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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The "HERE SHALL ESTABISHED: 1882. M. E. Church News Of Interest BY REV. S. H. NORWOOD The 49th session of the Washington Annual Conference will meet in Ebenezer M. E. Church, Washington, D. C. March 20, 1912 with Bishop W. F. Anderson presiding. The 50th session, doubtless will be held in Sharp Street Memorial as the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the organization will be held at that session, and it is fitting that the said anniversary should be held in the church, if not in the building in which it was organized. This 49th session promises to be a very interesting one. The size of the conference is one of the interesting features. The Laymen Electoral Conference, plus the conference proper, generally doubles the size of the conference, which of necessity makes the entertainment of the body one of the interesting features of it. The church entertaining this double conference always finds the entertainment an interesting feature. We have no deaths among the pastors this year, but have had eight deaths among the wives of the preachers. These preachers must have wives. This is also General Conference year, and the conference is better supplied with candidates, as to numbers, than ever before. Those not wanting to be Delegates proper, are expecting to be reserve delegates. All are willing to go. Many are saying "Here am I, send me." We all feel that we can do as much good as you, therefore, I might as well go as you, demonstrating a healthy, strong, growing democratic spirit among the members. The General Conference work, so far as the colored membership is interested, centers around the Colored Bishopric. On this subject there are two classes in this conference, those who want a colored Bishop, and those who do not want a colored Bishop. Those who do not want one have very little trouble over the question. Those who want one have the trouble. Those who want one are divided up—one class willing to leave the church, organize and have their own Bishops, while the other class believe in remaining in and working for a Bishop. Those who would secede in order to have a colored Bishop do not need wait for the entire membership of color to come out and organize, because the conditions they are clamoring for are just on the outside in the distinct race churches. The other class believe in remaining where they are and contending for their rights in practice as well as in theory. The law of the Church, the Goepel, and Christianity know no Bishop by color, and if we can show our white membership that we need a colored Bishop we will get as many as we need. The hindrance lies in sending selfish men—many of them wanting to be Bishops themselves or to secure other positions for themselves for which acquisition they leave the colored membership without a Bishop—as in politics, selfish Negroes selling out the race for a job. There are some claiming that it would be a calamity to the conference not to send them, clearly and --- strongly indicating that the other members of the conference are in competent to properly and intelligently represent their conference, as insult to the conference, an index to their own ignorance in thinking they represent the M. E. Church, while they simply represent the Washington Conference of the M. E. Church, and in thinking themselves above their brothers. Members who are bigoted enough to harbor such notions and foolish enough to express them should be left home long enough to learn better. We have three delegates and with the addition of a few more members we would be entitled to one more, making four. A few transferred men would fill the bill, which procedure we doubts the propriety of, saying nothing about the honesty of it. It is thought that some who "under complaints, charges" &c., will be there for ad mission again. Some think we should receive them, while others think we should not fill up with rotten wood. [To Be Continued Next Week.] Mr. Cooper, who left his wife and three little girls in Georgetown, Texas in 1880, in search of a job returns to them after the lapse of thirty years. After a private interview with Mrs. Cooper on Sunday, January 20, she told of the peculiar incident. She said: "My husband left me early one morning to go to see about a job and I expected his return in the evening as usual, but days, weeks and months passed and no communication was received from him. Thrown on my own resources as I was. I went to work in order that my children would be provided for. Day after day I would pick cotton with my three children playing near me. I believed there would be a change for the better some sweet day. "Several years had elapsed before I heard of California, so I told my children if they would help me to pick enough cotton I would take them to California. Again we started out with a determination by the help of God to win, and we struggled on under the hot beaming sun from sunrise to sunset until the day came in 1889 when my children and I started for California. "Landing in a strange country, I found myself in about the same conditions I had just left, and I started out to make my living and to educate my children." While the story of Mrs. Cooper's early life is sad, it is also commendable to know that she has