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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The ESTABLISHED 1882. SPRAYING PEACHES FOR BROWN ROT, SCAB AND CURCULIO By E. Dwight Sanderson, Dean College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Farmers' bulletin No. 440, just issued by the United States department of agriculture, gives an account of experiments made by Professors Scott and Quaintance in Georgia and West Virginia in spraying peaches with selfboiled lime-sulphur mixture for the control of the brown rot and scab, with the arsenate of lead for the curculio. As a result in their work in Georgia an orchard where the unsprayed fruit had 63 per cent affected with the brown rot, 99 per cent affected with scab, and $97\frac{1}{2}$ per cent injured by curculio, that which had been sprayed showed only $4\frac{1}{2}$ per cent injured by brown rot, $6\frac{1}{2}$ per cent injured by scab and $27\frac{1}{2}$ per cent injured by curculio, or practical elimination of the injury of the diseases and a control of over two-thirds of the injury by the curculio. In the orchard of L. P. Miller & Bros. at Okonoko, W. Va., experiments were made on Elberta, Salway and Bilyeu peaches. Two sprayings with selfboiled lime-sulphur, with arsenate of lead added to the first spraying, reduced the amount of injury to fruit by scab, so that instead of practically all being scabby as on the unsprayed trees only 20 per cent was affected and only 1 per cent was badly affected. The same spraying reduced the rot in the Salway variety from 37 per cent to about 2 per cent. The results of several years' experiments reported in this bulletin show that these serious enemies of profitable peach growing may be practically controlled by two or three sprayings. Every peach grower who has not received the bulletin should at once write to his congressman or to the department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., for a copy, as it is sent free to all applicants. The bulletin gives full directions for making and applying the self-boiled limesulphur, which are exceedingly simple, but space does not permit their quotation here. New Professor of Farm Crops. Morgantown, W. Va. At the recent meeting of the board of regents at Parkersburg Mr. I. S. Cook, Jr., of Chillicothe, O., was elected associate professor of agronomy and has now taken up his work at the university. Professor Cook is a graduate of the Ohio State university, class 1906. During his senior year he acted as student assistant in soil physics and the next two winters after graduation he served as assistant in farm crops at Ohio State university. In 1909-10 he was one of the instructors in farm crops at the agricultural extension schools in Ohio. For the last few years Professor Cook has managed his father's 1,100-acre farm at Chillicothe, raising 200 to 300 acres of corn, breeding short horn cattle and Percheron horses and carrying on numerous experiments with farm crops for the Ohio agricultural experiment station. Professor Cook was one of the judges at the national corn exposition at Omaha and is chairman of the committee on improvement of corn of the Ohio Corn Improvement association, which has done so much in Ohio during the last three years to improve the quality and quantity of corn in that state. Professor Cook is already known to a number of our farmers by having been instructor in the farmers' short course here in January and by having assisted Dean Sanderson in a number of corn meetings in various parts of the state in April. Professor Cook will devote a considerable share of his time to giving instruction in extension schools and in helping different local organizations to make co-operative variety tests of corn and in similar extension work of great value to West Virginia farmers. The college of agriculture of the State university has been interesting the county superintendents of schools and others in organizing county corn contests for the boys and girls. The college of agriculture sends out some first class seed and directions to each contestant and the local organization offers liberal premiums for the best exhibits to be made at county shows to be held next fall. For several years three or four counties have been holding these contests, but this year fourteen counties have already sent in the names of 1,600 members. The counties organized and the number of members enrolled in each are as follows: Braxton, 165; Gilmer, 50; Greenbrier, 123; Hardy, 30; Harrison, 125; Lewis, 150; Monongalia, 65; Monroe, 100; Nicholas, 210; Pocahontas, 20; Preston, 150; Putnam, 50; Tyler, 40, and Wetzel, 320. With the teaching of agriculture required in the schools these contests form a fitting supplement to the work of the school room, giving the boys and girls an incentive to study the fundamental principles of agriculture at first hand and arousing their interest in better corn and more per acre. SEC'Y NORWOOD. OF WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, SAYS SOME PERTINENT THINGS TO BISHOP CRANSTON. 