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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, C h London, W. Va. The Pioneer TESTABLISHED 1882. Interesting Facts About Negroes Interesting Facts About Negroes GATHERED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE N. S. H. R. BY BRUCE GRIT. Eurybiades, was a Negro general who distinguished himself at the seige of Troy, and is mentioned by Homer in a poem, in which he is alluded to as "a reverend herald of sable hue, with short wooly locks" etc., a description sufficiently clear to indicate as to what race he belonged. Hanno an African, flourished when the Carthagenians were in their greatest prosperity. Some place his time 40, and others 140 years before the founding of Rome, which would be about 800 years before our era. Hanno was an officer of great enterprise; having sailed around and explored the coast of Africa, he set out from the pillars of Hercules, now called the straits of Gibraltar, and sailed westward thirty days, and it is infirmed by some that he must have visited America or some of its islands. He wrote a book which was translated and published about 1553 in Greek, the title of which was Periplus, giving an account of his voyages. The best account of Hanno, or of any other Negroes of antiquity who distinguished themselves in any way, will be found in Spanish, and other Latin histories. Marrianna's history of Spain contains a full account of Hanno's voyages. It is very clear that Christopher Columbus was not the first navigator to discover the New world. Seneca lived about the commencement of the Vulgar Era. He wrote tragedies, and in one of them occurs this passage. "The time will come when the ocean will loosen the chains of nature and we shall behold a vast country. A new Typhis shall discover new worlds. Thule shall no longer be considered the last country of the known world. St. Gregory who flourished in the 7th Century, in an epistle to St. Clement, one of the African Bishops said: "That beyond the ocean there was another world." Another authority informs, that Aristotle in a book attributed to him says: "Some say that beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the Carthaginians have found a very fertile island; but without inhabitants, full of forests, navigable rivers and fruit in abundance. It is several days voyage from the mainland. Some Carthaginians charmed by the fertility of the country thought to marry and settle there, but some say that the government of Carthage forbid the settlement upon pain of death, from the fear that it would increase in power so as to deprive the mother country of her possessions there." "If" says our author, "Aristotle had uttered this as a prediction that such a thing would take place in regard to some future nation no one perhaps would have called him a false prophet for the American revolution would have been its fulfilment." So that it will appear that the Carthaginians an African people knew of the existence of the new world, years before Columbus took possession of it in the name of the King and Queen whose subject he a I record that some of the sailors who accompanied Columbus to the new world were black men, and that one of them was a pilot on whom he depended. This man is referred to as "El Negro" in some reliable histories of that important event. Mr. J. Boyd Thatcher, in his history of Columbus, I believe, mentions that there were Negro sailors in Columbus' ships. Now if it be a fact that one of these Negroes was his pilot on that voyage doesn't it follow that he must have been over the route before? else why was this particular Negro selected by Columbus as a pilot? It is significant also that the great Columbus first landed, in a country inhabited by a people who certainly were not white, and that all that is mortal of him now lies, or did lie in the soil of St. Domingo, a country inhabited and governed by black men, who have since erected a monument to his memory, which indicates that there must have been a strong attachment between the great Italian navigator and discoverer of the new world, and themselves. We must go to Spanish history for the facts and the truth about Columbus, and his voyage to the New World. Because English and American historians write history with their prejudices and too often obscure and behold the truth for obvious reasons. There is no authentic, no reliable or trustworthy history or biography of Alexander Hamilton, Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury. Of his early origin, and parentage all of his American biographers are as silent as clams. Aaron Burr who killed him in a duel, knew however,something about his beginning and used an opprobious epithet about him in a letter to one of his (Burr's) friends, which reaching Hamilton, fired him just like Pushkin, the poet of Ruesia had been, when one of his associates referred to his Negro origin. This slur of Burr's no doubt precipitated the duel between Hamilton and himself, just as D'Anthes fling at Pushkin, brought about the duel which culminated in the latter's death at the Hague. There are a great many white men, and colored men who are convinced that the great Alexander Hamilton had the African reinforcement, and the care and pains which his American biographers take to conceal the fact only