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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882 Annual Address DELIVERED BY J. R. CLIF FORD, AT SESSION OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENT POLITICAL LEAGUE, FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON, MASS., AUGUST 31, 1911. Ladies and Gentlemen: It is altogether proper and fitting that we meet in this old historic hall, wherein God's chosen sons of men made the old lion of slavery that is now toothless, rise, rouse and wrestle his mane! Faneuil Hall is sacred to me, as is John Brown's Fort and the room wherein the Guardian is published. Believing in the reappearance of departed souls, that worked so hard and suffered so much for what we are only partially enjoying and contending for, how natural to feel that the real Garrison, Phillips, Lincoln, Douglass, John Brown, Lovejoy, Harriet Beccher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, and thousands of others are here tonight, alding and abetting us in our work for manhood rights. I go further and say, that those who lived and died for our freedom, are doing our cause more good at the eternal bar of justice than they could were they here, hence how vastly important it is, that we fit ourselves to receive our just and equal rights. Within this God-blessed and hallowed place, December 1885, John Boyle O'Reilly, in that memorable address of his, before his colored fellow citizens, said: "If I were a colored man, I should use parties as I would a club, to break down prejudice against my people. I should not talk about being true to any party except so far as that party was true to me. Parties care nothing for you, only to use you. You should use parties. The highest party you have in this country, is your own manhood." How true! and to help make it better, is our mission here in Boston, in the year of our Lord, 1911. True it is, that education is great, but manhood is greater. Two one is principle, the other is accident. Man was not made as an attribute to education, but education as an attribute to man. First protect the man, and you will, therefore, protect education. I would not make illiteracy a bar to the ballot, but would make the ballot a bar to illiteracy. Take the ballot from the Negro, and you take from him the means and motives that make for education. Under the constitution, every right the white man enjoys is yours, and if you have the right kind of manhood you will not surrender a particle of it, for whatever is a man's own, absolutely is his own. No man has a right to take it without his consent. He who attempts it, attempts an injury; he who commits it, commits a robbery. Are you going to boast of freedom and allow it to be done? Forbid! Almighty God. I grant the fact that our worst foes are among our own people, and that they are as dangerous to our solid progress, as are poisonous snakes to humanity. Oh! that we had the right to have the same confidence in every living Ne- gro that Washington had in his soldiers at the battle of Trenton, when he said: "None but Americans on guard tonight." It is our absolute duty to learn to agree to differ and work for unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, and in all things charity. For the constitution of the United States, built on and after the spirit of the religion of Jesus Christ, calls for equal opportunities for every man, and that means civic and political, along with work, education, culture, and everything else that goes to make a full man. This division of the human, or one blood family, called Negro, will not as a mass, contend for these rights—too much servility in their blood. That must be done by individuals, who, like Latimer and Ridley, by God's grace are kindling a fire that will never go out. There never has been an age that called for stronger men and women to do battle against more hellish wrongs than are raging in this—our country. The greatness of America and all other countries cannot be traced to the noble conduct of the masses, but to the few educated men and women imbued with independent thought—men who after reaching conclusions, rather than recant, like John Brown, would die in their defense—exactly what we need and must have—Upright, virtuous, truthful men—masters of science and unfinching workers, and all else will follow. God and nature speak to manhood, and in the language of scripture we are asked to quit ourselves like men. In all of my contention for the rights of the oppressed, I have said more of and about manhood than of race or color. The battle for liberty was not won because of race or color of the Negro, but because and only because, he is a man of the one blood family. There is no refinement, moral or intellectual quality in the color of a man's cuticle, it is neither good nor bad. It is nonsense that a man must be black to be true to the rights of black men. Our best friends have been white men, and the United States has enough of such to unite with us in the completion of the work in which we are engaged. I claim it is better to regard ourselves as a