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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UMBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 SAYS OUR WOMEN ARE THE FINEST SAYS OUR WOMEN ARE THE FINEST Francis Toye Writes About Americans With Praise For Them the Everyday Girl. Francis Toye, an Englishwoman and a special correspondant of the Bystander, writing on "The Truth About the American Woman," says that many American ladies of fashion are too plump and soft looking to be really beautiful, and he goes on: "Despite recent reaction I think the American woman of the upper class is physically the laziest in the world. With the advent of the automobile there seems to be some danger of her losing the use of her legs altogether Still I am bound to say that even the average American woman of the upper class seems to be distinctly prettier than any of her Europen sisters. But about average American woman of the middle classes there can, I am sure, be no doubt at all. She is incomparably the smartest, most elegant and beautiful thing that exists under haven. You talk of the pretty faces of English girls, the distinction of Parisian midenettes, the dash of Slovanic woman—why, the American girl combines all these qualities and improves on them too. Her clothes are so smart that you wonder how on earth she can afford to buy them. Her blouse is always spotlessly clean, her hair effectively dressed. And the figures of American woman are acknowledged to be the finest in the world. It is, he says, the ordinary, everyday to go to work girl, who takes her lunch to a cheap eating place, runs to catch a trolley car, jostles in the subway and patronizes the movies. It is in fact, the goddess of the typewriter, the fairly of the newspapr office, the grace of the tlphone that I sing. Every time I see her I am more and more amazed at her average lovli-ness, he says. I do not, Mr. Toye continues, so far as generalization is possible, at all like the American woman nearly as much as the comparatively plain looking average American man. Either literally or metaphorically, sometimes both, she is too liable to be discovered unexpectedly in the act of chewing gum—a most distressing habit for a godless to possess." FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS. The Methodist Book Concern has set a good example to similar houses by giving $1,000,000 worth of group life insurance to 1,000 employees. It is a practical and a thoughtful gift.—New York World. General Villa understands the art of conducting war economically. He avoids the expense of feeding prisoners by shooting them, bullets being cheaper than bacon.—Kansas City Journal. The English militants seem able to break into almost everything except the polling booths.—New York Press. The slaughter of Americans in Mexico by the Hearst papers should be stopped. A few murders by Hearst and his parasitic correspondents lend interest to his papers, but there should be a limit.—San Francisco Star. The legal buzzards are gathering, judging by the names of some of the counsel now appearing in the New Haven investigation at Washington. The legal gentleman with the Panama record has finally arrived.—Springfield Republican. HARTIN8BURG GRASS FREQUENTLY CUT HELPS LAWNS GRASS FREQUENTLY CUT HELPS LAWNS Is the Advice Given Out by the Department of Agriculture WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17. Cut the grass frequently; leave cuttings where they fall and do not use an iron rake unless grass or clover seed is to be planted, is the advice of the department of agriculture experts in a bulletin, just issued, on the proper care of lawns. Landscape gardeners of the department declare also that lawn mowers should be set high so that the grass will not be cropped close. They declare raking or sweeping disturbs the soil and that if the clipped grass remains where it drops it will form protection to the roots and keep the lawn in good condition during dry weather. Benetol, an alleged cure for hog cholera, has not been approved by the department of agriculture, it was announced today. Articles praising this medicine and sent broadcast throughout the country so worded as to convey the impression that the department has sanctioned the medicine are declared to be frauds. "In this connection it may be said," reads the announcement, "that the medicine which is now put forward is good for hogs was advertised some time ago as a means of killing tubercular, typhoid, and cancer germs." Doctors of the department say they have no reason to believe in the efficiency of any cure for hog cholera and do not recommend any. Under certain conditions farmers are urged to protect their stock with anti-hog cholera serum. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. The problem of farm labor is now being successfully dealth with by the department of labor. Its first step was taken only recently when an effort was made to supply Oklahoma with between 12,000 and 15,000 harvest hands. Through the co-operation of Postmaster General Burleson notices were posted in 10,000 postoffices telling about Oklahoma's plea for workers for from four to six months this summer. The wages to be paid vary from $3 to $2.50 per day. Elated by the results of its first experiments the department of agriculture today enthusiastically endorsed the "bedding-out" system for western sheep ranges. As the name indicates the herder permits his sheep to sleep wherever the sheep find themselves at nightfall. Formerly all sheep in a given flock were driven to one resting place. "Through experiments on the national forest ranges," the department states, "the lambs from bedded-out bands were five pounds heavier on an average at the end of the season than those which were trailed to and from established bedgrounds. The range can carry from 10 to 25 per cent more sheep than when so much is trampled out in