strengthens their belief. If he had lived in France, or Spain, or Italy, or Russia, where men of mixed blood have risen to eminence, his Negro blood would not have embarrassed him any more than did the African strain embarrass the Dumas pere and fils Pushkin, in Russia, Dodds in France and dozens of others who attained to the highest honor in the old Monarchies of Europe. But the super-sensitive American white man is as squeamish about his origin as he is about the beginning of Louisiana Society. Any reference as to how its foundation were laid or to the character and quality of the first Emigres who were transported from France to its then new colony excites in them a degree of horror which the English language cannot adequately describe. And yet the facts are of record, that Louisiana, old Virginia, Maryland and other of the early colonies were penal colonies of France and England to which their Anecdotal Literature THE LEASE CORRUPT. Representative Longworth tells of a Negro who brought his three sons to town on election day in a border town of Ohio. "Hello, Rasius," said a man who knew the Negro, "what are you doing here?" "I's just projackin' round to see how's election." In the afternoon the same man met Rasius again. "Have you voted, Rasius?" he asked. "Yasiel, I voted, and my boys too." "How did you vote?" "Well, boss, it was disaway. I meet a Republican on th' street, and he gibs me seven dollars to vote his ticket. An I meets a Democrat an' he gives me seven dollars to vote his ticket: So I voted for th' Democrats." But the Republican gave you the most money." "Yassir, dat's jist th' point. I voted for them Democrats because they was least corrupt. HANDICAPPING CUPID. Senator Davis said, "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. Whenever I hear of an old man marrying a young girl, I think of the cupid story. "Cupid" indignantly cried a millionaire of 71 years—"cupid would be powerless before such an iceberg as yourself, Miss. Why, a score of cupids armed with a hundred arrows each, could not pierce your heart of stone." The young and beautiful girl tossed her head as she replied: "Not they couldn't—if they used an old beau (bow) to shoot with." WINE KIOT. "I heard the other day," said a mild-looking chap to a waiter in a restaurant, who said: "I understand they've been having incorrigible and undesirable citizens some of whom were criminals, were deported for their country's good. Australia and French Guiana, which are Penal colonies—at least the former was, up to a certain period, will some day swell up just as Americans are now swelling up, entirely for getting that there are skeletons in their closets. It is good for Negroes to know these facts, and there are plenty more where these came from. A knowledge of them explains the meaning of the attitude of the now dominant race toward other races which are striving to get up in the world. Beneath the American veneer of civilization and Christianity there is the spirit of oppression, and injustice of political and social intolerance and of indurated race prejudice born of centuries of struggle to attain its present position. The hardest taskmasters are those who have felt the sting of the whip, and the rough inner surface of the iron and brass collars of their Norman masters. Yonkers, N. Y. Bruce Grit. Press. wine roots in France, waiter." "Yes, sir, I believe so, sir," answered the waiter. "Well," said the mild looking chap "the wine you've served me here would be enough to start a riot anywhere." WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS "I beg your pardon, sir," said the new clerk. "but that dollar you just took in is a counterfeit." "That may be," answered the proprietor "but the woman who gave it to me is the minister's wife. "But do you take counterfeit money from women just because they happen to be ministers' wives?" "Certainly, I do not." "Don't you know that the money was counterfeit?" 'Darn it! If you've got to know it, young man, that was the dollar I dropped in the contribution box last Sunday. And, look here! your business is to weigh out beans end engur &c.,—not to keep tab on your employer." PROHIBITIONISTS AP PEAL TO EUROPE FOR PETITION NAMES Augusta, Mc.—Discouraged in their efforts to get petitions signed in Maine asking for the retention of the prohibitory amendment to the constitution, the prohibitionists have appealed to Europeans for signatures to a petition. This petition was signed by men in nearly every country of Europe and will be presented to the legislature when it assembles. It is hardly probable that the petition will have any effect on the people of Maine who have not been accustomed to go to Europe to ask how their state should be governed. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE RAISES A $15,000 LEGISLATIVE FUND Baltimore, Md.