part of a whole, than the whole of a part. Did I hear some one say, but we are so bitterly persecuted. I know it. I admit it. I deplore it. I denounce it. They are trying to discourage us; destroy the amendments; rob us of our franchise; make us ride in filthy jimcrow cars; ostracise us in their churches; deny us hotel and restaurant privileges; nevertheless and notwithstanding it all, I see plainly in it the most convincing evidences of our unprecedented progress and the certainty of a brighter future. The slave never had opposition, nor does the mental or servaot. It is simed at the Negro gentleman, the business man and our scholarly and refined men and women. The Negro is all right long as he goes in rags and ignorance, for then he is in his place. A ship at anchor, with halliards broken, sails mildewed, hull empty, her bottom covered with sea weeds and barnacles, meets no resistance. She lies perfectly still. But when she spreads her canvas to the breeze and sets out on her voyage, turns prow to the open sea, the higher her speed, the greater her resistance. And so it is with the colored man. He meets with resistance now more than ever, because he is fitting himself for higher life. He is shedding the old rags of slavery and putting on the apparel of freedom. Plight with God for courageous manhood, and like the mariner who, amid hail, rain and storm bolts, battles his way against all that the sea opposes to his progress, and you will reach the goal of your noble ambition. And be assured my fellow citizens that the perpetuity and prosperity of a government like ours, depend entirely upon virtue, intelligence, and patriotism of its people, for they are the source, the fountain from which is life and power eminate. Every citizen of our republic is a sovereign whose creed, religious and political are absolute and unquestioned under our constitution, the great Magna Charta, upon which our institutions are founded. Our government is a government of the people and for the people. It is easy then to realize that upon every citizen rests an individual responsibility—a duty from which there is no exemption for any cause whatever. Every individual, so to speak, is a pillar of support; hence any failure to perform his duty promptly, intelligently and patriotically may develop a weakness in the structure which will subject it to the awful dangers of revolution and subversion. The measure of the progress of civilization is the advance of personal liberty. Destroy personal liberty, and you chain civilization to its dead body, where it will remain prostrate and helpless, until the devastating influence of national sin and neglect, like a cancer, have eaten out its life and built upon its ruins, the throne of despotism and degradation. Thus we see that the life giving elements of our institutions are virtue, intelligence and patriotism. In these and in these alone, is found the source of our existence as a people. They must, therefore, be guarded with jealous care, if we would down the old Greek and Roman rules of class freedom. Their government was not by the people and for the people, but the people were for the government, and what became of them? Then certain it is, that the safety of this republic; the perpetuity of its glory and the stability of its institutions are commensurate and only commensurate by the practice of the golden rule and the parable of the good Samaritan. But you must keep in mind that the golden rule of politics needs to be followed to the letter tenuously as John Minor Botts advises. "Whatsoever thy political enemy would do against you, do you even the same to him," which means an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and that for your welfare, honest conviction should always be put above party alliances and its lash. Bishop Turner declares he has no country and calls the flag "a dirty rag." They are both mine. Yeah, this beautiful continent is ours, state on state and territory on territory to the waves of the bounding seas. There isn't an element in land and water, but what is in you and me, hence we are part and parcel of it. And if I had my way, every colored boy and girl in America should be made to commit the Constitution of the United States thoroughly, before Press. another meal should be eaten. It's a splendid foundation on which to build our education and manhood. Don't be alarmed about the prediction of Dr. Earnest C. Levy, Chief Health Officer of Richmond, Virginia, who tells the world that the colored people are rapidly dying off, and will be extinct in the 21st century. No doubt the wish is father to the thought. Segregated, enchained, worked and robbed, and forced to live in town and city buts and hotels located in filthy allies and back streets, what would have become of the whites under similar conditions? But here is where the alarm comes in—they have in the face of it all run up from four to ten million since the war. Did they die in Cuba? the Philippines, or in America in slavery? No. But they have been nurses for centuries for the sick whites and nursed the five stricken