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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ment of Archives, Char W. Vs. The "HERE S The "HERE SHALL ESTABLISHED 1882. "Nigger" Heroes. A and B. were soldiers in the war of the rebellion and their native state was Indiana. Both saw hard service under General White for three years, during which time he was very successful. Fort Negley, at Nashville, Tennessee, was one of the most important strongholds of the Union forces, in charge of General White in 1864. That section of the South witnessed more hard fought and bloody battles than any other—Gettysburg, Petersburg and Richmond excepted—and the fact, that Fort Negley was and had for so long been held by Union troops some of their best fighters and bravest men were placed there to hold and protect it. General White was a Missourian, and long after the war, these two Indiana soldiers met in St. Louis, and A. suggested that they look up "Whitey"—the old General's nickname. B agreed and said: "I'd like to see him, for he gave me one of the damnedest cussins I ever got or heard of." The start to find his whereabouts was made and ended in success. When his office was reached, his door keeper refused them admission to his private room adjacent to the one they entered. They were asked what business they had with him. 'None' was the reply. Well you can't see him. A regretted that he could not be seen, and said: 'he was my General and I only wanted to shake his hand and look at him, and almost simultaneously a hoarse, gruff voice said; "Come in! come in! come in! In they went and hearty handshakings took place. He was old, decrepit and very gray, but yet full of life and fresh in memory of the doings in war times, and of all his reminiscences the one about the "niggers" was the richest, and he told it as no other mortal could. In part, he said; "Fort Negley was an eyesore to the whole South. To destroy it, was the determined effort of the Confederacy, and when it was thought the time was ripe to capture it, and the whipped cream of the Southern force had been centered there to destroy that stronghold of the South, Grant sent the 16th and 17th colored regiments to General White to aid in the foreseen bloody struggle to destroy Fort Negley. General White told A. and B. that after looking over the situation he declared it folly to take "nigger slaves" into his brigade and confidence to save the then most valuable stronghold of the South and refused to take them. Grant was firm and what else could General White do but accept them, and he did, but on what terms known to himself, "do you suppose? General White reassured that it was blind folly in Grant to send "nigger slaves" to save the best fort of the South, but obey he must, and what do you suppose the old General said he did? It is best expressed in his own language which follows, word for word; "I am sebamed to tell it now, but I took the riggers, and put them in front of my white troops, for no other purpose, than for my white troops to shoot them down soon as they started to run and then let them—my brave whites—save the fort. such horpes and such lighting. The such lighting. The record rebels had well planned the onslaught, and they did their best to work it well. But not only did the "niggers" as I then called them, play the part of the Spartan soldiers at Thermopylae, but they actually piled up their dead and made breast works of them and saved the day—I never saw anything before to equal it, and from that day till now, old as I am, I never see any men of the 16th and 17th regiments that I don't lift my hat in salutation and honor to them, and I am convinced that if I were young again, I could take the "niggers" of America, as I then knew and called them, with simple means, on ground, and defend this country against any foe. One thing to me in old age and sounder reasoning is certain—they are born warriors, or God fights in and through them for right against wrong." It was a beautiful story as told, and the General and his old comrades shock hands, bade one another good bye; to meet on the shore where there is no shedding of blood, but rich rewards for those who have done the right. REPORT OF AN EXECUTRIX IN TENNESSEE. In this day and time, when the world is witnessing such a vast degree of marital faithlessness, and the divorce courts are kept busy, the following, written by a surviving wife relative to her deceased husband, is refreshing, and clearly shows that there are still some good people. He was a minister, and his example could well be followed by all men of his calling who are able to do as he did. Being the dead divine's executrix, his wife was compelled by law to give the facts appended below or the world would have been unmindful of his goodness. "The major part of his estate was invested in heavenly securities, the values of which have been variously declared in this world and highly taxed by the various churches, but never realized. "He invested every year not less (usually more) than $1200 in charity, so secretly, so inoffensively and so honestly that he was never suspected of being a philanthropist and never praised for his generosity. "He pensioned an old outcast woman in Benton county, and an old soldier in Nashville. "He sent two little Negro boys to school and supported for three years a family of five which could not support itself. "He contributed anonymously to every charity in Nashville; every old maid interested in a "benevolent object" received his aid. Every child he knew exacted and received penny tolls from his tenderness. He supported the heart of every man who confided in him with encouragement and affection. "He literally did forgive his enemies and suffered martyrdom September 18, 1910, after enduring three years of persecution without complaint. "He considered himself one of the chief of sinners and was ever recognized as one of the largest bondholders in heaven. You can see how large his estate was and how difficult it would be to compute so as to furn- Railroads And Passes "On a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States now pending hangs the fate of the right of the railroads to exchange transportation for advertising. The case in question is that of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad company against the United States, the latter having procured the issuance of an order restraining the railroad company from exchanging transportation for advertising, the government contending that under the law advertising in the circumstances might be exchanged only for money. The railroad company appealed its case, asserting that it might lawfully exchange its transportation for advertising, coal or any other commodity. The interstate commerce law says: "No carrier, unless otherwise provided by this act, shall engage or participate in the transportation of passengers, as defined in this act, unless the rates, fares and charges upon which the same are transported by said carrier have been filed and published in accordance with the provisions of this act; nor shall any carr or charge or demand or collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for such transportation of passengers or property, or for any service in connection therewith, between the points named in such tariffs than the rates, fares, and charges which are specified in the tariff filed and in effect at that time; nor shall any carrier refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs." In the case under consideration, the court of last resort must interpret the word "different," as it appears in the section quoted. The original law read "greater or less compensation" to which the words "or different have been added." HOW SENATORS ARE ACTUALLY MADE. There are those who fall back upon the Constitutional provision and declare that the plan devised by the founders of the Government is still good enough. But they forget the fact—or choose to ignore it—that our present way of electing Senators is grotesquely different from that which the Constitution prescribes and intends. The Constitution intends, and means to prescribe, that the entire Legislature, including every individual member of it, shall take part in the actual choice of a United States Senator. As a matter of fact, under the existing system, a Senator is usually not chosen by the Legislature in any true sense. He is chosen by the party caucus of the party which has a majority of the members of the two houses of the Legislature on joint ballot. It is regarded, under the present system, as virtually necessary for legislators elected in the usual way on a party ticket to enter the party caucus and to abide by the result. Thus, if the Legislature has 150 members, of whom 76 are Democrats and 74 are Republicans, it is the almost invariable opinion of strict party men that the majority choice of the Democratic caucus ought to be promptly accepted by the entire Legislature. Under this system, every one of the 74 Republican votes must be thrown way. They will be expended upon a complimentary vote for some Republican who cannot by any chance be elected. If the Docratic caucus should be closely divided between two candidates—the one representing, as is so frequently the case, the private choice of the machine or the boss, and the other representing a decent public opinion and some regard for the traditions of statesmanship—it is revertheless the doctrine of the party man that if the machine candidate can be forced through the caucus by a majority of a single veto, every man who has gone into the caucus must accept the result and the man must be elected in the face of an outraged public opinion. Thus 39 men would control a legislature of 150 men—From "The Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for February. NAZARITES PROSPEROUS. Will Install Newly Elected Officers The installation of officers for the grand pursuit of the Grand United Order of Nazarites, a prosperous fraternal order, with headquarters in Baltimore, will be the