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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Pioneer Department of Archives, Ch W. Va. The "HERE SHALL ESTABLISHED 1882. Notes. Notes. The New York Independent says: "It looks very much as if in Chester County and the town of Coatesville, no one could be convicted for murder. It is doubly and trebly disgraceful for Pennsylvania, if in that old free state a Negro can be taken from the power of the authorities and burned to death and hundreds know who incited the crime, and yet nobody punished for it. Some half dozen have already been acquitted." I marvel at this utterance from the Editor of the Independent who is a sincere friend of the Negro, who has always rung true whenever occasion has arisen for him to speak out in our defence. I am afraid that he expects too much of his race when he expresses surprise that more of the white men who participated in the Coatesville barbarism have been punished. Negroes who have followed the case have never for one moment thought or believed that any of the criminals who participated in the brutal and cowardly murder of Zach Walker, will be punished for their crime, and most of us are reasonably certain that none will be. I am now proud to am now beury twenty nine years of age, and I am unable to recall a single instance occurring in this country. where the leaders of any mob of white men, or any of their accomplices have either been imprisoned or suffered the death penalty for the killing of a Negro—the evidence of their guilt being established accord- pocus to elude the just condemnation and punishment of a Righteous God for their sins of omission and commission in compromising with these red handed murderers of a helpless human being. MIDNIGHT IN THE OZARKS and yet sleepless Hiram Scranton, of Clay City, Ill., coughed and coughed He was in the mountains on the advice of five doctors, who said he had consumption, but found no help in the climate, and started home Hearing of Dr. King's New Discovery, he began to use it. "I believe it saved my life," he writes "for it made a new man of me, so that I can now do good work again." For all lung diseasee, congba, colds, la grippe, asthma, croup, whooping congh, hay fever, hemorrhages, hoarseness or quinsey, its the best known remedy. Price 50c and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. THE NATIONAL AMATEUR TRAP GUN CHAMPIONSHIP. At Columbus, Ohio, June 20 b to 23rd, 1911, over four hundred trap shooters hotly contested for honors at the Annual Grand American Handicap Tournament. There were famous Shooters there gathered from all points of the compase, striving to break the clay targets with a minimum of misses. The Amateur event of the year—the classic National Amateur Championship—was won with a regular Stock "Trapshooter" Grade Stevens Repeating Shotgun. This is the noted Non-Baikable Natural Pointing Repeater and the man "behind the gun" was Mr. Olyde Collins, of Alldine, Ind. He shot the remarkable score of 196x200—18 yard rise. Never did the lightning like operation and perfect natural pointing features of the Stevens Repeater appear to better advantage than in this notable National Gun Victory. The J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass., makers of Stevens Repeating Trap Guns, are being congratulated from all sides because of their splendid triumph—trapshooters "who know" are convinced that for beat results the celebrated Stevens Shotguns are indispensable. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MAKES SLIGHT CONCESSIONS Now that the Republican Executive Committee has made a partial concession by providing for a direct primary for nomination of candidates for County, State and Congressional offices, the progressive leaders demand that the primary be extended to Senatorial and Presidential candidates, and have started a systematic campaign to pledge every candidate for the legislature, if elected, to support a primary law including these features. Republicans throughout West Virginia will be urged to write to members of the state committee demanding a Senatorial and Presidential primary next spring, and also to notify all candidates for the legislature that they cannot expect progressive support unless they pledge themselves to aid in enacting these reform election laws. ALBAMIA TURNS ALBAMIA TURNS GOES BACK TO LICENSE AND THE REGULATED SALE OF LIQUORS IN SALOONS, CARRIED BY MAJORITY OF 1600 Commissioner Lane and Chief of Police Bodeker Give Startling Figures Regarding Situation in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.