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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. John Edward "Bruce-Grit." Editor Pioneer Press: For a number of years, among the most timely, the most logical, cane and instructive articles upon current topice—especially those pertaining to the Negro race that have attracted my attention while perusing the leading newspapers and other periodicals have borne the signature of "Bruce Grit." At times these contributions from the pen of this great writer were poetic, smooth and gentle in their flow; and like soothing zephyrs lulled the troubled mind into optimistic repose, inspiring hope and confidence in a coming glorious future for this peculiarly environed race. Then again, every pulse would vibrate and the blood heated to boiling point would go madly rushing through the veins, as contending with the enemy and in condemnation of some injustice, warding off some cowardly stroke; his invectives couched in superior rhetoric sparkled and glowed as if the pen that traced them were dipped in venom surcharged with blood and fire. "Bruce Grit's" biting sarcasm, keen repartee, witty rejoinders backed by thorough knowledge of his subject made him a match for the keenest, most learned and resourceful traducer. The political upheaval in North Carolina in '98 was to the American Negro the gloomiest of any period in his history since the days of slavery. Intoxication, riot, murder, pillaging, banishment and other inhuman persecutions broke out in sections of the country heretofore tranquil and friendly in the treatment of the black American citizen. The groans, prayers and petitions for sympathy of those persecuted Negroes of North Carolina fell upon deaf ears the country over. "It's a white man's country! A fight for white supremacy, a struggle to prevent Negro domination;" and with few exceptions every newspaper in the country sounded the same note. Tillman, Dixon, Graves invaded the North and West and with fiery eloquence fanned those sections into flame; and Negro intimidation and murder became rife in the very home of Lincoln. It was then John Bruce, T. Thomas Fortune, Wm. Monroe Trotter and John Mitchell stood out like great beacon lights before a much maligned and disheartened people. Not at that time editing a newspaper of his own, John Bruce waged war on the enemy through the columns of the leading periodicals and thereby preached to a greater number of people—the entire world heard him. One of his most telling blows was an article from his pen which appeared in the New York Sun in reply to a speech by Benjamin Tillman from the floor of the U. S. Senate in advocacy of annulment and disfranchisement. Like the great Nubian Giant this intrepid champion of freedom strode into the areas, silenced and vanquished this arch slanderer and traducer. Although for a number of years an admirer of the writings of John Bruce, and although I read his criticisms of my own story of the Wilmington riots in three newspapers it was just two years ago that the privilege of meeting and conversing with this brave race de- There is a woman's heart in this man of iron, who to tried friends is a friend indeed. Unlike most men of literary genius—condescending, bigoted, jealous of the aspirations and accomplishments of others. John Edward Bruce "Grit" is quick to discern the qualities dominant in an individual; and if those that are ennobling are striving for the mastery that individual will find in him a most unselfish champion and friend. There are men who perhaps are brighter shining literary lights than he who get their first boost in Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. BOOZE AND BUSINESS. BY W. G. We have thought sometime that the temperance question ought to settle itself, without the passing of stringent laws to banish the saloons. If proper precaution would be exercised in all lines of business in the help they employ, as well as set an example themselves, saloons could not exist, and the avenues to drinking resorts would be materially closed. No employer of men will engage a drunkard or a tippler if he can afford it, and he who persists in leaping up firewater is unfit and cannot accept and fill a position that requires management. Therefore the drinking person is fairly well eliminated from the ranks of employer and employed, for useful manhood is nearly impossible for those who indulge in liquors. When the subject is viewed by all men in this light there will be no place for the liquor business, except as a medicine. ☆ ★ BOTH THE SAME SEX. Mark Twain walking along a Hannibal Street, met a woman with her youthful family. "So this is a little girl, eh?" said Mark to her as she displayed her children. "And this sturdy little urchin in the bib belongs I suppose to the contrary sex?" said