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The Pioneer Press. Department of Archives. PHASES OF INFINITE ORDER. Advancement Lies In Reasonable Selection, Which Is as True of Admirable Human Makeup as It Is of Efficient Mechanics - Counterpart of Race Prejudice. A. B. Troy, O.-Continuum the creation of nature's answer to imminent question, Mr. Horace J. Kollin, author of "Yetta Segal," which some critics call radical, yet adequate as a pioneer sketch of the great question of racial phenomena, says: Such phenomena must be interpreted in a way consistent with man's nature. If he is capable of development, if he shall attain higher status through struggle or through means that are seemingly or, for the time, degrading; if he is moving from the simple to the complex as to organization, if universal movement tends to unific existence, then racial interchange, with elimination of peculiar characteristics, has made its appearance as a phase of infinite order and for the benefit of future man. As to the state of integrity, we have mentioned primitive "offish" instinct as having had profound normal value. Temporary segregation has insured the process of developing peculiar specific qualities, at certain periods, in this or that environment, necessary to the cosmopolite of the future. But the products of nature inevitably unchange, and if not used to establish advanced forms and expressions they are disintegrated as so much common material. Racial characteristics—as "the types" present them to popular gaze—attained full growth so long ago that modifications more or less marked have necessarily appeared. Modern conditions bring new relative positions. Extensive geographical interdistribution of types has resulted from the overcoming of such natural barriers as great rivers, seas, mountain chains and deserts. For multitudes, this means different air, food, scene, thought and feeling—new elements that vary aspiration itself. The physiognomy is remodeled, irrespective of new lineage. Even if there were no fusion, the types could not remain the same nor so much unlike. Advancement lies in reasonable selection—this is as true of admirable human makeup as it is of efficient mechanics It is not in order to say that any one is "in favor" of this phenomenon. No one declares that Newton was in favor of the law of gravitation. He called attention to it quite innocently; the spectator was not advised to climb a tall tree and then let go his hold in order e Pi ALL THE PRIZE, THE PROPLEM MARTINSBURG, to test the readiness of the discovered law. Franklin perceived the power of "lightning" to help or harm the individual. Those who fancied that he "indorsed it" doubtless associated him with its ugly aspects. No one who comprehends the raison d'etre of the new philosophy desires to see the movement unreasonably accelerated. A morbidity would follow, the counterpart of race hatred itself. Acknowledgment of the truth is certainly not a letting down of the bars to indiscriminate, ill advised mating. It is time, however, for comprehensive information. Increased knowledge means increased circumspection, the best protection for the individual. We should look at the past with improved vision. Some matings involving the racial interchange of cruder times—once declared brutal and immoral—must have had the psychic element. This is attested by a fair proportion of the living record. The composite must be considered in a way which will defend him and also insure ourselves against self degradation. Thus even where custom and ordinary law have been ignored by the ancestors psychic force comes spontaneously to remove mysterious temporary stigma. Nature provides increasing kinship, even to those of delayed development, and extending fusion is rendered less and less objectionable, with wider scope for happy selection. This is no more a mere theory than is the law back of the marvelous production of new stock, fruits and flowers. We are reminded to mention a book which authoritatively points to the crossing of types as a means of producing the superior man of the future. "The Training of the Human Heart" (the Century company, 1907) and that Mr. Burbank must teach this infinite philosophy same principles values with plant life. HALLS. House and Gardens of the Australian Bower Dirds. There are several species of bower birds, chief among them the Satin and the Newton. The Satin bower bird is the best known. When the bowers were first discovered it was supposed that they were playhouses built by the native children, but as a matter of fact they are the dance halls of birdland. The nests are built in the trees and have no connection with the playhouses. The male birds build these latter and gather every bright and shining object they can find to adorn the entrance to the bower. When it is completed, according to one who has watched them, little "at homes" are given daily, at which the males meet and pay their court to their ladrioves, now bowing and scraping, now playing hide and seek through the bower and now doing an absurdly dignified dance for their edification Newton's bower bird decorates its bower with fresh flowers every day, and if a visiting male bird wants to fight all he has to do is to disturb one of these flowers. The master of the bower proceeds with the painful duty of teaching him how to behave in company, while the remainder of the party raise a great racket, but never interfere. A naturalist studying them disarranged one of their flowers, but each time he did it the bower master rearranged it with great care.