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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIDED BY GAIN" Department of Archives ESTABLISHED 1882 FRENCH SOLDIER IS FUNNY CREATURE On All Occasions He Refuses to Have His Love of the Beautiful Quenched. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS With the French Army at the Front, Nov. 28. (By mail to New York.) The French soldier is beyond doubt the most persistently gay and at the same time inherently artistic creature in the world. Even here, under the snow and the rain, in the shush and mud, with death stalking only one lap behind with occasional overtakings, he refuses to have either his gaity or his love for the beautiful quenched. Today I visited several camps of train regiments—revitualing and ammunition supply corps—just behind the firing line. Evidently the soldiers believe they are there for the winter for they have built themselves "permanent" houses and have set up housekeeping in the most comfortable of ways. French officers call these settlements, "villages negres" or "negro villages," on account of their resemblings, at first glance, the "native villages" one sees at world fairs. But the soldiers' villages are more artistic, much cleaner and more attractive. One I visited near Saint-Minehould was typcila. It was located in a wheat field and French wheatfields in this region have a habit, when wet by rain or snow, of trying to escape by clinging to one's feet. But the soldiers have occupied their leisure hours in hauling sand and building sidewalks throughout the village which was, in consequence a sort of "spotless town." The houses are built of saplings and tatched with straw, not helter skelter and any old way, but neatly and in patterns, so that the finished structure resembles a very pretty, if tiny, French villa, with dormers and gables and turrets and spires. Many of the little houses have windows of glass through where these came from goodness only knows—probably from the ruins of neighboring villages. In front of most of the villas are French gardens. Little fir and cedar trees, or other small growth of evergreen variety, have been transplanted, and the walks of these gardens are laid out in patterns and bordered just as walks in city parks are, only here pieces of tree-branches take the place of the interlacing iron borders of more conventional parks. But it is inside that the inhabitants abow the most ingenuity. Beds are of all varieties but I am sure that the worst was more comfortable than those one usually finds in an American small-town hotel. In principle most of them were alike. Four posts were driven into the ground with saplings to represent the sides of the bed. Across these, one against another, smaller saplings are laid, these chosen for their springiness. Over these, in soft hay, of a thickness to insure as much comfort as an ordinary mattress affords, and lastly the regulation blankets, sleeping bags and such other covering as the soldier may be able to procure. In the middle of the room there is unusually a table made of saplings and such plans as the builder have found; upon this they eat and do their correspondence. Over one such table I found a hanging lamp, though lanterns are usually used. About the walls are shelves and pegs for placing and hanging things. Please brighten the rooms and some of these homes possess "libraries." Some- ALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, LORD & LORD GET STATE CONTRACT Romney Branch of Local Firm Will Furnish Meat to the State Institutions. Contracts for fresh beef to supply the needs of five of the state institutions, amounting in round numbers to $30,000, for the six months from January 1 to June 30, 1915, were signed last week by the state board of control. The penitentiary, the Weston and Spencer hospitals for the insane, the West Virginia industrial school for boys at Grafton, and the school for the deaf and blind at Romney, are the institutions thus supplied. They represent a population of 3,500 persons, there being 1,200 at the penitentiary, 1,200 at the West Virginia hospital for the insane, at Weston, 600 at the second hospital for the insane, at Spencer, 250 at the West Virginia industrial school for boys at Grafton, and 250 at the West Virginia schools for the deaf and blind, at Romney. The contract to supply the first four institutions named was awarded to Swift & Co. That to supply the schools at Romney would let to Lord & Lord of this city through their Romney branch. The beef is required by the specifications to be of good quality, well meated and well fattened and free from all bruises. One liver is to be furnished free with each carcass. The prices quoted to the institutions vary slightly, owing to a difference in freight rates, from $11.80 to $12.50 per hundred for steers' carcasses, from $10.50 to $12.00 per hundred for heifers' carcasses, and from $9.90 to $10.50 for the forequarters of heifers. Geologists assembled in Philadelphia declare that the earth is 100,000,000 years old. Because the human race came a good deal later it is not yet old enough to behave itself. Chicago News. times several groups of two or three soldiers each, such as occupy ordinarily one house, go in together and build a three or four room affair and do their own cooking in a fireplace, arranging their rooms with curtained doorways between. The names given the villas reflect the state of mind of those who find shelter inside: "The Innocents," probably held a bunch of rollickers; "Felix Potin's" surely held soldiers recruited from Paris where Potin's is a great grocery establishment; "Tavern d' Olympia" held another batten of Parisians, the Olympia being a music hall in the capital; the inmates, I was told, are more or less musical "Villa Celasuffit"—"This suffices") shows a serious, if patriotic, turn of mind, as does "Pre Patris," and "Me Chaumiere." Then there is convention. "The Pines," "Chateau d' Espagne," and the whole gamut. The horses too are well protected against the weather, they being under long sheds roofed with straw. And they are well fed. In all these villages, as elsewhere along the front, I found the soldier taking things as they come, singing and making light of their hardships for only part of their time is spent in the cozy self-built villages. Then m. a jest of death and most of them impressed me as being fatalists. "Why worry?" they ask. "If a but let has been made for you, you can't dodge it. So the best thing you can do is to meet it with a smile." UNITED STATES HAS HIGH RANK In the Scientific World, Leaders of Which Number Only One Hundred and Twenty. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 5.—The great leaders in scientific thought in the world number only about one hundred and twenty, and are apportioned about equally among the German-Austrian alliance, the French, British, Russian alliance and the neutral powers, including this country, according to a report made to the committee of one hundred on scientific research of the American Association for the advancement of science which met in Houston Hall. The report was made by Prof. Edward C. Pickering, of Harvard University. The Germans claim the largest number of great scientists, and this country stands high on the list. Many important matters were taken up for discussion at the meeting and reports were received from several committees which were appointed to make investigations at the last sessions. Where to Get rounds. Probably the most important was that of the committee on research funds, which recommended that a central committee of the association should take up the work of letting scientists know where they could apply for funds with which to conduct certain kinds of research work. The central body would also act as a guide for the placing of reasearch funds so that they might be spent to the best advantage. Dr. Charles