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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." COLONEL EDWARDS' ADDRESS AT WESLEYAN Most Interesting Historical Paper on West Virginia People. HONORARY DEGREE IS CONFERRED Illustrious Citizen, After Receiving Degree of Honor at Wesleyan College, Gives Stirring Address to Fellow-Citizens—Pays High Tribute to Ancestry of West Virginians—Accepts Degree With Appreciation of Honor Bestowed Upon Him. ESTABLISHED 1882 COLONEL EDWARD ADDRESS A Most Interesting Historic ginia L HONORARY DEGRE Illustrious Citizen, After Re- Wesleyan College, Gives low-Citizens—Pays High of West Virginian With Appreciation stowed U Buckhannon, W. Va., Dec. 5.—The Governor of the State and many other notables in the world of statesmanship, educational leaders and churchmen gathered here today to do honor to another distinguished fellow-citizen, Colonel William Seymour Edwards, author, traveler and developer, of Charleston. It was the occasion of the conferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature upon Colonel Edwards by the West Virginia Wesleyan College, in this city. Governor William E. Glasscock, accompanied by Mrs. Glasscock, was attended by a large company of well-known persons, who, with Colonel Edwards, arrived here this morning in a special Pullman car from Charleston. The party consisted of the following: Governor and Mrs. Glasscock, Dr. Edwards, Judge H. C. McWhorter, Miss Mary McWhorter, Colonel W. T. Williamson, of the Governor's staff; Prof. George S. Laidley, Superintendent of the Charleston Public Schools, and Mrs. Laidley: Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools, and Mrs. Shawkey; Rev. Dr. J. E. Bird, pastor of the Charleston First Methodist Episcopal Church; Colonel Sullivan, of the Governor's staff; Judge G. P. Hall, Dr. S. P. Crummett, C. D. O'Neal, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Hon. Don Blagg, Hon. J. C. Thomas, Hon. A. C. Carney, of the South Penn Oil Company; Commissioner of Agricultural Elect Howard Williams, Edward M. Heermans and wife, and the famous W. S. Mason string quartette, with Prof. Mason, R. R. Houston, W. Schultz and H. Beckenstein. After breakfast at the hotel the Charleston party was driven in automobiles to the college chapel, which was filled with an audience of students, townspeople and visitors from abroad. The stage was occupied by a hundred of the clergy, educators and other prominent men and women from various parts of West Virginia and elsewhere. The people of the upstate country came out in large numbers, and from 10 o'clock until 2 in the afternoon without intermission the assembly of interested people listened to music, eloquence and words of wisdom. As the delightful program proceeded, President Carl G. Doney, of Wesleyan, presided, attired in the robes of his official position. When the exercises were concluded and congratulations had been offered Dr. Edwards by the throng in attendance, a sumptuous collation was served the out-town visitors at one of the leading hotels, and then the Charleston party boarded their car "Manchester" for the return trip. J. McC. Martin, traveling passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, personally conducted the special car. Upon the return the company presented Colonel Edwards with roses, which he graciously bestowed upon the ladies of the party. A Native West Virginian. This rather remarkable occasion, and one of the very few of its kind ever taking place in West Virginia, was a tribute to a native of West Virginia, who has attracted the attention of the world to his literary productions. Colonel William Seymour Edwards, who heretofore has been better known away from home and in southern West Virginia than in the more northern counties of his State, has been a writer of books and magazine articles for many years. Recently his work, "Into the Yukon," was one of ten notable books posted in the great Carnegie Library, In New York City, as the ten most popular books of the year. His other volumes have been widely read and most favorably criticized by the press and literary critics. But it remained for one of the most prominent educational institutions in his native State, of which Colonel Edwards is so justly proud, to honor him publicly. He was first made an honorary trustee of Wesleyan College, and some months ago the faculty of that institution suggested further honors at their hands. They decided to confer the degree of Doctor of Literature upon him if he would accept the honor, and the ceremonies today were the result. President Doney fixed the date and issued the invitations, which were responded to by several hundred of West Virginia citizens, who witnessed the conferring of the degree upon Colonel Edwards. Rev, Dr. S. K. Arbuthnot, a prominent Wheeling clergyman, delivered the invocation upon the opening of the exercises. Then a most decidedly interesting program was rendered, including classical numbers by the Mason Orchestra, the men's college glee club and the girls' college glee club. Probably one of the finest and most appropriate