white soldiers in Cuba—themselves immune to the disease. The reason given for forcing Negroes in filthy places to live, is that they are a menace to decency. Where they a menace to the whites when slaves? They are all there was that was good and bad of slavery, and their accusation of us is their own condemnation. Under favorable circumstances the Negroes are the healthiest and most virile people on earth, and debauched as they have been by slavery that knew no marriage, allowed no learning, no liberty, no rights and no respect for virtue, how can it be otherwise than the whites must father our sing. It is truly white men's and not a Negro problem. Jefferson forcewaw all this and said he trembled for his country. And one time when the Greeks were being murdered by the wholesale, a white woman who owned slaves, wring her hands and said: "O Mr. Jefferson, those poor Greeks, those poor Greeks, how can we help them?" Pointing to her slaves, Jefferson said, "Medam, the Greeks are at your own door, and they will remain there till God rights that wrong. If He has to decree another war to do it. When Fred Douglass said: "The only problem in America is, whether or not, the white man has enough of the religion of Jesus Christ to treat the black man as a brother, he said it all. Sometime ago a Catholic priest riding by a man plowing, stopped and said: "Brother if you were sure you would die tonight, what would you do the rest of the day? The man replied "Plow!" So I say to you to keep on plowing for all the rights guaranteed to you by the Constitution of the United States. Rights vouch deed to you by 140 bloody battles fought by nearly 200,000 brave blocks who dorned the blue and bared their breasts for your freedom and the union of this country. The battles they fought at Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Richmond and Nashville, excelled for bravery the famous battle that Leonidas with his 300 brave Spartans fought at Thermopylae. And we not only gave the Union cause the power to crush out rebellion, but have kept it in power ever since, and now are being paid back in damages for our devotion. And as that color bearer said; "Colonel Iil return those flags to you in honor, or Iil (Continued on Second Page) BY GAIN." VOL. 30. NO. 26 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. WM. PENN'S ADVICE. Penn was once urging a man to give up drinking. The man said: 'Can you tell me how to do it?' "Yes," said Penn, "it is just as easy as to open thy hands. "Convince me of that, and I will promise to do as you tell me." Well, my friend, when thou hast a glass of liquor in the hand, open the band before the glass reaches the mouth, and then thou will never be drunk again." The man was so struck by the quaint advice that he followed it. When in the South, Mr. Taft drove one afternoon to see a Georgia planter. The planter's cook, a very old woman who takes no interest in public affairs, and, of course, did not recognize the porch guest, the president. After that gentleman had driven off, the planter asked Martha what she thought of the gentleman? "Well Sir", old Martha replied, "I can't say as I saw anything partickler about him. He looked to me like the kind of a man as would be pretty regular to his meals." No WI T N E S S. A colored man was on trial for stealing chickens. The judge said: "Have you any witnesses?" "No sub" answered the black man, "I'm rather peculia sort o' person, judge, e'n when I go to steal chickens, I take no witness along." A FIERCE NIGHT ALARM A FIERCE NIGHT ALARM is the hoarse, startling cough of a child, suddenly attacked by croup. Often it aroused Lewis Chamblin, of Manchester, O., [R. R. No. 2] for their four children were greatly subject to croup. 'Sometimes in severe attacks,' he wrote "we were afraid they would die, but since we proved what a certain remedy Dr. King's New Discovery is, we have no fear. We rely on it for croup and for cough, colds or any throat or long trouble." So do thousands of others. So may you. Asthma, Hay Fever, La Gripppe, Whooping Cough, Hemorrhages fly before it. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Sold by all druggists. The man who is able to view the perpetual panorama of this age with an apparent calm, deserves praise. ATTACKS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL A severe attack on school principal, Chas. B. 