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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Apportment of Archives, G= Ivation, W. Va. ESTABISHED 1882. Prof. Moore Give Us Advice Dear Editor:—I hope that I am not too optimistic, yet I feel safe in advising you that the time is almost at hand when the entire tide of racial feelings between the whites and blacks will take a decided change and the tendency will be for the better. But that will all depend upon the stand now taken by the blacks. You may have noticed during last year that I through the Richmond Planet, (of Richmond, Va.) said many peculiar things, some of which every one knew, others few could possibly understand, while there was much which I said hardly any of you could catch my meaning. However, you seemed to have caught the strain to some degree, and as I must say to a much greater degree than what I expected of you, and in this you all have done well. Now if you will only do with perfection some of the things which I have advised you, and stand firm as men, ever crying for liberty, the next 12 months will bring some mighty good news to the darker races, even in America. You know that I told you through the Planet that there would be as attempt at a wholesale torture or probably slaughter. Well, may I say that this began last year with that international conference in London, England. It has all gone so much better than was possible to calculate at that time, and let us thank our God for this. But now for the next six months or ten months, you may say that the race is being weighed in a balance to ascertain their integrity, and though you may not think it important, I say that the social iron is now hot. Therefore I say Strike! The battle will soon be on if it is not already. Now, this day, you must take your stand. Stand, only as Gideon did, and when a certain time has passed, you will find the dead and dying laid into the valley, and those who escape will hardly be able to stand on their feet. They will dry up as dew before a morning's sun. The son of righteousness has been challenged and he will sift them as a women sifts flour, until he finds his people. You may think, however, that I mean your coming political test, therefore I beg to assure you differently, and although this is a part of the plan, it is far from being the principal one. I say these things because I do not believe that any of you know from whence I speak, and I suggest that you editors, mark the way for the people, and advise them to stand only for what is right, even when they feel that the old ship is bound to sink. Yet I say Stand! You may be both tempted and threatened, but let nothing cause you to alter your course. Stand for your rights and those of the whole social world. Now is a very psychological moment in which much depends upon the interior feelings and manner of the man being tested. Society is on the progressive march and problems will confront the people in waves not heretofore dreamed of. Take no back water, then, but ever contest for the rights of men being given to men by men without respect to color, race or previous conditions of servitude. I cannot describe to you what I see and understand, but DALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, I do say beware of the tempter and be strong at all times, and you do very well. I feel almost bold enough to give to America the final and most important advice. I feel like giving to all America a doctrine far greater than the Mource doctrine. Although you may never have thought this suggestion possible to your white brothers, I tell you it is time for honest men to declare to honest men that the salvation of the American people lies more in the amalgamation of the races now in America than in building great warships and receiving the degenerate immigrant classes from Europe. If America now takes this, my humble advice, she will be saved much embarrassment later on. The thing is union, with a spirit perfectly American, from point to point and side to side of the entire western hemisphere, and breed a unique race. This race will be wise, industrious and strong. We are now on the eve of a great change in more ways than I dare to even attempt to describe. You may be much surprised how some very wise, good and honest white people will accept this as a solution of the great problems which are certain to confront them very soon. Therefore social equality and amalgamation of the races now in America will be the safest and best solution to this great problem which shall soon confront us. As to whether or not your white brothers can see the wisdom in this, I tell you that it is this or worse. And there is every kind of encouragement on behalf of the Americans. The great political revolution of the world demands it, which we shall soon begin to learn. You will find that great men in America will be advocating this very cause within the next ten years. Many Americans would rather die than consent to it. But it is coming all right. Help John Mitchell, Jr., and stand for social economy. And do your best for the interest of your country and race and you will be glad. I. S. Moore. Babia, Brazil. 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The man who refuses to contribute his small share through a newspaper subscription is like one who has enjoyed a feast, but who dodges the contribution box.—Wweeling Intelligence. CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR WOMEN CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR WOMEN Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has Decided Views on Subject. AN ERROR IN NAMES. Wife of Democratic Candidate Gives Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on Smoking Habit. New York.—For the first time since Woodrow Wilson became the Democratic presidential candidate has Mrs. Wilson appeared. She attended in person her husband's daily conference with reporters, although Heretofore she has made special requests that she be not quoted nor written about in the papers. What Mrs. Wilson wished to have fully understood was that if she becomes the first lady of the land she will not, as has been said in a widely distributed interview, have packages of cigarettes in her personal desk at the White House and laduige in smoking them with her callers. Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. Wilson asked that publicity be given to a letter she had written to the editor of the State Journal at Columbus, O., repudiating an alleged interview with her in which she defended cigarette smoking for women. The interview had come to her in a letter signed "American Citizen," which said: Dear Madam—I can seriously think of any greater calamity to the young women of the nation then to read such a preachment as your interview offers them. I am a workingman, and I see men lose their jobs almost every day because they are incapacitated for work by the use of the cigarette. If smoking does this for strong men what will it do for girls and women? The "interview" was induced a cordial endorsement of the woman smoker. Here are some of its assuring phrases, all credited to Mrs. Wilson: "A woman writer for a syndicate of Sunday newspapers asked Mrs. Woodrow Wilson if she agreed with Gertrude Atherton's opinion of the smoking of cigarettes by women. She softly exhibited three cigarette boxes piled in the corner of her desk, all but empty. "Why shouldn't a woman smoke if she enjoys it? she queried. "Why hasn't she just as much right to a cigarette as a man? Certainly I agree with Mrs. Atherton that any existing prejudice against women smoking is to the last silly and absurd. "Smoking cigarettes is a question of manners, not morals. It promotes good fellowship." "Some women feel that a cigarette causes their nerves and helps their brains into working order. Personally smoking diffuses my thoughts instead of concentrating them. I enjoy it as I enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are pleasant ways of ending and finishing off; both add to conviviality and good fellowship." The editor of the Ohio State Journal, it was clear, had been much incensed at the apologies for the cigarette habit among women attributed to Mrs. Wilson, so he wrote on Aug. 19 an editorial in which he called for the defeat of Governor Wilson on a repudiation from his wife. If there was no mistake about it, he wrote, "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson shouldn't be mistress of the White House." If the Ohio editor was emphatic Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so. After the reporters had said they would gladly publish her letter to the Ohio editor she asked for an hour's time in which to write one. This was what she prepared: Iour Sir—I have just received a copy of the Journal with your editorial cuttled "Smoking Women," and I beg leave to indiscrimently deny the statement that I approve of women smoking cigarettes. The interview upon which your editorial was based is a pure invention. I intensely dislike the cigarette smoking habit for women—in fact, so strong is my feeling on the subject that my goal danger lies in being unjust and unkind in my judgment of those who differ with me in this respect. But certainly no women in our house. hold ever has' or ever will smoke. Quite apart from the bad taste of it, I believe with you that it has an extremely injurious effect on the nerves. FILLEN A. WILSON. (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson) Governor Wilson, in approving the letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered what he thought might prove an explanation for the interview. "I do not think it was maliciously invented," he said. "There is a rather well known writer who signs herself: Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no doubt has been confused with Mrs. Wilson." Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly married to a relative of Governor Wilson, and it is understood that her vows on the matter of women who smoke are different from those held in the household of the Democratic candidate. THE NEGRO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE METRODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 10.4 The function $f(x) = \sin(x)$ Mr. Editor:—I seem that the colored members of the recent General Conference of the M. E. Church held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are criticised for the retention of the amusement paragraph in the Discipline. Their vote is termed a block vote in its favor. It comes to me that such criticism is unfair, unwise, and much more to be condemned than the block voting of the colored delegates on that question. Block voting is nothing new nor uncommon. It happens when men agree on a subject, or when otherwise influenced or they would have voted the other way. The above being so, we presume they exercised their freedom in voting according to their knowledge and the information the Conference could give them, and as we are due to act upon our own knowledge and all possible knowledge, and as these delegates did so, we fail to see the justness of the criticism. These colored delegates voted upon this question as they saw it affected their people. The white delegates did the same. Why then should they criticise others for doing the same they did? Had either white or colored members done otherwise there would have been just ground for criticism. If we do the correct thing we cannot please our white brother. If we do the wrong we cannot please him. It seems that we can only please him when we follow his dictations, whether they be right or wrong. Then he is O. K. whether ignorant or intelligent. If he is elected to Chicago as a Taft delegate and votes according to his election, then he is read out of the "Bull Moose" convention because of moral and mental qualities deficient to such a degree to render him unfit to be a member thereof. What would be the result had the colored members in the General Conference and the Chicago Convention voted to have pleased others, voted contrary to their knowledge, their instruction and their conscience? Would they have been criticised by Dr. Day and others, would they have been read out of the third party? Why not criticise the white members of the General Conference who voted to retain said paragraph, why not condemn the block voting at