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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. C. W. Morse's Punishment According to John F. Gayner, who has just been released from the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta aft reserving a five year term for complicity in the Savannah harbor frauds. Charles W. Morse, the banker, is losing his mind as a result of his imprisonment in that institution. If this statement be true, something should be done without delay to relieve the conditions which make much cruel 'punishment' possible. While various States are making the experiment of placing convicts on farming lands, so that they may gain the benefit of outdoor exercise, the government is not taking the lead in this reform. Plenty of exercise and sunshine and open air are essential to health. A healthy body, moreover, is essential to a healthy mind. The day of torturing prisoners to reform them passed with the Middle Ages—or should have passed. Solitary confinement will never reform a man. It will weaken him in body and in mind. The life of most of the prisoners in government institutions is too sedentary. When the prisoners emerge, they have not the spirit or the physical stamina to continue to fight the battles of life on honest lines. Morse,the scapegoat of others who were more powerful, has suffered enough. He has paid all his debt, dollar for dollar. His trial and conviction for a technical offense, the crumbling of his fortune, the dissolution of his home, have all taught the needed lesson. Nothing is to be gained by further torture. It may be, as the warden of the prison says that Morse is in better health than when he entered the institution. The broken condition of Gaynor, just released, would seem, however, to corroborate the story that Morse is in bad shape, and may lose his mind. If the government placed its prisoners where their bodies would be made stronger, the percentage of habitual criminals would be reduced, and such men as Morse would be saved to society. The condition of the banker at least should be investigated — Washington Post. WORRY DOES KILL Modern science has brought to light nothing more curiously interesting than that worry will kill. More remarkable still, it has been able to determine from recent discoveries just how worry does kill. It is believed by many scientists who have followed carefully the growth of the science of brain diseases that scores of the deaths set down to their causes are due to worry and that alone. The theory is a simple one, so simple that anyone can readily understand it. Briely put, it amounts to this: Worry injures beyond repair certain cells of the brain, and the brain being the nutritive center of the body, the other organs become gradually injured, and when some diseases of these organs or a combination of them arise death finally ensues. Thus worry kills. Insidiously,like many other diseases, it creeps upon the brain in the form of a single con- stant never lost idea and as a dropping of water over a period of years will wear a groove in the stone, so does worry gradually, impceptibly and no less surely destroy the brain cells that lead all the rest, which are, so to speak, the commanding officers of mental power, health and motion. Worry, to make the theory still stronger, is an irritant at certain points which produce little harm if it comes at intervals or irregularly. Occasional wormment the brain can cope with, but the iteration and reiteration of one idea of a disquieting sort the cells of the brain are not proof against. It is as if the skull were laid bare and the surface of the brain struck lightly with a hammer every few seconds with mechanical precision, with never a sign of a stop or the failure of a stroke. Just in this way does the annoying idea, the maddening thought that will not be done away with, strike or fall upon certain nerve cells, never ceasing, diminishing the vitality of the delicate organisms that are so minute that they can be seen only under the microscope.—Journal of Physiological Therapeutics. The University of Texas Bulletin, issued by the extension department of the state university at Austin contains some unusually interesting stories of college life in its December number. Besides the usual statistics regarding the summer school and traveling libraries, now furnished on request to smaller schools, the Bulletin tells of innovations at the state school and recounts the story of the "Barber of Breckenridge Hall," as follows: Several years ago a former president of the University of Texas went into a barber shop in North Texas to be shaved. Falling into conversation with the barber, the university president discovered that the young man expected to go to college and at that time had his plans made to enter an institution in Virginia the following autumn, where an opportunity had been given him to earn his way, whereupon he was invited to come to the University of Texas in the fall and to bring with him his razors and barber's chair. A room in Breckenridge Hall was to be assigned for his shop. The young man accepted the offer, came to the university, set up his shop in the men's dormitory, and while doing a thriving business in the afternoons and at night, also carried on his university studies. Four years went by and the young man took his degree with credit; at the same time he paid his own way through college and contributed besides to the education of a fatherless sister. He afterward attended a medical college, graduated with distinction, and is now a successful practitioner. More than one hundred young men have paid their way through the university by acting as waiters in the same hall in which this young man ran a barber shop. Let no boy or girl, however poor, despair of securing a university education. If no way seems open, let him write to the president of the university, and some way will no doubt be found.