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The STABLISHED 1882. PLANSTO IMPROVE POSTAL SERVICE Burleson Making Efforts to Increase Efficiency. OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE. Reviews Measures Adopted or Contemplated—What Is Being Done With $600,000 Emergency Appropriation—Bettering Railway, Mail and Parcel Service. Washington.—Many improvements in the postal service have been made since Postmaster General Burleson took hold, succeeding Mr. Hitchcock. In a recent statement issued from the postmaster general's office the conditions as they were found when he took hold are reviewed, and plans to meet the emergency, which confronts the service are outlined. Among the improvements which have tended to increase the efficiency of the service is the addition of about 1,000 clerks and 500 letter carriers at various offices throughout the country. Approximately $1,000,000 has been authorized for temporary clerk hire and $500,000 for city letter carriers. Such unusual financial demands made it necessary for the postmaster general to go to congress early in May for an emergency appropriation. The sum of $000,000 was granted and an additional $300,000 was appropriated for temporary clerk hire and a like amount for temporary carriers. Mr. Burleson points out that on March 5 there were 2,200 vacant post-masterships of presidential grade and some 300 have become vacant since. There were 4,500 fourth class post-masterships vacant on March 5. These vacancies are being rapidly filled as the result of civil service examinations. Mr. Burleson's statement continues: "Within the last sixty days 488 positions for rural delivery routes have been disposed of, resulting in the establishment of 203 routes, involving an annual expenditure for maintenance of approximately $190,000. By the establishment of these new routes and the extension of old routes more than 1930 Photo © by American Press Association. POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON. 200,000 people are now receiving their mail at their doors instead of at remote post offices. "In pursuance of the policy of expediting the delivery of mail the postmaster general has ordered the discontinuance of the back stamping of all ordinary mail which heretofore has delayed its delivery anywhere from twenty minutes to one-half hour. An investigation of the conditions shows that the slight benefits from back stamping were far outweighed by the advantages that would be gained to the public by its discontinuance and i prompt forward step by t ment. "The parcel post regular, been modified so as to peri livery to the addresssee, w ithitional charge, of matter re office of address with impro ti affixed. "By an arrangement made canadian postal service th e newspapers mailed to subscribers in Canada, who also are subscribers to the week day editions, has been fixed at 1 cent a pound or fraction thereof instead of at 1 cent for four ounces or fraction, as formerly. "Many of the changes which Postmaster General Burleson has put into effect have to do largely with the internal workings of the department, but their effect will be felt throughout the entire service. "A number of experienced officers of the department are now employed in the field studying conditions with a view to recommending remedies wherever defects in methods may be discoveres. "It is Postmaster General Burleson's desire and earnest endeavor to establish in the interest of economy and efficiency uniform methods and practices throughout the entire service and to direct postmasters to the best way of administering the postal facilities." STREET STREWN WITH BILLS. Thought to Be Robber's Plunder by Government Officials. Leavenworth, Kan.—Three postoffice inspectors have begun an investigation of the finding of hundreds of dollars in gold certificates believed to be a portion of $50,000 stolen by Charles Savage from a mall truck in the Union station in Kansas City five years ago. Developments show that persons have been finding the certificates, mostly of the $20 denomination, for a month and have kept the matter secret. It is estimated that at least $1,000 has been picked up in gutters, vacant lots and back yards. All the money was discovered within a radius of eight blocks of the home of a relative of Charles Savage at whose house he stopped before his arrest. One theory of the investigators is that the money was concealed in a tree and dislodged by recent high winds. SCATTER ASHES OF POET. Destined Por Flames, Wind Claims Remains of Joaquin Miller. Oakland, Cal.-The ashes of Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras," were scattered among the flames of a funeral pyre built by the poet's own hands. The ceremony was held at the Miller home, the Heights, in the picturesque hills near Oakland. The Bohemian club of San Francisco had charge of the rites, which were witnessed by more than 500 persons, including the poet's widow and daughter, Juanita, and many old time friends. The services, short and impressive, were in accordance with Miller's dying wishes. At their conclusion Colonel John P. Irish of Oakland mounted the steps of the pyre. "This," said Colonel Irish, "is not an occasion for mourning, but for rejoicing. We are here not to mourn the death of Joquin Miller, but to rejoice that through his genius he still lives." Colonel Irish then applied a torch to the oil soaked fagots on the pyre. As the flames shot up he took the copper urn containing the poet's ashes and gave them to the fire. Instantly a fealous wind whipped the ashes from the flames and bore them away. Woman to Manage Her Own Mine. Deadwood, S. D.