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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. LEADER IN MANY GOOD MOVEMENTS Uplift Work of Dr. W. H. Crawford In Texas. FOUNDER OF THE GADETS. Promoter of Organization For the Advancement of Boye, Superintendent of Sunday School and Chief Factor In Big Land Company Are Some of Dr. Crawford's Activities. Austin Tex.—Dr. W. H. Crawford of this city is the founder and commander in chief of the National Baptist "A.F." cadets, an organization composed of boys, operated on the order of the boy scouts' movement. He has written a manual, in which are set forth the rules and regulations governing the organization, which has been published by the national Baptist publishing board in Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Crawford is also superintendent of perhaps the largest Sunday school in the United States among the colored people. At the annual meeting of the national Baptist Sunday school congress held in Muskogee, Okla., last June. Dr. Crawford's school won the prize banner for having the largest number of scholars of any school belonging to the congress. He is active in many movements for the advancement of the race along various lines. As one of the founders of the National Home Builders' army he has accomplished a great work. He is the secretary and field marshal of the company, which owns a tract of 50,000 acres of the best land in Texas. So thorough is Dr. Crawford's work that his services are constantly in demand, both in his profession and as a [Name] W. H. CRAWFORD, M. D. business man. When the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, reputed to be the wealthiest secret order of its kind in the state, saw the necessity of having a well qualified physician to protect the interests of the organization. Dr. Crawford was elected medical director. During the three years in which he has held the position, the society has grown in membership and finance, and there has been a great reduction in the death rate among the members of the order. Dr. W. H. Crawford was born in McLennan county, Tex., March 29, 1872. He is the son of a Baptist preacher and a devout Christian mother, from whom he received a double portion of religious zeal and enthusiasm. Walking eight miles when he was eight years old to attend his first Sunday --- school, he was seemingly marked then and there for Sunday school timber. At the age of twelve he became a Christian and joined the Baptist church and has since that time been an effective force in the church. His public school education was obtained in the schools of his home county; his academic training was in the Hearne academy, Texas; he received his medical education from Leonard Medical college, North Carolina, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago. Thus preparing himself, he began the practice of medicine in his home town, but his skill soon demanded for him a wider field, and he therefore moved to Austin, Tex., where he soon rose to prominence, his practice being one of the largest in that city. He won fame and distinction as a doctor of recognized ability during the meningitis epidemic that swept over Texas a few months ago. It was Dr. Crawford that saved more lives from that dreaded disease than any physician in Austin. As a citizen he is one of the leading men in his home city, where he is consulted on all matters pertaining to the advancement of his race by both white and colored. As a churchman he is the leading spirit in Ebenezer Baptist church, where he is loved, consulted, respected and obeyed as a man of undoubted Christian integrity whose life is worthy of emulation. SMALLPOX AFTER WEDDING. Bride, Bridegroom, Bridesmaid and Some of the Guests III. Harrisburg, Pa.-Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ulrich, living near Takesville, Bedford county, who were recently married, are sick with smallpox. The bridesmaid at the wedding, Miss Lulu Greenwalt, and some of the guests also have the disease, and the remainder of the thirty persons at the marriage feast are under quarantine. According to reports received at the department of health, the bride and her sister had smallpox when the wedding took place. Since the wedding day several cases have appeared, and state health officers have been rounding up suspects. NOSE WORTH $1,750 St. Louis Girl Wins Suit Against a "Beauty Specialist." St. Louis.—A tiny photograph, smaller than a postage stamp, was the evidence upon which a jury in Circuit Judge Fisher's court based a verdict awarding Miss Edna Schonlaub, twenty years old, a judgment for $1,750 against Dr. James Taylor Pinkstaff, a "beauty specialist." Miss Schonlaub sued for $10,000 damages on the ground of having been distigued by an operation on her nose. The picture was introduced to show how she looked before the operation and how her beauty had been marred. Her petition alleged Dr. Pinkstaff agreed to correct a deformity in her nose for $35 and that in treating her he injected an excessive quantity of parathin, causing the nose to swell and her eyeballs to become irritated. This, she alleged, permanently disfigured her. OFFERS HER A FAMILY Pegleg, Father of Eleven, Sends Proposal From Ireland. West Orange, N. J.