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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S MAILBRAIN, UNAWAKED BY INFLEUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 RAILROAD SITUATION IS NOW LARGELY UP TO CONGRESS Must Share Responsibility In Future Development. ROBERT S. LOVETT'S VIEWS "Unification of Regulation is essential." A Complete, Harmonious, Consistent and Related System Needed—Federal Incorporation of Political by General Law Favored. Washington, March 26.—Responsibility for the railway development of the country, for providing necessary transportation facilities to care for the growing business and population of the country, now rests largely with congress and not entirely with the railroad managers. This was the statement of Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committee of the Union Pacific system, to the Newlands joint congressional committee when that body restrained its inquiry into the suspect of railroad regulation this week. In making this statement of the changed conditions of the railroad situation Judge Lovett undoubtedly had in mind the decision of the supreme court on the Adamson law, handed down last week, which establishes the right of the federal government to fix railroad wages and to prevent strikes. This decision is regarded by railroad men and lawyers as marking an epoch in the development of transportation in the United States. "We have our share of responsibility," said Judge Lovett, "but it rests primarily on congress. When the government regulates the rates and the financial administration of the railroads, the borrowing of money and the issuance of securities it relieves the railroad officers of the responsibility of providing and developing transportation systems, except within the limits of the revenue that can be realized from such rates and under such restrictions. "For a country such as ours, for a people situated as we are, to bludgear along with a series of unrelated, inconsistent, conflicting statutes enacted by different states without relation to each other, instead of providing a complete and carefully studied and prepared system of regulation for a business that is so vital to the life of the nation, is worse than folly." He summed up the present problems and difficulties of the railroads as follows: First.—The multiplicity of regulations by the several states with respect to the issue of securities, involving delays and connecting state policies generally dangerous and possibly disastrous. Second.—The multiplicity of rates in such states, which reduce revenues, to discontinue in favor of localities and shipers within its own borders as against localities and shipers in other states and to disturb and disarrange the structure of interstate rates. Thick. The inability of the Interstate Commission, whoever the commission may be, to perform the vast duties devolving upon it under existing laws, resulting in delay—which should never occur in commercial matters—and compelling the commissioners to accept the conclusions of their employees as final in deciding mafters of great importance to the commercial and railroad interests of the country. Fourth.-The practical legality that has been accorded conspiracies to the up and suspend the operation of the railroads of the country by strikes and violence and the absence of any law to compel the settlement of such disputes by arbitration or other judicial means, as all other issues between citizens in civilized states are to be settled. Fifth.-The phenomenal increase in the taxation of railroads in recent years Department of Archives ne Pi HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 52. MARTINSBURG, Sixth.-The cumulative effect of these conditions upon the investing public, to which railroad companies must look for the capital necessary to continue development. "We believe that the unification of regulation is essential," said Judge Lovett, "and that with the rapid increase of state commissions in recent years congress will be necessary." sistent and related system. We believe the best, if not the only practical plan, is the federal incorporation of railroads by general law, which will make incorporation thereunder com- evolutions with respect to its financial operations and the same duties and obligations to the public and the government so that it will serve well of corporation may and may not lawfully do." Judge Lovett contended that the solution of these problems and difficulties rested with congress. He told the committee that under the constitution the authority of the federal government is paramount, that consent has the power to legislate for a centralized control of railroads under federal charters and that it only remains for that body to exercise that power. A. Bird Joker. A tortoise is australian bird is the koala burrow, or laughing jackass. All at once in the quiet bush come loud peals of uproarious, mocking laughter. One is not inclined to join in the merriment—it all seems as foolish and weird as if an idiot boy were disturbing a congregation in church. When the source of the laughter is located it turns out to be a silly looking bird, with clumsy, square body and open mouth, sitting unconcernedly on a stump. - National Geographic Magazine Willing to Bear It. "Well, dearest, I have just asked your father for your hand." "What did he say?" "He asked me if I felt capable of asuming a heavy burden." "And what did you tell him?" "I told him I would take care of all he would give us."