—After a sharp campaign, Jefferson county has gone "wet" by a majority of over 1,200, and for the regulated saloon by a majority of over 1,600. Nearly 600 people who voted "dry" failed to vote for the dispensary in preference to the regulated saloon. Jones G. Moore, who was an ardent prohibitionist in the "wet and dry" [Name] Commissioner of Justice of Birmingham, Ala. fight in Alabama in 1907, was the chairman of the local option campaign committee. Commenting on the victory, Mr. Moore said: "The result shows beyond a doubt that the people are thred of the evil effects of the blind tiger and the illegal sale of liquor." The campaign was bitterly contested, with most of the city officials in favor of the return of the licensed saloon. Judgo A. O. Lane, former mayor of Birmingham, former judge of the circuit court of Jefferson county, and now commissioner of public justice in Birmingham advocated the return of the saloon. Lane on Prohibition Commissioner Lane said that since April, 1910, there had been 1,066 arrests in Birmingham for violation of the prohibition laws, and of that number 668 were convicted. Of these cases 559 were appealed, leaving only 103 to pay fines in money or labor. The or- [Name] GEORGE H. BODEKER, Chief of Police, Birmingham, Ala. tire docket in the criminal court, before a judge and jury, during a whole Press. week last June consisted of prohibition cases alone, and there was not a single conviction. Judge Lane said that ten patrolmen devoted their entire time to running down "blind tigers" in Birmingham and that for four months it cost the city over $900 a month to fight the "blind tiger" evils. Chief of Police George H. Bodeker, one of the most popular police chiefs Birmingham has ever had, made a vigorous effort to enforce the prohibition laws, and acknowledged his failure to do so. The police record of arrests as given by Chief Bodeker was as follows: For violation of the prohibition law in 1968, 508; 1909, 761; 1910, 747; six months, 1911, 808. Arrests for drunkenness, 1908, 746; 1909, 1,202; 1910, 1,966; six months, 1911, 674. Arrests for disorderly conduct, 1908, 942; 1909, 1,366; 1910, 2,281; six months, 1911, 1502. In a campaign speech Chief Bodeker said: "My observation has been that the prohibition laws are violated, disregarded and repudiated by some of the very best men in the community. This failure has also had a very devastating effect upon the enforcement of other laws. Heckless disregard and defiance of one class of laws naturally result in the disregard and defiance of other laws. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION IN 1912. No other paper is quite like The Youth's Companion. It is taken in balt a cultured homes where the choice of reading is made with as much care as the choice of friends. It entertains, it satisfies the keen zest for thrilling adventure, it is rich in wit and humor, and all the while its purpose is to be to every reader a help cowork—never a drag backward. Among the contributors to the 1912 volume will be General Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking and founder of the Boy Scouts, Walter Camp, the celebrated football coach, Hudson Maxim, the inventor of high explosives, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Percival Lowell, the astronomer, Jacob A. Riis, Marion Harland, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rev. Francis E. Clark, founder of the Society of Christian Endeavor, etc., etc. The serial stories alone, which will follow one another the year through, will be worth $1.50 each when published in bookform. By subscribing to The Companion you get them all and 250 other complete stories for $1.75, and the Articles, Miscellany, Boys' Page, Girls Page, Household Page, etc., put in for good measure. Now is the time to subscribe, sending $1.75 for the 53 weekly issues of the new edition, for on January 1, 1912, the subscription price will be advanced to $2.00. Do not forget that the new subscriber for 1912 receives free The Companion's Calendar for 1912, lithographed in ten colors and gold, and all the issues for the remaining weeks of 1911 free from the time the subscription is received. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 144 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions Received at this NEVER OUT OF WORK. The busiest little things ever made are Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, languor into energy, brain fog into mental power; curing Constipation, Headache, Chills, Dyspepsie, Malaria. Only 25c at all druggists. Bodeker Glves Figures. Office. NO. 34 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. THE EQUINOX. Tommy--(trying to master his geography lesson,) Say, papa, what is an Equinox?" Papa—Why, sonny, it—it—it—is, ahh!? For goodness sake, Tommy, don't you know anything about Mythology at all? An Equinox was a fabled animal, half horse and half ox. The name is derived from the words equa a horse, and an ox; that forms equinox. It does seem as if those public schools don't teach children anything nowadays. SYMPATHY. In sickness, pain and sorrow the heart looks and longs for sympathy as the flower blooms toward the sun. Once Daniel Webster walked from his law office to the bedside of his sick daughter. "Oil father," she said, "why did