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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Ch ain W. Va. The P "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 1882. MARTINSBURG, LIQUOR MEN FIGHT THEY FORM COMBINE AGAINST DIVES AND DISORDERLY SALOONS. Will Push Prosecutions For Violations of Existing Laws and Urge Greater Stringency. Milwaukee, Wis.—Michigan wholesale and retail liquor dealers and distillers have united in a fight for greater stringency in letting saloon licenses, and to prosecute saloon men who keep disorderly places or refuse to observe the laws. The combined associations have sent a circular letter to each of the licensing boards throughout the state, in which they call attention to the existing liquor laws and offer suggestions whereby their observance can be made more effective. Control the Galoon. "In addition to the provisions of the law," the letter reads, "we would recommend that no license be granted to any person whose license has been revoked within the preceding twelve months for selling liquor to minors, or to intoxicated persons, or to any applicant who has persistently and openly violated any town, village or city ordinance regulating the liquor traffic, including the hours when liquors may be sold, or to the operation of gambling devices. "We recommend that the character of all persons applying for a retail license be carefully scrutinized, and that no license be issued to any one whose roral character is bad; to any one who himself drinks to excess; to any one who permits minors and loafers to congregate about his place; to any one who permits females to frequent his place for the purpose of meeting the opposite sex, or who permits females of questionable character access to his place at all; to any one who permits loud, boisterous and rowdy conduct in his place; to any one who does not keep his place neat, clean and sanitary, both inside and outside, and in full compliance with local regulations pertaining to health and sanitation; to any one who so conducts his place as to disturb his neighbors, and constitute a prisoner." The request to the licensing boards is signed by the Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers Protective association, John F. Langen, president; Wisconsin Milwaukee Retail Liquor Dealers' association, E. G. Hundt, president; Wisconsin Association of Wholesale Liquor Dealers, F. C. Lienemann, president, and the Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan Brewers' association, A. S. Lindenman, president. DRY COUNTY FIGHTS TO CONTROL BLIND TIGERS Shreveport, La.—Driven by the ineffectual attempts to stop boot-legging and blind tiger selling of cheap whisky in dry Caddo parish, a call has been issued by the Prohibition League and the Young Men's Prohibition League to form a law enforcement organization. A recent decision of the supreme court permitting nearbeer sales makes enforcement of laws against the sale of liquor a practical impossibility. Mrs. Turnhill claims that her son Andrew, a minor, was employed by the prohibition people under an oath of secrecy and was forced to get evidence against saloon keepers by drinking at their bars. "Would some of the people who call themselves Christian temperance workers explain to me why they are so bitterly opposed to sa- posed to sa ESTABLISHED 1882 Control the Saloon. Signed By Presidents. BROKEN-HEARTED MOTHER SAYS HER BOY IS RUINED Accuses Temperance Workers of Making Him Drink to Get Evidence. Zanesville, Ohio.—Mrs. William B Turnhill, of Crooksville, Ohio, has appealed to the Zanesville Times Recorder in an effort to arouse public opinion against the employment of minors by the Anti-Saloon League as dry detectives. loons and saloon keepers and then take the only boy I have, who is able to work, and try and make a drunkard of him?" Mrs. Turnhill complains, "I am neither a friend nor a foe to the saloon keepers, as they have never done me an injury, which is more than I can say of the temperance element. They have ruined my boy and let me in sorrow too deep for an outsider to realize. Like the cowards they are, they vanish completely when their boy detectives need a friend." PROMINENT MINISTER WARNS AGAINST ANTISALOON LEAGUE. New York.—Reverend John P. Peters, rector of St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal church, in a recent interview, sounds a note of warning against the Anti-Saloon League. "We have ourselves a church temperance society," said the Reverend Mr. Peters, "which is a useful organization, doing good work in New York and Massachusetts. There are other organizations representing the church in a broader use of the term, like the Woman's Church Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League. The general attitude of these organizations is apt to be extreme and narrow. I have been inclined, in some cases, to think the cure which they offer is worse than the disease for which they prescribe." LEARNING AMONG THE SCOTS Many a Man Who Never Had Any "Schooling" Gets Surprisingly