—Backed by capital enough to develop on a good sized scale, Miss Elizabeth Marks of Rapid City has purchased the controlling interest in the Black Tom gold mine known as the best producer in the Slate Creek district, and is preparing to do extensive work this summer. She will assume the active management of the property. Wheeling a Golden Jubilee was a big boost for that city. pioneer Press. hives, C. 1, THE PEOP MRTINSBU RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." AWTHORNE AIDS FELLOW CONVICTS LIKENS MEN TO GREAT BOOKS New Humanity Urged by "Regieter 4435" In the Atlanta Federal Prison. Calls Follow Criminals "Brothore" In His Latest Editorial--Refuses to See Callers at the Prison. Atlanta, Ga.—A new philosophy, full of humanity and understanding, has been born to Julian Hawthorne, son of the great novelist, since he became "register 4435." an innate of the federal penitentiary here. The deepest human element appears in everything he has written for Good Words, the prison paper, and is creating for that journal a unique literary interest. The son of Nathaniel Hawthorne has turned "minister to the heart and conscience" of his fellow convicts. More than in anything else is this new found sentiment set forth in his prison poem, "Fool False," written to the men who night after night trump ceaselessly back and forth in their eight foot cells. He has come to understand the power that drives them. "Brother, I know," is the refrain of the poem. A recent issue of the paper contains the beginning of a new department of which he will be conductor. He writes of books, prescribing a model course of reading made up of the choiceest literature of all countries and of all time. Reverence for his father is implied in his selection of two books of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Scarlet Letter" and "Our Old Home." But along with his essay on literature he wrote of another subject which has become more interesting to him, he says, since he became an inmate of the prison. "There is another and a greater library," he said in his column. "It is distributed among the ranks in palms, with a shelf to each volume. Their binding is homogeneous—stout blue cloth on ordinary occasions, which on ```markdown ``` Sundays and holidays changes to a woolen fabric of darker hue. They bear titles on the front and back. "There is a sprinkling of the poetical element and a good deal of fiction, but each carries a historical and biographical index often illegible—stories of crime mingled with tragedies, or you find a farce or a comedy. "Moreover, these volumes grow, decay and die; chapters are added from time to time, but the tale seldom ends happily. These are the books that God made—not always much to look at, but containing a great deal of human interest if you can get beneath the cov- JULY 1913. ers." Hawthorne has shaken hands with "Dutchman, Dargo, Yankee, Greek," to use the words of his great prison poem, and he calls them brothers in everything he writes. With his fellow prisoners Hawthorne is all affability, but when visitors come he is ill and sees no one. His request made to Warden Moyer was that he be not known as Julian Hawthorne, the son of the great novelist and Himself a prominent literary man, but merely as "register 4415." A reporter, presenting in writing a request for an interview, received from Hawthorne the following answer: "I must ask you to excuse me. Here I am, as you know, not a name, but a number. If anything I have written for Good Words has done good or has caused interest I am glad, but have nothing to say about it." The new Hawthorne who "knows," the minister to the conscience, is revealed in one paragraph which he wrote for Good Words. "Instead of feeding upon angry and revengeful thoughts," he said, "which corrode the heart that generates them, use the occasion to extirpate sinister tendencies and to invite impulses of generosity and good will. Look upon your prison term as an opportunity to repent of the evil in you that men know not of." In an editorial which he wrote for the paper is implied a justification of his own act which brought about his conviction. FINDS WATCH LOST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS Timepiece Again Running After Having Been Buried. Menomonie, Wis.—Thirty-five years ago this spring Register of Deeds Alfred Halverson of St. Croix county, then a young man, became the possessor of his first watch, an open faced silver watch, with a heavy case. Young Halverson valued his new possession so highly that he carried it with him at all times, even when he was plowing on his uncle's farm. He was heartbroken after plowing a few furrows one morning to find that the watch had slipped from his pocket and had been plowed under. With his cousin, Edward Halverson, he back plowed the furrows, cross plowed them and then combed the earth for hours in search of the precious timepiece, but in vain. Recently while plowing on the Star Prairie farm, Edward Halverson saw the plow turn something metallic out of the ground. He stopped and picked it up and found it was a silver watch. He at once thought of the one his cousin had lost thirty-five years ago, and although the fields had been changed, he discovered this was where he had helped look for the watch