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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2111 The editorial space is taken up this week with the publication of the address of the editor, which was delivered before the National Independent Political League, in Boston, Massachusetts. Annual Address (Continued from first page) report to God, the reason why, so do I say to you, and you must say to others—brothers, we must extend shoulder to shoulder in this political struggle for equal rights and liberty, or go down to our graves worse alavee than we were before the war. If you believe the voice of the oppressed is heard at a tribunal where no quibbles over constitutional trammels are accepted in abatement of justice, then, you must believe that the blood that smokes on Southern soil will rise up in future punishment against you for your cowardice and negligence with almost as much condemnation as the robbers of our rights, and the lynchers of our people will get. To limbo with educating Negroes for servants—the advocated sophistry of Booker T. Washington, who has done our cause more harm than all the Negroes in America. The teeth of time are busy end it won't be long till a central bonfire can be lighted. While I have no sympathy whatever with those who affect to despise labor, even the humblest form of it, and hold whatever is needed to be done, it is honorable to do, it is nevertheless plain that no people, white or black, can, in any country, continue long respected, who are confined exclusively to mere menial service for which but little intelligence or skill are required, and for which the smallest wages are paid or received, especially if the laborer does not make an effort to rise above that condition. While the employment as waiters at hotels and on steam boats and railroads, is perfectly proper and entirely honorable, in the circumstances which now surround the colored people, no variety of the American people can afford to be known only as waiters and domestic servants. While I say this, I fully believe in the dignity of all needful labor. All honest effort to better human conditions is entitled to respect. Daniel Webster used to say that New Hampshire was a good state to emigrate from. So I say of menial service. It is a good condition to separate from just as soon as one can find any other calling which is more remunerative and more elevating in its tendency. It is not the labor that degrades, but the want of spirit to rise above it. Exclusive service or exclusive masters is not good for the moral or mental health of any class. Pride and insolence will certainly be developed in the one class, and weakness and servility in the other. The colored people, to be respected, must furnish their due proportion to each class. They must not be all masters, or all servants. They must command as well as be commanded. When a boy I was a farmer, then a waiter, next a barber, then a teacher, next an editor and last a lawyer and the first to be admitted to practice in my state. I used them all as a means to the final end. My philosophy of work is, that a man is worked upon by that which he works. Some work requires more muscle than it does mind. That work which requires most thought, skill and ingenuity, will receive the highest communication, and will otherwise do most for the worker. Things which can be done simply with the exertion of the muscle, and with little or no exertion of the intellect, will develop the muscle, but dwarf the mind. Long ago it was asked "How can he get wisdom who holdeth the plow, and whose talk is of oxen?" There is no useful thing that a man can do, that cannot be better done by an educated man than by an uneducated man. In the old slave days the colored people were expected to work without thinking. They were commanded to do as they were told. They were to be hands; only hands, not heads. Thought was the prerogative of the master. Obedience was the duty of the slave, and the same tabliss are trying to be turned on us politically, but in the language of Robert Duras, I say, "Were I designed your lordship's slave, By Nature's law designed. Why was an independent thought Ever planted in my mind?" I declare in the language of Shukspeare: "What's piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In inspiration, how like a god; the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals!" How foreign to Bookerism! Man's true dignity is not to be found in his muscles, but in his head. That is the seat and source of all that is great in him. There is fire in the flint and steel, but friction is required to make it flash, flame and burn, and give light where all else may be darkness. There is music in the violin, but the touch of the master is needed to bring it out, fill and thrill the soul. So the latent manhood in the Negroes can only be rounded out by the same means and process that has made the whites masters in letters, skilled in labor, science and mechanism. Our watch word is, "Equal Rights and opportunities for all American citizens." We are being asked on every hand why this organization exists. What caused the war of the rebellion? Your correct answer ought to be—chattel slavery. Political slavery, worse from many viewpoints, is the cause of our organization. Many may not see things as we do, and none but men can feel them as we do. If we stood by with arms folded, do and say nothing, the time would not be long till we would be condemned for not having done what we are trying to do, by the once who are condemning us now. "We stand for men and measures, rather than for parties." What do you stand for? We believe—"In a Republic the citizen's most effective weapon is his ballot." Do you believe this to be true? If so, how can you blame our efforts to put the ballot in the hands of millions of