574 Oxford Street. Baltimore, Md. May 19, 1911. Bishop Earl Cranston, D. D. LL. D. Washington, D. C. My Dear Brother, Bishop, and Special Friend;—The report in the Christian Advocate of "Federation Week at Chattanooga" makes you a leading spirit in that movement. We know you are not the leader of it, but you are simply given that place as a "figurehead" to give coloring to the movement. We know that the M. E. Church, South, is leading it. I am writing you this personal letter because of your apparent leadership in the commission. I am writ, tag you because I am very anxious for you to know what one humble member of our church and one of our conferences thinks of you. You are in consultation with our enemies. You are tampering with the constitutional rights of a part of the membership of your church in the dark. You are representing that class without their consent, request or appointment. You are taking advantage of the weak, which is a cowardly act. The movement, which you as a "figurehead" are leading increases race prejudice, race hatred and race friction to a much greater degree than your preaching will bring peace. You white Methodists should take lessons from the Roman Catholics in dealing with the race question as you have taken lessons from them on many other subjects. The idea of a Bishop being in a commission planning to get rid of his own members is a funny thing to an humble member. I just feel that you are out of your place. "Daniel Webster said "I take no steps backward" when the Fugitive Slave Bill was passed, but he did go backward. Lincoln said, "The Union first and then freedom," but right said freedom first, then the union. In concluding I remind you, Bishop, that this is a personal letter, and so far as I know expressing my own opinion. If the colored membership County Corn Contests. (Continued on Second Page) Random Notes. Nothing is impossible of achievement to a resolute man. * $\circ$ * The only man who cannot make good, is that man who makes himself believe that he cannot "make good." * $\circ$ * But a man of courage is always fall of faith, and always ready to give a reason for the faith that is in him. $ \star^{\circ} \star $ Richard Arkwright, at the age of 57 years invented the Cotton Gin, and Spinning Jenny, which revolutionized the manufacture of cotton fabric, learned to read and write the English language and later wrote a Latin book. I know lots of lazy white men and black men, who have not yet reached the age of Arkwright, who would say that such an achievement would be impossible to them. $ \star^{\circ} \star $ As long as a man has all his mental faculties intact there is nothing within the range of human endeavor that he may not accomplish if he have sufficient will power and grit. \* \* If the fathers and grandfathers of some Negroes of the present day had been permitted to enjoy the privilege of securing an education which their cigarette smoking Dude sons and Grandsons refuse to take advantage of, preferring rather to hold up lamp posts on street corners or to play pool or poker, they would have acquitted themselves much more creditably than the present younger generation of Negroes have done since emancipation. I went into the Actor Library, in New York City, not long ago, to find an old book which had been called to my attention by a friend and I took occasion while there to look around to see who was there that I know. I was greatly surprised to see only two people of color, a male and a female evidently students. I asked the clerk at the desk if there were many calls from Negroes for books, and if they visited the Library in great numbers. The answer was: no,—colored people do not come here often: now and then there are two or three and not seldom four. There is a colored man from Porto Rico, who comes here quite often and makes us hunt Spanish book for him. He appears to be a scholar, judging from the character of the books he takes out." I identified this B W. at once, as my friend Arthur Schomburg, who has one of the very finest collections of Africana, many of them rare and of almost priceless value, of any young Negro in the State. He imports some of these books from England, and Leipzig and haunts the old book stores for rare finds, so that his library is a veritable literary treasure TROVE. Just suppose that Frederick Douglas, Wm. Still, Perry Carson and scores of young and ambitious Negroes of the post bellum period could have had access to the free libraries and free schools and colleges whose doors swing inward to admit any young man or woman of any race who desire to secure an education would they have refused a boon so precious? But these men D UNBRJBED BY GAIN." 11. VOL. 30. NO. 12 were all of them graduates of the University of Adversity, self made men who had a well defined purpose in life and they perservered until labor conquered, and destiny placed the laurel wreath upon their heads and bade them go forth, conquering and to conquer. on their heads