Mark. "Yassah," the woman replied, "Yassah dav'd's girl too." **** WHY DOG WAS NAMED FISH. "Fishing?" inquired a man. "Yes," answered the boy. "Nice dog you've got, what his name?" "Fish," answered the boy. "What do you call him that for?" "Cause he won't bite." THE SHIELD Miss Grace Strachan, president of a Teacher's Association in New York, was being congratulated on her successful fight for equal pay for women teachers. "It is odd," said she, smiling, "but the men who most public esteem through the unselfish and unstinted efforts of Bruce 'Grit' The base ingratitude so often displayed by the Negro towards those who labor in his cause has never dampened the ardor of John Bruce whose love for his race is ocean deep and whose faith in their future is as strong as Gibraltar. My friend is he who with me shares, Each weight of woe I bear; Each sigh, each heart throb—every wound, Each song of joy, each tear. My friend is he who all my faults, With charity discorns; My friend is gentle in rebuke; He, arrogancy spurs. Who would not quench the smoking flax, Nor break the bruised reed; Nor make one wound, nor cause one [Image of a man with a bald head and a serious expression, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt. The background is a plain black surface with no visible text or details.] William Seymour Edwards, a leader of the progressive movement, a typical, rugged product of the West Virginia mountains, author, world-traveler and sincere advocate of the uplift movement in the political and social world, reiterated today his pre-election announcement that he would ask: the new State Legislature to elect him to the United States Senate as the successor of Clarence W. Watson, the overthrown Democratic leader. "My announcement as a candidate for the United States Senate was made several weeks prior to the election," said Colonel Edwards today, "I came out in the open as a candidate against Mr. Watson and made a declaration to that effect in nearly all the principal cities of the State where I spoke for the Progressive cause and the success of the Progressive Republican State and legislative candidates; I feel if elected, that I can be of some service to West Virginia, for I was reared among these Mountains and have never gotten out of touch with our plain people. It is with them that I like to associate and it was for them that we made the brave sincere and effective fight which terminated a few days ago in the election of a Progressive Republican State ticket and a Progressive Republican Legislature. "This was a notable victory that was won in West Virginia. We gave Mr. Wilson an earnest battle for first place in the Presidential contest and we recovered a State Legislature from a misguided democracy which bad failed to take note of the onward movement of the people and made the mistake of electing two reactionaries to the United States Senate in 1911. "It is preposterous to think for a moment that the mistakes of the Democratic party will be repeated by the incoming Legislature which was chosen by the people in demand for better things. The defeat of Mr. Watson proves concisely that the voters of West Virginia are in accord with the great onward movement led by Theodore Roosevelt, and which has stirred not only the people of this country, but the peo VOL. 32. pleas of foreign nations as well, and they will neither sanction, condone nor forgive their betrayal of the public welfare by any political party. 'So far as I am concerned this will be a clean contest for the high office of Senator of the United States. At the very inception of my candidacy I announced that there would be no such saturnalia of debauchery in the new Legislature as characterized the session of 1911, and the class of men who were elected to the new Legislature is sufficient verification of my forecast. The day of the 'golden harvest' is past and the new Legislature will choose a man for the Senate who is in accord with this onward movement which our people demanded and have sanctioned. I expect to be that man and the next senator of the United States from West Va. Col. Edwards is a man of ripe experience in the political world. He has been active in the support of the Republican party for many years and is a former speaker of the W.Va. House of Delegates. In the late campaign Colonel Edwards was active and effective, and without his efforts and did the great victory won could not have been achieved. The Kanawha leader is thoroughly acquainted with the industries of the State. He is one of the pioneer oil and gas producers in West Va. and is responsible for the re-discovery of the immense gas fields in the southern section of the State. Col. Edwards, also has been active in the cool business, and the famous Coalburgh team of coal was first discovered by his family