—The Anti-Saloon league of Maryland has received enough subscriptions to complete its special campaign fund of $10,000 and thereby secures $5,000 more which was offered by five friends of the cause. The money thus collected will be used to influence legislation against the sale of liquor in Maryland, without regard to the wishes of the people of the state. The liquor interests in Maryland will submit a corrupt practices act to the general assembly in an effort to compel a public statement of the use to be made of all monies used for campaign purposes. A GIFT WITH A THOUGHT IN IT. What other Christmas present costs so little and means so much as a subscription to The Youth's Companion—52 weeks for $1.75? It is a gift which benefits not only the one who receives it, but every member of the same household. With many Christmas presents the sense of novelty wears off by the week's end, but The Youth's Companion is as new and sought after the second week of the year as the first. It is elastic in its adaptability, too; for it does not matter whether the present is for a boy or a girl, young married people, sedate couples, grand parents there never was one yet who did not set store by The Youth's Companion. You cannot make a mistake if you give The Companion—and it is only $175 a year now. On January 1, 1912, the price will be advanced to $200 The one to whom you give the subscription will receive free. The "Certainly, I do not." VOL. 30. M. THOMAS EDWARD HODGES, L.L.D. President of the West Virginia State University. The Installation of President Thomas Edward Hodges, L. L.D., West Virginia university, will take place November 2nd, 2nd and 4th. The committee having the program in charge are now arranging the final details. The exercises will begin with a meeting presided over by M. P. Shawley, state副主教endent of public schools and president of the board of regents. There will be an address by at least two educators of national reputation, President E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia and President W. O. Thompson of the Ohio state university and U. S. Commissioner of Education Claxton will deliver some of the leading addresses of the week. The second meeting will consist of greetings from the presidents of the neighboring institutions of learning. The regular inauguration ceremonies will take place on Friday, Nov. 3rd, at 2 p. m. These will begin with an academic procession, which will be most impressive. There will be representatives present from about seventy-five colleges from the various parts of the eastern and central states, all of whom will appear in gowns indicating their colleges and their degrees. The members of the faculty of the West Virginia university will also appear in procession, wearing gowns and the colors of their Alma Mater. Gov. Glasscock will preside at the inaugural exercises and addresses will be delivered by distinguished visiting educators. The inaugural address of President Hodges will close the exhales. On Friday evening there will be a large Pan-Hellenic meeting and procession, after which the various fraternities will hold reunions and bar quots. This feature is expected to bring together a large number of the university alumni and old students. The "Groeks" declare that they will have over five hundred men on the ground. There is great enthusiasm among them and their coming will be a notable event. Saturday, November 4th, will be West Virginia day. At a meeting in the foreoon there will be addresses by alumni and other friends of the university. In the afternoon there will be the great name of football between the old-time rivals, West Virginia and Washington and Jefferson. The detailed program will appear later. 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 refires the money. Give him a call. Companion's Calendar for 1912, lithographed in ten colors and gold, and you, too, as giver of the subscription, will receive a copy of the Calendar. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 111 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions Received at this Office. NO. 35 The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. 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. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1911 Don't lose sight of the fact that because Bryan did not defeat Martin of Virginia he is a back number. What will real good thinking people conclude after lightning killed fifteen of a mob bent on lynching a colored woman, the mother of two children by a white man, at Griffin, Arkansas? Webster's International Dictionary is the finest thing of its kind in print, and has too much brain, energy, wisdom and soul put into it for any other dictionary to get its place in the hearts of lovers of the best. We are in receipt of the annual report of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for the fiscal year ended June 1911. It is a marvelous document, and shows the well known trunk line to be in excellent hands. The little printed squib of Mr. Taft's Quinn Chapel speech, at Chicago, does not make a ripple on our "made-up mind" opinion of the man, for the reason—Taft can taffyize Negroes easier than any one we know of, considering the past. Everything he said that night sustained jimcrowism. Two of America's greatest men and scholars, Wm. Jennings Bryan and Horace J. Rollin, declare that La Follette is the best man in the United States for the next President. We like both men and tie to their predictions, but we like the fisherman. "Is dancing beneficial to persons and society?"