eth, conquering BY W. G. THREET. Our young men of the present day, or some of them are badly afflicted with constitutional inertia and some of our young women are troubled in the same way, a book or a newspaper makes them dizzy in the headpiece. They have no taste for any kind of literature which requires thought. Mr. Frederick Donglass used to say that if you want to put a colored man to sleep give him a newspaper to read." There are Negroes enough in the United States to support five daily newspapers. But the 12 or 15,000,-000 Negroes do not support the weeklies, and monthly published, as they should. The subscription lists of the most successful of these publications contain the names of many hundreds of white subscribers, and advertisers. There are not over 50 Negro editors who are drawing a salary of $100 per month for their services as opinion moulders, and among these fortunate editorial Croesus are the editors of the New Amsterdam News, the New York Age, and the Philadelphia Tribune. These are said to be our wealthiest, and most prominent and most prosperous newspapers. If the average Negro editor has $15 clear at the end of the week after paying expenses he has a Rockefellerish feeling all day Sunday, and sometimes drops $5 of it in the contribution box at church, it be goes to church. Maybe these rich newspapers will some day combine and make one big daily located in New York, Philadelphia or Washington. If subscribers to weekly newspapers who allow their subscriptions to lapse month after month, and year after year, and who will not pay because the collector does not call or has overlooked them on his rounds, would only be honest enough and interested enough in their local paper to mail the amount they owe to the office the weekly paper would thrive better and it could give the race better service, and more news. It only takes five or ten minutes to send a postal note and it seems to me that subscribers to Negro papers who really want these papers to succeed ought gladly to cooperate with publishers by keeping track of the expiration of their subscription and remitting when due. A newspaper subscription unpaid is just as much a debt of honor as your house rent, your grocery bill or any other bill you contract, with a promise to pay when due. You pay your church dues some of you, promptly because you feel it to be your Christian duty to help to maintain your church, and its institutions. It is not only a christian but a racial duty to pay your printers for job work, and the editor for the newspaper he sends you each week AND FOR WHICH HE HAS TO PAY WHEN YOU DO NOT. We ought not to permit anybody to do more for us than we can do for them. But Negro editors are vicarious sufferers because of the apathy and indifference of the people of their own race. Broge-Grit. * * Yonkers, New York. NO. 12 VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature A man of note once dined with Dr. Butler, then Bishop of Durham; and though this guest was a man of fortune, the dinner consisted of the simplest fare,—a joint of meat and a pudding. The Bisonop apologized for the plain fare by saying that it was his manner of living, and that being disgusted with the fashionable expense of time and money in the entertainments of the time, it should receive no countenance from his example, although he could afford it; but at the same time his liberality to the poor was soon that at his death there would be little more left than enough to pay his death and funeral expenses. JUVENILE LOGICIAN. The logical identity sometimes develops easily. For instance, the youngster in the Scotch Sunday School told of in the London Sketch could put two and two together perfectly well, for instance: Minister—How did Noah spend his time in the ark? Small Boy—Fisbin. Minister—A very reasonable suggestion, my laddie. Small Boy—(guardedly) But he couldn't catch muckle. Minister—[surprised] What makes you think so? Small Boy—[knowingly] Because, ye are, he had only two wir-r ms in the ark. Father S. was remarkable for his ready wit. On one occasion while traveling on a steamboat, a well known chaparral called to the priest. "Father, I should like very much to hear one of your vermons." "Well," said the clergyman, "You could have heard me last Sunday, if you had been where you should have been." "Where was that, pray?" "In the county jail," answered the bluff priest, as he walked away. MY ROBIN. Perched on my little cherry-tree, Which from my window I can see, There sings each morn, with note 80 clear, That fills my heart and soul with cheer, My Robin. I hear the song in silent glee. And fancy that it songs for me, Its melody fills heart and brain, And makes me feel like young again, My Robin. At even when the sun has set, I hear its tuneful warbling yet, Teaching me to live in hope and cheer, And thus live on from year to year, My Robin. A FATHER'S VENGEANCE would have fallen on any one who attacked the son of Peter Bondy, of South Rockwood, Mich., but he was powerless before attacks of Kidney trouble. "Doctors could not help him," he wrote, "so at last we gave him Electric Bitters and he improved wonderfully from taking six bottles. Its the best Kidney medicine I ever saw." Buckache, Tired feeling, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, warn of Kidney trouble that may end in dropsy, diabetes or Bright's disease. Beware: Take Electric Bitters and be safe. Every bottle guaranteed. 