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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882 The Crummell School Dedicated The Crummell School Dedicated BY JOHN E. BRUCE. The Negro Society for Historical Research, of Youkers, New York, of which John E Bruce Grit is president, has presented to the new Colored School at Ivy City, named in honor of the late Dr. Alex A. Crummell, a fine oil painting (life size) of this eminent divine. At the dedicatory exercises, held Nov. 21, 1911, which were participated in by representatives of the local government members of the Washington School Board and many eminent citizens of both races, Prof. John W. Cromwell, who has been chosen Principal of the New School and who is a corresponding member of the Society accepted its beautiful gift, in a well prepared and able speech. In the course of which he said: "In a letter to a friend five months ago, I mentioned the fact of the erection of a school to be named the Alexander Crummell School. To my surprise I received in reply from my correspondent, Mr. Jno E. Bruce, the following: "I note what you say to the Alexander Crummell School to be opened in October and I am mightily pleased to learn that our grand old man of blessed memory is to be thus remembered. How appropriate this monument to his moral and public worth. * * Tue Negro Society for Historical Research will be very glad to give to the new high school an oil painting of Dr. Crummell and to deputize you to make the presentation." I cheerfully make the presentation in behalf of the society. A word remains as to the artist. He was Washington born and be lived in this section of our city as distinguished from the Northwest a pupil of the Lincoln School, of which Superviving Principal John C. Naile was principal. Among his teachers were Mary F. Kiger, Mary Minor and Louise Bowie. The boy would do nothing but draw: all remonstrances were in vain, punishment proved futile. Finally his principal, Mr. Nalle, learning of the boy's aptitude had him decorate the blackboards of the building. This the boy eagerly did, regardless of the pain which his young arms experienced. The father dying, the boy dropped out of school, he went West and first received encouragement—remarkable coincidence—in the city of Omaha which has given us our present Superintendent, Dr. Davideon, and that too from an Episcopal minister, Rev. John Albert Williams, whom many of the people of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church would have long ago had as a successor to Dr. Crummel if it had been possible. Our youthful artist left the West and settled in New York and became a student of the Adelphi School of design. Here under rigid and severe training the foundation of his excellence as an artist was laid. But I must delay you no longer than to say that one of those early teachers, Miss Minor, now Dr. Mary Minor Armstead—also his cousin lives today within eight minutes walk of the Crummell School, and it so happens that the sister of the artist, Wm. Ernest Braxton, Mrs. Ellsworth Pryor, of Omaha, where he Department of Archives, Cha HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W. first received substantial encouragement is present to realize the family ambitions, as Miss Ann Thomas, the remaining member of Dr. Crummell's household now reveals to your gaze what friends and admirers consider a life like speaking portraits of Dr. Alexander Crummell.' PROF. C. R. HEADS EXTENSION DEPARTMENT WEST VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. New Director Will Leave Ohio Agricultural College Extension Department To Take New At the recent meeting of the state board of regents at Morgantown, W. Va., Mr. C. R. Titlow, of Columbus, O., was elected as director of agricultural extension in the College of Agriculture. Pref. C. R. Titlow has accepted the position and will move to Morgentown about January 1. The new director is well equipped for the work he will do in this state, having had three years of experience at the Ohio State university with A. B. Graham, one of the best extension men in the United States. His connection with the Ohio State began in 1908, at about the time the first agricultural extension schools were held, and he has grown up with this phase of the extension work. To these who are familiar with these schools, no further mention of Professor Titlow's training need be made. For the past year or two he has had [Signature] C. R. TITLOW. charge of all the schools, fair exhibits, pruning and spraying demonstrations, special farmers' meetings, etc., and has accompanied practically every agricultural train that has been run. While most of his work has been of an extensive nature, he has given considerable instruction in poultry husbandry, of which he has made a special study. Professor Titlow was born on a farm in Greene county, O., in 1874. He received his education in the common schools and in Antioch and Wittenberg colleges. Previous to going to the Ohio State university, he spent 14 years in teaching and supervising in the public schools. He was one of the first men of the state to introduce agriculture into the rural schools at a time when public sentiment was against the new study. Now agriculture has been placed in every Ohio rural school of the state legislature 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. F. Fairbanks. Good Housekeeping Magazine, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. President Hodges InauguralAddress