trouble with foreign nations whenever its legislators see fit to do so? There ought not to be any objection to the proposed amendment on the part of any state. "The national government is obliged to make the cause of any state its own, so that the action of an individual state can involve the whole nation in war, and in return for this protection it is but fair, it seems, that the national government should have exclusive power of legislation in matters affecting our international relations." TO HAVANA IN AEROPLANE. Flight From Key West Gains Aviator Rosillo $10,000 Prize. Havana.—Domingo Rosillo, the Cuban aviator, arrived here in his airplane from Key West, having made the flight of ninety miles in two hours and twenty-five minutes. The city council of Havana had offered a prize of $10,000 to any aviator accomplishing the flight and sent a cruiser and two gunboats to patrol the route. Rosillo approached the city flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet. He then wheeled toward the west and landed at Camp Columbia. He experienced no difficulties during his flight. The winds were light, and there was only a slight haze. SHE'S A FOUR TIMES GRANDMOTHER NOW On 101st Birthday Mrs. Shrake Has 152 Descendants. Wyralusing. Wis.—Mrs. Lydia Shrake of this village has just celebrated her one hundred and first birthday, a large number of relatives being present. She has living four children, thirty-two grandchildren, eighty-four great-grandchildren, thirty great-great-grandchildren and two great-great-great-grandchildren, or 152 descendants. Her youngest son is sixty-eight years of age, and she makes her home with him. Mrs. Shrake was born in Pennsylvania in 1812 and when a child moved with her parents to Coshoecton county, O., where in 1831 she was married to Mr. Ault, to which union two daughters and three sons were born. Her husband died in 1838. Five years later she married Jacob Shrake, and they moved to Wyalusing. To them five children were born, one daughter and four sons. The second husband, who served in the war of 1812, died in 1861. Despite her age Mrs. Shrake is able to do many of the household duties, has remarkable mental faculties and keeps posted on current events through the newspapers without the aid of glasses. She takes walks about the neighborhood with the aid of a cane. SPARROWS TREE THIS TABBY Cat Goes After Birds and Catches Tartars Instead. Los Angeles.—Treed by a great flock of angry sparrows a badly frightened cat was rescued here by officers of the Humane society. Three days before the cat had climbed the tree, presumably in the hope of catching a sparrow. The sparrows caught the cat. Every time tabby tried to leave the birds fought it back with their sharp beaks, and the rescuers had to bent off the spiteful sparrows before they could reach the cat. Orange, N. J.—The ministers of the Oranges have asked the physicians there to take part in a conference which is to be held on June 16 in the parish house of Grace Episcopal church here, on the advisability of urging regulations requiring health certificates from those about to be married. The invitation was received by the Orange Medical society in a letter from the Ministerial association of the Oranges which asked the medical men to send reports to the conference. DEDICATE STATUE TO MAINE HEROES Impressive Ceremony at Unveiling of Monument. FREE CUBA SENDS GRUISER Great Naval and Military Pageant Precess Odocotory Exercises in Which Maine's Commander and Chaplain and Other Survivors Take Leading Part. New York—Amid impressive ceremonies appropriate to the memory of the pious tragedy it symbolizes the national Maine monument was dedicated here. A military and naval pageant, participated in by the nation that was given birth through it and the nation whose ship and men paid the frightful cost, was the most striking feature of the occasion. Free Cuba was represented by three special envoys, delegated by the Cuban THE FOUNTAIN OF THE MONUMENT THE NATIONAL MAINE MONUMENT. congress, and a Cuban warship, the Cuba, with a representative detachment of soldiers and sailors from the little island republic. Soldiers and marines from the American warships in the harbor, regular troops, militiamen, Spanish war veterans and distinguished civilians all united to make the defensible exercises the most impressive seen here in many a day. Father John P. Chidwick, who was the chaplain aboard the Maine when she was blown up in Havana harbor on Feb. 15, 1808, assisted by a group of survivors, laid the wreath contributed by the nation before the prow of the ancient galley, carved out of a huge block of Tennessee marble, typifying man's mastery of the sea. Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, who was captain of the Maine, also acted in a similar capacity. Miss Ruth Gaynor, daughter of Mayor Gaynor, placed the wreath given by the city of New York, while Governor Sulzer personally placed the wreath contributed by the state. Ex-President Taft delivered the dedicatory oration and Bishop David H. Greer the invocation. The monument, a notable piece of sculpture, occupies one of the most beautiful sites in New York, being located at the Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street entrance to Central park. Attilio Fleischhill, A. N. A., was the sculptor and H. Ann H. Mugongle, F. A. I. A., the at-last. The central feature of the monument is a pyramid. AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." 