Good Education. Many a man who never had any "schooling" gets an education, and often a surprisingly good one. A traveler in Scotland once met a farmer whose ground rent was about $20 a year and who wrote poetry in Gaelle that was of high order. This same traveler met a youth in Scotland who rode from home on horseback to the seaport and then across Scotland to Aberdeen, where he sold his horse to enter the university. It is related of another Scotchman that he was overheard repeating a line of Tennyson, whereupon some one asked him what poet he liked best. "Homer," he replied. "Whose translation do you read?" "I rarely read a translation," he said, wiping the fish scales from his apron. "I like best to read Homer in the original Greek." The Bending of Big Guns. Among the problems with which army and navy engineers have to deal nowadays is that of the drooping of the muzzles of excessively long guns under the stress of their own weight. Experiments have shown that wired wound guns of 12-inch caliber and 50 feet length droop at the muzzle about four and a half minutes of arc, while built up solid guns of the same size droop about two and a half minutes. Differences of temperature in the body of the gun also cause bendings, which may either increase the droop at the muzzle or counteract it, according as it is the upper or under part of the gun that has the higher temperature. In consequence of these distortions projectiles on leaving a gun have a wobbly motion, continuing up to 500 yards, and probably more. Youth's Companion. Injury in Innovation. Humanity, in ages of experience, has learned that any radical change or decided innovation may mean some great injury to the whole tribe or race. So human beings have first their curiosity aroused by the unusual, and then come fear and hate. It is certainly no new thing for women to wear trousers. However, at some or many periods in the history of humanity women have introduced as fashion some absurd similar style, and the race has been greatly damaged thereby. And that may be why the crowd resents trousers for the women. Instinctive resentment here may be in the brain of the race, rather than in the individual brain—racial memory of the effect on men of women wearing the trousers. NAVY BUILDING IN EUROPE Austro-Hungary and France Plan Extensive Operations for the Shipbuilders. The Hungarian delegations have approved the Austro-Hungarian naval program, which calls for an expenditure of $65,000,000 in building four Dreadnoughts, three fast cruisers and a number of terpedo boats in the next six years. A squabble with the Austrian delegations has arisen over the partition of contracts for the new work. Admiral Montecnoelli is accused of promising Hungary a larger share than her contribution to the work entitled her as an inducement to pass the naval budget. The Austrian delegations refused to ratify the deal, and Montecnoelli threatened to resign. France's naval program, so far as fixed, provides for laying down this year two 23,500 ton battle ships. Turkey has definitely arranged with the Armstrongs for the construction of two first-class battalions at once. A special commission is visiting foreign navy yards in search of information in order to determine on the displacement and armament. PASSING OF TUATARA LIZARD 19 One of Most Ancient Forms of Animal Life Now Found on Earth The tintara lizard, found in New Zealand, is one of the most ancient forms of animal life now found on earth. Originally this lizard possessed four eyes, but in the course of the ages it has lost one pair and must now get along with two. The tintara lay eggs which are remarkable in that they require 14 months to hatch, the embryo passing the winter in a state of hibernation. These small survivors of past areas are found only in a few localities and are becoming very scarce, collectors from every part of the world being continually on their trail. They are about two feet in length, and, in common with other lizards, have the fortunate characteristic of being able to replace portions of their limbs or tails which have been destroyed. It is asserted that one of these lizards, owned by a naturalist, had the misfortune some time ago to lose an eye and that a complete new eye, perfect in every way, has grown in the place of the old one. An Officer's Ready Wit. An ancestor of Tolstoy's, an army officer, was an excellent mimic. One day he was mimicking the Emperor Paul to a group of his friends when Paul himself entered and for some moments looked on unperceived at the antics of the young man. Tolstoy finally turned and beholding the emperor he bowed his head and was silent. "Go en, sr," said Paul. "Continue your performance." The young man hesitated a moment and then folding his arms and reproducing every gesture and intonation of his sovereign he said: "Tolstoy, you deserve to be degraded, but I remember the thoughtlessness of youth, and you are pardoned." The czar smiled slightly at this speech. "Well, be it so," he said. The Astronomer's Cat