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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Pioneer ESTABISHED 1882. M. E. Church News Of Interest BY REV, S. H. NORWOOD Mr. Editor:—In my first letter I referred to the unusually large number of candidates for the General Conference, to the agitation for a colored Bishop &c. This year the candidates are representing the upper, middle and lower classes, correct. IF WE WILL HAVE CLASSES, then the classes should recognize the fact and look out for themselves. All these classes should be represented by sending men of their respective classes, or else by reading average men. Unless this is done the conference will be improperly represented as it has usually been. Previously the delegates have been from one class, thus the great majority of the conference has been unrepresented. One speaking of these things is usually accused wrongly of making class distinctions, because classes do exist, and he is simply recognizing the fact and suggesting a cure for their existence. In Church as in State, when all properly use their franchise, all will be treated as brothers and equals so far as membership goes anyhow, which is all needed in a membership body. The citizens who improperly uses his franchise or fails to use it at all is not and cannot be properly respected in any membership. Another mistake consists in sending men who do not live within the bounds of their conference, or whose work is among all the conferences. How can one who is in the bounds of his conference a few weeks during a quadrennium feel the needs of his conference, even if he knows them? One engaged in connectional work has about the same knowledge of and interest in a local work. The work of the conference is the pastorate, and the pastors. (this includes the District Superintendents) are the proper representatives of this work. If possible these connectional workers should be "delegates at large" in some way. Their work should be especially represented, and they can best do it, do it much better than pastors can. Two often, to the hurt of the work, and to the detriment of the pastors, these connectional men seek to fill their home conference with transferred men who are their friends so that their election to General Conference may be discussed. In this way they rule the conference, even doing the work of the D. S's. At delegate sessions the conference is deluged with these connectional men, helping to elect their chums, thus defeating chances for pastors to represented and elected. It should be noted that in our conference some pastors holding strong charges in Baltimore owing to their unrest in the Church are leading agitations against their denomination, while at the same time living off of the church, which hardly seems fair. The iron "in their blood" should lead them where they would be satisfied. Superannuation is often abused. Pastors are often inuged to superannuate after having golden their present year's salary by making them immediate claimants upon the superannuates' fund, thus robbing the then superannuates, and making them recipients from two source the same year. General Conference sessions are unusually interesting because of the double conference, ministerial and lay Three conferences are distinct and should be kept so. Undue influence by pastors, or undue influence by layman over one another should not be sought nor desired. Competent laymen should be elected that can discharge their duties without undue help from any one. One interesting feature will be an effort by one of the members to donate to the conference a home for Superannuates, wives and children of deceased members of the conference. This donation will hardly be accepted as the property, once public property, has been made private property in some way, and the home would be considered a "tainted" home. When the conference session is over we hope to be able to report what has been done about all these things. [To Be Continued Next Week.] LEARNING AMONG THE SCOTS Many a Man Who Never Had Any "Schooling" Gets Surprisingly Good Education. Many a man who never had any "schooling" gets an education, and often a surprisingly good one. A traveler in Scotland once met a farmer whose ground rent was about $20 a year and who wrote poetry in Gaelic that was of high order. This same traveler met a youth in Scotland who rode from home on horsback to the scaport and then across Scotland to Aberdeen, where he sold his horse to enter the university. It is related of another Scotchman that he was overheard repeating a line of Tennyson, whereupon some one asked him what poet he liked best. "Whose translation do you read?" "I rarely read a translation," he said, wiping the fish scales from his apron. "I like best to read Homer in the original Greek." The Bending of Big Guns. Among the problems with which army and navy engineers have to deal nowadays is that of the drooping of the muzzles of excessively long guns under the stress of their own weight. Experiments have shown that wire wound guns of 12-inch caliber and 50 feet length droop at the muzzle about four and a half minutes of arc, while built up solid guns of the same size droop about two and a half minutes. Differences of temperature in the body of the gun also cause bendings, which may either increase the droop at the muzzle or counteract it, according as it is the upper or under part of the gun that has the higher temperature. In consequence of these distortions projectiles on leaving a gun have a wobbly motion, continuing up to 500 yards, and probably more.