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The Pioneer "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. MARKETING APPLES WO CLASSES OF TRADE TO BE CONSIDERED IN PICKING AND MARKETING FRUIT. Interesting Subject Discussed By Wm. H. Alderman, Professor of Horticulture, West Virginia culture, West Virginia University. In marketing apples there are two great classes of trade which must be considered. One of these supplies the fruit stands and the family tables with fancy, high quality dessert fruits. The other supplies the groceries, hotels and restaurants with cooking apples. These two classes demand an altogether different kind of fruit with different packages and different prices. The well informed orchardist knows these two classes and divides his fruit into two lots so that he may sell to advantage in both markets. For the first class he knows that he must produce the best fruit he is able to grow. His varieties must be those that stand for high quality and attractive appearance such as Grimes, Jonathan, Stayman Winesap, McIntosh and Ispy. His orchard must be cultivated and sprayed, his fruit thinned and carefully picked and packed so that it will reach its destination without mark or blemish. As a carrier for this kind of fruit the box is rapidly coming into use. It makes a neat, attractive package of convenient size and adapts itself most readily to skillful and careful packing. Obviously it is not a package in which one should put any second class fruit or varieties not fit for eating out of hand, because it is more expensive to pack than the barrel and must be sold for a fancy price. It is a temptation to pack highly colored fruits of the Ben Davis type in boxes and attempt to sell them to innocent buyers as high quality apples, but this is short sighted policy for the prices we get in the future will depend largely upon either our reputation or our notoriety in the market. The boxes are made in two sizes so as to adapt themselves to all shapes and sizes of fruits. The "Standard" box is $10\frac{1}{2}\times 11\frac{1}{2}=18\frac{1}{2}$ inches, while the "Special" is $10\times 11\times 20$ inches inside measurement. The ends are made of one piece of wood $\frac{3}{4}$ inch in thickness, the sides are also one piece wood $\frac{3}{4}$ inch in thickness, while the tops and bottoms are of two pieces $\frac{3}{4}$ inch thick. To enter into the details of the packing methods is impossible at this time because of lack of space, but during the month of September the College of Agriculture will conduct packing schools in localities where growers are anxious to try box packing. If the box pack is the ideal carrier for fancy fruit the barrel is also an excellent package for that great bulk of fruit known as cooking apples. These are purchased in quantities and for a relatively smaller price than the dessert fruits, hence they must be put up in larger packages and at less expense. For this purpose the barrel will probably never be displaced. Although attractiveness is not so vital a factor in the soiling of barreled fruit as it is in boxed fruit, still experience teaches us that it is well worth while to exercise some pains to make the barrel as neat and attractive as possible. A clean and tidy barrel always indicates a careful packer and presupposes good fruit and an honest pack. The "face" end of a barrel is always opened for inspection and this should be packed with care. If the fruit is tender or very ripe an excelsior pad should first be placed in the bottom of the barrel. Lacking this, a corrugated paper pad is the next best thing. If an extra fancy touch is desired a cheap circle of fancy, white paper may be placed next to the cushion. On this lay the "facers" which have been selected. These should be of uniform and medium size, well colored and perfect specimens. Place them stem downwards in concentric circles so arranged that the last apple will just fill the space in the center without having to select an extra large or small fruit. One large apple on the "face" will spoil the looks of all the other medium sized ones. One layer of "facera" is sufficient but over the open spaces between the apples lay others with the colored side downward. Thus a solid color is presented to the eye when the barrel is opened. As the barrel is being filled it should be well shaken at intervals to settle the apples into place and to prevent them from rattling during subsequent handling. It is not necessary to arrange the apples on the "tail" of the barrel except to see that they offer a flat surface for the head. To prevent undue injury to the fruit in pressing in the head a cushion should be placed in this end. After a package is completed, be it a barrel or box, place your name upon it, or better yet, a neat embossed label. This is an aid to the purchaser if he wishes to buy more of your fruit and at least indicates that the grower is not ashamed of his product and is willing to strike his reputation upon the contents of the package. Measuring Cup. The cup, either of metal or of glass, is another money saver. It is desirable to have two, one divided so that measurements can be made in thirds of a cup and the other in quarters of a cup. The advantage of its use is that by means of accurate measurement one of the possible causes of failure in making a dish is prevented. These cups can be obtained in any five and ten-cent store. THE GREAT AFRICAN GAME There is some doubt if baseball, after all, is the great American game. We play it, to be sure, but the colored people play it so much better that the time is apparently coming when it shall be known as the great African game. The St. Louis Giants, a black base ball team, have easily beaten everything in town but the Browns and the Cardinals, and neither of these latter will play them. The Chicago Giants, all alligator bait, have done the same thing in that city, and there are no end of people up there