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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. BY W. G. EVIL SPEAKING Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good under standings We ought not think ill of any one till we have palpable proof, and even then we should not expose them by retaliating. * o * SWIFT AND THE BARBER Dean Swift, while residing in a village where he had a living was frequently shaved by a barber to whom he became very much attached. The barber one day told Swift that he had taken a public house, which he intended to run in conjunction with his trade as barber, and respect fully requested the dean to write him a line or two to put on his sign board. The proposal to strengthen the secrecy of the ballot by voting by mail reminded Senator Williams of an election story. "Voting by mail," he said, "is a radical proposition that I'd hesitate to advocate without further study, but I do most heartily favor inviolable secrecy as regards the ballot. Even a harmless curiosity about the ballot is contemptible. A Saline grocer said to a little girl on election day: "Who is your father going to vote for, my dear?" "I don't know," she answered. "Will he vote the Republican ticket." "I don't know." "I wonder if he'll vote democrat." "I don't know." "He wouldn't vote Prohibition, surely." "I don't know." The grocer said sneeringly; "Well you don't know much, that's a fact." "You know less" the little girl answered, "or you wouldn't be askin' so many questions." THE QUESTION. "Patriotism, said Upton Sirclair, at a dinner, "is dying out. Internationalism is succeeding it. Today we don't merely love our country—we love all countries. A captain was training a band of recruits. "Phillips," he said to a red haired chap, "why should a soldier be ready to die for his fatherland?" Phillips nodded approvingly. "That's just what I say; cap, he cried— "Why should he indeed?" STILL, FASHIONABLE. A politician said in New York the other day: "Superfluous millions will only buy superfluences. Money is not the whole of life. I can wear only one suit of clothes at a time, eat only one meal at a time, and inhabit only one house at a time." NEGRO MECHANIC GETS GOLD MEDAL. "The McClintic Marshall Com pany has given a gold medal to the leading employees of the company in the construction of the lock gate The recipients of the medals are: J. W. Wright, general foreman; Herbert M. Doberty, Thos. E McGovern, L. D. Hese, R. Feltman, Ed Goucher, George Duer, Ed Ramsey, H. J. McMabony, R Zane, A. Jurey, E. Ruseel, Wm. Kleary, P. Connerta, J. Lindgren, W. T. Menfer, W. Reynolds, J. Dockett, G. Brown, T McKnight, H. Watt, G. A. BARNES, J. Wilson, E. Mueller, R. M. Rawlings, R. A. Frompton, G Ehile, G. Beideman, H. L Barker, L Sory, John Celvack, F. J. Lenow, S. Blissly and E. Hose." George A. Barnes, whose name occurs in the list of those who received gold medals for being the best employees in the construction of the Panama Canal and was also a foreman, is well known to a large number of St. Louisans. A few years ago he was a member of the Central Baptist Church and sang in the choir. He also organized the Colored Mechanics' Exchange and was a master of many of the building trades. He writes the Advance that the Panama Canal is one of the greatest achievements in mechanism in the history of the world, and as a matter of course, he feels proud that in its construction a Negro was given a gold medal for being among the foremost in the skill with which he formed its concrete pillars and constructed the draws and gates of theocks. Mr. Barnes installed the machinery, air compressors and also acted as chief carpenter. He has been promoted to charge off Mira floreas Locks. He expects to return to St. Louis about the end of March—St. Louis Advance. A HUMAN ZOO. Mrs. L. Bracket Bishop, wife of a wealthy Chicago business man, plans to become the mother, by adoption of 15 children, each to represent one of the 15 most characteristic racial types. Her representatives have visited local orphan asylums in search of the nucleus of her future family. Friends in Europe have been asked to find babies representing such races as she could not recruit in Chicago. The unique family, according to Mrs. Bishop, will include a Negro baby, an Indian, an Arab, a Japanese, a Malay, a German, a Chinese, a Scandinavian, an American, an Irish and babies representing several of the South American countries. In explaining her plan Mrs. Bishop said she was in hopes of obtaining babies in which the racial characteristics of each promised to develop most thoroughly. She is in hopes of getting babies about one year old. NEGRO'S MEMORY HONORED Five members of the United States Supreme Court, including Chief Justice White, crowded into a humble little home in Washington the other day to attend the funeral of Aeschie Lewis, a Negro seenger, who had taken care of their robes ever since they were elevated to the bench. Lewis was serving the court when three of them, Justices Day, Van Devanter and Lawar