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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The As To The Big "Nigger" As To The Big "Nigger" Perhaps there is no more trying case presented to the colored people than the so-called Negro leader who, while forever and eternally prating about his race, everlastingly belaboring the people with advice, is the last son of a gun to practice what he preaches. As a rule he is a monumental felsifier when it comes to giving excuses for failure to patronize his own people. If the colored grocer had to rely on the big "nigger" (we say nigger, for that's what they are) to operate, it would fail while in the act of opening. If the other business or professional efforts started by members of the race had to look to this class for support they would likewise fail. A case in point in this city is made clear by one Prof. Bundy, who delivered an address here sometime ago before a Negro audience in a Negro church—the only place in the city where he could find anybody who cared to listen to the flow of his eloquent wisdom. His "advice" was cheered again; and then some. After he was through listening to the praise of the poor people whom he had graciously favored with his "advice," he conceived the idea, either from within or without, that the world should read about his mighty thoughts, and accordingly, he proceeded to locate a print shop to preserve his art. Did he come to the Daily Metropolitan or the Dallas Express, print shops owned by the people whom he had just been "advising"—the only shops here which will employ the students he is making such heroic efforts to graduate? Certainly not. Instead, he did not even go there for a bid, but went immediately to a shop which would not only not employ his students, but would refuse him without apology for so doing. This fellow teaches colored children. Most Negro teachers we know are like him. We have numerous other creatures here just like Bundy, who should be advised that the leaders of a race who are worth following should practice what they preach. These anti Negro Negroes should be given a lesson. They should imitate the best of the white race, not the worst. The best white people are loyal to their own institutions. They at least do not leave their own institutions; the hope of their children, to patronize the institutions of those who, on grounds of race prejudice, would refuse them a square deal. The Dallas Express does not call attention to the ignorant and stupid conduct of these creatures out of any ill-feeling, but does so with the hope that the people whom they are eternally "advising" may rise up and tell them something—Dallas, (Texas.) Express. DO RIGHT, AND TRUST YOUR AFFAIRS IN GOD'S HANDS. Young men often become discouraged. To chide them is silly. To some extent this is a discouraging world. One of the grandest and bravest men who ever lived, ran away from an angry woman, lay down under a Juniper tree and asked Department of Archives, Ch and W. Va. WE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W God to kill him. Once I was in a hotel and in an adjoining room were two men. One of them was a college professor; he said this was a bum world, that goodness and faithfulness were not rewarded, that we talked roses and lived in a pig pen. He was soured. Facts sometimes bear out his statements. Kissing goes by favor. We see the inferior man advanced over the head of the superior man. We see the brilliant and dissipated young man riding in an automobile and the honest and faithful young man shoot. Facts seem to overturn our theories; time alone solves many problems just as eternity alone can solve some. The silence of God is ominous and awe inspiring. There is infinite strength and power in infinite silence. All the men on earth and all the angels in heaven cannot ewerve law aside. Law is sometimes slow in its movement, but deadly in its accuracy and certainty. The broad shouldered young man seldom thinks of death, but the seeds of death are in his body. The months fly by and the years roll on and he is feeble and decrepit and trembling on the verge of the grave. Time rolls on and the brilliant and dissipated young man enters a regim of clouds, and the faithful young man comes out serene and smiling in the end. The young man needs to have a profound faith in God as a Father. This is deeper than more creed or dogma. The essential elements of religion are the same in all men. The desire to know that the Infinite power is a Father is the basis of all religions, pegan as well as Christions. God who guides the swirling cyclone with the tip of His finger, who holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand as a dewdrop in the vase of a lily and says to the fathomless deep. "Thus far shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," who presides over the blazing orbs circling in limitless space, also enters into the minutice of our lives. God is our Father, and our Father knows and cares.