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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, C h Luton, W. Va. Notable Men Banquetted Notable Men Banquetted Drieland Mrs. York Russell gave a charming little dinner party at their residence, 317 West 36th St., New York City, on Wednesday evening May 8, in honor of Messrs. A. Rollin Parkinson, and E. Elliot Durant, two of the delegates from Barbadoes, West Indies to the recent International Race Congress at Tuskegee, to which a few other friends were invited to meet their distinguished guests. Mr. Durant, one of these delegates is the leading journalist in the island of Barbadoes, and is also a poet, lecturer, author, as well as an orator of no mean ability. Mr. Parkinson is a teacher, a man of profound scholarship, and one of Barbadoes' most solid citizens. Both gentlemen are splendid types of the educated and cultured West Indian. Other invited guests were Dr. E. E. Best, Mr. A. A. Schomburg, Secy. Negro Society for Historical Research, the noted organist, Mr. Melville Charlton, Mr. S. W. Mottly and the representative of the Pioneer Press, John Edward Bruce, of Yonkers, N. Y. The hour fixed for the dinner was 8 p.m. and promptly on the minute the guests sat down to a sumptuous Menu prepared by one of New York's leading Negro caterers and the service left nothing to be desired. Full justice was done to each of the ten courses and conversation flowed like water. Pretty Miss Olandine Russell was the flower girl of the occasion and as the company gathered, pinned white and pink carnations on the lapels of the Tuxedoes that subsequently gathered around the festive board. Just before the last course faded from view, Mr. A. A. Schomburg in a few well chosen words introduced the attenuated York Russell, M. D., and exacted toll from him for his dinner, in the form of a speech of welcome to the guests of honor. The Doctor who would rather talk than eat, paid up like a man. His speech though brief was felicitous, witty and eloquent. He welcomed his guests to these shores most heartily, and said he was glad to meet again after a lapse of years one of our guests (Mr. Parkinson) who had like himself been engaged in the profession of school teaching in our island home. He was equally glad to meet his talented young friend Mr. E. Elliot Durant, son of a worthy and honored sire whose name is a synonym for ability—the force that always wins. The elder Durant was one of the polished gems in the diadem of Barbadoes, and his primacy as a thinker and a scholar was admitted by men of both races. It is gratifying to note that his mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of his son who is our guest tonight. As a former Barbadian, but now a citizen of this proud Republic—the "Melting Pot" of Nations I extend to you my friends a cordial and hearty welcome to this city and to this home. I am now an American citizen it is true, but before I was either a British subject, or an American citizen, ESTABISHED 1882. MARTINSBURG, W. VA., SATURDAY, MAY 18. 1912. I was a Negro. He spoke hopefully of the future of the race, both in the United States, and in the West Indies, and said that as long as the race continued to produce men like Messrs. Parkinson and Durant, there was no cause to be apprehensive; a race that can produce such able scholars and thinkers, cannot be said to be a backward race for God still reigns in His heavens, the world is developing, a truer democracy is on the way; old privilege and prejudice are doomed. He hoped the distinguished gentlemen would find much in America to interest them during their brief sojourn here, and that they will come into closer touch with American black men of thought and action, so that when they return to Barbados they will take back with them a most favorable impression of their American brothers in black who with commendable courage are facing manifest destiny and working out under God, the problem of race. Gentlemen, I ask you to join me in drinking to the health of our honored guests—the request was immediately complied with, for the wine was good and juicy. Both Messrs. Parkinson and Durant responded in appropriate terms to the doctor's warm welcome, expressing their gratitude and appreciation of the consideration shown them by Americans during their brief stay in this country and assured their host and hostess that they would carry back with them to Barbadoes, the pleasantest recollections of this dinner given in their honor by a former countryman who has reduced the art of hospitality to a positive science. This event would linger in their memories for many, many years to come. When we return to our island home we will tell our friends and countrymen, in the words of the Queen of Sheba, "The half has never been told." Mr. E. Elliot Durant followed in similar strain and thanked the host and hostess for the great pleasure it had given him to meet them and the friends assembled, to pay respects to their brothers from across the sea. He was glad indeed to have the great privilege of touching elbows with his American brothers of African descent; to mingle in splendid alliance with the many able and accomplished black men and women whom he had met in the South, who are doing things that will tell in the ages to come the story of the race's heroic struggle to rise on its dead self to higher things. Our destiny as a race is identical, our hopes, our aims are one." Other remarks of a complimentary character were made by Mrs. Russell, Miss Claudine Russell, Mr. Melville Charlton, Mr. S. W. Mottly, Dr. E. E. Best, and others. Mr. Charlton then favored the company with the following choice selections, which were greatly enjoyed. Staccato Etude—Rubenstein. Minor—Bachmanoff. Prelude Menuet—Paderewski. Cavaleria Rusticana—Mascagni. At a late hour the company departed for their homes. The general consensus of opinion being that York Russell, M. D., in addition to being a clever and skilful physician is also a "jolly good fellow" and that whenever he writes another prescription of the character of this we will take it without a murmur. Yonkers, N. Y. Bruce Grit. [Image of a man with a bald head and a mustache, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt. The background is a light gray with a subtle texture. The man's face is partially obscured by a shadow. There is no visible text or additional details in the image. PROF.C. R. MURRAY. Mr. Murray respectfully asks the support of the voters of W. W. Va., at the State-wide primaries on June 4, for the Republican nomination for State Supt. of Schools. LARGE RESOURCES WEST VIRGINIA HAS UNUSUAL NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEPOSITS. Prof. Zern Has Accepted Position of Mining Engineer at West Virginia University. Morgantown, W. Va.