willing to wager that they can beat either the White Sox or the Cubs. Your Negro is not a bad athlete. Peter Jackson only misced being heavy weight champion of the world because the holders of that title through the years of his prime would not fight him, and Jack Johnson, more fortunate, bestrides the earth today like a black Colossus. The greatest bicycle racer America ever produced was Major Taylor, a Negro. Forced off on the other side of the track by the white conspiracy against him, he rode yards and hundreds of yards further than anyone else in the race, and still usually won it. Subsequently the best riders set up on their machines and watched the sunlight flash on his block beels. But it is in baseball that the descendant of Ham is at his athletic best. Less removed from the anthropoid ape, he gets down on ground balls better, springs higher for liners, has a much stronger and surer grip, and can get in and out of a base on all fours in a way that makes the higher product of evolution look like a bush leaguer. It requires some courage to predict that colored baseball, like colored pugilism, is to supercede the white brand, but someone has to think ahead and indicate whither we drift, and we therefore wish to go upon record as having said that it will. If the Browns and Cardinals will admit the St. Louis Giants to a three-cornered series for the local championship this fall it will begin in St. Louis right away.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. VA., SATURDAY. A Wonderful Achievement Leigh Mitchell Hodges in the Philadelphia North American, has the following to say about the aged colored women who was graduated from the night public school in the city of New York this year. "Mrs. Mattsa Harmon, a colored woman seventy years old was graduated from the night public schools in New York City. At the age of 60 she made up her mind to go to school. She had heard of the night classes and she determined to attend Vam. "I'm sorry I didn't do it years ago, but if it isn't too late now, I want to learn all I can!" she said to the accustomed principal to whom she made the application for information and who had supported she was interested in some child. She herself was the "child." She—a Negro woman without book learning and within four years of the biblical limit,—had suddenly awakened to the great fact that "I never too late to learn." She started in with the children and young folks in the first class of the elementary department, and followed the course to the finish. Every week night except Friday and Saturday, she walked slowly to school with her books under her arm. Weather made no more difference to her than it does to the average person who has bought a seat in the theatre,—not the average person who has a pew in church! She really wanted to learn. When any one really wants to do a thing that can be done, the achievement of the end sought is reasonably certain. Really wanting to do a thing will even bring seemingly impossible goals within reach. And when Mrs. Martha Harmon celebrated the rounding of her sev entieth milestone by receiving a diploma, she also got two gold medals. They came from the Board of Education. One for general excellence in studies, and the other for punctuality in attendance. In the four years she had not missed a session, and only once was she late—that time three minutes behind the stroke of the bell. This simple, true story of what an old colored woman has done, is one of the most helpful and encouraging human documents that ever came my way. I have been thrilled by reading what took place at Thermopylae and to this day my heart beats faster when I stand with Horatius on the bridge. There is inspiration in David's daring and the dogged persistence of Christopher Columbus; in Milton's sublime acceptance of a handicap and Newton's sacrifices for truth. History overflows with men, women and incidents which tonic us mentally, morally and spiritually, if only we will take the time to read about them. But in splendid contrast to the high writ deeds of past days are the fine present examples which; too often clip by; unnoticed examples Department of Archives, Ch lepton, W. V. Press. BRIBED BY GAIN." 911. VOL. 30. NO. 30 that are easier to apply to ordinary lives dealing mainly with ordinary circumstances and conditions. Maybe there is something you would like to have or do. Maybe you are sort of down hearted and discouraged because it's too late! Put a mind picture of Mrs. Martha Harmon on your mental insulted piece. Picture her as a member of a race that had no chance at all until fifty years ago; as a person at an age when the average person is getting ready to close the book of life grace fully. Give her just what she deserves and no more. At a meeting of the committee in charge of the exercises attendant upon the inauguration of President elect Thomas E. Hodges, LL. D. of West Virginia University, a program for three days, November 2, 3, and 4, was outlined. The exercises will begin with a meeting presided over by Hen. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Free Schools and President of the Board of Regents. There will be addresses by at least two educators of national reputation. The program of the second meeting will consist of addresses in the form of greetings from the presidents of neighboring institutions of learning. The regular inaugural ceremonies will take place on Friday, November 3, at 2 P. M., beginning with an academic procession, which will, of course, make an imposing appearance. Governor Glasscock will preside at this meeting, and addresses will be delivered by distinguished visiting educators. The inaugural address of President Hodges will close the exercises. On Friday evening there will be a large Pan-Hellenic meeting and procession, after which the various fraternities will hold reunions and banquets. This feature itself is expected to bring together large numbers of