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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. GREAT R. R. STRIKE WILL BE AVOIDED 100,000 Men Affected by New Mediation Law. CONGRESS ACTED HASTILY. Forty-two Companies Which Would Be Affected Serve 50,000,000 Persons. Territory Is East of Mississippi, North of Ohio and South of Canadian Border. New York.—The situation on forty-two eastern railroads when the members of the Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen voted almost unanimously to strike looked most threatening before arrangements to avoid the strike were completed. Preparations were made to unravel the tangle and bring the employers and employees together for a settlement of the differences without the necessity of a general strike. Had the men struck every railroad in the east would have been tied up, temporarily at least. No provision had P. Photo by American Press Association. AUSTIN D. GARRETSON OF CONDUCTORS UNION. been made to move the mails or to haul milk supplies and produce into the crowded cities. The 100,000 members of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on the eastern systems who voted to strike unless the roads granted their demands have asked for a 20 per cent raise in wages and better working conditions. Through their conference committee the railroads refused the demands on the ground that the raise would amount to $17,000,000 annually and they can't afford to pay this sum. The employees offered to arbitrate under the Erdman act, but the roads refused until the act was remodeled. This has been done. Forty-two railroads are affected. They control 48,000 miles of trackage and include every system traversing the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio river and Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to the Canadian line. They serve 50,000,000 persons. When the question of a strike was put to a vote 72,473 declared in favor of leaving the service and 4,210 were recorded as being against such action. Every road ratified the strike vote. The railway affected are. The railways affected are: Boston and Albany; Boston and Maine; Baltimore and Ohio; Bessemer and Lake Erie; Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh; Buffalo and Susquehanna; Central New England; Central Rail- road of New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ha- Liton and Dayton; Chicago. Indianapolis and Louisville; Chicago. Indiana and Southern; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; Cincinnati Northern; Chicago. Terre Haute and Southeastern; Delaware and Hudson; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; Detroit, Toledo and Ironton; Erie. Grand Rapids and Indiana; Hocking Valley, Kanawha and Michigan; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern; Lehigh and Hudson River; Long Island; Lake Erie and Western; Maine Central; Michigan Central; New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk; New York, Susquehanna and Western; New York, Chicago and St. Louis; New York Central and Hudson River; New York, New Haven and Hartford; New York, Ontario and Western; Pennsylvania (east of Pittsburgh); Pennsylvania (west of Pittsburgh); Philadelphia and Reading; Rolto, Toledo and Ohio Central; Vandalla; Wheelling and Lake Erie; Western Maryland; Zanesville and Western. Snake Darkens a Town. Mullin, S. C.—All the electric lights in town went out suddenly the other night and stayed out. Next morning lliemen found a twenty inch green snake tangled in some wires on a pole. The snake had crawled to the top of the pole and, coming in contact with the wires, forced a short circuit, put out the lights and incidentally dled. GIRL STUDENT LIVES ON 50 CENTS A WEEK GIRL STUDENT LIVES ON 50 CENTS A WEEK Practiced Strict Economy In Order to Study Music. Ithaca, N. Y.—Living on 50 cents a week for twenty weeks, Miss Clara S. Loewen of Towanda, Pa., a student here, not only managed to complete her year's education in the study of the violin, but also broke the record of R. P. Sanford, the Cornell freshman who lived on 85 cents a week. For twenty weeks Miss Loewen, a pretty, light haired, blue eyed girl of seventeen, stocked up with provisions that cost her $10 and has finished the last of them. Here is her menu during that time: Breakfast—One cup of tea, two slices of stale bread toasted, spread with peanut butter. Luncheon—Two slices of stale bread spread with peanut butter and most always a cup of cocoa. Dinner—One boiled potato spread with dairy butter and two slices of stale bread spread with peanut butter. On special occasions, usually Sunday dinners, there were added to this menu tomatoes and eggs. Miss Loewus says she has actually learned to like this fare and that she did not crave more because she did not need it. NEVER SAW TOWN'S STATION. Mrs. Warren Had Been Resident of Georgetown Forty-five Years. Georgetown, Colo.—Mrs. Agnes Warren, whose funeral took place a few days ago, was a resident of Silver Plume for forty-five years. Mrs. Warren was eighty-six years old and during her long residence in Silver Plume had never seen the railroad station of that town, having met with an accident shortly after her arrival in Colorado that left her a cripple for life. She is survived by two sons, James and Jesse Warren, both residents of Silver Plume. SHE'S A FAN ALL RIGHT. Foul Split Miss Bauer's Nose, but She Stayed Through Game. Zanesville, O.-While witnessing a double header Miss Cora Bauer, aged thirty, of this city, was struck in the face by a foul ball, which split open her nose. She fainted. But after a physician had revived her and taken three stitches in her nose she decided to stay out the game. She also lost three teeth and may be disfigured for life, but she didn't seem to care. RELATIVE CONTESTS WILL. King of Spain Accepted Legacy, and Girl, Disinherited by Her Insane Brother, Starts Active --Dead Man Had Many Peculiarities. Parls.