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The Pioneer Press. THERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS MANAGER, DRAWED BY INFUSION AND UNBRESED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 LESSONS OF THRIFT. Learn to Spend Money Only For Things You Really Need. There are few persons so rich that they do not need to exercise care and forethought in their expenditure. Human needs, human desires, human sympathies, are so vast, occasions of outlay so beset all of us at every step that unless we are watchful we quickly find great resources reduced to nothing, without our knowing how. The speed with which money departs is one of the first lessons of experience to man, woman and child, but we are slow to apply our own experience in our judgment of others. Every one should be taught from childhood to weigh the needs of expenditure. This I must have, this I can go without, this I greatly want, if other demands still more imperative are not balked by it. By buying this now I can avert the necessity of a double expenditure a year hence. On the other hand, if I refrain from a purchase tempting at the moment I may be glad of my self control, even within a week. Questions like these have to be settled by every human being. Can any training be more important than that which enables us to settle them? Exactly the same disposition to weigh and to compare must be brought into giving, into charity, if giving is to be disrect and wise and not in the end injurious to giver and receiver both. If we want a useful test for the difficult distinction between avarice and thrift we may say that thrift is more sparing with self than it is with others, whereas avarice pinches others sooner than itself, although it may pinch both. Youth's Companion. THE CITY OF QUEENSTOWN. It is a Seaport, a Watering Place and a British Naval Station. Queenstown, numbering slightly more than 8,000 souls, has a threefold distinction—as a seaport, a watering place and a British naval station. It is a well built and attractive place, with a mild climate, and, being built upon an island, its streets rise in terraces one above the other and offer a superb outlook over the neighboring waters. Within fifty years the place was only a small fishing village and was known as the Cove of Cork. Its present name was received in 1849 by reason of its having been the first spot in Ireland upon which Queen Victoria set foot. It still serves as the port of the city of Cork, from which it is twelve miles distant. Cork itself is located at the point of entry of the river Lee into the bay. The harbor of Queenstown is splendidly defended by two forts—Carlisle and Camden—at its entrance and by Fort Westmoreland, which is situated upon Spike island, one of the group of three isles which make up the government dockyard and constitute the fine natural breakwater of the harbor, wherein a large fleet can find safe anchorage. Two years before the queen's visit to the town Spike island was made a convict depot upon the abolishment of the transportation scheme of punishment which had been in vogue, and the convicts sent there were employed to the fortifications. The island could be a prison in the at which was handed over to the authorities.—National Geographic Society Bulletin. Positive Jurors A prospective juror, being qualified for a trial, is asked the on tomorrow. you formed or expressed an opinion to the guilt or innocence of the accused?" rejoined promptly: "Sure He's as guilty as all get out!" Which resulted in a $10 fine by the court's court and, of course, the disqualification of that talesman. There was a murder right in the middle. wheeling gently at the jury, remanded. "Of course none of you gentlemen has made up his mind yet as to the guilt or innocence of this defendant." Taking advantage of a rhetorical pause, a lanky juror arose and replied positively: "Well. I have, for one. He ought to be hung."—Kansas City Star. Where We Get Nux Vomica With the exception of Ceylon, which exports a limited quantity of nux vomica, British India is said to supply the world. Nux vomica seeds and pick- ings are obtained from the plumlike fruits of the tree. The fruit is collected and the seeds washed out and dried in the sun. in the forests of Nellore, where the tree is common, the seeds are washed out by a forest tribe, the Yanadis, and a good price is obtained for them. Cochin nux vomica is collected in the dry deciduous forests at the foot of the Travancore hills and is sold at a low figure to small native dealers, who send it to the merchants. Not Play For Her. Edith—If you don't love Jack why don't you tell him that Madge—Well, he sends me howards and takes me to the opera, you know, and - Edith—But, gracious! I don't see how you can play with his affections that way. Madge—Play? I call that "working" them.—Boston Transcript. A Mixer. "Papa, what is a man who is a mixer?" "Any one, my son, who prefers the society of everybody else to himself."