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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S LIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWAKED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Storm Warnings If Russia is brought to her knees in this struggle while France remains firm, it will be because Russia was caught unprepared while France was fairly well armed and equipped. If Constantinople falls, it will be because the Turks and their German allies run short of ammunition. England is inviolate because she was prepared. These are outstanding facts which warn America of its duty. If the United States is on the verge of severing relations with one of the great powers of the world, why is no step taken to prepare for the terrible consequences? The man would be reckoned as a fool who, when he saw a storm approaching, would not protect his property because it would cost him money or because he hoped the storm would pass around him. The last year has been big with warnings. Men have been shown that they need not rely upon the "established order of things." There is no established order. The unexpected and the undreamed-of has happened. The thought of the United States at war with a mighty European power is still so strange to many Americans that they refuse to accept it. But what may another year bring forth? Surely it cannot be said that the United States is further from war than it was a year ago. Yet it is just as far from preparing for it. The only insurance that this nation can carry is preparedness. It cannot insure itself against injustice or unprovoked attack. It cannot place any other nations under bond to keep the peace. As a selfrespecting nation it will maintain its rights at any cost, but it cannot maintain these rights by lease, contract, purchase, bond or treaty if the opposing party does not care to respect them. War may begin over a comparatively unimportant matter, but, once started, it may have no bounds. It is like fire, which consumes whatever it can, to the full extent of its possibilities. A war started in self-defense or for the assertion of a minor right opens the way to any attack that the enemy can make. He is no longer bound to respect titles or boundaries. If he can invade destroy, capture or occupy territory, he will do so. The moral rights of the nation disappear. The fleet is worthless if it cannot whip the enemy. The flag stands for nothing if it is not triumphant. The coasts and cities belong to the enemy if he can take them. The title to American soil rests in the nation only so long as it can assert the strength to hold it. "In time of peace prepare for war" is the most potent warning ever given to this nation. If prepared for war, the United States may be able to enforce peace, and if not it can defend itself. If not prepared, the nation can neither enforce its rights peacefully nor choose between peace and war. The enemy will choose for it, and the choice will be war, for the reason that a nation as rich as the United States, without the ability to defend itself, invites aggression and destruction. Washington Post. Natural Age of Man. The question as to what is the natural age of man is by no means settled, of course, but many are of the opinion that the Frenchman Flourens was not far out of the way in his estimate of the time a man should live. Taking his observations from the group mammalia, of the class vertebrata, as having the closest resemblance to man and such species as are permitted to live the full term of their natural life under circumstances not admitting of error or doubt. Flourens found that their natural life extended to about five times the period of their lives from birth up to maturity. Applying the rule thus obtained to human life and taking the age at which the body is fully matured to be twenty years, he concluded the natural duration of the life of man to be 100 years. FRIED CHICKEN DAY. The suggestion of the Missouri Poultry Association that September first be observed as "fried chicken day" in that State possibly will need no urging in the observance. As "every dog has its day," why not the succulent, the all enveloping spring chicken, the noblest bird that dies that man may be appeased in the gustatory longings. We are for fried chicken every day in the year, and if possible twice a day. It is said to be impossible for a person to eat one quail a day for thirty days, but we never heard of such a test being applied to fried chicken. It is absolutely a dish of savor, a plate of enjoyment fit for the gods. It is a Lucullian feast that must be approached reverently, not with the surfeit of the glutton, but the satisfaction of the epicure. The fried chicken exhilerates but never intoxicates; it satisfies but never palls. Let him who will apostrophize the "little hot bird and cold bottle," but as for us give us the brown fried chicken and the unctious gravy. Ah, what dreams come of the old home when that generously filled serving platter arrived on the table with the golden brown feast. The insinuating odor of its crispness lives as a memory forever and a delight always. There is one requirement about fried chicken—it must be fried at home, or like it was prepared at home. The restaurant product is a base imitation. Fried chicken ueber allies! We are not only for Missouri fried chicken day but for making it a fixed National festival. It is really the ambrosial food that makes the discontented contented. It cements friendships and dissolves enmities. Its golden