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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, D uston, W. Va. ESTABISHED 1882. M. E. Church News Of Interest M. E. Church News Of Interest Mr. Editors—Of late several articles on the election of colored Bishops in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the secular and religious press have appeared. The Church now concedes three facts, (1) the need of colored Bishops for special service among their own people, a service which white Bishops can not and will not perform, (2) the posession of colored men in the Church qualified for the Bishopsic, and (3) race prejudice in the Church so strong that a colored Bishop cannot be elected. The church, therefore has two reasons for electing colored Bishops, and one feeling for not electing them. The Family, the State, the Public School, the Church and all other educational institutions and forces available at an innumerable expense are employed to get the world to follow reason rather than feeling. The Church therefore needs to be reasonable. The Church is also, primarily a spiritual institution. Incidentally she is a social, business and political institution. Rob the Church of her spirit, and you have merely the State or some other secular institution, capable of possessing race prejudice and all other ill feelings. But the spirituality of the Church has no place for them. Therefore, reasonable and spiritual men in a reasonable and spiritual institution dealing with reasonable and spiritual things should not allow feeling, especially a low one as is prejudice to rule them in dealing with the questions of their institution. We do not deny feeling a place in the Church, but we deny it a ruling place in the Church or in any other institution made up of men, especially in an institution composed of reasonable and spiritual men. In spite of our Church being a reasonable and a spiritual institution, she is letting prejudice rule her on this question. For some cause her conscience is seared on this question, and she rests contented to treat her colored members in prejudice because of their inability to defend themselves, which indicates how cowardly men can act when they have a chance to so act. Her treatment of us in prejudice is not only unreasonable, unjust, unspiritual, but her attitude toward this said treatment is wrong and defiant. She has no excuse to offer for being prejudiced toward us, and she feels justified in her conduct toward us. She has no apology to make—because she has no one capable of demanding an apology, or she would make one and have an enlightened conscience, too. Instead of this, one of our Bishops by arrangement of his church sits chairman of a commission whose secret sessions the public judge to be for tampering with the rights of his colored members, and when we ask for a member's right and a man's chance, for the "door of hope" opened to us, we are given to understand that if we are not satisfied with injustice we may go. With a blush, a smile or with a frown she says to me you can't be Bishop because you are black, while to my neighbor you can be because you are white. All editorials written in our church organs pro and son colored Bishops wind up in doubting our getting one because of the prejudice in the Church against us. While an interested public daily says to us black members you will get no colored Bishop, and their answer to our "Why?" is, because your church is prejudiced toward you. The Church condemns the sinner because he is unreasonable, following his feelings rather than his reason. Condemn thyself for like cause. I conclude by asking the Church to deal with us in reason and from the use of the work, and not in prejudice, and set herself right with her weak members, and just before a moral world, and have the approbation of the Judge of all the earth, or this may yet be said of you. "Yet come it will,the day decreed by face;" (Harvard) must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end." The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1912, that guardian Angel in a hundred thou-and homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to ce without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS. The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 350 postpaid No home or office should fail to send for them, to WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. FLEAS ARE MORE FATAL THAN SNAKES Mark Twain, disclaiming any knowledge that would qualify him to view the subject seriously, maintained nevertheless that, considering its size, even an ordinary flea was clever enough to be President of the United States. The great humorist might have gone further and said that, considering and also despite its size, the flea is one of the most dangerous of animate bodies. No serpent that ever crawled the earth has had such proportionate killing ability as the common flea known to science as pulex irritansis. Doubtless, if the truth could be known, it would be found that the toll of lives taken by the flea is a thousand to one compared with the death dealing power of the snake. By considering such a fact one may develop a more serious interest in, if not appreciation of, the accalled educated flea than would otherwise be reasonable or be supposed, writes Professor Nat. Braham in McCall's Magazine. I have a troupe of thirty