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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNERISED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Ca W. Va. "HERE SHALL THE ESTABLISHED 1882. FIRST WARSHIP TO PASS CANAL Selection of the Oregon Is Most Appropriate. HER MURRY TRIP RECALLED Necessity of Transferring the Vessel From Pacific to Atlantic In Short Time During Spanish War Pointed Out Great Need of Panama Canal. Washington.—The Oregon, on which Secretary of the Navy Daniels plans to confer the honor of being the first battleship to go through the Panama canal, is now in Puget sound getting the finishing touches on her $1,000,000 modernization treatment. She is being fitted with every convenience and improvement. The Oregon is one of the three oldest battleships in the navy, the two others being the Indiana and the Massachusetts. All three are sister ships. Their keels were laid in 1891. The Oregon THE FORTRESS OF THE SEA BATTLESHIP OREGON. was built at the Union Iron works, San Francisco, and was launched in 1893. The blowing up of the Maine in Havana harbor on March 15 rendered it imperative for the government to assemble the strongest naval force possible in the West Indies, in anticipation of war with Spain. It was that emergency—with the battleship Oregon so near and yet so far—that caused Uncle Sam to determine to build the Panama canal. As it was, there was nothing to do but to order the Oregon around Cape Horn, involving a journey of over 13,000 miles. Captain Clark got on March 15 the order to make the voyage, and on March 19 he started from San Francisco. He made the run to Callao, Peru, 4,400 miles, at thirteen knots average speed. Coaling there, he hastened on down the west coast of South America and steamed at full speed through the strait of Magellan, slackening not for rocks nor darkness nor wind nor ice in that stormy, treacherous passage. When the Oregon reached Rio he received a cable from Washington saying war between Spain and the United States had been declared. The department advised him to finger awhile at Rio, but he pushed on to Bahia, where Washington wired suggesting disabling his engines if necessary in order to avoid being denied shelter at a neutral port. It was feared at that time that the Spanish fleet, then on its way west across the Atlantic, would pounce on the Oregon and destroy it. "Come on; we believe you can do it," finally cabled the navy department to Captain Clark. He assembled his officers and crew on deck, read them the message and told them he believed the Oregon could lick the whole Spanish fleet. Anyway, he'd take a chance at it, and away he went, right on up the east coast of South America, with every gun and every officer and every ALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE' MRTINSBURG, W. man ready for instant action At Barbados Captain Clark got word from Washington that the Spanish fleet had arrived somewhere in those waters and was lying in wait. The captain adopted the ruse of pretending to scurry back to Brazil. He stewed south, then west, and by making a wide detour in the Atlantic he passed around the Spanish fleet and on May 23, sixty-five days after leaving San Francisco, the Oregon, gray as an old scagull, appeared at Jupiter inlet, Florida. COUNTESS, A NUN, IS DEAD. Sister Mary Alexandrine, Aged Eighty- one, Attached to Bavarian Court. Wilmington, Del.—Sister Mary Alexandrine, in the Order of the Visitation for forty-five years and in the Convent of the Visitation here for twenty-one years, died at the institution. Sister Mary Alexandrine was eighty-one years old and had been mother superior of the convent for twelve years. The fact that a woman of high birth had long been a sister in the convent was not known outside the institution. She was born in Bavaria, April 19, 1832. She was a daughter of Count Theobal De Butler and Countess Victorine Kuedorfer De Butler Von Haimhausen of Munich. In her youth she was maid of honor at one of the Bavarian courts. WILL HASTEN VOTE ON THE TARIFF BILL Members of Senate Prepare to Abbreviate Speeches. Washington.—There are indications that the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill debate may be materially shortened. Republican senators are preparing their speeches in abbreviated form and will require much less time than at first anticipated. The Democrats are being urged to desist from arguing and to refrain from active participation in the discussion. President Wilson has let it be known that he would like to see the new tariff act in operation at the earliest possible date. He is pleading with senate leaders to minimize speechmaking and hasten the bill along to the final vote. In the opinion of the president every day of delay and unsettled conditions is injurious to the business of the country. The actual taking effect of the new tariff will have a tendency to remove all uncertainty and permit business men to go ahead with their affairs on the new basis. DEER FALLS ON SHOOTER. Charging Animal, Twice Shot, Dies on Prostrate Hunter. Pescadero, Cal.—Two gun shots failed to stop the onward course of a buck, and the huntsman, Walter T. Thompson, was injured when he was thrown to the ground and plioned under the carcass of the deer. Thompson was standing near the top of a ridge awaiting the approach of the deer. A buck weighing 160 pounds bounded over the ridge, chased by the dogs, and Thompson fired at fifty yards. The buck did not stop, and at ten yards the hunter fired again. Before he could step aside the buck had rushed into him. Otto Parker pulled the carcass off his companion's body. SPURNS $10,000 FOR GIRL. Farmer's Son Refuses to Collect Prize For Giving Her Up. Sioux Falls, Ia.