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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, G F W. Va. MEMORIAL DAY Distance from the great struggle of half century ago that made Memorial Day a national institution does not lessen its influence upon the hearts and minds of the loyal who gather annually to observe it. Although for years, efforts on the part of northern pulpit and press to bridge over the chasm that divided the two sections then have been strenuous; although as the years go by we hear more lamentation than songs of triumph over the final victory at Appomattox, in spite of such a show of conciliation on the part of the north, the dawn of each Memorial Day brings back that awful conflict with all of its horrors to the minds of those who participated in it. They hear again the peal of thunder from the parapets of Fort Sumter, are thrilled again by the cry of apprehension that spread over the north and west, now again the blanched faces of wives, sisters, mothers and fathers, as, in a response to the call of the President they march shoulder to shoulder to avenge an insulted nation and raise the flag again over Sumter. No amount of apologetic oratory, no amount of space offered by northern periodicals to men and women of the lost cause to discredit the men whose valor and superior tact saved the nation can heal the scars of those who suffered the rigors of war. In this 50th anniversary of that terrible war efforts at conciliation are being redoubled; few historic facts relating to that struggle are published without profuse apologies. Had the prodigal son been sought after and thrashed back into his father's house the celebration of his return would not have been so elaborate. In our efforts to be gracious to a once rabid and vicious enemy is there not danger of forgetting those who stood by the Union when the desertion of our best trained men in employ of the government made the loyal as precious as beaten gold? In our praise of Lee we may forget the service rendered by Grant; in our our exaltation of Jackson we may forget Sherman; in our laudation of Stewart, Early and Forest we may forget stubborn Joe Hooker, the gallant Kilpatrick, the impulsive and intrepid Phil Sheridan. In spite of all we may say in praise of those who wore the gray, in spite of how earnest and loud we may be in excusing them for their devotion to what "they believed to be right," they were on the wrong side: they were fighting against God! And this irrevocably dims the lustre of their lives. What was treason in '61 is treason today. The men who are seeking to annul those amendments to the Constitution written there in the blood of those whose graves we laurel on this day are still against the Union. Those who are opposed to the freedman's full enjoyment of the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by these. Amendments are champions of the institution of slavery. The country's wonderful development, its untold wealth, the opening up of its vast resources should draw from our hearts copious thanks to God for those men who contended for the right, who check-mated those in rebellion in their efforts to carve out ESTABISHED 1882 MALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, an empire with slavery for its cornerstone, those who contended for the right and conquered for the good of those in the wrong. As in this anniversary year we shall recount the deeds of those who participated in that awful controversy, heaven forbid that we should overlook a single act worthy of praise. Although our eulogy of the women north and south who figured in that memorable struggle would fill many volumes we have not overestimated their worth. But in our songs we have yet to sound a note for the black woman of the south, we have overlooked a potent factor in the struggle for peace and union. Who will say that the heathen woman, the ignorant, the unfavored, the driven slave possesses not as keen a love in her bosom, is not as devoted to her spouse and her children, feels not keenly the pangs of separation and bereavement as is possible in womankind? Who would impute to her a heart less devoted, less tender and true than which heats in the breast of the more fortunate? If we take into consideration what the Negro man and boy faced when they volunteered to fight for the Union we can the better appreciate what the wife, the mother and the sister sacrificed. When the white soldier marched away he felt confident of receiving the full measure of praise for service rendered; that should be fall into the hands of the enemy there would be no violation of the rules of war. The Negro soldier was jeered even in Massachusetts when he started for the front, and was not considered as human when captured by the confederates. The cry "No Quarter!" was always raised when closing in on Negro troops. Shot down in battle, the wounded black soldier cried to his comrades to finish him. Death at the hands of his comrades was preferable to that which awaited him at the hands of the enemy. The Negro soldiers with their wives and children were ruthlessly butchered at Fort Pillow while the white flag waved overhead. In the first attempt on the part of the Federals to capture Petersburg the white troops threatened to mutiny rather than lead the assault, and the Negroes had to take the lead, and they went into the "Crater" and died unsupported. General Palmer never did explain why the gallant Shaw and his black heroes went alone to