occasion for special exercises at Nazarite hall, Baltimore, on Tuesday evening, ... The order is in a prosperous condition and owns $10,000 worth of prop- JOHN H. HARRIS ALFREED H. PITTS. erty in Baltimore. This property is managed by the following board of directors: Addison Manns, president; Henry R.Hooker, Alfred H. Pitts, William H.Kinble, Ellias Dorsey, Benjamin F.Sewell, Thomas H. Payne, T. H.Franklin, R. J.Dennis, Augustus Watts, J. W.Pinkney and John Gilmar. The newly elected officers for the grand pasture are: Charles G. Balley, grand worthy shepherd; Charles W. Howard, deputy grand worthy shepherd; James H. Dixson, grand treasurer; Alfred H. Pitts, grand clerk of records; Robert H. Jackson, grand inspector; Ernest Grayson, grand chaplain; Mrs. Louisa Wright, grand right hand support; Mrs. Lucy Waters, grand left hand support; Mrs. Ellen Banton, grand armor bearer; Nathan Bryan, grand worthy guide; Augustus Watts, grand inside guard; William Gibson, grand outer guard; Mrs. Jennie Thomas, grand guardian and shepherdess. Wanted—Honess Virginia girl (colored) for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. VOL. 29. NO.48 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. JEWISH MARRIAGE IN OLDEN TIME The ceremonies of Jewish weddings were beautiful. They took place at night, and it was the custom for the bridegroom to take his bride to his own home the same night, and soon after the ceremony was over. Ten virgins were invited to escort them home. These virgins were to be dressed in elegant wedding dresses, and each one had to have a burning lamp in her hand. Then they all met on the lawn in front of the house where the young couple were married and awaited the coming of the virgins. When the bridegroom led his bride out to take her to his home, these virgins received them with shouts of joy—saying "behold the bridegroom cometh." They then formed a train, holding their lamps so as to cast a brilliant light around their path, and thus escorted them to their new home. There a rich feast was ready for them. Then those who were invited went in and the door was shut, excluding all who were not invited. ONE OF JUSSERANDS Mora. At a dinner in New York the French Ambassador was a guest. A lady yes in the prime of life sat near him. Putting her hand to her soft and pretty hair, she remarked, "Mr. Juuserand, I found four gray hairs on my head this morning." "Madam," said the ambassador, "as long as gray hairs can be counted, they don't count much. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS JOHN. Cornolius V. Collins, the superintendent of New York's prisons said in Troy of a discredited penologist: "He is ignorant of prisons as Deacon Smith was of religion." "Deacon Smith, you know, once began a religious lecture with these words;" "Ladies and gents, there's three Jobna mentioned in the Good Book, there's fursely John the Evangel; second, John the Baptist, and thirdly, there's John the Bunton." FROM TWO POINTS OF VIEW. Waiting for a train at Moorestown, N. J., the other day, were two young women and a man, fashionably attired and evidently on a holiday. At the ticket window were a New York farmer and his wife. While they waited a sweet young girl entered, like a gentle April breeze, through an open window. As the girl glided out of the door again, the young man turned to his companion and said, Isn't Miss Barry a beautiful girl? Her complexion is as soft as a rose petal." Just then the old farmer turned to the wife and remarked, "Maria, did you take not of that were girl? Ain't she got purty hide. eh?" The best place to get your watch clock or jewelry repaired in this town is at Mr. J. W. Bratt's. His prices are very reasonable, and his workmanship the best. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN LIFE. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer $69, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mar- sburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1910. This issue usheres in the month, in which three of the world's greatest characters—Washington, Lincoln and Donglue were born. Did William Barnes, Jr., the Republican born of Albany, New York "come back?" If you don't think so, ask Theodore Roosevelt, the sage of Oyster Bay. If all reports be true, and we only have the statements of democrate to go by, the corruption that has been in evidence at Charleston is of a stupenduous nature, and should be probed to the bottom. Hon. John T. McGraw was given the double cross in the house of his democratic brethren, but he emerges from the fray with more honor than do the two distinguished gentlemen who will wear the senatorial togas. It will soon be exit Vernon, enter Napier. Sure it is Mr. Napier will not importune Postmaster Hitchcock for money to corral independent Negro voters. It is not good to live alone on bread; nor is it good to read only the Bible. Some people could cover a multitude of their sins were they to read and carefully heed Don Cameron's advice about letter writing. The