traveling back and forth. "Disadvantages to the old system were two fold; those to the forage and those to the sheep. The forage suffered by being trampled badly, and being actually destroyed at and near the bed grounds; the sheep lost weight in going to and from the camps, and in dry weather suffered from dust and crowding. "Sheepmen have maintained that the close herding system so long in use was necessary to prevent losses SATURDAY. ACCIDENTS DECREASE IN SMOKELESS FIELDS ACCIDENTS DECREASE IN SMOKELESS FIELDS What the Report for the Month of May Shows Statement By the Chief. The accident returns for the month of May, just made public by the state department of mines show that in the four counties where the West Virginia smokeless coal is mined there was one less accident than in May 1913. On the other hand for the rest of the state there was an increase. The four counties in question were Fayette, Raleigh, Mercer and McDowell. It has been pointed out by the mining department that where special effort is being made on the part of the operators and miners to obey the mining laws and pay due regard to rules of safety the number of accidents in West Virginia in May was 27. In May 1913, it was 24. With the four smokeless counties showing a decrease of one from May of last year, the other counties show 14 last month as against 10 the same month of the previous year, an increase of over 33 13 in the death list. Recognizing the fact that there has been a let up in some sections of the state, Earl A. Henry, chief of the department of mines, is sending a letter to the operators advising them of the accident report for the last month. In reviewing the death list Mr. Henry writes: "Most of these accidents are caused by careless practices at the working places, and the efforts of all should be directed to the elimination of this carelessness, which nearly always results in death." A classification of the fatalities for May shows that 19 were due to falls of coal and slate, 5 to mine cars and motors, one was an electrecution, one was caused by an explosion of powedr motors, one was an electrecution. 17-YEAR LOCUST BACK Threaten Destruction of Fruit Trees in West Virginia. Orchard owners in the fruit belt around Petersburg and vicinity, are low busy day and night fighting the 17-year locusts, which threaten not only to destroy the fruit, but the young trees as well. The orchard owners and their men are spending a part of each night in killing off the locusts. from straying, and from the ravages of wolves, coyotes or mountain lions. Experiments of the service shows that straying can be prevented, and one band in the Payette forest, Idaho which grazed in timber and brush practically the entire summer, lost only four head; in this, as in the majority of cases, the loss under the new system was less than under the old one of close herding." The United Ctates Forest Service has undertaken the reforestation of a large section in Northern Idaho destroyed by forest fires in 1910, to determine whether the destruction of trees decreases the flow of streams. Residents of Wallace, Idaho, claim that the destruction of the forests near there has almost caused a water famine in the locality. The flow of one stream, they declared, was cut from one thousand miners' inches—the unit of measurement—to less than 250 miners' inches. Women may be clothes-mad, as Mrs. Bob Burdette claims, but the evidence is growing smaller every day. Washington Post. Press. JUDGING BY APPEARANCES. A TALE WITH A MORAL. He shuffled quietly into the office of The Weekly Vision, and bowing gracefully, said, "Good evening" to a group of well groomed men who were sitting around chatting about one thing and another, with the editor. His shabby clothes did not make a favorable impression on the animated installment House signs and he was allowed to sit down without being answered and was scarcely noticed. The editor who between trying to make himself agreeable, and to figure out where to find the other twenty five dollars due the printer on the current issue, was having a decidedly serrulous time of it in his intellectuals. The new comer was a well known character, about town, and out of town, and he possessed the great and rare gift of minding his own business, and the independence to wear his last year's straw hat, without feeling that he was infringing on anybody's right or that he was offending fashionable society—socalled. When he entered the office, the gentlemen were in a heated discussion with the editor on the Mexican imbroglio, who was, as we have said, occupied with his own thoughts, and looked as though he washed his callers would cut short their visit and say "good evening" so that he might give freer rein to his thoughts and finally discover the whereatness of the aforementioned twenty-five dollars. The last visitor, nothing daunted by the cool rebuff with which his friendly greeting had been received, ventured during a hull in the conversation, an opinion, the gist of which was: that the attitude of the United States towards Huerta was indefensible at the beginning, and that its subsequent action was inconsistent, that while refusing to recognize him before accepting the good offices of the A. B. C. Mediation Commission, it had technically recognized him when it consented to treat with him, through these mediators, and in recognizing the Huerta Envoys to the Peace Conference, it practically recognizes the authority of Huerta, as President of Mexico." The well groomed and refined gentlemen heard this comment in silence and with the politeness characteristic of gentlemen of their mental calibre made no comment beyond that implied by a cynical and supercilious smile which a keen observer would readily understand. One of them rolled a cigarette, lighted it, and began discussing the latest theatrical thriller and other light and airy things, which accentuated