your disfranchised brothers? So long as our kinsmen are lynched by more than half a hundred at a time; tens of thousands being worked to death on chain gangs and in prison-pens called peonage, and millions politically enslaved, so long will there be work for "The National Independent Political League to do Snail we rise from injury to arms, and from arms to liberty, and then be too cowardly to contend for it? No! and no! again. Who allowed these wrongs to be inflicted upon us, but the party who has been kept in power since the war? Yea, the party who pledged honor and the full tru- ition of additional constitutional amendments, now trampled under foot by confederate granddaddy clause? Who pardoned those peonage murderers of our peoples lives and liberty but President Taft? Who put every Negro office holder in the South out of office to please the Negro hating South? Answer. William Howard Taft. Who was it that told the President of Fish University that the colored people are a distinct class and must be so treated? Your republican President—dubbed by the South, "Billy Poesum." Who was it that ordered the discharge of our soldiers at Brownsville? Mr. Taft. When sixty odd innocent Negroes were butchered like hogs in Texas, July 1910, show me a word of condemnation from your republican President—I am frank to say. I am too "distinct" to own him. We believe that no acting head has ever companioned a human heart, that there was not a ray of glory ready to fall on it, and like Bishop Taylor, who declared that he would rather spend his next twenty years with the savages of Africa than with the angels in heaven, so would we prefer to spend our next fifty years trying to enlighten and christianize the white savages of America, than spend that time in heaven. In the name of justice, I ask why not cooperate wholeheartedly with us? We are willing to be courteous to all, but slaves to none. Mr. Taft's advice to us how to be friendly with the South recalls to me, Theodore Roosevelt's advice to the English people how to treat their colored subjects in Egypt. Did he not dine and wine Southern lynchers at the White House? It was he who discharged and disgraced the very soldiers who saved his life in Cuba and divided their hard tack with him. It was he who if not directly, did by intendos,brand us as a rpe race, when the following year five fathers of his color raped their own daughters. Looking back over the history of slavery, when his color groomed stalwart Negro men from plantation to plantation with robust women for the purpose of similar beings for sale, his lips should blister in shame. If the Negroes constitute a rape race, why was the crime never charged to them during the war when they stayed with the white women at home during slavery, worked and cared for them? If we are a rape race, why is it that of all the thousands of white northern lady teachers who went South and remained there and among them as teachers for years,the charge of rape was never made? We are not a rape race. True we have some black scoundrels among us,and the wonder is, that all are not so. But where you find one of that kind you'll find fifty thousand who would give their lives in defense of the purity of womanhood. All that the Negro is in rascality, lascivity and everything mean and low, Mr. Roosevelt's color taught him. For twenty-five years, through the Pioneer Press, I have been urging the speedy use of the surgeon's knife for all such human beasts—white and black; and by our politically clannish conduct for this class of republicans, we have won the hatred of one and the contempt of the other. We are going to redeem ourselves, for no man ever put an honest heart into an honest cause with push and pluck and failed. It's possible to gather fully half million voters around our standard by this time next year. In devotion to your people be like the Irish, the Italians, Jews and Japanese. The Irish send back to Ireland nearly $3,000,000; the Chinese $4,000,000, and the time will come, when American Negroes will be as loyal. I know it. I feel is. I see it. In hope of this we here pledge our lives and honor to work for it, till the lowest and blackest of God's children catch the inspiration. Charles H. Parkhurst says—"Prejudice is skin against soul, and pigment depriving a man of an heirship from heaven, and we are united to drive it to hell and ourselves to heaven." No finite mind could know that a fire-cracker would cause Portland to burn; that a cow kicking over a barn tern would set Chicago on fire, or that mice playing with matches would burn Boston. Equally true is, that no man's prediction that the Negro's hopes are brighted should have credence. He is the child of God, and possibly his most favored, because of his persecutor's prostitution of his manhood and defiance of his character, for "Blessed are we when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake, rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven." God has wrought miracles for him, and will continue so to do, if he loves the Lord his God with all his soul, mind and strength, and