—W. A. Brewer. Hotel Accommodations in Baltimore. With the formal opening of Smith's hotel on Druid Hill avenue, Baltimore, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, the colored people of Baltimore will have access to one of the finest and best equipped hotels owned by a member of the race in the United States. The building is a three story brick edifice 47 by 90 feet and is a credit to the skill and industry of its propriators, Messrs. Thomas R. and Wallace L. Smith. The rathskeller, grill room and bar are on the first floor. The second and third floors are devoted to bedrooms, special suits and drawing rooms. Good Work of Brooklyn Mothers' Club Good Work of Brooklyn Mother's Club. The Brooklyn Mothers' club will direct its attention during the month of October to the task of raising funds to be used in connection with the proposed erection of a home for dislunquent youths. In order to give the general public the opportunity of assisting in this worthy cause the club will give a musical and literary entertainment at the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Chirstian association on Thursday evening, Oct. 31. The Agronomy Department of the College of Agriculture, Morgantown, W. Va., has recently purchased a bean thresher to be used in thrashing the different varieties of soy beans and cowpeas on the Station farm. This thresher has a wheat and oat attachment. Pioneer Press. A New Bean Thrasher AFRICAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIANS Evidence That They Are of the Hamific Line. VIEWS OF DR VON LUSCHAN Migration and Colonization Chiof Among Many Causes Given Por Amalgamation of Primitive Races Anthropology of African and Pacific Islanders Pointed Out. By JOHN B. BRUCH (GRIT). A great many modern writers and not a few who wrote in an earlier period are disposed to discredit the African origin of the Egyptians, although their color, customs and other physical characteristics clearly indicate that if any race of people on earth came out of the lotus of Ham these did. Nothing seems to be more certain to those who have studied the question closely. Dr. Felix von Luschan, professor of anthropology in the University of Berlin, in an admirable paper before the first universal races congress, which met in London in 1011, approaches the subject with more candor and honesty than usually characterize the writings or the utterances of white men who have investigated this subject. While we know or have been told that all the Egyptians are not white or brown or of any of the intermediate colors between white and black, we also know from those who have traveled in that country that the majority of its inhabitants are black and possess all the physical characteristics of the African. Cause of Distinct Color Variation The color of the Egyptian results therefore, from the admixture of the blood of neighboring races with the African blood of these indigenous blacks. Professor von Luschan says: "While the first varieties of primitive man were certainly formed and fixed by long isolation, later variations and races were caused by migration and colonization, as might perhaps be shown by sketching the anthropology of Africa and the Pacific islands. Just as Madagascar was peopled about 900 or 1000 A. D. by Indonesian colonists coming from Sumatra, so untold ages ago the first inhabitants of Africa came from a place somewhere in southern Asia on the great line from Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or skeletons of these earliest Africans are yet known, but we may hope to find them sooner or later, as we already now know a good many sites of paleolithic implements in various parts of tropical and southern Africa. The anatomical qualities of these first Africans will certainly be found to differ from those of aboriginal Australians, but in tens of hundreds of thousands of years the paleolithic African evolved into a real Negro. He exists in two varieties—a tall variety like the modern Nigritian from the coast of upper Guinea and a small one like the bushmen and the pygmies, now known in so many places in central Africa. Third Race Makea Its Appearance. Third Race Makes Its Appearance. But I have already stated that we are as yet quite ignorant of the real home of these small races. To these two oldest elements in Africa was added ages afterward, but still in prehistoric times, a third one, the Hamitic. It is descended from the same ancient Gibraltar-Australia line, but was in a higher stage of civilization. These Hamites had already a greatly refined language, with an admirable grammar closely related to that of the Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages. In Egypt they created more than 6,000 years ago the marvelous civilization we now admire as the mother of our own. Ancient Hamitic influences can be traced all through Africa. In Abysinia, in Galla, Somalia, and in Mausailand we find even now Hamitic languages or at least Hamitic grammars and Hamitic types. In central Africa, in the region of the great lakes, we have the Hima and Tush, generally as chiefs reigning over Bantu tribes, often with face and figure like those of the old pharaohs of Egypt. Physical Features of Hamitic Type. Even in South Africa nearly 1 percent of the actual Bantu population have high and narrow noses, thin lips and fine large orthognathic skulls of the Hamitic type, and all the Hotentot languages and dialects have a pure Hamitic grammar. Also the pastoral habits of many African tribes, their long borneal cattle, spiral basket work, etc., are Hamitic, and all can thus trace Hamitic influence from the Nile to the Cape of Good Hope. Still there are some Negroos and many, many white people in this country