accomplished more in the 23 years she has been in Los Angeles than a great many men who have been here longer and with better opportunity. Her beloved husband during all this time was still off in search of "that job" and as Texas did not afford him one, he arrived here in Los Angeles January 17, 1912 and found his wife living in her own home at 504 West 20th Street, where he is now casting his lot. Mrs. Cooper's home on West 20th Street is estimated at about twenty-five thousand dollars $25 000.00) and she has another home on Howard Boulevard estimated at five thousand dollars, $5 000.00). These two places together with other property she has accumuleted, she is estimated WHAT ONE WOMAN DID. (Continued on Second Page.) The Rest Which Came to Catharine Ashe. The Rest Which Came to Catharine Ashe. DEDICATED TO F. M. JACOSS, M. D. BROOKLYN, N. Y. "How did she di? What did she say? Poor Catharine!" "How did she di? What did she say?" echoed another of the group. "How did she live?—that's the question. 'That'a th' way'd colored people; first thing they want ter know is 'How'd sich an' such or one di? How'd sich an' such or one live? That's all yet need ter know." "That's so," responded several others. "How did Cathan Ashe live? She lived er Christian, an' she died er Christian of course." "Amer!' shouted a chorus of voices. "But ef yer wanter know what Cathan said," continued the second speaker, akimbowing and stepping in to the center of the group, "I'll give yer her testimony: Jus' er few days ago I drops into Cathan's an' seein' she look pretty droopy, see I Cathan. I know you' s all right 'cause you' ve lived th' life, but just' give me er 'sho' word o' premua, an' see the Mary Ann, I've fought er good, fight." "Amer! Glory to God!" "I've kept th' faith." "Ya! Ya! Tell i!" "I care not when the messenger comes." "O noe!" "Whether it be in th' mornin'," "I tell it! Tell it!" "In th' evenin', or at midnight; I'm ready!" "Praise th' Lord! Glory!" came the about from the whole crowd which had become so dense that it blocked the sidewalk in front of the house where the dead woman lay. "What will poor Lillian do now! She and her mother were such chums," obbed a little woman, mopping her eyes with her apron. "You know she and her father can't see horses one minute." "I love Lillian as a sister" answered a portly woman, stepping forward, "on my home is here as long as she behaves herself." "Thank God!" several voices chimed in. "Here comes Lillian now," and all eyes were turned upon a mere strip of a girl who had turned into the square and was burrying breathlessly toward them. Throwing herself into the arms of the second woman who had spoken she sobbed "My Mamma, On My Mamma." "Courage my child; courage! your mamma rests from her labors. "And then they all wept until there was no more power to weep. It is many years ago since, in the faraway southland, Joe Ashe, after a protracted courtship won Catharine Elder for his bride. Catharine was in no hurry to marry seemingly, but Joe was such a perseistent, ardent wooer, strolling with her as she pushed the baby carriage of her employer through the streets and accompanying her to her home at the Press. close of the day's work, summering out his love with such fervency that Catharine finally yielded, and the wedding day was set. Joe Ashe was a thrifty and reliable kinsominer and all around jobber, and the neat little home he provided for the girl was not at all to be sneered at. Many a girl envied Catharine, now emancipated from the drudgery of "service" to the government of Her own home. But one child blessed this union—Lillian, a chubby brown baby. Lillian's chief attraction was her eyes; they were of a deep, liquid brown, almost black, large, lustrous, beautiful. In that humble home this bowling, freestful baby became also a monarch whose right to rule neither parent disputed. Defenders fashioned her robes of state and made pillows of down for her carriage which the father wheeled with a concious pride and defiance through the streets. Joe Ashe and his baby were the looked for sight each Sunday morning, he proudly pushing the carriage and pulling away at his cigar or pipe while the child played and cried in front of him. Lillian grew from infancy into childhood, to cling to her father's hand as she shared his morning walks, thence into that stage of life when to some girl, the exclusive companionhip of the parent is no longer congenial. This change in Lillian's life came about too soon for Joe, who was not ready to relinquish his right to first place in his daughter's affections. The child of yesterday is the full fledged last now, far more attractive in her womanliness and the father feels the pangs of fear and jealousy harrowing his soul. Joe Ashe had been of that class of men determined that when the end of existence eball arrive the world will owe them nothing. Many had been his conquests and triumphs; often had he laughed at women whose confidence he had betrayed. Had the day of retribution come? Was Lillian the avenging angel, come to visit his sine upon his beed? The thought was maddening. Joe grew morose, churlish, tyrannical, euphemious, abusive, dogging his daughter's footsteps and discerning only evil in her every action. Boys are seldom admitted into the conversation of school girls, but the boy is generally the main topic of discussion. [To Be Continued Next Week] 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., Saint Louis, Mo. 