—Sau Antonio Light and Gazette. Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature INGRATITUDE. When services are so eminent as to exceed compensation, they are repaid with nothing but ingratitude. Among the ancients, when a warrior, statesman or philosopher had the misfortune to become greater than the people among whom he was born, he was doomed to live and die an exile in a foreign land. Hannibal, Philipoeman and Scipio died about the same time, all three victims of the ingratitude of their respective countries. Many others shared the same fate. The great philosopher Secrates was forced to take poison. O PRESERVE AND PICKLE Fallieres, President of France tells of a native evangelist who knew very little English, but who was fond, rone the less, of speaking publicly in the unfamiliar tongue. One Sunday he was exhorting a congregation composed chiefly of American and English, and startled his hearers by launching forth into a prayer ending with: "And now, good Lord, we pray Tree to protect and pickle us all the rest of our lives." When the service was over, the attention of the exhorier was called to his expression, "pickle us." "Well, what would you?" said he "is it not the same,—to preserve and and to pickle?" * * 0 A CAUTION. Attorney General Wickersham is being praised in Washington for a witt claim at a doubtful politician's expense. In a recent discussion Mr. Wickersham said: "What sort of a man is McBride?" "McBride?" was the response, "Oh, he was honest as the day is long." "Yes," said Mr. Wickersham, cautiously, "but the days are getting longer now. \* \* Richard Cobden was carrying a line of goods worth 40 000 pounds on unsecured credit. "Why do you entrust me with all those goods, when you know I am not worth a thousand in my name," asked Cobden. The senior member of the great house of Fort, Sons & Co., answered: "Mr. Cobden, we consider our moral risk more than a financial one. Our business has been built up by trusting young, active men of good habits. With us character counts." Cobden went to London and ordered the words, "Character Counts," cut deep in a two inch oak plank, which he fastened to the wall of his office. * * OF COURSE NOT Sister D.—"By the way, Elder, Brown, why is it that, in your sermons you always say, 'My brethren,' and never mention the women?" Elder Brown—"But, my dear sister, the one embraces the other." Sister D.—"But not in church." THE SENTINEL A sentinel on the watch, must not Department of Archives, Chew Lewis, W. W. leave it without the commander's order. So God has set us on a watch, and we must not leave our post until we have done all that is enjoined upon us, and receive a fair discharge. HONOR FOR BOSTON BOY What is beyond question the most responsible position of its kind in the world, that of excavating the untold art treasures of the richest mine of monumental relics ever known, the Acropolis at Athens, has been assigned to the hands of a Boston young man. William B. Dinsmoor, son of William W. Dinsmoor, the Boston architect, with rapid strides of advancement unprecedented in the history of art research, has by his selection as director in the unearthing of those treasures suddenly become the central figure in the world of archological interest today. At the age of 23 he has achieved what his predecessors have taken lifetimes to attain. To young Dinsmoor has been given the delicate and difficult task of restoring, if possible, the Propylaea, that magnificent gateway to the Acropolis, built during the reign of Pericles in 437 B. C. by Maestikle. It is the desire of all art lovers and archaeologists the world over, as well as the aim of the Greek government, to ultimately restore the great Acropolis Building entirely. Mr. Dinsmoor entered the Law rence Scientific School at Harvard in 1902. The following year he was elected a member of the Pen and Brush Club. He graduated in 1905, receiving his S. B. with a magna cum laude in architecture, at the age of 19 years, the only one in his class to have that honor conferred upon him. He then took a post graduate course. —Boston Post. Forty seven years ago—on April 13, 1864—Abraham Lincoln wrote a personal letter to the Postmaster General, asking that official to employ Miss Susan Dugger, a young woman of Carlineville, Ill., who was the sole support of her brother, a Union soldier crippled at Shiloh. Miss Dugger got a place and preserved the letter religiously. Secretary MacVaugh after reading the same letter today—though the paper has yellowed with age and the ink is dim—ordered that Miss Dugger's name be not dropped from the Treasury's list of employees, though she has been ill more than a year. When an employee has been absent without pay that length of time it is customary to strike the name from the rolls. Senator Cullom brought the letter to Secretary MacVeugh, who promised that Miss Dugger may have her old position if she is ever able to work again. She is now seventy years old. Miss Dugger was transferred from the Postoffice to the Treasury soon after President Lincoln's letter got her employment and became an expert in detecting counterfeit money. She has handled billions of dollars—some good and many bad—during her years of service for the government. Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave Altoona, Pa. ess. Y GAIN." OL. 30. NO. 5 VOL. 30. Sercombe On Miss Blanha It is unfortunate that the educational tendencies of our epoch incline toward encouraging the development of weak, smug characters rather than strong, self reliant ones. A real, true civilization would scorn to applaud superciliousness whether in Roosevelt declining to sit at a banquet with Lorimer or Miss Blauha refusing to pose for an art class with a dark skinned student, for though Teddy is no "model" he also is a professional poser. It takes mighty little courage to hoave an extra rock against those already overburdened and down trodden. No wholesome, wide-visioned, fearless person with an abiding faith in the future of democracy and its institutions could commit such acts. Then why were they committed? Who inspired them? What forms of graft were they intended to serve? Why does the mad desire to strike blows at the defenseless still linger so deep in the nature of so many persons? Fortunately for those who are real students, race psychology answers these questions fully but in a fashion that is not complimentary to the performers. Miss Blanba's act was not spontaneous. It is clear that she was inspired to insult the dark skinned student by some narrow, intolerant person or person, for artists' models are renowned for being "professional;" they must be as passive as the stenographer, as non-human as a physician, as unmoral as a stuffed bird of paradise in a glass housing, as soulless as a corporation. When Mise Mumie Blanha, the model, "blushes," when once she discriminates as "to those present," whether birds, horses, mongolians or "the silent moon to which she unmasks her beauty," and becomes Mise Blanha, the young woman of flesh and blood, she is no longer fit for a model, for her occupation is debauched to the plane of the brothel—hence we know that her brutal act was not of her own initiative but was inspired by some contemptible an American vagabond artist who should be trounced for diverting a noble young woman from the high ethics of her profession. The hypocrisy that refuses to pose before a Negro student, that merely discriminates on the basis of "skin color," ready to disclose its blandishments in eager abandon to the blackest of Caucasian hearts, may fool the flippant but cannot foil the thoughtful. Parker H. Sarcombe. There is no color line in art, or at least there will be none drawn in the classes at the Chicago Art Institute, Newton H. Carpenter, secretary of the institute, says that the refusal of a young woman model to pose, while a Negro student remained in the classroom was a "frame-up",planned and carried out by a disgruntled student. "The question of color never has been discussed by the trustees of the institute," said Mr. Carpenter. Colored students have always paid the same tuition as the whites, and have received equal consideration. The young woman has posed frequently before classes in which there was a Negro and never objected to his presence. We have not and do not intend to draw any color line. NO. 5 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IY. : Rates of Subscription: 1 year $1.50: 1 year.....$1,50: 6 months.....75c. 9 months.....40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mar- Bisburg, W. Vs. SATURDAY, APRIL 8. 1910 There will, from the signs of the times, soon be trouble in the infernal regions, and it will be whether the Devil shall remain on the throne or Ben Tillman take it. Hon. Aleston Gordon Dayton is not only an impartial, honest and square Judge, but along with it a christian gentleman, and every man's rights and liberties are protected and safe in his hands. In view of various attributed statements, and divers interviews which Dr. Booker T. Washington has given, it seems to us that he could have best served his interests by keeping his mouth closed. J. Barry Mahool, Baltimore's narrow minded and prejudiced Mayor, was unable to get a renomination for the place he now holds, being beaten in the primaries by Preston, another Democrat. We are glad he will shortly vacate the Mayor's chair, and hope he will reflect over the great injustice he did his colored constituents in affixing his official signature to Councilman West's iniquitous segregation measure. Carter H. Harrison, Jr., Democratic candidate in Chicago for Mayor, was elected to that office on last Tuesday by a majority of 18,000 over Professor Merriam, his Republican opponent, and the man who was known as "the schoolmaster in politics." Mr. Harrison has been elected Mayor of Chicago five times, and the editor is firm in the belief that his Negro