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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. AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. BY JOHN E BRUCE GRIT. Continued from Pioneer Press of Aug ust 23rd., 1913. Miss Clarice, the eldest of Captain Coverdale's sisters, took special charge of the education of her young ward, she taught him the alphabet and was amazed not only at his eagerness to learn, but at his splendid memory. Twice she took him through the A. B. C.'s, and then to test his memory required him to recite them in the reverse order which he did with great facility and readiness. Then she tried him with words of two letters, and gradually increased them. In the hour and a half that she gave him he was able to recite the Alphabet, spell words consisting of from two to four letters and explain their meaning as they were explained to him by his tutor. His precocity, to say nothing of his great eagerness to learn, impressed his preceptress so favorably that she decided to employ a private tutor for the boy, because she felt as she said to her brother at dinner, that the lad should have the very best opportunities possible for bringing out of him the latent powers which his trial lessons showed that he possessed in a most remarkable degree, and that it would be better to place him under a male teacher familiar with the training up of boys of his age, than to undertake the task herself though she was not unwilling to do so. She felt that in the last analysis this would be the best course to follow, as the influence of a stern, yet kind hearted and sympathetic man upon his future would be greater than a woman's. She wanted him to become a strong positive character, and she feared that, if she undertook the task of shaping it, her sympathy might at some time get the better of her judgment, knowing his history as she did, and he would gradually come to look for it. "I believe you are right Clarice," said the captain. Whom will you employ to prepare him for school? "I was thinking of Fred. Marston, who has prepared so many boys for college," she answered. "That is a capital plan said the captain." Turn him over to Marston, and I venture to say that in six months he will have him quite prepared to enter Dr. Hodder's school, from which he will graduate with honors, if he is as bright and quick to learn as you tell me he is. A singular thing about these African youths is, that they learn much more rapidly than white youths. Twenty years ago when I was in Africa I visited a Mission School on the West Coast, and was astounded by what I saw and heard among these black school children. Their teacher, a sweet faced Englishwoman told me that her youngest pupil, a girl 14 years of age had learned English in three months, and was the cleverest mathematician in her class. She had a natural aptitude for mathematics and solved the hardest problems without any apparent effort. One of her boy pupils, a Yomba lad, 16 years of age, was preparing himself for missionary work in Southern Nigeria among his people and after school hours busied himself in translating from the English into the native language of his people the lessons he has learned here and he has well under way a translation of the New Testament. Remarkable said Miss Clarice. "How can such a people be kept down, when they thus show their worthiness to rise. They cannot be kept down Clarice replied her brother. God does not intend that they shall be kept down. It is our duty therefore, to help them rise and as long as I live I shall do whatever I can to assist these patient and lovable black people to lift themselves to a higher plane of living and service." "Well said brother," replied Miss Clarice. It is our duty to help this people for to labor for man because he is man, is man's noblest work. Tomorrow I will place our ward in the care and keeping of Mr. Marston. I haven't the slightest doubt of the result said the captain, for Marston is a splendid teacher, and this little lad is a fine subject, and will as I believe, reflect credit upon Marston's abilities as an instructor as well as upon his race which "was born to scholarship." Here we dismiss Phillip and come to other matters. As the cable announced, in a previous chapter, Mr. Lermonte, the colored man employed to distribute the circular letters of enquiry as to the whereabouts of Phillip's mother, had written a letter giving a full account of his researches. Clarissa Eagleston had been located at Natchez, in the State of Miesiesippi, where she was employed as a maid of all work in a family at the munificent wage of $5 per month. She was as anxious to know who it was in England that wished to communicate with her as they were to get in touch with her. Mr. Lermonte it seems had apprised her of the fact that her boy was now in England with good friends, which explained the reasons why she was sought, and in her letter to him she had signified her willingness to go to the end of the earth to see her child. But how am I to get to England? she asked; I have no money. As soon as Captain Coverdale read this letter he directed the ship's Agents at Liverpool to write its American Agent at New Orleans, to furnish one first class passage from New Orleans to Liverpool on the next vessel of the line, sailing for England from that port. The Star of Avon sailed in ten days, and Mr. Lermont would have ample time to communicate with Mrs. Eagleston, and have her come to New Orleans by next sailing day. In addition to providing Mrs. Eagleston with first class passage the Agent at New Orleans was directed to hand her $50. Mr. Lermont was directed to pay her passage from Natchez to New Orleans and to give her whatever other financial aid she required