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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 ESTABLISHED 1882. IMPORTANT RULING BY JUDGE DAYTON Says Many Jurors Seem to be Laboring Under Radically Wrong Impression During the opening session of the regular fall term of federal court at Wheeling Judge A. G. Dayton took occasion to make a most emphatic ralling on the regulations of the court with regard to jurors reporting promptly when summoned to serve on the juries empaneled during the sessions of the court. When the jurors in the court room are checked up it was found that many who had been summoned were not present, and most of those absent had failed even to give excuse for the failure to report. The court said that he has always been lenient toward those summoned on the jury lists, in that delays in the mails, and failure to make proper connections in endeavoring to reach the court were altogether probable, and should be given due consideration. He said further, however, that some seemed to have taken the wrong impression altogether from his leniency and seemed to think that the matter of answering a summons was merely optional. He said that he wished to make this matter plain, as a summons to appear in court, especially federal court, is compulsory and there are very few things which will apply as adequate excuses for failure to obey the call of the government. Pittsburg Concern Will Watch Developments With Interest—Turkey Seeks Machinery. The Pittsburg Foreign Trade Commission has turned over to Pittsburg manufacturers an inquiry asking for bids on electrical machinery and equipment for a complete lighting system for the capitol of the Vilaygt of Sivas, Turkey. The commission also announced arrangements had been completed for transportation of coal to South America through a New Orleans shipping concern, which is about to inaugurate a new line of steamers to South American ports. It is learned that the Pittsburg Coal Company has shipped a cargo of coal to South America on a venture, and that its sale will be watched with interest, not merely by the owners, but by other producers. WAR BRINGS BOOM TO LUMBER TRADE Business In North and East Receives Notable Impetus as Result of Conflict. The war is effecting materials used in building. The Northern and Eastern lumber trade has received an impetus by the placing of a large order by England. Stetson, Cutler & Co., of Detroit, announce that they have sold to an English firm 25,000,000 feet of spruce to be shipped in the next few months. Great Britain is now able to get timber from the Baltic. Of the domestic and retail demand the report is not as cheerful, retailers continuing their conservatism. It is reported that salesmen AMERICAN STOCK HELD HIGH ABROAD Investigation Discloses $461,692,563 In Shares of 114 Companies Are Held There. An investigation undertaken by the Wall Street Journal into the holdings of American stock in Europe discloses some interesting data. Returns to date have been received from 114 corporations, whose European holdings as of June 30, 1914, total $461,692,568 of a total outstanding stock of $5,046,694,083, an equivalent of 9.15 per cent. Foreign holdings of United States Steel were $12,404,500 common and $27,514,200 preferred. Of Pennsylvania $74,490,142 is held abroad, and of Southern railway $62,852,400. Other corporation whose stocks are held largely abroad are Kansas City Southern, American Smelters, New York Central, St. Paul and American Telephone. Canadian Pacific is not included in this list since a majority of this stock is held abroad. Foreign holdings of bonds of our railroads are laced by his authority at about $3,000,000,000, or about one-third of all such bonds outstanding. HORSES WANTED BY WARRIN G NATIONS HORSES WANTED BY WARRIN G NATIONS Dealers in the Shenandoah Valley Have Received Many Inquiries About Horses Horse dealers in many of the towns of the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys have received inquiries about horses for use in the European war. A local horse dealer stated this morning that as yet he had not received any inquiry directly, but had been informed that agents of the various nations now at war were in this country for horses suitable for army purposes, and that it was probable dealers in this section would be asked if they can supply some of the horses now being sought. The horses must weigh from 1,000 pounds up. 15 1-2 hands high or over, no grays, 5 to 9 years old, all kinds, excepting mares in foal. Not only will gray and white horses be rejected, but also will bald-faced or white-faced, or horses with any distinguishing marks be accepted. These give a target too easily observable by the enemy. The demand for American horses caused by the war, according to a note issued by the department of agriculture at Washington, may continue a decade or longer, as, when peace is restored, more horses will be needed for agricultural pursuits. It is conservatively estimated that 1,000,000 horse are now engaged in the war. During the Shenandoah Valley campaign, Sheridan required 150 fresh horses a day, and in eight months the cavalary of the army of the Potomac was remounted twice, nearly 40,000 horses having been required. in order to clinch a deal in dimension are obliged to quote $22.50 base. Some large houses report a fair domestic demand and look for improvement. In the matter of spruce and hemlock boards it is felt that these will never outgrow use. North Carolina reofers, it is claimed, are supplanting Northern and Eastern boards not because Southern lumber is better, but it is cheaper. GERMAN SPY WAS QUICKLY KILLED French Officer Claimed He Had Been Robbing the Dead Soldiers By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD (United Press Staff, Company No.) (United Press Staff Correspondent.) On the Battleship of Soissons, Oct. 3.—(By mail to New York.—When I was almost at the door of the house where I am stopping, this evening, I saw, in the glare of the lamplight from the doorway, a French soldier with a German prisoner. The soldier was looking into the lighted hallway and the German stood dejectedly, with his head down and his right arm in a sling. A Swiss fugitive was with me, a young man from the devasted town of Senlis, and he asked permission of the soldier to speak to the prisoner. "oDon't let the officer see you talking when he comes out of the house," said the Frenchman. At the first words of the Swiss the prisoner smiled with relief, and stepping aside in the darkness, seated himself wearily on a stone. He said his arm was broken. In the light I had seen that the sleeve was torn and bloody. "I'm suffering terribly," he said to the Swiss. "My hand is swollen to twice the size and I am in terrible pain. I was caught because I was too weak and sick at the stomach to get away. Now, instead of taking me to the hospital, they bring me here. I am very much worried." "Don't worry," said the Swiss. "The French are very kind to their prisoners. They will take you to the hospital and get your arm well and then they will make you do easy work." As the two men talked I noticed the injured arm moving in the bandage. It seemed to me that the sling hung loosely from the neck instead of being weighted down with the wounded arm. The French soldier was worriedly keeping his eye on the open doorway, waiting for the officer he had been sent for. My Swiss friend, unnoticing, talked on, trying to assure the young German giant that no harm would come to him. "We've seen hundreds of German prisoners in this town," said the would-be comforter, "and not a one of them has been harmed by the French. The two hospitals are full of wounded Germans, and you'll go to a hospital, too." "But why do