House of Representatives voted wisely in voting for the Panama Exposition to be held in San Francisco, where all can go and witness that section of our land of the free and home of the brave's surrender to Japanese prejudice, which in time the South will be compelled to do regarding Negroes. The Negro brute in Chicago who had two little colored girls secreted in his house and was beastializing them and to one of which he gave the worst disease on earth, was sent to prison for life. That was not enough—here was work, for a surgeon, and room on his pate for a great big, red hot letter R., and then he should have been put on exhibition. Isaac Heyman who stood out for the conviction of Mre. Schenk, the wicked Wheeling woman who is charged with poisoning her husband, is more deserving of the word more than the eleven others on that jury, because he stood for justice and they for injustice. May Ler baptismal baths in the Ohio river last Tuesday wash her sins away. It was alleged that, a certain preacher was paying too much attention to a certain sister, and a certain man happened to be sitting right behind that certain sister. The certain preacher was charging, pawing, foaming and pitching over his "grand rally." He asked first for the dollar men and women to come up, and said, "I am going to put my dollar down soon as I get through talking. The certain woman shoved her band into a bag, got out a paper dollar and sent it up to the certain preacher, who planked it down and gazed over the audience, as much as to say—follow your shepherd. Editor Fred D. Warren of the "Appeal to Reason," who was tried, convicted, fined $1-500 and sent to jail for six months has been pardoned by President Taft, who spoiled his action by guying Warren's propaganda. Warren had done nothing for which to be tried and convicted. All he did was to put to test the Supreme Court's decision in the Haywood, Pettibone and Moyer case, when it declared kidnapping was legal. Warren offered $1,000, for any one to kidnap Ex Governor Taylor and bring him back to Kentucky for trial, and before maiting the matter, he asked the postmaster of his town if it was objectionable, and he told him no. Great country and great courts, eb? In a conversation the other day a very conservative man among other things regarding the outcry against saloons, contended that God intended the ingredients of whiskey and that it should be made; and went further and established facts that most all of our greatest writers were heavy drinkers. He may be right in both of his contentions, and we agree with him that whiskey is harmless and per se, debauches no one to which we agree. Then he strikes his knock out blow, by asking—"why then fight and abuse whiskey instead of the men who use and abuse, it knowing they are degrading the human family? It is the low people, and not the whiskey that are cursing this country, and they are the ones to be dealt with. He is at the root of the matter, and all of the foes of intemperance should get in his band wagon to be logical and right. In proof of this, read last week's issue's reprint of a Western saloookeeper's advertisement. That Whipping Post Bill. Were such a bull passed effects would add brutality to brutality. It is the clippings of a slavery. If a man be sick, and the doctor can't find the cause, he has no business to try to remove it, or still better, if the doctor caused the sickness and he doctors him he is a criminal. That the law makers of this country made the laws that make men beat their wives is absolutely true. Whiskey is made legally, saloons licensed and the men who make the laws add revenue enough to almost pay their salaries, and every lawmaker from the President down gets a big chunk of that wife beating money in his monthly pay. If the wife beating be rigidly looked after, five times in ten the wife—as she is called—will be found full of the fighting fire. To stop it, stop the saloons, and then make laws to wipe out houses of prostitution, and give more attention to the rearing of good girls and boys instead of giving it all to stock. Marriage, in most cases nowadays, is nothing more than a civil contract—void of virtue, honor and love—consequently, how can they live in love as those do who are Godly and plight with Him to live together pleasing in His sight? Whipping drunken bruises for that will do as much good morally as crowding all classes of criminals in filthy and lousy jails to better society. Dr. White, Superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital For the Insane, Washington, D.C., gave a lecture recently in the Capitol City, and was to have as his auditors the medical students of several white schools, and those of Howard University. When it became known to the white medicos that the Howard boys were going to attend the lecture, they gave Doctor White to understand that if the Negroes weren't excluded from his lecture they would not be there, and that was all there was to it. Doctor White, great big brainy man that he is used