—The position of Mining Engineering at West Virginia University which Professor Zern, recently of the University of Pittsburg, has accepted, is one of great responsibility and one of great importance to the state. West Virginia stands second among the states in the production of coal, first in the production of gas and first in the production of oil and gas combined. Her extensive deposits of sands, clays, limestones and cement making materials have been scarcely touched. To Professor Zern will come the opportunity not only of building up and strengthening the the four year course in coal and general mining now offered at the University, but of adding from time to time the means of specializing in the other branches of the mining industries demanded for the development of the state's resources. Elementary Couraca. Elementary courses will be offered at the University for the training of mine foremen, operators and inspectors and, through the co-operation of the State Department of Mines, it is hoped that extension courses can be given in the various mining districts of the state, to the end that the engineering in the mines of the state shall be of the highest possible standard and the mines operated with the least possible waste and the greatest possible safety to life and health. Professor Zern is assured in advance of his coming of the co-operation of the East Virginia Mining Institute, the State Department of Mines and the Faculty of the College of Engineering and the President and Faculty of the University. It is believed by those who are in a position to know that mining engineering, especially coal mining, can nowhere be taught better than in West Virginia and at the West Virginia University. Now that a trained and talented man, Professor Edward Nathan Zern, who has an intimate knowledge of the coal deposites and coal mining operations of the state, the support of the voters of W. primaries on June 4, for the State Supt. of Schools. has been added to the engineering faculty of the University, there will be no occasion for the young men of West Virginia to go elsewhere for training in mining. CORN CLUBS IN THIRTY COUN- TIES. The Agricultural Extension Division of the College of Agriculture of West Virginia University reports great interest is being manifested over the state in organizing and conducting Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs. Mr. E. W. Sheets, in charge of this work, has finished the organization in thirty counties; nearly 5,000 boys and girls are enrolled and will grow corn this season. Seed corn will be sent the contestants from the college. Each county is offering large cash prizes and the county winner will compete for the state prizes. One boy of the state will be given a free trip to Washington, D. C. Many boys' expenses will be paid at the Farmers' Short Course at the College of Agriculture anuary 7th to 18th, 1913. This movement will be the means of wonderfully increasing the yield of corn per acre in the state and will be an inspiration for the boy to remain on the farm. GREAT INTEREST IN PRUNING AND SPRAYING OF FRUIT TREES. The Agricultural Extension Division of the West Virginia University has been flooded with applications for demonstrations in pruning and spraying of fruit trees. Six instructors of the College and Experiment Station are now out over the state doing this work. Applications are still coming in, but the department has been compelled to refuse demonstrations to these latter applications on account of the lack of men and funds with which to carry on the work. This first demonstration is being given for the spraying to kill the San Jose Scales and will be followed by a second demonstration at the time of spraying for the codling moth, at which time the new applications will receive due consideration. For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordier has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Prices of business Winston-Alva, P. O 600—Brown Paces. VOL. 31. NO.11 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. HIS RECOMMENDATION. A young man, named Sparks, applied to a Louisville business man for employment. The Louisville man was favorably impressed by the stranger, but as the applicant had no references, it was held in abeyance until his standing could be ascertained, when the business man tried to find out by calling on the Sheriff at the home of the applicant. "Sheriff" asked he, "Do you know Bill Sparke?" "Shure I do." "What kind of a young man is he?" "Pretty fair." "Is he bones?" "Honest? Secure! Why he's been arrested three times for stealin', and acquitted each time." GOT THE TEACHER A Kanoos teacher was explaining to a class the damage done to the fruit trees by worms and sparrows. Noticing that the class was not very attentive, she asked little Tommy, which do you think are worse—the worms or sparrows? "I don't know, answered Tommy, innocently, "I had the worms, but I never had the sparrows." HIS $ ^{*} $ $ ^{*} $ FAITH. "Dar'a nothin' like faith," said brother William, "I once prayed a fat turkey off a high roost, but de aberiff took him f'om me ez I wuz gwine