years ago. The thick crystal was broken, and the hinges were rusted, but he returned the old timepiece to its owner, and a jeweler to whom it was taken for repairs discovered that the works were free from dirt and rust and the adjustment still perfect. A little oil, a new pair of blinges, a new crystal, and the watch when wound started to run as though it had merely run down the night before TRIES TO KISS THE JUDGE. Mexican Woman Seeks to Embraco California Magistrate. Los Angeles. - When Mrs. Ricardo Rivera, a Mexican woman, offered to kiss Superior Judge Monroe in gratitude for a gift of $2, which brought her and her husband together again, the magistrate blushed and directed an official to lead her from the court-room. The husband was up on a charge of failure to provide. He promised to be good, and the court discharged him. Rivera informed the magistrate that he did not have sufficient funds to take his wife with him back to his job at Ontario, whereupon Judge Monroe banded him $2. Fa'sse prophets are met ex w ere. NO.18 CLIMAX REACHED BY SUFFRAGETTES At First the Campaign Was Regarded as a Mere Joke, but When It Came to Destroying Life and Property It Was Another Matter For Officials to Cope With—Many Serious Outrages. London.—A retrospective review of the performances of the brilliant suffragettes of England—the "wild women," the "bashi bazoukesses," the "brawler squads," as they have been variously called—is startling for the pyramid of offenses, crazy and grave, which they have perpetrated with the idea of securing the vote—an orgy of arson, assault, riot, mischief, self imprisonment, immolation and suffering. The public that first looked upon the "wild women" with admiration H. C. EMMELINE PANSHUHT AND DAUGHTER, CHRISTABEL. have now been incensed against the women as the women have been against the government and its officials. The "hobbies," who used merely to good naturely "hustle" women about when they came yelling and shrieking in their sieges of parliament, do not hesitate now to ride them down and trample them, to wrench their arms and wrists and even to club them. Despite all, however, they continue to march and burn and rant and riot with delirious wavings of their banners that announce, "No Votes, No Peace!" Here is a summary of the acts of violence by the suffragettes up to the seizure by the Davison woman of King George's entry while running in the Derby: Rioting—Eight years' siege of the house of parliament, fighting the police with tooth and nail, with breechbits and bursting beacons of stifling acrid whip and roar, peering through with tires Concluded on Second Page. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IT. 3 months ..... 40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell'Phone, 60K. Mar- linsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913 Query—If a white man and a black man are guilty of trespass, is it fair to fine the black man and let the white man go? The voters of Martinsburg will soon be given the opportunity of registering their votes for or against a modern sewerage system. It will be a good thing for our city, and a boon to everybody living therein if the voters render it possible for us to get this much needed improvement out of the centre of the city. Will they? 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. During the campaign last summer, the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, then aspiring for the Presidency, was attesting his great friendship for Negroes. When he is President, though, we hear little from him anent the Negroes. In fact he is very much like a clam now that he is in a position to help those whose favor he courted in the campaign of 1912, but whom he scarcely deigns to notice in the year 1913 We have able men all over this country who should have followed Ben. Tillman and all of his ilk and refuted what they said about Negroes. The same is true and more essential now to follow the loud and foul mouthed "Senator" Bernard D. Martin whose whole object is to degrade respectable colored people. The Pioneer Press will help defray the expenses of such a speaker, and we urge all editors to fall in line and help sidetrack the wicked intention of our foe's mouthpiece—Bernard D. Martin. We know a saloon keeper in Chicago who has the greatest dog to fight known in America. Not so long ago he went many miles to match his dog with an Alabama dog, but after seeing this dog, the Alabama man backed down. Finally he got a fight, and no sooner than the dogs got together the Chicago dog was thrown on his back and the other dog got what all the bystanders and sight seers believed to be a death grip. For several minutes he held firmly his hold, but by some hook or crook, the under dog fastened on the other dog's throat and in less than 15 minutes, the dog on top was dead. Can the pessimistic Negroes glean anything from that dog fight? The editor does. The white heathens who mutilated the dead body of Richard Austin, a Negro man, in South Carolina, the other day, ought to be ashamed to call themselves citizens of America, "the most enlightened country on the globe." No fiandish African cannibals or American Indians ever excelled them for savagery and brutality to a corpse. Nothing during the Spanish Inquisition, Nero's reign in Rome, or the horrors of the French Revolution could in any way outstrip the barbarity practiced upon the poor dead Negro by those South Carolina vampires and