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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The ESTABLISHED 1882. AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. BY JOHN E. BRUCE GRIT. Continued from Pioneer Press of September 13th., 1913. Phillip spent the afternoon and evening almost exclusively in the company of his mother and they plied each other with questions, some of them serious, others witty and laughable. They were like two children, rather than mother and son. The boy's refined manner and speech excited the pride of his fond mother and when she was lost for words (an unusual thing in a woman) to say to him—she gazed fondly and admiringly on his handsome face and form patted his cheeks or stroked his hair, to give further emphasis to the joy she felt in being in his presence again. And the boy reciprocated the mother love so variously expressed by his ready responses to all the endearments she showed him. The company in the large and handsomely appointed drawing room were not unmindful of the scene being enacted before them. Miss Clarice, with Dr. Hodder, sat in a far corner of the room discussing Carlyle's Sartis Resartus, and at the same time expressing herself quite freely about this crabbed and dyspeptic Scotchman, observing Phillip and his mother again lovingly embracing each other, quoted the well known lines of Cowper: "Fleecy locks and dark complexion Cannot alter nature's claim, Skins may differ, but affection How true remarked Dr. Hodder. Do you know Miss Olarice, I was thinking of those lines when I looked at that devoted mother and her promising boy. I was thinking what a crime human slavery was and how shockingly cruel it was to separate two souls so devoted to each other as this mother and her boy. Think of the anguish and pain which that mother endured during the weary years that she was separated from her child. Oh Miss Clarice what a dreadful punishment awaits the oppressors of this unfortunate race. The Anglo-Saxon must pay the penalty and compound interest for the Judgments of the Almighty are sure. Doctor I agree with you, I have often thought about this matter and I have trembled as I read the horrible stories of the brutalities of the slave holders in America—trebled for the white race over there which has for so many years sown to the winds, and I have tried to imagine what the consequence of their wrongs toward this race will be. I feel that they will be more terrible than we in our day can conceive. The law of compensation like the laws of the Medes and Persians is without shadow or variableness of turning. America will pay the penalty for her sins against this race in blood and treasure. She cannot escape the fate which awaits her. Thank God we in England have abolished slavery, and as our Cowper says: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs receive our air, that moment they are free. They touch our countrys and their shockles fall. This lad and his mother shall find here the freedom which they have long been denied. My sister and brother and I intend to give them a taste of English freedom that they will remember to their dying day. It being time for Philip to return to his studies with his tutor his mother reluctantly parted with him, and the Misses. Coverdale entertained her for almost an hour after with music and song, when she retired for the night with a light heart and the pleasantest recollections of an eventful day, the like of which she had never before experienced. Phillip was off with his tutor who was making a man of him. THE BLOOD LUST OF THE MOB. Just recently a Negro was lynched by a mob at Greenville, Georgia. The very next day it was announced that the Negro's innocence had been completely proved, the real culprit having been apprehended and confessed. The mob that destroyed an innocent man will go its way undisturbed, yet it committed hotblooded murder without justification. It is a fine commentary upon the law and upon the ability of men to govern themselves. It is especially an illuminating commentary on the whole race hatred movement. It indicates that the real desire is to lynch a Negro and not particularly to punish the man guilty of crime. It shows how debased a man can become through hatred, and makes one pause and wonder whether civilization may work its way out on this continent when such savagery can dominate whole communities of men. Mob murder is worse than individual murder, and yet is seldom punished. In this case an innocent citizen supposed to have the protection of the law, was ruthlessly slaughtered to make a holiday for a frenzied, shouting mass of half crazed men, drunk with lust for blood through a fostering of race hatred. Nothing can undo that crime, nothing give back that life. Yet the law complacently beholds these maniacs proceeding about their business and makes no effort to apprehend them for their awful crime. It seems inevitable that some day the government itself will have to device a way to prevent this disregard of law and justice and decency if communities are unwilling or helpless.