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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
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Berkeley County Statesman Informs
OregonTsn Of Passage of Sen
atorial Resolution.

Charleston, W.. Va, Feb. S.-An
Interesting siaeHght on the adoption
by the legislature OF the resolution
fayoring the elcticn of senator's by di-
rect vo1e. resolution introduced IL
The senate by Senator Silver, is found
III the following interchange of tele-
grams betgeen United States Senator
Jonathan Bourne, CT Oregon, and Sen
ator Gray Silver Just how much NOR
al effect tie adoption CT the resolution
might have on any action to be taxen
by the United States senate may be
seer from The following telegram re-
cejved Saturday morning by Senator
Silver, comfag from Senator Bourne.
In his message the senator said:
"Joirt resolution proposing amend
ment to the substitution for popular
election of United States senators wild
be acted upon in the senate in few
days. If your Legislature fayors di-
rect election OF United States senators
we rsspactfGlIy suggest you urge it to-
Immediately pass resolution request
ZIG senators to- support resolution fcr'
contituti0nal aGneHdmeuts-'
To Senator f3ourne senator Silver
ssnt the following reply
Resolution fSvoring amendment OF
constitution providing for direct cleo
ton of I'm ted States senators passed
Monday viii bey certified and forward
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
FREAKS OF A RIVER.
A Stream SO Croo+Sed That 1t Double
Crosses Itself.

A Stream SO Crooked That 1t Double
Crosses Itself.
There Is. stream in Massachusetts
called the North river. 1t starts in
pond near Hanson and runs to the sea
at Scltuain 1t is ten miles by air line
from Hanson to SeiuatG. and the river
is forty miles long.
This river is probably the most re-
markable body of water, barring the
Dead sea, on this footstooi aad has
stood more abuse and bad language
than the Chicago river. When the iiGe
is coming in he river runs upstream.
and not only ehat, bat the upper part
of it. which is fresh water, also runs
up, aad the spectacle of Il fresh water
river heating it uphill is alone enough
TO call attention to itself. But there is
much more 10 it ttan that
The North river is noted for being
the scene Of the last Indian raid on the
coast settlements 1t Is notable for
having given birth to the ship Column
bia, whose captain discovered ana
named the Columbia river, and was
the first American vessel to circum-
navigate the world 1t is notorious for
having suddenly changed its mind on
its course ON the night of Nov. q, 1888,
when it moved its mouth three miles to
the northward. presented the town or
Marshfield with deep harbor, killed
three men and converted about 2O,OOU
acres of prime meadow land into salt
marsh.
But the chief thing about this river
As its crookedness. This river Is SO
crooked that it double crosses Itself
II you don't believe 1t go and see
There is one place in Hanover where
by making three loops the river moves
toward the sea for distance OF al
most fifty feet and meanders about
for fifteen miles in doing it.-Bostol
Traveller
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
MONTHLY REPORT OF
The STONE HOME
interesting Data Furnished by Superin-
tendent and Deaconess For First
Month in Year.

The following Is the rerort of the
stone ITme for the month Of January
as furnished by Miss Elizabeth Hond
rick, superints ndent, and Mrs. Ada
Wiele resident deaconess
Calls made including canvassing
sick. parish and business calls. 422.
Calls received. 81. a
Letters aud postals written. II.
Papers and tracts distributed. 454.
Magaz mes and books distributed,
100.
Bibles and testamt nts distributed.
IL.
Persons given material relief. 65
Garments given away, 209.
Baskets OF food given away, 13
Tons e coal giv away. ].
p rsons for whom situations we're
received g.
Aggregate number taught in Sun.
day school. 1G1.
Aggregate numbr taught in sewing
class. 81.
Aggregate number taught in house
Keeping. 26.
Aggregate number taught in baslc
weaving 122.
Total number meetings conducted
or addressed, 10.
Number of ms etings attended. 2.
Number Of hours spent in study.
"a 81
Number of hours Epent in house
work. 222
Number Of hours spent IN sewing
room, S.
Number of hoarse sp Mt in Office, "a.
Number of hours spent in miscel-
Ianeous work, 100
Number cf articles written for publ
cation. =.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
Charles Town May Vote On Liquor.