features of the program was the singing of "The Hymn of the West Virginians," first by the mon's glee club and at the close by the entire audience. The song was written by Colonel Edwards, the guest of honor at Wesleyan today, and is the new song of the State. Gov. Glasscock's Tribute. Governor Glasscock was then presented. His tribute was in the following: It affords me a great deal of pleasure to be with you on this occasion, and especially so when I know that you are to confer today an honorary degree upon one of West Virginia's distinguished citizens, a man who has not only distinguished himself in the world of letters, but in the world of business as well, and not only in the world of business, but in the moral and social world; and not only so, but he has already distinguished himself somewhat in the political world as well, and, while this is not a political occasion, and I shall not try to make it such, yet I feel that under all the circumstances this college will not be opposed if he is still further honored and he still further distinguishes himself in the political world, as I believe he is going to do. I think this college honors itself when it honors William Seymour Edwards as it proposes to do today. President Thomas E. Hodges, of the State University, made one of the best speeches of his life, and among other things said: The late M. E. Babcock was once quoted as saying: "I don't want to grow less by degrees," but I do not see any reason for his saying so, nor do I see any reason for any one to think that such an occasion as brings us together here today is anything else than one of great interest and great importance. Why should not an institution of learning recognize disinguished service? The dominant note in modern education is the note of service, and while the secular school can not in such large degree do so, yet the colleges such as this, maintained by a great religious denomination, can fearlessly and boldly lift above them and fling to the breeze the banner of the cross and proclaim that the education for which they stand shall be the service exemplified by the master of men. Why, then, is It not entirely right and proper that a citizen of our State distinguished in every way should be signally honored by a degree such as this? M. CARL G. DONEY, PIL. D., L.L.D. President of Wesleyan College. Freedtons Congregations in conferring the degree were as follows: William Seymour Edwards, lawyer and statesman, world-wide traveler and author, friend of youth and education, unenvied producer of wealth, just employer of labor, exemplar of the second as well as of the first commandment, and lover of God and man, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the Board of Trustees and by vote of the faculty, and in accordance with the laws of the State of West Virginia, I confer upon you the degrees of Doctor of Literature, and in testimony present to you this diploma, duly signed and sealed, together with all the honors and enclosures pertaining thereto, and I direct that your name shall be inscribed among the list of the honorary alumni of the West Virginia Wesleyan College. Col. Edwards' Address. After the degree had been formally conferred upon Colonel William Seymour Edwards, he addressed the distinguished audience, as follows: Ladles and Gentlemen: A little less than a century ago there departed from the beautiful Hoosatonic Valley, in Western Massachusetts, a notable company, young men and women, chiefly sons and daughters of New England's greatest stock, descendants of the Pilgrims and Puritans. These travelers set out as a well-organized colony. They had great canvas-covered wagons, well provided against the long journey ahead. They moved with their oxen and their horses, their cattle and their sheep; they took with them their axes for felling the forests, their anvils and their tools for working iron, and likewise their plows and farming implements; while they carried their trusty rifles, which they well knew how to use. They fetched with them, also, sometimes their old folks, always their children. A staiwart company they were, and they turned not toward the mighty West, but bent their way southward along the foothills of the Alleghenies and to Virginia instead of Illinois. After many days they halted their wagons and unyoked their oxen upon the well-watered highlands of trans-Alleghenian Virginia, and the land looked good unto them, and they said to one another, "Here we will abide." So they surveyed and settled upon a great tract of wild land, which they paid for with the cash they brought in hand. Here they howed great timbers from the forest and builted themselves therefrom comfortable homes, substantial houses, barns and outbuildings; here they cleared out wide acres, whereon the blue grass sprang up spontaneously; and corn and wheat and oats and rye ripened joyfully beneath the kindly Virginia sun; here they founded schools and raised up churches unto the Lord, for they were a God-fearing people, although they feared not man. Here, as the years went by, they gathered unto themselves other men and women of kindred spirit and equal faith, loving liberty, honoring God and prizing above all else education and true Christian culture. Year by year they grew into a populous and powerful community, respected and honored throughout the Commonwealth. In due time these people became an integral part of the political, civil and social organizations of Trans-Alle- lian Virginia. great section Department of Archives, Oatston, W. Va. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY G SEMBER 14. 1912. VO of the ancient Commonwealth whose the Whig party found its strength, wherein slaves and slavery gained small foothold, and where, living a free and open life, the spirit of true freedom grew masterful and strong; and here it was when slavery's sullen pretensions brought the gloom and terror of civil war upon the peaceful land, that kindling patriotism first burst forth into the mighty flame that at last illumined a nation; it was more men formed the first loyal regiment in Virginia, it was here that heroes con proved their descent from no less glorious fires, and made famous for all time this great county known as Upshur. Pays Tribute to W. Va. Ancestry. This bringing together of some of the sturdiest stock of the two greatest communities of English blood and speech, Virginia and New England, and particularly this bringing together of many of the finest types of the men and women of White and Whig Virginia, that region of lofty mountains and deep valleys, of wide bottom land and fertile uplands, lying upon the Alleghenian and trans-Alleghenian slopes of the eastern portion of our continent, and inhabited by Virginia's most dating and liberty-loving population; this blending of these Virginiaans with these settlers from the western frontiers of Massachusetts, representative of the flower of her young men and women, sprung from the lofts of forebears who for well nigh two hundred years had defended and developed her western borders, has always possessed for me a peculiar and dramatic interest, and aroused within me an especial sympathy with the people of the great county of Upsham and her institutions, for I, too, am come straight down from men who likewise lived and wrought in the fruitful fecund valley of the Hoosatonic fruitful in its smiling farms, its numberless busy industries, found in the abounding crop of great men and women it has given to Massachusetts and the nation—the Edwards, the Dudleys, the Fields, the Sedgewleeks, the Butlers, the Southmays, the Hawthornes, the Estons and many more—while I am likewise sprung of that independent Whig ancestry which also labored and made good within this same ancient free-men's land of trans-Alleghenian Virginia; and I stand for and represent, as do you so many of you, my auditors, this commingling and nurture of those common historic traditions and influences which have made not only Massachusetts and Virginia great, but which have likewise molded and do now mold upon great and historic lines the lives and characters of so many of the men and women today inhabiting that portion of Appalachian America known as the State of West Virginia, and who have already given so much, and will yet give so much, to the upbuilding and sustaining of the mighty Republic, of which we now form an indissoluble part. While we may pay especial homage to the illustrious history that illumines the County of Upshur, none the less may we West Virginians look upon Upshur as typical of the entire region of trans-Alleghenian Virginia now enclosed within the boundaries of our State and of the people by whom it is possessed. West Virginia Distinguished People West Virginiaans Distinguished People. In many ways we West Virginiaans are a chosen people, separate and apart—set apart, as it were from the populations now making up the great bulk of the inhabitants of not only our newer, but likewise our older states. And, if I may be pardoned for speaking of virtues which in some instances may mark the characters of many of you, my audience, and for touching lightly upon what of demerits you may be conscious you possess, I shall briefly review the historic reasons which give to our West Virginia people uncommon distinction as a population, and, I might almost say, as a race. We as a people are descended almost wholly from pure English and Scotch-Irish stock. Our forebears endured the dangers and braved the peril of anugry and yet unmastered scans. They conquered from hostile and relentless savages the continent they now possess; they came not as emigrants, lured by promise of high wages and sure pay; they did not come in quest of greater luxury and ease; they dared the dangers of the uncharted Atlantic for sheer joy of adventure and of peril. They came inspired by man's highest sentiment, the desire to conquer and possess and to be free; and the women, like the men, were endowed with the same high spirit. Historians now generally agree that the seventeenth century was one of the pivotal eras of the world's history, and, as has been well said, "It NO 39 saw the end of the reliquary crisis; it saw the organization of the