R. Cross, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made the report. That professors in institutions of learning in this country are not allowed to devote enough time to research work, and that they certainly devote much less time to this than do professors in European universities was declared in the report on research in educational institutions made by Prof. E. L. Nichols, of Cornell. Statistics from six hundred universities and colleges were gathered by the committee. Prof. W. E. Brown of Yale, made a report on the selection and training of men for research work, covering the methods of selection and training and the disposition of the men in the research field. The need of better recognition for research work and better opportunities for those who have ability, was told by Prof. T. H. Morgan, of Columbus University. "A small discovery by a scientist may be of incalculable value to the world," he said. "The adaption of tungsten to commercial uses has been worth $1600,000,000, and there are many other parallels." Research Work Report. C. M. Mees, of the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., presented a report on research work in industrial institutions and told how the commercial and the pure branches of scientific research could be made more useful by co-operation in many things. The committee of one hundred authorized the appointment of four investigating committees in them atters of research work under the national government with Prof. S. W. Stratton, chief of the bureau of standards at Washington, as chairman; research work on the Pacific coast, with Prof. Meriram, of the University of California, as chairman; research work in the south and the publication of research work. GREEKS CELEBRATE XMAS THURSDAY Will Begin Then and Continue for Thirteen Days—Local People to Join in Event. Thursday of this week is Christmas for those who adhere to the Greek faith and it will be the opening for a celebration which according to their custom lasts thirteen days, closing at midnight on the 20th of the month. Martinsburg and surrounding country has a large number of Greeks and others who live according to the Greek religion and they have planned to celebrate in the usual way. Thursday next they will have their Christmas very much after the custom of our own day and most of the business places in town conducted by their people will be closed at least part of the day. They will have church services during the day, services will be held in the nearby towns and there will be dinners and family and lodge celebrations. The twelve days following their real Christmas day will be devoted to pleasure with ritual church services at specified times. It will be a season of rejoicing generally and it is expected a good many visitors will be entertained in Martineburg. It is customary for friends and relatives from far and near to come for a day or two at a time and they are always feasted and shown the best time possible. JOSEPH DUDDY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK JOSEPH DUDDY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK Man Accused of Robbing Momrich's Jewelry Store at Huntington to Stand Trial. A telegram has been received by Governor Hatfield to the effect that the supreme court of Massachusetts had denied the habeas corpus request of Joseph Ruddy, for whom a requisition had been issued several months ago by the governor of West Virginia for his return to this state. Chief of Police Davis of Huntington left Sunday for Boston to bring the man back for trial at Huntington. Duddy has fought the extradition in the Massachusetts court for several months. Duddy is one of the gang who was implicated in the $20,000 diamond robbery of the H. J. Homrich jewelry store at Huntington some months ago, which was considered one of the most daring and sensational diamond robberies ever made in this section of the country. Duddy's partner, a man by the name of Robinson, was also arrested in Massachusetts, but killed a policeman before he was finally caught. He later committed suicide in jail there. SUPREME COURT HOLDS LAW GOOD Ohio Workmens' Compensation Law Declared Constitutional in Decision Handed Down Today WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The Ohio Workmens' Compensation law was held to be constitutional today by the United States supreme court in a decision handed down in the case of Henry Blagg against the manufacturing company in whose employ he was when injured. VOL. 88 NO. 45. MUCH RAILROAD BUILDING DONE West Virginia Ranks Sixth Among Southern States in Amount of Construction. Railroad construction in the south during the past year has been very small compared with that of 1913, although West Virginia shows a greater increase this year than last. This is probably due to the completion of the Magnolia cut-off which is said to be one of the greatest pieces of railroad construction that has ever been attempted in this section of the country. Out of the sixteen southern states, West Virginia stands sixth in railroad construction work, showing that the Mountain State is becoming one of the most important railroad states in the south. Sidings Omitted. Herewith is appended a table showing the amount of new line built in the sixteen states and showing much of the data on which the figures of West Virginia are based. Only new main line and branches are considered in the review, second track and sidings are omitted. The figures show in miles and hundredths of miles the work accomplished in 1814 and that which is contemplated for 1815: States 1914 1915 Alabama 13.00 108.00 Arkansas 69.00 24.00 Florida 203.06 78.36 Georgia 15.00 87.00 Kentucky 58.30 16.00 Louisiana 38.75 24.00 Maryland 6.10 Mississippi 25.22 Missouri 6.50 North Carolina 84.00 70.00 Oklahoma 19.00 48.50 South Carolina 57.00 Tennessee 76.80 28.00 Texas 138.10 56.50 Virginia 44.75 23.00 West Virginia 59.89 70.30 611.26 576.65 The construction work in West Virginia during the past year has been heavier than for many years past and from reports that have been received here on the projects for 1915 will be even heavier. The Magnolia cut-off on the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio from Orleans Road to Little Cacapon, a distance of twelve miles, has been almost completed after year's work. It is said to be one of the greatest engineering feats in this section of the country and will be completed at a cost of more than $6,000,000. The Buffalo Creek and Gauley railroad built a twenty-mile line from Winden to Camden and in 1915 the line will be extended from Camden to Huttonville, a distance of 68 miles. Five miles of new line extension was laid on the Picket Creek branch of the Buckhannon and Northern from the junction into Fainmont and the company is now contemplating extending the new line many more miles during 1915, connecting several important towns in the state. The Cherry River and Southern Railway company will start construction work early in the spring on a new line from Curtain to Bay's Ferry, a distance of thirty-eight miles. The line will run along Meadow river and will open up one of the richest territories in the state in mineral products. Secretary Bryan has a kind heart. He considerately waited until after the Christmas festivities before announcing that he had no intention of resigning.—Kansas City Journal. 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 lt. Cichord, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9. 