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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. Frostburg's Great Teacher Prof. T. W. Gordy, the talented and progressive principal of our school is certainly pushing his school to the front. He is one of those rare characters of the race who will not consent to be satisfied with conditions which do not measure up to the modern ideas of advanced instructors. With him the very best is none too good for the school over which he exercises supervision. Hence he has secured for his building electric lights, new heating stoves with a changing around of furniture which has greatly improved the appearance of the classes room and will make it possible to more properly heat the building in cold weather. The Assistant Supt. under the late democratic administration told the writer that Prof. Gordy's class rooms were better ventilated than any other building. Said he: Whenever I enter his class rooms I can detect at once that sweet, pure atmosphere so essential to the health of both teachers and pupils. And so we found it. Everything clean and tidy, pupil looking bright and cheerful, with no sign of drowsiness which is always apparent when the ventilation is defective. The Professor certainly understands the science of ventilation. Outside one can easily see cleanliness and good drainage. No filth of any kind is allowed to accumulate, and it is no unusual sight to see him at work early in the morning with shovel and rake, cleaning ditches, raking up leaves and anything else that is likely to accumulate in the vicinity of the school premises. As an instructor, he is a topnotcher—everything is made plain and comprehensive. Nothing is left to be guessed at—the pupil gets the full benefit of the best that is in him. Over and above his many exacting duties he finds time to see the people in their homes to meet them socially. In the local assemblies of the white teachers he holds a membership, not as a listener only, but as an active worker. When the time comes for him to handle a subject, as the saying goes, "he is there with the goods. He is a plodder and a digger after knowledge, and so like the Indian's gun, he is always ready to shoot and be rarely ever misses the bull's eye. Since he has been here he has pushed his work forward so rapidly that three of his pupils are now at State Normal No. 3, and another is in his third year at Storer College, Harper's Ferry. This has never before happened in the history of this school. In this good work he is ably seconded by his assistant, Mrs. Nellie C Bell, a native of this city, who has charge of the primary department Mrs. Bell is an earnest, hard working instructor. Being endowed with a considerable amount of native talent, together with an indomitable will, she is fast overcoming difficulties incident to earlier training and is forging ahead with every promise of success. She attended the summer sessions at Cheyney, Pa., and came back imbued with a greater determination to make her efforts tell for the good of the school. "By their fruits ye shall know them" and her work is telling. The Professor has opened a night school, which will be followed by a literary society. Miss Cora Gales, daughter of our popular tonsorial artist, is filling a clerical position in Baltimore. Her father went down last Sunday and came back highly pleased with the start his daughte has made. So you see Mr. Editor that old Frostburg is not near so bad as she has been painted. Some of our ministerial failures have gone down and reported that this place is hopelessly doomed but the facts above set forth fully contradict this. EDUCATION FOR LIFE That Hampton and Tuskegee, schools for Negroes, are valuable not merely as excellent schools for the colored race, but for their important contribution to the present vocation education movement, is the declaration of the United States Bureau of Education. In a pamphlet just distributed by the Bureau, entitled "Education for Life," tribute is paid to the work of Hampton Institute and particularly General Armstrong, its founder, who is looked upon by educators as a pioneer in the field of practical education. "General Armstrong possessed to a remarkable degree the gift of educational prophecy," asserts Prof. Peabody in the introduction to the pamphlet. 'He foresees and foretold with extraordinary precision the tendencies and transitions which within the last 25 years have practically revolutionized the principles of education. The training of the hand and eye as well as of the mind, the moral effect of technical skill, the conception of labor as a moral force, the test of education in efficiency, and the vanity of education without discipline in thrift, self help, love of work, and willingness to sacrifice—all these familiar maxims of modern vocational training were set forth by him with all the assurance of a social prophet.' The pamphlet includes a brief sketch of General Armstrong's life and a collection of pithy utterances on aims and methods of education, many of which are distinctly helpful to those interested in present problems, according to officials of the Bureau of Education. It is felt that General Armstrong's theory and demonstration of practical education have proved to be right, not merely for the races for which they were immediately intended, but for boys and girls everywhere, since they represent a successful attempt to work out one of the most momentous tasks of our time—that of creating an education that shall be an effective force for training productive, efficient members of society. WOMAN A HOUSE WRECKER Works Beside Husband—Says Strength Is the Test of Equality. Merrimac, Mass.