ter cook him an "I wuz took ter jail." "Why didn't you pray your way out o' jail?" "I would 'a done it, but I didn't want the Lord to know I wuz in no sich place." THE TWINE. There were twin boys in the Murphy family; at six months of age they were as much alike as two peas. One day Mrs. O Flaberty said: "Foine pair of boys you've got Mrs. Murphy, but how do you ever tell 'm apart?" "Faith, that's easy, replied the mother—"I put my finger in der mouth, and he dat bites, is Moike." JOB FOR AN EXPERT A gang of navvies were employed on a railway contract removing earth with wheelbarrows. While proceeding with the work, one of the navvies noticed that the wheel of his barrow was queeking terribly, and to put a stop to the noise, he turned the barrow over, and was in the act of greasing it when the boss noticed him and choured: "Hello, O'Brien,—bellow, Sir, what the deuce are you doing?" "I'm greasing my barrow, Sir." "Who told you to do that?" "Sure, no one, sir, I took it upon myself." "Well don't let me catch you at it again, what do you know about machinery." Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of bustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. The Pioneer Press The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. 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 vurtiser pays every three months. Advertising lunch one time 70c. Standing.....60c. Reduced rates to Cubs. Dena for Stamps Copies. J. H. Oxford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Mar- lburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 18th., 1912. Whenever a Negro thanks railroad officials for giving what he thinks equal jim Crow accommodations, he is to be praised, and when he floods this country with his expressed thanks to such railroad officials, some one ought to muzzle him, Scott Bond for instance. In olden times men of corrupt blood wanted their lives prolonged and took children's blood to do it, and had doctors to insert it. That was not as bad as men wanting to stay in office, and to do so, pay fabulous sums to their weaker minded human beings for their votes. To hades with that namby pamby sentimentality. For time out of mind we have positively believed that Negro religion, as carried on by the masses, is as much a lake as it and has been a high protective tariff, "blessing alike to the employer and employee." Theology is nothing more than man's manufactured science. Religion is a life and a growth. If as in the past relative to national delegates, the whites take turkey and give Negroes buzzard and the Negroes get sick by eating it, the sickness may be catching and they suffer thereby. Our advice is, throw the buzzard away forever, and all eat our share of turkey. Two delegates will be satisfactory. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally productive. On this hypothesis, how much better to agonize with God to do and be right than to prevent men from doing what the laws entitle them to do. Keep in mind that Paul calls the human corpse a seed: "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body." May all enjoy it. Lawyer B. E. Carter, of Keystone, W. Va., was in our city this week in the interest of Dr. H. D. Hatfield, Prof. C. R. Murray, Attorney E. Howard Harper and Prof. L. O. Wilson. He is a fine reasoner, and when he gets through talking the matter over with you you, can't help admiring him, and keeping in memory his choice of candidates. Condemning whiekey, which is harmless unless abused by fools, is about as sensible and consistent in reason and philosophy, as is the wholesale condemnation poured on the Negroes and their white allies, for selling their votes. Why not place the blame where it belongs on the educated white politician who buys them? The buyer should be sent to state prison and the bought disfranchised. There is no consistency and no more honor in any one who less than a year ago consumed hours abusing President Taft, and now tipuicing in defense of his election. Umph humph! O yes, got his eye on the Birmingham, Alabama, post office eb? Keep in mind that Mr. "Bully Postum" will never give any one a post office position after 4 March 1913. The Pioneer Press is curious to know how Editor Trotter can condemn so unmercifully Ex President Roosevelt and advocate the reelection of President Taft. Mr. Trotter for years has made Mr. Taft in that famous Brownsville picture foremost in dragging Negroes up to "Teddy" for him to kick overboard, and the records of Mr. Taft's official career proves Trotter's picture to be true. "Consistency, thou art a jewel". Of the two men, Mr. Roosevelt is 500 per cent better than Mr. Taft. The Pioneer Press takes pleasure in calling the attention of its readers to the cut of Prof. C. R. Murray, of Williamson, W. Va., which appears in another column. As is doubtless well known to nearly everybody in the State, he is a candidate for the nomination of State Superintendent of Schools before the Republican primaries on June 4. Mr. Murray is a fine gentleman, a thorough educator and an individual of marked ability. In short, the voters of West Virginia will make no mistake in nominating and electing him to be the head of our free schools. We have not as yet been able to see how Ex-Senator Dick of Ohio, who has been so friendly to Negroes can condemn Roosevelt for his Brownsville treatment of those brave soldiers, and support Taft, who made the investigation, ordered their discharge and laid after it was done, it was not severe enough. Seemingly he is about as consistent as is editor Trotter, who has had a standing picture for years of Taft dragging the soldiers up to Roosevelt for him to kick them overboard, and now pours all the vitrol on Teddy and says not a word against "Billy Possum." On last Monday a party came up from down town very much elated over what he had heard, rejoicing that the town had gone, or was going wet and wanted to bet on results saying: "They are betting ten to one