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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The "HERE SHALL TH The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 Pres. Wilson To 'Phone Greetings State's 53d Birthday To Be Generally Celebrated Parkersburg, June 12.—As the day approaches for the entire State of West Virginia to celebrate the fifty-third birthday, as proclaimed by Governor Hatfield, and to sit down to a birthday dinner of West Virginia products on June 20, the office of Henry H. Archer, Secretary of the West Virginia Board of Trade, becomes more and more a center of feverish activity. Telephone and telegraph messages are pouring in, announcing arrangements from various communities or asking questions. Then, too, hundreds of letters are coming in, mostly written by childish hands, enlisting the writers in membership with the West Virginia Board of Trade. Children all over the State are showing their desire to join the Junior branch, wear the birthday button on June 20 and place on their walls the Junior certificate. Many cases are known where children have earned the membership fee of ten cents before sending it in. The Parent Celebration. All details are now arranged for a yr old birthday dinner, to be held in Charleston. The Armory there will be tested to its capacity. Tables will be set to accommodate 2,000 men and women. The serving of this immense dinner will be directed by the Young Women's Christian Association of Charleston, and the waiters will be 53 young women and 53 young men, specially selected from Charleston's families. Greetings From President Wilson. In response to an invitation from Senator W. E. Chilton, President Wilson has consented to speak over the phone, from the White House, to the assembled guests in Charleston. Before he utters his greetings, he will be introduced over the phone by Senator Chilton, who will stand at his site in Washington. The Bell Telephone Company is arranging to equip several hundred of the seats at the Charleston dinner with individual receivers, so that many can hear the message from the President. This company will also connect other leading points of the State with the Army in Charleston so that the chairman of each of these scattered dinners may send greetings to the chairman at Charleston. The chairman of the great dinner in Charleston will be ex-Senator Davis Ellins, grandson of the late Henry Gassaway Davis, "The Grand Old Man of West Virginia." The speakers and their topics follow: 1910 CH. S. CAMERON LEWIS, JR. President W. Va. Board of Trade. Mr. Lewis will address the State Birthday dinner at Charleston on "The Mission of the West Virginia Board of Trad." State-Wide Topics. Charles Cameron Lewis, Jr., in speaking on the subject "The Mission of the West Virginia Board of Trade," will set forth plans for bringing all the facts of the State together and rendering them available for all the State and for all the world. M. State Geologist of West Virginia. Dr. White will address the State birthday dinner at Charleston on "West Virginia's Minerals the Nation's Needs." Dr. I. C. White, State Geologist, in speaking on the subject "West Virginia's Minerals the Nation's Needs," will draw attention to the dependence that neighboring States and the nation must place upon some of the peculiarly rich possessions of this Stato. 1920 Dean W. Va. College of Agriculture. Dr. Coulter will address the State birthday dinner at Charleston on "A Vision as to West Virginia's Agricultural Future." In speaking on the subject "A Vision as to West Virginia's Agricultural Future," Dr. John Lee Coulter, of Morgantown, will express those purposes which have been taking shape through the increased appropriations and scope of the College of Agriculture, connected with the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. JOHN H. BURKE JUDGE LEWIS N. TAVENNER, Judge Tavenner, who has studied the history of the State from original sources, will address the State birth- day dinner at Charleston on "West Virginia's Romantic History." In speaking on "West Virginia's Rom- antic History," Judge Tavenner, of DR. I. C. WHITE. JOHN LEE COULTER. Parkersburg, will draw on his long continued researches among original documents and will bring forth facts for all the State that should thrill every citizen with a sense of relationship to a great State. PETER H. HON. JOSEPH HOLT GAINES. Mr. Gaines will address the State birthday dinner at Charleston on "A Summons to Service." "No closing speech will be by Hon. Joseph Holt Gaines, of Charleston, who, in addressing himself to "A Summons to Service," will set before the men, women and children of West Virginia the ideals which should be theirs because of the rich material resources awaiting transformation into results that may serve to upbuild the State. A. HENRY H. ARCHER, Secretary W. Va. Board of Trade. Mr. Archer has had oversight of all arrangements throughout the State for celebrating the State's birthday, June 20. Repeated British denials of Berlin's extending list of enemy casualties in the North Sea fight can best be answered by moving out the German fleet again.—New York World. The Germans appear to have beaten the British in the North Sea as effectively as they have beaten the French at Verdun.—New York Evening Star. The Russians have begun a big drive against the Germans. But this time the Russian general staff isn't issuing any invitations for a forthcoming dinner in Berlin.—Charleston News and Courier. The Bull Moose party is now being measured for a "gone but not forgotten" decoration.