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 files and material or refuels the money. Give him a call. VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. DENOMINATIONAL. A lecturer, riding down a rough Kentucky mountain observed a farmer ploughing the rugged hillsides with four oxen to which he was shouting vociferously—"Hi that! you Methodis'—Baptis'—Campbellite,—Presbyterian, g'lang that!" The traveler, much astonished, called the mountaineer to the fence and inquired, "Why do you call your oxen such peculiar names?" "Why, stranger," said the mountaineer, "them was the fittest names I could git. This yer Methodist now, is a good critter and a willin' worker, but every onst' in a whale he has to jump up and down an' bawl. That at' Baptis' is a pow'ful strong beast, but whenever he comes to a pool of water he offers wants to lay in it. That at' Campbellite is an Augusten one feller, an' does an honest day's work, but he's the stubbornest, contrariest critter, that ever lived. An' this Precociousian, he's the studiest one in the lot. I can depend on him to keep them all together, but he's so stuck up on himself that all the rest on 'em jes' naturally despise him." THE MISPRINTS A noted minister was in his study writing when his five year old daughter walked in and asked — "What are you writing, papa?" What are you writing, papa?" "I am writing a sermon, my dear." "How do you know what to write, papa?" "God tells me what to write." After watching her father a few minutes the little girl said: Papa, if God tells you what to write, why do you scatter some of it out?" HOPFLESS A caddie's wife was much troubled by her husband's loose walk of life. He could never have a good day at the links, but he must end it with a wet night at the tavern. So, to cure him the woman, one night, lay in wait on the road, dressed in a white sheet, and when her husband appeared, she sprang from behind a hedge—an awful white figure with outstretched arms. "Who are you?" asked the intemperate caddie. "I'm sold Nickie" said the figure in a hollow voice. "Give us a shake o' yer hand, then," said the tupsy caddie, "I'm married to a sister of yourn. She'll be waitin' for us up at the house, an' to doob she'll make ye welcome." THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE Here is a simple rule to find the number of books in the Bible. Write down the words "Old Testament." You will find that there are three letters in the word "Old," and nine in the word "Testament." I put three and nine in a line, and you have 39, the number of books in the Old Testament. Next in the words "New Testament," you find the same number of letters, but in this instance multiply the letters—three by nine and you have 27—the number of books in the New Testament; and by adding 39 and 27 you have 66—the number of books in the Bible. NO. 50 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ERVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN X:1. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,50; 6 months.....75c. 3 months.....40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Edifort & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Cell Phone, 60K Mariusburg, W. Va. SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 24 1912 Theodore Roosevelt, now one of the editors of the Outlook, and once President of the United States, told a friend the other day, "My hat is in the ring." He further said, "You will hear from me Monday." These are significant statements, and to us they mean that "Teddy" is a receptive candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Hon. and Dr. H. D Hatfield, President of the West Virginia Senate during the session of 1911, who is now an aspirant for Gubernatorial honors, was in town the other day, shaking the hands of old friends, and forming new acquaintances. He is a pleasant gentleman, knows the political game, and can be depended upon to give the other gentlemen who seek the nomination for governor or on the Republican ticket a struggle worthy the name. At the same time though, Dr. Hatfield wishes it to be clearly understood that he will indulge in no questionable practices in his efforts to be the standard bearer of his party. It strikes us, since such unique methods are adopted and tricks played to get money, it's as much the object sought, as is the preaching of the gospel—may be more so. If it happens that something be said that lodges and tries to take root, it is scored by the beat of anger over the prolonged efforts to get what greases the gospel machinery—money. If you want to preach a lasting gospel why not take up collection before preaching? We believe there is more interest shown in getting money, living well and dressing fine than there is in really trying to lift up and save souls. It was magnanimous in President Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore & Ohio to order torn down the jumcrow fixes erected by a few local light heads, as they thought to please the Southern Democratic delegates who are to meet in Baltimore, June next. The world's big men are too busy dealing with philosophy and science, and thanking God for his marvelous gift, to entertain hatred to their fellow man. Some of our best