brown glories make the world look brighter and the partaker happier and better for having eaten. If there is any greater gastronomic delight than fried chicken it is more fried chicken. It soothes and softens after feasting when one may well Wrap the drapery of his coach about him And lie down to please him Europe's war makes business boom in this country. Elbert Hubbard's Resourcefulness Elbert Hubbard had a $500,000 plant at East Aurora. He left it without a cent of mortgage. He had a payroll of a couple of thousand dollars per week. He wouldn't cut the force when business was slack. If he had 400 people working when 250 would do, he simply tore up the superintendent's report to that effect and went out and dug up things to keep them all busy. They had to be kept going, even if on nothing better than a million booklets in defense of John D. Rockefeller. The Pastor of his Flock was wont to write impressively of the discipline of business, but he was in some respects a bum business man, for he'd wander into the shop some day, grab a worker and say, "Come on out for a hike; it's a beautiful day." But the worker would point to his work, saying, "Can't." "Do it tomorrow," would say the Fra. "Behind on it now." And then Hubbard would come within an ace of discharging him then and there. The great establishment went on the momentum of Hubbard's personality. That stood in lieu of cost tables and all that sort of efficiency truck. "Do we need the dough?" he'd say to the sub-headman. "We do? I'll go out and get it." And he did. He got it in vaudeville. He got it in write-ups. He got it by writing the most wonderful advertisements. He got it in lecturing. Then he'd play awhile. But all the time he was building. Today the demand for his "Little Journeys" to the homes of writers, painters, musicians, statesmen, philosophers, agitators is continuous. By and of itself this demand is sufficient to keep the Roycroft shop going, to say nothing of the other books by Hubbard, his wife and others, and the call for Roycroft work in wood or copper or leather. The Fra has a circulation of about 100,000 monthly and carries heavy advertising accounts. There is a goodly store of Hubbard manuscripts, for Hubbard could work prodigiously, even on trains while circuiting the country. The establishment is in good financial condition and the loyalty of its following is pledged in thousands of letters from all over the world. Marion Reedy in St. Louis Mirror. HEROIC CURE FOR LOCKJAW A student in Professor Von Behring's laboratory, accidentally broke a flask of tetanus germs, fragments of the glass penetrating among the tendons of the palm of his hand. Von Behring describes in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift how he treated this case which was about the most terrible wound a man could have, for millions of tetanus germs must have entered. After antiseptic treatment an injection of antitoxin was made in the arm. The wound healed, but after four days lockjaw set in in the legs, shoulders, jaw and eyelids. The right armpit was opened, the main nerve trunks isolated and innitrated with the most powerful serum. The tetanus was at once checked; it soon vanished and it has not recurred, though four months have elapsed. Von Behring says the poison of tetanus at once combines with the nerve endings in the muscles. It enters the blood, where it can be neutralized by injections of antitoxin. The only hope in a serious case like that of this student is to apply the serum directly to the main nerve trunks. The Medical Record comments that as Von Behring does not mention the dried antitoxin as a wound dressing nor the injection of the serum into the spine, he indicates a radical modification in the treatment. HOW TO WATERPROOF AND FIREPROOF CLOTHES. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris M. le Roy described a quick process of waterproofing clothes of any sort. He takes five or ten parts of lanolin, liquified in chloroform and diluted with ninety to ninety-five parts of gasoline. Into this the clothes to be treated are dipped, without removing linings or buttons. After being shaken about in it for a few minutes they are wrung out and dried in the open air. At the Safety Exposition in New York Dr. Charles Frederick Pabst, of Brooklyn, told how to make clothes fireproof. They should, he said, be dipped in a solution of ammonium phosphate, one pound to a gallon of cold water. Ammonium phosphate costs only 25 cents a pound he said. Dr. Pabst took an eight inch strip of ordinary cotton gauze, equivalent to the material in the Indian and cowboy suits so popular among children, and ignited it. It was wholly consumed within four seconds. Then he took a similar strip, dipped it in the ammonium phosphate solution, dried it with an electric fan, and held it in a flame for thirty seconds, but it did not burn. "Families should get this solution, keep it in their homes, and dip the whole family washing in it," said Dr. Pabst. "It would cost about 15 cents a week." The sum and substance of the Frank case is that the public has caused a lynching by not allowing the law to take its course. The man was convicted and sentenced to death. A weak governor, moved by the appeals of persons outside of the state who knew nothing about the murder, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, after all the courts in the land had affirmed the trial court's findings. Georgia people expected that the cold blooded murder of little Mary Phagan would be punished according to