-A proposal of marriage from a wooden rogged wooer aged fifty-three with eleven "pretty little children" has been received by Miss Jessie Cosgrove, who was formerly employed here. A few years ago, for a joke, Miss Cosgrove penned a proposal on a piece of paper, which she inserted inside a package at her factory. Then Miss Cosgrove, who is soon to be married, received the proposal from one Dennis O'Finn of Westmouth, Ireland. In part, the letter says: "Having pity on my eleven little ones, a thought to ask if you would become my wife, so I could intrust their bring-ing up to you. "Of course I am not a rich man and cannot pay your passage, but maybe you have some savings and wouldn't mind coming over if you got a good husband with eleven children in the bargain." CUBAN PRESIDENT READY FOR REVOLT CUBAN PRESIDENT READY FOR REVOLT LOAN BILL NOT YET PASSED Liberals In Opposition to Government Have Fifteen Thousand Rifles In Their Possession—Ammunition Likewise Shipped to That Country—Administration Prepared For Conflict. Havana.—The Cuban government is adopting plans to prevent other outbreaks similar to the recent uprising of the banditti in Santa Clara province. It expects to be so firmly entrenched in authority that should actual revolution occur it can be put down quickly. President Menocal has announced he will not brook armed opposition to his administration, and those who attempt it will have their necks "twisted." The administration has quietly prepared itself should conflict occur. The army is generally regarded as loyal. It is known that about 15,000 rifles and many thousand rounds of ammunition are scattered over the island, supposedly in the hands of the Liberals, who are opposing the administration. Information from the national palace says the island has been carefully "gone over" by government secret service men and every move of the opposition is known. "There can be no uprising of any consequence," they say. Besides the armed forces, the administration has the backing of the majority of the Cuban Veterans' association of the War of Independence. The veterans number about 20,000 men and are widely scattered. The central camp is in Havana. General Emilio Nunez, secretary of agriculture in Menocal's cabinet, is president of the veterans. They offered ```markdown ``` PRESIDENT MENOCAL OF CUBA. their services to the president last spring when rumors of revolution were rife. President Menocal has not yet been able to secure the passage through congress of the bill providing for the national loan of $15,000,000. Dr. Alfredo Zayas, leader of the Liberals, has given out a statement saying his party was acting for the best interests of Cuba and would not force a conflict. If one came, however, the consequences would be upon the heads of Conservatives, the party of Menocal. Colonel Orestes Ferrara, ex-speaker and at present the "strong man" of the Cuban congress, has declared himself against the proposed national loan of $15,000,000 and some other policies of the administration. He has thrown down the gantlet to Menocal and declares the loan will not be allowed to pass congress. He exerts great influ- JANUARY ence in Cuban political and legal affairs. Colonel Ferrara said he was not a party to the rumored compromise between the political factions whereby the government would repay English investors amounts invested in the Ports company of Cuba in return for Liberal support for the loan measure. In fact, he did not believe the Liberals would be a party to such an agreement. "I am not opposed to anything that tends to upbuild Cuba and its national credit," he said. SIMPLIFIES NAVIGATION. U. S. Naval Observatory Issues Condensed Computations. Washington.—A contribution to safety at sea has been made by the United States naval observatory in the form of a publication which greatly simplifies and facilitates computations incident to the navigator's work. Elaborate interpolations are done away with and all information condensed and made readily accessible. The publication contains only thirty-seven pages and a star chart, yet contains all the information ordinarily required by navigators in practical everyday work. At present it will be issued as a supplement, but later will be included in the Nautical Almanac itself. SAYS HE CAN CURE LOVE BY NEW SERUM London Doctor Says It Is Worse Than Most of the Vices. London. — Love, passionate consuming love, which tortures and disables its victims, is curable by segregation and a new serum. This is the discovery of Dr. Maurice de Fleury, the famous "brainstorm" specialist. Dr. de Fleury declares that to be in love, whether passionately or platonically, is a form of mental poisoning comparable to physical intoxication. By means of delicate electrical instruments, which "record every infinitesimal movement of the nervous system," Dr. de Fleury said, he has obtained charts of the condition of sufferers from this "passional intoxication" and found how to treat it. He puts love in the fifth category of enslaving poisons, which he arranges according to severity as follows: First, alcohol; second, opium and hasheesh; third, morphine, cocaine and ether; fourth, tobacco; fifth, love. In the course of his experiments Dr. de Fleury traced the curve of love fever as clearly as that of typhoid may be traced and charted in its phases. He prescribes graduated isolation and a wonderful serum, which he does not describe. He tells of one typical case of a bad man who wished to be cured, but resisted treatment, just as the typical morphinomanine does. He wept and implored and reproached the physician, who was convinced that the man would commit suicide if the treatment were abandoned. He dosed his patient with intermittent separations from his baby love, increasing the intervals of segregation as the man grew stronger. After five weeks the man became calm, and at the end of two months he was completely cured. PRIZE TO OKLAHOMA BOY. His Cotton Is Adjudged to Be the Best Grown In the State. McAlester, Okla.