Charles Town. W. Va, Feb. S.
Frank Beckwith and William Camp
hell appeared before the city council
Monday evening with petition sign
ed by a number of voters of Charles
Town, and also one signed by the wo-
men and children of the town, asking
for an election to be held on March
81 to decide the liquor license ques-
ton. The impression is the election
will be held.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
ENGINEER IMPROVING
Favorable Reports From Cumberland
Conserving 3: G o. Engineer Struck
NO. S Sunday Afternoon.

b. & O. Engineer Amos FulS., this
city was in Cumberland yesterday af-
taraoon, and while there he called at
Allegany Hospital 10, see Mr.. George
Feliers, of Brunswick, who was bad
ly injured Sunday afternoon in Cum
berfand by being struck by train No.
6. Mr.. Felters is improving anl signs
are encouraging for his recovery. He
was hurt Internally thoagh rot as Sc
verely as first suTmised.
Mr. Feltr rs is a well known b. & o.
engineer and former resident of this
city and his wife is daughter of the
late A. Il. Melintz. West Martin street
The many friends of the injured man
h0pe for his speedy recovery.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
GOVERNOR APPOINTS
MlNTIRE ON BOARD
Provision Of New Act Permits Appoint.
nent Of Local Men As Trustees
Of Berkeley Springs Property.
Charleston, w, va. FEB. 7.

Governor Glssscock has approved
the act amending the law relating to
the board of trustees of Berkeley
Springs 30 as to permit residents Of
Morgan and adjoining counties to
serve on the beard.
Under tire provisions of the new law
the governor has appointed Senator A..
c. McIntire and Vernon e. Johnson to
vacancies which existed en- the Berke-
Icy Springs board
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
New Track In Snrvice.

The new main track and passing
siding on the Cumberland Valley Rail
road just west of Carlisle, will be put
into service today, making a big inn
point A big curve has been ircned
out AID several bad grades dispensed
with. The old main track and passing
siding will be abandoned.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
Winchester Hotel Sold.

Taylor Hotel. Of Winchester. one Of
the Oldest and most historic hostelries
in Virginia, which has been unoccu-
ried several years, was sold yesterday
by Shirley Carter and A. L. Shearer
to j. g. McProvey, a New York mil
l;onaire for $4,000. 1t will he re-
modelled and reopened,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11

Clippers Have Gone To Palm Beach.
MISS Mollie MOngan. daughter Of
@Ys. Thomas Aongan, OF Sharpsburg,
ana Mr.. Edward Kissinger, OF Phila-
sielgAia went 10 Shepherdstown. w.
Va, ON Monday and we're married at
she Lutheran parsonage by Rev. Mr..
Lyle. Tue couple left for Palm Beach,
Fla, on wedding tour.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
GRAFTON GETS APPROPRIATION
Bits recommended For $4,000 Tn
crease For Federal Building.

Washington, d. c.. Feb. 8.-Bills
we're recommended to the Senate for
passage by the committee on public
buildings, included an increase OF $40,-
600 in the appropriation for federal
building at Grafton, w. Va, and slO,-
600 for Sistersville.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
WATSON MEETS MrGRAW.
Meeting cordiai ard Little to show
Warm Fighr For Toga.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 9.-The ar
rival of Jolsa Mc&&raw and the in
terest OF Senator Clarence Watson
and advisers to confer with the Graf
ton democrat caused some speeula-
ton among West Virginia politicians
OF both parties Watson and McGraw
had a cordial meeting and converse
tfon on home affairs.
Davis Elkins has sent each mem
Der of the legislature a congressional
directory with the members name
stamped on the covers.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
QUINN ENC EN- EMIT.
Dates This Year Are Set by the State
Board of Regents.

At a recent meeting of the state
board OF regents cmmencenent
dates for tn various state schools
were fixed as follows;
Bluefeld ColOred Institute. June
Z: Concord Normal School and Key
SCI Preparatory, June 8 Montgom-
cry Preparatory, Shepherd College
and Chenille Normal. June o. West
Virginia ColCra d Institute, June TO;
West Liberty Marshall College and
Fairmcnt Normal June IS. The
west Virginia Educational Association
viii meet at Bluefeld June t4-16.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
polna Some Surveying.