—An offer of $10,000 if he would give up the girl he loved and enlist in the United States navy apparently has been refused by Charles Jason, son of a wealthy rancher near Niobrora, Neb. The older Jason left a check for $10; 000 at the recruiting station here to be turned over to his son the moment he enlisted. The son said he would think it over, but he has failed to return. He is believed to have gone to St. Paul, where his sweetheart lives. SATURDAY. SEATTLE MAYOR FOR MARTIAL LAW COURT CHECKED HIS PLANS Disorder of Sailors Was Directed at Industrial Workers of the World, Who Were Conducting Strike at the Time—Great Damage Wrought. Seattle, Wash.—Following tipping and disorder by sailors from the Pacific reserve fleet Mayor George E. Cotterill issued an order suppressing the Seattle Times, a newspaper, unless proofs of all its contents should be first submitted to him. The newspaper secured an injunction against the mayor and gained a decision in court, and no edition of the paper was held up. The mayor took the ground that the Times in a "garbled account" of the address of Secretary Daniels of the navy department with reference to driving out the apostles of the red flag had incited the sailors to disorder. The disorder followed a strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Mayor Cotterill also issued an order closing the subcouns, saying the police had received information that another attack on the Industrial Workers had been planned by soldiers on leave from army posts about the city. He said 1930 GEORGE P. COTTERILL, MAYOR OF SEATTLE he was determined to keep the saloons closed until after the Potlatch festival crowd had dispersed. The judge, however, also set aside this order of the mayor, and the drinking places were literally patronized. Still another order by the mayor directed that all street meetings be stopped. This none the less did not prevent a big crowd gathering when some fifty soldiers assembled on First avenue. The soldiers predicted further trouble, but were themselves careful not to start any demonstration. The damage done by sailors will not exceed $8,000. In their excitement the sailors demolished a Salvation Army meeting room, having been told it was the quarters of a branch of the Industrial Workers. By the light of matches the sailors began to break chairs and benches. One stout sailor hurled an organ off the platform and then, seizing a heavy chair, proceeded to demolish the organ. Suddenly one of the men, tearing down a motto, "God Is Love," from the wall, started back and said, "Boys, we're all wrong." Some of the sailors shouted to their comrades to stop the smashing, and word was passed that the place was a Salvation Army meeting room. Most of the men thereat left the place. Mayor Cotterill's action in assuming Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNERISED H UGUST 9, 1913. NO full control of the city was much like a declaration of martial law. He preceded his stringent orders by a proclamation. AVIATOR UP 12,950 FEET. Frank Burnside Sots New American Altitude Mark at Bath, N. Y. Bath, N. Y.—Frank Burnside, an aviator, set a new American altitude record by reaching an altitude of 12,950 feet. The previous American record was 11,680 feet and was made by Lincoln Beachey at Chicago two years ago. Burnside was in the air one hour and forty minutes. The flight was witnessed by crowds of spectators, who followed him with the naked eye as long as possible and then trained glasses upon him until he was lost in the clouds. Burnside suffered greatly from cold as he ascended, although he was dressed in winter clothing. The thermometer registered 92 degrees as he left the ground and descended to 30 degrees at 12,030 feet. Family of Four Waike 4,500 miles. Spokane, Wash.-Carrying their size quantity of laggage, camp and provisions in a wheelbarrow of light tonnage, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Tubbs and their two sons, aged eleven and nine years, have started on a 1,500 mile walk from Sandpoint, Lahoe, fifty miles east of Spokane, to Minneapolis. ONE SQUIRREL DID IT ALL. Brought Out Police and Lured Two Men Near Death. Atlantic City, N. J.—Two men were nearly fatally shocked, police reserves were called out and business temporarily suspended in the center of the city because of the antics of a gray squirrel which escaped from a store, climbed a telegraph pole and then walked over a vole of wile along the main thoroughfare of the city. The two men had a close call when they climbed poles and tried to capture the squirrel. Thereafter a squel of police followed its trail to keep others from climbing the poles. At night the squirrel camped on a pole on the board walk. Next day he was electrocuted while endevorning to go back over the route he covered. Hard Cider In Cistern. Bonner Springs, Kan.—The discovery of a clistera filled with hard cider on a farm near Bonner Springs has solved a mystery that has bullied the law officers of Wyandotte county for more than a year. Frequent complaints had been filed with the prosecuting attorney that many men and boys in this vicinity were being ruined by strong drink, but the utmost vigilance failed to disclose the source of liquor supply. The clistera was found by one of the prosecutor's assistants, disguised as a farm band. The farmer who owned the clistera was enjoined from selling or making elder, and the clistera and its contents were destroyed. MILLIONAIRE DAY WORKER. Yalo Man Puts In Long Hours at Rubber Factory. Boston.