—Mrs. Willard W. Chase, mother of five children, is now a full fledged housewrecker, having been taken into partnership by her husband. She goes out to work with her husband every day and performs the labor of tearing down houses with the vigor of an average man. "It's a grand thing for these women to be interested in educational things and take up civic problems," said Mrs. Chase. "But if women really want to get anywhere it's high time they began to show that they are capable of doing the same sort of physical work that the men do." "Ritual Murder" In Russia. The civilized world has been watching with interest the progress of the trial, at Kiev, Russia, of the young Hebrew, Mendel Beilise, so caused of the murder, "for ritual purposes," of a Christian boy, one Andrew Yushtchinsky. The body of the boy was found in a cave in the suburbs of Kiev, more than two years ago, and the numerous stub wounds on it evidently suggested to the reactionaries the possibility of charging the Jews with the crime. According to superstitious belief, the Jews use Christian blood in the making of their Easter bread. Beilise, a workman at a nearby brick yard, who is admitted even by his enemies to be honest, was apprehended. As it is not uncommon in Russia, some necessary evidence was manufactured with the aid of the police and members of the "Black Hundred" society, which is always eager to incite an attack on the Jews. But it seems that the combined efforts of his enemies have not been sufficient to incriminate an honest man. After nearly two years of activity in collecting alleged evidence, during which time the accused man was kept in solitary confinement, and denied even the privilege of consulting his lawyers, the "proof" offred at the trial was of such a fluy nature that even the rejectionary anti Semitic local journal, the Kievianian, protested editorially against the farcical proceedings. For this it was duly suppressed by the authorities. That the Russian Government favors the "ritual" murder theory can be seen from the fact that the former chief of the secret police at Kiev, who has been conducting an independent investigation and came very near discovering the real perpetrators of the crime and laying bare the motives of the conspirators, has been suspended from office, tried on some trumped up charges, and imprisoned. But, perceiving how this attempt to revive a long-forgotten superstition and incite the ignorant mob to violence against the Jews has impressed the entire thinking world, the saner elements among the Russian reactionaries have been trying to minimize the significance of the case and have urged the necessity of its speedy disposal with a resemblance of legality.—From the "Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for November. BULLETIN-OFFICE OF FOR EST, GAME AND FISH WAR DEN, BELINGTON, W. VA. THE "BOB WHITE." Mrs. Margaret Nice, of Clark University, gives the following as eaten by captive birds. Each number given represents the insects eaten during a single meal by one bird: Chinch bugs, 100; squash bugs, 12; plant lice, 2,326; grasshoppers, 39; army worms, 12; mosquitoes, 568; potato beetles, 101; white grubs, 8 The same lady gives a list of 129 weeds, the seeds of which are eaten by this little gleaner. These seeds are digested and the germs thus de- suyed. The number of seeds taken at a single meal by one bird varies from 105 seeds of stinkweed and 400 of pigweed to 5,000 of pigeon grass and 10,000 of lamb's quartere; while the number taken in one day by one of these birds varies from 600 of burdock to 30,000 of rabbit's foot clover. If we take as our measure, the quantity of weed seeds and insects eaten by a captive Quail, as given above, we find that a family consisting of two adult birds and ten young would consume 780,915 insects and 59 707,888 weed seeds in a year, in addition to their other food. The "game hog" and the severe winters of this climate will soon do their work, and this beautiful bird of the home, the farm, the garden and field, the friend and companion of mankind, the much needed helper on the farm, the destroyer of insect pests and weeds, will become extinct, and his cheery, interrogative call will be no longer heard, unless the sportsmen and farmers devise some means for his protection. WILL YOU HELP PROTECT THEM? Farmers who have coves of these birds on their farms during the winter, when the snows are deep and the Quail's food source, could make no better investment than to scatter liberal amounts of grain in the vicinity where these birds stay, and thus keep them alive until the snows are gone and they could again find food for themselves. Oklahoma and several other States have plead a closed season on these birde, but West Virginia law allows them to be killed from the first day of November until the first day of December, with a bag limit of 12 birds per day, or 96 in a season, which should be a sufficient number for any true sportman. See that this law is observed and a sufficient number left to furnish nice broods for next season. Let "protect the quail" be the slogan of the farmer, the hunter and every other good citizen of our state. Talk protection, give protection whenever you can, and see that your friends do the same. WIFE HIDES HIS WOODEN LEG Does 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 3ONS IN ACCIDENTS. Flying Ax Kille Baby, and Mula Kicks Others to Death. Birmingham, Ala.