President Hodges InauguralAddress Everybody present seemed to fully appreciate the main thought of President Hodges, which he so ably expressed in his inaugural address. President Hodges briefly reviewed the founding of the university and the development of the different colleges. Describing the early development of the College of Arts and Sciences as the foundation of the university's growth, he said: "It was fortunate for the university that in those pioneer years there was laid for it a foundation broad and deep along the lines of culture. Without intending to discredit in any sense the training that we now call 'practical' or 'educational', it may not be cut of place to say here that it will be a sad thing for any state or nation if the time should ever come when there should be a dearth of those choice aspirants who seek learning for learning's sake, and culture for its inherent worth." Particular emphasis was laid upon the College of Agriculture and its extension work, concerning which he said: "It is likewise difficult to explain why agricultural education has not sooner received its due attention. In the first days of the university some effort was made at agricultural instruction, but it was soon abandoned and for years it existed only in name. The formal organization of a College of Agriculture was effected but a few years ago, and its large and proper development is but even now beginning. The people of the state are becoming awake to the value of agricultural education, and there is a disposition on the part of the legislature to give this division of our university a support that will enable it to be of actual service. With the addition of extension work and a better organization of its forces we have every reason to hope that agricultural education will be as it ought to be, a leading feature of our university's work. Probably in no other way can the university serve so many of its students. The extension schools enable the university to go to those who can not come to it, and to demonstrate its ability to serve the people. Extension work is no longer an experiment, but has become a well-recognized division of state university efforts. Agriculture affords for it the most inviting and promising field. In every county in the state there are men making earnest effort, from the light that they have, to do up-to-date intelligent work upon their forms. By such as these the extension schools with their trained instructors outlining and exemplifying agricultural methods that have stood the test of practical application are most cordially welcomed. Here is an open door for service to the people of the state. Shall the university enter? "By a small appropriation for one phase of extension the last legislature gave approval to the idea. May we not expect the next one to make provision liberal enough to enable us to carry the work of the extension schools along all lines into any county?" Concerning the future development of the university, he said, in part: "We should have a definite program of development, and that program should lead us rather to develop the fields in which we are now working than to seek to increase the area of our efforts. It will be better for us not to try to do anything, but to push on with the lines of work that we have undertaken, beginning only such new activities as are called for by definite demand of our constituency." President Hodges made a strong appeal for the establishment of a graduate school in the university for research work and investigation. He said: "The university in making better provision for such advanced work would not only raise its rank among universities, but would do a better thing—open the door of opportunity to many who long to become scientists and scholars. "A university must have great teachers; that is, all-important. But these teachers must also great scholars." great thinkers, original investigators. They must be men who can not only present to their students in an attractive way something of the great body of truth already discovered and accepted, but men who can bring into their work that stimulus to which there is no other stimulus comparable, the joy of a new discovery of value to their fellowmen. "Grant that the university may become a center from which shall spring to every section of the state the stimulus of real, intellectual efforts. The warm sympathy that President Hodges has with student life was evinced in the close of his address, which shows his clear insight into modern educational problems: "I have had much to do with college students in my life and have seen a great many of them with whom I have not had so much to do. In entire calmness of mind and weighing my words carefully I want to express my opinion that there could not be brought together an equal number of young men from any other vocation or employment in which young people of that age may be tested in which that standard of general behavior, of individual morality and of personal character would be go high. "Some timid souls also have feared or imagined a sort of danger to the morals of young men who come to the university because it is, as they have characterized it, godless. This is a great and, I may say, unpardonable mistake. Because an educational institution is supported by the state and therefore can not devote itself particularly to the teaching of any form of religion, it does not follow that it must be godless. Religion is not a thing merely of opinions