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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives The "HERE SHA ESTABLISHED 1882. SENATOR CAMDEN T WILL NOT FIND ONE F Who Served With His Father in the St United States Senate 33 When the Hon. Johnson N. Camden, 2d, already designed as the successor of the lamented William O. Bradley, late Senator from Kentucky, takes his seat in the Senate Chamber he may recall that thirty-three years ago his father, Johnson N. Camden, was sworn in as Senator from West Virginia. The elder Camden failed to connect with a second term, and went out in 1887. The second Senator Camden was then a lad hardly dreaming that he would some day achieve an honor won by his distinguished father. Looking over the Senate Chamber he will not see one Senator who served during his father's term. Only a few are living, and retired from public life. Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, continues alert in business at the age of ninety, while George Edmonds, of Vermont, is eighty-five, and a lawyer in Philadelphia. Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, is near the fourscore mark, and a lawyer in Washington. Don Cameron is over eighty and retired from both business and politics. Francis W. Cockrell, of Missouri, is the only one holding Federal place and he is a member of the ordinance board. William P. Kellogg, who came from Louisiana, is over eighty, and living quietly in Washington. There were seventy-six Senators when the elder Camden was serving his first term, but all are gone except the seven mentioned. Six years after his first term, Senator Camden came back for two years, filling a vacancy caused by the death of John Kenna. He served from 1893 until 1895, when there were eighty-eight Senators in the chamber. Today the second Senator Camden finds but three Senators who were colleagues with his father. Perkins, of California; Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Clark, of Wyoming. Senator Warren had served two years prior to the elder Camden's return but dropped out between elections, coming back as Camden weat out in 1895. Marcus A. Smith, now Senator from Arizona, was then a delegate from the Territory. Outside of these mentioned but eleven members of the Senate nineteen years ago are living. George Gray, from Delaware, who has served long on the Federal bench and has just retired, is not yet very old. Senator White, of Louisiana, is now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, in vigorous health. Senator Hale retired with the general political smash of 1910 and is growing old gracefully in Maine and Washington. Senator Burrows, of Michigan, a veteran in House service, had to give way to a younger man and has a Federal appointment. William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, promises to never grow old and keeps busy every day in the week as a Washington lawyer. Don Cameron was yet a member during the Camden second term as was Senator Aldrich. The Hon. Watson C. Squire came in from Washington State for a single term and he now lives in New York, nearing eighty, but remakably vigorous and watchful of all that happens in Washington. Charles J. Faulkner, who was the Democratic collague of the eider Camden from West Virginia, continued a few years longer, and while State Auditor Darst Scores Misleading Editorial in the Insurance Journal. In the West Virginia insurance bulletin for April, issued a few days ago. State Auditor John Sherman Darst takes occasion to reply to a certain insurance publication which not long ago directed a venomous and unwarranted attack on the compensation act, which it maintained was absolutely incapable of standing the strain imposed upon it as a result of the Eccles mine disaster. He says: "Because of a very unfair and misleading editorial which recently appeared in one of our prominent insurance journals, it seems advisable to give a brief statement of the true status of the beneficiaries in the Eccles disaster who look to the workmen's compensation fund for relief and protection. Fund Has Surplus "The present surplus in this fund is about $28,600,00. It is estimated that the total claims against this fund for the first year because of the death of one hundred and seventy-two miners at Eccles will be about $46,000,00, which includes $10,000,00 for funeral expenses, etc. The burden on the fund resulting from this disaster, will of course decrease from year to year. The benefits will be paid as provided by law, with little or no trouble or expense to the beneficiaries. There can be no question as to the intention and ability of the state to meet these claims. "Whether or not it will be necessary to raise the rates will be determined by further experience. "It will be observed that the present rates are very low. "We do not claim that our law is above criticism, we fully realize that it has imperfections. Yet we do not believe it can be fairly stated that the protection furnished by it is "farcial," nor that the treatment of beneficiaries in this case has been or will be such as to justify the citation of the Eccles disaster as a horrible example of the evil result of workmen's compensation insurance, as administered by the state." ENGLAND SHOCKED AT PIKE'S EXPLOIT ENGLAND SHOCKED AT PIKE'S EXPLOIT Saind He Broke Into Buckingham Palace Just to Show That It Could Be Done. LONDON, June.—All England is astounded at the amazing evploit of Harry Pike who broke into Buckingham Palace. When he was arraigned in Bow street court today he declared: "I did it simply to prove that such an entrance is possible." Prosecutor Muskett said it was apparent that Pike's exploit was a foolish freak, resulting from over indulgence in drink. Pike was remanded to jail for a week, and extreme care will be excercised at the Palace to prevent the suffragettes from emulating his feat. counting Martinsburg home, is active as a lawyer in Washington. By F. B. G. in the Washington Herald. Niagara Falls has always been a favorite place for exploits of a difficult and hazardous nature.—Washington Star. Salesmen Are Offering Inferior Quantity of Time Sulphur Solution. Recently there have been sold in Preston and other counties of West Virginia considerable quantities of lime sulphur solution in the guise of a sure cure for potato blight and the potato beetle. According to the results of the tests of several experiment stations, lime sulphur solution will not control potato blight. Inasmuch as it contains no poison, it will have absolutely no effect whatever on the potato beetle, or the potato bug, as it is more commonly called The price at which this solution sells is said to be $1.00 a gallon, or about five or six times the real value of the solution. Those who have already been beguiled into purchasing this material may use it as a summer spray for their apple orchard, the strength indicated for the potato, but they should include to each 50 gallons at least $2½ pounds of arsenate of led to act as a poison. Potato blight may be readily controlled by the use of Bordeaux mixture, made by combining 5 lbs. of copper sulphate (Blue stone, or blue vitriol) 5 lbs. of lime and 50 gallons of water. The blue stone should be dissolved in a wooden receptacle and the lime mixed with water in another vessel. The two should then be diluted considerably and poured together into the spray barrel. To one barrel of this mixture should be added 3 lbs. of arsenate of lead to act as a poison for the potato bug. The first application should be made when the vines are about six inches high and it should be continued at intervals of two weeks until four or five applications have been made. SUFFRAGISTS SEE CHAIRMAN HENRY State Leaders