democrate denounced it, and were glad when President Willard denounced it and had the construction torn down. The Hon. Champ Clark, Sena or Chilton and Congressman Littlepage are among them. Hon. Charles W. Dillon, former State Tax Commissioner, and one of the best known Republicans in West Virginia, has formally announced his candidacy for governor on the Republican ticket. There are those who have been heard to say that Mr. Dillon is a fine man, one who has always "made good" and they are firm in the belief that if he is successful in securing the nomination, and is elected, the State will be lucky in securing a man of his caliber to preside over its destinies. Whether the Fayette County man receives the nomination or not, the Dillon boom will be one of large proportions by the time the nominating convention meets. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Superintendent of the Staunton District of the M. E. Church, is winding up all the affairs connected with his office, preparatory to relinquishing the duties which he has faithfully and intelligently performed for the past five or six years. After March 1912, he will devote himself to another line of work in his church, returning, probably, to the pastorate, and becoming pastor of one of the large and influential churches of his connection. As an illustration of the popularity of Dr. Hughes in this vicinity, Mt. Zion M. E. Church gave him a fine suit case, and the Darksville charge presented him with a fountain pen. It is amusing to see the children at school, during recess, going through the antics of our shouting not Nancies. They congregate, look serious for a while, then one begins to give its experience, and the imitation is up-to-date. A little tot declares it's heaven bent and heaven bound; another, I hung over hell and saw the coalms fall off; another says; I have children and grandchildren on their way to hell; pray for them—all groan. Some one tells of its bright prospects of going to heaven, and all yet: Glory to God, hailelujah and the shouting begins. The parents' home lives, seen and so well known by the children are so contrary to their church conduct, even the littlest of children know its false, and the rankest of hypocrisy—and what little honesty of birth crippled by this home influence is left in them, revolts, hence the minicry. In the death of Hon. Charles H. Taucy, General Manager, and Managing Editor of the Wheeling Register, his family loses a fond husband and father, the newspaper fraternity one of its brightest and best members, the state of West Virginia a most estimable, progressive and intellectual citizen and the Democratic party a man who zealously and at all times worked for its success, as well as advocated its policies. The dead editor was unseafish in his devotion to his friends, discriminating in his estimate of men and things, charitable even to his enemies, that is, if he has any—in short, Editor Taucy was one of those persons to whom our Maker, in His wisdom has said: "Well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful ever few things; I will make the ruler over many," etc. His newspaper record for a quarter of a century in West Virginia and Wheeling is notable from every possible standpoint, and is one of which any one might well feel proud. To his family we regretfully say that the hearts made sad will never be beaten; to his friends it can be said that the world is minus many men of Charles Henry Taucy'e kind, and to the state and city which numbered him as theirs, it becomes our painful privilege to say to you that one of your best friends has gone to his final reward. May he rest in peace is the sincere wish of the Pioneer Press. The Quarterly Meeting of the F. B. Church, held here last Sunday, was the best for many years. The group of preachers for sobriety, intelligence and expression of thought was commendable. Thirty years ago this Valley was Free Willized from Lexington to Hagerstown, but the king of kings killed it. While it can never regain what it has lost, it can do much good if it will that way. Revs. Wm. Craven, W. P. Fisher and J. W. Ware did themselves credit in the pulpit. The first named is a deep thinker, a timely deliberator, an effective orator; the second is blessed with a tenacious memory; he is a splendid historian, and can weave more beautiful illustrations into the grooves of the gospel than any preacher in the valley; and the third has a fine personality, a keen con- ception of right, an earnest will to do it, and we believe the race will be blessed by his having lived and labored for it. Rev. Mr. Sprigge, of Berryville, was also one of the visiting ministers, and he impressed himself upon all within the sound of his voice as an intelligent, forceful and capable preacher. The singing was good, and especially that of Mr. Thomas Carter, and Mrs. R. R. Thompson, who has sung and charmed the elite of the whole world - along with her husband who was ordained and has become the pastor of Dudley F. B. Church. Just as Talmage said: "Heaven's music will never be complete till the Negroes get there." On Sunday night Mr. George L. Moxley sang well. Attention is called to our Manila letter. Read it. It has the right ring and may its spirit be caught by every Negro who has left these shores and found others where men are men. Were the editor a young man, he would go to France—the fairest of all countries on race lines. There, a white man who has children by colored woman, owns, cares for, loves and educates them. Science—and they lead the world on that line—admits the mixture of bloods produces the best of results. Our mixture is of Negro, Irish and Indian, and we like them all. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Brown, of Allegheny, Pa., stopped over in our city from Sunday afternoon until the same time on Monday, when they went to Berryville, Va., where they will visit friends and relatives. The Browns are good company, and it is like reading an interesting novel to have Mr. Brown tell you of the varied and interesting experiences which he had while touring in Europe, he having been there thirteen different times. Being a perceptive person, and a man of much energy, Mr. Brown let few things escape his notice, and as a result of his attention to small, as well as large affairs, he is possessed with a fund of information which it is hard to excel. In a way, the gentleman referred to, is a veritable human encyclopedia, and if anyone doubts our statement, we would suggest that he or she see and talk with Mr. Brown, and confirm what we have said. Fred. A. Becker, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad brakeman, held up and robbed the passengers of the rear Pullman car on Saint Louis and New York Express No. 1, as it was going up the seventeen mile grade on Monday night. His methods of procedure were vigorous, and he gave his unsuspecting and scared victims to understand that he wanted their valuables or their lives. He got the former, and plenty of them, as well as a large amount of money. Now the bandit is languishing in jail, where he is condemning himself, and explaining why he did the act charged against him. Becker's capture was effected by Lieutenant Keoney, of the Baltimore & Ohio police force. Hon. William G. Brown, Congressman from this, the Second District, was a visitor to Martinsburg Thursday, February 22. His trip here was occasioned by the fact that he had presented the local Lodge of Moose with a head of a moose which he killed while on a hunting expedition last fall, and in addition to some other details, he wished to make a formal presentation speech. Mr. M. M. Hanson, the well known and painstaking c Illector for Collier, the New York publisher, was in to see on his last visit to town. Mr. Hanson, once mist, in process you as an exceptional individual, and be longer you know him, the better your impression becomes imbedded that the estimate you formed is a correct one. WILEUR P, THIRKIELD, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. 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Mr. John Hamilton, a well known and respected citizen of Harper's Ferry, visited his daughter, Mr. Lizzie Tucker at her home on Charles Street last Sunday. Mr. Hamilton also attended and seemed to enjoy the sessions of the Quarterly Meeting. Mrs Haney Johnson, and Mrs Lewis Johnson, both of Charles Town, attended Quarterly Meeting, and saw their brother, (Rev. R. R. Thompson), ordained. They are pleasant ladies and enjoyed their stay in our city. While here the ladies stopped at the home of Mr. William O. Towner. Hon. John J. Hetzel, President of the National Commercial Co., has turned the management of that corporation over to his two sons, Messrs. Guy, and John J. Hetzel, Jr. In the meantime, Mr Hetzel will take an extended trip to California and the Northwest, and we hope he may thoroughly enjoy himself, likewise his wife, who will accompany him. 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 Aye., New York City. 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 Raccles. BIOGRAPHY OF 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. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00. Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Gri, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq., Editor Pioneer Press. STEVENS The STEVENS No. 335 Double Barrel Hammerless Shotgun—is strongest where other guns are weakest. The bar- rels and lugs are drop-forged in one piece—of high pressure steel, choke bored for nitro powder— with matted rib. Pick up this gun and feel the balance of it—examine the working parts closely and see the fine care and finish of detail—you will say it's a winder. 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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? 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. J. RDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. Room 2. K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON W VA HERSEN TELLS OF TRS? 10 THE POLE Guest of Society For Historical Research In Yonkers. ATE BOLED Dog Many TIMES Man Who Accompanied Peary to the North Pole Relates Many Interesting Facts About the Arctic Regions—Cli- matic and Astronomical Incidents of the Voyage. Yonkers, N. ¥—At a recent meeting of the Negro Society For Wistoriel Research, with headquarters in tisis city, Mr. Matthew A. Hensen, who ac- companiod Commander Peary to (he north pole, was the principal speaker, The cscreises were held at) Sunny Blope couine, whieh is the residence of Mr. doin 1. Bence, president of the organization, A special feature of the Musiesl proxrsim was the part taken by Hitle Miss Cecile