1915 Why keep on blabbing about your principal? Tell your stories to the board of education. When a black and a white sheep combine to butt a thing, Lucifer sits up and grins, and here and there, a spineless preacher quakes. Why not say; "Get behind me," ye butters, and then butt them? It can easily be done. The Pioneer Press fully and enthusiastically endorses the proposition of the McDowell Time to earnestly organize throughout this State in behalf of manhood righte, for he who would be free must himself strike the blow. Rights denied should meet resistance. Our redlight wizard's praise for President Wilson's sophisty regarding Negroes is sickening. Absolutely he is the worst foe we have in America. Ben Tillman and Blease are better friends of ours than he. However, it pleases the rabid, Negro hating Southern editors. Keep on Booker and Robert Burns' epitaph to the traveler will be yours. We take no stock in foolish uppishness, but lay much stress on good foundations for moral standings. To mix and mingle with Jane, Susan, Tom, Dick and Harry promiscuously has been and will be the retardation of Negroes this country over. The mass can't be helped or lifted up by the better born and tutored class getting down in the mire in the hopes of lifting them up. Stay out of the mire and invite them up. The anti-immigration bill, amended so as to keep out all foreign darker races is spitting against the wind. It's legislation that is sure to act as a boomerang. God no more made any one section of this world for any particular class of people, than He made separate sunshine, air, soil and water for certain olas es. Mark this prophecy; five hundred years from now the darker peoples will not only rule this country, but all others on the globe. The "niggers" of Martinsburg start out in the year of our Lord 1915, with the gifts the city and the Courts have allowed them to have for years, two dirty white houses of ill fame. These festering bells have been forced from all other places where whites lived, yet, nevertheless, grand juries will not indict them, nor the preachers unite to help crush them out. Do the white christians think they are good teachers for the "niggers" and their children? Is there another class of people would stand it except the "niggers?" No! and no! again! How can children grow up decent in the sight of such hellish filth? Experience teaches every one who thinks properly, that as coal better serves the purpose of fuel than wood—cement takes the place of wood for house building purposes. Not only is it fire proof, but twice as cheap to build and needs no repairing. To be sure of using such indestructible material groups of poor people—say of ten or twenty, should unite and get a stone crusher and cement mixer and use them interchangeably among themselves until all are served. The frame lumber for the forms for the first building by a little addition or subtraction can be made to serve all the group. Any one who sets himself up as an unerring critic and adviser, is not a safe man to be followed, never eless critics and advisers are necessary. The Pioneer Press claims to be neither, but it wants to be shown the consistency of sending from this country, where millions are homeless and suffering in peace, millions of dollars to help the starving there caused by a savage war carried on by christians who call on God to sanction murder. As we see it, not a shipload of anything should cross the seas so long as this mad war for pomp, splendor and aggression goes on. Let the slogan go forth and at once: Stop your hell for that's what war is, and freely our leaves and fishes will be divided with you in the spirit of the Son of the Father nearly two thousand years ago. As it is, every shipload of food and clothing greases the wheels of war and gives assurance that millions more must die on bloody fields of battle, and millions more of men, women and children freeze and starve to death. And vitally important to us as a nation, how do we know what may be our fate the coming season? It may be a drought; it may be a war. 'He that provideth not for his own household is worse than an infidel.' KERP UP WITH BILLY SUNDAY. Greatest Revival Ever Held Opened In Philadelphia on January 3 Important as have been the previous campaigns of William A. Sunday throughout Pennsylvania and other states, all will be eclipsed by the ten weeks' revival which began in Philadelphia Sunday, January 3 Never before has the task been attempted of carrying on a religious enterprise of this kind in this city—a community with a population of 1,600,000, the center of a district containing many millions more. This project will set a new mark in the records of organized religion. Americans everywhere who are interested in any degree in church activities or civic righteousness will be desirous of following closely this great undertaking. The Philadelphia North American has made special arrangements to report the event completely, and is receiving thousands of orders from all over the country for subscriptions covering the duration of the campaign. These additions are so numerous that the paper's facilities will be taxed to handle the increased mailing list, but arrangements have been made to give the preference to orders from Pennsylvania and nearby territory. Orders may be given to newsdealers or sent to the North American direct. MR. GARDNER'S $700,000,000 A YEAR. Representative Gardner of Massachusetts expresses his willingness to spend $700,000,000 a year, if necessary, to put the country in a condition of preparedness for war." Seven hundred million dollars a year exceeds the total appropriations of Congress in 1914, exclusive of the postal service, for the maintenance of the United States Government It represents approximately the cost of the German army and navy in 1913, plus the cost of the British navy, plus the cost of the Japanese navy. On the basis of foreign expenditures it would give the United States an army equal to the German army nad a navy equal to the combined British, German and Japanese navies. That seems to be Mr. Gardner's theory of "preparedness for war." And where does the gentleman from Massachusetts think this $700,000,000 a year is coming from? The total ordinary revenue of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, was $734,673,167. After Mr. Gardner has expended $700,000,000 on preparedness for war, where would the Treasury get the other $500,000,000 necessary to carry on the ordinary business of the government? To be sure, we could double or triple or quadruple the income tax and the corporation tax. We could strip the tariff of every element of protection and put it strictly on a revenue basis in order to obtain as much as possible from customs duties. We could retain the present war tax, increase its rates and extend its scope. As a last resort a direct tax can always be leveeed upon the States on the basis of population. But what does Mr Gardner think the verdict of the country would be on such a system of taxation imposed in the way of "preparedness for war?" What would happen to a Congress that levied a tax of $700,000,000 a year for military purposes in time of peace? The United States is already spending nearly $250,000,000 a year on its military establishments. If the army and navy are not prepared for defensive war it is because this money has not been intelligently expended. Instead of trying to stop the leaks and to give the country a dollar's worth of defense for every dollar that is spent, Mr. Gardner is willing to bleed the American people white and make the United States the most military-ridden country in the world. Yet he wonders why Congress refuses to take him seriously!—New York World. AMERICAN MULES IN EUROPEAN WAR More Than Twelve Hundred of These Sturdy Are Joining Great Britain's Armies Weekly. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7.