—George Hogg, a farmer, of Searle, Tuscaloosa county, lost three children in a single day. While he was cutting wood his ax flew from the handle and struck his infant son in the head, killing him. He carried the body to his home and there learned that two of his young sons had been kicked to death by a mule. VOL. 32 NO. 35 Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature Bx W. G. MODIFIED THANKS. A German with his young son, was standing on the wharf watching the movements of the boats, when suddenly the son lost his balance and fell into the water. A finely dressed athletic young man suddenly jumped in, and with great difficulty landed him at the feet of his parents, and this is what the father said: "Many danks, but vot hef you done mit his hat?" 0 * WELL AMENDED Gov. Sulzer apropos of a bad move in a political conflict in Albany, said: "Whether this move wins or not, I for one can't countenance it." The governor brushed back his long thick forelock and added: "The end justifies only the means." EXPLANATION NEEDED. Morris—"Have you heard about poor young Hicks' trouble with his wife?" Thompson—"No! I've been out of town for the last month, what is it? Morris—He sent his office boy up to the house for his raiment one day last week and found a memorandum in the packet reading, "Ribbon for typewriter," and Hicks is having a devil of a time trying to explain." * * THAT GUM. A witness at the trial of the dynamiters in Indianapolis annoyed the lawyer who was questioning him, by chewing gum. 'Please remove that gum,' said the lawyer. The witness grinned, and kept on chewing. 'Your Honor,' said the lawyer to Judge Anderson, I suggest that you instruct the witness to remove that wad of gum from his mouth. It makes his replies indistinct. Judge Anderson turned to the witnesses and said sharply: "Remove that gunt" The witness started, gulped—and then said to the judge meekly: "I's all right, your Honor. I've swallowed it." * * A FAIR COMPROMISE. Crosby Gaige, a partner in one of the new theatrical producing firms of New York City, recently had occasion to hire an actor to play a small part in a Western drama he was putting out. A rather well known actor who prided in the art, applied for the place. 'You play a full blood Sioux Indian? explained Gaige. The salary is fifty dollars a week!' 'My dear boy,' said the actor, in a paired tone, 'I've never worked for less than a hundred dollars, which is my regular price.' "Fifty dollars!" said Gaige calmly. "Take it or leave!" The actor considered over a minute. "I'll take it," he said; but I can't play a full blood Indian for fifty dollars. I'll play him as a half breed." AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DIVIDED TO THE MORAI, RELIGIOUS A.T. FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN I.2. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1e month.....$1.50 6 months.....75c 8 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. Sent for Sample Copies. R. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K Mar. tlsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, '13 Trouble of our own, concerning which explanation would do this is sue no good, is the cause of it being late. The world today is for Salzer. What a lesson to those who try to do right and what a lesson for those who are rotten and try to destroy those who will not combine with them in their nasty dealings. Surely, right is might. Man is unquiet, but God is just: and finally justice triumphs. --- With the announcement that the terriff bill which was to reduce the cost of living, will cut off about 114 66 cents a week from the necessary expenditures of each of us, and that the currency bill designed to provide each of us with the wherewithal to meet current expenditures has been indefinitely delayed, what's the use of a Thanksgiving proclamation?—Kanawha Citizen. It was really laughable, to hear, the other day a group of colored men praising George Washington. In many respects he was a remarkable man, but had every one of those Negroes seen the three thousand and five hundred slave men taken from various slave plantations by Washington to Yorktown, and by their assistance won that famous victory history tells so much about, then sent them back to slavery, one of those Negroes might not be so anxious "to greet him in Heaven." ```markdown ``` While in Washington not long ago it was suggested that as President of the National Independent Political League, it would be wise to call on a certain power in authority and we did. To make a long story short, we were given to understand that no direct promises were made and that money was freely given for all the work done by Negroes: that they had no moral claim on democracy. The Negro democrats "asked for seventy five thousand dollars," and a certain editor got over two thousand, and asked for more. No wonder we are weak influentially. It is not right to put all the blame on the southern democrats for the way they are jimcrowing Negroes. Taft set the example by turning out Negro office holders by the wholesale and made it obligatory that colored men should not be enumerators in the last taking of the census, except where the district had more colored people than white. Why wouldn't the south that fought for s'lavery take advantage of it, go a step further and enforce it at the nation's capital where a republican president falsified the oath he called on God and man to witness. In its foreshadowed bloody crisis this country needs to have a manly man at its head to avert it, and it is going to have that man, and it's going to be Theodore Roosevelt. Not only this paper, but every man, woman and child are rejoicing over the fact that Rev, Dr. William Gerhardt Martinsburg's rare and unique sage and educator has passed his 96th birthday, and is still able to walk our streets and can read and writes without glasses. In bonor of his advanced years and ripened scholarship the Pythians banqueted him, and in his speech to them his voice could be heard all over the hall. Dr. Gerhardt contributes weekly to the columns of this paper, and believes in the betterment and uplift of humuity irrespective of race or color. The very fact that Woodrow Wilson, after appointing Adam Patterson Register of the Treasury rescinded it to please Vardaman, is proof enough for us that Mr. Trotter's visit will be treated as a joke, and behind the screen, laughed to scorn. The way to make them think is for every Negro voter