—Washington Star. The joy of Hughes delegates on reading that speech at the girls' school was like to the joy of a fond mother on hearing her infant's first utterance. It doesn't matter so much what it says as the fact that it has actually said something.—Chicago Herald. It should be reassuring to some that Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., is at the Plattsburgh training camp.—Springfield Republican. SENATOR CHILTON WILL INTRODUCE PRESIDENT WILSON TO THE STATE'S ANNIVERSARY BANQUETERS OVER LONG DISTANCE AT Y. M. C. 'A. SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER HAS BEEN INVITED TO DELIVER ADDRESS. COMMITTEES HOLD MEETING FRIDAY EVENING AND PERFECT ARRANGEMENTS. The various committees appointed by President Thompson, of the Business Men's Association, met at the City Hall Friday' afternoon to further the plans for the banquet to be held on the night of June 29th, in commemoration of the fifty-third birthday celebration of the state of West Virginia. The vigor with which the men appointed on the various committees have taken hold of the movement, to celebrate in a fitting manner the birthday of the Little Mountain State in Martinsburg, augurs well for the success of the movement, and it is their intention to boost the celebration from now until its close on the night of the 29th. Governor Hatfield, having proclaimed that day a legal holiday from noon onward, the committees have not decided as yet just whether they will ask business to suspend from noon or not. The celebration of the state's 53rd birthday is to be a general one throughout the state, and the board of trade of West Virginia is promoting the event in such a manner that every city and town within her borders are to have some kind of a celebration. It is their intention that not a place be left out of participation, and every available one, where telephone connection can be made, there will be a two-minute connection with the headquarters of the state board at Charleston, so that the chairmen of each dinner all over the state may send a word of greeting to the chairman of the parent dinner in that city. The committees have about decided to hold the banquet in the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A., same to be served by the ladies' auxiliary of the association. The banquet is to cost $1 a plate, and promises to be one of the most elaborate ever held in Martinsburg. Distinguished visitors of national reputation are to be present and make addresses. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker has been invited to pay a visit to his old home that evening and deliver the chief address, and his close proximity to Martinsburg at the present time practically insures his acceptance. Much pressure will be used in the committees' endeavor to have him present. Other speakers have been invited and due announcement will be made who they will be. One of the important events of the banquet will be when Senator Chilton, in Washington, will introduce President Wilson to the banqueters in Martinsburg over the long distance telephone, who will address a few words to the gathering. Mayor P. W. Leiter is chairman of the entertainment committee, and he is determined that his committee shall give a glowing account of their duties on the night of the banquet. The ticket committee will soon have the tickets in their hands and they will be tendered to any man of Martinsburg and Berkeley county. The number will not be limited and all who desire may attend. You are invited and it is the committees' desire that you secure your tickets early in order that ample provision may be made for all. CANDIDATES MUST FILE NEW REPORT That Is Within Thirty Days After the Primary Election. Although candidates for nomination at Tuesday's primary have filed "before the primary" expense accounts with the clerk of the county, they are required to file another report within thirty days after the primary. This final report is supposed to contain every expense of the campaign. Candidates will be provided with forms by Circuit Clerks. The law says: "Within thirty days after each primary or other election, every candidate for public office, every financial agent or treasurer of political committee, shall file with the officers prescribed, a detailed itemised statement subscribed and sworn before an officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth all political transactions in connection with such primary or other election." Failure of the candidate to comply with this law means that proceedings will be instituted against him within forty days by the prosecuting attorney on report of the county clerk. The cases so reported will be tried before the criminal court. Wilhelmshaven is to be closed to visitors, except in cases of urgent necessity. Perhaps the idea is to conceal what the Kaiser's ships are doing, or it may be to conceal what has been done to the ships.