County Surveyor George w. Van
Metre of North Maple avenue, assist
ed by III. N. Clendenning, of Bunker
Hill, is doing some surveying at Ber-
kelley Station Six hundred lots have
beer laid cut AID some have been
built upsa,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
Riner---GriHin.

Miss Martha X. Griffin, daughter of
William Griffin, and Theodore Gilmore
Riaer, son OF G. p. Riner. were mar
ried Tuesday evening at the brides
home at Nipetown.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11
LEOPARD ATTACKS WOMAN
Miss Pauline, Recently in Martinsbrr1r
Makes Narrow Escape Frum
Death in Norfolk.

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 7-Attacf by
vicious leopard as she was about to
begin her act at The Majestic theatre
Nile Pauline. an animal trainer. had
Il narrow escape frcn death yesterday
afternoon.
The beast sprGng at her as she was
entering the cage, and before she was
scued, Fer neck and face were Sc
verely lacerated. Sac was given nyedi-
cal attention, bat was in such condi-
tioa that the act was Withdrawn from
the bill
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-02-11

M'ss Pauline will be remembered fly
many people in Nartinsburg who saw
her act with the trained leopards ar
the Central Opera Rouse week before
last. The young woman told some
people here that she expected chat one
Of the leopards, particularly savage
fell ". would get her sogne tiure.
and he came pretty nearly doing b
this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
A Lost Paradise

From the Outing Magazine.
 "Git the wild turkey hen I sent ovuh?"
 "Yes. suh. How in thunduh did a lazy ole"
 Stuff it with oysters? Maryland oy sters, now, l tell yoh-none of them devilish little Mobile pimps. An cran- behies from Juhsey?-I wouldn't tech one of them Michigan behies.'
 "The behies are from Moo Juhsey and the oystehs from Maryland. suh.'
 Good The wild pigeons wuh wrap ped in brown papuh, coated with white clay and roasted in the ashes?-brown papuh, now, heah me. no damn Yankee noospapuh will do fo' a pigeon, they taste of it.
 sNevuh feah, Geoge. it's brown pa : puh and the buttuh is best Louisville cream made.
 ..Poh roast the teal with strips or Mississippi aco'n-fed baco?-no cussed Illinois SOW belly, mind ye.''
 "Shot the poker in the woods my self Geo'ge. and cut the strips as thin as knife blade"
 "Got the robin pie just right this time? You played the devil with that pie once-an English pie suh, with nothin' but buttuh in the crust-yo didn't put any blackbuids i nthis time, NO young scoundl l, 10 tnlnk l couldn tell black kbuds from robins-50 robins no mo, no less, picked dry and alid out to freeze befo' bein' drawn?"
 "'Tended to it all myself, suh."
 You briled the pa'tridges on nick ny coals?-no cussed oak faluh foh me suh."
 Ut was sho' hick'ry, Uncle George and -the Irish potatoes are roasted in the ashes with theah packets on, and the oys,eh soup is rich enough to bean the weight of yo spoon."
 "Oystehs, Now I got ye. l knowed rattle brained young devil like you would fohget somethin. Did yo' make the oysteh relish with cayenne peppuh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
A Plucky Boy Corn Raiser

From IeSle $.
 Dr. s. A. Knapp, the representative of the department of agriculture who has had in charge the work of the boys corn clubs, tells some interesting stories of the pluck and perseverance of the prize winners. In nine southern states last year there were l6.225 contesants. It was no easy task in many instances 10 overcome parental indifference or even opposition. Dr. Knapp tells of one Doy who was very anxious to raise some corn but had no ground So his father said 'Well, you can have an acre over there bn the hillside if you will clear the stumps and logs off The little fellow worked hard and cleared the land, and then his father took it away from him. The little chap was not discouraged. When the farm demonstrator came around, the boy appealed to him. and he in turn appealed to the father. who said Well. I will let him have another acre over there on the same hillside, prl- ,..4ei tie clease oil the logs and stumps. He cleared them worked as vigorously as he could and produced S5 bushels of corn on that acre, while the old man. who cultivated by the old method on the acre that the boy had first cleared, made only IS bushels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Why?
nlnntn0ra nh