50c at all druggists. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAKE DEVOTED TO PUBLIC RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN KIV. 5 months ..... 40c 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 lunch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. J. K. Gofford, Editor & Proprietor Drawe. 569, and 301 Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911 We intend to sprinkle a little salt on the raw of that Negro school keeper of Keyser in our next issue. Whenever a Negro assumes to teach colored children and to hold his job, plays to the galleries of the foes to race manhood and womanhood, it is high time for him to skedaddle, and if he lacks the nerve to go, a little of that stuff put on the mule might help matters. 100% That internal grandfather clause is doomed to get a black eye and possibly both knocked out. Two United States District Courts—one of Oklahoma and the other of Maryland—have declared it unconstitutional, and since the United States District Attorney is prescribing four state election officers for enforcing it, he assured that something is going to happen. The absurdity of a law being made in a republican form of government, putting our right to vote on the ground that because our grandfathers had not voted prior to 1806, we should not vote now and hereafter. The editor's grandfather had no rights, but he fought for his, and it is not what his grandfather was then, but what he is now. He is dead, we are living and that for purpose. Regardless of what may be said pro and con, the decision against the Standard Oil Co., is sure to work havoc among the laboring class. The very power that gave it indirect life and power, foreseeing what it would lead to in the hope of keeping in power caused its death. Tariff was its parent and not only did the government welcome the birth of the brat, but fed and fostered it. Lincoln said, "punishment is sure to follow sin," and it is true. In having it killed did not Mr. Taft kill the goose that laid his political golden egg? It is a two edged ax, for it starved and made millions of poor people pay double prices and now it will put millions out of work. If the government means to be consistently honest why don't it destroy the whiskey and the tobacco trusty? We'll answer—because financially they furnish the life blood of its existence—for it lives on their income—paying millions of dollars to the high official dignitaries. It is impossible for the race to amount to real manhood that ever and anon craves more, so long as the bulk go to church and there sit with moutha open and feet patting the floor over the blabbing and frothing of an ignorant, superstitious and sing-song ministry. It is a terrible agony for the educated and semi-educated laity to be tortured by the twaddle above referred to. If they persist to yell to the top of their voices and sweat off their collars except the mouth in evidence celluloid ones, and keep people in churches with windows down for hours, the duty of the bet- ter thinkers, is to leave them and start other organizations for the solid uplift of the race, for ignorance in churches has sapped the ambition of more girls and boys who could have been made a credit to the race than any other known cause. Indeed they have done the race more harm than galoons. Editor Clifford's Opinion The Martinsburg (W. Va) Pioneer Press has this to say: Chifford is free, though he lives in a political slave country. He asserts his rights, though they are denied, and he enjoys them. It is cowardice in Negroes that makes them subject to so many injustices. If not so, how came the white Virginia law-makers to rescind the jim crow law passed that included Indians? Because they went up in a body to demand their rights; to get them or to die. They got them, and that's the determination that the race must hatch to and die by before they can get their rights. The facts stated above square with the truths of history. People who do not contend for rights denied cannot expect to get them, or if gotten cannot expect to retain them. This is a life of constant struggle, the strong trampling upon the weak. Those of the weak who are strongest must contend for all to which they are entitled, and if they cannot do more they should die tearing the feet of their oppressors as they truss upon them. If the distance is great this agony will make a strong race pause before it goes further—and, in order to avoid much more trouble, may make peace with the very people whom they have conquered. Supine submission only affords temporary relief, which is followed by even more vicious tortures. Editor Clifford is right in this, and the agitators are in a way doing the colored people of the country a service. White men respect manhood and they bow down at the shrine of valor. Heaven, in our judgment, is the better resting place when entered through the gates of manhood than when it is approached by the back gate of racial cowardice. The William Tell of West Virginia is all right in the position taken and in the attitude he has assumed.