dollar that the wets will win." "The editor of this paper opened his piny purse, and happened to find ten dollars, and putting in the hand of a friend said: "Here's $2 to $1 the town won't go dry," and it "won't go wet," and so it has not, and why? Because neither "dry" nor "wet" was on the ticket, maybe, for this reason, the Lord didn't answer prayers. Of all the taffy and chaffy things put in print and being sent over this country, the Negro side show in defense of Mr. Taft is the limit. We lived and worked in slave times long before the war, and saw all kinds of whites and blacks then, doing exactly as they are doing now. Every plantation had all grades of Negroes as well as the same class of whites. The worst of those grades were those whites who always had Negro spies and liars, whose shoulders they patted and gave them more scope and privileges than others for lying and keeping up trouble. It is still going on by the same colors, and grades, in politics. For instance, the few Negro office holders, sensible of the injury done the Negroes generally are flooding the country with printed falsehoods as to what Mr. Taft has done for the race. Shame on them—traitors. This is a great campaign—a positive revealer of what is sure to come to men who do wrong. However, when men do wrong, and get in tight places is the time to test their materials. If both declare they did it, and apologize not, the public, as a rule, may walk on stilts for a while, but if one tries to shift the blame on the other, and he agrees he did it, and then proves that he did it on the other fellow's recommendation after an investigation, which of the two is the better man? It has come to this between Taft and Roosevelt. Taft did recommend their discharge and after their dismissal, said the punishment they got was not enough. Why shift the blame on Roosevelt. But Teddy clinches it on him when he asks: "If Mr. Taft thought I bad done the soldiers wrong, why did he not, during the three years he has been President, reinstate them?" He had the power to do it. Teddy makes Billy Poseum a hypoorite. ATTORNEY E. HOWARD HARPER, OF KEYSTONE, W. VA. J. Candidate for State Committeeman at Large on the State Central Committee to be voted for at Primary, June 4th. Hon. E Howard Harper, the subject of this sketch is McDowell's choice for the nomination of State Committeeman at Large on the State Central Committee. Mr. Harper has lived and worked in McDowell County for twenty-five years and during the entire time he has been a regular Republican and supported the regular nominee of that Party even during the Dawson campaign, when all of the Coal Operators in the southern end of the state were fighting him and every man of any importance in McDowell County politics, except Dr. H. D. Hatfield and Mr. Harper, were knifing the Republican candidate for Governor and supporting the Democratic nominee, Hon. J. J. Cornwell, when the election officers had orders to vote all persons who could not read and write for the Democratic candidate, when it took much courage to go upon the works of the Coal men who were opposed to Mr. Dawson, then it was that E Howard Harper fought the battles of the Grand Old Party and carried her message into places where none but a fearless man would go in those days of danger and cowardice. Not only did he speak in the interest of the Party but he carried on a campaign of education such as has never been equaled in the southern part of the state. In order to beat the election officers and prevent them taking the advantage of the ignorance of many of the voters he established the plan of sending into the voting booth one man who could read and write with every two who could not and as a result of Dr. Hatfield and Mr. Harper's work, Hon. Wm. M. O. Dawson received 2500 majority from McDowell County. Gov. A. B. White appointed Mr. Harper on the Board of Regents for the W. Va. Colored Institute in 1904 and Gov. W. M. O. Dawson reappointed him in 1905 and he served until 1909 His record is an open book; how he stood on questions affecting the school, and what he did for the uplift of that Institute are things which can easily be learned by writing to the present Principal of that institution. In politics and business Mr. Harper has always been straight, he has never been a grafter nor has the party paid him anything for his services but on the other hand he has spent his own and his brother's money to insure the success of the Republican party. His entire sight in this county has been one long and continuous strugge gle to better the political and economic condition of the Colored people in county and state. It was because of his Party regularity, his fight against those who would sell the best interests of his people, his efforts to put out the boodlers and his known loyalty to the colored people caused the 500 or more colored men from McDowell and seven other counties to unanimously endorse him for the nomination of Committeeman at Large. These are facts and can be verified and corroborated by scores of the leading white and colored men both in politics and business in the Southern end of the state and many from all sections of W. Va. The colored voters of this state will make no mistake in supporting E. Howard Harper for the nomination. He will look after their interests and will serve the Republican party honestly and faithfully and the white voters will find in him a good, honest and fearless Republican. He is a lawyer of ability and a man of known courage. Vote for him and you will vote for straight political dealing, fair play and the real square "deal." LIKES NEITHER ONE. Ekins, W. Va., May 14, 1912. Editor Pioneer Press. Sir:—I am so greatly in accord with the position taken by Mr. J. W. Jackson on President Taft and the Negro that I am forced to ask space for just a word in your brave little paper. Mr. Jackson is right in nearly everything he says, with the exception of advising the Negro to support