—Life Strength of an Ostrich. A full grown black ostrich is seven feet high and can easily carry on its back, with the speed of a horse, a man of average size. Who overcomes by force hath over come but half his foe. Milton. Varieties of Bananas. To most persons in the temperate zones a banana is a banana. But the truth is that there are over sixty known varieties of the fruit, with as great or greater variation in character as the different kinds of apples. Hawaii is said to have something over forty distinct varieties of the fruit, most of which have been introduced by the whites. Some of these are of extremely delicate and delicious flavor, while other kinds are used, if at all, only when cooked in various ways. There is scarcely a city house lot or country "kulcana" or homestead which does not have a clump or two of bananas, which grow with practically no care, new plants or suckers shooting out to replace the ones which have fruited and been removed. Quail Aids the Farmer. "The meat value of the quail is inconsiderable—negligible—when compared to the services these birds render to the farm," a bird expert of the University of Oklahoma says. "They prey upon 145 different kinds of destructive insects and consume no less than 129 varieties of noxious weed seeds. They say on the job twelve months in the year and labor continually when weather conditions permit. I do not believe that the landowners should permit a multitude of so called sportsmen to destroy this powerful ally of the farmer." A L I N Y OF A C I T I O N The St. Thomas and St. John is supposed to be the St. John's Centre, in the sixth chapter of Matthew, twenty-eighth verse, where it is expressed with the corporeous robes of St. John, and its color w., scriet or purple. This lily grows prominently in the most parts of Asia Minor, in Indian folios. News. Husband. "The majority of hundreds complain that their hands are always in their pockets." "Then why don't they have letters they have long them to mail for their wives?" — Baltimore American Poetic Theme "I read your 'Ode to Milady's Hair.'" "Well," said the poet. "I thought may or we could hire you to write an advertisement in poetry for our high school department." There's where she bought that hair"—Louisville Courier Journal. No Novelty. Teacher—Why were you not at school yesterday? Tommy—it was my birthday. Teacher—But I don't stay home from school on my birthday. Tommy—Well, I guess you've got used to 'em.—New York Times. Call "Girl!" and those of sixty look up just as quickly as those of sixteen. -New York Sun. INCASED POSTAGE STAMPS. Once Used as Money. They Are Now and Vulnerable. Now a reward was the birth of one of a peculiar sort of money, made by putting United States postage stamps in five different cases, with the faces of the stamps in each shoe of men. The those pieces consisted of these de- formations: 1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 24, 30 and 90 cent, 1862, and this method of prote- tecting the stamps so they could with- stand the wear of circulation was the twenty-fifth of 17th Gaul, who was in New York city is a multifaceted many kinses to be used by business firms in place of small change, as well as the multitated and vorn postage stamps used for money at the beginning of the war. Many of the issued stamps bore the name of the firm on the reverse side, so that the currency served to advertise the firm that issued it. Occasionally a subscriber asks us in regard to these stamps and their value. Our reply always is that they are of considerable rarity and not infrequently they command a big premium. This is particularly true of the 12, 24, 30 and 90 cent denominations. These stamps are eagerly sought for by collectors of both stamps and coins, but especially the former, and they fetch good prices whenever offered at auction sales.—American Boy. FIRST "ONE HORSE SHAY." Quaint Old "Ad." That Told the Public of the New Invention. A newspaper advertisement in the London Daily Post of Aug. 22, 1728, a copy of which is in the Wisconsin Historical Library, telling of the invention of the one horse chalse, affords an interesting example of the advertising methods at that date. It is as follows: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant his Royal Letters Patient bearing the date of the 20th Day of July last, unto William Chapman, of London, Coach and Coach harness Maker (for the term of 14 years) for his sole making a newly invented Chalse or Chair with two wheels, to be drawn by one Horse between a pair of shafts, which is so contrived as to quarter the Bonds with great Ease by the Person riding in it, without Lett, Stop, or Hindrance, the Horse continuing in the same path, so as the Wheels go exactly at all times in the Coach Track, by which means the person in such carriage may travel with more expedition, Safety and Pleasure both to himself and Horse, than in anything of like nature hitherto invented. The great Use and Convenience of the said invention will readily be made to appear by the person William Chapman at his House in Worcester Street, London. With no other disciples, where several carriages are properly made." Two Erlued English The Words. Oh, yes. Mrs. Smith, my friends have often spoken to me of you. The Meaning? And you should have heard what they said! St. Louis Star. Too Late. Detective. So I've caught you in the financial district, have 12 Crook—Yes, Bill, but I can't stop you nothing. I just get away from a broker—New York Globe. Improving. "This critic describes your new book as dire!" "Guess I must be improving. He at indied to my best book as utter rot."— Louisville Courant journal. Better 2011 Mary - Why don't you preface Harold to Tom? You're too capable of big deeds. Michele - You just Tom owns some. Tom Getting the Air I have known city men, hundreds of them, who had a firm conviction that one of the greatest obstacles in their way to becoming healthy lay in the fact that city air has less ozone in it than the air up state or at the seashore. True, the air down by the sidewalks would not assay as high in ozone as that in the Cat and mountains, but the difference chemically is so slight that it isn't worth talking about.