they bring me here?" asked the German, almost in a whimper. "I'm afraid they'll shoot me. Help me, if you can." he pleaded. Then I saw a thing that made me give a half yell. "Look out!" I think I shouted, "His arm is out of the bandage." I thought the German was reaching for a revolver. The Swiss jumped back and shouted to the French soldier. Just at that instant the French officer appeared in the lighted doorway "Where is that prisoner?" he said "Here," said the Frenchman, reaching over and taking the German by the left arm. He dragged the prisoner into the light. We saw then that his arm was not in the sling. Instead it hung, limp and bloody, in a most grotesque position, for the great swollen fingers of what had once looked like a human hand were in the man's coat pocket. "Take your hand out of your pocket," said the officer. The upper part of the prisoner's ENGLAND SUGAR IMPORTS HEAVY Takes 106,061,750 Pounds in First 20 Days of October—German Supply Cut Off. A feature of the exports of commodities from New York port from the period from October 1 to October 20, as compiled at the custom house, is the doubling of the export of sugar to England, as compared with the figures for the entire month of September. In the first 20 days of this month sugar exports to England were 108,061,750 pounds, as compared with exports of 51,733,586 pounds in September. There were no shipments of foodstuffs direct to Germany or Austria. Large shipments of rubber boots have been started from New Eugland recently as a result of the heavy rains in France, Belgium, Russia, and Austria. The United Hosiery Company, of Boston, reports that heavy orders for its product are being received. Firearm factories at Hartford and other Connecticut centers are busy turning out orders. John J. Arnold, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce, estimates that $150,000,000 in supplies and food products have been sent to Europe since the war started. The knitting concerns of Philadelphia are busy turning out orders as large in a single case of 200,000 blankets. AMERICAN PIANOS TO SOUTH AFRICA Opportunity There for American Manufacturers Willing to Cater to That Trade. Vice Consul Gen. William A. Haygood, at Cape Town, South Africa, says if American piano manufacturers would cater more to the tastes of South African buyers and follow more closely German and English makes they could secure a much larger part of that particular trade. Germany leads all other competitors in the sale of musical instruments in South Africa, sending $606,806 in 1913, $595,995 in 1912, and $508,379 in 1911. England sent $185,389 in 1913, and 210,165 in 1912. Last year the United States exported there $51,362, as against $54,660 in 1912 and $44,918 in 1911. With Germany and England shut off because of the war, the attention of American manufacturers to their opportunities there would bring good results. arm twitched with the effort; his face writhed in pain. His arm was broken and he could not move the lower part of it. "Bring a doctor," ordered the officer. A Red Cross official came and gently lifted the terrible swollen hand from the pocket and put it back into the sling. Then we saw the doctor put his own hand into the pocket and bring out five watches and a small handful of French silver money. "Stolen from the dead," said the officer. "No wonder he was trying to empty his pockets with that broken arm." The officer examined the watches and found they were all French. "He doesn't belong in a Red Cross hospital," said the officer. "Take him to a cellar. It's finished for him." And the next morning, after a short court martial, he was shot. VOL. 33 NO. 35. BRITISH VESSELS FOR OUR REGISTRY Big Development in U. S. Merchant Fleets at End of War Predicted by Englishman. A. B. Lake, editor of the Liverpool Journal of Commerce, who sailed on the Cunarder Mauretania for home, said there would be a big development in American shipping at the close of the present war. "For some time past," said Mr. Lake, "negotiations have been carried on between Washington and certain private British shipping firms with regard to establishing a community of interest in connection with the scheme of the United States government to operate its own ships. Certain firms in Liverpool and London have been asked to quote prices for steamships from 4,000 to 10,000 tons, suitable for the trade between New York and South American ports. Also plans have been discussed for working arrangements for American and British freights through the Panama canal. "It was to discuss this development in the American mercantile marine that I came to New York on the Mauretania last Friday, but I cannot give any of the particulars because my interviews were confidential." CONGRESSIONAL CHANGES. Oscar Underwood, Democratis leader, goes to the Senate from Alabama, on March 4. Richmond Pearson Hobson, of Alabama, of Merrimac fame, forfeited his seat to run for the senate against Underwood. Augustus O. Stanley, of Kentucky, famous in the steel investigation, also retires this term. Thomas W. Hardwick, of Georgia, leaves the house for the senate. He investigated the sugar trust. Robert F. Broussard, of Louisiana, advances from the house to the senate, in Thornton's seat. Victor Murdeck, of Kansas, Progressive leader, is running for the senate, and may be seen no more in the house. George A. Neeley, of Kansas, is the Democratic nominee for the senate in Kansas, and his retirement from the house is expected. Charles H. Burke, of South Dakota, is sure of election to the senate, he says, and is placing his hopes on advancement. Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, leaves the house to run for governor of the Buckeye state. Richard Bartholdt, of Missouri, the great peace advocate of congress, retires after twenty years of service, next March. Henry George, of New York, the single tax advocate, was not renominated. Jefferson M. Levy, of New York, failed of renomination and will be among the missing in the next congress. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, already of 38 year's service, is the principal "comeback" hope of the Republbicans. William McKinley and William A. Rodenburg, two other Illinois veterans, are seeking to come back after previous defeats. Nicholas Longworth, who shares with Secretary McAdoo the distinction of being the best known sons-in-law at large, is campaigning as a come-back congressman in Ohio. Peter F. Tague, of Boston, will fill shoes of Hon. W. F. Murray, who has resigned to become postmaster at Boston. 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. Cifford, Editor and Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1914. Next Tuesday, the 3rd of November is a day that history will take note of in honor or disgrace—which shall it be? If Boies Penrose and Joseph Cannon are elected on Tuesday next they can say that their ability to "come back" is an absolute fact. Already a democrat of Mingo County has framed a jimcrow car bill and is running on it in the hope of being elected to the legislature. What a pty that this state has work a plenty for foil ki lers. If democrats all over this State were like the majority of them are in Berkeley County, it would make no difference how colored voters vote, except to be sure and pick out the best men regardless of parties. Hon George M. Bowers, the nominee for Congress in the Second West Virginia District has done as much for this state and its people as any man that has ever held a public office. He is not treacherous to his friends and has often befriended his foes. Vote for him and the entire Republican state ticket, or your vote will be thrown away. President Wilson has designated November 26 1914. as Thanksgiving day, and