ex-President Roosevelt, for I think one of them has done as much as the other to degrade our people, and I will never vote for neither one of them, and the Negro would lift himself very highly in the estimation of all well thinking people if he would vote against both of them. Some two or three weeks ago some one called my attention to an article in the Clarion, of Clarkaburg, entitled. "What Taft Has Done for the Negro," and my only answer was, that it was campaign nonsense too disgraceful to be read. I would to God that the eyes of my race were open so that they could see just as I saw two years ago, and I am sure they would hasten to cast their lot with the Socialist Party, which is the only hope of the world. They may elect Taft or Roosevelt, but the system will remain the same, so what is the use of bellowing about either. A NEW INSTRUCTOR IN AGRONOMY. The Agronmy Department has secured the services of S. B. Nuckols, an instructor in the Agronomy Department at the University of Missouri. Mr. Nuckols has spent considerable time in investigational work in the correlation of corn in character breeding at the Experimental Station of Missouri. He will begin his work at the West Virginia University the first of April. ORCHESTRA AND CHORAL SOCIETY. West Virginia University has both an orchestra and a choral society in a state of healthful development. They are instrumental in bringing to the University such artists as Richard Strauss, Moritz Rosethal, Christine Miller, Schuman Heink, David Blspham, Francis Alda and Harold Bauer, all of whom have come to the University in the last few years. 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. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. SAN FRANCISCO CITY BANK BALTIMORE & OREG RAILROAD. Corrected to December 1, 1911. Trains leave Martinsburg as follow: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburgh, 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 Sund. at 12.15 p.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate 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 Md. R. S. BOUIC, Ticket Agent, Mattinsburg, W. Va. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. WILBUR P, THIRKIELD, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1882 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 SOLENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek. 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Professional Schools. THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. s. 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 Polycinic. Edward. A. Balloon, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeill, 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 bin street N. W. catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Becoud Cloat Matter Mother's Day was generally on served in all of the churches of this city on Sunday last. Miss Bartha Keets spent Sunday and Monday of this week in Washington, where she visited friends. The local lodge of Odd Fellows had its annual sermon preached on last Sunday by Rev. Samuel M. Beane at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The oldest residents around and about Martinsburg are agreed that the present Spring has been one of the most noted for copious rains they have ever seen. Mr. George M. Miller, the well known second hand dealer, is quite ill with pneumonia as we go to press but hopes are held out for his recovery, if no unforeseen complications arise. 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. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road GREATLY REDUCED CONVENTION FARES TO ATLANTIC CITY. BALTIMORE MD. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. KANSAS CITY, MO. LOUISVILLE, KY. 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Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round trip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 87 miles. Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor Mr. George Shank. J. R. CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSEURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. TAFT'S RECORD ON RECALL OF COURT DECISIONS NOTORIOUS WHISKY BULING Reconciled His Conscience to the Promulgation of a Presidential Order Legalizing Every Demand of the Makers of Imitation Whisky—He "Recalled" Seven Federal Court Decisions to Accommodate the Opponents of Roosevelt and Dr. Wiley. Now that Mr. Taft is so violent in his opposition to any proposal to permit the people of a state to assert their understanding of the meaning of the constitution made by them when that meaning has been perverted by a judicial ruling, it is well to examine his past record in this particular. Recorded facts prove that President Taft is not opposed to the "recall of decisions" of the federal courts when the recall is made by "a representative part of the people," even though that part consists of one of 100,000,000 Americans. Here is an "expose" especially interesting at this time. It appears in the editorial columns of the Philadelphia North American: "Long before Theodore Roosevelt upheld the hands of Harvey Wiley and forced the passage of the pure food law there had been notorious frauds in the making, marking and branding of distilled liquors. But the question seemed pretty well settled by the upholding of the explicit provisions of the national pure food law in the rulings of Dr. Wiley, sustained by repeated messages of President Roosevelt, opinions of Attorney General Bonaparte and decisions of different federal courts. Merely Common Sense. "The question was simply one of common sense. There was to be no prevention of or penalty for the sale of any sort of liquor. The rulings meant only that the purchaser was entitled to the privilege of learning from the label whether he was buying what he was paying for. "Undoctored whisky was to be labeled 'whisky.' A mixture of two real whiskies was to be labeled 'blend.' A mixture of a whisky with