—Springfield Republican. WHEAT CROP, SHORTAGE OF 300,000,000 BUSHELS Department of Agriculture Experts Blame Insects and Wet Spring. WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 9. Present indications point to a wheat crop 300,000,000 bushels smaller this year than that of last year. Department of Agriculture forecasts indicated a winter wheat crop of 469,000,000 bushels, 30,000,000 bushels less than forecast from May 1 conditions, due largely to insects in Kansas and Oklahoma, and a spring wheat crop of 246,000,000 bushels, due to a decrease of 8 per cent. in the acreage from last year and to the late wet spring. Crop conditions on June 1 indicated less production than last year of small grain crops, but they promise to be about the same as the average production for the last five years. Fruit crops as a whole are good; the apple crop prospect is good, and especially in the Eastern States, but the peach crop promise is rather poor. Indications are that the oats crop will be about 300,000,000 bushels smaller than last year, being particularly poor in most Southern States and in Oklahoma and Central Kansas, where a green bug has injured it. Heretofore, if you could believe a Texas ranger's boasts, he could lick all Mexico with one hand tied behind him. When it comes to a showdown, he hollers for help.—Rochester Herald. Mrs. Davis, the woman who tried to stampede the 1912 G. O. P. convention to Roosevelt, is out for Teddy again this year, and so is Bat Mosterson. In fact, everybody seems to be with the Colonel except the delegates.—Washington Herald. Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year $1.50 6 months 75c. 3 months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the 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. K. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 860, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JUNE 17 1916 Now that the saloons are closed in Weverton, Maryland, the thirsty ones in and around Harper's Ferry are hiking to Hancock, Hagerstown and other places where wet goods are on tap. Many of the nominating speeches made at the Republican National Convention in Chicago last week were rhetorical gems,but after they were considered from the standpoint of admiration, that was about all they amounted to, for the next ones were in order. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend the graduating exercises of the law department of Howard University, which were held in Washington, June 7. One of the graduates was Mr. Gouverneur Page, a well known young man of Charles Town, and a son of the late lamented L. L. Page. The Saint Luke Herald, the inimitable publication run by the order of that name in Richmond, Virginia, carried an article in the issue of June 10, under the caption "Don'ts," which could be read with interest by every one of the one hundred million people that inhabit this great big country of ours. The newspapers run by colored people in every section of the land are scoring Principal Robert R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, for his cowardly and unmanly action in condoning the outrageous action of the railroad and civil authorities who forcibly ejected his wife and brother from a Pullman car in which they had paid to ride from Tuskegee to Hampton. Justice Charles R. Hughes was as inexpressive as the Sphinx prior to his nomination for President by the Republicans, but now he is sending forth utterances in stentorian tones, and leaving no doubt in the minds of anybody as to where he stands. And between now and next November it is quite probable that President Wilson will be given apt illustrations of his ability to talk, too. For the first time in a quarter of a century the District of Columbia has a white man for Recorder of Deeds, Hon. John F. Costello having been named for the position by President Wilson. Being somewhat of a devotee of custom, and taking great pride in the fact that this lucrative position has so long been held by Negroes, we would rather the appointee would belong to our race, but as this is not the case, we can accept the appointment of Recorder Costello with very good grace, because he, so we learn, is absolutely square on the race question. And if there is anything that colored men should be grateful for, if they can't hold positions of honor and trust themselves, is to see good white men in them. The colored people in every section of the country have the industrial opportunity of their lives if they will only take advantage of it. From all parts come reports that new avenues of employment are being opened up to them, and that the only necessary requisites for them to possess are punctuality and adaptability. This is glorious news, and our people everywhere should take a new lease on life, and as George W. Perkins says, "go to it." It is a generally accepted fact that men of color are among the best laborers in the world, and now that hordes of foreigners have gore to Europe to engage in the bloodlust that has precedence over everything else in that war ridden land, our men who are given to serious thinking should advise all Negroes to avail themselves of the good chances they have industrially, advising them at the same time to use their every effort toward "making good", and thereby becoming economic factors in one of the greatest countries on the globe. In conclusion we have only to say, Negroes! the chance is yours! and we hope you will not be found wanting when it comes to embracing it. Dr. Anura Manning Comfort, the pioneer among America's women doctors, is a forceful witness of the arrogance, indifference, and utter disregard of white Americans toward one of their own number. In 1865, when she was doing her research work in Bellevue Hospital, she suffered all kinds of indignities at the hands of her white male associates in the practice of medicine, and had enough meanness of all kinds practiced upon her to have driven a person of less strength of character than she possessed, insane. Even after she started to practice the art of curing and healing, people tore down her sign, the druggists were illical toward her, prospective patrons were suspicious of her, and