in the Cause Visit National Capital and Get Good Promise A delegation of West Virginia suffragists visited the capitol Friday and got a promise from Chairman Henry, of the rules committee, that a suffrage bill would be considered by the house of representatives before the end of the present congress. No assurance was given by Mr. Henry that the matter would be taken up before the end of the present session. In fact he assured them quite to the contrary, but said that the present congress would not expire before the suffrage matter had been considered. The delegation from West Virginia was led by Mrs. Milton McNeilan, of Parkersburg, while Miss Doris Stevens, of Washington, who recently made several speeches in West Virginia on the subject of suffrage, assisted in piloting the delegation through the capitol. They were joined by Congressmen M. M. Neely, of Fairmont, and Hunter H. Moss, of Parkersburg, both of whom have taken a decisive stand for suffrage, and were introduced by them to Congressman Henry, who outlined his views as to when the suffrage matter could get a hearing in the house. The delegation seemed pleased with the assurance he gave them that the present congress would not finally adjourn without considering their cause. There is indeed very little justice in this World for the Negro. Think of a wealthy corporation like the Pullman Palace Car Company paying its hardest worked employees—the porters only $27.50 per month, and then stealing part of this, and sometimes all of it for fines for linen lost or carried away by passengers, and for broken or lost china and then ask yourself how these poor devils can pay rent, feed their families, clothes themselves, buy uniforms, &c. &c. The pages at the Capitol at Washington—all of them ranging from 15 to 19 years of age, receive from $75 to $90 per month. Yet this company expects a full grown man to support a family on $27.56 per month. Some of the Directors of this company spend this much for a dinner for two or three persons. It is said and with great truth that corporations have no souls. Neither have they a conscience. If the Directors of this company were publicly branded as thieves they would resent the soft impeachment with some heat, and yet when they assemble quarterly, semi-annually or annually to "cut a melon." i.e., divide the profits among themselves and their stockholders, how much of their ill gotten gains are withheld from the class who have helped them to earn them. If this is not stealing—downright robbery—what is it? These holy hypocrites in broadcloth are the meanest kind of thieves for they rob the helpless and dependent of their rightful due and they know it—rob them with impunity and with brazen effrontery. A highwayman is a saint compared with any one of them who works at this sort of injustice and dishonesty simply because the public is supposed to make up the deficiency, which the company from a sense of business' honor should not permit it to do, and which it would not do, if these men were paid living wages. These directors or some of them are rolling in wealth and living off the fat of the land by squeezing their employees, white and black, until they exude blood. From this uncarned increment palaces are built, expensive yachts are maintained, limousines by the half dozen are purchased, strings of pearls and diamonds are provided for their women folk, and feasts that almost rival those once given by Lucullus are given. And yet these people consider themselves honest, God fearing men, just men, models of perfectibility, benefactors of the human race. God save the mark! They do not seem to realize that an awful day of reckoning is coming. "The Lord will enter into judgment with the incense of his people and the Princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses." "What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of Hearts" * * * When the revolution of thought is in full blast in America, these honest gentlemen who are making thieves of their underpaid labor, will have to answer this question. The testimony of the late President of the New Haven R. R. before a Congress Committee furnishes plenty of food for serious thought. His exposure of the System justifies and confirms all I have written here. It is rotten from top to bottom, and must soon fall and dash itself to pieces. Bruce Grit. Congratulations are earned by Congressman Bartholdt, of St. Louis, because he has been obliged to open headquarters from which to campaign against his own friends, who insist on renominating him in the Republican primaries contrary to his determination to retire.—Springfield Republican. VOL. 83 NO. 15. Figure Is Cut In Chalk On Downs Near Bay. Appears To Be Alive If you stand on the breezy rock promontory of the North Fort and look across the blue waters of Weymouth Bay, you see a huge white figure of a horse and its rider clearly cut in the chalk of the distant downs. As a work of art it is, considering its size, a credit to its designer, who has preserved the true perspective effect while making his subject confirm with the curves of the hill. Life and movement are suggested by the arched neck, flowing tail and prancing legs of the horse, while the attitude of the rider is that of a man accustomed to being in the saddle. Rider Represents George III. Among the quaint and curious figures that have been formed by the removal of turf from our chalk hills it is perhaps the most lifelike and it is to be regretted that its designer's name seems irretrievably to be lost. One story ascribes the work to a single private soldier, another to a party of engineers. The date is approximately fixed by the fact that the rider of the horse represents King George III, whose visits to Weymouth, commencing in 1789, were largely responsible for the town's becoming popular as a saddle holiday and health resort. That the "White Horse"near Weymouth is comparatively modern there can be no doubt, and the same may be said of several other "White Horses" tht exist, or existed until recently, at Marlborough, at Cherhill, Powsey, Broad Hinton and Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire, on Roundway Hill near Devices, and on the Hambledon and Rouliston Hills in Yorkshire. In the cases of nearly all of these incised figure there is evidence to prove that they were not in existence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Many Similar Designs. At the Cherhill, Dr. Christopher Allsop of Calne was responsible for the cutting of the figure, but there may have been an earlier one on the spot, for which the doctor prescribed a "scouring." The pupils of a private school at Malborough, a farmer, a parish clerk, an innkeeper, a journeyman mason and a Mr. Taylor, of Kilborn (a village near the Hambedon Hills) are credited with the carving of the other chalk-hill steeds referred to. Their work, however, appears to have been the outcome of a curious kind of artistic revival. They displayed their skill, and healthily exercised their muscles, in reproducing a crude form of pictorial representation which seems to have originated in very remote times. BIG SUIT AGAINST NEW HAVEN ROAD BIG SUIT AGAINST NEW HAVEN ROAD Small Stockholders Will Ask for $70, 000,000 Which They Claim Has Been Wasted A suit for $70,000,000 against the directors of the New Haven Railroad Company, alleging mismanagement, will be brought by Sherman H. Whipple on behalf of the small stockholders. Mr. Whipple says that the suit is based on the extravagant charters of the troiley lines. He claims the directors were partial to the trustees who are responsible for the money wrongfully expended. An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY. JUNE. 13 1914 Both