something that is not whisky was to be labeled 'compound.' A concoction that smelled and tasted like whisky, but contained no whisky, was to be labeled 'imitation.' "That was all there was to the provisions of the pure food law governing interstate commerce in whisky. It was such a simple, incontrovertible regulation for square dealing that every American who thought he knew along what lines the administration of William H. Taft would be conducted scoffed at the idea that the question was not a closed chapter. "When the rectifiers of Cincinnati and Peoria hinted at the influence they could bring to bear upon a Cincinnati newspaper and Speaker Cannon and prophesied the discrediting and the downfall of Wiley we thought them overconfident in proclaiming that they could reopen a contest which had been won and won over and over by the people, by the state food commissioners and friends of pure food before President Roosevelt and the federal courts. "So there was wonder when there followed President Taft's executive order reopening the whisky branding question settled by Attorney General Bonaparte's successive opinions and President Roosevelt's orders giving executive effect thereto. Taft's Conscience Reconciled. "At the time of the ruling in favor of the swindlers by Sollicitor General Bowers, in June, 1909, the North American said: "The real meaning of this reopened controversy, of course, is that the conspiracy to weaken, break down and nullify the pure food laws is widespread, powerful and persistent. * * * With President Taft rests the responsibility of spreading credence or giving the lie to the general boasting of the druggers of food and drink that the entire toll of Roosevelt and Wiley to safeguard the health of the people is to be obliterated before 1912 for the benefit of certain strong but not altruistic interests. "Six months' consideration resulted in President Taft's reconciling his conscience to the promulgation of a presidential decision legalizing every demand of the cheating poison makers of the Taft-Cox and Joe Cannon bailiwicks. But this notorious annulment of a portion of the work of Wiley and Roosevelt is not the point of present comment. The focus of present interest is President Taft's aversion toward any questioning of the sanctity of judicial decisions. "But when the food committee of the National Consumers' league addressed to President Taft an appeal for the 'recall' of Dr. Wiley's reservation and cited certain facts decidedly pertinent to President Taft's horrified denunciations of 'nostrum makers' and 'subverters of the constitution,' who 'lay the ax to the root of the tree of liberty,' who dare question the infallibility of any judicial construction of any law? "For the Consumers' league makes clear in taking up the Taft decision in favor of the makers of limitation whisky that in this ruling the president recalled the decisions of President Roosevelt, Attorney General Bonaparte, Solicitor General Bowers and seven federal courts. Saven Times Sustained. "Finding themselves unable to away the Roosevelt administration in spite of the efforts in their behalf of Secretary Wilson, the whisky polsoners weed into the courts. Seven times the Roosevelt ruling was sustained, as follows: "Aug. 24, 1908, in federal court in Cincinnati. "Aug. 27, 1908, in same court, strong supplemental opinion refusing a rehearing. "Feb. 4, 1909, United States Circuit Judge Cochran, at Richmond, specifically ruled that the stuff which Roosevelt had ordered to be labeled as imitation whisky was exactly that. "Aug. 1, 1908, the court of appeals for the District of Columbia broadly sustained the Roosevelt rulings. "July 7, 1908, the United States district court for western New York compactly sustained the Roosevelt rulings. "The supreme court of the District of Columbia, by decree in a case, United States versus four barrels of liquid purporting to be whisky," held that the contents was an imitation of whisky. "Oct. 28, 1908, federal court at Baltimore broadly sustained the Roosevelt ruling that imitation whisky was imitation whisky, and must be so labeled. Alphonso Taft's Opinion. "What the Consumers' league failed to cite, however, was that President Taft in that one ruling not only recalled seven federal court decisions, but also another which, while it did not emanate from a court, was certainly judicial. For it was handed down by a great and honored jurist who sat in the cabinet of President Grant. This was the eighth decision recalled: "Alcohol and whisky are, unquestionably, different articles in contemplation of law, as they are in fact, having different qualities and different values. (Ophion of Alphonso Taft, attorney general, construing section 3449 of internal revenue laws, see Internal Revenue Record, Aug. 21, 1875, volume 22.) "Just what process of reasoning the president employs to determine positively that he has the right to recall seven court decisions with a single signature, while the recall of one by the sober judgment of millions of citizens in a state would destroy our fundamental national liberties, we are unable to understand, except by remembering that striking portrait drawn by the lamented Dolliver of the amiable person in the White House 'entirely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.'" "GRATITUDE" MEANS MALIGNANT ATTACK UPON ROOSEVELT Taft's Tirade Not New to Men Who Know Him. When Seeking the Presidency In 1903 He Strove to Appoar as a Stanch Progressive—Wore a Mask For Two Years—Has Now Openly Stamped Himself as a Reactionary. Washington, April. — Stung to the quick by his belated recognition of the long patent fact that the voters of the Republican party had repudiated his candidacy for renomination and are overwhelmingly in favor of the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt as their candidate for the presidency this year. Mr. Taft has at last thrown aside all restraint and carried out the threat which he has been