—Dr. L. R. Weizmiller in World's Work. Department of Archives BY INFUSION AND UNBRIDED ARCH 24, 1917. Pre ND UNBRIDED BY GA 17. VOL. ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. 4. Reason For Some of the Automobile Accidents at Night. Frequently when there is an accident, where the automobile runs off the road, hits an obstruction or is upset, the driver or some other occupant of the car or the reporter says that "the steering gear gave way." Yet it is safe to venture that it is not the real reason for the accident. What often happens is, that the driver goes to sleep. In a report of an accident some time ago the driver frankly said he went to sleep and the next thing he knew he was under the car, which was thrown against an abutment. The soporific effect of driving an auto at night for several hours is really responsible for more accidents than defective construction. The constant vibration of the steering wheel, the continuous noise of the machine and the drone of the wind have the same effect as does the buzz of an electric fan on most folk. Before the driver realizes it he is getting drowsy. The wheel is held more and more loosely. Gradually the car takes the time of least resistance added by the shackling (but not totally abandoned) control of the driver. The next thing he knows he is off the road. Sometimes the car overturns. Sometimes the driver escapes, together with the occupants of the car. Often times the dereliction results in injury or death. If more drivers realized the danger of not keeping awake there would be fewer accidents. At least this is the opinion of experienced drivers.—Chicago Journal. HOW WARS START. An Ocean Cable Would Have Averted Our Conflict of 1812. Had there been an ocean telegraph in 1812 there might not have been a war with England at that time. Five days after President Madison signed the declaration of war England recalled the orders in council which had provoked it. The purpose to recall the orders was unknown in America, while in England nothing was known of the war declaration when the orders were revoked. This war's most important battle, that of New Orleans, was fought fifteen days after the treaty of peace had been signed at Ghent. It was this battle which made Jackson a popular idol and gave him the presidency. The first step in the Crimean war was Russia's invasion of Moldavia, months before diplomatic rupture with England and France. The firing on Fort Sumter, which started the war between the states, is a familiar story. The first shot of the Franco Prussian war was by a French soldier on guard at Strasburg bridge a day or two before Napoleon III, formally took the field. The attempt on Bismarck's life as he was walking down the Unter ober Blinden on May 7, 1806, railed public sentiment to him and his policy not from a dramatic startpoint may be said to have been the first shot in the Austro-Prussian war. The blowing up of the Maine was the first blow in the Spanish-American war, which ended Spanish possessions in the new world. — Charlton Dates Strayer in Leslie's. When Novels Were Really Long Though William de Morgan wrote some of the longest novels of recent times, his efforts were conceived itself compared with the works of some of the eighteenth century romancers. Mika de Sendery's once famous story, "La Grand Cyrus," for instance, fills five folios volumes of 500 pages each in the English translation, and her contemporary La Calprenacle, was even three ditto, his "Cleopatra" running into twenty-three volumes. The leisury method of the early novelists is well illustrated in "Parthenissa," by Robert Boyle, earl of Ortery, in which the eight hundredth page finds the two chief characters still engaged in the process of introducing themselves to each other, begun on page one Where the Guns Kick Hard Duck shooting at an altitude of 14,600 feet, on the Junin pampa, along the shore of the lake of that name, is a sport that can be followed in Peru. Very peculiar effects are noted in this rarefied region, probably the highest altitude for this sport in the world. The guns kick violently, and the shot does not scatter promptly, making long shots successful. This phenomenon is due to the lack of density of the air, which is only about eight pounds to the square inch against fifteen at sea level. Another interesting fact is that the ducks have no fishy taste, as fish do not exist in this altitude. "The idea of the forceful phrase "the almighty dollar" is much older than the time of Washington Irving. Ben Jonson's "Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland," commences thus: Whilst that for which all virtues are Whilst that for which all virtue now is and gladest ever when almighty gold. "When I got home at 2 this morning my wife met me in the hall, and for a full minute she regarded me in silence." "At length she spoke?" "At length she spoke?" "Yes; also she spoke at length."— Boston Transcript. Probably the poorest economy in the world is to buy things you don't want in order to make acquaintances you don't need—Galveston News. We never learn anything new by hearing ourselves talk. Owners or renters of retail stores should look out for the side of the street on which the property is located. Illustrative of this is the testimony of a real estate expert in a case some time ago that ground floors on the west side of Broadway, New York, should lease for $150 a front foot more than similar property across the street. The value of a retail business depends on the number of passersby, and the difference in this respect may result in a booming trade on one side of a street and only moderate success on the other. Some men are able to acquire such a reputation for their goods that the people go to them even when they are inconveniently located, but it is a good deal easier in building up a trade to put yourself on the route traversed by the crowds.