necessary to the completion of her plans. This he did, and in due course Mrs. Eagleston reached New Orleans, and was as much surprised at the metamorphosis which had taken place, as her boy Phillip was when he found himself at table among so many distinguished people in the beautiful dining room in Captain Coverdale's handsome London home. When the Star of Avon sailed, Mrs. Clarisa Eagleston dazed, Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. THE OLD MUSICIAN. In a cracked voice an old Negro sang these lines. "The sun shines bright In my old Kentucky home; 'Tis summer, the darkies are gay Corn top's ripe, the meadows in bloom; And birds make music all the day." He had an audience of two boys and a man in the street. He was clawing an ancient banjo. Beside him lay his rusty brown hat—a silent appeal for a nickel. A man came across with a coin. "Thank you massa," said the Negro. "Don't call me massa," said the men, "there are no masters now." "Yes massa." The man shrugged his shoulders and passed on. There was no use wasting time on one who could not appreciate his rights; for the aged musician was a representative of a class that will soon be extinct. In the southern states but few remain who toiled in the cotton fields as chattels of another; but they invariably speak of their old massa and missus with great respect, and the proclamation of freedom never changed it. Too Slow. Secretary of War Garrison, commenting on an accident where an automobilist had been selfish and reckless, and ran over a poor old fellow. "How did you come to do this?" asked a bystander, were you running too fast? "No sir," said the automobilist with a smile, "he was running too slow." The Pierpont Morgan collection of Chinese porcelains is incomparable, and to a woman who once told him so he said: "I have loved good China all my life. I am like the dear old lady who declared: "There's nothing to compare with the calamity of losing a piece of china." "But, surely, surely," said the minister's wife, "It isn't as bad as losing a child." "Yes it is too," said the old lady, tossing her head. "When a child dies, you have the consolation of religion." Hunter—"Where are you going this summer, Bradley?" mystified, consumed with anxiety, sat on the upper after deck gazing intently upon the rugged waves that lashed against the sides of the ship, and wondered what would be the next scene in the drama in which she was playing a part without exactly knowing how it was going to end. But "God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform," as we shall see in the next chapter. To Be Continued. Bradley—"Nowhere—When every body else is pushing through the boardwalk crowd, and trying to listen to four or five different kinds of music at once, I am going to stay home where it's nice and quiet." TRUE TO THE END At Jimmy Harrigan's wake a tinge of patriotism was manifest. Mr. Mulcaby approached the widow, and said: "What did he die of Mrs. Harrigan?" "Gangrene, Mr. Mulcaby." "Well, thank Heaven for the color, Mrs. Harrigan." Father—"What's wrong with the sen once, Tommy?" "For years as men have uncom plainingly buttoned up women." Tommy—"The word uncom plainingly ought to be left out." EXPECT SPEEDY END OF OPIUM TRAFFIC Nations Unite to Control Shipment of Drug. Washington. Dr. Hamilton Wright, American delegato to the second international opium conference at The Hague, has returned from the Netherlands enthusiastic over what was accomplished at the conference and confident that before the end of the present year all the world will have ratified the convention of the opium conference of 1912, the provisions of which call for international control of traffic in opium and other habit forming drugs. While some nations have not signed the agreement of 1912 and others have declined for the moment to deposit ratifications of it, the recently ended conference at The Hague adopted a unique measure to exert enough pressure upon the governments still holding out to bring about ratification within a few months. The conference adopted a resolution calling on the Dutch government to make representations urging adoption of the opium convention on the outstanding countries through the Dutch ministers in the various capitals. SOME PLAIN HEALTH TALK. Man drinks whisky, and that clogs the valves; he drinks beer, and that clogs the wheels; he downs lemonade, ginger ale, buttermilk, ice tea, coffee and whatnot, and then wonders why the boilers do not burn. If you should take an ox and put him through a like performance he would be dead in a month. The simplest and plainest laws of health are outraged every day by the average man: Did Adam smoke? Did Eve wear a corset? Did Solomon chew tobacco? Did Ruth chew gum? Did the children of Israel make for the beer garden after crossing the Red Sea? Did Rebecca chew chocolate bon bons and ice cream and call for soda water? Adam was the first man and was made perfect from head to heel. How long would he remain so after eating pie before going to bed? Suppose he slept in a bed room 5 by 7, with the windows closed down, the doors shut, and two dogs under the bed. Suppose Eve had been laced up in a corset, worn tight shoes, hobble fig leaves and sat up all hours of the night, eating 'chicken salad and Welsh rarebits and trying to keep on four pounds of dead peoples hair?' Wellington (Kansas) Journal. The Value Of Efficient Methods Efficiency is not a new name for an old truth, so far as it relates to industry and to individual success. It is an absolutely new point of view in the business world. It is not Expert Accounting, for the reason that accounting deals only with records and not with methods. It is not Energy, for the reason that misdirected saving is often the