—National Geographic Magazine. Although one president of the United States (Johnson), one cabinet officer (Belknap), six United States judges and eight governors of states have been impeached since the foundation of the republic, only one senator, William Blount of Tennessee, has been arraigned before the bar of the house of congress to which he was elected. Of the eight governors impeached one was acquitted, in three cases the charges were dropped, one was permitted to resign, and three were removed. Three of the impeached judges were removed, and three were acquitted. Both President Johnson and Secretary Belknap were acquitted. Politically the last named impeachment cases were the most important the United States has experienced—Argonaut. War clouds are everywhere. Impeachment Cases AN UNFASHIONABLE FISH. Fine In Flavor and Food Value, Yet Our Angela Discard It. It seems as if there are fushions in fish just now as there are in wearing apparel. A fish that brings in German markets nearly four times as much per pound as our fresh mackerel and considerably more than haddock is thrown away by our fishermen because no one wants to eat it. Yet those who eat it praise it for its delicate flavor. Even the English like it. Every year they consume 3,000 tons of it. Yet we will have none of it. This fish is known as the goosefish, anglerfish, devilfish and monkfish. True, its appearance is against it, but still the epheures in England and Germany demand it because it is delicious. Analyses made by the bureau of fisheries on samples show that goosefish contains considerably more protein than flounder, slightly more than a cod, a little less than halibut and considerably less than sirloin steak. The goosefish has an average length of three feet and is broad and flat, somewhat resembling the flounder in general outline. The only way to get it, says a Philadelphia woman, is for the housewives to club together and demand it. At the present time fishermen do not take the trouble to bring it home, but discard it from their nets.—Popular Science Monthly. POISON GAS BEETLES. Fumes With Which Bombardiers Keep Their Enemies at Bay. Most people think that the use of poison gas in warfare is a purely human, or perhaps one should say inhuman, idea. Yet the plan has been adopted by nature. Certain kinds of beetles known as bombardiers and called by scientists Brachinus make free use of poisonous fumes to keep their enemies at bay. A typical species known as Brachinus crepitans is largely attacked by certain ground beetles. These ground beetles are very active and can easily overtake the bombardiers. Just as they get within reach, however, a very strange thing happens. The bombardier has the power of ejecting a peculiar liquid, which, when it comes into contact with the atmosphere, bursts into a sort of pale green flame. This is immediately followed by a kind of smoke. Now, this smoke has a remarkable effect upon the pursuer. No sooner do the funnies come into contact with the ground beetle than the creature is blinded and stupefied. A strange paralysis overtakes the insect, and it seems unable to move any farther. Quiten while clipses before the ground beetle recovers. In the meantime the bombardier makes good big escape.—American Boy. Fury of Sunstorms. How can we, who are bewildered and appalled by the fury of our planets' cyclones and volcanic eruptions, form a conception of the terrible energy of natural operations of the sun? Newcomb suggested that if we call the solar chromosphere an ocean of fire we must remember that it is an ocean infinitely hotter than the fiercest furnace and as deep as the Atlantic is broad. If we call its movements hurricanes we must remember that our hurricanes blow only about a hundred miles an hour, whose of the chromosphere blow as far in a single second. There are such hurricanes as coming down upon us from the north, would in thirty seconds utter they had crossed the St. Lawrence river be in the gulf of Mexico, carrying with them the whole surface of the continent in a mass not simply of rain, but of glowing vapor. Sharpness of Madmen. In Sir William Butler's autobiography there is an amusing story about six insane soldiers who escaped while the corporal who had brought them on board the troopship left at Durban and who mingled with the 1,800 sane men on the decks. The problem of the voyage was to find who were the six madmen. By the time the boat reached Cape Town twenty-six men were officially under observation, and not one of the six was among them. In the end the crazed half dozen were identified as those who had taken an especially eager part in the lunatic hunt. POWER OF THE GYROSCOPE. Widespread Use of What Was at First Regarded as a More Toy. Tinkering in his machine shop to design a novel Christmas present for one of his boys, Elmer A. Sperry a few years back stumbled on to a half dozen new applications of what had previously been regarded as a merely interesting mechanical curiosity, the gyroscope. Now his inventions will keep a ship from rocking and the passengers from seasickness, an airship from air pockets and furnish the