who profess to believe with a sort of pitying contempt that the African is an unredeemable burbarian. Rev. E. D. L. Thompson of Sierra Leone, West Africa, in his address before the Negro Society For Historical Research of Youkers, N. Y., on the subject "Race Consciousness Race Ideal," said, among other things: "As the preponderance of the inhabitants of Egypt today are of unmixed African blood, we may I think reasonably conclude that these people are of African origin. Otherwise how are we to account for their black faces, crisp hair and other typical Negro physical characteristics?" A TALK WITH YOUNG MEN. Letters come to us constantly from young men and women who are dissatisfied with their work. If a young person is not engaged in congenial work, and has special gift for certain work, it is well if possible, to make a change. Without due consideration you have classed a great mass of things as "not wanted," but as a rule, you can find the work you want in this mass. One great disadvantage, and it causes us to dislike our work, is that it is not well planned before it is commenced. Random beginning is as bad as random proceeding; we attain nothing unless we put forth effort, anything of value rarely comes to us in the path of chance. Concentrated thought and devotion to the work will hit somewhere; achievement lies in the way of thinking and doing; opportunities will come to those who can grasp them. We must think and we must act; action is the object of thought; we must do more than plan and idealize; we must work and we must achieve. One of our young men wrote:—"I wish I could take a course in reading." "I wish" will never save the day; the thing to do is to take the course in reading. Nothing good proceeds of itself; enterprises must be followed by thought as well as work. Successful people do not trust to luck, but they think and reflect in order to begin their work and in order to complete it. If we do not start by thought we start by nothing. Our young people must ever be alert; our opportunities lie in small crevices which careless eyes do not see. He lives most who thinks most; thinking is the first step to usefulness and an element of manliness and of womanliness. It is idle for our young people to indulge this spirit of dissatisfaction; it is a great hindrance to progress and contentment. The past is not ours to correct, the future is only a hope, but the present, the sweet now and now is ours; let us accept it as a rich gift and make the most of it. However contemptuous may be our opinion of our lot in life, who of us would be willing to exchange for the lot of another? VOL. 31. NO.31 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. A SIAMESE CUSTOM. When an inferior comes into the presence of a superior, he throws himself upon the ground. Then the superior sends one of his attendants to see whether the prostrate man has been eating anything or has any offensive odor about him. If he be blameless in this respect the attendant raises him from the ground, but if he is guilty the attendant straightway kicks him out. STRAIGHT TALK. Beveridge said in Chicago of a corrupt boss: "A millionaire,—virtuone,—oh so virtuone, once went to the boss and said: "I want to get in the Senate, will you sell me your support?" "No, Sir!" the boss answered, striking himself upon the chest. "No, Sir! I'm a freedom American citizen, and I'll sell my support to no man." "But," said the millionaire, blandly, as he drew his check book, and fountain pen,—"but, if you won't sell me your support, perhaps you'll rent it to me for the term of this campaign." "Now you're talkin'" said the boss in a modified and enaive manner and tone. CHAFF. A doctor in Indiana says that the washtub, the ironing table and the woodsaw are great aids to beauty. But the wise women of this wise nation are not to be caught with such transparent chaff as that. Pen palsy soon must leave us wrecks. Each for an inkstand reaches. And those who are not writing checks. Are busy writing speeches. BEST QUALIFIED. One year when the youngsters of a certain Illinois village met for the purpose of electing a captain of their base ball team for the coming season, it appeared that there were a number of candidates for the post which ousted more than usual wrangling. Youngster after youngster presented his qualifications for the post, and the matter was still undeclared, when the son of the owner of the ball-field stood up. He was a small boy, snub-nosed, with a plentiful supply of freckles; but he glanced about him with a dignified air of controlling the situation. "I'm going to be captain this year," be announced convincingly, "or else father's old bull is going to be turned into the field." He was elected unanimously. Singleton,—"Well, now that you are married, "I suppose your wife expects you to live up to your ideals?" Darlington; (sadly)—No, to her ideals. The longer we live the more we become convinced that no certain work or place or position will be the contentment we are constantly looking for. Let us improve and make better our lives and environments at every point possible, and then let us remember that our work and general surroundings are all about as pleasant as another. Word and Works. The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K. Mar- insburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCT. 