most sulcidal of all business policies. It is not Energy, for the reason that misdirected saving is the most universal of all industrial wastes. It is not Slave-driving, for the reason that the most useless and wasteful actions can be done in the most systematic way. There can easily be too much system, but there can never be too much Efficiency. Efficiency means more NET. This little word of three letters—NEP, has in recent years become the most important word in the vocabulary of business. Net means not how much money you took in, but how much you have left. If you take in three million dollars and pay out the same amount; you have no net at all. It is better to take in one dollar and have ten cents left, than to take in ten dollars and have only five cents left. It is the NET that decides whether or not we are winning or losing, in the game of business. Gross receipts may pile up as high as a mountain, and yet at the end of the year there may be no residue of profit. It is not volume of businesses that makes net. Neither is it system nor energy for resources. It is all these, PLUS EFFICIENCY. Consequently, there is no other subject, just at the present crisis in our industrial evolution, that is attracting such keen interest as Efficiency. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent by railroads and other corporations to cut down the wastes and losses that arise from slipshed management. Cities and even states have employed experts to teach them the methods of Efficiency; and even the Federal Government has a President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency under the supervision of Dr Frederick A. Cleveland.—From "The Story of Emerson, High Priest of the New Science of Efficiency;" by Herbert N. Casseon, in the American Review of Reviews for September. NEW COUNTERFEIT BILLS Two counterfeit national bank notes have made their appearance and the secret service force of the government is hot on the trail of the men who are thus seeking to increase the volumes of paper currency. One bill is accredited to the First National Bank of Chicago, and the other purports to have been issued by the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, of Los Angeles, California. The Treasury Department, in a statement issued, says: "The figures in the bank and treasury department are poorly formed and out of alignment. The lathe work is very good. The back of the bills is a darker shade of green than the genuine. The paper feels thick and harsh." "The bills, the secret service officials say, are formed of two pieces of paper, between which silk threads are distributed. The officials add that if better printed these bills would be very deceptive. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS ACE IN ANAL. DEVELOPMENT OF RUNA I. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 ye... $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. Standing..... 50c. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Senior for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 101K Mar. Ginsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 13 In another column we publish a report of a rebuke administered to a jury in Montgomery, Alabama, by United States Judge William B Shopperd. It was just what they deserved, and we heartily commend Judge Shopperd for giving it to them. More of the same cors is needed. The Baltimore Afro American Ledger is authority for the statement that John Mitchell, Junior, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Virginia, was refused admission to the Supreme Lodge, at Baltimore, last week. This being so, we would advise Mr. Mitchell not to worry, because he is a member of the Royal Arts Society, of England; the American Bankers Association; the Anglo American Finance Corporation and various other organizations of worth and note. If you imagine every newspaper man is a millionaire, and never has any troubles, read the following item clipped from this week's Spirit of Jefferson, Charles Town; "We unlocked our forms after putting them on the press last week in order to insert two beasted personals for a young friend. A roller was let loose, the press bursted, and the bill for a new cut steel cog wheel, telegrams, parcels post, and expressage will pull our leg to the tune of $25. This is like running an automobile with gasoline at ten dollars per barrel. It costs something." If what John Mitchell, Jr., says of Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, of the Knights of Pythias is true, that gentleman ought to resign, so that the order over which he, (Green) presides, can be ridded of the present financial incubus which bids fair to retard its progress, and finally swamp what could be one of the greatest organizations among Negroes in the world. Common sense, a degree of scientific management, and unselfishness that denotes real devotion to duty would go a long way toward relieving the conditions which now threaten the very life of this once great organization, and the sooner they are brought into play the better. Rev. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Professor of Historical Theology in Gammon Theological Seminary, and one of the most scholarly men in the entire Negro race, delivered a magnificent lecture in Mount Zion M. E. Church on Friday night. His subject was "Three Feet Make a Yard," and that he handled it from every possible angle, is the consensus of opinion among all who were fortunate enough to hear him. Any race that can produce a man of Doctor Bowen's caliber, should feel justly proud of him and his attainments, because he is a living, as well as a flat contradiction of the persuasive cast upon our portion of the human family by Vardaman and his ilk. We have a Judge and Prosecuting Attorney in the County of Berkeley, who bid fair, in due time to arrest the crime wave now sweeping over our community. They want all classes of people to have a clear passport to the gates of justice, and for decency's sake, are a unit in pulling a stop to the foul conduct that has flourished for years right in the midst of colored people. What will God's decree be in the final judgment day, to those who speak disparagingly of and damn the Negroes, yet run their white prostitutes from among themselves, and allow them to live in what prejudice and ignorance call Africa, ring bells, fight, curse, shoot, expose themselves before colored children, who sea all kinds of men going there night and day. The like was done in Durham, North Carolina—everybody knows where it is—Duke, the tobacco manufacturer has his factories there—and the best Negroes, taking affront at what they considered a base imposition on them, their wives and children, banded themselves together, went to the best white people, and firmly and respectfully petitioned them to see that their women of the underworld were driven from among them. Not only did the whites head the suggestions of the Negroes; but they rid the whole town of their undesirable females; vicing with the colored people in the opinion that if we expect you to be good, we must help you be good. What was done in Durham can be done in Martinsburg. All that we need is a hearty cooperation between the best people of both races. Discuss it pro and con, and give every fellow the right to his own opinion, but The Pioneer Press says without fear of successful contradiction that the social evil is one of the greatest curses that ever beset the world, and the sooner it is controlled here, as well as everywhere else for that matter, the better it will be for everybody. When strangers come here, and in coming see as they can, our many church spires pointing heavenward, then laud and finally see these nasty houses of ill fame what must they think of religion and the good it is doing in Martinburg? Every black and white preacher who fails to join this crusade against those houses of assignation is neglecting his duty. They should buckle on their armor, so to speak, as did Gideon of old, and go forth and fight sin in a manner that will champion the admiration of everybody with whom they are acquainted. Rev. Mr. Reed of Luray brought here and pitched his tent in sight of two houses of prostitution and preenched against them. Brave man is he, and more like him are needed. Elsewhere in this paper will be found an account of how unjustly colored people who patronize the boats of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway, out of the port of Baltimore, are treated. To so misuse passengers who pay the same fare that others do, is a gross injustice, and should be corrected, if such a thing be possible of accommodation. We have been informed that the Pennsylvania Railroad owns and controls the B. C. & A., and if that be so, we think some effort ought to be made to interest them in this gross discrimination against our people, and see if something can's be done to correct, or in some way alleviate the suffering which they are incident to. Rev. S. H. Norwood, of Baltimore, who wrote the article in question, is to be commended for his interest in the race's behalf, and we are sorry that a man of his fine sensibilities should be made the victim of a race prejudice which should have no place in a free country. Last year when the Press predicted the state of affairs that now exist, the very Negroes who are giving this administration and its chief executive bill Columbia, were then telling the Negroes the country over that Woodrow Wilson, who was quoted as saying in Philadelphia a little ahead of that time, that: "It was a calamity to give the Negroes the right to vote," if elected would be their Moses. Say and do all you please, the same virus is in them and will be in them long as they live and Negroes gain nothing by begging Southern democracy is no friend to the Negro and he is a fool to coax and put it on the shoulder. It took bullets for half of the sixties to halt its brutality to us, and now it needs and needs badly a solid Negro ballot to put it out of commission. The reason why these men by sore-head late Negro democrats have no influence with Mr. Wilson and others is because they took thousands of dollars for the cheap talk they gave to Negroes. --- We have appeals from Oswald Garrissoe Vilhard and even the traitor, Trotter urging us to appeal to President Wilson their chosen candidate, to treat Negroes fair. If some is sense and logic, logic, we who are suffering ought to appeal to the ones who supported Wilson, denied all we—I mean the Press generally said would follow his election, and there are Messrs Villard, Dubois, Story, traitor—Trotter and others. The Pioneer Press strenuously advocated Mr. Roosevelt who promised the Negro fair treatment and we are for him today and will be as long as he and the editor of this paper live. The others above referred to placed more stress upon the Brownsville than the greater evils of peonage, lynching, and disfranchisement. Could nothing else but Democracy in power bless the country. If it has not played to the claim that what it fought for was only sleeping, and if it has not done its best to bring about conditions that existed before the war, then we can see straight. However, we have no sympathy for the men who urged us to pluck out our eyes, and then urge us to pray to the same powers to restore our lost sight. Nothing since the election of the late William L. Wilson the first time to Congress has created as much sensation and given as much real pleasure, as the initiatory