to play the policy of Lord Kitchener. The best time for Mr. Trotter to go to Washington will be in the Spring of 1917 to witness the outgoing of the Wilson administration for a period longer than that which followed the war of the rebellion. It takes more gall than we could possibly muster up, and go to see Woodrow Wilson in condemnation of his conduct, had we, with four other fellows, left the National Independent Political League, because, and only because the other 33 legally elected members were not for democracy. Mr. Trotter was. He and his four followers met in a private house where a young lady was dying, and told the country through the public press next morning that they were for Woodrow Wilson. Since then they have falsely been going under the assumed name of our order—the National Independent Political League. Mr. Trotter does not, cannot, and shall not, with his bogus and fake body represent the National Independent Political League which has been kept clean under our administration. In a petition said to have been presented to the President by our friend, Dr. William A. Sinolair, of Philadelphia, Pa., the following was hurtful to the effort sought. It says, "and asserts that the alleged discrimination which has been made against the race has ALARMED the Negroes of the country to a greater degree than anything which has occurred since their emancipation." To our mind it is a mistake to make such a statement. The iniquious segregation inaugurated by the Democrat at Washington should alarm no manly Negro. It arouses him. And that is not all it is doing. It is arousing enew the North to its too long neglected duty. The time is not ten years off when every Negro who has an ounce of forethought will rejoice over the fact that this wholesale effort at reenslavement took place in the year of our Lord, 1913. It looks very much like our monied men who conceive plaus, mold machinery and give work to fully seventy five millions of laborers are going down to their graves—poor things—with Woodrow's mark of Cain upon them, and still worse, their poor little ones are to suffer from it for generations to come. What a pity the Baldwin Locomotive heads are doomed for that terrible brand—for sixteen hundred men have been laid off because of the signs of hard times foreseen. Don't see why our army of business men will give so powerful a ruler the chance to blight them forever. Never had such a man in the White House before, and the men who have been opening up all kinds of mines, palacing the seas, networking the country with railroads and producing all kinds of machinery for all kinds of purposes must not dare protect their interests when the signs of the times look so dark, and a far seeing man like the Hon. Harry C. Smith with tears streaming down his cheeks begs the poor people to hold on to every dollar possible for the times coming have never been witnessed in suffering before. When President Wilson writes in condemnatory terms of Huerta's action relative to the "constitutional guarantees and fair elections in Mexico," and talks of "the law that surrounds the ballot, and that its result cannot be regarded as representing the will of the people," he certainly indicts himself as no other president ever has. How and why? Because his reference to Mexico's unfairness heaps condemnation on him at home where his boasted civilization and religious pretensions are held up as the world's brightest and best. Nevertheless ten million of American citizens—people who have bravely fought in all this country's wars, and by their unceasing toll beautified and enriched this land for centuries and cared for their masters' women and children while they were fighting to keep them in slavery, are not only disfranchised, jimcrowed and brutalized, but tens of thousands have been lynched, shot down like dogs, burned at the stake and driven from their homes. In the name of God and justice, taking the oath he dill to be just and fair to all, how can he condemn foreigners for what they do, when through the robbery of millions of Negro voters, he was, and could not have been elected President, except for it? If he feels no compunction of conscience, the beam is so big in one eye, he can't see the mote in the other. THE THRICE A WEEK EDITION OF THE WORLD Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newspaper in the world gives so much at so low a price. This is a time of great events, and you will want the news accurately and promptly. All the countries of the world steadily draw closer to gether, and the telegraph wires bring the happenings of every one. No other newspaper has a service equal to that of The World and it relates everything fully and promptly. The World long since established a record for impartiality, and anybody can afford its Thrice-a-Week edition, which comes every other day in the week, except Sunday. It will be of particular value to you now. The Thrice-a-Week World also abounds in other strong features, serial stories, humor, markets, cartoons; in fact, everything that is to be found in a first class daily. THE THRICE - A - WEEK WORLD'S regular subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and this pays for 156 papers. We offer this unequalled newspaper and the Pioneer Press together for one year for $1.75. The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.50 per year. HARMFDL EFFECTS OF STRIKES. It is far easier to prevent a strike than to settle one. A bonfire may be extinguished with a pail of water, but allow it to obtain headway and it may quickly tax the resources of a city fire department. So with disagreements between employer and employed. Before a strike has been declared and class passion aroused, it is often possible for a tactful, disinterested, and experienced man, able to absorb the psychology of the situation, to assist in removing the cause of