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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 One Year Of Fierce Slaughter On the first anniversary of the Great War there is an inevitable temptation to estimate in terms of achievement and result the meaning of twelve months of world war. In this period not less than 10,000,000 men have been killed, wounded, or have gone into foreign prisons; a territory exceeding in area Ohio or Pennsylvania has been ravaged. Cities known through the centuries as the treasure-houses of art or in the last century become the centers of modern industrial life have been destroyed. Written history has no record to compare with the tale of recent months of suffering, slaughter, destruction, human misery, and human grandeur. But what now is the result? The simplest answer to make to this question is to take the premise that peace would come to-morrow on the basis of things as they are. Such a settlement it is instantly apparent would mean that Germany helped rather by her use of the resources of her two allies than by any capacity of theirs, has won more European territory than any state has acquired by a single war since the Treaty of Westphalia, a more complete victory than any people since the Napoleonic episode. Today her armies occupy practically all of Belgium and 8000 square miles in France, that region which before the war was the center of French industry and French mineral production. In the East victorious forces have pushed deep into Poland and approached Warsaw, Riga, and Brest-Litowsk. On the field of battle Germany has won mighty and memorable triumphs. Her defeats have been repulses, when her foe was in his last ditch. They have resulted in the interruption of an advance, the recoil from the extreme point of progress. But at the close of a year German armies are fighting on French, Belgian, Russian soil; only in a tiny corner of Alsace has the foe retained a foot-hold in the Fatherland. Allied offensives in the West, after terrible losses, have invariably been beaten down within sight of their starting-places. Since Von Kluck re-crossed the Aisne in September, Germany has suffered no material loss, despite the masses she has sent to the East. The "Spring Drive" of the Allies has dwindled to a gallant but only locally successfully push of the French at the edge of the Lorette hills. In the East the amazing victories of Tannenberg, Lodz, the Mazurian Lakes, and in the recent terrific campaign in Galicia have checked, repulsed, routed Russian advances and to-day (late in July) Russian hosts are clinging desperately to the permanent line of fortifications about Warsaw, against which German masses are steadily driving with still unchecked vigor. The greatest battles of modern warfare have been won between the Baltic and the Roumanian boundary by generalship and military efficiency CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. An Unexpected Meeting With a Long Lost Set of Dishes. In the American Magazine the story of a curious coincidence is told in a letter written by Elsie B. Hart of San Gabriel, Cal.: "In the early days in California very little china was used that did not come from the orient. A man whose home was in Folsom, who preferred the china of Europe, took advantage of a visit to England to order a complete dinner set ornamented with a design of his own selection. In the course of time this was packed and shipped to San Francisco by sailing vessel round the Horn, but after long delay the vessel was given up as lost and was never afterward heard from. "Years afterward the Californian while traveling in China was invited to dine at the home of a missionary. What was his astonishment to find the table set with his own dishes, purchased so long ago! Concealing his surprise, he commented on the beauty of the china, and this called forth an explanation from his hostess. She told him the china had an interesting history, as it had been washed up on the nearby shore, and they had bought it from the man who had recovered it from the ocean. "Surprising as it may seem, he never told his host that he was eating off his own dishes!" in men as in commanders that has only the Napoleonic parallel. At the Dardanelles German-led Turkish troops have for months held back Allied fleets and army corps. Around the Gallipoli peninsula the troops that lost Lule Burgas and Kumanovo are making a fight unsurpassed at Plevna, unrivaled in the long history of Osmanli power in Europe. More English and French troops than perished in the long Crimean campaign have found their graves in the few weeks of fighting north of the Dardanelles; and five Allied battleships have been sunk in the narrow waterways. Serbian efforts have declined to mere passivity. Italy, bringing new and eager masses into the field against the shaken regiments of Austria, directed by German officers, has, as yet, made but small progress in emerging from the constricted field