—Youth's Companion. Injury in Innovation. Humanity, in ages of experience, has learned that any radical change or decided innovation may mean some great injury to the whole tribe or race. So human beings have first their curiosity aroused by the unusual, and then come fear and hate. It is certainly no new thing for women to wear trousers. However, at some or many periods in the history of humanity women have introduced as fashion some absurd similar style, and the race has been greatly damaged thereby. And that may be why the crowd resents trousers for the women. Instinctive resentment here may be in the brain of the race, rather than in the individual brain-social memory of the effect on men of women wearing the trousers. There is no one man in this country today more conspicuous than Theodore Roosevelt. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. GOOD AND HONEST PAGE. Frederick, king of Prussia, one day rung his bell and receiving no answer, opened his door, and found his page fast asleep. As he was about to awaken him, he perceived a letter protruding from his pocket. The king, preoccupied by curiosity, took it out and read it. He found it to be from the young man's mother, in which she thanked him for having sent her a part of his wages to relieve her misery, and taking him that God would reward him for his dutiful affection. The King, deeply afflicted by this noble act, went into his chamber, took a purse with ducks and slipped it with the letter into the page's pocket. Returning to the chamber, he rang the bell so loudly that it awakened the page who instantly made his appearance. "You have had a sound sleep," said the king. The page was frightened, and in his embarrassment put his hand in his pocket, and, to his utter astonishment, found in it the purse. He took it out, turned pale, and looking at the king, wept bitterly. "What is that?" said the king; "what is the matter?" "All Sire," said this young man, throwing himself on his knees, "somebody seeks my ruin, and put this in my pocket. I know nothing of this money." "My young friend," said Frederick, "God often does great things for us, even in our sleep. Send that to your mother; cause her on my part, and secure her that I will take care both of her and you." THE SCHOOL BOY A little boy was one day writing in his copy-book, "Honor thy father and mother," hastily he stopped and began to weep, for his memory recalled to his mind the happy days he had passed with his parents, now deed. He could not go on, but sobbed aloud. "What is the matter?" asked his teacher. "O. Sull he said, 'I cannot write the copy, give me another.'" Young reader, do you honor your parents? THE GERMAN WATCHMAN. Mark Twain used to tell an amusing story of a German porter or watchman at the gate inside which he lodged. This man soon got a grudge against the lawless American, who would be out prowling around at all hours and knocking up the watchman to open the gate for him. But one day the disgruntled one found by accident that his troublesome lodger was Mark Twain, when preston he seized him by the arm and dragged him away to his own apartment where he showed him a complete edition of all the books from "Huckleberry Finn" to "A Dog's Tail," saying with a becoming face, "I have read them all." MARK TWAIN D L In 1888 Iwain received from Yale College the degree of A. M., and in 1901, D. L. (Dr. of Literature). A year later in University of Columbia, Missouri, conferred the degree and in 1891 Oxford conferred the Doctorate. I don't know and I wain, 'way they should give me a degree like that. I never doctored any literature. Departmenl of Archivr, Ob lestag, W. Va. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED B ARCH 2, 1912. VOL —I wouldn't know how. UNIVERSITY NEWS WEST VIRGINIA FARMERS ARE INTERESTED IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Interesting Paragraphs Concerning the Activities of the State University—Special Correspondence to This Paper. Morgantown, W. Va.