hyenas in human form. We wonder how men can know that there is a just God reigning in heaven, and practice such deviltry in full view of His ever seeing eyes. The attitude of the Japanese in the negotiations between them and the Americans has been calm, dignified and firm. They have given the State Department and President Wilson to understand that while they are desirous of obtaining their rights under existing treaties now in force, they will not make any unnecessary concessions to gain what is rightfully theirs, and expect the American nation to keep up its reputation for fair dealing and equitable treatment of its fellow men. Much is being said about the action of the Supreme Court's adverse decision relative to Mrs. Mary F. Butts, who bought a first class ticket from Boston to Norfolk, Va., but was forced to not only ride in a second class apartment, but forced to eat second class food and that on soiled table covers. Doubless it wounded her feelings, but in the long run, should she live, good along all other wrongs, she will be able to see grow out of it; from the fact, that everything done to such refined colored people makes the race more friends. Our advice is to all such: "stand firmly in the right, looking to and trusting in God, and your salvation is sure. Anent the ci ii rights, we should not grieve over its defeat, because if it were fully enforced and carried out to the letter, when our fairplay rights come to paes, it would be said, they reached this stage by class legislation. We don't want that, and certain it is, if enforced, our glory would not be what it will, by unite efforts to be men and women, and reach the goal. For one, we want no class legislation, but we do want and readily need true manhood—that will take no backward step, but stand where we are and keep on climbing. There is very much sound advice given by Mr. Vernon H. Brauson, through the columns of the Union, of Cincinnati. Precisely as one civilization fades and passes away, another is ready to take its place. Yes our politics and the morals of America are diseased, and corrupt, and becoming more and more so, but in days of slavery, they were worse. It is only the better class of whites who are with us, and its our duty to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, for as ages of corruption come and go, so will all classes of people. Mr. Branson declares that no people on earth have made the progress we have, and believes that we will dominate the American civilization." He declares that we have the sex power to double our number, and he declares truly. While we are standing by and with the Progressive Party,it would not take a hard push to land us into the Socialist ranks. That its foundation is firm, and its principles just all who carefully study it must agree, and the time is not far off when every poor man and woman in America will be an unalterable socialist. The National Democratic Fair Play Association is fair in name only, being nothing other than a lot of disgruntled and office-bungry rebels. In truth, this self-styled set of fair deal exponents are a disgrace to the Democratic party, and a menace to American civilization, for the preachments enunciated by them are calculated to destroy instead of build up. Their game is to incite race hatred, and not to improve the Civil Service, as they claim. One of their number, a loud mouthed orator, who called himself "Senator Bernard D. Martin, from Missouri," visited our city last week, and the arguments presented by him, as well as several affidavits read by him, purporting to come from employees in government service, were so ridiculous as to cause a number of white men who heard him to laugh at his lame effort, and walk away in disgust. By actual count, there were not 50 people listening to Martin at any time while he was talking, and though he made numerous vicious onslaughts on Negro officeholders and Negroes in general, he got no applause whatever from the white men present. Mr. Martin very kindly thanked his hearers for listening to his "barangue", and we congratulate him for so styling what he said, because it certainly was a barangue, and one that bodes no good for the organization with which he is affiliated. It has always been a mystery to us why it is that some white people and nearly all white newspapers view Negro and white criminals through different glasses. For instance; there is now being held in the Charles Town jail without bail, a white man, Wilson, by name, who is charged with raping a woman of his own race, and it is rumored that friends have proffered eighty thousand dollars bond for his freedom, yet hardly a word is seen about him or the beinous crime with which he stands charged in either the Berkeley or Jefferson County papers. Another particularly aggravating circumstance in connection with this man is that he is married. Reverse the order of things, and let Wilson have been a Negro instead of a white man, and its dollars to doughnuts that had be not been lynched by this time, the newspapers in this section would have laided themselves into a fury and been working overtime to excite the "best citizens" and have them speedily bring to the bar of justice "the burly black brute." Large wood type would be used, and newspapers would resemble show bills. In making the statements found above, we don't want to be considered as being partial towards Negro criminals, because they are not one whit better than white