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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 Oriental Mannerisms We owe to a popular writer, says Mr. Sidney Whitman in "Turkish Memories," the assertion that there is something fundamentally different in character between the East and the West, which makes mutual understanding difficult and assimilation impossible. The English traveler who is inclined to accept this axiom may begin to detect the Eastern flavor of things as soon as he leaves the frontier of the German Empire behind him and passes through the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on his way to Constantinople. Should you arrive at Vienna on a Saturday, you will have to wait these twenty-four hours if you intend to take the Orient Express to Constantinople, for it leaves Vienna on Sunday evening, and even in that short time you may feel a subtle change in the atmosphere of life. You ask a sedate-looking official in the bureau of your hotel up to what o'clock on Sunday morning the shops in the town remain open, as you want to purchase a few traveling necessaries. "Until midday, sir," in the decisive reply. Instinctively, warned by past experience, you turn to the hail porter, who usually embodies the brain power of a Viennese hotel, and in order to make sure, you put the same question to him. The shops are not open at all on Sundays," is his reply, and so indeed it turns out to be. You stroll toward the Leopoldstadt with the intention of taking luncheon at the old "Goldness Lamm," now called the Hotel National, long renowned as the hostelry patronized by European crowned heads as far back as the Vienna Congress of 1815. You grip the brass handle of a glass door on which the inviting word "Entree" is affixed in large white enameled letters. You tug at it in vain, and are ultimately warned off by a man signaling frantically from the inside that it is not a door at all, but only the window of an apartment—and that the real entrance to the hotel is a few yards to the left. You now recollect that when you were there last—some seven years previously—that word "Entree" was already there, and that you and doubtless many others ever since—were warned off; but the proprietor has not apparently thought it worth while to erase the misleading letters. It is still Sunday, and you wish to post a registered letter. That can be done only at the Central Post Office during certain hours of the afternoon. You drive there, holding the letter in readiness, together with a krone to pay the registration fee, and wait your turn patiently. For without patience, that supposedly Christian virtue (which by the way I subsequently acquired myself and discovered to be of Mohammedan origin), it is of little use starting on a journey to the East. At last your turn comes. and you patiently watch the registering clerk, after slowly copying the address of your letter into a book, retire to the back of his capacious office. You notice that he is in earnest consultation with a colleague. At last he comes forward with an air of embarrassment and explains apologetically that he is in a "difficulty" as to providing the change out of the small coin you have handed him. Finally he asks whether you would mind accepting a postage stamp of the value of ten heller (one penny) in part discharge of the sum due you. All this happens within twenty-four hours! You know now that you are on your way to the East, where a minimum value of time and an element of fiction mixed up with every action or statement of fact constitute two of the many differences between the easy-going East and the matter-of-fact West.—The Youth's Companion. EMPLOYEE CANNOT WAIVE DAMAGES. Philadelphia, Pa. - In sustaining, recently, the verdict of $14,000 obtained by Arthur H. Murray, formerly a Pullman porter, against the Reading Railway, as damages for personal injuries sustained, the Supreme Court made several important rulings on the right of an employee to be safely carried to his destination the same as a regular passenger on a train. The claim of Murray has been vigorously fought by the railway company and as a last resort it produced the contract of employment between the plaintiff and the Pullman Company, which contained a waiver of rights to recover damages in the event of an accident. The accident occurred on November 4, 1911, when a train running between Philadelphia and Williamsport, came to a stop at Mahanoy Junction. Murray was working on the last car. He alleged that the stopping of the train, which was going at the rate of forty miles an hour, was so sudden and violent that he was hurled a distance, striking with his head. His spine was injured and paralysis resulted. He has since been confined to an invalid's chair. Sustaining Judge Patterson's rulings, Justice Potter decided that the waiver clause in the contract of employment of a Pullman porter is not available as a defense in a suit for damages. He also upholds the lower court for submitting to the jury the question of the alleged negligence of the engineer in bringing the train to a sudden halt. FACTS WORTH KNOWING. The highest altitude in the United States proper is Mt. Whitney, State of California, 14,898 feet; Mt. McKinley, Alaska, rises to an altitude of 20,300 feet; Mt. Massive, Colorado, and Mt. Ranier, Washington, rise to a height of 14,424 and 14,526 feet, respectively. The highest place on the earth is Mt. Everest, Himalayas, 29,000 feet. The wise man is he who attends to his own business. Mother and Heirs Get $80,000! Memphis, Tenn.-The courts have decided that Betty Hicks and her eight children should have the $80,000 left by the white father of the children. Betty Hicks was the practical slave of the white man as well as his common-law wife and it was proven that the children were all his without a doubt. The mother and children are densely ignorant - not even comprehending the contest over the will nor what the decision giving them $80,000 means. When found they were working in fields in overalls and male attire the girls never having seen a petticoat. Judge Barton declared, "the only decent thing this social outcast, the white father, ever did was when he left his estate to his common-law wife and the children of her body." It is feared that such ignorant people, coming utterly unprepared into posssssion of such great wealth will be the victims of every schemer. The Seimitar (white) of Memphis says: "The jumpers and overalls should be taken from them; they should be dressed decently and taken out of the cotton patch and sent to school, where they may derive the belated benefits accruing from their father's wealth, which their labor largely helped to accumulate and to which they are entitled by every rule of right and reason. If these helpless people are to be abandoned by the courts and the constituted authorities, and if outsiders are permitted to rob them, it will be a permanent stigma and an indelible stain on our civilization, and a convincing proof that we are not willing or able to protect the weak against the strong, and the ignorant against the cunning and conscienceless." — Louisville News. NASHVILLE'S MAYOR IS OPPOSED TO SEGREGATION Expressing opposition to the Negro segregation bill now pending in the legislature, Mayor Howze issued the following statement: "About twelve months ago the city commission had the city attorney render an opinion on this question. Mr. Ewing declared at that time that in his opinion, such a bill would be unconstitutional, whether passed by the commission or the state legislature. That opinion was accepted by the commission and no further action was taken on the matter. "For five years that I have been mayor of Nashville, it has always been my endeavor to have the races in this city live together in peace and to work harmoniously. I have been opposed to any such move now. "When the question of locating the publishing house of one of the religious bodies of the Negroes was up, I advised a delegation of colored men that it would be better to put this in a part of the city where no ill-feeling would be generated. They followed my advice in this matter quickly and quietly. "In the election for the present legislature a delegation from the Negro board of trade of this city called on me and asked if the ticket I supported would favor this segregation bill if elected. I told them that I was opposed to such legislation and that if it came before the legislature I would make known that opposition. I have never gone back on a promise, and I intend to carry out this one. "I am opposed to this bill in every way and will do what I can to fight it."- Nashville American. A Tragic Wedding Ring. A tragic Wedding Ring. A tragic story of a forgotten wedding ring is told in the "Lives of the Lindsays." He should have been at church when Colin Lindsay, the young Earl of Balcarras, was quietly eating his breakfast in nightgown and slippers. Reminded that Mauritia of Nassau was waiting for him at the altar, he hurried to church, but forgot the ring. A friend present gave him one, which he, without looking at, placed on the bride's finger. After the ceremony was over the countess glanced at her hand and beheld a grinning death's head on her ring. She fainted away, and the omen made such an impression on her that on recovering she declared she was destined to die within a year, a presentment that probably brought about its own fulfillment, for in a few months the careless Colin was a widower. Both of One Mind. Mrs. Stormyweather, who had been engaged in a somewhat prolonged and heated dialogue with her husband, beat a dignified retreat so soon as she found she was getting the worst of the argument and turned her attention to culinary matters as a balm for her ruffled soul. "Jane," she said, "I want you to put on your things at once and go out and see if you can get me a plaice." "Yes'm," replied Jane, with alacrity. "And while I'm about it I may as well look for one for myself, too, for I'm blest if I can stand the master any more than you."—London Mirror. Remorse. A legal journal tells of a trial in which the following remorseful letter appeared in evidence: "Mr Bidwell: Dear Sir — This is what I never expect to come to. But it is trouble, and no one to help mee out. So I want you to have this young woman Burried. But mee, let me lay top of ground, for the Turkey Buzzards to eat, for I have did rong. Joseph Bradley." "My good man, what are you in prison for?" "My convictions." "Your convictions?" "Yes, mum. If the jury had acquitted me I wouldn't be here."—Detroit Free Press. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.—Ouida. When Representative Campbell, of Kansas, recently said, on the floor of Congress, in the presence of a packed house, that his children "attended a mixed school in Pittsburg, Kansas, his home town," and that he himself "worshiped with Negroes, and that further he was willing and would permit the colored man to exercise his political rights under the constitution," he dealt his democratic opponents, including the Tillmans, Vardamans and Hoke Smiths, a solar plexus blow, as it were. With such friends as Representative Campbell, in official station, especially in Congress, the Negroes in America will not perish from the earth. Pastor Russell Tells of "Hell." Pastor Russell appeared at Emery Auditorium, Thursday night. A large and intelligent audience greeted him. No color line was drawn, and in consequence, representative colored people were scattered promiscuously through the audience. His sermon of two and a half hours was a wonderful exhibition of logic, Biblical knowledge and eloquence. He does not believe that any educated minister really believes in the doctrine of hell, as an abode for eternal damnation, and he believes that God our Creator is a kind, lovable Being, instead of a monster of cruelty, as some preachers would have us believe. Dr. Russell's pamphlet on Hell, is most interesting, and in it he shows the true meaning of the word, namely a grave rather than a pit filled with fire and brimstone to torture those souls who have wandered from the straight and narrow path. His books on the Bible are most interesting, and his knowledge of that sacred volume is wonderful. He plainly points out the superstitions and ignorance and inconsistences of some preachers, teachers, and followers of the Christian religion and then makes a masterly and logical appeal for common sense, for reason, in our religious worship and study of God's word. Pastor Russell, for forty years, predicted and named the date for the present great war that is now devastating Europe.—Cincinnati Union, W. P. Dabney, Editor. CATHOLIC GAINS The Official Catholic Directory shows that the Roman Catholic Church has increased in numbers a quarter of a million in the last year. It also shows a gain of nearly four million in the past ten years and more than seven million in the past twenty years. For our part, we should like to see more of the Catholic spirit instilled into our great Protestant and other denominations. The Catholic Church in this country is that religious body in which wealth,social distinction, class and race count for the least. The humblest,poorest and most ignorant immigrant entering New York can go up into the great Cathedral on 5th ave., and feel that he is welcome, and the truth is, he is welcome. Any one in such circumstances would hesitate for some time before entering a rich Protestant church. It is almost impossible to think of a Catholic priest preaching race discrimination or urging his congregation to go out and ly n c h somebody. If all the great Christian organizations in this country had the religious and moral courage to openly disapprove the injustice, lawlessness and cruelty which the Negro has to suffer, those sins and crimes would soon be stopped. But they haven't got it.—New York Age. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. R. Ciflord, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915. Our lawmakers have redeemed themselves and no ones but cranks can find fault with their doings. Our press being out of commission is the cause of delay in this issue. Say what you please, Germany is either going to wipe up the world or be wiped off of it, before the war ends. It's our candid belief that she is going to win. Crushing Barnes as Roosevelt did into smithereens, makes Teddy 1916's presidential nominee and all the combined opposition cannot defeat him. We wholeheartedly congratulate you, Colonel. Germany is too shrewd for Bryan and his chief, whose presidential existence he is trying to impede. They can play Charles Moten's sleepy game on both, call their hands and win—leaving them the world's laughing United States officials. Will Hale, the dirtiest Negro in the Eastern Panhandle, who has caused scores of innocent persons to serve terms in jail for alleged bootlegging, that he might get free rides to Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Wheeling, at 10 cents per mile and a daily pay for lying is to get a free ride to the penitentiary for three years—wish it had been ten times three years. Truly your sins will find you out. If human beings are religious why are they so jealous? Is it not one of the lowest traits of the beast? It's not a thing but lust for lascivity, and no one loves another who is jealous. The harpy tribe contend that, "where there is no jealousy, there is no love." If they would transpose it and learn that where there is love there is no jealousy, then they would be right, for of all the thorns in the flesh jealousy is the lowest and most degrading. It's the devil's chief agent to drag souls into his infernal regions. The Presbyterian, a magazine "of the South," rails out in no uncertain tones against persons who find fault with theology. Is man perfect? Did he not make it? Can man make a perfect thing? Then why not find fault when and where it can be found? Theology is man's production, religion is God's. The latter is the sun, the former its satellite. We suggest that the Presbyterians eliminate "of the South" from their magazine. True religion has no confines. It not only looks narrow, but sounds bad, for there is neitker North nor South in God's sight. As we see it and have for years, a conclusion has been reached that it is a mistake and a waste of time, energy and money to educate degenerates. It only sharpens their inborn beastly tendencies. Everywhere are to be found scores of nobly born poor girls and boys who should be carefully looked after and richly educated—the best the world has to give. It is only their example in uprightness, industry, economy and a divine love for the Golden Rule, that may awaken and arouse this morbid slumbering class, and that can only be done by a growing shame between their rude and ruinous conduct and that of the educated upright. The home where napkins are kept, washed and ironed to the exclusion of the home-folks but when strangers call they adorn the table, is nothing less than pretension, or hypocrisy. It must make the little ones think what they dare not say, and the honest toiler who has provided the food and supposedly the head(?) of the house, return sadly to his labor feeling inferior in the assumed affection of the wife(?) as between himself and the stranger. If napkins are useful and indicative on days of visitation why not keep it up constantly? Verily, "consistency thou art a jewel." We have always made it a rule to never use one placed at our plate unless the man of the house has one, and hereafter if he has none we shall pass him the one at our plate. Our christian President has been stirred and his noble soul has gone to Mexico and is pleading for help for starving Mexicans. In the superabundance of your mercy for outsiders, permit the Pioneer Press to call your Executive honor to the doctrine of Thomas Jefferson, who, in days long gone by, called at the home of one of his slave owning friends, and the woman of the house was wringing her hands and making all kinds of facial expressions. Mr. Jefferson—big and noble soul he was—said: "What's the matter?" Her reply was: "Oh! those poor Greeks, those poor Greeks!" His reply: "Madam," pointing to her slaves, "the Greeks are at your own door." And, Mr. President, the same starving, unjustly imprisoned, shamefully peonaged, disgracefully disfranchised and outrageously jim-crowed and segregated Greeks are at your own door, and if God be just woe will be your fate as between the Mexicans and the American Negroes. "Infidel" eh? Was called that thirty-seven years ago in this town and Keyes preached it in the Dudley Baptist Church. Would rather be called a monkey and be a man, than to be called a man and be a monkey. As a rule, all men who dare and do, or have other than the old trend of thought—get out of the ruts—have been, are and will be considered cranks, fools and infidels by the rut lovers and stayers therein. Tom Paine, by the fools who killed witches, was the chief of infidels. We love his religion—"The world is my home and to do good is my religion." Would to God the whole world was sincerely imbued with it. To come to my house hungry, eat a good hearty meal and then go off and abuse me, is hypocrisy. Tom Paine fed the dark ages of the United States with rich and the most advanced thought written in our fundamental laws, and the doers as "dad did" curse him. When Tom Paine said: "I take a leap in the dark," he told the truth, and so do we all. Try to do good and be agnostics. We would rather live the life of Robert G. Ingersoll, America's model father and husband who said: "Whenever you professed christians treat the black man as a brother, I'll believe in your religion and join your church," than be a fashionable American christian. He Got the New Suit. "When I was a boy your age I used to have to wear my father's trousers cut down to fit me." "I know, pa, and if you were the boy that I think you were I'll bet you vowed many a time that if you ever had a son he'd never be made to wear such clothes."—Detroit Free Press. HOUSTON G. YOUNG Special Correspondence. It is with a great deal of pleasure, that the many friends, all over the state, of Mr. Houston G. Young, Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, are hailing his already announced intention to permit his name to go before the people, on the Republican ticket, in the coming primary, as a candidate for the office of Secretary of State. It is certainly urgently necessary, that when a man aspires for an office he should be endowed with some elements of peculiar fitness for that particular office, and among others, those of efficiency, experience, and a broad and comprehensive knowledge of men and things are not the least. With these endowments, Mr. Young can be said to be richly qualified. The fact that he sprang from the soil, and by dint of perseverance and diligent application, amply prepared himself for life's sterner and higher duties by a course in the West Virginia Wesleyan College, and rounded out his academical education with a course of law in the West Virginia University would seem to peculiarly fit him for the position to which he aspires in this instance. Eight years of constant and efficient service in the position he now occupies, four under Secretary Swisher and four under the present incumbent, Secretary Reed, still further qualify him in a peculiar way for this particular office. His comprehensive knowledge of the workings of the office, his necessarily wide scope of acquaintance both in and out of the state, and his installation of many new methods in this office, have served to put the affairs of the office of the Secretary of State at his finger tips. Not the least, among his many assets, is the fact, that his past record as an aggressive, effective, diligent working republican is unquestioned. He is neither burdened nor obligated by any alliances. If nominated and elected, which we confidently predict he will be, he stands in the position to serve the people in the light and spirit of "the greatest good to the largest number." Those who know him best know that his watchwords are accuracy, efficiency and system. His decision to permit his name to be used in the above mentioned capacity is a direct answer to the call of the hour, which is for a sufficient infusion of young blood into public affairs to lend to them a vigorous, energetic and healthy tone. As an organizer and worker, Mr. Young stands in the very forefront. As a consistent republican, his record speaks for itself. As to his knowledge of men and things, the result of his office attests his capacity. His candidacy will be clean, clear cut and in the open, and in this day and time, when the political world is rapidly turning toward men, who represent the higher order of things in public life, we anticipate that he will be one whose name will be weighed in the balance and not found wanting. PETROGRAD IS A WONDER. A City Built by Russia In Defiance of the Laws of Nature. It is an amazing monument to the despotism of the czars that Petrograd has flourished, as it was built, in defiance of the laws of trade and of nature herself. As a port it is immeasurably inferior to Riga, which has a much longer open season, for Petrograd is icebound from early November to the end of April. As a building site it has been repeatedly and disastrously flooded by the Neva. The highest elevation within the bounds of the city is less than fifteen feet above sea level, and the cellars have to be baked out nearly every spring when the ice melts and the wind blows. And the rigorous climate constantly gnaws at walls and columns until the city has been twice and thrice rebuilt by the czars. Many of the most imposing structures are held together only by means of iron clamps, and the huge bowlder on which Peter rides his bronze horse is ever crumbling away. The stones of the streets are continually sinking below the level, and the great Cathedral of St. Isaac never ceases to settle on a foundation in which nearly $1,000,000 was sunk. No less than six tiers of piles were driven for the beautiful column of Alexander I., yet that eighty foot monolith, the tallest and largest in Europe, has to be clamped in iron. As a dwelling place Petrograd remains the most fatal of any great city in the civilized world, with a mortality of twenty-eight to each 1,000 of population, and within ten years its death rate actually exceeded its birth rate. Argonaut. SUBMERGING A SUBMARINE. It Takes Five Minutes For the Best of Them to Get Under. Submarines are not easy to handle and it takes considerable skill and daring to navigate them successfully. Many people have the idea that as soon as a submarine sees an enemy, the officer in command gives a sharp order, and almost before it has left his lips the submarine is diving beneath the waves. As a matter of fact the very latest submarines take a clear five minutes before they can become submerged. Many of the older submarines took ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to sink. The reason that a submarine cannot dive quickly, like a fish, is because the water which must be let into her tanks to make her heavy enough to sink, must be let in comparatively slowly. If it were let in with a rush the chances are the vessel would not go down on an even keel, but would heel over and be in great danger of disaster. If water, too, were let in too quickly there is a danger of letting in too much and in that case the submarine would sink like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The depth at which a submarine travels under the sea is regulated by horizontal rudders. The water that is let in the ballast tanks is just sufficient to "balance" the vessel in the sea without rising or sinking.