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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. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. A COLD DASH. A celebrated writer, being caught in a shower, took refuge under a portico. A beautiful lady lifted the window above, and looking at him sent a servant to him with an umbrella. The next day the delighted author dressed himself, and as the umbrella was an old one, laid it aside as a souvenir, and purchasing a very costly one, called on the lady to return her flattering loan. She received the new umbrella without noticing the change, and listened with curious gravity to the dramatist's acknowledgments, but naively explained that, as he was in the way of a gentleman whom she expected so call upon her unobserved, she sent him the umbrella to get him off her front steps. The dramatist was fooled. Instead of making a mash, he got a dashl VOLTAIRE'S WIT. When Voltaire wrote his tragedy of Merope, he desired to send some verses to Sir Panlin and roused his servant up at three o'clock in the morning to take them to the actor. The servant remarked that it was the hour of sleep, and that the actor might not like to be disturbed. "Go I say," replied Voltaire—Tyrants never sleep." CHIPS. Little people are envious and incredulous and mean. What they can't see they deny. The majority of people are like dogs in a universal manager. A man's hardest fight is always in the beginning. A library full of information isn't worth the paper on which it is printed to those who can't show what they know. AT REST AT LAST. In a recent long drawn trial in New York the defence introduced a miner as a witness and went into a detailed inquiry as to his exact whereabouts for the past ten years. It was most wearisome. For a day and a half the lawyers asked the man to tell his wanderings year by year. At last they got down to 1911, and asked him: "What did you do on May 16, 1911?" "I went to Cobalt." "How long did you remain there?" "I have been there ever since." Juror No. 9 rose in his place and said fervently: "Thank God!" BASHFUL BACKERS. A Missouri politician, who was a pestiferous and continuous office seeker, was a candidate for the nomination for a certain and important office. He made a canvass, and thought that everybody was for him. But on the day of the convention he came to a friend in great distress and said: "Bill, I am in a terrible pickle. Seventy per cent of the convention are for me, but I can't get anybody to nominate me! FRIENDS PLANT CROPS. Two Hundred Horses Plow 230 Acres For Sick Couple. Larned, Kan.—Because Mr. and Mrs. Roy Connard had been slick for several weeks and could not plant fall crops forty of their neighbors went to their farm home near here and plowed 130 acres of wheat land and cut 100 acres of sod. About 200 horses were used in the work, which was completed in a day. Every detail of cultivating the ground and planting the crop was carried out like clockwork, the workers being divided into companies with captains. SCHOOLS TO CELEBRATE FARM LIFE. So fundamental is the upbuilding of rural life, in the opinion of Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, that the observance in the schools of one day each year as "Agriculture and Rural Life Day" should become a national custom, instead of being confined to a few States, as at present. "We can do without some of our anniversaries, if need be," says Dr. Claxton, "to have time for this, the most fundamental of all. The children in our schools should be given an opportunity to pause in their regular work and consider the significance of agriculture and rural life; the worth and worthiness of tillage of the soil; and the beauty and glory of simple and sane life in the open country." Dr. Claxton points out that in several States "Agriculture and Rural Life Day" has already been introduced into the school at the suggestion of the Bureau of Education. In other States exercises appropriate to the purpose are held in connection with Arbor Day, Thanksgiving Day, or the Harvest Home celebration. In order to aid in the proper observance of the day, under whatever name it may be celebrated, the Bureau of Education has just issued a bulletin containing material that can be used by teachers and others in arranging an interesting program. Fittingly prefaced with the "County Boys Creed," the bulletin includes sections on man's struggle for food; the application of science to agriculture, men influential in improving agriculture—from George Washington down through Luther Burbank, Liberty H. Bailey, and other present day men; our domestic animals, and a study of forests. How vegetables have been used as medicines among different peoples; breadmaking through the agree; the mysteries of mother earth; the origin of food plants; cooperation among farmers; wonders of a single acre—these and other topics treated with special reference to glorifying country life. Following each discussion there is a list of suitable poems and songs on farming and farm life. "What we have tried to do," said Dr. Claxton, "is to get together in convenient form material that will help in the movement for appreciation of the true value and beauty of farm life among all classes of our population. The wider observance of Agriculture and Rural Life Day, both is city and country schools, will give the coming generation a clearer insight than the past has had into the fact that agriculture is the basis of national well being, and that there is no more honorable work in life than that on the farm." The Value Of Small Things Last Tuesday was also ion day, as quite a