times democracy has been in the national saddle. Coxey has been aroused and the whole nation Coxeyizd in a similar way. The right of humanity should force commercialism in the back ground, and if men could only feel their spiritual starvation as this administration is making them feel their temporal starvation it certainly would be done. The Pioneer Press may be wrong, but its belief is, that Huerta, despite the measures of coercion taken by the United States against HIM, he will only yield to overpowering violence, and what reward can come to us by armed force against Mexico? The Wilson administration in its outset wanted tariff off of sugar. Now it wants it on sugar. The same was true of free canal tolls; now it wants tolls on canal traffic. It put an embargo on arms and ammunition into Mexico; now it lifts it. Queer administration, eh? The thought was given by a wiser man than ye editor, and it is this: have our legislature to pass a law compelling all doctors to report all the venial diseases, and the clerk of every county court be compelled to keep a record of all such reported cases for matrimonial inspection. Bryan will talk, no difference what Illinois' congressman has to say derogatory thereto. Let him and his chief alone. Both feel their talkative power forcibly. The President is so deep and profound in his writings he feels obliged to go in person and read it understandingly to the dullards in both houses. Hid behind ferns, but in the barren fields of God's light of exposition, no one had to hold his ear to the ground to hear the throbbing of a condemned conscience, nor fail to see his hopes to home-swaggle the public generally, but time the regulator of all things, will make the knock out blow all the stifter. "It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to let the colored man know that if he shows in a marked degree the qualities of good citizenship—the qualities which in a white man we feel are entitled to reward—then he will not be cut off from all hope of similar reward."—Theodore Roosevelt. Of all praying countries on earth this bas the most damnable laws. Recently a Russian for talking comradely and selling his wares to colored people in a jimcrow car, was arrested, tried, convicted and sent to jail for 30 days. On the other hand, these 'nigger haters' do worse than talk comradely to colored women at night, and 9 times out of ten, when that won't win, violence does. Secretary Bryan talked to Philadelphia one night this week on faith. His start was brilliant, and many presupposed they were going to hear an old time sermon, but sadly were they disappointed when the faith he started out to talk on, turned out to be the faith he wanted the people to have in the Wilson administration. Don't he know that faith without work amounts to nothing? The only way to make people have faith is to better their condition. How can Mr. Bryan or Wilson make the thousands of Baldwin workers out of employment have faith, and hundreds of thousands of other idlers? Mr. Bryan, your gospel is as faulty as that preached in slavery times, and most vehemently endorse caste now. Our public school closed a week ago yesterday. Six grades (?). Sunday last a baccalaureate sermon was preached. Monday last commencement exercises took place. Hon. H. S. Cummings of Baltimore was bled to address them, but could not come. Yes. Marion Adams Harris of Hagerstown was billed to sing, but sickness prevent her attendance. Rev. Mr. Beane filled Mr. Cummings' place admirably well and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson made the crowded audience forget about Mrs. Harris's disappointment. For a well dressed and better behaved audience, given over to strained attention, we never saw before in Martinsburg, and the church was beautifully decorated. Now for the absurdity. In the first place we have no school house. It's a one story brick building built fifty years ago by the freedman's bureau society. It is the only school for coed children in Martinburg. white five fine buildings for whites—one in every one of the five ward—stand as a monument of decency, pride and progress. In addition to these five excellent ward schools, Martinsburg has a fine grammar school. And it is after the white children complete the 8th grade in these ward schools, if they can stand the test, they go to the Grammar School, stay there four years, graduate and get their diplomas to which we have no objection. Let us suppose that Mr. Wm. A. Puzzer, would go through with the same kind of performances when his advanced pupils completed their ward course, what would the white people think of him, and suppose the board of education endorsed it as they did the one last Monday night? The public would be disgusted and do away with both The whole thing was for the sole purpose of deceiving the people, whose knowledge is not sufficient to grasp the facts. Children should not be made believe they have done wonders, when in truth, its doubtful if they have gotten the real rudiments of an education. The s x children, if the board of education had the sincere interest of the colored children at heart, should stay in this school four years longer, under the best teachers that money could get. The teachers of the colored school, inasmuch as the children have no grammar school to go to, should be the best The idea of Mr. Barton, President of the Board of Educat on giving "diplom: as" to those children, and telling the people the reason they had no better school house was because they locked money. How did they build all the fine school houses they have for white children? Where do they get the money to put and keep in repair all the ward schools? For a city the size of Martinsburg to have an antiquated one story school house surrounded by a bull-board fence, with no pavement in front of the school house, is a shame, and the President knows it, or he is too stupid to occupy the place he does. Mr. Barton showed his ignorance by praising the commencement(?) as the first and only one ever held in Martinsburg. Not so. Evans filled the rink opera house many years ago, and others have followed. If the board of education will not give us a better school house let us appeal to Superintendent Shawkey, and if he will not see to it, then to Andrew Carnegie, who will help, if we will do all we can. When will colored people learn how to treat ignorant beats? Possibly so long as they will listen to and yell out amens to the preaching of a set of light headed local preachers and licensed supplejacks. Some of these beats can cure all kinds of diseases. One could restore Mr. Preston's eyesight, and do all manner of wonders. Others tell fortunes; others put on and take off spells. The latest is a little chap who says he is highly educated. Calling at his resting place in the absence of the landlady, he informed us: "She are out," "How-sumever honey," many who believe the children really graduated last Monday, believe he is educated. All persons fond of fishing, will do well to keep their minnows out of our city water, for it kills them. And it is a sorious question to consider, whether, if it kills fish if it is not also dangerous for human beings. The purer the water, the better fish like it, and that accounts for our small creeks and rivers flowing into the Potomac, being so full of fine fish. Is it not a fact that health on paper is likened unto farming on the same. Everything and everybody is full of germs, and as a rule it is only the already dis- STATE WILL TAKE DRASTIC STEPS TO ENFORCE THE LAW Governor Hatfield Calls Upon the Local Officers for Their Co-operation. Enforcement of the Yost State-Wide Prohibition Law, the Governor Says, Must be Done and the State