—Leslie's. There is a new story about Mr. Kipling, for which G..F. Monkshood is responsible, having brought it out in his book, "The Less Familiar Kipling and Kiplingana." It appears that a friend asked Kipling whether he would not write on airmen, as he had done on the commanders and crews of submarines. "Perhaps, some day," replied Mr. Kipling. "Oh, but you must!" insisted his friend. "Let's see whether we can hit on a good title." "Well," said Mr. Kipling, after a moment's reflection, "what do you say to 'Plane Tails From the Sky'?" A Wisconsin man says that he was held up to ridicule because some one painted a harness on his horse. But that's nothing to the fun that would have been created if he'd led a set of harness from the barn and then found that the horse within it was only a painted one—Buffalo Express. "The engagement of the young surgeon to the telephone girl is unusually appropriate." "Why so?" "Because she makes a practice of cutting folks off and he of cutting them up."—Baltimore American. Caller (viewing new baby)—Do you think he is going to resemble his father? Mother—I shouldn't be surprised. He keeps me up at night even now. "He is not out of the woods yet." "That is why they think they can tree him." -Baltimore American. "No, mother. I could never love a mag with red hair." "But, my dear girl, you should consider the fact that he has very little of it."—Chicago Herald. NO. 4. "The Almighty Dollar." She Spoke. Poor Economy. The Popular Side of the Street Even Kipling Will Pun. Might Have Been Worse. Very Suitable. Just Like Him Logical Conclusion Getting Bald. . THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 90 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917. Precisely as we foresaw and said, and John Temple graves confirms it, that prohibition got its conception and had its birth in the South for no other purpose than to keep it from the Negroes, for the reason it suppressed or dispersed their usual cowardness and made them fight if imposed on. Its taking from them is admitted by Mr. Graves was to serve a similar privilege for the whites that taking away their right to vote did—allow them to do it all. Mr. Graves goes further and predicts that the "bone dry law" will repeal prohibition in the South. It's possible, whiskey, for centuries has been the South's whipped-creamed drink. To win in life, education is a valuable accessory, but is by no means a necessity. It is not always necessary that we graduate at Harvard, Yale or Howard. Some of the greatest men and women have graduated from the college of Hard Knocks. Misfortune, Prejudice, Oppression and Struggle are the professors; insult, scorn and scandal are the curriculum. And when we graduate, some sit down and cry; some turn their face to the wall and pout; some give up say, "What's the use? But others go forth and conquer. Far better is aspiration than education. Better that youth go forth into the world without knowing A from Z, if it have the determination to push its way through the world, than to enter upon active life with head stuffed full of Socrates, Bacon and Herodotus, but with no aspiration and persistence. Young folks sometimes come out into life with a genius that could pile Ossa upon pelion and mount them to scale the heavens, and yet will lie down discouraged and beaten before a mole hill. They own all the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but haven't the nerve to hurl them. George Washington, in early life, was a poor speller, and spelled hat "h-a-double-t", and a ream of paper he spelled -rheam"; but he knew enough to spell out the independence of this country from foreign aggression. And then, on the other hand, Mark Twain used to tell of a certain professor of Oxford University whom he met in London, who knew everything except how to use it. The American republic was founded, not on privilege, like the Greek and Roman states; not on lineage, like the Republics of Italy in the Middle Ages; not on land proprietorship, like the Republic of Holland; not on blood relationship, like the Swiss Cantons—but upon manhood. The fathers of this Republic said: "Just as a man is able to take care of himself physically, mentally, morally and financially, so is he able to take care of himself politically." Upon the very basic principle of the Republic that "all men are created free and equal", the American citizen, black or white, stands before the world the peer of any Bourbon, or Guelph, or Hohenzollern, or Hapsburg. He is the heir of the liberty of the past and should be the beneficiary of the liberty of the present. Not even Caesar was more sovereign than is he. Then is it not time that we of a great race, numbering one-tenth of the nation's population, hold our heads just as high as the rest of our fellow-citizens, and speak our opinions just as freely? A President should look no different from any other man when he discriminates against, restricts, and insults our race. As the white press freely criticizes the weaknesses and failures of our high officials, so let the Negro press just as freely hold them up to scorn when they betray us, just as we hold them up to praise when they befriend us. Shame on Americans! How absurd to review the methods of bringing here Africans to reenslave. Use them in all manner of war—as all kinds of color prove. Millions of white children have tugged at breasts