—Twelve hundred or more of America's sturdy males are joining the armies of Great Britain weekly according to stock yards experts today. Already for total "enlistments" of mules in this country exceed 7,000, and there is a probability that the record exports of more than 150,000 of these animals during the Boer war will be broken if the European war is prolonged. Inspections of mules are being held by British buyers at Kansas City, St. Louis and Nashville, Tennessee. The animals are costing the British government nearly $250,000 weekly. Her purchases to date represent an expenditure of more than $1,250,000. Great Britain has been able to raise billions of dollars in special war loans, but dealers in mules declare that her enormous expenditure for their animals prove that she considers them indispensable in war. While Great Britain is the only European belligerent now buying mules for her armies, negotiations are being carried on with agents of the French and Italian governments by Missouri mule dealers, and it is probable that these countries will pledge contracts for mules in the near future. A lack of appreciation of the great value of mules for war purposes, dealers of Missouri say, is the reason for the failure of the French government, which is buying thousands of cavalry and artillery horses weekly in the United States to take mules. Many mules which earned retirement on pastures long ago are being "enlisted" by the British army buyers. This is due to the fact that the British contracts call for mules between six and ten years old. As many mules 14 to 20 years old have teeth as good as those of their 10 year-old "brothers," not a few of the animals accepted on the army contracts have already served on farms more than a decade. The old mules bring the same prices as the young animals, and as the latter are worth more in domestic markets, it is profitable, in ungrateful, to send the 10 and 20-year-olds to the battlefield of Europe. The British army buyers require that the mulecht 7890$...-000ETAOIN that the mules offered them stand 15.1 to 15.3 hands high and measure 63 inches around the girth and seven inches around the hin bone. Tape measures are used in pasisng on all mules submitted for the inspection of the British agents. The inspectors of the English government have measured and accepted as many as 225 mules in a single day's work of less than eight hours. Great Britain would undoubtedly have purchased many more mules than she has already taken for her armies but for the fact that her war department is experiencing great difficulty in obtaining transport room for the animals. The British government is now holding nearly 15,0000 horses and mules at Lathrop. Mo., Port Chalmete, La., and other points pending the completion of shipping arrangements across the Atlantic. The food bill for the animals held at Lathrop alone is more than $5,000 daily. In times of peace the shipment of mules and horses on the seas is an insignificant business, and few steamers are equipped to handle this traffic. As a result, it is necessary to rebuild steamers to equip them to carry mules across the Atlantic. All-steel cars run by trolley now between New York and Boston. SECRET PLANS FOR WAR STORED AWAY If War Be Declared We Are Preparpared to Meet All Attacks It Is Said. By BURTON K. STANDISH. WALINGTON, Jan. 6.—Stored away in the vaults of the army and navy departments today are secret plans for war. These show just what moves this country would make in event of hostilities against ourhores. Every possible plan of approach of an enemy has been considered, and with it has been evolved the military strategists a method for meeting such an attack. Not until the recent agitation over national security was it known that this nation is prepared for war, in the sense of having such carefully laid schemes of defense and offense assistant Secretary of Navy Roosevelt himself disclosed one of the secrets when he indicated that fully 50,000 more men would have to be added to the navy, if a foreign power were to make on this nation. But for the most part, the views of and the strategy of the military planner is guarded with jealous care. Back of all these confidential war moves lies two great organizations—the army and navy colleges. Their, "game boards," in conjunction with the fleet have developed these war ideas to a nicety which officials oblieve would stand the nations in good stead in case of actual practice instead of treory. The relation between tre "game boards" and the actual fleet operation, in the navy for instance, has been admittedly weak in recent months. But the navy department has turned its attention to making these problems of attack and defense as practical as possible. This end, work is now under way to make the relations between the theorists and the admirals and capitae leser and more practical. The "game board" is, just what which the game of destruction is played by men trained to the arts of death. The United States navy is represented by miniature ships of a certain color. The ships of an enemy are designed by another color. They are moved around like chess men, but the elements of mathematical calculation, of unerring accuracy of naval strategy enter into every movement. One tactical mistake may destroy them iniature United States fleet. To err on the game board is serious business—for it means that the men in charge might do the same were reengaged in a life and death struggle. Then make the board play more realistic, the intricate problem suggested by the board are transferred to commanders of the big dreadnoughts. There, these ideas are put into actual practice when maneuvers are possible. Problems suggested by the naval encounters of the European war have been transferred to the game board so that America's strategists may benefit from the spectacular defeats of British and German vesels alike. And the army, too, works out maneuvers along the same line. Both of the military colleges develop officers in all the "tricks of the trade." For instance, these colleges have developed—in theory at least—that a battlefleet from Europe might approach America's shores, halt at a distance of fully 600 miles from New York, and then send out over the waves an aircraft loaded with bombs to drop on America's metropolis. In these colleges officers of both services are given the benefits of a world training in strategy. They are taught to go to the other fellow one better. And the training is invaluable, officials contend. Rear Admiral Fiske is authority for the statement that Germany's war planning is responsible for the remarkable escape of the German vessels from Kiao Chau and their subsequent sally into Cihlean waters where they sank two vessels larger than themselves. Such an escape, he fully believes, was developed by the wonderful, strategists—war planners of the German empire—long before the war broke out. Then, too, he believes that Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. superior skill was responsible for the human victory against two larger vessels—a feat unparalleled in naval prowls. And America has taken a leaf from Germany's book. She has laid her dams carefully and thoroughly, and i war comes, no move can be made by an enemy which is not already anticipated in those secret papers that repose under lock and key in the gray granite building of the war and navy branches. Apropos of the discussion of national security, much content has been usurped by the proposal to shut off exportation of privately manufactured munition of war after 1920. A bill introduced by Rep. Crosser, of Ohio, proposes such a move. If it is enacted into law, America can have the assurance that "Made in America" instruments of death will never be turned against this nation. Crosser likewise proposes that the government extend its activities to manufacture of its own ammunition. That the government has been "g'ouged" in lives pass by manufacturers of certain lines, is the very plain intimation of Secretary Daniels, who himself stands for such government ownership. JANUARY TERM WILL BE BIG ONE Unusual Amount of Criminal Work Has Developed in Addition to the Chancery Business. The coming January term of the federal court, which will begin in Parkersburg Tuesday