at Coalburgh Kanawha county, where he still maintains his residence. A graduate of the Columbia law school, through which institution he worked his way, Mr. Edwards is a lawyer by profession, but his life has been devoted to the development of his State and it has been partly through his energy and resources that West Virginia has risen to the front rank in the development of her natural resources. He is the author of several popular books of travel, is a scholar, and a man of fine literary tastes. His charities and benevolences are many and large. He is a man of original ideas and a man who does things. NO.36 = Whe Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TABMORAL, RELIGIOUS AMD PINANUIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- ier. Rates of Bubscription: AD JOT errcessreeesserssenneen oom G1 ,50; G MONthO vane socssneerseernseeseeTOC. J MODS srsseran ersrseeresseerenneeneene 400, Pay foraliadvertisemeats is due in advance ualess advercising is run by yearly contract, in Walcu case the ad- Vartiser pays evaty three mouths, Advoctinug Linch one time 75c. Standing = - - 5Uc. Bedaced Rates to Calbs. deutt for Sample Copies. $@9-5.B. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Mur- tinsburg, W. Va, SATURDAY, NOV, 23¢d., 1912, We spologize for 80 many errore in lest week's issue, Waa confined to home end bed owing to sick neea. Democrats everywhere are in high glee, because they know that afier March 4, nex', there will be sume jobs awaiting them. Oonoiption fite will soon prevail, for civil service ie going to die with ite parent, Good thing. Wo are old Hickory from head to foot, If the Repablican party bad not eidewsepped buman rigbta for which it seid it fought, it would be in power today. Troly “puniebment follows ein,” Naturally, many will spire to be United States Senator for West Vir. ginis, peverthsleas, no one for honca ty, industry; eobriety, earnostness, tare wicdom, world travel and a soul full of the milk of human kindness can excel the Hon. William Seymour Edwards. When it is remembered that Judge K Mz. Landie is the same man whc fined the Standard Oil Company twenty-nine million dollars, it peed not be wondered at that be wanted to hold Jack Joboson, the beavy weight chempien pnugilist of the world, under a thirty thousand dol- Jar bond. Ween the Toft ateam roller rolled over ond masbed the willof a free people, and Taft got the nomination ond tbe political bosses grew jobilant, and osrioatured Roosevelt out of public life, tbe Pioneer Presa took tbe ground, thet treable was not ended, bat only etarted, Where are your Gari¢aiares pow? The Washington Negroes are in one of their periodical echool battles, god this time Prof, W. Bruce Evans. principal of the Armstrong Manual Training Scbool hes been separated from bis position and the various desireble cmolumente that went with it. His superiors aver that Mr. Evens’s dismissal was for the “good of the service,” and tbe deposed one says be is going “to fight it out ix court.” Thero the matter stands We shell await results. Hon, Stusrt W. Walker, Martins- burg’s brilliant attorney, and Dem- ocrutic State Chairman during te campsign just ended, is a possible candidate for the United States Dis- trict Attorneyship for the Northern District of Weet Virginia, The porition mentiosed above, is a fine one, but 1t is none too big for Col- opel Welker, who is one of the big- gest men in this section of the Siate: avd wbo bes the necessary legal training for the place, Then sgaio. if Colonel Walker is sppointed, he would not need the experience that govs to makes first class District Attorpey, becaase he woe District Attorney for the whole State of West Virginia under Hov. Grover Civves Jntd, end tbat be served with signe sbrity,toore will deny. Here's bepiegs it be wants the position, ne will get it, | When the time comes for the Hon, Woodrow Wilson to distribute the juicy plume to hig sod his party’s faithful Negro allies, he ebould not overlook the claime of Julius F, Tay. lor, the brave and manly editor of the Chicago Broud Axe. Thie vet- eran Negro democrat bas fought the battles of his patty in scason snd out Of seweon,und if there is anybody in this country woo deserves some- thing goo at the bands of tbe next Preeident, Taylor ia the mao. Dr HD, Watfivid, who was elect- ed Governor of West Virginia. on the 5th, inet, has sufficiently recev- ered trow his ree ut attack of paca moniato maze it appear that bis restoration to health aud vigor is agsured. Intelligence like tha we give onr readers ubove, is bighly sarirfictory to the thousands — of friends of the Doctor througbout the State, because they elected bim their vext Guvernor, aod they wane to bee bim oi joy te full fruits of sue vioto- ry which he echieved, as well ae pive them sn administration which