Will Give All Assistance Necessary if Needed. That the state administration is preparing to take vigorous and systematic steps to enforce the state-wide prohibition law which goes into effect on July 1st, was the statement of Governor H. D. Hatfield in which he took occasion to call upon the district and county officials for their cooperation in prosecuting any persons who may attempt to sell intoxicants in the state after that date. "We must have the hearty co-operation of the local officers, and they must be impressed with the fact that they, as well as the state officials, are charged with the duty of enforcing the prohibition law, and they should take the initiative in the vigorous prosecution of offenders and should not wait necessarily for outside assistance. The state is going to give every aid possible, but it would require a force of several hundred men to patrol all the counties of the state, and the local officers must have a strict regard for their duties in making West Virginia dry, as the people have decreed they desire it to be. "The state will stand ready at all times to give assistance to the local officials but will expect the officers of the various districts and counties to take up the enforcement of the Prohibition measure with sincerity of purpose. Where extensive violations may be unearthed, I shall urge the judges of the districts to convene grand juries in special session and deal promptly with the persons. "Recently a raid was made at Morgantown and a large amount of intoxicants confiscated, and I feel that Judge Sturgiss has set an excellent example by convening a special grand jury to deal with the cases of those persons arrested for illicit retailing of intoxicants. "Not with the purpose of prejudging any case, but because I believe it necessary to use every means to hold up the hands of the local officers in this matter, in order to prevent violations of the law, I want to give ample warning that only in cases where life or death might be at stake, will the power of pardon or parole be exercised where persons have been convicted of violating the prohibition law, and so far as I am concerned, the sentences imposed by the local courts must be carried out," said the governor, in a way that indicated he was determined that West Virginia should be in every sense a prohibition state. Plans for the anti-bootlegging crusade are rapidly being effected by the state officials and it will be a war to the bitter end. BIG BOND ISSUE BY A LOCAL COMPANY National Limestone Company Issue $1,000,000 Worth to Pennsylvania Company. The National Limestone Company has field for record in the office of County Clerk Hobbs a trust agreement with the Lincoln Trust Company, of Scranton, Pa., for the purpose of issuing bonds to the amount of $1,000,000. The bonds are to run and bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent. It is understood the money will be used in making further developments. eased persons who suffer by them. The healthy ones resist and repel them. Trust in the Lord and keep your bowels open and go ahead, for what kills some cures others: GROSS STIMULANT IN LATE SPRING Vill Keep the Lawn in First Class Condition—Nitrate of Soda In the late spring, about a month after active grass growth has commenced on the lawn, it is desirable to apply a grass stimulant to keep the lawn infirst-class condition. Nitrate of soda is a good fertilizer and will make the grass grow thickly with a rich dark-green color that will show itself promptly after the application. The landscape gardener of the United States department of agriculture advises that those who use nitrate of soda should apply it at the rate of 5 pounds per acre once a month throughout the summer beginning about the middle of May in the latitude of Washington, D. C. The nitrate of soda should be applied just before a rain or a sprinkling with the hose. Under ordinary conditions it will keep the lawn a vivid green during the period when the vitality of the plant is low. The application of this fertilizer combined with careful watering (described in a previous article) will prevent the parched appearance of the lawn during the dry hot summer season. When nitrate is applied during any dry period it should be used carefully. It can, however, be applied at any time if the nitrate of soda is powdered up fine before using but it is safest to dissolve it in water. Because of agenerally prevailing fear that this fertilizer may ruin a lawn if used carelessly, the department has been experimenting to see just how much nitrate of soda would have to be used in order to kill grass. These experiments seem to show that nitrate of soda can be used fairly extensively without causing injury, for attempt to kill grass with it were unsuccessful except when such large quantities as 400 pounds to an acre were used. Although fertilization is a splendid thing for the upkeep of a lawn it will never entirely make up for a lawn soil that was poorly prepared in the beginning. It is only when a lawn soil is properly prepared in the first place and enriched with stable manure, lime and bone phosphate that a lawn may be maintained in the best of condition. Unrotted stable manure should be kept away from a lawn at all times, the opinion of many to the contrary notwithstanding. Stable manure contains weed seeds and particularly after the early growth of grass these weed seeds will be encouraged to sprout, for at this time the grass is weakened by its spring growth and the weeds have additional impetus to spread. A weed has been defined as a "plant out of place." Weeds are certainly out of place on a well-kept lawn. Fertilizing materials have a great advantage over stable manure as they contain no weed seeds. There are other fertilizers beside nitrate of soda that are most valuable for the lawn but their use is more especially adapted to the fall. Later the department will issue advice regarding the application of such materials as ground bone, phosphate rock, potash, dried blood, fish scrap, and sterilized sheep manure. The dissolved rock in particular should not be used in the sbe used in the spring. HON. FRED O. BLUE WILL SPEAK HERE Sunday, July 5, and Explain the Workings of the Yost Prohibition Law. On Sunday, July 5, Hon. Fred O. Blue, state tax commissioner, and who will be entrusted with the enforcement of the Yost prohibition law, will deliver an address in the Apollo theatre, corner of East Martin and North Spring streets. Mr. Blue will discuss the new law, and enlighten the officials as to how it can be enforced. The date was changed on account of the Lincoln Chautauqua. PERCHERONS ARE LEADING HORSES According to Statistics Gathered by the Department of Agriculture. Percheron are the favorite breeding horses imported by American breeders, according to recently gathered statistics just made public by the department of agriculture. Next in favor for importation are Belgium horses, with Clydesdale "also ran." In 1913, 882 Percheron stallions and 500 mares were imported. Of Belgiums, 621 stallions and 362 mares were brought across the water to this country, while only 45 Clydesdale stallions and 29 mares were imported last year, while 128 Shire stallions and 57 Shire mares were brought in. The total importations for the year of high bred horses were 1,733 stallions, including ponies, and 1,264 mares. STOCK DIRECTORY FOR WEST VIRGINIA Breeders of Pure Brod Live Stock Should Be Interested In It. Some months ago the State Department of Agriculture published a partial directory of the Breeders of Pure Bred Live Stock in West Virginia, including horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. This directory was very incomplete, but we desire as