—Dinner pail in hand, young Elisha S. Converse. Yale student and a millionaire son of a multimillionaire, steps from his Boncon street home into a costly automobile, dries over to a Maiden rubber shoe factory and toils nine hours in a room where the temperature is hardly ever less than 100 degrees. This happens every weekday. Young Converse is determined to learn his father's business from top to bottom, but instead of beginning at the top he has begun at the bottom. The father is Colonel Harry E. Converse of Marion, rubber manufacturer and prominent vachisman. Sometimes young Converse has to handle redhot heels which he puts on the rubber shoes. He swings big shears, too, with which he cuts off the corners of the heels. All in all, his work at his bench in the heel room is considered a pretty hot job. Thompson and Thompson are in regular theaters of heels in the clothing line and those work is up to date in such theaters. GENERAL CHANGES IN POSTAL SYSTEM Parcel Post Rates to Be Reduced Beginning Aug.15. CARRY HEAVIER PACKAGES. Maximum Weight to Be Twenty Pounds—Postmaster General Exports Eventually to Make It a Hundred Pounds—Government Buys Autos For Delivery Purposes. Washington.—Plans for the extension, improvement and reduction in rates of the parcel post were announced by Postmaster General Burleson, the charges, which are to become effective on Aug. 15, include an increase from eleven pounds to twenty pounds in the maximum weight of parcels; a material reduction in the postage rates in the first and second zones, the abandonment of the parcel post map as a means of computing rates and the substitution for it of a rate chart individualized to every postoffice in the United States. The plans contemplate the purchase of a large number of automobiles to be used exclusively for the delivery of parcel post matter. While for the present the maximum weight limit of twenty pounds and the reduction in rates will apply only to P. Photo by American Press Association. POSTAL SERVICE GENERAL BURLESON. the first and second zones, from any given postoffice—a distance of about 150 miles—the changes directed constitute the first long step toward a universal extension of the system and a general reduction in the rate of postage on parcel matter. "It is my expectation and belief," mild the postmaster general, "that eventually—and it may be fifteen or twenty years—the postal service will handle practically all of the small package transportation business in the United States. The maximum weight limit, extended now from eleven to twenty pounds, I expect to see increased to 199 pounds, and experience may demonstrate the prerequisite ability of handling the current business at even lower rates than we now propose. "In the making of extensions and reductions of rates it is necessary for us to proceed with caution, so as to afford ample opportunity to prepare for the increased business. For that reason we have made the changes proposed apply only to the first and second zones. I appreciate fully the sentiment for an increase in the weight limit and a reduction in rates to all zones, but it is necessary for us in a sense to feel our way." --- Uthaphe he who desires to die so long as these remind to him one sacrifice to make, love joy to create, troubles to prevent, tears to dry - Madam Swe, chin NO.23 AN FREEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DIVIDED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AT FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN I. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. e..... $1.50 6 months..... .75c 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. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawe. 869, and Doll Phone,101K Mar. Shalburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1913 Wise man is Hon. John W. Davis, who foreseeing the handwriting on the wall, accepts a fat plum, knowing his reelection would be impossible. The hungry democrats are getting the fat of the lamb here and there, and all we have to say is, that you are fools if you don't kick the life out of civil service and get everything in eight, for it won't come your way soon again. As an old sister recently said enent campmeetings:—"Yes, ite Inwood in the Summer, and out of word in the winter." You're right —be biggest bumbug in the Snen- andoah Valley. If the better class had all the money this class of Negroes have given to jimcrowing rail- roads,fully a hundred thousand fifty acre forms could be owned, worked and well stocked. However, if you want to see his mouth protrude, advise him not to do it again. The Bible—great book, way back in the dusty and murky ages, it must have looked down to this time, saw Woodrow Wilson, as President of this country, and cautioned us to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. He could and should go down in history as the SPINELESS President, and the poorest imitator in America, for example his Lincoln-like Gettyseburg speech, his month ajor, don't seem to realize that Roosevelt is natural, and suggestive of the man's greatness and staying qualities. The Blackest Of Blots. How a human being can become so low as to foil away a mother's babe, and ravish it, as was done by an inhuman white monster in this city, is inconceivable. And how decent human beings can and do revolt at the wisest, and only proper thing to do with such fiends—castigate them and brand their foreheads with a large red-hot letter K., is also inconceivable. Law always has, or should have a dual end in view in its punishment for crimes—to not only make the criminal better, but prevent if possible the repetition of the crime. Would not castration and the branding do both? Will killing him lesson the affliction of the parents—of such as Jesus said—Suffer to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven? Be wise and do that which will bring a life time remorse to him and let him be an object lesson to others