—Boston Transcript Two Edged 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 Improving. "This critic describes your new book as drool." "Guess I must be improving. He abluded to my last book as utter rot."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Too Late. Detective—So I've caught you in the financial district, have 17. Crook—Yes. Bill, but I can't slip you nothings. I just got away from a robber. New York Horse Chestnut Certain chemists are endeavoring to adapt the horse chestnut to the human dietary. The nuts are more than half starch and sugar, with some protein and fat, and are nutritious. Their value chiefly depends on the oleina. Know of the other chemicals and the iri Getting Baid. "Mr. Sorrell proposed to me, mother." "And you accepted him, I hope." "No, mother I could never love a mar with red hair." "But, my dear girl, you should consider the fact that he has very little of it."—Chicago Herald Similarity Contractor-Then you won't sell me a carload of bricks on credit? Dealer-No; me an' my bricks are very much alike—we're hard pressed for cash. Boston Transcript. Imagination causes more aches and pains than all other ailments. Babcock. ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL A Reason For Some of the Accidents at Night. Frequently when there is no obvious, where the automobile is on the road, it fits an obstruction or set, the driver or some other person of the car or the property so. 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 an ablution. The police officer of driving an auto night for several hours is really sponsible for more accidents than effective construction. The constant vibration of the steering wheel, the co-ordinates 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 line of least resistance, aided by the slacking (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. Oftentimes 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 den Linden on May 7, 1896, rallied public sentiment to bilin and bib policy and from a dramatic standpoint 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. — Chariton Bates Strayer in Leilies. When Novels Were Really Long. Though William de Morgan wrote some of the longest novels of recent times, his efforts were conelessness itself compared with the works of some of the seventeenth century romancers. Mike, ce Sudbury's one famous story, "Le Grand Cyrus," for instance, fills five folio "volumes of 500 pages each in the English translation, and her contemporary La Calenpronte, was even more diffuse, his "Cleopatre" running into twenty-three volumes. The leisurely method of the early novelists is well illustrated in "Parthenisa," by Roger Boyle, earl of Orcery, in which the eight hundredth page finds the two chief characters still engaged in the process of introducing themselves to each other, begin 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 INCASED POSTAGE STAMPS. Once Used as Money, They Are Now Rare and Valuable. New York city was the birthplace of a peculiar sort of money, made by putting United States postage stamps in that circular brass cases, with the face protected by a thin slop of metal. The incased stamps consisted of these denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 12, 24, 30 mil. 80 cent, 1862, and this method of protecting the stamps so they could withstand the wear of circulation was the invention of John Gaunt, who was in business at Park place, New York city. Mr. Gaunt manufactured many kinds to be used by business firms in place of small change, as well as the multilated and worn postage stamps used for money at the beginning of the war. Many of the incased 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 30 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 chase, 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 Patent bearing the date of the 29th 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 Chase or Chair with two wheels, to be drawn by one Horse between a pair of shafts, which is so contrived as to quarter the Roads 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 said William Chapman at his House in Wormwood Street, London Wall, Near Bishopsgate, where several carriages are already made." 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 Carskill mountains, but the difference chemically is so slight that it isn't worth talking about.