only true compass that the mariner, gibble or air pilot knows. Making the gun deck of a battleship as steady a gun mount as may be had on hand, the gyroscope eventually will double the efficiency of the navy. It is said. Anything that needs stability, excluding possible Central American governments and street cars, needs a gyroscope. Mr. Sperry told a Detroit audience. The use of submarines and airships has been made possible largely through the gyroscope. Before the stabilizers were put aboard the undersea boats, because of their cigar like shape, rolled so frightfully that no man could live in them. With one of the little "tops" aboard the Deutschland can ride as evenly as a mammoth liner on a smooth sea. The principal advantage to airships has been in the gyroscope compass, which possesses the advantage of always pointing north. An ordinary magnetic compass in practical use under stress points anywhere from northwest to northeast—and sometimes southeast.—Detroit News. A GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM. To Get Men Rightly to Adjust Themselves to All Other Men. Our great social problem is how to make the man at the bottom loom so large and seem so important that all other men will cease to think of him as a thing and treat him as a person. The real social problem out of which other minor problems grow and of which they are really only aggravated symptoms is the world old problem of the right relation between persons. This is a fundamental issue and to solve it would solve all these minor manifestations. The friendly relation of men is therefore not alone the gist of the race problem, but it is the gist of all social problems. The age long struggle has been how to get men rightly to adjust themselves to all other men. Right adjustment to other men would mean in the economic realm that no capitalist would want to beat down below a living wage the laborer who made production possible. It would mean that no laborer would want more wages and shorter hours than the condition of production would stand. Right adjustment between men would mean that no landlord would be willing to live easy off rent of houses which made health and happiness impossible to the occupant. It would mean in return that no tenant would demand more than that for which he gave a just return, and he would protect the interest of his landlord as he would protect his own interest. Right adjustment would mean in all walks of life the rule of right, not the rule of utilitarianism. What Canvas Next? "What's a dreaded dreadful father?" "A dreaded dreadful son, is a battleship so he and he heavily armed that it does not feel anything" "Then what is a dreaded dreadful?" "A superior dreadful is still bigger and more heavily armed. They were designed especially to give the dreadnaughts power to be afraid of."—Philadelphia baker ```markdown ``` "I fear my children will be going to be heavy." "Oh, you are not very sick." "That's not the point. He ran into some obstruction on his way to my house and badly damaged his machine."—Louisville Courrier Journal. Modest Pz. "Pa, was another much of a flirt when she was young?" "I guess not, my dear. Anyhow, I'm the best she could land."—Detroit Free Press NO. 52. CLAWS OF THE CANARY. They Should Be Carefully Trimmed Every Few Months. As a canary grows old it will be noticed that its claws get long and catch on the perches and wires as it hopes about the cage. In a state of nature the activity of the bird as it moves about on the ground or among twigs and limbs keeps the claws properly worn down. Confined in a cage, the canary is less active, and, while the rate of growth of the claws remains the same, they are subject to much less abrasion. It is necessary therefore to trim them with a pair of sharp scissors every few months. It is important to watch the condition of the claws carefully, as by catching they may cause a broken leg. In each claw a slender blood vessel extends well down toward the tip. This may be seen on close examination through the transparent sheath of the claw. In trimming cut well beyond this canal and take special care not to break the leg while handling the bird. In cage birds the horny covering of the bill as well as the claws sometimes becomes distorted through growth without sufficient wear. The tips of the mandibles may be pared down with a sharp knife, but care must be taken not to cut deep enough to reach the quick.—United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin. If She Wore Free. A woman of criminal tendencies serving a prison term was asked, "If you were given absolution, freedom to spend one night in the great city wholly uncontrolled, where would you go—to the theater, dance hall or where?" She replied: "I would choose a warm night after a rainy day, a night when all the electric lights wore halos around their heads and everything was foggy. I'd go to the park and walk for an hour up and down the paths, where I could see the reflections of the misty lights in the wet stone pavements. Then I'd like to go to some quiet place where I could hear organ music for another hour. Then I'd go to bed satisfied. But before I got to bed I'd open and shut my door for five minutes steadily. I'd want to know that it wasn't bolted."