7, 1913. VOL. 32. NO. 14 CHILD'S NEW MOUTH SURGICAL TRIUMPH Flesh Grafted From Abdomen Forms Lips and Chin. Bulttmore. — After many weeks of treatment the rebuilding of a little girl's chin and the restoration of her mouth to normal proportions after they had been terribly distorted by tears have been completed at the Johns Hopkins hospital here. The child's clothing had taken fire while she was playing about a gas stove, and the flesh on her face was scared to such an extent that when the wound healed only a small hole was left where the mouth had been. So small was the opening that the little finger could be inserted with difficulty. Nothing was left of the chin but the bone and a covering of scarred flesh. The child's mother offered all the skin necessary for grafting, but the surgeon decided on another plan. A large flap of flesh was cut from the child's abdomen, one side being left attached to the body. Then a slit was made in the arm of the patient sufficiently large to allow the insertion of the raised end of the flesh of the abdomen. This was done to establish circulation in the abdominal flesh. After weeks that part of the flesh attached to the abdomen was cut and the child's arm with the flap of flesh growing to it was raised and the part that formerly had been joined to the abdomen was joined to the lips and chin from which the seared flesh had been cut. For weeks blood flowed from the child's arm into the bridge of flesh from the abdomen and then into the chin and lips. When circulation had been established the child's arm was cut from her chin and allowed to return to its normal place. The new flesh was then attached to the chin. A small hole had been cut in it to allow the child to be fed. Later a mouth was cut in the mass of flesh and then the chin was rounded out. When the child was discharged from the hospital she could eat, talk and move her jaws as well as any of her companions. It is only upon close examination that the new chin can be discovered. SLOW ACCEPTING FORTUNE. Walta Hours Before Opening a Cablegram Delivered to Him. St. Paul—When an insistent telegraph messenger pounded loudly on his door after exhausting the electric bell J. D. Haley dragged himself from bed and responded. He left the telegraph on the table until the customary breakfast hour, when he broke the envelope. The cablegram informed Mr. Haley that he had fallen heir to $100,000 in the division of the estate of a London relative. Haley is an insurance agent. Argentine Export Tax on Boeuf. Buenos Aires.-The council of ministers has decided to submit to the national congress a proposal to apply a tax on the exportation of beef in excess of a maximum fixed by the government. An official of the ministry of agriculture has begun an examination of the accounts of the refrigerating plants. RELICS IN OLD INDIAN GRAVE Oregon Workmen Uncover Interesting Moments in Uncovering Interesting Mementoes of Hudson Bay Company- Oregon City, Ore.--While digging a drain ditch on the west bank of the Willamette river about a mile south of Oregon City workmen uncovered an old Indian grave. In the grave, which from its position is known to be at least 100 years old, were found an old bear trap and a flint lock rifle, both of which bore the mark of the Hudson Bay company. The bear trap is in a good state of preservation, but the rifle has been rusted into three pieces. Besides the rifle and trap there also were found fifty feet of grass and copper beads and a stone tomahawk. --- Departments of Archives, Ga leston, W. Va. 181g by 21 feet and 40 feet high, parceled on its four faces and flanked by two colossal, representing respectively the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The figures are of heroe proportions, each to a scute representing a man of fourteen feet—the Atlantic a youth in the fullness of his strength, the Pacific an aged man, half slumbering. At the base of the shaft is a group of sculpture antebellum in idea—Courage awaiting the flight of Peace and Fortitude supporting the Feeble. The lower part of the pedestal supporting this group is a conventional gailey prow, on the bow of which knots the figure of a boy holding wreaths of olive and laurel, suggesting the new era inaugurated in Cuba through the war precipitated by the destruction of the Maine. The monument has been built by public subscriptions from all parts of the nation. The work, which has taken years, has been in the hands of the national Maine monument committee, consisting of William R. Hearst, John W. Keller and General James Grant Wilson. As America contributed the money, so also did it furnish all of the materials that entered into the construction of the monument. The material for the pylon, the gates and wall one of Tennessee marble, with a granite base, while the golden group surmounting the shaft is of bronze from the guns of the Maine, richly gifted. TO RAISE MILE OF CENTS Church Society Has Estimated the Number as 84,480. Summit, N. J.—"How many cents to a mile?" Is a question which the young people of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church of Summit are asking, and they are to give a practical demonstration by collecting the required number for the church building fund. When they have enough to make a mile they will tell the people of Summit how many it takes. Meanting those who have measured the diameter of the copper coins have arrived at the answer—84,480. DOLLAR PATCHES HIS SKULL. Coin Hammered Out to Fit Holo In Man's Head. Omaba, Ark. -- John Chickmore of this place will always have $1 on his person, but it will never be available as a cash asset, as it lies in the front part of his head over a jagged hole more than two inches long and one inch wide. Chickmore got in a fight, and his skull was crushed in by a stone thrown by Alvin Roberts. Dr. W. A. Butts, who was called, had to have something at once to cover the opening. Chickmore being in too grave a condition to be removed to a city hospital and there being no time to order a silver plate. The doctor did the next best thing - he made one. He took a silver dollar and a heavy hammer and beat it out to fit the hole. He sweed up the sculp, and John is now recovering. NEW SIEGEL MURDER CLEW Chinese at Oakland Treasured Clippings About Girl. San Francisco.