—Onie Minyard, a seventeen-year-old boy living at Indianola, has received notification that he has won the first prize as a champion cotton raiser in Oklahoma and will be awarded by the Oklahoma Cotton Seed association a free trip to Washington and return. Young Minyard cultivated two acres of cotton near Indianola which was inspected by the federal bureau of agriculture and judged to be the best cotton, both as to quality and quantity, raised this year in the state of Oklahoma. VOL. 32 NO. 45 PROBLEM IN INDIA GROWING SERIOUS Hindus and Mohammedans Protest to Viscount Hardings. ALLEGE DISCRIMINATION. British and Indian Governments Concerned Over Recent Occurrences In South Africa—Treatment According Natives Arouses East Indians Living in British Isles. London. — The British and Indian governments are very seriously concerned over recent occurrences in South Africa arising out of what the East Indians consider discriminatory legislation against them. An effort is being made to minimize the seriousness of the situation, which was accompanied by a general strike of thousands of East Indians in Natal and riots, in which several were killed. Viscount Hardinge, viceroy of India, has tried to pour oil on the troubled waters by expressing his sympathy with the East Indians in South Africa and asking for a thorough investigation. 1 VISCOUNT HARDINGE, VICEBOY OF INDIA tion by the imperial authorities, and the Marquis of Crewe, secretary of state for India, in reply to a deputation of East Indians, has likewise expressed himself in favor of investigation. All this, however, has not had much effect on the natives or, at any rate, on East Indians living in the British isles. They are thoroughly aroused and are demanding equal treatment for their fellow subjects in all the British dominions, practically all of which have adopted or contemplate adopting laws to keep the Indians out of their respective countries. The difficulties of the imperial government are twofold. It is pointed out that it cannot dictate to the dominious as to what immigrants they shall admit without arousing, particularly in South Africa, a storm that might lead to a demand for separation from the empire, and in India it is realized by the authorities that it would not take a great deal to fan the flame into a rebellion, the suppression of which would tax the resources of the empire. A rebellion in India would be a very serious matter under any circumstances, but there is the added difficulty now that Hindus and Mohammedans are united in demanding what they consider justice to the Indian subjects of his majesty. It is not often Continued on fourth page. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IST. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. [ you.....$1.50 ] Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Reduced Rates to Cluba. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. 1914. How strange to be examined for service as soldiers, tobacco's color of skin, nails of fingers &c., bars admission, then in its face Secretary Daniels buys at the expense of the government 50, 000 pounds of tobacco for the sailor boys. Where does reason and consistency come in? The Steel Trust feels hard times so severely that it will distribute a bonus to employees of $2,000,000—or half a million more than a year ago.—Springfield Republican. The American Negro Academy. This unique organization held its 17th annual meeting December 29-30, 1913, Washington, D.C. The meeting was both pleasant and profitable. It was regretted that every member was not there. Possibly a later date—say May or June, would reunite the brethren. Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, President, delivered a masterly oration. He is a profound thinker and a sublime orator. The Academy should keep him before the world in rebuke and refutation to all that the Dixons, Vardamans, Tillmans, Bleases, Smiths, et al. say and have said derogatory of us. Let us wake up and do it. The paper read by Prof. R. C. Bruce, was in composition, diction and logic whipped cream of the richest thought, and his delivery was excellent. The Schools of the District are honored by such a man. Prof. Williams of the M. Street High School is a top-notcher, energetic, scholarly and brave: He is a searcher of interesting facts, and tells them in a way that they tiptoe your soul, and take a tiptop place in your memory. Not feeling well and knowing home was the best place for us, we did not get to hear Mr. L. M. Hershaw, whose orations are always excellent, and we know, or feel sure it measured up even with the rest, and at points boiled over. --- Wm. M. Trotter, of the Boston Guardian, is grossly insulted because Dr. W. E. B. DuBois failed to see anything worth while to write about in the Crisis relative to his money-making trip to Washington to see President Wilson. If the Pioneer Press had said anything it would have been in the language of Lincoln about fooling all the people some of the time, but not fooling all the people all the time. Never did a bigger fakir, or humbug call on a President of the United States. Print on paper and his lips told lies, that he was and is President of The National Independent Political League. He had no more right to go there as aforesaid than the devil had to offer the Savior of men, the kingdom of the earth