the agony of the editor, whose central thought at that moment and during the entire two hours his visitors bored him, was where can I find $25 00. As if reading his thoughts the last comer arose and approaching the editor's desk where that learned man sat chewing on the end of a left over campaign cigar, which some admirer had given him, and said: "Excuse me gentlemen, I came here on a little business. (the word business caught the editor's attention at once and he bustled up and really looked pleasant and interested for the first time during the evening)" and so far forgot myself as to enter unbidden into your conversation. I hope I haven't offended gentlemen and if I did, I humbly ask pardon." The high caste Brahmire cast a withering look at the last year's straw hat, and the faded blue serge suit of the stranger the treasurers of which would have been 3 inches longer if they had not been 3 inches too short. Then one of the sexe ete actually giggled as he looked at his own neat fitting suit in the mirror over the stenographer's desk. None of them spoke a word in reply except the editor. All seemed to regard the stranger with a sort of pitying contempt, which he was too well bred to notice. As he reached the editor's desk TWENTY CARS JUMP TRACK ON GRADE TWENTY CARS JUMP TRACK ON GRADE Broken Wheel Causes Derailment of Freight Train at Empire Monday Night. In coming down the 17-mile grade on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Monday night twenty loaded freight cars left the track at Empire, about 5 miles west of Piedmont, and pilled up for a distance of more than 200 feet, completely blocking all traffic. The accident was caused by a broken wheel on one of the freight cars All three tracks were completely blocked by the wreck, and passenger traffic was detoured by way of Connellsville. The Keyser tool cars were sent to the scene of the accident, and the Cumberland and Grafton tool cars were ordered out. The tracks were cleared and opened to traffic about 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The prohibition amendment is evidently Hobson's choice.—Columbia State. he took from his old and worn leather wallt it which he had removed from his pocket a package of crisp yellow backs and removing one of them, a $100 bill said to the editor. I have been a reader of your paper for now nearly a year. Your editorials please me very much and the general tone of the paper is good. I feel that I ought to contribute something since I am able to do so, to encourage you in the good work you are doing. I myself preach cooperation to my people, and the necessity of giving to worthy causes among us. I consider the Weekly Vision a worthy object, and it is a pleasure to me sir, to hand you $100 as an expression of my good will and of my earnest desire for your success. I know our race editors are none too rich, and that our race does not do its full duty by paying up promptly. When bills fall due this little mite will fill a gap and give you a little time to think. I hope these gentlemen whom I have not the pleasure of knowing will duplicate this little token. At this three of the "gents" remembered that they had an important engagement up town and hastily withdrew. The editor tried to say something pretty to his strange friend and benefactor, but before he had concluded the old gentleman had departed as quietly as he had entered. "Say!" said one of the remaining trio who is that old codger, and where does he belong? The editor said he did not know him personally, but knew of him. He was a Mr. _____ and reputed to be worth about $100,000, that he owned three or four tenement houses on the West Side, and a big apartment house in another part of the city which was occupied by white families who do not know that their landlord is a Negro, as all his business with them is transacted through a downtown brokorage firm. Well! said one of the dudes, after giving the head of his cane another suck, "you would suppose from his appearance that he wasn't worth the price of a beefstew. " You shouldn't judge a man by his appearance, said the editor. "That's right, that's right, said another. Charley there looks like a bloated millionaire. I tried to borrow a quarter from him when we were coming here and all he could scare up was 18 cents, a button and a jack knife. Moral!—Don't judge a man by his clothes, his shoes or his hat. A fine coat often covers great ignorance and poverty, but it cannot permanently conceal them. Bruce-Grit, Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Cannon threatens to publish his correspondence with Mr. Roosevelt. Fire when you are ready, Joe. Washington Herald. An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. 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., its Second Class Matters. J. R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JUNE 20 1914 The American Baptist took up too much of its space about George W. Murray and George H. White. Neither immortalized himself while in Congress and no doubt Murray is the only Negro congressional blatherskite living. You may call Huerta fool, knave, uncivilized, and what not, but if he has not shown more sense, wisdom, and statesmanship in calling off the intended blockade of Tampico, while the mediators are at work at Niagara Falls than William J. Bryan and Woodrow Wilson have, we see the whole thing upside down. If any one will take the time and trouble to look up the whereabouts and wherefroms of our great men and women in America, tew will be found to be of those who boast of the F. F. V's., or of original American stock. That element went to seed long ago, and the only thing great about it, is the diffusion of richer and better blood. The best sign of a true American is his hatred for colored people who are so far ahead of him. They have just enough sense left to "despise a nigger." How foolish! A law making