urges that work shall cease and thanks be given for peace at home. How can a true christian enter in the real spirit of peaceful prayer, when millions of peaceable citizens are disfranchised, jimcrowed, and segregated, and hundreds and thousands have been lynched? We suggest that all church going Negroes go to their churches and fervently pray that the scales may fall from the eyes of millions of prejudiced white prayers on that day. A FLY-BY NIGHT PULPIT SUPPLE-JACK Our faithful editor, the Hon. Harry C. Smith, of the Gazette will do us a special favor to look up the reputation and standing of Rev (?) S. S. McDullie, of Cleveland, Ohio. He comes here as a graduate of the University of Michigan, and tells the people around this town that he is master of Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, &c. A monkey can not cut more didoes in and out of the pulpit than can this chap. He leaves the pulpit, runs up and down the aisles and across them screaming like a wild-cat, and sweating like a grass-fed horse. Hearing so much of this "Negro Billy Sunday" we went to hear him last Wednesday night. Finishing his cribatic harangue, which was interspersed with ditties, he wanted all who wanted to go to heaven to hold up their hands. What fool would not want to go to an alleged happy place? All held up their hands but ye editor and two others. At once the three were made his targets. He referred to us as an old gray headed back slider and hypocrite. Then he offered Christ to them, by going up to him and taking hold of his hand. We did not accept Him that way. His next step was to organize "an army of women", who following the "black Billy Sunday" strolled down the aisle, to a woman, and began to chat with her, thence to the other person and finally to me, and began to upbend me for being old, and an example of sin and hypocrisy. Then he put his hand on us, and it was shoved off, and he was told o keep it off. Other words passed between us and he finally said: "You've got no business in this church?" We told the frothy, sweaty and smelling dignity that we could go out and did—sorry at the time he failed to follow us out. The night previous he told one of our best young men who refused to act the fool in obedience to his dictation that he was "worse than a dumb brute." Such cork-headed blatherskites can al- ways corral the bulk of colored people, who are deceived and made hypocrites by such conversions. The "new preacher" and a corpse in church can always cause a dazzle parade to take place. An old theft came here a few weeks ago and had a certain class screaming, jumping and shouting. He told his believers that he owned 1500 acres of land; killed 2500 head of hogs last year and had 1500 head to kill this year and cattle and sheep in abundance for the market. He told us, that he had a lake in Illinois covering 45 acres, full of all kinds of fish and that we must go there and spend months with him. We did not bite and publicly denounced him as a bar and fraud. He stole a revolver from Fanny Brown and skipped the town. When will the preachers keep such sound reels out of their pulpits? To Rev. S. M. Brane's credit, they can't "expound" the gospel in his pulpit. This little food needs badly five fingers clinched and forcibly linded at the bur of his ear. PROMINENT COLORED MAN IN THE CITY Editor Clifford of the Pioneer Press, Martin-burg, was here Saturday on his way home from Buckhannon and other points where he had been working among the colored people. Mr. Clifford wears a G. A. R button wearing serval his country as a soldier in the civil war. He has served it even better as a civilian, issuing a creditable newspaper for the uplift of his race, recognizing that he who assists in making better citizens, white or black, adds to the sum of civic progress. In politics Mr. Clifford has always been a Republican but always a very independent one. Two years ago he lined up with the Roosevelt people, attending the Republican and the Progressive conventions at Chicago. This year he is still in sympathy with Progressive principles, but when he attended meetings of the leaders of the party and heard its candidates admit their inability to win and then openly avow their wish to help defeat the Republicans by assisting in executing D moors, the old spirit of Lincoln Republicanism refuses to stand for the choice of the worse of two parties admittedly not perfect, and hence Mr. Clifford is out battling again for the better of the two, and advising every member of his race to support the Republican ticket.—Westo Independent. PURCHASE FRENCH NOTES FOR CREDIT French Bankers Negotiating for Offering $10,000,000 Worth in New York Mark't. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Bankers with official French connections were reported today to be negotiating for an offering in this market of an issue of $10,000,000 half-year notes on a basis yielding 5½ per cent interest. Prominent financial interests have the matter under advisement. It is believed that the loan, if consummated, will be the means of a further strengthening of credits in this country against supplies to be purchased by the French government. MORE ORDERS FOR OUR BARBED WIRE Steel and Wire Companies at Pittsburg Rushed to Fill the Orders PITTSBURG, PA., Oct. 30.—Barbe wire, one of the most important features of modern warfare, especially where armies are continually intrenching, is in great demand by the warring European nations at the present time. Less than a month ago the American Steel and Wire Company, of this city, and the Pittsburg Steel Company, at Monessen, divided orders for 25,000 tons. Within the past ten days agents from the French and English governments have been negotiating with the same concerns, as well as with other mills, for an additional 30,000 tons to be delivered as soon as possible. Because of this demand wire mills have increased operations from 80 to $5 per cent the past fortnight. THANKSGIVING DAY IS NOVEMBER 26 President's Proclamation Cites Peace in World of War is Added Reason for Gratitude. The President has issued a proclamation designating Thursday, November 26, as Thanksgiving Day. The proclamation, which refers to the fact that the United States is at peace while the rest of the world is at war follows: "By the President of the United States of America: "A PROCLAMATION. "It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that is now drawing to a close since we last observed our day of national thanksgiving he been, while a year of discipline be cause of the mighty forces of war and of change which have disturbed the world, also a year of special blessing to us. "It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with honor, and in some part to succor the suffering and supply the needs of those who are in want. We have been privileged by our own peace and self-control in some degree to steady the counsels and shape the hopes and purposes of a day of fear and distress. Our people have looked upon their own life as a nation with deeper comprehension, a fuller realization of their responsibilities as well as of their blessings, and a keener sense of the mora and practical significance of what their part among the nations of the world may come to be. "The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own industrial and commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual interdependence upon one another, and has stirred them to a helpful co-operation such as they have seldom practiced before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their unmistakable ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sympathy for those who are suffering, their readiness to help and to think of the needs of others, has revealed them to themselves as well as to the world. "Our crops will feed all who need food; the self-possession of our people amidst the most serious anxieties and difficulties, and the steadiness and resourcefulness of our business men will serve other nations as well as our own. "The business of the country has been supplied with new instrumentalities, and the commerce of the world with new channels of trade and intercourse. The Panama canal has been opened to the commerce of the nations. The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friendship. New instrumentalities of acquaintance, intercourse, and mutual service. Never before have the people of the United States been so situated for their own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors or so equipped to serve themselves and monkind. "Now, therefore, I. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks to Almighty God. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed." "Done at the City of Washington this 28th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty ninth. "WOODROW WILSON. "By the President: "ROBERT LANSING, "Acting Secretary of State." Killed by Fall of Rock. Irving Blank, 30, married, was killed by a fall of rock Monday in a mine at Hooversville, near Frostburg, Md. NINE MORE BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND In the II-Fated Royalton Mine The Morning—Search is Being Continued. HERRIN, Ill. Oct. 29.—Nine morbodies of the victims of the Royalton mine disaster were found by searchers this morning, which increase the death roll greater than was anticipated. The searchers are continuing their work GREAT DEAL WINTER WHEAT PLANTED GREAT DEAL WINTER WHEAT PLANTED Berkeley County's Crop Next Year Will be Larger Than Usual. Farmers Take Advice Reports from every section of Berkeley county brought to this city today indicate that the wheat acreage this fall is greater than ever before known. Following the campaign which has been waged throughout the state for the sowing of more wheat this year, Berkeley county farmers have not been slow in responding and have given every tract of land that they could devote to the crop and the wheat crop in this county next year will no doubt be the largest in its history even though the yield would not be near as heavy per acre as it was this year. However farmers state that the wheat is up and looking fine and a bumper crop will likely be the result. RUNAWAY GIRL IS CAPTURED HERE Miss Pearl Powell, Who Escaped From St. Mary's School, Caught Here Sunday Returned. Pearl Powell, the 17-year-old girl who escaped from the St. Mary's Industrial school at Baltimore, was arrested Sunday morning at the home of her grandfather, Asa Keefer, by Constable Broy and Policemer Hough and Lord. She offered no resistance, and for safe keeping was taken to the county jail to await removal to the school. Immediately following the arrest the school was communicated with and in the evening Detective Vahle arrived on train No. 1 after the runaway girl. When approached at the jail the young girl agreed to return with the officer without requisition papers, saying that had a lady come for her she would have resisted all efforts to return with her. It will be remembered that the young girl escaped from the institution with Fannie Myers, another inmate, as she said they had grown tired of confinement and thought they could secure their freedom. One night they climed over a 20-foot wall and reaching the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad were about to board a freight when the engineer invited them into the cab. They accepted the invitation and were soon on Pennsylvania soil. After riding a distance, and believing the officers were following them it was deemed expedient to seek another mode of travel, so they left the engine and started their journey on foot. Miss Myers reached Hagerstown, and was promptly arrested. There she told a story that led to the arrest of her friend, who had come to this city. Miss Powell told the officers, after her arrest, that she was a "trusty" at the school and enjoyed great freedom, but she was weary of such a life and desired to lead another. The detective corroborated the lady's story relative to her liberties at the school, adding that he bel'eved upon her return she would be paroled. Mr. Vahle and Miss Powell left on train No. 16 for Baltimore. APPLE GROWERS ARE ENCOURAGED By Central Offers of Buyers In All Quantities and All Grades of Apples. Local apple growers, who have used a big market with their big crops all season, find much encouragement in that generally there is demand to the extent that there are offers being made by buyers, which was not heard of a short time ago. The propositions to buy run into big figures up to thirty thousand barrels and whole crops. While there has been no perceptible advance in price the oeffrings of purchase are general, and this looks good as compared to a time earlier in the season when buyers are as scarce as he proverbal "Hen's Teeth." Now there is sale demand for all sorts. There is now a general movement, shipments being made mainly in bulk car lots to various markets. Generally apple growers see good prospects in winter markets for those who store of the better grades. Pickir- is being rushed because of fear of freezes, which may come at any time now. Only a few years ago, a freeze that did material damage to apples came on the 8th f October. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY MAN IS HONORED Assistant Doorkeeper of the Senate Given Handsomely Engraevl Cold Watch. Washington, D. C., Nov. 29. Thomas W. Keller, of Hamp)shire County, assistant doorkeeper of the senate, was presented with a handsomely engraved gold watch just before the senate adjourned a few days ago. In presenting it to Mr. Keller, senator Kern sai: "The democratic members of this body have requested me to present you this watch as a token of their esteem for 35 years of faithful and honorable service to this body." Mr. Keller was too much ceevrcome with emotion and surprise to respond. Mr. Keller came to Washington when Henry Gassaway Davis was in the Senate from West Virginia, and got his appointment, through Senator Davis. He has remained here continuously since that time. Of the Senators serving at the time but five are now living. They are Senator Henry G. Davis, former and William Pitt Kellogg. HIGH PRICES PAID FOR 'YELLOW DENT' Many Farmers Selling Corn the First Time In Many Years Because The fabulous price, as many look upon it, that obtains for corn so early in the season, particularly in the corn growing belt as like those of the South Branch Valley in West Virginia where the crop was very heavy this year, is causing many farmers who have heretofore been feeding the same into hogs and cattle, to sell from the field. Robert M. Washington, of Springs field, one of Hampshire county's leading farmers and stockmen, says his corn crop was never better, but the price of $1.25 for flour barrel measure of three bushels of cars, is so much of an incentive, that he is selling corn at retail the first time in twenty years. He says though live stock is a good price he can't afford to feed corn at this price into cattle and hogs. He says that with the good prices for all farm products and lievstock, the progressive farmer is bound to prosper at this time as never before in the history of this country. United States of America. Christian Endeaaer in Foreign Lands The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor stands as the great service organization in the church; it is the one only interdenominational, international young people's federation for the development and betterment of the youth of today. Born to meet the need