Butler and her brother Willie, who gave several pinne and Violin seiections with rare abiliiy. Mr. Hensen told of his travels and experiences in the arctic regions ina straightforward, painstaking amaner, BROCE 0 BS a BE SE SSS, Bosca he es ae Bee OF I care ETO DE oer oe a Bean a ae GAN SURES ee ae o ee Bao amen Rue REN ere. eye pe ae Bernt chee eee coe i Pa Pe RD RCE oe pias Sieh rn ear gh ae PO Soe ew Rare EER oh gey bees a Ue lpn: sia eats aoe. «ER PRR RN Bi? a Se Sete ee ee Er th SSN era ata rahe Retss eek Wiehe een Larch Ra on TOR ee atten Dean lei SPAM Scio ONS pas Bee ee rarer cs ak es ho SERRE CEIEONE Ss PAE Ne ee feats eee 8 toe pe Ren ee Gee MASTER WILLIE BUTLER. drawing here and there many striking Austrations of the difficulties and hard- sbips cueoustered cn route to the icy regions. He is a pleasing speaker and Possesses a find of humor. He said he felt bishly honored when he was asked to speak before the Iistorical society, Which is doing a good work in preserving for future reference the achievements of the Nexro race. He had heen a globe totter for many years. Before he entered the service of Commander Peary he made the tri to China snd the orient on a sailing vessel and was out of the country for three years. Gn his return from this trip he went io South America, where At Was so hot they had to feed the hens cracked ive to provent them from lay- ing hard boiled cess, Next he entered the service of Peary and for tweaty Fears had followed the commander's fortunes on si! his trips to the north pole vid shised with him the hard ships whieh ifs triumphant discovery entailed Tn 1905 Tash Lee and himself were the only ten ia Peary's party to vol- unteer to siny with him for another Year, and they, with Poary, made the famous record trip across (he poli jee In thirty-three days In the final quest for the pote thoy made an average of twenty-six infies a day, and ou reach ing the poie Vonry took five sets of observations to make sure he had ac- tually got there. He told in a humorous way how the party subsisted during this and other trips poleward. They had botled dog for breakfast, stewed dog for dinner -and cold boiled doy for supper. Som times they shot a musk ox and en- Joyed a square meal. The Eskimos, he said are, polycamists, having as many wives a4 (hey can support. Ther have no religion that can be defined. They believe if a man ts good he will go up into the sky after death and if bad down into the bowels of the earth. They are a short lived people, ‘The men rarely live to be forty years of age. The fenples marry at from twelve to foaricen years and at eight €en or nineiers look to be thirty or forty. They have a proverb whit he quoted in) Exicimo and transtated, “The peacock may ben heantiful bird, but it takes a stork to deliver the Zoods.” He said the moon shone so briehit: fn the arctic regions that It is possible to hunt the musk ox by Its refulgent Usht or io read or do any work ordl- narily performed In the dasiime. ‘The sun at its brightest cin he looked at without danger to the eyes. Its host fs not felt. For 10 days the sun never sets in the eyetic regions, and for (ie same aumber of days ft never rives. Mr. Hensen was asked a number of questions hy members of the so- clety, which he answered quickly, showing that he wns fiimillar with the Keoxraphy and toposraphy of the polar region, where he had spent, off and on, the best part ef twenty yer. A reception in Mr. Tlonsen's honor was given at the close of (he program. 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Advertising an article or a proposition is simply giving it a “personal? introduction to the public, and the extent of this - dequitintiinee is the same as our Prelitionship with one another, | When we meet people day after day and find them ina straight- ) forward, businesslike attitude Powe unconsciously form an opine J iomef thea which is inspired by ; When ihe public meets day aft. fer day, week after week, the ad- , vertisement of any — company F written in an honest, conyineis: Fananner it forms an opinion of ; the merits of the company which PAS expressed in frequent. orders sand continued patronage, i Thy knowing an advertised ar. f ticle the public saves time itself } and the storgs makyg ticker and Fiore frequent stile ticcause the * buyer doos not have to exam: {ine a number of brands, but, sim- ) ply asks for Jones’ or Smith's. { The saine principle applies to y stores. Veople simply “get the * habit” of shopping at stores that > are truthfully advertised. There- { fore the progressive merchant * not only advertises his store, but } he always keeps a supply of ad- ¢ vertised, trademarked goods. By the acthor of “The Soule ef Black Folk” The QUEST @ waa! eo of the sh. ere mee * “Ba WO BA Se, i O/B i Laees | omen fA SRE NCH | Voi HELENS ND Lip SSS es # ai at ft CHES GS A wi) fi OSU aie Nae CEE ED RC SAU oe OS UR ERS SEEN CESS BS Ea eT cea ESTAS PRON SN y ; iA XE. BURCHARDT DU BOIS yofth land “behind the veil," a ctory veil yor ween and also make lof the fing, elveng y ielded hus champion of hia roses fa blood. AY ALL BOONSTOPES Ne C. MeCLURG & CO. Bot e Lonisem re aban PF velesoimg, Avivg and pressing clothes, Mr. C. EB. Cordner has one o' ihe best outfits and does the finest gnarenteed work of any one in the State. 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