number of persons recall—some to their sorrow. Along about noon of that day a telegram came from New York to the foreman of a gang of ten work men, residents of that city, who temporarily were on a job here. The telegram instructed the foreman to hurry his ten to the nearest railroad station and bring them back to the metropolis so they could vote. It was signed by one of Tammany's faithful behchmen. The foreman did as ordered. Fortunately for good government, the votes cast by this group did not in any way affect the result. Mr. Mitchel's plurality was too great to be overcome by ten thousand times ten votes. But the principle is just the same as if those ten votes had turned the tables in Tammany's favor. It is the principle upon which Tammany has based many a victory in the past and upon which every victory, whether for good or evil must be based. The principle of using every avail able ounce of strength with which to combat an opponent. In all the affaire of life, as well as in politics, this is necessary. If all the men who desire good government had voted for good government in last Tuesday's election, good government would have won hands down in every place where there was a contest. But unfortunately for good government, those who desire it, or say they desire it, have not yet learned the lesson long ago learned by Tammany in New York and the Gang in Philadelphia. These corrupt organizations which are controlled by greed win one not only through their ability to stuff ballot boxes and colonize illegal voters but through their never-ending obedience to the "law" that every ounce counts. In their estimation each vote is as important as if it were destined to be the deciding factor in a contest where the winner won by one vote. And that is the way men win, in politics or in any other department of human activities. "That's too small to think about" has stood in the way of more victories than all the obstacles placed in their paths by hostile factions. As a matter of fact, nothing is too small to think about. Nothing is too small to consider. It doesn't do, of course, to let small things usurp your time and attention, but never make the mistake of overlooking the unit. That unit may be a vote or a stroke of the pen or a shift of the shovel. But whatever it is, remember that the sum total of such units represents your work, your accomplishment. No microscope yet has been perfected which will make visible the original unit of matter. If nature took no care of this infinitesimally small thing, man's towering works never could have come into existence. But nature looks after the little things. And in politics or anything else, men and women must pursue the same course. Keep this in mind if you want to succeed — Leigh Mitchell Hodges, in Philadelphia North American. AN AGRICULTURAL AWAK ENING Starting a few years back as a direct result of the report of the National Country Life Commission, given a forward impetus by the establishment and rapid growth of agricultural institutions and organizations, and constantly stimulated by the fever increasing costs of farm produce; the movement toward better things agriculturally has grown from the preachings of a few prophets here and there a decade ago, to a systematic propaganda—a national awakening—at the present day. West Virginia, plunged in the midst of a great industrial development, lagged grievously behind for a time. Then followed a period of preparing and gathering of strength and now at the present moment West Virginia is about to take her rightful place well to the forefront in agricultural affairs. Her orchard areas are already among the largest in the East. Her proximity to eastern markets makes dairying and trucking particularly lucrative. The reigning high prices of beef are restocking her excellent pastures with beef animals of highest type. Good roads are being projected in every section. Her agricultural institutions are making rapid forward strides and are taking a leading part in national affairs. Her representatives are found on the Foreign Agricultural Commission, at the National Corn Show, the National Conservation Congress and the National Association Meetings; A team of students from the College of Agriculture is competing at the National Apple Show and another year a similar team will be sent to the National Dairy Judging Contest. On every side agricultural affairs in West Virginia seem to be taking on a definite, systematic, organized movement which should mean much for the permanent prosperity of the state. ELEVATIONS IN WEST VIR GINIA. As a feature of its topographic mapping the United States Geological Survey has placed nearly 3,000 bench marks in position in the State of West, Virginia. These bench marks are stamped with numbers representing the elevations to the nearest foot as determined by the levelman. As a means of assisting engineers and others who have occasion to use the bench mark elevations, the Survey has published a series of bulletins which give the exact elevations of these bench marks and which in themselves are of value to those who desire to ascertain the height above mean sea level of any section of the State. Bulletin 577, one of this series, entitled "Results of Spirit Leveling in West Virginia, 1909 and 1910" contains a list of approximately 800 bench mark elevations. The work during the period covered by the bulletin was done in cooperation with the State. A copy may be obtained free on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. Cleveland, Ohio's Dullard School "I like this school because I never could have learned anything, and I am more