—St. Paul, (Minnesota.) Dispatch. RACE PREJUDICE BOUND TO DIMINISH. Race discrimination is foreign to the great mass of intelligent Americans. The race prejudice fostered by the proprietors of certain botele and restaurants is fostered for business reasons only. It is done to please a comparatively small class. While there are signs of increase in discrimination against the Negro in the North here and there, these do not indicate a tendency. Race prejudice cannot gain headway against the stream of intelligence or overcome the fusion of our common life. Chicago Daily Tribune. To Be Continued. SATURDAY. Malicious Falsehood The following three letters, anent an American correspondent's base misrepresentations, was written Editor Hairy O Smith, of the Cleveland Gazette, by Hon. Henry W. Furniss, American Minister to Haiti: AMERICAN LEGATION. Port su Prince, Haiti, 9—6—13 Dear Mr. Smith: I am in receipt of the clipping from the St. Louis "Globe Democrat" of August 11 b, 1913, said clipping being behead; "Troops fire into collia." This clipping is an extract from an article of more than a column in length which appeared in the New York "Evening World" of August 11th, 1913, purporting to be an account of an interview with one M., Marfield Kamp. The clipping you sent me constitutes nothing more than a lie on a par with other lies in the New York "Evening World" article. I was present, in my official capacity, at the funeral services of President Tancrede Anguste at the Cathedral at Port au Prince on the 4th day of May last, and I have to state that there was not one shot fired into the office, nor is such action customary in Haiti, as Mr. Kmp would have it appear. Contrary to Mr. Kemp's alleged retaliation, General Tancrede Anguste was generally well liked. It is true that during the funeral services there was some disorder due to the fact that one of the would be candidates for the presidency of Haiti caused some photo to be fired in the vicinity of the Cathedral which caused a slight panic. This was soon abated, the services concluded and the funeral cortege proceeded to the cemetery. Mr. Kemp, in the "World" article, is made to say that he was the only American present. This is also a lie. As I said before, I was present in my official capacity, and with me was the American Vice and Deputy Consul, as was also Mr. F. Henry Berlin, an American engineer of Philadelphia, Pa. There may have been other Americans present, but on account of the great crowd it is impossible to say definitely. I have been told, however, that Mr. Kemp was not present. You're truly, NO ODY CARED "Fire, starting in a Negro district, caused a loss of $5 000 000 in Hot Springs. No doubt the Negro district was neglected and not amply provided with fire protection. Nobody cared. It was nobody's business. Carlyle tells of seventeen ladies belonging to great families living on a fashionable street, who cited from a fever that spread from the equalid home of a poor woman in an alley nearby. No one cared for the sick woman. It was none of their business. The daughter of a prime minister died of a disease contracted from a garment worn, and which was made in an infested sweat shop district. No one cared for this district. It was none of their business. And so it goes. Nevertheless the human family is one body, and whatever injury one part of it injures all parts of it."—M. M. Hollis Schmitt Press. Y INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED H PTEMBER 27, 1913. ANOTHER TITLE FOR MAY YOHE Song Said to Have Won Back Lord Hope's Love. RECONCILIATION IN SIGHT. "Honey, Ma Honey," Was Song Which Touched Her Former Husband—Fortune Has Taken Many Peculiar Turns For This Beautiful Woman. London.—Rumors that Lord Francis Hope may rewed his former wife, May Yohe, are current. Lord Hope visited the London Opera House, where Miss Yohe is appearing. The former Lady Hope was in excellent voice and sang "Honey, Ma Honey," that she often sang to her husband during their life together. Lord Francis is said to have been touched by the song. Overtures for a reconciliation, it is said, have been made through Lord Francis' brother, the Duke of Newcastle, and the duke's lawyer, Mr. Isitt, husband of Adeline Gence. Fortune has taken many turns for May Yohe. She was at the height of success when she was married to Lord Francis Hope in 1930. She was the most celebrated actress of three conti-pents, young and beautiful. Her marriage was a turning point. In the twenty years since then she has run the gainut of mis-fortune. May Yohe started her career in a church choir near Philadelphia and ```markdown ``` MAY YOHE, WHO, IT IS SAID, MAY BE REWED TO LOLD FRANCIS HOPE, soon went on the stage. She became a favorite and had many sultons. She chose Lord Francis Hope. Her wedding gift from him was the famous Hope blue diamond, taken from the head of an Indian idol and said to have brought bad luck to every one who ever wore it. May Yohe was no exception to the rule. After living with Lord Francis seven years she met Major Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of an ex-mayor of New York, and eloped with him in 1899, Lord Hope secured a divorce, and Strong and Miss Yohe were married. After a number of separations and after Strong had been forced to resign from the army, they separated permanently in 1905. In April, 1907, she was married to J. Newton Brown. He did not last long. BY GAIN." VOL. 32 NO. 30. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. DUELING BY W. G. DUELING "Why, my friend," said one count to another, "look at your face—such a word outel." "I have not been dueling" growled the other. "It's my American wife; she makes me eat with a fork, and I am too awkward in using it." Governor Sulzer was talking in Albany about a certain political move. It reminds me of a lawyer who wanted to borrow Blackstone from a neighboring lawyer. "You are free to read the Blackstone" said his neighbor, in my library, but you can't take it away. I've stopped lending books, for they generally fail to come back." Well, a few days later lawyer No. I wanted to water his lawn, and asked lawyer No. 2 if he wouldn't end him his new hose, and received the following answer: "Sure, old fellow, sure! But it's my rule never to let my hose be taken away. You're perfectly welcome however, to use it on my own lawn as often as you like." Society—The snubbers and the snubbed. Civil Service—What you don't get if you fail to tip. Pipe of peace—Not the kind husband's generally smoke in the house. Gossip—What one woman says about another before the other gets a chance to say it about her. Proposal—A short sentence that generally leads to a long one. GRAY HAIRS. Gray hairs are an appendage that should inspire respect. But some persons never have any respect for those who have them till after they have acquired some themselves. IN THE YOUNG INSURANCE AGENT. 'In the beginning of my career,' said the young agent, 'I gained access one morning to the august and formidable presence of Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan.' 'I stand before the desk of the great man, with my big envelope of life and death statistics in my hand. Mr. Morgan,' I began, rather timidly, 'you ought to carry more life insurance, laying my insurance proposition loidly and cogently before the great man. He listened in silence, while those three blue eyes of his fairly bored through me like lances, and when I stepped all he said was 'How did you get in here?' 'I walked in,' I answered. 'Well' said he "walk out." Discussing a rather Bohemian set in Chicago, George Ade said at the Athletic Club: "These poor girls think that they will look literary just because they use a pencil to darken their eyebrows." AM INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS A FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMA Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawes: 869, and Bell Phone, 101K Mar. Linsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 13 Why should Australia be ahead of the United States in the matter of mine safety?—Wheeling Intelligencer. One reason is their government is for the people, while here the people are for the government. And for another reason: down here in the stone quarries—bad, and in many cases worse—the slogan is: "Kill a nigger hire another, kill a mule, buy another." Is the reason sufficient? There has been more Tommy rot and Tom foolery if the two Toms can be combined—in this country over the high cost of living than any other country on earth. There is nothing on earth the cause of high prices of food stuff, except the one thing and that is—the gossip of men who have enough money to buy up production and hold it for consumption—that is all. A car is to go over this estate for the purpose of showing up the ravages of consumption. If the folly of footwear, and the exposition of the bodies and arms of girls were put on the market and rigidly condemned, decidedly more good would be done, providing girls could be persuaded to spend more of their money for good food and less for hats, and dress themselves for warmth and not for show—always to discreet observers ridiculous. We are more than a little curious to know that if in reality army doctors can and have made typhoid fever a play thing, and the soldiers immune to its ravages, why can't our doctors out of the army do as much for their home people? It is the assured pay they are to, and do get, that does it. If that be so, then out of army doctors should be also paid to kill it at their various homes, or the army doctors give the world the remedy and recipe. ```markdown ``` If parents of Negro children only knew the incalculable value of reading, what a blessing it would be to our race. When their poor little tots barely get enough in the public schools to add, subtract, multiply and divide and can scarcely prove solutions in the last two fundamental principles of arithmetic, they are graduated, and given diplomas. God pity them, we pray. Show us a reading people, and we'll show you the people who are sure to rule the world. At one time New England was foremost in solid religious thought and example. Not so today. She has fallen from grace, and with other sections has gone mad after the dollar, forgetting in part the God they prayed so fervently to in Revolutionary times, and the rights of men. Who could have thought that that once considered most righteous section would ever condone or endorse so fool a murderer as Harry Thaw? Could not have been so a hundred years ago. Thank God Canada set her adjacent neighbor an example, and New England should no more wart him at large there and on her soil than Canada did. Had he been poor to the electric chair he would have gone long ago. The