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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABISHED 1882. Brazilian Advice By Prof. Isaac S. Moore, 26 Ru a dos Capitaes. Bahia, Brazil. Dear Editor: I hope that you and all have had a Merry Christmas, and I wish you a happy New Year. Although I do not feel myself worthy to compliment you, yet may I say that the decision and exactness with which you dealt with the Ulrich-Washington case, certainly attracts my highest admiration, at least from an individual standpoint. It proves that there are men, even in the Negro race, and in the great United States of North America, who will not mince at the truth when it is clear to them, and upon such a knowledge rests the inspiration of the following generations, and long may such men live in all generations and races, as well as places. If any race needs or ever did need this kind of true manliness, it is the Negro race. For sadly is the Negro race the foot bail of all races, so much so that when ever a weakling can barely squeeze by, he does not hesitate in abandoning his identity with the Negro, and establish it with some other race. Then to show that he has no sympathy with said race, he invariably becomes more tyrannical than any other race or people to which he makes himself the ally. This is the greatest curse of the Negro race. The greatest number of the so-called leaders only lead them to the market that will give them the most for the entire flock, and as there are so many others only coveting their chance to do the same some day that they are afraid to speak lest they may spoil their own opportunity. Down goes the poor race another notch, to degradation. Do you notice this in the men whom we would be glad to admire otherwise? I will say most conspicuously in the two persons of Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington, not speaking about Wm. Hannibal Thomas of Everet. Mass. It is only because they fear no rebuttance from the oppressed race, but I say that Negroes want to learn to snap such fellows in the face, and give a warning to all others. The trouble is that Negroes are trying to hide from their very selves to such a degree that although seventy-five percent of the world's population are Negroes, it is only the uneducated and those direct or indirectly connected with modern slavery, who will allow themselves to be called Negroes not withstanding some of them could almost spit ink if they could liquify their color. Yet if one should happen to call him a Negro, he is highly magnanim and will demand immediate apology. You do not need me to remind you how Dr. Washington refers to his Negrohood. He, like Frederick Douglas, openly dedicates his intelligence to his white blood, which is an insult not only to the mother and her race which bore him, but to the God of creation as though he could not instill intelligence into a black man. This has gone to such an extent that men and women dare to upbraid God their creator for giving them a black skin. I ask you where is there a greater sin? Now I am sure that you have seen some of those remarks which Mr. Mitchell has had the goodness to publish in his able and worthy paper. The Richmond Planet. If I desired to know what you thought of it, I would be worthy to be called a man pleaser. While I do not give a rap for the pleasure of men in that particular, it is the rights of men for which I was working and for which I live. Yet I will give you some of my reasons for speaking against the much agitated question of a leader for the race. I judge that you are a man who has passed those childish thoughts of the masses, and that sound truth will not make an inharmonious jar upon your nerves. The truth is, that there is not one man in all America who is capable of leading the Negro race successfully. I am speaking from an educational point of view, and I defy you even to truthfully gainesay me. Here is my foundation for such bold assertions. The educated Negro in or out of the United States knows too little about the actual conditions of the race to assume to dictate its needs. He only knows what he has seen and heard of certain districts. This which he has heard, is in most cases from white men who know even less about the truest conditions of the race. Again, it is not knowledge of the race alone which would qualify one, but an equal knowledge of other races, places, businesses and social conditions of each comparatively. There are not books written that give the definite conditions of the Negro race to day. There is little or no correspondence carried Department of Archives, C h 1924, W. Va. on internationally by the Negroes. The educated Negro is not an extensive traveler, and when he travels he is so high that he never really learns any thing about the conditions of his race where he travels. It is all told to him by others, and his money is really so small, and his time so short that how ever interested he is, he cannot linger in one place. Please tell me where is the man who has even tried to acquaint himself with the true conditions of the Negro race to any great extent but the one who was in