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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." "HERE SHALL THE ESTABLISHED 1882. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. QUEER, BUT CORRECT. Prof. Brander Matthews, a great philologist, said in a lecture in New York. The past participle "gotten," has gone out in England, though it still lingers on with us. In some parte of Cumberland, England, the villagers still use "gotten" and "putten;" and a teacher once told me of a lesson on the past participle where in she gave her pupils an exercise to write on the blackboard. In the midst of the exercise an archin began to laugh. She asked him why he laughed, and he answered: "Joe's put putten where he should have putten put." COMMANDS BY THE BIBLE. A caller asked Mark Twain to take a walk with him before breakfast, the distance of a mile, "I don't want to go," said Twain, "but I must, for the Bible says; 'if a man takes thee to go with him a mile, go with him Twain.'" THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. The late Dr. Osgood and Vermyle, of Massachusetts, were both very learned, but yet quite unlike—the former being rough and unpolished, and the latter the reverse. Having exchanged pulpits on Sabbath morning, in the afternoon Dr. Osgood said to his people: "You have heard the silver trumpet; now I shall give you a blast from the old ram's horn." A PARADOX A maiden well advanced in years used to wait every morning for the postman, a bachelor, and ask him if there was not a letter for her. Several weeks passed thus, but the anxiously expected letter did not arrive. Finally one morning the postman said to her: "Well, tomorrow you shall get your letter, if I have to write it myself." "That's right, do it," replied she, "I shall be glad to accept it." "Well," said the postman, emiling. "What do you want me to write—a business letter or a love letter?" "If you mean business please write a love letter?" was the blushing reply. BEWARES. Beware of liars, they lead you into sin. Beware of the dishonest, they cheat you. Beware of thieves, they rob you. Beware of the idler, his breed is scant. Beware of sweeter, they corrupt manners. Beware of the devil, lest he make you one. WOMAN OF 104 DIES FROM OPERATION. The oldest woman in south Jersey is dead at the age of 104. She was Mrs. Charlotia Campbell, who had never been out of the state. Mrs. BY W. G. HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSSURG, Campbell was born in Weymouth, Atlantic county, and was the mother of ten children, four of whom survive her. For some years she has lived with her son, David Campbell. A year ago she broke her arm, and a few days ago went under the surgeon's knife for a dromedical effect. In mind she was bright, and new kept in closer touch with everyday life. She was a Methodist ninety one years. When a girl she plucked huckleberries from the same bush with a black bark, but did not know the bear was on the other side. Once she caught a bear up a tree, and taking off her white petticoat, tilt the garment around the tree to hold bruin a prisoner until she could sum mon her husband with a gun. She took delight in telling her children of the first eclipse of the sun she ever saw, and how her mother gathered the children around her in prayer, believing the millennium had come. PELICAN SWALLOWS TWO PET PIGEONS Birds Rescued Alive by Central Park Zoo Keeper. New York.—A highly excited young woman ran into the office of Bill Snyder, head animal keeper at Central park. He saw the look of terror on her face and wondered if a lion had broken loose. He demanded, "What's the trouble?" "The pelican!" she shrieked. "The pelican!" "What's the matter with the pelican?" Snyder asked. "What's it done?" "The pelican! It's swallowed two pigeons! I just saw it swallow them. Come quickly. It might swallow some more of them." Snyder laughs. "That happens about twice a month." said he. "But the poor birds! What will become of them?" The girl was almost sobbing. "Come with me," Bill said soothingly. "and I'll show you what becomes of the poor birds." He led the way to the cage where the pelicans and other great billed birds are kept. Snyder was joined by other keepers, and the cage was surrounded. Sure enough a pelican's immense bill was bulging out as though the bird had swallowed a football. "Are you ready?" called Snyder. "All ready," replied the other keepers. "El Capitan. El Capitan!" shouted the keepers until the park echoed with their cries. El Capitan, who was the pelican, opened his bill and a pigeon flew out. "Goody, goody!" screamed the girl. Again the keepers shouted, "El Capitan. El Capitan!" Again the pelican glanced around and opened his bill. A second pigeon fluttered out and flew away. The girl clapped her hands with joy and asked: "Aren't they hurt? Why aren't they hurt?" "That's easy." answered Snyder. "You see the feathers are dry, and a bird cannot swallow a dry, feathery substance. That pelican tries to gulp those pigeons so often they're getting used to it. All we have to do when he tries it is to frighten him by shouting his name as loud as we can. That makes him open his mouth." The amazed girl left the park. "It's true as gospel," said Snyder afterward. "Up to date that pelican's never swallowed any of our pigeons, and I don't think he'll succeed very soon either." Immorality is a great bindrance to American civilization. Pioneer LITTLE GIRLS RUN SOUTHERN FARMS One in Arkansas Takes Horse's Ploss in the Harrow. STORIES OF THEIR INTEREST Department of Agriculture Successful in Arousing Enthusiasm of Young People in Scientific and Practical Methods of Farming—One Drags Rails Down Mountain For Peace. Washington.