—A key to the mystery of the murder of Elsie Siegel, granddaughter of General Franz Siegel, a civil war hero, in the room of a Chinese In New York in June of 1933, is believed to have been found in Oakland. In the rooms of Lee Dor, who was arrested on charges of having opium, United States treasury agents found a set of press clippings describing the death of Elsie Siegel and several photographs of pretty white women. Prior to this discovery the prisoner had been released under $1,000 bond. His whereabouts now are unknown. John W. Smith, a treasury agent, who unearthied the evidence against Lee Dor, said: "Lee Dor tried to convince us that he had no knowledge of English, but it is significant that a Chinese, who pretends no knowledge of our language should so treasure the reports of a murder that took place in New York four years ago." The Chinese suspected of strangling Luke Siegel was Leon Ling. His description does not tally with that of Lee Dor. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Beil 'Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1913. The Pioneer Press acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the commencement exercises at Bluefield Colored Institute, Bluefield, West Virginia. If every living human being fell on his knees and lifted up his hands to heaven in adoration to the men who saved this union, on decoration day—30th. ult.—he would have done no more than his duty. It is not natural to hope for fair treatment to colored people by the South's illegal congressmen, but it is that Northern and Western democrats prevent them from doing the mean things they are trying to do. Under the summer sun and stars And under the winter snow Our heroes sleep, unvexed by wars, While the seasons come and go. Kissed by the dew and gentle showers And arched by the blue above. They sleep today 'neath a world of flowers, Left there by a nation's love. —Denver News. Out in the interest of the Pioneer Press, to collect and solicit subscribers. Please be prepared to pay promptly, for I have a large territory to go over, and my time is limited, owing to other pressing matters. Now that the Democratic President, Senate and House of Representatives seem bent on investigating any and everything, we would suggest that they at once get busy and put on foot an investigation as to why 50 or 60 Southern congressmen hold their seats at Washington with no right thereto whatever? Ralph W. Tyler, and all the knee bending syoophants under Taft's rule of ruin and disgrace to decent colored people, should by this time know the editor of this paper well enough, not to play on a catchy string to line him up and use him in applause to advance bruisers of Negro manhood during their official life. Sure as there is a God, and certain as slavery brought on the civil war, prejudice is going to bring on another war, and the blood shed to destroy slavery, will be likened unto a drop of the great ocean. What a pity that the signs of the times so point, and still greater the pity that, blessed as this nation is geographically, it is found in the lead on the line of hatred to all mankind, not of pale faces. Jack Johnson, for whom we have no respect on moral lines, was not dealt with justly, and when he has paid the penalty for his indiscretions, and faces the outside world again, depend upon it, it will think as much of him as its champion, as it did and said at once after the battle at Reno July 4, 1910. As no living man can whip him, it will in due time be the universe's opinion in public expression that, no class of people are more deserving of self respect and honor, than the Negro race. --- Sometimes or other a set of fool white men are going to light a brand that is going to set fire to the entire South and either result in upsetting all the distranchisement and jim crow laws, or result in the death of hundreds and thousands of whites and Negroes. The sheriff of Milton, Florida, is to be congratulated on not only assisting in getting away with his prisoner, but checking what might have been the greatest upheaval since the Civil War. Mob lawlessness is unbelitting any civilized country. Laws are made to be obeyed. This country must either be civilized or savage. The men who are in authority must see that the laws are obeyed whether the offenders are white or colored. There is a cloud in the sky hardly as large as a man's hand, but like the cloud of Eljab, it may overwhelm some one in the storm it is brewing. A hint to the wire is sufficient.