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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 The Pioneer Press The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY. 3 months 400. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOV. 23rd., 1912. We apologize for so many errors in last week's issue. Was confined to home and bed owing to sickness. Democrats everywhere are in high glee, because they know that after March 4, next, there will be some jobs awaiting them. Connption fits will soon prevail, for civil service is going to die with its parent. Good thing. We are old Hickory from head to foot. If the Republican party had not eldestapped human rights for which it said it fought, it would be in power today. Truly "punishment follows sin." Naturally, many will aspire to be United States Senator for West Virginia, nevertheless, no one for honour, industry; sobriety, earnestness, rare wisdom, 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 M. Landie is the same man who fined the Standard Oil Company twenty-nine million dollars, it need not be wondered at that he wanted to hold Jack Johnson, the heavy weight champion pugilist of the world, under a thirty thousand dollar bond. When the Taft steam roller rolled over and mashed the will of a free people, and Taft got the nomination and the political bosies grew jubilant, and caricatured Roosevelt out of public life, the Pioneer Press took the ground, that trouble was not ended, but only started. Where are your caricatures now? The Washington Negroes are in one of their periodical school battles, and this time Prof. W. Bruce Evans, principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School has been separated from his position and the various desirable emoluments that went with it. His superiors aver that Mr. Evans's dismissal was for the "good of the service," and the deposed one says he is going "to fight it out in court." There the matter stands. We shall await results. Hon. Stuart W. Walker, Martinsburg's brilliant attorney, and Democratic State Chairman during the campaign just ended, is a possible candidate for the United States District Attorneyship for the Northern District of West Virginia. The position mentioned above, is a fine one, but it is none too big for Colonel Walker, who is one of the biggest men in this section of the State and who has the necessary legal training for the place. Then again, if Colonel Walker is appointed, he would not need the experience that goes to make a first class District Attorney, because he was District Attorney for the whole State of West Virginia under Hon. Grover Cleveland, and that he served with signal ability, so one will deny. Here's hoping, if he wants the position, he will get it. When the time comes for the Hon. Woodrow Wilson to distribute the juicy plums to his and his party's faithful Negro allies, he should not overlook the claims of Julius F. Taylor, the brave and manly editor of the Chicago Broad-Axe. This veteran Negro democrat has fought the battles of his party in season and out of season, and if there is anybody in this country who deserves something good at the hands of the next President, Taylor is the man. --- Dr H D. Hatfield, who was elected Governor of West Virginia on the 5th inst., has sufficiently recovered from his recent attack of pneumonia to make it appear that his restoration to health and vigor is assured. Intelligence like that we give our readers above, is highly satisfactory to the thousands of friends of the Doctor throughout the State, because they elected him their next Governor, and they want to see him enjoy the full fruits of the victory which he achieved, as well as give them an administration which will be productive of great good to every citizen in the "Little Mountain State." Shrank, who intended and tried to kill Colonel Roosevelt has been declared insane and must spend the rest of his life among the insane. It devolves into a serious question whether Schrank, or his dastardly act, should be considered. If he had enough sense to pick a good chance, and to aim at a vital spot, he had too much sanity to be declared insane. The fault with Americans is that they feign too much humanity, and thereby keep malicious murderers from the electric chair or the gallows. Unpunished crime breeds crime. Might as well declare lynchers who murder because of the color of men's skin insane, as to do so with Schrank. Had not religious martyrs been burned at the stake, the wholesale murdering that is going on daily, would not exist. Lincoln's, Garfield's, McKinley's and Roosevelt's assassins were mothered by devilry, out of whose loins come forth such infernal whelps. Rest assured that which a government allows done to its subjects, in the shape of murder, &c., will in time come home to the heads of the self same government. $ ^{9} $ Robespierre whose glory was to behead hundreds with the guillotine, was in time himself beheaded by it. Look at that Coatesville beastly ac'; the faecial trial and everything with it connected; then watch the fearful havoc by death, caused by typhoid fever. Just as long as lynching is allowed to go on, so long will assassinations follow. They have the same relation that exists between a thief and the receiver of stolen goods. Judge Faulkner sometime ago asked a Negro if he had anything to say why judgment should not be passed on him. "I have, your honor. When you catch the receiver, you stop the thief." The Jack Johnson Affair. We think Mr. Booker T. Washington showed exceeding bad