—Many human interest stories of girls and boys in the south are being sent to the department of agriculture by its field agents engaged in demonstration work among juvenile clubs. From Alabama came this story: "One girl who lives on top of a mountain cleared and fenced her own plot, dragging rulls, one at a time, down the mountainable. As she lives alone with her grandmother, she had no one to plow for her, so she and her grandmother dig the plot up with a grubbing hoe. She split her ankle with the ax while chewing stakes for her plot." This story came from an agent in Arkansas: "Litta, Daly and Gra Red have moved on their own farm too late for early tomatoes. They have planted bunch beans, after which they will raise late tomatoes. Their father died in February, leaving their mother with eight children. These gifts with a fourteen-year-old brother, will run the farm. It seemed as if the father could have been the least spared of any man in the country." "One little Arkansas girl, with the aid of her sister, used a small harrow such as is used for cotton beds to harrow the space between the rows of tomatoes in their canning club plot. One girl took the place of the house in the harrow while the other occupied the place of the driver." A report from Georgia says: "A little girl of Upatore deserves special mention. Her parents are poor but good people of fine sense. She went to school, stood at the head of her class; did all the work of her patch except plowing, working, mowing and evening; borrowed money for canner and cans and lings put up 500 men of tomatoes and 200 cans of kohl berries, besides a variety of sauces, pickles, jellies and preserves for home and market purposes." "Three-fourths of the members of the Girls' Tomato clubs visited this week are regular 'bands' on their fathers' farms," wrote an agent of South Carolina. "One girl is twelve years old and weighs 108 pounds. She told me she learned to plow two years ago, when her father was a cripple. She prepared her one tenth acre with a two horse plow, buried her fertilizer, scattered, bodded, transplanted, hoed and plowed it without any help at all. When I went to her tomato garden, about a half mile from her house, I found it to be in a very productive state." OUGHT TO CHANGE THE NAME An Afro-American in Philadelphia desired to take a summer course at the Y. M. C. A. in the city, but was refused because of his race. His father threatened to give the matter to the press and demand that the name Christian be taken from the organization. The young man was then admitted. At Newport, R. I., the Y. M. C. A. refused to renew the membership of the son of a distinguished Afro-American physician and also dented admission to another colored man. In various other Northern cities Afro Americans have been refused Press. SY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED F NOVEMBER 29. 1913. membership in so called Corinth Associations and a dark hued Christ tion who had the tenacity to enter white Y. M. C. A. in the South would be taking desperate chance he might be lynched for his audacity The American Y. M. C. A. have been one of the greatest mediums for the spread of the infamous American race prejudice all over the world. The little booklet published by the Isthmian Canal Commission Y. M. C. A., states in plain English the only white men are admitted to membership in Canal Zone Y. M. C. A. Young Men's Christian Association is a mienomer. It is not Christian in any sense of the word. The neat and lowly Christ has never entered the doors of the American Y. M. C. A. The initials Y. M. C. A. evidently mean Young Men's Color line Association. Either let Christ in or change the name—Minneapolis. (Minn.) Appoint. EXPECT INCREASE IN PRICE OF GOAL Tax in Pennsylvania May Affect Entire Country. New York. — Although the retail prices of anthracite coal may be increased 10 cents a ton on account of the new Pennsylvania state tax on the product, there is practically no chance of a raise before the first of next year, said dealers in this city. The Pennsylvania legislature imposed a tax of 2½ per cent on the value of all anthracite at the mines, expecting that it would bring $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 into the treasury of the state. Political economists agree that it is the consumer who pays the tax. The fear has been that in addition to having to do this the retail coal dealer might utilize the new tax as an excuse for jacking up the prices on the consumer away above those actually warranted by the state levy. The tax of $ \frac{1}{2} $ per cent on the value of the coal at the mines would actually amount to about 5 cents a ton of the smallest or steam making coal and from 8 to 10 cents a ton on the larger or domestic sizes, such as chestnut, stove and egg. MARK OLD MISSOURI TRAIL. Woman Drives First Stake to Show Way Pioneers Traveled. St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs. John N. Booth, chairman of the old trails committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution, drove the first of the stakes that are to mark the old trail from St. Louis to Kansas City. This trail was traveled by pioneers who went overland to Independence, Mo., near Kansas City, and there joined the great caravans of home sackers that followed the Oregon trail to the northwest or the Santa Fe trail to the southwest. Other stakes were driven in the city and St. Louis county, and in October they are to be replaced with concrete markers. TEN TONS OF PLAYING CABDS Shipments of Nearly 100,000 Packs Go to the Orient. Seattle, Wash.