the University Alumni and old students. --- Then ask yourself why you heci tate!" INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT HODGES. Saturday, November 4, will be West Virginia Day. At a meeting in the forenoon there will be addresses by Alumni and other friends of the University. In the afternoon there will be addresses by Alumni and other friends of the University. In the afternoon there will be the great game of football between the old time rivals, West Virginia and Washington and Jefferson. The detailed program will appear later. ATTACKS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL A severe attack on school principal, Chas. B. Allen, of Sylvania, Ga., is thus told by him. "For more than three years, he writes, "I suffered indescribable torture from rheumatism, liver and stomach trouble and diseased kidney. All remedies failed till I used Electric Bitters, but four bottles of this wonderful remedy cured me completely." Such results are common. Thousands bless them for curing stomach trouble, female complaints, kidney disorders, biliousness, and for new health and vigor. Try them. Only 500. at all druggists. VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTERS. A christian minister had several daughters who were very fond of dress, and this was a source of grief to him. He had often privately reproved them, but in vain. At length while preaching, on the Lord's day; he took occasion, among other things, to notice pride in dress. After speaking on the subject for sometime, he suddenly stopped and said with much feeling: But you will say, look at home. My good friends, I do look at home (all my heart aches). And (pointing to his daughters) he added, "Children you know that I have often reproved you, but in vain, as is evident to the congregation." SOLD VEHISUS SOLED. Gen. F. D Grant said to his servant one morning: "James, I have left my mess boots out. I wanted them soled." "Yes sir," said the servant. The General, dressing for dinner that night said again. "I suppose, James, that you did as I told you about the boots." James laid thirty-five cents down and said: "Yes sir, and this is all I could get for them, though the Corporal, to who I sold them said, he'd have given half a dollar, if it had been pay-day." WHAT IS A BABY? He is—the prince of wails—an inhabitant of Lapland—the morning caller—noonday crawler—the midnight bawler—the most precious possession, a key to the hearts of all clauses, the rich, and the poor alike in all countries—a stranger with bold check who enters a home without a stitch to his back, and is received with open arms by every one. WE'RE ALL PINCHED. In'a Fourth of July address, Mayor Shank of Indianapolis once said of Washington's truthfulness: "Few of us, alas, can lay claim to that absolute veracity which was Washington's boast. Thus the show pinches us all, when the story of little Jack Smith comes up. Little Jack Smith's Sunday School teacher, after a lesson on Anantas and Sapphira, said: "Why is not everybody who tells a lie, struck dead?" Little Jack answered gravely; "Because there wouldn't be anybody left." THE WRONG END. Senator Bayley told a story at dinner in Gainesville, of the civil war. Once during this war, he said: "Senator Wigfall, a member of the Confederate Congress from Texas, fell in with a party of Union soldiers. The Senator, being well disguised, conversed freely with the Unionists, asking them, among other things, what they'd do with old Wigfall if they caught him." "We'd string him up," the soldiers announced promptly. "Serve him right too" said Senator Wigfall, "and by gum, if I were there, I'd be pulling on one end of the rope myself." AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mar- sburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 11 Politically and every other way, our expressions should be wise and few. We are curious to know why the minutes of the grand jury cannot be the property, if so desired, of attorneys. Will some one tell? A political party may fool part of the Negroes all the time, and all of the Negroes part of the time, but no political party can fool all the Negroes all the time. Mr. Lincoln will exouse us for paraphrasing his wisdom. As our fathers wrung from the reluctant hand of King John the great Chart of freedom, protecting every freeman's person against assault and arrest without due process of law, so is the great National Independent Political League trying to protect and enforce it—that's all. Did ever a man get a stiffer knockout blow than Mr. Taft? Do you think he will ever again be able to homeswoggle the citizens into voting for him again? Don't you believe when he is out of the White House, a better gateway to the nation's capital will be opened? I do, and to that end I shall work and vote. Ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, spoke to a large audience at the First M. E. Church on Wednesday night, under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Governor Glenn is a pleasing and fine speaker, and to us he is best known as a firm friend of the Negro. If our neighbor, the Hon. J. C. Gilmer, the astute editor of the Cherleston Advocate does not belong to the National Independent Political League, he must have been seriously touched on the raw, for the independent sermon he preached in last week's Advocate, is the best Independent political gospel we have read for a long time. That "some speech" certainly did awaken him. Grimke, the learned South Carolina jurist once exclaimed in the course of an impassioned legal argument; "What is my country but an independent judiciary, and what are the balls of justice but temples of the most high?" We want the fruit of such a country and the blessings of such balls, and to us they are coming as rapidly as possible, and of this be assured, the harder we work and the better we act, the quicker they will come. Don't you think if less was said and done about