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The Pioneer "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. Anecdotal Literature REST IN PEACE. A traveling salesman died very suddenly in Kalamazoo. His relatives telegraphed the florist to make a wreath, the ribbon to be extra wide, with the inscription, "Rest in Peace" on both sides, and if there is room. "We Shall Meet In Heaven." The florist was out of town, and his assistant handled the job, and it proved to be a startling floral piece which turned up at the funeral, bearing the inscription, "Rest in Peace on Both Sides, and if There is Room, We Shall Meet in Heaven." THE MISSING UMBRELLA. On a railway journey Mrs. S——, the wife of an M. P. discovered that her umbrella in the care of her husband was missing. "Where is my umbrella?' she demanded. "I am afraid I have forgotten it, my dear, meekly answered the M. P., "it must be still in the train." "In the train!" snorted the lady, "and to think that the affairs of the nation are entrusted to a man who doesn't know enough to take care of a woman's umbrella." Henpecked husband had nothing to say. * * THE NEGRO Whatever the relation of the Negro may be to the white race in the various affairs and pursuits in life, the writer does not believe that he seeks social equality, but only wishes to elevate his race; and to contribute his part, with other races of the world, to the general uplift of humanity. The Negro is free and now placed in a position to establish, by his own efforts, a character which he could not do in slavery, and though more or less handicapped by his environment, he is striving to elevate his race by his own blows; and he has already accomplished wonders. Among these the writer will refer but to one feature, and that is the educational. He has wiped out fifty per cent of his illiteracy. He has 1,600,000 boys and girls enrolled in our public schools, with over 40,000 in the higher institutions; 30,000 Negro teachers; 21,000 youths learning trades; 12,000 pursuing classical courses; 1,300 scientific courses; 18,000 graduates. The Negro has nearly 500 newspapers; $10,000,000 in school property; $20,000,000 in church property; 130,000 farms; 56,000,000 taxable property. Is this not a fair showing? $ \circ $ $ * $ WHOLESOME $ ^{x} $ ADVICE A contemporary gives the following advice to delinquent subscribers: "If you have frequent fainting spells, accompanied by chills, cramps, corns, burions, chilblains, epilepsy and jaundice, it is a sign that you are not well. Pay your subscription in advance, and thus make yourself sure of a good obituary notice." VALUE OF NEW IDEAS. Some large business firms employ a man whose sole duty it is to read every trade journal, every technical paper or pamphlet and every magazine in order to get new ideas about the conduct of their business. Such information is laid each day before the heads of the various departments who in turn pass it down the line to men under them and see that the new idea is tested. By this means each worker is kept in touch with what other men are doing in his particular line, and so his personal efficiency is increased. Almost every thing can be done in a manner a little better than the present way, and modern business demands to know and practice the best. Diogenes carried around a cup to drink water out of till one day he saw a dog lapping water with his tongue. He threw away his cup and afterward drank water out of the palm of his hand. He got from the dog a new idea — Louisville Courier Journal. Father of His Country Had the Grlp. Father of His Country Had the Grip. As the Father of His Country had the grip it is not surprising that it should run through all the family. Oh, yes, George had it. Witness the proceedings of the Lexington Historical society, Vol. I, page 50: "And how thereby he incurred a most vile grippe, which his loyal subjects thereupon took to themselves, being only too happy, so they declare, to share even the infloowenza with the noble Washington."—Boston Transcript. Lace From St. Helena. It is pleasant to read that the work of the St. Helena government lace school has met with the approval of her majesty the queen. Since the withdrawal of the garrison a few years back the historic little island has passed through a period of severe depression. The lace school was started with a view to improving things. It will be a godsend to the island if its lace becomes fashionable in London.—London Globe. FOR A NEW COMMITTEE. After two years of incessant clamor by the people for a reorganization of the state committee they are told by Chairman Matthews that a meeting will be held in September with the ostensible purpose in view of reorganizing the committee along lines that will more nearly meet popular approval. The intention of this meeting can only be found by waiting for the report of its proceedings. In some quarters the belief is pretty strong that no well planned effort at reorganization is to be pursued but simply an effort is to be made to apply a coat of whitewash to the present committee and let the report go forth that all is harmonious. This belief is given color by the encouragement coming from sources, that have been very loud and insistent for a reorganization, signifying an intention of falling in line with the organization provided it acts "with sincerity and discretion." This may satisfy some people but no amount of "sincerity and discretion" could rally the party back to the support of the old committee or any alignment it might suggest. Many of the independent Republican newspapers of the state demand nothing more nor less than a square deal which means a new committee, and most of them will be found demanding this until the demands of the people are fully recognized and the committee when it meets should go into its deliberations with these facts clearly before it—Fairmont West Virginian. LONGS TO BE WET PROHIBITION DOOMED FOR OK LAHOMA IN A YEAR NOW PREDICTION. Expect Governor Cruce to Call Special Election Before Next General State Election. Tulsa, Oklahoma.