kickers of the National Independent Political League, held their little family affair in Boston and the biggest thing of it was pictures and prophecies of what was going to be in the Guardian a week before the fiasco took place. Hayes of West Virginia, Bentley of Illinois and others,were not there yet they wore elected vice presidents, DuBois was not there though he was to speak, and the foxy Bishop stayed away. The only thing our dear brother William boasts of is that Hon. Archibald Grimke came back to him. Brother Grimke ought to keep in mind when Bro. Clifford made Mr. Trotter open closed doors on him when Trotter had sworn of Grimke and Hayes entered, they would do so over his dead body. Bro Grimke, we counsel you thusly. Don't you know. When the devil was well, devil of a monk was he." That Negro editors are doing more to awaken and arouse a healthy public sentiment; more to correct the wrongs that exist; more to make men think and be manly men; more to expose and paint the Tillmana, Vardamans, Blessees and make just men hate them; more to keep the churches right, than any other source in America, is absolutely true. It tells the good things, contends against the wrong ones from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the gulf—then it takes the wings of electricity and goes the world over. If the Negroes would only change their giving of their hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to jim crow shows, picnics and camp meetings, and not only support Negro newspepers, but have the best of a paper in every large city of this country, the death knell of hatred would prevail, and the race be 500 per cent better off. At Booker T. Washington's blatherskite meeting in Philadelphia, he had a fellow telling the people of that city, how Negroes live in Virginia,—how like dogs and dogs they lived. Of course it evoked much laughter with the most, but to a sober thinker it was a shameful exposition of the sins of whites still clinging to the Negroes, who were huddled together in buts and cabins like dogs and dogs for centuries, and how can they and their posterity be expected to live up to the full standard of decency in so short a time? Then, too, where are they forced to live but in the worst places of towns and cities,—back alleys and byways, and the man who make verbal exhibitions of them are big headed tools, with no doubt back yards of their own suffering to be raked, swept and limed, and in many cases these talkers' morals are far worse than those they make a laughing stock of. In keeping with our editorial on the education of children, and what we would do with ours if life could be lived over, we reprint the following: "Men of the world!" They are men of the make-believe world. They are children before all that is elemental in the world. I should like to send a raft load of them to an island where for the saving of their lives and their souls they would have to come at close grips with the world, learn what labor means, learn the secret of the winds and the seasons, learn the fecundity of our brown mother earth and how to use it, learn the flights of birds and the loves of the burrowing things, learn of fire and boiling water, of muscles raked in action and weariness that gives sleep its finest flavor. I should like to send them to school to Earth, and become like the Indian, like the pioneer, like the farmer, true men of the world. No one is so helpless as the "man of the world" when he meets the world face to face, he and it alone. The man of the world, by which I mean the man of the field and the hills and the sea, walks as a master through the haunts of these artificial men of an artificial world, because they are men of an artificial world because they are men of the world in truth. They know. Knowing the brown mother, they know her sons and daughters of every degree. They may not know a coffee spoon from a desert spoon, but they know a man from a monkey. "And most bossed "man of the world" are just wise monkeys—very entertaining in their "knowing ways," but monkeys nevertheless.—Detroit News. Elsie Cook. If ever there was a case in the Circuit Court of Berkeley County that should arouse the soul of every woman, Elisie Cook's is that one. That her condition was known to her relatives and the doctor who attended that family, goes without proving. Why did the poor soul—to be pitied, go from that house to a water closet and there remain for two hours in child labor? and how did the witnesses against her know when she left the house, where she went and how long she stayed there, if they were not parties to it? Why again did the woman go to the water closet, wrap the dead baby up, put it into a bucket and take it to the cellar and there leave it, if she played no part in the game? Why should the family doctor busy himself as to what lawyer should be employed in the case? Why should a family doctor when sent for refuse to go until he could secure another doctor to go with him? Sure as God reigns, "there is something rotten in Denmark." Think of a woman, no difference under what circumstances over which she has no control, being forced to give birth to a child in a water closet and no one to help her. One of the best doctors in this state tells the world that if a human being