the dispute with but slight efforts and thus avert the strike altogether. More attention should, therefore, be paid to strike prevention. Official machinery, both State and national, for industrial mediation is still undeveloped and inadequate, and the efforts of individuals in this direction are but occasional and for from being efficient. Attention, as a rule, is directed to a labor controversy only after a strike has actually been declared, and interest is aroused only when there is danger of interference with the comfort and welfare of the public. The strike having been declared and publicity having been given to it, offers of the service of mediators come from many quarters. There is, however, less actual need for their help at this stage than before the dispute has reached the point of open breach —From "The Art of Industrial Conciliation," by Marcus M. Marke, in the American Review of Reviews fo November. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE Farmer Puts Up Chiokena, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken heens, two sow hogs and a 82 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt thus secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All homestead exemption rights are waived by the maker of the mortgage. The question is being asked, "Does this mortgage emphasize the increasing value of the 'bog and hominy' propaganda, or is it but another indication of the extreme stringency in the land about which so much has been said and written—which?" Invents Nonrefillable Bottle San Quentin, Cal.—With the time at his disposal in the last eleven months of his seven year term for burglary, E.J. McCalla, a prisoner employed as a waiter for the officers' table at the prison here, has perfected a patent non-refillable bottle device which he asserts will net him a fortune upon his release two years hence. The device can be fitted to any bottle. FINDS WATCH LOST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS Timepiece Again Running After Having Been Buried. Menomonie, Wis.—Thirty-five years ago this spring Register of Deeds Alfred Halverson of St. Croix county, then a young man, became the possessor of his first watch, an open faced silver watch, with a heavy case. Young Halverson valued his new possession so highly that he carried it with him at all times, even when he was plowing on his uncle's farm. He was heartbroken after plowing a few furrows one morning to find that the watch had slipped from his pocket and had been plowed under. With his cousin, Edward Halverson, he back plowed the furrows, cross plowed them and then combed the earth for hours in search of the precious timepiece, but in vain. Recently while plowing on the Star Prairie farm, Edward Halverson saw the plow turn something metallic out of the ground. He stopped and picked it up and found it was a silver watch. He at once thought of the one his cousin had lost thirty-five years ago, and although the fields had been changed, he discovered this was where he had helped look for the watch years ago. The thick crystal was broken, and the hinges were rusted, but he returned the old timepiece to its owner, and a jeweler to whom it was taken for repairs discovered that the works were free from dirt and rust and the adjustment still perfect. A little oil, a new pair of hinges, a new crystal, and the watch when wound started to run as though it had merely run down the night before. TRIES TO KISS THE JUDGE. Mexicoan Woman Seeks to Embrace California Magistrate. Los Angeles. - When Mrs. Ricardo Rivera, a Mexican woman, offered to kiss Superior Judge Monroe in gratitude for a gift of $2, which brought her and her husband together again, the magistrate blushed and directed an official to lead her from the courtroom. The husband was up on a charge of failure to provide. He promised to be good, and the court discharged him. Rivera informed the magistrate that he did not have sufficient funds to take his wife with him back to his job at Ontario, whereupon Judge Monroe handed him $2. Corrected to Dec: 1st, 1912. No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connecticut for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling. No 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3:17 p.m for Grafton, Pittsburg, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7:42 p.m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m 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 19 5.37 p. m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m for Cumberland and intermediate 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, Mattinsburg, W. Va. FIRST WIFE'S SPIRIT IN PLOT, HE ASSERTS Advised Him to Transfer Property to No. 2, Veteran Says. St. Louis—Stephen F. Garloch's determination to expose an alleged conspiracy between his wife of the flesh, Mary, and the materialized spirit of his first wife, was revealed when he started an action for a divorce. He is sixty-nine years old and a civil war veteran. His principal charge is that his wife invigiled him into a spiritualistic seance and there called up the spirit of his dead wife, who advised him to transfer his real estate to the living wife. The petition does not set out in detail all that transpired at the seance. It recites that when he refused to sign away his property as directed by the spirit of his first wife the second wife, in the presence of all the real and materialized spirits, called him "an uneducated, unrefined and ignorant fool," causing him great humiliation. It was through the influence of a daughter by his first marriage that he was prevented from signing the deed, according to Mr. Garlock. The petition alleges that, failing to get his property in this way, Mrs. Garlock persuaded him to give a note to her for $500, secured by deed of trust on real estate, and that a week later she had the locks on the doors of his room changed and bolted him out. BASEBALL BY WIRELESS Service Given to Sailors in Navy Is a Great Success. Washington.