—Dr. L. R. Welzmiller in World's Work. The Macaroni Record The "macaroni record" stands at present at 2,160 yards (just under a mile and a quarter). This is the exact mile a macaroni swallowed by a Signor Spoel. Could in an eating duel with Signor Revere a few years ago—London Tit Lite. Grayfish as a Food It used to be called the dogfish and was looked upon as a worthless nuisance. Now, through the efforts of Uncle Sum's bureau of fisheries, it is called the grayfish and is in great demand as a valuable food product. The grayfish contains a little less protein and a little more fat than the salmon, but in digestibility, richness and whole someness it equals, if it does not excel many of our popular fish foods. One interesting result of the analysis thus far made by the government is that the grayfish is entirely free from uric acid, which is not true of meats, poultry or other fishes. CAREFUL SPEECH. It Aids Clear Thinking and the Expression of One's Ideas. Nothing is more of a help to clear thinking than careful speech. Very often we discover a flaw in our logic when we attempt to put it into words, observes the Irish World. But sometimes we really have ideas, though we experience difficulty in expressing them. People on sympathetic natures are frequently dumb in the presence of sorrow. Some who are very intelligent are so silent and diffident that nobody ever gets the benefit of their bright ideas. A recent poet has intimated that for the deep things of life language is altogether inadequate; but, however that may be, it is the principal means at present by which human beings get close together. We learn to talk, as we say, in the first few years of life, and some of us get very little beyond that start in babyhood. We can ask for what we want to eat and drink, but we are unable to express sympathy tactfully and gracefully. We have a great many ideas that we never try to put into words, because we feel that we do not know the right words. We have not really learned to talk while we remain silent regarding the things which mean most to us. NEGLECTED CHILDREN If There Were Fewer of Them There Would Be Less Crime. A St. Louis judge recently made the statement in an address delivered before a local bar association that "if one fourth as much as is spent for keeping up our courts, jails, poorhouses and paupers was applied to help neglected city children make a proper start in life the high tide of crime surely would decrease." This is a remarkable statement to make; but, coming from the source it does, it is worthy of consideration of all philanthropic men and women. Had the speaker made his statement more general and applicable to the country as well as to the cities it would all the same be worthy of credence. The life of every one depends largely upon the start made. There are those who are started right and then depart from the straight but narrow path, but they are the exception and not the rule. Thousands of little unfortunate may be said to be born criminals, the offspring of criminal parentage. If not so born they are so bred. But it is true, as said by this St. Louis judge, that if a benevolent and righteous public would deal with the problem as it might there would be less crime and fewer criminals — Knoxville Journal and Tribune. Our Public Health Service In the fields of preventive medicine and in all matters in which the public health is concerned the public health service does work which is not only unsurpassed but unequaled in any country of the world. This is recognized and fully appreciated in Europe, and recently in one of the chief medical journals of Europe high praise was given to the service for the extremely valuable information with regard to disease and preventive medicine which was disseminated by the agency of its bulletins and other publications. In fact, the United States public health service is unique and is an institution of which this country has every reason to be proud. It remains as an ever ready foundation upon which to erect the department of public health whenever congress shall see fit to establish it.—Medical Record. A Sad Prospect "They say there's no fool like an old fool." "That makes me shudder for the future. I've already been all the other kinds."—Kansas City Journal "The Almighty Dollar" 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 virtue now is gold. And almost every vice, almighty gold. —London Notes and Queries. Entered at Postoffice, Martinsbure, West Virginia a3 second-class matter, —————— Subscription Rates: eT One Yoar ....... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... a0 eee met Issued every Saturday by J. it. Clit ford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.......... Bel] Phone 1015 a SATURDAY, MARCIE (31, 1917 What a God-forsaken realm American politics has gotten to be. After a man has dabbled in it a lit te while, and has heen whirled round and round the drinking, smoking, swearing, bribing crowd, all that is left of his self respect o1 moral stamina would find plenty of room on a geometrical point — which is said to have neither length breadth nor thickness. A broad(?) minded Southerner is up inarms over the agitated uni versal training for American pro gection. His only objection is, that it arms the Nexroes and that it armed theyll shoot up the South IUs his guilly conscience for the way the South has treated: the Ne- groes. Did they kill your women and children while you were away fight- ing to keep them in slavery? Arm them and the only injury they will do you, will be to protect you and yours, leaving the wrongs you have inflicted on them and theirs to a just God to adjust As we see it, America’s weakuess anent detective work has been the explanation of? clever tricks that captured shrewd rascals. Would it not been far better to have kept all that has been done a seeret? Did it not put