—The farmers' short course opened at the Agricultural college, West Virginia University, Feb. 1st. About fifty farmers were in attendance the first day and the number grew from day to day. Several of the farmers have attended the course during several previous winters. Fathers whose sons are taking the four year's course, came, that they might get in closer touch with their sons' work, and also to improve their knowledge of farm methods. Besides the regular members of the Agricultural faculty teaching in this farmers' course, men of prominence both from West Virginia and other states give assistance. Prof. Bear, of Ohio State University, gave instructions in soil fertility; Prof. Rice, of Cornell, on poultry culture; Prof. A. B. Graham, of Ohio State University, on rural life improvement; Mr. Arnold, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, on farm management; Mesars. Moore and Fulton, of West Virginia, on horticulture; Dr. Miller, of Ohio, on sheep raising, and Mr. Charles F. Royce, of the Waddington farm, West Virginia, on dairy towns. Farmers were busy in class and demonstration work from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Special lectures were held nearly every evening. Does It Pay to Spray? The extension division of the College of Agriculture is sending out blink applications to those who desire a pruning and spraying demonstration. Mr. Preston, of Greenbrier county, writes: "Our old apple trees that we sprayed were just loaded with nice apples. This was a rare occurrence with our trees. The trees that we did not spray yielded nothing but leaves and a very few knotty apples." The only inference that can possibly be drawn from the above object lesson is that it pays and pays well to spray. Mr. Alley, of Mingo county, writes: "I am highly pleased with the improved condition of my orchard, due to the spraying. I feel it will be the means of stimulating fruit growing in this section of the state." The College on Wheels The extension division of the College of Agriculture will run a special truck garden train, Feb. 20th and 21st, over the K. & M. R. R. from Gauloy Bridge to Pt. Pleasant. Also, from March 4th to 14th, a corn and horticulture special will run over the B. & O. R. R. lines of the state. Free lectures will be given on these trains by the best agriculture authorities that can be secured. Agriculture College Sacures Farm Machinery The agronomy department of the College of Agriculture has taken up a new feature of work in giving a course of study on farm machinery. Gasoline engines and farm machines of all kinds are being installed in a building which is to be used only as a farm machinery laboratory. Better Cooks For West Virginia. The Agricultural College believes in helping the housewife in her work as well as to help the farmer to cultivate the field. A one week's course, beginning Feb. 12th, was given by the college in home economics. Miss Colwell, of the domestic science department of the university, and Miss Anna Barrows of Columbia University, New York, were the instructors. Lessons were given on the properties and cooking of foods, household economy, etc. a practice work was provided each day in cooking and serving meals. The many women in attendance were delighted with the work. --- VOL. 30. Voice From Far East Rings True Voice From Far East Rings True Manil, P. I., Jan. 15th, 1912. Mr. J. R. Clifford. Your letter reached me on January 10th, of the present year, and while reading its contents, my heart with sadness beats at the conditions, existing under the flag that means freedom to all. But we must not wander; the leaps and bounds with which our people have stepped to the front under American disadvantages, have placed the fear of God in the hearts of the whites, and they have overstepped the bounds of human ideas to keep us down; but as you say, the "Supreme efforts on our part to demand those rights which the 13 14 and 15 amendments gave us, will cause the world to look to America to give her black citizens the rights they are now denied." To think of a country with ten million inhabitants without a single representative in its halls of Congress, when there should be one hundred, makes the word "Liberty," a dead letter, under the stars and stripes. To say that Freedom, "follows the stars and stripes" is true, but for the black man never! Even in this beautiful country where only a few years ago the distinction of races was not known, under the glorious stars and stripes it has bloomed upon the skies of the Philippines like a greatclipse bidding fair to cause total darkness. Sometimes I have to stop and wonder "Is there a just God," or if we must exercise our strength if we desire to step out of the position that we are placed. I have travelled extensively and no race under the face of the heavens has suffered as we have; and when they did, other races raised their voices in their defence, until something was done to remove the cause. How can America take the lead in sending her soldiers upon foreign shores to quell disorder, when she can not, and will not do so at home, when the innocent are being lynched, burned, etc? I can see no way out of the terrible position in which we are placed, other than put up our men for congress and vote for them unitedly. To start now, I think, would turn the tide of public thought in our direction and be the means of bringing to us some of those rights which freedom demands. My dear sir, I grant that the work which the National Independent Political League is carrying on will wake up the numbering Americans from the cottage to the halls of Congress. I hope that "The Political Emancipation of the black man of America" is not far distant. Let delegates after delegates knock at the doors of Congress, the White House and the Senate, send your literature in foreign countries, stir up that feeling for justice throughout the world, and I am sure we will be bead and something will be done to remove the stain from America by giving justice to all. Say the work that we can do, and, whatever it is, we are waiting and hope to make application for admissions to your grand body, that is fighting for freedom's cause, justice and right. Very respectfully, W. R. E. NO. 51 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- RIX. 