—The United States naval "news service," whereby officers and men on United States warships far out at sea are kept informed each night of the baseball scores and other items of interest, has proved a great success. Reports to the navy department from the battleship Illinois, which has just returned to home waters with a big party of midshipmen, declare that the reports were picked up readily by the vessel when it was 2,175 nautical miles out at sea from the navy's powerful station at Arlington, Va., and 2,610 miles distant from the station at Key West. The battleship also reported intercepting wireless messages from European stations. Pay your subscription. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class, Matter STATEMENT OF THE OWNER SHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., of Pioneer Press, pubsued weekly at Martinsburg, required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Editor, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. 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. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None. J. R. Clifford. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of Oct. 19 3. GOETHALS AT 1916 FAIR. Coral Builder Will Head Engineering Congress at Exposition. San Francisco.-Colonel George W. Goethals, U. S. N., whose engineering genius is bringing the Panama canal into being, is to take part in the Panama-Pacific International exposition, which is to be held in this city in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the great project. Colonel Goethals, who is chairman of the Isthmus canal commission and chief engineer of the Panama canal, has accepted the honorary presidency of the international engineering congress, which will be held in connection with the exposition from Sept. 20 to 25, 1915. The congress it is promised by its promoters, will be the most notable in the history of engineering. The exposition officials have communicated with some 90,000 engineers in all parts of the world with a view of having them visit San Francisco in 1915. The congress will be conducted under the combined auspices of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. PIGEON FLIES 1,000 MILES. Record Time of 26 Hours and 30 Minutes Established. Pittsburgh, Pa.—One thousand miles, air line distance, between Abilene, Tex., and Fort Wayne, Ind., in 20 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds actual flying time was the remarkable flight of a homing pigeon belonging to O. Anderson of Fort Wayne. The records, sent to President Carney of the American Racing Pigeon union in this city for verification, were officially announced. Forty-seven birds contested in the race from the Texas city, and the record made by Mr. Anderson's bird is a world's mark. The second bird to arrive in Fort Wayne from Abilene belonged to J. Schilling. It had been on the road 36 hours, 51 minutes and 47 seconds actual flying time. The speed of Mr. Anderson's bird averaged more than thirty-eight miles an hour. FINE TO GIVE OR TAKE TIPS. Wakere Urged St. Louis Council to Pass the Ordinance. St. Louis.—The city council has passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to give or receive a tip in a hotel or restaurant. A fine of from $10 to $50 may be levied for each offense. Half of the fine is to be given to the police informant of violation of the anti-tipping ordinance. The measure was passed without opposition following a public hearing in which scores of waiters attributed the local hotel employees' strike to low wages resulting from the tipping practice. STREET STREWN WITH BILLS. Thought to Be Robbber's Plunder by Government Offolate. Leavenworth, Kan.—Three postoffices inspectors have begun an investigation of the finding of hundreds of dollars in gold certificates believed to be a portion of $50,000 stolen by Charles Savage from a mail truck in the Union station in Kansas City five years ago. Developments show that persons have been finding the certificates, mostly of the $20 denomination, for a month and have kept the matter secret. It is estimated that at least $1,000 has been picked up in gutters, vacant lots and back yards. All the money was discovered within a radius of eight blocks of the home of a relative of Charles Savage at whose house he stopped before his arrest. One theory of the investigators is that the money was concealed in a tree and dislodged by recent high winds. How Are Your Kidneys? Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills. Sam ale free Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N. Y. WOMAN A HOUSE WRECKER Works Beside Husband—Says Strength is the Test of Equality. Merrillane, Mass.—Mrs. Willard W. Chase, mother of five children, is now a full fledged housewrecker, having been taken into partnership by her husband. She goes out to work with her husband every day and performs the labor of tearing down houses with the vigor of an average man. "It's a grand thing for those women to be interested in educational things and take up civic problems," said Mrs. Chase. "But if women really want to get anywhere it's high time they began to show that they are capable of doing the same sort of physical work that the men do." MARRIED BY PHONE Ohio Magistrate Accommodates Eager Young Couple. Dayton, Q.—"Do you, Louis Motzel"—"Number, please"—"Take Florence Igou"—"They don't answer"—"Oh, central, please get off the line. We're trying to get married." Louis Motzel and Florence Igou had their troubles getting married over the telephone here, but Dan Cupid finally got the phone plugs in their proper places on the switchboard, and Squire Koehne was able to finish the ceremony. Motzel and Miss Igou had found two magistrates absent from their offices, and when they reached the office of Koehne, only to find him gone, they located him at a construction camp three miles from the city, and he readily consented to tie the knot by phone. PACIFIC DRYDOCK. Work to Bo Resumed Shortly le Opinion In Washington. Washington.