will be productive of great good to every citizen in the “Little Mountain State.” S bravk, who iatented and trisd to Kill Colonel Reosovelt hes been declared ineane snd oust epend the rest of bis life smong the intane. Lr devolves into a scrioug question whetber Scbrank, or bis dastardly act, should be considered. If be bad enough sense to pick a good obance, and to ait ata vital spot, he had too much sanity tobe declared insane. ‘The fault with Americans is that they feign too much buwanity, acd thereby keep walicious murderers from the electric chair or the gal- lows. Ucpunished crime breeds crime, Might as well declare lynch- ers who marder becaugs of thy color of men’s skin jusane, as to do so with Schreok. Had not religious martyrs been burced ab the stake, the wholesale mardering that is go- ing on daily, would not exiet. Lin- colo's, Garfield’e, McKioley’s and Roossvolt’s assassins were mothezed by deviliry, out of whose loins come forth such infernal whelps. Rest assured that which a govern- ment allows done to its eubjects, in the shape of murder, &c., will in tirae coms home to the heads of the golf eame government.° Robespierre whose glory was to bebead bundreds with the guillotine, was in time himself bebeaded by it. Look ab tbat Coatsville beastly ac’; the farcial trial and everything with Itconnacted; then watch the fearful havoc by desth, caused by typhoid fever. | Just as long as lycobing le allowed | to go on, so long will sgsassinations follow. They bave the same relation that exists botween ® thief and the receiver of stolen goods, Judge Faulkner sometime ego askod a No- groifbe had anytbicg to say why [judgment sboa!d not be pasa on him. “Ihave, your booor. When you catch the reciver, you stop the thief,” The Jack Johnson Affair. We think Mr. Booker T, Wash. ington showed exceediog bad taste aud bad judgment in condemning Jack Johnson, who is being persecu. ted by the white press of the coun. try ond the United States govern went, ostensibly because of bis rela- tions with a white girl, who believes tbat she loves bim but reaily because be whipped James J. Jeffries and got biwself acknowledged as the champion pugilist of the world and tbe bes: man pbysicaliy judged by the etundard of ibe prize ring—in tbe world, The offenss of which Jounson stands charged and which tas crea. ted s0 much hysteria ia cerisin cir cles excluaively white is committed almost dsily all over the country by whitc men, against black women, bat we do not bear of avy outbarsis of ae {ndignation from white Ministers, Juurcatists, Judges, Heads of large social orgenizations of white women, etc.,e!c.. wheo white mer seduce Innoceut colured gitls, and helpless colored women. And nc White mon reads bis fellow men ¢ lecture on worsiity and chastity such ae Mr, Waetington, sho was at one time a cleryymep, has read to Joho Artuar Jolueos. We recall baving read many wonths ago, a ecrmon delivered by Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee to the student bedy from the Tex',*Whotecever a wan coweth thst shall be also reap.) Toe Fermos reéailed io miod the 68rd, St experience of Moralist Booker T, Waebington, whoge caze differs ix no whit frem that of Jack Jobnaon, whom be now denounces as a bud man. The verdict rendered against Mr. Weeblogton by tue Court left Lim In a most humiliating position for it said ke was guilty, Although he bad over six months to proye bis Innocence, be was not able to shuke the testimony of the man who club- bed him for approscbicg bis mistress, or that of any of the witnesacs. With a blot of snch lerge dimension oo his owa reputation we submit that Mr. Bocker Washington, the pam- pered and coddled fayorite of tbere white people who sre using bim to club the manhood cut of bis race, doe’ not come into court with cleen bands ‘The elequence of silence on queetions of morality would betier become Mr, Washbingtoo, Posing for ffect as a moralist docs not become him. We think that if be will atick closer to Tuskegee and leave theso moral questions to others be would then discover to a patient public some of tbat sound common sense he ia ac cased of baving Wedo not grant that bis virtuous(?) outburst against Jack Johnson whose predelictions for “rope west,” we do not spprove, is either sensible, prudent or in good teste. We repest Johnson is being persecuted not for his liavon with the Cameron girl, but for licking Jim Jeffries;snybody with balf an eye cap gee what it all means and thet the white race ie not pleased with the revult of that fight. STATEMENT Of THE OWNER. SHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIR. tt nen wee ae CULATION HIC., of Pioncor Press publiched weekly at Martiosburg, W. Va, required by tbe Act of Auguat 24, 1912 Editor J R Clifford, Martinsburg Mansgicg Editor, A. F. Clifford, Martinsourg, Bosiness