thieves and murderers on the alert to out wit the detective force? Mark our saying that Germany’s strong hold and fort, is secrecy it all of her doings. Ours is our weak ness by talking and telling all o! what we take for granted is smart— something new under the sun, wher in reality Germany has worn it out a hundred years ago. Be wise fo1 Americas good and keep secret your helpful doing and wisdom. Who is right Billy Sunday or America’s stationed preachers? One ck the other must be, or are both wrong? But the fact that Billy could not befuddle the public were it not for the combination of sta- tioned ministers, is good evidenec that they are stronger and hetter than Billy Sunday, the biggest hy- pocrite that ever trotted over this or any other country. His religion is as lasting as a shaving-fire and about as beneficial to the religious welfare of this country as is leprosy. His prime object is money and it has worked so well, that America’s crop of lesser Billy Sundays is daily, to the curse of this country, in creasing. We suggest that the sin-fighting Billy Sunday raise a regiment and fight for America. Will you do it? Foot prints on the sands of time } ‘They are telling truths tor everlast- ing good. At the death of Mr. Vanderbilt, surrounded by a dozen millionaires, he asked that some pray forhim. Not one had faith’s courage. The multi-millionaire seeing the situation, said: ‘‘Tel] ‘Betty, my cook to come and pray for me.’’ Straight way sle came | Betty pray ‘for me,’ she did, and te windows of heaven opened, Ged near her prayer. Arisin:, tears streaminss down her checks and also down everyone's there, he said “Betty sing something.”’ She said in God's ways “Cornelius what must Posing?" “Come ye-sinner, poor and needy." She sang it kissed his hand and into the un- known he went. — Before J. Pierpont Morgan died, he requested that Harry Burleigh, ours and Aimerica’s sweetest singer should sing at his funeral services, and he did, and the story goes; “that there were more liquid eyes from it’s effects than ever witnessed before | ‘The late Oscar C. Murray, of the famous B. & O., so loved his col- cored servant, that he willed him ten thousaud dollars. Let us do our part and force the world to love us. We can do itwill we? ‘The death of Miss Ede oa Roberts, teacier in our city school, removed acultured woman from our midst. She had a fine mentality; a brain heavily charged with gray: at home and happy in an argument; well- read; a lover of children, and was so deeply interested in her pupils and this community She toiled as hard to keep abreast of her daily duty as she did to fit herself to teach. She will be sadly missed —her death to us is a calamity. What a pity such a teacher, and womanly woman, had to be gov- erned by such a lascivious princi- palas Randolph Ramer. Mis in- vestigation(?) of that vulgar of vul- gar pictures some one(?) put%on the black-board, may have shocked her mocesty to the hour of het death. We published it then and can explain it now. Being denied living aid to wipe out our father- principal of a bastard child, we appeal to the dead te help us, and J make this good wo: man chairman of a committee be fore the bar of a just God. Au Re voir! Dedicated to the Morgantown Post-Chronicle ‘As I rode over the battle-field steering my faithful black charger here and there for fear ef treading upon what appeared to me to be sacred dead with their faces up-turned to heaven as if in mute appeal for vengeance, I then and there took a solemn oath that if I should ever prove false to my black comrades, whom I and my country had wronged, my right hand should forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.’ ‘The above are General Benjamin Butler’s sentiments after riding over the battle-field that his brave blacks had died and won, one of the great- est victories of that bloody war. Germany and no other foreign foe has the power to bribe a loyal Negre against America, the soil of which he is a patriotic part. Though hated by the majority of the whites because, and only because he is dark in color, and having no flag that protects hita, God for some reason has filled his soul with fighting loy- alty for the scil he has made, en- riched and stained with his blood, and which in time is sure to be his. A question constantly before us and commanding almost as much attention as the war news is--Should women be given the suffrage? We notice that the question of right is seldom raised. It is the wisdom o1 policy of woman suffrage that is implied in the question. ‘The right is not touched upon; though we may say in passing, that the right, under the Constitution, of the fe- jmale citizen to vote is as clear as sunlight—as undeniable as is the right of the male citizen. The | Teasoning which proves the right of ithe one also establishes the ritht of the other. Of course. she has the right, if it can be snewn that in the exercise of the right there is w a2 or policy. She has the right to ‘drink same as men have: but it wouldi't he wise or politic for her to do so. She has the right to smoke, or chew tobacco and swear, and indulge it other male prerogatives, if she wants to; but it wouldn't be wisdom or volicy for her to do so. True, some women do drink and smok: and