and beliefs, but it is vitally a question of life. Irreligious men can very rarely measure up to the standard of efficient service in educational work. The spirit of a man to be really forceful should be vitalized and energized by the religious impulse, and few men without this vitalizing and energizing impulse have great power. For this reason, if no other, no state institution of learning is likely to become good. I need not take time to state how large an influence is now exerted by the positive efforts of the Young Men Christian association in the university, the active interest of local pastors and their congregations, and, best of all, by the splendid example of righteous lives of Christian men and women in our faculty—a faculty, I am glad to say, that contains as large a proportion of men and women engaged in active religious work as can be shown by the average of the denominational colleges. A good word was said for the time honored college yells. After a dramatic portrayal of the student body passing through the streets at night with their yells for "West Virginia," he asked: "What is this? Is it a spirit of disorder, of lawlessness, of defiance or rebellion? No! A thousand times, No! How should we characterize it? I know nothing better by which to characterize it than to call it the spirit of loyalty. It is the same that characterized the patriots of 76, who followed the Indomitable Washington, suffered untold hardships and fought to the death to found a nation where men might be free. And it is the same spirit that, asserting itself in public official and public citizen, whether in Pacific city, Atlantic metropolis, national capital or in less prominent communities near at home, during to face stupendous graft, political chancery, vested interests, unlawful corporate power, with stern fact and heroic heart, sends the malefactor to prison, whether he be the chief grafter or the millionaire who plays his game behind the scenes. And this spirit of loyalty is the same with these college men in the less conspicuous, ordinary routine of the class room as it is among the exciting scenes of the athletic field. And when cemented together by this spirit of common loyalty to a loved institution they can make common cause for it even in the lesser matters, there is promise of its cultivation and development when the real battles of life are to be fought. Shall we set this mighty power to work for righteousness, for humanity?" Saturday morning was West Virginia with Hes. H. C. Orden of NO. 40 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. DON'T WANT HIM. A lecturer, speaking of drinking young men, said: "The railroads don't want him; the merchants don't want him; the banks don't want him; the mechanic and contractor does not want him; and even the saloon keeper does not want him." Turning with his most winsome smile to the audience, the lecturer said: ' Now girls do you want him?' WHY SHE WAS SORRY. Col. Folsom was reading the morning paper when he exclaimed: "What a terrible misfortune!" "What is it—somebody got married?" exclaimed his wife. "No! but a married woman, in a fi' of rage, threw a coffee cup at her husband. The cup was shivered into fragments, and one of them cutting his jugular vein, killed him on the spot. The reporter says the grief of the unfortunate woman was dreadful to witness. She was frantic with remorse and made several attempts to end her life. "Poor creature!" said Mrs. Fol- som with a sign. "The broken cup must have belonged to her new China." WOULD NOT SAVE LIFE. As a man in black was walking leisurely along the street in one of our cities, a starving beggar whispered pituitously in his ear; "Would you give a poor fellow a dime to save his life?" "Certainly not!" the man replied, "Certainly not!" "I am an undertaker." A WORD OF ADVICE. Dad—"Just one word of advice, son, before you go away from home." Son—"Yes, dad." Dad—"Always be kind to Democracia. They have their turn once once in a while." THE GIRL DRUMMER. Miss Ivy Bratton Hodge, one of the well known girl drummers, at a commercial traveler's banquet in Chicago responded to a toast with the words: "A woman's face is said to be her fortune. In the girl drummer's case, however, it's her cheek." ON THE CONDUCTOR Dr. Nicholas M. Butler was talk- ing to the saloon of the Kaiser Wilhelm II, about American honest- y. "For all our muck raking writers" he said, "I think that the American people are the most honest people in (Continued on Second Page) Wheeling, presiding. Hon. J. H. Galmos represented the state; President Corbley, of Marshall college, repre- tented the normal school; Hon. W. W. Hughes, the alumni; Profesor L. L. Friend spoke for the high school, and Hon. H. N. Ogden for the class of 81, President Hodges' clauses. The week's festivities were suitably closed with the football game on Saturday, when the Varsity team defeated their old-time rivals. Washington and Jefferson college, with a score of six to five, before some 5,000 spectators. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO MEMORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- K. While Hon. Theodore Roosevelt says he is not for "Mr. Taft or any other man," he might be persuaded to be for Roosevelt after awhile. King George V., who was the other day proclaimed Emperor of India, is so elated over the magnificent treatment he received, and the grandeur of the Durbar in his honor at Delhi, India, that he has issued an order making Delhi, instead of Calcutta, the capitol of India. Roineo H. Freer, once a congressman from West Virginia, and a man who at one time secured postmasterships for his constituents, is now the recipient of a postmaster's place himself, he having been selected by President Taft as postmaster at Harrisville, Ritchie County. How things do change! How can members of an organization from which they have drawn out, call themselves and others into an other organization under the auspices of the old and deserted one? that's the way the Negro democrats(?) did in Washington, the 15th inst.—run by preachers and headed by that hell and bull story teller—Dr.(?) Corrothers, who told the most infamous lies in Boston, we ever heard. William F. Stone, Collector of the Port of Baltimore, has again been selected as Sergeant at arms of the Republican National Convention. This is the third time Mr. Stone has been so honored, and when the great Republican Convention opens up, ready for business, on June 18, next, the handsome face, and familiar figure of Mr. Stone will be in evidence as of yore. The Tennessee mob which lynched two Negro men and one colored woman, was without a doubt, one of the most floundish and savage sets of men that ever infested this country. Those poor people had done nothing at all except tried to be good, thrifty citizens of the community in which they lived. In fact, at the time they were so brutally murdered, they were taking some cotton that they had raised to a gin, and this is said to be what actuated the Tennessee savages in committing the foul crime they did. Russia has absolutely refused to honor the passports of American Jews. Her clearness of statement would rather indicate that she is not fooling either, although, under certain conditions, and in cases where there is room for a fine show of discretion, she might relent a particle. Some congressmen, and others of our influential men are in favor of terminating the existing treaties that now exist between this country and Russia, but in our humble judgment we don't think that would be wise. In some cases retaliation is all right, but in this particular instance, with regard to Russia's determination to treat American Jews as she proposes to, we think a waiting and argumentative policy may avail as a means of helping the Russians and the Americans to settle the controversy which occupies their attention. --- If the editor of the Pioneer Press were President Taft he would tell the National Anti-Saloon League to mind its own business. This we would do because of its interference and recommended dismissal of Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, because that grand old man acted as honorary president of the Brewers Congress at its recent session in Chicago. It would be a rank imposition in President Taft to dispense with the services of so valuable a public servant as Secretary Wilson, simply because a body of people imagine that they are aggrieved at him for acting within his province as an American citizen. If Secretary Wilson felt disposed to accept an honor bestowed on him by the Brewers Congress, he had a perfect right to do so, and it was the concern of no one but himself that he did. Furthermore, if the National Anti-Saloon League wishes to do something to creditably distinguish itself, it should quit bothering with trivialities, and enlist itself on the side of the great body of men and women who are enlisted in the battle for human liberty. The New York Tribune's implication relative to the passage of the pending pension bill is that it will pass, because its on the eve of an election, and it also carries with it the real thought, and that is, were it not near an election, a Republican Senate would repeat its defeat in honor of the old soldiers. President Taft gets $424 00 a day, and a congressman, gets over $20 a day. Had it not been for the poor old soldiers, who waded through mud, rain and snow and slept and fought in the same; marched in the burning 'sun—drinking water here and there out of horse tracks, and sometimes marching for days without anything to eat, and fighting as they did at Peterburg for three days and nights, lying prostrate in the rain and with almost no food, there would be no united country for the solons to look after. Fifteen years hence, will there be an old soldier of the civil war living? The daily sale of stamps and postal cards amounts to many million dollars; and the same is true of the tax this government puts on the manufacture of whiskey. If it be no crime for the officials to receive such money, and that away up in the thousands and tens of thousands, why not let the old, crippled, wounded and slowly dying soldiers get one dollar a day the rest of their lives? NEGRO CHAROED WITH ASSAULT ON GIRL SAVED BY To save the name of Kansas a father prevented the lynching the other day of a Negro who had attacked his defender's daughter. While Clarence Davis, a young Negro, sat shackled to a chair in a pool hall at Spring Hill, Kansas, 200 men who had captured him for an attack upon Ruth Fike, 14 years old, argued the question of taking the law into their own hands. Twenty speeches were made. At last a tail farmer pulled the Negro towards the door and cried; "Come on boys; we'll burn the scoundrel at the stake." The Negro was dragged to the street. At this juncture J. A. Fike, father of the girl attacked, arrived. Addreseeing the crowd, he said that the men must disperse and let the law take its course. "This is the