fleas, selected from among thousands of candidates for public performing purposes, who have developed extraordinary functions or talents along what seem to be rational acrobatic lines. Collectively they are able to ride bicycles on tightropes, balancing themselves perfectly; juggle ladders, while lying on their backs, propel small automobiles and pull vehicles; weighing up to four thousand times their individual weights; box; fence; jump, of course, to such comparative distances as would humiliate a champion of America; and perform in such sundry other ways as to astonish scientists and provoke general wonderment as well as entertainment. THE CODLING MOTN A United Effort Should Be Made to Combat the Apple Worm Methods of Controlling This Pest Whsn It Makes Its Appearance. The Codling Moth, commonly called the apple "worm," is known wherever the apple is grown. Losses to the apple growers of West Virginia due to the ravages of this insect are almost if not quite equal to the losses caused by all the other insects combined. Hence it is of prime importance that the apple producers of the state make a united effort to combat this pest. To deal with the codling moth wisely we must know its life history and its methods of eating. Life history.—The adult moth makes its first appearance at about the time the apple trees are in blossom. A week or so after the petals fail it is ready to begin its laying of eggs. The eggs are laid on the leaves often at some distance from the apples. The egg hatches in 8 or 10 days and the young larva, or worm, eats a little of the leaf and then goes to the nearest apple. Two-thirds to three-fourths of the little apple worms enter the apples through the blossom end. On entering the fruit the larvae to the core and continues eating around same until fully developed, when it leaves the apple. After leaving the apple it soon matures into the Blossoms at Right Stage for Spraying adult stage and is ready to lay more eggs. These eggs hatch sometimes during the last of July, varying with the location in the state. The larvae thus hatched constitute the second brood of the codling moth and are the worms found in the ripe apples. Power of the larvae of the second brood enter the apples at the blossom end than in the first brood, entering wherever two or more apples touch or a limb or leaf rub the fruit. The worms from this brood leave the fruit and find suitable locations in the scales of bark and depressions, and there spin their cocoons. In this stage they pass the winter and the next spring change to pupae and then the adult codling moths emerge, ready to lay eggs for the first brood of worms. What to Spray With.—From the foregoing life history we see that the larvae are hatched outside the fruit; that they chew the foliage and fruit; and that the second brood makes its appearance late in July. Any chewing insect may be killed by poisoning the substance eaten. The poison most commonly applied for the codling moth is some form of arsenic. Arsenate of lead has been found the most satisfactory of all the arsenical poisons. Paris Green has been often used but it does not stay in suspension as well as the arsenate of lead and also burns the foliage much more than the latter. It has one advantage, and that is being about four times as poisonous as the arsenate of lead per pound. When to Spray.—The first application should be made as soon as the petals fall, and before the calyx closes (See Fig), so that the cavity will be filled with the poison and awaiting the larva when it enters the fruit. Great care should be used to direct the spray into the calyx (blossom) end of the young fruit and enter the frillage corn. VOL. 31. Anecdotal Literature When King Alfred the Great was reigning over England a thousand years ago, the school children pondered over problems in arithmetic much as our boys and girls do now. Here are two taken word for word from a lesson book of that day. "The swallow once invited the email to dinner. He lived just one league away, and the email traveled at the rate of only foot a day. How long would it be before he dined?" "An old man met a child. "Good day, my son," he said. "May you live as long as you have lived and as much and as much more and twice as much as all this; and if God gives you one year in addition to the others, you will be a century old. What was the boy's age?" In all the history of America, there has been no man who started lower and climbed higher than Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy. He never slipped back. He always kept going ahead. He broadened his mind, enlarged his outlook, and led his companion, rather than let them lead him. He was jolly, good-natured, kind hearted. He was the champion of the weak, the friend of the friendless, as true a knight and full of chivalry as any of the heroes in armor of whom you read in Ivanhoe or the Talisman. He never created, never lied, never took unfair advantage of anyone; but he was ambitious, strong-willed, a bold fighter, and a tough adversary—a fellow who would "never say die," and who therefore succeeded. A newly-made Magistrate was deeply absorbed in a formidable document. Raising his keen eyes, he said to the man who stood patiently waiting the decree of justice: "Of officer" said the Magistrate, "What is this man charged with?" "B goery," your worship—he's got twice wives." The new justice