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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. DROVE ALL SLEEP FROM HER EYES The Gem of American Verse Was Written After Midnight in Washington. When the army of the Potomac was in camp in the old Dominion Julia Ward Howe was a visitor at during the month of December, 1861, the headquarters of General George B McCleilan. Passing the entire day among the soldiers this gifted woman was greatly impressed by the fact that the "boys in blue" were all singing "John Brown's Body." Naturally this native of Boston was greatly distressed by the inelegan words of the song concerning Old John Brown, and while riding about the camp she conceived the idea of giving this famous tune a new lyric. When she returned to the the new lyric was uppermost in her mind, but she decided to retire for the night and pen the poem in the morning. But the thought of the song drove sleep from her eyes, so she arose and wrote the poem of American verse which bears her name. On her return to Boston a few days later she submitted her poem to Jas. T. Fields, editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He suggested the title: "The Battle Hymn of The Republic" and under this title the verses were published in the February number of that magazine in 1862. Grander words were never incorporated in any battle hymn. "OLD" AT THIRTY-SEVEN. The defeat of Jack Johnson by "Jess" Willard is generally attributed to his age. From the standpoint of athletics she is going down the declivit of life at the ripe age of thirty-seven. He excelled Willard in science and skill, but got tired quicker. Baseball constantly gives these instances of some loss of physical power at an early age. The great majority of the successful players are under thirty. Over that age some lack of elasticity and endurance commonly begins to unfit a man for the fastest play. It would be a melancholy reflection for the average man, if he had to admit that at the age of thirty-five he was going down hill. In business the years from forty to fifty are commonly called the prime of life. The man who shows decided signs of physical decay at fifty has usually abused himself either by dissipation or overwork. Many men start with a meager equipment of physical strength, but by rational exercise and sane living are stronger at fifty, capable of greater physical exertion, than they were at thirty. Young people take pride in their seeming ability to defy the stupid laws of health. They bolt their food, cut short their sleep, and indulge in harmful vices. The spirit of youth keeps them going, until one day something snaps. It may take years to recover. It is often said that the way to live long is to have some incurable disease. The man who starts out with a slender equipment of physical power, careful husbanding of his forces often lives into the eighties. Meanwhile physical marvels like Jack Johnson or the ball players throw the cream of their power into moments of supreme strain. There may be more physical loss in such an hour than in years of plodding effort of daily life. It is yet to be proved that athletic prowess assures either long life or a healthy old age.—Culpepper, (Va.) Exponent. Governor Hatfield has issued the following proclamation, designating May 9 as "Mother's Day:" A Proclamation TO THE PEOPLE OF THE GREEK If the love which a mother f degree, prevail in the hearts of a would be today "peace on earth a To emphasize the importance honor and pay homage to her in and in whose heart is enthroned to sentiment, it has become a fixed cu others, to set apart each year a d That we may pay tribute to a memory, show appreciation of her D. Hatfield, Governor of the State claim and designate TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA: GREETING: If the love which a mother feels for her child could, in a small degree, prevail in the hearts of all people toward each other, there would be today "peace on earth and good will toward all men." To emphasize the importance of this great virtue and to do honor and pay homage to her in whom it is most highly exemplified and in whose heart is enthroned the noblest, sweetest and tenderest sentiment, it has become a fixed custom in this state, as it has in many others, to set apart each year a day known as "Mother's Day." That we may pay tribute to a mother's love, reverence her sacred memory, show appreciation of her devotion and sacrifice, I, Henry D. Hatfield, Governor of the State of West Virginia, do hereby proclaim and designate SUNDAY, MAY 9, MOTHER'S DAY May it be the pleasure to observe occasions, and in so doing demonstrate the everlasting debt of gratitude the gradle of our youth. I call up churches and the various fraternities selves in a full and appropriate order. In testimony whereof I have the Less Seal of the State to be a May it be the pleasure to observe this day as one of our cordinal occasions, and in so doing demonstrate that we are not prone to forget the everlasting debt of gratitude that we owe to her, who rocked the cradle of our youth. I call upon all the people of the tSate, the churches and the various fraternal organizations to interest themselves in a full and appropriate observance of the occasion. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Less Seal of the State to be affixed. By the Governor: STUART F. REED, Secretary of State. Neuve Chapelle New Be Has Threaded Onte Neuve Chapelle New Bead General French Has Threaded Onto New Line Of Trenches NOTE—The following is the first of a series of stories from the British front, written by William G. Shepherd, United Press staff correspondent, and the only American representing an individual American press organization who is now with General Sir John French's army, under official credentials. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY, NORTHERN FRANCE, April 16.