were born, and before Chief Justice White and Justice Holmes had started to school. The High Cost Of Living In the lamentations on the growing cost of living, most people fail to see the main trouble. It takes only ordinary observation to find that enough is being raised in the world to feed and clothe all the people. In our country there is no need that any one should suffer for either food or shelter. There is work for every one, and in the vast majority of cases the pay is good. Why then the misery, the debt, the hopelessness? It is the increase in unnecessary expenditures. It is trying to live up to the next fellow, trying to go beyond the means at hand to get the things that seem to make position a little further on. It would seem to be decrying ambition and the desire to progress to tell persons that they should be satisfied with less, but that is just about the problem that confronts three out of five families in America today. It does not mean cutting off essentials. In the end it really means more health and certainly more happiness. The fact is important now because many are misled into the belief that there is going to be a fall in prices. They have been warned of their error, but don't head the warning. How much better it would be if they would face the truth and begin their economies by doing without extras and by curbing their wishes to excel their neighbors? The only way to reduce the cost is to reduce the number of expenditures and to concentrate upon the necessities.—The Philadelphia Public Ledger. SULZER'S "DOWNFALL" AND UPRISING. The election of William Suzer to the new legislature is not merely sensational; it is a political affair of large importance. Mr. Sulzer as Governor has rendered the State of New York an almost superlative service. The prospect for good government in the metropolis and in the State is better than it has been at any time for half a century—and this result is due more to Sulzer than to any other man. He had a chance, as Governor, to make a nominally good record for himself, and yet to avoid all serious trouble. Tammany would have allowed him to accomplish many things that could have borne the reforge label. All that Tammany asked of him was not to investigate certain situations too sharply, and to consult Mr Murphy about a few appointments. In spite of all kinds of threats of exposure that would disgrace him and break him down, Sulzer persisted in using men like Hennessey, Blake, and Carlisle to investigate corruption and mismanagement in the affairs of the State. Sulzer demanded that the Tammany Senate expel Stilwell for being concerned with legislative bribery. Upon Tammany orders, the Senate whitewashed Stilwell: whereupon Sulzer caused his indictment, and Stilwell was sent to the penitentiary. It Solzer had not called the extra session, in his effort to secure direct primary legislation. Temmany could not have got at him with its impeachment charges, during the lifetime of the present Assembly. The impeach- ment trial, brought in an extra session, was as plainly contrary to the constitution as explicit language could ask it. It was equally plain that the Sulzer impeachment was an attack of desperate scoundrels upon an honest man. Nothing was brought out in the Sulzer trial that was even distantly related to those offenses for which Governors can be properly impeached. It is not even wholly clear that Sulzer made an incorrect report of his campaign expenses. The object of the law is to prevent men from spending money lavishly in improper ways, and to see that what is spent is duly reported. Sulzer seems to have reported whatever was spent. But he collected money he did not spend in his campaign. Those who put this additional money in his ban is might have complained, but they did not do so. Most of them were willing to have him use the money to relieve himself from personal debt and embarrassment. Judge Cullen, who presided over the impeachment court, thought that Sulzer had not behaved, in those matters, as an honorable gentleman, but he held that Sulzer had done nothing for which he could be properly impeached. The scoundrels who were mixed up in the orgy of canal and road building graft were so shortsighted as to suppose that if they broke down Sulzer they would discredit Sulzer's accusations against them. But this was the very opposite of what happened. Their impeachment of Sulzer focused the attention of the whole world upon their iniquities. It aroused the entire state of New York to a sense of public danger and public duty. Mr. Sulzer became merely an incident. The important thing was the work of cleaning out the grafters that Mr. Sulzer had set himself to perform. From "The Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for December. DANCING TANGO. LOSES EYE. Man Has Sight Destroyed by Quill In Hat of His Partner. Asheville, N. C.