—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. How is this as a rebuke? The democrats of New York in the House and Senate passed a bill to enlist a colored regiment, and Gov. Sulzer signed it, but Gov. Tener, of Pennsylvania, a republican, and elected by colored votes, refused to sign a similar bill. What a pity all other democrats were not broad and good enough to do as have the democrats of New York. Col. Forest W. Brown, Jefferson county's distinguished lawyer when a young man, was a farm band, and one hot day he was pitching hay on a wagon, when all of a sudden, he dashed down the fork and said, "I am done; I am going to make my living by practicing law," and he is doing it. No doubt it was his calling. Could we all figure that out and put our souls into efforts to succeed there would be no failures in life. The worst flailing ye editor ever got in court, he gave him many years ago. The great celebration at Erie, Pa. in honor of Commodore Perry and his brave fighters, chief among them a Negro, promises to be the best of its kind in history. Notwithstanding it has been a hundred years, in celebrating that event, the colored people come in nobly for a lion's share, and a hundred hence millions will be on top and declared the greatest of American citizens. The powder then used was made at the DuPont factory, and the ammunition to be used on this occasion will come from the same factory, and be conveyed to Erie, by wagons, as it was by Commodore Perry a century ago. We recall a play which we witnessed many years ago. In one of the scenes, a shipwreck, one of the actors exclaimed, "Water all around and yet not one drop to drink." Possibly no race of people under the sun has more "organizations" than the Negro race. And many of them enjoy the distinction of Biblical names. And yet with all our "organizations" we are not organized at all. Ten million Negroes and not one really effective organization among them. They will not hang together, and consequently we are daily hanging separately. One of the purposes of Disfranchisement, Segregation, and Jim Crowism is to force just such an organization as is needed. It will come. Of this there can be no doubt. We need to feel a little more keenly the deep humiliation of such contrivances before we shall be thoroughly convinced that the Almighty answers our prayers by making us the instruments of bringing ourselves the thing for which we pray. All of these contrivances will disappear and fall down as the walls of Jericho before any people who have found out the secret of unity of action.—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. Theodore Roosevelt is by nature a big man morally, intellectually and religiously, but his action in that libel suit, which he won, doubles his bigness in the estimation of the world. True, six cents damage in money amounts to nothing, but the principle it carries with it, amounts to more than the world can give or take from him. For Editor Newett to stand up in court, read the editorial in its entirety and deny all in toto that he had said, was enough glory for Roosevelt, who in mercy bore half of the cost, and goes home to his loved ones a happy man. Truly he is a great leader and four years to come, he will be found at the head of the Progressive Party leading it to victory. Three cheers for our ideal of a man, and Lincoln excepted, the best and fairest President that ever occupied the White House. COLORED RACE AND LOYALTY. A retrospective view of local conditions in this country and the privileges that aliens have enjoyed under them, is proof of our American tendency to "ape" everything foreign, and to this inherent weakness, which makes for the corruption and disintegration of a nation, the trouble in California and other parts of the country is largely due. The craze for Japanese domestics in the American home gave them their opportunity to study at first band, both the scientific and domestic side of American life, and when they have acquired sufficient knowledge to rival us in industrial activity we seek to draw the line against them in the same manner as we do against the colored people. But, the wide difference between these two peoples, both in condition and opportunity, offers contrast rather than a comparison. The Japanese have a Government ready at a moment to assert and maintain their rights and a flag whose ample folds protect them, while the colored people have neither. Twelve millions of colored people, with all the responsibilities of citizenship, but without its privileges, are dependent upon our charity and indulgence, while the Japanese are independent of both. We have abundant proof of the treachery of others, but the loyalty of the colored race is proverbial. That these facts should be kept before the American people is worth while," and if we are committed to the doctrine of "Anglo-Saxon an premacy," we had better stick to the colored man, because the blood of the other dark races is as hot as ours and they will fight as quick. California is but a single State, with no more nor less rights than any of the others, and it would be foolish to suffer her to compromise the nation. —Elijah Hodges, in the Philadelphia Press. JAPANESE ARE MEN. (A Letter From One of Them In New York World.) We Japanese come to this country, like men from all other countries, to take advantage of opportunities here so abundantly offered. We fill no jails, we attend to our own business; already we suffer many disadvantages not suffered by other peoples. You tell people of Black race to be good, be industrious, learn trades, get property, get money and all will be well. Japanese do all this. Is it because we do it too well that the honorable American people would steal from us that which we so hard worked for? People of America think that no people have feeling or rights but white people; in this they make great mistake. Just as we can do all things equal if not superior to white Caucasian, so we feel slights and other indignities. American people could well remember that Japanese men are not good natured black Negroes, glad to smile and laugh at white oppressors. Japanese are men and demand to be treated as men. With hope that you; honorable editor, will be favored with all