rested his elbows on the desk, and placed his fingertips together. "Officer," he said somewhat sternly. "What is the use of all this education, all these night schools, all technical classes and what not? Please remember in any future like cases, that a man who has married three times has not committed bigotry, but trigonometry." Mr. Cross—I wish you'd stop printing my portrait every time any little thing happens to me, or else get a new one, you've had that old paste in seventeen times?" Editor:—All right, my dear Sir, anything else?" Assistant Foreman—(a week later) "I can't find that picture of Sam, too sneak thief any where." Foreman—"Well, dump in that old portrait of Mr. Cross. It isn't going to be used any more for him." It will take a real sage to tell who the next President will be. pletely. In case of heavy rains following soon after the first spray a second application should be made in 5 to 10 days. If no rains come the second application should be made about three weeks after the first, so as to cover the foliage when the eggs are hatching. The third application may sometimes be made late in July to catch the second brood of moths, but usually this is not necessary if the first two applications are thoroughly made. Preparing the Spray Solutions—The commercially prepared arsenate of lead is recommended, and used in conjunction with the Bordeaux or Lime Sulphur solutions. Two to $2\frac{1}{2}$ pounds of the lead arsenate should be added to each 50 gallons of the above solutions and mixed thoroughly. Applying the Spray.—A high pressure and fine mist is to be preferred to the low pressure, or course spray. As argued above, the spraying should be done thoroughly so as to completely cover the foliage and to force the spray into the blossom ends of the young fruit, which are pointing in all directions. The spray must be applied with sufficient force so that it will penetrate through the tree and enter the blossom end of the fruit, which point inward on the far side of the tree. LUTHER F. SUTTGN. Assistant Hortleuiturist, West Virginia University. HIGH SCHOOL DAY IN MAY. "In order to promote scholarship, literary proficiency and pure athletics among the public high schools of West Virginia, and in order to strengthen the friendly relations that already exist between West Virginia University and such high schools, the university has established an Annual High School day." Thus reads the preliminary circular issued by the university to all three and four year high schools for the celebration of the second High School day on May 16th and 17th, 1912. Through the combined efforts of the university faculty, the students and the thirty representations from high schools last year, the first high school celebration held in May was marvelously successful and it is hoped that this year it may be even more promotive of the feeling of good fellowship and closely allied interests. Four seniors may be sent from any three or four-year high school and local entertainment will be furnished free. Six scholarships worth $50 each will be awarded as the result of examinations in two high school subjects, choice of subjects to be made by the applicant. Cash prizes to the amount of $85 for first prizes and $52.50 second prizes will be given for crafts, essays, debates and declamations. In addition to these five medals will be offered for excellence on the athletic field in track events, field events and relay race. B. & O. AGRICULTURAL TRAIN MET BY LARGE CROWD3. The Agricultural Extension division of the West Virginia University is much pleased over the remarkable attendance and success of the special agricultural train which ran for ten days over the B. & O. Blue. The train was equipped at the expense of the railroad company, and the instructors were furnished by the Agricultural College. Notwithstanding the fact that the country roads were very muddy, and the rain poured down for several days, farmers, living from six to eight miles from the station, came with their families to attend the meetings. The train passed through fourteen counties, made fifty stops and had an average attendance of 182 at each stop. This was the fourth special agricultural train run by the Extension Division this year. One thousand three hundred miles have been traveled, 28 counties have been traversed, and about 30,000 persons have received agricultural instruction by this service. Dr. Wu Ting Fang will return to this country as minister from the new Republic of China. NO. 6 BY W. G. OLD PROBLEMS WHY LINCOLN SUCCEEDED. WHAT'S THE CRIME? ANYTHING TO OBLIGE. The Pioneer Press The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVIOED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN R.I. 