—Some time before the next general state election in Oklahoma Gov. Lee Cruce, following a demand by the initiative petition, is expected to call a special election so that Oklahoma can vote itself from a "dry" to a "wet" state. The United States supreme court, in the Guthrie-Oklahoma City capital removal case, held that congress might not impose restrictions not authorized by the federal constitution, upon the admission of a state to the union. The Oklahoma statehood enabling act required that the capital should remain at Guthrie until 1918. It also required that the Indian Territory portion of Oklahoma should have prohibition for twenty-one years. Reject Restrictions. The people and the state legislature of Oklahoma have ignored the provisions relating to the capitol, and the anti-prohibitionists contend that if congress has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the state regarding the location of its capitol, it has no authority to impose special liquor laws upon a state. On September 17, 1907, the amendment to strike prohibition from the Oklahoma constitution lost in an election by a dry majority of 26,190. In a second election on November 8, 1910, the dry again won by a majority of 30,995. Territory la "Wet." The Indian Territory half of the state is wet by preference and practice, but went dry through protest against congressional coercion while the Oklahoma half was free to be wet. The belief exists in Oklahoma that a wet town is thriftier than a dry town. Old Oklahoma—the western half of the state—had saloons during its territorial days. The Indian Territory half of the state has never had saloons and is inclined to try the experiment. In the election in 1907 the dry majority in this half of the state was 3,691, and in 1910 the dry majority dropped to 784. Osage county went wet by 429 in 1907 and by 1,345 in 1910. Law Never Enforced. The enforcement of prohibition in Oklahoma has never been stringent. The state is overrun by bootleggers and "clubs" flourish to an astonishing degree. Occasionally there is a spasmodic effort in towns to suppress the liquor traffic, but these often are the result of strife between city and county officials over a division of the spoils. As a rule, it is easy to obtain liquor in most of the larger towns. In two days, during a convention last month in a smaller Oklahoma town, it is said that 22,000 bottles of beer were consumed. The whiskey was not estimated. The requirements for admission to drinking "clubs" are said to be that the applicant be fairly well dressed; that he be vouchered for as not being a "spotter" and that he pay fifty cents for an admission card. BRAVE FRENCH PHYSICIAN STANDS UP FOR ALCOHOL Says Uncivilized People Use Water Largely as a Beverage. Paris.—Dr. Havist, of the Academy of Medicine, has been telling Parisians what they ought to drink. Water, as he says, is nearly everywhere. It is in wine, beer, milk, and so on, as also in vegetables, and uncivilized people have used it largely as a beverage. The learned lecturer boldly declares that alcohol is poison, and that a man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds can take safely thirty-five ounces, or even a little more, daily if he goes in for rather hard physical toil. THE REAL CHRISTIAN MAN. Rev. J. Wilber Charman preached Department of Archives, Ch leston, W. Va. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY G JULY 29, 1911. VOL. last Sunday night in New York at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church on "How may the people know that I am a Christian?" He said it was not necessary for a man to go about advertising broadcast that he was a follower of Christ. "The true Christian spirit," he declared, "is shown not in looking at the dark side of man's character, but in bringing out all that is best in his nature. The average man is too proud to see the black marks, the defects in his fellow man's life, rather than the good that there may be in him. "The true Christian—known not by a badge he may wear—is known by the manner in which he talks, by the manner in which he conducts himself, and by the company he keeps. In all these matters he may still be a man among men, but with a little care on his part may show his fellow men that he is at heart a true Christian and a follower of the Master." "The leper colony in Hawaii has not grown any the last several years," said O. B. Thomas of Honolulu. "In fact the number of lepers confined on the island of Molokai has been decreased by the discovery that some of them were not suffering from the disease. "The district in which the lepers live in separated from the mainland by a high range