Chicago at both conventions, why not condemn the block voting at the Democratic Convention in Baltimore? The colored brother is inclined more and more to vote as he sees things because he sees that his white brother is fallible as well as he is. We see you in elavery, in rebellion, in reconstruction, in the greenback party, "in 16 to 1," in rum traffic. We have less confidence in you than we use to have, and we have more in ourselves, and more and more and more are we going to act upon our VOL. 31. NO.25 Anocdotal Literature BY W. G. A BEAUTIFUL FATHER. "Tell your mother you have been a very good boy today," said the teacher to two little scholars. "O" replied Tommy, "we haven't any mother." "Who takes care of you then," asked the teacher. "Father does. We've got a beautiful father; you ought to see him." "Who takes care of you, when he is at work?" "He takes all the care before he goes off in the morning, and after he comes back at night. He's a house-pointer, but there isn't any work this summer, so he's doing laboring. He have us a warm breakfast when he goes off, and we have bread and milk for dinner, and a good supper when he comes home. Then he tells us stories and plays on the fire, and cuts our beautiful things for us with his jacket." His children had no idea they were so poor, nor were they so with such a hero as this to fight their battles for them. He was a man of patience and submission to God's will. No wonder his children called him a beautiful father." Pat—"What is yer charge for a funeral notice in yer paper?" Editor—"Fifty cents per inch." Pat—"Ochem! an' me poor brother was six feet high!" * * Doctor—"The increasing deafness of your wife is merely an indication of advancing years, and you can tell her that." Husband—"Hunt! would you mind telling her that yourself doctor?" Dick—"I wonder why the English settlers came to name the town 'Bosson?'" Jack—"Probably because it began with B." "Dick—"What has that to do with it?" Jack—"Well, that's the beginning of 'Beans.'" A gentleman remarked: "A minister's boy ought to set a good example for other boys." When it comes to that, it goes without saying, that every boy, no matter in what station of life, should be so raised as to be a good example to others. Every boy should play fair, work hard, be prompt and obedient, and do his duty in boy fashion with a glad heart and a pleasant face. No more should be asked of one man's son than another. Every boy stands for himself, and must answer his name when called. Husband—'My dear, if you buy this elegant fur coat, how are we ever going to pay for it?' Wife—"Oh don't let us talk about two things at once! Let's talk about the coat." own responsibility and you might as well learn that and get use to it. Respectfully yours Sylvester H. Norwood. Baltimore, Md. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ENVOIDED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN 12. Rates of Subscription: 1 year ..... $1,50: 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. Reduced Rates to Calbs. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Cuford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Cell Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, AUGUSF 24. 1912 Deep down in the heart of every thinking man turks the belief that the election of Theodore Roosevelt is an absolute certainty. Trotter heads his third editorial in last week's issue as follows: "The truth shall make you free." What can it do for you? Fear you'll be an eternal slave. --- The power of public sentiment is almost immeasurable, but some people are so dense that their vision to see things as they are in very much dimmed. The Pioneer Press prefers the retail sale of whiskey in Martinburg, to the legally permitted houses of prostitution, driven from where white people live to that section called "African." What twaddle! The idea of Negroes blaming Roosevelt for disfranchising a thirty-six year disfranchised class of Negroes. The party he has left did that and it is too cowardly to undo it. If it can't use him, how can Roosevelt? What harm is there in treating a sinner as a sinner? The Boston Guardian is authority for the statement that John Mitchell, Jr., the brilliant, brainy and able editor of the Richmond Plains, will support Woodrow Wilson for President. We cannot vouch for either the truth or falsity of the Guardian's "sooop." Dr. H. D. Hatfield, Republican candidate for governor, was in the city Tuesday, circulating among old friends and making new ones. The Dr. is a good mixer, knows the political game, and can be depended upon to wage a convasion for the governorship which will be surprising to his opponent. Hampton Institute, Hampton Va., has our thanks for several very interesting booklets. Like everything else emanating from Hampton, they make fine reading, and portray in a most attractive manner the great work which is being done by the above named institution and its able corps of workers for the Neuros. One of the best tests of Negro common sense is the stand they take between Taft and Roosevelt. Neither was our choice, Champ Clark was—but since he was robbed of what he was entitled to, as was Roosevelt in Chicago, and Mr. Wilson rejoicece over his keeping Negroes out of Princeton since he has been its president, it then becomes the duty to select a choice, and in doing that, it will pay to take the one with the most backbone, and if that is to be the standard, who is he?