were dissected joint by joint the pain and suffering would not be as great as that of a woman giving birth to a child. Who but God can know the intention of that poor deceived girl. How reasonable that in her agony the prints referred to may have been made trying to help the unborn child. Another universally known truth is that the navel cord has choked many a child to death, and left the neck black and blue. If Woods who shot and killed a man here, could change his plea from murder in first degree to involuntary manslaughter, and get only five years in state prison, surely the towering soul of our good Judge will give Elsie Cook benefit of a doubt—and God knows there is a doubt—and let her do what Jesus told the accused woman to do, "go free and sin no more." This paper sincerely wishes that every Negro editor knew that too modest man, yet exact in justice; in scholarship profound; in goodness supreme; in fairplay to man an earthly god—Horace J. Rollin, "Rollin Place," Troy, Ohio. He is author of fine books. It was at his house and under his supervision the beat life of Dunbar was written and the world knows it not. "Yette Sagal" should be read and hold a high place in every Negro library—in short all his works and if every struggling, race lover knew this powerful thinker, writer and philosopher as we do, he would be classed with Sumner and Garrison—loved as they are, and with their names his would go down embalmed in the choiceest literature—our sincere wiah. When one gets down into the real legal minutia of the so-called white slave theory, Judge John C, Pollock, of Wienita, Kansas, who holds that the charge can be applied to the interstate commercial transportation of women, strikes the nail on the head. The judge might also added, —and when then it can be proven they were transported against their will. 'Under the law as I constitute it,' said Judge Pollock, "the commercial feature must be proved. It was not the aim of Congress to prevent the personal escapades of any man," & Aside from what has been said and done, what about the white black slave trade? Possibly this answer to a query is sufficient. Not long ago, a man and two women were stoning and talking themselves hoarse over this alleged crime of crime, but who asked what about the black slave, the slave was—"That's a horse of another color." If ye editor had stayed from all the one-horse fly-by night jim Crow shows, or moving picture shows, his going to bear the unique Anderson family last Monday night would have been glory enough for him. Why? Because they are artistic performers and Negroes at that—products of slavery. They have traveled over the civilized world and endeared themselves to it, and wrought volumes of good for us. Their voice has gone out through all the earth. It is the cry of the past—the afflictions of slavery bursting out in music—a shout of an accomplished jubilee and it happened exactly 50 years to the day since Lincoln set us free. It is the exultation of a new hope; a stride of history—certainly prophetic. Had we stood on the banks of the Red Sea, saw and heard the sister of Aaron when she took timbrel in hand, and with all the women sang how the Lord had "triumphed gloriously," all things considered, could not have been pleased better. BREAKING S BREAK PROTECTION Urges Senate to Prohibit Importation of Plumage. FLAYS "IGNORANT" WOMEN Feather Trade and Those Who Insist on Wearing Plumes and Aigrets Share in Abuse--Points Out Laws of Germany and Lauds Them. Senator George P. McLean of Connecticut, author of the bill to protect migratory game birds, strongly urged the senate to adopt the house provision of the tariff bill prohibiting the importation of the plumage of birds. He attacked the feather trade and denounced the "ignorant women" who insist upon plumes and aigrets in following the dictates of fashion. Senator McLean pictured the wanton destruction of birds at the nest season, the widespread dearth of birds that are enemies to insects and other pests that destroy crops and the killing of game wardens who tried to protect the feathered tribes. "The plumage trade," he declared, "has left behind it a trail of eagles ```markdown ``` GENATOR GEORGE P. M'LEAN. cruelty and civilized greed and cunning and nothing whatever to commend it except the blood money it has collected from ignorant women. I say ignorant women because no woman worthy of the name will encourage this trade once she understands her responsibility for it." Referring to Germany's protest, he said that Germany for many years by imperial act had prohibited the killing of useful and beautiful birds. "Upon what ground and what grace do the German merchants ask us to find a market for their contraband goods?" he asked. He quoted Dr. Field, Massachusetts game commissioner, in reply to the criticism that the bill would encourage the destruction of American birds. Dr. Field appeared before a congressional committee and said he had prosecuted seventy-five milliners for setting the plague of native birds, and he even prosecute the dealer assemblage he could not tell the native from the federal database when it was received from the dealer. BOGUS LORD, CONVICT, SEEKS FULL PARDON "Lord Barrington" Begins a Fight For Freedom. 