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The Pioneer Press. ESTABLISHED 1882. James M. Whitfield How many old timers and recall James M. Whitfield, a famous Negro poet who was born in the state of Connecticut in the year 1822 or 3, and who wrote and published a book of his poems in 1853? Whitfield attended the District School of his neighborhood, and was thoroughly grounded in the fundamental principles of education for which the New England states were so early noted. As limited as was his education (yet he improved his time and studied and read and thus developed his powers of mind and soul,) he learned the trade of barber, and was a good barber. He followed this avocation to support himself and family, a wife, two sons and a daughter. He imbued the spirit of liberty and was deeply impressed with the wrongs and sufferings of his oppressed people. He was fearless and outspoken in its denunciation of slavery and the have oligarchy, and plead like "angels trumpet tongued" for justice, freedom and equality. For several years he lived in the city of Buffalo, New York, and it was while there that he wrote and published his book containing 25 or more of his best poems. These poems are pregnant with music and full of poetic fire and depth of soul. He had little time for writing as his occupation demanded his time from early more till late at night. Yet the fragments of time and the late hours of night he employed in giving heed to the dictates of the muse of poesy. His poems show his genius and what his powers and possibilities were and what he would have achieved had he possessed the leisure and the means. He went from Buffalo to California and thence to South America, where he died in the early sixties. I am going to give extracts from two of his best poems, one of them entitled Ameren—The other lines on the death of John Quincy Adams. merice it is to these you boasted land of liberty we to these I raise my song on land of blood and crime and wrong. f to these my native land f and whence has issued many a band fear the black man from his soil f forces him here to delve and toil gined on your blood be moistened sod gaging beneath a tyrant's rod tapped of those rights which nature's God. queathed to all the human race and to a petty tyrant's rod pause he wears a paler face. f it for this that freedom's fires f we kindled by your patriot sires? f it for this they shed their blood hill and plain, on field and flood f it for this that wealth and life are staked upon that desperate strife which drenched this land for seven long years. th blood of men and womens tears? men black and white fought side by side. on the well contested field— opened back the fierce opposing tide made the proud invader yield men wounded, side by side they lay I heard with joy the proud hurrah in their victorious comrades say they had waged successful war," hitfield when he wrote this poem titles bad in mind the battle of ser Hill, where the Negro patri of the Revolution, signalized naceless by deeds of heroism in caused Edward Everett years in a speech in Boston in com- MARTINSBURG, W. VA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1911. memoration of that victory to speak of them in words of highest praise, I have only time to give one more quotation from this early race poet. From his poem on the Death of John Quincy Adams. "The great, the good, the just, the true- Has yielded up his latest breath; The noblest man our country knew Bows to the ghostly monster Death; The son of one whose deathless name Stands first on history's brightest page The highest on the list of fame As statesman, patriot and sage." There are worse poets white and black than James M. Whitfield and James M. Whitfield was not one of the worst in his day and generation. Dunbar has stamped his impress on all the centuries with his "When Malindy Sings," "The Old Tune," and "The Warrior's Prayer." Milton E. Hawkins, if he never writes another line of poetry will be remembered by Negroes for Ages to come for his odes to Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DnBois. Whitfield's America describes with a very few changes the America which we know. John Boyle O'Reilly was right when he said that one good race poet was worth more to the Negro than all the politicians it could produce. Poetry lives in the heart and memories of the people and the men who can reach the hearts of the people by appeal to their imagination are the men who will be best remembered in the Ages to come. What a galaxy of poets we have produced in the past one hundred years. Wheatly and Whitfield and Whitman were the pioneers who sounded the loud timbrel o'er "Egypt's dark sea." Dunbar, Hawkins, McGirt, and Mrs. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, whose "Burial of Moses" is one of the finest poems in the languages, Mrs. Grimke and dozens of others whom I cannot in this brief article mention by name are doing the race more good than all the doctrines and agitators combined. The poets who think black are the poets that black people will think most of, and remember longest. Bruce Grit. HIGH HONOR FOR DAVIS. Made One of King's Counsel by Attorney General Foy. Under the caption, "Ontario Leads Michigan," the Detroit (Mich.) Informer says: Attorney General Foy of the province of Ontario, Canada, has included the name of Delos R. Davis in a new list of king's counsels for that province. Mr. Davis is a colored barrister before the Amherstburg bar of long standing and will do honor to his new title of K. C. King's counsel in Ontario corresponds to prosecuting attorney in Michigan. No election or appointment to the office of prosecuting attorney has ever been accorded a colored attorney in Michigan, and hence it appears that Ontario leads us in this regard. Hon. Samuel W. Burroughs, had he been elected, would have made such an appointment. Holiday Basketball in Brooklyn. The crowning event in athletic circles for the holidays in Brooklyn will be the Christmas matinee basketball game and dance by the Laetitia Athletic club seniors at Avon hall on Monday, Dec. 26. The seniors will play the St. Cyprians, and the juniors will have a tryout with the St. Christopher Juniors. There is much honor in doing little things well. THE DARK VALLEY OF PROSPERITY. The great test of individual character is not struggle but attainment, not failure but success, not adversity but prosperity. When Nature wants to put a man through the third degree, she puts before him his laurel wreaths of victory; she megaphones to him the world's plaudits of success; she parades stacks of newspaper clippings and magazine articles with his portraits; she clinks his money bags in his ears; and she tells him confidentially of the world. Charging power of his influence; then she sends him through the Dark Valley of Prosperity. Few pass through it immune; few acquire no perversion of mind; few escape fractures of ideals or new dents in character. But when one, through it all, remains just as good and simple as when he began the trip, remains kindly, sincere, strong, sympathetic and unspoiled. Nature is forced to admit she has found a real man, a big man, a great man. It is called the Dark Valley of Prosperity, because it so often darkens the vision to the finer realities of life. In the early stages, in the dimness, they cannot see their old friends as they pass. There comes a peculiarity of the flexor muscles which prevents their extending the hand to some one no longer in their class. They acquire a form of memory impairment that prevents their remembering past favors and debts of gratitude due to those who stood by them in their hours of need. They do not notice their sudden and increasing chest expansion. They find that their bats are continuously growing too small for them. IDEALS REPLACED BY AVARICE AND AMBITION. In the Dark Valley, their high ideals often slip away, and for them are substituted avarice and ambition, dressed in a livery of gold, that the individual may hear sightedly mistake them for higher good. In the shadows, conscience, the eye of the soul, becomes too often dulled so that it cannot see the distinctions between genuine honor and a dishonor or their lawyers inform them in technically legal. They fail often, in their morally fading vision, to see the difference between right and wrong, between justice and the injustice of misused power. These are only samples of dangers that menace all, but which come overcome. Sometimes they grope along the way, unconscious of the great price they are paying. Suddenly they may realize, under a burst of temporary sunlight in the valley, they have, somehow, somewhere, lost love, sympathy, trust, confidence, sweetness of nature, or something else that has been dearest in all the world to them. It has slipped away in the darkness, and they may never find it again: It is sheer cant that would throw wealth, fame, prosperity, and success into a moral dust heap as vanities of the world. We all want them. Those who take a high moral pose against them are either envious or are elbowing their way to get front Pharisees seats in the Temple of Virtue. These things are not evil in themselves. They are great powers for good; but they are not life's greatest. Their wrong is when acquired by a sacrifice of truth, honor, justice, or the real virtues of life, or when they are misused or consecrated to the selfish side of living. Their danger is in the corrupting effect the individual may permit them to have on him and those around him. Poverty, struggle, failure, and adversity are not in themselves passports to saintship. They have their own hard bitter temptations to meet face to face. Theirs is far from from an easy fight,—the daily hand to hand battle with Fate. But their temptations are usually direct, bold, clearly defined. Those of prosperity come in subtle forms, gilded, perfumed, masking in receptive guise. Poverty knows the word "stealing": wealth may think it "financiering." Poverty knows "envy of another's possessions": wealth may assume taking a manufacturing plant as a "good business deal." It may then by some strange sophistry even justify itself by declaring that it will (Continued On Second Page.) SERIES OF MEETINGS ON PREVENTION OF DISEASE. The first meeting of the Negro conference on tuberculosis was held under the auspices of the Anti-tuberculosis society in the Sumner high school, St. Louis, from Monday afternoon, Dec. 12, to Friday, Dec. 18, inclusive. The president of the local conference is Professor F. L. Williams, who presided at the formal opening of the conference, at which exhibits were shown. Monday night's meeting was conducted by public school teachers, who had associated with them the teachers of the various Sunday schools. Professor A. J. Gossin presided. Tuesday evening, Dec. 13, was woman's night, and the presiding officer was Miss Arsanin Williams. On Wednesday evening the Rev. Gustavus Tuckerman delivered an instructive lecture to the students of the Sumner high school. The meeting was presided over by Mr. George C. Poag. On Thursday evening there will be an oratorical contest, open to pupils of the Sumner high school, for a prize of $10, offered by Edward F. Goltra, chairman of the municipal commission on tuberculosis, for the best ten minute oration on "The Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Colored People." The conference will close with a talk on "Tuberculosis and the Colored Race" by Professor Edward S. Williams, a stereopticon exhibition and the appointment of permanent committees. There was a stereopticon lecture every evening during the conference, and the tuberculosis exhibit was open daily from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. A LIBERIAN POET. Mr. Edwin Barclay is the way he signs his name and this is the way he sings: NIGHT. "The sun beat down and whispered to the Sea O sea, make room, make room, I pray for me! The deep sea frowned, burnt by the scorching light Man saw the frown and called its dark- ness NIGHT." If this isn't poetry will some mem ber please rise and tell me what it really is. Mr. Barclay belongs to that "savage and barbaric race" we hear so much about in America from white folke who think they are civilized. How I wish that these white people were only half as savage and barbarous as they think these Africans in Africa and America are. John E. Bruce-Grit. VOL. 29. NO. 44 Anecdotal The omnibus was crowded, and the occupants were listening with interest to the high-toned conversation of two stylish dressed ladies, one of whom was accompanied by a little boy. From the conversation it appeared that one of the ladies had recently moved into a "larger house." "Do you know, dear," she said, "we just handed the house to the Company, and they fixed everything; and my husband and I went touring until things were in order. At this point "Sonny," with his nose to the window pane, yelled, "look, mummy, look!" and pointing to a dark-visaged individual on the pavement, "there's, the man who comes every week for the furniture money." SILENCE IN COURT. At a certain county court, the judge is, in his private capacity, a very kind hearted man. The usher of the court is aged, but a strict performer of his duty. One morning he happened to fall sleep in court, and began to anore. The noise he made naturally disturbed the court proceedings, but the judge displayed great tact in dealing with the matter. "Uncle Jones," he called out, "some one is snoring!" The usher woke up; jumped to his feet and glaring ferociously around: roared: "Silence! there must be no snoring in court." THE MAN IN THE MOON. In our childhood there was pointed out to us the mysterious man in the moon who looks solemnly down from his perch in the sky. No doubt we have made many a childish speculation concerning the grave personage, who has been watching the successive generations on the earth come and go for centuries, and wondered how he came to be away up there in the moon so many miles from us. Well, he was sent there because he was a naughty fellow, a wicked man, who picked up some sticks that did not belong to him, and that on Sunday too. The first mention of this is in the Bible, where it is told that a certain individual was put to death for just such a proceeding. From this Bible story originated one of the greatest and most ancient superstitions—that of the man in the moon, which is known to every nation, and is pictured as leaning on a fork on which he carries a bundle of brushwood which he was caught stealing on the Sabbath day. As a punishment he was confined in the moon. The dark lines and spots which compose the features of the traditional man are in reality the shadows of lunar mountains in the moon. THE GLATTERING GOLD. A cubic inch of Gold is worth $210—a cubic foot $362,880—a cubic yard $12,000,000,000. It is said that enough gold is buried in cemeteries, in teeth and all kinds of jewelry to pay our nation's debt. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEFENDED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MUMAKI. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. branding - - - 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawe; 869, and Bell'Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1910 New Year resolutions are very much in order now, but the main thing to do will be to keep them. If you want to make your boys and girls at home liars and thieves keep the best of everything locked up from them. When one studies and reads be tween lines he sees nothing in airships but intentional war, hence the ravages against their staying qualities. God and good men want peace, not war. At wholesale good coal oil is worth about 7 cents per gallon, but while in the country recently a merchant was selling "red oil" for 20 cents a gallon. It is presumable that an editor could save his old red flannel shirt and color a whole barrel of coal oil. What has become of that deadly hookworm? and what has become of that national and international appendicitis scar crow? Let us all take it for granted that this long cold and icy spell froze the monsters to their unknown abode, possibly to appear again with the next after the first crop of locusts. The municipal legislation enacted in Baltimore, to stop progressive Negroes from buying lots and homes in decent quarters, need not be seriously taken, for the time will and is sure to come, when the whites will be ashamed of it, and the Negroes praise their sires for having the pluck and push for opening the way to them to get on top. At the expense of the poor, twenty-seven countries sum up their amounts for exports and imports for the year 1910 to be thirty billions. If the tariff's son—that ring tailed devil called trusts—can stalk the world over for the year 1911, it will be doubled. Have the democrats enough sense to let the Negro alone and kill the thing that is laying starvation eggs that are bound to hatch out a bloody war? Martinsburg is too large and has too many resources of inviting wealth to have men get up out of their beds dress and run to the various house houses, then with their horses run over the town pulling fire engines. Buy ten horses and employ men to use them quick as possible. Added to the above a man ought to be employed to look after the fireplugs on the ground that fires are often attributable to their not working. When one of the Ilopanzo group sunk recently by force of earth quake shocks, and the inhabitants shot off big guns and built bonfires for the purpose of getting help, and the boatmen would not respond, proves them to be cowards. The thing for humanity the world over to do, is to follow Tony Herbertino's bravery here in Martinaburg a few weeks ago, when Sultan, a vicious lion, had Capt. Clark down and crushing him, notwithstanding the fact—Tony and Capt. Clark were not on Sultan's cage and with pick, felled the lion and took Capt Clark from his teeth and clutches. Judge Goff's decision in Richmond, Va., declared that discrimination as to property rights cannot be put into a deed against Negroes is like the man. When a prisoner of war, and the South wanted one of its big men released, negotiations were started to free General Goff in exchange for him, but he said "No, let me die for my country's cause," and stayed in that filthy prison and actually ate rats to live. He is a man—every inch of him. We know and love the man and have for forty years—twenty eight of which he has been taking this paper. Just you Baltimore Negroes wait till he gets around. A New Religion for The Negro. That the religion practised by the Negroes, as a rule is degrading rather than uplifting, is patent in our mind. The revivals are held in the winter time, and have appropriately been called—"sinner warming meetings," and the converts who undergo acrobatic agony to get rid of their sins, if young, by persuasion of "older warriors," get their first inspiration in deception, lying and hypocrisy. True religion is a growth. A man can only be good by doing good. Every man is the architect of his own religious fortune, or in plainer terms, he is his own god, or his own devil. On this hypothesis, which will you cultivate? Rascality Tiptoing The time was when country people were strictly honest—no longer so, all, however, are not included, it applies to those who traffic and sell for a living. A few days ago a certain woman brought butter (?) to town to sell. A certain merchant took all of it and sent some of the nicest to his wife, needing butter and pleased with its looks she began at once to cut a pound, but her knife stopped about half through. She looked for the obstruction and found a 6 ounce metal substance. She took it out and to her husband who, unperturbed when his nice country church member returned for her groceries, took them out to her in his hitherto polite way, and bidding each other good bye, they parted, each to remember the other for life, for certain