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 ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Culba. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor! & Proprietor Drawer: 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K Mar- tasburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1912 With this issue the Pioneer Press enters on its 31st year. Champ Clark, whose contention is: "It is little in the white man to try to injure the Negro," is sure to be the topnotcher at Baltimore. Meningitis is killing Oklahoma whites. The editor of this paper hasn't been there to diagnose the cause, but will venture the guess that its the Negro-phobia germs feeding on their cerebrums and cerebellums,—out of a 168 cases, 68 died. May all of that class get it, and——. All the little bubbles of this age, called prejudice, will be looked up a hundred years hence, to have been as much, if not more of a blessing, than slavery was. Keep on working, learning and praying—and keep in mind that work is the bulk of prayer—working by all means for yourself if not on 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, then 1 acre in fee simple yours. Save your money, keep off excurs ion trains and from picnics and camp meetings, and you'll be happy and your own master. We have no inclination to be a Billy Sunday, for the reason, we think we are a better man, but we would like to hoodoo the Board of Education and the people of Martinburg, into good, exact and equal chances to the colored children, as they see the white children get. Both are growing to manhood and womanhood, the colored crippled by just enough of that smattering kind, that burts rather than helps, while the whites get the best. The poor little colored children only have in the city of Martinburg—over 10, 000—a diagraceful one story school house. Why not build a good one, and also a grammar school? All sensible people like bird dogs. and other people love other dogs. Had all the bulldogs been killed, there would have been no bird dogs. However, suppose a certain class of people, after hundreds of years of friendship with and protection by dogs, decide to kill them, and set a day and time for it, and on that particular day, all dogs seen were killed except bull dogs, what would friends of dogs think? Naturally that they were cowards—afraid to bother the bull dogs. To unite to kill saloons and stop the common people from buying whisky, and allowing the government to make it without protests, is a case exactly parallel. There seems to be a nation wide grunting, groaning and whining over what the for seeing (?) theories—called in these latter days, economists, the fate of the Negro race, owing to the displacement of the servant classes. The good and contented servant class pretty fairly represent the well-fed dog with a collar ring around his neck, that met the lank wolf. Go the country over and you will find the poor whites living in the valleys, along the hillside, in hollows and on the mountains in houses good, bad and indifferent, while the Negrces as a rule, are working for and enriching others. Any class of people who are contented in service and have no ambition to rise above it, have no signs or hope hidden in their nature for the future good of the race, and were not their blood overcharged with servility, they would not be whining over losing that which diagraces them, unless they use it as stepping stones to get on top—in that case all work is honorable—otherwise, otherwise. Verily, "the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth." Were the Southern Negroes making no progress they would have no opposition; but the fact that they are on all lines, and that in spite of the South's wicked "sbante," is what so disturbs them hence Tennessee's decree that the Colored Knights of Pythias must disband. Have those white cowards and persecutors read how, when a God fearing and serving soul closely sought by his wicked puruers, ran into a cave, and simultaneously it was covered with a spider web, and losing sight of him, one suggested the cave, but when they got there, it was self evident he had not gone in, for the web was not broken. Be true to God and yourselves, be Pythians in your hearts and souls, and thereby force them admit, what Tooms did when Jeff Davis said: "They are ours (Toombs had said their cause was lost because the niggers prayed too much), make them pray for us." "Yes," said Toombs, for us with their lips, and for those infernal Yankees in their hearts. Be men, and if need be, die as freely in the half field of liberty as your fathers did on the 449 whole fields of actual battle for your whole liberty, and God will see you through. The editor of this paper would rather be a dead bulldog, than a tucked-tail whining our. The Rest Which Came to Catharine Ashe. DEDICATED TO F. M. JACOB3, M. D BROOKLYN. N. Y. Continued from last week. But at the close of school the girls pair off, and, the boys get a chance, each to walk home with his favorite girl. 