—As a man with an expensive position to keep up, a fixed income and a steadily increasing family, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, no doubt, argues that it would be ridiculous to surrender a bequest of some $500,000 merely because the man who has left it to him died in a lunatic asylum. M. Sapene, the father of the alleged lunatic, was a wealthy Paris printer, who died in 1883, disinheriting his daughter, Mine. Sacaze, to the benefit of his son Albert. The son sold the business and returned to the Luchon district, where he led a life of gayety. He fell in love with a country girl, and when she died in 1907, he gave her the grandest funeral he could and placed her remains in the family vault. He learned some months later that she had not always shown that fidelity to him that he had believed, so he had her body exhumed and placed in a much humble tomb. He suffered from persecution mania, believing enemies were on his track on every side. He wrote innumerable letters denouncing these enemies. Over 3,000 were addressed to the mayor of Montauban-de-Luchon in a year. Twenty-seven arrived one morning. His condition became such that he was placed in a lunatic asylum in 1009, where he died in 1911. After his 1914 KING ALFONSO XIII. OF SPAIN. death a notary produced his will, written entirely by himself on crested paper, dated 1008, which said: "I leave all my property as well as my titles of nobility and dignities of nobility to the present king of Spain." The sister of the man, dishherited by her brother as she had been by her father, wrote a respectful letter to King Alfonso, giving her reasons for believing her brother not fit to make a will, but the king took the usual steps to entering into possession of an inheritance, whereupon Mme. Sacaze brought an action to upset the will. M. Maurice Bernard appeared for King Alfonso in the action brought by Mme. Sacaze. He began with an appeal to Alfonso's great popularity in Department of Archives, Ch leston, W. Va. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY JULY 26, 1913. VOL France, making a vague promise as to the use the young king would make of his inheritance. "If the young sovereign, whose generosity, elegance and chivalrous grace have charmed all France, has taken his present attitude in this case," he said, "it is no doubt because he has found a new opportunity for one of those acts which reach the hearts of peoples and will allow him to give a proof, here in Luchon, of the attachment which never ceases to blind him to France." The lawyer said he was not at liberty to speak more plainly, but it is understood that he referred to the establishment of some charitable foundation of which King Alfonso has long thought. 107 "BECAUSE A BACHELOR." "My Life Never Blighted by Worry or Illness Because I Never Married." Los Angeles, Cal.—Daniel Turner, a veteran of the civil war, residing at Santa Monica, who celebrated his one hundred and seventh birthday recently, thanks his judgment in remaining single for his long life and apparent good health. "My life never was bilighted by worry or sickness because I never married," said Uncle Dan. "Married men die younger than bachelors. Sometimes death is a welcome relief to the man who gets a modern wife." AT 63 WOMAN IS THE CHAMPION SWIMMER Mrs. Rose Declares Spirit of Youth Keeps Her Young. Denver.—The grandmother of the old fashioned type who settled into a cap and woolen shawl as soon as her hair began to turn gray and passed her time after the age of sixty knitting and peering over her spectacles out of the windows is no more. Mrs. Bertha M. Rose, sixty-three years old, is the champion swimmer, turner, dancer and horseback rider of the international German turnfest, held here recently. Despite her years Mrs. Rose's nimbleness was the envy of girls of sixteen to twenty years old, who also took part in the turnfest Not only has Mrs. Rose proved that advancing years are no bar to athletic prowess, but she did not begin to acquire her skill in that direction until she was close to fifty. She was more than forty-five when she learned to swim and fifty-five when she first took up dancing. She was fifty before she became interested in turner work. "I expect never to grow old." Mrs. Rose said. "I suppose I ought by rights to be old now, but I can't consider myself so. I'm younger now in spirit than I was when a child. How do I keep young? That's an easy question to answer. It isn't so much what you eat, what exercises you take or the rules of living you adopt that keep you young. It's just the spirit of youth inside of you. All my life I have had the spirit of youth swelling up inside of me, and I think it will never let me grow old." REMEMBERED HIS HOST. Guest Bequeatha Hotel Owner $100,000 and an Auto. Philadelphia. After giving $317,500 to churches and charitable institutions of Philadelphia and vicinity the will of Francis Way Smith of this city gives Samuel W. W. Briggs $100,000 and directs that the latter shall have the use of a motorcar owned by the testator and be paid $1,500 a year for its upkeep. Mr. Briggs, who is referred to in the will as "my dear friend," is manager of the Colonnade hotel. "That's a nice surprise," was Mr. Briggs' comment. He explained that Mr. Smith had divided his time between here and Atlantic City and that when in Philadelphia he made his home at the Colonnade. Mr. Smith, a bachelor, inherited his money from his father, R. Jenks Smith. NO. 21. GARRISON TO VIEW FOSTS War Secretary Plans to Reduce and Relocate Army Carrisons. Washington.—With the object of formulating a plan to reduce the number of army posts Secretary Garrison will make a tour of inspection of the 207 military stations throughout the country. In the opinion of Mr. Garrison, the posts are situated inconveniently from every standpoint of military efficiency. Mr. Garrison believes in concentration. One of the great difficulties in the way of carrying out what the secretary of war has in mind is the opposition of congressmen to the abolition 1930 1913, by American Press Association. SECRETARY GARRISON. of army posts in their states or the number of troops at these posts reduced. A story became current that Secretary Garrison had said that if he could not put through his concentration plan he would resign, but Mr. Garrison denied that he had made any, such threat. He said: "Undoubtedly the people who are benefited by the presence of the army, at different posts will put very strong pressure upon their representatives in congress with a view of having all the army they can