ones, but would like to see them all given the same treatment by people, the newspapers and the courts. We ask for no more, and expect nothing less, and the time is not so far distant when that condition is going to be a fact in this country. --- HENRY M. FLAGLER. The late Henry M. Flagler was one of the world's greatest captains of industry. A self-made man was Henry M. Flagler. The son of a poor Presbyterian clergyman, in a little village of New York, he died at West Palm Beach, Florida, May 20, at the age of eighty-three, leaving one of the largest estates ever accumulated by a single individual. Mr. Flagler had only a common school education. He began his business career in a country store in Ohio, at the compensation of five dollars a month and board. He was one of the pioneers in the development of the oil industry of the United States and, associating himself with John D. and William Rockefeller, he engaged with great success in the refining of petroleum. Thus he became an integral part of the 'powerful, prosperous and potential Standard Oil Company. Mr. Flager's genius was constructive and creative. He believed in the future of his country and he had the courage to venture into enterprises which many regarded as doubtful. After he had accumulated a fortune in the Standard Oil Company, his attention was directed to the attractive climate of Florida. That State was then regarded as one of the least of all the stars in the American Union. Mr. Flagler realized its possibilities as a winter resort, available for the hundreds of thousands who sought a temperate climate and a place of rest and relaxation in the trying months of winter. His far reaching eyes realized the possibilities of the State also as a producer of early vegetables, citrus fruits, cotton and other crops and as a commercial and manufacturing center. He realized especially the strategic importance of its commercial advantages on the completion of the Panama Canal. Mr. Flagler conceived the daring idea of building an over-sea railroad that would continue his Florida East Coast system over the Isles of the Sea to the extremity of the State, at Key West, where a ferry boat connection could be made to Havana, less than 100 miles distant, and from which point the Panama Canal would be within easy distance. In his magnificent system of hotels and in the construction of his marvelous railroad, it is said that he invested almost $50,000,000—a record unexampled in the history of any individual in a similar line. It is not remarkable that the State of Florida the highest es- s世 world paid ave genius, and sagacity. He was to be was a great he lived to muckracker were per- of discontent and heap their promoters of city. Now that even his former ling the highest They commend prise and bear rightness of his Flagler was a ag. The most always avoided publicity. Society was not in his line. His benefactions were generous, but he never permitted his left hand to know what his right hand did. Scrupulously honest, he surrounded himself with men of his own kind and to them largely entrusted the management of his great affairs, never relinquishing a personal oversight. He was not only a state builder, but a builder for the nation. No costly memorial need mark his resting place. One of the proudest pages in American history must always record the splendid achievements of Henry M. Flagler, the master of men in business, the model citizen, the true friend, a lover of his country and of his fellow men.—J. A. S. in Leslie's Weekly. CLIMAX REACHED BY SUFFRAGETTES CLIMAX REACHED BY SUFFRAGETTES Continued From First Page. ripped off the roofs with fire axes; charges of battalions of umbrella lances; jujutsu and skyrockets and Roman candles. Assault—Three times gave Premier Asquith violent shakings, twice horse-whipped Winston, Churchill; beat Sir Augustin Birrell, first secretary for Ireland, into unconsciousness in St James' park; struck Lloyd-George in the face with a brass bound box; struck John Redmond with a brick; tortured a man caught in one of their meetings, pleching him and jabbing him with hatpins and stamping on him; threw him out of a window; screamed threats of violence in Queen Mary's ear; hurled "Votes For Women" pamphlets at King George's head; wounded 500 policemen and killed one. Malicious Mischief.—Smashed more than 10,000 windows in London buildings, stores, clubs, newspaper offices, government buildings; destroyed hundreds of thousands of letters by deluging mail boxes with burning acids, paint and refuse; threw acids into poll boxes on election day; ruined $5,000 worth of orchids in Kew gardens; defaced valuable paintings in the Royal academy and Glasgow galleries. Incendiarism.