if He would fall down and worship him. Having demanded a big sum of money to support the democratic party and got it, with no promises of performance for loyalty, Mr. Wilson no doubt said in his heart, "get thee behind me Satan" &c. That Trotter's interest in any cause is bounded by his own selfishness and whims, is known by all who have had dealings with him. His only standard of conduct is the gratification of an inordinate vanity. He seceded from the Niagara Movement for no other reason than that a majority of its members did not see things as he saw them. He has quarreled with every man who has ever had any connection with him in race uplift. There is not a single educated man of the race who now cooperates with him who is not actuated by some motive of material gain. Trotter seceded from the National Independent Political League and as a secessionist he has Jeff Davis beaten to a frazzle. ARRAIGNS OFFICERS FOR THEIR FAILURE CABIN CREEK AND In Individual Report the Senator Condemns State Authorities—No Evidence That Civil Courts Could Not Have Performed Duties If They Have Tried to Do So. Severe arraignment of the authorities who administered marital law in West Virginia from September, 1912, to June, 1913, when the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek coal mine strike troubles were in progress, is contained in a subcommittee report made public last night by Senator Borah, a member of the Senate committee that conducted an investigation into all phrases of the West Virginia disturbances. Says Courts Were Superseded. Senator Korah's statement holds that the military authorities, acting under the direction of the governor, superseded all constitutional courts in West Virginia, imposed sentences not authorized by any standing laws and took over all the duties of the civil courts of the district, and that at the time such martial law was being enforced there was no evidence that the civil courts had been intimidated or that they would have failed to perform their duties faithfully. Restricted In Its Inquiry. The absence of recommendations is due to the restrictions placed upon the special committee by the resolution, under which it made the investigation. The inquiry itself was stubbornly opposed by Southern senators on the ground that it invaded the powers of the State, and was not properly a subject matter for Federal inquiry. This opposition was dissipated only when the resolution was so worded as to restrict the committee solely to a report on the facts disclosed. Tried Without Indictment. After briefly reviewing the incidents of the establishment of martial law and its maintenance in the Cabin Creek and Paint Crek districts for nearly a year, Senator Borah's statement sets forth: "That during the reign of martial law a number of individuals were arrested, tried, and convicted and sentenced and punished for offenses alleged to have been committed by them. "That these parties were arrested upon orders issued by the military authorities and not by virtue of any warrant issuer by the authorities or from the established courts of the State, and were put upon their trial, without the finding of any indictment by the grand jury, before a court martial created by the order of the commander-in-chief and composed of individuals selected by him. "That the charges made against these parties thus put upon their trial were in the nature of specifications drawn up and presented by the military authorities, and upon these they were put upon their trial before said court-martial without a jury. The Constitution Disregarded. "That in the trial of these parties and in the assessing of punishments the court before which they were tried deemed itself bound alone by the orders of the commander-in-chief, the governor of the State, and in no respects bound to observe the Constitution of the United States or the constitution or the statutes of the State of West Virginia, relative to the trial and punishment of parties charged with crime. That they acted under the claim that all the provisions of the constitution, both State and national, and the statutes of the State relative to such matters were suspended and for the time inoperative by reason of the existence of martial law. "That at the time these arrests were made and the trials and convictions had, the civil courts were open, holding their terms as usual, disposing of cases and dispensing justice in the usual and ordinary manner. "That in some instances arrests were made outside the military zone for offenses alleged to have been committed outside the military zone and at a time when martial law did not prevail, and when such arrests were made the parties were turned over by the civil authorities to the military authorities for detention, trial, and punishment. "That in rendering judgment and assessing punishment the parties were punished by terms of imprisonment unknown to the statutes or in excess of the punishment provided for such offenses under the laws of the State. "That a number of these parties were sent to jail and many to the State penitentiary under sentence from this court-martial as approved by the governor. Most of those who were sent to the penitentiary were given a conditional pardon before the term for which they were sentenced had expired, the pardon being conditional in a general way upon good behavior. That the parties sentenced to the penitentiary were received into the penitentiary as ordinary convicts and treated in every respect as parties sentenced for crimes by the