the service of white men and really out of sympathy with his subject? Without this knowledge no one can say just what is good and what is bad for the Negro race, and I dare say that Dr. Washington's knowledge is about as ample as any other colored man's knowledge in America. Doubtless you could probably teach him much about things which come daily under your observation. The trouble is that he has no time to consult with you or any other poor man, yet he must dictate your rights as a citizen. Even if he really knew something which would save you from much embarrassment he does not dare to tell you for fear that he will loose some personal favors with some of his white friends. In his own admission about Roosevelt and the colored soldiers, you see he had been the main instrument in disarming you at the polls and now his friend and ally was to take the civil arms away and nothing could he do, and less did he care, then. But he will learn to care if the lives much longer. It is almost useless to say anything about the much honored Prof. DuBoum, after the letter which he published last year, but I suppose too, that he has had reasons to reflect more upon the importance of such utterances, and so it is on down the line. There are too many stern and honorant dictators in the colored race, and not enough real men who will seek to know how to build it up. If you applaud one at a public banquet he is out the next day as a dictator, and what does he know for God's sake? This does not end the trouble; he also seeks to make money at the expense of his admirers, yet he has really done nothing. This is a thing to be deplored. You evidently want to know then what remedy would I give for all this? Well, I should say, there is nothing so good as regular conferences in your immediate districts where all of the people can be heard. Afterward hold quarterly sessions where only your best material will be delegates and then annual meetings where the real stare sent to represent you. You make no mistake in choosing them because they work themselves up from the very lowest degrees, and by all means let the press be there always to tell the public if any funny tricks are played. In this way you really make your own representatives and give them confidence and strength by practice and association with their own. Again, you should begin at once to establish national and international news correspondence bureau for the education of Negroes to their advantage in every part of the world. By this means you would know what you are really worth at home. You see today that Negroes are considered much as chattels even now, and if there are not some immediate steps taken he will find that he is out of the question altogether. Now the first and most important thing that the foremost men ought to do, is to stop asking pittances from other races to build up the Negro race. In vulgar language, "quit passing the hat" to the white man. This makes a coward of any race, or person. You must really look to build the race up to a self supporting basis, and when you can truly understand that you are not to have more than the race can give, you will begin to think of augmenting the capacity of the race to give more. That means to seek ways and means for the race to have more to give. It can only get an appreciable amount of that which is by entering the field of commerce. It is after all, the commercial men who are the real kings of the world, and until the Negro can make his name read up in these pages he is a back number. Now there is another thought which I wish to bring to your mind, and that is, how you should make high ranking military officers among the American Negroes, which will add no little importance to the race in America. Since Annapolis and West Point have refused you, you should send your children at once to the military schools of other countries, and when America finds that you are doing this, you'll find even the doors of her academies opening to you. I tell you that you may say all you will, but cowardice never won a battle. A brave heart also produces much, and the owner works in many ways. I am a firm believer in strategy, but not in cunning; in science, but not in scandal. I don't believe in yielding in a good cause. Life is nothing without its point, and the sooner the Negro race can learn this, so soon will it begin to come to the front. Now if you do not feel that I am asking you too much, and if this will not disgrace your columns, you will please give this matter some of your valuable time and space. You can see from my statements above, that I believe after all the Negro race has got to be educated by the race journals, and this should give every editor some pride in seeking good and whole some matter for his readers. He is really a kind of a principal in a great school, and if he lifts the people he like wise lifts himself, and if the people sink like wise sinks. The Negro race has got to rely upon the Negro editors for their leadership—men who various moves are open to the public's view, and who must really try and make other men's lives just as open as their own where matters