—Richmond Planet. John M, Fox Lead. Sixty five years ago, Mr. John H Fox was born a slave to the Dandridge family, about seven miles south east of Martinsburg, and about two years ago, Mr. Lemuel Dandridge told us, "that of all men he ever knew, John Fox, regardless of color, is the best type of a Christian gentleman," and in that we concur. Forty years ago he was without house and home, but three years later, he was seen with an ox and cart, living in a small house and keeping a tollgate one mile south of Kearneysville. From this place, he moved on Dr. Border's farm where he foiled uncessingly and saved his earnings. By and by, the Dr. made other arrangements and notified Mr. Fox that he wanted the farm. He gave it up, and little did the doctor think what was to follow, for Mr. Fox had already purchased 87 acres of as fine land as was in Jefferson County, with a nice house thereon into which at once he moved. The house was improved, fine barns and all kinds of other necessary buildings were in due time erected, a splendid orchard planted, good fences put up and road made. Not many years had passed till Mr. Fox had bought more land adjacent to that which he already had: within a few more years Mr. Fox bought nearly a hundred more acres joining the land of his second purchase, with a good dwelling house on it, and about a month ago, he bought 63 more acres including a house and other buildings making in all old acres. So far so good for that slave city but the best has not been told. He was not an educated man, and while we admit that education is great, we insist that manhood is greater, for the latter is principle and the former is accident. He was by nature honest, truthful, industrious, virtuous, frugal and economical. He was that kind of a citizen which made him respected and others to emulate it. We firmly believe that there is no another section in the United States where a better community of colored people live and are more highly respected than that illuminated by the beautiful moral and religious life of John H. Fox. None but God himself knows the blessing he has been to that entire vicinity. Every family within a radius of five miles has felt his influence for good and benefited thereby, and we will say, that if it had been possible for everyone within that radius to have known and loved him as did his heavenly Father, every father and mother, son and daughter, regardless of color would have been a mourner and in that apparently endless procession that followed all that was mortal of Mr. Fox to his final resting place, praising God that such a noble man had lived among them. His life was an open book, and his whole makeup was devoid of deceit and cunning. His main concern was not death, and what lies beyond it, and he was not a Baehler of the hereafter. Life was his province, the living his duty. In christian character he was the rare edelweiss in his home, at the church and in his neighborhood. He was a man of superb courage. Danger never weakened him, disaster never appalled him. He was a man for emergencies. Whenever there was something good to dare and do from which others shrank, he was ready. In purity of character, greatness of soul, goodness of heart, clearness of head, and readiness of hand he stood preeminently at the top and all who were in any way associated with him admired him and while he did not live out his allotted time, he did vastly more than any man's share of work, and the feeling that he cannot be spared is general and the sense of personal loss caused by his death is widespread, sinceres and deep. He was a self made man, his principal inheritance from his parents was his character, shaped by their training and example. He was pure in mind, in word and in deed. "Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee. And the lump of his love is thy guide through the gloom." So "Eyes that are weary, and hearts that are sore. Look off unto Jesus, and sorrow no more: The light of his countenance shineth so bright. That that here as in heaven, there need be no night." Then sweet friend, farewell! SECY. NORWOOD. OF WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, SAYS SOME PERTINENT THINGS TO BISHOP CRANSTON. (Continued from first page.) of the M. E. Church were of my opinion they would publicly protest against your affiliating with our enemies concerning our interests and our constitutional rights, regardless as to your appointment, unless we are consulted. I am satisfied with my church. I love my church. I think it is a Christian