you go out this cold weather without putting on your overcoat?" With tears in his eyes Webster turned to a friend and said, "She is dying herself, and yet thinking of me." It was her sympathy, even in her dying hour that smote his heart. "We share our mutual woes, Our mutual burdens bear, And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear." When the Hoe. Champ Clark last visited Georgia he was much amused by the sad case of an aged colored man as set forth by the Negro's wife. It appears that Mr. Clark was walking along the main street of a town in that state when he came upon an old couple. The man was staggering, and the woman was beating him soundly. The representative remarked to the old negress, "You are evidently of the opinion that liquor is not good for your husband?" "Ain't good for him?" retorted the woman, "Of coose it isn't good for him, it ain't good for nobody. Why, suh, old Joe heah he's ninety yeahs old, an' done drink liquor all his life. Now look at him! Ef he had let that stuff alone, he mighter been a hundred by dis time." In our days there is more church- sanity than christianity. Daughter-in laws are seldom daughters to their husband's par- ents. It is not easy to live godly amidst filth and darkness. Satan knows that we would never consent to give up a wheel of the gospel chariot, and therefore, in his craft, he only asks for the linch pin. A fence on the edge of a precipice is better than a hospital at the bottom of it. Watch the minutes, and the hours and the days will be safe. 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. READ THE PRESS. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- KIT. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1.50: Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing - - 50c. J. B. Cifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Beil Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1911 You can kill quail and pheasant from the first of November to the first of December. The editor of this paper acknowledges with thanks, the invitation to witness the induction of Hon. Thos. E. Hodges as President of the University of West Virginia, at Morgan town, Friday, November 3, 1911. Patterson Creek is the finest bass stream in West Virginia. There are more fish and big ones, than we ever found in any other West Virginia stream, and the farther up you go, the better for big fish. We regret our possible inability to be present at the inauguration of Dr. Thomas E. Hodges, LL. D., as President of the West Virginia University at Morgantown, Friday, November 3, 1911. Too many people are getting killed daily by automobiles. It is not the fault of the machines, but the foolish people who occupy them. Why not go slowly with a sharp lookout for danger? That would prevent it. Had the twenty sticks of dynamite gone off at that bridge, the South's "Billy Possum"—President William Howard Taft, would never discharge another batch of Negro soldiers—all of whom are glad he escaped it, for they don't believe in revenge, The unveiling of the monument erected by the Knights of Pythias, in memory of the late Hon. Samuel W. Starks, the lamented Supreme Grand Chancellor of that organization, at Charleston, West Virginia, November 20, 1911, at 2:20 P. M., will be an imposing affair, and thousands of people will be there. You go too. It is not whether Mr. Thompson's Mr. Charles D. Hille as Chairman of the National Republican Committee exactly suits the President, but it is very important that he suits the voters, and so far as J. C. Napier being treasurer of the United States, that may come to pass when two moons eclipse. Why not give credit where credit belongs? The Advocate foretells that Mr. Taft will in no uncertain tones condemn lynching in his forthcoming message. Stick a pin in it, that had it not been for the National Independent Political League's request, the Advocate would have been minus that editorial. So much for so much. Science is all right, and has done wonders for advanced civilization, but has not Mr. Edison's European trip taught us a lesson worth considering? While motoring in Switzerland his auto turned turtle and was so badly broken that he could do nothing with it and had to have it hauled to a place of repairs by a cow and a mule—the long and old way of doing things. It brings to our mind that once Africans were masters of the world's science, but, finally lost their grip, as this age's science is destined to do in time, and go back to primitive methods. So far as we can see into politics, it seems safe to predict that the two most disturbing elements of the two old parties, will be Bryan and Le Follette. One thing looks plain and that is if they can't get the nomination, they can and will get the scalps of the persons whose hopes run high to win. It is useless for the Keyser boys to go up into Grant County to hunt for big or little game, when ye editor is there. He gets the big game and