man who attempted a vicious crime on my daughter," he said, "but 'Judge Lynch' does not live in civilized Kansas any more. To burn this fellow to death will only scandalize the country. Let the law take its course." The mob turned the Negro over to Fike, who took him to the sheriff. There is considerable sickness in Martinsburg at this time, and many people trace it to the remarkably warm weather that we have been having for the past week or more. Anecdotal Literature Continued from first page, the world. Is an American ever subjected at home to the petty cheats and extortions to which he is subjected in Europe?" Then apropos of foreign honesty, Dr. Butler told a railroad story. "On a foreign railroad: a commuter had a row with the conductor. At the end of the row, the commuter turned to a friend and said: "Well, the P. D. R. will never see another cent of my money after this. The conductor, who was departing, looked back and snarled: "What'll you do? walk?" "Oh no," said the commuter. "I'll stop buying tickets, and pay my fare to you." INDIAN SUMMER. Indian summer! Days of vivid color! Warm tranquil days, when even the moving world seems to swing gently across the fields of Time and Space, and the light winds to blow from out the hills of Happiness and Peace. The touch of autumn flames in the woods. It sheds a yellow glow upon the falling leaves that pave the earth with "bright palettes of gold." It casts a scarlet bloom upon trees that yesterday wore the vivid green of summer. Now they stand like Indian sentinels in war paint and bonnet, remainders of a bygone era. Gossamer filaments float upon the wind, and cobweb curtains cover the grassy heunt of the spider with a shining silver gauze. The sun distills a subtle, spicy perfume from the dead leaves and plants, while the luminous, opalescent haze enfolding the landscape veils bold outlines and gives to familiar scenes the tremulous, uncertain beauty of mirage. A mighty Merlin has cast the spell of enchantment over the commonplace and idealized realities, and summer has come back again across the frosts of fall. 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Va., as Second Class Matter Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of busiers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Mr. Ashby T. West, a worthy and manly pattern of his father, the late lamented James West, passed our office the other day, and was so busy he hardly had time to stop. Mies Hilda Hamikon, a Pittsburg young lady who is attending school at Sorcer College, Harper's Ferry, spent last Saturday and Sunday with friends and relatives in this city. Mrs. Priella Millr, one of Martinsburg's oldest and best ladies, is spending some time with her daughter at Clearspring, Md., and reports come from there that she is having a nice time on her trip. Mr. Lewis Ford, she well known broom manufacturer of Nipetown, was a business visitor to town the other day, and took time to drop in on the Press force for a few minutes. Mr. Harry Washington, a Bistr Limestone Company man who merits and gets the respect of his employers, and an all around fine gentleman, gave us one of his hearty handshakes the other day. Mr. George thurton, of the United States Fish Commission, spent several days during the past week with his parents at their home in the county. He looked well, and friends and relatives enjoyed his presence at the old homestead. 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. Mrs. Christina Smith has sold her Charles Street property, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Murphy, to Mr. Berkeley Fairfox, the barber. This is a valuable property, and we understand that Mrs. Smith received a substantial sum from the purchaser thereof. 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. SAVED HIS MOTHER'S LIFE "Four doctors had given me up," writes Mrs. Laura Gaines, of Avoca, La., "and my children and all my friends were looking for me to die, when my son insisted that I use Electric Bitters, I did so, and they have done me a world of good. I will always praise them." Electric Bitters is a priceless blessing to women troubled with fainting and dizzy spells, backache, headache weakness, debility, constipation or kidney disorders. Use them and gain new health, strength and vigor. They're guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. Only 50c at all drugstores. 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. Nine more days and Christmas will be here, a fact pleasing to many, and saddening to some. Generous Sums Given For Education. At the meeting of the general education board held in New York the last week in May out of an appropriation of $634,000 distributed among white and colored schools about $10,000 went to each of the following schools for the Afro-Americans—viz. Hampton institute, Hampton, Va.; Tuskegee institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Lane college, Jackson, Tenn.; Spellman seminary, Atlanta; Howe institute, Mouphis; Thomson institute, Lumberton, N. C., and the Florida Baptist academy, Jacksonville, Fl. WHY OWN WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? 