steps to a living reality that should have and could have made Martinsburg equal to Hagerstown, or any other town in this famous Valley. We have the finest water, the best drained city and as healthy a place as can be found, hence why not make it up to date? It threw Martinsburg far in the background when the old fair ground was disposed of. How foolish to take a county seat's fair 8 miles from it. It belongs right at Martinsburg, and the fully four thousand enthusiastic and patient crowd that attended the opening of what is sure to be a future fair ground and a splendid race track, makes it an assured fact. New blood is at the head of it, and win it will. A city must have amusements—parks, museums, and many other exhibits to live and attract people to it. The men who are foremost in this project foresee what is best for Martinsburg. They are lovers of the best in nature, and its magnificent developments. How can the outside world go ahead in secular improvement, and not awaken to arouse the various churches to vie with them? If they fail to do so, the slogan will be: while society is nosing, the churches are dozing. Martinsburg needs more Stewarte, Underbills, Fryes and Dodde, gentlemen who are prime movers in the attempt to give to Martinsburg what she has long needed—a first class fair. MY TRIP DOWN THE BAY. A. G 30 A M. Thursday August 28 b. 1913 the writer left Baltimore on the steamer Cambridge for Easton. In the passengers' saloon were two signs "This section for colored passengers," "This section for white passengers," The writer thought as these signs were confined to the saloon space, that the deck space where the breeze and sight seeing are, were free for all alike. On the down trip the writer acted on that inference and started to do the same on the home trip. But he was reminded by an officer of the boat that there was in the colored section a very comfortable seat for the writer and that he had transgressed on the downward trip, though he was not disturbed. The writer replied that on the outward trip the colored section was occupied by white passengers, and that the same condition obtained now. The officer replied that he would secure the writer a seat in the colored section, and that as he could occupy one seat only that would be enough for him, which was done. Excluding the writer there was abundance of room for all the passengers both in the saloon and on the outer decks. But as the white passengers pleased they crowded the writer to suffocation in his section by filling the stationery chairs, and they added to his discomfort by bringing the smaller chairs and crowding him to much more discomfort. It was so hot in that section and so exclusive from all sight seeing and boat bay breeze that they would soon make to another seat. The occupants of that section excluding the writer were really transient. The writer of necessity left his seat five minutes, and when he returned his seat was taken, and he had to secure another one. Thus for passengers down the bay on the boats of the Baltimore, Cheesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company there are two different passages for passengers paying the same fare. When the writer sat he was too low to get any breeze at all, neither could he have any bay views. When he stood he could get air from his window, but no breeze at all, and could have bay views only from one side of a boat as they can be had from a window. The writer had several wishes. Once he thought it would be relief to be identified with the other passengers but as that would show a dissatisfaction with self and a denial of personal and racial identity he dispelled that wish because it was not himself he was dissatisfied with but the unpleasant and unequal and unjust discriminations made by the company. The writer once thought of seeking relief from the officer, who had directed him to the corner, but that was decided to be useless as he was the compensated human instrument to execute the injustice of the company. When he saw colored nurses, cooks and waiters going where they pleased, the temptation was to be one of them, but free spirit peremptorily repelled that thought. The writer did really wish that a member of the open air society, or a member of the humane society would come and give relief, but they were busy some where else looking after some suffocated child or misused horse. Therefore there was no relief until the boat landed at Light Street Wharf. The only way to keep relief is to stay off of that company's boats unless in cases of extreme necessity, which the writer will endeavor to do. He recommends all colored people to do the same. Respectfully yours. Sylvester H. Norwood, Pastor of St. Paul M. E. Churob Baltimore, Maryland. A DESERVED REBUKE. Montgomery Alabama—Because a jury reported a mistrial after two days in the case of Butler Searcy, a prominent Butler county planter, accused of holding Wash Gardner, a Negro, in peonage, Federal Judge William B. Shippard, of Peneacola, presiding temporarily over the federal court here, reprimanded the jury in most sensational terms. "This is a travesty on justice," he declared. "I do not see how any intelligent man, hearing the evidence as it was presented could agree to such a vordict." He pointed broadly that the members of the jury had carried their prejudices and petty personal differences into the jury room with them. This he said in substance, was despite the oath they had taken and the sacred obligations to which they subjected themselves. "While we hear much of the corrupt judiciary on every hand," he said, "do you not think it behooves every juryman to consider any case brought before him in an impartial light and to render his verdict to the best of his ability, exercising the functions God gave him to their fullest power? I know that had I given you my opinion of the case it would have had little weight on you. I will give it to you now. "This man is guilty of peonage. Deep down in your hearts you are certain of this fact, but you bring in a verdict to the effect that you agree to disagree." After hearing Judge Sheppard's scathing rebuke, Searcy the defendant arose voluntarily and pleaded guilty to the charge, despite the fact that two juries heretofore had failed to reach a verdict in his case. Searcy, at the conclusion of the Judge's excoriation of the jury, was sentenced to three months in the Montgomery jail. 