the big fish. He knocked the Keyser boys out so completely, that they became so disgusted with themselves, they shot their shells away at chestnuts, and when Streets goes up he'll do the same. William Jennings Bryan gave William Howard Taft—the South's "Billy Possum"—a hard nut to crack, at least to date he has not cracked it. It was: "Why did you appoint Mr. White instead of Mr. Harlan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States?" The answer is still in embryo, and may never be born. The question hinges on this fact: why oppose big corporations and be governed by them? Last Wednesday our regular correspondent, Rev. Dr. William Gerhardt, was ninety four years old. He and his loving wife left for Sommerset, Pa., the place and choice of his father when he came to America many years ago. His memory is very strong and reflective; his vitality wonderful; his eyesight good enough to read and write without glasses, and his soul is ripe for that better land where prejudice dwelled not as is the case with him. Glorious old warrior, may you round out the 100th and live many more years. Be Reasonable "The fresh air" fad for the cure of consumption, no doubt, comes in for as much condemnation, as have the tariff, civil service and the trusts. All the latter one time ruled the day, but now amid their condemnation, they are causing many men to be indicted, tried, convicted and imprisoned, and the time is not far off, till the whole will be bitterly anathematized. The same is true of the exposure of the lung afflicted class being exposed to the cold air. Akin to poor feeding, clothing and bedding, the exposing of such beings, got their sickness, hence how can the cause of sickness cure it? Be honest, and say I don't know. The safest rule is to keep consumptives in doors, warmly clad, and as well fed as possible. Wendell Phillips November 29, 1911, will be just one hundred years since Wendell Phillips, the greatest abolitionist, orator, scholar and devotee to right, was born. It was he who forcesaw America's injustice, and counseled the colored voters to be independent in politics—break away from the Republican party because it broke away from us. A nobler man never lived, and for that reason, a universal jubilee should be held on the 29th of Next month, in every village, hamlet and city in America, but to the colored people in particular, is the appeal made. Had that dear soul lived, battled and died for the cause and uplift of any other race on earth, the Negro excepted, his birthday would be remembered and baptised in tears of joy. Let us set that day apart the United States over, please God, and cause his soul to rejoice on his one hundredth birthday. Warning: Pay no money for the Pioneer Press to any one except the editor himself, who will spend the month of November calling on his subscribers, who will do him a favor by preparing for the call, and that means to have the money ready. Very truly yours. J. R. Clifford. AUSPIRIOUS OPENING OF FALL TERM AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY. Agricultural College Has More Students Than in Past The fall term at the State university at Morgantown has opened auspiciously. There is the largest freshman class in the history of the school. A large body of fine young men and women have been sent up from the growing high schools of the state. The high school movement in the state means increased numbers for the university. West Virginia is doing wonders just now in the way of organizing high schools. Many township high schools are being planned and dozens are already started. There is scarcely a report of an adverse vote in any township. In a few years scores of the graduates of these schools will come up to the university. There is no doubt that the new regime at the university is attracting students. President Hodges is well known throughout the state, and his strong personality counts for much in building up attendance. The university has need of warm friends throughout the state, and President Hodges is the man who can win-them. The Agricultural college has more students than in the past years, and twice as many as this time last year. Dean Sanderson is surrounding himself with a faculty who are splendidly equipped for the scientific teaching of agriculture and for popularizing the results of scientific investigation. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. organizations are taking an active part in university life. The reception given to new students by the Y. M. C. A., on Wednesday, September 27, an "all men" affair, was a decided success. Many lonely freshmen found congenial friends. The joint reception of the two Christian associations, on Saturday, September 30, called out the largest crowd and was the most pleasant social event on the university calendar in a long time. No longer would there be gossip through the state that the university is a Godless institution if the spirit and work of the two Christian associations were generally known. President Hodges has been much in demand as a speaker during the summer and fall. The meetings addressed have ranged from a meeting of the state board of trade to a church conference. At all he has preached the gospel of righteousness in all business, either public, private, commercial, educational or religious. Agricultural Train on the C. & Q. Railway. The College of Agriculture has arranged with the industrial department of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway to run a special agricultural train from Huntington to Roncevorte and over the Greenbrier division to Durbin during the week of October 23. The train will stop at all the principal stations along the lines, making four or five stops a day. There will be four cars and a private car. One will be devoted to lectures on grain and fertilizers by I. S. Cook, of the College of Agriculture, and a discussion on alfalfa by Willis E. Wing, Mechanicsburg, O. In the other day WATCH IS A COMPASS. Most men who own a watch think they know all about it. They have the number fixed in their memory in case it is stolen. They could probably pick it out from fifty other watches with their eyes shut. But how many men know that their watch is a compass and will tell north from south as accurately as it will tell the time of day? Stanley, the explorer, did not know it until he had groped his way through the dark continent and met a Belgian sailor on the coast. Every watch is a compass. If you point the hour hand to the sun the south is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII to the dial. Suppose for instance, it is 4 o'clock. Point the hand indicating 4 to the sun and the XI on the watch is exactly south. If it is 8 o'clock point the hand indicating 8 to the sun and the X on the dial is due south. No man can get lost if he carries a watch. coach, Professor W. H. Alderman, of the university, and Mr. S. W. Moore, of Elwell, W. Va., will discuss the subject of fruit growing. Mr. W. W. Sprout, Middlebrook, Va., will talk on potato growing. Two baggage cars will be filled with exhibits illustrating the talks given in the cars. This is the second agricultural train to be run by the College of Agriculture this autumn, and much interest is being manifested in it by the towns which will be visited. SNAPPY TEAM AT WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. The football season of 1911 is well under way at the university at Morgantown. Coach Lueder is fast whipping the team into shape, which was seen on Saturday, Sept. 30, when the boys from West Virginia clearly outplayed Waynesburg college, 17 to 0, with only four days' practice. This year's team is practically made up of last year's players, and with the new material that entered the university this fall, Coach Lueder with his assistants will be able to develop a team which will be a credit not only to the university but also to the state. This year a training house and training table has been started by the management and at present 21 men are eating the good wholesome food provided by a trained housekeeper. This is the first time the team has had such quarters and the innovation is much appreciated. The principle games at Morgantown will be: Oct. 14, Ohio university. Oct. 21, Westminster college. Nov. 4, Washington and Jefferson college. Nov. 18, Alleghany college. Nov. 25, West Virginia Wesleyan college. Nov. 30, Thanksgiving day, Denison university. The only game to be played abroad will be on Nov. 11 with the Naval academy at Annapolis, Md. KICKED BY A MAD HORSE Samuel Birch, of Beetown, Wis. had a most narrow escape from losing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it completely. Its the greatest healer of ulcers, burns, boils, eczema, ecalds, cuts, corns, cold sores, bruises and piles on earth. Try it. 25c. at all druggists. Mr. M. L. Compton, the popular contractor, who is building the Ebenecer Memorial Baptist Church on West Martin St., is doing a fine job of work. When finished it will be decidedly the prettiest church building in the city owned by colored people. Mr. Compton and his men are first class workmen, and as neat about it as carpenters can be, and the parties having the work done are more than pleased with them. 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The roof of the new Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church is now on, and it will not be so very long until the congregation can commence to worship therein. The Bookkeeper of Stenographer who has the recommendation of the Mountain State Business College, Parkersburg, W. Va, can always secure employment. Write today for their 96 page Catalogue. Mr. Aaron Johnson came over from Hagerstown on Thursday, and brought with him a most beautiful basket of flowers, which he carried to Mount Hope Cemetery, and placed upon his deceased mother's grave. I. W. Skelton has opened an up-to-date grocery and provision store in the Wolfes Building, Corner Martin and Raleigh Sts. His prices are very reasonable, and his treatment to all customers as nice as can be. Any one needing things in his line will do well to call and see him. Mrs. C. B. Fletcher, and her two little boys, of Washington, D. C., and Miss Mary E. Fletcher, of Baltimore, visited Mr. and Mrs. P. R. 