in one church, it has gone unostentatiously and without deliberate premeditation internally "to the world," and it has proven in "lands afar" the same helpful, uplifting, developing agency applied to the young life in the church, that it showed itself to be in the little Williston church in Portland, Maine, where it had its beginning. The story of Christian Endeavor in foreign lands reads, in many of its details, like a new book of the Acts of the Apostles. It has found its way not only to the continental countries but in the islands of the sea its strength and helpfulness is beautifully manifested. In the Philippines it is attached to the principal missionary churches; in Formosa it is steadily gaining ground, and in Madagascar government permission has been given, and the society is rapidly progressing. In the Ellice islands the society has a following of more than 500 members. On the island of Funafuti there are 250 people, and of these 150 are Endeavorers, loyalty living up to the principles of the pledge. These Endeavorers are erecting a church to take the place of one that has served its day. The Loyalty Islands form a French penal colony; but even here Christian Endeavor has demonstrated its adaptability in a new way by helpin-keep young converts firm in the faith Nearly 4,000 Endeavorers are found on the Marshall and Caroline Islands and in almost every other island of the Atlantic the Pacific and the South Seas some measure of usefulness is being made possible through the world-wide scope and fellowship of the wonderful society. Africa opened its doors to Christian Endeavor in very generous measure. There are unions of Dutch speaking Endeavorers and unions of English speaking ones, as well. A strong discovery was made some years ago by a German Endeavorer when he found on top of one of the pyramid the Christian Endeavor monogram Australia has, since the time when the society was but a year or two old CANDIDATES ARE BEING HELD UP Panhandlers and Loafers Who Bout Up Just About Election Time. The old moss covered hard luck stories have all been revived and as per usual schedule the candidates of all parties are being made the victims of panhandling loafers, who flourish only during political campaigns. Sick wives and children, nothing to eat, no shoes to wear and bills to pay are only a few of the excuses offered in order to get money from the candidates. The pandhandlers are not at all modest, but come straight out with their stories and in most cases are successful. One man approached a well-known candidate yesterday afternoon and bodily said, "Let me have enough to pay my grocery bills." When the candidate inquired how much his "friend" needed he was informed that the small sum of five dollars would suffice. Still another party wanted two dollars for groceries and informed his office seeking friend that "We always supported you and you have a right to help us out, when we need help." Ticket selling is another game as which the candidates are being victimized and those who are working this game had better read up on the law. Even the enactment of the Yost law has not broken up asking for beer and only yesterday a candidate was asked for money enough for two kegs of booze. ir America, been a large field for its activities, most of the denominations there having welcomed it and incorporated its basic principles into all their work for young people. In South America Christian Endeav or has gained a considerable footing despite the fact that most of the countries are Roman Catholic As far back as 1801 a society was formed in Santiago, Chile, and since then the society has accompanied Protestant missions everywhere in Chile, Peru, and other South American countries. In Brazil and British and Dutch Guinea it is unusually strong The story of Christian Enleavor in Asia is an absorbing chapter of unique accomplishments. At Madura, in South India, recently, 1,500 native Endeavorors assembled for a conven of the nearness to the source of suction. Two thousand five hundred people attended a pageant at which Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was presented in song and story. In Burma, China, Korea, Turkey and Persia the movement is well known and equally successful. European Christian Endeavor had its beginning in 1888. The society flourishes in most evangelical denominations, and has the approval of leading ministers in all parts of nearly every country. In Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Finland, Russia, Poland, Hungary and the Balkan States its pledge has been translated not only into the language of the country, but into shining, living deeds of progress and sacrifice, in the lives of many thousands of young people in each of these countries. On sh'ps that ply the trackless blue It sounds the call to prayer; On islands where the souls are felt It plants its banner there. \unid the tongues of strife and greed its helpful balm is given; This article is the fifth of a series to be published this fall telling of the great work being accomplished by this world-wide society. The next is, "Christian Endeavor in Prison and Hospitals," by Karl Lehmann Field Secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor will appear later. MAN WITH BROKEN BACK LEAVES CITY Hero Crist Goes Home a Permanent Cripple But Full of Hope—A Remarkable Case. After having endured great suffering, while he has clung with unprecedented tenacity to life, though the tender cords are fast weakening, making a record case in the field of surgery, Edward Crist, who was on June 25th admitted to the City Hospital for treatment for a broken back, helpless, yet Crist is full of hope. His case is a sad one indeed. Crist, who was a B. & O. carpenter, was knocked from a trestle at Cumbo yards which resulted in a broken back, and left him in a helpless condition. Some time ago believing that an operation might relieve him, that at least a faint hope of life and returning vigor was held out in this, through his earnest insistence surgeons applied the knife. From this heroic treatment he recovered, but he is yet a hopeless cripple. His home is at Timbrville, Va. OVER 65 YEARS EXPERIENCE PATRONS Anyone who wishes to work with us should have a qualified education and experience in the field of science. We are looking for someone who is willing to work with us and is willing to work with us. Patrons taken through our special notice, without control, will be satisfied. Scientific Machinery A handsome illuminated culinary Poor, poor condition. HUNN & Co. Brandon Office, 625 on, D. C. 6 WEST VIRGINIA BUILDING AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. WEST VIRGINIA'S STATE BUILDING It Has Most Beautiful Site at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. By G. A. BOLDEN, Assistant Secretary. The West Virginia State Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is now nearing completion. It will be taken over by the state's commission on or about Dec. 1. The furnishings, carpets, hangings, etc., have already been purchased and will be placed in the building in readiness for the opening date, Feb. 20, 1915. This building is located on what is pronounced by many to be the most beautiful site on the whole premises. The site was selected early in 1913 by Colonel Fred Paul Grosseup of Charleston and Hon. G. O. Nagle of Wheeling, acting under direction of then Governor William E. Glasscock. The site overlooks the Presidio and is not a great distance from the United States building. It has an unbroken view of the water front looking toward the Golden Gate. The building is of frame, with cement finish outside and plastered wails inside. In length it measures 115 feet 4 inches. It stands on a lot with 200 feet frontage