in which the Austrian fortified mountains confine her. To hold France, England, and Belgium at bay in the West, to sweep Russia back over hundreds of miles in swift defeat, to give Austria and Turkey the necessary support to withstand tremendous attacks,—this has been within the resources of German genius in the past months. Only on the water has she suffered real defeat. There her few free ships have been sunk; her commercial fleets have been scattered, sent to prize courts or interned. Beyond the seas Kiachou, Southwest Africa, Togoland, Kamerun, and Samoa have been conquered. Sea-power has dealt with her as with Napoleon. But as Napoleon conquered the Continent, Germany has successfully defeated Russia, France, Great Britain, Belgium. The victory for the first year is then hers. Such difference of opinion as exists must be over the extent of the victory, which however great, is nowhere yet decisive.—From "One Year of War," by Frank H. Simonds, in the American Review of Reviews for August. SATURDAY. How Our Girls Are Succeeding Some time ago at a Womans Meeting held here one of the speakers was quoted as having said: "There is not a single instance where a colored girl is employed as clerk by a white firm in this city. There were many in the audience who knew the statement to be an erroneous one, but that was neither the time nor the place to correct it. And so the Woman's Department has been asked to set the speaker right. Indeed she is by no means alone in her opinion. Many there are who are not aware of the record being made by our women in this particular line of work. But the colored woman in general is advancing rapidly and the colored clerk is not one step behind in this advance. Miss May Jackson of 756 So. 18th street, is an example of the colored girl in this particular line. Miss Jackson is a Philadelphia and a product of the Philadelphia public school, graduating from the Commercial High School in the class of 1911. In 1913, through the medium of the Armstrong Association, she received the appointment of stenographer in the Xray Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 8th and Spruce streets, and has creditably filled that position up to the present time. Miss Jackson is connected with Cherry Memorial Baptist Church. Miss Edna Smax, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Smax, of West Philadelphia, and a member of Calvary M. E. Church, is also an employee of a white firm. Miss Smax is stenographer in the office of the Typewriter Exchange, 4th and Walnut streets, where all other employees are of the opposite race. She has held this position for the last three years and is highly esteemed by her employers. Miss Smax is also a Philadelphia by birth and a graduate of the Commercial High School (now the Wm. Penn High School.) Miss Smax has a beautiful contralto voice and is also a well known soloist. In the law offices of Mr. Harold Goodwin in the Franklin Building (133 So. 12th St.) Mrs. Aneita Griffin Morgan is employed as stenographer. Mrs. Morgan is a resident of La Mott and has held her present position for the last three or four years. Miss Ernestine Crevin, now clerical assistant in the Durham School, was formerly employed by Mr. Goodwin, and when she left to assume the duties of her present position, recommended Mrs. Morgan (then Mrs. Aneita Griffin) for the vacancy. Mrs. Morgan's position is one of trust, since she is book-keeper as well as stenographer, and the best proof of the efficiency with which she is filling it is the fact that she is there. These young women are making history and should be a source of encouragement to that element of young people who take as their watchword, "There is no use." What they are doing others can do. THE NARROW BOSPORUS. At Its Greatest Width It Measures Only 9,838 Feet. The Bosporus contains few dangerous submarine rocks or shoals. The locality of these few is indicated by lighthouses or buoys. The water is only slightly tinged with salt and is marvelously clear. The sands, glittering apparently near the surface, may be twenty feet below. On a map, of whatever scale, each of those familiar straits, which cleave lands and continents asunder, seems hardly more than a svery thread. Yet as one sails over their famous waters the opposing shores on either hand sometimes appear far away. The strait of Gibraltar, which wrests Africa from Europe, is sixteen miles wide; that of Messina, forcing its way between Italy and Sicily, is from two to twelve; that of Bonifacio, which, like a blade of steel, cuts Corsica and Sarlina apart, is seven miles in width at its most contracted point; even the Dardanelles expands from over one to four. But the illusion as to distance created by the map is reality as to the Bosporus. Off Buyoukdereh, where it attains its largest breadth, its hemmed in waters broaden to only 9,838 feet, or about one and four-fifths miles. Between Roumelli Hissar and Anadoli Hissar they shrink to one-sixth