The dry snow swirls around the cor ners of the avenue and flies In edd1es about the pavement. The storm hides all but the last story of the skyscrap- CTS. o,.
 In the crowd but not of it. is poor creature. Her face is that of a mloaie aged women who has seen better days .4 Clothing? It is thin fabric-pathet- icallv thin for such bitter day And low cut shoes and thin stockings. Face and hands are blue With coio' Eyes are full of tears, caused oN lhe wind. ,,a
 On her arm is one of those large olo fashioned shopping bags. Through the rents may be seen the contehts-pieoee of kindling wood.
 How painfully slow she walks and how carefully she crosses the street, fearful of the automobiles. me poor thing Is evidently Ill or weak, posslply both.
 A piece of wood has fallen from wa e,on and lies near the pavement casting a look about her as If to say, .WiI any one grudge me thlsF she slowly stoops to grasp the little SUCK.
 Eyes follow her curiously as she shuffles down the avenue-a distress irg figure.
 A real photo?
 Just as the human lenses caught Il and made the negative on the retlna of the eyes.
 But it is not all.
 There is a prettier phase. Another woman whose pitylng eyes nave TOT lowed the half frozen figure hastens after her and forces into her blue hands a $10 bill.
 Whereat for the miserable Woihah are opened the gates of heaven.
 When the s1o is gone? And there are thousands of her.
 Oh. yes! I know you talk to me ol overproduction and lack of proper dis- tribution and tariffs and lack oi thili, snd lionor and charitable societies and what not. But
 You have not touched the spot
 Why. 1911 years after Christ, are s,,ch real nhotoeraphs possible? Why is it nobody's business to help those who most need help? Why does the world turn away from the least or these?'
 Why?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR
 IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY ID. V. FRANCIS

Mott of this city, chairman; N. w. Ro- well, Toronto; Rev. T. $. Barbour Of the American Baptist Foreign Mission society, Boston; Rev. James l.. Barton of the American board of commissions CTS for foreign missions. Boston; Rev. pr. Arthur J. Brown of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church, this city; Rev. pr. John F. Boucher of Baltimore; Bishop WalteruR. Lambuth of the Methodist Episcopal church, Nashville, Tenn; Silas McBee, editor of the Churchman.
 A proposition for reduction of the membership in the Presbyterian gen eral assembly was advanced at the last meeting of the assembly and the execu- tive commission having the matter in charge was in session for three days recently in New York city The ques- ton of board, consolidation was thor oughly discussed but no decision was arrived at. April 20 was appointed as the time for another meeting, to be held at Pittsburg.
 The commission, in it's New York ses- sion, covered a vast amount of ma. terial which had been prepared for it by it's council covering legal questions Involved in the consolidation proposals now pending, such as combination of boards of home missions, church elec- ton, union or DOardS or education and colleges, and the creation of a social service bureau by joining temperance committee. Sabbath observance commit tee and the department of church and labor. All the interests concerned in these proposals were heard at length
 The commission did dispose finally, so far as its power extends, of the ques- ton of assembly reduction. It voted unanimously to recommend to the as- sembly a plan that will reduce that body by about 200 members That is, from $50 to $50 This reduction is accomplished wholly by taking repre- sentatives from the larger presbyteries. the smaller ones losing nothing It in wolves the proposition that here rep resentation shall be based upon the combined number of ministers and churches. The presbyteries in which the sum of ministers and churches amount to less than 100 shall be rep resented in each assembly by one min ister and one elder each. One additional minister and one additional elder will be allotted for every fraction of 50 ad- ditional ministers and churches
 committee of Baltimore and Wash : ington Catholic clergy and laymen. with Auxiliary Bishop Corrig gan of Bai- timore at it's head. and the Hon. Charles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Over the Phone

Eight-yoar-old Alonzo Cummings of Terre Haute, Ind was hurrying to school when the poor lad was struck by d street car.
 Taken to a hospital. it was discovered that his arm was badly mashed and that amputa ton would be necessary.
 Just before he took the anaesthetic for the operation Alonzo asked to be allowed to say a prayer he had been taught in Sunday school.
 And so while the surgeons waited and the nurses bowed their fearful faces the little fellow recited to it's amen the petition he had learned.
 Tten, turning to the, nurses with d smiling face, the boy said:
 Now I'm ready
 An affecting incident surely But why and how was it? Why the child $ strengthened spirit? Whence came the light on his face? Was it merely the "ref1ex influence" of his prayer. the re- action from a mental attitude? '
 Somehow that docs not explain. Ii lacks something.
 There was the great Leo Tolstoi lr his last interview with his niece, re- gently published, he was asked what tc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02