taste and bad judgment in condemning Jack Johnson, who is being persecuted by the white press of the country and the United States government, ostensibly because of his relations with a white girl, who believes that she loves him but really because he whipped James J. Jeffries and got himself acknowledged as the champion pugilist of the world and the best man physically judged by the standard of the prize ring—in the world. The offense of which Johnson stands charged and which has created so much hysteria in certain circles exclusively white is committed almost daily all over the country by white men, against black women, but we do not hear of any outbursts of righteous indignation from white Ministers, Journalists, Judges, Heads of large social organizations of white women, etc., etc., when white men seduce innocent colored girls, and helpless colored women. And no white man reads his fellow men a lecture on morality and chastity such as Mr. Washington, who was at one time a clergyman, has read to John Arthur Johnson. We recall having read many months ago, a sermon delivered by Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee to the student body from the Text, "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap." The sermon recalled to mind the 63rd. St. experience of Moralist Booker T. Washington, whose case differs in no whit from that of Jack Johnson, whom he now denounces as a bad man. The verdict rendered against Mr. Washington by the Court left him in a most humiliating position for it said he was guilty. Although he had over six months to prove his innocence, he was not able to shake the testimony of the man who clubbed him for approaching his mistress, or that of any of the witnesses. With a blot of such large dimension on his own reputation we submit that Mr. Booker Washington, the pampered and coddled favorite of those white people who are using him to club the manhood out of his race, does not come into court with clean hands. The eloquence of silence on questions of morality would better become Mr. Washington. Posing for effect as a moralist does not become him. We think that if he will stick closer to Tuskegee and leave these moral questions to others he would then discover to a patient public some of that sound common sense he is accused of having. We do not grant that his virtuous(?) outburst against Jack Johnson whose predilections for "rope meat," we do not approve, is either sensible, prudent or in good taste. We repeat Johnson is being persecuted not for his liaison with the Cameron girl, but for licking Jim Jeffries; anybody with half an eye can see what it all means and that the white race is not pleased with the result of that fight. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION ETC., of Pioneer Press published weekly at Martinsburg, W. Va., required by the Act of August 24. 1912. Editor J R. Clifford, Martinsburg Managing Editor, A. F. Clifford, Martinsburg, Business Managers, A. F. Clifford, Martinsburg, Publisher, J. R. and A. F. Clifford, Martinsburg. Owners: J R. Clifford. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amounts of bonds, mortgages, or other securities. None. J. R. Clifford, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of Nov. 1912. L. D. W. Gerhardt, N. P. (My commission expires Jan. 19, 1920.) GOV. GLASSCOOK'S THANKS GIVING PROCLAMATION. Following the custom of many years the president of the United States has designated Thursday, November 28th, 1912, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Certainly we should be thankful for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; we should thank Him because He has aroused us to a deeper and more sincere reverence of law; He has blessed our institutions of learning from the common school to the universities and colleges and is making of us a more patriotic and God-fearing people. Let us make it a day of reunion of kindred and friends and let us prove the sincerity of our thanksgiving by generous gifts of charity for the relief of the poor and needy. On that day let us uspend our accustomed work and meet in our ing days may outlive prejudice, assume a normal position and treat all members according to worth and their needs. Rev. S. H. Noxwood Baltimore, Md. Anecdotal Literature Continued from first page. earnestly supported equal pay were men of the socalled chivalric type—the type that says woman should be protected, but in the home. Protection of this kind reminds me of a soldier named Carlyle, a veteran private who undertook to train a raw recruit. In the first battle Carlyle was heard repeating over and again to his recruit: "Be a man, lad. Don't duck—don't duck, I tell you I am behind you." James R. Keene, at an Easter celebration in Cedarhurst, said, "A New York broker once gave in a dozen words, the Wall Street definition of a lamb. "A lamb," said Mr. Keene, "is one who invests first and investigates afterwards." Even in South Africa nearly 1 per cent of the actual Bantu population have high and narrow noses, thin lips and fine large orthognathic skulls of the Hamitic type, and all the Hottentot languages and dialects have a pure Hamitic grammar. Also the pastoral habits of many Africa tribes, their long horned 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 Negroes and many, many white people in this country who profess to believe with a sort of pitying contempt that the African is an unredeemable barbarian. Rev. E. D. L. Thompson of Sierra Leone, West Africa, in his address before the Negro Society For Historical Research of Yonkers, 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?" BALTIMORE & OIN RAILROAD. 