'Ki ki-Kate" said Joe to his wife one day, (Joe had an impediment in his speech), "I see dat gal's got boy in 'er head, but I don want no-no boys hangin' roun' dis house. If I ketch 'er wid boys I gwi tare her hide off." "Now Joe," Catharine remonstrated, "Lullian's old enough to know right from wrong, and to deprive her of the privilege of romping with her school companions will only make things worse." "Now dare yer go!" Joe interrupted, "dats why dese ni-ni-nigger gals gi-give dare mummies so mummu-much trouble, fo' dey git knee high, deys got boys hangin' roun', When Lilly's through school I wa-want her ter come rite home any ste stay heeh." "Papa so stubbornly refuses to concede that I'm no longer a baby!' Lillian fumed as the two discussed the subject at the close of school that day, 'he's all the time looking for something to abuse me about!' "Well" said the mother, 'avoid the appearance of disobedience; if a boy insists on seeing you home at the close of school just tell him frankly what the situation is.' But Joel could see no refining not ennobling qualities in Lillian; she was bound to bring disgrace upon the family the way she was going, and he solemnly wished she had been born a boy. Vainly did Catharine plead for leniency, extolling the girl's excellent school record, her rapid advancement, the bright prospects of her becoming a credit to her race and a help to her parents. "But de wn was ni niggers you kin fin' is dese edificated ni niggers" Joe would report. "Go di di-down in Paddy's Holler an' dar you'll see um: Go up to Raleigh, an de pen-etiti tentiary is fuller dese edificated riggers whose book larnin' was dey loin'. Gai tek dat gal outer school an' put'er out ti' to a trade. She got too much sway fer her good." So overbearing and ugly did the father become that the girl lost interest in her studies, grew tired of her surroundings and pleaded to be sent away from home. Indulgent Catharine worked, saved, planned and waited; and one evening as the old Clyde Line steamer glided slowly down the river, bound for New York, Lillian was on board. And Catharine's troubled heart followed that ship, bearing her precious burden toward the city of alleged gayety, of wanton disregard for decency and temperance, from which she had seen so many acquaintances return coffined, or broken in health beyond repair. And she shuddered as she thought of Lillian with her soft, gentle nature, buffeted by chill winds and those beautiful brown eyes redened by dissipation. But Lillian had insisted on being sent to New York (there being so many old playmates and friends there) and Lillian generally had her way—with her mother. But not every girl that goes to New York is engulfed and swept downward with the tide of evil; God is there and the Church is there. In her crime infested slums, and along her brilliantly lighted "Whiteways," often above the shouts of gay revelers can be heard the voices of bonneted angels crying "Whosoever will! Whosoever will, may take of the Water of Life freely!" A voice whispered, "Leave it with God Catharine!" and she left it with God. But Joe Ashe was furious when he learned that his daughter had been spirited away without his knowledge or consent. "Hite je-je jes' es I said," he shouted, "It's tryin' ter keep dat gal fr'm gwine estray an-an-you upholin' ter agin mel Good mineter gi git on dat steamer an' go fetch er back heab an' let yer both know dat I'm boes. New Yorks de las' place ten sen' eny gal ef yer spec 'er ter be decent." "You can blame yourself for it all" Catharine answered, defiantly, "You, her father, have made the poor girl's life almost unbearable by constantly accusing her of doing things that were not in her mind. I have tried over, and over again to make you see that the best way to keep a girl in the right path is to show a willingness to trust her. By your persecutions you have driven the girl to desperation so to speak—and fretted me beyond endurance. She's actually afraid of you; and to prevent her from running away I've sent her away with my blessing, and the assurance that her mother can trust her even in New York. The die is cast. The eagle has stirred up her nest Mister Ashe! Catharine put an emphasis on her words that made Joe wince. "Who o ci, did you senter to Kikate?" he asked meekly, after a