children's teeth and tonsils, and more said and done about most all the tots smoking cigarettes, more good would be done? So addicted to this notoriously bad habit that they puff them on their way to Sunday school, and go right up to the public school doors and lag there to puff them out. Were ye editor teaching as in other days, every boy who smoked out side would be made to smoke on the inside. It's an outrage, and we very seriously question the fitness of any teacher who allows it. No Jim Crow For Us. Our opposition to the Louisiana advocated location of that Panama Exposition was its connection with jimcrowism. California, the state that takes no stock in the stinking old thing, got it, and has the independent manhood to tell the whole world, that there will be no jimcrow annex, Booker T. to the contrary The Inwood Fair just closed last week, which barred none on account of color, and immediately large bills were flung around announcing a jim crow fair. The best reason for jim crowing Negroes, is they like it so well, that they are never better satisfied than when jim crowing themselves. Why did not colored people who had anything to show, or wanted to see the best that existed on exhibition, go to the Inwood Fair? They all were welcome. What have they, as a mass or even a class, to put on exhibition that would reflect credit? The all important question to ask is—when will Negro preschoolers stop playing the monkey to make money? The Newman inferno—called campmeeting—is dying from dry rot, and the people should give no support to any of its side shows. Sometime ago, a crowd of people were at the wharf in Baltimore waiting for their jimorow boat to come in. By and by she loomed up, and it was not long till a flag was seen dangling. Many whites were there among whom were some German women. When the flag could be seen plainly, it was red, with a black bird in the middle. A German woman was curious and anxious to know what country the flag represented, and as none of the colored personse seemed able to tell her, she asked a white lady who stood by, "what country is that flag from?" "It belongs to this country," was her reply, "No," said the German lady. "Red, white and blue with stars, is America's flag." The white American smiled and said: "That's a nigger flag and we call it a jimorow flag." It so angered the German woman, she turned herself about and seeing some refined looking colored women, walked up to them and said: "Do you welcome that flag? It's a oourse to you. Were I a colored person, I'd die before I'd own that flag or ride on that boat." A similar spirit must permeate the soul of every Negro before justice can be enjoyed, for God only helps those who help themselves. Since, however, politics is looking up, and agitation is rife, and certainly at the bottom of the sea, a hidden game of politics is being played. Dr. Booker T. Washington refused to come, and since Mr. Napier is Bro. Taft's right hand man, and he is coming, et. al., it looks mighty suspicious. Whenever the government starts to crush monopolies out, to all of which it gave birth and aid to injure the consumers, the poor people begin to rejoice, but if they only could see through it, they would not do it. Why do you want to know? Because you did so over the great coal strike when you were paying two seventy-five and three dollars a ton for soft and five for hard coal. The coal barons lost millions of dollars, and up went soft coal to five and hard to seven dollars. Who has not only been paying back the loss to the mine owners but because of that strike still putting millions of dollars in their pockets but the poor hard working class? The same is true of sugar. It was not the alleged scarcity of the raw material that made it jump from 5 to 8 cents, but the cost of that law suit must be paid, and it has been, and had it not been for Mr. Arbuckle the poor would have been robbed of many more millions. What's true of coal and sugar is true of every thing else under opposition to wrong—hence we favor the Australian government ownership for the good of all the people and sure as 2 and 2 are 4, soon as the poor people see it in the right sense it will come to that and may it hasten to a completion. Biggest of all trusts yields. The billion dollar steel corporation is planning to dissolve. * * Strong card for President Taft—Baltimore American. We are from Missouri. Don't see it that way. The Republican party has lived, thrived, fattened and billionized itself and its institutions;—1, on tariff; 2,—on civil service; 3,—on trusts, through and by the poverty paid wage-earners, now dependent on them, and any and all of their destruction means the same to them that it does for Mr. Taft. Thank God for the latter, while our heart goes out for the former. Indeed, from the signs of the times, we predict an election sadly detrimental to the biggest faker of a Republican form of government that ever existed. We had the pleasure some years ago to meet at Martinsburg, during a session of a District Conference the confessed statistical brain power of the Washington Conference in the person of Rev. Dr. Sylvester H. Norwood. He impressed us most favorably on first sight, so much so that we could never forget him, and have ever since closely watobed his career. His minutes of the Conference compare with any we have seen. The Washington Annual Conference ought to be thankful to God for such a brave, clean-handed, noble hearted, christian gentleman. He is big enough to be a bishop, and if the editor of the Pioneer Press were in that body his constant effort would be to send him to the next General Conference, where manly men could see, a manly man. Be it understood that the vendetta has been declared, and that we intend to push our political rights from Dan to Beersheba—Join the army, and share the glory that will crown us as freemen indeed. We have the power in our own hands to do it. For twenty-five