—Roosevelt. When one sees the picture in the Boston Guardian of Mingo Saundors, naturally he prejudges that he is looking on the picture of a man. Not so! He is ignorant, unreasonable, and boisterous as was old Jeff. He was one of, if not, the craziest Taft advocate we saw while in Chicago. Had he denounced both we would and could have respected him, but to advocate Taft who had him discharged, shows no manhood on his part. But as we thought, and have been told by an ardent Taft toady advocate, Mingo was promised restatement by Mr. Taft or his sentiments. He has had time, why not do it? He has been given a deputy job. --- When an allegation relative to a new issue is made, and one stick of type by politicians opposes it, think a little; when two sticks follow, increase your thought; when four or more sticks follow reincrease the thought; when columns follow it, conclude there is something tangible in the allegation, but when a book appears against it, swear that the allegation aims at an evil and support it. Let the Progressive party represent the allegation. The credit for the uncovering of the rascality and collusion that has existed between the New York police and the gambler of that city is and fully deserves to be Distributed Attorney Whitman's. Although bullied at every tora, his life threatened and he roundly abused, the district attorney kept doggedly at his work and the results he has achieved fully juxtify him in the brave stand which he has taken. The great editor of the Boston Guardian, jumps on Corrothers with all fours and branda him as a selling out traitor. It is kettle calling pot black, for Trotter got money from Corrothers in Washington, knowing how he got it, and wanted the National Independent Political League to empower Corrothers to get more the same way for the League. He showed us and J. M. Waldron the money Corrothers had gotten and given him. Instead of writing his name Trotter we suggest it be written, Traitor. The B. & O. R. R. Co., all along its distinguished lines improvements have been made in remodeling passenger stations. Cumberland, Keyser, Piedmont, Graften and other places are models in modern improvements. Test it and see if Martinsburg's section does not give the B. & O. five times as much traffic as any of the places above named. Then why in the face of it, will the B. & O. retain this old funky passenger station, with not one convenience; the filthiest closet to be found on its lines—even decent passengers curse it and stand out in the coid. It's a filthy disease breeder: our health officers ought to be indicted if they know it, and refuse to close it or warn the public of its danger. We can't for our life conceive how Negroes can espouse the cause of Mr. Taft. If they can see no good in Mr. Roosevelt and certain it is, if they have tried to see it and can't in T. R. heaven knows there is none to be seen in "Billy Poesom." What about the Prohibition candidate? He's pretty fair, and Eugene Debbe, the Socialistic candidate, has demonstrated his fondness for justice to the Negro. As we see it: a school boy born of good horse sense parents could flail the life out of a Taft advocate in favor of Roosevelt. We could pulverize them. If Trotter paid for those telegrams sent to Jane Addams, Miss Garrison, Mr. Churchman and the Mass., delegation, it was, ten to one, democratic money, and we'll bet a flip and a bit against that "coat" we are right. He is, as was his father before him, a democrat, and he admitted in Washington that he only played within republican ranks for a purpose. One thing, however, plainly shows itself and that is: there are only about three Negroes in Boston who will sign with Trotter viz Morris and loafer beggar Johnson, who has a bad court record. I: does not seem to us that any one will commit an unpardonable sin by falling in line with men like Judge Ben Lindsay and women like Jane Addams. God Almighty has a hidden hand in things as they are going on and the turn will come at the right time and angle. Trust God, and do right, is the duty of all. Had every Negro seen Judge Lindsay and Jane Addams with that noble army of theire, men and women, arise enmusee and leave the auditorium of the Congress Hotel when some white Southerners began to abuse the Negroes, they could not help rejoicing. They were left to themselves and that broke up the meeting. Theodore Roosevelt treated the Negroes all right in Chicago. He recognized Negro manhood, just what we must do. Had he denounced that, we would have denounced him. Precisely what was done, we have been advocating in the Pioneer Press for the past twenty five years—stopping the horde of Negroes coming from the South as delegates, and force on the people candidates the voting majority don't want, then go back home and can't cast a vote to elect them. Along with that wise act, we contend that the fifty odd Southern men who are in Congress by the suppression of Negro votes be silenced too. A lot is being said about typhoid fever. It is, in getting it, we believe, very much like consumption, in that if the tissues are weak at birth and later on the systems become depleted, a violent cold will develop into consumption, however, were others sound, like colds would not leave such results. So, also, if the systems of persons are out of order and worked down typhoid fever is liable to take root; otherwise, otherwise. It may come through water and milk, but close observation is convincing the world that not only is typhoid fever caused by filth, but flies, the output of filth, do more to cause and spread the disease than all the other causes combined. If Mr. Carnegie or some other rich man would spend a hundred thousand dollars yearly for ten years, to put in every home fly papers, a rigid law made and enforced to use them, it would astound the world how free from disease it would be, providing fleas and mosquitoes were fought as hard, for the three are the world's disease breeders. The able editor of the Richmond Planet—John Mitchell, Jr., is a far seeing man. Had he been in Chicago and attended the convention, seen and heard all that went on, he would feel and see some things differently: however, as he sees the door of hope closed(?) against the Southern Negroes(?) it has already begun to have good effect in the South, in that Negroes are turning over to the democrats, and they are receiving them. Bro. Mitchell be logical, and if your prophecy be correct, be like the old woman to whom bread was thrown down a chimney in answer to her prayer, and later learning some tough boys did it, said: "God sent it any how, and I thank him for it" That Southern Negro delegates have been purchasable, could honest John Sherman testify, our assertions would be backed up in heaven. In June last, dozens of Negro delegates(?) had been bought and they were walked with and watched over by Southern whites—a shameful disgrace. If they had not been bought why were they watched? The very fact that Banks gave back $800 00 of the Taft funds, is proof enough that others had it too. They are guilty—the buyers and the sellers and the day of elimination is at hand. Rev. J. A. Brown, of Washington, preached two very interesting and instructive sermons at Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church during the recent anniversary exercises held in said edifice. He is a gentleman of pleasing appearance, impresses you as being an earnest worker, and is able to get and keep the attention of his hearers. We, like many other Martinsburgers, will always welcome Rev. Brown to our city, his first visit having been manually enjoyable. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has closed a contract with the Royd-house-Arey Company, of Philadelphia, for remodeling the passenger station at Piedmont, W. Va. The present station is a very substantial structure and it is proposed to rearrange it so as to add materially to the comfort and convenience of passengers. 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Va., as Beacon Class Matter Messrs. Lucas, two well known young men of Kearneysville, were visitors to Martinsburg one day this week. Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition, Phone 287K, P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Mr. Julian L. Carter, one of the best known members of Dudley Baptist Church, and a popular waiter at Hotel Berkeley, has been considerably indisposed during the past week, but he is somewhat better at this time. Captain George A. MacDonald, the popular Baltimore and Ohio R. R. passenger conductor, has been doing extra work during the week owing to the absence from town of Conductor Zepp. Mrs. Docia McClain, of New York, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Spears, at the latter's home on West Burke Street. In addition to her relatives, Mrs. McClain has a number of friends here who are glad to see her. Mrs. Charles Folks is visiting her mother at the latter's home in Front Royal, Virginia, where it is hoped she may enjoy herself. In the meantime, her husband is doing the best he can and it is said his cooking is quite passable. Mesdames. Christena Smith and Georgiana Sampson have been improving their properties, and as a result of their activity along the line above stated, the value of the real estate owned by these two ladies has been increased. The Baptist Association will convene at Kearneysville on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday of next week. A large crowd is expected to be in attendance, and we are assured that all who attend will enjoy themselves from both a religious and social standpoint. Rev. Charles S. Briggs, pastor of the Lynchburg M. E. Church, and one of the well known young members of the Washington Conference, was a pleasant caller at the Press office recently. He was on his annual vacation, and many friends from Cumberland to Baltimore were glad to see them, Misses. Helen and Mary Clifford came up from Washington to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Clifford, on Sunday. The latter went back to the National Capitol, but the former went on to Mechanicsburg, Pa., where she will spend sometime as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Clifford. Misses. Mary E. Fletcher and Blydie Wilkerson, of Washington, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Fletcher. They are both pleasant young ladies, and after a short stay at her home in Washington, Miss Fletcher will go to Atlantic City, where she teaches in one of the schools of that city. Misses, Emma A., Elizabeth R. and Belle C. Wolff, daughters of Mrs. Samuel Wolff, of Chambersburg, Pa., and cousins of Mesdames. John F. Carter and John Wilson, of this city, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs John F. Carter, of West Burke Street for the past week. During their presence in our city the young ladies were the objects of much social attention, Mr. and Mrs. Carter tendering them a reception at their home on Monday night, and on Tuesday night the Young Men's Social Club gave a private dance in their honor at Spears' Hall. They were very pleasant girls, and when the time for their departure came, regret was general that they had to go. PRAISES DOCTOR H. D. HATFIELD His Sterling Character and Citizenship Are Justly Extolled SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL MACHOD A Glowing Tribute to a Manly Man By Ex-Governor Wm. A. Mas- Mr. President, and Gentleman of the Senate: In this wonderful country of our there is one thing which surely bokens the eternity of our institutions. That is, sir, amidst the strenuosity of our political life we can touch one another in that personal contact which brings men together along the lines of high personality, splendid character and kindness of feeling one to the other. This characteristic of our government is the one great predominant feature of American life. This marks the difference between the democracies, the old free governments of Rome, Athens and Italy, and the republican government of our country. This characteristic which allows us, amidst the conflict of political life, amidst the absolute contrariety of opinion, to see in our opponents high character, pure patriotism and kindly personal traits is the great feature which will preserve this republican government as the chiefest and best heritage which has ever fallen to man. It is pleasant, sir, to understand that amidst the marvels and wonders of earth and mountain, grander and more splendid than our wealth of valley, higher and better than all of the wealth which flows from the bosom of our state, there is something superior to all, and that is, the high and splendid character of our citizenship. I repeat, sir, it is absolutely essential to the preservation of republican institutions. The great governments of other days have looked too often to the concrete idea of great wealth and the magnificence of material power. The American government is founded upon the one supreme ideal, the character of its manhood. It is a great, a splendid manhood. It is a more essential element in the preservation