Church as she now stands. I do not believe the church your commission is seeking to establish will be a Christian Church in either doctrine or practice. My ideal of a Christian Church is beyond that of a race church. If the colored membership are of my mind, they would not go out by invitation, mean treatment, nor by insult, but only after every constitutional rights had been contested. Constitutionally, the Church is a spiritual institution, and should be dealt with from that view, and not from social, racial, political and other incidental views. My Dear Bishop, I know you are from Ohio, the state of presidents and bishops, but from my personal dealings with you, and my knowledge of your fairness, I believe you will do the correct thing toward your weak members, even behind closed doors. Exchangee please copy.—Editor. AN OPEN BIBLE We are very much pleased with you, and delighted with the first week's effort you have made in searching the Scriptures. Correct answers were received from Mr. Julian Carter, and Prof. J. W. Coreey. Too much praise cannot be given to you for making time, and dividing it between getting ready for school closing, searching the Bible, and preparing our pieces for children's day which we will observe the third Sunday in June. There is no question that we all enjoyed studying last Sunday's lesseou together. Let us search up thequestions for next Sunday, 28th inst. and bring our answers or paper to school at 2:20 p.m. The questions are: Give Book,Chapter and verse where the words "Barrel, Fierce, Chickens, Melons,One step between me and death,"Porch, Parcel, "and was sitting in the Parliors," are mentioned. Yours truly, C. M. L. BALTIMORE & OHIO VERY LOW RATE SUMMER EXCURSIONS TL NTIC CITY ND SEASHORE EXCURSIONS June 22, July 13 and 27. Aug. 10 and 24 and Sept. 7. General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, May 17 to June 1. International Convention United Society of Christian Endeavor July 6 to 12. Grand Lodge, B. P. O. E., July 10 to 15. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Northern Baptist Convention, June 13 to 25. Los Angeles, Cal., American Medical Association, June 25 to 30. Portland, Oregon, Disciples of Christ, Christian Church Convention, July 4 to 12 San Francisco, Cal., International S S Association, June 20 to 27. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of Mystic Surine, July 11 to 13. G. A. R. National Encampment, August 21 to 18. For Rates, Schedules and Full Information, Call at Ticket Office, B. & O. R. R. R. S. Bouic, Ticket Agent. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. J. R. CLIFFORD ATTORNEY AT LAW. MARTINSEUR, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Peace Conferences, like Charity, ought to begin at home by families, communities and states, while nations are preparing arbitration papers. While the city authorities are getting ready to grade our streets and water-pipe across the railrod, taxpayers will "tote" Pitchers to the nearest Base. Showers will come when Jupiter Pluvius gets through with the Acres of Grand Pre. Martinsburg is getting another modern tenant home, same being erected by Mr. Henry Hopewell. Go in Bill. If Scorer College can deliver the Ball better than Armstrong Manual from the Capital as she showed last Saturday, by all means let us rally to the team. When a man dies surely grass grows at his door. We never knew how much we owed Father Virginia until he came to see us from Richmond, took dinner with us at Clarksburg, and supper at Fairmont. If greedy would wait, hot will cold. L. A Good home for a good girl to do general housework. If she chooses to do the washing she will be paid $4. per week; if not, $3. The kind and fine people wanting such a girl as mentioned above, live in Clarkeberg, and if the girl desired wishes to go the editor of this paper will, if she has not the necessary care, advance it. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1252 students from 35 states and 11 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. Noyoung man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. To processors, Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psycology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law. History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean, SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinshes thorough courses. Six instructors. 