not the white follows, delivered his own at what they termed indifference on the part of Dr. White toward them, the white medical students let him know in no indefinite terms that if he persisted in allowing Negroes to attend his lectures, they would continue to stay away from them. His reply was, that the lectures would be continued, and that invitations would be extended to ALL medical students. So far, so good, but the worst part of the whole affair is after Dr. White had shown such great nobility as above described, the Howard medical students have been notified not to longer attend Dr. White's lectures by somebody from Howard University—presumably Dr. Thurkertd. That fumbler, and grumbler, who wants to be called author of ajm crow bill for this state, in writing it; declared, replied and depiej. If the democratic party has enough of that class and caliber of, Frenches in it, to pass such a muddle of words —which boiled down aims to bring back the old slave customs—for it provides that servants and criminals may ride with his class—it is doomed. Slavery always hated decent and intelligent "niggers," and the French class were continually making them. We don't mean by the above that French is either decent or intelligent—reference is to his color. Slavery made Nat Turners, John Browne, Garrison, Sumner, and Latimer and. Ridley like, they aroused the world and set millions of souls on fire against it and went to war and shot it to death, and by God's grace that fire of freedom kindled by the blood of millions shall never go out. Read the Negro's history in all of this country's wars and be convinced that he is a born fighter, or read in this issue as a sample—"Nigger Heroes." It is believed that they will not fight unless officered by white men. Not so, for when the white officers in Cuba thought they foresaw defeat because the foe was slaughtering so many, gave orders for the colored troops to retreat, and a Negro sergeant yelled back—"To hell with retreat," took charge of the forces and won the greatest victory ever witnessed, while the white officers and their men were hid in high grass. Why aid and abet French blather-shites to bring on another war, for be it set down as a fact that fifteen millions of free Negroes and five times that number of loyal white men, will not stand it much longer. If another war comes, America will never be America again, for Japan, Spain, and other countries will join in and slice it up, as would have England and France, had the South won. Every Word Of It True Tombstone, Arizona, claims to have the frankest saloon keeper in the United States. He keeps the Temple Bar saloon and advertises his business in the following remarkable manner: "Friends and neighbors — I am grateful for the past favors, and, having supplied my store with a fine line of choice liquors, allow me to inform you that I shall continue to make drunkards, paupers and beggers for sober, industrious, respectable part of the community to support. My liquors will excite riots, robbery and bloodshed. They will diminish your comforts, increase your expenses and shorten life. I shall confidently recommend them as sure to multiply fatal accidents and incurable diseases. They will deprive some of life, others of reason, many of character, and all of peace. They will make fathers fiends, wives widows, children orphans, and all poor. I will thus accommodate the public dissipation, ignorance, lewdness and every other vice. I will corrupt I will thus accommodate the public—it may be at the loss of my never dying soul. But I have a family to support, the business pays, and the public encourages it. I have paid my license and the traffic is lawful, and if I don't sell it somebody will. I know the Bible says Thou shalt not kill; no drunkard shall enter the kindom of heaven, and I do not expect the drunkard maker to fare any better, but I want an easy living and I have resolved to gather the wages of iniquity and fatten on the ruin of my species. I shall, therefore, carry on my business with energy and do my best to diminish the wealth of the nation and endanger the safety of the State. As my business flourishes in proportion to your sensibility and ignorance I will do my best to prevent moral purity and intellectual growth. Should you doubt my ability, I refer you to the pawnshops, the hospital and the penitentiary and the gallow, where you will find many of my best customers have gone. A sight of them will convince you that I do what I say. And allow me to inform you that you are fools and that I am an honest saloon keeper." ATTACK LIKE TIGERS. In fighting to keep the blood pure the white corpuscles attack disease germs like tigers. But often germs multiply so fast the little fighters are overcome. Then see pimples, boils, eczema, salt rheum and sores multiply and strength and appetite fail. This condition demands Electric Bitters to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to expel poison from the blood. "They are the best blood purifier," writes