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, Editor & Proprietor Drawer: 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912 The Negro race would do itself inestimable benefit were it to steer clear of the pervasive installment agent, the quack doctor, the conjurer, and all other fakers who so persistently ply their nefarious practices almost exclusively among us. United States Senator Clarence W. Watson has the thanks of the Press force for a fine collection of garden and flower seeds. The Senator is in a way, new on his job, but there are those who say that he is "making good," and from what we have noticed about the man since he entered public life, we believe them. The Pioneer Press takes great pleasure in the renomination of Governor Deneen, of Illinois. He is a man in every sense of the word, and believes in according to the block man a square deal—nothing more and nothing less. We could go on and praise Governor Deneen to an indefinite extent, but suffice it to say he is a man among men. The weather is becoming warm and the sun will "soon be shining on both sides of the street." In view of this fact, and with the recollection by some people of the hard times they experienced last winter as a result of their improvident spirit, it is suggested and hoped that they will begin now to prepare for the cold days that are as sure to come as the sun is to shine. There is a great unrest all over this country, and it bids fair to assume greater and greater proportions. Some may scoff at our statement as expressed above, and still others may call us an altermist, but, despite any possible criticism that may be made, the bare fact remains that what we have said is plainly evident to all who see things as they are. Something has got to be done for the purpose of bringing about a change in conditions generally in this land, or there is no telling where the class hatred that is now being engendered as a result of the flagrant abuse of men and women will result. These are painful truths, but they are once worthy of attention, and they should get it without any unnecessary delay. The Presidential preference primary, held in Firemen's Hall, this city, on Saturday last, resulted in a substantial victory for the Roosevelt delegates to the Keyser convention over those of the Taft faith. All parties to the affair, those favoring Taft and those Roosevelt, seemed determined that every voter be given a chance to cast his ballot; and if there was any corruption practised, we failed to see it. We believe we are stating the exact truth when we state as above, and it is our opinion that fair partisans of both principals will corroborate the estimate we place upon this primary when they shall have seen what we say. Therefore, to cry "fraud" is all rot, and it is only a cheap effort to make capital without the necessary means to do so. We noticed in a recent issue of The Charleston Advocate,where that worthy publication was in favor of one or more Negro delegates to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. We are in full accord with the ideas of the Advocate along this line, and we would suggest that Editor Gilmer and others get busy and let all of us make one strong pull and try to get what we want. The exponents of a flat rate of two cents a mile are fortunate in having their interests looked after by so able a constitutional lawyer as Hon. Judson Harmon, Ohio's Chief Executive. He knows the law and can interpret it in a manner that is clear, a fact which is plainly evident to all who have examined the brief which be prepared for the State of Ohio in its fight to have the United States Supreme Court uphold the constitutionality of the two cent statute. President Taft's taffy speech to the colored people of Washington, last Tuesday night was the lameest effort he ever put before sensible Negroes. When he told those people that killings are due to delays in U. S. Courts, he urges trials at once. Is that right? Certainly not. How many hundreds of Negroes have been murdered, when if time and fair trials had obtained, innocent would have been the verdict. The night Mr. Taft was speaking—possibly the very hour,—a court had set a colored person free who had been charged with writing to a white woman, and was lynched by a mob. Now when the courts act and the hoodlums kill what is Mr. Taft who is at the head of all the courts going to do? If he means any thing he means, if the courts will hurry up and kill Negroes it will save lynchers the work. What is true in Beach's case, is a thousand times in other crimes charged to Negroes. For instance, the sheriff who gave his wife $15,000 and a pistol, telling her to shoot if any one tried to rob her, as it would ruin him, kissed her goodbye and left to be gone three days, and returned to his own home that night, and while stealing to her room to steal the money, she shot and killed him, and wife thinking she had done her husband a great favor ran to her nearest neighbor and told them how she had killed a "nigger", but lo and behold it proved to be her own husband with face, hands and neck blackened. Take that Mississippi white man who colored his face with burnt cork and was killed by a Newfoundland dog, for breaking into a white woman's room. Another case fresh in the minds of every reader, when that highly educated and rich Georgian, two or three years ago, dressed in women's clothes, blackened his face, got a buggy and drove to a house where that beautiful white girl and his cousin lived, and told her her brother,—a doctor was dying and sent for. Hurriedly she got ready and into the buggy by the side of the old black mammy, but fortunately she took her revolver with her, and when he got to the woods drove into them and when she insisted they were off the course he sprang on her and during the scuffle she shot him—he was tried, convicted and is still serving time. And now a Mr. Beach whose wife's throat he cut, and afterward made her tell the world that "a nigger did it," and she told the truth, but it was a