law. But it all depends on whose child it is. * * * Now let Ohio sweep before her own doors, clean up some of the evils like the Urbana and Springfield affairs, and some other things that could be mentioned. J. J. F. in Columbus Dispatch. The Hero Of Serbia If Serbia is famous for anything, it is for the fighting quality of her people. In three years, her armies have met and defeated the Turks, the Bulgars and the Austrians in turn, and they are now facing an attack by the Germans. There are in the little kingdom brave men, courageous women and resourceful leaders. A host of them have won the highest honors in fighting men But the real hero of Serbia is a man who fought the typhus fever and won, but lost his life as a result of over exertion. He was Dr. James F. Donnelly, an American. In February, the dreadful epidemic, which was worse than any armed foe, had been so far brought under control that there were only 100,000 sick in all the kingdom and the deaths had been reduced to 1000 a day. It had been and still was a ghastly spectacle, concealed only by the still greater horrors of the war. But the American Red Cross had heard of it, and a corps of doctors and nurses, of which Donnelly was chief, hastened to the rescue. They did noble service. The corps was inadequate, and many died who might otherwise have been saved. Dr. Donnelly had at one time under his charge 1400 cases, and strove so hard, day after day, and week after week, to save others that in a few months he had destroyed himself. But he and the others had found the way to victory over the disease. Many were saved, and many were never attacked. The scourge was checked. Now Dr. Donnelly's grave is every day covered with fresh flowers, and when his name is mentioned in any gathering, there is silence, which means more than cheers. He is as much the savior of Serbia as that other American, McGahan, was the savior of Bulgaria. It is a great thing that, out of the very center of the riot of war, there should arise this hero of peace and that, above all of those whose business it has been to kill, there arises the glory of this American whose business it was to save.—Columbus Dispatch. Ohio boasts of a hustling widow who has brought up seventeen children and three husbands.—Man-About-Town in the Oklahoma City Tribune. Something Saved. "Very little. Some escaped, thieves stole others and a large number dled of a mysterious disease." Curiosity. Gladys—Why are you going to all that trouble to open that letter so carefully, Maud? Maud—Oh, I had a quarrel with George and intended to send his letter back unopened, but I just thought I would see what he said before I returned it. 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 28, 1915 After an absence of several years, the Indianapolis World, A. E. Manning, editor, is again a visitor to our office. The Press is glad to renew acquaintances with this very sprightly journal, and notes that it possesses its old time vigor. Of course we live in a new age, but if the recent storm calamity that played havoc with Texas had occurred thousands of years ago, would the Bible have noted it as a warning punishment for the sins that Texas has committed? Relative to the revocation at Columbus, Ohio, by the Supreme Grand Lodge of the charter of the Virginia Pythians, John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor, the Pioneer Press is glad that the supreme body can't revoke Mr. Mitchell's manhood. Rest assured that the indefatigable Virginia banker, editor and great lay-preacher will be heard from, and it is safe guessing that the courts will sustain his contentions. --- The lynching of Leo M. Frank has raised a hue and cry from one end of this country to another, and bids fair to be the means of a cessation in that bloodthirsty pastime. Had governors, platform lecturers, newspapers, powerful magazines and other forces for civic betterment cried out against lynching thirty years ago, like they are doing now that a rich Jew has been lynched, that form of lawlessness would be practically unknown in this country. Mr. Lemley, a representative of the state auditing department, has been here and examined Sheriff E. H. Tabler's accounts and found them in excellent shape. Mr. Tabler's books are a model of accuracy, and champion the admiration of all who have the privilege of viewing them. The people of Berkeley County have twice by their suffrage entrusted the above named gentleman with public office, once as County Superintendent of Schools, and again as Sheriff, and we don't believe they would balk at electing him for the third time to any office to which he might aspire. We all agree that Booker T. Washington is popular in this country. So has Giles Jackson been, but he is at the end of his race, and Booker isn't far from his. The editor of this paper would rather be right and popular with God than have millions of dollars and be popular with the Negro haters to whom Booker is always playing his discordant fiddle. The music has helped to make hundreds of our people suffer and many others dance or dangle from trees, and now, he is meddling in Haitian affairs. The best thing for the colored people of this country is for America to withdraw her troops and let Booker go over there and settle matters. The Chicago Broad-Axe is making an un-let-up fight on Messrs. Swann and Carey. We know these gentry. They and Henry Lincoln Johnson took it upon themselves to hike to Philadelphia in 1912 to break up the National Independent Political League, and when they