death at Fort Wagner. If the old veteran be not an ungrateful knave, he has told many times as he sat around the campfire of the many instances of the saving of his comrades from death by the tact and cunning of the Negro woman and boy who hid them in barns and haylofts and waited for the opportunity to pilot them into Union lines. A few years ago the strewing of flowers upon the graves of Union soldiers by the women of Mississippi was heralded throughout the nation and poems written in praise of the generous act. But this work of devotion has been carried on by the Negro women of the south from the beginning of Memorial observances until this day. As the majority of the Union dead sleep south of Mason and Dixon's Line we can fully appreciate how great is that work of love. Now as of old, eulogies over those sleeping heroes in the southland will be spoken principally by black orators and the hands of black women will garland EXTENSIVE WORK OF DR. G. C. HALL Succinct Account of His Notable Career as Surgeon. HAS FAITH IN THE NEW SOUTH Eminent Physician Whose Unselfish Devotion to the Medical Profession Has Given Him First Place—Great Organizer, Founder, Leader in Civic Affairs and Race Benefactor. Chicago.—Dr. George Cleveland Hall, surgeon, was born at Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1864. His father, a Baptist minister, moved to this city in 1863 and at once entered his children in the public schools. At fifteen years of age Dr. Hall was principal of a small school at Aux Vusse, Mo. From there he went to Lincoln university, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors in 1880. Immediately thereafter he entered Bennett Medical college, Chicago, finishing first in a class of fifty-four Dr. Hall enjoys a reputation for surgery that brings to him patients from all parts of the United States. He has operated in nearly every large city in the east and middle west. Seeing the necessity of postgraduate work among the Negro physicians of the south, Dr. Hall began holding surgical clinics before the various state medical associations, conducting them in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia and Missouri. At these clinics he has performed hundreds of difficult surgical operations, bringing to the local physicians M. DR. GEORGE C. HALL opportunities denied them in their home town, and has to his credit the their graves. No woman has shown a greater appreciation of the boon of freedom than the Negro woman; no woman has striven harder to advance and improve intellectually and morally. Her church and club have been to her the medium for good, for the uplift of her people which she has creditably utilized. She pleads for fuller recognition of her justly won rights to be an American woman in all that the term implies. In this the 50th anniversary of the great war in which she so humbly and yet so nobly bore her part, she stands forth and pleads that the shockles of proscription be removed from her hands. Jack Thorne. 234 East 85th St., New York City. VOL. 31. When the English version was laid before him, with quite a bill for the translater's labor, what was his disguise to find that the article was nothing more or less than a German reproduction of an article of his own published the year before in an English journal, and he had paid twice as much for the translation as he had received for the original article. "Annual Sale going on. Don't go elsewhere to be cheated—come here." "Lost—a collie dog belonging to Jim Brooks with a brass collar and a muzzle." establishment of ten infirmaries where none existed before and increased efficiency in the work of a number of others already established, whose work theretofore had been in the hands of white surgeons. How this work has been appreciated can in a measure be understood by an extract from a letter written by Dr. D. H. C. Scott, president of the Alabama Medical association, in response to an invitation to attend a testimonial banquet given Dr. Hall by the citizens of Chicago, in which he said: "Dr. Hall has done no little in the south in general and Alabama in particular toward arousing the medical profession to greater effort in scientific investigation and practical application. He has been unselfish in this ludable endeavor and has lived to see his efforts bear fruit. "Aside from the enthusiasm he has created along the lines of professional achievement, he has brought to the people of this commonwealth the message of cheer and hope, born of a noble spirit and implanted in that effective way which gives immediate and permanent help. His manifest faith and sincere interest in the new south have demonstrated beyond question that we may yet be unfettered and soar to heights undreamed of. I congratulate Chicago in the possession of Dr. Unit." While standing at the head of his profession, this doctor does not lose sight of civic affairs. He organized the Civic League of the State of Illinois in 1895. He has been an active member of the board of trustees and attending surgeon at Provident hospital for the past fifteen years. Dr. Hall is a director and treasurer of Frederick Douglass center and a member of the Western Economic society. He is also chairman of the committee in charge of the erection of the $150,000 Y. M. C. A. building, a member of the Chicago Association of Commerce, organizer of the local medical association and an active worker in the national. In the financial world Dr. Hall is looked upon as one of Chicago's