of his type. How hard it is to make the sin blind see. A year or so ago, it was decreed that colored people could not enjoy themselves at Chevy Chase, D. O. Soon thereafter, while some of the color phobes were playing a game on Sunday, lightning struck one and made him black as any black man you ever saw. So, since Woodrow Wilson, who told the Negroes if he got into the White House, they never would forget him, has drawn the color line tighter than ever—even in the departments where peace and pleasure have reigned for fifty and more years, lightning struck one of the meanest of Negro haters, it is said, threw his arms around a Negro, and said: "O God! save us." Indeed they say, the whole of them from the highest to the lowest, forgot all about color, hair and skins. O Lord! keep sending down your converting power. Has been trying for years to find out the secret of colored people giving railroads barrels of money annually, and there seems to be one prevailing cause—"to see our friends and loved ones." Why not be truer to your home friends and loved ones? Charity begins at home, as does the growth of everything noble—morality, cleanliness, industry, economy and the religion that lays and blesses the world. The home is the place where good schools, good churches, good governments and good course are made—for all of which the whole world is suffering. Sicepeth—When the life of Daniel Webster Rodrick went out the night of the 6th inst., one of the best men in tuthcity, coaxed for all time to speak, or to be seen on our streets again. A man fonder of his family, with nobler purposes in view, cleaner hands and higher admiration for the good in humanity, never lived in Martinsburg. Deception was no part of his nature, he despised falshood, and loved virtue. Had he and Mrs. Rodrick been on the Titanic they would have gone down under those sweet strains—"Nearer My God to Thee" as did Mr. Straus and wife, for they loved no truer than those two. Their home was a dove cove and if the world was so devotedly paired off, the "Sweet Fields of Eden," and the blooming tree of life could not excel the earth. Farewell sweet friend for such you've always been to us. Through the thoughtless action of some person circulating a damaging report about the unsoundness of the Bank of Martinburg, of which Hon. John J. Hetzel is president, that well known institution was besieged by an army of small depositors on Thursday, who demanded their money. They were paid, and given to understand that the bank is as sound financially as it is possible for it to be. The banking business is an intricate profession, and what are guilt edge securities to a real banker, may appeal to the misinformed and lay mind as of no consequence. Therefore it behooves any and all individuals to avail them-elves of the opportunities held out to them to obtain information about the soundness of a bank before doing it what may prove to be irreparable harm. There ought to be some way to reach a person with the strong arm of the law who wantonly circulates fake statements about a sound bank, because like a good man or woman, its chief asset is its character for fair and honest dealing. The editor of this paper takes no stock in the various celebrations of the freedom of the Negroes to be held in different sections of the country. True, to have declared them free was commendable, but for the declarers to stand by with arms folded, say nothing and allow a worse slavery to take the place of that that caused the war, leaves us nothing to celebrate—unless it is the wrongs inflicted on us. Agitation and dying contention is what should be constantly going on everywhere, and if need be, the Negroes should shoot and die and keep it up until they have what it will be an honor to celebrate, and then the best celebration that can occur should be duty from man to man and a pledge to God to be as noble as possible. I believe in freedom of speech, first, last and all the time. I know and understand that there is a class of people who cannot hire a ball to present their views to the public, and there is no reason why they should be kept from telling their story to all who want to hear. There is a limit, however, to which such people should go, and there is a limit which they will not be allowed to exceed. This limit is the bounds of decency. When a street speaker becomes indecent, vile or unreasonably abusive of any person or class it is time to call a bale. Such speakers do more to hurt any cause than they do to benefit it, and they are intruding on the rights of the majority. As to strikes, I realize that the working class has a right to make its demands, but I object to the use of violence or force in settling any problem. I object also to persons who have no interest, directly or indirectly, except to disturb and abuse, interfering in any strike or labor trouble. It is enough for those directly interested to fight the battle fairly and not call in disinterested disturbers, who do not know the bounds of decency or civility or fairness.—Mayor Albge of Portland, Oregon. The sentencing of a white man to the penitentiary for the killing of his wife in Andalusia, Alabama, last week, has brought to light one of the meanest and most dastardly acts on record. Mrs Noble Spicer, a white woman was murdered and a colored man named Green was suspected and a few hours later he was lynched, the husband of the woman leading the mob. In course of time the truth was revealed and it turned out that Spicer hired the colored man Green, who was his chauffeur, to murder his wife. He could easily arouse the community against the colored man to conceal his own acts and organize the mob to lynch him. He thought the matter ended here but suspicion would not down and Spicer was arrested and all these facts were brought out at his trial and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. This is one of the strongest arguments against lynchings. Fair trials would in many cases bring out the facts in the case and those who are guilty would rarely ever escape severe punishment.