The Rev. T. E. Esplin, who recently achieved considerable fame by discovering a new star, possesses a tabby cat, says the London Giebe. The story of Mr. Espin's cat in his own words is this: "Last February, returning from church on a cold night, with the ground covered with snow, I heard lamentations very similar to what Jeremiah would have uttered, and on searching about found a young and quite small cat on the window sill very cold and very starved. I took him in and fed him and made inquiries, but have never obtained the least clue as to his owner. He was then about six months old. We became keenly attached and his affection has been so great that on more than one occasion he saved me the trouble of eating my dinner by being first in the field." VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature A Lutheran minister, in the Eastern part of Pennsylvania, who was well known to the writer, happened to incur the enmity of some of his parishioners, especially the young, by severely reproving them from the pulpit, for some of their evil doings. They were so incensed at the pastor's severe utterances that they determined to give him a good thrashing after the next service. The parson, becoming aware of this, was in no wise annoyed, but determined to afford them an opportunity to carry out their threat. So on next Sunday, after a sermon of the usual kind, without even hinting at what was up, he went to the front of the church, took a certain position, took off his clerical coat, and threw it on a stump, and told, "There is the preacher, and here stands the plain citizen. Now ye reprobates, come on! and let me tell you, you will find that the Almighty has made me neither a coward nor a cripple." But no one ventured to come forward to tackle the stalwart preacher. This word, meaning a stupid person, comes from the name of one of a great scholar—Duns Scotus. In the Reformation, the works of the schoolmen fell into disfavor with the Reformers, and Duns the leader was often spoken of with scorn by the votaries of new learning. As time went by the name of Duns became a byword for utter stupidity. The street car is a public servant, but as it sometimes happens to be crowded, especially in a rush, it is occasionally subject to complaint. President Soonts, of the Interborough Co., of New Yok, said at a recent dinner: "A man hung to a strap near me, He was a polite man, and, to let the people on and off, he kept on the move. Now he ran to the front,now to the rear, and now to the middle, wherever there happened to be most space. And it was plain that all this hustling and jostling and rushing to and fro made him tired and angry. He restrained his rage till he came to get off. Then he, all of a sudden, turned to the conductor and yelled: "Gimme my money back!" "What for?" said the conductor, "You've had your ride." "Ride I do you call it?" yelled the man, "Why, I've walked the whole blessed way." The history of the Scriptures can be traced from the time of Moses to Christ. As to the writing material Moses used we do not know, but we know that in Egypt papyrus plant, linen and cotton cloth, the skins of animale, and stone were used in making books of various kinds. The ten commandments were written on tables of stone, and with Egyptian mummies we have preserved even to this day cotton and linen cloth such as was frequently used for writing, IN FEAR OF HONORARY TITLE Baron Steuben Alarmed Lest He Should Meet Mishap That Befel Lafayette. Some men have shunned honorary titles almost as earnestly as others have coveted them. After Lafayette had been made a doctor of laws by a New Jersey college shortly before the close of the revolutionary war, Haron Steuben was in great fear lest he should meet with a similar mishap. Having to pass through a college town where the marquis had been thus distinguished, the old warrior, so the story runs, killed his men and thus addressed them: "You shall have to spur the horses well and ride through this place like the devil, for, if they catch you, they will make doctors of you." There is another story that only a few years ago, when college degrees were scattered somewhat heavily, an illiterate old man of great wealth, having been honored with a degree by a college which he had held under obigation, made a wager that he could obtain a similar honor for his servant. He won the wager and, encouraged by his success, made another that he could obtain a degree for his horse. This time, however, he test. The college authorities got wind of his game, and in answer to his request for a doctorate for So and so the president wrote a courteous note, saying that though the trustees were anxious to oblige so good a friend of the college, they had found on examination of the records that though they had once conferred a degree upon a jackass, there was no precedent for conferring one upon a horse. MYRIAD FOES OF THE OAK Most Afflicted of Trees is the Prey of Over Fifteen Hundred Kinds of Insects. Along the Hudson river, from Spuytenbrugvil to