—(By mail to New York)—Neuve Chapelle is the new bead that General French has just threaded onto the 400-mile string of trenches which Madame Europe wears upon her breast. Just as the great trans-continental railroads of the United States pass impressively through small towns, so the great trans-continental trenches have had their route bent by the great English general to take in the town of Neuve Chapelle. I find the residents of the city extremely proud of the distinction. This is probably because they personally helped General French in his task of trench-bending. There are no French people remaining here; in fact, there are no houses remaining. This showery afternoon a rainbow is shining on a huge black cloud over Neuve Chapelle and the French magazine artists who are in this party of tourists to England's newest possession are making every artistic effort to draw it into their pictures. "People will think we're faking it if we mention the rainbow," says one artist. "But it's there," says another famous artist. "I'm going to put it in." The rainbow was there in truth bending over the little, crushed French town, with no one to see it but the English soldiers who peeped out of their trenches at it and the tourists. All the artists but one are putting in the rainbow. Then one is Matania of Italy and London. A shell broke within fifteen feet of him this afternoon, splashed mud in the picture in which he intended the rainbow to appear and spoiled it. So now he is THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA: SPEECHING: Our feels for her child could, in a small of all people toward each other, there each and good will toward all men." ence of this great virtue and to do in whom it is most highly exemplified ed the noblest, sweetest and tenderest d custom in this state, as it has in many a day known as "Mother's Day." to a mother's love, reverence her sacred her devotion and sacrifice, I, Henry state of West Virginia, do hereby pro- observe this day as one of our cordinal constrate that we are not prone to for-itude that we owe to her, who rocked upon all the people of the tSate, the internal organizations to interest theme observance of the occasion. ave hereunto set my hand and caused be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Charleston, this twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and fifteen, and of the state the fifty-first. HENRY D. HATFIELD, Governor. Bead General French into New Line Of Trenches drawing a picture of a bursting shell with a correspondent and artists run- ning away from the huge spouting lily of mud. A visit to Neuve Chapelle is bound to be full of incidents of the sort that attracted Matania's attention. Neuve Chapelle is as thoroughly destroyed as a crushed egg shell. Its only streets are trenches; its only houses are dugouts; death fills the space above the trench line; shells criss-cross the sky above it, and burst in the ruins. There's nothing more that a shell can do to Neuve Chapelle except to stir up the debris. The shells have ransacked the cemetery; blown open the graves; scattered bits of coffins and fragments of bones over the cemetery lawns and then churned the lawns into a mass of mud, bones, coffin-bits and fragments of grave stones. Then, as if nothing would satisfy their fury, they have blown this mixture into the air and scattered it over all the neighboring portion of the town. Neuve Chapelle has disappeared, but its name goes down into history as the town which was shelled by 600 cannon; as the town which was fought for, between the English and the Germans, at a cost of 100 lives for every ruined house in its streets. The English prize Neuve Chapelle because it is a token of General French's proof that the German, in a trench, can be routed in an attack. The battle of Neuve Chapelle marked the first attack, on a line of any great strength, against entrenched German forces. It is a proof that has put fire into the fighting of both the English and the French. "I's world's better now," said an English tommy to me in the trenches this afternoon. We had stuck in our trenches, month after month, wondering how strong the fellow across the way really was, and now we know. We're out of our old trenches into the new ones in Neuve Chapelle. It's just like that Cowbody and Jaack Johnson fight." I asked him how the two were THE VENDERS ARE AGAIN VERY BUSY Ice Cream Vendors Are Pushing Their Unsanitary Business In Sections of City. Again, with the first sign of returning warm weather, ice cream vendors are busily engaged in pushing their little unsanitary carts about the city, crying their wares in ab roken language which sometimes sounds like ice cream; stopping here and there as some child runs out to purchase a penny cone. But each time the cover of the ice cream can is lifted, especially on a windy day, the dust from the streets decorates the contents of the can with black specks, which are laden with disease germs. In this way germs are dished out to the innocent little tots, whose parents have never stopped to think of the danger menacing their little ones in purchasing the dirty ice cream of the foreign street vendors. NEVER DECEIVE AN ANIMAL In the current issue of Farm and Fireside appears the following advice as to the training of animals: "You never can train a colt, a calf, or any animal, wild or tame, unless you gain its entire confidence and affection. To do this you must never deceive it, not even for fun, and always protect it and show that you love it. "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach," and the road to the affection of an animal is by way of its taste. "An apple, a bit of tender grass, or some tasty bit will soon make friends with it, and kind words and petting will make it a loving and obedient friend." If the women bound for The Hague succeed in creating a sentiment against war their mission will have been the greatest thing every accomplished by men or women. Florida Times-Union. "Well, we were like the cowboy in the first part of the war, and Germany was like Jack Johnson. Germany knew that if she licked us, she'd have to do it in the early rounds; she couldn't make a long fight of it. "Well, last winter's fighting was just like the early rounds in the Cowboy's fight. Can you imagine how worried that cowboy was until he saw that Johnson was beginning to get tired? And can you imagine how happy he felt when he found out that all his blows were beginning to worry the big black fellow? "Well, that was us at Neuve Chapelle. Neuve Chapelle showed us. And all of us fellows who were in that fight feel just like Willard must have felt about the 16th round." The point of this is not that Neuve Chapelle was interested in the Jack Johnson fight, although the news did flash like shell fire through the trenches in the town as soon as it was received, thirty hours late, but that the capture of Neuve Chapelle put a new hope and a new fighting spirit into the English army and into the French army. It put a smile on to the faces of English soldiers that had been worn by the grinding rigors of the winter; it put them into tune