of their race and state are concerned. I also think that Negroes should make themselves active in bringing crime and criminals to justice and in seeing that justice is done both to the state and the criminal. The effect this will have on living your and their names from the dust is beyond common words of expression. And there is something more. Negro editors must not sit down and copy what white papers or their press have to say about a Negro or Negroes committing crime. You should make sure of these things as unquestionable facts before you print them. A case which cannot bear inspection by colored news representatives, should be recorded, it is said such and such happened. The Negroes have got to be very careful about what they print in regard to their race, and if there is a possible chance, make the white editors cut to be flairs some time as they are only men, and not by any means in failure. Everything that hurts the reputation of the race, hurts also everything and person which pertains to the race and vice versa. It is hard for you to get your rights when you will not help others to get there. Now I know that the Negro is now treated fairly either by his own race or by those of others. I oa Negro seeks to correct one of his race who may be found in error he settles does it in a loving way. He more or less speaks to the poor falsie so through the own him soul and body, and the result is worse in the end that in the beginning, consequently Negro would rather tell his troubles to a white person than to one o his own kind. Now every colored man or woman could be ashamed of this fact. It only proves how they treat their own children, and then they fail to understand why white children are more intelligent when they grow up. Now the fact is that although the Negro child may be black it is no less a human, and it has all the human sense when it is well. It should be treated as such. Many people cower their own child on as well as they do their own race and communities. The Negroes adhere too much to the teachings of King Solomon, and not enough to Jesus in their treatment of their children and too much to Moses in treating their race. This is wrong, the best way is to think of every one as yourself and speak or act by him or her in that fight. I beg to sign myself humbly yours in service and absure equal social rights to all under similar conditions. Neither, but Latter In a Crisis. Neither, but Latter In a Crisis. If it is to be a choice between the two, I prefer Roosevelt every time. If I could have my choice however, I would have neither, but a new man entirely. That Taft is no friend to the colored man must be clear to every thinking man of the race. His turning out of southern Negro office holders is enough, to say nothing of his Supreme Court appointments. To the monied interests he has surely made a graceful bow. Roosevelt is a different sort of a follow. He has genuine American courage—he is afraid of no man and no man or clique of men can put a collar on him. There are others perhaps of the same calibre, but they have not come to the surface as yet. I believe that the coming national election will demonstrate the power of the colored man to a surprising degree. In the casting of his ballot VOL. 31. it will be shown that he has been slowly but surely imbibing the spirit of independence—being unwilling to further humiliate himself by supporting wholly a party that refuses to protect him in the rights to which an American citizen he is justly entitled. Can any intelligent man show a valid reason why this should not be? As an example look at Maryland. The governor has sent in his green bag, carrying both state wide and county appointments. Search the list with a microscope and you will not find the name of a single Negro. This too, in the face of the fact that there are more Negro than white republicans in the state. It does seem reasonable that these faithful supporters of the party should at least receive some little recognition. With the rapid increase of intelligence among our people, is there a man foolish enough to believe that the intelligent Negro will continue to blindly follow a party that refuses them the smallest kind of consideration? No there is bound to come a change—and it can only come by the Negro making his power felt, and this can be done solely by assuming an independent position. To put up a candidate who has proven his dislike of the Negro, and then to expect that self same Negro to help keep him in power, is just a little too large a dose to swallow. We have been doing that very thing right along, but it is time to stop. Roosevelt stuck to Dr. Crum and would not be headed off even by a busile Senate, but it is dollars to doughnuts that Wm H. Taft will never insult the South by following the example of his courageous and witty predecessor. Among the business men of this city I find a very strong Roosevelt sentiment. I have heard quite a number of them openly express their preference for him. That the advantage is largely on the side of the present incumbent, is of course cheerfully admitted but should a popular uprising occur in favor