soon as possible to publish a new directory making it as complete as possible. It is desired that all parties owning pure bred live stock in West Virginia will write to the commissioner of agriculture, H. T. Williams, Charleston, West Virginia, stating the kind of animals handled, the particular breeds, and as nearly as possible the numbers. The accuracy and completeness of this directory will depend very largely on the reports which come in from this circular. The directory will be ready for publication within a very short time and we should, therefore, have the information at once. If you think of any of your neighbors who have pure bred stock of this kind, we would appreciate it if you will so inform us. SPEAKER CLARK AT CHARLES TOWN Distinguished Statesman Will Address Congressional Convention There At the Congressional convention, which will be held Wednesday, June 17, Speaker Champ Clark will deliver the principal address. This announcement is made upon advices received from Congressman William G. Browl who has been able to secure the service of the distinguished statesman. Undoubtedly the Speaker will receive a hearty welcome from the Democrats of the Second district, among whom he has many warm friends and admirers. Are You a Woman? 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Ny Boo Peg ; Se Leen erene cnet wR) ee KERMIT ROOSEVELT MIARRIEDIN MADRID DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN ATTENDANCE Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, Daughter of the American Minister, the Bride—After Honeymoon They Will Sail for Their Future Home in Brazil. MADRID, Spain, June 11—-A_ brile lant gathering comprising the elite of Spanish ofticialdom and oristocracy together with practically all the mem- bers of the diplomatic corps and their ladies, witnessed the marriage today of Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, daugh. ter of Joseph FB. Willard, American ambassador to Spain, and Kermit Roosevelt, son of Col. ‘Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the Unit- ed States. The bridegroom's father came over from New York to attend the wedding. The ceremony, which took place at noon in the British Embassy Chapel, was performed by the Rev. Dr. Wat: son, rector of the American church in Paris, assisted by the Rev. Her- bert Brown, chaplain of the British Embassy in Madrid. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Elizabeth Willard, as maid of honor, and by the following bridesmaids: Mer Se rene Highness the Princess Folla o* Thurn and Taxis, daughter of Princ: Ratilber, the German ambassador it Madrid; Miss Katherine Page, dangh ter of the American ambxssador # London; Mlle. Gilone le Venour ¢@ Tillieres, of Paris, and Miss Virgin! Christian, of Richmond, Va. Follow ing a brief honeymoon on the conti- nent, the young couple will leave for Brazil to establish their future home at San Paulo, where Kermit Roosevel is engaged in the railroad business The bride. now 21, was one of the most attractive girls in the younger social set at Richnond, the family home of the Willaris, where she made her debut two years ago. While er route with hor mother and younge: sister last February to join her fath er at his new post she was presentec at the Court of St. James in London and upon her arrival here she quick ly became a general favorite in Span ieh society Kermit Roosevelt, 24 years old has seen considerably more of the world than usually falls to the lot of youns men of his age. After returning from the big game hunt in Africa with his father in 1910 ae went out west on a mountain sheep shooting expedition. Following his graduation from Harvard in 1912 he made a visit in England and later took up railroad- ing in South America. Last winter he accompanied Col. Roosevelt on his hunting, exploring and river-discover- Ing trip in the Amazon country, com. ing direct from Bragil to this ety, where he arrived three weeks ago, Kermit met his future wife through the good offyces of his sister, Mrs Richard Dorby, then Miss Ethe! Roosevelt, who had become a great chum of Miss Willard's during a so- journ at Hot Springs, Va. Ethel took er new friend to Oyster Bay, where Kermit speedily fell a victim to her charms. Congressional action abolishing the tobacco coupon will fall as a crush- ing blow upon the poor fellow who only needs 2,768 more.—Boston ‘Trans- cript. ba SUSPENDED CHIEF John Burke Will Be Tried On Charge Of Accepting Gratuities. NEW YORK, JUNE 6: —John Burke, whom Col. George W. Goe- thals, chairman of the Panama canal commission, suspended as head of the commissary department of the Pana: ma canal zone, is scheduied ‘to be placed on trial in the United States court here Monday on indictments charging him with accepting gratui- ties from dealers in supplies at’ Pan- ama, The charges againstBurke at- tracted much attention at the time, as it was thought possible they might lead to the exposure of an extensive system of graft among the officials of the canalzone, The official investiga- tion, however, failed to bring to light anything Lo support this suppos'tion Information that charges of irreg. wiarity in Burke's conduct as) man ager of the commisary department vere being invetigated by the gov ernment was made public last Dec mber, On February 9 Col. Boethal spended Burke from his posit’o: a4 alleged evidence furnished ceret service officérs concerning th vonk aeccunts and property said t © in possess’on of the commisary manager. It was said at the tim ‘hat Burke had $78,000 on deposit i: his own name in banks in Colon an in his home city of Indiunapolis, i: iddition to property amounting te $50,000in various parts of the United States and Canada. Though denyin: hat he had ever been guilty of ny n’sconduct in office, Burke is said © have failed to satisfactorly explain lis possession of so much wealth, when given an opportunityto do so by Col. Goethals. Three merchents in the canal zone who are alleged to have given Burke comm‘ssions in connection with the purchaase of supplies were indicted with him, According to a statement issued by the authorities the govenr- ment has siffered no loss through hurk's alleged acceptance of commis- sions. It was perfectly right and filial of the younger Morgan to be angry at the Mellen revelation, but that does not give New England back its rail- road.—Chicago News. HIVE RULES FOR BORROWING MONEY AN SS ESO SS OO AE ROLE credit are set down in Farmers’ Bul- letin 593 “How to Use Farm Credit,” which the United States Department of Agriculture hag just published, Un- fess the farmer who is thinking of borrowing money fully — understands these rules aid is willing to be guid- es by them,-the government's advice to him is: don't. As it is, there are probably yfmost as many farmers in this comatry who are suffering from too much as from too little credit. | OF these rules the three most im- portant are: 1, Make sure that the purpose for which the borrowed money is to be used will produce a return greater than needed to pay the debt. 2. The length of time the debt is to run should have a close relation to the productive life of the improve- ment for which the msney is borrow: ed. 3. Provision should be made in long-time loans for the gradual redue- tion of the principal. The first rule is of course the key to the wise -use of credit. Between borrowing money to spend on one’s self and borrowing money to buy equipment of some sort with which to make more money there is all the difference between folly and fore- sight, extravagance and thrift. If the money is borrowed for a wise pur- pose it will produce enough io pay back principal and interest and leave a fair margin of profit for the borrow- er into the bargain. If