with the spring that is turning everything green in trenchland. It will make the French people understand the rainbow in the black cloud, which the French artist sketched this afternoon. A day at Neuve Chapelle, including the trip there and back from the English headquarters is an adventure of a lifetime. HIGHWAY WORK BY STATE PRISONERS HIGHWAY WORK BY STATE PRISONERS Very Successfully Carried Throughout Many of the Southern States Highway construction by state prisoners in the southern states is the subject of an investigation which the national committee on Prisons and Prison Labor and the Graduate Highway department of Columbia University has jointly undertaken. Convict road work in the north was similarly treated last year, the result of the study being published in the January issue of the proceedings of the Academy of Political Science. The possibility of employing the raisdemantan in road work is also under investigation at the present time. When the three studies are completed, the prison committee will be in a position to afford accurate and scientific information to all those attempting to direct convict road work, no matter in what section of the country their work lies or what type of convict they are called upon to handle. The southern study is being conducted by James Wilmat, C. E., who has been in charge of convict road gangs in Louisiana and other southern states and is familiar with both the southern convict and the southern road. The need for good roads in the agricultural districts of the south is admitted by all, while already in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and other states it has been demonstrated that the convict can be a most useful factor in procuring these roads. Up to the present time the work has been hindered by the faulty legislation under which it has had to be developed, and the weakness with which this faulty legislation has been administered. The convict has to a certain extent benefited by the healthy outdoor work and the fact that he is trained in work in which there is a constant demand for laborers and in which it is easy to obtain employment upon release. Up to the present time wages have not been paid the prisoners for this work on the roads in any of the southern states or in any state but Iowa. The popularity of convict road work has seemed to lie in the fact that it is a cheap means of securing good roads through the exploitation of the prisoner. The national committee on prisons and prison labor holds that the value of the prisoner's labor is the same as that at which free labor can be secured to do the same work and that only when this wage is paid will convict labor be efficient labor. Mr. Wilmot's study will include careful investigation of the labor cost r this work, as well as of the different systems of control and on this scientific data the committee will base recommendations which it is hoped will lead to the efficient development of convict road work in the southern states. In deciding to appoint to offices only women who are mothers the mayor-elect of Chicago puts Jane Addams under the ban and writes himself down a sort of ass. He might as well say that only fathers among men are fit to hold office in Chicago. Springfield Republican. Miss Serene Helen Blue, aged 27, paid the government ten cents for the deed to the smallest homestead in the United States. It is located at Turtle Lake, Minn., and is just 189 feet by 38 feet in dimension. She will farm it intensively. J pioneer Dress the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martins- burg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. L. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 1. 1915 Color prejudice is reported to be having full sway at the San Francisco Exposition, so the only thing we would suggest for our people to do is to steer clear of the big show and tell every fellow and his brother to do likewise. Martinsburg is in the grip of a strict "Blue law" propaganda, it being impossible to get a "shoe shine" here last Sunday. At the same time though, in certain parts of the corporate limits, immorality and gambling were having full sway We wonder sometimes that the Negroes make the progress they do in this caste cursed country. This too, in spite of the fact that all manner of hindrances, and every disadvantage that can be put in his way is used by the envious and narrow minded white man. How he can boast of his fairness and then treat his black brother as he does is beyond the power of sensible and impartial people to comprehend. That our general law makers as a rule make it hard on decent men and easy for thugs to rob and murder is plainly seen by the non pistol carrying law. It has never stopped thugs from carrying them and never will, but it has stopped good and law abiding citizens from carrying them in order to protect themselves from the outrages of the thug element, and it should be changed, for it gives the thugs the assurance that all respectable people are without them. The time honored maxim "fights like a Turk," is being literally forced home to the Allies at this time. Basis for our contention is the stubborn resistance which is being afforded the French, English and Russians who are trying vainly to force a passage through the Dardanelles. In our opinion this great European war is going to be a leveler of peoples the like of which has never been seen before. In short, it is going to knock into a cocked hat the socalled superiority of the aristocracy which really is aristocratic only in name. Mark our word, and see if we don't prove to be some sort of a prophet when the war is over. Every now and then, we see reports, statistical and otherwise, of the high mortality rate among colored people in many large cities. Granting that said reports are accurate, there should be no surprise in the mind of anybody. It is simply a natural consequence of an existing condition, and that condition is the miserable housings afforded our people in nine out of ten of our large cities. They are forced in many instances, to live in mere hovels, have no sewerage and undergo all manner of injustice at the hands of unprincipled landlords and agents. Many times colored people in moderate circumstances would like to live in more desirable neighborhoods, but rental prices are so prohibitive that they are compelled to live in undesirable and unsanitary localities, thereby increasing the death rate and causing preventable diseases to be quite prevalent among them. The