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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Ch Brown, W. Va. The Pioneer A Premature Courtship It Occurred When the Girl Was Part Child, and It Had to Be Done Over By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS Copyright by American Press Association, 1911. "Tim," said Norman Fisk to his friend, Timothy Forman, "I wish you could do me a favor. I must be abent from home on business for a month. I don't like to leave an old woman and a little girl in the house alone, and I'd like you to at least sleep here while I'm gone, though if you like you can eat there as well." Fisk was forty-five and Forman thirty-four. They were chums, Fisk being a widower, Forman an "old ach." Fisk's household consisted, besides himself, of his aunt, an old idy of sixty-five, and his daughter, Laud, still in school. "Certainly, old man," replied Forman. I'll sleep there anyway. It won't be necessary for me to spend my evenings here, will it? "Not at all. Blanche usually studies her lessons in the evening, and my aunt goes to sleep over her knitting." "Your house is only a few blocks from the club," said the other, dismayed at the picture. "Just so, and I'll see that you get a catchkey. You can go in as late as you like." The first night Mr. Forman went to his friend's house at 9 o'clock. True enough, there was the old lady dosing over her knitting and a girl in short dresses sitting at a table with a globe lamp on it studying her lessons. The girl looked up at Forman with an expression on her face indicating more interest in his coming to spend some time with them than mere protection warranted. Her glance told him that it would not be entirely safe to treat her absolutely as a schoolgirl. Her aunt woke up and welcomed the custodian, but the girl said never a word. The next few evenings Forman spent at his club. Then one morning leaving the house Blanche went out at KILLE he same time with a pile of schoolbooks under her arm. They walked on together, but it didn't occur to Forman to offer to carry her books for her till she remarked that they were very heavy. When he left her at a corner and returned them she gave him a look of gratitude. Blanche at recess informed her bosom friend, a girl about her own age, that she had had a grown man to walk to school with her. She had pretended that her books were heavy because she wished to be treated like a young lady. She was not sure whether she would fall in love with her escort or not. He certainly seemed very nice. True he was a little old for her, but a fortune teller had told her that she would marry a man twice her age. The next evening Mr. Forman came in rather early-10 o'clock—being tired and sleepy. He found the schoolgirl with a pack of cards before her playing solitaire. With a pout on her young lips and a knitting of her smooth brows she said: STABISHED 1882. HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W. "Oh, I can't work this out. Won't you help me, Mr. Forman?" Forman sat down opposite her. From that moment she ceased to be interested in the cards, except for a pretext, prattling to him and endeavoring to appear like a young lady. "How old would you take me for Mr. Forman?" "Fourteen—perhaps a year older." "Oh, dear, you are far out of the way. I'll be seventeen next month." "You don't mean it!" "Are you a believer in platonic affection, Mr. Forman?" "I never thought about it. Are you?" "It's dangerous. The least thing is liable to break down the platonic and bring about the true love." "What do you mean by the least thing?" "Well, an act of kindness or of sacrifice; a touch of the hand; a kiss." "Good gracious! You talk very queer for a"— "Oh, yes; I know you consider me a kid. You forget I'll be seventeen next month, and eighteen is legal age for a woman." Forman remembered a time when he had considered a girl of eighteen in her prime and one of twenty-two passe. Then he thought how nice it would seem to be back in those youthful days. How much he had lost by coming to middle age. "MINISTERING TO A MIND DISEASED." The ingenuity of some expert medical witness in weaving theories to fit conditions and making "the words to appear the better cause" is brilliantly illustrated in the case of Houston and Texas Central R. R. Co. v Gray, 137 Southwestern Reporter, 729. The plaintiff was, or thought he was, injured in a collision, and the facts apparently supported his contention, as it appeared that he could not sit up, had no power of motion or feeling below his hips and suffered great pain, and his own physicians diagnosed his condition as paralysis from injury to the spinal cord. The learned experts for the company, however, had a more acute scientific vision and were not to be misled by mere appearances. They admitted that the plaintiff "thought" he was paralyzed, as they had stuck pins in him and applied hot spones to him without disturbing his mental elusion; but they claimed that his case was one of "traumatic hysteria" or hysterical paralysis, and that if he would only "quit thinking" he was paralyzed he would not be. The court referred to their contention in this wise: 'It may be true that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy,' and that science 'knows so many things that are not so.' * If the trouble is purely mental, the question might well be asked the eminent physician who testified for appellant: 'Canst thou minister to a mind diseased?' Their practical answer is that they cannot. * * If this be true, the jury have given this prescription, and, as the appellant caused the sickness, it would seem but fair that it furnish the medicine.' And the court thought that the $30,000 verdict prescribed by the jury was not too strong a dose and affirmed it — V. E. P. in West Publishing Company Docket. Mrs Rachel Marcus celebrated her 105 h birthday Dec. 17. She says she will ask President Taft to dance with her when he attends the annual ball for the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, at New York, Jan. 27. She says, judging from his pictures, that Taft is not likely to set a hot pace. Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature 'I thought it was a pretty fair sort of telescope for one that wasn't very big," said Uncle Silas, "I rigged it up in the attic by the high north window, and had it fixed so it would swing round easily. So when my little grand daughter came on a visit, I thought it would give her pleasure to look through it, and when she came down, I asked if she had discovered anything new." "Yes, grandpa!" she said: "Why it made everybody's house so near that I seemed to be right beside 'em and I found out what John Pritchard's folks are doing in their kitchen. I wondered what they had a light for night after night, and I just turned the glass on their window and found out. They are cuttin' apples to dry—'folks as rich as them cuttin' apples!" And actually that was the extent of her vision. With the whole heavens before her to graze at and admire, she had spent her time prying into the affairs of her neighbors! Moral'—There are lots more like her—with and without telescopes. THE TRUSTFUL AVIATOR An avistor, descending in a field, said to a rather well dressed bystander: "Here, mind my machine a minute will von?" "What!" snarled the well dressed gentleman. "Me mind your machine? Woy I'm a United States Senator!" "Well, what of it? said the avistor, 'I'll trust you.'" TWO LUCKY GENERALS. Napoleon's army of half a million, invading Russia, was defeated, not by General Sword and General Gur, but by General Frost and General Hunger. AN HONEST BOY. At a slave market many years ago, a colored boy was offered for sale. One of the bystanders, moved with compassion, and being well pleased with the boy's appearance, and conduct, wished to keep him from falling into the hands of some cruel master. So he went up to the boy and said, "Will you be honest if I buy you?" With an indescribable look upon his frank countenance, the boy said, "I will be honest whether you buy me or not. The man bought him and he was never sorry of his purchase. Editor—(To the Poet) "Is this your first effort? Poet—'Yes sir. Is it worth anything to you?" Editor—(with emotion). It's worth $5 if you will promise not to write anything more for publication until after this has been printed. I want your entire output, you understand. Poet—"I'll promise that, all right. When will it be printed?" Editor—"Never, while I'm alive." Press. We have all heard men grow eloquent over the charm of modesty in a woman's behavior, dress and conversation. And we have seen those same men turn from modesty to pursue the gay, striking, amusing coquette. We have heard them discourse upon the worth of the domestic woman, who had no longing for any life beyond the walls of her home; the sweet home maker whose needle was her delight in hours of repose, and whose preserves and pickles and angel cakes were the talk of the town, writes Ella Wheeler Wilcox in McCall's Magazine for February. Yet we have seen this girl grow old and remain unsought by the men who praised her, while the giddy flirt, who danced till dawn and slept till noon—and then only rose to massage and manicure and plan new toilette for the evening—was pursued by eager sitters. One thing can be said with something of certainty. A man likes a woman who has the fact to listen with interest while he talks, and who draws him out to talk of his hopes, ambitions and joys and sorrows. And he likes the woman who can make him laugh. Given those two qualities, almost any type of woman becomes ideal to man, at least for the time being. A woman of perception and power of analysis must understand that she continually has to remake herself after marriage in order to remain the ideal woman to her husband. He has enjoyed the piquancy and elusive ness and coquetry of the sweetheart he pursued; it all lent keen interest to the cause. But he wants these elements of his ideal woman eliminated at the altar. It is one thing to have an elusive sweetheart, who is cold today and warm tomorrow, but it is quite another thing to have a moody wife. It is one thing to win a coquettish maid from her army of pursuers, but quite another thing to see men fluttering about a coquettish wife. Therefore, the ideal bride must not imagine she has nothing to do but remain as she is in order to be a permanently ideal wife. That is simply out of the question. Her life work has only just begun; and if she settles down into more domesticity, more loyalty, more philagistic goodness, she will soon cease to be an ideal. The coque tis sweetheart must not grow old or commonplace in her letting go of old coquetries. She must simply grow more capable of entertaining and amusing and pleasing her husband and his friends. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment station has shown by their experiments with fertilizers (Bulletin No. 141) that it is not only possible to mix fertilizers at home at a saving in cost, but that the home mixtures give larger increase in yield of crops than factory brands of the same analysis. For any further information on this subject address the College of Agriculture, Morgantown, W. Va. Revision of Treaty. Tokyo.—A revision of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is regarded as the inevitable outcome of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Great Britain proposes to modify the clause providing for mutual assistance in the event of war, making the provision inapplicable in the event that either party is fighting a nation with whom the other has concluded an arbitration treaty. VGL. 30. Exercise Your Power What does it matter to the colored man who is elected president, whether a Democrat or a Republican? The Negroes have been voting and shouting for the Republican party ever since their emancipation but the Republican party has failed to do any shouting for the Negro. The Republicans have been in power almost half a century. They have had control of the national legislation, but somehow or other have always had a puny excuse whereby they could not make any laws to protect the suffrage of Negroes in the South, or prevent the outrageous mob violence as perpetrated against the Negro by the white man. If the Federal courts assumed jurisdiction to investigate dynamiting committed by marchists