green horn is sent to the legislature and doesn't know how to draft a bill. Some faction wants a law passed. He frames it as best he can, and it passes and becomes a law. Why not, if the public are too dumb to understand it, let the urgers and the legislatureman tell what they wanted and what they got. It would be so much better than to call all the Prosecuting Attorneys, Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police together to have a state official to tell them what is what in law — bush. There is no impropriety in giving the Adams Express Company credit for its proposed competition with the parcels post system. But why throw down and aside the Parcels Post system, and go back to the old avaricious company, made get on its knees and do now what it never would have done had it not been for the Parcels Post? There would be as much sound sense and reasoning in going back to that old grabbing company as there would be in hcnest Progressives going back to the old robbing element of the Republican party. It is in circulation that William Campbell, the misfit editor of a paper a credit to Jefferson County and the entire state when manned by the late Editor Gallagher, is tiptoeing and trying to squeeze into his prejudiced and narrowly contracted pate, a scheme to have in Charles Town, at the Norfolk and Western Station, a jim crow department. Build it. It will never be used as such in West Virginia. And unless torn down or converted into something else, it will stand to show the littleness of William Campbell, when dead and forgotten. Talk about the white man's prejudice to Negroes being the cause of all the trouble, is demurrable. True it has its evil effects, but if one will cooly and carefully look into causes that hurt and hinder, it will be found that our worst enemies are in our own ranks—the prime, curse of slavery. It is as natural for one class of Negroes to envy the other now, as it was for the low and lying "nigger" to watch and tell all kinds of lies on better thinkers in slave days. It was done to please "massy and misey" who called them "good niggers" and they still live. What about the colored regiment of New York? The best thing to do with them is isolation because they are the tongue licking snakes of that meanest of all wrongs—slavery. Biggest humbug in all the world. Why all this twaddle about intermarriage, in the sight and face of its existence and that in slivery for more than 200 years is for none but foods to explain. If white men preferred black women to their own in slavery, who can't colored men, if white women agree, mate with them in freedom? All live by breathing the same air, and eating the same kind of food. When sick take the same kind of medicine for the same kind of disease and when dead all are buried, become offensive, and all that is mortal turns to worms, and by them is destroyed, and the spirit faces God to account for its method of ruling the body—its earthly home. All any people have to do, is to be clean, industrious, moral, deceut, honest, intelligent, and religious, and they are as good as any other people on earth. Social equality is God's will. If it existed, no strikes, no murdering, no wars would be thought of. Equality before God and man is immortal—the golden key that will unlock the door to eternal joy. Millions of Negro men and women, made so white by the master class that they pass for white are married to and living with white men and women, in this and foreign lands. It always has been so, and always will be. No matter how black it is his or her privilege to marry any color wanted, from the blackest to the whitest. Hence why not stop clamoring about intermarriage? It is the South that is constantly hollering thief—when it itself stole the good- ADULTERATION OF SEEDS. According to an act of Congress the Department of Agriculture is required to examine samples of seed and report as to their genuinesness. In carrying out the provisions of the act the department recently made an alysis of 1,021 samples of seed, such as grasses, clover, alfalfa, etc., and of that number 127 were found to be adulterated or misbranded, together with the names of the seedsmen by whom they were sold or offered for sale. Another instance came from Kentucky. Four hundred and thirty-eight samples of bluegrass seed were furnished for examination. Fifteen or less than four per ecnt were found to be either adulterated or misbranded. One sample was a mixture of reditop, timothy, Canada bluegrass and Kentucky bluegrass. For the farmers to purchase only first-class seed it is necessary to have examinations made frequently, and should they be found defective those engaged in their sale are forbidden to place them on the market under pain of a heavy fine. In this manner grass seeds can be kept practically free from adulteration, and produce good crops. Otherwise the farmers would be wronged and their money uselessly spent. By this act many farmers have been able to purchase pure seeds, and those who have been guilty of adulterating them are practically out of the markets. NOT THE REAL REMEDY. Fred L. Feick, representative of western railroad men, a million or more, was recently in Washington pleading for an advance in railroad freight rates. He said 500,000 railroad men in the west are out of work; engineers and conductors are now brakemen and glad to find employment; wages have been cut 10 to 20 per cent; the idle men represent 3,000,000 people; at $2.00 per day it means $1,000,000 a day, $30,000,000 a month and $300,000,000 a year. Engines and cars are stored, tracks are deteriorating and State and Federal laws are being violated. This is a sad story. Conditions in the east are fully as bad as in the west. But will an increase in rates give relief? It is scarcely possible. Suppose freight rates are increased, will this remedy the trouble? It is impossible to believe it will be