of mountains and the lepers have a regular municipal government of their own. They have their schools and their amusements and pursue their daily work with as much pleasure and industry as the inhabitants of thriving villages." Before wireless telegraphy was thought of, and the patient could communicate with the shore doctor, the captain was the ship's doctor, says the London Chronicle. He had a medicine chest with numbered bottles, and a book of instructions. There is a ship's carpenter still living who owes his life to the captain's treatment. It was rheumatism. The captain read in the book of instructions: "In cases of rheumatism one tablespoonful of No. 11 three times a day." There had been a run on No. 11. But "6" and "5" were full. "I reckon that makes '11,'" said the captain. And he cured the carpenter by arithmetic. Coburg, Lane county, a village of 800 people, boasts two pairs of twins born within the last six weeks, and six pairs of various ages in attendance upon its public schools. Upon the basis of these facts Colonel Roosevelt is to be invited to visit Coburg while in the state and say a few encouraging and congratulatory words to the parents of the village.—Portland Oregon. The man in the club had been talking politics with a school inspector, until the gentleman declined to discuss the subject any more. "We'll talk about the youngsters themselves, for a change," he said. Do you know that both in France and Belgium reading, writing and arithmetic are being omitted from the subjects taught in infant school? The children are simply taught to be happy instead! And when they bring their dinners to school, the food has, under the official regulations, to be put into a basket, which must be labeled at the school, and put on a special shelf in a clean, dry place. Fancy such regulations here! Any old newspaper and any cupboard is good enough for our children. "In Germany, toys are provided" —A Leper Colony of Molokal. Dosed by Doser by Arithmetic. The Galaxy of Double Stars NEW KIND OF INFANT SCHOOL Prof. Pickens Lauds Manning I know a great many white men in this country, and there is no white man whom I know to be more deserving of the respect and admiration of the Negroes of America than is Joseph C. Manning. What do I know of Joseph C. Manning? I have seen him in private and in public. I have heard him in the presence of black people and in the presence of white people and in the presence of both at the same time. I have visited his home and seen him with his family. Among the many "friends of the Negro" in the white race, I have met a great host who are fakes, but I tell you that J. C. Manning is no fake. I know that he has been rough-handed by thugs, not for being a friend to the Negro, but for not being the Negro's enemy, or really for being a friend to justice. I know that he has dared to live up to his political convictions against overwhelming odds. I know that when I visited the little city where he used to live in Alabama, his political opponents, his public enemies, were yet decent enough to endorse him to me in private. I know that he has spoken through his "Southern American" as no other newspaper south of Mason and Dixon's line has had the physical backbone to speak, and as no newspaper north of this line has seemed to have the moral backbone to speak. I know that he finally moved from his little Alabama home town, for no reasons in his own mind, but because his sweet wife was in constant terror last her husband's life should be taken by the enemies of human liberty, as it had been several times treacherously attempted and a thousand times cowardly threatened. And I know that for all this he has expected nothing from the hands of Negroes, but has simply been living out the passion of his soul. In his expectations he has not been disappointed, so far as I know. But my friend, suppose his object in being just to the Negro was to win the Negro's favor, what better reason could the Negro have for bestowing his favor? There were once two white men, each keeping a store. One was polite to his Negro customers; the other was not. The one who was polite had many Negro customers, the other few, and finally none. Every sensible Negro knew that the polite man was polite for the sake of the trade. But if one man is polite for the sake of trade and another is impolite in spite of trade, why the brain of the animal that brays could decide between the two. An interested friend of liberty would be dearer to me than her disintered enemies.—William Pickens, Talladega College. for play time, and all little children are compelled to bring a clean pocket handerchief to school, and they must have a bath once a week. In Finland, the tiniest children are taught to wash dolls, dust, sweep, look after flowers, and so on; and in some Japanese schools a resting room with a bed is provided, so that over tired children may have a nap. —Answee, London. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MOBAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- IT. Rates of Subscription: 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. Reduced Rates to Culbs. Bend for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mart- lisburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. Unless the Republican party goes back to its old stand in defense of the American Negro, it will have no show to hold the balance of elective power in 1912. The Negro is coming, a fact which some willingly, and others reluctantly admit, and that is why we hear of so much intimidation, and such a large number of scurrilous articles put in the metropolitan dailies about him and his race whenever he does some little indiscreet things that would be noticed in no one save him. It is one of the greatest pities in the world that some Negroes don't have a semblance of regard for the truth. During the past week in this town, there have been some of the tallest efforts at lying it has ever been our privilege to witness, and all because those talking didn't go to the trouble to see whether what they were talking about was true or not. Sometime ago Mayor Caskey was very much wrought up about, and seemed determined to make the citizens of this town keep their hog pens, outhouses, cess pools and other places of the same kind clean, which was quite commendable in him, but he should still look a little more sharply than he already has, and he will yet find considerable for his official eyes to see and cause to be corrected. Booker T, Washington failed to appear when the Ulrich trial was called for a hearing. Why? can any one tell? It is up to him to clear himself, or go down to his grave in the eyes of the public as an alleged drinking man and a white woman seeker, at least that is what is being said and insinuated. Face the music Booker, and make the man who beat you, out a liar, for he said you would never appear against him. The many friends of Robert (Bob) Cole, one of America's foremost comedians and playwrights, will be glad to learn that he is sufficiently recovered from his recent nervous breakdown to leave the sanatarium where he has been undergoing confinement. This is good news to Mr. Cole's host of friends here and abroad, because well do they know that this inimitable artist's health means untold good to the Negroes everywhere, because he is strictly in a class by himself, England, France and America are said to have jointly handed an ultimatum to poor little Haiti, which says, in effect, that we three big and powerful countries will do as we "darn" please with you, you little black Republic, and if that don't suit, why, we will just blow, or wipe you off the map. In the interim the Haitians go about their business, run their affairs to suit themselves, and await the result with a mien that portrays bravery of the sort that was possessed by Haiti's great warrior, statesman and diplomat. Touissant L'Ouverture. May the little black Republic continue to grow and prosper, and yet shed lustre upon the race with which it is affiliated, is the ardent wish of the Pioneer Press. If the alleged religion of Jesus Christ be real and man's action here will govern his life eternally, why not control it by it? To do this every man is the other's brother, and one should do nothing that will or would work evil to the other. If, on the other hand, the world has put this sound and sane doctrine under foot, and pleasure is supreme when his fellow man is being trod on, what better weapon can be used than a shotgun? Let us suppose that two white and refined ladies pay a corporation its stipulated price for a Pullman car ticket, and when they reach a certain section of this country they are taken out of their beds in their night gowns and shoeless, dragged to a magistrate's office, tried and fined for riding there, and told by the magistrate, "You niggers might as well learn now, that the whites are not going to allow it, if they have to kill you all," and this was said by an Irish magistrate whose people in Ireland have been treated worse for the past four hundred years, than the Negroes have been in this country. He is of that infernal class of Irishmen who made Roger O Moore and Captain O'Neill's lives a hell. He comes from that source of hellish Irishmen who made many of Ireland's patriots starve and rot in jail, and others pay four hundred pounds or die in prison. This damnable Castlereagh Irishman belongs to that treacherous gang, that took from Ireland for four hundred years, her lands, her products, burned and destroyed her mills and factories and murdered her millions of men, women and children. He belongs to that band of Irishmen who were despised in Ireland in life and now are hated in their graves. He is of the Peeler class, who made O'Connell's life of honor, a constant torture and finally banished him to die from the land and the people he loved so much. He comes from that element that helped England make a law that no Irishman could own a horse, house or land, and caused every one to be sent far beyond the seas if he taught an Irishman science or literature. His class brought about in Ireland taxation and extermination, and as Castlereagh finally cut his throat, may this Irish devil cut his, or some one cut it for him. In this christian country where all live under one flag, breathe the same air, blessed by the same sun's light and rays and pray to the same God, if decent, refined and highly educated white ladies had been so treated would President Taft and the people generally be mum? No, and no again. Is not a decent, well bred, and intelligent colored girl as good as a white girl? If you say no, what think you God thinks of the two; all things being equal? Be fair and live in peace