white nigger, and is being brought from London to be tried. "O! liberty the orimes that are committed in thy name." When Mr. Taft admits violence obtains North and South, he absolutely lays the cause for it at his and his party's own door. Mr. Taft has endorsed segregation, jim Crow cars, and disfranchisement. The absurdity of a man swearing to God and man to be the American peoples' president and allow millions to be denied the right to vote; to ride in decent care; to be segregated; murdered by the wholesale, and a new form of human slavery, worse than the old before the war. Why did he take every Negro officeholder out of the South? why did he say we should be treated differently from white people? Finally he says: "The only way it can be suppressed is that sometimes we shall have men as Sheriffs, and as Governors, and as prosecutors, and as jurors who will see to it that the men who are engaged in pulling the rope under those conditions shall themselves swing by the rope." There is as much sense and reason in that as there is in the following: Sometimes, when the government ceases to make whiskey and all the human family become good, there will be no bad people. "When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be; when the devil was well, devil of a monk was be." The only attention we pay to a sneeze at the present day is to endeavor to get rid of the chill which causes it, but a sneeze in the days of old Greece was a matter of great concern and import. There was then a god of sneezing and great undertakings would even be abandoned if a man sneezed at an inappropriate moment, the act being looked upon as the oracle of the god. A sneezes between midnight and noon was looked upon as a fortunate sign, but between noon and midnight it betokened great misfortune. To sneeze to your right was lucky; to the left unlucky. Two or four sneezes were lucky, one or three vary unlucky and any undertaking in hand should if possible be abandoned, more than four sneezes did not count. There is a saying in many parts of England today: "Once a wish, twice a kiss, three times a letter, four times something better." If people sneezed together it was a good sign, particularly if they happened to be discussing business. CORN COB ROT. The corn cob rot is a fungous disease which is spreading very rapidly over several states and has gained a strong hold in several sections of West Virginia. The disease works on the cob, causing it to fall apart into several divisions when a little pressure is exerted on the ear. As all fungous diseases, it is easily and rapidly spread, and great precautions should be taken to avert it. The spores of this fungous disease survive in the soil over winter, and corn planted in the same field another year may be affected by the disease. It may be carried to other fields by planting corn which came from a section where the disease was prevalent. I would advise farmers of this state to avoid planting corn on fields where the disease was present last year, and also not to send away for seed corn which by chance might have come from a field where the disease existed. It is absolutely necessary that strict precautions be taken to check the spread of this disease, which is considered to be a serious menace to the corn crop. I. S. COOK, JR., Agricultural College, West Virginia University. The native Irish wit of Chick Daily, Celt, and proud of it, although a convict in the Texas prison system, won for him a pardon on St. Patrick's Day. Daily's plea to Governor Colquitt was in the nature of an appeal to him to officially add March 17 to his calendar of pardoning days. He cited to the governor the fact that that official observes the Negro emancipation day by pardoning many Negroes; the Fourth of July by freeing many Americans; and September 16, the Mexican national holiday, for the freeing of worthy Mexicans. He pleaded with the governor that at least one Irishman be made happy by being allowed to go home on his national holiday. The plea in effect Governor Colquitt and a pardon signed and sealed was handed to Chick Daily, Celt, of the county of Cork, Ireland, the morning of March 17. IN MEMORIAM. In loving remembrance of our dear brother, Pembroke Gaither, who died one year ago today, April 9, 1911. Oh dear brother, how we miss you, Oh how hard to give you up. But an angel came down home, Ha Loving Brothers and Sisters. HIGHEST GRADE OF FERTILIZERS Should Be Used By Farmers of West Virginia The Highest Priced Material May Not Be the Best For All Purposes—Education Necessary. The annual report on the inspection of commercial fertilizers in West Virginia will be ready for distribution in a few days. It will have to mention no really serious violation of the fertilizer law. When farmers buy fertilizers in West Virginia they get what the tags tell them they are getting; indeed there are very few other purchases that may be made with as little uncertainty. The report will show that somebody is buying too much low grade fertilizer, but this is not the fault of the law or those intrusted with its enforcement. If somebody will buy the low grade stuff when a sworn statement as to its inferiority conspicuously and securely affixed to every package, it is a sad case to be sure, but it is beyond the reach of fertilizer legislation. Just here it is to be observed that while "low priced" often means "low