—For the pleasure of dancing the tango Brent Latimer of Greenville, S. C., paid the price of one eye, the sight being destroyed by a quill in the hat of the young woman with whom he was dancing. In making a turn the quill swept in behind his glasses, cutting the ball of the eye. Physicians announced that the sight of his right eye is destroyed --- WHITE MAN TO DARKEN. "Americans are destined to become much darker of complexion, because there are 10,000,000 Negroes who must be absorbed by the white people," said Dr. George A. Dorsey of the Field museum in speaking before the Adventurers Club in Chicago. This absorption by the white race makes it positive that the time will come when there will be no full blooded Negroes. But there is no terror in this prophecy, be continued. The ultimate deatiny of the human race, or of the race which now peoples America, will not be affected by matters or color. It makes no difference to the future of the race whether we are red, yellow, black or white. The white man has accomplished nothing that the opposite race can not do. The white race is dominant because the laws of chance have operated in its favor. VOL. 32 NO. 41 Each Man Gives His Life To Work A man must do his work in the world whether he likes it or not, and when it is a question of what he shall do he must make his obchoice of his work not for the honor of it, but for the service in it. There is no premium put upon empty titles that minister only to the veingloriousness of the holder. A man's work is estimated by the actual contribution he makes to the sum total of human endeavor, not by his own grandiloquent description of himself. It is the meek who are to inherit the earth, and it is he that humbleth himself who be exalted. It ought to take the conceit out of a man when he realizes that "for ages and ages before us have men and the children of men," dwelt and done business upon this earth and been gathered to their fathers. A man can die but once, and when in that sense he lays down his life there may be some spectacular feature of sacrifice in his action. It is another matter to lay down his life day by day in a continuity of feeling and of thought for the rights and the needs of others. That is not a showy bravery; it wears no uniform, hears no band music and passes no reviewing stand amid applause. A thousand who are valorous must rush off to tell some confident about it, while one hero stays at home or close beside his humdrum occupation and fills his niche and is in readiness to answer the first low whisper of his duty. There are active multitudes about us, unless we betake ourselves to a hermitage among the mountain craig or a lodge in the wilderness. And in the vast human anthill there is an innumerable sourrying to places of safety where the burden clutched in our mandibles may be deposited. We are afraid the darkness will fall upon us like a weight before we can get there, or some giant footstep may intervene and suddenly crush us, or the floods will inundate, or the earth open, or the wind drive us like chaff before it. But that is no excuse for dropping the load and scampering away. If we let go some one else must lay hold. If a porter deserts you while you thread the African jungles you must give his load to another or leave it behind. The way of life is dotted with the jettisoned cargoes of the ships of the desert, in the places where the sun was fiercest and the hot wind blew and there were long marches between the water brooks. Mary a man is kept from quitting just because there is no one to tak his place. He would like to leave off, but he mustn't. He astonishes himself by his ability to keep on going long after he supposes he is spent. If he had half a chance to collapse he would; but he is upborne by sheer necessity. Thompson and Thompson's fall and winter stock is said to be the best ever seen in a Martinsburg clothing house. It will pay every body to give them a call before buying elsewhere. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAI, RELIGIOUS AND INVOCAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN I. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ' yeats ..... $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. J. B. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K Marttasburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, '13 Since a black cat visited the White House and rubbed itself against the leg of the President at breakfast, everybody will want a black cat. Senator Works calls Gifford Pinchot a lobbyist." The son of God was often by Sadducees called mean names, but it all made Him none the less the real Son of God. Hurra says: "It is a game of life or death with me. I shall play it to the finish." Would to God every living Negro would say and do the same: How strange that money colors color. All have read of the colored girl who fell heir to a great fortune that brings her an income of $171 000 a year. She lives in Oklahoma, whose legislature has declared her white. "There is no black, there is no white, They all are as one in God's sight. There is no high, there is no low, There is no rich, there is no poor. And the fires of hell burn just as bright, For the