C. T. Budabo, of Tracy, Calif., "I have ever found." They make rich, red blood, strong nerves and build up your health. Try them. 25c. at all druggists. Through the courtesy of Mr. William Gant, the young man who cares for Sultan, the savage lion that mangled Captain Clark, his trainer, we saw the man eat the other day. Sultan and his keeper are spending the winter at Mr. Charles Roush's, and the big lion fares well and seems to be very much satisfied with the treatment he is receiving. Mr. Gant, who has had considerable experience in caring for animals, hails from Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and being a very pleasant gentleman, he has made many friends during his stay here, who will regret to see him leave when the time arrives to take Sultan away. THIRTY YEARS TOGETHER Thirty years of association—think of it. How the merit of a good thing stands out in that time—or the worthlessness of a bad one. So there's no guesswork in this evidence of Thos. Aries, Concord, Mich., who writes: "I have need Dr. King's New Discovery for 20 years, and its the best cough and cold cure I ever need." Once it finds entrance in a home you can't pry it out. Many families have used it forty years. It's the most infallible throat and long medicine on earth. Unequaled for lagrippe, asthma, hay fever, group, quinsey or sore lungs. Price 50c, $1 00 Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1911 ALMANAC. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred thou-and homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 35c postpaid No home or office should fail to send them to WORD AND WORKS FOR LISTING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. Corrected to September 4th, 1910. 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Salary or Com sion. “Address The Vic.or Oil ppany Clevelard, O. yr: Charles Fox, of Koarneycville, |eed through town on Monday io leet en rou'e home from soker Hill, wherehe bad heeo ‘n Jsendance upon the Beptiet Union i ‘ACCUSED OF STEALING, ‘EE, Chamberlein, of Clinton, je. boldly sconces Backleh’s Arnica jelve of stesling—the ering fiom Orne or ecalde—tha pwins from dree of all kinds—he distrese from wile or piles, “It robs cats, corns, srnises, spraing and injariea of their error,” be eaye, ‘as a bealing reme ly ite equal don’t exist” Only 252 all droggiste. ‘Lt ie marvelous to go to Thompson <& Tbompeon’s immense clothing sbouse and eee the wonderfal stock ‘they carry, Tyhey bave the beet of ‘clothing, and the beet of cloth to emake clothing, and the beat toilore ‘to measure, cot and fit their materi- ~a); and best of ell they cell under a ®erantes to fit, auit and satisfy, "What more could any one want? eee te ay A KING WHO LEFT HOME. v8et the world to talking, ba: Parl “‘Hathalka, of Boffslo, N. 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A “copy of this book should be in every Negiobome. Price one dollar per vol- ume—$1.00 Cash must invariably ac. ‘company all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No semple outfits. Stamps not accep- ted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address, Jobn E. Bruce Grit, Autlor and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. ‘Refers to J. R. Clifford, Erq , Editor Pioneer Press. JR, CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW aie a ana ia MARTINSHURG, WEST VIRGINIA Vay the Sapreme Gourt of Appeal ond the United Setes Courts The health of yourself and family Pope's Herb 18 prepared to provide a dependatie household remeay. based ‘upon the principle of purity of biood insuring freedom from disease. [eis a tecdicine for maladies such us Rheum vem, Liver Complaints,” Constipation, Fever and Ague. Female disorders. Io- ‘digestion, Lumbego. Kidney Deraoge- ments, Catarrh Sick and Nervous Head- aches. love of appetite cud all ailmenta arising from inactivity of the Liver and ‘Kidoeya /_Icis@ pureiy Herbs, Barks and Roots Componnd tis put up im chocolate coated Tablet plensing and exsy to take (or cau bs dissolved in water.) Mra. J.C. Meado of Hyactsville, Md. gays. “For years I bave suffered with Back- ache, Headaches Neurn!gia, and Ner- ‘vousness and extreme Fangue, L tred ‘many remedies without velief. Four mouihs azou grateful friend induced me 10 Write to Pepe Medicine Co . Washington. 0. C. fora box of Pose’s Herb Compound Tablets, the very first doze of two tublets gavo me relief. 