swear, but that doesn’t stam} the vice with tne seal of virtue. And because some women do vote or want to vote, doesn't imply wis dom or policy for all todo so. In deed, the majority of women do not want to vote, By what right can a federal amendment for woman suffrage he imposed upon those States that de not wish for it, and upon the de mand of a minority of women? ‘The fundamental principle of democra- cy Tmajority rule—should be ap- plied to the suffrage question. And here isa significant fact, that after ‘sixty five years of organized effort, woman suffrage is still a minority movement. One touch of nature makes all akin— Knob Hill proves that. Be- fore the San Francisco Harthquake, poor people were not allowed or Knob Hill. Sunday after the earth quake, the rich, and poor; high and low; cats and dogs all met there together in harmony, and the pray ing element bowed in fervent pray er. This touch of nature by us hes been seen twice in Berkeley Coun ty, W. Va. When Mr. James We: died, a white preacher preached hi funeral sermon, a white choir sanyv his pall bearers were all white av he was buried in the village grave yard. While Mr. James West w a fine man, the honor lavished or him, was due in part to his wa record. But the other case stands on i's merits, and occurred at Darksville last Tuesday, when Strother Green was buried. His life was spent in Berkeley County where he was so well known and loved. The church was crowded. Fully hnalf of the crowd was white, and one tier o! seats was occupie:| by a white family of culture as mourners—the young ladies saturating their handker- chiefs with tears. The father ot these young ladies Mr. Bryarly was one of the mourners an! assumed all tue expense of the burial and doctor's bill’s during Mr. Green’: illness. A white choir sang and the organist was so touched it was all she could do to perform her duty. It wasa beautiful picture—the kind in America that God and angel: rejoice to look at. What a lessor for our young Negroes. Live like Strother Green, Make lasting and loving friends—kill the cursed race problem. The village is named Darksville but as we saw it and believe, Goc and his angelic host called it Lights: ville and Lovesville—may the day hasten, when all of America can be so called, Superenergy. Little Jane and Josephine were bust- ly engaged in helping mother dry the dinner dishes. “But, Jane, you didn’t get that plate dry.” objected her sister. «,."Yes, I did!” exclaimed Jane engerly. “I dried it so hard that it perspired.”— New York Times, Too Much Prudence. Gwennie—Why did you refuse him if he is such a prudent man?, Gertie—He said he thought if he gotfgnarried he could save more money.—London Opin- ‘tas A WHITE HOUSE DINNER. Dishes Presicont Jefferson Served to His Guests in 1802, Manueseh Cutler, the fuunder of the Ohio ¢ and furber of the ordi hance 7 x dicey all through Lis pulie dite, did itis new in tie pos Bins un ace ne reat ti White Lis Pecsiteut def fat SIX Ineiibers of the house were invited Mr. Culler wrote that there was “rice soup, round of beef, turkey, sition, haan, loin of veal, cutlets of inutton oF veul, fried exes, fried Leer, a pie called macaroni, Which uppears to be a rich crust filled with strillions of onions or shallots, which I took it to be; tasted very strong and not agreeable. “Mr. Lewis told me there were no onions in it, tt was an Italian dish, and what appeared Like onjous was made of flour and butter with a particularly strong liquor mixed with them. — Ive cream, very good; crust wholly dricd, crumbled into thin flakes, a dish some. what like pudding, inside white as milk or curd, very porous and light, covered with cream sauce; very tine. “Many other jimeracks, a great vari. ety of fruit, plenty of wines and good. President social, We drank tea."—Co- Jumbus Dispateh. Americans’ Physical Development. While this country may excel in a competition of trained athletes or in certain kinds of mental ingenuity or shrewdness, it is certain that the aver- age man is far from 4 model of per- fect physicn] development. A casual inspection of the crowds on the streets of any one of our large cities will re veal pale, undernourished and poorly developed youths and pasty, flabby mep in large numbers and will convince the open minded observer of the desirabil- {ty for the individual of some form of regular physical training. ‘That the country bred, moreover, are not. greatly superior to those brought up in the city has been the experience of most military men who have had oceasion to handle large numbers of troops.— New York Medical Record, eel Many of us are puzzled to know why a lientenant general ranks higher than actunjer seneral Perhaps the explana. tion is that the titles date hack to the comlaonwealth, when the country was divided into military districts, the less important under the control of a ser. xennt major general, the rank beyond that of colonel, and the more impor tant being governed by a lieutenant gsenernl, the captain ‘general beirz Cromwell himself. ‘The lapse of time has deleted the serzéant from the ser geant major general.