—Tried to burn British museum; burned Royal theater and six fine residences; wrecked Lloyd-George's suburban home; burned building at Eton school; tried to burn track grand stands; tried to blow up three railroad stations; fired famous Nottingham forest. A NOTABLE WEDDING Perhaps the most beautiful wedding that ever occurred in this section among the colored people was solemnized at Harper's Ferry, in Curtie Baptist Church, Wednesday morning, June 25, at nine o'clock, when Miss Elizabeth M. K. Brady became the bride of Howard James Bird, of Atlantic City. The prominence of both bride and groom made the occurrence of more than ordinary interest, both being graduates of Storer College, and the bride having taught in the same institution for the last seven years. The church was beautifully decorated. The entire chancel was a bank of cedar, ferns and palms, while a huge bell made of field daisies was suspended from the ceiling, under which the bride and groom stood to make their solemn vow. As Prof. Hestings, of Charles Town, touched the keys of the beautiful pipe organ, and began to play the wedding march of Lohengrin, the wedding party entered the church in the following manner: Howard Dennis and J. Frank Briscoe usbers wearing conventional dress; the bridesmaids, Misses. Malcoms Brady and Mary Whimbs, wearing Dresden voile over corn silk messaline, with chiffon draperies, carrying white carnations; the maid of honor, Miss Mabel Brady, wearing pink messaline, with chiffon draperies and set pearl trimmings, carrying an immense bunch of pink carnations; the flower girls, Margaret Johnson and Mabel Simms, wearing white embroideries and carrying baskets of white carnations. The bride, gowned in white brocaded lace, charmeuse over messaline with Rhinestone trimmings, a white tulle veil, held in place by lillies of the valley, forming a cap effect, carrying a shower bouquet of orchids and lillies of the valley, entered on the arm of her brother, Benjamin Brady. The party was met at the altar by the groom and best man. William D. Johnson, wearing conventional dress. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. M. Beane, of Martinsburg. The party returned to the bride's home where an elaborate breakfast was served. The popularity and affection in which the bride and groom are held is evidenced by the large number of handsome and valuable presents they received. The arrangement of the wedding was under the supervision of Miss M. Miltona Peyton, of Parkersburg, a teacher in Storer College and an intimate friend of the bride. The bride and groom left on No. 2 over the B & O. for Atlantic City, where they will make their nome and where he is employed. J. Frank Briscoe. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburgh, 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, Pittsburg and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7:42 p.m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6:20 p.m or Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 19 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 sta- tions. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11,55 a.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations, Connects for, Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimor - Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Vg. J.R. CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. Satered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter The editor has been absent during the past week, visiting home folks in Grant County, this State. Mr. Israel Hunter, of Blair and Kearneysville, was a business visitor to our office the other day. Miss Mary Clifford, of Washington, D. C., came here Monday last, and left for New York City by way of Harrieburg on Tuesday afternoon. A special term of United States Court was held in Martinsburg on Monday, June 30, His Honor, Judge Alston G. Dayton, of Philippi, presiding. Fourth of July has come and gone, and thousands are now wearing bandages and nursing wounds as a result of their Independence Day celebrations. Mr. Henry Ford, our good friend from Darkaville, and a man admired by everybody who knows him, was a Martinsburg visitor on Tuesday. He locked the picture of health, and was in his usual good numor. Mrs. Ella James is making many improvements to her Raleigh Street property, and is to be commended for holding on to same, because, in future, it is going to be more valuable than it now is. Mr. Samuel Rector, who works at the National Limestone Quarry, bad his left arm injured by a spawl on Friday morning. While his arm is right sore, unless complications arise, it will soon be well again. Mrs. C. C. Brooks, of Front Royal, Va., wife of Mr. Andrew M. Brooks, who is employed in our city, was a recent visitor to her husband. During her short stay, she met many people here, who were very much pleased at meeting and greeting her, After an absence of about a month in Philadelphia, Mr. Ernest Gaither has returned to the home of Mrs. James Roman, his sister. He likes Philadelphia alright, but during the scorching weather now sweeping over the country, Martinaburg is good enough for him. Theodore Roper, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roper, of Kearneysville, was brought home a corpse from Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday morning. Being a young man of muob promise, his sudden taking off comes as a great shock to his devoted parents, and they have our sympathy in their sadness. RELICS IN OLD INDIAN GRAVE Oregon Workmen Uncover 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 glass and copper beads and a stone tomahawk. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tonic FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS hives, C. BY W. MAKING A SERI, THE PEOP One of the reasons ily forget the teaching is because we do not p practice. Dr. James S. Gale tell an who learned the w... Sermon on the Mount, walked one hundred mile to recite it to his pastor. bad finished he was told th practice the teaching. He "That is the way I learn tried to memorize it, but i... not stick, so I hit upon this plan: I would memorize a verse, and then find a heathen neighbor of mine and practice it on him. Then I found it would stick." ```markdown ``` FRIED EGGS SCRAMBLED. A traveler in the dining car of a Georgia railroad had ordered fried eggs for breakfast. "Can't give you fried eggs, boss," the Negro waiter informed him, "lessen you wait till we stop." "Why, how is that?" "Well de cook says de road's so rough dat every time he tries to fry aigs de scrambles." WHY HE WAS HAPPY. Dr. S. S. Schmucker, walking out one day, met an old man singing. "Father Miller," said the doctor, "why should an old man like your self be so cheerful? Are all old men happy like you?" "By no means," answered Father Miller. "I am happy because I belong to the Lord, while many old men still belong to the devil." EMPTY. An American, going to Europe, lugged with him a high hat box. He toted it to London, to Paris, and thence to Berlin and Vienna without opening it. But in Vienna he needed the hat. He dressed elaborately, and opened the box for the first time for his hat. Alae! the box was empty—he had forgotten to put in the hat. It is said of the Kaiser, that when he finds a vacant place in Berlin, he builds a statue on it, and when the Kaiserin finds a vacant spot, she builds a church on it. One day as the Kaiserin was passing through the streets of Berlin, and the people stood at attention with their bats removed, a young Berliner said to an old one: "My friend! you had better put on your hat and over that bare spot or the Kaiserin will build a church on it." SEEKING KIDD'S TREASURE. Inspiration From Fortune Teller Leads Rivers In Quest. Oregon City, Ore.-Declaring that he has received an inspiration from a gypsy fortune teller which will lead him to discover the famous treasure of Captain Kidd, which has been sought for centuries, I. W. Rivers, a prominent Williamette rancher, will start from this city in about two weeks for the Oregon coast. Rivers states that several years ago while he and his wife were visiting at The Oaks they consulted a fortune teller, who told them that they would discover the treasure. She stated that it would be found in a cave in a rock which is a prominent feature of the coast scenery near Nestucca beach. Last year Rivers and his wife went to the beach and found the cave, which is marked by a cross and a horse shoe. Inside the cave, according to the fortune teller, they were to find the fortune at the end of a log. The log was found by Rivers, but he dug at the wrong end of it and so did not get the fortune. This, according to the fortune teller, is just as he would do, for she said he would have to make two trips before he would get the fortune. He is now trying to get capital to finance the scheme. Nine-year-old Hen Earned $56.70. Republic, Ark.—Mrs. B. M. Lervold of Republic has lost a remarkable nine-year-old hen which was hard to beat as an egg producer. During its lifetime the Biddy laid ninety dozen eggs, which, at 15 cents a dozen, means $13.50; each year raised 216 chicks, which at an average of 20 cents each, increased her earnings $43.20, or a total of $56.70. 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, Insti tute, 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 uneurpassed. 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Greeley, Colo. — Valuable papers which have laid in a closet in the courthouse for years apparently forgotten were unearthed the other day by County Clerk J. E. Snook, the very existence of which had been entirely unknown in the past decade. Included in the lot were a number of land patents for which the owners have been invited to call. One was issued to Jeremiah Williams, a corporal in Captain Clum's company in the war of 1812, in exchange for scrip which he got for services. The patent was signed by Andrew Jackson on Oct. 1, 1867. Another was granted to Elizabeth Cochran on Oct. 30, 1874. This patent was issued while U. S. Grant was president of the United States. Land patents were also issued to James Russel and to Samuel Roberts in 1879. President Chester A. Arthur signed the patent granted to Michael Carey, and there is also one for John Benson signed by the same hand. SNAKES OVERRUN HOME Make Incurcions From Family Well Near the Residence. Glendale, Ia.—The premises of William Horton, near this place, are infested with snakes to such an extent that he and his family are in danger of being driven from their home. The snakes are a spotted variety of blue racer from two to four feet long. Last summer Mr. Horton had a similar siege and killed nearly a hundred of the reptiles. The chief source of the snakes seems to be the family well, which stands near the back door and from which the family has for many years drawn its water for drinking purposes. The serpents even have entered the house, one big one having been killed there this summer. So offensive became the old family well on account of the swarming reptiles that it became necessary to build a clistern for drinking water. Mr. Horton's little children are Kept out of the yard for fear they will be bliten. The slaughter of the snakes goes on daily, but the situation appears to be hopeless. MUTE MONTHS, GIRL RESUMES TALKING Peculiar Case Brought on by Overstudy at School. St. Louis.