—Work upon the giant drydock at Pearl Harbor, the site of the great naval base the United States is establishing in the Pacific, probably will be resumed in the near future. Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced that Alfred Noble of New York, the engineering specialist retained to render an opinion as to the advisability of going ahead with the construction of the dock, has reported that the project is quite feasible. The Pearl Harbor drydock is to cost several million dollars, according to estimates. Work on the dock was well advanced when the coral foundation of the dock yielded to water pressure from below and caused an upheaval of the floor and walls, practically ruining all that had been done. GOES CRAZY AT OPERATION. Surgeon Suddenly Loses Mind and Patient Is Killed. Cincinnati, O.-A distressing story was told in probate court by the wife of Dr. William R. Dabney, a Marietta physician, before he was committed to Longview hospital upon the application of his wife. Mrs. Dabney told the court physician that the first signs of mental trouble were exhibited by her husband while he was performing a surgical operation in a Marietta hospital. He slashed right and left with his operating knife, and employees of the hospital had to take him in charge. The patient, she said, was the unfortunate victim of his sudden madness and was killed. The wife said that she took her husband to Canada, hoping that reest would restore his reason. But he did not get much better and was brought to Cincinnati a short time ago. WIFE HIDES HIS WOODEN LEG Dose It to Enable Service on Him of Divorce Papers. Joblot, 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. Flying Ax Kills Baby, and Mule Kicks Others to Death. Birmingham. Ala.-George Hogg, a farmer, of Searle, Tuscaloosa county, lost three children in a single day. While he was cutting wood his ax flew from the handle and struck his infant son in the head, killing him. He carried the body to his home and there learned that two of his young sons had been kicked to death by a mule. 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 constituent reduction will be made to persons desiring ten or more copies NEGRO YEAR BOOK CO. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. 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. HOW AED 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 87 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived or its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. 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Clover further pulled the carcase off his companion's body. MOVES HIS HOUSE 30 MILES Stumpf and His Workmen Live In It During the Journey. Winsted, Conn. — George Stumpf moved his house, a 10 by 30 foot frame affair of three rooms, from North Hardland to Hall Meadow, a distance of twenty-three miles, without breaking anything in the dwelling. While the habitation was in transit Stumpf and his room, who did the moving with the aid of horses, had their meals in the house, and at night they gathered about the kitchen stove, popped corn, smoked, read newspapers and swapped stories before going to bed. Five years ago Stumpf and his mod moved the same house from Huntington, Mass., to North Hartland, where he was in the lumber business. TRUST ACTION NEXT SESSION President Then Will Recommend Strengthening of Sherman Law. Washington. There will be no antitrust legislation at this extra session of congress, it was stated on the highest authority. 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Conkey Company Dept. 61 HAMMOND, INDIANA 1 MAN OF MYSTERY MAY TELL PAST Faint Hope That "J. C. R." May Regain His Speech. IN A MINNESOTA HOSPITAL Oranger Found Six Years Ago Has Never Been Able to Remember His Past—Operation Expected to Prove Successful—Identity Still Unknown. Minneapolis, Minn.—For more than six years "J. C. R.," the Minnesotan "man of mystery," has been in the State Hospital For the Insane at Rochester, Minn., unable to talk, unable to remember his past, and in all that time not one person has appeared to claim him. Yet there is hope that the mystery will be solved. Recently physicians made an X-ray examination. While this revealed that there was no fracture of the skull, it was thought there might be a blood clot on the brain, so an operation was performed. The operation was considered successful, but the surgeons found such a degenerate condition of the brain cells that they give only slight hope that "J. C. R." will ever regain his normal faculties. However, there is just a chance. "We expect no sudden change or sensational return of memory," said a doctor. What the outcome will be is problematical. A part of the memory cells of the brain has been destroyed by degeneration, but there is a possibility that there are sufficient cells remaining to restore the memory in part, at least. If possible the hospital authorities will teach the man to talk. With the large cyst removed there is assurance that the degeneration of the brain area will not increase and the remainder of the brain is unimpaired. He can therefore be taught to speak as a child is taught, it is believed. With the power of articulation, it is thought that he may be able to tell some of the facts of his life, which now he can communicate only by motions, and those very vaguely. "J. C. R." is not insane and has never been insane. He was picked up on the depot platform at Waseca Minn., one night in June, 1907. How he got there no one knows. His right side from his temple to his foot was paralyzed. He could not say a