-Ten tons of playing cards, approximately 36,000 decks, were among the shipments taken aboard the Japanese steamship Tamba Maru of the Nipho Yasen Koisha, loaded here for ports in the orient. The cards arrived from the east by train a few days ago. They are for Macao, China, the Monte Carlo of the orient, situated forty miles from the island of Hongkong on the mainland, near the mouth of the Pearl or Carton river. It is the gambling resort of the denizens of the British colony. --- VOL. 32 NO. 39 GILHOOLY AND PROF. McMANUS GILHOOLY AND PROF. McMANUS Shure ye are not th' closest baruk on th' trey av polidge. Yez kn be skinned. Ove sane th' lootes av ye befure that oi have, so stmart that ye'd suppose they wuz kivered with mustard plasters, but oi guess ye arn not so warrum if yez do war summer flannels. Theres warmer goods than ye around' beer, dye miced that McManus? and Musther Gilhooly with some heat, striking a boligerent attitude. "Oi dont usually condiscind fer to argify wid straogers thet oi dont know me frind. Yore mug in a fay- miter wan; havent I gone ye wan thim cages in th' Zoological Parus? "Phwats that ye contemptible smoalpoen, is it th loikes av mesself yez ar comparto' to the animules in its paruk? Shure if yez have iver both thavre se ye nay yez have yo wint under cover av night, for a mug loike yures would look well among that rare collection av ring tailed monkies an' if yez what in th day, they'd capture ye sure, thinking ye was the muck that escaped a few days ago, for he had a boonch av whiskera under his chin looks yures no looks as much loike yez that it would be harud for to tell yez apart. "Look a here Gilbooly ye are carrying this jok too far an' yez ar gettin a little too personal for yure belth. Ef yez doant wishdraw yure offi sive raymaruka and make scotch apology will be compelled for to brake yez hud an' deathroy yure features ye heretical blackgyard. Oi don't kno so much about that McManue, could bi, oi niver withdrew the trooth, an oi niver apologise ex- cept to misake wale. Ye are not in our obses, McManue an' so oi sun- phone oi hav yez to fight, wishal but oi do be hgte so mix up wid the discipleant av a monkey, thats a fact Soll of oi must, theres no use a thrrain fer to get out evit. His host remark precipitated the conflict and he mixup was animated from stare to unison. Prof. McMaon, director of the mainly art was closely u.classed. Gihooly knocked all the science out of the profes- or in the fourth round by decorating and closing both his optics, building a port cochere under his probesis, tying most of his ribs into a bundle — metaphorically speaking — filling his system with a distinct pain and his exterior with duct. Gihooly stood eying the Prof. for a moment or two and repeated the remark with which this account of the conflict begins. The Prof looked up and said: 'O ever dhram that of wud iiver come in this wurra wurra!' O yez didn't chame it could Yz was wide awake, an yez didn't come to it either; thus of that slot they were wid dis (shaking his big fist under the nose of McManus) dy'o in mind that McManus. McManus looked at Gilhooly's big fist rolled over on his left side and grinned in the spirit, and then wore a supreme effort he gathered up, remaining and hobbled thither wi Gilhooly sent this parting shot in an interesting figure: Yez or not the closest baruk on the three nav nclidge. Yez buy the skirngd; When yez get sum new baruk on yez cum back an oil skirng yez agio ye monkey faced boy then. Yez hone N Yez J En F Pase. Yonkere, N Y Joan E. Bruce. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS A FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMA I. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 6 months ..... $1.50 3 months..... 75c 3 months..... 40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Sent for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Best Phone, 101K Mar. Lutburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 13. When you are bowling now about hard times, if things keep on as they are pointed and going, by this time another year, comparison with these times would be easy to what they will be then. Ragtime music, in conjunction with dance halls may not lead its patrons straight to hell, but it will stop them on the way at a jail or a penitentiary.