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 faculties not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polytechnic. Edward A. Balloch, M. D., Dean, 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 the theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dead, 420 5th street N. W. or catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Lewis Ford, the well known broom manufacturer of Nipetown was a welcome caller at our office the other day. Rev. John T. Runner preached in the M. E Church at Berkeley Springs on last Sunday morning and evening. Wanted—Honeest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. A number of young ladies, under the leadership of Miss Edena Roberts, are rehearsing for an entertainment which they are going to hold at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The City Band gave the first open air concert of the season in the Public Square yesterday evening, and it was highly enjoyed by all who were fortunate enough to hear same. Rev. C. McRae Louistall and his wife, who have been stopping at Mr. Rhodes Warrick's, are now at Berkeley Springs, where they will sojourn for awhile: Mr. Newton Allen was a Martinsburg visitor on Thursday, and we were both surprised and grieved to bear of the death of his brother, Mr. Charles Allen, whose funeral was held at Kearneysville last Friday. Meerss. J. T. McLain and M. W. Roy of Warrenton, Va., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Turner. The gentlemen above named are tailors. They are thinking of coming to this city to open business. Mr. John W. Dean, the well known merchant tailor and gents furnisher, has been giving away nice large palm leaf fans during the past week, a consideration for the public which makes Dean's Store more popular than ever. Mr. Benjamin Smith, of Clarksburg, who attends school at Howard University, stopped over on Thursday night en route home. While here he was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Lonistall. Mr. Monroe Taylor, Martinsburg's widely known and prosperous real estate agent and landlord, is improving and beautifying many of his numerous properties, a fact which shows that he is considerate of his patrons. STARTS MUCH TROUBLE. If all people knew that neglect of constipation would result in severe indigestion, yellow jaundice or virulent liver trouble they would soon take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end it. It's the only safe way. Best for biliousness, headache, dyspepsia, chills and debility. 25c at all drug-gists. BRING YOUR FURNITURE To me, or let me know and I will call for it, and it will be promptly repaired. Charges are as low as good workmanship will permit. I also repair bicycles, clocks, graphophones, umbrellas &c. I respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage. Leonard D. Lemen For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordner has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business, Winchester, Ave., P. O. 609.—Both Phones. BALKED AT COLD STEEL "I wouldn't let a doctor cut my foot off," said H. D Ely, Bantam, Ohio, "although a horrible ulcer had been the plague of my life for four years. Instead I used Buckleen's Arnica Salve, and my foot was soon completely cured." Heals Burns, Boils, Sores, Fruises, Eczema, Pimples, Corns, Surest Pile cure. 25c at all druggists. SAVED MANY FROM DEATH. W. L. Mock, of Mock, Arkansas, believes he has saved many lives in his 25 years of experience in the drug business. "What I always like to do," he writes, "is to recommend Dr. King's New Discovery for weak, sore lungs, hard lungs, hard cords, hoarseness, obstinate coughs, la gripe, croup, asthma or other bronchial affection, for I feel sure that a number of my neighbors are alive and well today because they took my advice to use it. I honestly believe its the best throat and lung medicine that's made." Easy to prove he's right. Get a true bottle free, or regular 50g or $1.00 bottle. 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 thousand 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 for them, to Word AND Works PUBLISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. THE H. WILLIAMS CORPORATION. Did you know that for the payment of fifty cents or one dollar per month you can protect yourself and family while ill or injured by accident? Do you not think it a sacred duty to yourself and family to protect yourself against disease and accidents? Your expenses increase when under the doctors care and your income ceases. Would not protection against this contingency be worth fifty cents a month to you? THINK IT OVER. Drop us a postal and our representative, Rev. C. M. Louistall, will call, or better still, see him. The E. L. Williams, Corp, "It SERVES YOU RIGHT." 103 South Queen St, Martinsburg, W, Va, PROTECT and family Pope's Herb is prepared to provide a dependable household remedy, based upon the principle of purity of blood insuring freedom from disease. It is a medicine for maladies such as Rheumatism, Liver Complaints, Constipation, Fever and Ague. Female disorders, Indigestion, Lumbago, Kidney Derangements, Catarrh, Sick and Nervous Headaches, loss of appetite and all ailments arising from inactivity of the Liver and Kidneys. It is a purely Herbs, Barks and Roots Compound. It is put up in chocolate coated Tablets pleasing and easy to take (or can be dissolved in water.) Mrs. J. C. Meade of Hyattsville, Md. says: "For years I have suffered with Backache, Headaches, Neuralgia, and Nervousness and extreme Fatigue. I tried many remedies without relief. Four months ago a grateful friend induced me to write to Pope