criminal courts of the State. "That under the laws of West Virginia a warrant of arrest may be issued from one justice of the peace court, and the hearing and trial upon the said warrant of arrest may be transferred and brought on for hearing before any other justice of the peace in the same county. "That the place of holding court—that is, for the civil or common law courts—was at Charleston, W. Va., a distance of several miles from the disturbed district or military zone. "That no threats of violence or use of force was made or had against the judges or the courts at any time during the existence of the disturbance or the reign of martial law. No Threats Against Courts. That great feeling and interest doubtless prevailed generally through out the county, but the existence of this feeling, and its effect upon the grand and petit juries were not tested by the calling of a grand jury or the submitting of the charges against these persons to a grand jury, and no attempt was made to try them before the petit jury—the officers of the county, after the declaration of martial law, proceeding upon the assumption that the feeling and prejudice were so strong as to prevent the operation of the civil authorities, together with a further belief that the declaration of martial law had the effect of suspending and nulifying all constitutional and satutory rights of the accused." CHECK FOR HALF MILLION Money Represents Knights of Columbus' Gift to the Catholic University. BALTIMORE, Jan. 7.—A check for $500,000 from the Knights of Columbus of the United States for the Catholic University at Washington, was presented to Cardinal Gibbons yesterday by Edward H. Doyle, of Detroit, chairman in charge of the fund. Mgr. Thomas J. Shahan, president of the university, and member of the faculty attended the presentation ceremony, which took place at the cardinal's residence. The large sum has been collected by the knights in the last four years. It will be used to establish fifty scholarships at the university. In accepting the gift Cardinal Gibbons thanked the donors through Mr. Flaherty in the name of the Holy See and of the trustees of the university. "I find only one parallel for your magnanimous deed, the building of a great medieval cathedral by loyal and devoted guilds of those former Catholic days," he sail "In an age of spiritual unrest and despair you have renewed that miracle of faith—the steady and affectionate co-operation of a multitude of men in the fulfillment of one mighty purpose whose immortal influence shall run like a fertilizing river through all time and spread on all sides most welcome benefits." FRUIT PROSPECTS GOOD Prominent Orchardists Believe the Yield Will be Exceedingly Good. Messrs. G. P. Miller, of Romney, and H. W. Miller, of Paw Paw, two prominent fruit growers, were in the city late yesterday. They had just completed a tour of inspection of their orchard holdings from Mineral county throughout the Eastern Panhandle of the state and were enthusiastic over the bright prospects for a record-breaking crop this year. They said the late fall had fully developed both wood and bud of all fruit bearing trees, which have since been held dormant by the excessive cool weather, and besides the trees are thrifty from having borne little or no fruit last year. Middleen Are Taking A Much Larger Toll Than They Did Along in the middle and late nineties hogs were selling at $3 and $4 per 100, and bacon was selling at 10 or 11 cents a pound. Now hogs are selling around 7 or 8 cents and bacon is selling for 35 cents a pound. In 15 years improvements have been made in marketing, and in making bacon. The crude methods of 15 or 20 years ago, in selling and producing bacon, the Beef Trust and the packing house machinery should count for something to the consumer. The savings effected by machinery and the trusts should give the workingman more bacon for a day's work. But whatever apparent rise of wages the workman has received has largely been absorbed by the higher cost of living, and he actually gets less bacon for his day's Annual Convention at Lynchburg. LYNCHBURG, Va., Jan. 6.—The annual convention and exhibition of the Virginia Corn Growers' association met in this city today and was opened with an address by President W. P. Moore. The gathering will continue over tomorrow. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD in leave Martinsburg as follows WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a m for Pittsburg Girrati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling No 15 Daily at 11.59 a m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily at 3.17 p m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling. Col- umbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 19 5.37 p. m. No. 9 Daily at 11.28 p.m; for Pittsburg No. 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m for Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkley Springs. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11,55 a.m. for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for, Frederick. G W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore- Md. R. : BOUIC, Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. GIVES E. G. WILSON FOURTEEN YEARS APPEAL TAKEN TO SUPREME COURT E. Graham Wilson Takes in His Fight on the Charge of Criminally Assaulting Miss Kate Turner Last June-Judge Woods Sentenced Prisoner Today. At Charles Town this morning a special term of circuit court was held by Judge J. M. Woods for the purpose of passing on the motion made by the defense in the case of E. Graham Wilson, who was found guilty at the last term of court on the charge of criminally assaulting Miss Kate Turner in June. 1913. When court convened Mr. Wilson and his attorneys, Clarence E. Martin, of this city, and C. W. Campbell, of Charles Town, appeared to hear the court's decision. The state was represented by Prosecuting Attorney Moore and Col. Forrest Brown. In a lengthy opinion Judge Woods overruled the motion for a new trial, setting forth his reasons very logically and conclusively. He then asked the prisoner to arise, and when he did so sentenced him to serve fourteen years in the state penitentiary at Moundsville. Mr. Wilson received the sentence without a move, and appeared to be the most composed man in the court room. Immediately after the sentence had been pronounced the defense served notice of an appeal to the state supreme court and pending a decision from that court Mr. Wilson will remain in jail. TO HUNTINGTON Will Franklin Heironimus Be Taken At Once. This morning Sheriff E. H. Tables went to Ganotown after. Franklin colornimus, whom was admitted to the West Virgin a Asyium at Huntington, and he will be taken there a once. STAMPS SOLD WELL Internal Revenue Office Disposed of The month just closed was a fine one at the internal revenue office. The total receipts for stamps amounted to $20,268.52, which was a gain over November of $7,114.14, or during November the deputy sold $13,154.37. For October the sales amounted to $12,517.44; September $13,443.64, and August $7,554.60. W. E. Gordon, former deputy, stated this morning during December he only disposed of 30 cents worth of cigar stamps, and the remainder was for spirituous liquors. He also stated that the first year, 1910, he was in charge he sold to the Hannisville distillery $524,000 worth of stamps. So it can be seen when the prohibition law becomes effective next July what the loss of revenue will be. Today the deputies are making up their reports for December, and will forward them immediately to the head office in Parkersburg. PARCEL POST PROFITING. Baltimore Alone, In Holidays Ceared $20,000. Uncle Sam made a clean profit of about $20,000 on the parcel post business handled at the Baltimore office alone in the Christmas season, according to a preliminary report to Postmaster General Burleson The Maryland city was the first large office to report for the rush period. The number of parcels handled was nearly 1,000,000. Of these about half were light packets formerly called fourth class. The remainder were of an average weight of about four pounds, with a charge of about five cents, of which three cents was profit to the Government. HOGS AND BACON HOGS AND BACON 10 or 20 Years Ago. VIRGINIA CORN GROWERS Conected to Dec. 1st, 1913. EAST BOUND. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg 4. Va., as Second Class Matter Federal Refining Company to Make Payment On Preferred. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The directors of the Federal Sugar and Refining Company of Philadelphia and New York yesterday voted to pass the current quarterly dividend of 1 1-4 per cent on the common stock, but the dividend of 1 1-2 on the preferred stock will be paid at the end of the month. GONE TO MORGANTOWN. M. H. L. Smith Will Attend Farmers' Course At University. This morning H. L. Smith, president of the State Horticultural society, left for Morgantown to attend the farmers' short course at the university, and also a meeting of the horticultural society. He was accompanied by Mrs. Smith, and they will be absent two weeks. Enlargement of Power Plant The Martinsburg (W. Va.) Power Co. has filed a mortgage for $5,000,000 to secure its bond issue of that amount, the Safe Deposit & Trust Co., of Baltimore being trustee. The securities, it is said, will be issued in such sums as may be desired from time to time. It is expected that the company will provide current for the new electric street railway at Martinsburg, besides furnishing light and power to other corporations and individuals. It is reported that the existing plant will be enlarged and improved.—Manufacturers record. DECLINE IN GOLD. Decreased Production Shown For Year 1913. The "gold value" of the year 1913 to the world was $445,000,000. The production of the previous year exceeded this total by $11,000,000. This was the first estimate of the director of the mint, George E Roberts made in the year 1914. According to Director Roberts' announcement the United States gold dpruction for the year just passed amounted to $88.301,423, a decrease of $5.000,000. Nevada led the gold producing states of the United States yielding ore to the commercial value of $9,123,299. BOLD ROBBERY Three Accused Later Arrested In Cumberland and Taken to Headquarters. Charged with holding up and robbing Edward F. Lewis, a laborer employed on railroad construction work at Magnolia, in the rear of the Brunswick Hotel about 7:30 o'clock last night, Gordon H. Ward, Frank Smith and Samuel Faber were arrested at Cumberland a few minutes later and locked up in the police station, where they will be given a hearing before Magistrate Humbird this afternoon. Lewis alleges that he walked in the toilet room in the rear of the hotel, where he had engaged lodging for the night, and was knocked down by one of his assailants, while the other two went through his pockets and relieved him of his money, amounting to $5 in currency. He ran out of the room after the three men and told the proprietor