—Richmond Planet. Gospel facts—always had it in our think tank that Edior Mitchell was cut out for a preacher. Lord Winston Spencer Churchill tellt his people that England must be first on sea, on land and in air. If the old country failed to be fired on sea and land when this country was tugging at its mamma's breast, it is foolish to think it now. Ex Senator George L. Wellington misses his man when he informs the public that Theodore Roosevelt will be nominated by the republicans in 1916 for president and the Progressives will follow him back into the republican party. Mr. Wellington has the cart before the horse, for the prophesy will exactly reverse its self. After all of Senator Commune's clamor for Progressive evolution, he is now as clamorous to return and take back with him those he told the world had ruined the once famous G O P. To do so would be as wise as to prune a dying tree, and because it did not look as it used to, nail back (for they could not be grafted) the dead and cut off branches. Give the thing time, and it will not be long till all can stand under our tree of liberty, rights and protection. Fifty years ago November 19 1863 at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln made that immortal speech. Rev. William H. Stockton made the pray- er, and Edward Everett, of Masse- chusetts delivered the oration. The next day the papers seemed with praise of Everett's speech, but and not a word of President Lincoln's speech. Now Everett's oration is seldom thought of, while Lincoln's is imbalmed the world over as the choice piece of literature ever conceived and uttered by mortal. So much for being right and backing it up. --- Those who console themselves that because the Progressive Party failed to elect it is going to retrace its steps back into the ranks of the rotten rule of Lincoln's party. Not so. Next fall in every congressional district in this country nominations will be made. Per force of our principles this fall we elected 24 members of the New York legislature, and the wonderful vote in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Indiana, and Pennsylvania was surprising to all and just as Massachusetts Republicans are about to reorganize the Progressive party, so will all the states by 1916, when the Progressive Party is going to sweep the country and once more stand on the throne for justice. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, like other women is up in arms against capital punishment for women who murder. If women want to wear the pants in politics they must face and share the fate of men. If a man murder his wife, does Mrs. Belmont want him put to death? Ten to one she does. Then why not if a woman kills her husband she should not pay the same penalty? Solitary confinement, not hanging for all crimes is our standard for murder. Once on a time complaint was taken to President Lincoln about General Grant's drinking whiskey. Lincoln guyed his maligners for awhile on the pretentious anxiety to learn facts in the case, and finally said: "I desire above all to find out the brand of whiskey he drinks," and when preseed to tell why, he said: "I want to get it, and give some to some more of my Generals." Reports say Huerta is drinking heavily. It may be he has a brand of the Grant whiskey. The Philadelphia North American is one of the best newspapers in the world. It's clean, frank, terse and blazes the way for better thinking, action and conditions generally. Its editorial page should be filed and kept so the most up to date thought in America. How natural for such a power for good to be progressive, and the North American is to Progressive readers who want light, what the Bible is to those groping in the dark of sin seeking light. Send for sample copies and be convinced. Our dear President is too refined, and too much absorbed in the art of segregation, his written propaganda on labor, and historical research, to concentrate his praying soul on a game with that old bloodthirsty Huerta, who by Japan's wink, Germany's, England's and France's warships down there, has called his hand and our christian President is too much of a gentleman to raise it. Some thought he was waiting till after Miss Jessie's marriage, but we think Sherman's warning that that game "die hell" is the cause. A Texas Negro has asked protection on the ground that the unwritten law should apply to the colored man, the same as it does to the white men. The whole contention is rotten. What use is there in having law, if maudlin sentiment makes its own? This Negro shot a white man he found in bed with his wife. He was a fool for doing that because the woman was not a wife, but a party as guilty of the crime as the man and when things called men, will all of others to death for acts of this kind they have lost their senses if ever they had any, and should be put where no wooing of such females will occur again; Nestles of this country have no better example to go by and up than the Jews in thrift and business. Thirty seven years ago, but one could be seen in Martinsburg; now, they almost run it. When they started here, the Negroes had better chances than they had and were better treated. The Jews sung one song and the Negroes another. The former's was give me the world and I'll be happy; the latter's was—"give me Jesus and you may have the world." The Jew boy is not only taught to make and save pennies, but to go into some kind of business soon as he can toddle, but our Negro boys wear the knees of their pants out shooting marbles. Ever since the election of this month, the two old parties have been boasting of the good and satisfactory meat they got off the old dry bones. Not so. Both are scared and well they might be, for the Progressives won in many ways. To defeat and be