good gifts, as your wisdom so richly merits.I am honored to be, faithful servant. PRESBYTERIANS AND NE GROES. "A question that has commanded marked attention from the Presbyterian assemblies, now in session at Atlanta, Ga., is that arising from what is known as the Negro problem. A dispatch from Atlanta to the World says: Urgent recommendation that all Presbyterian churches study the Negro problem were offered by a committee from the council." Many noted Presbyterian ministers made addresses on this subject before the assemblies. Ideas and suggestions advanced by them indicated that in their judgment the Negro race presents a wide field for Christian work. Their addresses were not only evidence that white people of America, especially those identified closely with the cause of religion, are giving earnest thought to our race troubles but an encouragement of the belief that ere long the movement in behalf of the Negro's development will assume large and practical proportions. For the sake of our national welfare, we must lend the Negro a helping hand. We must strive to cultivate in him proper desires and to guide his hopes and activities along right lines. We cannot afford to let fifteen million people, who live in our midst, drift with the tide, for if we do, we shall foster ignorance and depravity. If our country is to grow in all departments and find health and inspiration among all who make their homes with us, we must turn our hearts and thought towards the Negro and help to lift him up. Despite the laws adopted to regulate his relations with the whites, he is in the very nature of things, closely identified with our lives and activities, and for our own sakes, if not for the Negro's sake; we must try to make him cleaner and better and morally stronger. The Presbyterians in considering this matter so prominently emphasize the need of prompt and effective action, and the example thus set by them will touch the consciences of a host of others.—Martinsburg World. DEATH OF MRS. J. W. JACK SON, OF FROSTBURG, MD. Within about a year, death enters again the Jackson home and takes one. Who? The dear beloved mother, the heart of the family, Mrs. Mary L Jackson, the wife of Mr. J. W. Jackson. On Memorial Day, May 30th, 1913, a day that will ever be sacred to the Jackson household, when the sun was sending its rays on the western hills of this Mountain City, where a nation's gratitude was being manifested on the graves that bespeaks of carnage so grim and so dread, about 4 o'clock, Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, one of the noblest women of this place gave back her soul to Him that gave it The writer has enjoyed the acquaintance and friendship of her of whom he speaks for three years, and feels inadequate to the task of expressing in simple language the greatness and loftiness of purpose, the ideal cherished by this remarkable woman. Mrs. Jackson had an indomitable will, with a steadfastness of purpose that contributed very largely in making possible A. M. E. Church life here. She was in her forty second year and into these years crowded more than many women who lived for a much longer period. At the age of eighteen, she was married to Mr. J. W. Jackson and for twenty three years they labored together, meeting life's condition as best they could. She was certainly a real wife, and helpmate, and more than held up her side. Six children were born to them. Four boys and two girls. Four of these still survive. Among both white and colored Mrs. Jackson is spoken of as a lady of the highest character. Her word was as good as her bond. She had a host of friends, and when the great enemy came, she met it with the same fortitude, and in a manner befitting a christian. True faithful and reliable was she. So much to she was willing to make the greatest sacrifices for her children. Indeed in her the world counts one the world loses one. Rev J. B. Dutton of the A. M. E. Church, officiated, aided by Rev. R. A. Bolden, of the M. E. Church. Both paid very beautiful tribute to her. Her remains were interred in the family lot at Allegheny Cemetery. ONLY A PRINTER! "He is only a printer." Such was the sneering remark of a leader in a circle of aristocracy—the codfish quality. Who was the Earl of Stanhope? He was only a printer. What was Prince Edward William and Prince Napoleon? Proud to call themselves printers. The present Czar of Russia and the Duke of Battenburg are printers, and the Emperor of China worked in a private printing office almost every day. William Caxton, the father of English literature, was a practical printer. What were G. P. Morris, N. P. Willis, James Gale, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron and Sohuyler Colfax? Printers all, and practical ones. Also Bayard Taylor, the poet. Mark Twain, Amos Cummings, Bret Harte, Opie Reid were plain printers, as were Artemus Ward, Petroleum V. Nasby and Sut Lovingwood. Senator Plumb was a printer, and so is James S. Hegg, of Texas and the leader of science and philosophy, Benjamin Franklin, in his days made it his boast that he was a printer. In fact, thousands of the most brilliant minds in the country are to be found toiling in the publishing houses of large cities and towns. It is not everyone that can be a printer — brains are absolutely necessary. Exchange. BALTIMORE & OINO RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling. No 15 Daily at 11 50 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.86 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39 5.37 p. m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p m: for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m for Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11,55 a.