the men physicians were wholly at variance with, and did everything they could to discourage and make her miserable. But she held on, and today enjoys the unique distinction of being America's first and foremost woman doctor, and was recently tendered a magnificent banquet by the same sex which once almost wished her dead. The above is printed for two reasons, one of which is that we wish to show what a terrible and unreasoning thing prejudice is, and the other is that we want to show how right invariably triumphs over wrong. Especially is this so when the person directing right forces is doubly fortified with good character and strength of purpose. THEM IS TRUE WOIDS. Drink seldom gets the best of the man who knows enough to sneak when it is his turn to treat. AND THE GERMAN ARMY! [Broderick (Col.) Independent.] In pointing so earnestly to the dreadful ravages of beer, it's funny the reverend prohibitionists never cite Germany. WOULDN'T GET THE GOUT. [Boston 'Transcript.] "I want a man who doesn't smoke or drink." "What are the wages?" "Six dollars a week." "Guess you want a man who doesn't eat, either." WATCH OUT. FELLERS! Solemn warning is hereby given to all prohibition members of the Legislature who are going to the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans that if they fall off the water wagon while in the Crescent City their names will be published. No man has a right to vote INSANE WOMEN KEPT NAKED IN COLD ROOMS AT ASYLUM STATE INSTITUTION AT OSAWATOMIE SEVERELY CRITI CIZED BY INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE OF KANSAS BOARD OF HEALTH Report Is Sequel To the Frightful Find In Atchison Orphans' Home and Appalling Immorality Among Children of Topeka, Especially Little Girls Cement floors should replace wooden ones; new and sanitary plumbing should be installed. Dietician should be employed to supervise cooking. Patients paroled should be subject to the sterilization law if their defects are inheritable. As a sequel to the discovery of other appalling conditions in Kansas, the banner prohibition state, comes the announcement that a revolting state of affairs exists at the Osawatomie State Hospital for the Insane. The accuracy of the story is unques- A commission of experts in institution management should be appointed to recommend revisions of the statutes governing state institutions to bring them up to date, and to work out a plan to bring the management of all state institutions up to the state of efficiency that prevails in successful business establishments. More Awful Stories The Topeka Capital recently printed an account of the gross immorality which prevails among children of Topeka. The article quoted Robert Garver, Assistant County Attorney, who said that little girls painted and powdered, paraded the streets of the Capital at night, brazenly flirting with grown men. The Topeka Capital also carried a statement from State Registrar of Vital Statistics J. W. V. Deacon, that 1,300 of the 2,598 deaths of babies in Kansas in 1915 were unnecessary and were the result of neglect by parents or others. "Dirt, destitution and disease caused these 2,598 babies to quit the fight for life," said Mr. Deacon, "Ignorance caused the death of fully half of them." PROHIB. LAW IS HELP TO STATE Pennsylvania Benefits From Drought In West Virginia, But Latter Doesn't Pennsylvania, which is "wet," is glad that West Virginia is "dry." The Pittsburg Leader tells why, as follows: The routing of John Barlecorn in West Virginia is doing a lot toward solving the labor shortage in Southwestern Pennsylvania, according to information coming from different sections of the Connellsville coke regions. Each day finds it more difficult to get the inebriating product in the Panhandle state and workmen, who are bound to have it, are one by one drifting into Pennsylvania. Several men who visited coke plants about here yesterday seeking employment said they came from West Virginia mining regions, and they reported that an influx of workmen from those localities may be expected. The prohibition laws, they said, are not popular among a large class of the workmen, a large percentage of whom will locate in "wet" territory as soon as they can make sure of jobs. The boom in the coke industry and in other industrial lines has resulted in a heavy demand for labor, skilled and unskilled. against liquor and then try to consume the world's visible supply. NOT A "DRY" YEAR. The Ohio prohibitionists have concluded that 1916 is not a good prohibition year. It commenced right with six dry states, but the first two months show that Kentucky, New Jersey, Maryland and Vermont have each repudiated the Prohibitionists. Let the year go on. It is not a good one for prohibition. As a sequel to the discovery of other appailing conditions in Kansas, the banner prohibition state, comes the announcement that a revolting state of affairs exists at the Osawatomie State Hospital for the Insane. The accuracy of the story is unquestioned, for it is from the Topoka Capital, owned by Governor Arthur Capper, of Kansas, who boosts prohibition on the Chautauqua Circuit. The Capital says: Another state institution, the Osawatomie State Hospital, under the management of the board of control, is severely rapped in the report of an investigating committee of the state board of health, filed yesterday with the governor. The inspection was made by Dr. P. J. Alexander, ex president of the board, and Dr. bydia A. DeViibias, head of the division of child hygiene. Bad Conditions Among Orphans. These same two