1 used pot quite » $1. CO box and I sm en- ‘tirely cured of the pain in my buck and have no more headache.” Di. J.V Hennesey. « promisent Phy- sician end Surgeou cf S:deny, N.Y. in part euys: | “As a Blood Puritiar, Liver, Kidney sand System reguiztor I preseriba Pops ‘Medicine Co's of Washington, D.C. Herb Compound. ux | have done for tie past 2) yours. and I bave found it to be ‘a great remedy. which seidum if ever fails, There are thonsands of letters from users of P ipe’s Herbs. that have been benefited and cured by ite proper use. Pope’s Herb Compound Tabiets are put up 2001n a box, ‘ax month's treatment”, and will be sent post-paid on receipt of $100. Bach box contains 8 printed guarantee binding us to re fund tbe purchaee price if the remedy fails to benetit. also full directiona. Gunranteed by the Pope Medicine Co., Inc., under the Pure Food and Drugs Act. June 30, 1908. No 34956. Fox TERMS TO AGENTS IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY, ADDRESS POPE MEDICINE Go., INC. Pope Building, Washington, D.C BRING YOUR FURNITURE To me, or let me koow and I wil! call for it, und it will be prowptiy 1e- aired, Charges areas low as good workmanship will permit. [al-o re- pair bicyctes, clocks, grapbopbones, umbrellas &c. Trespeeitully solicit a ebare of the public patronave. Leonsrd D. Lemen | 420 W. Martin St, | Martiosburg, W. Vu Bell Phove 145 W. LADY WANTED To introduce our very complete Fall line of beautiful wool suitings, wash fabrics, fancy waistings, silks, hdk{s" petticoats, ele Upto date N. ¥. City Patterns, Fivest line on the werket Dealing direet with the mids you will find our prices low. If others can make $10.40 to 30.00 weekly you can also, Samples, full instructions in neat gam. pic case, sbipped express prepaid. No money required, Exclusive territory. Write for particulars. Be tits’ to apply, Standard Dress Goods Company Nept. 500, Binghampton, N. ¥. WanteI—Cosmopeian Mavezine requiz's the eervices oF a represen. tave in Martinsborg to jock stter subscription rem wale nd to extend erreulation by +pecial methods » bich have proved unusustly sneesstut enlary and commirciun — Previou- (xp: rience desirable Fut not ca-en tal. Whole time or apare time. Ad- dress, wi b ref-renes, H. © Gemp bell, Cosmopolitan Maguz ne, 1789 Broadway, New YurkCi y. f CG fof THE COME RAT hn CURE THELUNGS I i War any Y {wit DR UNG SI ROE om 9 4 NEW DISCOVERY) } COUGH: EOF ESI [Fone tos (naanslee AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES fl § SUVARANTEED SA7ISFACTORY ¥, OR LIONEY REFI UNOED. By Thureday was groundhog day, and if we are governed by what is said of this en © Ittle animal awa weather ave six moce weeks of hard winte: Weatuer. ave There is a boitle of Cardui waiting for you at the drug store. Have you tried it? | If not, we urge you to do so, before your troubles have obtained such a held on you, that nothing will drive 4 them out. Even now, it may be nearly too late. But iry it any- how. lf anything can help you, Cardui will, tt has helped in thousands of cases, where other medicines had been tried in vain. Why should it not do the same ior you? Nl Y y ¥ Q & A Me by i y By Take a &S R J } 4 x 0 _——— Rw S ay 2 diy Y Jas i 5 i" i The Women’s Tonic * “My daughter, Octava, would have been in her grave FO teday, had it not been for that fine medicine, Card:i,” Ka writes Mrs. Laura Lawrence, of Drennon Springs, Hy. é “Nothing I tried helped my daughter, until stic had Ry taken Cardui. I had sent for the doctor, when I thought of your medicine and got a $1 bottle.’ When she had taken four doses she becsine all right. I offen reco: umend Cardui to my friends.” Your druggist seli: Cardui with full instructions for use on the bottle. = Write to: Lacies’ Advisory Devt, Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chattanoons, ‘Tenn, EB @ fer Special instructions, and €1-page doit, Home Treatment for Women,” sent free. A > TTR GAC IS SEY eee eer Is the Title of a Book whose author is Robert L. Waring, Esq., 609 F. Street Northwest » ashington, D. C. It is excellent, and is destined todo incalculable good. In fiction it gets at facts as they exist, and outlines the real bulk of the causes of the trou- ble and friction between the tworaces. lt is bound to be read the world over and will serve well its pur- pose. it took a strong mind and a fertile brain to plav and write this book which Henry Watterson, thegreateditor says is phenomenal, and wil! be read by as many white as colored people —just as it should be, for the real and proper settlement of the so-called problein, is interdependent —one upon the other. lt is written in @ time as ripe to make ital most as popular as did the period that immortalized Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Get the book and read it. It only costs $14.60. Address the author as given above. 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NEW YORK ```markdown ``` for twenty-eight Years PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. It contains reliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. It is safely recommended to you as a perfect newspaper for the home and family. IT LEADS in the quantity of original matter which it furnishes its patrons. IT LEADS in its spicy editorials and fearless sayings. IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pages. TAKEN all in all, we don't feel that we are exaggerating when we state that The PIONEER PRESS is one of the best all around weekly papers in this country today. 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This is a special offer from the Office of the Treasurer, Office of the Treasury,