use in the world." This is the way a girl pupil in the Elementary Industrial School, of Cleveland, Ohio, describes her impressions of the new kind of school work, according to a bulletin just issued by the United States Bureau of Education. The Elementary Industrial School was established to give "hand minded" boys and girls as good a chance as the "language minded" have always had. Cleveland was one of the first cities in the United States to make a distinction between the two types of children—those who take to books and those who do not. In Cleveland as in most American cities, about half the children have been leaving school in the sixth grade. The Cleveland school authorities saw that much of this waste was due to the attempt to force abstract intellectual effort on boys and girls whose interest was in doing things. The Elementary Industrial School was meant to meet this situation. To it boys and girls were admitted if they were over 13 years of age and were two or more years behind their grade in school. In this school one half of the time is devoted to English, mathematics, geography, history—the two in close connection—and to hygiene of a thoroughly practical character. The remaining periods are given to manual and industrial work—including shopwork—to domestic economy and gynasium practice. A poll of the pupils showed that with the girls cooking and sewing were favorite subjects, with the boys, mechanical drawing and woodworking. In other schools of the same type which it is proposed to have in Cleveland, it is probable that the course will be extended to include a year or more of definitely vocational or trade school work, in preparation for specific employment. The school has been successful even in the face of adverse conditions. The enrollment has doubled in the past four years. Pupils who had long since lost interest in school work of any kind, some to the extent of being known as "dollards and incorrigibles," have become eager and alert, not only in the hand subjects, but in the academic work as well. In speaking of the Cleveland work, Prof. W. N. Hailmann, author of the Bureau's bulletin, says: "The ordinary school was born among and for the language-minded. Intellectual and physical culture—not manual self-expression and economic insight—was its aim. The industrial worker was practically excluded from it; he had no leisure for it, no time to engage in its play. This one sidedness still clings to the school, and it is hard to eradicate. "The Cleveland Elementary Industrial School may not offer the best general solution, certainly not the only solution, of the problem, but it does offer a solution that lies in the right direction, and one which is at least a promising beginning." AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DOVOTED TO THE MORAI, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN 1 yeat..... $1.50 6 months..... .75c 2 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. J. R. Cifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K Mar. Insburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 13 Wilson commanded, but as yet Senor and President Huerta has refused to obey the command. We wonder what will be the next num- ber on the program? Had Harry K Thaw been turned loose, justice could as well go blind. True she sees badly and the signs of the times, except the recall, betoken more danger and a baser degree of law decrees. Hon. E. D. Sanderson, Director of the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, has our thanks for a copy of his annual report. It is an interesting document, and is well worthy a careful perusal. The Supreme Court of the United States acted wisely on the rotten claim of Virginia against West Virginia. West Virginia owes no debt to Virginia and should never consent to pay any of its claims. If scores of our young men would adopt as their motto, "No Excellence Without Great Labor," and quit standing on the streets drinking cheap whiskey and smoking their miserable cigarettes, they might be able to accomplish something in lite. Governor Henry D. Hatfield has been to the state penitentiary, and it is said found everything O. K. except the hospital. If the sick are treated badly, what about the others? It is also said the Governor is going back soon. Why? To knock a person down, shoot and kill others by the tens of thousands, and then ask pay for having done it is on parallel with the proposed pensioning of the Confederates. No doubt many of them fought against right perforce of location and conditions, but today's judgment must control affairs. If the reports coming from Paris, France can be given any credence, the world's champion pugilist, Jack Johnson, is having the time of his life. While we don't think, at times, Jack has shown the wisdom of a Solomon, his present status is viewed with some satisfaction by us, and we hope he will have sense enough to behave himself hereafter. Recent issues of the Richmond Planet, contained very interesting recitals of the experiences of its editor, John Mitchell, Jr., during his attendance upon the 1913 sessions of the American Bankers Association, which met in Boston, Mass. These stories are annual features with the Planet, and are always written in the usual entertaining and descriptive Mitchell style. While all over the country various sections are telling the helpful ones of terrible blizzards, suffering and death, Martinsburg has seen no snow and suffered no hardship—boys, girls and men are seen on our streets—some barefooted, and the rest without extra winter wraps. Get out of those freezing places like Elkins, Davis, Clarksburg and Wheeling, come to the Los Angeles of West Virginia and live as though you were in California. In the death of Rev. Dr. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Virginia, the Negro Baptists of this country have suffered a severe loss. Dr. Dav is was poot, preacher, and lecturer, and had a style peculiarly his own. Coming so soon after the death of Rev. George W. Lee, Dr. Davis's demise is especially distressing, and there is no denying the fact that the gap left by his untimely taking off will be hard to fill. T. Thomas Fortune, the race's veteran editor, and all around man of letters, is on a lecture four through certain sections of the South. All who can, should hear him, because he is a rattling good talker, and can invariably be depended upon to hold the attention of his hearers. While on this tour, Mr. Fortune's itinerary and dates will be under the management of Editor P. B. Young, of the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Editor W. P. Dabney, of the Cincinnati Union, has been having a warm time lately with some of his black and white enemies. The struggle has been a fierce one, but to date the Union man has easily outdistanced his pursuers. The case of friend Dabney is an apt reminder of the ever patent fact that you can't keep a good man down. Like the cork, he will always bob up serenely. We are in receipt of a copy of the recent souvenir edition of the Saint Paul and Minnesota, Minnesota, Appeal, and we can truthfully say that it is a fine commentary on the general newspaper ability of its editor and publisher, Mr. John Q. Adams. From a literary, lithographic and mechanical standpoint this issue of the Appeal claims a distinctive place in Negro newspaperdom, and stamps it as a publication clearly abreast of the times. In another column of this paper will be found an excerpt from an article written by Dr. James Hardy Dillard, of New Orleans, the full text of which is to be found in the November Southern Workman, Hampton Institute's always interesting publication. Dr. Dillard is one of the most prominent white educators in the whole South, and knows full well what he is talking about. Being an influential and powerful member of the opposite race, he can say what he wishes to regarding the education, or rather the lack of educational advantages for colored children in the Southland with more impunity than could a black man. That he speaks out in no uncertain terms, all who have heard him readily agree, and in him the poor and ignorant whites and Negroes South of Mason and Dixon's line certainly have a champion for educational advantages along all lines. His indictment of Mississippi and the United States is calm, but terrific when he refers to that State's and this Nation's fabulous expenditures for buildings and battleships, while the minds of their future citizens are left to go practically without any cultivation. The South needs more men of Doctor Dillard's type, and the sooner it gets them the better it will be for all the people of that section, both black and white. The Pioneer Press commends this noble man for his interest in, and efforts toward the betterment of downtrodden humanity, and evinces much gratification at the thought that as a trustee in charge of the Anna Jeannes Fund for the expenditure of money for the upkeep of rural schools in the South his influence for very effective work will be greatly enlarged. On our way to Washington last Thursday, a fine looking white man boarded No.8 at Harper's Ferry,and was followed by over a dozen youthful colored young men. The white man was President McDonald and the young men were students of Sorer College. The President is cultured, free of prejudice, and demeaned himself like a Winston Churchill of England, and the conduct of the students was extra good except an attempted song, which some saner member lauded by an "Ames Gordon" innendo. The President wore his pennant flung over his shoulder and many of his students did the same—they were going to Washington, D. C., to play football with the M. Street High School. We are an old ex of Storer College and it flitted to our mind, what would the public thought had we, President and students of 1875, boarded a B. & O passenger train at Harper's Ferry as they did in 1913 as participants in a football game? THE CURSE OF PREJUDICE I am convinced myself that there is so more evil thing in this present world than Race Prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body jumps the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of human soul.—H. G. Wells, in New York Independent. "I am deaf and dumb," read a placard on the bosom of a man, who was seeking alms from Harvard students in Cambridge, Masse., the other day. He was placed under arrest as a beggar. For six hours the man remained without a voice; then he shouted: "For heaven's sake give me some food." He was taken to court the next morning. THE THRICE A WEEK EDITION OF TH WORLD Prectically 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 any body can afford its ThriceaWeek edition, which comes every other day in the week, except Sunday. It will be of particular value to you now. The TortoiseaWeek 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 unqualified newspaper and the Pio neer Press together for one year for $1.75. The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.50 per year. Woman's rights asserted themselves in a new way when Mrs. Ellen Deering Grangrow of Pendleton, Oregon, obtained a divorce from her ninth husband, Grant Nicholas Grangrow, and voluntarily settled $2000 on him as alimony. Both she and her