—London’ Chron Ocean Currents. There are twenty-seven permaneat currents in the oceans of the world and there are nearly as many more of the semi-permanent variety existiAg al one time. Several causes tend to orig inate and maintain these drifts. Unt formly directed winds have the great est Influence, and differences of tem peratures, stgems, polar icc and eddies have each she effect, creating usually the currents of scm-permament va riety. What Life Ic Lite is not made out of money, and friendship, and talents, and patron- age, and family influences, and good chances, and good positions, and good health, and good nature. It is made out of faith, virtue, knowledge, temper- ance, ‘patience, godliness, and brotherly kindness and loves—Inninger. The Real Reavon. Congressmen and legislators have not been lowered in grade durigg the last twenty years, but public nderstand- iug has moved up so much that it just seems that way.—Sioux Clty Tribune Wise and Unwise. That is over the difference between the wise and unwisc—the latter won- ders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the ustal.—Emerson, Clotheslines. When the clothesline needs cleaning wrap it around the washboard and scrub it with a brush in soapsuds, Wees AN Lillis Hac. Terence V. Powderly of labor fame was talking about compulsory arbitra- ton. “The trouble with the world in gen- eral,” he said thoughtfully, “Is that we all know Just what the other fellow ought to do, but we tke little account of what we ought to do ourselves, “I found a young bride one day bend- ing, with a stern and severe alr, overa dry looking volume. “What are you reading? I asked. “‘An excellent work.’ sbe replied, called “Tappiness In Marriage.” * “What advice,’ I said, ‘does it give to wives? “I don’t know,’ sho answered. ‘I’m reading the advice to husbands.’ ” THE HINDU DAY OF LIGHT. A Festival That Turns India Into a Wark Gt Malevlsnad: Phere is oae day in the year which is celebrated us a great festival by the Afndos of India, and the matives are Fevoa allowed to gamble upon this oc veusion, ‘Phe presi day is Levali—the hay of 7 Wilh is dedicated to the Hindu pod fara an celebration of itis corenation Tort siksst Guwaid on this day the aise basuors thromushout India ree semble f fear. fe ce the house, cor shop of every Gs ir are placed, humerous Hite taps Gf a very primie tive coustruction, ‘They cousist merely pot small shellow, transparew® bowls, about the size of a swicellar, tilled with of in which a wick is floated, ‘The number of lamps varies with the financial standing of the householder, ihe wealthier natives displaying them by the hundred. According to the tra dition, he who disphiys the greatest number of tizhts will become exceed- ingly rich, for on this night Lakshamt, the goddess of weuith, is supposed to wander abroad and enter wherever there are suflicient lights to extch ber fancy. Another method of enticing the un- suspecting goddess consisis of placing in a bow! filled with milk aud rice a cluster of pretty flowers, ‘The Hindu believes that to present a friend with flowers is to wish him or her happt- hess; hence the offering of flowers to Lakshami.—Pearson’s Weekly. MUSICAL TRAINING. It Should Have a Place In the Educa+ tion of Every Child. Sion oF Every Unilda, We shall make no real progress in music in this country, says Bruno Huhn, until we come to consider a training in the rudiments of music as an essential point in the education of our children, Too often parents excuse their re- ‘missness on the ground that their chil- dren show no spontaneous desice to study music. Because a child shows uo such desire to study reading, writ- ing and arithmetic do we for that rea- son permit him to neglect totally these subjects? No normal child desires to study any subject, and a failure on the part of a child to crave a musical edu- cation should not be permitted to ex- cmpt him from such training. In my opinion the average child should begin to study music at the age of elght or nine and for at least two years devote an hour a day to the exer- cise of it, After two years the child's prefer- ence and aptitude may safely be con- sulted in regard to further study. But in any event the two years of study have not been wasted, for he bas al- ready learned something that will be of use to him all bis life. Musical training, especially in the home, should have a place in the edu- cation of every child.—Exchange. Widowed Birds, ‘The married life of most birds could be taken for a model by members of the human family. For instance, the staid, dignified and homely baldheaded eaglo never mates but once and lives with his cne mate until he or she dies. If left a widower—even a young wid- ower—the baldheaded cagle never juates again. Ue remaing alone and disconsolate in the nest of the rocky crag or in the branches of a tall pine that formed his domicile while his mate was alive. No other female eagle can tempt him to forsake his desolate life. With him once a widower, al- ways a widower. The golden wood- peckers Ive in a happy married state, mating but once. If the male dies, bis mate's grief is lasting, and she re- mains a widowed bird the rest of her life, Thrift Maxims. Nothing waste, nothing want, Thrift is an antidote against, anxiety for the future. Thrift dedls with the present ‘day and plans for the future days. Thrift acquaints itself with true val- ues and keeps tab