—Buffalo News. Father Faila Again Did you ever watch the bright young man father has picked out as the man with a future and invited home for dinner? The B. Y. M. has read somewhere in his youth that B. Y. men are supposed to fall in love with and marry the boys' daughter. And he sits and stares a her, nervous as the dickens because he can't decide which is worse-losing his job or following precedent. And the daughter plays the tune she knows on the piano and wonders "Whatever possessed father to bring that around here?"—New York Evening Sun. A Slap at Her Complexion. "Is it true that Mrs. Dubwaite and Mrs. Twobble are no longer on speaking terms?" "Yes. I fear the breach will never be healed." "What did they fall out about?" "They met on the street one day. Mrs. Dubwite said to Mrs. Twobble, 'My dear, how do I look?' Mrs. Twobble kissed her effusively and said, 'My dear, you are a work of art'" - Birniglipham Age: Herald. Water Soaked "The Gillett clabby threw a big bundle of stock into the fire yesterday morning." "What a loss!" It was destroyed, of course. "No, Gill!'r we lost at the stock, from a prison or. It was too full of water to burn." Birmingham Age Herald. A Concession. "After looking at the postal stamps of other countries, I have come to the conclusion that you can't beat ours." "Maybe not, but, all the same, it gets lots of bickings!" - Exchange More Than a Half "Of hear that Cussey is having trouble wid his better half." "Yis; she wants to be the whole thing."—Pearson's Weekly. Nature fits all her children with something to do.—Lowell. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice. Martinsburg West Virginia as second-class matter Subscription Rates: One Year . . . $1.50 Six Months . . . 75 Three Months . . . 50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clif ford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. The editor acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend Sociological Congress held at Howard University, March 1, and 2, 1947. Every reasonable thinker and reader is forced to say that slavery was war, so is starvation prices, and so is wickedness of all kinds. The condition of our race has not put the average Negro where he is; but the condition of the average Negro has put the race where it is. Every last man and woman of us is the master of his own life, the maker of her own success. Shakespeare has Cassius say in the play: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." In trying to muzzle the press, what is the democratic party going to do with the following: "The freedom of the press is the palladium of all our liberties." Thomas Jefferson "None but Americans on guard to-night," was Washington's orders at Yorktown, nearly a hundred and fifty years ago. That its rigid enforcement in every important crisis now is more essential than then is positively true. --- When one carefully reads of the outrageous conduct of Turkey for centuries, and the South's brutality to the colored people, it flaunts a mystery, to wit: Why thousands of American missionaries will go to Turkey, instead of going into the South where God has so much home work for them to do? Many of us, in speaking of our own people, call them "niggers;" is it any wonder the white people are suspicious of us? We are not true to each other; shall we expect the white people to trust us? We are our own worst enemies. We have only ourselves to blame for the poor opinion the other race has of us. Mayor Preston, of Baltimore, has set all the large cities an example to relieve the suffering and reduce robbery prices. He is buying provisions and selling them at cost, and if Woodrow Wilson would stop relieving on paper and spend the appropriated $400,000 for needed foo stuffs, instead of trying to find out the cause of high prices, the country would think more of him. There are two adages—old as the hills—"a stitch in time saves nine:" "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and the world declares they are true. The law that allows one quart a month to any one, agrees to allow hospitals to have whiskey, wine, beer &c., without restriction to be given to the sick. If it is good to cure the sick, why is it not better to keep the well, well? Viewed reasonably, the United States has more hateful differences with God and his human work, than any or all the other nations of the world. She has had one bloody war over God's darker children at home, and now is facing another with Japan. So much better to live and love all nations of the earth, than to legislate and lord it over all others who are darker than they in color. As parents ought to look forward and work for a union of blessing for their children, so ought nations for nations --- As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, the race is no better than its average man and woman. The way to strengthen the chain is to strengthen the weakest link; and the way to better a race is to raise the individual average. So our problems become a matter of individual development. When each member of the race realizes this, and each develops his or her own character, and intellect, and civic virtue, there will be no more problems, and we will stand on an equal footing with any race. It is a base prevarication to say that the United States Supreme Court has declared the Saint Louis segregation law constitutional. And when the deceivers declare it is the greatest act since the