defeated, are often glorious victories, and reat assured that this will go on till right prevails and the masses will stand up and praise our method of governing a country for the good of the toiling millions who are justly entitled to enjoy their earnings by the sweat of their brow. THE AMERICAN CANAL by Frederick J. Haskin, author of the American Government, is a great book showing what can and has been done by science, shovels and pluck. Every American owes it to himself to know the story and sacrifice, service and true patriotism that worked out the solution of the Panama Canal. The book is worth three times its price—65 cents, but if you will cut out coupons from six consecutive dates of the Philadelphia North American, and send them and 50 cents to the North American, you will get this extremely interesting and valuable book. The late, able and distinguished scholar, lawyer and stateman, Charles Sumner, saw the necessity of the initiative, referendum and recall of judges in the early sixties, as the following shows: 'I hold judges, and especially the supreme court of the country in much respect, but I am too familiar with the history of judicial proceedings to regard them with any superstitious reverence. Judges are but men, and in all ages have shown a full share of human frailty. Also! alas! the worst crimes of history have been perpetrated under their sanction. The blood of martyre and of patriots, crying from the ground, summons them to judgment.' No poor man who reads and understands why a fund already $200,000 is in our state treasury, and 800 accidents and 35 deaths reported, and is not satisfied with Progressivism, is deserving of very great pity. The Workmen's Compensation act is the cause of the two hundred thousand dollars being in our state treasury, and the reported cases of accident and deaths to be paid for emanate from Progressive principles, and mark you, this progressive law only took effect the first of last October. This $200,000 has been paid by the employers and employees, and is for widows, orphans or pay to the injured while unable to work. Along the facts stated above comes the Public Utilities Commission, and the legislative reference bureau—all the outcome of Progressive legislation. Keep a tab on the good they are sure to do for the men, women and children who are working out a world wide name for West Virginia. Judging from the muddle the people seem to be in, seemingly the best thing to do is to divide them—one into a working class and the other a monied doleess class, except to do the working class. The doleess class has been well educated in political economy, and make it their business to defend their business, and that their defense is shrewd deception there can be no doubt. For the reason, they have bought up all the food products buyable, and are holding them for high prices, and in the face of it, write and have long articles written purposely evading the cause of high prices, and as a rule, it is so adroitly done, the poor workers believe it. Read the following figures and be convinced that we are right. The government's report for one year's cold storage of food products amounted to 131,000,000 pounds of fresh beef; 20,000,000 pounds of fresh mutton; 176,000,000 pounds of fresh pork; 157,600,000 pounds of butter and ten million cases of eggs—30 dozen to a case, making 100,000,000 dozen eggs. If all this food stuff was free out the market, down, everybody knows, would go high prices, and that's all there is to it. That a man, or set of men, will buy and hold in cold storage, to get the hard earned pennies, dimes, and dollars of the toilers are rascals and robbers, is an undeniable fact. People are rapidly learning that tuberculosis is not only preventable but in large measure curable and are generously helping along the campaign for its suppression. Good food, plenty of rest, fresh air day and nights in connection with sanitary living are the weapons which are used against the disease.—Anti-Tuberculosis Extract. Good food is very necessary, but too much rest is not, for work for the sick is often better than medicine, and along with good food goes good warm clothes and heavy soled shoes. As to fresh air, it is only good in consumption so long as it does not chill the sick ones. That it has killed more than it has cured is surely true. Expose well, healthy and hearty people to it and they often take colds, get pneumonia and die. On the same line of reasoning, how can the sick with already inflamed and weak lungs stand it to an advantage? Out of reason end season, it's a fad. BEAUTY HINTS Headaches may be alleviated by rubbing the temples with a slice of lemon. Fruit acids are excellent to relieve a rheumatic condition of the system. An excess of borax in the shampoo will soon ruin the hair, causing it to break and split. Peroxide of hydrogen is a safe and sure cure for superfluous hair. Continue its use for five or six months. When the gums are tender and bleeding the mouth should be rinsed with warm water to which a mild antiseptic has been added. If your feet ache after dancing, soak them before you get into bed in a hot bag of salt and water, dry them and rub briskly especially about the ankles, with a rough towel. A famous lotion of Colonial days, known as "morning days," consisted of one ounce of rose water, half an ounce of glycerine, half a teaspoonful of borax and three drops of benzoin. The quantity may be multiplied if necessary. HON. A. I. BOREMAN HON. A. I. BOREMAN The First Governor of West Virginia. Arthur Ingram Boreman, the first Governor of West Virginia, was born at Waynesburg, Penn., July 24, 1823. At the age of four years he came with A. HON. ARTHUR I. BOREMAN, First Governor of West Virginia. his parents to Tyler county, West Virginia, where he attended the school of that day. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843, in which year he located in Parkersburg, and began the practice of his profession, in which he soon rose to distinction. In 1855 he represented Wood county in the General Assembly of Virginia, and by successive elections continued in that capacity until 1860. He became an ardent new State man, and was president of the Second Wheeling Convention which assembled June 11, 1861, and which reorganized the Restored Government of Virginia and prepared the way for the formation of West Virginia. He was elected first Governor of West Virginia; was inaugurated June 20, 1863, and by successive elections served until 1869, when he was elected a member of the United States Senate, in which body he served six years. Thereafter he resumed the practiced of law in Parkersburg, where he was later elected Judge of the Circuit Court, and served eight years, his term beginning January 1, 1839. He was a leader of men in the time in which he lived, not from the intrigues of craft and cunning, but from an innate and rightful sovereignty of human nature. J.R CLIFFORD ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. PUGILIST BY NIGHT; A STUDENT BY DAY Young McGann Fighting Way Through Law School. Chicago.—George Howard Lovequest, formerly of Chicago, now of Racine, Wis.. is literally fighting his way through the law school of the University of Wisconsin. He fights at 183, Marquis of Queensberry, when he is pot wrestling with Blackstone. He is known in the ring as "Young McGann," and is the only man known here who has adopted pugilism as a means of paying his expenses in school. Lovequest was born on the south side in Chicago, where they develop "scrappers." In 1010 he entered Wisconsin as a law student and will be graduated next year. When he entered he cast about for a means of paying expenses. His friend Peter McGann suggested boxing. He approved of it, and his first professional bout was with a man named Britt, at Oregon, Wis. McGann stopped him in the first round. This brought him to the attention of promoters, and since then, he has had no trouble in getting matches whenever he needed money. He ranks high as a student and says that as soon as he is through school he also will be through with the ring. POLL OF FARMERS' WIVES Secretary of Agriculture Sends Letters to 50,000 of Them. Washington. - David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, wants the women on American farms to tell him what the department of agriculture can do to best serve their needs. Accordingly he has prepared a letter which will be sent to the women of 50,000 farm households, requesting them to make suggestions. Copies of the letter will go to about twenty farms in each of the 2,800 counties in the United States. Secretary Houston expects that the replies received will represent the views and opinions of more than 500,000 farm women. BALTIMORE & OID RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1913. No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. 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, 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 12:36 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 Berkelev 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, Mc. STATE MONEY FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN NEW JERSEY. Definite State Aid for vocational schools is a part of New Jersey's new provision for industrial education, as enacted by the 1913 legislation and outlined in a bulletin issued by the New Jersey Board of Education. Officials of the United States Bureau of Education who have examined the plan say it represents one of the best beginnings yet made toward adequate vocational training by the State. The New Jersey work is under the direction of L. H. Carrie, whom Commissioner Kendall designed as deputy commissioner in charge of vocational education. A PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT. The New Jersey plan provides that any school district, whether city, town, township, or borough, as well as any county, may start vocational schools and get State money for their support. Separate schools may be organized, or departments establish or existing schools, according to local convenience. The thoroughness of the plan may be seen from the recommendations to intelligent members of advisory boards for the vocational schools. If the training is for the industries, then those of the members are to be an employer and an employee respectively representing distinct trades or occupations. Where the school is one that trains for home duties, it is suggested that the members shall be persons who have had actual experience in the occupations carried on in the household, as mistress of a home, house-daughter, or housekeeper." Similarly an advisory board for an agricultural vocational school is expected to have