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TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Cardui is successful, because it is made especially for women, and acts specifically on the womanly constitution. Cardui does one thing, and does it well. That explains the great success which it has had, during the past 50 years, in helping thousands of weak and ciling women back to health and happiness. If you are a woman, feel tired, dull, and are nervous, cross and irritable, it's because you need a tonic. Why not try Cardui? Cardui builds, strengthens, restores, and acts in every way as a special, tonic remedy for women. Test it for yourself. Your druggist sells Cardui. Ask him. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent free. POSITIONS GUARANTEED WE will GUARANTEE you a position if you write us soon. We need many more students at once to supply the enormous demand for our graduates. 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Call your dealer and insist on STEVENS if you can obtain we will ship it to you immediately, upon receipt of catalog price. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY P. O. Box 6003 Chicopee Falls, Mass. 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. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practice in all the Courts of Va. the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts "AS WE SEE IT," Is the Title of a Book whose author is Robert L. Waring, Esq., 609 F. Street Northwest Washington, D. C. It is excellent, and is destined to do incalculable good. In fiction it gets at facts as they exist, and outlines the real bulk of the causes of the trouble and friction between the two races. It is bound to be read the world over and will serve well its purpose. It took a strong mind and a fertile brain to plan and write this book which Henry Watterson, the great editor says is phenomenal, and will be read by as many white as colored people—just as it should be, for the real and proper settlement of the so-called problem, is interdependent—one upon the other. It is written in a time as ripe to make it almost as popular as did the period that immortalized Uncle Tom's Cabin. Get the book and read it. It only costs $1.00 Address the author as given above. WHAT IS IT? Fen year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership is devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. I., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see D. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W.VA. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON. — W. VA. At A. R. Hamull's Merchant tailoring establishment, ladies and gentlemen can have their suits made look new by having them cleaned and pressed. Give him a call when needing anything in his line, and be convinced that what we say is absolutely true. It seems that various large centers of population in at least five Southern states and wide stretches of sparsely populated country have, with one accord, grown defiant of the law, as it has been made by five different legislatures, the people of North Carolina being the only people of these five states to vote on the state-wide prohibition question. Within those two years, therefore, great retrogression in civic life has developed. Administrators of the law have become negligent; serious crimes have increased; cities and towns have lost millions of dollars in revenues; the morals of the states have become impaired; home drinking has been encouraged, with the result that many family tragedies have taken place; young men just coming of age have been trained to ignore the law; the ranks of the chain gangs have swollen, and political crimes has resulted in many sections of the South. In North Carolina, especially, negroes have been addicted to the use of cocaine since their supply of liquor has linger out off in the small towns. Many capital crimes have been the direct result of cocaine taking on the part of the negroes, whose regulation the whites have long had great difficulty in hippifying successfully. In all the large centers of population the "bad" negroes, the ones from whom it was hoped state-wide prohibition would deprive liquor, got as much now from the "illfated tigers" as they formerly did from licensed saloons. Now, however, the alcoholic concoctions these "bad" negroes get is much worse than that which they used to get and fire their minds with thoughts of criminal violence. Some of these "bad negroes" have turned "bootleggers," selling spirits to darkies and charging for it might high prices. Quenching Thirsts. In all the large cities in the statewide prohibition states, social clubs, in many instances, have become thoroughly social affairs. In Atlanta, dozens of men, who have furnished funds to start clubs, are now getting from 10 per cent to 25 per cent a month on their investments. Cards to these clubs are easy to obtain, any respectable white man coming to the city for a few days being able to get these liquor-privilege cards through the medium of hotel clerks. Commercial travelers coming to Atlanta are furnished these cards by their customers, so that to them the city of Atlanta is not "dry" as far as the getting of Biquor is concerned. These clubs also do an extensive bottle business, their thousands of members obtaining their home supplies of liquors from these men from the saloon to the club, which, as things now are going is nothing more than an exalted saloon, restricted as to patronage. In the top rooms of business blocks, in the cellars of small stors, and in shacks in the negro and milt districts the "blind tigers" keep their stocks of liquors. "Boot-leggers" drum up trade on the outside for these "blind tigers", which handle much of the green moonshine whisky smuggled into the city. If a man, a stranger, stands 15 or 20 