his neighbor as himself. It was his service to God before and during the war that made Mr. Toome say to Jeff Davis—"Our cause is lost." Why? said Davis, "Because the infernal niggers pray too much and God will hear their prayers." "They are ours," said Mr. Davis, "make them pray for us." "Yes," said Tooms—"pray for us with their lips, and for those infernal yankees in their hearts." He was right. As God raised up Abraham Lincoln to emancipate 4,000,000 slaves and save the Union, also Moses out of a race of slaves, and Shakespeare out of a set of sea thieves, so will He give us men and women who will astound the world. It will only happen in our extremities after having done our part, as was the case with the man who after trying to paint a picture for twenty years and failed, by dashing his brush against it to destroy it, made the very tint he had failed to all that time; and also the man who had suffered so long with intense pain, and had spent a fortune to and could not be cured, decided to end his life, by plunging a knife into his side, when lo! and behold an abscess was opened, and he got well. Truly man's extremity is God's opportunity. To better illustrate, before the San Francisco earthquake, Knob Hill was so aristocratic and castecursed that the people were not allowed, but the Sunday after the power God smote it, it was turned into a place of prayer and black and white and the poorest of men were there on bended knees praying to their one God. Do your duty and the like some day may be your glory. Though you are buried deep under prjudice, beat on the pipe of faith in prayer as did that miner a year or so ago when six-hundred feet under ground and was fed by pouring milk down that pipe, so will God feed you with His bountiful supply of saving grace. Be men, work and trust the Lord and you will reach the pinnacle and view the landscape o'er. I cling to and love the man who dares to stand alone in the right. It is one of the best ways to be popular with God; and I would rather be that, than to have the applause of the world and be popular with men. Silence, when protests are needed is a crime and makes you a coward. 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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. V. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Robert Lewis visited friends in Charles Town on Sunday last and reports an enjoyable time. Mise Stella Toler is visiting her aunt in McKeesport, Pa., and will probably remain and attend school there. The editor has been in Boston during the past week attending the sessions of the National Independent Political League. 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. The Dudley Free Baptist Church will give a grand old fashioned Barbecue and lawn social Thursday and Friday nights, Sept. 7th. and 8th. Everybody cordially invited to attend. 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. J. Frank Thompson's clothing stock is second to none in Martinsburg. He is widely known and is generally liked and does a rushing business because he sells the best guarantees fits and material or refunds the money. Give him a call. Mesdames. Mildred Fairfax and Mary Muckey spent the week in Front Royal, Virginia, and while there they were in attendance upon the Staunton District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. How would you like to number your friends by millions as Bucklen's Arnica Salve does? Its astounding cure in the past forty years made them. Use the best Salve in the world for soree, ulcers, eczema, burns, boils, scalds, cuts, cornea, sore eyes, sprains, swellings, bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for piles. 25c at all druggists. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful. salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references, H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. 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. 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. R. Clifford, Esq, Editor Pioneer Press. THE E. L. WILLIAMS CORPORATION. LITTLE INSURANCE TALKS. —No. 2— If your house should be tornight with all your furniture, what would you do? Better have it insured by The E. L. Williams, Corp. 103 South Queen St. Martinsburg, W. Va. "It SERVES YOU RIGHT." Baltimore & Ohio SEASHORE RESORTS July 13 & 27, August 10 & 24 September 7 TICKETS GOOD RETURNING SIXTEEN DAYS INCLUDING DATE OF SALE $5.53 FOR DETAILED INFORMATION AND ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET ASK TICKET ADD. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent. Martinsburg, W. Va. 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. A Good home for a good girl to do general housework. If she chooses to do the washing one will be paid $1 per week; if not, $3. The kind and fine people wanting such a girl are 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 fate, advance it. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. BALTIMORE & OHIG VERY LOW RATE SUMMER EXCURSIONS ATLANTIC CITY AND SEASHORE EXCURSIONS June 22, July 13 and 27. Aug. 10 and 24 and Sept. 7. For Rates, Schedules and Full Information, Call at Ticket Office, B & O. R. R. R. S. Bonie, Ticket Agent. 