of free government than all the wealth of Golconda, all the oil which flows from the bosom of our rich state, and all the diamonds which glisten on the African mountains or Brazilian valleys. Other governments have founded their life upon the elements of material wealth. The hope and life of the American government is upon the splendor of its individual manhood. It gives me pleasure, sir, democrat as I am, to speak these words to you, the leader of the opposition in this senate. These words come not from the lips, and I believe that representing my party associates on this hour, they come from our hearts. If you will allow me a little touch of the personal element, I wish to say that being chosen by my associated to address you to-day brings more than ordinary pleasure to me. I was your father's friend for a quarter of a century, and in the olden days when I rode the circuit he called me "Mac" and I called him "Elias," and if to-day my old friend was here and could witness this testimonial to the courage and character, the splendid manhood of his son, the tears of pride would course down his cheeks, and his old heart would throb with conscious pride that his son has arisen to the position where the words of encomium of his fellow members in the highest legislative body of his state could be so truthfully spoken. Surely, were he here he would be touched with the Rewards Man Who Rescued Children. By his keen foresight in stopping a team of frightened horses in Philadelphia recently Shedwick Waters, Jr. of Paschall, Pa., saved the lives of more than half a dozen children. As a token of gratitude for his services Mr. Waters was awarded the sum of $5 and a vote of thanks by those interested in the welfare of the children. Larger Benefits For Sons of Virginia. The board of directors of the Society of the Sons of Virginia has recommended an increase in the benefits due financial members when ill and claimed due to the heirs of deceased financial members. The recommendation of the board will be voted upon by the society at the first meeting in September. fact that amidst the contrarieties of political life, his son has arisen to the high position where his character can be honored alike by democrats and republicans. Sir, there is one thing that all of us love—a man of character. He is supreme in our life, and when I think of it my mind goes back to the days of old Rome, and I am reminded that when the Romans came to Cornelia and said, "Oh, Cornelia, give us your jewels." Holding her sons out in front of her she said, "These, oh, Romans, are my jewels." And so here, to-day, we of West Virginia, present to the world the highest and best product of our institutions—a manly man. We on this side, and, I believe, those on the other side, can say that above the temptations of political design, above the strenuous feelings evoked by this most exciting session, that in the high position you occupy, the second highest position in the gift of the state, that you have been fair, honest, capable and courteous, and if there is any one in this senate who can complain of any unfair treatment or ruling or discourteous act which you have committed in these days in which you have presided over this senate, I have never heard a reference to it. I do not believe that any one feels that you have been otherwise than the mainly man, the dignified presiding officer and the courteous gentleman in everything which you have done and said in this session. I do not know, in any somewhat long experience in these matters, where a presiding officer has had a more trying experience than have you in this session. A senate evenly divided, differing in thought and opinion, naturally on the one side, expecting things which they should not have and on the other side participating action which, submitted to cold, calm reason, could not be permitted. I know of no one better than yourself who could have fulfilled the duties of honestly and fairly presiding between these evenly balanced powers. And now, Mr. President, as a token of the high regard in which you are held by the members of this senate, republican and democratic, I am asked by them to present to you this silver salver, and, if you will allow me to say, sir, it is a very beautiful one. It is composed of solid silver. From the very beginning of time, when men loved each other, the highest testimonial they could give of their love and affection was solid silver and gold, which was emblematic of the purity of spirit of those who gave and typical of honesty of the one to whom it was given. Allow me to present to you this beautiful salver as a token of this esteem, and with it the heartfelt hope that it will always be filled with the good things of this life, and that you will send it down to your children's children as a testimonial of how men regarded their father who presided over the senate of West Virginia in the year of nineteen hundred and eleven. I present it, sir, not with the ordinary formalities and lip service, but with the heartfelt kindness and the universal respect of the twenty-nine men who esteem and honor you, and who wish you that happiness and success which your character, your ability and your kindness of heart and your courtesy so highly deserve. IN WOMEN'S CLUB CIRCLES. National Body to Meet in Hampton Progresse in New York. For several years the months of July and August have been noted for the great gatherings of women's clubs, edu- cational associations and business organizations. This year will be no exception to the general custom. The New York State Federation of Women's Clubs held its fifth annual meeting at St. Mark's M. H. church, In New York city, July 2 to 8, in- clusive. The meeting was largely atten- ted by delegates and visitors from all over the state. There were also many visitors from Connecticut, Rhode Is- land and New Jersey. The reports showed that the clubs in the main were in a prosperous condition. The report of the state organizer, Mrs. M. C. Lawton of Brooklyn, showed that she had organized or brought into the federation eight Negro clubs, besides others which were brought in by the various workers in other sections of the state, since