enactment of the 14th Amendment a lie is added to a lie. These segregated tools had better do as Speaker Clark told them—let the Negroes alone: they are doing well. I have played, ate and slept with colored people, savs Mr. Clark, and as everybody knows he is from the "show me" State--Missouri. --- This paper is thirty-five years old to-day, March 2, 1917. It has been put to many crucial tests; fought and won many victories. Politicians have tried, to kill it three times; an old Presiding elder stamped it under his feet-in pulpits over this state and called it "a dirty democratic sheet;" it has elected and defeated congressmen. Its editor thirty days in jail, innocent as was Paul, kept it going; and now, in his houry age having fought in the war that freed 4,000,000 slaves, with increasing aches and pains, deserves a rest. Every man of us who drinks, or who gambles, or who steals, is a traitor to the race and is lowering our average. Every woman of us who walks the streets, or who carries scandal, or who is vulgar in her dress, is a traitor to the race and is lowering our average. In time of war a traitor is shot; in time of peace imprisoned. Our traitors should be dealt with just as sternly. But as they can neither be shot nor imprisoned, they should be labeled like the lepers of old—"Unclean!"—and then be shunned by the rest of us. If you companion with such a man or woman, you are equally guilty and are yourself a traitor. BEARING ONE ANOTHERS BURDEN. A good part of all that you and I are is what the rest of us are. "No man liveth unto himself." To all our strength, or to all our weakness, the rest of the race contributes a large share. You don't stand alone. Each of us is a part of our parents, our neighborhood, our times, our race. There is song justice in a man's laying the blame for his failure upon others. But there is equal justice in giving the credit for his success to others. The banker would have no prosperity were it not for others. Others supply the capital which he invests to their mutual profit. Of course, he bears his own burdens. in the conduct of his business; but at the same time, others bear the burdens with him in depositing by his institution. The orator, however brilliant, would have no triumph without an audience and without a subject that strikes a responsive chord in the heart of others. Those others gave him his subject. Their needs, their aspiration, the condition, their struggle, gave him his subject. Of course, he bears his own burden, in thinking out and delivering his message; but at the same time, he and his hearers are bearing one another's burdens, as their interest and applause encourage and inspire him. The actor would have no fame were it not for others. Others gave him play. Others are in his supporting company. Other are setting and shifting the scenery. Others make up the audience. Others built the theatre. Others publish the newspapers which advertise the performance. Each does his individual best and bears his own burdens; and incidentally, all work for each other and thus bear one another's burdens. TEAM-WORK The success of a baseball club depends upon team-work—upon unity. The first baseman may hate the short-stop; but he is going to do his level best to catch the grounder the short-stop scoops up and shoots over to him, and try to put the runner out at first. That play not only raises his own average, it raises the average of his club. It raises the short-stop's average, too; for that "assist" goes on record to their mutual credit. So he and his enemy play the game by team-work. Now if the first-baseman had purposely missed that ball, just to spite his enemy the short-stop, he would have hurt his own average and that of his club; but his enemy's average would have gone up just the same, for staging his part well. In race development, we will get to play by team soak. It is important to avoid the necessity. But we will still to sit down. Women who do not play by team soak should not sit down. We are not going to sit as to say that we are the only race which lacks unity. Every Negro you meet will tell you that our great need is for unity. Our need. There it goes again. He puts the blame and the responsibility on the race, when both the blame and responsibility belong to the individual. It's up to you, men and women. You would like to see yourself bettered: but what are you doing for the betterment of the race? Are you relieving any poverty and ignorance? Are you persuading our young men not to drink and gamble, and not to be idle loafers supported by our women? Are you keeping our young girls off the streets and out of habits of looseness and immorality? Are you holding up ideals to the lazy and the indifferent? Deep down in your heart, do you care a snap for the race and its condition? Instead of "team-work," our rule is, "Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost." We ask help of the race, but we give no help to the race. If it so be that we rise above our fellows, in business, profession or leadership, we withdraw from association with them and write—"Holier than thou!" across our for heads. We forget that all our success is due to others. That is why we are where we are—at the feet of the other race. Having made ourselves inferior, we are looked upon as inferior. Having made ourselves an animated door-mat, is