Ossining, according to reports of foresters, thousands of elm trees have been saved from destruction since last fall, the spraying process, more freely employed than ever before. (Having killed the eggs of devastating beetles by the million. Men provided with machines that throw a poisonous fluid even to the highest branches of the threatened trees, have been busy at this work for several months when the weather was favorable for such operations. "Strange," said a workman in charge of a spraying apparatus, "but the beetles never attack a maple or a horse chestnut or any other kind of tree. These pests always go for the cim, but the oak has troubles of its own that are entirely different from those of other trees. We've found that the oak is greatly afflicted. No less than fifteen hundred kinds of insects feed upon it at one time or another during the season of verdure. What do you think of that? The great wonder is that the cim, as a species, is not extinct." And the man wanted to read the names of the devouring pests from a list of them he had in his pocket. Solens on Strike Legislation in the Isle of Man, off the shore of England, is at a standstill because the house of keys has gone on strike. Manxmen can afford to mark time, for their laws have long been advanced. Every woman, widow or spinster, in the Isle of Man, whether she be owner, occupier or lodger, enjoys the parliamentary franchise. Every widow enjoys half her husband's personal estate and has a life interest in his real estate, and she cannot be deprived of this by will. The sale of cigarettes and intoxicants to children was forbidden in Man for years before such a prohibition was enforced in England itself. England has legislated mildly against money lenders. The highest interest that can be charged for a loan in the Isle of Man is 6 per cent, and that has been the law for over two hundred years. And there are many other instances in which Manx lawmakers have adopted progressive measures with entire success. BY W. G. THE PLUCKY PARSON. ORIGIN OF DUNCE." "THE SCRIPTURES." AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RATES of Subscription: 1 year.....$1.50: 6 months.....75c. 3 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 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Culbs. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JULY 8. 1911 Tomorrow, Sunday, is the big and last Sunday at the Inwood Camp Meeting (Sunday Pic Nic), and barring bad weather, thousands of people living between Harrisburg and Winchester will be there bent on having a good time. The first six months of the year 1911 have been famous, first, for some unprecedentedly cold weather; second, for an abundance of highest average Negro boy and girl graduates from the Nation's most exclusive schools and colleges, and third, for the hottest weather in the history of the country and the Weather Bureau. Editor Trotter. of the Boston Guardian, and Editor Warren, of the Detroit Informer, are having a little friendly discussion anent the former's attitude toward Dr. Booker T. Washington. While we have the sincerest respect for Mr. Trotter, and consider him one of America's great characters, it is only fair and just to state that Mr. Warren has the best of the argument so far. Tuesday, July 4th, was celebrated all over this country in a safer and safer manner than it has been in the past. It is good that such conditions ensured on Independence Day, because the fatalities that have resulted from the foolish use of fire crackers, fire arms and cannon on previous Fourths have been appalling in the extreme. Now that the improvement has begun, let it continue and never return to the barbarous customs which once prevailed. It is a week today since this town went dry, and it will remain so for a year, a fact which is very pleasing to those who oppose the open saloon, and equally unpleasant to the saloon keepers and those who favor the sale of whiskey. So far, it is too soon to express an opinion as to conditions here under a dry regime, but of one thing we are sure, and that is, we can cite anybody who is desirous of knowing to certain specific instances of individual improvement since the town went dry. Commissioner of Police Waldo, of New York City, is the first man in the position which he now holds to appoint a Negro patrolman in the Nation's metropolis for many years. While it is just and fair that Negroes in New York City be treated as are other people, and as Commissioner Waldo bids fair to treat them in New York's Police Department, it takes a man of the new commissioner's kind to show that he has real red blood coursing in his veins, and for this reason we are proud to be numbered among his ardent admirers. To give an idea of the bigheartedness of the man, he said to the colored officer, when commissioning him, "I am proud to see a representative of the Negro race here," and promised him, along with the others, that he would try to have his salary raised from $800 to $1000. Men of Mr. Waldo's stamp are a credit to