of Roosevelt, it will sweep all opposition before it. Well, I have at last seen the much talked of "Teddy Bear Dance", and the impression it made upon my mind is hard to describe. I have seen a real bear going through his dance under the direction of his Italian master. It was just what one would expect of a bear—for he is a clumsy brute. But this can be said to his credit; he was as graceful in his movements as could be expected. But a young lady hugged tightly in a man's arms trying to imitate bruin, is to my mind one of the most vulgar and disgraceful exhibitions that it has ever been my good fortune to witness. Between the lady and gentleman on the one side and the bear on the other, there is certainly a very poor companion, for as to grace of movement, the bear, has them beaten a mile. I is certainly a sad commentary upon our advanced civilization, our boasted enlightenment when we are willing to silently wink at these encroachments upon decency and to permit our sons and daughters who are to be the future fathers and mothers of the race to engage in them. Salome in his disgraceful dance before Herod could not have exhibited a worse picture than these Teddy dancers. I would to God that I could with one stroke of my pen blot the whole thing out of existence. J. W. Jackson. Frosburg, Md. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G; A TRUE STORY. There was once a man who thought himself so poor that he could give but little for any good cause. One day a lady asked him to put his name down for eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents for a year for charitable purposes. Looking at her in amazement, he said, woman, I never had that amount to give in my life, and never expect to have, for I'm a poor man." "Weil" she said, "if you really think you cannot afford that sum, will you be willing to give five cents a day for this year?" "Why, yes," he said, "five cents a day is only a little bit; but if that will do any good, I can do that much." And he did it and enjoyed it, not even suspecting he was after all paying eighteen dollars and twenty five cents for the year, the very same sum the lady had asked him to subscribe. \* \* SMOKING HELPFUL. When asked what he found to be most helpful in his work, Mark Twain replied, "smoking," picking up a large pipe which he smoked as he passed up and down in the room. "I always smoke this when at work. I could do without it; I smoke by necessity. I did stop once for over a year, but during that time I didn't write anything. The bowl of his pipe was made from the hollowed-out cob of an ear of Indian corn. He smoked cigars too, but his love for his "corn cob" was greater than that of the moreristocratic form. WHY MARK TwAIN ENVIED BUN-YAN "Once I first Mark Toggin in a foreign city" and a well known writer, "just as he was preparing to return to America. We were sitting in the hall of his house, surrounded with tables and chairs, most of them upside down and disfigured with linen covers. He was disconsolately smoking a pipe. "I can't understand," said he "how a literary man is fool enough to move. I often envy Bunyan. The best thing that ever happened to him was being thrown into prison, where he could write in peace. If they ever get me in there, they could never get me out." I WAIN'S LETTER TO CARNEGIE. "My dear Mr. Carnegie:—I see by the papers that you are really prosperous. I want to get a hymn-book. It costs six shillings. I will bless you, and God will bless you, and it will do a great deal of good. P. S. Don't send me the hymn-book; send me the six shillings." No GOING OVER NECESSARY. One day Twain was being shaved by a very talkative barber, and was forced to listen to many of the barber's speeches. Stopping to strop his razor, and prepared with brush in hand to commence again the harder said: "Shall I go over it again?" "No, thanks," drawled Mark, It's hardly necessary, I think I can remember every word." Champ Clark paid this tribute to the great humorist; "Mark Twain was the greatest Miracurian that ever lived, and the greatest literary man that America ever produced." AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, KHALIGOUS 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 Culbs. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Chifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K Mar- sasburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MARCH 9 b., 1912 It may require patience, and the best of common sense to understand plans of this advanced age, and yet to do so, may establish our fate. Attention is called to Prof. Moore's article in this issue. Mr. Moore lives in Brazil, South America; is a profound thinker, and a forceful writer. Read it carefully and profit by doing. The very fact that fully a million neolithic Africans have been found in the central part of Africa, shows that the human family can come back or into a civilized state without the forerunners of whiekey and slavery. The Negro is branded as a treacherous being. Naturally not so. His nature is shown in his native country, where even his enemies are treated as brothers, and the best they have is