persons recently filed a scabbing report of condition of the State Opinion's Home at Attickson, in the report filed yesterday it is noted that the superintendent, Dr. F. A. Cormichael, called the attention of the board of control to the conditions criticised by the board of health inspectors in his biennial report of June 30, 1914. "The Osawatomie State Hospital for the insane is a hospital in mune only," the report starts our. No improvements to amount to anything, have been made in the main buildings since 1886, it is declared. "Two wards are located in basements, where the walls are so damp it is impossible to plaster them. One of these is occupied by women. The bathing and toilet facilities are declared inadequate. Long-inited women should not be allowed in the institution, the two physicians say. "Women who suffer from mania frequently pull their hair out by handfuls," it is stated. "and those who suffer from irritations or sores on the scalp pick and tear at their heads, making it very difficult to cure the condition. It would greatly simplify matters and promote sanitation to cut off all long hair of women, except those who are able to take care of themselves." Violent Patients Kent Naked Violent patients are frequently kept naked in unheated rooms, with the windows wide open, it is pointed out in the report. Heating facilities are described as extremely inadequate. The main building is declared a fire trap. In the informary, it is declared, every toilet smelled of sewage. Attendants are required to work fifteen hours a day. A proper ward should be provided for the care of bedridden patients. In conclusion the committee makes the following recommendations: Senile dementes—patients who are harmless and for whom nothing can be done—should be returned to their homes, or some other place provided. A receiving hospital should be built, where new patients may be examined and given treatment. Many acute cases could thus be cured that now turn into chronic cases of insanity. One-half of the staff of physicians should be women, as one-half the patients are women. QUIT YER KIDDIN' Considering the fact that there isn't any such thing, we assume that that plan of selling South Carolina's "leftover liquor" outside of the State is merely a little pleasantry on the part of some facetious South Carolina editor. BLANKETY-BLANK VERSE [Columbus (Ge.) Enquirer Sun.] "Already a South Carolina poet has discovered he can't write a poem on FRISCO REGAINS ALASKAN TRADE SUPREMACY FROM SEATTLE Liquor Destined For Klondike Region Will Come From Golden Gate City in Future Business Interests of Prohibition Washington Suffer Severely by Change San Francisco people are reaping the benefit from the prohibition law which went into effect in the state of Washington last January 1, as this narrative from the San Francisco Chronicle will testify: San Francisco is to return to her former supremacy as the port from which the steamers for Nome and other Alaska ports direct leave during the open season, according to advices received from Seattle last night. Plans now under consideration by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company indicate that San Francisco, will not only get the first steamer service each year to Nome and St. Michael, but regular sailings all summer to the Far North. PROHIBITION RESPONSIBLE. Washington's stringent prohibition law is said to be responsible for the premeditated change which will mean vast business for local shippers and the port, and a return to the profitable times when Sun Francisco was the source of Alaska's supplies and workers. That the plan to send vessels out of this port direct to Alaska points during the summer was under serious consideration, became known with the announcement, made by the main office of the company in Seattle yesterday, that the famous Nome liner Senator will be dispatched from here for Nome direct May 30th, carrying passengers and freight. For the past fifteen years the Senator has operated out of Seattle on the Nome and St. Michael run. Shoe is known as the "gold ship," and has handled many millions of dollars' worth of the yellow metal from the Seward peninsula into the sound on the home run. Outward bound the Senator each year has carried valuable cargoes of provisions and hundreds of employees of Alaskas's great industrial concerns. LOSES LIQUOR TRADE. Steamship companies operating from Seattle, having lost the profitable liquor traffic handled each season, are now planning to handle shipments of this character from San Francisco direct. Until recent years this port enjoyed the great volume of trade which offered for Alaska ports during the open seasons. The departure of the Nome-bound steamers, chockablock with freight and passengers, was always an interesting event, recalling the stirring days of the Klondike boom when San Francisco served the bulk of the business. Under the Washington prohibition law, liquor shipments to the North must originate outside of the state, but can be transferred from one vessel to another at Washington ports. Approximately 200 tons of liquor are carried to Nome on each voyage during the short season of navigation in Behring sea, and rather than transfer the heavy shipments at Seattle, it is understood the company intends to carry them, together with such additional cargo as can be obtained direct from San Francisco. a gallon a month," says the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "Looks as if the Palmetto state is going to be songless, unless the blind tigers get into literature." But, if South Carolina poets can't get along on a gallon a month, what are the Georgians going to do when their supply is cut to two quarts a month?" [Editor's Note.