with God and mankind, or the fate of the Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks and Rome will be your doom, and all you may say or do to prevent it, will not do so. South Carolina has now the biggest blackguard and greatest coward in the gubernatorial mansion that ever graced that historic old building. His name is Coleman Blease, and we think he would make a much better dog catcher than a governor, for the latter position calls for brutality and coarseness, while the former position should be filled by a man of refinement, a quality which Blease does not and cannot possess. As a "nigger hater" he has all the Southerners of his variety "beaten to a frazzle." He is without a doubt the most degraded old scoundrel in the United States at this time, and the sooner he is dead, the better it will be for the great State of Louisiana, the United States and the white race. On To Boston The 28, 29 and 30th days and nights of August, in the year of our Lord 1911, a great national convention will be held in Boston, Massachusetts and every Negro who has enough manhood to contend for his rights, should go there and unificly combine to awaken and arouse public sentiment in favor of every right declared he is entitled by the Constitution of the United States. For the lack of patriotic contention backed by independent manhood, every year, politically, our rights have been spurred and our whining appeals laughed at and played with. Whose fault is it? Oure! Our tame submission to a worse form of slavery than that shot to smithereens, is upon us, and the longer we submit to it, the worse will be our condition. This countzy is not without another John Brown and never will be; and there are thousands of Garrisons, Phillipses, Lovejoys, et. al., and women ripe and ready for God Almighty to fill with His spirit of prophecy as He did Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was the plaintive songs and earnest prayers of the slave Negroes that made these warriors of God do their duty for freedom, and it is left for us to so tell the story of wrongs to these people, to make them as bold in the future, and as these saints of ours were in other days. It is the duty of every race loving man to go there, for as long as black men are jimcrowed, disfranchised, lynched, peonized, shot down like dogs, our refined and educated women taken from Pullman cars in their night gowns and bare-footed, and fined for so riding, there is something for brave men to condemn in no uncertain tones, and no place in the world can it be better done than right in Boston. Then bravely to Boston hie, With everything cut and dry, And with all brothers stand, In a strong united band. Billy Sunday, the first while base ball player, who is now a traveling evangelist, lately finished a six week religious campaign in Erie, Pennsylvania, and quit the town with the handsome sum of twelve thousand dollars placed safely away in his "jeans." With such a financial inducement as that held out, and paid to the inimitable Sunday, it is quite probable that most preachers, and a large quantity of laymen too, for that matter, wouldn't mind laying aside their regular duties for a brief spell, and "saving souls", too. After revolving in your mind the fact that a man was paid such a fabulous sum as Sunday has been to "lead erring ones unto the Master," the close observer cannot possibly be made to see that evangelistic work as carried on in this day and time by the Sunday brand of evangelists is other than clearly a business proposition—that is, we mean for the evangelist, because he gets the money, and the other fellows the salvation, or whatever else you choose to call it. SAVED HIS WIFES LIFE "My wife would have been in her grave today," writes O. H. Brown, of Muscadine. Ala., "if it had not been for Dr. King's New Discovery. She was down in her bed, not able to get up without help. 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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. 16 professors. Kelly Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, 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. Forinsipes thorough courses. Six instructors. 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ATLANTIC CITY AND SEASHORE RESORTS July 13 & 27, August 10 & 24 September 7 TICKETS GOOD RETURNING SIXTEEN DAYS, INCLUDING DATE OF SALE. $5.59 FOR DETAILED INFORMATION AND ILLUSTRATED PAMP.ILET ASK TICKET AGT. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent. Martinsburg, W. Va. The Nebraska Indians played the Martinsburg team yesterday afternoon. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bushlers of bushlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Rev. W. A. L. Hancock, pastor of Dudley Baptist Church, made a flying business trip to Berryville, Va., on Thursday. 