and a depth of 100 feet, affording fine front, side and rear yards. The yards will be richly embellished with native West Virginia and tropical flowers and shrubbery. A cement walk, thirty-two feet wide, will lead from the main Exposition street to the front steps, the steps being also thirty-two feet wide. A veranda, seventy-seven feet in length and fourteen feet deep, will be supported by eight cement columns thirty-two inches in diameter at the base and twenty-three feet high. Opening on this veranda from different parts of the building are nine large French windows, on a level with the veranda and interior floors. The main entrance is directly opposite the veranda steps, in the center of the building. This entrance opens into the main reception hall, thirty-two by fifty-two feet, with circular or dome shaped ceiling seventy-seven feet long. Directly opposite the main entrance is a large brick fireplace, nine feet wide and extending to the ceiling. On either side of the fireplace commodious seats have been built in, and at the ends of each of these flights of stairway lead to the balcony or mezzanine floor. The original plans for the building called for similar reception, lounging and rest rooms located at either end of the building, opening off the main reception hall, but afterward these plans were changed so as to permit of a motion picture theater to the right of the main reception hall. This cozy little theater will be fitted up with every modern appliance, and herein will be shown daily, and free of all charge to visitors, some 25,000 feet of first class motion picture film gathered from every county of the state. Notwithstanding this change in the original plans, the building will be replete in rest rooms, toilets, etc., for both ladies and gentlemen, and there will be office accommodations for the resident secretary and matron of the building. At each end of the balcony or mez- zamine floor are four commodious and well ventilated bed chambers, eight in all, each having private entrance from the balconies. Near the foot of each of the stairways will be placed approved fire apparatus as required by the Exposition authorities, and a high grade fire alarm system is a recent ad- junct. The interior finish of the walls will be in colonial white and ma- hogany, and the hangings and all wall decorations will correspond in coloring. The interior walls will be decorated chiefly with photographs of the state's institutions and numerous other views. Aside from the photographic decorations, the state and United States flags will be used lavishly in the decorations. THE MOTION PICTURES. tion by the commission of the idea to produce motion pictures to be shown in the state's building, the assistant secretary, associated with Commissioner of Agriculture Howard E. Williams, began the important work of collecting the "official" views. These have been and are being made from every county of the state. Magnificent panoramas of scenes from mountains, showing many thousands of acres of cultivated and uncultivated lands, forests, fields and streams, have been made. Apple, peach, pear and other orchards, carefully selected from the state's choice horticultural sections; waving cornfields, blooming buckwheat fields, herds of pure bred cattle, dairy herds, sheep herds, turkey flocks and many others of the state's chief agricultural and horticultural pursuits will be displayed on the screen. In all some 10,000 to 12,000 feet of film of this nature will be projected. Each picture shown will be plainly captioned, and each county of the state will have representation. In addition hereto, 19,000 to 12,000 feet of industrial film will be displayed along with the "official" film. This portion is designated "advertising" film. It is being sold at a low price per foot, the commission hoping thereby to secure sufficient funds to pay for the making of the film and its projection throughout the forty weeks of the Exposition without using any portion of the original appropriation in producing this feature at the Exposition. The "advertising" film will picture industrial plants in operation—coal operations, coal shipments, railroad activities, municipalities, streets, buildings, etc., of the cities and towns that care to take advantage of this popular method of setting forth the state's greatness. Effort is being made and opportunity given to have all the leading industries and municipalities of the state pictured on the screen. These pictures will be produced daily—or, at the least, three times a week—afternoons and evenings, under special program advertised and announced in advance in order that all people interested may know just what they will see by visiting the motion picture theater in the West Virginia building. At the close of the Exposition all this film will remain the property of the state, descending to the agricultural department, and will be shown by Commissioner Williams in early succeeding years at all the big land shows of the country, or wherever opportunity may be offered West Virginia to display to the world just what she is doing in horticultural and agricultural development, industrial advancement, etc. The motion picture method of setting forth a state's advantages has been quite eagerly seized by a large majority of the states that will have buildings at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and as a natural result each state is endefvoring to outdo the other in the excellence and variety of views that will be presented. Commissioner of Agriculture Williams sees in the motion picture film method of advertising the greatest opportunity yet presented the state and is enthusiastic over the great good that will be derived, not only throughout the forty weeks of the Exposition, but for years to come through presentation of the films at land and other shows engaging national attention. The canvas for advertising film is being made under supervision of the commission. Payment for same is made to the commission direct, the advertiser thus having back of him the guarantee of the commission as a body, and of the state itself, for faithful performance of contract. Corporations, firms, companies, individuals, municipal bodies and all operators of industrial plants who have not yet been solicited for film may secure immediate attention to their desires by writing the assistant secretary at Charleston, or any member of the commission. The canvassers are covering the state as rapidly as circumstances will permit, but the work is necessarily tedious because of the fact that there are so many points and people to visit. The constant run on Thompson and Thompson keeps them so bu y, they have no time to even talk of hard times." It's the home of good clothes, and verily, they are hustlers. KATZ LIVING PHOTO BON, GEORGE M. BOWERS. Mr. Bowers is the Republican candidate for Congress from the 2nd. W. Va. District. ARMORED MOTORS OFF FOR EUROPE Steamer California Carried Consignment Valued at $776,262. Many Other Supplies. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—From an authoritative sources it is learned that the Balgray, a British freight steamship, loading in South Brooklyn for a continental port, will carry, among other articles, £200 two-ton motor trucks, with heavily armored wheels, an dappliances in some instances for the mounting of rapid-fire guns. These are said to have been built by the White, Packard, and other firms, and are part of the big order recently placed in this country by Russia, France and England. The cargo also includes 1,000 hard rubber tires, 200 bales of blue trousers and jackets, which are thought to be field uniforms, several hundred bales of barbed wire, saddlery, horse shoes and nails, and foodstuffs. The Balgray is a vessel of approximately 4,000 net tonnage, and will carry upward of 8,000 tons of cargo when she clears from this port. DR. JOHN C. WOLF FOR CONSTABLE Present Incumbent Has Made An Enviable Record and Should Be Re-Elected. The Democratic candidate for constable of the Martinsburg district is Dr. John C. Wolf, V. S., the present incumbent, who seeks election for the unexpired portion of the term he is now serving. Constable Wolf has not only proved himself to be a good veterinary surgeon, but has demonstrated that he is more than that—a good public servant. He has served in the office of constable for several years, is thoroughly familiar with the needs and business of this position, and has conscientiously endeavored to do his duty without fear or favor, but with justice and kindness and courtesy to all. As an officer of the law he has been found efficient, entirely trustworthy, fearless and painstaking. His record in this office is one that any officer could be proud of. The friends of Constable Wolf earnestly urge that so capable and trustworthy an officer be again selected, and ask that voters of all political beliefs give him their support at the polls November 3. For shoes, go to Charles E. Thompson North Queen Street. His stock is excellent, and the courtesies of his clerks can't be excelled. Try him and be ooeyinced! ISSUE DEVOTED TO HELPING ROADS Manufacturers' Record Makes Fervent Appeal to the Southern In view of the approaching meeting or the American Road Congress in Atlanta,—the first time the Congress has ever met in the South,—and the indication that it will be the most important meeting ever held in this or any other country in behalf of good roads and good streets, the Manufacturers Record has turned this week's issue into a special Good Roads publication with a cover piece carrying the statement: Mean Poverty and Death." Every phase of the road question is discussed and broadly covered. Details of expenditures that are being made by the sixteen Southern states show that the South is now annually putting out over $50,000,000 in the building and maintenance of roads without counting its expenditures on street improvements in towns and cities. The work that is being done in every state is covered by letters from the governors or from the highway commissioners or other authorities who are handling the road question in the various states. Experts discuss various road building materials, including sand-clay, brick, cement, macadam and all other phases or road work. In the opening editorial outlining its reasons for the work which it has been doing for years in behalf of good roads the Manufacturers Record says: Reader! Are you a road engineer, a road builder, a road supervisor, or are you a county or town official charged with responsibilities of road and street building or maintenance? Are you a maker or a seller of road machinery, or road building equipment, or are you, as a taxpayer, encouraging the building of good roads? If to any of these questions you can answer, I am, then rejoice that you are numbered among those whose work is more than material in its scope. Perchance you think only of the material side of it. If so, look to the higher side and idealize your work as part of a great campaign for human advancement; a campaign for extending the highest benefits of civilization, and the moral, religious and educational life of a nation. Yours is more than a business. It is a vocation, a calling that should in its wide scope include in your thought the idealism of the work as well as the routine of the business. It is difficult to measure the good accomplished by the building of good roads or to catalogue their advantages. It is equally difficult to enumerate the disadvantages which necessarily inure to bad roads. The good road opens to the country and to the city possibilities for larger business and for the larger profits on the business done. It increases the value of all adjacent land; but it does farming or of business carried on on these adjacent lands. The farmer who lives on a mud road is hampered in summer and in winter. The burden of hauling to and from the farm costs him many times more than all the freight rate that he pays the railroads. If one-tenth of the energy that has been expended in the last ten years in trying to regulate railroads and reduce freight rates had been given to the betterment of the highways of the country, infinitely larger results would have been achieved for the good of everybody. The railroad freight rate is a small item to the farmer as compared with that heavy burden he bears when he hauls the product of his farm over a mud road, or brings back to the farm the various things—whether they be dry-goods, or groceries, or lumber—that he buys in the neighboring town or city. Not only is his ability to do business to profit lessened by bad roads and broadened by good roads, but in the former case his family is shut up for much of the year an reprieved of the advantages of social and educational life; while the man who lives on a good road gives to his family the advantages of religious and educational and social facilities not possible to those who live where wheels are mired to the hub in winter time, or where intolerable dust exists in summer. SHEETING ORDER TO WESTERN FIRM Heavy Demand in This Line Feature of Cotton Goods Marget for the Past Week A heavy demand for sheetings has been the feature of the cotton goods trade this week. It was learned from a reliable source that in the last two or three days close to 5,000,000 yards of these goods had been taken by three or four firms in the middle west which make tires and other rubber goods. The bulk of the business was done in 36-inch, 56-60, 3.60-yard goods, and on 40-inch, 48 squares, 2.50 yard goods. The prices at which the business' was done were not given out, but it was said hat they were quite a little below current figures, the result of unusually careful buying. Quite a few inquiries have come forward for goods for delivery during 1916, but the mills are not willing to look that far ahead. One such inquiry came from Boston, and called for 2,000,000 yards of sheetings. Another very recent inquiry called for 1915 delivery of 1,000,000 yards half of which was understood to cover the inquirer's needs for 1916. Market opinion is that these inquiries show buyers to feel that the bottom of the market has been touched at host. EARLY BOOM IN COAL TRADE IS FORESEEN Contract for Supplying 75,000 Tons to South American Firms Placed in Quaker City. Predictions of an immediate boom in the coal exporting business of Philadelphia were freely made, by shipping men when it became known that the British, steamer Rio Blano had been chartered to load several thousand tons of coal for Rio de Janeiro. The vessel will arrive in Philadelphia about November 7. Other large steamers engaged in the same trade will follow her, it is said. A contract for supplying 75,000 tons of coal to South American firms has been awaived to a local exporting concern, it is reported on good authority, and this will result in a period of activity which will surpass any which have occurred during the past year or two, it is expected. About fifteen vessels will be required to carry the coal out of that port, since each of the large tramp steamers which will engage in the transfer can carry about 5,000 tons. The last vessel to leave there with a cargo of coal for South America was the Rio Ignessa, which sailed from Philadelphia in May. The establishment of a large coal exporting business for South America will bring thousands of dollars to that port. That Philadelphia companies can underbid exporting firms of other ports is the