Managers, A. F. Clifford, Martinsburg, Publisher, J.R.and A. F. Clifford, Martins- burg. Owners: J R Clifford, Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of totsl amounts of bonds, wortgages, or osher securi- ties. None, J. R, Clifford, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11tb day of Nov. 1912. L. D. W, Gerbardt, N. P. (My commission expires Jan. 19, 1920.) GOV. GLASSCOOK'S THANKS GIVING PROCLAMATION. Following the custom of many years the president of tho United States bee designated Thursday, November 28:h, 1912, a8 a day of thankegiving and prayer. Certninly we ehould botbankful for the civil sod religious liberty with which we are blessed; we sbould thank Him because He bas aroused us to a deeper and mora sincere reverence of law; Ho baa blessed our institu. tions of learning from the common school to the universities and col leges and ie making of us am more patriotic end God. fearing people. Tat uz make it a day of reunion of Kindred and triends and Jet ns prove ‘the eincerity of ovr thankagiviog by peosrous gitis of chsrity for the ra Jif of the poor and needy. : On that day lev us ru-pead our ‘accustomed work and meet ip our ‘ing days may outlive prejudice, ss sume & normal position and treat alk members according to worth an@ their needa, Rev, 8. H, Norwood: Ba'timore, Md. wo Anecdotal . Literature: | Oontinued from firet page. earnestly aupported equal pry were men of the gocelled chivalric ty pe— the type that gaye woman eb.uld be protected, butin the bome. Protection of this kind reminds me: of s soldier named Carlyle, a veteran Private who undertook to train a raw recruit, In the first battle Carlyle wos heard repeasiog over and again to bis reernit: “Bea man, lad. Don’t duck— don’t duck, I teli yon I am bebiod you.” J«mes R. Keene, at ao Easater- celebration io Oedarburst, said, “A. New York broker once gave in w dezen words, the Wall Street defini- ticn ota lamb. A lamb,” aid Mr- Keene, “is ona who invests first aad investigates afterwards.” See ee) ee ee ee See , Even in South Africa nearly 1 per cent of the actual Bantu population fiave high and narrow noses, thin lips and fine large orthognathic skullg of the Hamitic type. and all the Hot- tentot languages and dialects have a. pure Hamitic grammar. Also the pas toral habits of many Africa tribes, their long horned cattlo, spiral basket work, ete. are Hamitic, and all can thus trace Hamitic influence from tbe Nile to the Cape of Good Hope. Still there are soe Negroes and many, many white people in this coun- try who profess to believe with a sort of pitylng contempt that the African fs an untedeemable barbarian. Rev. E. D. L. Thompson of Sierra Leone, West Africa, in his address be- fore the Negro Society For Historical Research of Yonkers, N. ¥., on the subject “Race Consciousness Race Ideal.” said. among otber things: “Ag the preponderance of the inhabitants of Dgypt today are of unmixed Afri- can blood, we may | think reasonably conclude that these people are of Afri- can origin. Otherwise how are we to account for thelr black faces, crisp hair and other typical Negro physical. ebaracteristics?” EP fi), BALTIMORE & Omg BR aes iS ey RAILROAD. Corrected to May 26th, rors, Trains leaye Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND. No §5 Daily at 11.91 2 m for Pitteburg Cincinaay, Louisville and St: Lonis Connects for Romney except Sunday ang at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 15 Daily at tt.50am for Grafton, Pittsburg ard Chicago, No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Graftom, Pittsbur, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 p m for Wheeling,Oek umbus and Chicago. i}o, 1 Daiiy at 6.20 p m ror Cincinnath Louisville and St. Louis. 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Nor2 Daily ‘Duquesne Limited’’ at 12,23 a. m. for Washington, Baltimore,, Philadelphia and New York, No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11,55 am for Frederick, Baltimore gad all inter~ mediate stations via old line, No18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 pm for Washington and Baltimore and all in~ termediate stations, Connects fox, Freder~ ick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen, Pass Agent. Baltimor. sid.. R, S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W, Var jusaal place of worship and give thanks to Almighty God for out Prosperity as a state and nation, for our freedom from pestilence aud disease, for the harvests that have beco reaped and for our remarkable advance in virtue, sobriety and ix- telligence. And let us pray that the bleasing: thas we bave enjoyed daring the year thet bas ended may be maliplicd upto us, tbat our coxecience may be quickened to a better recognition of tbe wisdom avd power of Gud and that in our daily