5.h., 1912. We take no stock in any thing bordering on jimcrowism. Don't like, and don't see how any one can, the jimcrow side issues in this campaign. Why should some old defunct Negro whose place is justly in the penitentiary, assume and fool credulous whites as to the influence he has to corral the Negro electorate? Really the respectable Negroes ignore that class. This class of Negroes are cunning, crafty and conscienceless, and do no good to anyone except their flabby pocket books—if they have any. We are sorry to say so, but it is true, and the truth will bear being told. The Negro race, as a whole, is false to itself, hence, how can it be true to others? Take Banks of Mississippi, who had gotten $800,00 of the Taft campaign money, and returned it back to them, with an understanding that he could control the whole Mississippi Negro delegation, and we were told got $1,600 or $800,00 in lieu of returned money, and $800,00 services promised, but when the test came, he went back on Roosevelt, and could not, or did not give him one of the Mississippi Negro delegates, and then had the impudence to come back to Roosevelt's August meeting, and he was one and the only one, except the five Florida Negro delegates refused admission, if our memory serves us correctly and what was told us. We have always contended and still do, that if gratitude has a beginning, it should be by the one to the man who helped and gave him his start in life. To illustrate: Foraker for making Taft judge, or Roosevelt for making W. H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of Mass. But both of those helpers can say: Et in Brute. Consistency truly is a jewel, and on this line of argument how can,—granting for argument's sake Negroes fome and fuss against Mr. Roosevelt for not taking some certain Southern Negroes in, when Mr. Taft turned all out of office, and said he did so to please the South in substance, that he would not appoint Negroes where Southern whites didn't want them, and told them to boot, that they should behave themselves in the South, where their best friends lived and by whom their destiny must be settled; then going further, he declared that the Negro race is a distinct one and should be so treated. If Roosevelt did what is charged to him—which is a lie—he has only in part followed Mr. Taft's doing. That this is a big country and has some real—not too many—big men and women in it, is absolutely true; but the regret comes in, that these big folk are kept constantly busy trying to control the rotten little ones, whose educational climax for good is this and no more; "do every one who can't do you." Rome and other countries got that far on: destruction was sin's reward. History extols the noble deeds of the real men and women of that age, but consumes more time to forewarn the degredation of the rabble of ruination then in the majority; and on this basis God pity Americans, and may his ebony-hued son ask His patience to endure and that his goodness will once more revert to Africa the country that produced the Pyramids, the Sphinx and other wonders this age is searching for; as incoming ages will this, and stand aghast that it would die—for death means sin—for bad the human family pleased God 1960 years would have been our present day longevity. Whose business is it if I see fit to give a friend a million dollars to help him or his cause along? The only reason why it is being done is for the purpose of deceiving the poor unreadable electorate, when, in truth, the ring leaders of the expose, are spending more money—maybe twice as much as the Progressives are. Why not fight the devil with his own fire and win? Don't you know they and the Democrates have the abrewdest Negroes in this country trying to corrall Negro voters, and that they are doing it? That and that alone accounts for so many Negroes newspapers bleating for Taft, who turned all the Negroes in office in the South out: who said in N. C., or advocated disfranchisement, and two days later condemned it in New Hampshire, who advised Southern Negroes to,—in substance—obey your former masters, who said, the Negro is a distinct being and should be so treated and educated, and segregation took root, who investigated the Brownsville episode, found the Negro soldiers guilty and did not only recommend their discharge, but said afterward—it is said—that the punishment was not severe enough; who warned a committee of colored men in Ohio as to their danger of supporting democracy because of the liability of democrats being appointed on the U. S. Supreme Court, and when he got in appointed three democrats. Did he open his mouth in condemnation of the Atlanta riot? Has he done anything to stop disfranchisement, jimorowing and other outrages perpetrated by the South? Not and no again! but has by silence encouraged them, and so help us God, if all the money in the United States Treasury was offered to the editor of the Pioneer Press to support Mr. Taft, he would not do it. LOGICAL FACTS. Well, the Southern brothers led by Henry Lincoln Johnson and Ben Davis did not succeed in carrying out the program mapped out for the B. M. C. By the way they talked, it looked as though the whole matter was settled prior to the sitting of that august body. There was just enough of common sense represented there to save this noble order from