divorced husband are Indians. Mrs. Grangrow has about $8,000 in her own name and is 63 years old. Mr. Grangrow is 59 years old. In her eventful embarkations on the sea of matrimony for nine different voyages Mrs. Gaungrow has lost four mates through the stormy divorce court passages and five have been taken through death. UNITARIANS CONDEMN SEG- REGATION. Prompt and effective redress by the president and others in authority at Washington was demanded by the Unitarian conference of the middle states and Canada in New York City on Tuesday in a resolution setting forth that colored employees in the federal departments "are being segregated into groups or classes by their lives on the ground that some white citizens in the same service object to associating or should not be required to associate with them." The resolution, which will be sent to the president and the secretary of the treasury, declared that "Such action by the government or by any officer thereof is an open violation of the principles of equality upon which the government stands and is unprecedented and incapable of justification in an administration professing devotion to democratic principles." WHERE SOME NEGRO COUNTRY CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL. My main purpose in visiting Francis County, Miss., was to see typical Negro schoolhouses, and my intention, if I should write any report of my visit, was to describe the types. But I give it up. I wish my readers could see, for example, a certain Negro schoolhouse in this county. It is a public schoolhouse, though the public funds made no contribution. It was built by the poor people themselves, without knowledge of carpentry, except of the rudest kind. The result is pitiful. What better could be expected? I thought to take a photograph of this school house, but I knew that a photograph would give no true idea. It would demand an art above photography to give any just conception of that structure, wherein nothing fitted, nothing was of proper length or width. You could easily parody Dickens and say, The planks were all unmated And the shingles didn't gee, And you couldn't see that anything Was what it ought to be The appearance was as if so many rough boards and shingles, of various lengths and widths, had been joisted together and had somehow happened to fall in that way. Yet in such a building, in a state which can build a million dollar capital, and in a nation which can spend ten millions on one battleship, seventy odd little human children go to get what they can of education.—James Hardy Dillard in the Southern Workman. WALK TO KEEP WELL Nothing will reduce the prevalence of sickness during the winter more than the formation of the habit of taking long walks at least twice a week. If parents are interested in keeping their children well, they should become interested in their establishing this habit. If it cost as much to take an hour's walk as it does to provide for several doses of a patent medicine, walking would be valued as medicine very much more than it is now. It is because it is so cheap that so many neglect it. Speaking from the standpoint of a physician alone, it is safe to say that the digestion of the average city man, woman and child would be im proved 100 per cent. by taking a short, brisk walk every day, and a walk of at least two hours twice a week.—New York World. SECRET OF SUCCESS. A Man must be clean to win. He must be clean in morals and in honesty, and clean as regards temperance. The intemperate man does not stand a very good chance in this world. It is absolutely essential that you, should you be seeking your fortune in the business world, must look the other way from immorality and looseness of character if you are going to account to anything.—Thos, Neacy. Surgeons Cut Off First and Thief Takes the Other. Philadelphia.-While surgeons of a hospital in this city were amputating the feet of John Guest, who was run over by a traint at Bangor, Pa., his gold watch was stolen from his pocket. When he recovered consciousness from the amnesiac he absessed the timepiece, and the loss caused a hurried search, but nothing could be found to explain the loss. Suspicion fell on Paul Reiker, an orderly at the Institution. He was arrested, confessed and was held for trial. This led to the discovery that another patient. Frank Price, was robbed of a diamond stockpin while under the influence of ether in the surgical ward, and Reiker also confessed that theft. BOY'S DIVE AT LAST FATAL. Lad Who Broke Neck Year Ago Succumbs in Hospital. Babylon. N. Y. - Joseph Weeks is dead in the Southside hospital here from the effects of an accident July 7, 1912. He dove into shoal water and struck the bottom with such force as to break his neck. He would have drowned had it not been for the alertness of Joseph Dovell, a friend, who pulled him ashore. Weeks' mind remained bright to the last, but he never was able to regain the use of his body. He was always cheerful and hopeful, and no patient in the hospital received more attention from visitors. On several occasions he was wheeled about the village, and he even attended ball games in his reclining chair. BALTIMORE & UNS RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1914 Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connect for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling No 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3:17 p.m for Grafton, Pittsburgh; and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7:42 p.m for Wheeling,Columbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations. No 19.5-37 p. m. No. 9 Daily at 11.28 p m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.50 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 inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations, Connects for, Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore. Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent. BLIND 50 YEARS, NOW SEES. Stricken When Sixteen, Woman Regains Sight—See Her Children. Hillsdale. Mich.—One of the humblest homes here was made the happiest in the whole country when Mrs. Mary J. Welsh, who has been blind for fifty years, recovered her sight. When she was a girl of sixteen her eyes failed until she became entirely blind. In that condition she married and is the mother of eight children whom she never saw until the other day. To make her burden doubly hard her husband became ill and she was forced to take in washing to support the family. Several operations were tried and were unsuccessful. The sons, now grown up, took the mother to Chicago, where she was taken to a hospital for treatment. Surgeons examined her and found she was suffering from a double cataract. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Henry Ford and son, both of Darksville, this county, were in the city on a business trip the other day. They looked well, and many friends were glad to see them. Mr. Virgil Johnson and Miss Emma Hill were united in marriage on Wednesday night, Rev. George H. Carter performing the ceremony. We wish these two young people success on their new journey. Mrs. Amanda Rose, of Baltimore, formerly of this city, and a daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Reed, of West Martin Street, visited her mother not long ago, and was accompanied by a number of her Baltimore friends. Misses. Hilda Hopewell, Ethel Johnson, Jeannette Ford, Brent Lee, Ethel Kirk, and Master Lewis Ford, all students of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, were week end guests of their parents and friends at their homes in this city. Rev. J. W. Garner, pastor of Mt. Piegah Baptist Church, was in to eee us a few days ago, and informed us that the new church edifice which his congregation is erecting on Virginia Avenue will be finished in the near future. Word comes from Pittsburg that Mr. Enward Tucker, who left here the early part of last week for that city, was hurt in a street car wreck there last Friday. While his injuries are painful, it is thought he will soon be well again. Mr. Charles Moten, the popular and well known janitor of the Old National Bank, went hunting the other day, and it is said that since he returned, his wife has been so busy frying rabbits that she has hardly had time to attend to her other duties. Messers. George M. Miller and John F. Carter have been doing considerable painting and repair work in Jefferson County during recent weeks. These two gentlemen seem to have built up quite a trade in that section, which is a source of gratification to them and their well wishers. Mr. Sheridan Harden, an old Martineburg boy, who is always a welcome visitor to his town, came over from Harrisburg, where he now lives, and spent Wednesday with his mother, and other relatives. His appearance denoted prosperity, and he was the same jolly Sheridan of bygone days. Mr. Charles N. Johnson, a fine young man from Martinsburg, who is employed by Uncle Sam in the Bureau of Statistics, at Washington, was a recent welcome caller at our office. The gentleman named above is thoroughly progressive in his ideas and it is a source of pleasure to converse with him. Miss Jessie Wilson's wedding cake was baked in New York last Tuesa day. The first layer of the cake is four inches thick and twenty two inches across. When ready for the knife, the cake will weigh 185 pounds and will be two and one half feet tall, if one counts the vase of white orchid to be placed on top. It will cost about $500 and will contain nineteen ingredients. In 2000 dainty white boxes tied with satin ribbons, the cake will be distributed, each box the proper size to go under one's pillow to dream upon. Over the body of the cake will be molded a thick white icing scroll work. "Then," to quote the artist who is making it, "there will be a design for the initials of the bride and bridegroom. And then there will be lilies of the valley in white sugar on the sides. PACIFIC HALFWAY ACROSSTHE 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 6,000 Feet Long, 500 Feet Wide and 40 Feet Deep. Panama.—The last remaining barrier at the Pacific end of the Panama canal has been blewn 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 hang, then fall back as the roar of the explosion echoed in the nearby hills. About twenty long tons, equivalent to 44,800 pounds, of 45 per cent dynamite constituted 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, tore 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 [Image of a grayscale abstract design with a rough texture and scattered dots.] Photo by American Press Association BLAST AT PANAMA CANAL into that part of the canal between Gamboa 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 excarating 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. NOTICE TO CITIZENS WANTED, AGENTS-EITHER SEX, for our new book,' Life Lines of Success,' for Colored Americans. Just off the press, ready for delivery October 30,1913. Written and pub. lished for the future advancement of a Rising Rise, in commemoration of the remarkable accomplishments of the past, containing over five hundred large pages, including twenty FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS. 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