get at every place where their presence will benefit the people commercially. This undoubtedly will result in congressmen making these representations to me and in my having to get them to cooperate with me in the most intelligent treatment of the subject possible. I have not in this connection suggested that congress and I would come to any conflict or that I would fight the thing out to a finish or that I would under any circumstances resign." INCREASE IN FOOD ANIMALS. Number Killed In United States During the Fiscal Year 57,628,491. Washington-Reports to the department of agriculture show that in the fiscal year ended June 30 last 57,628,491 animals were slaughtered under federal inspection in the 790 slaughtering establishments in 225 cities and towns of the United States-an increase of nearly 5,000,000 over the previous fiscal year. Of the animals inspected by government officials in the last fiscal year there were 7,245,585 cattle, 2,277,954 calves, 14,970,554 sheep, 72,871 goats and 33,052,727 hogs. Slaughtering establishments and meat food factories increased from 919 to 940 in the fiscal year. Chicago, with 12,910,506 animals slaughtered under federal inspection, leads in numbers. The other principal points of federally inspected slaughter are in the following order: Kansas City, 5,646,161; South Omaha, 4,650,655; New York, 3,034,685; national stock yards East St. Louis, 2,966,202; South St. Joseph, 2,671,443; Boston, 1,826,041; Indianapolis, 1,598,503; Sioux City, 1,529,607; Buffalo, 1,381,271. The total condemnations at the time of slaughter for disease or other causes numbered 232,867 whole carcasses and 494,328 parts of other carcasses, or a total of 727,015 condemnations. In addition, nearly 18,000,000 pounds of prepared meats and meat product were condemned on reinspection because they had become unwholesome subsequent to the first inspection. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DIVIDED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS ACA TRENO AL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN LIFE. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 6 months ..... $1.50 3 months..... .75c 40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... .50c. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Sent for Sample Copies. J. R. Cifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 101K Mar. Tinsburg, W. Va. Split skirts are deomed for a black eye and the sooner they get it the better. The trials of the legislative bride makers so far, is a drastic lesson to future ones. Mr. Bryan's former advocacy of Filipino's independence is weakened by his contention for protectorate over Nicaragua. If it be true that a certain class of Negroes of Bluefield have asked for jimcrow saloons, to be put back in slavery would not be too severe a hardship. In ExSenator Beveridge's speech, advocating Progressive principles, no reference was made to a hoped addition of colored voters, and not a few think strange of it. If there be no prospect for war why all this mobilization of the soldiers, and the militia being drilled for active service in a crisis? Mexico has a chip on her shoulder, and is bantering America to knock it off, with Japan, Spain and other countries saying do it if you dare. Senator Goff's last May speech in the U. S. Senate is a top-notcher. The like, in so short a time was never made before, and if ever a speech pegged down closer attention, and received more praise, we have never heard of it. The Hotel Emerson of Baltimore, discharged its six French cooks and filled their places with colored cooks and the Sun rejoices over it. It is claimed that no other cooks can fry chicken like colored cooks and we believe it. The same hotel has put colored waiters in the place of the discharged white waiters. The many kinds of automobile horns are coming in for condemnation, owing to the contention for the lack of uniformity in tone, the traveling public fails to know what makes it. France has made automobiles have the same kind of horns, and when they are blown all know what it means, and it is possible the same will be adopted in this country. We want to know and ask the editor of the Scientific American to tell why our native mountain oaks fail and have for years, to produce, as they used to, yearly crops of oorune? When a boy, riob and poor people fattened hogs on them, but now it is as much of a thing of the past, as is the once yearly coming and going of millions of pigeons. --- One, if not the greatest lawyer in America, Mr. Pitilbury of Massachusetts, has left the National Bar Association and in the most biting language excoriated said organization for refusing admission of colored lawyers as members. As before the war so to now—the best white men and women are on our side, and are working out a richer and a more far reaching emancipation than did the war, and the part we play is as necessary to be brave and noble as theirs. Will we learn it? One of the best places to test Negro manhood is in official positions. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Daeds has no more beneficial manhood to imbue the youth, than a mouse; and Napier, assistant Register of the Treasury ranks on the same line. The idea of the latter in obedience to a democratic order, having to walk six blocks to get to a toilet, and has not enough plock to step down end out, and the government at Washington is full of such. --- Mr. Mulball reminds us more of the whiskey drinking boot leggers whose business is to lie on decent men, than any thing we have observed. Think of a man having been trusted by men of brain and vast business matters, betraying their conduct, actually carried on this country over. If such devilish expositions continue men of means and vast importance, will soon educate their own sons and daughters to do their work, and who could or would blame them for it? Dr. James H. Dillard, Secretary of the Aona Jeanne Fund, tells Negroes that—"If nothing else should drive them out of the South, jimcrow care should. We don't agree with Dr. Dillard. Slavery was worse than Juncrow care, yet, bleeings have come to be even out of that blackest sin of all sine, and greater ones are in store for all those whose progrees have