years nothing was done to do away with the filth of Cuba, where it was emptied or thrown into Havana harbor. It was the cause of the curse of yellow fever there, and to every American city along the Atlantic coast, but at last it reacted and began to kill by thousands the Spaniards who caused it. About that long something worse has been going on here in America—worse than yellow fever—it is robbing constitutionally free men and women of their rights; holding and working them as slaves; murdering them by the wholesale, disfranchising and jimcrowing them, but certain as the Cuban fifth cursed the Atlantic seashore cities, and then went back and would have killed every Cuban, so will these curses ruin Americans, unless stopped. If you have an itching palm to get an education, have your infant teeth crowned with gold, your tonsils trimmed up, and to be sure there will be nothing in the way, circumcision had better be looked after. What a pity we old ones, and our fathers, and their fathers, and on back to Adam and Eve, had not bad school doctors to look after nature's defects, so that we could have been educated, and done something these up to and past date fellows, would rise up and call us blessed. Might as well box up and throw all of our home doctors into the whirlpool of the Opequon at Schoppert's Ford, and if this is not done, and done at once, we suggest that an extra session of Court be called and a grand jury charged to indict all WILBUR P, THIRKIELD, D. D., PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. 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My! what perfectly educated men and women we are going to have in the future, unless some of these silly home doctors get stubborn and refuse to obey the decrees or injunctions, when some of the children are sent to them. A FIERCE NIGHT ALARM is the boarse, 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 coughs, colds or any throat or lung trouble." So do thoneanda of others. So may you. Asthma, Hay Fever, La Grippe, Whooping Cough, Hemorrhages fly before it. 500. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Sold by all druggists. 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Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esg. Editor Pioneer Press. 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 Phonics. IN MEMORIAM. Sacred to the memory of my dear and beloved mother, who departed this life September 2nd, 1910. She is gone, but not forgotten. Two years ago for that world which is new. That both parents from us have gone. They have gone beyond the skies. There to sing their morning song. Call not back the dear departed, That are now at peace and rest, But prepare though trials beset us To live in heaven forever blest. I feel sure again to see them In that new home bright and fair, And rejoice to sing the hym. I will meet them over there." Selected by Elizabeth L. McDaniel. HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. THE ACADEMY. catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. EAST BOUND. Martinsburg, W. Va. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. Dade Green is in Martinsburg again after a pleasant trip to his home at Elkton, Virginia. Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. Elsewhere in this issue will be found the advertisement of the Great Hagerstown Fair and Horse Show. It is a fine exhibition, and everybody who attends, will find it well worth the price charged for admission. Rev. Wm. Craven, of Charles Town, visited friends in Martinsburg for a day or so this week. He was looking well, and was highly elated over a trip to Canada, from which country he had just returned. Mrs. Sallie Hopewell, who was taken to the Freedmen's Hospital, at Washington, to be operate upon, is doing nicely, and if nothing unforeseen occurs, she will soon be home again. 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. Dr. T. K. Oates, the well known physician and surgeon, is around and about again after being the victim of an attack of typhoid fever. His recovery is highly pleasing to a host of friends, who know and like him for his real worth. Mr. William Roman, the well known horseman and contracting hanler, spent Sunday and Monday of this week in Jefferson County among friends and relatives. Incidentally, while on this trip "Uncle Billy" visited "Prospect Hill Farm," near Charles Town. Rev. W. A. L. Hancock, the well known and popular pastor of Dudley Free Baptiat Church, has resigned his pastorate. He has many friends here who regret his departure, but they are hoping that his every effort will be crowned with success when elsewhere he goes. KILLS A MURDERER. 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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. Thompson & Thompson have the largest stock, the best material and sell under the best guarantee of any clothing house in Martinsburg, test it by trying it. THE E. L. WILLIAMS CORPORATION. LITTLE INSURANCE TALKS. —No. 2— If your house should burn tonight 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." 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. Baltimore & Ohio TO MAMY POINTS IN California, Colorado, Alberta, Arizona, Idaho, British Columbia, Mexico, Montana, New Mexico Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. TICKETS ON SALE DAILY FROM SRPTKMER 14TH, 1911, TO OCTOBER 14TH, INCLUSIVE. FOR FULL INFORMATION CALL ON OR ADDRESS R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. 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. 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. THE KEYSER, MOOREFIELD AND PETERSBURG 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. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1911 ALMANAC The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS. The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 35c postpaid. 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