constitutents will fare well under him, because he has been wont to give them a. "square deal" in the past. Jack Johnson, world's heavyweight champion, is up against the "real thing" in San Francisco, California, having been put in jail. In addition to this, he has been vaccinated, and his arm is very sore, making Jack's situation an unpleasant one in general. His trouble was brought about on account of an uncontrolled love for automobile speeding, which he should have curbed, and especially when in San Francisco, because he might have known that Californians would welcome a chance to even up things with him for defeating Jeffries, California's idol. The artists' model in Chicago who was foolish enough to let some prejudiced art student persuade her to make herself ridiculous, by refusing to pose before a Negro student, has had a sober reflection, and is now ashamed of herself, and it has been proven by testimony from those in authority at the Chicago Art Institute that Miss Bianha had frequently posed for Downs, as well as before other Negro students. Press readers will be greatly benefited by reading Parker H. Sercombe's opinion of Miss Blanha and the whole incident, which appears in another column. Mr. Sercombe is head of the Bureau of Scientific Thought, and is one of the most distinguished and fairest white men in Chicago, and to say that he is a master philosopher is to state the truth. William Munroe Trotter has not always received the kindliest and most considerate treatment at the hands of Booker T. Washington and his friends, but his attitude toward the noted Tuskegeean since he came into contact with the brutal Ulrich has been especially commendable. Unlike many, both pro and anti-Washington, he has refrained from any intemperate utterances, being satisfied to withhold judgment until the whole affair has been threshed out. Such conservatism shows Mr. Trotter to be a man of more than ordinary self control, at the same time proving that you have to know a man before properly placing him. James K. Vardaman, one time governor of Mississippi, and one of the worst old racsals that breathes, is making an undignified, vitriolic and most abusive canvass for the seat now held in the United States Senate by the Hon. Leroy Percy. They are the exact opposites of each other, Vardaman being both a demagogue and a blackguard, and Hon. Mr. Percy being a true type of the Southern gentleman. It is not an exaggeration to state that the substantial, cultured and well meaning citizens of Mississippi are as one in favor of continuing so safe a man as Senator Percy in Washington; the lynchers and illiterates, the rough mountaineers and hillbillies, the rednecks and murderers, are backing Vardaman. The contest is going to be spirited, but Percy's friends are firm in the belief that he will land the prize. We sincerely hope he does. Richards, Grayson, Lovett, Dixon. If all our subscribers would do as Prof. Wm. H. Richards of Washington, D. C., that ripe scholar, brilliant lawyer, refined gentleman and publicist; M. W. Grayson, Clarksburg's permanent and well-to do merchant, highly esteemed citizen and practical scholar: John J. Dixon, Jefferson county's master mechanic, an all around manly man, with property galore and plenty of money in bank and the owner of one of the finest horses in this state: Thomas S. Lovett, of Harper's Ferry, owner of the famous Hill-Top Hotel and one of the best in the country; he does his own plumbing and electrical work and is a banker—all of these men send in their annual subscriptions in advance. If all our patrons would do as they do, we would have an excellent plant and a paper in every respect a credit to the race. Unless Booker T. Washington defends his cause and proves his case, he will be a crippled duck the rest of his life. Whiskey and bad females have ruined the world,—may there be no connection with either, as is charged, is our eucere wish. However, the Negro high or low like all other beings, is human, and if the charges prove true, it will not hurt the Negro race nor impede its astounding progress any more than the same has the white race. Alexander conquered the world and died in a drunken revelry with a woman; Caesar and Mark Antony sacrificed the Roman Empire for the smiles of a Negro woman; a ballet dancer made Frederick the great puppet; the splendid manhood of Conda, the pride and glory of France was ruined by an adventurer who murdered him after he had disgraced his family and she had squandered his fortune, and Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned king of Ireland forgot his people and stumbled into eternity over the form of a harlot. It's sheer nonsense to admit that the acts of one or more will hurt and retard fully fifteen million people. If he be guilty, let's praise God for exposing him, and go on in peace together, working out a glorious salvation. Justice Deformed It is inconceivable that in an enlightened community, in one of the great States of this Union, justice can be so strained that it deliberately sentences a man to life solitude in the penitentiary for the crime of stealing a fish. The press dispatches from Georgetown Kentucky, say this has been done. Such perversion should arise the wrath of every man, woman, and child. The courts of