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 o'clock on Saturday, July 26 BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling No 75 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago, No 76 Daily at 12:00 a.m for Grafton No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Whecling,Col- umbus 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 Berkley 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. Martinsburg, W. Va. Five Days' Notice In Connecticut After Aug. 1 to Get a License. New Haven, Conn.—Prospective elopers may save time and a trip to Connecticut if they heed the notice given by the secretary of state that no more hair trigger marriage licenses will be issued. This law became effective on Aug. 1. Five days' notice will be required before a license can be issued. For several years the custom has grown of runaway couples swarming into Connecticut, securing licenses under the liberal state laws and often being married the same afternoon. This city has been a center for elopers. Aldermen and lawyers protested vainly against the passage by the legislature of the new law, the revenue from the elopers having proved a substantial part of their income. 300 WOMEN ASK PENSIONS. Ten Receive Grants Under the New Washington Law. Seattle, Wash.—Ten women received grants of pensions from Superior Judge Frater when he heard the first batch of cases under the mothers' pension law, enacted by the recent legislature. Fifteen cases were heard. Three were denied and two were referred for further investigation. The largest pension granted was for $37.50 a month to a destitute widow with seven children. The amounts in the other cases ranged from $15 to $30 a month, according to the circumstances of the petitioners. The investigator of the pension department reported that 300 applications for mothers' pensions had been filed, of which 150 came within the provisions of the law. STORK'S LITTLE TRICK. Makes Ambulance Call Twice at the Same House. Chicago.—Twin boys, each weighing three pounds, were born to Mrs. Lena Cohen of 1415 South Halsted street. They arrived fifteen minutes apart and necessitated two trips of the Desphines street police ambulance to the County hospital, where they were placed in incubators. Dr. L. A. Sutton, ambulance surgeon, hurried to the Cohen home in response to a telephone call, arriving a few minutes after the birth of the first Cohen heir. The mother refused to be taken to the hospital. Upon arriving at the institution Dr. Sutton found a telephone message asking him to hurry back to the Cohen home, where he learned of the birth of the second boy. TO REORGANIZE WEATHER BUREAU Washington. A complete reorganization of the weather bureau is in process, and it was said it would affect every station in the country, to say nothing of the effect of the change on commission merchants, farmers and others who are in receipt of daily weather maps which issued from forecasting stations. For some time inspectors have been visiting the various stations collecting data by which it is hoped not only to improve the service and cause the daily forecasts to be more accurate, but at the same time introduce economies. Charles F. Marvin of Columbus, O., has been appointed chief of the bureau. One of the important changes contemplated in the service is to issue a night map instead of a day one. This change from day to night, it is calculated, will save money because it will eliminate from many stations the duty of publishing a daily weather chart. Men longest in the service, however, declare that the night map is unlikely to be regarded as an improvement because it will reach the persons interested about twelve hours late. 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. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION ```markdown ``` STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round trip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 87 miles. 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SECOND HARD BICYCLE A number of hand latches installed by our Chicago retailer allow second hand disegners but usually have engraved letters. A second hand latches installed by our Chicago retailer allows a period CASTER = GRAKES single engraved letter, inscribed letter oblique and cursive letters. R-lics the thick rubber road "A" and puncture strips and "B" also rim tape "H" to prevent rim cutting. This fire will outset any other make-up, SOFT, ELASTIC and EARY RIDING. Offer pair. All orders shipped same day. You do not pay a cent until you pay $4.25 per pair) if you send FULL CASH in sending us an order as the tie may be oceanation. We are perfectly reliable these ties you will find at any价 eiro you have ever used or seen at any价 eiro you will give us your order. We sarc price until you send for a pair of FULL CASH approval and trim at the special in production which describes and quotes all makes and THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of the new and wonderful offers we are making. 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