of loving old black women. They cooked and the whites ate as they are still doing. They made up and are still making up beds for the whites to sleep in. They wash their clothes. They stayed on the plantations, worked and cared for the white women and children. They hid the stock and valuables as the whites in the ridges and mountains. In short, kind, true and as loving as if they were their own and are now. In every war they have been in the forefront, and lost the first blood. So changed have they been by the diffusion of white men's blood, had not Africans come here now and then and exhibited the real African, not one here would have the slightest features of an African. It seems that the white man has more hatred for his blood he placed than a dog has for its vomit. "He is a nigger" if he has one sixteenth, one-fifth, one-fourth, one-half or any part of Negro blood. Out west the greatest base ball player in America is white a man's product by a colored woman. Mr. McGraw declares he would give fifty thousand dollars if he was a white man, and offered him ten thousand dollars to go to Cuba,stay there long enough to pass for a Cuban and come back home to play ball as a Cuban—not as an American. The Negro spurned the offer and we all the more love him for it. The greatest pitcher the world has ever known is a colored Cuban. There is something very suggestive, if not providential, in the fact that the meekness and humility of the Negro dates from the time of Christ, the great apostle of meekness. Something suggestive in the fact that his parents fled with him from the white tyrant Herod down into Egypt among the black people. Something suggestive in the fact that they compelled Simon of Cyrene, an African and a Negro, to bear the cross up the Mount of Calvary, and that ever since the Negro has been the burden-bearer of humanity, bearing the world's burden ofodium, ill treatment, unrequited toil and oppression, like his Master. Who knows but what the Negro is the "chosen people" of God? Who knows but what the whole human race was originally black? Who knows? There is nothing to the contrary in either science or revelation. The question is often asked: If God made of one blood all nations, and Noah's curse was never fulfilled or did not apply to the Negro, why is it that his skin is black? We answer the question Youkefa ion, by asking another. Why is it when the question of color is considered, they always select the black man for a victim and put the burden of proof on him? There are other colored races beside the Negro. Red, Yellow and Brown. Why not ask, why is the Mongolian yellow or the Indian red? Yes, why not ask, why is the Caucasian white? Is it not just as plausible to say that the white skin is the curse of Canaan? All the departments of science agree that the human race was originally one - it was a unit - one blood, one language, and of course one color. But none can prove that the color was white. Indeed, the concensus of opinion is that the human race originated somewhere in Asia. Why, that is a part of the world where a white skin has not been native to the soil in the six thousand years of which history gives record. Israel was called the chosen people; but Israel rejected the Messiah, and the curse upon Israel has been fulfilled—The Jews are a separate people; their racial traits and identity cannot be lost. But Africa welcomed and harbored Him; Africa carried the ignominious cross; Africa is moved and swayed by His name today more than any other race on earth; Africa has followed Him in meekness and humility for two thousand years. And we have His own promise that the meek shall inherit the earth. Excited! Looking out the office window stood a fine steel, head up, nostrils extended and tail rainbowed. Sitting in the barouche was a well-dressed fine looking lady with firm grip on the reins. In our printing togs, knowing we would have to face the music, and wondering if she was a close relative of "Queen Lill," we braced up and approached her, and found to our surprise Mrs. Henry Ford, of Darksville, and again surprised when she said: "Mr. Clifford, Mr. Ford sent you a bushel of Irish Cobblers to plant. They are the finest potatoes in Berkeley County. Our well-to-do farmer-friend, Mr' Amos Holley, of Nipetown, thluking, no doubt, we were at sea and too poor to get seed potatoes, and wanting us to have the best and earliest on the market, and I being the best farmer in the county, gave us an abundance of fine seed potatoes with a guarantee that six weeks from the time they came up, we would have potatoes,—Pat thanks Mike. BUY IT TODAY 330 PICTURES 300 ARTICLES POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE For Father and Son AND ALL THE FAMILY Two and a half million readers find it of absorbing interest. Everything in it is Written So You Can Understand it We sell 400,000 copies every month without living pranks and have no solicitor. Ary newspaper will show you a copy or write the author for free sample — a postal will do. CLOS A YEAR JESSE A CITY Knoxville Mechanics Magazine 26 H. McGillian Ave., CHICAGO "I want to see you tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on something important." "What do you want to see me then for?" "I want to pay you the $5 I am going to touch you for now." — New York American. "I'm not so sure about that." mused Mr. Chuggins. "If I travel faster than the law allows and a motor cop travels fast enough to overtake me it's perfectly right for him to arrest me."