long pause. "I sent her to Mary Calhoun who lives in a part of the city called Brooklyn; she'll meet her at the steamer when it lands and take her to her house to stay." "Mary Calhoun" Joe repeated, "Jes es well ha had senter di-down in Paddy's Holler ter sti-stay wiol Philis es ter senter to dat man's house, ef hits de Mary Calhoun I know." Saying this Joe took his hat and left the house. It was two weeks after the departure of the steamer from Hanover, before her anxious mother received tidings from Lillian Ashe. She had arrived safely but too sea-kick to write sooner. "New York is a most delightful place Mamma" she wrote, "I wish you were here with us. I went out, and to church for the first time last Sunday. It seemed like I was in old Saint Luke's; there were so many familiar faces. There are no Jim Crow seats in street cars here Mamma. At the theatre a few nights ago, we sat right among the white folks; there were colored people all over the house—even occupying boxes. How delightfull No more south for me, unless you refuse to come North. Love to Papa. I have secured a place as nurse and will try it next week." Letters between Catharine and Lillian were exchanged regularly, Catharine's missives invariably ending with advice like this: "Be a good girl. The tongue of the slanderer will wag, who can stop it? But see to it that tells not the truth." Up to the year 1898 North Carolina had been among the most tranquilly governed states in the Union. But the wave of race antagonism, annulment and disfranchisement that started in the Gulf states a few years previous had moved rapidly northward until the Old North State was reached and tended into the infamous compact. [To Be Continued Next Week.] TRE 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." PLANS OF TRANSPORTATION To And From The 49th Session Of The Washington Annual Conference, Held in Ebenezer M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., Commencing Wednesday, March 20 1913. STEAM CARS All railroads in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia, except the Western Maryland will sell tickets, from March 16th to March 21st. inclusive, full fare going, and three fifths fare returning plus twenty five cents at the conference to the R. R. agent for vising tickets. These tickets are good for returning until April 4th. inclusive. Ask your agent for a ticket to the Washington Conference, and see that he gives you a certificate with your ticket. Deposit said certificate at conference and twenty-five cents with Sylvester H. Norwood as early as Wednesday or Thursday. Inquire of your local ticket agent if he has tickets; if not, he will instruct you at which station you can secure them, as all stations do not have them. The round trip fare from Baltimore to Washington is $150. THE ELECTRIC CAR Rates of Fare from Baltimore To Washington. (1.) Fare round trip $150, tickets good until used. (2) Party tickets for twentyfive or more, $120, tickets good for two days. (3) Round trip fare for 250 persons two days $108 each. Rv. S. H. Brown, chairman of Examination Committee, notifies all candidates for examination to be present in Ebenezer Church, Tuesday March 19 h. at 10 A. M. Pastors will please furnish the Secretary with correct addresses of widows of any deceased preachers in their work, and also please make corrections of any errors in the local Preacher's Directory. You're in the work, Sylvester H. Norwood, Sec'y. 574 Oxford St. Baltimore, Md. HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. 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. 1832 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. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Miller, M. Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Pn. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinches thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedman's hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polytechnic. Edward A. Bailoch, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Streets N. W., W. C. McNeall, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For more information, catalogue and special information address Dean or Department. BANCO DE ESPAÑA CONSERVACIÓN DE ALUMNOS BALTIMORE & OHIS RAILROAD. Corrected to December 1, 1911. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittiburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Col- umbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.10 a.m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39.5 37 p. m. No.9 Daily at 11.28 p.m. for Pittsburg. No 15 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 10 Daily except Sunday at 12,15 p.m. for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6,30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGOINS, Gen. Pass Agent, Baltimore md. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as second Class Matter The Ebenezer Baptist Church had a rally on last Sunday, and $38 was realized. Mrs. David Robinson, of Donglass Grove, was a business caller at our office yesterday. The Souvenir Rally at Mt. Z on M. E Church on Sunday last was a success, $75 being raised. March came in somewhat lamb like, but it will take a real leer to partially predict the way in which it will go out. Mise Morton G. Wever, of Norfolk, Virginia, is spending some time in our city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Fiecher, at their home on Charles Street. 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. Mr. Theodore Johnson, one of Martinsburg's best citizens, and a prominent and influential member of the M.E. Church, continues considerably indisposed, but he is cheerful and hopeful, a condition which will go a long way toward helping him to regain his health. Dr. H. S. Cassieman, the well known King Street physician, expired very suddenly in his office Thursday night. He was a pleasant gentleman, and he has many friends in Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke Counties, who will very much regret to hear of his death. 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. Just as we go to press, the end news is telegraphed to us that Mrs. Lucy Sprigga, wife of Prof. W. A. Sprigga, postmaster and instructor in the West Virginia Colored Institute, is dead. We deeply sympathize with the husband and children of the deceased, and can only suggest that they be comforted by the great Ruler above, who has promised to be our friend and guide under any and all circumstances. 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. 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BLACKWELL Pastor of Old Ship Church In Montgomery, Ala., In the Lead For Editor of the Star of Zion-Is Well Qualified by Education and Experience For the Position. Montgomery, Ala.—The approaching general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, which will be held in Charlotte, N. C., in May, opens up some interesting questions with reference to the elevation of prominent men to the bishopric and to other high positions in the church. To be sure, he that desireth the office of a bishop desireth a good thing, but from the point of influence and in the matter of gaining a place in the affections of the people no position is quite so desirable as the office of editor of one of the church organs. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church the publication that wields the greatest influence and whose appearance is looked forward to weekly with a great manifestation of interest in the Star of Zion, published in Charlotte, N. C., which has been so long and so ably edited by Dr. G. C. Clements, a protective bishop. Out of the large number of aspirants in the field for the editorship there are a number of men whom the church could well afford to honor, but for special fitness for this particular place Dr. W. A. Blackwell, now pastor of the celebrated Old Ship A. M. E. Zion church in this city, seems to lead. Dr. Blackwell has held a number of important places in the church and has been signally successful because of his fitness, ability and sterling qualities of honesty and integrity. He is every inch a Christian gentleman, a scholar, and has done considerable newspaper work of the class that stamps him as the possessor of the keenest kind of newspaper instinct. While pastor at Little Rock he edited the Western Alarm and at Montgomery the Old Ship Visitor. He has served as a widely read correspondent for the Star of Zion, for the Boston Advocate, and has done considerable reportorial work on the Elevator as well as serving as a correspondent for the Era, a weekly white paper in South Carolina. Dr. Blackwell is only forty-two years old, but he has done a large amount of work in the Zion church. He has been in the pastorate about twenty-four years, and, besides serving a period as presiding elder, he has been the successful pastor of some of the largest churches in the connection. At Lancaster, S. C.; at John Wesley church, Washington; at the Little Rock church, in Arkansas; the Pennsylvania Avenue church, in Baltimore, and at Old Ship church, in Montgomery, he has established a record as a pastor that is country wide. In his work he is affable, congenial, yet firm, having but few superiors either as a public speaker or preacher. At three points in particular in the ministry he has erected commodious and worthy structures. These places are Lancaster, S. C.; Statesville, N. C., and Wilmott, Ark. For sixteen years he taught in connection with his ministerial work. He has an unusual group of public questions and often discusses many live subjects from his pulpit here, which is peculiarly regarded as the most attractive in the city among our people. His speeches, addresses and sermons show careful preparation and are always delivered in a convincing and painstaking manner with a thoroughness not academic, but born of a kind of preparation that betrays the man of deep study and research. He is in great demand as a lecturer before schools in the south, and since coming to Montgomery he has been placed on the annual lecture