highly civilized white man has it in his power to cause a decrease in the death rate among Negroes. Has he enough humanity in his makeup to do it? That is the question. The three thousand Negroes who went to the Massachusetts State House and protested to the Governor against the showing of that miserable photo-play "The Birth of a Nation," ("Tom Dixon's "Clansman in pictorial form,) set a precedent as regards colored men and protestation. Never before has the like been witnessed anywhere in the United States. Some may question the wisdom of such a demonstration, but we say it was the thing to do, and the way in which they went about their outburst of righteous indignation showed they meant business with each letter composing that word a Capital one. No other race of people would calmly sit down and let their traducers and calumniators slander them as is done by Thomas Dixon and his cohorts in the "Birth of a Nation" without objection, and that is why we are heartily in accord with the Boston men of color, and the hundreds of white men who supported and still support them in any rightful and legal endeavor they make toward conserving their rights, as citizens who are entitled to the same protection as any other Americans. DANISH BUTTER IS HURT BY WAR Geographers Issue Interesting Article About Denmark As World's Butter Exporter. WASHINGTON, April 26.How the great Danish butter trade has suffered from the present war and why little Denmark is the world's biggest butter exporter in normal times is shown in the following statement, prepared by the National Geographical Society: "One of the many strands in the wonderfully complex web of world commerce that has felt the severe strain of war is the Danish butter trade. Danish butter, Russian caviar, French champagne, Norwegian sardines, and Strassburg pate de foie gras are articles standing alone among their several kinds—special luxuries that Fate dispenses only to her favorites. The butter of Denmark has been famous around the world, and herttofore it sold everywhere that people were to be found with wealth enough to develop special tastes. The war has largely interfered with this rich industry. Denmark's butter brought the highest price in fancy markets and it was considered superior to that if any other nation. It was used by the epicures in North and South America. South Africa, in the East and West Indies, in Egypt, India, and throughout Europe. Good Danish butter sold at $1.00 a pound, in tins of one, two and three pounds. Cows in other lands seem just as sleek and the grass grows elsewhere just as succulent, but, despite these general advantages, no other country has been able to make a butter that will stand the changes of climate so well, or thta tastes so crisp and sweet. "Dairymen in Holland, Sweden and Siberia have done their utmost to produce a butter that could vie with the make of the Danes without success. The best butters of these countries are worth less than half as much. Scientific dairy operators in Germany also failed to duplicate it. Even from the milk cows of the United States, animals favored beyond most others, it has been found impossible to produce a grade of butter that can compete with the Danish article. "Danish butter is proof against climate. Butter, when shipped through the hot zones, melts and remains in a liquid state as long as it is exposed to the tropic heat. Danish butter goes through this test, melts with the heat, and hardens with the same sweetness of its flavor, while other butter loses its sweetness and flavor under these changes. "The Danes do not explain the superiority of their product. They assert that there is no secret in their process of butter manufacture, but, nevertheless, they are reticent about GOOD ROADS DAY FIXED BY GOVERNOR Chief Executive Designates May 20 and 21 As the Time to Work Roads. Governor Henry D. Hatfield has which days the governor asks that all business be suspended and that all able-bodied citizens labor upon the public roads those two days. The county courts are also asked to meet not later Monday, May 3, to issue a proclamation calling upon the people designated May 20 and 21 as "Good Roads Days" for West Virginia upon to give their labor on those two days and to appoint such persons as are necessary to effect a competent organization. All commercial, social and other organiazations of the state are called upon to help carry out the undertaking. A year ago many hundred of miles of roads were improved during the two days set apart by the governor as Good Roads ays. It is believed that the amount of good to be done this year will be at least double that of a year ago. The proclamation by Governor Hattfield is as follows: PROCLAMATION To the People of the State of West Virginia, Greeting: Whereas, It has recently been said "Good roads mean life and progress; bad roads mean death and decay;" and Whereas, West Virginia being one of the richest states in the union in natural resources, and possessing a citizenship as patriotic as is to be found has been looked upon as having the worst roads, and though abounding in the most attractive scenery the world possesses we have been shunned by the tourist; and Whereas, The soil or West Virginia is a fertile as can be found, statistics show that more than seventy-five per cent of our improved land is lying idle and our markets being supplied from abroad, which is due directly to bad roads; and Whereas, The future of our state and its value to future generations is dependent on the ability of our people to produce material wealth which is only possible in developing our agricultural and horticultural interests and in the expansion of our schools and social centers, all of which is dependent on the improvement of our roads; and Whereas, The urgent need of better roads places us face to face with one of the greatest problems of this age but once solved will result in the greatest good to the greatest number of people; and Whereas, The people of our great and glorious state recognizing these facts, in response to my proclamation did turn out last year and by their efforts made great and lasting improvements in our roads; and Whereas, The good work thus done has been of so great a value that at no time in the history of our state have the roads been as good as they are now at this season of the year, and by reason of this the greatest effort to produce more on the farm is being put forth and the spirit of more production at home is among the people; and