maddened that white class whose charge they were in slavery days. It is our couldd belief that the Southlend is divinely decreed to Negroes, and all that is necessary for the race to do, is to be true man and woman, leaning on the strong arm of God. --- Rev. J. M. Waldron has resigned from that bogus and stolen name, "National Independent Political League." Our League still lives. The five who drew out from the thirty-eight, at Philadelphia last August as "Wilson democrats" to fool the people, and after trying two other names, called themselves after our organization, having stolen the minutes were frauds. They were like dogs in a manger with us, and they have been fussing among themselves ever since. We shed no tears at their departure, for it was a ridance of bad rubbage. --- We have received a copy of the 1913 Negro Year Book. Its author, Monroe N. Work, is noted for his marked ability along the line of research work, and the volume to which reference is just made, is up to his usual high standard. Every Negro in America should possess a copy of this most important work, because information can be obtained in it that can be found nowhere else. Its price, 25c, puts it in the reach of all, and it should have an enormous sale. See information elsewhere in current issue relative to this encyclopedia, because it is so comprehensive as to merit that title. Brutally as the Negro has and is being treated all over this country—junior crowed, lynched, aggregated, shot and burned, no other class has been kinder to his foes, and loved a country dearer than they love this one. In every war they have been patriots, and patriots again, notwithstanding the treatment above referred to, they will be. Some may say, you have no country, to fight for, like a lie. The Negro tries to the right and might in the land, deprived by God. A guilty, sinner, he must fight to right its wrongs. Stand up like men, and after the war that is right on us, there will no longer be enforced treatment, fluffed by white men—a ratio of above. Wonders never cease! The other day in Baltimore a young Negro was arrested, carried to the Central Police Station, and fined $100 and costs, the charge against him being an assault on an officer. Imagine the surprise of the Justice and the spectators when the accused pulled from his wriston roll of bills, which numbered about eighteen hundred dollars, and casually paid his fine. One lesson, to be learned from the predicament in which this young man found himself placed, is that he not mastered the art of saving, he would have been doomed to many months imprisonment in a foul smelling jail or workhouse. Still another lesson to be gleaned from this case is that more young men of our race should follow the example of the Baltimore waiter-financier, so that they will be ready to meet any conditions which confront them. --- Hon. Albert E. Pillisbury, former attorney general of Massachusetts, and one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the United States, has severed his connection with the American Bar Association on account of its base surrender to the god of color prejudice. Mr. Pillisbury is heartily tired of the Bar Association's sop to the narrow minded Southerners and Northerners who bear membership therein. In a letter to Frederick D. Wadhams of Albany, New York, the association's treasurer, Mr. Pillisbury very properly says: "A handful of Southern colorphobes, with the help of the usual subservient majority, have captured it, (the association) and turned it into a sort of Bourbon club. The association is no longer a bar association in any proper sense." BEAUTY AND FAITH. One of the noblest words in the English language is "faith"—not the faith of the makers of creeds nor the signers of creeds, but a bigger faith by far than this; not faith in a pope nor a priest nor a preacher; not faith in a book nor a church nor a man, but faith in the infinite God and in the utter reasonableness of the universe, a faith that can face the contradictions of life, its injustices, its tyrannies, its vices arrayed in purple and its virtues clothed in rags—and still believe that God is good, the sort of faith that looking back over years of blasted hopes, can still face the future bravely and with a dauntless spirit—Rev. Robert Goldsmith. NEEDN'T WEAR WHITE SUITS Spotless Linen Impedes Officers' Work in Navy Yards, Daniels Hears. Washington.—Democratic simplicity has taken another long stride forward. Navy officers in nutty white uniforms will no longer be seen painfully and nervously performing their duties in machine shops and storehouses in navy yards, where every move may threaten to soak their spotlessness. In the course of a recent conversation with Colonel George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal, when the latter was in Washington, Secretary Daniels asked if it was not irksome for the army officers on the isthmus to wear white uniforms all the time. "It surely is," replied Colonel Goethals, "and when a man is all the time afraid he will get his clothes dirty he is no good whatever for any kind of work." Acting on this philosophical suggestion, Secretary Daniels when inspecting navy yards has asked the officers on duty if they enjoyed being in their uniforms while at work in the shops and storehouses. The unvarying answer has been that they would be very glad to retard of them. The secretary then insisted what sort of clothes they would like to wear while in work, and every time the answer has been overdue. Dressers use the to show workmen how to do it. But to take hold of a machine table or a drill press and run it when one is dressed in funnaculate white linen is expensive. So Secretary Daniels issued an order to commendants of navy yards to perk officers on duty under them to wear uniform clothes a little on duty. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. OLD AGE. BY W. G. OLD AGE. A famous Philadelphia railroad man said, on his seventieth birthday; 'I agree with Professor Metchnikoff about the wisdom of the old. Prof. Osler made it fashionable to decry gray hairs, but my experience has been that the old not only possess wisdom, but they seek it also.' And then added with a smile: "The only people who think they are too old to learn are those who really are too young." 