—American Baptist. VARIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED IN AN ABLE MANNER. Mr. Editor:—It has been some time since I have written anything for the press. In the last six months many trying and bitter thing have happened to prevent me from writing. The loss of a devoted wife, and the responsibility of righting family matters have had their effect, and I am just now trying to get down to solid ground again. But these things must of necessity be, hence we take up the task resolved to make the best of it. I had promised to write up the work at the close of the season, but was hindered for the reasons stated above. Prof. T. W. Gordy the talented and bustling Principal is spending his vacation at Atlantic City. Mrs. Nellie C. Bell, the assistant, has just returned home from Cheyney Institute, where she attended the summer school. She is highly elated over the success of her efforts and feels that she has gained much valuable information. No one should be surprised at the turn of affairs at the National Capital. The lesson the colored man is getting will be of great service to him. It is just what was to be expected. The democrate are firmly in the saddle and will ride to an ignominious fall, while the warring factions of a once glorious republican party will come together with purer purposes and imbued with principles of justice to the faithful Negro. What the Negro did at the last election, was done with a full knowledge of its meaning. As the late John K. Cowen once said: It is sometimes necessary to reform a party with a club. The old party, or more strictly speaking, the new republican party will profit by the lesson thus taught. We can but honor J. C. Napier for his manly stand. By his act in resigning rather than bend to those Negro hating Southrons should endear him to the entire race. Hate off to John C. Napier! We never had any faith in Bishop Walters' political leadership. In fact we failed to see how he could dabble in dirty, rotten democratic politics and keep his ministerial robes free from contamination. The New York Age now pictures him on bended knees, begging President Wilson for promised favors. Vain effort. Better go back to his district and look after the souls of his people. The fact is, the Negro is foolish to expect any real good thing from that source. We should be supremely satisfied in having assisted in bringing the republican party to its senses. The Mulball disclosure reveal a startling state of affairs, and it shows just how far this side of perfection is the boasted Anglo Saxon. Good men and true have been mercilessly slaughtered, simply because they refused to betray the trusts confided to them by their constituents. Among the number is the brave and courageous Poarre of this (Allegant) County. For his loyalty to his party and his constituents who are largely laboring people he was driven from the position that he filled with conspicuous ability. The truth has now come out; and he is largely the garner in the estimation of all well well thinking people. We take off our hat to Col. Pearre and congratulate him on his loyalty and fidelity to the people whom he represented. We trust that greater honors await him. Frostburg, Md. J. W. Jackson. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. CHEAP TEARS. Luke Wright, while practicing law at Memphis, was engaged to defend a man for murder, while his son was the state prosecutor. In his final argument the elder Wright, pleading feelingly with the jury to free his client, wept copiously. As he finished his speech and sat down, wiping his eyes, the younger Wright rose to close the case for the commonwealth. "Gentlemen of the jury," he began, I am overcome with admiration for my father. He has powers which even I, his son, did not suspect he possessed. You beheld him shedding tears for his client, who, I am informed, has paid him only a small fee. Gentlemen cf the jury, I never before knew my father could weep in court for less than five thousand dollars." THE HOME OF TRUTH Uncle Joe Cannon, at a recent republican luncheon in Danville, tilted a little higher the cigar in the corner of his mouth and said grimly: "These muckraking writers call me names. Well, gentlemen, truth lies at the bottom of a well, but that does not necessarily mean an inkwell." THE COMPOSER Jane—"Nellie, who is your favorite music composer?" Nellie—"Why Jane, it is somebody whose tunes you can't remember, and whose name you can't pronounce." There was a bevy of girls on the veranda. First girl—"Horace tells me he stopped smoking to please me." Second girl—'Jack tells me he stopped on my account." Third girl—"William gave me to understand that I was the cause of him stopping." Silence for a few minutes, when a man spoke up: "Never mind, girls, if I could please a regiment of girls, I'd stop too." PERSEVERANCE At an Easter breakfast John D, Rockefeller, Jr., once said: "The road to success is called Perseverance; for perseverance conquers everything. But, with a smile, he took up an Easter egg, and added: "Let us remember, that a hen on, an egg of porcelain perseveres too." The recent fire in Mississippi, which resulted in the burning to death of thirty five convicts is terrible to relate. The papers have fully explained how they were caged with no way of escape; which fully demonstrates the fact how carelessly the convicts are