—C. F. No, to neither. We have passed 68 years and never tried to dance but once in our life, and that was in Cumberland, Md., in 1872. So dumb in the art of being fashionable, or foolishly, we confessed that we did not know what to do. A miss said: "I'll advise and show you" and I'll go, responded I, and I did, but that was the first and the last time I've tried to dance. President Taft as good as admitted his defeat next year, in his late Chicago speech. While he did not say La Follette has the right of way he may as well. He reached his smothered conclusion possibly, on the ground that the best men are for that particular insurgent. Anybody to beat Taft seems to be the slogan, but we want that anybody to be fair to all alike—white, black, brown, yellow, half black and half yellow, and almost white. The following excerpt was clipped from the Twin City Star, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is so elegant in expression, and so forceful from a common-sense viewpoint that we are proud of having the privilege of reproducing it in our columns: 'The Republican Party is a ship, all else is the sea,' said Fred Douglass. The Grand Old Man was unquestionably right when he made this assertion. But since the many changes, it is better to be drifting on the bosom of the deep blue sea with a life preserver and a hope of rescue, than as a stowaway among the cargo of an ill-fated trump married by incompetent officers and a mutinous crew. Woeful. Assuming that God is just and if He is not then religion and all else is false—how can the one blood-family ostracise portions of that family as inferiories because their colors differ, caused by climatic conditions. That local conditions have caused various colors and curly hair is proof positive, and the only excuse to be offered by the haters of the darker hues of the one blood family can only be traced, if history is not imposed on as lying, to the fact that the darker colors discovered this sunny clime where variegated climate whitens the skin and unkinks the hair. Now, governed by these unalterable conditions, how can the people so blessed lay stress on their superiority based on a false philosophy that they are God's elect, treat the rest of this one blood family as slaves or the scabs of the earth? If this is not true, why suppose all that are not "on top?" It's done. Every person born in America, or who comes here and takes the oath of allegiance is a citizen under the rules of our constitution. If a citizen, then why not give such all the rights guaranteed and enjoyed by others the classes denied, enriched and educated by their unceasing toil? Why not go to the same churches; the same schools, and all take an equal part in the machinery of this down going government for not doing it? How can Negro children of Martinsburg be educationally the equal of the white children when their schooling is so low as a ward school and no grammar school, or as it is called high school—which the whites have and they have no? That was a grand and magnificent naval display of your Uncle Samuel's warships in honor of President Taft at New York on Thursday, but if ever our navy is pitted against a first class one belonging to some foreign power, it will surely dawn upon America and Americans that naval battles and pompous displays are vastly different in the way they leave impressions. In fact, any time this country gets into a war with a foreign foe equal to us in every way, it strikes our mind that General Sherman's comment anent war is going to dawn upon our proud and boastful Nation with unusual severity. In Oklahoma, the "poor white trash" are trying as they think, to please the upper class, by "killing niggers," but in this particular case, there has been so much crossing of Negro, Indian, and Anglo Saxon blood that surrender with hands up—owing to the devils out of the hottest place in—massa please don't kill us, has no stock in trade, but bullets have, and have had till the courts there, have declared the granddaddy clause and Mr. jimcrow, a standard bill of fare for Negroes good to eternity, is null and void. Good! It's best to begin to think, or have the partially silent uppers to think for you, for it means yours, and not the mixed blood's destruction, but it does mean the destruction of all Negroes whose veins course with the richest servile blood. The craze of aerial navigation has reached such proportions in this country that it hardly knows any bounds. There is not the least doubt in the mind of any observant person that airships and their operators have proven that men can fly, and that very successfully, but the awful toll of human life that the airmen have paid for their investigations, results and achievements during the year just passed, is enough to almost make one shudder whenever the idea of mere man soaring among the clouds is entertained. It is not unnatural whenever any great thing is accomplished, for some to have to be martyrs, but in our humble judgment the love of adventure, and the dare devil recklessness of many air men, should be superceded by some saneness, which would cause their flights to be little less glorious, and devoid of many of the fatalities which attend nearly every aviation meet. Make no special effort to be kind, but do to be honest—the latter will make you friends, the former foes, or better, the follow that the other always "does"—for it has forced the saying to the neighborly query—"How do you do?"