the last annual meeting. The biennial meeting of the National Association of Women's Clubs will be held in Hampton, Va., beginning on Monday, July 22. This is the largest body of colored women in the United States. The sessions will be presided over by Miss E. C. Carter of New Bedford, Mass. The annual meeting of the North-eastern Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. C. S. Gunner president, was held in Jersey City, N. J., for three days beginning on Wednesday, July 17. Delegates were present in large numbers from all the New England states. The reports showed an increase in the membership of the clubs generally. The organization as a whole is in splendid financial condition and gives largely to educational and charitable work. Blood Was Wrong All women, who suffer from the aches and pains, due to female ailments, are urged to try Cardui, the reliable, scientific, tonic remedy, for women. Cardui acts promptly, yet gently, and without bad effects, on the womanly system, relieving pain, building up strength, regulating the system, and toning up the nerves. During the past half century, thousands of ladies have written to tell of the quick curative results they obtained, from the use of this well-known medicine. TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Mrs. Jane Callehan suffered from womanly trouble for nearly ten years. In a letter from Whiteville, N. C., she says: "I was not able to do my own housework. My stomach was weak, and my blood was wrong. I had backache, and was very weak. I tried several doctors, but they did me no good. I used Cardui for 3 or 4 months, and now I am in the best health I have ever been. I can never praise Cardui enough." It is the best tonic, for women. Whether seriously sick, or simply weak, try Cardui. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent free. 1-80 Baptist Association to Meet Aug. 27. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Mount Bethel Baptist association will be held with the Cosmopolitan Baptist church in Washington, beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 27, instead of a week earlier, as previously announced. President Taft has consented to deliver an address at the mass meeting to be held on Wednesday evening, Aug. 28. Rev. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of the church, and the local committee are completing arrangements for the entertainment of delegates and visitors, who are expected in large numbers. MOGRAPHY OF EVINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia No simple outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Publisher Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D.C., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see P. E. V. JORDAN, GEN. AGENT W. V. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING CHARLESTON W. VA. THE KEYSER, MOOREFIELD AND PETERSBURG. STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. 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Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c. is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good no new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and the only man in town who repairs Racycles. WILSON STANDS ON HIS RECORD SLANDER WON'T WIN NOW. Chairman of Democratic Publicity Bureau Points Out Errors of Campaigns of Previous Years and Finds a Good Moral—Roosevelt Also Wrote Books and Made Bitter Attacks on Various Men and Classes. New York.—Josephus Daniels, chairman of the publicity committee of the Democratic national committee, said today: "Eight years ago during the presidential campaign of 1904 I came to New York, and, being a member of the Democratic national committee, I dropped in at the headquarters of the committee. I found the literary bureau of the committee very actively engaged in perusing the volumes of Theodore Roosevelt. When I saw on every desk 'The Winning of the West,' 'The Life of Thomas H. Benton' and a half dozen others of the works of the then Republican nominee for president I wondered whether or not I had got into the right place. "I was immediately set alright, however, when I was informed that the literary young men were engaged in culling from those books some of the many denunciations and bitter criticisms and attacks made by Theodore Roosevelt upon public men and measures and his aspersions upon great representative bodies of our people, such as workingmen and farmers. "I found them preparing to send forth broadcast all over the land such excerpts from the writing of Theodore Roosevelt as: "Cowboys are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers, nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath." "Mr. Bryan and his adherents have appealed to the busest set in the land—the farmers.' "They (workingmen who object to government by injunction) are not in sympathy with men of good minds and sound civic morality." Hits Quakers Too. "They quoted from what he said about the Quakers, that those who would not fight were traitors to their country. "They said that when the farmers and workmen and the Quakers came to know what Theodore Roosevelt had written about them they would rise up with wrath and indignation and bury Theodore Roosevelt beneath an avalanche of votes. They said that Roosevelt would not answer that exposure of his views, and, of course, he never did. I agreed with them that it was the proper thing to do to herald these utterances through the country. "As to whether or not that sort of campaigning bad any effect the result of the campaign eight years ago speaks for itself. "The Republican party is attempting to do today the same sort of thing that the Democrats tried in 1908. The Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr. Rodenberg. They were eight years ahead of him in this sort of thing. It didn't work with us then, and it will not work with them now. Stands on His Record. "The attempt to attack Governor Wilson because of certain statements which he made in writing history and in commenting upon events of history as they appeared to him as historian will fail signally. As one great metropolitan newspaper polled out, Mr. Rodenberg and his kind are