more than temporary. There is a deeper cause. There is a lack of freight, else the roads would be hauling it at the existing rates. True it might not pay a large profit, but if it was possible to haul freight at existing rates for many years and make money, why not now? There have been increases in rates of wages, but not sufficient to cause severe losses. Five per cent, the increase desired, would not produce freight. On the contrary, it might have an opposite effect. If the rate should be so high as to deprive the shipper of profit, shipment would not be made. The real cause of the trouble is the large increase in imports and the large decrease in exports. During April there was a decrease of more than $37,000,000 in the value of exports and an increase of more than $27,000,000 in the value of imports. This means a net loss for the month of $10,000,000. That is, in order to square the account for the month, we must pay foreign nations that $10,000,000. The actual loss for the month is $64,000,000, equal to $768,000,000 a year and a balance of trade against us of $120,000,000 a year. This is the drain that is closing factories, reducing wages, discharging men and bringing poverty into the homes of the people. It is the Democratic way. POLICE CHIEFS TO OUST BURNS Members of International Association Are Incensed by Work in Frank Case. GRAND RAPIDS, June 16.—Detective William J. Burns, head of the Burns National Detective Agency, 's "in bad" with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which opened a five days' convention here yesterday. At the opening business session today resolutions were introduced by Chief Michael Regan, vice president, of Buffalo, and F. J. Cassada, of Elmira, N. Y., asking that the detective be ousted from the organization. Members of the association have not looked with favor on the activities of Burns for some time, but the part he played in the Leo Frank case recently, when he attempted to clear the Atlanta manufacturer of a charge of murder on which he had been convicted and sentenced to death, has aroused police chiefs all over the United States and the 300 delegates in attendance at the convention are united in the move to oust him. BRIGANDS CAPTURE AND SACK CITY Unmentionable Indignities Heaped Upon Helpless Women Victims by White Wolf. SHANGHAI, India, June 17.—Confirmed reports say that the White Wolf brigands have captured and sacked Taocow, massacreing ten thousand Chinese. Pillaging and burning followed the capture of the place, and unmentionable indignities were heaped upon the helpless women victims by their captives. ATTEMPT TO KILL CZAR AND FAMILY Anarchists Kill 2 and Wound 28 by the Use of Dynamite on Railroad. (By United Press.) BERLIN, June 18.—Two persons were killed and 28 injured in an anarchistic attempt to exterminate the Czar and his family, according to an official statement. First Report LONDON, June 18.—Dispatches today from St. Petersburg state that an attempt was made yesterday to exterminate Czar Nicholas and his entire family by dynamite in the hands of anarchists near Tzchudnew, Russia. A mail train, which was preceding the Imperial train, carrying the Czar and his family, was blown up, while the Imperial train a short distance away. The Czar is reported to have suffered a complete collapse. So far no arrests have been reported. A higher tariff on diamonds and such has led to lower collections of duties. Doubtless the smugglers' perjury percentage has not decreased, however.—New York World. THE CITY COUNCIL TAKES STEPS TO OUST THE POLICE Mayor Turner and City Attorney Martin Will Prefer the Charges Against Them ATTORNEY HARRY DOWNS S REFUSED APPOINTMENT new Administration Refuses to Fufill a Pre-election Pledge and Names Another—Police are to be Arraigned and Made Face Charges Other Business. A special session of the City Council was held Monday night with Mayor Furner, Councilmen Dunn, Gard, Portland, Russler and Wolford, City Recorder P. W. Leiter and Engineer Funderburk in attendance. The application of Robert Brown to operate a restaurant on North Queen street in the room formerly occupied by Mrs. B. C. Baker, was granted. The question of naming a city attorney was taken up and Mayor Turner appointed Attorney Harry Downs. Four members of the council refused to confirm the appointment, and Attorney Paul H. Martin was placed in nomination. The men who had voted against Mr. Downs voted for Mr. Martin, and he was declared the next city attorney. An ordinance relating to the keeping of gasoline and other explosives within the city limits was offered and passed the first reading. It will be remembered that at a former meeting Councilman Garre asked that the resignations of City Recorder P. W. Leiter, and the police be offered at this meeting. They were not forthcoming, and a motion prevailed that the mayor and city attorney prefer charges against the police, and that task will be taken up next. JUDGE A. G. DAYTON FILES HIS ANSWER JUDGE A. G. DAYTON FILES HIS ANSWER Denies Every Charge and Offers Many Affidavits in Support of His Contention WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16. Judge A. G. Dayton arrived here today, accompanied by his son, Arthur, and filed with the house committee of the judiciary his answer to the charges preferred against him in the impeachment proceedings. He makes general denial of each and every one of the charges, and has affidavits in support of many of his denials. One of the papers filed is a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, stating that he was appointed wholly without solicitation by anybody because Roosevelt had learned to admire and respect Dayton. He also said in the letter that Dayton had nothing to do with the investigation of the conduct of Judge Jackson by the department of justice, which was made by direction of Roosevelt. The house committee decided today not to