given freely. Glorious African, in honesty and loving kindness, the attic salt of human creation, as it exists today the world over. The Pioneer Press wants to know why the white man's papers, whenever a Negro is charged of a heinone crime, lynching is always referred to in the following manner: "If caught will likely be lynched," while on the other hand if a white person commits, or is charged with the commission of a similar crime, nothing of the kind is ever printed. Is it not their sort of nambypamby talk that encourages mob violence? You can not be honest and connive at it. If the Democratic party hopes to win—and it does—in this state this year, it is as necessary to regard geography in selecting its best men, as it is to select its best men. Berkeley County is one of the best places not to overlook, and no better man than Mr. S. S. Felker can be found in its ranks, to grace its state ticket for Auditor. Honest, industrious, courteous, eagle-eyed to business, clean in character, and with it all, a gentleman of marked distinction, and if overlooked by selfishness on the other side of the Alleghaniies, regrets may follow it. Why Souse Them Under? None of your business comes the sohe, and we admit it, but are we not free to ask any question which seems reasonable? That is all we have done. If baptism is not essential to salvation—and it isn't—why souse the ordeulous under the loy water, when the heat of a stove, warm clothes and better food is what the soul would rejoice over? To see the preacher wade out, and stand in water waist deep long enough to plunge several under, looks like he is religiously immune to the chills of life, but search the sky pilot, and if you don't find that he is dry as a duck, because of a gum suit he has on under his garb of theology, ye editor will be sensed. Circumcision preceded baptism, and it was declared of no use; why lay so much nonsenical stress on the thing that took its place? --- Your defence no doubt, is Christ baptized. Granted. Sensible people in this day do things to win, because not to do so, would be antagonism—resulting in frequent failures. At the time we were born and reared, one of our daily duties was to gather pine knots, or rich pine by which to give light to read, talk, &c. Does not the most ignorant man or woman agree, that the dip light—which consisted of grease in an iron fixture, saturating a rag, was a step and a better one, than the pine knot? Following that, came the tallow cane, which was decidedly better than the dip light, and when that was relegated to oblivion by the coal oil lamp, who meant, groaned and cried? and when the lamp had to step aside, or back and sit down because of gue, who regretted the change, and now that electricity has laid all on the shell, is it not plain to every one, that this is a progressive age, and that men, their issue, and their religion that do not submit to them, are back numbers. We have not one word of condemnation for, or against those who consent to be plunged under ice freezing water, but we have for the sky pilote who are called to preach the gospel, and spend their lives telling others about heaven, and spend all their money, and bag of others for more, when sickness forces them on the death banks of Jordan, rather than carefully go to the place they have borne so much about. The above refers to man and his money making schemes, while the concluding deals with the wisdom of God. Let us assume that God is all wise, and therefore all good, and if that be true, and he sent his Son into this world to take man's nature, that He could feel as man does, and that on that basis contrition brings about redemption and redemption salvation, why plunge people under water to finish his work, when, considered from the most philosophical standpoint, represents not a whit more than a typification of a life we ought to live and if that all be true, why not live that life—without all the foolishness that is practised? For our part we will take the dryland route to heaven. A GOOD MAN GONE The "Grant County Press" came to me last Saturday with the sad announcement of the death of Rev. Dr. Jesse C. Taylor, of Baltimore, Maryland, who was formerly a Methodist minister, whom I had known since 1807, when he was assigned to a circuit in Pendleton County, West Virginia, and one of his points was at Bethel Church on the South Fork near Buckhorn Mills, or Fort Saybert. This was just after the Civil War when the blood between the North and the South was still hot and as Dr. Taylor was a Northern Methodist he had fairly a hard road to travel, for his congregation was generally small. However there were enough colored children in the neighborhood for a school, but no one could be found to teach it for fear of being called a "nigger teacher. Rev. Taylor, seeing the need of such a school, agreed to give a portion of his time through the week and teach it, and it was in the winter of that year that I had the pleasure of attending his school for two months. He gave me a book entitled, "Beginning Life," and in which he wrote these words: "Presented to N. G. Robinson by Rev. Jesse C. Taylor for good