a great State have been brought into disrepute. The victim of this remarkable judicial deliverance was a colored man, and his offense the theft of a turkey on the eve of Christmas. True, the man had served time twice before; but may there not have been extinguating circumstances. The bare facts only have reached the East, but the one fact that life imprisonment may follow such a petty crime is sufficient to direct emphatic attention to what appears, from this distance, a miscarriage of justice in the great Commonwealth lying south of the Otto River. The question may well be asked, Would this verdict have been rendered if the prisoner at bar were a white man? Does prejudice against color in Kentucky prevent the administration of justice, always supposed to be blind; and dealing with all classes equally and fairly, regardless of social caste? Such a condition of affairs is an outrage demanding the intervention of some legislative or executive authority with power to undo a grievous wrong. The governor of Kentucky is a man of keen sense of the right, and the Post does not doubt that if this case, constituting as it does a blot upon the fair name of that great Commonwealth, is called to his attention he will exercise the power the constitution of his State vests in him and render inoperative the verdict of a jury sanctioned under the questionable authority of a "habitat criminal act." If discretion is not permitted in the administration of such a law, it is high time that that law were amended or repealed, for no good can be derived from the enforcement of a statute so rigorous and so potent in power for evil. If fortunately, the State officials of Kentucky are unmindful of the responsibilities resting upon them, not only to protect the innocent from harm, but to protect the guilty from persecution, then the senators from Kentucky should take this matter up and demand a searching inquiry. The verdict in question puts into the record an act of barbarism. The study of penology in Kentucky has been without purpose if the penitentiary for life can be made the penalty for a petty offense. Somebody should institute a radical reformation in the administration of the criminal statutes of this great old Commonwealth. What will the world think of this, a sovereign State of our great Union?—Washington Post. The above is a very excellent and manly editorial, and ably defends the poor Negro whose cause it espousee, yet a case occurred right here in our town which was worse than the affair reported from Kentucky. Like our sister state, West Virginia has an "habitual criminal act," and when a man has been sentenced to the penitentiary twice, and is unfortunate enough to be sent there again, no matter how small the offense, his term must be for life. The Negro who was thus dealt with in this town was named William Banks, and he was charged with stealing two cents worth of waste out of a journal box of a freight car. Seeing the injustice of such a statute, the editor of the Pioneer Press sought his release, and after an explanation in detail to the then governor, Hon. George Wesley Atkinson, Banks was pardoned. Much talk is current anent the reformation of the Republican party of this state—it costs nothing and gives no dividends to do that. Do something and set the voters to talking. That and that alone will bring about unificism, otherwise, otherwise. We say now as before, that the principles of said party as originally flaunted to the world, are next to those of God's, but like the great Father of his and us, we hate to see them trampled in the slough of debanchery, caste, murder and discrimination. Let the backsliders alone and retrieve; put better men on the state committee, and nominate men, not figure beads, and the once grand old party will be safe. We care not what anybody says about William English Walling, in our opinion he is one of God's noble men, and his equal is hard to find, if it can be found at all. He is scholarly, industrious, wealthy, resourceful, and added to the four qualifications above mentioned, he is a man in every sense of the word. Now, in regard to the little unpleasantness which he experienced some weeks ago it is inconsequential, and should be considered as closed. Again, it is a mean piece of business for an individual to try to discredit another because he differs from you, and that is what certain of the Negro "interests" are seeking to do with Mr. Walling because he has so effectually criticised their "system" and the ends which it seeks to serve. They might as well let him alone, because he has the endorsement of the white press of New York, and other prominent and influential forces, and the impartial public is fully satisfied that if he committed any indiscretions when in his youth, he only did as have millions of other young men. For our part, we are glad to number Mr. Walling as our and the race's friend, and we think every living Negro in America should be of the same opinion. AVERTS AWFUL TRAGEDY. Timely advice given Mrs. C. Willoughby, of Marengo, Wis., (R. No. 1) prevented a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives. Doctors had said her frightful cough was a "consumption cough and do little to help her." 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