further consider the Dayton charges until Congressman Neely has had a chance to be heard by the committee. Mr. Neely is away for a few days so that matter will not come up just yet. The senate committee on contingent expenses of the senate did not meet this morning, and has not considered the resolution for an investigation into the use of senate stationary to boom a gold mine, charged against Senator Chilton, of West Virginia, and Senator Overman, of North Carolina. Senator LaFollette insists that the matter be fully investigated. To the business men President Wilson in effect commends the maxim: "The world is a mirror—smile in it!" J. S. PHYSICIANS FIND CITY WELLS BADLY INFECTED 术ical Demonstration Was Made Monday on Stephen and Water Streets DANGER WAS FOUND LURKING IN WATER public Health Officials in Pursuing Their Duties Discover the People are Using Much Impure Water. Discovery Should be a Warning to All. For long years the people of cities and towns have been warned that the drinking water from springs and vells were the direct source of infection of much sickness. This horrifying scare to humanity has been short of its awfulness in Martinsburg by the recent campaign of cleanliness, directed to general healthfulness, by the U. S. Public Health Service officials, who have worked in conjunction with local health authorities. The campaign was county-wide primarily and has been so conducted, and results have been marvelous. In the city a clean-up campaign inaugurated a few weeks ago by the combined health authorities, who have been heartily co-operated with by the 'community Club of Martinsburg, and business men, has locally done things that will be an example for the civilized world toward making Martinsburg one of the most healthful cities known. Certain portions of the city, is fast as has been practicable, have been made absolutely clean of all weerage and other wastes. And the work is going on rapidly and will be extended to every portion of Martinsburg. Early in the stage of action the town water supply, several of the finest springs in this section, were examined and found to be infected with disease germs, typhoid and other of the water born class, fatal to the human family, and a chemical treating plant was established at the pumping station, and the water by government tests, has been shown, since to be as pure as any in the world. At the same time of the examination and tests of the spring water supplying the town, that of wells and springs in the heart of the city were also tested, and all were found infected, and the people warned against their use. This warning is given out today more emphatically than ever by the U. S. Public Health officials, and people cannot afford to disregard it, as to the use from town springs and wells. There is absolutely no safe drinking water within the city limits from any of these sources. There is an abundance of water supply from the ordinary town source which is shown pure by government tests, and there is no excuse for using the other. Yesterday Dr. Claybrook and Surgeon Bryan gave an absolute demonstration of the dangers of using spring waters of the town, at a privy pit on the corner of Stephen and Water streets. The doctors have also had the water from many of the other springs and wells in the city examined and found it all bad. They advise everyone to use only the city water supply for drinking purposes. MAIN INJURED WHILE PUMPING UP TIRE Saturday evening at Hedgesville, T. F. Hansberger, an inspector here in the cedar rust work, while pumping up a tire on a motor cycle, had his hand severely injured. The handle came loose from the pump, and as he made the stroke the pump rod passed through his hand. The wound was so severe as to require the attention of a surgeon. KEEPS YOUR HOME FRESH and CLEAN STICKING TO IT WINS SAYS CHIEF LEIGH New Head of B. & O. Police Force of 333 Men Takes Hold of Job "Above all things in the world, a detective must have patience. Personality, a keen mind, natural aptitude, experience—all these things put together are not as essential to a man in my line of work as the quality of sticking to the job and never becoming discouraged." This is the philosophy of his work, which Edmund Leigh, who Monday became general superintendent of police of the entire Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system, believes also is the secret of his success. Mr. Leigh, who will make his home in Baltimore, comes to the railroad direct from the office of District Attorney Whitman, of New York city, where he was one of the five detectives assigned from the New York police headquarters to work under the direction of the district attorney. Will Have 363 Men on Force The position of general superintendent of police is a new one just created by the railroad officials. Mr. Leigh will have 363 men under him and his territory will include, in addition to the Baltimore and Ohio lines, the lines of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway and the Staten Island Railroad. Leigh, who is 40 years old, has been 19 years in detective work. In 1895 he was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, then Commissioner of Police in New York city, to a position on the New York detective force. That was his first job as a hunter of criminals. Since that time he has traveled all over this country—not once but many times—and I has visited the principal cities of Europe and South America in connection with his work. Was in Becker Case He was one of the detectives assigned to the Becker-Rosenthal case. He knew the gambler personally and knew also, from a criminal point of view, the habits and habitants of all of the denizens of the underworld who figured in the trial of Police Lieutenant Becker. Leigh had charge of the case of Elsie Siegel. It was during his work on this case, he said that he found the newspaper men assigned to the story