—Washington Star. As Far as He'd Go "Would you say they married for love?" "No; I'd say that that is what they thought they married for." — Detroit Free Press. The lives of many are ruined by the fatal error that the more one passes the more one enjoys. SLEEPINESS AFTER MEALS. It Indicates Something Wrong With the Digestive System. A condition of drowsiness, which may become an irresistible desire to take a nap shortly after eating, is usually a very accurate indication that something is wrong with the digestive apparatus. Usually this form of indigestion is chronic in character, and apparently there is no other evidence than it exists, or at least such evidence would not be detected by ordinary observation. In such cases the desire to take a nap comes on suddenly, but the nap is a very short one, ordinarily not more than fifteen minutes. Sometimes the desire for these "indigestion naps" comes on at other periods than those immediately following meals, but in such cases this desire comes regularly at certain periods of the day. The cause, however, is the same as in cases where drowsiness comes on immediately after the meal, the difference in time being simply the difference in the interval required for the food to reach the portion of the intestinal tract that is not working properly. Occasional drowsiness following an unusually hearty meal should not be confused with the type of periodic desire for a short nap referred to here. Such drowsiness indicates simply that the digestive apparatus is temporarily overworked and may be in a perfectly healthy condition. This sort of drowsiness, if indulged, usually persists for several hours, whereas the naps caused by indigestion are always of short duration. CAREER SEEKING WOMEN. One Hundred a Day Flock to New York Tempting Fate. One hundred women a day come career seeking in New York city. This is the figure furnished by Director C. B. Barns of the state bureau of employment. He bases his estimate upon the number of women handled daily by the Travelers' Aid, the number registered at hotels and those registered by the state bureau and other employment agencies. One hundred women a day, 36,500 a year. A fraction over four every hour; approximately one every time the minute hand crosses the fifteen minute mark. Mr. Barns estimates that a large percentage of career seekers come from up state and towns about New York and New Jersey. Probably 50 per cent, he says, come from western states. The smallest portion of the number comes from the south. Some succeed; more fall. Yet always others come, answering the call of the minute hand as it mills round and round like the finger of Fate, beckoning. Statistics are impersonal. They say nothing of who the women are nor why they come nor what they find instead of what they expect. They don't say there's tragedy in a head shake. And a laugh round the edge of tragedy. Statistics haven't told the whole story. They do not say that hope, promise, disaster wait a hundred times a day for the woman who comes to New York.—Winifred Van Duzer in New York American. Hia Color. Little Ben (to gentleman caller)—You aren't black, are you? Mr. Mooney—Black, child? Why, no! I should hope not! What made you think I was? Little Ben—Oh, nothing! Only pa said you were awfully niggardly.—London Telegraph. Hard Lines. "In financial trouble? What is it?" "Oh, I promised to pay Brown $10 today, and I've got it, and he knows I've got it, and he knows I know he knows I've got it."—Puck. MARVELLOUS HUNTERS. Natives of Australia Are Wizards In the Art of Tracking. In endurance and speed the Australian aborigine is not the equal of the American Indian, and his weapons of wood and poorly fashioned stones are effective only at short range, but as a number the native Australian is invariably adjusted to his environment. His success lies in an intimate knowledge of the habits of animals on land, in the ground, in trees and under water, and his wonderfully developed powers of observation. He deceives pelicans by imitating their cries, catches ducks by diving below them, locates an opossum in a tree by marks on the bark or by the flight of mosquitoes, finds snakes by observing the action of birds and follows a bee to its store of honey. Any animal which leaves a track, however dim, in sand, on rock or in grass falls an easy prey to the black fellow. Children are taught to track blacks over bare rocks and to find their absent or by following tracks too indistinct to serve as a guide for a European. When a white man is lost in the desert or a child strays from home the final resort is to secure a "black tracker."—National Geographic Magazine. Messages They Carry Are Packed In Small Goose Quilts. The general need to tail that has to be written a dispatch by pigeons is to catch the bird, tie a letter to its ear and then liberate it is to watch the eagles approaching the eagles. Prior to the siege of Paris the method of affixing the message to the bird had not received that attention which it demanded and consequently many dispatches were sent in thunder. At first the message was merely rolled up to be waved over to protect it from the weather and then attached to a feather in the bird's tail. But it was soon found that the twine which kept the insulative in place cut or damaged the paper, and therefore in order to prevent it from being pecked by the pigeon and from being injured by wet the dispatch was inserted in a small goosequill two inches in length. The quill was then pierced close to each end with a redhot bodkin, so as not to split it, and in the holes waxed silk threads were inserted to affix it to the strongest tail feather. By attaching the message to this part of the bird's body its flight was not in any way interfered with.