destruction. If their plans had carried, the order would have been so graft ridden that the rank and file would surely have revolted. Grand Master Morris is the right man in the right place, and it is hoped that he will remain there until the order has been brought back to her ancient moorings. Johnson used the name and seal of the order to help Taft secure the nomination, and then Harry Cummings capped the climax by going to the White House and pledging the entire order to Mr. Taft. I seriously question his ability to make this pledge good. I dispute with no man as to how he shall vote, nor for whom, but when he takes upon himself the authority to pledge a body of a hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand men, then he has gone beyond his depth and he will find himself unable to deliver the goods. We want leaders, brave leaders, wise leaders, leaders who will not use their people to further their own selfish schemes. We want men who will not truckle for dollars and cents. A half dozen DuBois and Cliffords will do more for the race than a ten acre field full of milk and water politicians who see nothing over their shirt collars but self interest. As we run let us not fail to read the signs of the times. The great upheaval is bound to come. Roosevelt may not win, but the movement started by the Progressive party for pure politics and fair dealing will gather strength. If the people are denied the right to rule something out of the usual order will certainly happen. The common people are doing a good deal of hard thinking, but are saying little, and under these conditions it is not within the power of any man to correctly predict just what is going to happen in November. We have squared our debt with the republican party, but has that party been true to us. Drs. Gaines and Lyons together with their associates can say what they please about the defeat of the disfranchisement schemes in this State, but this fact stares us in the face. Had the democrats voted solidly for it the Negroes of Maryland would have been put out of business in short order. There were thousands of democrats opposed to the movement and they voted against it. Without their help we could not have won. Here in my home county I know many democrats who openly opposed and voted against it. With the republican party in this state it was a fight for self preservation. It certainly has no votes to lose. Cut out even one half of the fifty thousand Negro voters and that will be the end. It was not the question of fair dealing toward the Negro, but love of power with the Negro as a governing factor left out. His party loyalty assuredly received no recognition from the present governor. We believe Col. Roosevelt is right. The platform upon which he stands has the true ring and we are willing to give it a trial. When the Southern Negro question was squarely presented to him many thought he would balk and shy at it, but he didn't do it. Bravely and courageously he met the issue and the world today knows his position. He demands honesty and probity in politics as well as in business. The man, whether he be white or black, who will sell his vote, ought to be prived of the franchise. Such an one is indeed a menace to the safety and perpetuity of the government. Col. Roosevelt clearly defined the conditions upon which the Negro will be welcomed into the Progressive party and every intelligent Negro in the land ought to applaud him. The Progressives are going to fight this battle on square and honest grounds, and the old crooked leaders of the Republican and Democratic party might just as well turn their faces toward the tell timber. Frostburg, Md. J. W Jackson. TO THE CITIZENS OF WEST VIRGINIA, GREETING: The highest purpose of all good American citizens ought to be the conservation of the liberties guaranteed by the organic law of our Republic. It is self evident that a nation can be no greater than the standard of its citizenship, and the greatest patriot of this day is he who labors to keep inviolate the constitutional guarantees of free speech, free press and lawful assemblage. The best citizen is he who raises his voice in behalf of the downtrodden and oppressed, and who endeavors through economic and political effort to develop a better manhood, a nobler womanhood and a happier childhood—the greatest assets of a great nation. It is a matter of extreme regret to all thinking and patriotic citizens that a most unhappy state of affairs exists in our beloved State, rising indeed to an actual and alarming state of warfare, growing out of the strike of the coal miners in the counties of Fayette and Kanawha. We believe that there is urgent need for action by our Legislature in the shape of just and well considered laws respecting the relations of employers and employees. The consideration of such legislation heretofore has been prevented by a powerful non-partisan lobby, which is the invisible government, and which has been able to defeat all such legislation. This non-partisan lobby has its sinister exercised power so effectually and so viciously that practically all community of interest between employer and employee has been destroyed. It is evident that there can never be industrial peace in West Virginia until there is industrial justice. The power to make laws must be shifted from this invisible, sinister