most substantial citizens, and his holdings are his by right of personal endeavor. WOMAN OF ISRAEL A TIRBUTE TO HEROIC CONDUCT OF MRS. STRAUS ON THE TITANIC The Titanic was sinking, icy waters were already lapping her forward deck. There were boats for just one-third of those on board, which meant life. For the remaining two thirds there were belts only, which meant death. The stern Anglo Saxon command had been given and was being obeyed: "Women and children first." There stood by the rail, awaiting their turn, a man and a woman, husband and wife. They were Jews, people of wealth, education and refinement. There was no confusion, order prevailed. The woman's time came, there was a place for her in the boat. An officer and a sailor, one on each side, held out their arms to her. Arms of safety, of tomorrow's sun, of home and friends—Life! She hesitated and asked: "May not my husband go with me?" "No!" Then drawing herself up and looking proudly, fearlessly toward the sea: "If my husband may not accompany me I will remain with him." And turning to her maid; "Dear you take my place." Her husband, all honor to him, tried to dissuade her in vain. And the next great wave that came and went again out into the night, carried on its crest, clasped in each other's arms, a man and a woman of Israel. Mrs. Ieidor Straus—long may we keep her memory green; long may American womanhood honor her name; long may the fragrance of her example linger about us. Especially is it needful at this (Continued on Third Page.) NO.13 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. BOUGHT HIS OWN WORK. A Washington visitor on Scientific Matters was collecting material for a monograph on electro-magnetism, when word came to him of a valuable paper on the subject not long before published in a Boston journal devoted to science. Thinking that the paper would be of use to him in the work on hand, he had it translated. "For Sale—A piano-forte, the property of a musician with carved legs." "A boy wanted to open oysters with a reference." "Bulldog for sale, will eat anything, very fond of children." "Lost—an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a beat rib and a bone handle." TO BE SURE. A Sunday School teacher asked her class—"Who was the father of Zebadee's children?" The question, being rather strange and abruptly put, mystified the class, puzzled them for a few moments, when the smallest and youngest said he could tell. "Well," said the teacher, "who was it?" "Why Zebadee himself to be sure," said the youngster. Joseph Leiter, being interviewed by a newspaper reporter—said with a smile. "Please quote me accurately. In an interview, you know the slightest inaccuracy can make a man ridiculous. As an instance—a Frehchman who thought he had a fair knowledge of the English language, nevertheless said to a father. "Ahal Your son, he resembles you—a chip of the old blockhead." FORESTS ARE BENEFICIAL In addition to serving as a great source of wood supply, the forest experts certain well-known beneficial influences to human interests. These are influences: 3. Upon the mechanical condition and erosion of the soil under its cover. 4. Upon the sanitary and esthetic conditions of the people. The tired city dweller, as well as the free country man, may find peaceful rest and happy appreciation of nature beneath the forest's kindly shelter. By Prof. A. W. Nolan, College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. 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 advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Cifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. Swisher isn't the wisher pusher never has been and never will be. The readers of this paper bear cheerful testimony that for years we have opposed the recognition of the South's Negro and Lily-white's nonelective power at home, and its coercive ruling at National conventions. Charles F. Teter does not deserve a decent Negro's vote from the fact when he sold lots here on the old fair ground, he would not sell one to a colored person. Vote for him? No and no again! As the hymn "Nearer my God to Thee" will never be sung again without thinking of the Titanic, so cannot the name Abraham Lincoln be spoken without a reverence akin to the Savior of men. That political parties are treacherous this campaign is proving. How some men can use others to serve their ends, and then when they want recognition, turn and rend them, is more than passing strange. E. Howard Harper, of Keystone, McDowell County, and L. O. Wilson, of Weston, Lewis County, are men of the type needed on the State Republican Committee. Vote for them at the primaries next Tuesday, as well as for Dr. Hatfield, for governor, and for Prof. C. R. Murray for State Superintendent of Free Schools. They are all Republicans. Initiative, referendum and recall must have lodged so deep down in the hearts of the poor toilers that all of King George's horses could not pull it out. Three months back we made the assertion that as it looked to us, any aspirant who goes to Chicago adverse to it, must go down —watch it. Let the band play at Chicago as the bark of Taft goes down—"Nearer my God to Thee." Professor C. R. Murray, of Williamson, Mingo County, is an aspirant for the nomination of State Superintendent of Free Schools before the State-wide primary on Tuesday, June 4. He is no stranger to our readers, we having already given his candidacy favorable mention, and we are of the opinion that he will