it is, before she used all the ten pounds of sugar the same 6 ounce metal substance was found therein. It will pay any one to read carefully the article in this issue under the caption: "The Dark Valley of Prosperity," and especially that German with whom ye editor had a talk the other day. He thinks no race was ever so low as the black one. His race of people never suffered on all lines like my race, and yet unless history lies, they were lower than this mixed up American race of all kinds of colors. Let us see. Tacitus the Roman historian tells us that the Germans were so low down in the scale of civilization that they used to run wild on the banks of the Danube and Rhine, clothing their nakedness with bark of trees and skins of animals taken in the chase. Their only occupation was to war upon one another, and subsist upon what they could catch in the streams and forests. Julius Cesar another trustworthy historian tells us that when the Romans invaded Britain, they were so low in condition of religion and civilization, that the Druid priests offered human sacrifices in their religious orgies, while their neighbors a little to the north ran wild upon the highlands of Scotland with only such food and clothing as sufficed the wants of John the Baptist. Nevertheless and notwithstanding the fact that the world has a Hague for peace, never, in all the history of the world, was there such world wide international burnings and preparations going on for war, and Mr. Carnegie's ten millions will not, cannot stop it. Come it will! come it must! When it comes, the best example the world has ever had of the survival of the fittest will be given. As it is conceded that the best fighters in the world are the Japs and the "Japs" at home, why not be fair, just and brotherly to the home "Japs?" Our revolutionary fathers not only praised but erected a monument on Boston Commons for the heroic and loyal part they played; Jackson lauded them to the skies, as did Grant and all liberty loving people for their bravery in the war of the rebellion, and their conduct during the Spanish American war, made the world get on its knees in praise. These home "Japs" love this country, why not let them love its people whose duty it is to be brothers in peace as they claimed to be in war? Do you ask how this brotherly love can be brought about? Mrs. John Wanamaker set the example at Hot Springs. Just as we go to press, the sad news comes to us that Senator S B Elkins is dead. He was a great man, and we deplore his loss. THE DARK VALLEY OF PROSPERITY. (Continued from first page.) do better for the people. Poverty knows hunger for bread; wealth may hunger for the money of the bread earners. Poverty usually sees evil in its vivid, hardest phases; prosperity may find it hidden and unsuspected, like Cleopatra's asp in a bouquet of flowers. "For one who can stand prosperity," says Carlyle, "one hundred can stand adversity." A very slight drop of the acid of prosperity will begin the revelation of character of the man, be he not big enough to be simple. Have you ever noticed the man who has made a bit of success in the city and returns for a week to his native village? He says he has come back to see the folks; but it is really to have the folks see him. He enjoys the envy he excites in those who have not, like him, lived in the city. He wants to get sunburned in the warmth and fervor of their admiration. He stretches back at length in his tilted chair, locks his thumbs behind the armholes of his waistcoat, and plays a flute solo of vanity on his breastbone, using the buttons as stops man palated by his fingers. He occupies the center of the stage every minute with his monologue. There is a touch of swagger in his walk, an irritating undertone of tolerance and patronage in his speech, and that loud voice we involuntarily use with the deaf. He is his own Boswell and his own Gabriel. It is perhaps only a harmless brand of vanity; but it shows he is getting near to the entrance of the Dark Valley. When a big, simple man of real fame comes back, the story of what he has done leaks out incidentally. It is not exploded like a bomb. The author of a successful book may have won his honors because he wrote with serious purpose. His message was supreme; the fee for delivery secondary. But he may be attacked by the vertigo of money making, and, inspired by his publisher, galvanize an old earlier book of his youth and rush through a basty new one to have it in print before the wave of his sudden fame ness. He talks less now of art and more of mart. The new book may prove a failure because he fell into the pitfall of commercialism—in the Dark Valley of Prosperity. Successful artists and illustrators, in many instances, do not follow up the first successes that won them fame. They slur over their work; they stand still or they degenerate. They accentuate the superficial in their style, and care little for the strength that once was vital. They repeat the same