of these dimensions, or to 1,641 feet. From "Constantinople," by Edwin A. Grosvenor. THE MUDDY MISSOURI How the River Lowers the Surface of the Land It Drains. The Missouri is the muddiest river in the Mississippi valley. It carries more silt than any other large river in the United States except possibly the Rio Grande and the Colorado. For every square mile of country drained it carries downstream 381 tons of dissolved and suspended matter each year. In other words, the river gathers annually from the country that it drains more than 123,000,000 tons of silt and soluble matter, some of which it distributes over the flood plains below to form productive agricultural lands, but most of which finds its way at last to the gulf of Mexico. It is by means of data of this kind that geologists compute the rate at which the lands are being eroded away. It has been shown that the Missouri river is lowering the surface of the land drained by it at the rate of 1 foot in 6,036 years. The surface of the United States as a whole is now being worn down at the rate of 1 foot in 9,120 years. It has been estimated that if this erosive action of the streams of the United States could have been concentrated on the isthmus of Panama it would have dug in seventy-three days the canal which was completed after ten years' work with the most powerful appliances yet devised by man.—Geological Survey Bulletin. Quarantined. In one of the little mountain towns of the south a Chautauqua meeting was held last summer for the first time. The fact was advertised for some distance round the town, but the older negroes especially did not understand what it was all about. Across the front of the little hotel of the village was flung a banner bearing the one word "Chautauqua." Up to this hotel one day drove an old negro in a one horse wagon containing a few vegetables, which he hoped to sell to the proprietor, as he had done on former occasions. But when he saw the banner with its ominous word he was seized with fright and would not go into the building or even get out of his wagon. When the proprietor appeared the old fellow inquired nervously, "What disease is you all quarantined for, boss?" -Youth's Companion. As they prove their efficiency, the opportunity will be extended to others, and it only remains for our young people to "Be Prepared when the opportunity comes."—Carrie E. Brice in the Philadelphia Tribune. What To Teach Your Daughters Teach them to make bread. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them to foot-up store bills. Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them that a dollar is one hundred cents. Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. Teach them how to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them dry, hard, practical every-day common sense. Teach them to wear calico dresses and do it like queens. Give them a good, substantial, common-school education. Teach them to regard the morals, and not the money of their beaux. Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen, dining room, and the parlor. Teach them that the more one lives within her income, the more she will save. Teach them to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach them that the further one lives beyond her income, the nearer she gets to the poorhouse. Teach them a good steady mechanic is worth a dozen loafers in broadcloth. Teach them the accomplishments of music, painting, drawing, if you have time and money to do it. Rely on it, that upon your teaching depends, in a great measure, the weal or woe in their after life Mary A. Fountain. Tossing In a Blanket. Tossing in the blanket is a very old sport or punishment. "Blanketing" Ben Jonson called it, and in Hollinshed (1557) we find a denunciation of "Jesting, plaicing, blanketing and such other filthie and dishonorable exercises." The French have a special verb, "berner," for it, "berne" being the name given to the sheet or blanket used. The verb "berner" is also used for the Moorish punishment, in which four men hold the victim by his ankles and wrists and send him as high as they can—presumably with no blanket to catch him. Now He Has Millions. "See that fellow in the limousine?" said one man to another at Washington and Illinois streets as a big car passed. "Well, I can remember when he didn't have but one pair of socks; now he has millions." "Gee, he must have some washings," replied the friend whose mind does not run to finances.--Indianapolis News. By Comparison. "Dubkins is a great comfort to me." "I don't see how you can say that. He's the most tiresome chump I have ever met." "That's just it. Although I don't amount to much, it's true, every time I look at Dubkins I feel that I could amount to less." — Birmingham Age-Herald. His Favorite Play. Edith—That Mr. Phan is conversationally impossible. Ethel—Why so? Edith—We were talking about the theatre, and when I inquired what was his favorite play he said if he had any favorite it was seeing a man steak second.