—It is suggested that the Georgians write blankety-blank verse.] Ee EE - RMR a Hadi nitty, ap ae sh tate eel aes Pe oA tides Mi. sucabie ba dst, pe Gh a ame ae |e ~ Pils stee: i Tier ane jf iy sist 7 eke at 5 bone ee ees. Bee a ene eae Se ae a aie Recs ice eases Cees i Fi aed eeu pa ea SOR IIH iene es TE Ta 5 RRR ER sare Meter terete ON Lan tec th ai are nes ty Sete cece a Reb Nn age aU ar, Urusei ister ne ah neat sary et ieg nrc OS er 6s yr Seem ape Core eas Te pea SHOULD PAPERS TELL THE TRUTH? It fs not pleasant and profitable al. ways to tell the truth in the columns of a nwespaper. Only a few days the editor of a paper in Indiana grew tir ed of beng called a tiiar, and announce; ed that he would tell the truth in the future; and the next issue of the paper contained the folowing items: “Jobn Bonin, the laziest merchant in town, made a trip to Helleville yess terday. “John Coyle, our grocer man, is do- ing a poor business. His store ar ty and dusty. liow can he do much? “Rev, Styx preached last Sunday night on ‘Charity.’ The sermon was punk.” “Dave Sonkey died ut his wome in the place. ‘The doctor gave tout a heart falurs, Whokey killed him." “Married —Miss Sylvia ituodes and James Contin, last Saturday, at the Baptist. parsonage. ‘The bride is a very ordinary town girl, wao docsu’s know any more about ¢ king than a Jack rabbit. and never helped her mother three days in her lite, She is hot a beauty by any means, and has a gait like + duck. ‘The groom is an up-to-date loafer, ie has been living off the old folks at home all his ie, and is not worth shucks. tt will be a hard lite.” “The governor of our great state, a very ordinary man and who was elect: ed by accident, was here yesterday. He has very few friends kere acw. He promised some of the voters or this precinct a piece of the pie in event of his election, but has forgot- ten all about it when the time to hand over the little office rolled around. Which reminds us of a iiitie Min ois editor who became tired of weil ing the whitewash in the matter or cbituaries, decided to reform and tell the truth just once, He vommenced as follows upon the death of a citizen: “Died —Aged fifty-six years, six months and thirteen days. Deceased was a mild-mannered pirate with a mouth for whiskey. He came here in the night with another man’s wife ana Joined the chureh at first chance. He owes us several dollars for the paper, a large meat bill, and you could hear him pray six blocks. He died singing ‘Jesus paid it all,’ and we think he is right; he never paid anything him self. He was buried in an asbestos casket, and his many friends threw palm leaves in his grave, as he may need them. His tombstone will be a favorite resting place for hoot owlss Publishers Auxiliary, “NOT BEST TO SWAP HORSES,” SAID LINCOLN, 52 YEARS AGO Kifty-two years ago today —dune 9, 1864—President Lincoin gave utter. ance to the historic phrase “It is not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.” This quotation was used by Presi- dent Lincoln during one of those days in his presidential career when he was at his best. ‘fhe Republican na- tional convention, at Baltimore, on June 8 had renamed the President for another term. The doubt regard. ing his renomination, which for a year or more had troubled the President more than Mr. Lincoln was willing at times to admit, had been removed and he was the party's choice, with every prospect of a re-election for a second term. He wanted to “tinish the job,” he said. But if the nation should de- cide differently he should furnish his successor with all the assistance in his power. Flood of Congratulations. When the nomination was made the congratulations began to be received from all parts of the country. The convention’s delegates straggled to Washington to see the victorious President, and many organizatinos were in attendance at the Capital for the same pleasant duty. Among these latter bodies was a delegation from the National Union League, an asso- ciation of loyal men throughout th Northern States, that had been creat- ed for the purpose of rendering aid in various ways to the Union cause. The deputation was received in the Jeast room of the Wiite House on ‘the afternoon of June 9 Mr. Lincoin ,Was in the fine spirits, and wfile he had been receiving callers during the entire day, he was also ia good voice, The chairman of the visitors said they had “called tu congratulate you, sir, on your renomination and to es: sure you that we will not fail at ihe polls to give you the support you 0 richly deserve.” Quotes Old Dutch Farmer. | ‘The President's fully repty was as follows: | “Gentlemen: 1 can onty say in re. spouse to the remarks of your clniy- man, I suppose, that Eau very giute- ful for the renewed confidence wicch has been accorded tome beth by te convention and by the national tease, Jam not insensible at all ie tie per. sonal compliment there is in this, yet 1 do not allaw myselr to believe Ghat any but a small part of it is to be ap. propriated as a personal compliment. The convention and the netion tam assured, are alike animated by higher view of the interests of the eauntry for the prevent and the great jutiee and that part which Pomay lay ho'd OF as being the opinion of the cou vention and of the league that fsa Bot ensworthy to be Intrusted with tie place Po heave occupied tor ie pact three years. Po ohave not) permiited niysel sentlomen, to conelude tUsat Tam reminded in this connection of an old Duteh farce who remarked to A companion ‘that it is not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.’ ” OF as being the opinion of the cou vention and of the league that fsa Bol unworthy to be intrusted with tie place fohave occupied tor the pact three years. P have not permiited niysel sentlomen, to conelude tUsat Tam reminded in this connection of an old Duteh farce who remarked to a companion ‘that it is not besi to swap horses when crossing a stream,’ ? i State News. HUNTINGTON Henry H. Archer, of Parkersburg. seerctary of the state hourd of trade, end Governor Dawe, oF Washington, b. C., are here cone ferting With members of the chamber of commerce with regard to tie ecle- bration of the state's birthday June 620. The celebration here will be an [clahorate one, featured by a banquet at Gite Hotel Mrederick. | oe MURPHY TOWN. Staley Musser, aged 68, one of the most prominent Jarmers in this section of the state, is dead at his home nere of dropsy. File had been Gil ter several months, ss | WHEELING. An election scamtal | Wil be anoartied here, i is cluimed, | Following an investigation by the fed- eral departinent: of justices, Asci thant United States District Attorney wil Hliam i. Rose appeared before dadse | Damron in circuit court here and fled jallidavits and petitions praying that [the records, original ballots, poll jhooks and sheets used in the cle jfion of 19M be preserved. | BETHANY. The sevoncy-fitth an. jniversary of Rethany Collexe was ob- Jserved here with a prosram, which Finclading a number of speeches in [a afternoon and a banquet at night. CHARLESTON. -Bine and white lee the colors selected by the state jauditor for the 117 automopile tags, jaccording to announcement made lhere, | HEELING. Dr. . S. Kennedy, jeolored, went on trial in the eriminal {court here yesterday on a charge of [makpractice. His ease is one of {three of a very like nature, all in | Flving colored physicians, which are 10 come up at this term of court. | CHARLES TOWN ~The commence: |ment exercises of the Stephenson Female Seminary were conclided ; Wednesday. ‘The baccalaureate ser- mon was preached Sunday by the Rev. J. A. MeMurray, of Woodstock, {Va The graduates were: Misses [Frances Nichols, of Harpers Ferry: jJacquline Smith, of Clarke county, (Va. and Mary Neill Marrow, of Cha: les Town. x | WHEELING. The gamaal com mencement of Mount dé Chantal Acad. emy was held Thursday, diplomas be- ing awarded by Bishop P. J. Donohue, of the diocese of Wheeling. to the following 13 graduates: Misson ‘Tor esa Brennan, Scotdale, Pa. teste j Valetour, Marietta, Ohio; Anna Louise Keller, Little Roek, Ark.: Margaret Gleason, Savannah, Ga. ;) Florence Lavan, Cleveland, Ohio; Mlizabeth Gallagher, Tiltonvilie, Ohio; rancos Riggs, Wellsburg, W. Va.; Leonore Tahhutt Hast Livosnnal.Okin« Masia PORTO Ale? LA FOR LGU DESIRES CONGRESS T0 GRANT HOME RULE ON FROHIBITION ISLAND 18 SOBER OLAWU 1 SuOLE Proviiicial Legistators Maintain Inhabitants Are Among. the Most Temperate On Earth and Declare“Dry” Advocates AreUninformed as to Genera! Conditions of Life Porto Rican statesmen ave EPs duced into the legislature a petition requesting Congress 10 5% ent Home ile on the question and uraue {ng as misstatements the charges of “dry” advocates. “Hands Off, Please.” A dispatch to the New Yori World trom San juan ©. ity says: Irritated by stutemenis recent! made to the United States Coury to the effect that Porta eo suen $14,000,000 a year for liquor, and by the efforts of Proiibitionisis ao put the island on the water wagon, the > tive legislators have introduced in the Porto Rican legistature a resolute: asking Congress to refrain rent i terfering with the island's excise measures, ‘The memorial is expecte to pass both Houses. | The resolution, which originated in the Executive Comeil, the uyver bods of the legislature, says that tie island consumes only 3,800,000 Hoers of vari | ous beverages, including distilled spir- its, beer, wine and champagne. ‘These were valued in 1914-15 at $1,614,000, In a recent memorisl to Consress asking that a prohibition amendment be added to the Jones bili, the liter. national Reform Bureau, basing it statements on information fai he: by the Misses Mary and) Marga Leitch, of Garrochates, Porto Rico. | stated that $14,000,505 was sumualiy Uspent. in’ the island for alcoholic P drinks, or twice as much as it does for bread, To offset these figures the resolution is intended to show Uncle Sam tiet | during the fiscal your ending fast diay | the island's fmportations of foodsiu ts I were valued at $14,780,000, ‘The priv: | cipal items were: Rice, $4,850,000; | moat, $3,428,000; fish, $1,229,000; | wheat flour, $1,184,000; beans and | poas, $712,000; dairy products, $559, ' O00. Porto Rico Is Sober. The memorial declares that Porto Rico is “one of the most temperat and sober countries in the world,” and says in conclusion: “Whereas, it is only fair, in ae- cordance with democratic principles. to allow people to legislate on their customs and needs in such form avd degree as may be deemed necessary by them; being, on the other havd, wn: just to impoxe upon them laws and resviutions of a local and restrictive nature by legislators who are strang ers to them, and at the same time ix- norant of their general conditions of life. “Resolved, that the Congress of the United States be requested not to consider the atoresaid petition in legislating for Porto Rico, and that no prohibition whatever of the sate, importation or manufacture of alco- holic beverages in Porto Rico be in- cluded in such legislation, leaving the legisiature of the islands to adopt such Measures as may be deemed ad- visuble for that purpose.” A Washington scientist says insect pests cost this country millions of dollars. We can easily pelieve it. Look what the bee in Teddy's bonnet has cost poor George Perkin! —Chaz- leston News and Courier. You always notice the general pros- perity more on Sunday when you are waiting for a chance to cross a coun try road without being hit.