rich or poor, the black or white." If there be a place in this state where a dexterous fool-killer is needed and wants a job to benefit Negroes, good lord send him to Martinsburg. The Pioneer Press likes to read the West Virginia University Bulletin, and believes in one sided good to humanity, but usually regrets seeing the pictures of no colored boys and girls among its group of pictures and trebles its regrets because they can't go there and fit themselves for life and better themselves for eternity—it being in a part a government institution. We frequently hear persons say: "What would the people who lived here and died a hundred years ago, think of this world now and the progress we have made. If we could go back a hundred years and see how independent millions of people were, certain it is they would not be considered fools. That these persons who are silly enough to think they know it all, are mistaken is a foregone conclusion. President Wilson tried to fool the women by making them believe that he is only "the spokesman of his party," and thus it behooves him to urge nothing unauthorized by his party. Did his party tell him to advocate and contend for free trade, the currency and banking reform? If he is the Chief Executive, he ought to be, as all others have been, the whole country's President. Even though he was elected by a minority, he should be big enough to respect the majority, and listen to the women who make Presidents and our best men. Does the constitution make parties? No and no again, but it does make a place for a president and he who fills it and fears is a coward. Why does he order legislators: segregation and contend for their enforcement? Name any of his predecessors whoever assumed as much dictatorship as President of this republic—we defy it. President Wilson's advocacy of a national primary law to nominate a president is creating a national sensation. It's progressive doctrine. You can hardly talk with this age's wiseacres whose wonder is—"what would the people who lived here a hundred years ago, do and say, if they could come back?" The first thing that would hit them hardest would be the foppishly dressed young men. The second would be, that the woman as dressed had gone crazy; and myriads of angels from heaven could not change them. As to the progress the world has made, too much of it and its result would be condemned, and much of it properly appreciated. How silly for people living in one age to think they know it all and have done all that can be done. Less than ten years from now every home will be lighted, heated, and cooking done by house owned batteries, and in less than 25 years, all the world's dolings will be known and felt simultaneously. We will fly like birds: cross the oceans without ships. Dudes don't be deceived. Some years ago George T. Angell told of a family in a buggy coming down Bunker Hill, Massachusetts, and while doing so, the breeching broke and the buggy rushed against the horse, and the man said "whoah" he stood firmly against the buggy and its load tall all got out, and all petted him. The Dumb Animals' great editor took the right view of it—that had the horse been used to croe words and blows—all might have been killed or badly hurt. The horse was loved by all and its owner had never struck or spoken a harsh word to it. The above is good, but the following is by far better. On the tenth of this month, near Milton, Pa., James Wertz, 50 years old and a farmer, who owned a bull that refused to leave its stall, and while Mr. Wertz was prodding it with the handle of a pitchfork it turned on, knocked him down, and was fearfully goring him and soon would have killed him, but a Miss Rosie Yocum, 18 years old who lived with the Wertzs and had fed and petted the bull from a calf, heard Mr. Wertz's cries and rushed to his aid. The bull had broken his jaw and terribly lacerated his face. She made no effort to beat or frighten the bull off of Mr. Wertz. She simply said: Billy! Billy!! to the goring and enraged bull, it "stopped and slowly walked over to her side, where it stood contentedly allowing her to rub its nose, while the injured man crawled away." The North American is authority for the truth of the above, and it must be true for a better paper does not exist. It's about time the Negro press stopped overworking the prefix "Hon." One exchange mentioned last week "Hon." So-and-So, "messenger and janitor," while another referred to a policeman as "Hon." Both these employments are honorable, but by no stretch of imagination do they carry with them the title of "Hon." If they did, to be consistent, there would be the Hon. Mr. Hodcarrier, the Hon. Mr. Black-smithe Hon. Mr. Boo black and the like. Like the title "Prof." Hon." has reached the stage where it means absolutely nothing. Neither is near so appropriate nor sounds so well as old fashioned "Mr.", to the more frequent use of which we commend our brethren."