in various States, why can't they assume jurisdiction over violators of the law who foster nobbing Negroes in the various States of the Union? Why is it that the interstate commerce commissioners cannot regulate the passenger traffic of Negroes in the Southern States, and cause the railroads to accord them equal accommodation for first class fare paid, as they do with white passengers? It is up to a Republican administration to regulate these affairs, if they mean to be fair and give the Republican Negroes that have been supporting them for forty years or more a fair, square deal. The only remedy for the condition of affairs is, the Negro must provide his vote, and let each party seek him, instead of his seeking the parties — Nashville Royal Banner. PLOW COTTON STALKS UNDER Should Be Cut Into Pieces and Turned Under at the Very Earliest Possible Moment. Now is the time to plow the cotton stalks under good and deep. Cut the stalks into pieces and trun them under at the earliest possible moment. In the boll weevil territory it may be necessary to cut and burn the stalks. Outside of the weevil territory it is a shame to burn the stalks at any time. In the weevil territory it is not necessary to burn the stalks where large plows and strong teams can be had and the land is comparatively clear of roots and tsunamps. Plow under the stalks as soon as the cotton is picked out and plant winter cover crops. LEARNING DAIRY BUSINESS The man who imagines he knows all there is to know about dairying without attending the short courses for dairying at the agricultural colleges, or without reading a reliable farm paper, is making a great mistake, because no man can hold all there is to know about the dairy business. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1912 ALMANAC. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1912, that guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS. The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 35c postpaid. No home or office should fail to send for them to WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saints Luis, Mp. NO. 45 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- IY. 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. J. K. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Mar- zburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 1911 Many of those who made New Your resolutions, have already brok ken them, and are about to begin making new ones. Will Mr. Bryan and Governor Wilson harmonize that cocked hat letter? If they can get together, wonder if is is possible for "Today and "Billy Possum' to do so. Something rotten about that Paulman car compromised damage enit for $75 000, half of which was paid. The missing link would not connect a Negro to it, and if ever the truth is revealed, it will be so found. The Democratic party has the opportunity of opportunites now to take a hard fall out of the presently constructed Republican party—composed of Taft and Company—but the question is, will it avail itself of this golden chance. --- Labor claims that Capital doesn't treat it with due consideration, and a counter claim is made by the former against the latter, but we claim that neither labor nor capital has the proper appreciation of the people, who invariably pay for all disputes and troubles that these two Octopuses have with each other. Brother Harry Smith your figures are wrong. Instead of us you say 60 were lynched during the year 1911 71 were. Add 11 more, and you will be correct. If this was truly a christian country, there would have been none. We called you brother, because you are brave, litigious and aggressive on all lines that tend to the race's good. With the National Democratic Convention to be held in Baltimore, and the Republicans to hold theirs in Chicago, what is the significance? It's a wedge that is sure to split the east and west wide enough for the South to get in, unless the North goes to Baltimore solid for Massachusetts' distinguished Governor as presidential timber. Should this be done, things politically, will be mixed. Mrs. Grace Stone Herzel is exactly right in her write opment too much volms giving. I often makes decryvers, liars and pappers. There are cases where mercy and gifts are necessary, but they are rare, and would be rarer, were less giving done, and loffers made work. A person who makes money in worm weather, and trifles it away, knowing that winter is coming de serves no pity and should only be aided under the severest criticism. I has been our experience that those you help the most, are the most unthankful, and often impudent. It would pay benevolent localitee to employ and pay a detective to keep cab on all Spring, Summer and Fall loafers, give their names to a vigilant committee whose duty should be to get and offer them work, and if they would not, then, when they would ask for help, feed them with the ent's logic to the press. The affairs of the True Reformers are in a very much muddled condition, and it will take the most skillful management and very careful business methods to in any way straighten out the tangled affairs of this once great organization. The editor of the Cleveland Gazette is right in saying that that business league, of which the Christian Recorder applauds, is nothing more than a paper organization. We want to know if the whole affair is not of the same volu? Harry C, you busy bee, keep them straight! --- If the aim of the insurgents is to take the hand of privilege out of the public's pocket, may it not fall in line of those English Paritans who came to this country for freedom in worship, and treated those who differed from them worse than they had been. Considerey is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Why this country has and is allowing Emma Goldman—the American mother of anarchy—to propagate her species, is an amazing mostery to us. In all crises, the hotter the war, the sooner peace. The Union army never won so many victories as it did after Lincoln made Grant sole ruler and told him to go ahead and put down the rebellion. It is a pity that some people are afraid of trenching upon some popular religious nation, to grapple