life we may closer follow the path of truth apd right- eousness. Now, therefore, I WILLIAM E GLABSCOCK, governor of the state of Weet Virginia, do hereby desig- pate and procleim Thareday, the 28h day of November, 1912, a legal holiday throuzbout the state of West Virgioia, and I recommend to all the people thereof that the day be ob- served reverently as recommended by the president. In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my band and caused tho Great Seal of the State to be affixed. Done at the Capitol, in tho city of Charleeton, this the llth day of November in the year of oar Lord Ove Thousand Nine Hundred and ‘Twelve end in the fiftieth year of the Stato. Wm. E Glaescock. By tbe Governor: STUART F. REED, See’y. State. “BISHOPS FOR RAOES” IN THE METHODIST EPISCOPAD CHURCH, Editor of The Pioucer Press: Dear Sir:—I notice that the Jega'i- ty of sending down to the confer ences the amendmeat “Bishops for Races” ie in dieputstion. I shail cot refer to that feature of it, but will try and discuss the necessity of it, limitiog my remarke to the colored membersbip, The natural and Chris. sian relations exieling between tbe white end colored members do not require this amendment, but tbese relations do not govern them. There is an sccidenial, o prejudice relation existing between them, which gov- eros tbe Oburch. This prejudice bas led the cbureb so far in error that ber only way ont at present is by special race legisla jasion, I call this special ruling power racc prejodide because it is the only working bypothesis in ex- plaining our treatment by the white members. Refusing to mingle wit the “socially unfit” does not explaio their treatment of us because tho “gocially Ot” and the “socially unfit” among us look alike to and are treated the aame by our white mem- bers, Prejudice treats us according to our color and not according to who we are, or she would discrimi- nate among us. Prijudice hss produced segrega- tion as ¢con in separate congrega. ‘ione, conferences and _ preacbers meetings. Segregstion in the same meeting house when the races wor- shipped togetber made the gallery a cussity. The Chaorch, therefore, through prejudice iain on sbnormal condi- tion. Ip slavery this condition was alrigbt, aod it bas worked well in freedom eo far a8 the pastorate, con gregations apd district +uperinten- dency are concerned. Bat when it reaches highest and touches the Episocpacy tbe wheels do not run so smoothly. Prejadice faile if we bave lees than a full segregation, segregation from bottom to top or none at all. A white Bisbop is no more inolined to, or if 0 inclined, ts no more sble to treat white and col ored members alike than are white congregations, pastors and district superintendents. Owing to this ab normal condision, iv order thet that pert of the membership needing ep -copal supervision most, and getting least, may have their part, we say let the smendmwent pass, hopieg that the Chau:ch in the com Tur Lames. Bactimore a Oig RAILROAD, Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harden, died Friday night following a brief illness. Rev. Samuel M. Beane preached at Autury M. E. Caurch, Washington, D. C., on Sunday night last to a large and appreciative audience. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Mr. Lawrence Taylor, teacher of the Romney School, and a young man of great promise, was a caller at the Press office recently. Mr. John Briscane, of Gerardstown, visited his daughters. Mesdames. Lawson Hook and Anna Lou Roman, 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. Large numbers of hogs are dying in every section of the county, and people seem puzzled in arriving at a proper conclusion as to what is the matter with them. SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address Lincoln Oil Co. Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Busey gave a swell dance at Spears' Hall on Friday night in honor of Miaa Eisie Armatrong, of Greensburg, Pa. A large number of couples were present and enjoyed the dance, and were loud in their praise of Mr. and Mrs. Busey for the delightful evening which these two well known young people afforded them. Marshalla Orchestra furnished music for the occasion, and everything was done to make the guests feel at ease. The Press is in receipt of an invitation to be present at the marriage of Mr. McCanada Dailey to Miss Ida Ruth Roane, which ceremony will occur at Sharon Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, November 26th, at eight o'clock. The prospective groom is a well known and energetic Berkeley Co. young man who now resides in the Monumenta City, and the charming young lady whom he will claim as his bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Roane, well known Baltimoreans. At the conclusion of the marriage ceremony a reception