morning, January 12, with Judge Dayton on the bench, promises to be one of the biggest ever held in that city, an unusual amount of criminal work having developed for the grand jury, not to speak of several old cases which are due to come up for trial, the considerble quantity of chancery business which always comes up for consideration at the winter term there. Between thirty and forty new cases will come before the grand jury, the defendants in most of which are already in jail or under bond to appear on the first day of the term. These are mostly cases of alleged bootlegging, but there will be at least one postoffice case, that of Ross Williams, from Wetzel county, who charged with violation of the postal laws, and one white slave case, that of Mary Goodwin, of Parkersburg, which will likely come to trial at this term. MORGANTOWN CO. HAS BIG ORDER Gets Contract to Furnish 600,00 Tons of Coal for Twenty Years The Elkins Coal and Coke Company, of Morgantown, has just extended for a period of 20 years a contract made three years ago to furnish about 600,000 tons of coal a year to the Lehigh Coke Company of South Bethlehem, Pa. J. B. Hanford, general manager of the Elkins company, said his company was unable to assume the contract for the full requirements of the Lehigh Coke Company, which will need about 2,500,000 tons of coal a year for by-product coke manufacture. The coke is to be used in the furnaces of the Bethlehem Steel Company, which will also use the gas recovered from the by-product coke ovens. It is also intended to utilize the tar and ammonia recovered for higher use and above the quantity needed by the steel company will be sold within nine ing distance of the plant for fueling purposes. (By Griff Alexander) Well, sir, I see you're here!— The Old Year's kid successor!— The wished-for Glad New Year— To whom Man—futile guesser!— Makes resolutions great, And keeps them when he can, sir We hope you're good and great— What's the answer? To you the Future will To you the Future will Some brief leaves be unfolding. We'll play our cards with skill— But what is Chance now holding? Will Death still fiercely ride With Uhlan, Cossack, Lancer? Will gowns be tight or wide? What's the answer? Will Fate fix up your lot In life to suit the tenant? Will politics wax hot? Will Pittsburg win the pennant? Will our next idol be A statesman or a dancer? Come!—whisper it to me!— What's the answer? What? You are silent? Laws! I wonder what a fee'd do?— I see! You're dumb because You know no more than we do! Well, welcome, kid! Though I'm Convinced he's a romancer We'll let old Father Time Provide the answer! SECOND BULLETIN VERY INTERESTING State Highway Commissioner Issues Instructions on Building Macadam Roads. State Highway Commissioner A. D. Williams' second good roads bulletin deals with the construction and improvement of macadam roads. This subject is of vital interest to Berkeley county taxpayers, since several road engineers are using the puddle macadam method is constructing methods in the rural sections of the counties. Miles of this kind of road will be laid during the coming spring and hundreds of tons of limestone will be quarried and crushed as soon as the winter is over. Bulletin No. 2 deals first with specifications for contractors, which were fully covered in the first road lesson. Culverts are next taken up and these were also covered in the first leson. The bulletin defines "macadam" as various kinds of broken stone classified under the head bituminous, tarvia and waterbound. The stone is layed in various sizes and layers, according to the requirements of the engineer. The state laws require that before broken stone is scattered all sub-grades shall be thoroughly rolled or compacted. All hollows and depression must be filled and properly rolled. Good hard limestone, traprock, gneiss or other stone equal in hardness, strength and density shall be used in hard work. Finer stone is used on the top layers. In case of tarvia or bitumionus macadam roads the stone is mixed with a water proof hinder and thorouhgly rolled. This county has every kind of macadam roads. In the construction of "puddle macadam" the stone is floated or sprinkled and rolled, the water making the road bed compact and one solid mass. Have Clean Roadbed. In constructing the "pitch" macadam road the old road covering must be raked clean of all filth, debris or mud, so that the new layer may be directly on top of the old stone. On top of this goes the tar or pitch binder. In this way all "voids" or holes between stones are thoroughly filled. Clean screenings are scattered over the rolled surface and a perfect road is bad. Throughout the remainder of his bulletin Highway Commissioner Williams deals with various technical matters of interest more to engineers than to the public. He tells how to construct roads on "the double penetration method." In this method the first layer is water bound and the top is covered with bitumionus binder. Scores of various methods of constructing bituminous roads are dealt with in bulletin No. 2. The next two bulletins cover brick and concrete rcads. HOW GERMANY WAS PREPARED FOR WAR Swamp Lands Were Transformed In to Richest of Farms and Traveling Was Easy. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS With the French Army at the Front, Nov. 29. (By mail to New York.)—Just how thoroughly the Germans were prepared for this war does not really sink in on one until one crisis crosses about the war zone. The stories one hears of their preparations are amazing and if a tenth of them are true one can not be surprised at the rapidity of their invasion at the beginning of the war. French army officers were dumbly founded, for instance, at the rapid crossing of the marshes of Saint-Gondon northeast of Paris, by the Germans. These marshes are miles and miles in extent, covering the lowlands in the region of the source of the Petit Morin. The marshes resemble from a distance a beautiful meadow but even the natives of the region do not dare venture in the tall grass for fear of being swallowed up in the ooze. Perhaps a half-dozen guides know the swamp's intricacies and these make a living leading hunting parties through them. For an unguided person to attempt to cross the marshes would be as much as his life is worth. Nevertheless the German troops crossed the marshes without the slightest trouble or delay. They did not even hesitate. The native guides were all well known and accounted for; they did not lead the German soldiers over. Ho wwdl they escape the bogs? Well, here's a story told me by a civil officer of the district. He had a part in the deal and he ought to know. About three years ago company was formed in Germany for the purpose of buying up and reclosing swampland. The first land the company set its heart upon was the Marshes of Saint-Gond. These land belong to the commune, or county or rather to several counties—and the officers representing the commune were asked to get together for a deal with the Germans. The German company proposed to drain the swamp and turn the land into the richest of farms, which farms would be sold out in lots to French farmers. How much would the company give for the swamps? The company would make an offer as soon as the proper estimate of the cost of drainage could be made out. A score of German engineers there fore began work in the marshes. Every rod of the district was explored, sounded and charted; every island and tree and hummock duly mapped; every road, bridle path and pigtail indicated, and every possible detail so down. Then the German company mad its offer. It was small, ridiculous small. The commune officials laughed at the offer and the deal felt through and forgotten—until long towards the close of last August who the German army advanced across the Marshes of Saint-Gond without losing a man. Another story I heard, from another source, was that some years ago a German bought a county home for himself near Paris. Upon a commanding ridge stood his house and upon the house was a pointed spire. To the right and left of the house he planted a single line of fir trees with graceful, peaked tops, and, down the slopes a few hundred yards, tennis court in cement and asphalt was laid. The German seemingly took a sudden dislike to his country home about the time he had finished improving it for he went back to Germany and did not show up again—until war was declared. Then he was wearing a uniform the uniform of a German officer artillery. The tennis court was nothing more than a foundation for heavy guns; the country house, with its pointed to the center of a sighting room of which the fir trees to rich and left more adjuncts (nothest). This story has it that had the German OPPOSING ARMIES CLOSE TOGETHER Soldiers Are Personally Acquainted and the Fighting Has Been Sysmatized. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT THE FRONT. Nov. 29.—(By mail to New York.—At places, here in the Argoune, the French and German branches are so close together that in the weeks the two armies have been thus face to face, the soldiers are, after a fashion, personally caquainted with each other. Here, the fighting has become systematized and follows a routine. At certain sections of the trenches the French and Germans have reached an agreement that before a certain hour in the morning there is to be no killing; in the opposing trenches the men are to be allowed to wash up and make their toilet for the day. After the gong taps, figuratively speaking, and any head showing above the level of the ground egts promptly taken off. Rock battles often take place between the opposing sides. The men grow itred of having nothing to shoot it for hours at a time and in order to amuse themselves they bombard each other without the thrower exposing his person to the bullets of the enemy. The old fashion hand grenades have come back into style with this close trench fighting, the Gormans urging them frequently. They steal up to the trenches in the night or through the heavy fogs now of almost daily occurrence in this region, and let go into the midst of a crowd of men. At times the enemies, however, become almost friendly. "Say over there!" a German shouted from his trench. "Have you guys got anything to smoke?" "Sure!" the chorus came back from the French. "Have you?" "Not a crumb!" "Too bad. You ought to write the Kaiser." "Gimme the makin's. "Come and get 'em." A giant of a young fellow stuck his head and shoulders above the ground, placed his handsground, placed his hands on the edge of the trench and vaulted out on the side to wards the French. A month old flaxon beard stood out about a very round face. Mud covered his formerly gray-bluish, greenish uniform. A little round, vigorless fatigue cap made him look lyike a young Santa Claus. Stooping, he ran swiftly across the highway which separated the trenches at this point, and falling flat on his stomach, pered down into the neemy's trench. "Where's them cigars?" he demanded. "Here they are," a Frenchman replied. "You deserve them. Six, and they're worth a 'ouis apiece." "Merci!" said the German as he scurried back to his burrow. "Say!" this same German shouted between puffs, "These cigars are great. Real imported hemp!" A rock the size of a man's fist was he reply to this sally. "Hey, you Frenchers," the German sept on, "you're a pretty decent lot I'm going to give you a present too. Will you shoot me if I come over again?" "We will that!"—after what you said about the cigars." Once more the lumbering giant catapulated out of his trench and ran low over to the French, dropping on his stomach as before. In his hand was an object, a dark green one, with tin foil around the neck and the words "Gout Americain," on a slip of paper across the sloping shoulder. It was a bottle of champagne, swiped while the Germans were in Rheims. "Here's your health, fellows," the German said. "Drink hearty! And invaded to this point they could plant their heavy artillery in the tennis court in disguise, used the turret and fir trees to sight by and dominate every quarter. back he ran. "Hey!" the Frenchmen shouted Concrete is Economical SOME people have the idea that concrete construction is difficult and excessively Concrete is the easiest of all building materials to handle and the cost need not be more than for other and far less permanent types of construction. Concrete is especially adapted to use on the farm. SECURITY dealers will give you information on the various uses of concrete and methods of handling it. Our Engineering Department is also at your service. laughing. "You've got the nerve of a burglar! You are giving us back our own champagne." "Oh, that's all right," the German replied, "your cigars were made in Germany! I recognize the stench!" Later in the day the German was killed and the news was shouted across the road. He simply would keep sticking his head above the trench during business hours. But in the night a wreath of wild flowers, gathered by the Frenchmen from heaven knows where, and at no one knows what risks, fell into the trench where he was wont to have his place, and shooting and gore; the spice! All is not cutting and slashing and shooting and gore; the spice of good humor and the milk of human kindness often, in the fighting, lessen the sting of hatred between the races and of which one hears so much. Four German Navy Men Given Freedom of United States. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.—laut, Sauerbeck, Lieut, Pretezl and two seamen of the German gunboat Geier, interned at Honolulu, who recently weer arrested in San Francisco while on their way to San Diego, were given the freedom of the United States yesterday by order of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. They were directed to report by mail or otherwise each month to Rear Admiral Charles F. Pond until the termination of the war. A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT. How dear to our hearts is the steady subscriber Who pays in advance at the birth of each year; Who lays down the money, and does it quite gladly, And casts 'round the office a halo of cheer; He never says: "Stop it; I cannot afford it, But always says, 'Send it; our people all like it'— In fact, we all think it a help and a need;" How welcome his check when it reaches our sanctum, How it makes our pulse throb; how it makes our heart dance; We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in advance!—Ex. HABIT. The formation of habit is common to all animals and habits have a marked influence on behavior. We do things so often that it becomes difficult to refrain from doing them when the conditions under which they have been done recur. The most forceful teacher of my college days was wont to say: "Man is but a bundle of habits and happy is the man whose habits are his friends." At 20, it seemed to me that the force of this saying lay in its sonorous quality. At 60 I realize that its strength lies in its truth. The young scout the idea that they cannot indulge in a vice occasionally without becoming a victim. The chains forged in the smithy of habit are strong in every link. They may SECURITY CEMENT AND LAND SECURITY PORTLAND CEMENT SECURITY MD Concrete SOME people ha construction That is a mistake. Concrete is the easiest of handle and the cost need not be far less permanent types of con. Concrete is especially add farm. SECURITY dealers will tion on the various uses of methods of handling it. Our Department is also at your service Concrete for Permanence SECURITY for Concrete Ask Your Dealer SECURITY CEMENT and LIME COMPANY HAGERSTOWN, MARYLA LOCAL NEWS Miss Julia Morgan, who teaches school in Piedmont, passed through town on Sunday last, after having spent the holidays with home folks in Charles Town. Miss Sarah Jefferson, a popular and attractive young lady of Winchester, was an over-Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hopewell and their daughter, Miss Hilda. It is unfortunate that Mr. Sidney Scott was so dangerously shot Thursday night about 10 o'clock. He is very much liked in this city, whose sympathy freely extends to him. If some of the warring countries abroad would come over here and employ John Basey victory would go that way, for the reason, when shot at he can dodge bullets, fall dead, then get up and if shot at again or any effort is made to get him he can jump over the moon. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Mr. Carl Carter, of Steubenville, O., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Carter, of this city, during the Holidays. The young man mentioned above is a valued employee of the La Belle Iron Works, in his adopted city, and has made great progress since leaving here. Thompson and Thompson's Xmas stock excels all others in Martinsburg, and their prices are lower and their pains and anxiety to please, all, also excel any other clothies in Martinsburg. Try them, buy from them, and if their guarantee of the goods they sell fails to measure up to it, you'll get your money back. Misses. Annie E. Henderson and Frances Simmons, two very charming young ladies of Falls Church, Va., were guests of Mr. J. Frank Briscoe, Mesdames. Mary Briscoe and Nannie Ross during the holidays. While here they were the recipients of much social attention, their host and hostesses doing everything in their power to make the stay of these young ladies an enjoyable one in our city. --- Mr. Gordon Bennet, a well known young man of our town, departed this life on last Monday morning following a long illness with pneumonia. The deceased had many friends who sorely regret his untimely demise. His funeral was held at Mount Zion M. E. Church on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Samuel M. Beane officiating. Interment followed in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mr. Bennet is survived by a wife, father mother, sister and brother, who have our sympathy. Now is the time when some conscientious folks turn over a new leaf by renewing an old note.—Washington Post. safely hold us in the heaviest storm or they may drag us to the bottom of smootli seas. Another mistake often made by youth is the belief that every experience is helpful. There is no other commodity for which we pay so dearly and the price often is health, happiness and even life. - Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, is Economical ve the idea that concrete is difficult and excessively of all building materials to be more than for other and construction. adapted to use on the will give you informa- of concrete and Our Engineering SECURITY CEMENT AND LIME BERKELEY PRODUCT8 BERKELEY.WVA.00111 THE RATE DECISION AND ITS INFLUENCE Upon the Country's Business As Set Forth By the Manufacturers Record. (Manufacturers Record.) The Interstate Commerce decision in favor of granting higher freight rates is of more importance, when viewed from the standpoint of the influence it will exert upon the sentiment of the country, than from that of the actual amount of money that will be received by the railroads by reason of this increase. The money will be very helpful, but it does not begin to represent as much as the railroads need, nor as much as they must have in order to bring about a full restoration of railroad prosperity and, thus, of general business prosperity. The country has been shortsighted to the extreme in its antagonism to railroads and to the advance in railroad rates. Here and there the inexcusable mistake made by railroads in the ill-adjustment and the inequity of freight rates as between products or communities has justified vigorous appeals for a righting of these wrongs, but as a whole the freight rates of the country have been entirely too low for the welfare of the country itself. We have become accustomed to low freight rates to our own disadvantage, because low freight rates mean the destruction of the prosperity of the railroads, and that means the destruction of the prosperity of the country. The statement of President Benjamin Harrison many years ago that "a cheap coat means a cheap man" can with equal emphasis be applied to railroads and to all other business activities. Cheap freights mean cheap railroads. Cheap wages mean cheap men. Cheap wages mean cheap men. Cheap goods, if cheaper than a fair degree of profit on their coat justifies, mean cheapening of everything quality, wages and character. Infinitely better is it for the country when railroads are prosperous by reason of freight rates that yield a good return on the capital invested; when manufacturers are selling their goods at prices that yield a large income on their output; when farmers sell their products at prices that leave them a large measure of prosperity. The converse is strikingly illustrated in the influence upon the entire country of the cheap price of cotton during the present season as compared with the benefit to the entire country when cotton was selling at a high price. If over night the price of cotton could be doubled, every business interest in the South would be benefited, and from this would radiate a general improvement of every line of business in the country. We cannot keep on forcing prices down through free-trade tendencies without destroying the very prosperity which the advocates of free trade have hoped to develop. The man who wants to buy things cheap must expect to have a cheap salary, or a cheap income, or to see the life of the people around him cheapened in every respect. It is, therefore, of interest to every branch of industry in the country that some recognition has been given by the Interstate Commerce Commission to the needs and the rights of the railroads. This increase is not, however, sufficient for the needs of the railroads, though it will be helpful. It will be especially helpful in causing the country to believe that the Interstate Commerce Commission is not entirely a commission of destruction. Heretofore its work has largely been destructive. It has regulated the railroads nearly unto death and throttled them in all their operations, and in doing so it has cost the country billions of dollars more than it has saved the country by any adjustment it has made of freight rates. The Manufacturers Record is not a believer in "commissions," which have been the order of the day during the last quarter of a century. It believes that ultimately many of these commissions will have to be abolished, and it is not at all certain that the time will not come when the people of this country will realize that the Interstate Commerce Commission has cost it so many billions of dollars that it will be abolished, just as the Commerce Court was abolished. There is a rising tide throughout the country on the part of business men—and under the term of business men we include every man, whether he works with hand or brain, who is seeking to make a living by his brawn, his brain or his capital—against the destructive tendency of political activities of recent years, and a growing determination that this country shall turn to constructive upbuilding work that will create general prosperity commensurate with the limitless natural advantages with which the Almighty has enlowed this land. It is time that this rising tide of sentiment against destructive policies and in favor of upbuilding policies should make itself felt in every business organization, whether of merchants, manufacturers, bankers, labor or agriculturists, and the mechanic and farmer have now had it driven home to them with telling force that their prosperity is dependent upon the prosperity of manufacturers and railroads. We have had too much