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for, Frederick. Martinsburg, W. Va. Bateredin Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va..as Secoud Class Matter Mre. Emma Gray, of Hagerstown, Spent Wedneeday in town resewing acquaintances and viewing sights femlliar to ber, —————— Thompson and Tpompeon are in reality the bastlers of bostlere in the clothing ‘line and their etook ia op to date in etyle and shades. ——————__ Mra, Dociu MoClein,of New York visited friende and relatives in oar city for severel days during the peat week, = Mr, Kdward ‘l'uoker, who came home from Pittebarg, after injuring himself tbere, bos gone to Washing ‘on, where be entered Freedmen’e Hoepital, and was operated apon, Mre: Gertrode Toornton has re- turned to ber home in Philadelphia afver spending e week or eo in our City oe the guest of relatives and friends, Mr. Marcelius Woods, a well known Cumberlender, who use to Toake Martioaborg bis bome, wae in Vhe city several days during the past week, and seemed to enjoy his stay hugely. ———— Mr. Lucien Spears hea returned to thie city efter spending several roonthe in Herrisonburg and vicinity. Hie visit ie ocossioned by the illness of bis mother, Mrs, Charlotte Speare, who ie somewhat improved. Mr, Asron Jcboson, who formerly jived bere, but now a resident of Hagerstown, was a visitor to Mar- ‘ineburg on Wednesday last, Mr. Johnson looked well, and hosts of friends bere were heartily glad to ee him, epee Mr. end Mrs, Robert Lewis, two fine old people who have by living 2 correct life for several yesrs in thie city, leftto the regret of all who koew them, to end their days in Jefferson County, with » white fami- ly, who koow and appreciate their worth. Well do we wisb them. James Reed, 800 of Mr. Ducket Reed, died Inst Sanday night of consumption, He was born and reared in Martinsburg. Funerel services over bis remeins were held at Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Wed- nesday afternoon, Rev, Samuel M. Beane officiating; His relatives and friends have our sympathy in their bereavement, ———— KICK. Kick to Grow. But Kick ahead snd not behind. Kick to get Sometbing and to Get Somewbere. Kicktoa good pur- pose. For to rightly Kick is to be Bomebody. Kick to Grow. France Kicked itself into the French Revolution and oclesred the Political map of Europe for centuries to come; Wendell Phillips Kicked egeinst Human Slavery and helped free » Race; Diaraeli Kicked against ® great horde of Kickers and it land. ed him Prime Mivister of England. History tsvore Kickers. K ck to Grow. Kick with a smile on your face and Determination in your Hesrt. For the Kicking Basiness fores badly with Bitterness avd Revenge tsking tickete at the Gate. Kick the bard- est against your own Faulte and De- fete. Also, Kick sgeinst everything uselese—Time washing, cheap Gos- sip, aimlees People—Habits that eap away your Power. Kick to Grow. Kick for recognition when you have real Worth to show. Kick for s place on whica to stand squarely end honestly. But in all your Kick ing, femember that the Kicking is the Mesne and not the End, And after you bave Kicked—pase on, and scbieve your Task. Kick to Grow. —George Mattbew Adems, Anecdotal _Literature THovucHTs Or Haz Own. It is enid of the poets Wordeworth that be used to compose in bed at nigbt, awakening bie wife in, the small houre of oigbt, he would esy: “Maria, get ap, I've thought of a good word.” Mre, Wordsworth would rise aleep ily, light a candle avd write at ber hueband’s dictation for ten or fifteen micnutes. A couple hours Iater the poet would wake her up again aud repeat, “Get up Maria, I’ve got a good word.” But ove night Maria put a stop forever to this noctaroal dictation, and esid, “Ob, get up youreelf! I've thought of a bad word.” ax Sv00 as, “What is tbe secret of success?’ “Push” said the Button, “Never be I<d,” anid the Pencil. “Take paina,” eaid the Window. “Always keep cool,” said the Ice. “Be up to date,” said the Oslendar. “Never lose your head,” ssid the Barrel. “Do a driving business,” ssid the Hammer. “Be sbarp in your dealings,” said the Knife. “Stick to your business’? sald the Glue. * * Hen Ipza, “It was Sateo,” said 4 mother to one of ber children, who put it in your beart to be so naughty as to pull Elsie’s bair.’’ “Perbape it wae,” the child ans- wered, ‘bat kicking ber shins was my own ides.” Dszps, Nor Orgxps, It ie not Bo much @ matter what youtbink. It is whatyou de tbat counts. Eppis Anp His Tracwer, S. S. Teacher—“ Eddie! what bap- pened to Babylou?” Eddie—'‘It fell!” Teacher—‘Aud what became of Nineveh?”? Eddie—"It was destroyed.” Tesober—‘And what heppened to Tyre?” Eddie—Punctnred.” ow Ruszine Ir Ix, Mayor S:ewart, at en insurance men’s banqaet in Saginaw, told the following story. A eeptogenarian said one evening et dinner to bie foir young wife: “My darling I bave jost insured my life in your favor for $100,000. “Ob, you duok,” the young wife cried, and rising and passing round, tbe tuble, ebe kiesed ber husbend lig tly on bie bald bead, “Dorling,” ke seid, teking ber slim white band, “ie there enytbing else I con do for you?” “Notbiog on earth” obe answered, and, witb a little silvery jengb, edded: “Nothing in this world. ‘Notbing ander heaven.” c You a Woman ? | Take Gardul The Woman’s Tonic FOR SALE Ar AL ons, J.R. CLIFFORD, | ATTORNEY aT LAW. _ MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA s@r Practicesin all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Ooart of Appeale and the United States Courts, SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR ED INSTITUTE. Commences June 16, 1913, and Lasts Sev- en Weeks. 