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No home or office should fail to send for them, to WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. Wanted—Honest Virginia girls (colored), for good homes. Address Mrs. C. Murphy, 1718 Union Ave. Altoona, Pa. 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 Speare and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sandries. 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. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and sheds. 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. 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. Made A New Man Of Him. "I was suffering from pain in my stomach, head and back," writes H. T. Alston, Raleigh, N. C. "and my liver and kidneys did not work right, but four bottles of Electric Bitters made me feel like a new man." PRICE 50 CTS. AT ALL DRUG STORES. STEVENS The Number 520, Six-Shot Repcating Shotgun at $25.00 is a hammerless gun with a solid frame. Easier to operate—quicker and smoother action than any other. It never balks and is perfectly balanced. Detailed description of any of our guns is in our 100 Page Free Catalog. Send for it TO-DAY If you cannot obtain STEVENS RIFLES, SHOTGUNS, PISTOLS, TELESCOPES through your dealer, we will ship direct, express prepaid, upon receipt of catalog price. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY P.O. Box 6003 CHICOPEE FALUS MASSACHUSETTS Couldn't Walk! Couldn't Walk! "I used to be troubled with a weakness peculiar to women," writes Mrs. Anna Jones, of Kenny, Ill. "For nearly a year, I could not walk, without holding my sides. I tried several different doctors, but I grew worse. Finally, our druggist advised Cardul for my complaint. I was so thin, my weight was 115. Now, I weigh 163, and I am never sick. I ride horseback as good as ever. I am in fine health at 52 years." We have thousands of such letters, and more are arriving daily. Such earnest testimony from those who have tried it, surely proves the great value of this vegetable, tonic medicine, for women. Cardui relieves women's sufferings, and builds weak women up to health and strength. If you are a woman, give it a trial. It should help you, for it has helped a million others. It is made from pure, harmless, herb ingredients, which act promptly and surely on the womanly organs. It is a good tonic. Try it! Your druggist 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. J 58 POSITIONS GUARANTEED WE WILL GUARANTEE you a position if you write us real soon. We need many more students at once to supply the encompass demand for our graduates. As soon as we get the required number of students this offer will be withdrawn, we write at once for particulars. Bryant Shallon BUSINESS COLLEGE INCORPORATED GEO. W. SCHWARTZ PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHED 1964 LOUISVILLE, KY Are You a Woman? TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic 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." J. R. CLIFFORD. MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts with a weakness peculiar to Jones, of Kenny, Ill. "For ilk, without holding my sides. s, but I grew worse. Finally "ASWESEEIT." Is the Title of a Book whose author is Robert L. Waring, Esq., 609 F. Street Northwest Washington, D. C. It is excellent, and is destined todo 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 of our 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. A. A. R. Hammill's Merchant tanning establishment, ladies and gentlemen can have their suits made 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. man? TRE Tih | BLICK ENSDERBYER TYPEWRITER Peed | It hag encircled the Globe an | users. A record unprece history of typewr The ouly typewriter you CAN it does ALL the work of ALL ot! years’ experience proves this, The possibly happen to it from hardest. which cun pe fixed for x few cents machine proper never wears ont. 4 for deseriptive catalogues. heed, Ars 7 Prices Only 35 and { MOORS BROS,, Gener 3307 F, Street, N. soe eect ____ Washington, It hag encircled the Globe and satistied 85,000 users. A record unprecedented in the history of typewriters. The ouly typewriter you CAN’? WHAR Oua, aad. it does ALL the work of ALL other Machines, Ten years’ experience proves this, The only thiags that can possibly happen to it from hardest usage are mere trifles which cun be fixed for » few cents while you wait. The maciine proper never wears ont. Think it over and send for descriptive catalogues. Prices Only 35 and 50 Dollars MOORS “BROS,, General Agents, 3307 