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. Mr. Benjamin Smith, traveling agent for the Haas Tailoring Co., of Baltimore. He carries a fine line of suits, and is a very pleasant gentleman to meet. His home is in Hagerstown. Rev. Samuel M. Beane returned home on Sunday night from Baltimore, where he had been in attendance upon the sessions of the great; Methodist Episcopal Educational Convention which met in that city last week. John W. Dean Co. have the largest stock, the best material and sell under the best guarantee of any clothing house in Martinsburg, test it by trying it. Dr. J. W. Brown, a well known and popular practicing physician of Pittsburgh, passed through Martinsburg early Friday morning enroute to his old home in Winchester. He looked well, and was warmly greeted by a number of friends. "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 druggiants. Mrs. Laura ("Courtney") Baker, a well known woman of our city, departed this life early Wednesday morning at the City Hospital, following a long illness. Mrs. Baker has hosts of friends throughout this whole section in both races who will very much regret her death. It is no exaggeration to say that everybody liked her. She is survived by her husband, son and daughter. The funeral was held at the M. E Church, Rev. S. M. Beane officiating. 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 soothe and heals. Drives off skin eruptions, ulcers or piles. Only 250 at all druggists. The B. & O Y. M. C. A. (Jennie Smith's) Pic Nic, was held at Island Park, Harper's Ferry on Thursday. Hundreds were in attendance. SOLVES A DEEP MYSTERY. "I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart," wrote C. B. Rader, of Lewisburg, W. Va., "for the wonderful double benefit I got from Electric Bitters, in curing me of both a severe case of stomach trouble and of rheumatism, from which I had been almost helpless for ten years. It suited my case as though made just for me." For dyspepsia, indigestion, jaundice and to aid the system of kidney poisons that cause rheumatism, Electric Bitters has no equal. Try them. Every bottle guaranteed to satisfy. Only 10c at all druggists. Mr. Barber Stewart, one of the most generally respected colored men of Keyser, W. Va., died last Tuesday evening. He was aged 76 years. Mr. Stewart was born in Madison County, Virginia, where he spent his early life, and where he was employed as a waiter, but he left that state with General Hunter on his famous raid and was mustered out of the Union Army at Wheeling W. Va., in 1865, at the close of the Civil War. In the same year he came to Keyser, and was married to Mary Peters, who was employed at the home of Colonel T. B. Davis as a nurse. She curvieses, with one son, Mr. Wm. Stewart, a well known barber of Keyser, and a daughter, Mrs. Fannie Buckner, of Wheeling. For years,—until old age forced him to retire, he conducted a restaurant in Keyser and "Uncle" Barber's pies had a favorable name far and wide. He also worked for Colonel Davis, who gave him good business advice, which he heeded, and profited there by. He was also employed at one time by Wm. Davis at Piedmont. 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 L. B. Clifford, Esq. 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. Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. A Good home for a good girl to do general housework. If she chooses to do the weaning 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. C. L. 297M B. UE 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 Queen streets. These shoes have a cork inner sole on will keep your feet dry and every shoe is sold with a guarantee. Are You a Woman? TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic 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. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. ROOM 2, K. P, BUILDING CHARLESTON, - W. VA. At A. R Hammill's Merchant tailoring establishment, ladies and gentlemen can have their enits made look new by having them cleaned and pressed. 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He sells and recommends Cardui. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent free. J 54 POSITIONS GUARANTEED WE will GUARANTEE you a position if you write us real soon. We need many more students at once to supply the enormous demand for our graduates. As soon as we get the required number of students this offer will be withdrawn. So write at once for particulars. Bryant Shallon BUSINESS COLLEGE INCORPORATED GEO. W. SCHWARTZ PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHED 1864 LOUISVILLE, KY. Have You Any Mantle Troubles? USE BLOCK INNERLIN LINED MANTLES PATENTED-REGISTERED AND YOUR TROUBLES ARE OVER Block Innerlin Lined Mantles give 50 per cent. more light and will outlast six ordinary months. This means a saving of 75 per cent. on your mantle expense. TWO COMPLETE GAS MANTLES IN ONE. Price, 25 cents GET ONE TO TRY WITHOUT COST Save the box covers from 12 Block Vy-tal-ty Mantles—the best 10 and 15-cent grade of mantles sold—to the best to your dealer, or send them to us, and get a Block Innerlin Lined Mantle free. Block Vy-tal-ty and Block Innerlin Lined Mantles are for sale at Hardware, China, Plumbing, Grocery and Department Stores. Dealers Write for Our Descriptive Circular and New Catalogue The Block Light Co., Youngstown, Ohio (Sole Manufacturer) Headquarters for Incandescent Mantles, Burners and Supplies of every description, Gas, Gasoline, Kerosene, Lithium Pressure, etc. They Work While You Sleep. While your mind and body rest Casarets Candy Cathartic repair your digestion, your liver, your bowels, put them in perfect order. Genuine tablets stamped C. C.C. Never sold in bulk. All druggers. CAND. CATMARTIC Cwearers BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. Bisc. 50c. Drugstore. Genuine stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good."