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 1802, 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 affidavit made by Cecil Rollina, 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, Bengal, 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, Burmah and South Africa. He came to Montreal in February, 1902, he says, accompanied by a sister, inter 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. 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 essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1879 Broadway, New City. BALTIMORE & OHIO 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. Loren Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling No 15 Daily at 11.50 a m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p. m for Grafton, Pittsburg, and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p.m for Wheeling, 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 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. Baltimore, Md. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent. Martinsburg, W. V. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. Lillie Carter is well again after a threatened attack of blood poison. Rev. A. O. Smith has been spending the past few days in Berryville, where he is considering a call to preach in the Baptist Church there. Miss Marie Hamilton has gone to her home in Pittsburgh after an enjoyable stay of several weeks in our city. Mr. Mark King, the popular Pittsburg picture man, was in to see us for a few minutes the other day, and he reports business good. Mr. H. S. Krumbine, of Gilpen, Md., who is a general favorite with the Press force, called to see us the other day. We enjoyed his coming, and hope to see him soon again. Mr. James S.ewart, well known Piedmonter, and an important and responsible man with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, was in town the other day. Mrs. Edith Busey, after experiencing a serious attack of typhoid fever, has gone to her old home in Virginia, where she will visit her mother, and attempt to regain some of the strength lost by her sickness Meadamce, E. Trigg and E. L. Waller, of Baltimore, visited Mr. and Mrs. James Hutton during the week. The first named lady is Mrs. Hutton's mother, and the last named one a friend of the family. They are pleasant people. Mrs. James Hamilton and Miae Lida Tocus, of Pittsburg, are in our city for a few days, after which they will continue on to Atlantic City, where they go for a short stay. We hope they may enjoy themselves, and return home thoroughly refreshed and ready for the winter's work. Mrs. Emma Stevenson, of Atlantic City, has returned home after a very pleasant visit of a week or more in this city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Reed, her parents. Mrs. Stevenson is well known to most Martinsburgers, having spent her girlhood days here, and they were very glad to see her again. While out hunting with a white boy named Baker, Mr. Charles Rideout was shot in the left shoulder on last Friday afternoon. He was brought to the City Hospital, where Dr. Oates labored hard to save Rideout's life, but his efforts were unavailing, lockjaw developing, and the unfortunate young man dying late Thursday right. Mr. Stephen R. Snodgrass, one of the best known and finest young men in this city, died at his home here on last Sunday morning. He had been in ill health for some time, but his death came as a great shock to his host of friends here and elsewhere, some of them having seen and greeted him a few hours before he died. Mr. Franklin Pierce, the famous blind man who makes Martinsburg his home, and well known to almost everybody therein for the past forty years, called to see us the other day. Mr. Pierce is one of the most remarkable blind men we have ever seen, and despite his affliction, he is vastly more intelligent and energetic than hundreds who can see. Mesers. Mack Hopewell and Edward Tolliver, of Shoperdstown, drove up here on Wednesday night and while in Mr. Henry Hopewell's house their horse and buggy was stolen. Although they have made a systematic search of this town, and telephoned to surrounding towns, up to the hour of going to press, not a word has been heard of the missing team. Mr. Nathaniel Woods, who lived in Martinsburg some thirty odd yeare, and since that time a resident of Pittsburg, is shaking hands with old friends once again. He looks well, and his eyes have a merry twinkle in them when he gets to talking about many incidents which occurred long years ago when he was around Martinsburg and Shepberdstown, in which latter place he was born. While here Mr. Woods is stopping with Mrs. Emma Bell, his sister. The Anderson family, (Arthur, Alice, Egypta and Edward). people famed on two continents as performers and entertainers, were prominent and welcome callers at our office on Wednesday last. The first named, Mr Arthur Anderson, is the father of Misses Alice and Egypta, and Master Arthur Anderson, and this quartet is hard to beat. They play sing pose and recite, and Master Edward is as clever a boy actor and comedian as we have seen in a long time. The troup furnishes a good grade of instrumental music. Mr Anderson playing the violincello and piano; Miss Alice the guitar, and Miss Egypta the violin. Aside from their professional worth, the Andersons are pleasant people to meet, and their wide travel makes them very entertaining conversationalists. 