behavior and studiousness at school. Remember you are living for a purpose and that purpose is to serve God and benefit humanity." He left West Virginia the following Spring, and finally left the Methodist Church and became a prominent minister in the Episcopal Church and was retired as such at the time of his death. His letter to me Oct. 17th. 1905 after 38 years is as follows: Baltimore, Oct. 17th, 1905 I had your letter written to me when I was up in Grant County, and it was a great pleasure to me to find you ench a man as to remember me through all these years, and that you had profited by the teaching you received when you were young and had so conducted yourself so to meet you consideration and even friendship of your fellow men with whom you had come in contact. This I learned from gentlemen that knew you in Petersburg, and elsewhere. This demonstrable what I have long known, that there is no color question, but simply one of character and manners and sympathetic consideration for our fellow men. No man can compel his fellows to give him a crown he has not won by natural merit. I fear you have felt that I have been remixes in not writing sooner and perhaps I have, but my apology must be that I had intended to come over to Washington to see and talk with you on my return, but circumstances have prevented it, and from time to time I have overlooked the writing. Later on I will come over. I enjoyed my visit to my old tramping ground very much. I went over to Bethle, but Mr. Miller and Allen Dyer and a few others were all that was left of the old ones. I presched while there. It delighted me to see how much all that country had advanced and improved in 30 years. They don't realize it, but I am it and pleasily. I am glad you are doing well in a worldly sense, but after all Green the higher things that come to us from the spiritual life are all that are worth living for. This I learn more fully as I grow older. Youre Affctional. I can't just lay my hands on your letter and hence the address may not be perfect, and I doubt not you will get this and excuse the imperfection. J. C. T. Mr. James A. Savoy requests me to add to the above letter, and say, that today at 8:30 o'clock, he made his bow as an official barber of the House of Representatives, and had the editor of the "Pioneer Press" been here he would have celebrated the event. I have not seen as yet, as to how the Pioneer Press stands as between Taft and Roosevelt for the nomination. N. G. R. Washington, D. C. The Rest Which Came to Catha- rine Ashe. DEDICATED TO F. M. JACOBS, M. D. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Continued from last week. Hungry, designing politicians so artfully magnified the scarcrow "Negro Domination" that peaceful white natives were thrown into murderous frenzy. Poor whites, eager to do the bidding of their masters, the politicians, like blood hounds unleashed and given a taste of blood, murdered, pillaged, burned; and the Negro, demoralized with astonishment, fled in terror. That a terrible mistake had been made was soon realized, but too late to stop the exodus of Negroes that had set in, some of whom, in their eagerness to get away practically gave away their belongings. In such numbers did they go that the servant problem threatened to become very serious in Hanover. "Good colored people, Good colored people, no harm was meant to you; we are endeavoring to rid the town of the undesirable Negro, the politician, the agitator for the good of all concerned" was the cry of the rich. But the mob had not discriminated; they had killed and intimidated good and bad alike—yea the good were the chief sufferers. This xodus Catharine Ashe joined, leaving her husband who was undecided, behind. When Catharine Ashe reached Brooklyn she found many others of her frightened people already there, for they had been steadily leaving the old town even before the race war reached its fatal climax. "My Mamma! Oh My Mammal!" cried Lilian when on the evening of the day of Catharine's arrival she returned from work to find her mother sitting, waiting for her in her room. Sitting down on her mother's lap she nestled her head against her bosom as she used to do when a child. "I thought you dead Mamma; I could not hear a word, and the newspapers were telling such dreadful things about the killing and driving out of colored people. Those of whom I enquired said you were safe but then, I couldn't rest easy." "It was useless to write, my child" returned Catharine, the mob had us so completely at their mercy that sending a letter without its being opened was well nigh impossible. Neither your father nor I was harmed but we saw others harmed, we saw them kiled. And I told Joe he might stay if he liked but I was going, and here am I?" and she pressed Lillian closer to her bosom. "But we are not altogether safe here Mamma" Lillian said, "this very locality is now and then the scene of race clashings. The poor white however, does not get the sanction of the rich and better classes as is the case in the south. Then again, we have a good and efficient police force which can and does cope with these