government to the visible and rightful government ordained by the people. Therefore, we hereby issue this call for a State Convention of the Citizens of West Virginia, to meet in the Hall of the House of Delegates, in the State Capitol, at Charleston, at 10 o'clock in the morning of Thursday, October 10th, 1912, for the purpose of considering the subject of promoting peace and justice between labor and capital, employer and employee, and to discuss the following subjects, namely: (a) The Guard System. (b) The Rights and Duties of Labor Unions. (c) The right to peaceably assemble and discuss conditions of employment and the wage scale. (d) Workmen's liability and compensation acts. (e) The conferring of additional power upon the Governor to enforce the law, especially the power to remove officers who fail to do their duty. (f) The Initiative and Referendum, and also the Recall. (g) Woman and child labor. Representation in this convention shall include representatives from civic and commercial bodies, fraternal societies, farmers, granges and associations, churches and trade unions. We earnestly invite the co-operation of all patriotic citizens who have at heart the welfare of our State and the good of society generally. Signed, Wm. M. O. Dawson, O. J. Morrison. (Rev.) Father Thos. H. Collins, F. E. Smart, Thomas Cairns, Samuel B. Montgomery, O. K. Robinson. PREPARED FOR BUSINESS Success of Dr. H. M. Williams as Optioian and Student. Richmond, Va.—One of the most enterprising young men of this section, who is destined to take a high place in the affairs pertaining to the uplift of the race, is H. M. Williams, Jr., of this city, who is a graduate optician. Mr. Williams is the only colored optician in the city and stands high in the profession and by steady devotion to his work is succeeding in building up a lucrative practice. His patients consist of some of the most prominent colored citizens of the city, many of whom are students and teachers of the Virginia Union university, in this city. Dr. Williams ranks among the foremost in his profession and has given ample satisfaction to his patrons. He was born in Goldsboro, N. C., and was educated in the public school of his S. W. H. DR. H. M. WILLIAMS. native city. He later entered Biddle university, from which he graduated in 1909. While at Biddle he made a good record as a student and was prominent in Y. M. C. A. circles at the university. It was while at Biddle that Dr. Williams settled upon his life work, and, choosing optics as his profession, he entered the National Optical college at St. Louis, from which school he received the degree of O. G. He was among the brightest students of his class. He chose Richmond as his field of labor, and during his practice here he has succeeded in making many friends. He is well known in the business life of the city, and takes a keen interest in all movements having for their aim the moral and intellectual improvement of the race. Although well launched in a profession that is ennobling and offers wide opportunities for usefulness, Dr. Williams is taking a course in theology at the Virginia Union university. He believes in thorough preparation, and, while he has not fully decided to abandon his present profession, he has a decided leaning toward the ministry. On Tuesday last the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had one of the most disastrous freight wrecks a short distance west of the Cumberland Valley Railroad that has ever occurred in or around Martinsburg. ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. STATE TICKET. Governor, Dr. H. D. Hatfield, Secretary of State, Stuart F. Reed, Superintendent of Free Schools M. P. Shawkey. Auditor, John S. Darst. Commissioner of Agriculture, Howard E. Williams. Attorney General, A. A. Lilly. State Treasurer, E. L. Long. Congressman-at-Large, Howard Sutherland. Judges of Supreme Court, George W. Poffenbarger. Charles W. Lynch. Congress 1st. Dist—George A, Laughlin. A CHALLENGE. The editor of this paper challenges any Negro Taftite—office holders preferred,—meant for Johnson, Tyler, Napier et al; the audience to act the part of a jury, decide which has the better of the contest. And, be it understood that the defeated party is to pay rent of hall or church and all incidental expenses thereupon. Subject: Resolved, That, Theodore Roosevelt is a better man for the American Negro to support in the pending contest for Chief Executive than William Howard Taft, or any of the other candidates. J. R. Clifford, President of The National Independent Political League. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. Louise Triplett made a flying trip to Washington, D. C., on last Wednesday. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bustlers of bustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Mrs. Hannah Jefferson, of Winchester, was the house guest of her sister, Mrs. Sallie Hopewell, of this city, during the week. Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition. Phone 287K. P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Prof. Edward Walker, principal of the Hancock school, looked in on us the other day. He was en route to his work from his home in Frederick, and we were glad to see him. Mr. A. S. Hamilton, an employee in Pittsburg Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a boyhood friend of members of our force, visited his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Tucker, of this city during the week. Mr. Howard Blakey and Mrs. Louisa Childs, both of this city, were married in their new home on West Martin Street Thursday evening, Rev. George H. Carter, pastor of the bride and groom, tied the knot, and at the conclusion of the ceremony, the bridal party and guests repaired to the dining room, where they were greeted by a table loaded with good things; and that they enjoyed themselves goes without saying. NEWS FROM ELKINS, W. VA. The woods hereabouts are filled with spellbinders of every description, telling what they will do if we will entrust them with power. To tell you the truth, we know so well what some of them will do, we are not going to trust them any more, and as for the Democratic party, it has always been destructive to the best interests of the country and no Negro can vote with her unless he shuts both eyes on her record. Mr. R. J. Crawford, we are glad to say, is up and about again. Miss Annie Simpson is on the sick list. Luther Daniels left for South Carolina to embark on the matrimonial sea. Ambrose Spencer and Miss Mary Craney was married last Friday evening, Rev. N H. Fields officiating. Rev. N. H. Fields. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road LOW RATE—ONE WAY Colonist Fares TO MANY POINTS IN California, Colorado, Alberta, Arizona, Idaho, British Columbia, Mexico, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. TICKETS ON SALE DAILY FROM September 24th to October 9th, 1912, Inclusive. FULL INFORMATION AT TICKET OFFICES. 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 futrher particulars see D. E. V. JORDAN, GEN. AGENT W. VA. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON W. VA. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to May 26th, 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 15 Daily at 11.50 a m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling, Col- umbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.36 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 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate st stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 4 Daily at 4.19 a.m for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 10 Daily 6.26 a.m for Washington and Baltimore. No 8 Daily at 10.37 a.m for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Connects for Lexington Va., and Hagerstown except Sunday and Frederick. No. 40 9.41 a.m. for Washington and intermediate stations. No 2 Daily at 10.17 a.m for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 6 Daily at 2.38 p.m for Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 14 Daily at 8.09 p.m for Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 12 Daily Duquesne Limited" at 12.23 a.m. for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 19 Daily except Sunday at 11.55 a.m. for Frederick, Baltimore and all inter- mediate stations via tide line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Fre- rick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore, ma. K. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, 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 literal studies. 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Mrs. Harriet Johnson has been confined to her home this week as a result of an attack of rheumatism. MR. JAMES H. LEVY BEMEM (Published By Request.) Washington. D. C. Sept. 9th, '12, P. Rt. Em. Gr. Com. Jas H. Levy: Dear Sir and Brother;—It gives me great pleasure to say in this letter that the whole of the General Committee having in charge the recent Grand International Conclave of Knights Templar in Washington, D. C., voted unanimously yesterday. Sunday, Sept. 8th, 1912, to send you, in the name and on behalf of the four subordinate Commanderies and Mecca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Washington, D. D. C., their greetings and best wishes in the form of the sum of $25 00, which represents only in a small degree the very high esteem in which you are held by this Masonic jurisdiction. Sir Knights S. C. Burnett, W. W. Walker, C. D. Freeman, A. W. Sears, Geo. S Newman, Geo. M. Webster, L. C. Bailey, N. E. Weatherless, L. H. Wayne, and a host of others, being cognizant of your retirement to the mountains of West Virginia, for recuperation, called the attention of the committee to that fact', and immediately the whole committee without a dissenting voice voted to send you the above named sum to help in making you spend the time a little more pleasantly. We hope that it will reach you safely and assist in bringing about that speedy recovery on your part, for which this entire Masonic jurisdiction prays. With best wishes for your health and happiness and with the earnest hope that you will soon be returned to us in health, I am, Yours fraternally, N. E. Weatherless, Chairman for The Committee. AVERY COLLEGE REOPENS. Many Students Are Enrolled—Changes In the Faculty. The Avery College and Training school in Pittsburgh has reopened for the fall with a large enrollment of students. There are several changes in the faculty, but it is as strong and efficient as in other years. Mrs. Mae Johnson, an instructor of large experience, succeeds Miss Nelson. Miss Oiah Smith, a 1007 Avery graduate and a 1011 