characters, merely in slightly changed positions, like a cheap stock company with a small cast and a meager wardrobe, playing in repertoire. These men often say, if one ventures to speak that kindly word of protest we should always give to the needy, "Oh, what difference does it make? It pays all right." They should find some good Samaritan to drag them from the Dark Valley of Prosperity and put them back again in the sunlight of struggle and the inspiration of adversity. The business man who began in a small way and suddenly finds fortune emptying cornucopias of gold into his lap may find it hard to keep his feet and not to lose his head. The demon of greed may transform him; he wants more. He is like the farmer who desired only the land that adjoined his farm,—each addition increasing the field of desire; the more he had the more he wanted. Then may come a million owning a man; not the man a million. To accumulate more, he may defy laws, brake Legislatures, and buy Judges. Like a modern Joshua, he seeks to command the sun—of justice—to stand still. He chloroforms his business conscience until it sleeps so soundly that an earthquake would not jostle it. WEALTH'S UNHEALTHFUL INFLUENCE. Wealth often makes men who started in bravely with high ideals in a normal moral health, become cold, heartless, selfish, and uncharitable as they walk through the Dark Valley of Prosperity. They have a tendency to expect argument to close when they speak. They seem to have a corner on judgment, as if their eye alone saw the sun of truth, their wisdom alone penetrating the reality of great questions. The abnormal pressure of business often forces them into pleasures of which they count not the cost nor the character. They are often too busy to take stock of the goods of their soul. The culture of the higher affections and sentiments is often killed. The very intensity of their work or their play produces an ennui hard to overcome. Trifles affect them strangely; they grow irritated, impatient, irrational, at finding a crumpled roseleaf in the golden couch of their insomnia. They become more and more suspicious, and hardly know whom to trust. They fear every one is laying pipes for a deal, stealthily seeking to gain their influences or to subtract something from the useless pile of their surplus wealth. They can have few trusted, genuine friends of the mind, heart, and soul. Great wealth, like genius, isolates man from his fellows in the closest harmonies of life. The greatest men are ever the simplest. There are thousands who bear their great burdens of fame, success, responsibility, prosperity, or wealth, and remain happy as of old and little, if, any spoiled by it all. They must truly be rare men, of fine resources of thought, character, and soul, who can retain the crown of their individuality after a journey through the Dark Valley of Prosperity. To try or not to try is the fundamental question underlying commercial, professional and personal life. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to September 4th, 1910. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.18 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 55 Daily at 11.18 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.14 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.37 p m for Wheeling,Columbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.11 p m for Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Berkeley Springs except Sunday. No 3 Daily at 2.10 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39. 5.44 p. m. 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Offers two-year limited courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough courses. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polyclinic. Edward A. Balloch, M. D., D. 5th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeill, M. D. Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. for catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter The two Miss Douglasses, of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, chap-edoned by Mrs. James Brunswick, of the same place, were in our city last week. PARSON'S POEM A GEM. From Rev. H. Sobenvoll, Allison. Ia, in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pells. In every home these pills should be. If other kinds you've tried in vain, USE DR. KING'S And be well again. Only 25c at all druggists. Miss Hilda Hamilton and her friend, Miss Ida Thompson, of Pittsburg, spent the holidays with Mrs. John Veney, the grandmother of the first named young lady. They are both students of Storer College. It is marvelous to go to Thompson & Thompson's immense clothing house and see the wonderful stock they carry. They have the best of clothing, and the best of cloth to make clothing, and the best tailors to measure, cut and fit their material; and best of all they sell under a guarantee to fit, suit and satisfy. What more could any one want? 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