poll a large vote for the nomination which he seeks. The 44 page special edition of the Wheeling Register, issued Thursday, May 23, was a credit to its publishers, a fine portrayal of Wheeling as a manufacturing and business center, and a distinct newspaper triumph for Northern West Virginia. There were illustrations of many Wheeling business houses, as well as those of fine residences, and cuts of numerous men prominent in Wheeling's social, business and political affairs, in this special Register, and the West Virginia Printing Company, of which Mr. James B. Taney is the General Manager, should feel justly proud of its latest unmistakable demonstration of its ability to produce a newspaper that could not be excelled anywhere. United States Senator William E Chilton has our thanks for a copy of the speech made by him in the Senate of the United States on the subject of "State Claims for Northwest Territory." The speech is in Mr. Chilton's usually forceful style, and can be best appreciated by being carefully read. We might add tho' that it is logical, and sets forth the facts which he wishes to portray in a style peculiarly Chiltonian. Attorney T. Edward Hill, of Keystone, was a business visitor to this city on Monday isst. He's a pleasant gentleman, is discriminating, and has the knuckle of knowing how to make friends. Incidentally, while here, Mr. Hill put in some good blows for the candidacy of Dr. H. D. Hortfield and also made it his business to further the interests of Mr. E. Howard Harper for Committeeman at Large. Adjutant General Charles D. Eliot, of the West Virginia National Guard, came here on Sunday last for the purpose of mustering Martinsburg's celebrated City Band in as regimental band for the Second Regiment. He seemed highly appreciative of this organization's high standard, and we are of the opinion that he will never regret his action, because the City Band is one of the best in this country, and can be depended upon to hold its own almost anywhere. It is said that the temperance advocates are circulating a petition which they intend to get signed and present to the County Court for the purpose of impressing upon that body the idea that it would be detrimental to the good morals of the town and county for saloon licenses to be granted in our midst after July 1st., 1912. If this is done, and the efforts of the "drys" are rewarded with success, the "wets" will have as a severe a setback as they received on March 27, 1911. Can a man who loves his country, its peace, happiness and prosperity, look on our baby army of boys dressed in uniforms called scouts, and not have chills run through every fiber of his nature? This vast baby army should be under the hollowed influence of loving and religious mothers. Notice them. No sooner than they are clad, they begin to shoot or point at each other with their toy guns, and last week, when one got angry, small as he was, he shot dead another baby boy. Better be in their graves. The secondiel who is murdering and mutilating Negro men, women and children in Texas and Louisiana, ought to be captured if it takes the combined police powers of the two States to apprehend him. It is a blot on the fair name of the two States, and the authorities in each ought to busy themselves at once and run the fiend to earth or make it impossible for him or her to commit more such atrocious murders as the ones which have been held up to the world's gaze for a period covering a year or two. It will be a great stride in Negro elevation when our people everywhere realize that the only way to become powerful in this world is for them to come together and stay together. Some may say that such a condition can never prevail, but we say it can. Furthermore it will, and if nothing else brings about the desired end, the proscription practised against the Negroes throughout the country will turn the trick. Let us disagree on trivial things, if disagree we must, but when it comes to essentials, let us present a solid front, thereby showing ourselves men in every sense. When we act as above suggested, white and all other kind of men will respect us to a degree not dreamed of at this time. Dr. B. H. Stillyard, a lifelong Republican, and a resident of Ohio County, and the town of Wheeling, is a candidate before the Republican primaries, on Tuesday, June 4, for State Committeeman at Large. In view of this fact, he asks the support of the electorate of the State for the position written he seeks. The Penn boss comes too late to serve its purpose. Why wait till now when Mr. Hatfield and his friends can't reply and refute? Why sick an alleged drunkard on a man who did more to save the G.O.P. a year ago than any other man in this State? Dirty! And in conclusion I ask myself why say more about it, when the Hon. Phil Water'a has sworn that he teaw the one sided fight, and that Penn was drunk and hit Dr. Hatfield in the face first and that the Dr. did not hit him back. Vote for Hatfield. It looks now as if Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, will be nominated on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention after that body meets, organizes and gets down to business in Chicago long about June 18, 1912. Such a result will be rather a fitting climax to the vigorous campaign which he has been waging for the past several months to secure the Republican presidential nomination. As we have repeatedly said before in these columns, friend and foe alike are agreed that