—Boston Transcript. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter J. H. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915 We fail to see the wisdom of telling what has been done by the Edison crowd, or predicting what they are going to do—Cermany kept all such things secret. Electricity and gasoline when properly harnessed and put to use, are wonderful. They meet and mingle for the world's good if good men so intend. The ordinary thinker sees all that can be gotten out of both perfected, but both are in their infancy, and will do in time, what this age can never conceive. --- The tramp period is about over, for it is seldom one is seen nowadays. Had the public fed them as bountifully, as was the custom of other days our streets would be crowded and contaminated with them now. As it stopped the tramps, so will a rigid enforcement against our home loafers make them go to work and become decent citizens. The colored people of the Shenandoah Valley lost five fine farms during the past few weeks, or money enough to have paid for as many farms. The railroads have the money, and the Negroes have had their "good time," which always brings to them in winter time the disease of bad times. The question of importance is, is it wise to help those who spend the money so badly needed in wintry weather? ```markdown ``` Granting Will Stanley killed the three Texan children, all law abiding people will agree that the mob's crime was a blacker one. It's possible that time, the regulator of all things, will prove his innocence, but suppose it don't, why not let the law settle it? The idea of men and women urging boys and girls to scour streets and alleys for boxes and other burnable matter with which to burn him, then in jollity witness the burning. Terrible! What will the harvest be? Can such children grow up law abiding citizens? For this country's good, better they never had been born, as it was with Leopold to Belgium. One thing is certain, if war must be in this country, the aftermath will be in the Negroes' favor. Our faith tiptoes on what can be depended upon and that is, millions of the foreign born who swore their loyalty to the flag will be false, and every Negro, whose path to peaceful labor has been blockaded by these sworn to-be citizens, will be as loyal to this country and its flag as they have been in peace and in every war this country has had, and that will make them once more tumultuous heroes, and by degrees they'll come into their own. God never chose Abraham Lincoln to start and die for a purpose that will not culminate in our complete manhood, crowned with brotherly love for his dark children. The Pioneer Press thinks well of Governor Hatfield for giving liberty to the alleged West Virginia legislative bribe takers. No doubt they got the money, but what about the fellows who bribed? Is not the man who buys votes more guilty than the ones who accept? Absolutely! If returning home well and richly clad; tearing down old ones and building fine houses are good signs, the pardoned were not the first and only ones guilty, nor will they be the last. The only and sure way to stop it, is to send the bribers to the penitentiary five times as long at hard labor, as the bribe takers get. The 13th ult., the Wheeling Register gave its readers a good sized editorial on "weeds are expensive," and fortified its contention by banking on Iowa's claim, that they had robbed that state annually of $25,000,000. The defense is fallacious. Were there no weeds in a short time there would be no crops. They not only enrich the soil but make industrious farmers. There is a time for weeds to grow and a time for experienced farmers to plow them under. Indeed they are as essential to a good healthy farm as sin is to a man's salvation. What sane man would destroy sin? How could he make himself a Godly man if he had no sins to master? Thank God for sin and weeds and do your duty by controlling both, for thereon hangs man's destiny on the farm, and his eternal reward hereafter. He, who would destroy sin and weeds, is a foolish man, but he who masters both, is a wise one. FROM K. TO P. Naturally the editor of this paper is much interested in good roads everywhere, but in particular from Keyser to Petersburg. All along the route the best of repairing material is accessible to make the road excellent and for but little cost. For miles but little or no repairing is needed. The ruts and cross-road gutters—made to better the road—but often make preachers say: damp the bumps. They should be made deep enough to be arched over with cement, and a few other places can and should be bridged in the manner of the one this side of Mr. Arnold's. Were these few suggested improvements made automobile travel would treble and the road get a national reputation. Why not at once agitate its necessity? It's all that's needed to have a good road. As it is you must check up