that he had been robbed and pointed out the men who had perpetrated the crime. The police were soon notified and with the assistance of Sheriff Irvine and Deputy Sheriff Hutchinson, the three men were rounded up and handcuffed together, and later taken to the police station in the patrol wagon. Smith and Faber were both recently released from the Allegany county jail, where they were locked up on a charge of holding up Edward Jones, colored, and robbing him of a basket of bee in Cumberland. TRACTION EARNINGS Fairmont, Clarksburg and Weston Electric Railways Show Handsome Earnings. (Manufacturers Record.) The Monongahela Valley Traction Co., operating electric railways connecting Fairmont, Clarksburg, Weston and other places in West Virginia, has issued a statement of earnings for November and the 11 months ended November 30, comparisons being made with the corresponding periods of 1912. It shows for November, 1913, gross earnings, $83,639; operating expenses, $32,294; net earnings, $51,345; net surplus after fixed charges, taxes, etc. $25,562. Gross earnings November, 1912, were $70,714; net earnings, $44,719; net surplus, $19,91. For 11 months, gross earnings, 1913, $872,470; operating expenses, $312,446; net earnings, $560,024; net surplus after fixed charges, taxes, etc. $288,150. Gross earnings for the same period in 1912 were $776, 164; net earnings, $469,830; net surplus, $233,506. RESUMES DUTIES. As Traveling Salesman With Cumberland Concern. Thomas Comisky, who spent the holiday season with friends, here left last night for Cumberland, Md. where he will at once resume work is travelling representative for Neff brothers. "U$E LIME NOW" The above is the title of an interesting article in this issue of The World, to which the attention of farmers is directed. Dr. Karl Langback, Chemical Engineer. Southern Building. Washington. D. C., is the author and is ready and willing to assist farmers without cost other than sending of samples of soil for analysis. Dr. Langenbeck, who is a soil chemist with considerable experience in soil conditions both in this country and in Europe, will attempt with the assistance of the U. S Soil Surveys, to analyze and determine for the different localities what the soil needs in a general way to maintain fertility, thereby producing a greater and finer crop. This will be a specific work, therefore one that will touch the condition of the soil in the every community. When the soil needs lime, he will say so. If it needs something else, he will say so. The successful farmer is the one who reaches out for every aid. He buys the best implements. He keeps the best stock. He utilizes that which others call 'waste.' He strives to increase his crops and he does so. He makes two blades of grass grow where one crew before. He doubles his crops, if possible, and makes his farm yield him more money. Help is offered him without money and without price. No one can afford to neglect the opportunity now offered. It may not pay this year. But as constant dropping of water will wear the hardest stone, so will persistent seeking after knowledge. Better methods, better farming, pay big dividends in the end. The World asks one favor: That is to notify The World if you send a sample or samples of soil to Dr Langenbeck. That will be but lit the trouble and may pay in the final result of the experiment, if it is such.—World. Captures Large Eagle. YORK, Pa., Jan. S.—William H. Liphart, of Long Level, yesterday captured a large eagle in a trap, measuring 7 feet 7 inches from tip to tip. The trap had been set for young foxes. He had caught one and was trying to catch the old one. When he went back in the morning to see how he had succeeded he found the eagle there ready to greet him. It immediately showed fight, and it was some time before he could release it and get it under control. It is a fine specimen and brought him $10. DEATH TAKESTHREE Three B. & O. Officials Die In Less Than a Week—C. C. Riley the Last. Three prominent officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad—all of whom have risen from minor positions to office of trust and responsibility in the service of the corporation—have died suddenly within less than a week, two having passed away at a most the same hour yesterday. Capt. George W. Booth, the comptroller of the road and one of the best known railroad men in the country, died shortly after 7 o'clock Tuesday evening at his home, 3022 St. Paul street, Baltimore, and only a short while after Captain Booth's death C. C. Riley, general superintendent of transportation of the Baltimore and Ohio, died at the home of his sister in Washington. Captain Booth's death was caused by hemorrhages of the brain. The deaths of Captain Booth and Mr. Riley follow within less than a week that of Charles E. Ways, assistant general traffic manager of the Baltimore and Ohio, who died at his home in the Mount Royal Apartments last Thursday. CURRENT COMMENT. MAKING MURDER SAFE To understand the lengths to which a defence of insanity may now go with success in protecting murderers in this State it is necessary to have in mind the facts of the Hans Schmidt case. This priest in active orders had consorted with a young and attractive woman, Ann Aumueller, and faced the time when their secret must come out. He provided a room for her, where he went late one night equipped with a knife and saw. He found her asleep, as he later admitted, and plunged the knife through her throat. He then cut up the still-warm body into nine parts, and at his