—Charleston Advocate Mr. John Anderson of Washington, D. C., is circulating among friends and making same of strangers. Welcome! His mining interest in Montana may make him a millionaire. THE COMMUNITY EGOTIST A NEGLIGIBLE QUANTITY. He is a dull man indeed who fails to see the beauties of this world. To my mind, God in his great wisdom intended that man should see, realize and enjoy the blessings of his wonderful handiwork as portrayed in his material kingdom. In the springing grass, the towering oak, the sparkling ruinlet, scattering its silvery prairie dust down the mountainade, the green meadows and flower bedecked fields, all tell the story of that wonderful provision for man's joy and comfort which only an Allwife Creator could provide. And if while contemplating these things we are not made better—if we are not brought to a realizing sense of our duty to the Great Author of our being and our obligations to our fellow man, we are indeed ignorant, dull and insecure. And yet the world seems full of those who are so blinded by selfishness, and an overpowering sense of their own importance, that they can see nothing of real worth in any but themselves. In their minds, the opinions and ideas of others are as nothing beside theirs. In public gatherings they seek to tower above their fellows, and their egotism often carries them so far into the realms of the ridiculous that it is a reproach to real intelligence to give them casual attention. This class is both narrow and selfish. They never hesitate to skim off the cream and grudgingly turn over the skim milk to their neighbor, and then congratulate themselves upon their open banded generosity. In the churches they sing: "Help us to help each other Lord, Each others cross to bear. Let each his friendly aid afford And feel his brother's care." And then they will go out and deliberately do everything possible to retard that brother's progress. Matters not to them how deeply that brother may be bowed in sorrow, he must either subordinate his will and opinions to theirs or be pushed aside to suffer and die. And all this too in the face of the beneficent provisions made for all mankind by a loving and indulgent Heavenly Father, who has decreed that "ye who are strong should bear the infirmities of the weak," or in other works, help and cheer the weak that they too may become strong. There are, I will admit, a few who take the other view, and, whose actions are just the opposite of the class above mentioned. They seek to scatter sunshine wherever they go, but their labors are made difficult because of the great majority who spread confusion and discord in all directions. Among this class is the wiseacre who knows what the other fellow needs much better than he does himself. He is among that class of fools who rush in where angels dare not tread. Matters not what your wishes or opinions may be he will undertake to tell you that they are all wrong and if you really desire real happiness, you must lose yourself, your personality, your desires and ambitions and adopt his views, and follow his directions, or you will certainly go to ruin by the short route. This class of people are found in every community. They are easily recognized. They always know something to the discredit of their neighbor, and that they do not know they simply imagine, and to them it soon becomes a grave reality—none are immune from their attacks. They just know that such and such an one is not what he appears to be. The high and low, the matron and maid, the living and the dead all come in for a share of their vile criticism. They turn relative against relative, friend against friend, and along their foul path can be seen the scum of falsehood, decent and duplicity. In the house cf worship, their hypocritical faces are seen where they try to do the impossible thing—being blind themselves, their efforts to lead the blind. end in their both falling into the ditch. As long as their victims will consent to follow their directions—do they are told—go only with those whom they select as suitable, laugh only when they laugh, and be sure to frown when they frown, it is all right. Obey these rules and he or she is your friend—ignore them and you at once become persona non grata. It is certainly to be regretted that the world is burdened by this class of people. It would be a wise provision if they could all be gathered together and colonized in some distant territory or on some island of the sea where seeing eye to eye and agreeing as to every essential they could live contented and happy, and the intelligent, broadminded people left behind, would enjoy unalloyed pleasure, and the remembrance of their association with these disturbers would vanish as a dream. Then again we have with us the individuals who know it all. Questions that seem difficult and hard of solution to us are an open book to them. You may be blessed with superior intelligence, but that doesn't cut any figure. You may advance a thought full of merit, but they will go you one better, and so it goes. We could go on and one after the other mention the great (?) qualities of these conspicuous