your car at every whipstitch or likely break springs or damage your car. Judge Reynolds would give a hundred dollars; the Luke Brothers three or five hundred and hundreds of others would help as will ye editor. Jefferson county leads and beats the state for good roads and Berkeley is destined to be her rival. Another agitation should be started and that is: that the county clerks should be authorized to issue license for automobiles and the money collected in every county be kept therein and applied to keeping the roads in fine order. Keyser has the fever and in a short time will have five miles of the best road we ever saw, and this work is on the very road we are interested in and writing about. That America has grown so rapidly and arrogantly, to be reasoned with for its good, nothing less than drastic and disastrous occurrences seemingly can awaken and arouse her to do things right. Before Chicago's tremendous fire, her pavements were board-walks and all kinds of huts and hovels covered her territory. After recovering from that woeful state of affairs, for future safety, the wisdom of paving the streets and building better houses was the cry, but their halls and theaters were death traps, and it required the Iroquois theater disaster to make Chicagoans erect substantially against fire and excitement. So, also, the capsizing of the Eastland, killing more than a thousand souls will make the building of future boats, safe, floating palaces for Lake Michigan, the most treacherous and dangerous lake on earth. This country was discovered, settled and populated by an oppressed people whose propaganda was liberty and brotherly love, but in a short while, brutality and murder took possession of the people, who finally formulated the best constitutional government ever known, but hinged on and to it, was the curse of slavery that made Jefferson "tremble for his country" when thinking over its future. And well he did considering the billions of dollars and millions of suffering and dying souls for its existence and extinction. God made man and all there is on land and sea that he might so live here and make heaven so real that heaven itself could be explained, but commercial education has not only made brothers hyenas, but caused them in their immensity of wealth and power to disregard God and his teaching to that extent war is imminently universal; and as the Chicago fire, the Eastland disaster that made Chicago a mourner; slavery that caused that bloody war will and have been beneficial, so may the seemingly to-be Universal war, be the means of bringing about a universal brotherhood that may last for thousands of years—if so divinely decreed, let heat of temper hasten peace. ACCIDENTS OF FORTUNE Incidents That Led to the Rise of Two Famous Dramatic Stars. More than 200 years ago a dramatist, sitting in the bar of a London tavern, overheard a girl in the next room reading aloud from a play book, and he was so much pleased by the sound of her voice and the fluency and sprightliness of her delivery that he sought acquaintance with her, obtained her confidence and opened for her the way to a successful dramatic career. That girl, a dramatic genius thus accidentally discovered, was Anne Oldfield, who adorned the English stage for twenty-five years, whose ashes rest in the cloister of Westminster abbey and whose name is one of historic renown. A theatrical manager in Cincinnati in the seventies, having planned to produce a popular comic opera with a chorus composed of prods from the public schools, selected Sarah Frost, then a girl about twelve, perceived her theatrical aptitude and provided the opportunity for its development. The manager was Robert E. J. Miles, and under his direction she made her first appearance on the stage and passed her juvenile novitiate. Her stage name at first was Fanny Brough. Later she adopted that of Julia Marlowe. William Winter in Century Magazine. BENEFITS FROM BOOKS. Traveling Along the Roads That Lead Us Into Other Worlds. The benefit of literature can hardly be overestimated. Books enlarge a man's horizon. They raise a mirage of water brooks and date palm to travelers in the desert. They are "the sick man's health, the prisoner's release." Shut within a narrow routine of dull necessity, sad at heart in a world where wrong triumphs, where beauty has no assurance of respect, where humanity toils terribly merely for its daily bread or the satisfaction of trivial appetites, the earthly pilgrim need do no more than pick up a book and, lo, he steps into another world. Here he is free from sorrow and care, free from the burden of his body, from envy, jealousy, contempt, self satisfaction, from vain regrets, from wishes that can never wear the livery of hope, from narrowness of soul and hardness of heart. He may mingle in the society of the good and great; he may listen to the wise man and the prophet; he may see all the conditions of human happiness and misery; he may watch the human spirit in its strife with circumstances nobly conquer or basely succumb; he may go down through the "gate of a hundred sorrows" or accompany Dante and Beatrice through the spheres of paradise.