Tuskegee graduate, will succeed Miss Alexander. Miss Olivia Callis, a former teacher in the Baltimore city schools, succeeds Miss Randolph as the domestic science teacher. Mrs. Melissa Bryant Fenderson returns to Avery school as an instructor after an absence of seven years. John H. Esser, who has been in charge of the tailoring department for a number of years, has been succeeded by Mr. Justin Fest, a Frenchman. Mrs. Mary Robinson remains as matron, and the other members of the faculty are Mrs. Nana Lockwood, disciplinarian; Miss Minnie Curtis, training nurse, and Charles Bond, automobile instructor. The indications point to a large attendance at the school this year. Twelve states are represented among the dormitory students, and every room in the dormitory has been engaged. Cuba as Gateway to Panama Canal. There is room in Cuba for thousands of farmers from the United States if they would only seize the opportunity open to them now to get a foothold on the rich farm land, much of which lies idle the year round. The opening of the Panama canal will cause land values to advance, because Cuba is the gateway to the canal, and financiers are already planning a new boom for Cuban real estate. With the opening of the canal property valuation will surely advance. The Best Remedy For Lawlessness. When the people of the United States make a solid stand for law and order, mob violence and jimcrow misfit accommodations on railroads and other public conveyances will come to a speedy end. But in order to bring about such a change it must be borne in mind that we must give our political support to such men as are in favor of full manhood rights, civil and political, for all the people regardless of race or color. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. EAST BOUND. 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Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor Mr. George Shank. PRAISES DOCTOR H. D. HATFIELD SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL MANHOOD A Glowing Tribute to a Manly Man By Ex-Governor Wm. A. MacCorkle, Acting For His Senatorial Colleague. Mr. President, and Gentlemen 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 government 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 Colombia, 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 givs 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 associates 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 "Ellis," and if to-day my old friend was here and could witness this testimony 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 For clerical, 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. Price of business, Winchester-Ave., P. O. 609.—Both Phones. 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And so here, today, 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, thone on the other side, can say that above the temptations of political desire, 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 not 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 manly 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 my somewhat long experience in those 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 anticipating 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 democrat, 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 man 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 go highly deserve. Helping the New Students. With the largest Freshman class in the history of the University to deal with, the Young Men's Christian Association has been having a busy time. A committee met the new students as they came in, helped them with their baggage to the headquarters at the university, added them in finding rooms and board, coached them through the gauntlet of class officers, registrar, and treasurer, and generally played the big brother act to those who needed it. Many students, a larger number than usual, have written in to secure positions by which they may help to pay college expenses. Some are printers, stepgraphers, and draughtsmen, while others want positions as clerks, juritors, waiters, or anything whereby they may turn an honest penny to help meet the expenses of an education. The Employment Committee of the Association has been very successful in placing the applicants, and no one who is in correct search for something to do will fail to find it. A recent convas among the students revealed the fact that about half the students have done some work during the term, and that there are only about one-fifth who do not work during the summer vacation. The usual social events of the first week were enthusiastically successful. The Stag Reception was held in the Armory on Wednesday evening. Clerd and ginger cakes were the refreshments. The Joint Reception of the two associations was held on the campus, in the Circle, instead of indoors as formerly. The ground was lighted with Japanese lanterns, light refreshments were served, and the students were unanimously in pronouncing it the most successful ever held. 6½ Months for 35 Cents. FULLY COVERING Presidential Campaign THIRTY-FIVE CENTS Paye for the New York Tribune Twice-a-Week from NOW until after election (up to November 15.) This period will cover the entire Presidential Campaign and extend over the election several weeks. 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