simply 'Blowing against the wind.' Governor Wilson is running for president on his record as a public man, and with that record the public is fairly well conversant, and it will continue to learn more as the campaign progresses. "He is running for president on his record his governor of New Jersey—what he said and did in that capacity rather than what he wrote as a historian, chronicling events and commenting upon them as they appeared to an impartial observer whose duty it is to write of things as they are rather than as they should be or as he would have them. "Our Republican brethren are entitled to all the thunder they can make out of Governor Wilson's writings. I hope they will read them carefully and thoroughly. They will be able to gain a great deal of valuable information, and when the context is read along with the excerpts which have been taken from his works for the purpose of placing him in a false light I have no fear as to the results. All that is needed is a thorough understanding. "Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible truths and to assail Holy Writ by the same methods which the Republicans are seeking to assail Governor Wilson." ROLLA WELLS IS EARLY ON THE JOB Democratic National Treasurer Is After Small Contributor. THE PEOPLE TO HELP. There is to Be No "Tainted Money" Used in Electing Wilson and Marshall. New York.-A small, smooth snaked, middle aged team with a coat of tan that gave evidence of much outdoor life recently came into the Waldorf carrying a salt case early in the afternoon and registered as "Rolla Wells, St. Louis, Mo." The smooth shaved little man, who is to be the watchdog of the Wilson campaign money from now on, was asked for vital statistics, whereupon it was learned at first hand that he is a banker and ex-mayor of St. Louis, is fifty six years old, was graduated at Princeton in 1876, or three years before Governor Wilson was graduated; that he has two sons who are Princeton men and a grandson who some day will be a Princeton man; that he had no notion of seeing New York this summer until the Wilson organization selected him as its treasurer and that just at present the one thing that sticks out in the appointment in his mind is that the new job cut in seriously upon a most beautiful vacation which he and Mrs. Wells had been enjoying in a camp at Little Traverse bay, Michigan. Mr. Wells believes in getting at his desk at 8 o'clock in the morning. "We are going to raise our campaign fund through the small contributions," said Mr. Wells. "I am sure that a large part of the money will be raised by popular subscription. "The people have confidence in Woodrow Wilson, and they will give what they can of their means to elect such a man president. "I am a great believer in publishing broadcast, before and after election, the various contributions made. "There are men who can well afford to give the committee $5,000, but I want to assure the public that we are not going to have any tainted money." "We are appealing to the people, and we are relying on them to help elect Wilson and Marshall. "I have two boys who have been graduated from Princeton, one five years ago and one seven. But it is not because ours is a Princeton family that I like Governor Wilson. He is a great big man and the type that we should have in public life." LABOR AND THE RULE OF RIGHT. The working people of America—if they must be distinguished from the minority that constitutes the rest of it—are, of course, the backbone of the nation. No law that safeguards their life, that improves the physical and moral conditions under which they live, that makes their hours of labor rational and tolerable, that gives them freedom to act in their own interest and that protects them where they cannot protect themselves can properly be regarded as class legislation or as anything but as a measure taken in the Interest of the whole people, whose partnership in right action we are trying to establish and make real and practical. It is in this spirit that we shall act if we are genuine spokesmen of the whole country.—From Woodrow Wilson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination. \(x=\frac{1}{2}x^{2}+2x+1-x^{2}\) J. R. CLIFFORD ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of V Vo., the Supreme Court of Appeal and the United States Courts. 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SINGLE WHEELS, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the regular retail prices. $ 100 Hedgehorn Puncture-Proof $ 80 BICYCLE F Orders filled to COASTER-BR a number on the ranging from $3 to $6 or COASTER-BR $10.00 The rea WO WILL BE ASSTONISHED if you receive our beautiful catalogue from us and can do you this year. We sell the highest prices bicycles for BICYCLE DEALS. You can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have our hand taken to code by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $50 to $100 per bicycle. Our prices listed make tree. Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRUDE ONLY The regular small price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but hand-made ones will sell you a sample pair for $5.00 each outside $5.50. 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Notice the thick rubber wog "A" and puncture strip "B" stating that letters from satisfied customers or twice in a whole may only be bumped up once or twice on a whole tire. The puncture strip is an ordinary tire. The puncture strip listing conditions given by several layers of thin, usually prefabricated on a road. The regular price of these tires is £10.00 per pair. The existing purposes we are making a special factory price of only £8.90 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship it to C.O.D. You do not pay a coupon until you have examined and found them strictly as required. day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on a paid. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them safely as requested. You can pay cash discount of over cost thru mailing the price $2.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and expense if for any other purpose. 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