it any wonder the world wipes its feet upon us? ETIQUETTE OF THE FLAG Royal Guard, the Use of the Star spotted flares. There are three things is which are not familiar with the rules governing the use of the stars and stripes. To them the following hints on flag elquette will be of interest: The flag should not be hoisted before sunrise nor allowed to remain up after sunset. It should not be displayed upon stormy days. When the flag is displayed at half staff for mourning it is to be lowered to that position from the top of the staff. It is afterward hoisted to the top before it is finally lowered. When the flag is formally raised all present should stand at attention, with hand raised to the forehead ready for the salute. When our national flag and state or other flags fly together or are used in decoration together our national flag should be on the right. When used on a bier or casket at a funeral the stars should be placed at the head. In no case should the flag be allowed to touch the ground. It is an unwritten law in the navy that the flag is never to be washed; it is always to be considered immaculate. For indoor decorations the flag can only be used as a drapery; it cannot be used to cover a bench or table, desk or box where anything can be placed or set upon the flag.—Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. The Use of Candy. Pure candy is good for children. Pure sugar is good for grown people. Of course there are exceptions to every rule. If the doctor prescribes a diet and orders a patient to refrain from sweets the patient is bound to obey his adviser. What is the use of calling a physician and paying him for suggestions if the latter are treated with indifference? People in ordinary health need not be afraid to gratify an appetite which craves sweets. Those who have looked into the matter have been telling us lately that soldiers on the march hold out better if they have rations of sugar than if their food omits this useful commodity. A fondness for sugar is often a defense against the temptation to use alcoholic stimulants. The inebriate does not care very much about pure sweets. Some New Uses For Yeast: Because it is so essential in the making of bread and beer most of us think that yeast is useful for nothing else. But the Berlin Institute of Fermentative Industries calls attention to the fact that valuable flavoring extracts and toes can be obtained from it and a relatively large percentage of muscle building matter. Its remaining constituents, a mass of cellulose, can be used to make a very hard mass, known as cellulose, an excellent noninflammable for celluloid.—Popular Tong Hei Long The ordinary man a second is a pulse beat. —London Chronicle. Comprehensive Business "I suppose you built up your colossal fortune by attending strictly to your business." "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin Stax. "But I made it my business to keep informed as to what the other people were doing."—Washington Star. Books and Apples. A young lady in a library job got tired of fussing round in stuffy alcoves. So she chucked it all and went to raising apples. She never made money hand over fist, as she expected, but she always declared she had won out on the exchange. "I used to like an occasional apple with my books," she declared, "but the present plan of having a book now and then with my apples is a heap better." — Collier's Weekly. Hard to Suit. "This horn you sold me won't make any noise," said he customer. "Well, I thought you wanted it for your grandson," said the clerk. "So I did." "Gracious! But you're a hard man to please!"—Chicago News. Some Feat! Her Economy. "Hubby, dear, I saved $10 today." "Buying what?"—Louisville Courler Journal. Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him—Schiller. 0 PREVENT ILLNESS. is one of the Objects of Compul- sure. Insurance. Compliance in health insurance is now being taught of as another step in com- munity welfare, the course being espe- cially recommended in welfare work among wage earners. In investigation has shown that a large proportion of sickness is preventable, but most persons, small wage earners or not, are likely to neglect their al- lences until prevention is no longer possible and serious illness must be treated. Even then the doctor's services are avoided as much as possible because of the cost, and the victim of disease goes back to his work before he is fit. Under the compulsory insurance system it is the idea that every worker shall be visited at stated intervals by a physician whether he is ill or not; the slightest illness brings a call from the doctor, whose business is to keep him well if possible. In many cases he will succeed, with the result of a great saving of time and wages to the worker. The total of such savings in the industrial centers will run into the millions and will proportionately lessen the demands on charitable funds.