—"Doing everybody I can, who doesn't do me." Some people may consider Theodore Roosevelt a "dead one," but ere the nomination and election of the man who is to be the next President of the United States occurs, this view will go fleeting, and "Teddy the Terrible" will be considered one of the liveliest corps politically that it has ever been anybody's privilege to see—at least that's our view. 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. HENRY CLAY'S FORMER SLAVE DIES. The will of Mrs. Ann Maria Fisher, once slave of Henry Clay, was filed in Brooklyn, New York Tuesday last, and showed that she left a for tune of $70 000. She died Friday at No. 59 Fleet street; where she had lived sixty years, at the age of ninety two. Francis H. Gilbert, proprietor of the Saratoga Cab Company, was named as her executor. He had known her for years, and had acted as her adviser. The following bequests were made: Ten thousand dollars to the Hampton Institute, $10,000 to the Tuskegee Institute, $5,000 to the Siloam Presbyterian Church, of which she was the oldest member; $1,000 to the Amanda Smith Orphan Asylum, $1,000 to the Carlton Avenue Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, and $500 to her pastor, the Rev. William Alexander. The residue of her estate will go chiefly to her executor. She began her fortune with $800, and increased it by investment in mortgages. Former United States Commissioner C R. Lully, of Grafton, who was recently appointed U. S. Deputy Marshal in place of Capt. C. G. Dawson, his genial and popular predecessor in office, is now in the city, and appears to be busying himself in running some alleged bootleggers to earth. Samuel Birch, of Beetown, Wis., bad a most narrow escape from losing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Booklen's Arnica Salve cured it completely. Its the greatest healer of ulcers, burns, boils, eczema, scalds, cuts, corns, cold sores, bruises and piles on earth. Try it. 25c. at all druggists. EVERYBODY—Send for free sample of SUCCESS MAGAZINE & THE NATIONAL POST—the healthy, vigorous and sensible American home magazine containing the thrilling Oppenheim Story— "The Girl Of The Thirty Thousand" and receive also our money-making agent's proposition. Permanent winter employment for right persons. Address Circulation Department, SUCCESS MAGAZINE, New York. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. 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The following is the roll of the class of 1911 with their present positions: WANTED—GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 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. J. E. Fairbanks. Good Housekeeping Magazine, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. Martingburg was visited by the first storm of the fall on the 1st. inst., and it was a hummer while it lasted, 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. 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Miller, the well known contracting hauler, will be shortly prepared to supply the trade with hard wood, soft wood and all other kinds of wood—if there are any. Mr. A. B. Roberts, teacher of the Middleway, Jefferson County school, and father of Miss Edena Roberts, of the Sumner School, this city, visited his daughter, as well as saw friends here last Saturday. The Bookkeeper or 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. and Mrs. Robert Fox, of Kearneysville, came to town on last Tuesday for the purpose of attending to some business errands, and while here threw a little pleasure in for good measure. Hallow'een was quietly, but joyfully celebrated by the youngsters of our town, and a particularly pleasing and noticeable feature of their acts, was a marked absence of any real vandalism. I. W. Skelton has opened an up-to-date grocery and provision store on South Raleigh Street, opposite the County jail. 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. Mr. William W. Wilson, a former Berkeley Countain and school teacher, but now a popular and prosperous resident of Sewickley. Pa., was a business visitor to Martinsburg last Wednesday. He looked well, and we, along with many other persons in this vicinity were glad to see him. A Novelty Fair will be held at Spears' Hall, beginning October 30, and ending November 4. This entertainment will consist of exhibits of various kinds, musical selections, dialogues, declamations, addresses, and all manner of twentieth century attractions. In addition, the fact that C. H. Marshall, Manager of Marshall's Orchestra, is Chairman and Manager of this Novelty Fair, lends weight to it, and assures all who attend a hearty good time. 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It took a strong mind and a fertile brain to plan and write this book which Henry Watterson, the great editor says is phenomenal, and will be read by as many white as colored people—just as it should be, for the real and proper settlement of the so-called problem, is interdependent—one upon the other. It is written in a time as ripe to make it almost as popular as did the period that immortalized Uncle Tom's Cabin. Get the book and read it. It only costs $1.60. Address the author as given above. WHAT IS IT? 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. GIN. AGENT W.VA. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON, — W. VA. At A. 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