individuals, but it would be a weariness of the flesh and a tax upon the patience of your readers. Admitting therefore, that this beautiful world is cursed by these freaks, the question is, what shall we do with them? To give them audience is simply a reproach to intelligence. The only safe course left us is to simply ignore them—live as though such mortals did not exist. And as we are taught that God holds every man personally responsible for his acts, he should seek to acquire intelligence sufficient at least, to ensure him to think and act for himself, to himself and at the same time be broadminded enough to respect the rights and opinions of others. Frostburg, Md. J. W. Jackson. PRISONERS TO KEEP NAMES. Number System and Lettered Uni forms Abolished at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.-As a result of the efforts of Warden Moyer, which have met with the approval of the department of justice, prisoners at the Atlanta penitentiary hereafter will be known by names instead of numbers, and their uniforms no longer will bear the letters "U. S. P." branding them as United States prisoners. Announcement of this radical departure from prison custom was made by Good Words, the paper which is edited and published in the penitentiary. While each prisoner's clothing will bear his registration number, it will be for identification only and will be concealed from sight. 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. ONE SQUIRREL DID IT ALL Brought Out Police and Lured Two Men Near Death. Atlantic City, N. J.-Two men were nearly fatally shocked, police reserves were called out and business temporarily suspended in the center of the city because of the antics of a gray squirrel which escaped from a store, climbed a telegraph pole and then walked over a mile of wire along the main thoroughfare of the city. The two men had a close call when they climbed poles and tried to capture the squirrel. Thereafter a squad of police followed its trail to keep others from climbing the poles. At night the squirrel camped on a pole on the board walk. Next day he was electrocuted while endeavoring to go back over the route he covered. 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 188, Marquis of Queensberry, when he is not 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 1910 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 beat 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 & OTH RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. 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Washington-Denial is made by the department of agriculture of the widespread reports that the department has abandoned or will abandon the bacteriological examination of milk shipped in interstate commerce as a means of determining its cleanliness and fitness for human consumption. In a statement issued Secretary Houston says: "The only change in policy in the department in regard to bacteriological examinations has been to discontinue basing prosecutions upon the bacteriological examination of a single sample It now collects a number of samples at different times and examines them bacteriologically. "If the bacteriological examination shows that the milk is not clean, but is not a serious menace to health, and the bacteriological deviation from clean milk is a small one, the department, through the bureau of animal industry, endeavors to teach the dairyman how to produce clean milk. If he then neglects to take measures to make his milk clean and safe for human consumption the department, by taking action in the case of milk shipped in interstate commerce, endeavors to force him to bring his milk to a point of safety and food excellence through prosecutions under the food and drugs act." AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE. Farmer Pute Up Chickena, Hoge 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 hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caller 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 hog 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 I" MILLIONAIRE DAY WORKER. Yale Man Pute In Long Hours at Rubber Factory. Boston.—Dinner pall in hand, young Ellisha S. Converse. Yale student and a millionaire son of a multimillionaire, steps from his Beacon street home into a costly automobile, drives over to a Malden rubber shoe factory and toll nine hours in a room where the temperature is hardly ever less than 100 degrees. This happens every weekday. Young Converse is determined to learn his father's business from top to bottom, but instead of beginning at the top he has begun at the bottom. The father is Colonel Harry E. Converse of Marion, rubber manufacturer and prominent yachtman. Sometimes young Converse has to handle redhot heels which he puts on the rubber shoes. 