-Irene Burnes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Burnes of Hillyard, who for the last seven and a half months has been confined at the Sacred Heart hospital on account of a most serious and peculiar case of hysteria, which baffled local physicians for several months on account of her refusal to talk, is improving. In about a month she will be able to leave the hospital, at which time she will be taken for a visit to Lewiston, Ill. Miss Burnes was at her home for a few hours recently, the first time since Oct. 2, when she was taken to the hospital. Although she has not entirely recovered her power of speech, she will at times, especially in the mornings when rested, talk for a little while. She understands all said to her, but under no condition can she talk unless she be thoroughly rested. Miss Bailey, her nurse, takes her for a walk each day. Miss Burnes since March has been under the care of Dr. W. T. Phy. The illness was brought on last summer as the result of overstudy at a summer school and following the excitement of the final examinations. BREAKS HIS WOODEN LEG. Jailer Naila It Together So Prisoner Can Go to Workhouse. Pittsburgh—James Burns, sixty years old, giving his home as Homestead, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to the workhouse for thirty days by Magistrate Justus Schroedel in the east end police station. Burns has a wooden leg, and while he was in a cell another prisoner fell on the leg and broke it. Burns told one of the turnkeys that his leg was broken, and the officer thought it was a human leg. When he discovered his mistake he took the wooden leg and nailed it together so that Burns was able to get to the workhouse. Kansas City.—A dozen chickens in a coop at the city market were deluged by a broken jug of whisky. As the jug's contents trickled toward the gut der the chickens stuck their heads through the slats of the coop and slipped the liquor. Soon afterward the roosters began to crow noisily, the pullets flapped their wings, and it was evident all the fowls were drunk. Expected $50,000. Got Nothing. Aurora, Ill.-Heir of Charles Taegee, who died nine years ago, found the key to a safety deposit box which had not been opened for twenty-nine years. In the recess they discovered a will, which deprived them of the $50,000 estate which they had expected to inherit. Taegee loft his property to his widow, who died in March, and his relatives will get nothing. SPOOK PROPHECY FAILS. Millionaire Dios Pourteen Years Before "Ghost Advice" Date. Denver.—Alonzo Thompson, eighty-one years old, millionaire, spiritualist and war time auditor of Missouri, who believed ghostly advises that he could not do before he was ninety-five years old, is dead. For six weeks Mr. Thompson's belief in his imagined span of life supported him in resisting pneumonia and an accidental operation for removal of a rth. A year ago his declaration that his "guides" told him his wife and son were conspiring to get his fortune led to Mira. Thompson's divorce decree. The millionaire, although three times married, was planning to follow his "guides" into a fourth metrimonial venture. DOCTOR HELD FOR CRUELTY TO DOGS Girl Testifies That Machine Was Used to Break Backs. Philadelphia.—Dr. J. F. Sweet, assistant professor of surgical research of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, was held in $400 ball for court here by Magistrate Haggerty on a charge made by the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Cruelty to dogs in the vivisection and experimental laboratories of the university was alleged. Miss Henrietta Ford Ogden, rich, testified that every Friday for six months she had crawled through a hole in a fence so that she could gain entrance to the kennels of the university and obtain evidence. Miss Ogden identified the back breaking machine, which she alleged is used in the laboratories to crush out the lives of dogs. The machine is best described as a diminutive galows. A heavy iron weight is operated on ropes and pulleys so that it will descend with sufficient force to break the backbone of any animal held beneath it. Magistrate Haggerty at this point said: "We realize the right of the university to perform necessary animal experiments, but there is nothing too severe for a person who would devise or use such an apparatus as this. It is almost incredible to believe that a civilized human being would use an apparatus of this sort. It is an infernal machine." Samuel S. Geyer, formerly in charge of the university kennels, said that the members of the faculty ordered the surgeons to remove all evidences of cruelty, to animals when the legislature was acting on the vivisection bill. He declared that after the measure was defeated and after the danger had passed the practices were continued. CORNELL MEN'S EARNINGS. 1,069 Make $184,906, 32 Per Cent of College Expenses. Ithaca, N. Y. It is found that 1,069 Cornell undergraduates are partially self supporting, and their combined earnings a year amount to $184,006, or $173 per capita, by figures compiled by the Scroll and Spade, an organization of working students. This sum represents 32 per cent of their college expenses, which amounted to $573,704. Only 123 students are earning their room and board. Of individual earnings 380 men made between $100 and $200, 218 between $200 and $300, 51 from $300 to $400, 31 between $400 and $500 and 42 more than $500. At Eighty-four Cuts Third Set of Teeth Brazil, Ind.—Mrs. Caroline McGregor, aged eighty-four, mother of Judge Samuel M. McGregor, is cutting her third set of teeth. Eight teeth of the third set have come out so far as to prevent her wearing her false set. 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