muttering to his intimates for some weeks to speak out in public his real thoughts about the man who made him president. In Mr. Taft's tirade against Mr. Roosevelt at Springfield. Mass., there is nothing essentially new to those who have been on anything more than relations of casual intimacy with the president for some time. It is a fact known to not a few of those closely connected with the campaign of 1908 that even at that time the Taft family was displaying that peculiarly malignant temper toward Mr. Roosevelt which so often takes the place of grat- Itude in the hearts of those who have benefited by a great service rendered by a friend. It is a fact known to not a few persons that at times during the campaign of 1908 the talk about Mr. Roosevelt among members of the Taft family was such as to cause the greatest uneasiness to the managers of Mr. Taft's campaign for the presidency, lest it should become public and work serious damage to the campaign. Those familiar with the true feeling toward Mr. Roosevelt in the Taft family have been surprised that Mr. Taft has concealed for so long his real attitude toward his benefactor. From the time last fall when the strong sentiment of the country is favor of Colonel Roosevelt began to manifest itself unmistakably, there has been much talk from Taft sources about Colonel Roosevelt's ingratitude to Mr. Taft. It has been assumed by Mr. Taft's partisans that, because Colonel Roosevelt was instrumental in bringing about Mr. Taft's nomination and election to the presidency, he was therefore bound at all times, under all circumstances and at all costs, to support Mr. Taft's administration and Mr. Taft's renomination and election. Their assumption is entirely unwarranted and has no logical justification. The fact is that Taft, the president, is not and never for one moment has been the Taft Mr. Roosevelt and his intimate as- sociates knew as secretary of war and whom they supported as a candidate for the presidency. While Mr. Taft was seeking the presidency he constantly sought to appear as a stanch and true progressive. But on that November night in 1908 when the count of the votes showed that he had been elected to the presidency he ceased to make any effort actually to be a progressive. For some time he continued to wear a mask as a progressive, but in the last two years of his presidency he has not kept up even that feeble effort to deceive the people of the country. By his constant association with the Aldriches, the Cunions and the Lorimers; by his ready submission to their influence and advice; by his active support of the measures they devised and favored; by his co-operation with them in matters of patronage and by his unblushing attempt to coerce the real progressives through the brazen use of federal patronage, he has stamped himself openly as the reactionary which he has always been at heart. A single illustration will suffice for the demonstration of this proposition. In his speech at Cincinnati, in July, 1908, accepting the nomination for the presidency, Mr. Taft took occasion to reiterate his indorsement of Mr. Roosevelt and to enumerate some of the acts which he regarded as the distinctly beneficial achievements of his predecessor. In that speech he said: "He (Mr. Roosevelt) recommended the passage of a law, which the Republican convention has since specifically approved, restricting the future issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways to such as may be authorized by federal authority. He demonstrated to the people by what he said, by what he recommended to congress and by what he did, the sincerity of his efforts to command respect for the law and to save the country from the dangers of a plutocratic government, toward which we were fast tending." In numerous speeches during the campaign of 1908 Mr. Taft declared his cordial support of Mr. Roosevelt's proposition to secure the enactment of a law controlling the issue of securities by interstate carriers. When he became president, he pretended to Pale-Faced Women You ladies, who have pale faces, sallow complexions, dark circles under eyes, drawn features and tired, worn-out expressions, you need a tonic. The tonic you need is Cardui, the woman's tonic It is the best tonic for women, because its ingredients are specifically adapted for women's needs. They act on the womanly organs and help to give needed strength and vitality to the worn-out womanly frame. Cardui is a vegetable medicine. It contains no minerals, no iron, no potassium, no lime, no glycerin, no dangerous, or habit-forming drugs of any kind. It is perfectly harmless and safe, for young and old to use. "After my doctor had done all he said he could for me," writes Mrs. Wm. 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The moment that bill was read by the genuine progressives of the senate and house they denounced its provisions to control the issue of securities as intended really to further the designs of the railroad reactionaries and the special interests whom Mr. Taft has steadily sought to please from the day he was inaugurated. After a hard fight in the house, the Taft Wickersham provisions were struck from the bill and a substitute provision was adopted which at least embodied a recognition of the principle of federal control over the issue of such securities, and was, therefore, a distinct step in advance. When that measure reached the senate, Mr. Taft's allies and cronies there were vastly disturbed by this provision. Aldrich, Crane, Fenrose, Gallinger and all the other representatives of the special interests in the senate at once protested against it. These were the men with whom Mr. Taft was associating intimately, with whom he was working constantly, and upon whom he was relying for support in the senate. They were the same men who had most vigorously opposed his nomination when they, like Mr. Roosevelt, believed him to be a real progressive, but already they had learned