—Indianapolis Star. The Wild Pigeon Mystery. That the wild pigeon, once so common in the United States, has become extinct is one of the strangest mysteries in America natural history. It is a puzzle which has baffled scientists and which probably never will be solved. Half a century ago wild pigeons were abundant in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and all the states of the middle west. In their migrations they travelled in flocks numbering tens of thousands, and it sometimes took a single flock the better part of an hour to pass a given point. Vast numbers of the pigeons were killed every year by gunners, but many investigators hold that the complete disappearance of the species must have been due in part at least to other causes. No other bird was ever so numerous in this country as the pigeon. New York's Subways More than 2,000 trains start each day from the terminals of New York's subway systems. They are run on schedules as carefully prepared and as closely timed as those of a trunk line railroad. Between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 persons ride each day on the subway. This is more than twice the number carried daily by all the trains on the entire Pennsylvania railroad system. Nearly two-thirds of the New York users of the subway are carried during the morning and evening rush hours.—Rand Transit. Not His Language Lord Robson, at one of the dinners of the Glamorgan society, told the story of a Welsh witness in a Glamorganshire case who, having been sworn to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, was asked if he could speak English or would like an interpreter. "No," he replied; "I can speak some English, but I cannot speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." St. James' Gazette Sensible Girl. "When Arthur proposed to me he was so excited he couldn't speak." "But how did you know he wanted to marry you if he couldn't speak?" "Well, he was down on his knees, and I knew he wasn't looking for a lost collar button."—Birmingham Age-Herald. LIFE OF THE WORLD. Traditions That It Will Last Only 6,000 Years. There is a general and widespread notion, which the curious investigator will find scattered throughout both medieval and modern literature, that the world will last 6,000 years from the date of its creation. An inscription in one of Martin Luther's books reads as follows: "Elijah, the prophet, said that the world had existed 2,000 years before the law was given (from Adam to Moses), would exist 2,000 years under the Mosaic law (from Moses to Christ) and 2,000 years under the Christian dispensation, and then it would be ourned." In the Etrurian account of the creation (by Suidas) there is a similar tradition, "The Creator spent 6,000 years in creation, and 6,000 more are allotted to the earth." In the black letter edition of Foxe's "Acts and Monuments" (1632) there is a who, seismon given with the 6,000 year. It it of the earth's duration as a text. Some writers contend that the "six days" referred to in Holy Writ really mean 6,000 years and that the "seventh day" is a type of the coming millennium, or "Sabbath of a thousand years." The psalmist says, "For a thousand years are in thy sight as yesterday" (2:11n xe, 4). See also 11 Peter iii, 8 which is even more specific. Last Chance! 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WHOLESALE Lord & Taylor NEW YORK Some time ago, a chicken made the startling discovery that the alcohol produced by fodder fermenting in a cow's stomach produces a thirst for liquid among "bottle babies." And now comes a more startling find—that all who eat chocolate candy to excess are indulgent drinkers. But let the Terro Haute Star tell it in this story, dated New York City: Are you a chocolate enter? Have you ever if you could just live on chocolate? Have you ever had a good crave for them? Are you the type of person who can't pass a window of freely-made caramels without coming out of the glass with a little box tacked securely under your arm? That Taste for Chocolates. Have you ever stopped to consider that the thing that prompts you to buy the little box of incarnations may be the same thing that causes a man to stop for an alcoholic stimulant? This is the suggestion of Dr. Louis E. Bisch, the medical psychologist, who started the new psychological laboratory connected with the New York Police Department. Dr. Bisch, where we went before, in present, with much of the most unusual passes that the city produces, declares that there is rather strong interest in chocolate. His theory is that the carbohydrates in chocolate oxidize quickly in the process of digestion and form a certain amount of alcohol. So in this way, though, of course, to a milder degree, chocolate, if eaten in sufficiently large quantities, will bring on a state of intoxication analogous to that of whisky. Ah-hah! Here's What! It is for this reason that as many men take to eating chocolates after they have given up heavy drinking. For the intoxicant in the chocolate really supplies to their nervous system the alcohol that they have been accustomed to and enables them to do without their stimulant. The proprietor of one of New York's largest candy stores recently went so far as to say that he believed the men in that city ate just as much candy as the women, but it was difficult to speak with certainty since they were less frank about it. Nevertheless, he insisted he could usually "spot the masculine candy eater" as the man who came into the store rather sheepishly and in a subdued whisper bought a small bag of candy, insisting that it was for his wife, mother or sister. And just as the man who drinks alone in the worst drunkard of them all, so the man who eats candy in secret is the worst "candy drunk" of them all.