—Lone Scout. Hunting the Emu. The natives of Australia are ingenuous. A back on discovering emus feeding on a plain will cover his back and back with an emu skin, allowing it to climb down well on the side toward the tusks, seeing birds. In his right hand he will carry hidden by the skin a boomerang and one or two throwing sticks or "waddies." Then his left arm will protrude beyond the skin straight out to the elbow, and the forearm will be bent up, with the hand at right angles to it, thereby making a capital imitation of an emu's head and neck. Now and then his hand or head will be brought to the ground as if for feeding, and as the black walks along he imitates every motion of the bird while at the same time by means of the big toe he draws a spear along the ground. He proceeds thus until close enough to spear his bird. His Trademarks. Little redheaded colony got a job as office boy for the president of a large western railway. After he had been upon the job several days they gave him a form to fill out with his "Personal Record." When young Johnny came to a particular paragraph that said, "Have you any visible marks for identification in case of accident or death?" he rose from his chair and rushed over to a mirror near by to give himself a general inspection; then he returned to his task and wrote as his answer to this personal query, "Nothing except freckles."—Youth's Companion. Anna Howard Shaw. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw has been a pioneer in many fields. She was the first woman ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. Her efforts to obtain a college education marked an epoch in coeducation. She carried the gospel of equal suffrage into the most remote places, undeterred by the inconvenience of primitive travel. She was born on Feb. 14, 1845. Gloomy Prospect. The Sultor-What will your father settle on the man who marries you? The Girl-All the rest of the family. I suppose. Duck LOCAL NOTES Mr. Albert Johnson, who has been in Baltimore for some months, is visiting his family in this city. Mr. James Rouan, has gone to work again after being at home for several days on account of illness. Mr. John F. Carter is still busily engaged improving his property on Borke Stret. George M. Miller is doing considerable work for Mrs. Mary Moody, of Harnburg, owner of the Warrick properties on Samuel and Henry Streets. Miss Emma Roper, of Washington, D.C., stopped over with her sister, Mrs. Clarence Roman, en route to Kearneysville, to see her mother, Mrs. Lucinda Roper, who has been quite ill. Mrs. Harriet Green, a highly experienced matron of our city, is at home again after an enjoyable visit to her two sons, Messrs. Floyd and Rogers Green, in Pittsburg. Mrs. Christena Smith has replaced the porch roof which was wrecked by the recent heavy snow with a handsoner and more substantial one than the one which collapsed. Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Washington, D. C., preached at. Dudley Baptist Church on Sunday last. It is possible he may locate here and become pastor for the above congregation. Rev. Samuel M. Beane, formerly of this city, but now of Roanoke, preached to his old congregation and grasped hands with friends here during the past fortnight. Earl Brown is rapidly recovering from the sprain which caused him to tenderly nurse his left wrist for several days. Mrs. Sarah Hopewell has returned from Baltimore, in which city she visited friends and attended the session of the Washington Conference. Her trip was a very enjoyable one so she says. Mr, Thomas Carter, a native Martinsburger, and well known to most everybody hereabouts, is in the city again after a residence of several years in Pittsburg. He looks well and the Press force, of which he use to be a member, is glad to see him. Mr. Robert Fox, the prosperous and energetic farmer of Bardane, Jefferson County, called at our office the other day and left the money covering his subscription to the Pioneer Press for another year. If more would follow his example it would be easier for newspaper men to fulfill their various obligations. Rev. Sylvester H. Norwood, Secretary of the Washington Conference, who pastored Mt. Zion M. E. Church, this city, during the past year, has been sent to Ellicott City, Md. His madam left on No. 6 Tuesday to join her husband in their new home. May success attend the efforts of both in the field of labor which just now is somewhat strange to them. Mr. Norman Brown, who has been sick, is somewhat improved, and his friends are hoping to see him around again soon. Mrs Susan Blake, and her brother, Mr. Charles Holley, were called to Hagerstown on account of the illness of their sister, Mrs. Roger Williams. Mr. Abraham Ford is making frequent visits to Martinsburg these days, and some say a fair lass of whom he is very fond, is the cause thereof. Mr. David Harden, who had an abscess removed from his left temple, continues on the mend. Mr. John Fisher who died at the Kings Daughter's Hospital Tuesday, was buried from Wilen's Chapel Thursday. Rev. Reed oniciated. WATER PORTERS OF QUITO. The Funny Way They Have In Delivering Their Liquid Load. About a fountain in one of the principal squares of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, assemble every morning the city's aguadores. These water porters differ from the less energetic ones of some South American cities in carrying their jars upon their backs instead of on the backs of males. Their earthen jars are deep, have a wide mouth and hold about forty pints. The porter carries it on his shoulder fastened with leather straps. He never detaches himself from his jar either to fill it or to transfer its contents to that of his customer. He turns his back to the fountain so that the jar comes under one of the jets of water and listens to the sound of the water in the jar, and his ear is so well trained that he always walks away at the exact moment when it is filled to the brim. Arriving at the house of a customer, he goes to the household jar, makes a deep bow and disappears back in a torrent of water. Forefathers often never receive without laughing the wish of their auntor, the respectful jitterman who bows to one behind the cataract of water.