0 \* \* THE CROWDED WAY "The late Gen. Booth," said a salvation Army captain of Philadelphia used to admit freely that the bad man had more fun while carrying on his business than the good man. Stroking his white beard, he put the matter in a neat epigram one night in New York. "They say that the way of the transgressor is hard" he said, "At any rate it certainly isn't lonely." ° A NARROW VIEWPOINT. Adolphus Busch, the millionaire brewer, was indicating in Pasadena, the road to success. "Do more than your employer requires of you," he said. There's the simple signpost pointing successward. I speak in general terms. It is narrow to speak from your own viewpoint alone—from the oil viewpoint if you are a Rockofeller—the steel viewpoint if you are a Carnegie and so on. That is futile. Let me illustrate: "The secret of success," the stamp said, is sticking to it. "To succeed," said the knife, be bright and sharp. "Keep up to date," said the Calen dar. "Aspire to greater things," said the outmeg. "Don't knock," said the old fashioned electric bell. "Do a driving business," said the hammer. "Never lose your head," said the barrel. "Always keep cool," said the ice. THE FIRST TOAST Wilson Minzar explained, on a New York roof garden, the origin of the word, "toast" when toasting a lady. "You will remember," he began, "that in olden times, it was the custom to serve punch with toasted—that is to say roasted apples floating in it. These apples were called the "toast." "Well it happened at Bath one day that a celebrated beauty stood in the Cross Bath, surrounded by a throng of admirers, and one of them being intoxicated with admiration: took a glass of the water in which the beauty stood, and holding it aloft, drank her health, draining the water to the last drop. Beau Nash, who stood nearby, shouted— "I like not the punch, but I would I had the toast." $ \star^{\circ} \star $ POOR MARRIED MAN. "The time will come," thundered the suffragette orator," when (women will get a man's wages." "Yes," sadly muttered a woman on the rear seat, next Saturday night." THE RETURNED TOURIST. "And if you really get close enough to ace a Mexican charge?" "Oh yes." "Was it fierce?" "I should say it was." "I a big bet?" "No, a little bet." A girl's education is most incom- plete unless she has learned; plete unless she has learned; To sew. To cook. To mend. To be gentle. To value time To dress neatly. To keep a secret. To avoid idleness. To be self reliant. To darn stockings. To respect old age. To make good bread. To keep a house tidy. To be above gossiping. To make home happy. To control her temper. To take care of the sick. To take care of the baby. To sweep down cobwebs. To marry a man for his worth. To read the very best of books. To take plenty of active exercise. To be a helpmate to her husband. To keep clear of trashy literature. To be light hearted and fleet footed. To be a womanly woman under all circumstances. 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. BALTIMORE & OHIO 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 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39 5.37 p. m. No. 9 Daily at 11.28 p m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.20 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. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Vp Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. C., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see D.E.V. JURDAN, GEN. AGENT, W.VA. KOOM 2. K. P. BUILDING. CHARLES JON. - W. VA. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. James Rowan, in addition to hauling, has engaged in the wood and coal business. The Pioneer Press wishes him success in his new venture. John N. Renton, treasurer of the City of Martinsburg, has gone to his final resting place, and his friends and relatives mourn their loss. Mr Dade C. Green, has returned to the Martinsburg neighborhood after a prolonged stay with his family at the home place in Luray, Va. He looks the picture of health, and seems as strong as he is good. Martinsburg friends of R. v. W. A. L. Hancock, former pastor of the Dudley Baptist Church, were highly pleased to have that gentleman in their midst for several days during the past week. He locked well, and gave evidence that he is doing likewise. Mr. William Fairfax went to Harper's Ferry Wednesday night to fish, returning Thursday afternoon with one of the finest strings of bass we have seen this season. The largest one weighed exactly two pounds and a half, and was as large as a shad. By reason of this and other fin catches Mr. Fairfax has made this season, we guess he is deserving of the distinction of being called Martinsburg's boss fisherman. Rev. and Mrs. R. W. S. Thomas, were recent welcome visitors to cur city. As most people know, Mr. Thomas is the new Superintendent of the Cumberland District of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife is a prominent member and an organizer of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the same denomination. That they are bostlers goes without saving, and that they are destined to do great and good work in their new field of labor is almost an assured fact. The Reverend gentleman, while here, preached an excellent sermon at Mt. Zion M. E Church, and Mrs. Thomas favored the ladies of that institution with an interesting and very instructive talk relative to the big things which the Woman's Home Missionary Society is doing. DR. O. S. MARDEN TELLS WHY THEY ARE POOR. Their ideas are larger than their purses. They have risked a competence in trying to get rich quickly. They do not think it is worth while to save nickles and dimes. They do not keep account of their expenditures. They think it will be time enough to begin to save for a rainy day when the rainy day comes. The head of the house is a good man, but he has not learned to do business in a businesslike way. They allow friends to impose upon their good nature and generosity. They try to do what others expect of them, not what they can afford. Although economical parents, their children have extravagant ideas. They reverse the maxim—"Duty before pleasure." They have too many and too expensive amusements. They