Whereas, There has come to me taking strangers through their great packing establishments. The Danish commission houses buy the butter which they pack from small dairies all over the country, some of their material coming from as far as Finland. This raw butter, so hey say, is taken and mixed carefully at their central packing stations, and is worked over again in order to free it from every particle of milk. The packers insist that the raw butter which they buy must be prepared only from sterilized milk and cream, and that it must be prepared in scientifically clean surroundings. "After these packers have reworked the butter, they color it uniformly with the juice of the ordinary garden beet, and pack it in hermetically sealed tins. They maintain that they use no preservatives or chemicals whatsoever. Nevertheless their butter has consistently held the advantage, and, until the war's outbreak, it formed the basis of one of Denmark's most thriving and widest known articles of export. from various citiezns of the state a call to repeat the good work of last year, and recognizing these facts and that the improvement of our roads is of direct concern to every citizen; Now, therefore, I. Henry D. Hatfield, governor of the state of West Virginia, do hereby set apart Thursday and Friday, May 20 and 21 1915. for road working in the state of Virginia, and do designate the aforementioned days as "Good Road Days" and declare the same public holidays and request that all businesses be supported as to enable and that every able-bodied citizen labor upon the public highway of the state during these two days, and that the work performed be of a kind that will make lasting and permanent improvement, such as road grading, ditching, cleaning ditches, draining and filling mud hole building culverts, graveling, dragging, removing obstructions, etc. I further call upon the county court of each county to meet, not later than Monday, May 3, to issue a proclamation calling upon the people to give their labor on these days and to appoint such persons as are necessary to effect a competent organization so the work will penetrate to every neighborhood and be conducted in a thorough systematic way, so that at the end of the second day there will be no community or district within the bounds of our state where there has not been indelibly stamped the marks of patriotic toll in such improvement of the roads as will bear testimony of the progressive spirit of the people of that community. I call upon the county and city press to lend their liberal support and assistance in organizing and bringing to the road work an army of volunteers to do service in advancing the welfare of the people of each community. The liberal support of the press for West Virginia "good roads days" was of great value and resulted in much good, and its continued support is a requisite to the success of West Virginia's second "good roads days." I call upon the commercial, social and other organizations of the state the road overseers, supervisors, road agents, road engineers and all others directly or indirectly interested in movement for better roads to give their time, energy and influence to help organize and carry the undertaking to a successful completion. Much of the success of the movement one year ago was due to the loyal and enthusiastic help of the women of West Virginia. I therefore call upon them and their various organizations to prepare dinners and to see that they are served to the laborers along the way, thereby showing their loyalty and interest in this great cause. The lasting good of the work of one year ago is before us and it should be the aim of every West Virginian to see that these two "good roads days" will stand on the pages of history as another epoch in the movement for the development of the highways of our state. The man who gives his labor and energy zealously in this cause may well feel that he has performed a true public duty. The improvement of our roads is the most important public duty and the success of this great movement will rest upon every loyal citiezn. I feel that the people of the state want better roads and I hope that they will enter into the movement heartily and make these two "good roads days" of lasting value to every one. Believing in the patriotism and loyalty of the people of West Virginia and their honest desire to do the most good for the greatest number and to help make happier each home. I call upon every citizen to help "lift West Virginia out of the mud." In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Less Seal of the state to be affixed. (SEAL) Done at the capitol in the city of Charleston, this the twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the state the fifty-first. HENRY D. HATFIELD. By the Goveror: STUART F. REED, Secretary of State. NEW FISH LAW MISUNDERSTOOD The Provides Her For Fishing Are Many Lovers Complex—Many Lovers it shall be unlawful for any pern not a citizen of the United States America, or not a bona fide resi- ting its state, or any corporation business in this state, to catch destroy any of the fish in the secks or rivers of this state, or subject to the jurisdiction thereof, without first having obtained a license to do, and then only by the means thereby and during the respective days when it shall be lawful to do Such license shall be procured the following manner, to-wit: The applicant shall go before the clerk of the county court of some other county of this state and fill out a blank application, to be provided by the forest, game and fish warden stating his name, age, occupation, weight, height, place of residence and color of hair, eyes and complexion; said application shall be subservied by the applicant in ink and worn to by the applicant before said clerk and shall aver that his statements made therein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief; the applicant shall thereupon pay to said county clerk the sum of five dollars as a license tax. The said clerk shall thereupon issue to said applicant a license of the form to be furnished by the said warren, entitling such applicant to such and take fish, according to law, from any of the creeks or rivers in this state; provided, however, that such applicant may fill out said application and sign and swear to the same before some notary public or justice of the peace of the county wherein such application is made, and send the same to said clerk, together with the amount of said license tax, and such