on expenditures. Neither minute gains nor even small losses are underrated by the thrifty. To postpone to afternoon what should be done in the morning is thriftlessness of management, An Architectural Gem, Claude Perrault was one of the rare geniuses who (urned from the profes- sion of medicine to that of art. He was born in 1613, being the brother of Charles Perrault, the noted barrister, through whose influence he became ar. chitect of the Louvre in Paris. The colonnade of this building, which he erected, is regarded as one of the finest creations of its kind of the seventeenth century. Miitana: | “The real object of mirror,” said Mr. Pinkerton, “is to enable women to see themselves as others see them.” “No,” remarked bis friend, Mr, Ankel- by; “I think they were invented so that women could inake themselves look as they wanted others td see them !”— Loudon Globe. Local Notes. Mr. John F. Carter, was in Hagerstown on business Tuesday. Mr. T. Crumwell, who recently completed a large concrete job, has contracted for another one. Mrs. Julia Barnett, wife of Rev. John Barnett is very ill at Freedman's Hospital, Washington D. C. Mrs. Hannah Jefferson, of Winchester Va., is visiting her sister Mrs. Sarah Hopewell at 514 West Martin Street. Mr. William Spears took Rev. R. R. Thompson and wife back to their home in Charles Town on Thursday, in his Motor Car. Mr. James Thompson, the famous chef, who had charge of the Senate Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa., and who is known the country over as an extraordinary fine cook will give Martinsburg for a time the benefit of his knowledge along that line. The recital by the ten young ladies of Storer College was very clever indeed. In declaiming their accent, emphasis, and rotundity of speech was the best evidence of careful instruction. The Pioneer Press wishes the groupe successions of blessings and hopes everyone will fill aching voids for womenly women. Mrs. Virginia Crane formerly of this city, but for some years a resident of Harper's Ferry, spent a few hours here Sunday visiting her son Mr. Paul Crane. Mrs. Crane is head Matron in Lincoln Hall, Storer College and speaks well of the young men under charge. She was warmly welcomed by her old friends and we hope she will come again Mrs. Helen Jackson Davis, died in the City Hospital shortly after noon Tuesday and was buried from Mt. Zion M. E. Church Thursday. Mrs. Davis was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamon Jackson and was born and reared in Martinsburg. Since her marriage she had made her home in Ohio. A loving husband and two small children, one an infant son about five weeks old survive her, also her parents, four sisters and four brothers. The floral tributes to her memory were many and beautiful showing the devotion of relatives and friends. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, Circulation, Etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of Pioneer Press, published weekly at Martinsburg, W. Va., for April 1, 1917. State of West Virginia County of Berkeley } ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared J. R. Clifford, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the Pioneer Press, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, (and if a daily paper, the circulation,) etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: Publisher, Editor, Managing Editor, Business Manager, Owner, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. No bondholders. J. R. Clifford. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31, day of March 1917. L. D. W. Gerhardt (My commission expires January 9 1920.) Guessing a Star. Mira, the wonderful star in the constellation Cetus (the Whale), stands foremost among those variable stars which have produced so much guesswork. Besides the theory that its even months' variations are due to the dickering up and down of gas, it has been conjectured that this distant sun is subject to particularly acute sun spots, that its obscurations are due to eclipse by huge planets revolving round it and even, according to Maupertuis, that it is not spherical in shape, as other heavenly bodies are, so that we see it sometimes in sections, sometimes in plane. Occasionally, as in 1789 and 1889, it has blazed up actually to first magnitude, while from 1672 to 1676 it disappeared altogether.—Boston Transcript. Warming a Serpent. Down in Bermuda Mark Twain made a speech about snakes to a group of little girls. The speech was great. The only trouble was that the little girls could not appreciate it. It flew over their heads. This was the humorist's conclusion: "Never warm a serpent in your bosom. It is far easier to warm it by placing it under the pillow of an intimate friend." His Ear For Music. "Has your daughter finished her musical education?" 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 delicous 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 stay 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 Lily of Aaia. The illium chakedonium is supposed to be the illy indicated in the sixth chapter of Matthew, twenty-eighth verse, where it is compared with the gorgeous robes of Solomon, and its color was scarlet or purple. This illy grows profusely in the moist parts of Asia Minor.