as members at least three successful farmers of the neighborhood. AMOUNT OF STATE AID. The local community furnishes the building and one half the cost of equipment and maintenance, while the State pays the other half of the cost. The amount not to exceed $10,000 in any given year for one one school. The school must be officially approved by the State Board of Education before it can receive any money. The sum of $80,000 has been authorized by law for the year. "In brief," says Mr. Carris, summing up the plan, "The State will give money for the equipment and maintenance of approved vocational schools on a dollar for dollar basis, in proportion to the amount spent by the local community one of funds raised for local taxation to the amount of 10,000 annually." The New Jersey authorities are parish council insistent that vocational schools shall be established only after a community has given careful consideration in the vocational needs. A list of questions is suggested, by means of which the local community can find on first, whether the industrial people of the neighborhood demand to or vocational facilities; and, second, just what type of schools—day, evening, or part time—may be necessary to meet local requirements. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. C., one of the most liberal, strongest and rehable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see D.E.V. JORDAN. GEN. GENE. V. F. ROOM 2. K. P. BUILDING CHARLESTON, -- W. VA OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION BLOW UP WARSHIPS BY WIRELESS NOW New Invention Is Secretly Tested In England. London.—An invention which, when fully developed, promises to reform war has been given a successful test off Portsmouth. Although the admiralty has attempted to keep the matter a secret, it is now definitely known that a mine attached to the bottom of the British cruiser Terpsichore was exploded at a distance of eight miles by wireless impulse. Some weeks ago the Terpsichore, a third class cruiser of 3,400 tons displacement, 300 feet long and forty-three feet beam, was taken into dry dock, where dockyard hands attached a metal box to her bottom. The cruiser was towed to Stokes bay. Her water-fight compartments were then closed and all members of the crew left the ship. A few moments later the Terpsichore half rose out of the water amidst a vast uphoaval of water. She at once took a heavy list to port and five dockyard tugs came to her assistance, keeping her afloat with their pumps while they towed the sinking cruiser into Portsmouth. CITIZENS BUILD SCHOOL. County Treasury Depleted, Residents Do the Work Quickly. Craig. Colo. - Instead of becoming discouraged at the refusal of the county to build a schoolhouse at Illinois Park, owing to the fact that the treasury was depleted, 109 citizens turned out in a body and, armed with hammers, saws, etc., completed by nightfall one of the nearest and most substantial school buildings in northwestern Colorado. In addition to the labor, they also furnished the material. A local divinity student, Ernest Kline, has volunteered his services as instructor. The school will open at once for a summer session. WAITER'S $1,000 LUNCH. Bikes Into Black Pearl. Which Is Appraised by Jewelers. Akron, O.--While eating clams at a restaurant Jack Newman, a writer, bit into something hard, and when he painfully removed a piece of foreign substance from his broken tooth a large black pearl was revealed. Newman took the pearl to several jewelers, and its value was placed at $1,000. It is one of the finest of the black pearl varieties. At first it was feared that the jewel was damaged by rooking, but experts pronounced it perfect. STOMACH TROUBLE FOR FIVE YEARS Recovery. for three n haven't ha since i beg WEST VIRGINIA'S NE (Copyright applied for WEST VIRGIN WEST VIRGINIA'S NEW SONG. These are the words of the prize poem and tenennial Committee, the music for which is by band master of Chicago. Preparations are out the words and music to all of the so throughout the state so that they may become and air in time to play and sing the song at th These are the words of the prize poem accepted by the Semi-Centennial Committee, the music for which is by F. H. Innes, well-known band master of Chicago. Preparations are now being made to send out the words and music to all of the schools and organizations throughout the state so that they may become familiar with the words and air in time to play and sing the song at the celebration on June 20. There are lands of milk and honey, There are lands with ruins gray, There are lands where only money May command the right of way; But beside a winding river There's a land where beauty reigns, And where manhood shall forever Have more worth than golden gains. Refrain. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania Each may seem a fairyland to the peop But no country holds a candle To the state that has the handle *W-E-8-T V-I-R-G You can guess the rest, and so, all tog You grand old West Virginia. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Each may seem a fairyland to the people dwelling there! But no country holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the roost, and so, all together, sing R, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. Refrain. 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