clerk shall send him such license. Such license shall be signed by said clerk and shall bear the seal of the county court of the county in which the same is issued, and no fee shall be charged therefor by the said clerk. All such license taxes shall be paid by the said clerk to the state treasurer on the first day of each month for the month next preceding. No person to whom such license has been issued shall exercise the privilege thereby conferred without at the time having such license in his actual possession, and has hall exhibit the same on demand of any officer of this state, or owner, tenant of lesssee at any land upon which such person is fishing; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the non-resident owner of any lands in the state, or his children, to obtain such license in order to lawfully fish upon such lands. shall not be lawful for any person to be caught or destroyed any of the fish in the creeks or rivers in this state by any other means than hook and line, including a trot line having the hooks thereon not less than two feet apart. It shall not be lawful for any person to have in his possession, or to set and maintain anywhere in this state, or in any waters subject to the jurisdiction thereor, or salmon trot or levy whereby fish may be taken or caught. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to catch or to have in his possession any jack salmon, commonly called jack fish, or any white salmon of less than seven inches in length, or any pike of less than ten inches in length, or ay trout less than six inches in length, or any fish caught out of season or caught in any manner prohibited by law. And all fish less than the length prescribed herein shall be returned to the water immediately with as little injury as possible. Probably nothing on the Berkeley county farm has suffered more from the dry spell than the strawberry crop. According to several farmers, a settled rain at this time would assure a bumper crop this season and would mean thousands of dollars to those growing these berries. The rain yesterday was of some good, but more is needed. J. E. 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. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeEe—e—_—eE——— | : | OLD-TIME DAMES. LOGAL NE S i | Priscilla, of Puritan Fame, i i Of whom the poet wrote— | + c Truest type of the old-time dame, piadalene tigate tn ere SCHOOL AM | U R BE EXHIBI (CD HERE ie ea « town was a business pone to our gehtenr RNase a While Standish fights on gory city on Monday last, and looked a8 go to sunday School” Sunday to be Violation of The Prohibition Statue yo al People’ would Like te Soe ihe fields, young as he did twenty years ago. | Observed by all Churches Next Presents Several Knotty Old Liberty En Route to Pan- She drives her spinning wheel; Sunday Points. ama-Pacific Exposition. While Alden highest homage yields, 4 Ds ? ‘i ¥ Since the announcement that the ie fer Jove Benes Nel Rev. Robert Burke, pastor of the Go to Sunday school next Sunday. U8" Supreme court of West Vir iP Tiherty bell will De contered say, Home wit her love gongs: peal Brunswiék Baptist Church, was the 1. will do you good; it will do the ©8# Will probably have pre eebaue tee Pallama-Hagitie, <sboxitiia some) «ia iit Woextelor Mlaeay Gaal’ a : tunity of passing upon several of the Iocal people have thought it’ would | Ske reigned in hearts of sturdy mold guest of Rev. George H. Carter on Sunday school good, scmewhat puzzleing provisions of the be Wise to ask that it be routed over | And wielded sceptre as queen; Tuesday last. Next Sunday will be observed b; new. prohibition law, as amended b: od Baltimore and Ohlo line|Home was her fortress, were truth e cl in th yas “Go i ‘i hae re * hreneh this city, and that the spe-| —-— ty kde Gat Bich ced oy (HS SICADOS UIT BAaked Uy tile deghe , AUONEL TE Site, Gnd: (tse Oe spe: tol : ; 3 danday & Sundac aad (he aid conveying the preclou ; Quite a 3 Ma sburg ae lature st the recent seoston. Cases bell stop here tor a celebration to| There her true sel was seca ee puter A se Bioveniont iat: will culminareria thik Ti cal courte Moai he thaiel ee ee Sh SEIRBRIENL people attende the seiderw: i day s fai eg " success. 2 e oe = oe eae: rn people attendec c derwolf | day bids fair to be a great success galia cornty at the present term will . 1! iS SugRESted that since West | Few rarer types of woman-kind evangelistic meeting at Hagerstown | For some little time past various en ‘ y _ Vorginia is a warborn state and. so | i be taken to the highest court of the : } Adorn the written page; on ‘Thursday. | committces have been at work mak-) |” = uuy stirring events occurred in this| oo). Fs wh The Violet Club Girls gave an enjoyable dance at Spears’ Hall on last Thursday night. We under- stand that it is the intention of these young ladies to have a dance every month hereafter. Mr. Monroe ‘Taylor is putting a concrete pavement around his Ma- ple Avenue property. It will be a big improvement. Contractor George M. Miller is doing the work. Mr. Paul Crane, of Bloomfield, N. J., was a pleasant caller at’ our office on Wednesday. He looked well, and said he was enjoying a fair share of prosperity. His Visit here was occasioned by the illness of his wife, who is now convales- cent from an operation which she recently underwent at the City Hospital. Messrs. J. Monroe ‘Taylor and J. Frank Briscoe have been appointed by Governor Hatfield as delegates to represent the State of West Vir- ginia at the National Negro Far’ mers Congress, which meets in San Francisco, July 15 to 17. Phe friends of these gentlemen herc- abouts are congratulating them on their selection by the governor. RINGLING DAY ALMOST HERE BiG Cirevs Bounp THis Way Ox Five Grear Tras Loapep WitH Wonp:ERS. Children are now on their best behavior in anticipation of a real holiday treat on Saturday, May 8, when Ringling Brothers’ World’s Greatest Shows will exhibit in Cumberland. Maryland. It is ex- pected that this city wil! send more than its ior . sawdust fans’? to weicuine iaia popular cir- cus. Ringling Brothers promise many novelties and innovations and a “bigger and better everything’ is the slogan. Preceding the regular circus performace the sew spec- tacle of ‘Solomon and the Queen of Sheba’’ will be enacted on the largest stage in the world. This maimmoth $1,250-character pageant cost $1,000,000 and the costumes, scenery and stage properties are said to be a revelation in gorgeous- ness. Among the 385 arenic acts, are