it is borrow: ed for a foolish purpose it will pro- duce nothing and consequently there will be nothing with which to repay the loan. From this point of view it matters comparatively little wheth- er the interest be high or lew. It is ‘he repayment of the principal that is the chief difficulty. Rules 2 and 3 deal with the most satisfactory ways of repayment. Un- icrneath them both is the same prin- ciple: The loan must be repaid with ne money it earns itself. For ex- ample, if the money is used to buy a machine that will last ten years, the machine must earn enough in that time to pay for itself or it never will. The loan, therefore, should be entirely repaid before the ten years are up or the farmer will lose money on the transaction, paying out inter- est for no benefit in return, On the other hand, if too early a date is set repayment, the machine will not have had sufficient opportunity to make the requisite money and the borrow- er may have difficulty in raising it elsewhere. Rule 3 provides for some form of amortization, the system by which the principal is repaid in in- stallments so that the amount of the loan is continually diminishing and in consequence the interest charges also. Such a system is quite feasi- ble when the loan is really productive, when it returns to the borrower a definite revenue each year. Tables showing the payments required to pay off principal and interest in vary- ing periods of time are appended to the bulletin and are recommended to the serious consideration of every- one who contemplates borrowing money. The bulletin also advises the farmer to secure the lowest possible interest. At first sight this seems too obvious to be worth mentioning. Of course the interest should be as small as possible. Everybody knows that—except the lender. Put if the other rules are observed, if the bor- rower manages his financial affairs eoundly. he will be surprised to find ter of drivine a shrowd bargain as it is of observing a few fundamental principles whieh alone can make cred it a blessing aud not a curse BLUE WILL MEET Sheriff's Prosecuting Attorneys and Police Chiefs to Confer With State ‘Tak Canuaieaian: | Prosecuting attorneys and. sherirfs form every county and chiefs of po: ee from every town and city” in fee Virgin‘a have been called to at tend a joint conference at Parkers Lorg Tuesday dune 25, by state ‘Tay Commissioner Fred O. Blue, as ex-of ficio commissioner of prohibition in West Virginia. At the conference Ways and means will be discussed and plans adopted for promoting co-op eration between state and city. oti cials in aceomplishing a rigid: en forcement of the Yost proitibition law, which becomes effective throust: out the state on July Lone week later, Prosecuting Attorney W. Ww Downey and Sheriff i. 1, ‘Pabler will represent Berkeley county, while Chief of Police P.M. Hollis will re present the city. Five hundsed or more state and ety otlieers are ex pected in attendance at the confer ence, which gives promise of being one of the most important yet here on the prohibition question Want Thorough Understanding. AIL phases of the new law are to be taken up and déscussed by able speakers, among whom will probably be included Elis Yost of Morgan town, who as a member of the house of delégaies trom Menongalia county bears the honor of being the father of the bil. In general discussions every problem not thoroughly wider stood will be thoroughly threshed out in order that there may be ne en fanglements or no hiteh in kew en forcement. A distinct understanding of the law tom the very start is the end to be striven for, Timely Rains Have Given Indications of Bumper Oats and Corn Crops DES MOINES, lowa, June 11—-With timely rains last week the prospects for a bumper crop are most promis: ing. The weather and crop service bear out the statements in the rural districts that the indications are for an enormous crop of oats and corn. a = = QTRAIGHTEN Jv HAIR Wie ( ee Nid) ) orton” WyWarrea (4) £% ." 4 S PRESTO" STRAIGHTENS THE MOST OBSTINATE, STUBBORN, : KINKY HAIR “PRESTO” removes Dandeull, Teter, and other Shin Dicca:ts of the SCALP: "PRESTO" make the HAIR GROW: “PRESTO” is Harmless, Clea: rd Lasting. “PRESTO” ts the Greatest Discovery F) Kisown to. Mankind fn ths Lin Hil, KING OF ALL HAIR PREPARATIONS 1 ema le the snd tke “PRESTO. Astly "PRESTO" os Sensrncrion cuananrero THE ‘Oo ' : verte MFG.C¢ uA FA “_EDENTON.N.C. AGENTS HERE IS THE MONEY MAKER! - MENTION PAPER YOU ®AW AD. IN a] With the carnival in “Harden's Hol- bow’) things in bat part of oar ‘burg: ue lively in the evenings, Martinsburg bas her usual base ball fever on these days, and. she spares neither Gime vor money in rooting for her tea While work ng in the West Quarries the other day, Mr. Samuel Rector had his hand paiotully injured, but as we #0 Co press, it is better The many fiends of Mr. dames Al jen will be pleased to learn that he is slowly recovering from a speil of sick- hess | The Sunday excursions over the Bal- Limore and Onto are as popular as ever, avd hundreds of people are availing themselves of the cheap rates offered Mis Sailie Lea, of Philadelphia, has retained hotue, after a visit to her fath- er Mr Jacob ‘Parner, who) continues quite il! Miss Edena Roberts, the well liked and energetic assistant Ceacher in Sum. ner School, has wore to her home in Smithtield, where she will spend’ awhile with hee parents. Tt is hoped she may enjoy her vacation For the best of all kinds of boots and shoos, go to Charlo E. ‘Phompson, 128 North Queen Street. His atock is excel lent, and the courtesies of hia clerks can't be ex celled Try hom and be convinced Mr. Stephon Ekanyone of the best know aed most pepular members of Dadiey Baptist Chureh, is spending the Week in Pailwtelphia, and we) under- sand Urat this os proving to be one of the mess er jaabte ouanes ho has ever had. Iisn't that Phompson & ‘Thompson have better clothes for wale than other merchants that keep theie stores crowd- ed, butitis (hat always courteous anx- iety to pleure, that makes their place a country household wordand when they KO Lo lown--big and Little want to go to Thompson ard ‘Thou pson’s Mrs, Lillie Carter, and ber husband, the genial John F. Carter, having seen the need of an ico cream parlor und soda fountain for Martineburg’s colored population, are now prepared to serve. anybody alany time. ‘They have in- stalled a tine fountain, secured the very best flavors that money can buy, and their establishment is a model of neat- host. We hope their enterprise will be appreciated, and Unat they will get the hearty support of the clans whom they have gone to so much expense lo verve, In addition to cerving soda water, they will furnish wee cream in large or smalh quantitves, making a specialty of filling orders for bata, parties, &c. J. R. CLIFFORD Attorney At Law MARTINSBURG, WERT VIRGINIA. Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Snpreme Court of Ap- ‘peals and the United States Courts. : ‘STEVENS: For Partridge, Wood-' cock; Squirrel or Rabbit WShooting;the | 44 GAUGE ‘SHOTGUN fo, 103° NSA WONDER. Nr in WLW Cebit Eee List Price only $5.00, /\\\ yi £)| pagan a | Se vds WN hte cas tte STEVENS Mi mr ] Vy J. STEVENS ARMS | > CM & TOOL COMPANY \_ @ Y P.o.tossoos © | a i. ‘CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS,. Anecdotal Literature W. G. THE NEW CONJUGATION. Chief Clerk Examiner at Chicago's marriage license bureau has announced that last year, being leap year, had more marriages to its credit by 8374 than any other year on record. "Did female proposals cause this increase?" said Mr. Legner to a reporter. "Ah! who can answer such a question as that?" But whether female proposals caused the increase or not, let us hope that all these leap year marriages will turn out better than the average. So deplorable, indeed, is the average marriage here in America that they now propose to conjugate the verb 'I love in a new way in the schools. "A new way?" said the reporter. "Yes," Mr. Legner answered. "They propose to make the future of 'I love,' "I divorce." * * ALWAYS OBLIGING. New Guest—"Don't you use a great many canned vegetables here in the country?" Farmer—"As a matter of accommodation. The summer boarders need the cans to carry the worms in." When the cook spoils the broth, put her in the pot to make more. One wife is like one meal a day, and that meal always the same food. Wives nurse grievances like children, and love them quite as well. See to it, then, that your wives have large families of grievances to make them happy. When you want a woman, take her if you can. If you can't make her feel that the loss is here. A CONFUSION OF NAMES The Lord of the Manor was coming to inspect the children of one of his schools. Before his arrival the teacher impressed on the little ones very strongly the need of addressing him as "My Lord-" The great day came. His lordship, a very kind old man, walked into the schoolroom where the children were assembled. After a short address, he went up to a little girl, put his hand on her shoulder and said: "Well, my little girl, and how old are you?" The little girl, quaking in her shoes, bleated out, "My God, I'm ten." NOT EXACTLY. Gov. Sulzer, at a dinner in Albany was asked his opinion of a certain upstate boss. "Well," said the governor, his eyes twinkling, "the fellow reminds me of little Tommy. Little Tommy, you know, said to his father one day: "Pop, what does the paper mean when it calls Peter Morris an eight by-four politician?" "I think, my son," said the old man, 'that it means he is not exactly square.' CONSUL CANADA HAS ANOTHER BIRTHDAY United States Representative at Vera Cruz Sixty-Four Years Old Today William W. Canada, who has been brought prominently before the public by the recent events at Vera Cruz, where for seventeen years, he has been stationed as United States consul, was born in Randolph county, Indiana, June 8, 1850. He was educated at the Indiana state normal school and after being admitted to the bar in 1874 began the practice of law in Winchester. For some years he had been a leader in Republican politics in Indiana before he was appointed consul at Vera Cruz in 1897. At that time the poet at Vera Cruz was not regarded as a very desirable one, as it was subject to epidemics of yellow fever and other tropical diseases. Since then the city has been cleaned up and modern sanitary and other civic improvement inaugurated. During the past three years Consul Canada has been called upon to take WOMEN LEADERS ARRIVE IN CHICAGO FOR CONVENTION Ten Thousand Delegates Will Participate in the Twelfth Biennial Meeting. MANY QUESTIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED Most Momentous Gathering of Feminine Folk Ever Held and Sessions Will Continue for Ten Days—Social Affairs, Sight Seeing and Trips Will be Enjoyed. From small hamlets to the largest cities in the United States came women to participate in what is expected to be one of the most momentous gatherings of feminine folk ever held in America. For ten days the convention is to be in session, seven of the days to be devoted to consideration of pressing questions of the day. With Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, of Austin, Texas, president of the federation, was here early to review the general arrangements with Mrs. George Bass, chairman of the local biennial board, the last detail was complete for conducting the sessions even to the establishment of an emergency hospital corps of women physicians at the Auditorium theatre, where the convention is to be held. The purpose of the federation's assembly is to bring to a focus the divergent and leading views on all questions affecting woman's sphere, to review the activities of the women's clubs during the proceeding two years, and to map out a program for militant action to better the status of womankind. White slavery, minimum wages for women, dress-reform, scientific-homecooking, sanitation in the home, vocational training and protection of the immigrant woman from exploitation, are a few of the subjects to be threshed out by the convention. Public health, art, music, litreary extension work, and conservation are among other topics to be brought to the delegates' attention. Authorities of national prominence will address the assembly. A reception in honor of Mrs. Pennypacker, other retiring officers of the federation, and the visiting members to be held at the Art Institute, Thursday evening, June 11, is to be the big social event of the convention. On June 14, "Sacred Sunday." memorial services in honor of Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, of Denver, and Mrs. Frances S. Potter, of Chicago, will be held in the Auditorium. Both women had long been active in the affairs of the federation. Election of officers is scheduled for Tuesday, June 16( with installation ceremonies the following day, when the real work of the assembly will have been finished. The last two days, June 18 and 19, will be given over to minor special affairs, sightseeing and trips on Lake Michigan. COLORADO SPRINGS, June 1 Rev. Billy Sunday, who opened a five week revival here last night predicted today that he would have one of his most successful campaigns. It is expected that after his local campaign he will begin a revival at Denver. Arrangements for the Denver The case of Lieutenant Douglas, of the navy, who was sent to the Asiatic station instead of being required to resign on account of his connections with the festivities on the Mayflower, shows the importance of having a good football record at the Naval Academy.-Indianapolis News. a prominent part in many of the international situations arising from the turbulent state of affairs in Mexico. Recently he has had to look after the wants of hundreds of American refugees passing through the port. 17-YEAR LOCUST DUE THIS SUMMER In Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia And Pennsylvania In Many Coun- ties. Brood 5 of the periodical cicada, commonly known as the 17-year locust, is expected to make its reappearance in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania etarly in June. This is the territory which brood 5 of these incauses considerable damage to newly planted orchards and shade trees in this territory. The scientists of the bureau of entomology of the department of agriculture are therefore watching this territory where the insect is due to reappear, with a view to minimizing its damage. The locust are due to appear in the following counties: OHIO: Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiaiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Erie, Fairfield, Franklin, Gallia, Geauga, Guernsey, Harr'son, Hocking, Holmes, Huron, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Richland, Ross, Sandusky, Sc'oto, Seneca, Stark, Summit, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington and Wayne. WEST VIRGINIA: Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Kanahwa, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Mineral, Monongalia, Nicholas, Ohio, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt and Wood. PENNSYLVANIA: Fayette, Greene, and Washington. VIRGINIA; Augusta, Caroline, Highland and Shenandoah. The most reliable means of protecting nurseries and young orchards from the insects is by collecting them in bags or umbrellas from the trees during early morning or late evening when they are somewhat torpid. The collections