failed, Swann rushed to the rostrum and thrust his hand into his hip pocket in Rev. Dr. E. W. Moore's church, pretending that he was going to shoot ye editor, and declared that all saved us was our gray hair. Had he attempted to draw his gun, he'd gotten our clinched fist at the "burr of his ear." Also Dr. Carey wanted to fight. Give it to them Brother Taylor. Hon. Samuel S. Felker, former Justice of the Peace and Democratic County Chairman, and a fine type of the Southern white gentleman, was in Columbus, Ohio, during the presence of the Grand Lodge of the Negro Pythians of the United States in that city, and was so well pleased with their grand dress parade and the gentlemanly bearing of the hundreds of men in the line of march that the editor was the recipient of a number of clippings from Columbus daily papers and an appreciative letter bearing on this memorable parade at the hands of Mr. Felker. He has our most sincere thanks for the interest evinced in our race's creditable showing made in Ohio's capital city, and we wish there were thousands of counterparts of this noble son of good old Berkeley, in every section of the Union. JAMES MONROE TAYLOR Last Monday the editor and the man above named, were together in the spirit we always had lived—as friends. To-day, he's in eternity. In many respects, of all the living of Martinsburg, it's doubtful if any one by death, could be more talked of in so many good ways along with the common faults of life to which we are all heir. He was honest, true to a friend, a careful business man who never allowed a dollar to rust in his pocket, but put it to work. By this method, in spite of opposition, it's safe guessing that he was worth at least fifty thousand dollars. His example in the church of his choice, was one worthy of emulation. His place in the choir, in Sunday School and officially was never vacant. When he took a stand, there he stood and backed it by rare good sense. He was slow in speech, but forceful in expression. For these noble qualities—the lack of them being the curse of our people—this entire community will sadly miss him and mourn his loss, for there is no other under similar conditions could have plucked as many blossoms of success from such brambles of disaster and forcing on himself rich character, extended experience and approved ability. As we understand it, Col. Roosevelt did not speak within the confines of military territory. But suppose he did, is this not a free country, and Roosevelt one of the biggest men in it? He had a perfect right to say what he wanted to, but others who differ are not compelled to adopt it. Throw salt on a horse, and unless it touches a sore place, no squirming will go on. The public should also keep in mind that a multiplicity of all classes of private citizens, who were there at their expense learning military tactics, constituted Mr. Roosevelt's audience. It all was nothing more nor less than a general patriotic demonstration to awaken and arouse America to a sense of her duty. Every real thinking and seeing person knows we are not pre- pared, the best thing to be done is to prepare, and this can be done quickest by agitation, the very kind that all this fuss and feathers are about. General Wood has said what Roosevelt advocated. Theodore Roosevelt can be surrounded by a hundred thousand enthusiastic American hearers, and without saying more, it's risible for a near seeing official to criticise a man who has viewed the world from most every angle, and its preparedness, and on whom the world's eyes are. Go ahead Teddy and cause the dry bones in the valleys to come together for the good of this country of all countries if properly run, governed and protected. ```markdown ``` In a closely connected conversation recently, with one of the brightest and best read men we know of, we were beyond a doubt convinced that West Virginia can surpass the world in scenery of beauty. This man is a naturalist and loves nature. He can read science in valleys, on hills and mountains, streams and rivers. He declares there is more to be seen and learned from the source to the mouth of the Potomac than there is on a similar trip up the Hudson. He not only insists that the world's history, beauty and delight can be seen and enjoyed at Harper's Ferry, but that earth has no prettier place. Mr. Randolph, to put it in his language "was a globe trotter," and after seeing the world's wonders declared Harper's Ferry to be the finest in the world. He says if he had his choice to go up and down the Hudson or across the continent for beauty of scenery, he'd prefer to take a canal boat from Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D. C., seeing the great falls of the Potomac. HOW WE SHOULD DO. If New York's colored voters, disgusted with the Wilson Administration and sick at the sight of the South in the saddle, are to help the Republican party to victory next year the time to lay their foundation for a Republican victory is now, not a few days before election. If in unity there is strength it is applicable to party affiliation. There is no reason why the colored voter should not have a strong local and State organization working for his rights and liberties as a free citizen of the Republic. Nor is there any sense in the method of confiding our destinies to a few white men, interested in us only at election time. The more indifferent the colored voter the least he will have and can expect. The old and easy custom of getting together a few days prior to election is antique and unattended with tangible results. Such a method, or rather, lack of method, is more characteristic of unreasoning apes than of intelligent human beings. That colored men are not enjoying the ballot in every State in the Union makes it more essential and imperative that where this right is enjoyed it be used to the fullest extent for the advancement of the race. Political organizations are more essential to us than almost any other class of people. Will we never recognize the strength of organization?