F, Street, N. W,, Washington, D.C. Coe es 7 nay fe ESESS ar ange . a 2 ale : : Se eS Sg a mee ‘S ravce tas a ae Live 7, for twenty-eight re ary QE _ Leura s Ve NT SY RLY Re € ‘ HX ee An » f ‘4 rb SSA OH Bot od 8 Ms FE Re 9 Be 9) ie ey PIED be B Q GE AE aes Ma A SES yibicerery OO 7 tee tele Emm, OTN aN Yh, GING SCS Se ral, A i Reg OS sit ASE NRE IES eee ey SR ES pines Sk Ea Tena y SOE ee ee NA, ING. ff a SEER ech Mah Neh hh Pe _— Pe Be amon itera eth ry hie Seay = SPOT AG MCS NS ERA SE oT : T aber. 8deouasrsa BBokae otenae GS 2. Fake Down Rebsating Shotguns | The Ve iecester Repeating Shotjun nas stood the trying \ saecticdl cents of spurtemen and the rigid technical crala i siche U.S. Ordnance Moard. ts popularity with tha for+ i J mer and the official endorsement oy (ie latter are convince {i fag prooi ufits relinuiity, weeriny snd shooting qualitice. tt f Send for Catalogue ot Winchester ~the Red YW Brand-—Guna on! A:nmwaition. hi Wixeresrer Aereatinc ARMs 09. : : New Haven, Conn. BSE oS ecient ey wie aaidsice alll a See Cue eee ena FRESS Hies been the jeader in this Btate and Nation for the grand and noble fight thavis being waged for the awclioration of the condition of the Negro, The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this cbar- acteristic, THE PRESS should bave tho unswerving support and encour— agement of Negroes everywhere. it contuins roliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. It is valely recommended to you as A perfect aewspaper for the home and family. ITLEADS in the quantity of crigiual matter which it furnishes its | patrons. IT LEADS in ils spicy editorials and fearless sayings, IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pages. VAKNN ailin all, we don’t feel that we are ezavcerating when we state that Tho PIONEER PRESS i one of the best all. ground weekly papers in this country today. WARE not slene ia making this statement, for some of ths best avd most prominent ron of the United States bave done likewise, These porsons above referred to. were not comined te ono particulsr race, either. but to both. ear aN NAG ‘our Local Desler has tl in sity pair yas es Baa BA ehelones, dscorcted with boeuitul dente ROB et ar tose them whether you buy or not. i PAG Or SHIRLEY PRESIDENT. SUSPENDERS oe wre the kind with the Sliding Cord Back, comfort. & : able and durable—the kiud that lets a man forget @ag a he hos suspenders on=-the kind he would choos> Sod if be veere buying them himself. 7 | SSo kay If your Dealer is out of the President Holiday fy i Done one Boxes doa't aceeyt come other kind~-send direel EOS ch ES RY tour, ote color preferred aad whether light or by 1 ES i ae ° ineciain, weight webbing. Enclose 3‘) seats per pair uid we will mail to any edd:ere, f SU PE u Sigued groroates oa evsny pels Ss Na eq bit totay and get part of your Chridtons ; Shopping off your mind. ib AP you would file three bead ital a\ti Panels, size 10at 4 f FOR Sgjuiesten fe rama das cain he Pea # | CHRIS TRG AS TRE G, 2. EPSARTON Fa eo, RGRR Bed HRN 333 Main Si, Shirley, Hase, i SPE YB eR AE ETO ee eee aOR eee ed t= se ah She a SERIE GRAN Sty RNG EM Real Scents Re oss PRIS, WSEAS NGO Ree ROR cami Ad aa aed CE A ate ER INE A Eiee a Reon tint kana CC TO Pe ONE | . one Cosy On stomps for a litte camipica-cf | es reg a SORES SRA ‘ 1 ATMA COR OY EO Goh fay ones Nal RET Bay SS ooh i RRS OE ati bs ilies BN we A AU WRU Sa ae aed ‘4 poten both Aa et ae EET LE at Heel Le Fath ee AS 4 The totect Parts perfor ermze i i AL A wondcrtnt ¢ cation, ast like ihe livine: Messeme. Ask your ps gi Conlor fer a lovee hottto -- Tho, (6 os ) Write ont Ameriean Olivas Ba fi to-day for tho sample, onelorin ide (iouey poctageand packing), SA ‘| y 5 2 7 postag r Sie ! Partomertc BD. SIVAUD, cept ne fe 4 ED. PINAUD BING. NEW vorx “ a . cea ea OO) EE aS RECEP eer ne eee semen tL y ek la Bos ea fe § ORR ¢ >LQNEER f ups CE Bo PIONEER PRESS ¥ IES, oD) Has the LAKGES® city cirenls- tien-— The LARGEST Foreiga cireulan tion— — The LARGEST domestic and eneral circulstion— | The LARGEST county and rurel eiroutation of any Negro newspaper in the United States Has the LARGEST Anglo Saxon circulstion— oe RR7 Ne Wy peta Egy gina ita EROS Da ACES SSS EO Ki Dy ey eay eo ‘E NG RE Gy 8 1 3 & “MA? Ee rUronRmt Pe hE Bp Why Sia FS Fins a Baa A ee en ony 1 Re Nees Pixy CORSETS ft race Ae tg eagle roery ee ioe eae So SEAT prcown cathe 4 Baa) Se RS See EN A ate acct estes Ss Se ie: D-, : ea ‘ (Te cae HE Nuform is a popular priced ye ON IRE AR ee z i “a 8 SMe Fe corset, mrexieled on lines that per- . m8 Bs 2 ‘i a p fect your figure. It defines grace- foe ful bust, waist and hip lines and fie ' 7 Ye at the back. — fre Gor The range of shapes is 9 voricd, every k ba At 81) figure can be fitted with charming result. fy eR All Muform Corsets ere made of service: AN | AU7 able fabries—both heavy and light weight \\4 daintily trimmed and well iailored. ' ; yi f Your dealer will supply yea with the model