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Don’t bother with old hungers, come to Spears and get them at resscnsble prices, slac tires vnd other candries, Secon hand tievele: hoop ht and sold, I now have cn tant 10 second baud Ineyeles, good sn new. To addition to bicyle repairns, ido repairing of allkinds awtautt#e ony mean ir Lowe aan vepmiae Hat eles. KIND OF WIFE HE WANTS. Undismayed by Past Experience, Will Try It Again. Oxford, O. - William Duke, aged eighty-three, a farmer living a few miles west of here, near the Indiana line, has the following advertisement in a local paper: WANTED-A nice, good, healthy, Bible and church loving woman, who will cook and wash and do my mending. To such a woman I will pay a small salary, give a good home and furnish a horse and buggy for her trips to town. There is something pathetic in Mr Duke's appeal. In the last thirty years he has spent a small fortune looking for wives and housekeepers. He has been a faithful patron of matrimonial journals in all parts of the country. Once, about four years ago, he married a woman from Texas, whose acquaintance he made through a newspaper. It cost him several thousand to get rid of her. On another occasion he would have lost his farm to a woman had not the courts intervened. He once sent $200 to a woman in Oregon to pay her railroad fare and other expenses in coming here to marry him. She never showed up. SUES FOR STERILIZATION. Lunatic Who Recovered Reason Acks $10,000 Damages. Appleton, Wls.-Mayor J. V. Canavan, who was formerly county physician, has been made codedendent in a $10,000 damage suit brought against George R. Downer, superintendent of the Outagamie County Asylum For the Insane, by Victor Relner, as guardian of John Repfeldt, the subject of a sterilization operation. It is charged that Repfeldt was operated on while an inmate of the asylum two years ago. Unsuccessful efforts were made to have the superintendent, Downer, tell who performed the operation. Repfeldt is now out of the hospital, having regained his mentality and is able to support his family. The case is without precedent and is being followed with keen interest in numerous states where laws legalizing sterilization are under consideration. OLD LEADEN TABLET IS HISTORIC RECORD Fort Pierre, S. D.—A tablet of lead buried in a hillside, now near the center of Fort Pierre, by French explorers in 1742 has been unearthed by schoolgirls here. Thus after 170 years was recovered the memorial of one of the most interesting and significant facts in the history of the west—namely, the claiming of the region for France and definitely determining the point where Chevallier de la Verendrye and his comrades reached the Missouri on their return from the west. About thirty-three years before the Revolutionary war Pierre Gauthier (Chevalier de la Verendrye), accompanied by his younger brother, Francois, and two other Frenchmen-St. Louis of Loudette and A. Miccett—left Fort la Reine, on the Assiniboine river, in Canada, a short distance below the mouth of Mouse river. They were charged with orders from the governor of Canada, Marquis de Beauharnais, to discover the sea of the west, beyond the Mandans, according to the reports of the savages. The explorers departed from Fort In Reine April 29, 1742. They returned July 2, 1743. Verondrye was twenty-nine years old at the time of the adventure. The party reached the Mandan villages located near the mouth of the Heart river, in North Dakota. May 19, 1742. They departed from there July 23 and proceeded in a southwesterly direction until Feb. 9, 1743, when they turned their course southensterly and reached the Missouri river at Fort Pierre March 19, 1743. They left Fort Pierre April 2, arrived at the Mandan villages May 1 and reached Fort in Reine on July 2. While at Fort Pierre, which marked the southernmost part of the journey, Chevalier de la Verendrye formally took possession. In his journal of the trip, addressed to M. le Marquis de Bauharnals, Verendrye said: "I placed on an eminence near the fort a tablet of lead, with the arms and inscriptions of the king, and a pyramid of stones for M. le General. I said to the savages, who did not know of the tablet of lead that I had placed in the earth that I was placing these stones as a memorial of those who had come to their country." When he and his companions departed for Fort la Reine the only lasting evidence of their visit was the pile of stones on the crest of a hill near the Indian village and the tablet of lead buried there, unknown to any one save Verendrye. Boy's Long Ride on Shetland. Kansas City.—When David Ross of Waverly, Kan., a farmer, decided to move to Kansas City to engage in the real estate business a transportation problem confronted Clifford, his nine-year-old son. Not wanting to leave his Indian Shetland pony behind, he rode it the eighty-five miles to Kansas City. It took him two and a half days to make the trip, and he arrived without mishap. He stopped on the way at farmhouses. AIDED BY WIFE IN FIGHT. British Mine Owner and Woman Kill Five Mexicans. Aguas Callientes, Mexico. -- John Walker, a British mine owner, and his wife, fighting shoulder to shoulder, recently killed five men and wounded three of a band of eleven employees at the mine near Villa Garecha, Zacatecas. Mr. and Mrs. Walker arrived here later under escort of troops. The employees attacked Mr. Walker because of his inability to raise money to pay their wages. The men used knives and clubs, and Mr. Walker had been seriously cut and