do not do today what they can possibly put off until tomorrow. They do not think it worth while to put contracts or agreements in writing. They have indorsed their friends notes or guaranteed payment just for accommodation. They risk all their eggs in one basket when they are not in a position to watch or control it. They do not know that giving a full power of attorney to an agent or lawyer puts their property at his mercy. On a six hundred dollar income they try to compete in appearance with a two thousand dollar a year neighbor. They think the world owes them a living. The only thing the daughters have acquired is an overfondness for smart clothes and expensive jewelry. They do not realize that one expensive habit may introduce them to a whole family of extravagant habits. They prefer to incur debt rather than to do work which they consider beneath them. They do not dream that little mortgages on their homes can ever turn them out of doors. They subscribe for everything that comes along—organs, lightning rods, subscription books, pictures, brace a brace—anything they can pay for on the installment plan. They are easy dupes of schemers and promoters NEGRO YEAR BOOK, 1913. The "Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" of the Negro Year Book was put on sale on or about July 15th. An attempt has been made to make this edition of the book a miniature encyclopedia of the Negro race. The author, Monroe N. Work, who has charge of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, has enlarged, revised, indexed and brought all the facts about the Negro in America down to date. Every name, fact, or event, which anyone interested in the progress of the race needs to know, will almost certainly be recorded or referred to in this book. A new and complete index makes all these facts which were formerly sometimes lost sight of under chapter headings, easily accessible. An enlarged and carefully classified list of articles and publications on the Negro furnishes the reader with references to any phase of Negro life or the Negro problem. If there is anything about the Negro which you want to know and do not find' recorded in this book, write to the editor, enclosing a stamped envelope, and he will either tell you what it is or indicate where the information may be found. Some special features of the 1913 Negro Year Book are: A review of the progress of the race during the past fifty years; The Negro in 1862 and 1912, The race problem in America, Europe, and Africa; Progress of the Negro in the church, education, business and the professions. The latest census statistics: The movement and dislocation of the Negro population; The Negro and disease, vital statistics in town and country; Negro crime and Negro lynchings; Negro farms and farmers. Directories: Names and locations of Negro banks, schools, periodicals, and beu-evolent and fraternal, and national organizations. The Negro in history: The principal names and dates in the history of the American Negro; Legal definition of a Negro in different states; Civil status in different states of Negro in slavery and freedom; Legal discriminations of the various states against the Negro. The price per copy will be the same as for the 1912 edition, 25 cents; by mail 30 cents. A considerable reduction will be made to persons desiring ten or more copies. Address the NEGRO YEAR BOOK CO. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Out in the interest of the Pioneer Press, to collect and solicit sub-critters. 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. Very truly yours. SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR Commences June 16, 1913, and Lasts Seven Weeks. Two MAIN COURSES: Teachers Review and Professional. Expenses Low. For further information, write Prof. Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1882 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy of capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Green, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given, in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Miler, A. M., Desa. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leadi to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training. Music, Manu Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Curtumings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinches thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough courses. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical faculties not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polychronic. Edward A. Bailoch, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Streets N. W., W. C. McNeill, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not as确信 than. Whole three or spare time. Advices, with reference H. O. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1879 Broadway, New York. --- BIG GAME HUNTERS' FIRST Choice and Big enough for the biggest game of North America. STEVENS "High Power" Repeating Rifle No. 423. List Price. $20.00 .25-.30-.35 and .35 calibers Use Rem. Auto Loading Cartridges SURE FIRE. NO PARKS. NO JAMS Our "High Power" Bolts also furnished in ferry grades. Adjourn Dealer. Send for Landsome, new Rifle Catalog. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box 5004 CHICOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS NEPHEW WILL WED AUNT. Extanglemente in Family Will Then Do Something Awful. Los Angeles Cut—Emil Orvyn, twin Gythree, Los Angeles, to Pauline A. Orvyn, twin Gythree, Portland, Orc. That's all the one who recorded on the magnificent house by their R. N. Souphis, left here to show up his loft, finished a few times and scratched his head. Then he tried to figure out the Orvyn family tree. This is what will happen when the married knight unto the Orvyn and the Orvyn: Miss Orvyn's mother will be come her father's wife. Miss Orvyn's sister-in-law will become her mother-in-law. Miss Orvyn by marriage to Mr. Orvyn mother her own nephew and gets a husband of the same time. Now for the birth season, the steward father becomes his brother in law. He marries him by marriage. "Let me be proud Storks. "Why, note, the child will be slaves of their own mother." BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adopted to the use of Students of large history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Once one dollar per volume—$1.