protected, even though they be convicts. Those in authority found relief by saying that some of them were desperate criminals serving long terms. The thought burns in my breast and tears at my heart to see how the South treats its people. There is no nation under the sun (especially give ilized, christianized) that treats its people in such a way. The South claims the privilege to know how to deal with the Negro. Let us see if it does. Here is a people striving upwards under all kinds of odds. That people is disfranchised; ostracised; "jim crowed;" must ride on the last seats in the street cars; arrested for the least offense, for which he must pay large fines and serve long terms in prison, segregated; can only live in certain sections; must work for small wages; lynched. The Negro is treated worse than the Japanese, Chinese, Indian or any of those people who come here in hordes from Europe and Asia. The wonder is, if the white man realizes that he is doing right toward the Negro from the standpoint of conscience. To fully understand another's position, put yourself in that one's place. Let the white man put himself in the place of the Negro and with his thousand years of advancement let him see if he will stand what the Negro has. There is very much discontent among nations and peoples of the world today. What is the reason? 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 & OISE RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec: 1st. 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheling 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 6.30 a.m for Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkshire 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. Vs WHAT IS IT? 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. JORDAN, GEN AGENT. W.VA. ROOM 2 K. P. BUILDING. Entered in Post Once at Martinsburg V. Va., as Second Class Matter The last uniform examination for the year 1913 has been held. Mrs. Estella Bailey visited her husband's parents at Fort Myer, Virginia, on Sunday last. She re- ports an enjoyable trip. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Carter was badly burned on Wednesday afternoon. At the present time, though, we are told that it is slowly improving. Mr. and Mre. John Hanion and children were week end guests of Mr. and Mre. Alexander Hanion at the old home place in Falling Waers. They report a royal time. Rev. John H. Reed is again in Marinburg with his gospel tent, which he has pitched on the vacant lot near the Old Bail Park, and he appears prepared to carry war into the enemy's country. All who attend these meetings will hear sound doctrine, and good music, and we encourage everybody to go. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD The above amount will be paid to anyone who will furnish information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who poisoned the fine bird dog belonging to the editor between the hours of ten and twelve p'clock on Saturday, July 26 Rev. William Craven, the well known and popular pastor of the Charles Town Baptist Church, was a caller on Martinsburg friends last Saturday. Sunday August 10th, a grand reopening will be held at his church, it having undergone a complete and costly renovation from bottom to top. Mr. Daniel Cole, formerly of this city, but now of Washington, visited friends in Martinsburg and Shenandoah Junction, during the week. He looked well, and was warmly greeted by acquaintances. On or about the 15th of August, Mr. Cole will take up his residence in Panama, where he will work for the new Governor. Miss Helen Clifford, who recently passed through here, en route from Washington, D.C., to Mechanicsburg, Pa., where she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Clifford, has sent us unveir post cards from Chicago, in which city she now is, and where she is the house guest of Mrs John J. Healy, who is one of the finest ladies in the and. When a mere girl, Miss Clifford was a member of the household of Mrs. Healy, and their meeting now, after all these years, is a source of great pleasure to both. As is known to most residents of Chicago, Mrs. Healy's is one of the first families in that city, her late husband, Hon. John J. Healy, having been Clerk of the Appellate Court and Superintendent of Station "M," one of the most important postal divisions there. VALUE OF LEMONS. Lemon juice will: Prevent diphtheria. Cure a sore throat or cough. Cure a felon. Drive away a sick headache. Cure malaria. Beautify the complexion. Make the hair fluffy. For a sore throat, gargle with pure, undiluted, unsweetened lemon juice. For a cough or cold mix equal parts of lemon juice and strained money, and take a tablespoonful every our. For a sick headache mix one part lemon juice and two parts boiling water and sip a teacupful as hot as possible every two hours. For malaria mix the juice of half a lemon with two tablespoonfuls of water and a little sugar and drink three times a day. For a felon cut off the end of a lemon, stick the finger into the hole and bind it on. Let it stay for a day or two, when it will be ready to once. For the complexion mix equal parts of rose water and glycerin and dip a cut lemon into this and rub the face with it. After it dries rub with old cream. For the hair add the juice of a lemon to the last rinsing water of a shampoo. 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; A summary of current events; 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 stat- istics in town and country; Negro crime and Negro lynchings; Negro farms and farmers. Directories: Names and locations of Negro banks, schools, periodicals, and benevolent 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. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., of Pioneer Press, published weekly at Martinsburg, W. Va., required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Managing Editor, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Business Manager, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Publisher, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Owner, J. 'R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other accessories: None. J. R. Clifford. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of July 1913. E. A. Hobbs, Notary Public. My Commission as Notary Public expires Feb. 8, 1919. SUMMER SCHOOL 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. 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. 1382 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, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training. Music, Manual 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. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinshes 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 facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polyclinic. Edward A. Balloch, 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 address Dean of Department. 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THE STEVENS Repeating Shotgun No. 520 LISTING AT $25.00, is indorsed by Shooters everywhere as "Superb for Trap or Field." Made in five styles and illustrated and described in Stevens Shotgun Catalog. Have your Dealer show you a Stevens Repeater. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box 5004, CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tenie FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS P4 BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race 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. Price 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 Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. Majority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, But One Helped Him to Recovery. Pomeroyton, Ky.—In interesting advices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes writes as follows: "I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at times, that I thought surely I would die. I tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep, and all my friends, except one, thought I would die. He advised me to try Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit 681 Shawmut Avonva, - Boston, Mass. Please mention this paper. taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, although I did not have any confidence in it. I have now been taking Black-Draught for three months, and it has cured me—haven't had those awful sick headaches since I began using it. I am so thankful for what Black-Draught has done for me." Only a quarter. One of the Convicts Told Clancy That Fellow Prisoner Started Fire Out of "Pure Devilishness"—Leaders of Riot Transferred to Another Prison. Ossining, N. Y.—Following a fire in Sing Sing prison, the old structure in which many New York state prisoners are now confined, serious rioting and mutiny occurred among the convicts prior to the removal of the leaders of the disturbances to Auburn prison, a new state institution. The total damage caused by two fires, one of which beyond doubt was of incendiary origin, amounts to 520,000. The trouble at the prison followed close after the appointment of John N. Clancy as warlord to succeed ex-Warden Kennedy, who has been indicted since his removal from office. The new warlord, however, was quick to act, and the trouble was soon quelled, although several hundred convicts were confined in their cells for several days and kept on a diet of bread and water. Efforts were made during an investigation which followed to ascertain the names of the convicts who were responsible for starting the fire in the prison. Several of the convicts were called in as witnesses. One of the men ```markdown ``` 1913, by American Press Association stated that he heard that the fire was started out of "pure devilishness" by one of the prisoners. It was learned that cocaine has come into the prison in considerable quantities in the sheets purchased for their cots by the convicts. These sheets are soaked in cocaine, and so are the leaves of books brought in to the prisoners. The prisoners suck the sheets or the leaves of the books to get the drug. Since the fire, it was said, much cocaine had come into the prison in spite of the vigilance of the warden and keepers. It was said that this had been responsible for much of the trouble. It was termed also that the leaders of the disturbance were locked up in the so called "coolers." There are ten of these coolers, and they were all full. They are outside of the cell block, on a level with the Hudson river, and are dark, dump cells seven feet long, six feet seven inches in height and three feet three inches wide. They have two doors, the first of wire and the outside one of wood. In the doors there are two little holes for ventilation, but they do not admit any light. These coolers figured in the presentments returned by the grand jury last June, and in view of this some surprise was expressed that Warden Clancy had made use of them. BANK FOR NEEDY POETS. Genius Can Draw Checks Without Making Deposit. Paris.—All Paris knows that many struggling French poets, authors and artists have come to the capital only to succumb in the struggle to exist on the monastery grounds in high early days. Starvation and illness have done for them because they would not enough to live, but the path to artistic fame will in the future be made easier. A poet in need will be able to apply to the "poets' bank" and have his immediate wants relieved. The bank is the idea of a number of young writers who have been successful. It will extend financial aid to poetly poets and authors during their period of wooing fame. Lightning Moves House. Fort Smith, Ark.