leisure wrapped up the parts in neat bundles and carried them one by one to a ferry-boat. whence they were dropped into the North river. He took the mattress on which the butchery had been done to a vacant lot and burned it. He cleaned up other traces of blood and crime. Fresh from the murder and his butchery, he returned to the performance of his sacred offices and mingled hearing confessions and conducting moss with the bearing of his bloody burdens to the river. So well done was his work of concealment that but for the chance of wrapping a part of the torso in a low-case which the river gave up and whose sale could be traced by a peculiar trade-mark, he would have escaped detection. The annuals of crime can be searched in vain for a murder more deliberate, more coldly calculated, more sanely conducted to escape detection, than this. Yet with a story of acting under orders from his patron saint, this calculating butcher of a betrayed girl can command in court a serious defense of insanity, can find alienists to help the defense and can finally impress enough jurymen with the theory to hang up the trial. If such a murderer is insane the gunmen who killed Rosenthal must have been insane, the man and woman who cut up Guidonsuppe in like manner were insane, the Rev. Richerson, who sent poison to his abandoned sweetheart, was insane. That plea could not be made to work in the Richeson case in Massachusetts. Are there now any limits to its working in this State?—New York World. SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT. (New York Herald.) The practically unanimous support President Wilson is receiving for his policy of "watchful waiting" toward Mexico furnishes striking demonstration of the folly of those who are attempting to manufacture false issues. They get nowhere. Mr. Wilson is President of no party. He is President of the United States and that means the President of and for all the people. It is entirely im- material what party is in charge of the government so long as the affairs of government are conducted so as to promote the highest and best interests of the American people. Nobody questions the sincerity of President Wilson's desire to do this. He will be successful if he receives the cordial support of his party associates, and if politicians of other parties permit party issues to "stay dead." Then can President Wilson, like President Monroe, devote himself to promoting the economic development of the country, and by so doing give us another Era of Good Feeling Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tonic FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS F4 HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. 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Johnson's Determination to Seek Re-election. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 7.—Hiram W. Johnson announced yesterday that he would seek reelection as governor. He said he would prefer to be a candidate for the United States Senate, but has decided to seek the governorship again. Gov. Johnson has announced recently that he desired to retire from politics because of failing health. He finally decided to stay in politics, "to save the Progressive State machine." SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.—Francis J. Heney, when told of Gov. Johnson's decision, announced that he would run for the United States Sen- A NEW STATE HIGHWAY. Announcement has been made that plans are on foot at the office of the State Road Engineer Williams for the building of a turnpike from Bristol, Va., through the entire State of West Virginia, to Pittsburg, Pa. At present the road has been completed to within 25 miles of Bluefield, and this week a special bond election was carried in Mercer county for $500,000 road bonds. The proposed road will go through Morgantown, Clarksburg, Weston, Fayetteville and intermediate cities. If built, it will open a section of untold richness and scenic beauty. dividing the state into two nearly equal parts and will blsect roads now running across the state from east to west, and will be of mestimable value. Just now the attention of the people of the United States is attracted to the labor troubles of the copper courty Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Reports show that a great majority of the men concerned are foreign-born. Just a short time ago the labor troubles of the miners of West Virginia were in the spotlight. At that time it was shown the foreign-born element predominated. Going back a little farther the same reports came from other places, and it was always because for eign-born people are in the majority. The United States is the world's great melting pot, and while every thinking person knows that immigrants who are lawfully eligible finally become good Americans, the record shows that the process of eliminating the dross is a most costly one. The United States needs and must have workers to do its drudgery, men to do its rough and dirty work, work which requires brawn, rather than brain, yet as these same immigrants became Americanized and their children educated this kind of work is scorned with the result more immigrants are needed, and so it goes on like Tennyson's brook. What will be the final analysis? It's a hard question to answer, and the only solution we can think of is that "honest labor must be more highly respected and renumerated." —Washington Herald. 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. 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