minutes on a corner in the business section of Peachtree street, it is not unusual for him to be approached by a "boot-legger" who volunteers to tell him where he can obtain a supply of whisky. These men approach one day and night. Of course, the state and government officials are on the track of the "boot-leggers" and the moonshiners. However they make little impression on the ranks of these unlawful dealers and manufacturers, for they outnumber the officers more than 200 to one. The boss of one of the chain gangs said to me: "We have quite a number of white men or, the chain gangs building roads in this state. Most of them have been arrested and sentenced for selling liquor unlawfully. As things go, it's all right to sell liquor in Savannah, but all wrong to sell liquor in Atlanta. I, myself, like a drink of whisky now and then, but I object to being classed as a criminal if I take a drop of toddy. This law can't stand. It was made by legislators shoved bodily into office by women. If these women only understood how generally the law is violated, how the selling of vile, unlicensed liquors to 'bad' negroes endangers the safety of women in this state, they would not insist upon lumbering up the statute books with such absurd pieces of legislation as the unenforcible state-wide prohibition law. Beer drinking here is making the negroes lazy and impudent. They will hang around a saloon all day in order to get drunk on beer. They'll get drunk, however, if they have to spend all day and all night in the beer places. What is gained in the end, then?" Strong Public Sentiment Many of the cities in the "dry" states are handling the liquor question on the principle that "public sentiment is stronger than the action of legislatures." In Macon, in Vicksburg, in Chattanooga, in Savannah and in Memphis, in Asheville, in Atlanta, in Nashville, and in Augusta, public opinion is holding sway. In these cities the liquor dealers are laughing long and loudly at the laws made by overzealous legislators. The liquor dealers and their patrons openly say they do not want prohibitive laws, statewide laws, and they will not obey them. They openly declare they will make the violations of these laws so compulious, so scandalous, so brazen that the legislators will, in self-defense, and for their own self-respect, repeal the objectionable statutes. On the other hand, there are politicians in high official positions who smooth over the violations of the law and make the prohibitionists believe the law is being well enforced. Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, who is financially interested in the biggest beer-selling hotel in Atlanta, is one of these. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE AND MAINE CIVIC LEAGUE FALL OUT. Washington, D. C.—The reports from Augusta, Me., and Boston state that the Maine Civic league, which is conducting the fight for the retention of the prohibition amendment in the Maine constitution, and the Anti-Saloon league of America are at outa. The latter league has twelve of its paid workers in the state of Maine assisting in the campaign. Mrs. Stevens, president of the W. C. T. U., and the leader of the prohibition faction, refused to give her support to the imported paid orators of the league. The league, it is said, then attempted to get the Civic league to raise $28,000 for the Anti-Saloon league's part in the fight. The amount that finally was agreed on is not known, but the Anti-Saloon league and the Maine Civic league have been working hand in hand. Rev. S. E. Nicholson, Washington superintendent of the league, is denying the report from Maine. HEADS OF MAINE'S MANUFACTURING PLANTS AGAINST PROHIBITION. Daugnor, Me.—The heads of practically all of the great manufacturing plants of Maine are a unit in condemning prohibition conditions as they exist in the state at present, and asking for regulatory laws under a constitutional license provision. Fred W. Ayer, president of the Eastern Manufacturing Co., which employs 531 men at its South Brewer mills, believes there would be less suffering among the men and their families, and that his company would get more and better work from its employees, under a system of license regulation. Mr. Ayer has been opposed to the prohibition amendment for over forty years. "Maine has made a fool of herself," he gays, "and has committed enough crimes through the prohibitory law in the last sixty odd years to stop it, and try something else." SPENT LIFE FIGHTING. Oldest Anti-Prohibitionist Was Veteran of Two Wars. McKinney, Tex.—The oldest participant in the recent state-wide prohibition contest in Texas was Thomas Cooper, 99 years of age, of McKinney, Texas. Mr. Cooper was an ardent anti-prohibitionist. He moved to Texas in 1836 and fought for the freedom of Texas when that state threw off the yoke of Mexican tyranny. In 1861 he joined the confederate army for the same reason, he says, that he now fights prohibition—personal liberty and home rule. Mr. Cooper says: "The advocates of state-wide prohibition have men and women in Texas from the north. I will be 99 years old the coming September the 22d. My four sons, living in different parts of the state, will all vote against state-wide prohibition. I can not live long, but while I do live let us have what I have always fought for—our liberty and home rule." It is a very serious matter to ask for one medicine and have the wrong one given you. 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