WE | | Hs dest cuited to your Sgurs. oY fies Nuform,Styla 476, (fs pictured). Foraverege os I tre figures. Medixm low bust, extra eki: length over Seif || i Ae abdomen and hips. Maco ef dutsble eoutil aad light ce | Uni PBN} weight batisie. Mor: cipporters. Sizes 18 to 30. Be i Habe Price, $1.60 a I JL ied Nuform, Ste 40t. For average and well devet- 4 a BRT a rrares, 3 cacatengthover hrs, evel f "UUW ack and abdomen. Coutil and batiste, Teco * Stell EA saipotes. Si re 0 Price, $1.50. oe : : ; f ft nie! | oP ‘ of of ‘ K ar aad 1 Ny € “ IS THE ABOVE SOt | BECAUSE itis the pioncer of this Section in blazing the way for truth, honcety, piety and fragality and ail other voquisites that are necessary for the making of wanly. men and worm sly women of all reces. BOCA USH it merits sapport and gets if is proof positive that people know » cood thing when they sea it, BECAUSE of its unique “and originsl qualities the PIONEER PRESS hss a noticeable exclusive- ness vajoyed by no other paper in the class whoraia it ciroulates. BS! F Bis BA he Piew, a LOU@OR Digan orcs Pua cr onc, Press With its generally large. and intelligent circulation will bring ABUNDANT AND PROFITABLE Revrurns TO ITS ADVERTISERS, Viewo! from the standpoint of news merit, circulation or advertising power, THE PLONEER PRESS = sho peer of its competitors and yaods forth aaa brilliant oxample a t ‘Trpgters newauaper moth nn Harry S. Thompson INSURANCE AND BONDING AGENCY NOTARY PUBLIC. Among my epocialtics are fire, life sn¢ accident inszrance; sale and ental of real estate; collections of unpaid bills, &e., ke. Aesuring the [public that sny business left in my bands will be promptly and properly attended tod respectfully solieit a Bhare Ci Clty snc Couniy patronage or. eaves Pe sissinee aS Se GE ee Wee PN SEWING MACT ANE; . ROLLER PeAKiVa, eA Ric GRADE #3 Bo ren hiktcetn : eh Bes Bice ea tbe BOSE reg Ree a ae Bee BeOS Ee eS st SE Rae ? RSH seems as f uy St, Aken Hh SW, (AY Acromete OPES bait) © Liv: ee py Lies BENS orca erescks FPS BR ay Rr} oe I thy tuiying thks ea ey ba Ceging this aii polieblo, honesty Syrvccire: high grade seuwe BA Ne na 7 STRONGEST Ci ANTS, Netlcnsl four Baclise Gay Belwidere, Ui, "how Are Sour ecdneys 0 Dr. Tobhe' Sparague Pilly cure cll kldrey ils. Pare Seen earn ecare an anes te ee . Laide, so yearns’? Me tuy Sk Enigncg OES RE SB Pal ode ALE LO, SM RGhgeais! abt! FUKENI crane AERA Tope ta. ans eye CoeynicutTs &c. Anrono sending a ntetch mud donirtion way tons atrictly comoentt. UANDUGSK on Patents BOIL frags Ghoul necney oe eae matehtn Pe Cater Muna Manne eer tossiee mnie oho Barge hi” S TEAR Cisne? Seteiiic Aacericag, Altondsomelz Iactrated woctty. Larsest ctr ieee ar glecterting eae arinet te gee Tate nine ci Sold 5g ih pooner TURN & £9, 2510:0a0001. Now York 2 Branch Oittee, 63 B St, Washington, D.C. og pena N RAY rhe We Asie You #3 to take Cardul. for your female troubles, becauss wa are sure it wili help you. Roraember that this great female remedy— maar 7 7 i a Se Ba OF G MENG te Ri) £3} hos brought reltef to thousands of % Vier sick Women, so Why not to e your For headachs, backache, & mi periodical pains, female weak- Ki cess, many have said itis “the ff €) best sadicine to take.” Try tt : S018 in This City . ps NN. sass peecrararee ns segty i108 gins) scoreren ern “igi daiaihacdaniaeaes =) = 3 O 2 EG key a a PF Ag = 2h, = i. ee a kt ey — So peg O cm Z 2 iss pus | “a a i Bae oO sk > Reet : Bw Ra > me y > HRS : g ya O aie re 2 = 3 OQ E Z| aa ° rd Tm iWiyiag Aucad | of all [Competitor 3 Tn oar prescripvion work we use the bestyuslity of drags and chemi- cals thas we van obtain, taking great care to abu that evory one is of stan Jord strength, We use every pocsible precaution: to iveure exactness and efficiency im campounding cach preecription, Gor prescription. department tes wll eqvipped with mouern facilities for duiag the most thorough high- quality prescription work. Our prices (or putting up preserip~. tious and bovschold recipes will ale waya be moderate, Ginpext’s PHARMAOY AC°PREMIVMS FREE b PSs eee ORR een Bo Oi). 5 eG pS M OA RU ore k BD aS ee te ie sa aa SE RAN PAY Sree eA s VA Ki MG Te A EN yy oy TRS os} ys Bs w awed f Tetorn this "Adve are Femivee he S) Brice wn make you ga 2 Bones of oucheed Wes Bea Ancceted Sande, which we want (0 introntee aoekiy (SSIS new caiomern, ard wo wif send You Cee, Tnckane 18, & W. Mod. Duvble Acton Mickel Phere Police Revelver, worth Bitar Y Stern Wise at See Gott “Vinto Wate: eatin $421 Hollow Greate eat Gitiinng iagina steel Rewer priced 38.1 Sette TN SihvercPiaual Fea Spoons worsh ti: ala Oe her oot ent Velie Prem iumeaich we havenes anaes ae cm, worth fram 10 cents ty 81 eseh Se sceegmene Femi 33 -aith order and allow us ts REFUNGTOCR BRONEV ie'son°are" nit pleased. with poete, IU aietainers Give tate of segs xine a Ne Greer PQDAV. "Reference Southern Express Cone Ricoh of Montacmery. 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