beaten when he opened fire with an automatic revolver. Mrs. Walker re-enforced her husband with a rifle. After the battle Mr. and Mrs. Walker escaped and were befriended by a Spanish orlest, who hid them until he could secure the aid of the American consular agent here. The latter obtained troops to escort Mr. and Mrs. Walker here. CUBA'S NEWEST PRESIDENT. Monocal Recoives Special United States Mission at inauguration. Havana. At the inauguration here of General Juan Mario Menocal as president of the Cuban republic the United States was represented by a special mission, who conveyed the official felicitations of President Wilson to Cuba's new chief executive.' The mission was composed of the third assistant secretary of State, Dudley Field Malone, and Brigadier General Enoch H. Crowder, judge advocate general of the army, with Edward Bell of the Latin-American division of the state department, as secretary. The inauguration ceremonies and the festival that followed it were magnificent. The city was deeked with flowers, and bands played in the plazas ```markdown ``` GENERAL JUAN MARIO MENOCAL Following the official oath which formally made Enrique Jose Varona vice president of the Island Republic, the oath was administered to General Menocal in the presence of a great crowd of foreign dignitaries, government officials and other folks. General Juan Mardo Menocal, the new president of the republic of Cuba, was born in 1866 at Jagüey Grande, Matanzas province. He was educated in the United States and was in the Military college of Washington, where he obtained the rank of captain. From there he went to Cornell university, where he graduated as a civil engineer. Upon leaving Cornell he went with his uncle, Aniceto G. Menocal, chief of the engineering staff which made the survey of the Nicaragua canal, and worked with him. He returned to Cuba as an engineer for a French company which projected the construction of a railroad from Santa Cruz del Sur to Camaguey. While making the preliminary studies at Santa Cruz he joined the revolutionary forces as a private and rose rapidly until he became general of division. He military experience rendered invariable service to the Americans at the time of the Spanish execution and later served with distinction as chief of police of Havana. A WEST VIRGINIA BIRTHDAY CAKE THREE MILES WIDE AND ONE MILE HIGH 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 WEST WORCHT 1865-1913 JUNE 20 (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 picnic for the children? Just think of the fun in liking the spoon and the dish! Um! Yum! But suppose the cake was nearly ten miles around the edge and a mile high. Wouldn't that just take your breath away? Scrange what thoughts will come to a person; but as the writer sat daycreaming 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 L 1863 JU 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 8700 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 oakes; so we multiply our original estimate of FLAGS FOR 8,000 SCHOOLS Will Be Distributed to Commemorate States 50th Anniversary June 20. Several years ago the legislature adopted a design for a West Virginia state flag but on account of its difficult color scheme it was not possible to have the flags made at reasonable prices. Secretary of State Reed has at last succeeded in solving the problem and under his direction a beautiful flag has been evolved, having all the emblems and colors originally designated but arranged so as to make the lithographing and color printing possible at a minimum cost. Eight thousand of these state flags will be delivered about June first and distributed among the eight thousand schools in the state. Up to this time very few people have even seen the state flag or have any well defined idea as to what it is like. It was therefore a most happy conception of the Semi-Centennial Commission to place one in every school house in West Virginia. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to took after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but see press, with reference H. C. Camo bell, Cosmopolitan magazine, 1879 Broadway, New City. one cake 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- ORGANIA 1613 BE 20 000 candles 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 icing, the number of trips up the ladder to carry the white frosting, the size of the knife to cut it, and so forth and so on. If we cannot have the manmoth West Virginia birthday cake, with its 1,200,000,000 candles to shed their radiance for miles around, we can have a roaring celebration in which 1,200,000 loyal patriotic and enthusiastic West Virginians will take part. And from these 1,200,000 bright lights of our state will radiate happiness and good cheer, healthy and patriotism; love and kindness; good-will to our neighbors; heart wishes to all our our citizens; a gratitude from heaven full of praise and contentment; a thankfulness for blessings received and an appreciation for in the continued long life of a kind person. Some Flsh Reports. One thousand sword fish were caught in ten days in August by Nova Scotia fishermen, one ship bringing 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 kilos (kilo, 2.2 pounds). Dutch herring figuring at 2,526,128 kilos. Mussels from Holland are also much in demand in Belgium, the imports for the month of June alone being 1,789,017 kilos. 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. --- ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years 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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