the white race, and it does us good to know of and honor them. Judge Frank W. Neabitt; of Wheeling, gave an important ruling at Moundaville, the other day with regard to the "Johnson pistol toting law." He instructed a jury trying a man for carrying a razor that it was first necessary to determine whether he had a criminal intent before convicting him, or words to that effect. We think it an eminently fair ruling, and Judge Neabitt is to be commended for making it, because many men who had razors with which to shave and even barbers on their way to do barbering for customers, have been jailed and convicted under the Johnson law. Possibly, now that the Ohio County jurist has seen fit to look into the matter and draw distinctions between those who are and those not guilty under Johnson's measure, it may be that other Judges will follow his example, and see that people arrested for violating the Johnson or any other law be given a fair trial. Negroes everywhere should pride themselves with the thought that they have so powerful a newspaper as the New York World to ask that they get a square deal, and to help them get it. Now, if any one thinks that we mean that the World gushes over Negroes, he is mistaken, but it is always found on the side of right and against wrong, no matter whether the person it criticises be the President of the United States, or the humblest American citizen. It cares not for wealth, social position or pull, and has a way of editorially handling a subject in a manner that scarcely permits of any imitation, and when a Negro is in any way concerned, he gets what is due him—nothing more, and nothing less. Aid coming from such a source should gratify all lovers of justice, and they should pray that Pulitzer and the World receive blessings commensurate to their labor for the good of humanity in general. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York, is doing great service for the people it has set out to serve. It is making the Negro's treatment all over this country a matter of personal concern, and wherever and whenever he is badly treated the association proposes to bring some sort of correctional methods to play in his behalf. Already they have done wonders, and the future will see things accomplished which now seem little short of impossible. For instance, take New York City, where, of late, a Negro has sometimes to be fleet of foot to save his life, and see how they plan to change conditions by dividing the city up into zones, and methodically proceeding against any person or persons who are guilty of maltreating Negroes. In conclusion, as our space is limited, and we cannot spare more at this time to praise this God-given organization of noble white men and women, we will wish them all the success imaginable, and know that they have the means, the ability and the bravery to achieve it. We are glad to see Senator Lorimer contesting every inch of ground that stands between him and the successful possession of the seat which he now occupies in the United States Senate. To us it appears a little overdrawn to see men who are not one whit better than Senator Lorimer trying to oust him from a place which he got just like they did theirs. All persons who know anything about senatorships, know that they cost money, and lots of it, and while Lorimer's election may have cost a big sum, there are few Senators who have not spent money in the same way. Why then, should we hear all this outcry about Lorimer? He should be allowed to retain his seat, and the petty bickerings over the matter should cease, for he and his friends are exhibiting a skill in handling the case in every detail which augurs well for a termination of the controversy which will prove favorable to Senator Lorimer. Of one thing we are sure, and that is, Mr. Lorimer made no mistake in securing Former Judge Elbridge Hanecy as his lawyer, because the latter will guard his every interest in a masterly manner, being one of the greatest lawyers in the West, and one of the fairest of men. Here's wishing again, that Lorimer may win out. The Hon. Joseph W. Bailey, United States Senator from the state of Texas, and a great man in his own estimation, is saying some pretty hard things about the Negroes these days, but they don't mind him a bit. In the meantime, his black brethren and sisters are winning renown along all lines of endeavor, and some of the "niggers" are actually unmindful of the fact that the state of Texas ever had a Joe Bailey. This is as it should be, and the Texas statesman should go "way back and sit down." Clarksburg has put its foot on the beating of citizens by policemen, and given one Powell, a former Baltimore and Ohio policeman, 20 days in jail, and a fine of $25 and costs, which will make him pay out about two hundred dollars, in addition to undergoing the imprisonment. Every body knows that the duties of a police officer are more or less hazardous at all times, and that in some cases it is necessary for officers to use force on obstreperous prisoners, but