—Los Angeles Times. OLDEST MAP IN THE WORLD. It Proves That Postal Routes Were Used In Abraham's Time. Postal routes, of 3,500 years ago, when the parcel post and the circulating library already had been in existence at least 800 years, are shown on the world's oldest map, a treasure that was discovered among the Nippur tablets in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Stephen Langdon, the orientalist from Oxford university. Dr. Langdon considered the map not only the oldest, but the best preserved that has come down from antiquity. Editing before the time of Abraham, the map shows a comprehensive survey of the region about the temple of Nippur and indicates that the country was under a high state of intensive cultivation. Canals were numerous and served both for irrigation and transportation. They were the mail routes, and a tag has been found for a basket of "books" or literary tablets sent from the library of the Nippur temple to a town about six miles distant, Shuruppek. According to Babylonian tradition, Noah lived at this town and built the ark there. The tag was used about 2300 B. C. Donkeys In Trousers The stranger in Guayaquil, in Ecuador, at once remarks one very curious feature of its life and general appearance. We are used to seeing nets over our horses in the summer, but such an outfit is required by the donkeys in the tropics strikes the stranger as ludicrous. The donkeys are numerous in the city and are used for all manner of load purposes, from baskets of fruit to the carcasses of butcher's meat. In the morning a string of them may be seen trotting through the streets with a load of fresh meat from the slaughter house, which is situated outside the town. The donkeys are all provided with coverings around the fore legs, like ordinary trousers, and with a protection over the ears against the mosquitoes. The Guayaquil donkey presents a most comical appearance in trousers, especially if his garment is embroidered, as it sometimes is. Home of a Workingman. The mechanic who eats underdone biscuits in a leaky kitchen presided over by a discontented wife is not a good investment for his employer. Bad homes are as great an enemy to industrial improvement as bad habits, says Ida M. Tarbell in "New Ideas in Business." "Cobbin itself is forcing employers to or the omnible life of their employees, says Miss Tarbell. 'The first and most important thing they must consider is the house the man lives in. A good workingman wants a home. He wants if possible to own his home. To have efficient, trustworthy and steady men you must have healthy and contented men. Men are neither healthy nor contented in wretched homes." Squelching a Dealer. "Can I sell you some antiques, sir?" "What have you in stock?" "I've got a chair George Washington sat in, a coule Jenny Lind was rocked in, a mirror used by Catherine the Great of Russia and"— "Say no more. These things are comparatively modern." "But consider sir" "I want some real antiques. 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"In some individuals a very deep breath appears to arrest the pulse because of the compression of the clavian artery; should be limited to a certain per minute." HOW MODERN SHIPS SINK Times When Water Tight Bulk Are a Menace to Life. Nearly every class or design of sluks in a particular way. For instance, the old type of single bottom steamer, with few or no bulkheads; that is, in the modern sense of the term-almost invariably founders on more or less of an even keel, which means that it sinks level and not with its bow or stern up in the air. This is accounted for by the fact that at whatever point the water may enter it practically finds its own level as there are no subdivisions to obstruct it. Now, in the case of a modern vessel, which is built with numerous subdivisions, it invariably happens that she founders with her bow or stern high out of the water, or else she suits with a heavy list, or cent, to cope with or the other. The reason is that that the builders put forth which enters the vessel into its level. Consequently when the particular portion of the ship is full of water, while the remainder is practically water tight, that part which is water laden sinks first, owing to its greater weight. It is for this reason that such terrible loss of life frequently occurs in modern shipwrecks. Owing to the uneven sinking it is often found impossible to lower the majority of the life-boats, as they would fail to reach the water—London Answers. Church Theaters. Few people know that plays in England, Germany, Italy and France were fostered for religious purposes by the church centuries before they were taken up as a separate secular business. Moreover, few visitors to St. Paul's cathedral, in London, realize that the church during Elizabeth's reign and the first years of the reign of James I set aside one of its adjacent buildings for use as a secular theater. 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