scores of equestrians including the Lloyds, famous English riders; the Borsinis, rolling globe artists; the Josephson Gilma troupe; the five highest perch acts ever pre- sented; Big Bingo, the biggest liv- ing elephant; five herds of trick elephants; 50 clowns, 20 families of aerialists and a magnificent horse show and speed tournament. ‘The menagerie is larger and more com- plete than ever and features many animals never before exnibited in America. A free street parade will » be given on the morning of show day. To guard against quack tree sur- geons, the Massachusetts Forestry As- sociation will inspect shade trees free of charge. i THE GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CAMPLG Go to Sunday school next Sunaay. Ik will do you good; it will do the Sunday school good. Next Sunday will be observed by all the churches in the city as “Go to Sunday School Sunday,’ and the movement that will culminate in this day bids fair to be a great success. For some little time past various committees have been at work mak- ing the preliminary psans for a whirl- wind campaign that promises muc for next Sunday. These plans are now rapidly maturing and everything points to next Sunday being one of the most successful days the Sunday schools have known. This day will really inaugurate a summer campaign for the churches, and while the day itself will be one of unusual interest it will be but a forerunner of what will follow later. Insofar as possible it is the desire and intention of the members of the various committees to extend a per- sonal invitation to all non-Sunday school goers, but being unable to reach them all a publicity campaign has been inaugurated to extend them an invitation through the press and other means. ‘Window cards are being used very liberally. Merchants have generous- ly donated a portion of their win- dows to aid the movement, and on the whole the entire town seems im- bued with the spirit to make this movement the success it deserves. The main object in this movement is to demonstrate the good it will do the pe.som who goes to Sunday schooi and the good it will do the Sunday schoo!. There are many reasons for vitendance at Sunday school, ana ene against it. Don't get the idee snto your head you are not goo. enough to go to Sunday school be tuse the Sunday school is not as vod as it ought to be. It is such vopie as this that the Sunday schcols need, and your presence will do much good. When you go to Sunday school next sunday take a friend with you, one who is not in the habit of going, and see now much better you both feel. ‘uk this over during the week, and act accordingly. Becoming Overheated the Lad and Companion Decided to Take a Bath. CORONER DECIDES AN INQUEST UNNECESSARY Unfortunate Affair Occurred Mon day While Lads Were Enjoying a Bath In the Potomac River—Body Soon Re€covered By Friends — At 3.20 o’clock Monday afternoon Thomas Edward, the 16-year-old son of John E. and Sarah B. Wright, on Falling Waters, was drowned in the Potomac river while bathing. Young Wright had become over- heated in playing with several com panions, and they decided to take a bath in the river. In company with John W. Syster hep lunged into the water. After bathing a short time, Syster says he heard a cry and saw Wright sink beneath the surface. His ‘companion rushed to where he had gone under, but that was the last -sast seen of him alive. | ‘The alarm was immediately sound: ed and Messrs, Miller, Wild, Starkey, ‘Shade and Cunningham secured boat and began to search for the body. About 4 o'clock it was recov /ered and taken to thes hore. In the meantime Dr. G. J. E. Spon- ‘sellor, county coroner, was notifiea sand went to the scene. After view ‘ing the body and hearing the state- ment of Syster, his companion, ‘deemed en inquest unnecessary. It is believed the lad was seizea with cramps and getting beyond his depth quickly succumbed. Besides his parents the lad is eur- vived by three sisters—Beulah, Ba- ith and Ethel, all at home, and two “brothers—Arthur and Earle, also av home. The unfortunate lad was the oldest child, ‘ TO TEST NEW LAW ~IWHIGHEST COUR The supreme court of West Vir ginia will probably have the oppor tunity of passing upon several of the scmowhat puzzleing provisions of the new prohibition law, as amended ty the MeAboy bill passed by tie iegi hature at tue recent: ceosion, Cases tried in the cireuit court of Monon: salia cornty at Ute present term will be taken to the highest court of the state. One of the provisions of great in- terest to be tested is that whicn gives the state the right of appeal, and the right to try an offender the second time provided the supreme court so orders, Another provision which will probably be involved in an appeal is that which makes the possession of a quantity of liquor in exeess of one-half gallon, not prop erly labeled, conclusive evidence of the unlawful manufacture, having, and keeping for sale, and: selliag. such liquor. THE STATE CANNOT PAY THE FREIGHT Because the state has no funds with which to pay the transportation of delinquent boys and girls nor of persons adjudged insane, it has been found necessary all over West Vir ginia to turn them loose. — Local squires have become chary of sen- lencing anyone to a state imstitution vecause they know their trouble will be wasted and they might as well anve their time and efforts. Toe relormatory at Pruntytown and the state hospital for the insane at Weston, to which focal delinquents are taken after sentence is passed, are still open and running. Any who are presented to them are taken and will be cared for, but the difficulty is iv transporting prisoners to ‘the places where they are situated Several instances have come up in local fustice couris during the past two or three days in whieh it hes heen found imyossible to deal with javenile offenders or with persons adjudged insane, for only where the expense of transportation has been paid privately has it been possible to carry out the commitments issued. LION TAMER KILLED. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., April 28 Frank White, of Chattanaaga. ‘enn. a lion tamre apsearing with a. ctr. cus at Olive Hill, Ky., near here, Monday, was killed, by one of the lions. “White entered the cage and was attacked from behind by a lion, which pawed and chewed him almost to pieces. The trainer was decapitat- ed. Tickets Will Be Allowed In This State According to the New Primary Law Oniy two parties, the Republican and Democratic, will be’ eligible to participate in the direct primary for choice of candidates for State office in 1916, as the result of the new primary law passed by the last. ses. sion of the legislatere. This means the ousting of the Pro gressive, Socialist and — Prohibition parties. The new law, it has been discov ered, provides that a petition legal izing a nomination requires signa- tures of at least 5 per cent of votes cast for the combined district con- gressional candidates in 1914. Only the Democratic and Republican. par- ties are numerically strong enough to present such petitions. Between 10 and 11. o'clodtT ues. day night F. Ff. Watson, merehant at the corner of West John and North Raleigh streets, heard a noise in the shoe shop of James S. Kidwiler, near by, and making an investigation found “Bud” Firth, colored, on the inside He immediately covered him with a gun, and notified police headquarters Chiet Yoltis and Officer Hough went to the scene and brought him to the city jail An examination of the premises showed that Firth had effected en. trance by breaking a panel in the front door. He relieved the night latch, but was compelled to break the cther. Firth was transferred to the county jail Wy wmM@ ... OES ee EET w Hs Naremsay We Make All Forms Of ay vos : Cx Bee Agricultural Lime i" Ha GROUND LIMESTONE Ne Ee LUMP LIME f ir Ha GROUND LIME He Ea HYDRATED LIME Ha Hey Based on the experience of our customers we | He] recommend BERKELEY Hydrate as the best and fs He cheapest under ordinary conditions of use, where - rad labor of handiing and spreading is a factor. te Hi Ask Your Dealer Cs Ce) ip ER ; . (ES He Security Cement @ Lime Co. [As Hi HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND. 2 ? 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Since the announcement that the oid Liberty bell will be conveyed to the Panama-Pacitie exposition some local people have thought it would be wise to ask that it be routed over eid Baltimore and Ohio line wowgh this city, and that the spe flat train eoaveying the prectous bell stop here for a celebration to do planned Ko is suggested that since West \orginia is a war-born state and so ny stirring events occurred in this city, Martinsburg will make an ap: propriate stopping place for the bell ‘The Liberty bell will be exhibited at © Panama-Pacitic exposition on In Sopendence Day and will be returned its resting place at Philadelphia at the close of the exercises International law and international comity fail alike to provide muzzles ‘rr war dogs, although all of the ani- mals have rabies.—Lonisville Cour: ier Journal OLD-TIME DAMES. 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DAILY BETWEEN CLEVELAND & BUFFALO THE TRAPNEST'S USE IN BREEDING LAYERS Its Value In Developing a Strain of Hens Which Will Increase Yield. Probably the most important era in the history of poultrydom in this country was ushered in with the inauguration of the several laying contests within the past few years. The repeated successes of the English breeders have clearly demonstrated the fact that fecundity can be bred into and fixed in a stock as a dominant characteristic by judicious selection through the use of the trap nest. The true value of the trapnest has never been appreciated in this country until lately, although it has been it, use in a small or impractical way for a number of years. In fact, it was from America that the English breeders borrowed the idea. Not only does the trapnest eliminate the drones and point out the profit payers, but it brings the poultryman in closer contact with his fowls than is the case when the trapnest is not employed. The flock becomes a group of individuals with widely different characteristics rather than one composite group. From the trapnest, and the trapnest alone, can the poultryman learn which are the desirable characteristics and which are the characteristics to be eliminated. He learns to distinguish the daying type, which may be described briefly as being alert in appearance, with bright, prominent eye; small or medium in size, erect carriage, long back, broad at the rear, and tapering toward the front; soft, deep abdomen; thin pelvic bones, rather large comb, of exceedingly smooth texture; late molting. For obvious reasons, it is impossible for the early molting pullet to make an exceptional record for the year, and this factor being eliminated, we should place the sofe abdomen and thin pelvic bones next in importance when picking out the heavy layer. It is also worthy of nots that practically all the heavy layers we have ever seen carried their tails pointing skyward. Draws Conclusion. Director Quisenberry, of the Missouri Experiment Station, in a general resume of the these contests which he has managed, draws the following conclusions: "There is an egg type and a beef type in poultry, just as true as there is a dairy and a beef type in cattle. We find both of these types in all varieties of poultry. * * * We believe that if a White Leghorn with a record of 250 eggs and a Barred Rock with the same record were both in good health and condition, and were both killed and picked at the same time, you would find a great resemblance and uniformity in the measurements of the body and bones of the two fowls." We agree most heartily with Director Quisenberry, but there seems to be only one way to become familiar with this type, and that is through the use of the trapnest. In future generations, the pullets confronting in a general way to this type can be placed in separate quarters from the main flock, and accurate records kept of each in dividual. It would probably not be profitable to trapnest the entire flock, as a year's work will convince the observing poultryman which type of pullet is likely to do the consistent laying. The truly successful breeder of heavy layers, pedigrees at least a few of his chicks, and uses males of only known parentage in the breeding pens. Not every daughter of high record parentage will herself equal the parent stock in facundity, but the percentage of heavy layers will be far in excess of those bred from parentage of unknown quality. Provided that good, sound judgment is used in mating, each succeeding generation should produce a larger percentage of pullets which will equal or surpass the parent stock. When Secretary Daniels decreed prohibition for the navy few people thought that Russia, England and France would follow his example. Florida Times-Union. 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