Theodore Roosevelt is one of the world's remarkable personages. ATTORNEY SWEENEY IS OPPOSED TO NOEL Fayetteville, W. Va., May 26. Mr. Editor:—Permit me please through your neway columns to express what seems to be the sentiment of the colored voters of Fayette County, as expressed to me, relative to the two colored committeemen at large to be voted for at the coming republican primary election held June 4, 1912. The representative colored voters of Fayette County, three-fourths of them at least, of John Noel's home county don't want him elected to fill that place. They want well qualified colored men elected to fill both of these places to be filled with colored men from an educational standpoint and from a business standpoint. Places on the State Republican Central Committee are not wholly places of honor, but on the other band are places of the gravest responsibility to the colored people; besides containing both of these important elements, it is a place from which the colored race is largely sized up by the predominant race and the colored people want the best pattern on that committee by which they may be cut. They say that John Noel is trying to force himself on colored voters of Fayette County and in fact upon the colored voters of the State of West Virginia. He has been on the State Republican Central Committee for seven years. He first got on that committee by mere accident or oversight as no leading race loving colored man ever considered him for a moment seriously for that place. But the colored people thought rather than raise a bowl against Noel that they would let him stay on that committee until his time ran out although they knew he was the wrong man in that place. His time is now about out and if he is not willing to quit, the thing to do is to make him quit. The colored citizens of Fayette County who have the best interests of their race at heart want to see the best qualified colored men on the State Committee whether they live in Fayette County or in some other county of West Virginia. Therefore, the representative colored citizens of Fayette County who believe that the interest of the colored race is greater than the interest of one man take this method of notifying the colored voters of the State that they want a better qualified colored man elected at the coming primary than John Noel. They respectfully also recommend that the white people as well as the colored people vote for Lawyer Howard Harper of McDowell County on the 4th of June 1912, for one colored committeeman, and Dr. Barnett, of Huntington, W. Va., or L. O. Wilson, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of West Virginia, for the other colored committeeman. All of these worthy colored men have been endorsed by their home county; John Noel has not been endorsed by any county, not even his own county. T. L. Sweeney. YOUNG BUFFALO WILD WEST AND COL. CUMMINS FAR EAST. On last Saturday morning there came to this city the far famed Young Buffalo Wild West and Col. Cammins Far East. After two or three hours the parade appeared on our principal streets, and to say that it was fine is to state the exact truth. The precision with which everything was gotten into readiness for the show's stand here, speaks volumes for the business ability of Colonel Vernon C. Seaver, the shrewd and discriminating President and General Manager of the aggregation. There were many notable features in the great pageant, but we greees it is about correct to say that the most interesting of all was an old time Western prarie schooner, drawn by 20 well trained oxen. Added to the ox team, there were bands of music, tribes of Indians, cowboys, cowgirls, Australians, Cossocks, Mexicans, Cingalese, a drove of elephants, a drove of camels, and in short, as the booklet of this great amusement says, "the parade tells the tale." It does too, and in no uncertain manner, as everyone of the many thousands who attended the Wild West and Far East on last Saturday afternoon and night will cheerfully acclaim. Promptly at 2 o'clock the performance in the big tent began. First came a grand trimmphal entry of the whole show into the large arena, headed by Colonel Cummins, seated on a beautiful and spirited bay horse, and Young Buffalo on a fine black charger, followed in turn by the ox team, the Deadwood stage coach, the pack train, the Cowboy Band, the Indians, the cowboys and cowgirls and the Cingalese. It is easy to imagine what a pleasing impression such a magnificent cavalcade made on the thousands of spectators, and it remained throughout the show, because it was a significant prelude of what was to come. The programme proper, consisted of a highly realistic Indian massacre, a rescue by cowboys, exhibition rough riding in every manner, riding bucking and jumping wild horses, lassosing ponies and their riders, Indian war dances, Cingalese in their weird dancing and scientific manipulating, Australian bull whip experts in the most difficult and startling exhibitions of skill ever seen here and horses which danced, two stepped and cakewalked. There are many other attractions, which for want of space we cannot mention, but we must say a word about Annie Oakley, the crack shot of the show. It is enough to say that she is a markswoman with an eye for shooting; and we don't think she can be beaten on this continent. The vastness of the Young Buffalo Wild West and Colonel Cummins Far East is a personal triumph for Col. Fred'k. T. Cummins, a gentle man whose name is widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as a guardee of fair dealing, courteous attention and proper consideration for the public and its amusement likes and dislikes. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to December 1, 1911. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburg, 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, Columbus and Chicago. No, I Daily at 6:20 p.m nor 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 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 Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Matt n. burg, W. Vg. 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. 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 SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 processors. Kelby similar, 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. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, etc. 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. es. 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 Polycynic. Edward A. Balloch, M. D., Dean, 6th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. 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 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as second Class Matter The editor spent several days of this week in the middle and western sections of the State. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend the Commencement exercises of Tuskegee Institute, which are in progress this week. Mrs. Moten Colline, who died in Pittsburg, was taken to Kearneysville, where her body was laid to rest beside that of her husband. Mr. Henry Ford, our good Darksville friend, was in to see us the other day, and we were mightly glad to see him. Dedicatorial services of Ebenezer Baptist church will take place June 2, 1912. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Mr. Carter's son of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. A. C. Perry, the well known farmer and lumberman, who is also one of Berkeley County's real hustlers, dropped in to see us the other day. Buy at the West End Grocery Store, where you get quality. quantity and the right price. 526 West Martin St. P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Phone 287K. Dr. W. T. Henshaw, the well known physician, with offices in the public square, is considerably improved, after suffering severely for a week or more as the result of running a nail in his foot. For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordner 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. 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 Mr. Ashby L. Grayson, of Clarkesburg, a member of one of the bands with the Young Buffalo Wild West and Colonel Cummins Far East, was a welcome caller on the Press force last Saturday. Mr. Grayson is a fine young man, a capable musician, and the impression you get from a meeting with him is, that he likes to take advantage of every opportunity to improve himself. CONVENTION FARES ATLANTIC CITY. BALTIMORE MD. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. KANSAS CITY, MO. LOUISVILLE, KY. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. PAUL, MINN. TOLEDO, O. WASHINGTON, D. C. AND MANY POINTS ON THE PACIFIC COAST FOR FURTHER DETAILS APPLY TO NEAR FOR FURTHER DETAILS APPLY TO NEAREST BALTIMORE & OHIO TICKET AGENT. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. WOMAN OF ISRAEL Continued from first page. time, when despite the unrelenting laws of nature, where the wills of the gods are still grinding exceedingly small," the laws of society have relaxed; so as to allow either separation or divorce without any immediately visible loss of castle. When a woman, from a suddenly discovered lack of fancied luxuries (support), or a slowly uncovered and equally fanciful change of heart (uncongeniality), is permitted to leave her husband, and in time wreck herself and him and the good name of two or more families, because, ostensibly, she "just cannot stand" this or that or the other thing, here is a woman who stood death! Nay, chose it in preference. The picture reminds us all of another "parting of the ways." Another woman of Israel, who lived centuries ago. "And Ruth said unto Naomi, entreat me not to leave thee, nor to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go, where thou lodgest, I will lodge, thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." J. ATTORNEY E. HOWARD HARPER, OF KEYSTONE, W. VA. 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It is also a money crop, being worth pound for pound for ear corn on the market. That is, in a ton of car corn we have about 20 bushels, being worth in this state at the present time $24. Alfalfa is also worth $24 a ton at the present time, and when corn is cheaper, alfalfa is also cheaper, averaging all the time in value pound for pound for ear corn. When figured on an acre basis, the net profit in growing alfalfa is worth double that obtained from an acre of corn. The problem we must solve is how may we grow alfalfa with as much assurance of getting a crop as in growing corn. There are several requirements of soil conditions that are absolutely necessary to have before throwing money away in attempting to grow the plant. The first requirement of a soil is that it should be well drained, either naturally or by the tile drainage. Just because a field is hilly or rolling is no sign that it is well drained, for it some times happens that such soil is as wet and as