Medicine Co., Washington, D.C. for a box of Pope's Herb Compound Tablets, the very first dose of two tablets gave me relief. I used not quite a $1.00 box and I am entirely cured of the pain in my back and have no more headache." Dr. J. V Hennesey, a prominent Physician and Surgeon of Albany, N. Y, in part says: "As a Blood Purifier, Liver, Kidney and System regulator I prescribe Pope Medicine Co's of Washington, D. C. Herb Compound, as I have done for the past 20 years, and I have found it to be a great remedy, which seldom if ever fails. There are thousands of letters from users of Pope's Herbs, that have been benefited and cured by its proper use. Pope's Herb Compound Tablets are put up 200 in a box, "six month's treatment", and will be sent post-paid on receipt of $1.00. Each box contains a printed guarantee binding us to refund the purchase price if the remedy fails to benefit, also full directions. Guaranteed by the Pope Medicine Co., Inc., under the Pure Food and Drugs Act. June 30, 1906. No. 34956. FOR TERMS TO ACCEPT IN ENCOUNTER POPE MEDICINE CO., INC. Pope Building, Washington, D.C. "ASWESEEIT." Is the Title of a Book whose author is Robert L. Waring, Esq., 609 F. Street Northwest Washington, D. C. It is excellent, and is destined to do incalculable good. In fiction it gets at facts as they exist, and outlines the real bulk of the causes of the trouble and friction between the two races. It is bound to be read the world over and will serve well its purpose. It took a strong mind and a fertile brain to plan and write this book which Henry Watterson, the great editor says is phenomenal, and will be read by as many white as colored people just as it should be, for the real and proper settlement of the so-called problem, is interdependent one upon the other. It is written in a time as ripe to make it almost as popular as did the period that immortalized Uncle Tom's Cabin. Get the book and read it. It only costs $1.60. Address the author as given above. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. C., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see D.J.E. V. JORDAN, GEN. AGENT W. VA. Room 2. K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON - W. VA. ```markdown ``` The above cut is an exact representation of the famous, Selz Royal Blue Shoe, for sale at only one place in Martinsburg the John W. Dean Company, corner Martin and Quee streets. These shoes have a cork innersole an will keep your feet dry and every shoe is sold with a guarantee. THE KEYSER, MOOREFIELD AND PETERSBURG ```markdown ``` STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round trip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 87 miles. Persons traveling once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor Mr. George Shank. READ THE PRESS. Have You Tried It? There is a bottle of Cardui wait drug store. Have you tried it? If not, we urge you to do so, but have obtained such a hold on you, that them out. Even now, it may be nearly too late how. If anything can help you, Cardui in thousands of cases, where other tried in vain. Why should it not do the Take CAR here is a bottle of Cardui waiting for you are. Have you tried it? not, we urge you to do so, before your trained such a hold on you, that nothing it. in now, it may be nearly too late. But if anything can help you, Cardui will. It h ands of cases, where other medicines vain. Why should it not do the same for ke CARDU There is a bottle 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 hold on you, that nothing will drive them out. Even now, it may be nearly too late. But try it anyhow. If anything can help you, Cardui will. It has helped in thousands of cases, where other medicines had been tried in vain. Why should it not do the same for you? Take CARDUI The Woman's Toxic "My daughter, Octava, would have today, had it not been for that fine writes Mrs. Laura Lawrence, of Drennac. "Nothing I tried helped my daughter Cardui. I had sent for the doctor of your medicine and got a $1 bottle taken four doses she became all right. Cardui to my friends." Your druggist sells Cardui with full on the bottle. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medical for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment POSITIONS OF WE WILL GUARANTEE that we will soon, dent at once to sup for our graduates. As soon number of students this of writers once for particular BUSINESS GEO. W. SCHWARTZ PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHED 1864 daughter, Octava, would have been in read it not been for that fine medicine, mrs. Laura Lawrence, of Drennan Springs, thing I tried helped my daughter, until cardui. I had sent for the doctor, when medicine and got a $1 bottle. When doses she became all right. I often re- to my friends." druggist sells Cardui with full instruction bottle. POSITIONS GUARANTEE WE WILL GUARANTEE you a po- write us rehission. We need ma- dents at once to supply the onor- for our graduates. 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