of great assistance to him. His work in this case, he said, was made difficult by the refusal of the mother and father of the girl to identify her after she had been found. Following a positive refusal by the parents to identify the girl because of the badly decomposed condition of the features, Leigh set to work to prove that he had the right woman. This was accomplished by the finding of a thin gold eye-glass chain in the girl's hair, which proved positive identification. One of Leigh's "big arrests" was that of Chester ("Cv") Yates, a no- torious bad man, who was convicted of robbing Aaron Bancroft, a New York banker, of $85,000 worth of securities in December, 1911, and who was sentenced to 2- years in Sing Sing. Two months after entering the prison Yates escaped and completely disappeared. HURLED FROM CAR; SKULL IS CRUSHED; James Turner, of This City, in Critical Condition at Frederick Hospital Accident Happened While Car Was Speeding at Moderate Clip Near Middletown—Struck Breaker in the Road and Threw Turner Out—Now in Frederick City Hospital. Speeding at moderate clip, James Turner, of this city, was hurled from an automobile Saturday afternoon at Bolivar, Md., and suffered the fracture of his skull. At first it was believed that he had been fatally injured, but reports today say that the indications are he may recover, although his condition is serious. At times he is conscious, but it is only temporarily. Immediately following the accident Turner was taken to the office of Dr. E. L. Beckley, where his wounds were dressed. Shortly afterward he was taken to the Frederick City Hospital. Turner and four other men from the Norwalk Motor Company, including J. Russell, the company's tester; Ben Duly and S. H. Wiggington were en route to Frederick, via the National Pike, in one of the company's testing cars. While the object was to test the machine, the party was en route to Frederick baseball game, which was played in Frederick on Saturday. Although it has been reported that the automobile was speeding at a 40 mile clip, it has been learned from reliable source that the car was being driven at a moderate rate of speed, and that three of the men were sitting on the back of the seat of the skeleton-like car, Turner being one of them, when a breaker was truck. Turner, for the time being loosened his grip on the back of the seat to take a snap-shot of the view of that section of the country. The man took his hands from the machine, just as the car sloughed in the breakr. Turner went spinning from the machine and landed head first on the pike. The machine was stopped at once and Turner's companions wentto his rescue. They found him lying prostrate on the pike and unconscious. They rushed him at once to Middletown, where they made inquiries for a phycian, and later went to the office of Dr. Beckley. Turner's companions returned on Saturday night. Because of the skeleton-like construction of the testing machines there was space enough on the seat for only two men and the other men were sitting on the back of the seat. WEST VIRGINIANS ANXIOUS TO LEAVE The Heated Season Causes Them to Become Weary of Capital City and Seek Another Clime West Virginians in Washington, in common with persons from other states, are beginning to long for the end of the session of congress, not alone because they want to see legislation brought to an end, but for reasons of personal comfort as well. The weather bureau persists in sending out figures indicating that Washington is delightfully cool during the summer months, while in reality the heat at times becomes unbearable. The great white buildings and the wide asphalt streets seem to reflect and at the same time to collect the heat to be given out again after the sun goes down and other places grow cool. Senators and representatives in congress attire themselves in the lightest of fabrics and swelter even inside the capitol, whose massive walls never could be penetrated by heat or cold, but which becomes like a great oven on sultry days. And everybody who can get out of Washington in the summer does so. Within the next two weeks many of the stores and business houses of the city will shut their doors and signs announcing they are "closed for the summer," will be placed on them. Handsome homes will have their doors and windows boarded up and their telephones disconnected. It has been estimated that at least 100,000 people leave Washington every summer for at least a part of the season, and the heat is the reason. It is true the weather bureau reports do not indicate extreme heat here, but the weather bureau station is in one of the highest parts of Washington, along the banks of a thickly wooded stream, where it is ever as hot as in the city proper, and in addition to that the thermometer is elevated several stories above the height of an ordinary residence. Last Friday, the official reading of the thermometer for Washington was 95 degrees. At the same time the weather bureau thermometer down in Pennsylvania avenue, in the business district of the city, almost in front of The World's Washington office, showed 106 1-2 in the shade. No doubt the thermometer made a correct record of the temperature far up in the air in the coolest part of the city, but the actually temperature where the majority of the people were engaged in their daily work was 106 1-2 in the shade. And that is the reason why so many people get out of Washington each year and so many more are anxious to have the work of congress completed so they can get away from the city. But there is little likelihood that congress will adjourn any time soon. Efforts are in progress to hasten its work and in order to speed up the senate is meeting at 11 o'clock in the morning instead of at noon, but there is enough in sight to keep congress here till well into August, while some predict that if the program as outlined is carried out