long drained, out in the spring as level bottom tund. The soil should be thoroughly lined, especially if clover on the same soil has not been doing its best. Plenty of organic matter should be incorporated into the soil several months or even a year before seeding to alfalfa. This can be done by applying harrow and manure and turning under vegetable matter, such as cow peas. On an average, alfalfa does better when seeded about the first of August than in the spring, although good success may be bad by seeding in April, with a bushel of A West Virginia Alfalfa Field. beardless spring barley per acre for a nurse crop to keep down the weeds. Plow the land early in the spring and apply 1,000 pounds of ground burnt lime or one ton or more of ground limestone per acre about the first of May, and harrow the ground twice a week during the summer, to mix the lime thoroughly through the soil. The last of July go to some farmer who has been growing good crops of alfalfa and get some soil from his field, enough to apply 200 pounds per acre on your land. Upon arriving home with this soil, spread it over the field States Department of Agriculture, for whom he will have charge of farm management work in West Virginia. It is becoming more and more evident that the business management of farm operations needs fully as much study and development as better methods of production. Professor Johnson is well equipped for this sort of work, having given considerable attention to it, and having spent the last summer in travel in Europe studying methods of European agriculture. It believed that he will be able to be of great service to the farmers of West Virginia. 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. Take CARDUI J43 The Woman's Tonic "After my doctor had done all he said he could for me," writes Mrs. Wm. Hilliard, of Mountainburg, Ark., "I took Cardui, on the advice of a friend, and it helped me so much. 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If a dashing rain should come and cause a crust to be formed before the alfalfa has come through the ground, harrow again with a light iron frame spike harrow, to break up this crust. No more attention need be given the alfalfa until the following spring, about the first of June. About this time little buds begin to open at the crown of the roots just above the ground, and at this time the alfalfa is ready to cut. It might be well to apply, at the time of seeding the alfalfa, about 20 pounds of steamed bone meal per acre, which will stimulate the growth of the young alfalfa plants during August and September. I. S. COOK, JR. College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Gap worms vary in length and are provided with six lanced-like teeth. The female is about one inch long while the male is about one-third inch long. During the act of copulation these worms become fused together, thus giving the worms a fork-like appearance. Upon the death of the adult worm, the eggs are liberated on the ground where the chick usually dies or is thrown by the caretaker. In the spring of the year these eggs hatch into minute hair-like worms and the young chick picks them up either in food or water. From here the little worms here through the tissue of the intestines and theace to the windpipe. The feed should be mixed as usual and then add three drops of creolin to every pound of food. Feed this once a day. Farm Management Work in West Virginia. At a recent meeting of the State Board of Regents Mr. O. M. Johnson was appointed associate professor of farm management for the Agricultural College at Morgantown. Mr. Johnson graduated from the agricultural course at Ohio State University in 1908, and since then has been employed in commercial work, in managing his own farm, and as assistant in extension work of Ohio State University. He will teach farm management and rural economics in the College of Agriculture during the spring semester of each year, and during the summer and fall will investigate methods of farm management in various parts of the state, co-operating with the Office of Farm Management of the United States Department of Agriculture, for whom he will have charge of farm management work in West Virginia. It is becoming more and more evident that the business management of farm operations needs fully as much study and development as better methods of production. Professor Johnson is well equipped for this sort of work, having given considerable attention to it, and having spent the last summer in travel in Europe studying methods of European agriculture. It is believed that he will be able to be of great service to the farmers of West Virginia. CHICKENS DESIRABLE BREEDS OF SHEEP FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS Selection of a Type of Sheep Is An Important Question and Should Have Careful Consideration-Choice of Wool or Mutton Class Should Be Considered ```markdown ``` Hampshire and Bristolshire Sheep on West Virginia Hills Are Prominent Breeds 25 Southdown Sheep Are Often Kept on Hilly Lands and Prominent Breeds for West Virginia. After settling all the questions as to environment or location, including their adaptation to profitable sheep husbandry and his own knowledge of and fondness for the business, the prospective shepherd will want to know which one of the numerous breeds of sheep will best serve his purpose. That is rather a broad question and can not be answered off-hand and should not be settled lightly. Among pure bred