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyside Cottage, Yorkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press It Alwa says Mrs. Sylvania Wor writing of her experienc tonic. She says furthe Cardui, my back and thought the pain would to do any of my housew of Cardui, I began to fe gained 35 pounds, and as well as run a big w says Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., in writing of her experience with Cardui, the woman's tonic. She says further: "Before I began to use Cardui, my back and head would hurt so bad, I thought the pain would kill me. I was hardly able to do any of my housework. After taking three bottles of Cardui, I began to feel like a new woman. I soon gained 35 pounds, and now, I do all my housework, as well as run a big water mill. I wish every suffering woman would give CAR The Wor a trial. I still use Card and it always does me Headache, backach tired, worn-out feelings, ly trouble. Signs that y tonic. You cannot make for your trouble. It has women for more than f GARDUI a trial. I still use Cardui when I feel a little bad, and it always does me good." Headache, backache, side ache, nervousness, tired, worn-out feelings, etc., are sure signs of womanly trouble. Signs that you need Cardui, the woman's tonic. You cannot make a mistake in trying Cardui for your trouble. It has been helping weak, ailing women for more than fifty years. Mmc. M. L. JOHNSON GRADUATE COPPER SPECIALIST AND HAIR CULTURIST Manlouring, Industrial Science, Engineering and Science 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. The above gut represents Nine. I have created the 15 today, with her own NATURAL HAIR cultivated by the use of our own Hair Remedies. The can do for you what she has done for herself and thousands of others in every part of this country. Use Johnson's Hair Food, for growing hair on bald hairs and bare temples. It makes hard, dry hair; soft, moist, glossy and lustrous. Per far. . . . 50c. Use Johnson's Hair Grower, for invigorating, strengthening, nourishing the roots and stimulating the hair growth. For bottle. . . . 50c. Use Johnson's Dandruff Cure. Cleans the scalp of gum, grit, dandruff, scales, prunts, and leaves it healthy and pure. Per jar. . . . 25c. Send the fee for a large sample jar of Johnson's Hair Food and terms to Agents. Write your letter to DR. W. ALEXANDER JOHNSON or Seafo Specialists Wine. MARY L. JOHNSON GUT Chewand Amone, - Boston, Mass. Please open this paper. WILLIAM SPACE BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds pursuing in new cochin tongers, &c. Kin, & my exprience. Don't bother with old honeys, except Spears and not them at reasonable prices, also trees and other countrie. Second hand hiveys bought and sold, now have in stock 10 second hand hiveys, good saws. In addition to hiveys repairing, I also repairing of all kinds, and are the only man in ys Helps ods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., in me with Cardni, the woman's : "Before I began to use head would hurt so bad, I kill me. I was hardly able work. After taking three bottles I like a new woman. I soon now, I do all my housework, water mill. RDUI man's Tonic when I feel a little bad, good." e, side ache, nervousness, te, are sure signs of woman- you need Cardui, the woman's e a mistake in trying Cardui been helping weak, ailing ity years. MAN OF MYSTERY MAY TELL PAST Faint Hope That "J. C. R." May Regain His Speech. IN A MINNESOTA HOSPITAL Stranger Found Six Years Ago Has Never Been Able to Remember His Past—Operation Expected to Prove Successful—Identity Still Unknown. Minneapolis, Minn.—For more than six years "J. C. R.," the Minnesota "man of mystery," has been in the State Hospital For the Insane at Rochester, Minn., unable to talk, unable to remember his past, and in all that time not one person has appeared to claim him. Yet there is hope that the mystery will be solved. Recently physicians made an X-ray examination. While this revealed that, there was no fracture of the skull, it was thought there might be a blood clot on the brain, so an operation was performed. The operation was considered successful, but the surgeons found such a degenerate condition of the brain cells that they give only slight hope that "J. C. R." will ever regain his normal faculties. However, there is just a chance. "We expect no sudden change or sensational return of memory," said a doctor. What the outcome will be is problematical. A part of the memory cells of the brain has been destroyed by degeneration, but there is a possibility that there are sufficient cells remaining to restore the memory in part, at least. If possible the hospital authorities will teach the man to talk. With the large cyst removed there is assurance that the degeneration of the brain area will not increase and the remainder of the brain is unimpaired. He can therefore be taught to speak as a child is taught, it is believed. With the power of articulation, it is thought that he may be able to tell some of the facts of his life, which now he can communicate only by motions, and those very vaguely "J. C. R." is not insane and has never been insane. He was picked up on the depot platform at Waseen, Minn., one night in June, 1907. How he got there no one knows. His right side from his temple to his foot was paralyzed. He could not say a word. He could not make persons understand him by gestures, nor could he understand anything that was said to him. He was a public charge, and as such was cared for by the county. Arrangements were made for him to live with a German family. He was attended by Dr. W. A. Chamberlain, but his case baffled the physician. Dr. Chamberlain gave up hope of his recovery, and on April 24, 1908, he was taken to the Rochester asylum. At the hospital he has always had his liberty. He is what is known as an observation patient who can be trusted. To see "J. C. R." once is to remember him. Although he cannot talk, he asks questions, as it were, with his large, intelligent brown eyes, which haunt one with their pitiful entreaty. He is about medium height. His black hair, which is brushed well