word. He could not make persons understand him by gestures, nor could he understand anything that was said to him. He was a public charge, and as such was cared for by the county. Arrangements were made for him to live with a German family. He was attended by Dr. W. A. Chamberlain, but his case baffled the physician. Dr. Chamberlain gave up hope of his recovery, and on April 24, 1008, he was taken to the Rochester asylum. At the hospital he has always had his liberty. He is what is known as an observation patient who can be trusted. To see "J. C. R." once is to remember him. Although he cannot talk, he asks questions, as it were, with his large, intelligent brown eyes, which haunt one with their pitiful entreaty. He is about medium height. His black hair, which is brushed well off his forehead, is tinged with gray. He is apparently about forty-five years of age. Without his cane he has difficulty in walking. Still "J. C. R." is now able to make himself partially understood. By continual pointings to a map he gave the hospital surgeons the impression that he was the son of an admiral and had been an officer himself. He also indicated a spot near Baltimore as his home. Repeated inquiries to the naval department and Baltimore authorities brought many replies of lost persons, but none which would fit the case of "J. C. R." The United States navy has no record of a missing man who tallies with his description, yet "J. C. R." has been able to make the surgeons believe positively that he has served in the United States navy. The only thing he can write are the initials "J. C. R." Yet he does not seem to think at times that those are his initials, although they were found on his clothing. When asked about it he rubbed the injured side of his head and looked puzzled. This strange man has been a favorite at the hospital. 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You do not pay a co- ound found them strictly as represented. paid discount of 6 per cent (thereby making the price 6.65 per pair) if your o- spense if for any reason they are not satisfied on examination. We are use us salsa in a bank. If you order a pair of shoes, you will find the year better, last longer and look later than your shoe you have over used or will not be worn. Please that when you want a bishop you will give us your in order of once you offer. FEED TIRES don't buy any kind of prince until you send for a pair. Puncture-Proof tires on approach and trail at the airport for our big tire and Sundry Catalogo which desiccates and quotes out half the time from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offer to learn everything. Write it NOW. 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We will send you a soiled ticket pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. You want to send us a print order so that this remarkable tire offer. IF YOU NEED HELP, any kind at any price until you send for a pair of goggles on price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write your own price. THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Arrange now to handle the work which will be the greatest seller of the year SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW The wives of the President of the United States, Vice-President, the Cabinet Officials, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Judges and others have all contributed their choicest culinary recipes to make this work a grand success. Your own favorite territory is open and can be yours if you order outfit NOW for The ECONOMY ADMINISTRATION COOK BOOK. Nothing like it ever before attempted— every ambitious lady in the land will want one of these invaluable books. It is not merely a cook book, but as it contains interesting biographies of the various contributors—the people who are in the limelight today—it occupies a field of its own. Every ambitious lady in the land will want one of these o It is not merely a cook book, but as it contains interesting various contributors—the people who are in the limelight a field of its own. Agents Wanted Send 25 cents now for Prospectus and full instructions and of a four years' position at big pay. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, Hamme Depl. 61 W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Dept. 61 W. B. 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FREE TRIAL during cycle and put it to any test you wish. dissatisfied or do not wish to keep the spense and you will not be out one cent. the highest grade bicycles it is one small profit above to £35 middle class by buy- factor's guarantee behind your a pair of tires from anyone at any and learn our unharmed of factory agent. when you receive our beautiful catalogue adated giveaway models at the wonder- er. We sell the highest price at the factory cost attached with £1.00 profit above factory cost your own name plate at double our price. the second hand bicycles, but usually have them. We clear out promptly at prices for chalus and podals, parts, repairs and of the regular retail prices. We-Procif $ 80 SAMPLE PAIR DOUBLE ONLY Hotlos the thick rubbertread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D" also rim strips to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make...SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. per pair. All orders shipped same you do not pay a cent until you are $4.65 per pair) if you send PULL CASH writing an order as the tires may be on examination. We are perfectly reliable these tires, you will find that they will ride you have ever used or seen at any price. so you will give us your order. We want also until you send for a pair of Hedgehorn novel and trial at the special introductory which describes and quotes all makes and new and wonderful offers we are making. Y, CHICAGO, ILL. 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