should be undertaken at first appearance and repeated each day. Ordinarily repellents such as kerosene emulsion or carbolic acid solution seem to have very little effect in preventing oviposition of the locust. Recent experience indicates that trees thoroughly sprayed with Bordeaux mixture are apt to be avoided by the cicada, especially if there are other trees or woods in the neighborhood on which they can oviposit. In view of the difficulty of controlling the insect on a large scale after it has once emerged, it is well to adopt any precautionary measures that may tend to essen or distribute the injury. Forewarned, much injury and loss may be avoided by negleting all pruning operations during the winter and spring prior to the expected appearance of the Cicada in order to offer a arger twig growth and distribute by this means the damage over a greater surface. Another precaution, when a cicada year is expected, is to defer the planting of orchards, especially in the vicinity of old orchards or forest land, until the danger is past. The same advice applies to budding or grafting operations in the fall and spring prior to the cicada's appearance. Much disappointment arising from injury to orchards or valuable nursery stock may thus be avoided. Vigorous young trees will, it is true, often recover in three or four years from the effects of a loss of or injury to a considerable percentage of their branches, but it is difficult to overcome the unsymmetrical appearance which will commonly result from the indiscriminate pruning caused by the work of the insect, and the gnarled and scarified branches will long bear testimony to the industry of the female insect. Much of the injury occasioned by the cutting of the twigs by the female icada in depositing her eggs can be remedied by subsequent proper treatment of the wounded plant. In the case of old trees, the main object to be secured it the rapid healing of the wounds and the prevention of their being used as points of secondary at- Saved Girl's Life "I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have received from the use of Thedford's Black-Draught," writes Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. "It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught saved my little girl's life. When she had the measles, they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford's Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no more trouble. I shall never be without BLACK-DRAUGHT in my home." For constipation, indigestion, headache, dizziness, malaria, chills and fever, biliousness, and all similar ailments, Thedford's Black-Draught has proved itself a safe, reliable, gentle and valuable remedy. If you suffer from any of these complaints, try Black-Draught. It is a medicine of known merit. Seventy-five years of splendid success proves its value. Good for young and old. For sale everywhere. Price 25 cents. tack by other insects. The worst injured limbs in such trees should by cut out, so that all the vigor of the plant may be directed to the remaining wood. Any treatment also, as of thorough cultivation or the use of fertilizers, which will give the plant a more vigorous growth, will hasten the healing process. With young trees the worst effected branches should be removed, and the less injured ones protected from other insects while they are healing by coating the wounded parts with grafting wax or a moderately hard soap. These protective coverings should be renewed at least once a year, preferably in the spring, until the wounds are entirely healed over in the case of a badly injured tree that has been recently budded or grafted, it may be well to cut it back nearly to the bud or graft, so that an entirely new top may be made. AN APPEAL TO THE NEGRO BRETHREN for help while collecting materials for the International Exhibition of the Book-Industry and Graphic Arts Leipzig, May-October, 1914. On account of the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts and the Book-Industry at Leipzig, Germany; there will be a great Exhibition made up and organized to show the Graphic products of all people, lands and nations from the earliest times up to these days. The plan of the exhibition shows the following 16 groups: I. Graphic Arts; II. Applied Graphics and Book-making, Illustrating; III. Instruction, Education, Schools; IV. Paper Manufacturing; V. Stationery and Writing Materials; VI. Colors, Lithographics and Copper-plates; VII. Photography; VIII. Reproduction; IX. Streotypy, Electrotypy; X. Printing Processes; XI. Bookbinding; XII. Publishing, book-trade; XIII. Newspapers, Advertising, Canvassing, Periodicais, XIV. Librariez; XV. Machinery; XVI. Measures for the Protection and Welfare of the Workers, etc. These groups have been subdivided into about 63 classes. Each group is to be introduced by a historical and a technical instructive department. The development and the position in the history of civilization of the various branches of the book industry will be clearly demonstrated, models and apparatus for demonstrating purposes and the cinematographic art will be shown. The publications of booksellers and music publishers will be brought directly to the notice of the public through the medium of libraries and reading rooms, through lectures, public readings recitations and con- 一 cert recitals. Anything in our minds will be under the banner of the "black art." Many learned societies and associations connected with the book industry will have their congresses and meet at the exhibition ground. When I read the news I asked myself if it would be possible to show at the exhibition some exhibits of the negro people in America, in whose matters I am especially interested. So I come to all willing to help me in my undertaking, to ask for their cooperation while collecting exhibition matters. Any printings, writings, photos, pictures out of the slavery time until this day will be welcome. Pupils and students, lessons, school plans and pictures, photos of professors, teachers, students and buildings, whole models of publishing houses, Schools, Colleges and Universities will be heartily accepted. Likewise drawings of schoiars and students. Authors or publishing houses should send of all books and pamphlets and writing they have published one or better two copies with order blanks that every exhibitor visitor may have the opportunity of ordering the exhibits through myself. Lodges, banks, societies and other organizations should contribute some amount to cover the cost of certain matters to be bought while not on the market. Editors should send the best they have, if possible a model of the whole business plan. Here is an opportunity for the Colored people of America and for those who have devoted their lives to the culture-work among the colored people, to demonstrate what they have done already and what they could do in the future. Another important feature while collecting exhibition materials is that all will have great value for the future, as the great Museum-library of Leipzig will participate in the exhibits when the fair is over. You will have no expenses to pay for the exhibition of what you send. I will care for that. But whatever you send write your name upon it. Please do what you can in the matter. Write about your help as soon as possible and send your exhibits—old or new, good and bad—to PASTOR PAUL O. HENTSCH Other negro papers are asked to print the foregoing lines of Pastor Hentsch in their respective columns. THE EDITOR With the splendid record made by President Wilson and congress it may be impossible to beat the Democrats, but they still have the glorious opportunity of committing suicide. Lafayette (Ind.) Courier.