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 furniebes 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 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 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 NEGRO YEAR BOOK CO. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. 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. GOLD FAMINE IN GERMANY. Shortage Brings Crisis Near and Government Departments Are Warned. London.-The shortage of gold in Germany is rapidly assuming the proportions of a crisis. The government is steadily engaged in increasing gold reserves in readiness, it is said, for possible war or an economic crisis. The Imperial and Prussian administrations, and notably those of the post-office department, have been invited to retain all the gold they receive and pay out only paper money. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D PRESIDENT. 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 or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. 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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 co., us. 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 Polychronic. Edward A. Eailoch, 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. Occupation own building opposite the court house Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dec 420 5th street N. For college and special information address Dean of Department. 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In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Bicycles. ARCELY ALK ABOUT believe I would have died if I hadn't taken it. After I began taking Cardui, I was greatly helped, and all three bottles re- lieved me entirely. I fattened up, and grew so much stronger in three months, I felt like another person altogether.' Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle-acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic effect, on the womanly constitution. Cardui makes for increased strength, improves the appetite, tones up the nervous system, and helps to make pale, sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy. Cardui has helped more than a million weak women, during the past 50 years. It will surely do for you, what it has done for them. Try Cardui today. Write for: Chattanooga Woman Go, Lady!'s Advisory Library on women's health and women's books. "How Treatment for Women" sent in when wounded. PACIFIC HALFWAY ACROSS THE CANAL Twenty Tons of Dynamite Open Stretch of Work. BIG CUT RAPIDLY FILLED. Dredges Expected to Complete Work of Establishing Channel at Western End In Short Time—The Cut is 5,000 Feet Long, 800 Feet Wide and 41 Feet Deep. Panama.—The last remaining barrier at the Pacific end of the Isla canal has been blown up by dynamite. It was an intensely interesting spectacle. An electric switch was turned on, and a moment later the 1,500 spectators and the officers of the British cruiser New Zealand saw a wonderful sight. Hundreds of tons of mud and stones were thrown high in the air. There they seemed to be, then fall back as the roar of the explosion echoed in the nearby hills. About twenty long tons, equivalent to 44,800 pounds, of 15 per cent dynamite constructed the blast, which was one of the largest ever set off in the canal. The charge, which was planted in 541 holes at an average depth of thirty feet, fore a big gap in the barrier, but not to a sufficient depth to permit the water to flow through, as the sea level channel was at low tide. Equally as interesting as the explosion was the actual breaking of the barrier, the tide creeping steadily up until it was level with the top of the gap. A workman seized a shovel and made a small trench, through which a rill of water trickled. Gradually it widened until an hour afterward a torrent, with a thirty-five foot fall, poured through an opening 400 feet wide ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association into that part of the canal between Gambon dike and Miraflores locks which had been excavated by steam shovels. This cut, which is 5,000 feet long, 500 feet wide and 41 feet deep below mean sea level, was immediately filled when the waters of the Pacific touched for the first time the solid masonry of the Miraflores locks. Dredges passed through the opening, and in a few days the last vestiges of the barrier will be removed, establishing a practically complete channel at the Pacific end. The dredges have begun to remove the last barrier of the Atlantic channel. When that work is accomplished ships may navigate to the locks at both ends. On May 18 the engineers of the Panama canal exploded 32,750 pounds of dynamite that had been loaded into 236 holes to dispose of the first dike holding back the Pacific ocean. This dike had dammed the waters of Ancon harbor, in the gulf of Panama, until the engineers practically finished excavating a long stretch of the canal near Miraflores. The mighty blast was successful, and the waters of the Pacific flowed into the canal up to the point where it was checked until the last blast removed another barrier. 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