off his forehead, is tinged with gray. He is apparently about forty-five years of age. Without his cane he has difficulty in walking. Still "J. C. R." is now able to make himself partially understood. By continual pointings to a map he gave the hospital surgeons the impression that he was the son of an admiral and had been an officer himself. He also indicated a spot near Baltimore as his home. Repented inquiries to the naval department and Baltimore authorities brought many replies of lost persons, but none which would fit the case of "J. C. R." The United States navy has no record of a missing man who tallies with his description, yet "J. C. R." has been able to make the surgeons believe positively that he has served in the United States navy. The only thing he can write are the initials "J. C. R." Yet he does not seem to think at times that those are his initials, although they were found on his clothing. When asked about it he rubbed the injured side of his head and looked puzzled. This strange man has been a favorite at the hospital. He has fully realized his condition, but not for one moment does he permit himself to become morbid. He has a winning smile, which illuminates his whole countenance, but his face in repose is pathetic. The surgeons were able to make it known to him what they intended to do, and by gestures "J. C. R." informed them that he welcomed the opera- COOK STOVES FOR POOR. Bequest of $10,000 Fifty-nine Years Ago Will Be Looked Up. Boston.—A hearing on a petition under the will of Thomas W. Sweetser, who died fifty-nine years ago, will be given in the Essex probate court, when an unusual provislon—that of providing the poor of Salem with cook stoves—will get close attention. The will stipulated that $10,000 be paid to his native city, that this be put on interest at 6 per cent forever and that $600 be spent annually in buying stoves and utensils for the poor if his estate amounted to $30,000 or more. Trustees to be elected must supervise the administration of the charity and must keep on hand a supply of stoves of different sizes. Then, too, the trustees must keep on hand enough plpes for all the stoves. If the will was made public fifty-nine years ago no official notice was taken, and the gift was forgotten. JINX IS DISCOVERED IN GERMAN'S CLOCK Struck Thirteen on Friday and Brought Much Bad Luck. Amite City, La.-George Zollenburg returned to his home near this city after another ineffectual attempt to have the jinx taken out of his grandfather's clock. The ancient timepiece is to blame for a long train of misfortunes that started Friday, June 13, 1913. The following details have been supplied by Mr. Zollenburg: The clock was brought to this country by Mr. Zollenburg from the fatherland. The old time mill had never missed a tick or let a second slip by unrecorded until noon on that fatal Friday. While waiting for dinner Zollenburg was surprised and alarmed to hear the old heirloom strike thirteen times for noon. "You'd better take that to some clock mender in Hammond," said the watch fixer, and he put his hand behind him as though the old timepiece were hot. Zollenburg took the clock to Hammond and, not wishing to have it fixed under false pretenses, told the jewelers there about its having struck thirteen. Neither of the Hammond clocksmiths would have touched the hoodoo with a fishing pole. Since then Zollenburg has taken the clock to every expert near here, only to have the job declined. That is not all. Here are a few of the things that have happened since, for which he blames the clock: His rich mother-in-law departed this life back in Germany without leaving him a red pfennig. His valued hen (the one that walks with a limp) deserted her nest after sitting patiently for two and a half weeks on thirteen—there it is again—thoroughbred Cochin china eggs. His hired girl eloped with his best stable hand. Twelve kittens fell in a well near his home and were drowned. His brindle cow Bossie gave birth to triplets, all of which were black as coal dust and males. PLANS FOR CELEBRATION. American Committee Will Erect United States-Canadian Memorial Arch. Duluth, Minn.-The American committee in charge of the celebration of 100 years of peace between English speaking peoples is planning a United States-Canada memorial arch or bridge as a feature of the event. The bridge will be located at the point where the Duluth and St. Vincent road will join the road to Winnipeg. It will be so placed as to command the junction of both roads with a road leading through North Dakota and South Dakota. A great lakes demonstration, participated in by ships of the United States and Canada, also is planned "WIN OR BREAK MY NECK." Motorcyclist Thrown a Second Time In Race and Killed. Macon, Ga.-Martin A. O'Brien, a local motorcyclist, was instantly killed when the machine he rode in an amateur motorcycle race skidded from a slippery track and plunged through a fence into a wall. Several minutes before, at the same place in the course, he had been thrown from his motorcycle, but escaped with minor injuries. He immediately mounted another machine, declaring, "Till win this race or break my neck." The grade crossing-auto combination is proving a 'most as danger ous to life as he unloaded gun. --- Saved Girl's Life "I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have received from the use of Thedford's Black-Draught," writes Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. "It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught saved my little girl's life. When she had the measles, they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford's Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no more trouble. 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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. TAKEN all in all, we don't feel that we are exaggerating when we state that The PIONEER PRESS is one of the best all around weekly papers in this country today. WE ARE not alone in making this statement, for some of the best and most prominent men of the United States have done likewise. These persons above referred to, were not confined to one particular race, either, but to both. 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