-In an electrical aterm the home of J. W. Baxter of Fayetteville, a member of the state legislature, was struck by lightning five times within an hour. The first both knocked off a chimney. The second entered through a telephone and knocked Baxter unconscious. He had hardly been received before the third knocked his wife senseless. The fourth stunned his mother, and the fifth knocked the house from its foundations. POISONS WIFE, KILLS SELF. Hotel Proprietor, Jealous, Puts Drug In Her Coffee. Allertown, Pa.—Shocking toll was paid to jealousy when Francis Rhodes of Lehighton killed himself after making an unsuccessful attempt to poison his wife. Rhodes was formerly a truthman. Several years ago he lost his left arm in an accident and after long litigation secured a verdict of $6,000. 'This money he invested in a hotel property, doing a flourishing business. In a jealous rage he broke two of his wife's ribs. After supper Mrs. Rhodes became violently ill, and a physician diagnosed it as a case of poisoning. Mrs. Rhodes said the poison had been administered by her husband in coffee she drank. Rhodes' body was found in a barn. BOCUS LORD, CONVICT, SEEKS FULL PARDON "Lord Barrington" Begins a Fight For Froedom. Jefferson City, Mo.—"Lord" Barrington (F. A. Barrington Seymour), who is serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of James P. McCann near St. Louis in 1902, has renewed his efforts to regain his liberty. Barrington was convicted in St. Louis county and was sentenced to be hanged. Governor Folk commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Barrington's trump card in the formal hearing will be the production of an alfidavit made by Cecil Rollins, a son of James Rollins of St. Louis, to the effect that James P. Maybray, who was arrested at Council Bluffs for using the mails to defraud, was in fact James P. McCann. Barrington in his life history said he was born June 10, 1864, at Barrackpore, Lengal, East India. He claims to be a graduate of Eton college, of Christ Church college and of Sandhurst Military college. He says he saw service in the British army in Afghanistan, Barmah and South Africa. He came to Montreal in February, 1902, he says, accompanied by a sister, later visiting several eastern cities, among them Washington, where his sister died suddenly. With a letter of introduction to the world's fair commissioners from Sir Michael Herbert, he came to St. Louis in November, 1902. Under the belief that Barrington was a titled and wealthy Englishman, a Miss Cochran of Kansas City, Kan., married him. She left him before he was arrested for the murder of McCann. WIFE HIDES HIS WOODEN LEG Docs It to Enable Service on Him of Divorce Papers. Joliet, Ill.—Rosa Novak, twenty years old, who married Anton Kurdiana of Detroit here about a month ago, took off her husband's wooden leg and kept it hidden until he was served with papers notifying him of her suit for divorce. Mrs. Kurdiana had been told by a friend that no papers could be served on Kurdiana if he left the state and the suit would fail. When he awoke he found his artificial limb gone and shouted from a hotel window for help. His bride would not tell the police where she had hidden the support until a deputy sheriff arrived with the notice of her suit. LOSES 3 SONS IN ACCIDENTS. LOSES 3 SONS IN ACCIDENTS. Flying Ax Kills Baby, and Mule Kicks Others to Death. Birmingham, Ala--George Hogg, a farmer, of Searle, Tusculoosa county, lost three of them in a fire last day. 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I was certainly in a dreadful state of health, when I finally decided to try Cardul, the woman's tonic, and I firmly THE GRANT AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "THE GRANT AUTHOR OF THE BOOK " The U.S. and the United States have been issued a new Schedule to the U.S. and the United States and the United States and the United States. ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER FRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. It contains reliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. It is safely recommended to you as a perfect newspaper for the home and family. IT LEADS in the quantity of original matter which it furnishes its patrons. IT LEADS in its spicy editorials and fearless sayings. IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pass. 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 condined to one particular case, either, but to both. THE PIONEER PRESS Has the LARGEST city circulation— The LARGEST Foreign circulation— The LARGEST domestic and general circulation— The LARGEST county and rural circulation of any Negro newspaper in the United States— Has the LARGEST Anglo Saxon circulation— WHY IS THE ABOVE SO? BECAUSE it is the pioneer of this section in blazing the way for truth, honesty, piety and fraugality and all other requisites that are necessary for the making of manly men and womanly women of all races. BECAUSE it merits support and gets it is proof positive that people know a good thing when they see it. BECAUSE of its unique and original qualities the PIONEER PRESS has a noticeable exclusiveness enjoyed by no other paper in the class wherein it circulates. The Pioneer Press With its generally large and intelligent circulation will bring ABUNDANT AND PROFITABLE RETURNS. POINTS ADVERTISERS. Viewed from the standpoint of newsworthy circulation or advertising power, THE PIONEER PRESS is the peer of its competitors and stands forth as a brilliant example of successful modern newspaper methods.