course at Phelps Hall Bible Training school, Tuskegee institute, and has delivered annual sermons or addresses at Tuskegee institute, Miles Memorial college, Corona institute, Lomax-Hanon High and Industrial school, Mount Meigs and the Calhoun Normal and Industrial institute. For the work of editor of the Star of Zion Dr. Blackwell is undoubtedly well qualified. He writes, as he speaks, with thoroughness of detail and candor and truthfulness of statement and is of such a high order of intelligence and dignity that he could easily satisfy the many sided and cosmopolitan readers of the Star of Zion. He thoroughly knows the culture of the United States and is interested in his publications and participates in all kinds of benevolent movements will show. His standing in the church and with his fellow ministers is of gilt edge variety, as can be seen in the fact that he has been a member of the general conference since 1892. He was educated at Albion academy and State Normal school of Franklinton, N. C., and Livingston college. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Harris at Parksdale, Ark., in 1891, and an elder by Bishop Walters in 1892 at Little Rock. For the consideration of the delegates to the general conference and the members of the church at large Dr. Blackwell has erected a substantial platform upon which he rests his chances for elevation to the editorship of the Star of Zion. FARMERS AS EDUCATORS. School In Ladonia (Tex) Helped by Farmers' Improvement Society. Farmers Improvement Society. Ladonia, Tex.-The progress which the Farmers' Improvement society of Colorado county, Tex., is making is a striking example of the possibilities open to our people in various sections of the south. The society was organized after much persistent effort on the part of the promoters to get the farmers to see the necessity for and realize the value to them of such an organization. One of the first matters to be considered after the society was formed was how to assist the members in getting rid of the credit system. Thus far a good many have wiped out the indebtedness which was on their homes and farms when the company started. The slogan of the members is to refrain from spending time and money upon foolish and harmful projects, to educate their children, buy homes and conduct their farms after the most approved and profitable agricultural methods. The society has secured a charter by which similar organizations may be formed. Already the movement has spread over Texas and Oklahoma. The society takes a leading part in the management of the college at Ladonia, Tex., which owns eighty-two acres of land, fine buildings, cattle and live stock. The institution is free of debt, and the prospects for building up a great school and a more thrifty community are very bright. It is only by such methods as these that the race in the rural districts of the south can hope to contribute its share to the advancement of society and raise the standard of living among those of our people who follow industrial pursuits. The effort of the society along such lines is worthy of the most exacting loyalty and co-operation which could possibly be given on the part of any class of people. HAMPTON HONORS NATAL DAY OF S. C. ARMSTRONG. Early Struggles of the Great Educator Told by Intimate Friend. Hampton, Va.-The recent observance of founders' day by the faculty and students of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute in this town was one of the most interesting and inspiring celebrations held for many years. The exercises were held in honor of the birthday of General S. C. Armstrong, who founded the school in 1863 and who was its honored president for a quarter of a century. The principal speaker of the occasion was Dr. E. W. Schauffler of Kansas City, Mo., who told the story of his association with General Armstrong in the work of taking care of the colored people who came to the tidewater section of Virginia toward the close of the civil war. Dr. Schauffler was also a coworker with the general in the freedmen's bureau. After the war, said Dr. Schauffler, General Armstrong was put in charge of a district of the Freedmen's bureau, with headquarters at Hampton. His district embraced the counties of Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, Charles City, New Kent, King and Queen, Gloucester and Mathews. The only way of traveling over this large domain was on horseback or by sailboat. His duties as superintendent were varied. A thousand questions came up as to the title to land, what disposition to make of the colored people massed in this region, how to secure employment for them and how to wean the colored people from the support of the government. General Armstrong also had to care for the supervision of the schools which had been started by the American Missionary association and the Quakers. During these trying days General Armstrong showed his marvelous faculty of getting along with all sorts of people. 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