modern state; it beheld the rise of new world powers. No less than in the world of politics, the century was the turning point from the old to the new world of affairs. The former supremacy of the city merchant barons of Italy and Germany, the masterful tyranny of the Hanseatic League, had passed away. With the discoveries of Vasco de Gama and his intrepid Portuguese, of Columbus and of Cortes, of Pizzairo and of Magellan, with the opening of America and Asia and the islands of the southern seas, business had become nationalized. The imagination of the world—the European world—was all afire, and the most daring spirits of the most daring races were ready to go anywhere, brave any peril and dare any enterprise. No such immigration ever set foot upon the shores of this or any other continent, reckoning for both eigor of body and energy of soul, as poured itself upon the shores of the American continent, reckoning for both vigor of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth centuries. These men and women, entering New France and New England and Virginia represented the ```markdown ``` most forceful personalities of the altest races of the earth. And it is from this stock, from these forebears, that are chiefly sprung the population and the race that now inhabits the region of trans-Alleghenian America embraced within the confines of the State of West Virginia. Settling at first along the borders of the sea, pushing up the estuaries and inlets and then the rivers, moving on toward the great barrier of the Allegheny Mountain, the hardier spirits pressed westward in perpetual warfare with opposing nature and untamed and untamable savages; and, necessarily, there was a continual sifting out of the feebler in body and weaker in soul among these undaunted pioneers, until those who held and possessed the then Western border became and were recognized in fact as the flower of the manhood and womphood of the American Colonies and of the world. In the nation today the descendants of this splendid ancestry, dwelling here in West Virginia and in the States marching with her borders, inherit and have revealed during the crisis of the Civil War, and possess today, the same high qualities in flesh and bone and spirit. To say notion in this present day there is no greater safeguard to the contending of preservation of her institutions in this Republic of the United States than the existence of a population like that of West Virginia, with its inheritance of daring and of devotion to the bottom ideals, with its instinct and trained ability to meet and overcome practical difficulties and theoretical challenges to their homes, to their states, their Nation. Responsibility of American Citizen. This continent is fast filling with many divers more gathered from all quarters of the globe. To many of those people our thousand years of training in the achievement of liberty and the self-restraint that is the handmaid of enduring freedom are quite unknown. What does a Sicilian, a Syrian or a Museoevite know of true liberty, or the spirit of give-and-take that makes for the continued preservation of true liberty? Where is the German, or the Polander, or the Spanish who can properly conceive of practical freedom in the first, nay, even in the second generation? How shall these overrunning peoples be taught? How shall they be enabled to acquire conceptions of American ideals of free and equal civil government, of spiritual and intellectual growth? How otherwise than by and through the teaching and examples that shall be borne to them by the sons and daughters of the founders of that government based upon that ideal of liberty whereby it might become possible that "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." 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The fact that the West Ve. eoldiera who fougbt against the rebellion rejected the aintue ao gra civoely piven by Gol, Seymour Ed wards does not snd eboold no Ieseen their devotion for him Tory love bim tbe more for his feally ‘o their cause, and bia desire to typify it in brooze for all time to come, May bia life and labore in the bolia of Congress srouse the Nation to perpetoate hia name in bronze. Bu patient please. Tow the prees is bossting over Mr. Tafe’'s act in turning cut those Texes U, S. Mar- Bhals because and oaly because they preferred: Roosevelt to bim. In your gboniish glee have you forgotten Bo goon, that Mr. Taft was aleo turned ontend io the moat shemeful way any president over was? Are you too chort sighted to foreaes that Mr. T-1V's36000 appointed hold cvers are going to be turned ou: and civil ser- vice, the most infernal humbug on earth is going to get a eolar plexus blow? It is 60 often said that the heart is full of love, deceit or batred. How cap it be? In truth it can’t love, hate nor be deceitful, from the fact it ia only the body's pump. It is the miod that Jovis, betes and is 80 of ten so deceitful. True the jatronger the hoart, the stronger the love, ba- tred und deceit, because when any o all of those traits of character are excited the beart acs in accordance ‘Think of it, for the person who giver his beart to God,only gives bis flesh, but when be gives bis wind, be gives whst controls bim, Mr. T. S. Lovett, whose pluck and evergy has won for bim distino- tion vu boiel keeper regardless of color los: bis beautifol and finely eqoipped strnotare, tbe “Hill Top” by fire on Iagt Wednesday night To bim and to bia family the Pioneer Prese extends ita eympatbs. We troat bowever that the wisdom of the financier ae evinoed by tbe Ienver in which Mr. Lovett hae condocied tis bosinewa led bim to base his embarrassment greatly reduced by aentiefuctory amount of insorence One of cur excoungee haaa pio tore of 210 wild geece killed by two Meo witbiv ene bour, Ie it right? Nil and ro again. They Ought to be provected ne ere bome etaying birds. Wheo @ boy, the air in tbe epring wod fell wae fall of the ma- sic of wild geeee and tbomeande in endlees processions were going to their deatination, Not so to dey, and the picsare expluing why. Be foretbe civil war millions of wild Pigeons came to this country yearly There were 60 many the ridges and oon'sins were lined with them end of evenings it was common to heer limbs of trees breaking because of 0 mony being on them, Are they brevking limba pow? Or do sou know of any being cooped or Sroppec? ‘hese are gone aod co will the geeec and docks unless protect ed, The Nations! Cowwilt'e of the Progrestive Party closed a called mncetiog held this week in Chicsgo, where plans to enthu-e the lukewarm outeiders wre formulated aod will be rigidly cerried cut. = With four more years to eo Inbor, judging by the forty. five hundred tbousend vo- ters we gatbered together within tbree months, twelve million loyal patriotic cove of America will eteod ehoulder fo shoulder in the Lex: con testand ite prepavanda shall rieg frou: Maine to the Golden Gate ard ita echo of man’s Lumenity to man will be feit, ald waybap a nobler civilization —our fincere ambition, Jt msy bea little etrange that cur wite fruit end epriculturists know allabeur the ile of tress ard their remecies, while, at the tame time ‘they know fittle or potting about tbe Fille of thenselves, ICcedar, which bas heen growing for (housanda of yeare is co di-asireus to froit trees, why buve they not been wiped of the fuce ofthe earth long eye? fs Dot the propagation the ciuse of the various diseases? Sound fruit trees can be ho more produced by detcet- tv methods, than blind parents ean produce ecirg childreu, — Correct the cvil st the root end It the cedar grow. The biggest fools ip thie world are among the lntter day scientists. Are thy to blew? Not if what Bishop BC Carter, who bold the United Brebren Conference bere a few mouths ego said is true. He enid: “Ht Thad terty boys and wanted te make infidels out of thom I weuld send them to wost of cur ccllege ond universisties.? Thore of other days sdmitted that it was impossible to find any difer- once between the blood of monteys end men, bul theee Jate day fellows whose cups are fall ond over running with prejudice, have keener vision apd can now tell by bumsa_ blood whotber races are while or colored. Got to prove to the editor of the Pioneer Presa bow itis possible t do that with the fully five millior Negroce, fully one half of whom ar precing for white? Tis as impossible as itis with the bisckest or brownesa of buman beings. In short you lie. DR J W.E BOWENS ARTICLE ON THE SEGREGATION AMENDMENT IN THE METHODIST EPIS- COPALCUURCH. Mr, Editor:—In the South weatern Christisn Advocate of Nov. 28.b. the Dr. discusses, “Should tho Amcnd. ment Be Adopted by the Anbuel Conferesces?’ He apewers yes. Ile argues the question under five Propositions, His first proposition ie, ‘The Church does not eed a Negro General Superintendent for General work in Methodism.” That is not the qnestion at all, and never bas heen, and never will be while the Cborch is governed by that ervel monster, prejudice. The limitations of a Negro Superintensent have always stood out more prominentiy than any otber feature of the ques tion. Heretofore it bas been, elect one under the general law, aud then circumscribe bim by the “uawsitten Jaw’? It bas been decided that each an election migbt not be safe. There: fore, we have on Its passage of which is the question under discussion, The Dr. need not worry about 1 Negro Geveral Supsrintendent, He will ever see one. His eccond thought ia that the election of euch en cflicer today would destroy the “sccial peace,"the “purpose of the episcopal machio- ery” and cripple her work in the Sonth.” Spirituality is tbe prime thing in t!e Church. What effect does the Dr, think such an clection would bave on that? I knew Broth. er Robert Hargis. a colored Loeal Preacher to break up @ revival in 9 white church by praying in it when ealled upon by Bro. Mellwsine, white Locs! Prescher. Butin this secondfquestion the Dr, is off of the subject again, becu ise be is still dis- cussing a Negro Geveral Superin- tendenot, and is net discussiog tbe proposed smendment. There is nothing io this pr: posid amendwent. There is nothin in this proposed amendment stout a Neyro