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And let us pray that the blessings that we have enjoyed during the year that has ended may be multiplied unto us, that our conscience may be quickened to a better recognition of the wisdom and power of God and that in our daily life we may closer follow the path of truth and righteousness. Now, therefore, I WILLIAM E. GLASSCOCK, governor of the state of Weet Virginia, do hereby designate and proclaim Thursday, the 28 h day of November, 1912, a legal holiday throughout the state of West Virginia, and I recommend to all the people thereof that the day be observed reverently as recommended by the president. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed. Done at the Capitol, in the city of Charleston, this the 11th day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twelve and in the fiftieth year of the State. Editor of The Pioneer Press: Dear Sir: I notice that the legality of sending down to the conferences the amendment "Bishops for Races" is in disputation. I shall not refer to that feature of it, but will try and discuss the necessity of it, limiting my remarks to the colored membership. The natural and Christian relations existing between the white and colored members do not require this amendment, but these relations do not govern them. There is an accidental, a prejudice relation existing between them, which governs the Church. This prejudice has led the church so far in error that her only way out at present is by special race legislation. I call this special ruling power race prejudice because it is the only working hypothesis in explaining our treatment by the white members. Refusing to mingle with the "socially unfit" does not explain their treatment of us because the "socially fit" and the "socially unfit" among us look alike to and are treated the same by our white members. Prejudice treats us according to our color and not according to who we are, or she would discriminate among us. Prejudice has produced segregation as seen in separate congregations, conferences and preachers meetings. Segregation in the same meeting house when the races worshipped together made the gallery a necessity. The Church, therefore, through prejudice is in an abnormal condition. In slavery this condition was alright, and it has worked well in freedom so far as the pastorate, congregations and district superintendency are concerned. But when it reaches highest and touches the Episcopacy the wheels do not run so smoothly. Prejudice falls if we have less than a full segregation, segregation from bottom to top or none at all. A white Bishop is no more inclined to, or if so inclined, is no more able to treat white and colored members alike than are white congregations, pastors and district superintendents. Owing to this abnormal condition, in order that that part of the membership needing episcopal supervision most, and getting least, may have their part, we say, let the amendment pass, hoping that the Church in the com THE LAMB. EAST BOUND. Martinsburg, W. Va 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. Shepard of New York; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. J. Glascoe of Providence; treasurer, Mrs. S. A. Harris of Brooklyn; executive board, Mrs. M. S. Tribett and Mrs. A. Tribbett of Philadelphia; Mrs. Shepard and Mrs. Mattie V. Ellis of Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. Elvina Washington of Boston, Mrs. Julia D'Hagan of New York and Miss Lucy Washington of Orange. Tutkows are soaring in price this year. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road WINTERTOURIST TICKETS TO FLORIDA ON SALE DAILY FROM NOVEMBER 1 TO APRIL 30. GOOD RETURNING UNTIL MAY 31. SECURE FULL INFORMATION FROM TICKET AGENTS. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON. O. C. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Cathedral 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. 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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. Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprietor r. George Shank. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful and commission. Previous experience desirable but not necessary. Whole time or spare time. A career with references. H. C. Campbell. Cosmopolitan Magazine, 187 Broadway, New York City. WARNING - A RIDE IN EACH DOWN and distinct to ride and exhibit "Danger to injury" furnished by us. Our agent NO MONEY REQUIRED until you reach bicycle. We will transport anywhere in the inland valleys to show TEN BAY with time you may stay and pedal. If you are from any yearly satisfied place please back to our expense and FACTORY PRICES. We furnish the high est factory. You will be $10 to $5 mil- age director's second to manufacturer' bicycle. DO NOTY BIKE or a pair o cycle until you receive our catalog and be ready to purchase a social order to ride and YOU WILL BE A BROKEN when you go. Ply low mile we can make you a well selling bicycle in our factory. We will sell your bicycle and our bicycle under your own name. ORDERS COND HARD BROKEN. We do not regularly handle second orders to you. We will send your order by our Chicago office. These orders will be $25 to $40 per bicycle. We will ship your order to your local dealer. The regular retail prices are: COASTER-BRAKES $10.00 Hedgehorn Furniture-Pair Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE TO INDUCING a number of hard binder made by our company handles second hard binder, but usually haro rangling from 33 to 64 inches. We have out promptly at prices BOASTER-BRAKES single binder, hardened roller chains and pedal, parts, royalties and (day letter to be received. We will pick C. O. D. on espn24. You do not pay a cent until you will receive a day letter to be received.) We will allow a cash payment of your token (tenely marked the price $1.60 per WITH ORDER and enclose this token in sending an enclosed receipt and GUR payment if it for any reason you are unable to send it. You no longer need to send an enclosed receipt, run forward your token as a tank. If you or a partner of these you must know that you will be so well paid for your token and look than any way you wish. We know that you will be so well paid for your token and look than any way you wish. You must know that you will be so well paid for your token and look than any way you wish. We know that you will be so well paid for your token and look than any way you wish. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't pay any kind of interest until your price quoted above, or write for an authorized trade of tires about half the price. DO NOT WAIT but write on post today. DO NOT THINK OF it only cree a post to help you learn the law and avoid it only cree a post to help you learn the law and avoid J. L. HEAD CYCLE COMPANY, ON WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 WITH ORDERS and enclose this advertisement. You may make a price $4.50 per pair. If you send FULL CADID reboiled at GUR species if for any reason they are not satisfied in sending an order as the tires may be and money post to use less make as to a tank. If you order a part of these tires, you will find that they will be easier, run faster, wear better, has longer an track than you can do the you have over used or seen it any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want IF YOU NEED YOUR SKEE TO THE SEA TO THE SEA. I am not sure you will send for a pair of Hedgethorn kinds of tires about half the usual price. DO NOT WAIT for the best time you need. WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH - - That's Selling Victor Safos and free-proof boxes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and well-to-do farmers, all of whom realize the need of a safe, but do not know how easy it is to own one. Salesmen displace our proposition one of the best, clean-cut money-making opportunities ever received. Without previous experience YOU can duplicate the success of others. Handsonly Illustrated No-page catalog will stand on to present the subject to customers in a setting a manner as though them to rough our factory. Mon appointed as price and instruction. --- Paye for the New York Tribune Twice-a-Week from NOW until five-election (up to November 15) This period will cover the entire Presidential Campaign and extend over the election several weeks. THE TRIBUNE sued on Tuesdays and Fridays conunns ALL the latest cable and telecraph news of the world up to the hour of going to press, as well as all the latest reliable POLITICAL and general news. It is a complete and refractory newspaper for the busy man. SPECIAL OFFER Any person sending in the name and address of FOUR subscribers, companyed by $140, will receive a copy of the paper sent to his own address for 31 months free of charge, other words, FIVE subscribers will be sent at the price of FOUR divided the five name and address accompanied by the cash are received at the same time. Make remittance in some form of lift, check or Money Order and ways address THE TRIBUNE building, New York City. will sell on amazon, but to introduce a will sell on amazon, but to introduce NOMORE TROUBLE FROM FRIENDS NAILS, TACKS, or CHEWS will not be the A hundred thousand patents sold last year, DESGYPTION will be all sizes. We have hundreds of fashion retail customers stating that their clothing have been trimmed up once to twice in a whole season. They have more than an ordinary tire, the puncture shining as the clothing being grown by several layers of fabric, assembling fabric on the bread. The regular price of the clothing is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we making a special优惠 price to the rider of orders. 国家税务总局监制 Our New Home. Capacity 20,000 Sq. Ft. Annual. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION ```markdown ``` Wotsoe the thikokubriartrag "A" and puncture strap "B" "A" and "D" also rim strap "H" We present rim cutting. This will suit custom any other tanker strap, ELAGIC and EASY RIDING. pair. All orders shipped same u do not pay a cent until you EC par付) if you send FULL CABI hing an an order as no times may be required. An order is perfectly re- liable, you will find that we do no over used or seen any prizes you will give us your order. We want until you send for a pair of Hedgehorn and trust as the special introductory described and quotes all makes and BUYING a bicycle or a pair of and wonderful offers we are making. MONTH - - That's 0,00 a Day boxes s and enced down one of rumpi- expari- others. catalog o can- though ted as The 50th anniversary of our company was celebrated by creating the most modern zele factory in the world. Wide-awake men who received our special selling inducement, rendered it especially to double our output. We are stocking many thousands of dollars on enlarging our sales organization, but to learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. 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