will be held from 9 to 11 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Daily will be at home, 505 Baker Street, Baltimore, Md., on and after December 1, 1912. In conclusion, we wish the happy couple much success, and extend them our hearty congratulations on the new relations which they are about to assume. Mrs. Alice Reed had an old time apple peeling and cutting party at her home, West Race Street on last Thursday night, and among those in attendance, were: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. James Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Murphy, Misses, Bridget Berryman and Dairy Cook, Mrs. Mildred Fairfax, Dr. George W. Baylie, A. F. Clifford, Meadames, Annie Gilkinson and Virginia Pulpus and Mr. and Mrs. Runner. During the time the guests were busy working with apples, Mrs. Reed, the hostees, prepared them a nice lunchon, which consisted of fried oysters, crackers, pickle, delicious hot chocolate, and two varieties of wine which could not be excelled for taste and purity. After the festivities were over, everybody went home voicing the sentiment that as an entertainer Mrs. Reed is hard to beat. Circular on Lime. The Experiment Station has in press Circular No. 6, on the use of lime on the farm, by Professor B. H. Hite Station Chemist. During the last year or two there has been greatly increased interest among the farmers of the state upon this important subject, and the circuler is prepared to answer numerous inquiries for information. It includes a discussion of how lime improves soil texture, the growth of grass and clover, and promotes beneficial soil bacteria. It discusses how lime makes plant food available, and how it affects sour and worn out soils. Directions are given for the application of different forms of lime; and a list of dealers in lime from whom West Virginia farmers may purchase it is appended. This circular will have wide distribution, and will be sent free to all those applying for it who are not now on the Station mailing list. Agricultural Improvements. Severel minor improvements are being made in the plans of the College of Agriculture. The greenhouses are being thoroughly repaired, and new beds are being installed. A cellar for storage of fruits is being built in connection with the barn, where fruit for class work may be stored during the fall and winter months. The horticultural department has erected a small packing shed on the farm; and a steel corn crib is being set up to house corn and small grain seeds of this year's crop for which no other room is available. The Station is arranging to build a fooding shed for conducting feeding work with steers during the coming winter. The hay crop on the Station farm is so abundant that, although much of it has been bailed, a large part will have to be stacked in the field. It is hoped that before another year the College may have sufficient barn facilities to adequately house its livestock and crops. The Agricultural Experiment Station at Morgantown by the insertion of one notice in the newspapers of the state, received applications for 343 cookereels. These have been sent to those who made request and were sent out on the following terms: 1. To farmers who live on a farm. 2. To farmers who agree to keep no other breed of male birds with their hens for two years, unless the hens kept with the male birds of other breeds be penned separately during the breeding season. 3. The farmers to pay fifty cents for each cookereel ordered. (This amount pays the cost of crating, delivering to the express office and a small price for the fowl.) 4. The purchase price must be sent with the order. 5. The farmers must pay the expressage from Morgantown. 6. Requests will be filled in the order they are received at the Experiment Station. WOMEN IN UPLIFT WORK. Auxiliary to New England Convention Aids Institutions and Individuals. The women's auxiliary to the New England Baptist missionary convention reported receipts for the year of $273.87 at the recent annual meeting in Orange, N. J. The work of the organization under the able leadership of the president, Mrs. E. B. Holland, for the past two years has steadily grown. The auxiliary, besides assisting the general convention in various ways, does a large missionary and educational work. The institutions to which the organization gave financial assistance at the recent meeting were the Virginia Seminary and College in Lynchburg, Va.; the Watchman Industrial school, Providence, R. I.; the Howard Orphanage and Industrial school, Kings Park, N. Y., and two institutions maintained for working girls. The Baptist mission work in Africa was given the sum of $25 and the general convention toward its missionary and educational work $50. Two widows were given $5 each. The members are loyal to the work, and each year an increase is noted in individual achievements. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Mrs. E. B. Holland of Providence, R. I.; first vice president, Mrs. Wiley Seay of Brooklyn; second vice president, Mrs. Christina Harris of Stamford, Conn.; recording secretary, Mrs. Margaret L. 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THE COLLEGE OF AGRIS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to literal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as all given in the best approved colleges. 10 permanent kelly armer, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for students Regional college courses in Psychology, Psychology, Education, &c., w. degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to P. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training. Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George S. Cummings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. 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Migration and Colonization Chief Among Many Causes Given For Amalgamation of Primitive Reasons Anthropology of African and Pacific Islanders Pointed Out. By JOHN E. BRUCE (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 looms of their these did. Nothing seems to be more certain to those who have studied the question closely. Dr. Tetriss von Luschnach, professor of anthropology in the University of Berlin, in an admirable paper before the most universal races congress, which met in London in 1911, 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 Varieties. 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 best 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 unfold ages are 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 as 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. But I have already stated that we are as yet outile 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 time, 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 murivolous civilization we now admire as the mother of our own Ancient Hamitic influences can be traced all through Africa. In Abyssinia, in Galla, Somali, and in Masailand we find even now Hamitic languages or at least Hamitic grammar OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS CONVINCING & COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a letter, e-mail, or quickly ascertain any information invention is probably rationally. Communications strictly contended. MUNHOK on Parents sent free.致歉 agents. Your request or patients. taken to the office. 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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 Mimie 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 have been engaged. Agricultural Alda The Extension Division of the College of Agriculture is planning a great amount of work to be given as direct aid to the farmer in improving his farm, and the teacher in teaching agriculture in the rural schools. Agricultural trains are to be run, on which lectures on timely subjects will be given, illustrated lectures to school children, and an exhibit car showing varieties of chickens, models of poultry houses and poultry equipment, varieties of corn, methods of storing seed corn, equipment and supplies necessary for the truck garden and the orchard. Agricultural extension schools will be held in different counties, at which instruction in agriculture will be given to those interested. The instructors at these schools will be from the College of Agriculture and specialists secured from the state. Field meetings will be held at the demonstrational plots conducted in the different counties of the state. On those plots different varieties of corn and soy beans have been growing to determine the proper variety for that community. Different kinds of fertilizers and time have been used to determine the kind to use to produce the most profitable crop. Outlines, lessons, exercises, and experiments on Elementary Agriculture are published each month and sent free to teachers of the state so that the country boy or girl may be as well trained in the science of agriculture as in the city boy or girl trained in the principles of a business life. Nearly 5,000 boys and girls of the state belong to the State Agricultural Clubs. A large per cent of these club members is producing a very large yield of corn or tomatoes on their plots. Very often the yield on their plot far exceeds the average yield on the remainder of the farm. County shows will be held for these clubs and the first of January a State Show will be held at Charleston. AND PETERSBURG ```markdown ``` STAGE LINE STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round trip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 87 miles. 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