—Atlantic Monthly. Her Conscience. In spite of scoldings, Helen persisted in running away from home. One day, after a longer absence than usual, her mother asked: "Helen, dear, does not your conscience trouble you when you are running away from mother?" explaining that her conscience was a little voice speaking within. Helen answered: "Oh, yes, mamma; that little voice is always saying, 'Run faster, faster, Helen; your mother is after you!'"—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Feline Amenities. They were discussing the newest engagement. The fair fiancee had previously made three similar announcements, but not one had resulted in a wedding. "Do you think she will really marry him?" asked her dearest friend. "I can't say, my dear," retorted the next dearest. "It is possible, but not customary."—Woman's Home Companion. The Limit. "I shall never speak to her again as long as I live." "But you've said that often before." "I know, but what else is there to say when a person becomes as angry as she makes me?"—Detroit Free Press. POLITICS AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST. Williamsport, West Virginia. On the way from Washington to this place we were joined at Martinsburg by Attorney J. R. Clifford Editor of the Pioneer Press, who spent several days here and then returned to his home as business matters claimed his attention. He is three days overdue here again as he was to have arrived here Monday according to a letter received by friends. I never saw the corn crops look better than they are looking between Washington and Keyser, and the market gardens about Keyser and up the creek to this place are just fine, and the farmers here are cutting a heavy oats crop. The upland corn and gardens are needing rain badly. Politics seems to be a thing of the past in Grant County, only a little talk about Williamsport, and that by our good friend Cramp Marshall, who is wondering whom the democrats will nominate in case Hon. W. G. Brown declines to allow his name to go before the convention again, as he is expected to be a candidate for Governor. It seems that the republicans have an eye on either the Hon. Tracey L. Jeffords, of Harper's Ferry or A. J. Welton, of Petersburg. Either would make an ideal member of Congress, one that all parties would feel proud of and as this section of the District is entitled to the nomine this time it will be well to keep these men in mind. The rumor by a newspaper man to the effect that, the Progressive Republicans would hold their Convention in May and would nominate T. R. Roosevelt, and the regular Republicans would have their convention in June and simply ratify what the Progressives did in May have been set at rest by the following paragraph in a letter received from Hon. W.H. Hinebaugh, of Ottawa, Illinois, which was written July 12th as follows: "I am of the opinion that the newspaper man who painted some rosy dreams for you about the convention to be held early in May was dreaming in very truth. I do not believe there is anything in that suggestion. I do believe, however, that the Republicans will be wise enough to select a standard bearer for 1916 whom the progressive Republicans can support and that he will be swept into the White House by such an avalanche of votes as have not been heard of in recent years." Judge Hinebaugh is the Chairman of the National Congressional Committee. N.G. MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. India, second only to this country in the production of tobacco, consumes most of its own product and imports very little. Russia is third and raises practically all her supply, importing and exporting only a small quantity. Austria-Hungary is the fourth producing country, importing more than a fourth as much as it raises and exports one-eighth of its own crop. Germany is an extensive grower of tobacco, but imports two and a half times as much as it cultivates and does not export any. France raises considerable tobacco under government supervision and imports great quantities of the milder Virginia tobacco to keep up the quality of the cigarettes and other products made under the state monopoly. Both France and Spain keep buyers in this market. Not For Strangers. "What in the world does that mean?" asked the traveler through a sparsely settled region on the Cape. "There's no such place on my road map." The man whom he addressed first took a leisurely survey of the traveler and his house and then turned his eyes toward the weatherbeaten sign, which bore the single word "Tolpom." "That ain't a name," he said, with dignity; "it's jest an indication. It means 'To Long pond one mile.' It's plain enough to folks from nearby that's hunting for the pond, and we don't reckon on strangers taking much interest." Youth's Companion. A Master of One Art. "Have you ever loved any other girls?" breathed the maiden tremulously. "Well, I have attempted a few kindergarten, prep school and college courses in affection," responded the man in the case. "but this represents a real purpose to get rid of my bachelor's degree." Whereupon he took a little firmer hold—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Professional Reticence. "Did that man quote you correctly in that interview?" "I can't tell," replied Senator Sorghum. "Don't you know?" "Yes, I know, but I can't tell until I have learned how my constituents like the article."—Washington Star Cautious. Higgs—Crooke is a criminal lawyer, isn't he? Diggs—He's a lawyer, but as to his being criminal, I think he's too careful to quite overstep the line.—New York Sun. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.—J. G. Holland. 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. ANIMALS IN PAWN. Tame or Wild, They Are Good For a Loan In This New York Shop. Among the curious industries or sources of livelihood in New York city is an animal pawnshop. As you take a watch to an ordinary pawnshop to raise money on it, so you may take a watchdog to the animal pawnshop. Recently a man did this, getting $20 on a dog that was easily worth $50, the pawnbroker said. But he was a trick dog which had been taught to open doors. So in due time he opened a door and let himself out while letting the pawnbroker in. A well known animal trainer owns the shop. He takes camels, lions, elephants—any animals. There are no charges for interest on the loan, the only charge being for the keep of the animals, among which at almost any time are dogs, monkeys, bears, goats, cats, coons, mice, parrots, canaries. At one time he had forty trick donkeys in pawn. The profits arising from charges for feed and care are enough to make the institution pay. Once he had a lion in pawn which broke his chain in the stable and went roaring around, scared almost to death, and it was only after heroic efforts that they mustered courage to capture him. As a matter of fact the animal was a decrepit beast that had served his time in sideshows and was anxious to get away.—Exchange. A CLEW TO HER PAST. She Knew Entirely Too Much, As a Close Observer Discovered. She looked rich and acted rich, and every one knew that she was rich because she had married a rich man, yet the Sherlock Holmes of the tea party discovered that she had once been poor. "Take it from me," she said, "that there was a time, and that not so very long ago, when she was as poor as the rest of us." "Marvelous!" exclaimed the other four girls. "How did you discover that?" Through her knowing so absolutely where I keep all my housekeeping things. She knew that the tea caddy was in the writing desk, that the cheese, biscuits and other edibles beloved by mice were in that tin box under the sofa, that the alcohol for my stove was in the corner behind the washstand, that the butter and milk were on the window ledge and that the eggs and other raw foods were in a box on the bottom shelf of the wardrobe. "When we were cooking she went straight to the spot and got every one of those things without once asking where they were, which is something that a person who had not had a wide experience of housekeeping in one room could never have done."—New York Times. An Ingenious Device. When Sir Robert Perks' school days were over he entered the office of a firm of lawyers and worked very hard. It was no uncommon thing to find him reading law at 5 in the morning, and this often after he had been working late on the previous night. As a matter of fact, he made it an inflexible rule never to be in bed of a morning after 5. To enforce this rule he invented an ingenious device. This consisted of a long glass tube filled with water nicely balanced over his head and attached by a string to an alarm. At the desired hour the bell rang and awakened the sleeper. If within a few seconds he did not leap from his bed and avert the calamity the descending weight of the clock destroyed the balance of the tube, and down poured the water on his guilty head! -From "The Life Story of Sir Robert W. Perks." How Italian Soldiers Behave The Italian soldier gets a very high character from Richard Bagot in his "Italians of Today." "To see an Italian soldier drunk or in any way misconducting himself in a public place is exceedingly rare—so rare indeed that it would create a very disagreeable impression on the witnesses. Indeed, the man of any one of the more important Italian regiments who misconducted themselves in a public place would, in addition to the severe punishment administered by the regimental authorities, undergo a very bad time of it at the hands of their own comrades."—London Globe. Outtawed. "How about paying me for that suit I made for you two years ago?" asked the tailor. 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