—New York Amsterdam News. Philadelphia needs the same. Philadelphia Courant. Right you are Brothers Anderson and Caldwell, and what is true of New York and Philadelphia is likewise true of Martinsburg and every other county and hamlet in this country. ENGLAND'S THRONE. As One of the Heirs to It, the German Emperor is Very Remote. In answer to the question, "Was the emperor of Germany ever considered an heir to the English throne and did Queen Victoria have a law passed to exclude him from the succession?" the Philadelphia Press says: "The possibility of the German emperor ever succeeding to the throne of England is so very remote as to cause little thought. There was more or less talk on the subject at the time of the marriage of the kaiser's mother to the heir to the German throne in 1858, but we are unable to find that any parliamentary action was taken even then. "After King George come his five sons and one daughter and their children, if any; then King George's sister Louise, Duchess of Fife, her two daughters and the son of the elder; then Princess Victoria, then Queen Maud of Norway and her son, making thirteen at present living in the line of succession. After that the succession reverts to the descendants of the late King Edward's brother, Alfred, duke of Edinburgh; Arthur, duke of Connaught, and Leopold, duke of Albany. As these all married and had numerous children and grandchildren, there is a long line of heirs to the throne before the succession would come to the descendants of the oldest sister of King Edward, the late Empress Frederick of Germany, the first of which line is Emperor William." Her Idea. "The spelling book's all wrong, mamma." "Why so, Ethel?" "Because it don't look right for a lithe thing like a kitten to have six letters and a big cat to only have three." - Yonkers Statesman. Cause and Effect. "When I sing I gets tears in my eyes. What can I do for this?" "Stuff cotton in your cars."—Chicago Tribune. The one prudence of life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation.—Emerson. --- FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA. While here and located in one of the most beautiful sections in Fairfax County, on an elevation where I can overlook the country as far as Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax Court House and Great Falls, I thought I would write and give the readers of the Pioneer Press an idea of this section of old Virginia, which is a farming section and all up to date farmers engaged in the business. The town is located on a hill and has about 1500 inhabitants, including what is called the "Colored Settlement" which is not in the corporation of Falls Church proper, but has about five or six hundred as fine citizens as can be found, all living within a stone's throw of each other, with yards and garden space enough to make their homes a haven of rest. Here they have three churches, one Methodist and two Baptist, with three ministers in charge, and one that is on the retired list, Rev. John Barnett, formerly of Moorefield, W. Va. They have an Odd Fellows Hall that accommodates a membership of about sixty members, one large school and two stores. This is not a fruit growing section; I mean that there are no large orchards like the large apple orchards at Ridgeville and the large peach orchards at Twin Mountain and Petersburg, W. Va., where one can see thousands of trees loaded down with the finest fruit of the world. This town, while pretty and well shaded, is not surrounded with beautiful mountains and well supplied with cold spring water like that enjoyed at Williamsport, W. Va. Last week I suggested that the Summer White House of the Nation should be located at Williamsport. While in Washington Monday I had the pleasure of meeting the Editor of the Press, and was about to take him for a soldier on his way to enlist, he having his gun on his shoulder all done up in tissue paper as I thought, but it was a part of his auto that he had repaired. N.G. TRICKING SUBMARINES. Ruses by Which Vessels May Escape Their Torpedo Attacks It is the surprise attack which in nearly every case enables a submarine to torpedo a hostile ship. There are several risks by means of which a ship can trick a submarine. Several vessels have diverted torpedoes by swinging round their stern until it points in the direction of the undersea craft. In this way the wash of the propellers has deflected the torpedo from its course and it has sped harmlessly past its mark. Another successful ruse is to stoke up the furnaces of a ship chased by a submarine, and thick, black smoke belches from its funnels and envelops the vessel in a protective shroud. In this way the submarine gunners are confused and cannot perceive the correct direction in which to send their torpedo. A speedy ship which follows an erratic, zlzgazg course presents a poor mark to a submarine. When a torpedo is dispatched against a fast traveling vessel it is directed to a point just ahead of its mark, and the craft literally runs into the death dealing device. This obviously cannot happen, however, if a ship is swinging rapidly from side to side and alternately pointing the narrow expanse of its bows or stern to the undersea marksmen. A submarine seldom attacks a vessel if it is not alone, for it can only attack one at a time, and while it is launching a torpedo at its first mark the second vessel has an excellent opportunity of ramming the submarine, which can be located by its toltale periscope.