]. Bonaparte, one of the lay mem bers. has been named to secure, chief ly in the archdiocese of Baltimore, but among his friends without as well as within the Cath ollie church. $100,00o with which to erect on the grounds of the Catholic university of Brookland, this city, q memorial to Cardinal Gib- bons. The cardinal is ayerse, it IS said, to any memorial that might be thought eXtravagant, but has signi- fled his willingness to have named for him hall that shall be the home of lay students. The university is grow ing in attendance and such home is urgently needed The occasion marks the golden jubilee of the cardinals or dnation to the priesthood on June 30. 1886. The celebration of these ami versaries is planned for next autumn, when it is hoped the fund for the me : morial may be in hand, possibly the building well advanced toward comple tiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Is There a Hell?

tllHe-p
 That is the inevitable law of nature Crime and punishment grow on the same stem"
 Society may or may not punish a crime; nature always punishes.
 Nature punishes in many ways, one of which ways is remorse, and if the criminal is so hardened that he is not troubled by remorse the punishment may be in another form-fear and hor- TOT.
 Such is the punishment suffered by Harry Orchard.
 Harry Orchard! The name is a sym onym for skulking. brutal slaughter, dynamite deviltry. wholesale murder. He confessed to the killing of % men and told the story with a smile on his face.
 The cold blooded recital of his hideous assassinations as told on the witness stand in his trial at Caldwell, Idaho, in 1905 shocked the civilied world.
 And now?
 In his cell in the Idaho pententiary Orchard pays the penalty
 After five years this whilom big-chested. stolidly built miner without nerves is a broken, cringing craven, the one plea of whose guilty soul is always:
 Keep me in prson'' In his mmurement this multi-murderer fears most of all the stroke of the aven- ger. Above all things he dreads the thought of liberty.
 Just whom he fears or what he only knows. Whether or not his fears are Jutified this is true-every shadow is haunted by the invisible menace
 The unseen terrors of retrbution have taken hold of him.
 Under the fear of that nameless ven- geance his bravado has broken down. Who seeks him? It matters not Whether his real en- emies wait their opportunity or whether it is his fancy that people all the ele- ment with terror, what moots it? There is no sweet oblivous antidote" to his written trouble of the brain.' Nature punishes. Like Milton's Satan, Harry Orchard s tortured soul cries out: Which way l turn is hell, Myself am hell,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Divine Discomfort

DlNlne DlSCOntenL " EsTERDAY l heard a sermon Y against discontent. have writ 4 ten of the blessings of content ment. and I am not desrous to take any of il back But
 There is a discomfort that is different. It is the discontent that is satisfied only with the best wholesome longing for that which is excellent.
 If the almighty power that sprinkled space with the stars had been content with anything less than earth there had been but clouds and darkness here.
 If primitive man had been content with his crude stone ax there had been no civilization, science, literature, art
 If Newton had been content to see the apple fall without knowing why the law of gravity might yet be undiseoy- cred.
 If Lincoln had been content with his Salem grocery store the history of Hi nois and of the nation would be different.
 There is a divine discontent.
 It must be so, because man Is bullt that way.
 Man is finer, more sensitive, than his environment, and friction with the rough CT elements hurts him.
 He Is greater Jnan HIS ucstihS.
 He is larger than his body and cannot be kept within it. He is bigger than his grave and revolts at it.
 He is discontented when that Which IS highest and best in him is assaulted. lie Is wounded when injustice is done hls fellows He wants to right wrongs lie wants to help conditions.
 It is so.
 Therefore his discontent.
 Therefore the godlikeness of his dis content-the discontent that wants to do better and be better.
 On the other hand
 There is a discomfort that is far from divine, the discomfort that vents itself in faultfinding and in fretfulness rather than in righteous desire for bettermeht.
 But
 The divine impulse of discontent that has for it's guidance the right and clear intent-why, that discontent has changed this earth from merely dirt to halt naradise, changed man from scowling brute to half an angel.