October may still find the members here—or part of them, for already it is getting difficult to maintain a quorum. There is no law to prevent a member from absenting himself from the meetings of senate or house. It is true there is authority for withholding the pay of members for the time they are absent, but this has never been enforced and members come and go at pleasure, resulting in great difficulty in maintaining a quorum during the warmer weather. The families of the members of the West Virginia delegation who have been here have all returned to West Virginia and the state's representatives in both houses of congress who remain here are "keeping bachelors hall." Duty keeps most of them here, but some of them are likely to slip away for a few days at a time for a little recreation and rest. Dodgers of the very conservative Federal income tax-if there be such—shoul dremember that Congress can raise the rate at any time.-Chicago Herald. CLUBWOMEN WOULD MAKE NATION 'DRY' Storm of "Ayes" Passes Resolution Providing for Eradication of Liquor Traffic. CHICAGO, June 18.—The General Federation of Women's Club went "dry" yesterday. In a resolution presented by the resolutions committee and backed by the Kentucky delegates of federation convention put itself on record as follows: "Whereas, the liquor traffic is responsible for three-fourths of the crime, vice and misery in this country. "Be it resolved that the women of the general federation place themselves on record as opposed to the liquor traffic and in favor of such Federal or State laws as will tend to eradicate this evil." There was no temporarizing with the liquor question $Eve_{n}$ as it was read a storm of applause broke from the convention. At the request for a vote a volley of "ayes" reverberated to the platform. Not a single dissenting vote was heard. After the liquor question had been passed there was more applause. Singing broke out $ i_{n} $ three parts of the house at once and thus the women drew their convention to an end 50 BURNED TO DEATH IN PULP MILL FIRE 50 BURNED TO DEATH IN PULP MILL FIRE Unprecedented Horror Visits City of the Mosque—Many Women Victims MOSCOW, Russia, June 17.—Fifty workmen were burned to death in a pulp mill fire early today. The inflamable condition of the structure added to the fury of the fire which spread so rapidly, it was impossible for all the hundreds of employees to escape. In the number were a lot of girls and women. It was one of the most horrifying spectacles witnessed in the city of the Mosque in many years. Villa is trying to make his self- effacement hold out until this mediation business is all through with, but it is hard work. He may lose patience and have Carranza shot any day.—Kansas City Journal. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR BEFORE AFTER "PRESTO" THE MOST OBSTINATE, STUBBORN, KINKY HAIR. "PRESTO" removes Dandruff, Tetter, and other Skin Diseases of the SCALP. "PRESTO" makes the HAIR GROW; "PRESTO" is Harmless, Clean and Lasting. "PRESTO" is the Greatest Discovery Known to Mankind in this Line. 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Hetzel, president of the National Commercial Company, and the executive head of numerous other corporations, is spending the nights in Berkeley Springs during the heated term, and attending to business here during the day. It isn't that Thompson & Thompson have better clothes for sale than other merchants that keep their stores crowded, but it is that always courteous anxiety to please, that makes their place a country household word, and when they go to town—big and little want to go to Thompson and Thompson'. The Epworth League Group Meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in session at Shaipsburg, Md., Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Those attending from this city were: Rov. S. M. Beane, Mr. and Mrs. James Hutton, Meedames. Nannie Ross and Emma Turner and others. Mrs. Lillie Carter, and her husband, the genial John F. Carter, having seen the need of an ice cream parlor and soda fountain for Martinsburg's colored population, are now prepared to serve anybody at any time. They have installed a fine fountain, secured the very best flavors that money can buy, and then establishment is a model of neatness. We hope their enterprise will be appreciated, and that they will get the neatty support of the class whom they have gone to so much expense to serve. In addition to serving soda water, they will furnish ice cream in large or small quantities, making a specialty of filling orders for bails, parties, &c. Mr. Fred. E. Bartlett, the popular representative of the Bartlett Broom Works, Elmira, New York, is in our city again, with a fresh supply of his celebrated Fibre Broom. Mr. Bartlett has been coming to Martinsburg once a year for the past 4 years, and in that time has made many customers and friends. The brooms are made of genuine imported African swamp grass, and are noted for their wearing quality, elasticity and lightness, weighing only 1 1/4 lbs, and guaranteed to last from 2 to 3 years. To further introduce his broom in this community, Mr. Bartlett has reduced the standard 75 cent broom to 60 cents. For the benefit of those who never used the Fibre Broom, the editor of this paper heartily recommends it as one of the very best brooms ever having come to his notice. J. R. CLIFFORD MARTINGBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. STEVENS For Field—Wild Fowl or Trap Shooting— made to suit any requirement— Our Hammerless 20 Gauge Repeater No. 200 Price $27.50 "20 Gauge From Front Sight to Butt Plate" The limit is off—use any length of shell. 24 inch for small birds = 24 inch and 3 inch for ducks or clay targets. See Your Dealer about STEVENS 20 Gauge Repeater J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY P. O. Box 5005 CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS.