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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 No Need Of Such A Disaster The appalling loss of life in the disaster that overtook the excursion steamer Eastland, at Chicago, is the greatest calamity that city has been called on to sustain since the Iroquois Theater fire. Death came to the victims with almost the swiftness of the lightning's stroke; happy hearts starting out for a day's pleasure suddenly struck dumb with terror. Some person or persons will be held responsible for the harvest of death, but no punishment, however drastic it may be, will restore life to the inanimate or assuage the grief of the stricken home or the bereaved family. From the day the boat was launched she has behaved badly on the waters, and was considered by all acquainted with her as a hoodoo vessel. She was fatally faulty in being top-heavy, and more than once listed dangerously with a human cargo on board, threatening to perform as she finally did on Saturday. With these known defects in her construction, why was it that the ship was passed at every inspection? No vessel, it would seem, should be allowed papers, especially when that vessel is to be entrusted with the safety of human lives, if there existed the slightest doubt of her ability to meet the ordinary hazards of maritime traffic. It is the testimony of an expert naval architect that the Eastland's vulnerable faults were in her hull, in the construction of which certain fundamental principles applying to ship-building were ignored. With these revelations, was it not criminal negligence on the part of the government inspection bureau to allow her to roam the lakes as a vast coffin? It is also significant that the boat was known as the "crank of the lakes?" When a dangerous crank on land is found wandering about he is locked up. The Eastland, therefore, as an equal menace, should have been tied up, permanently interned in some harbor. Wheeling Intelligencer. WOMAN ICE DEALER It doesn't sound just exactly like "Ice!" the way Mrs. Maggie Treino says it. Twenty-six years in America, and 10 years as Kansas City's only ice woman, haven't polished the Neapolitan accent from Mrs. Treino's call. But when the residents of the West Side hear her voice ringing up and down the quiet streets early in the morning they don't need an interpreter to tell them what Mrs. Treino says. Mrs. Treino's big yellow wagon and little, plodding horses are well known. That the ice woman has more friends in the neighborhood than 'the icemen can be credited largely to the smiles and words of good cheer that she gives away with her ice. From 4.30 o'clock every morning until about 11 o'clock Mrs. Treino serves about 100 customers and several big factories along the streets of Kansas City's West Side. After 11 o'clock, surrounded by her brood of eight children, Mrs. Treino is very much at home at 512 Cherry street. She finds a seat on the little porch of the small brick dwelling, folds her heavy arms across her ample breast, and with the children as her companions, whiles away the afternoons like any other Italian woman of the North Side. The hands which handle a 100 pound chunk of ice with perfect ease find relaxation in the little home pursuits of an Italian housewife. Necessity drove Mrs. Maggie Treino to the ice wagon a decade ago. There were seven hungry little mouths to feed then, and her husband, Carmen Treino, was becoming afflicted with a pain in his side which foreshadowed the day when he would have to leave his work on the railroad-invalided home, as a soldier from the front. Living with the Treinos was John Terry, who is a brother of Mrs. Treino. One day the family was discussing the approaching hour of need. They had some money saved not much the menfolk said, but quite considerable, Mrs. Treino thought. She had worked in gardens back in Naples, and was not afraid of toil. Ice was cool in the summertime, and it attracted her. The result was that with her brother as first assistant Mrs. Treino launched an ice business on the side. Day by day her list of customers grew, until her earnings began to total up around $15 a week. Now they are over that amount, Mrs. Treino says. Figure It Out. A beggar boy asked an old gentleman in the street for sixpence. "What will you do with it if I give you one?" asked the old gentleman. "Turn it into ninepence quick," replied the boy. "How?" "Give me the sixpence and I'll soon show you." The boy got the money, darted off to a baker's shop and bought a three penny loaf, with which he returned to the old gentleman and handed him back 3 pennies. "How's this? You said you would make the sixpence into ninepence." "So I have. The baker's got threepence, you've got threepence, and I've got a three penny loaf. That's ninepence."—Pearson's Weekly. An Interesting Talk. In the days of Henry Clay, a Kentucky farmer sent a servant to Lexington with a note for the president of a certain bank. When the man returned he said to his master: "I met Marse Henry Clay in the bank and had a conversation with him." "Indeed! And on what topic did you and Mr. Clay converse?" inquired the master with interest. The darky removed his hat and made a sweeping bow. * * * "Says Mr. Clay to me." * * * And another very low bow. "And I the same to Mr. Clay."—Everybody's. Mr. Wise Guy. Mr. Wise Guy sat beside the road watching his chauffeur doctor a puncture. Presently a farmer, leading a youthful calf, passed. "Where'd you get the calf, Rube?" Mr. Wise Guy inquired impudently. "Set a hen on a bottle o' milk," was the reply. And Mr. Wise Guy was mean enough to threaten to fire the chauffeur for laughing.—Indianapolis News. Real friends are very few. Remembers His Eskimo Friend Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, in fulfillment of the wishes of Ootah, one of the four Eskimos who accompanied him to the Pole in 1909,has shipped to Ootah and other members of the tribe of Cape York Eskimos, the northernmost of all the inhabitants of the globe, a phonograph and records. They are securely packed in the hold of the MacMillan relief ship George B. Cluett, which has cleared from Nova Scotia, for the Arctic. Admiral Peary recently learned through a newspaper clipping that when the Whitney-Rainey hunting party was at Etah, North Greenland, Ootah, who heard their phonograph on the sealer Boehfic, commanded by Capt Robert A. Bartlett, of Peary's North Pole expedition, was profoundly impressed by it and requested Bartlett to ask Peary to send him a "talking machine." Ootah was one of the most stalwart of Peary's Eskimos and a great favorite of his, and so the Admiral gladly complied with the request and sent to Ootah and his tribe a number of choice records, hoping that they will have a marked influence on his music-loving race and add much to their enjoyment during the six months long winter nights. Among the records are "America," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Yankee Doodle," "The National Emblem," by the Marine Band; "Rock of Ages," "Lead, Kindly Light," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," Peary's own record describing the discovery of the North Pole and a number of ragtime compositions. No vessel has gone from the United States to the locality of this tribe at Etah, on Smith Sound, north of Baffin Bay, for more than two years. LOST IN A GLACIER Fate of a Prospector Who Slipped Into a Crevasse In Alaska. "In the winter of 1898-9," said Robert C. Losey, "I was one of a party of prospectors in Alaska. We were crossing the Rampart mountains, in central Alaska, on the way to Quail creek, from which locality had come reports of a great gold find. A member of another party near us, in going over the mountains, had broken through a crust of sand and gone down into the crevasse of a glacier. "He had gone down a distance of thirty-eight or forty feet, where he had lodged. We could not see him, but we heard him and we talked with him. We tried to reach him with a rope and finally tied a pick to the end of the rope, hoping to bring him out. He asked us to quit pulling on the rope; that we were making his position worse. He finally pleaded with us, his voice growing fainter and fainter, to go away and leave him. "He evidently was freezing, not, as we have heard, a painful death, and he did not want to be bothered. He gave us his name; said he was fifty-four years old and told us to notify his folks at some town in Missouri. We stayed there until we could hear his voice no longer. "He certainly made a record of being the coolest man, and then he froze to death."—Indianapolis News. A LAUGH IS A TONIC. It Aids Digestion and Tends to Good Health and Long Life. There are people who take life too seriously. They allow their souls to be eaten up with cares and anxieties. Many worries are useless and help nothing. Bits of humor are lost on these persons. They wonder how any one can be so thoughtless about the realities of life. In all the animal creation laughter is given to man alone, given him, like all other faculties, to make the best of. Laughter, it is true, is not for all times and occasions, but it has its place and is necessary to our well being. A laugh is a cure for many ills. It aids digestion and so tends to good health. It prolonges life. Laughter often settles a disagreement and prevents real troubles. Hard working business and professional men sometimes forget to laugh. The strain of work grips them hard, and they get old before their time. The ability to see the humorous side of an accident, a mistake or a folly, is a great aid in making life more endurable. Laughter overdone, like all virtues carried to excess, is a vice or a folly. Cultivate your sense of humor. Better to laugh too often than not to laugh often enough. Who laughs knows no defeat. —Milwaukee Journal. BREAKING INTO PRINT. One Writer's First Little Check and the Way He Spent It. Richard Harding Davis, says the London Strand Magazine, is one of those fortunate men whose short stories can always command a thousand dollars and over. How he "broke into print" is an interesting little history. "It was while at Lehigh university," he says, "that I earned my first sum for writing. It was a description of a came rush at the university, and I sent it to a local paper. It was published, and a few days later I received a check for the large sum of $1.15. I have received larger checks since then, but the biggest of them never gave me the thrill that that one did. "Just as soon as I cashed that check I sallied out to buy 'something' with it—I had no idea what—and in my search I found two very nice looking candlesticks which, I think, were about the price of the story I had sold. I bought them. They were made of brass and seemed very solid and handsome. One I sent to my mother, and the other I kept for myself. They are still in existence, I believe, a shining witness to the first fracture I made in my youthful endeavor to 'break into print.'" Fright and White Hair. The popular belief that the hair of persons laboring under great mental grief or terror changes color seems to be unfounded. Under certain conditions of bodily health the coloring matter of the hair ceases to be supplied, and the hair may consequently become gray or white in a very short time. In these cases, however, it is only the growing hair that has no color, the hair as it gradually rises from the root is gray, while that which is outside the cuticle remains its original color. No well authenticated case of sudden change in the color of the hair is mentioned in the "Transactions of the Royal Society," extending over 200 years, whereas if any such circumstance had occurred it is almost certain it would have been recorded. The case of Marie Antoinette, which is most frequently cited, does not rest upon evidence sufficiently strong to warrant belief. Philadelphia Press. Leaning Tower In England. The famous leaning tower of Pisa has a rival in the Temple tower of Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpendicular at the summit. There are no records to show whether the inclination was part of the architect's design or whether it is the result of an earthquake or of slow changes in the inclination of the soil. For many years there has been no change in the slope of the tower. Overshadows All Other Forces Born of the deep, daily need of a nation—I am the Voice of Now—the incarnate spirit of the times—Monarch of Thingr that Are. My "cold type" burns with the fire-blood of human action. I am fed by arteries of wire that girdle the earth. I drink from the cup of every living joy and sorrow. I sleep not—rest not. I know not night nor day, nor season. I know no death, yet I am born again with every morn—with every noon—with every twilight. I leap into fresh being with every new world's event. Those who created me cease to be—the brains and heart's blood that nourish me go the way of human dissolution. Yet I live on—and on. I am majestic in my strength sublime in my power terrible in my potentialities yet as democratic as the ragged boy who sells me for a penny. I am the consort of kings---the partner of capital---the brother of toil. The inspiration of the hopeless---the right arm of the needy---the champion of the oppressed---the conscience of the criminal. I am the epitome of the world's comedy and tragedy. My responsibility is infinite. I speak and the world stops to listen. I say the word and battle flames the horizon. I counsel peace and the war lords obey. I am greater than any individual--more powerful than any group. I am the dynamic force of public opinion. Rightly directed, I am'a creater of confidence. A builder of happiness in living. I am the backbone of commerce--the trail blazer of prosperity--I am the teacher of patriotism. I am the hands of the clock of time--the clarion voice of civilization. I AM THE NEWSPAPER. From address delivered by Joseph H. Finn, president Nicholas-Finn Advertising Company; Chicago, before Associated Advertising Club of the World Convention, in Chicago. Where It Would Be Eliminated. "Weil, Aunt Dinah," asked the cook's young mistress, "are you going to have the word 'obey' eliminated from the marriage ceremony?" "No, chile, I ain't," said Aunt Dinah, "but I sho' am gwinter hab it done 'limited from de matrimony.'"—Ladies' Home Journal. Unusual Case. Mrs. Snapp And why do you think Mrs. De Punk queer? Mrs. Rapp Well, she has everything, on earth to make her happy and still she's happy. New York Globe. All is not lost if a man still has the grit to smile.—Detroit Free Press. Hard Times. "In financial trouble? What is it?" "Oh, I promised to pay Brown $10 today, and I've got it, and he knows I've got it, and he knows I know he knows I've got it!"—Boston Journal. And man is also the architect of most of his own misfortunes.—Chicago News. Success is achieved by labor. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser 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 Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915 Daylight is breaking on William Jennings Bryan's resignation. No doubt he foresaw that the president was using him to that extent, that his one term plank in the platform would work a double for Wilson, and Mr. B. didn't want that for his hopes still aspire for the White House Chair. The capsizing of the Eastland in the Chicago river was a terrible catastrophe. Surely the owners of that boat are to blame for allowing so many to board it. Fifteen hundred would have been enough and hereafter a ship's capacity being known, two thirds of it should be taxed by human beings; from the fact no water in this land is more treacherous than Lake Michigan. We would suggest to the officers of the Standard Oil Company that they forthwith "fire" all their employees with unpronounceable names, and substitute them with loyal American white men and equally as loyal Negroes. Henceforth and forever hereafter, if this be done, we will wager a dollar to a doughnut their strike troubles will be over. In any community where preachers and church members fail to denounce our degrading element for debasing society, all might as well be tarred with the same stick. If they would combine against this snaky and deadly element, it would think more of them and the professors of religion would have better consciences. As it is, the rabble brand them as hypocrites, and publicly declare them no better than "we." Just about as we go to press, the news reaches us that Hon. Alexander Clohan is no longer among the living. A man of vigorous mien, shrewd in the political game, and prominent in church and social circles, he will be generally missed in this community. For twelve years-three terms-he was postmaster here, and during his incumbency of that office he, by his great business ability, and cordial treatment of everybody, came to know practically all the people in Berkeley County. With strikes here and there, and the Governor of Ohio appealing to the state for aid to keep thousands from starving and the Democratic party asking for a change of their promised and fulfilled free trade and right on the heels of war, what is going to be the handwriting on the walls in 1916? Dead cock in the pit? Looks that way now. Well, as afflictions often work good results, so may democratic blunders. The true propaganda for 1916, ought to be, is a party whose highest purpose is to segregate, jimcrow and lynch Americans, fit to run a government so lately drenched in human blood to wipe out slavery? We say no and no again. All West Virginians who are desirous of becoming thoroughly informed regarding the matters at issue in the much mooted West Virginia debt case, should read the article in the current number of the West Virginia Bar, edited by Prof. W. P. Willey, of the law faculty of the West Virginia University. It is interesting to both laymen and lawyers, carries conviction in its deductions, and shows how our beloved state can honorably extricate herself from the colossal frauds who are trying to exploit her and make themselves richer. When a jitney buss line was started here recently, colored would-be passengers were refused admission. The Pioneer Press suggested two remedies. First was to bring suit; second put jitney busses on the road. This has been done and now we have four on the road and best of all, the colored folk are keeping them busy. No better way in this wide world to hurt caste than by smashing flat the pocket-books of Negro haters. It has made other owners of taxicabs solicit and convey colored persons over the city to any place they want to go. As in this case all others will work as well if competition equal to theirs is pitied against their plans and plots of meanness to injure us. Let such whites be treated as they treat us, and how would they feel. To exasperate decent colored people by such cussedness is not only trying, but kindles in their souls lasting fires of hatred, that man to man never was by nature created to bear. --- That war faces us and of the blackest type, all far seeing people agree. The way out of it has gone by—it was to keep out. We are in it, and of course every loyal son will stand up or go down with his flag. We were on the fields of battle in the rebellion, are old and gray, but as active, well and game as then, and can march as far and shoot as well as ever, and although treated worse than dogs—can't go to see picture shows, eat in 2x2 restaurants, jimcrowed on cars, send our children to mixed schools, sit on juries and God only knows what not, we shall fight for the country we love and call ours, for God and time will certainly put us next to Him on the soil we have so faithfully and irksomely toiled to cut down its lumber, fence its acres, build its palaces, educate the master class, fight in all the wars, worked long and cared for the white women—wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of those on the field fighting for our retention in slavery—and they in pay even deny us burying space in their grave yards. PERNICIOUS VANDALISM While enroute to his summer home in Maine, the other day, Secretary McAdoo stopped off in Boston to inspect the new custom house, where he discovered a piece of vandalism that is as immemorial as time. At the top of the tower he noticed that visitors had scratched their names on the zinc wall and railings—and the Secretary didn't like it. The head of the Treasury Department advised that the offenders be prosecuted. It is the thing to do. Two members of the Chinese commercial commission did this thing, and can't be reached, but the local people can be. Such defacing is inexcusable, and Uncle Sam should set the example of stopping it. With some people such practices take the form of an uncontrollable impulse, with others it is pure thoughtless mischief. Some one has stigmatized this habit neatly in rhyme: Fools' names, like their faces, Always appear in public places Sometimes the traveler to a distant city will leave his name penciled in a public place, so that a fellow traveler from the same town may be informed that he is not the only one who goes abroad. Others disfigure public buildings and the walls of institutions with their autographs through an exaggerated egotism, leaving, as it were, a sign of their self appraised importance to be preserved for the admiring future. But whatever motive prompts this insidious form of vandalism, it should be squelched by the severe punishment of important examples. If people want to advertise themselves, the columns of the newspapers are open for their purpose, and are much more effective than blank walls and ornamental places.—Wheeling Intelligencer. GERMANY'S SUBSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN OILS --- We have exported, in times past, large quantities of oil and fats to Germany, especially animal fat from our slaughter-house industries and cotton-seed oil. By a treatment with hydrogen the German chemists transformed cheap grades of oils and fatty wastes of all kinds, and most important of all, the fish oils of the Swedish and Norwegian fisheries, into edible fats. There has also been extensive cultivation of the sunflower, the seed of which furnishes an excellent oil, which is already largely used for food purposes in Russia. As sunflowers grow almost anywhere, sufficient seed might be raised from which oil could be obtained as a substitute for American cottonseed oil. For Germany this oil would be of further advantage, for when mixed with the distillation products of lignite coal it affords excellent lubricants to replace our best cylinder oils, besides having other uses. For this purpose Italian olive oil had already been imported during the war in large quantities, but this traffic is now interrupted, owing to Italy's entrance into the war As curiosities in the search for foodstuffs, we might further mention the attempt of the chemist to utilize the fresh blood of slaughtered animals, which contains highly nutritious substances. Long before the war, bread made with the addition of fresh blood to the dough was eaten in some parts of Europe, especially in Finland. This tastes like black rye bread, is very nutritious, and very economical. It is interesting to note here that during certain religious festivals a confection consisting of chocolate and fresh blood is sold in Naples and eaten by the women. - From "The Chemist's Side of the War," by Hugo Schweitzer, in the American Review of Reviews for August. B. & O. ISSUES VALUABLE BOOKLET. Preparatory to handling the apple and peach traffic originating in its territory and bringing the growers in touch with profitable markets;the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has issued a booklet containing lists of apple and peach growers in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia and the names of the larger dealers in the markets of New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. The lists are compiled alphabetically and according to towns, cities and localities in the various states. In the case of growers. The Odor Is Penetrating Because the Substance Is Radio-active. The extraordinarily penetrating power of musk perfume is accounted for by the fact that it is radio-active. The United States consul at Chunking, China, writes that this property causes the odor to be carried through the air in a way that would otherwise be impossible. And he adds that this radioactive property "affects most peculiarly the natives who carry it. If it is held close to the body for any length of time it produces sores that are probably similar in character to those caused by pure radium." Musk is a secretion of certain glands or pouches of the male musk deer and is secreted only during certain seasons of the year. It is difficult to obtain pure, and one of the largest French manufacturers of perfume keeps a representative at Tachienlu, near the Tibetan border, for the sole purpose of buying it. Three thousand pounds of musk on an average are shipped every year from Chunking, and fully half of this has passed through Tachienlu, which is one of the principal musk markets of the world, though eighteen days' journey from Chunking, the nearest port. The deer, which are seldom more than three feet long and twenty to twenty-two inches tall, are being slaughtered in such numbers that they are becoming more and more scarce, and will eventually be extinct. That Genius Whistler Of Whistler Lady St. Helier in "Memories of Fifty Years" writes thus: "He was a genius and had all the defects and qualities of one. To him everything was a joke, the subject of a bonmot. The lightest and daintiest of persillage was what he excelled in, and one never had a dull moment in his company. He was always late for dinner, arranging the immortal lock of gray hair in its proper place as he came into the room, with apologies and excuses, none of them true, of which he was perfectly conscious and also that they were not believed. Wherever he was there would be a circle listening to him, and his ringing laugh would be heard all over the room as he sent his shafts right and left into the joints of the armor of those who were attacking him. It was a great surprise and almost a shock when he appeared as a benedict." The Colossus of Rhodes. The remains of the Colossus of Rhodes have been dispersed beyond possibility of recovery or even of tracing. It stood for little more than half a century and then, in 221 B. C., was overthrown by an earthquake. The Rhodians raised from benevolent outsiders large sums of money for its restoration, but divided the fund among themselves, asserting that the oracle of Delphi had forbidden them to set it up again. So there the ruin lay until 672 A. D., when the Saracens sold it to a Jewish merchant, who loaded 900 camels and went away—literally—with the brass.—London Spectator. A Cruel Comparison: "I don't make much," said the fond suftor. "My salary is $30 a week. Could we live on that, dear?" "Ah," sighed the maiden dreamily, "just the price of a tire for father's motorcar." Then something told the f. s. that he was wasting time. - Birmingham Age-Herald. Nice Business. "I think I'll go into the real estate business." "Looks good to you, eh?" "Yes; the real estate business seems to be one in which two men can swap property and both make money.—Louisville Courier-Journal." Natural Sequence "The prisoner was sunk in dejection." "What sank him?" "The fact they couldn't bail him out." —Baltimore American. "Can you give me any ideas about making my yard more beautiful?" "Yes. Remain in the house."—Houston Post. the post office address and variety of fruit grown are given; while in the list of dealers the street address is given for ready information of orchardmen. A list of officials of the Baltimore and Ohio who are in a position to render service in furnishing rates and routing shipments is embodied in the booklets. The booklets are being distributed through the agents of the railroad and will be mailed upon request to the freight traffic department at Baltimore. MARTINSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA. Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appalachia and the United States Court There Are Lots of Them Hokus—Old Gotrox is devoted to music. There is a clause in his will leaving $25,000 to establish a home for poor singers. Pokus — How inadequate! Twenty-five millions wouldn't begin to house all the poor singers.—Life. Good Reason. "So you have written a book on cemented basements. But why did you choose such a subject?" "Because I wanted it to be among the best cellars."—Baltimore American. Knowledge is power, but it won't take the place of gasoline.—Kansas City Journal. Justice A Sunday school teacher had been telling her class of little boys about crowns of glory and heavenly rewards for good people. "Now, tell me," she said at the close of the lesson, "who will get the biggest crown." There was a silence for a minute or two, then a bright little chap piped out: "I'm wot's got t' biggest 'ead."—London Tit-Bits. Facility of Argument Plato defined man as "a two legged animal without feathers." Diogenes, who heard this, plucked a cock. "This is Plato's man," said he. But never you think the old timer lacked a "comeback." He added to his original definition the words, "With broad flat nails." Such is the futility of argument.—Springfield Republican. The One Advantage "Traded your motor boat for an aeroplane, eh? What's the idea?" "Well, there's this about an aeroplane—even if the engine does break down, you're bound to land somewhere."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch Passionate people always deny their anger, and cowards often beast their ignorance of fear. Engaged. Stranger (impatiently)—Say, isn't that newspaper to be had yet? I've been waiting for it for two hours. Waitress—I'll see about it. Farmer Cross has it in the side room. He's teaching his little boy to read.—Fliegende Blatter, Munich. And So It Is. "What do you consider the greatest human paradox?" A secret session of a woman's club. —Philadelphia Ledger. Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.—Swift. 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 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. = Messrs. Daniel and Charles Cole, of Shenandoah Junction were visi- tors to our city one day this week. Hundreds of our people will go to Conococheague Island tomorrow, and as a result, they will be poorer and the railroads richer. Mrs. Sallie Hopewell has been considerably indisposed for a week or two, but is somewhat better at this time. Rey. C. M. Hogans, of Delaware, Ohio, passed through town enroute to hisold home in Winchester this morning, he having been called there by the death of his father. ‘The officers of Dudley Baptist Church are putting down a concrete pavement in front of their edifice on Raleigh Street. Said improvement will increase the value of that al- ready valuable property. Mrs. William Braxton and her little daughter Annie, have returned home after an extended stay in Hagerstown, and the husband and papa is glad to have them back, being, ashe says, very tired of keeping ‘‘bachelor’s hall."’ Looking out into the street the other day we noticed a bright look ing little colored boy, and upon in- vestigation, found that he had a wagon full of things good to eat, and was selling them in) a manner that indicated pretty good business ability. His name is HNdgar Bullett and other colored boys will do wel! to follow the example set by him, and secure and keep employment like he is doing. THE LAKES ARE CALLING x VOTTY Tourists from all parts of the country are this year seeking the Great Lakes for their recreation trips, and to those who have never before enjoyed the delights of these great waterways the large and splen- did steamers and unexcelled service will be arevelation. ‘This is par- ticularly true of Lake Erie upon whose waters plies the Great Ship “SEKANDBER” daily between Cleveland and Buffalo.+ ‘This great ship is 500 feet long, 98 feet 6 inches wide and has 510 staterooms and parlors de luxe accommodating 1500 passengers which equals the sleeping capacity of the largest ho- telsin the country. The splendid steamers “CIPY OF BUFFALO" and “CITY OF ERIE” also ply on this route and with the Great Ship “SEEANDBEL”’ maintain daily service between Cleveland and Buf- falo, leaving cither city at nine o'clock in the evening and reaching destination following morning at 7:30 In point of expense these lake trips areby far more economical than travel by rail, and once one has tasted of their delights,succeed- ing vacations are sure to include a lake journey. SELF POSSESSION MAY HAVE SAVED LIFE. Salem Kimble, of Brushy Run, while loading bark 1ecently in the woods near Pansy, was bitten on the hand by a rattle snake. With presence of mind Mr, Kimble tied a string round his wrist and came here where Dr. Moomau gave him attention, and although the arm is considerably swollen, nothing seri- ous is looked for.—Petersburg Grant County Press. “pO YOUR VERY BEST. ~ Be Earnest ind arherauan and You Are Bound to Succeed. There is a feature of Dickens’ char, acter which cannot be too often or Loo seriously insisted upon, and that isis futense earnestness and thoroughness in everything be did. Me said to me more than once: “My dear boy, do everything at your best. If you do that neither 1 nor any one else can find fault with you, even if you fail. For myself, I can honestly say that I have taken as great pains with the smallest thing 1 ever did as with the biggest.” In giving advice to a young author he sald on one occasion: “If you want your public to believe fn what you write you must believe in it yourself. When I am describing a scene I can as distinedly see what 1 am describing as Lean see you now, So real are my characters to me that on one occasion Thad fixed upon the course which one of them was to pur fue The character, however, got hold of me and made me do exactly the op posite to what Thad intended, but 1 was so sure that he was right and 1 was wrong that I let him have his own way.” Whatever he did either in work or at play he always gave of his very best. He hated slackness or halt heartednes: in any shape or form,—Harper's tele - ODDITIES OF VISION. Peculiar Optical Effects and the Yeilow Spot In the Eye. If one places a pinhead up close to and directly in front of the eye the head of the pin appears trangparent and things may be seen as” easily through it as through a sheet of isin: glass, the head appearing simply as a large round cloud. If it is placed some what closer no pin or head can be seen at all. 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So, 16 plowse the old woman, he prom ised to ask for Donald, 2nd he con scientiously kept his word. At various perts he made inquiry among British ships, althouzh it seemed very much like looking for a needle in a bale of ay. But it is the unexpected thiat happens. Ns Dro Macteod’s steamer went up the Tlusti river an outtard bound vessel passed close hy, sitilor Was leaning over her bulwark. and, moved by a sudden impulse, the doctor shovted out: sAre you Donald Mactavish ? Vo bis intense surprise the man an swered. “Yes.” Dr. Macleod had only time to shout “You're to write to your mother! ay the vessels drew apart. The result of Ris amazin meeting was that the old lady received a ponitent letter tren her long neglectful son. 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