—Pearson's Weekly. THE ENTRANCE HALL Make It Suit Not Visitors, but the Occupants of the Home. Is anything new to be said about the entrance hall? The smallest room in most houses, it is usually given in the plans an amount of attention that might seem out of all proportion to the rest of the house. And yet the ordinary entrance, whether it be a mere vestibule, a spacious hall of the colonial style or, as in our present day fashions, a part of the living room set off by an archway, is quite unsatisfactory. It is unsatisfactory for this reason—that the entrance way is designed and decorated from the standpoint of the impression it makes on visitors, whereas the impression we should seek is not that made upon guests, but upon ourselves, the occupants of the house. Too often we give the entrance a severe treatment that impresses the student of beauty or that amazes the less discriminating visitor by the other extreme of lavish display. But how does either of these two types of entrance affect those who come into the house many times every day, the good man and his good wife and their children? Is it a room that by its suggestion of rest and repose tempts one after a hard day's work at the office to drop into the first easy chair that comes along, or does it irritate the nerves and keep one going, restless and uneasy, wandering from the entrance to the living room and from the living room to the study and thence to the attic by way of the basement?—Good Health. Suppressing Swearing. Profane as well as legal oaths have been the subject of many parliamentary measures in England. No fewer than five separate bills having the prevention of swearing for their object were presented during the reign of James L., but it was not until 1623 that an enactment was finally carried defining and controlling the offense. In 1635 a public department was established to collect the fines enforced by this law. The officials of this department, of whom one was appointed in every parish, were allowed 2s. 6d. in the pound on the money thus collected, and the balance was paid over to the bishop for the benefit of the deserving poor. These penalties ceased to be enforced after the restoration, but were revived by a statute of William and Mary and still further increased under George II. Stereoscopic Surveying. There is in use a stereoscopic method of photographsurveying. Photographs are taken at two points with a surveying camera, the plates being exposed in the vertical plane passing through both stations. The developed plates, or positives from them, being then placed in a stereoscopic measuring machine that combines the pictures, a brief calculation gives the exact position of any desired point. The effective range of the instrument is put at about five miles, and the method is said to be of particular advantage in mapping large areas of mountainous country. A Real Grievance Magistrate—How comes it that you dared to break into this gentleman's house in the dead of night? Prisoner—Why, your worship, the other time you reproached me for stealing in broad daylight. Ain't I to be allowed to work at all?—London Telegraph. Garrison is sore at "Teddy." Mrs. Mattie Brown, of Sewickley, Pa., is visiting among friends here for a while, and seems to be enjoying herself. The Berkeley County Teachers' Institute has been in session this week, and as a consequence, many strangers were in town. Mr. Thornton D. A. Wells, a well known and highly respected gentleman of Middleway, was a welcome and entertaining caller at our office one day this week. Mr. Steward E. Carson, well known to many of our townsmen, passed through town enroute from Chambersburg to Berkeley Springs one day recently. --- Miss Annie Carpenter has gone on a trip which will take her to Harrisbhrg, Pittsburg and Niagara Falls. It is hoped she may enjoy herself. Mrs. Annie Agee, a native of this city, but who now makes her home with a son in Indianapolis, is spending some time with friends in our town. An all-day meeting will be held at Watson's.Grove, Middleway, on Sunday, September 12. An excellent program has been arranged for the entertainment of those who attend. Mr. Albert Carpenter, a thrifty gentleman of our town, and a worthy example for our present day generation to follow, took a sight seeing trip to Harrisburg yesterday. He reports an enjoyable time. Mr. N. G. Robinson, a popular attache of the United States Capitol, stopped over between trains one day recently, being en route to his home in Washington from interior West Virginia, where he had been on an outing. Mr. E. W. Walker, of Frederick, Md., dropped in to see us one day during the past week. Mr. Walker is the representative in his city of the National Benefit Association, Incorporated, of Washington, D. C., and says that business is good with him. The Press office received a call the other day from Mr. B. F. Burkett, formerly of this city, but now a resident of the neighborhood between Falling Waters and Williamsport. He has bought and paid for a nice country place, and says he is enjoying