contention of shipping men, because this by increasing the net profits of ply of those concerns. SALESMEN Wanted to sell Our West Virginia Grown NURSERY STOCK Fine canvassing outfit FREE. Cash Commissions Paid Weekly. Write for terms. The Gold Nursery Co. Mason City, W. Va. J. R. CLIFFORD Attorney At Law MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. America's Greatest Weekly THE Toledo Blade TOLEDO, OHIO. THE BEST KNOWN NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES Over One Million Readers Weekly. POPULAR IN EVERY STATE NO OBJECTIVE NABLE ADVERTISING. This marks the seventy or ninth successful year of America's greatest national weekly—The Toledo Weekly Bade. From the year of its establishment, the influence of The Toledo Weekly Bade has been tremendous. Its editor has clung to the original ideal—a constructive newspaper for the information enterprise and education of every member of the household. It stands for our national hope of better homes and better Americans. Wholesome, same optimism is its platform. It seeks to build through the spread of valuable knowledge and the betterment of those who put their faith in its word. The Toledo Weekly Bade is today as always it has been the most respected of all our national publications and its columns are notably the vehicle of truthful news and staunchly honest opinions. You will not find a publication any where which appeals so thoroughly to the family cir be as the Weekly Blade. It is indeed a fireside companion. It carries the news of the world crystalized and complete. Its various departments are edited by men and women who understand the needs and ideals of its reader. The Household Page is a delight to the women and children—current events and national problems are treated extensively without prejudice—its serial stories are selected with the view of pleasing the greatest number of fiction over the Question Bureau is a scrapbook of nuite information—th Farmstead collections are designed purely for the purpose of giving its readers a means of exchanging ideas and information on farm topics. No department of family interest is neglected—but every feature is taken care of with the desire to make the Weekly Blade worth intrinsically many times the price of subscription—§1.00 a year. sample copies mailed free Address. TIME BLADE. Toledo, Ocio HOWARD UNIVERNITY. TEPHEN M. NEWMAN, A. M. D. P. PRESIDENT. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. A. B. and B. S. Course TEACHERS' COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Courses in Engineering Domestic Science Domestic Arts Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ACADEMY Three Preparatory Courses (Classical, Scientific, Normal) COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Stenography Typewriting Economics Bookkeeping, Eic. Professional Schools LIBRARY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. College of Medicine College of Dentistry College of Pharmacy SCHOOL OF LAW All Courses begin Sept. 30th, 1914. For Catalogue, address Howard Un- versity, Washington, D. C. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tonic FOR SALE AT ALL BRIDGESTS P4 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 gripe, 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 THEDFORD'S 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. in trade by not regularly handle second hand bicycles, equipment in trade by not regularly handle second hand bicycles, $3 to $3 or $10. Description includes listed free wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, per unit, regular equipment of all kinds at half the regular retail prices. Puncture-Proof $4.99 A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY but usually a number on hand taken in trade by one or more retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from £3 to £9 or £10. Decorated food, packaged food, single wholes, imported rotor chains and pedals, perishables and equipment of all kinds at half the regular retail price. 1146 punctures without allowing air to escape. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.00, so orders shipped same day letter is received. We will ship O.D. on approval. You do not need to pay a commission. and find them strictly as represented. ent (thereby making the price $4.38 per pair) if enclose this advertisement. You run no risk at our expense if for any reason the oil and money sent to us is as safe in a bank. If one order easier, run faster, wear better, be longer and be a more Warn that you will be well aware that we send a trial order at once, hence the minimum time kind at any price you问你 send a pair of ifing thera of fines on approval and trial at the second interview Sunday (October) which describes an annual about half the usual price. DO NOT TALK OR SAYING a hundred or a pair until you know the new and original price. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (Give them you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUR satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money a a mile of those days you will find that they will ride easier, run far than any tire you have ever need or original. Write it. We have a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial to IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sunday Equipment kinds of tires and bicycle equipment and sundries at about half the price. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT it costs only a portal to learn everything you know. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY HOTEL POWHATAN WASHINGTON D.C. HOTEL OF AMERICAN IDEALS We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4.53 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. You run a risk if sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUR expense if for any reason the order satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe in a bank. If your order than any tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, be longer and in a shorter bicycle you will give us your order. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you buy a bicycle you will give us your order. Don't buy any kind of tire on approval and this is a point of light that we price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sunday Catalogue which describes and advertises 7 kinds of tires, equipment and sandies at about half the usual prices. THE LA FAYETTE MFG.CO EDENTON, N.C. AGENTS HERE IS THE MONEY MAKER! MENTION PAPER YOU SAW AD. IN Write for booklet with map. CLIFFORD M. LEWIS, Manager. Naile, Tacks or Classe will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small In a city where good hotels surround, the Powhatan heads the list. It is first in the hearts of its countrymen. The Powhatan is refined, exclusive, and restful. Its excellent location on Pennsylvania Avenue, 18th and 11th Streets makes it a desirable headquarters for bridal couples, tourist parties, conventions, Schools and colleges. The Powhatan attracts the people of culture and education. Its proximity to State, War and Navy Departments, also to many points of historical interest, makes this hotel especially attractive to a discriminating public. The Powhatan offers rooms with detached bath at $1.50, $2.00 and up. Rooms with private bath, $2.50, $3.00 and up. ```markdown ``` tortoise. You can obtain a sample Latest Model bicycle by contacting C. Kidder Amts everywhere are dedicated to part holders and owners of bicycles. We are pleased and approve your bicycle where in the world you can find it. You can also during the bicycle end path to any test you wish, perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle end path to any test you wish. 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