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 it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor Mr. George Shank. MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. Young Women Read what Cardui did Faribault, Mian. She says: good Cardui has done me to suffer so much with all kit so weak that I could hard bottle of Cardui, at the dru taken a few doses, I began I read what Cardui did for Miss Myria bault, Mian. She says: "Let me tell you I Cardui has done me. As a young girl, I suffer so much with all kind of pain. Some weak that I could hardly stand on my feet of Cardui, at the drug store, and as soon in a few doses, I began to feel better. Read what Cardui did for Miss Myria Engler, of Faribault, Minn. She says: "Let me tell you how much good Cardui has done me. As a young girl, I always had to suffer so much with all kind of pain. Sometimes, I was so weak that I could hardly stand on my feet. I got a bottle of Cardui, at the drug store, and as soon as I had taken a few doses, I began to feel better. Today, I feel as well as anyone can." TAKE CARDU Are you a woman? The number of troubles and irritation which, in time, often lead to a tonic is needed to help relieve weakness, headache, the signs of weak nerves and for a tonic, take Cardu. You will never regret it. Ask your druggist about. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., for Special Instructions, and 04-page book. POSITIVE WE will write a dentist for our regular number of students write at once. GEO. W. SCHWARTZ PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHED TAKE CARDUI Woman's Are you a woman? Then you are subject to troubles and irregularities, peculiar in time, often lead to more serious troubles. A tonic is needed to help you over the haze, weakness, headache, and other unpleasant signs of weak nerves and over-work. For a tonic, take Cardui, the woman's tonic. You will never regret it, for it will certainly ask your druggist about it. He knows. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women" POSITIONS GUARANTEE We will guarantee you to write as required. We will do our best to ensure that our productions, as recorded with the master of students this order will be written at once for particulars. BUSINESS COLLECTION J. SCHWARTZ MINISTRY ESTABLISHED 1861 LOUISVILLE TAKE CARDUI Woman's Tonic Are you a woman? Then you are subject to a large number of troubles and irregularities, peculiar to women, which, in time, often lead to more serious trouble. A tonic is needed to help you over the hard places, to relieve weakness, headache, and other unnecessary pains, the signs of weak nerves and over-work. For a tonic, take Cardui, the woman's tonic. You will never regret it, for it will certainly help you. Ask your druggist about it. He knows. He sells it. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions, and 64-page book," Home Treatment for Women," sent free. 159 POSITIONS GUARANTEED WE WILL GUARANTEE not to position it may write as reason. We need many more positions to grant at once to our chapels to pay for our graduates. An equal as we pay the number of students and other will be warranted to write at once for particular. Bryant Shallon BUSINESS COLLEGE GEO. W. SCHWARTZ PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHED 1861 LOUISVILLE, MN Have You Any Month Troubles? LIRED HAMPTONS ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS While your mind and body rest Cascarets Candy Cathartic repair your digestion, your liver, your bowels, put them in perfect order. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold to bulk. All druggists, Are Y Are You a --- Are You a Woman? TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic for Miss Myria Engler, of "Let me tell you how much As a young girl, I always had d of pain. Sometimes, I was my stand on my feet. I got a store, and as soon as I had to feel better. The Woman's Tonic When you are subject to a large regularities, peculiar to women, more serious trouble. Help you over the hard places, to and other unnecessary pains, and over-work. The woman's tonic. For it will certainly help you. It. He knows. He sells it. Maryannoga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., Home Treatment for Women," sent free. J 59 GUARANTEED GUARANTEED, you is notified it will treat you. We need many more people to apply to the company. We are so happy that the offer will be withdrawn and for particular. BUSINESS COLLEGE 1500 S. 10TH ST. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Troubles? LIED HANTLES CARD / CATHARTIC Secarels BEST FOR THE BOWELLI 10c. Pice. 50c. Draggistle Genuine stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "conceiling just as good." ou a Wo 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 $4.60 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, CEN, AGENT W, VA. ROOM 2. K. P. BUILDING CHARLESTON. W. VA. A. A. R. Hammill's Merchant 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.