at the same time indiscriminate and brutal beatings of citizens ought to cease, and the method taken by the Clarksburg Court is the sort of a one that will stop it. Other cities should take lessons from the Harrison County metropolis, and when they do, people will be less liable to beatings at the hands of irresponsible men who are given authority to carry "handy-billy's" and revolvers. The Jackal BY HERBERT KAUFMAN. The receiver of stolen goods is as guilty as the thief. The employer of a traitor is as despicable as his henchman. Like seeks, like the hound does not Like seeks like—the hound does not trail with the fox, but after him. Traffic with a blackguard smuts the trader. To co-operate with a criminal means to become one. There are no degrees to honesty. It has no comparative or superlative. It is absolute and uncompromising. Poison can't exist in any one particular drop of blood. If it is in the veins, it is all through the system. When a man co-operates with a crook, he joins his class. The complacent, unctuous citizen who deludes himself with the notion that his hands are clean because his dirty work is performed by proxy must eventually reckon with the community, with his conscience, and with his God. His singers are all the more stained because he places the direct risk on the shoulders of others, and takes his profit without incurring danger. He is far lower than his confederate. He is just as much a malefactor—and a cowardly sneak, to boot. Integrity must stand a hundred per cent test. Like white, it has no shades—no tints. All that is legal is by no means just, fair or honorable. We have far too many hypocrites whose moral code is the civil code—who believe that they hold their citizenship, their respectability, and their decency intact just so long as they do nothing that can bring them to the dock. The law is still a clumsy artifice—man's vain attempt to contrive a legislative system to guard society against its enemies—to protect the state against traitors and traders. And so long as it is a mass of technicalities, loop-noled with errors and vulnerable to trickery, it can't serve its intended purpose. All the statutes in a library of law books can't show a way to reconstruct blasted self-respect except through atonement. Courts designate rights oftener than right. The individual is the one judge of his real character. There is a broader, a mightier code than that of jurisprudence—a code above bickering and exquisite interpretation—the code of conscience. By its light every man knows his motives. He may lie to the world at large but when he lies in his bed at night, and memory cross examines him, he can't dodge the truth. Accident and impulse may excuse some offenses—temper and ignorance often present palliating circumstances, but there is no mitigating element in the actions of the juckal who has deliberately organized his outlawy. He can't plead momentary aberration. He is guilty through and through—cold-bloodedly, purposely crooked. He may maintain his liberty, enjoy the privileges of the upright and walk in high places, but in the secrecy of his soul he knows himself in all his rottenness. Prison walls do not separate all the honest men from the thieves. The deed and not the discovery makes the felon. SOLVES A DEEP MYSTERY "I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart," wrote C. B. 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No 16 Daily except Sunday at 12:15 p.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6:30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. C. W. BASSETT, Gen. Pass Agent Baltimore Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. J. R. CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARTINSEURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practice in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address, John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. B. Clifford, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. State Summer SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS AT THE West Virginia Colored Institute, June 19, 1911, and lasts six weeks. For further information, address Hon. M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, W. Va., or Prof. Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va. At A. R. Hammill's Merohank tailoring establishment, ladies and gentlemen can have their suits made look new by having them cleaned and pressed. Give him a call when needing anything in his line, and be convinced that what we say is absolutely true. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Misses, Annie and Minnie Reed, and their brother Master Elwood, have returned home after a pleasant visit to relatives in Hedgesville. Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. 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. Miss Blanche Bean, of Clarkesburg, was the guest of her brother, R.v. Samuel M. Beane, of this city for a few days last week, after which she left for Roanoke, Va., where she will remain for some time. 