—London Spectator. An Effective Question: While Henry Clay was a senator a resolution, in accordance with a sometime custom, was introduced into the Kentucky house of representatives instructing the senators from that state to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in congress. The resolution was in the act of passing without opposition when a hitherto silent member from one of the mountain counties, springing to his feet, exclaimed, "Mr. Speaker, am I to understand that this legislature is undertaking to tell Henry Clay how to vote?" The speaker answered that such was the purport of the resolution, at which the member from the mountains, throwing up his arms, exclaimed, "Great heaven!" and sank into his seat. It is needless to add that the resolution was immediately rejected by unanimous vote. Lord Salisbury's Joke. Count Miyatovich, former Servian minister, told in London the story of a meeting he once had with the late Lord Salisbury. "He was a brilliant man and a great statesman," he said. "A little cynical, he never lost an opportunity of having a laugh at one's expense, but in his laugh there was never a trace of any malice. In the interview I recounted my nation's history, when he seemed a little bored. At the end Lord Salisbury dryly remarked: 'I thank you, minister. Now I know what I did not know before—that you have a brilliant history. But, my dear friend, it would have been much better for the Serbs if you had a less brilliant history and a port on the Adriatic.'" In the Austrian savings fund there are, on the average, $70 deposited for each man, woman and child in the country. W HAT is beard. It may be sold in a few words—beer is a beverage prepared from malted barley, rarely from malted wheat. Rice or corn or their products are often used in addition to barley. The art of brewing is one of the oldest arts of which we have any knowledge, and brewers consequently represent one of the oldest guilds. Brewing was known and practiced by the Egyptians perhaps 1000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. It was practiced by the Greeks, Romans and ancient Gauls. Herodotus, 450 B. C., tells us how Egyptians made wine from grain. Pliny repeats the same statement and many others of those early writers refer to it. Tacitus states in the first century A. D. that it was the usual beverage among the Germans, and further the art of malting and brewing was probably introduced into Great Britain by the Romans. Even the Kafiris, a race in Africa, make beer from millet seed. As early as the year 1585 there were twenty-six breweries in London with ```markdown ``` Charles Frederick Chandler, professor of chemistry in Columbia university of New York, was born in 1839 in Lancaster, Mass. studied at Harvard, Goettingen and Berlin and has been connected with Columbia university since 1864. He is the founder of the School of Minas, the university president of the state of New York city and is a recognized improver of hygienic conditions and the father of modern pure food legislation. He is a life member of the chemical societies of London, Berlin, Paris and New York. an output of 650,000 barrels per annum. It is interesting to note that New York city produces ten times that quantity, and the entire United States produces 100 times that quantity. The term ale was used in England before the introduction of hops and probably came from the Scandinavians. 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. 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, E. C. OWEN, MANAGER It is first in the hearts of its countrymen. --- Young Announces For Sec. Of State The following statement from Mr. Young, and the subsequent comment from many of the leading dailies over the State will further serve to enlighten our readers in this connection. Charleston, W. Va.. May 19th, 1915—"I am a candidate for secretary of state, declared Houston G. Young, chief clerk under Stuart F. Reed; whom gossip long ago placed as having the office in view and whose service in his present capacity put him in line for advancement. Mr. Young's friends have been quietly boosting him for some time and they have sought expressions from leading politicians of the state, many of whom encourage him to make the race. 1910 HOUSTON G. YOUNG The above is the likeness of Mr. Houston G. Young, Chief Clerk in the Office of the Secretary of State, whose name will doubtless be presented to the electorate of the state for the office of Secretary of State in the coming Primary. Mr. Young has everything in his favor. He comes from a well known West Virginia family, has a large personal following, enjoys the confidence of the leading men of the state, and is exceptionally well equipped in every way for the position. He has been chief clerk in the office of secretary of state for eight years under both Charles W. Swisher and Stuart F. Reed. His familiarity with the office places him in a unique position; no one in the state is quite so able to govern that important department of the work as Mr. Young. When Mr. Young was first mentioned for this office, during the regular session of the legislature, he underwent a thorough investigation on the part of many prominent men and the fact that no objection has been filed to his candidacy speaks volumes for his popularity and the confidence of the people in his ability. During the recent extra session there have been many things said in his favor and it is only fairness to record that if any Republican in the state has a preference for someone else for this position he has kept quiet. Mr. Young is a graduate of Wesleyan College at Buckhannon and the West Virginia University. He is, first of all, a West Virginian, born at Clarksburg, now residing at Charleston, but a resident of the whole state. CITTA VECCHIA. Malta's Ancient Capital a Constant Reminder of St. Paul. The place where Publius, the chief man of Malta in St. Paul's day, lived is thought to be Citta Vecchia, the ancient capital. It lies near the center of the island, about midway between Valetta and St. Paul's bay, and is connected with Valetta by a railroad. Here every turn reminds us of St. Paul. The principal square is called Piazza San Paolo, and here we find a fine cathedral, which is said to be built on the very site of the house of Publius. Entering the cathedral, we see a great image of St. Paul, covered with a silver cloth, a reminder by contrast perhaps of how little of that precious metal he was possessed of in his lifetime. In a nearby suburb of Citta Vecchia is another church dedicated to St. Paul and named for him, which the inhabitants devoutly believe is built over the very grotto in which he lived during his three months on the island, and the catacombs of the grotto are also called after his name. One striking monument to the apostle reminds every passing traveler of this wonderful story. In the bay of St. Paul is a tiny island called Selmun, and on this island is a towering statue of the apostle, which can be seen from far, a fit emblem of the colossal character which in all the ages since has so influenced and blessed the world.—Christian Herald. SACRED NUMBERS. Four and Forty Were Held In Reverence by the Ancients. The number four was anciently esteemed the most perfect of all, being the arithmetical mean between one and seven. Omar, the second caliph, said, "Four things come not back—the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity." In nature there are four seasons and the four points of the compass. Forty, a multiple of four by ten, is one of the sacred numbers. The probation of our first parents in the garden of Eden is supposed to have been forty years. The rain fell at the deluge forty days and nights, and the water remained on the earth forty days. The days of embalming the dead were forty. Solomon's temple was forty cubits long. In it were ten lavers, each four cubits long and containing forty baths. Moses was forty years old when he fled into the land of Midian, where he dwelt forty years. He was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years. The Saviour fasted forty days and nights before entering upon public life. The same time elapsed between the resurrection and the ascension.—Exchange. News In Olden Times Not many minutes after a statesman has finished a speech nowadays the news is selling in the streets and has been flashed to every capital in Europe. It was different in the elections in the time of Pitt. He made a memorable speech one March, and the eager public only learned exactly what he said from the Gentleman's Magazine of the following November.—London Saturday Review. The Real Toil. "I used to practice five hours a day on the piano," said the musician. "You are through with that drudgery now." "Drudgery? Those were times of restful leisure. Now I have to work fourteen hours a day giving lessons." —Washington Star. All Foolish. "Did you ever write a foolish love letter?" "I never wrote any love letters." "That is practically what I asked you."—Houston Post. Her Majesty, the Cook. "Well, is our dinner party going off all right tonight?" "I hope so." "And what are we to have?" "I don't know as yet. The cook is to give me an audience at 4:30."—Kansas City Star. Logical. Miss Bute-You really should give up smoking; it affects the heart. Jack Lover-By that reasoning I ought to give up you too.-Boston Transcript. We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.-Rochefoucauld. Fashioned From Sheets of Copper by an In ingenious Process. From start to finish the making of an army bugle is a process of much ingenuity and interest. A bugle may not at first sight present a striking resemblance to its cousin, the coach horn, but one is practically a curled up version of the other, for before the bugle is bent into shape it consists of a narrow tube fifty-one inches long. In the first stage of manufacture the bugle is cut out of sheet copper and rolled into two thin cylinders, technically known as the "bell" and the "branch." The narrow tube, which is the "bell," is gradually shaped out on molds until the opening is the regular four inches in diameter. It is then "spun" on a wonderful machine, and an expert workman takes the rough edges off the copper. Both sections are afterward filled with molten lead preparatory to the bending stage, and it is this solid stuffing which prevents the tube breaking in the process and allows it to keep its shape. 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