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A Russian princess who is now in Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the American women for being much too thin. "American women of good breeding are slender to the point of emaciation," says the princess. "They hurry too much, that is the reason. Everywhere you see the American, whether she is going shopping, visiting or elsewhere, she is moving fast, as if she did not have a second to lose." The princess doesn't seem to realize that just now the one aim of the American woman is the extreme slenderness which she finds so unlovely. The Register Daily Sunday Weekly THE NEWSPAPER of WET VIRGINIA. Circulates in every county in the state, also adjoining counties of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Contains all of the News Controls the Associated Press Full Reports. A complete staff of correspondent Every town in the state has a special representative. DO YOU READ THE Sunday Register I have a magazine in itself. Non political. Containing specially co- ced articles of interest. LIBERAL TERMS TO AGENTE SEND FOR SAMPLE COPIES THE OLD RELIABLE WEEKLYREGISTER ONE DOLLAR per year Wheeling Register JAMES B TANEY. General Manager. WILLIAM L BRICE Assistant Manager BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$100. Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and term to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Put Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Reeis to J. R. Clifford, Eeg. Editor Pioneer Post. DEER FALLS ON SHOOTER. Charging Animal, Twice Shot, Diee or Prostrate Hunter. Pescadero. Cal.-Two gun shots failed to stop the onward course of a buck, and the huntsman, Walter T. Thompson, was injured when he was thrown to the ground and pinioned under the carcass of the deer. Thompson was standing near the top of a ridge awaiting the approach of the deer. A buck weighing 100 pounds bounded over the ridge, chased by the dogs, and Thompson fired at fifty yards. The buck did not stop, and at ten yards the hunter fired again. Before he could step aside the buck had rushed into him. Otto Parker pulled the carcass off his companion's body. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kind putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, stores and other sundries. Second hard bicycles bought and sold. now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing on all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. PEGOUD MAY TRY AN OCEAN FLIGHT Topsy Turvy Aviator Believes Feat Can Be Accomplished. WANTS GOOD NAVAL PATROL Frenchman Who Has Amazed World by His Daring Is Modest Young Fellow—"Some Day You Will Die," His Retort to Suggestion of Peril—Wants to Be First to Fly Across Ocean. Paris.—Adolphe Pegoud, the topsy-turvy aviator, intends, if he manages to keep alive, to give exhibitions of upside down flying in New York at the conclusion of his present tour. Before going to Vienna M. Pegoud gave an interview in which he not only stated his purpose of going to America, but also expressed his willingness to attempt a flight across the Atlantic, provided a proper naval patrol was guaranteed. M. Pegoud is small and dapper, with brilliant eyes, scintillating good humor. He cultivates a dark mustache, a la haiser. He is a great joker, even on the subject of his own thrilling performances. While he cannot be called a man without nerves, he undoubtedly does not know the meaning of danger. His attitude concerning his upside-down feats is not stagey, nor that of an acrobat seeking adulation. He said at the beginning of the interview: "I am very proud to be the first man to accomplish this feat, but other men can do it as easily as I. After I got the idea I worked out the possibilities on paper and studied the entire problem thoroughly. I kept at Blerlot allow me to attempt it merely to prove the possibility of the safety of his make of aeroplane. "You ask whether I would attempt a transatlantic flight. I have not studied the question sufficiently to make a complete answer concerning the possibility of success, but I think that such a A. flight will be accomplished in the near future. Certainly it will be the greatest feat in aviation. I hope to be among the first to attempt it, even though I do not succeed. "Persons talk about the foolhardiness of my upside down flights. If I thought them foolhardy I would not do them. That is why I say I would attempt a transatlantic flight now only with a guarantee of proper naval patrol, because I am sane enough to desire to try it again if I fail the first time. "From a superficial study of the situation I believe that the flight might now be attempted across the shortest route, from the west coast of Ireland to Newfoundland. "A waterplane of sufficient size, an extraordinarily powerful motor and LEAN MEN WICKED. HE SAYS. "Laughter, Fat Man's Gift, the Mark of Humanity," Quayle Says. Washington.