-Indianapolis News Husbands. "The majority of husbands complain that their hands are always in their pockets." "They do, do they? Then why don't they find there the letters they have forgotten to mail for their wives?"—Baltimore American. Poetic Theme. "I read your 'Ode to Milady's Hair.'" "Well?" said the poet. "I thought maybe we could hire you to write an advertisement in poetry for our hair goods 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. She Spoke. "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?" "Yes; also she spoke at length."—Boston Transcript. Poor Economy. 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. Hard Lines. "In financial trouble? What is it?" "Oh, I promised to pay Brown $1 today, and I've got it, and he know I've got it, and he knows I know he knows I've got it."—Puck. 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You swing on this say-so like it was a tip to a thousand-dollar bill! It's worth that in happiness and contentment to you, to every man DUI R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark., greatest medicine on earth, can to take Cardul, I was had such awful dizzy Now I feel as well and can eat most anything." Sold by all dealers. Thousands. Curious. A lady one day remarked to Bulwer Lytton how odd it was that a dove (Latin, colombe) should have been sent out to find the old world, and Columbus (Colombe) should have found the new. "Yes," agreed the novelist, "but more curious still is the fact that one came from Noah and the other from Genoa!" Tommy—Dad, what is a pessimist? Dad—A pessimist is a man who would rather read the death notices in a newspaper than the jokes.—Exchange. Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it—Ford. She-What do you suppose Harold meant by sending me those flowers! Also She-He probably meant to imply that you were a dead one.-Jack o'Lantern. 1. Curious. A Pessimist. 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Learn to spend money, Only For Things You really need. There are few things so rich that they cannot be shared with the care and wealth of the poor and the poor of the world. Humility is the highest virtue, human sympathetic nature is the most occasions of outlay so heartily as us at every stop that unless we have 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 act in our own experience in our judgment, to others. Every one should be taught from childhood to which the needs of expenditure. 'This must leave, this I can go without, this I greatly want, if other demands will more imperative are not taken by it. I buy buying this now I can avoid the necessity of a double expenditure a year hence. On the other hand, if I retain from a purchase tempelar 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, than any training be more important them that which engages us to settle these.' Exactly the same disposition to weigh and to compare must be brought into giving, into charity, if giving is to be discreet 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 threetold 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 palace was only a small fishing village and was known as the Cove of Cork. Its prescript name was received in 1830 by reason of it having been the first spot in Ireland upon which Queen Victoria set the it still serves as the port of the city of Cork, from which it is twelfth oldest fort. Cork itself is located at the point of entry of the river Loe into the lake. The harbor of Quennessown is aptly defended by two forts, Orkish and Camden—at its entrance and by Port Westmoreland, which is situated upon tipek island, one of the greatest three isles which make up the government dockyard and constitute the fine natural breakwater of the harbor wherein a large fleet can find safe an 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 upon the burdensions. The island ceased to be a prison in 1885, at which time it was handed over to the military authorities—National Geographic Society Patrolin. Positive Jurors. A prospective juror, being qualified for a murder trial in Illinois, when asked the customary question, "Have you formed or expressed an opinion as 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 outraged court, and, of course, the disqualification of that talesman. There was a murder case that ended right in the middle when counsel, wheeling gently at the jury, remarked, "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 historical justice, a fairly juror rose 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 mux vomie, British jelly is sold to supply the world. New jelly products are and pick- Faithful Cook. "I'd you ever hear of a cook staying with the same family as long as twenty years?" "Oh, yes." "I presume she was called a jewel?" "She doubtless was considered one, but the family called her 'mother.'"—Bilimimin Age Herald. Replacing a Meat Diet The people of the United States consume fairly twice as much meat per capita as do the people of Europe. Dried beans, peas and lentils may replace meat in the diet to a large extent to the advantage of outdoor workers especially. 1 THE YOUTH'S COMPANION for 52 weeks, and the 1917 Home Calendar. 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