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. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Clifford, passed through town the other day en route to Harrisburg, Pa., from Bestrice, Neb. They looked fine, and gave evidences of the West agreeing with them from every possible standpoint OLD SOLDIER TORTURED. "For years I suffered unspeakable torture from indigestion, constipation and liver trouble," wrote A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Erie, Pa., "but Dr. King's New Life Pills fixed me all right. They're simply great." Try them for any stomach, liver or kidney trouble. Only 250, at all druggists. 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 Clarksburg, and if the girl desired wishes to go the editor of this paper will, if she has not the necessary car fare, advance it. The body of Mr. James Johnson, a former resident of this city, was brought here from Shippensburg on Thursday night, and buried from Mt. Zion M. E Church on Friday, Rev. S. M. Beane officiating. Mr. Johnson was well known to all of the older citizens, having been a very fine stone mason, and he was highly respected in Shippensburg, where he went from here twenty odd years ago to make his home. 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. Moses Garner, well known to all Martinsburgers, having lived here for a number of years, and a native of Winchester departed this life Wednesday at the City Hospital, after an illness of only a few days. Funeral held from Wilen's undertaking and interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery. DEATH IN ROARING FIRE. may not result from the work of fire bugs, but often severe burns are caused that make a quick need for Bucklen's Arnica Salve,the quickest, surest cure for burns, wounds, bruises, boils, sores. It subdues inflammation. It kills pain. It soothes and heals. Drives off skin eruptions, ulcers or piles. Only 25c at all druggists. 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 E. L. 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 accident? 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. 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I used not quite a $1.00 box and I entirely cured of the pain in my back and have no more headache." Dr. J. V. Hennessey, 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 AGENTS IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY, ADDRESS POPE MEDICINE CO., INC. 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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. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING CHARLESTON, - W. VA. Six Million Boxes a Year. In 1895, none; in 1900, 6,000,000 boxes, that's Cascarets Candy Cathartic's jump into popularity. 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Sold At All Stores BRGS., Mebane, 34th St. & Broadway, New York # 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 emploration 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 miscellary 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. WE ARE not alone in making this statement, for some of the best and most prominent men of the United States have done likewise. These persons above referred to were not confined to one particular race, either, but to both. THE PIONEER PRESS Has the LARGEST city circulation The LARGEST Foreign circulation The LARGEST domestic and general circulation The LARGEST county and rural circulation of any Negro newspaper in the United States Has the LARGEST Anglo Saxon circulation WHY WHY IS THE ABOVE SO? BECAUSE it is the pioneer of this section in blazing the way for truth, honesty, piety and fragrality and all other requisites that are necessary for the making of manly men and womanly women of all races. BECAUSE it merits support and gets it is proof positive that people know a good thing when they see it. BECAUSE of its unique and original qualities the PIONEER PRESS has a noticeable exclusiveness enjoyed by no other paper in the class wherein it circulates. The Pioneer Press With its generally large and intelligent circulation will bring AND PROFITABLE RETURNS TO ITS ADVERTISERS. Viewed from the standpoint of news merit, circulation or advertising power, THE PIONEER PRESS is the peer of its competitors and stands forth as a brilliant example of successful modern newspaper methods. It has encircled the Globe and satisfied 85,000 users. A record unprecedented in the history of typewriters. The only typewriter you CAN'T WEAR OUT, and it does ALL the work of ALL other Machines. Ten years' experience proves this. The only things that can possibly happen to it from hardest usage are mere trifles which can be fixed for a few cents while you wait. The machine proper never wears out. Think it over and send for descriptive catalogues. Prices Only 35 and 50 Dollars MOORE BROS., General Agents, 1307 F. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Harry S. Thompson INSURANCE AND BONDING AGENCY. NOTARY PUBLIC. 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