—Indiana- polis News. ESI AEST a et Ns he Os aN ls ew ea bs © cacy 2a FES 3 Ee aces ¥ ed Girl S Life S het “{ want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have re- a = ceived from the use of Thedford’s Black-Draught,” writes a aA Mis. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. a i “Tt cerlainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, a AF liver and stomach troubles, | firmly believe Black-Draught e a, Saved my Witte girl’s life. 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Under the ky, ships eamnot put sea from an American port withor the requisite member of registere: seamen, Objections were made to ti inw beeause it wa siaimed it woul work a hardstip om trading vesset or Crators in that they could not readily secure registered seumen in som ports, this difficulty tending to hol up their shipping pith “Here is a good illustration of hoy the seaman’s law is operating.” See reary Redfield: said. “We received p few days ago a telegram from the Captain of a schooner at Roothbay. Maine, saying that he could not fina the requiired number of registere: seamen at the port, and asking for permission to clear with what help he could employ. “The port officials had refused him elearancs becuse he did not have the required quota of registered sea men, “The Department immediately no Hiled the port officinse to make an avestigation, asked the Department af Lobor to notify through its repre ntatives at Hath and othe: nearp ports any registered soviea Uiare a end them to oothiney, aod fou urances bo tie Captain that the grav ermment was looking Goi for ht “Within aw remarkabt Nerd Chan te man lis vessel arrived at Booth bey, ile inen were given employmen oid he was able to sail with a com Spetant crew.” | A smilar case was cited ar Jackson pviie, Pla. Ao steamboat cautahy ar voaled te the department for permis: sion to sail with unregistered seamen Within a short time the Departmen: ef Labor oyents, by ecapercting sit the Department of Cumnieres, plicod ae the @ispasal of the captain a sui beent crew of able seamen, UNION TROOPS DRIVEN BACK AT BIG BETHEL 51 YEARS AGO \fter Gon. iutler had established his headquarters at Fort Monroe in May, 1861, he contentod himsely jor a time with fortifying Newport New The inaction of the Wedesal iveon nade the Confederates imder Cold. B. Magruder bold, active and. vigt lant. ‘Their principal rendezvous was at Yorkiown, Va., which they were fortifying, and at Mig Bethel and Lit fe Bethel two churches on the road between Yorkiows and Hampton, they established fortified posts, TL was evident that Magrader was planning to seize Newport News and Hampton and contiue Butler to Fort Monroe, and the latter determined up- on a counter moveynent by an attack on the fortified outposts. Gen, E,W. Pearce wes placed in command of an expedition fer that purpose, a por- Hon OL is iurce consisting of Ger- nan troops from New York under Col. Bendix and two 6-pounders un- der Lieut Grable from Newport News, the latter having eleven regu- ‘ar army artillerymen. Fire on Own Men. Jt was arranged that the Federals should form a junction at a point vear Little Bethel, bat during a night sureh the German regiment mistook inother regiment for the enemy and ened fire, two men being killed ind several wounded before the mis- ake was discovered. rhe firing warned the Confederates i Little Bethel that Federal troops cre approaching, and they fell back © iig Uethel, 4 or 5 miles distant, cvensing the force there to about svi, with several cannons in bat- ‘y. . The Federals, about 2,500 irong, attacked them on the morn- ing of June 10 and gained ground un- Hl noon, when they were driven bavk a severe fire. Union Troops Retire. xis and otier adverse — dircum- tances led Pearce to order a. re: eat. AH but five of Grabie’s men had beon disabled, and as he was lim. bering up bis guns a shot struck him nthe head and he fell dead. Maj. theodore Winthros, one of Butler's cds and a distinguished novelist, was also instantly killed before ihe Fed vrals got ont of range. ‘The Peder- al loss was 16 killed, 24 wounded and /s missing; that of the Confederates Sas tritin LiAky TA ann GAM) 1U GREANIZE AY AERA EL AN NED LU: Matter Has Eee te Un With War Bepartonsit ant State De- That Martinsburg is in the front Ta preparedness was evidenced this praning hy the announeement that O. " Coliine, of ihe GC. PL Blectrite cmmpany and WH. 2. Baird, of the Mardhshure Power company are con forrlae wih the war department sid he stete military department for (he urpese of organizing an aerial cluy. Vor several months the movements of he aeroplanes n th European war have been closely watched iy local men, and the organizations of cevat ciubs in various parts of oe comiry have caused considerable lor.) inter est to be created. As soo as the war department of- felals report, if it is favorable, ar rangements will be perfected for the organization of the club. A detmite answer is oxpected withia 1 days ar 2 weeks, and no acieon will be taken until that time.