that his progressiveness was merely a mask worn for the purpose of securing the presidency. They knew now that he was as good a reactionary as any of them and they counted upon his support in defeating this provision for the control of the issue of securities by interstate carriers. They did not count in vain. With Mr. Taft's knowledge and convenience, they arranged a deal with the Democratic opposition in the senate whereby they not only struck from the bill this provision which was in accordance with the Republican platform and the many speeches of Mr. Taft's campaign, but they stopped the further efforts of the real progressives in the senate to make the railroad bill, of which this provision was a part, a genuinely effective and valuable measure. Then they inserted in the bill as a sop to the public clamor for real legislation a provision for the appointment of a commission which was to determine not the method by which the government was to exercise its right to control the issue of securities by interstate carriers, but whether or not the government had such a power. The appointment of this commission was a stultification of the Republican platform and of every speech Mr. Taft had made in support of that platform. It was fair notice to the whole country that from that day forward no faith or credence could be given by the country to any declaration of any Republican platform upon which Mr. Taft might be running for office. But now, in the face of this incon- trovertible fact and of scores more of exactly similar purport and effect, Mr. Tatt has the effrontery to stand before a public audience and denounce Theodore Roosevelt and present himself in the attitude of the one who has the right to feel aggrieved. It is an astounding exhibition of willingness to deceive the people of the country in the effort to secure office. --- ORCHARD PLANTING SHOULD BE GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION Proper Sites and Varieties Need to Be Well Selected to Insure Profits-Plans For the Laying Out of West Virginia Orchards --- Birdseye View of Fruit Orchards on the Hills of West Virginia ```markdown ``` This Picture Shows a Dealrable Location for a Fruit Orchard. While there can be no question but that West Virginia offers exceptional opportunities for the producing of fruit, there are some very important preliminary points which should be carefully studied by a prospective buyer before he embarks upon an orchard enterprise of any extent. It would be better to delay the planting in order to give more thought to the location of the orchard, the choice of varieties, and the thorough preparation of the land, than to plant without giving to these fundamental steps the attention they must have to insure success. The factors to be considered in choosing a site for an orchard include: markets, transportation facilities, adaptability of the soil, elevation and exposure. A good local market is a valuable asset. If it is necessary to ship long distances, good transportation facilities should be near at hand, preferably competing lines of railroads, or both rail and water routes. Hauling fruit over long distances, particularly if the roads are bad, is a serious handicap, although, if varieties are chosen wisely, this may be partially overcome. The soil should be adapted to the fruit to be grown. Land that is too steep, too rocky, too low, too wet, or too poor should be avoided as unsuited for fruit culture, or the care of which is too expensive. This Picture Shows a Desirable Proper elevation of the site with respect to the surrounding land is an important factor, since it gives good water and good air drainage. Cold air settles to the lower levels and may cause damaging frosts on low lying lands, narrow valleys, or "pockets," when orchards on higher elevations on sloping sites will escape damage. Every community has a clearly defined frost line above which an orchard may be planted with little danger of injury from frosts. Elevated sites will produce fruit of higher color and freer from fungous blemishes. Advantage should be taken of the varied exposures our hillsides afford by locating the orchard on a slope which is protected from the storms of wind and sleet which may prevail in that particular section. An easily available and plentiful water supply is a necessity which increases with the age of the trees, as it takes a large amount of water to properly spray the orchard. The price of land may sometimes be a determining factor in locating the orchard. If the higher cost of land situated in a well-developed fruit section is prohibitive and favorable conditions are found in an undeveloped section, one need not hesitate to shipping to a distant market, productive varieties that are good shippers and good keepers should be planted. Plant most largely of the sorts that are well known and in keen demand in your market, which have proven to be adapted to your location, and which you like to grow. 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The simplest and most Location for a Fruit Orchard. choose the latter. The larger the planting that can be made in this case, the easier it will be to dispose of the crop. The success of any orchard will depend in a large measure upon the wise choice of varieties. A common mistake is to plant too many varieties, or those not well adapted to soil and climatic conditions, or to the market in which the fruit is sold. For a local market, a succession of high quality varieties should be selected and enough of each kind planted to be a factor in the market in its season. If convenient system of orchard planting is the square system, in which the rows run at right angles to each other and each tree forms the corner of a square or rectangle. By placing a tree in the center of the square formed by each four trees, we have the quincunx system. This nearly doubles the number of trees per acre. 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