mobs of hoodlums it matters not how violent they become; and before impartial magistrates the guilty are surely punished. That's what makes the north better than the south. Now that we are here together Mamma, we'll work together and fit up a city apartment of our own" she concluded gleefully. Lillian kept her mother awake nearly the whole night, relating her experiences in the north and making plans for the future as though that was the only night she would have in which to talk and plan. But Catharine Ashe could not readily adapt herself to her new surroundings which so sharply contrasted with those of the old southern home. As she climbed the long, winding stairs of the poorly kept, dilapidated hall and gazed now and then out upon the dirty street filled with dirty children black and white, the seat little cottage and garden in Hanover would rise before her vision and fill her heart with a longing to return. Work for women was plentiful, colored women being especially sought after for "general house work" which meant the combined duties of four servants—cook, laundress, chamber maid and waitress. Such work in our great northern cities keeps the hospitals filled with women suffering with incurable diseases, thousands of whom fill unmarked graves yearly. Such work Catharine had never done. "Washing and ironing" had been her vocation, and this she could do beautifully. Securing a floor in a more desirable locality, mother and daughter set to work and furnished it comfortably and made it as attractive and inviting as their limited means could afford. Lillian quit her service place and came home; and a climb to their apartment any week day would find mother and daughter both busily engaged with the "clothes." But no amount of work could dull Lillian's appetite for pleasure; and at dancing class, at bulls and picnics she was usually among the last to leave for home. "This will not do Lillian" said Catharine one day in alarm, as she noticed her daughter drooping about the room and leaning wearily upon her board now and then—"you must take more rest." "I is my only pleasure Mamma and you know I work hard and faith fully." "That's the reason you should rest more answered her mother. "I will be blamed when your father comes. I do not care to be tormented as I was at home, and am sure you do not, so tone down a little. He's likely to arrive here at any time." "Do let me run until he does come" Littion answered with a laugh, then I'll become as solemn as a nun. Why you ought to go yourself sometimes Mamma," the girl went on coaxingly, "take a little recreation and see the younger folks enjoy themselves." "Littil!" exclaimed Catharine in astonishment, "They'd turn me out of church!" [ To Be Continued Next Week ] 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 Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yankers, N. Y. 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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., Ph. 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. Furnishes 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 Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical faculties not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Policlinic. Edward A. Bailoch, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Streets N. W., W. G. McNeil, 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 5:h street N. W. catalogue and special information address Dean or Department Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg Mr. William L. wery, of Charles Town, circulated among friends here a day or two this week. Rev. R. R. Thompson, pastor of Dudley Baptist Church, and his congregation will worship with Mount Zon M. E Church tomorrow w 3 p. m. Miss Adora Robinson, of Dongless Grove, and Mrs Brize Broneem, of Vanderbiltville, we business callers at our office last Saturday. Mr. Huyvond, of the business in Barkley County, and a well known Dudleyville citizen, was a very welcome caller at our office today. For cleaning, drying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordier loss all of the best outfit and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business: Wonderer Ave., P. O 609 — S. N. Parks. Rev George S. Lawrence, head of the Providence Industrial House Middletown, Va., is in our city. It is conversing for a beautiful line of pictures that portray people of color in a creditable manner, and is meeting with a fair degree of success. 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. Clarence W. Ambrose, the well known city man, is the possessor of a fine hoistain cow which has this whole section of the country bested as a producer of milk. She gives ex gallons of rich milk per day, and anybody doubting our statement can verify it by a visit to the Ambrose dairy. 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. Early this morning, while returning to their home in this city, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Seibert were killed at the crossing on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad a short distance west of Vancelevesville. It was a terrible accident, killing two very estimable young people, and casting gloom over their friends and acquaintances in Martinsburg and vicinity. Mr. Seibert was a dealer in farming implements, buggies, &c., and bore a large acquaintance in Berkeley and adjoining counties. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c.. is my specialty. 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I have known farmers who considered the accumulation of manure in and around the barn as an unavoidable nuisance in handling live stock and removed it only for the reason that it must be gotten out of the way, and so hauled it to the nearest field, dumping it into a few piles. When the time came to plow the field they then found it necessary to scatter the manure in order to plow the ground. Manure after standing in small piles out in a field will have had most of the soluble plant food leeched out on a very small area of ground while the remainder that is scattered will consist only of the coarser material, with very little soluble plant food in it. There are several conditions that might be mentioned as affecting the value of farm manure, such as the method of handling and preserving manure, the kind and amount of bedding used, the kind of animals and their age, and the kind of food furnished the animal. Stable manure is better than barnyard manure because it contains all the solid and liquid portions. All manure should be kept under a shed or other suitable cover to protect it from the rain and the sun, and sufficient bedding should be used to ab- THE Y. M. C. A. OF WEST The accompanying picture is a flashlight, taken of one of the regular weekly men's meetings of the University Y. M. C. A. President Hodges was the speaker at this meeting. The meetings are held on every Friday evening, and the speakers are prominent men, of the university or elsewhere. A large crowd attends these religious meetings of the mid-week, at which subjects of vital interest to earnest college men are informally discussed. The association has shown evidence this year of being very much alive. Not only has it held, or sent its aid to several social events in the school during the year, and organized a fast basket ball team. In more serious matters as well, it has shown itself ready to lend a helping hand. Many people who are interested in the university do not know that the Marilla Sunday-school is organized under the supervision of the Young Men's Christian Association, or that it is responsible also for furnishing two speakers every second week for an evening meeting in that place on Sunday evening. Members of the association have also conducted meetings at the Monengalian county home, where religious exercises have been held for the first time in several years. Gospel teams composed of association members are planning several trips to small outlying towns, accessi- READ THE PIONEER sorb all the liquid portion. The liquid part of the manure contains a great deal of the nitrogen, which, if not absorbed, is lost; so that when this portion is allowed to go to waste, the value of the manure is greatly diminished. The manure of young animals is not as rich as that from mature animals. Manure from sheep and poultry is richer than the manure from horses, cows and swine. Animals fed highly nitrogenous feeds, such as cotton seed meal and linseed meal, produce a more valuable manure than animals fed coarser feeds. If manure is not well taken care of, a large portion of the most valuable plant food is lost, and this may be prevented to a large extent by adding acid phosphate to it, using about 50 pounds to a ten of manure or applying one pound every morning in the stall, after which the stall is well bedded. When the value of a ton of manure is determined, we find in it about 10 pounds of nitrogen, 5 pounds of phosphoric acid and 10 pounds of potash, being worth $2.25 a ton, considering the nitrogen worth 15 cents per pound and the phosphoric acid and potash each five cents per pound. Experiments show that the average value of increase of crop produced by one ton of fresh manure is from $2.75 to $3.50. Therefore, if a farmer will take the time of multiplying the number of tons of fresh manure that is made on his farm every year by $3 he will understand the value of manure as a farm resource. I. S. COOK, JR., College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. ble from Morgantown. The meetings are generally held on three successive days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the teams are composed of two or three speakers and a singer. Only one such series has been so far held since Christmas, but others are being planned. That held was at Stewartstown, and was very successful. Another branch of the Association's activities which will readily commend itself to every patriotic American is the work which they have started among the foreigners of Morgantown's manufacturing suburb of Sabraton. They are teaching the immigrants of the shops and factories to speak and write correctly the tongue of their adopted country. The Roberts system of instruction is used. 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