life and making a very good living. Biodiversity Policy for the Environment Mr. Moses Gordon, for many years one of Pittsburg's bluecoats, and a man well fitted both temperamentally and physically tor the many duties that a policeman has to perform, is spending part of his annual vacation with relatives and friends in this and the surrounding neighborhood. The Veribest Straightener Vett KONGOLENE NOX INKS Marvelous Discovery. It is what you have been dreaming of for years. To discover an article that would actually straighten foliated hair, without the use of Hot Pressure, Hard Cone, KONGOLENE does it and more so. It makes Conez, Harsh Stubborn, Nappy-looking hair SOFT and SILKY. KONGOLENE is a preparation that makes the hair STRAIGHT. It makes the hair look like it was straightened by the use of Hot Irons or Combs—just makes it look although it is naturally so. Simply spread Kongolene on like butter, comb it for a few minutes, WASH IT OUT, and the hair is straight. (For two minutes, comb it for two or three months. Kongolene is positively adjusted to do what we say it will or your money is refunded. Ebonized Ground Oil, a necessary adjunct to Kongolene gives that ravens' wing effect. KONGOLENE $1.00. EBONIZED GROUND OIL 25c Send $15 for trial tests, we use, then write for Agency KONGO PRODUCTS CO. DEPT. 33 1915 WYLTE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. PITCHING IN BASEBALL Lack of Control Will Render Useless All Other Ability. "In my ten years' connection with the American league as umpire I have seen the fact proved again and again that control is also rarely no essary to win success," writes Dilly Evans in St. Nicholas. "The more one studies the different features of the art of pitching the more clearly does he see the value that control plays in the success of the pitcher. "If the pitcher knows the weakness of the batter and intends giving him a fast ball on the inside and then deliberately pitches to the opposite side his knowledge of the batter is of no use to him. Lack of control has rendered his knowledge useless. "If he knows the shortstop is to cover and then pitches a ball to the batter that makes it easy for him to hit through the position vacated by the shortstop he nullifies the strength of his infield. Lack of control is again the cause. "If the catcher signals for a waste ball in order to be in a better position to throw out a runner trying to steal and instead he gets the ball right over the plate he is handicapping the catcher. Lack of control is again the cause. "After all, most of the finer points of pitching are based on ability to control the ball." Stonehenge. No sooner had we set foot on the first swell of plain than I became aware of what looked like a herd of elephants, half a mile ahead. They did not move, and slowly it dawned upon me that this was Stonehenge. A few minutes later, seated within the circles of those enormous stones, I was asking myself the old questions that so many travelers have asked. For worship, at least, these rude masses were erected; that seems fairly certain. And to commemorate a battle, if one may judge from the barrows that crown the neighboring hillocks. Religion and war—the two powers that have charmed and ruled and tortured the world. So mysterious is the whole of life, alike moral and physical, that the haunting wonder of Stonehenge was neither increased nor lessened by what then I saw.—Scribner's. Many Species of Banana. The banana as a substitute for the potato would have one drawback. It has been found that those who live mainly upon this article of diet soon tend to become what is politely called "tubby." The banana with which we are all familiar is only one of many useful species. Cochin China produces a single fruit that is an ample meal for three men, and in East Africa an intoxicating drink is made from the native banana.—London Chronicle. The Reason. "The first year of married life is always the most troublesome. After a couple passes that safely the great danger of separation is over." "Why do you say that?" "It usually takes a man a year to learn the futility of arguing with his wife"—Detroit Free Press. Tearing Sounds. The ear can be trained to accustom itself to the sound of the tearing of various materials. The noise accompanying the tearing of cotton is unlike that of linen. The warp has its voice and the filling quite another, the former being shrill, while the latter is apt to be dull. 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They take with them bunnies and garlands of flowers and decorate the graves of their relatives and pray and weep over the dead for a time. Then when this pious duty is performed they gather in little groups and have a good time gossiping about the living. Thus the day of mourning is very popular among the Moslem women. It gives them almost the only opportunity they have of cultivating the acquaintance of their neighbors. Crowns by Wholesale. It is told of one of the ancient kings of Egypt that his coronation procession occupied a whole day in passing through the city of Alexandria and that 3,260 crowns of gold were carried by the servants. One crown was three feet in height and twenty-four feet in circumference. There were also carried in the procession sixty-four suits of golden armor, two boots of gold, four and a half feet in length; twelve golden basins, ten large vases of perfumes for the baths, twelve ewers, fifty dishes and a large number of tables—all of gold. 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