sheep we have three distinct types and a number of breeds more or less closely identified with those three. First the fine weeled or merino type, which may be classified as the wool type, represented by the Spanish Merino, Delain and Rambouillet breeds. Second, the middle wool type, classified as mutton breeds or Down breeds, represented by the Southdown, Hampshire, Shropshire, Oxford and some others. Third, the long wool type, which also falls into the mutton class, and limited to the Cotswold, Leicester and Lincoln breeds. All of these types and breeds have their admirers who maintain that each one is the best. In a general way we would say all of them are right. To make a definite and concise ap- Southdown Sheep Are Often K Breeds for W **ewer** to the question, what the best **sheep** is, we would say it is that type **or breed** of sheep which is most perfectly adapted to the conditions under which it is to be kept, and which is most nearly adapted to the purposes which it is to fill." The first question to settle is whether wool or mutton is to be the main consideration. If wool growing is to be the primary purpose, with mutton only incidental, then one of the Merino breeds with the choice probably falling upon the Delains is best, though in some sections of West Virginia, notably the northern Pan-handle, the Spanish Merinos have long been successfully and profitably kept. For some inexplicable reason that class of sheep has been found more profitable in that section than anywhere else in the state. Among the good points of the Merinos may be named their ready adaptation to climatic conditions, their ability to "rough it" and to go in large flocks. The nuttorn breeds, including the middle-woolls and the long-woolls, are the larger streams of the state. They have been developed for size and flashing capacity without much consideration for hardiness, and their long coarse wool which parts or separates along the back lets the water in to the skin, making them liable to colds and catarrhal troubles. Without very great violence, I think the Cotewoids, Lincolnns and Leicestera may be eliminated in our search for the best sheep for West Virginia The Oxforddown is the product of a cross between the Cetswolds and Hampshires, and while it is the largest of the down breeds and is, perhaps, the handsomest of our domestic sheep, it requires better care than the other down breeds, and yet there are some places in West Virginia, under intensive conditions, where pastures are abundant and the land not over rough where they respond splendidly to intelligent care. Throughout the largo area in West Virginia which should be devoted to sheep husbandry, where it is too rough to plow and grass is only moderately abundant, some one of the Down or closely related breeds seems best adapted to the conditions. As to this type there is little doubt, but when pt on Hilly Lands and Prominent West Virginia. all English breeds of sheep, and have been developed under very different conditions from those under which the Merinos were developed. They were kept in smaller flocks, and conditions were generally more artificial. None of these breeds are as old as the Merinos and some of them are comparatively new with a breed history of less than a hundred years. The lowland breeds are what are known as the long wools or coarse wools, and while they are the largest of the domesticated sheep, for a number of reasons they are not adapted to West Virginia, unless it be on the bottom lands along the Ohio river and we attempt to discriminate between the breeds, the friends of each begin to give us trouble. But by the process of elimination we will narrow the whole bunch down to three breeds, and let the further battle of the breeds take care of itself. The Southdown, Hampshire and Shropshire breeds stand out as solid representatives of the medium wool-mutton breeds, and the West Virginia shepherd can not greatly err in choosing any one of them. These breeds are all highly developed as to good mutton form. The Hampshires are probably the hardiest of these three breeds and will stand keeping in larger flocks than either of the others, but they produce a lighter fleece than the Shropshires. The Shropshires are also considered somewhat more prolific. The Southdown is the most perfectly developed type of a mutton sheep, if indeed it is not the most perfect type of a meat producing animal of any kind. It is close to the Hampshire in hardiness. The most serious objections to the Southdown are its lack of size and its light fleece, and yet with its other good qualities it is difficult to put it in second place. Even when we have narrowed the choice down to these three breeds there is still room for fine discrimination in the final selection. Any one of these 'breeds serves' splendidly for breeding up a flock of native or common sheep. The important fact is, West Virginia needs more sheep and much depends upon the intelligence of the man behind the sheep. May the peaceful sheep and gamboling lambs be seen in every West Virginia landscape picture, filling all our borders with gentleness and prosperity. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, DC., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see B. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. Mme. M. L. JOHNSON GRADUATE SCALP SPECIALIST AND HAIR CULTURIST Manlouring, Facial, Scalp Massage and Scientific Scalp Trouling. 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