of destruction; too much of poverty; there are too many hundreds of thousands of men walking the streets vainly seeking employment because of these destructive policies. Electric vehicles are now being used on the streets of London for sprinkling and sweeping. NEW STORY ABOUT GENERAL R. E. LEE Old Soldier Gave Him His Breakfast Morning of Surrender Day. The Alderson Advertiser publishes a new and interesting story about General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate forces, the details for which were furnished by Colonel S. W. N. Feamster: "Colonel Feamster says the night before the surrender the soldiers of General Lee's army were so excited that there was little sleep in camp. A good fire burned before the bivouac of the regiment of which Colonel Feamster was a member and just before dawn fresh rails were laid on. Soon after three men came along and the colonel and others looking up saw them standing between the soldiers and the fire. They were asked politely to stand to one side as some of the soldiers were sick and cold, and when they did so it was seen they were General Lee, General John B. Gordon and General Wise. Colonel Feamster says he and other soldiers arose and heard General Lee discussing with the two officers what should be done. Gordon wanted to cut through the federal lines and head for the south, but General Lee said he could not do it and that everything in the way of subsistence had been destroyed. Corn Dodger and Pork. "Colonel Foamster says that about this time an old soldier came along with a corn dodger and a piece of fatp ork in one hand and a tin of coffee in the other. Stepping up to General Lee, the soldier asked the general if he had had his breakfast and was answered in the negative. 'Here take this,' he said, handing his edibles to General Lee, who thanked him and said he would prefer to see the donor eat it than eat it himself. The soldier insisted that General Lee take the corn dodger pork and coffee. 'You are very kind,' said General Lee, as he accepted the food. He offered a piece of the corn dodger to General Wise, who thanked him and said he was having breakfast prepared back at his wagon. "General Feamster also says that when General Lee was starting for General Grant's headquarters to sign the terms of surrender, Captain W|T. Smith, than whom no better soldier belonged to the army, approached General Lee and said: "We (meaning himself and Colonel Feamster) have a notion of leaving and going through to join Johnson.' We asked General Lee if there would be anything wrong about it. General Lee replied: "If you have any intention of doing anything of the kind, you should not tell me. I have surrendered in good faith and have no right to give anyone permission to leave. If you think of doing that, you should not say anything to me about it." "Colonel Feamster then went to W. H. F. Lee to see about getting a horse to replace his mount, which was about done up and he was told to take one of the wagon horses. He could not find a better one than his cavalry horse, and he and Captain Smith rode away into Amherst county and this accounts for the fact that Colonel Feamster was never paroled." It is said that an excellent beverage, similar to tea, can be brewed from the common maidenhair fern. Governor Hodges, of Kansas, says liquor is a parasite. Yes, and some of it's worse than that.—New York Evening Telegram. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, A. M. D. D COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS' COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Courses in Engineering Domestic Sciences Domestic Arts Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSI ACADEMY Three Preparatory Courses. (Classical, Scientific, Normal) COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Stenographer Typewriting Economics Bookkeeping, Esc. Professional School LIBRARY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 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We also sell the lowest price under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the day resolved. SECOND HAND MICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles but we use our own equipment from Chicago retail stores. These we clear out primarily from retail stores from 80 to 88 or from other sources. Our own single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the regular retail prices. The regular retail price of this device is $19.99. The regular price of dice we will sell you a sample price for $4.99 (each with order $10.00). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PONGTHRES ```markdown ``` Mallie, Taska or Gliese will not pair the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punches without allowing air to escape. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the panoramic resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $19.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only 44.50 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We will ship C.O.D. on approval. You do not need to pay a cent until you examine and find them to allow you a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and send no sending us an order as the tires may be returned OUR military on commission. We are perfectly reliable and money a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run far a mile here we need or sees at any price. We know that a bicycle you will give us your money. We many people send us DO NOT WAIT IF YOU NEED TIRES Paneture-Foot tires on ap- price quoted above; or write for cash by mail. Do not buy any kind of tires and bicycle equipment and guardian at about half the kinds of tires and bicycle equipment and guardian at about half the of tires from anyone until you know It sorts only a postal to learn everything. Write it now. HOTEL POWHATAN WASHINGTON D.C. HOTEL OF AMERICAN IDEALS In a city where good hotels abound, the Powhatan heads the list. It is first in the hearts of its countrymen. a cent until you examine and find them strictly as represent- a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price & sales 95% off) or enclosed in an advertisement. You order at the tires may be rebate of 60% off any animation. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and be less pricey. We know that you will be so well please give you our credit. We will send you a free inspection. FEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for Puncture-Footed tires on approval and trial at the office, or write for our bicycle equipment and bicycle equipment and sandrubs at about half the annual price. WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful to learn everything. Write it back. The Powhatan is refined, exclusive, and restful. Its excellent location on Pennsylvania Avenue, 18th and H 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. Write for booklet with map. CLIFFORD M. LEWIS, Manager. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture stripe "B" and "B" also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This is not any other make—GOPT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR BEFORE AFTER "PRESTO" *PRESTO* removes Dandruff, Tettel, 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. Throw away year old pinching and pulling hot trouts and the so-called electric combs, and stop burning your hair out, and get a package of *PRESTO*. *THE KING OF ALL HAIR PREPARATIONS* *PRESTO* will straighten your Hair the first application or we will refund your money. The hair remains straight for months. Think of it, nothing in the world like *PRESTO*. Apply *PRESTO* two or three times a year, that’s all. A PACKAGE of *PRESTO* POST-PADD WITH FULL DIRECTIONS ON RECEIPT OF FIFTY CENTS. (50 Cents) SATISFACTION GUARANTEED WRITE FOR INFORMATION THE LA FAYETTE MFG.CO EDENTON,N.C AGENTS HERE IS THE MONEY MAKER! MENTION PAPER YOU SAW AD.IN