—Bishop Quayle of the Methodist church has compiled some statistics on fat and lean men. He said: "Man, when he is lean, takes himself too seriously and squeaks when he walks. He is wicked and has not half the chance the fat man has of being good. "Laughter, the gift of the fat man, is the mark of humanity. "Men have not so much to laugh at but women can laugh easier, for they have a subject—to wit, the men." MAN OF MYSTERY MAY TELL PAST Faint Hope That "J. C. R." May Regain His Speech. IN A MINNESOTA HOSPITAL Stranger 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 Minnesota "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 brain 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, 1908, 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 tailies 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. He has fully realized his condition, but not for one moment does he permit himself to be come morbid. He has a winning smile which illuminates his whole countenance, but his face in repose is pathetic. The surgeons were able to make it known to him what they intended to do, and by gestures "J. C. R." inform that he welcomed the opens OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION BLOW UP WARSHIPS BY WIRELESS NOV 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 watertight 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 upheaval 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 shipper cruiser into Porsgenth. CITIZENS BUILD SCHOOL County Treasury Depleted, Residents Do the Work Quickly. Craig, Cloe. 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, 100 citizens turned out in a body and, armed with hammers, saws, etc., completed by nightfall one of the neatest 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. Bites Into Black Pearl, Which Is Appraised by Jewelers. Akron, O.—While eating clams at a restaurant Jack Newman, a waiter, bit into something hard, and when he palmfully 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 taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, although I did not have any confidence in it. I have now been taking Black-Draught for three months, and it has cured me—haven't had those awful sick headaches since I began using it. I am so thankful for what Black-Draught has done for me." Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a very valuable medicine for derangements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely used by young and old, and should be kept in every family chest. WEST VIRGINIA'S NE WEST VIRGINIA'S NEW SONG. (Copyright applied for.) These are the words of the prize poem acco tennial Committee, the music for which is by I band master of Chicago. Preparations are not out the words and music to all of the scho throughout the state so that they may become i and air in time to play and sing the song at the 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. Refrain. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Each may seem a fairyland to the people 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 rest, and so, all toget 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 rest, and so, all together, sing it, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. Refrain. Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York, C Arkansas and North Dakota, all are ve There's no state that holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all toge You grand old West Virginia. Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York, Connecticut, Arkansas and North Dakota, all are very splendid—but There's no state that holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together, sing it, Oh, You grand old West Virginia. Refrain. California, Indiana, Texas, Utah, Tennessee Oklahoma and Montana, each a splendid But no other holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together You grand old West Virginia. California, Indiana, Texas, Utah, Tennessee. Oklahoma and Montana, each a splendid state may be; But no other holds a candle To the state that has the handle— *W-E-S-T V-I-R-G— You can guess the rest, and so, all together, sing it. Oh, You grand old West Virginia. --- Dept. 61 W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, Hammond, Ind. Majority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, But One Helped Him to Recovery. Pomeroyton, Ky.—In interesting advices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes writes as follows: "I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at times, that I thought surely I would die. I tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep, and all my friends, except one, thought I would die. He advised me to try Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit BY S. E. KISER. 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 There is one place of all places That upon the map are shown Where the girls claim all the graces And all glory as their own! Where at night time or in day time Honor wins a ringing cheer, Where the whole year is a playtime And where valor still is dear. Oh, the Yankee, lean and lanky, May excel in many ways. And the plowboys and the cowboys Of the wars may merit praise; I've a very high opinion Of the Duke Lies and Ida. But the lucky West Virginian Has good reason to be glad. *To be sung like college yell. 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