grade," there are exceptions to this rule. Acid phosphates are among the cheapest fertilizers obtainable and there is no better source of phospheric acid. On the other hand, some of the highest priced materials may not be the best for all purposes. For example, bone products, such as bone meal, bone tangake, etc., which furnish so large a part of the nitrogen purchased in this state, are, in this climate, necessarily slow acting manures. When bone has time to decompose, as when used on crops that do not have to attain their full growth in a single season, or when used in a rotation close enough to prevent serious loss by leaching, bone is an ideal manure. It even tends to feed the crop more regularly than the more quickly available materials. Unfortunately, however, it is not on such crops or in such rotations that bone products are always used, and while the "lasting effect" is always highly prized and often regarded as evidence of double service, it may, in the case of quick growing crops and a loose rotation be the evidence of a double loss—loss by leaching while nothing was growing; loss in the half starved crop for which the bone was applied, but for which it could not become available in time. Such losses must be very great and even if we could afford them it is a shame to waste materials so well adapted to better agricultural practices. A very considerable part of these losses is traceable to the teaching that it is the acid phosphates that make soils sour. Parties believing this naturally buy the more expensive bone as a source of phosphoric acid. An ever present opportunity for wasting money in the purchase of fertilizers is to be found in the garbage, muck tankage and other low grade sources of nitrogen. Small quantities of such materials are sometimes used for the reason that they keep certain mixtures in good mechanical condition. Larger quantities are often used because some people insist upon having something low priced at any cost. But by far the greater part of such materials are doubtless used to meet the provisions of fertilizer laws which, in many states, refuse to recognize any difference between the best and the worst sources of nitrogen and which require that nitrogen of all sorts be officially "valued" on the same basis. The tags show the materials from which the fertilizer is made and the proportions in which the materials are used. The purchaser knows just what he is getting; indeed he has very much less reason for uncertainty than if he had bought the materials and mixed them himself, for in such case he must of course take chances on the materials which may not be as ordered. In West Virginia there is only one way for a purchaser of commercial fertilizer to be in any doubt as to what he is getting and that way is to refuse to read the tags. PROF. B. H. HITE, West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romneyexcept 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 pm for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 pm for Wheeling, Columbus 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 Berkeiey Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 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. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore Aid. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent. Martinsburg, W. Va. 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. 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. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SOLIENCES. 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 Muller, A. 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., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Ounnings, 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. Furinshes 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 courses. 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 facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polychinic. Edward A. Balloon, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Sorette N. W., W. C. McNeill, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three. Business and business law. Geography and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. catalogue and special information address Dean or Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. Carrie Weaver, of Middleway, is the guest of Mrs. James Roman, at the latter's home on South Charles St. Messrs. George and Abraham Miller have gone into the house-moving business—in fact they will move "any old thing." Mrs. Helen Marshall's body was brought here from Weston, on last Saturday. Her funeral was held on Tuesday. She is survived by Messrs. Charles and William Marshall and Mrs. Lillie Blakey, all of this city. For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordoe has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business, Winchester Ave., P. O. 609—Both Phones. 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. Sport, the very intelligent dog belonging to Mr. Charles Marshall, the well known barber, was poisoned the other day, and his master rightfully mourns the loss of a valuable cavine. We are authorized to announce the candidacy of Dr. E. D. Hatfield, of Eckman, McDowell County, for nomination for Governor, subject to the Republican Primary Election, to be held on June 4, 1912. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank bangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old bangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. 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Editor Pioneer Press. "PASSING THE WORD ALONG." Taff's Texas Manager Shows How Patronage Club Is Wielded. MACGREGOR'S ADVERTISMENT It Warns Against an Expression of Independent Preference and Bids For Support of Taft, With Federal Patronage as the Alluring Bait. Four years ago Congressman William B. McKinley of Illinois was managing the campaign of Joseph G. Cannon, then speaker of the house of representatives at Washington, for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. McKinley was exerting himself at that time to the extent of his ability to prevent the nomination of Mr. Taft. The Great Patronage Dispenser. When he was appointed director of the national Taft bureau in Washington and placed at the head of the campaign for the renomination of Mr. Taft this year, he expressed the opinion to some of his friends that it would be a very much easier job than he had had in 1908, for the reason that all he would have to do now would be to "pass the word along." Mr. McKinley meant, of course, that it was only necessary to convey the information authoritatively to the thousands of federal officeholders throughout the country and especially in the southern states that the president desired to be renominated and that it was the wish of the great patronage dispenser that all the federal officeholders should cooperate in forcing the election of Taft delegates to the Chicago convention. A concrete illustration of the method of "passing the word along" used by the Taft managers was furnished recently by Mr. H. F. MacGregor, the Taft manager in Texas. The Republican state committee of Texas is composed of men not one of whom holds a federal office. Colonel Cecil Lyon, the state chairman and also the Republican national committeeman from Texas, recognizing the unavailability of Mr. Taft as a candidate for the presidency this year, because of the great revolt of Republican voters against him, sent out a circular letter to Republicans of Texas asking for expressions of their individual preference for their presidential candidate. A Threat and a Promise. Mr. Lyon having been at the head of the Republican organization in Texas for several years, his recommendations had naturally had great weight in the selection of appointees to the numerous federal offices in Texas. The Taft managers affected to see in Colonel Lyon's circular an attempt to control the action of the federal officeholders in Texas with regard to the election of the delegates from that state to the Republican national convention. Thereupon Mr. MacGregor published his advertisement widely in papers that circulate throughout the Lone Star State. This advertisement is both a threat and a promise. It brutally warms all persons concerned that they express an independent preference at their peril and at the same time it brazenly dangles the bribe of federal patronage for Taft support. Notting like it has ever occurred in the history of American politics. "Has Now No Influence." This is a full copy of Mr. MacGregor's advertisement: "To the Republican Federal Officeholders In Texas: "The state chairman has notified you officially to send him money to defeat President Taft, under whom you hold a commission, and to file your allegiance to him within ten days. This is to notify you that the state chairman has now no influence in Washington and will not have if re-elected after President Taft's triumphant re-election "In some other southern states where complaint was made and where conditions were similar to those in Texas, the president had the Republicans of the state meet in conference and select a committee to make recommendations as to patronage, and you can rest assured that loyal Taft Republicans cannot be slaughtered by the state chairman. "The recommendation of Taft Republicans will control the Texas situation in the matter of patronage and not the recommendations of those engaged in discrediting one of the best presidents the country has ever had and who are by their disloyalty endangering republican success nationally. "H. F. MAC GREGOR. "Taft Texas Campaign Manager." In Bad Fix "I had a mishap at the fix," writes Mrs. Georgia Us. 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The society is composed of students who sing from all departments. It gives three concerts each year. The fall and spring concerts are given entirely by the society, the program either miscellaneous in character or some choral work, with soloists. The change from three terms to two semester, which goes into effect next year, will bring with it many other changes. Among these there is one for which Director Black is bending his energies, which will bring the offerings of the School of Music more within the reach of the University students. This will be announced later. The Chinese subtracties are a real yellow peril" to their brethren. dge days. 1. Extension of forest reserve. 2. National irrigation set. 3. Improvement of waterways and reservation of water power sites. 4. Hepburn rats set. 7. Regulation of railroad employee hours of labor. 8. Establishment of department of commerce and labor. 14. State militia brought into co-ordination with army. 15. 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