with doctrines effectively for their own good. In truth, most Christians (?) are serving God (?) because they are afraid of the devil—wherein if they would dare to reason out of their old rut, they would find out that the only devil there is, dwells in every one—who has the sole power to subject him or give him full sway—which will you do? - It looks as if the present administration in Philadelphia, whose destinies are presided over by Rudolph Blankenburg, Quaker Tom's "reform" mayor, is determined to throw the colored brother overboard. Our experience with the reform brand of politicians is that reform with them only exists in their imaginations, and that the best thing for the Negroes to do is almost invariably retrain from having anything to do with reformers. While confined to the house during the holidays, wondering if we'd ever see another, a wrap upon the door diverted our reverie, and the voice like a fond echo was heard, to the music of—Jay Blondel. Bring him in was our appeal. It was a very pleasant meeting and greeting. How beautiful for young men to take on true manhood and grow noble as years roll on—as our friend of McKees Rocks, Pa., has done, and how grateful the father has a right to be over a son—mechanic the equal of the father, and in judgment and argument, high up on the same ladder. Why people go into all other enterprises and ask for nothing without expecting to pay for it, and knowing that every sheet of paper an editor uses, every stick of type that is set up; every pound of ink used, and all the persons employed cost him money, to say nothing of the fuel, lights, wear and tear of machinery and postage, go into printing offices, ask for free printing that benefits none but the vanity of the intruders, is passing strange. If it benefits the persons, why should they not pay for it? The editor has no more right to give free his space, than he has to give free, (if he has one) the rent of a house. Local news, sickness, death &c. are admissible, but for long write ups about those who die, and marry should be paid for, and hereafter they will in the paper. As an evidence of the ability of white people to recover from the most stupendous and overwhelming difficulties, the Equitable Life Assurance Company, of New York, has decided to erect a sixty two story office building. Tammany Hall, New York City's great political organization, has dealt handsomely by its colored constituency, and it continues to act as of yore. Tammany's latest achievement is the appointment of Edward E. Lee, Chief of New York's Colored Democracy as a Deputy Secretary at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars. --- When, in the name of God and decency, will the parents of colored children see the folly, decapitation and the basic ground of hypocrisy in Negroes' winter revivals? We can't conceive of a thing that is doing the youth so much harm as they are the United States ever. Women who keep houses of assignation, in many instances get religion as a cloak to carry on devilment, and under excitement, children jump and plunge over the church shouting, doing as some old sinful brother or sister does—lying by conduct in tender years, under the guise of getting religion. God help the preachers and forgive the poor little deluded children. When one site down and puts his think tank to work on the conduct of man to man, what other conclusion is it possible for him to reach, other than of all living things, claiming to be God's son, he is the most barbarous. If there is any people on earth who have a right to the highest respect and kindliest treatment, it is the Negroes. And why? They were brought here against their will, and were made to cut down, clear off the timber, and fence in millions of acres in the North and South; and when the North got its start in wealth and education from the Negro's labor, and their religious fervor would not harmonize with slavery, it sold them to the South, where they unceasingly toiled for centuries, enriching and beautifying it and educating the white children throughout that section in letters and world-wide travel. With all their suffering they, or—many of them—loved their owners, and were not only true but kind to them—cooing and wooing white babies millions of whom have tagged at their breasts, cared for in sickness, and often when death took them away they wept as if they were their own. Fought in all of this country's wars, and during the one that they knew would give them freedom, stayed with the women of their masters, worked, fed and protected them till the last, and when the war was over, and they were free, the devotion of the one to the other, caused hundreds of thousands to live and die together and they did. They were not responsible for the political friction of Reconstruction days, but the Republican party that used him on the 449 bloody battlefields were. He was put in all kinds of positions when they knew he was unable to make laws and govern a section of which they knew nothing but the hardships of slavery without education. It was a monstrous blunder, and soon as the Republicans foresaw they could use the Negro no longer, they dropped him in a worse state than when he was a slave. For he can't vote; can't ride on public carriers as man or woman; can't get a meal from any Southern eating place; can't sit down for warm himself in waiting rooms and Tafi declared he can't any longer hold office in the South. I write as the representative of one close to the representatives of another, and in the language of the V. sel of ten will say: "Our defense is your accusation, the cause of our alleged crimes, your history." Hon. M. P Shawkey, State Super- entendant of Schools of this State, has announced his intention to make an effort to secure the nomination for the office which he now so ably fill. PROTECT The health of yourself and family Pope's Herb is prepared to provide a dependable household remedy, based upon the principle of purity of proof insuring freedom from disease. It is a medicine for maladies such as Rheumatism, Liver Complaints, Constipation, Fever and Ague. Female disorders. 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