Geveral ' Superintendent. He sureiy is inter- festa in the white memberebip. He jreminds me of the old washerwomsn, who always washed the white peopl s letusbes “fast,” capecially when the white pecple were pressnt, Wooder if be thought of the Larm of such so election 9 few years azo when a cer- tain brotber was running so far be- hind in the eprecopal rece quadsren nially wore than once. [lis third proposition is The Negro ig sensitive under the unwritten law, lest he be charged with going beyond his bounds, reckon be is the only one [rat fears euch an accusation. Li- jah thought is tbe colored prople [Prefer written low to unwritten be- jeause of being more easily repealed, Heisebout the only ove thet is \hinking ecough about that feature of the subject to mention it. Uis 5th proposition is, there ia no jhumilistion to the colored members under tho written nor under tie unwritten law, Tuen to bse it up he tries to make ic sppear thot a jblsck theologies! protse r is equal itoa white theological professor in |Metbodiem He saya there is on |oawritien Jaw favoreble to white professors for white students. Ie jomzbt to beve addi d there ie vlso an [aa written law f-vorsble to white professors teaching colored s udeute, Granted there is an uowritten law fuvornble to colored professors teaching colored studente in Metb- odism, minus an uowritten or a writ coe ten allowing colored professors teach to white siudents. The white professors have two privilezes while the colored profeseors have one priv ilege only, The Dr. fivaliy confesses the world to be the white protessore parish, while black students conati- tute the parish of the colored pro- fessors. The Dr. is old enongh in years and in experience now to “eal! @ batchet a hatchet.” Ile can not hurt himself pow by fair and honest diecusaicn. He is all that be is to be Janybow, Discuss the subject tbe way you thivk and pray. If be does bot rezard this difference plus many others that might be mentioned “Ac sffrout to my manhood ora enrtail ment to wy opportunities” his man. bood wuat be scarce, and surely fails to know when his opportunitics aro curtatled. From Far-Off South America | Dear Editor:— It may do well for m6 to close up certain points now. and make myself clearly understood as it way oppear strange that I have Given an extra amount of favor to Mr, Jobn Mitebell, Jr.. and opposed many who would ell then selves bigher up. T wish to say (hat my porpese ta pliin when you under stand me. Lam notcf the o: inion that many others ate whom Trend after, in respect to the Nevro. They Bpend their Lime abusing what they call the rabble, th. boodiam or the Jower class Negro,whom they slmost iovarisbiy charge with disgrecing them and their rece, My thovzbte are just to the opposite, because their views of the lower class Negro @re the views held by their white brothers regarding him: It ia not what orwho Mr Mitchell's father was, with me, nor is it whet echoul be bails from, 1 care nothing for heredity whatever, ae this hea ever been the curse of avciery. I juty the tree by ites indvidual frutis. I imegine {thot Mr. Mitebel’s father fatber was born a sieve while these eee cee SES UCwEOO. 00 0s this belilsbneas of uupcoeesary discrimi nation, is upheld and carried on by Nevroes themselves, by those whe would ‘ike to bo culled the upper class Negroes. But God, and the ignoravt white man will not have i Continue that way, You sre #! equal ip their eyes; just as you are i: miot, Bat [0 further and esy that the white brother is likewise, and if Negroes will come to thes: cuaclus ions toey will prosper, evd not uati! You blawe your troubics on th ignorant Negroes, and so does you white brotber blame sll on the Ne groes beesuse they were slaves end therefore ignorans. But Jeane cvs this class for bis disciples, and you se that things in America, are just what they wera in the old) word when hecsme. It is the msn ip authority who stould be blamed. You cee what your law making Ge partments or their associations think about Negroes, If you want to kill a enuke quick, why atrike bim on th head, and if you wishto settle this thing rigbt reach up to the head of the claes, That ia why Ike p jub- bing Dr, Washington, DuBore, Roosevelt, Taft, Tillman, Vardawan, Hill end the rest. Tuis you (ellows are efraid todo, because you may lose something, and you ere quite Tight too, But evea thoayt you loose your lives, L assure you that i: is the gurest way to victory. Sirike iton the head, Taav’s the phe 1 aean by this that the Negroes ot the Jower olees have never done suc 1 disgraceful things to your litte dig Dities 8 Laat same Class of white wen bave to their racy but you do n» heor all of thig abuse among then, Tadmit that the white man is fr from being perfect with his own, But be beuts the Negroa great deal. ‘You see then that the only right solution isnow what it ever wos— social equality to all, under eimilar conditions and sympathy for the wesk You see socisty bas said that one class of prople mus: do all the work, while cthers do ali the playing. I know that you cannot expect the uneducated to ect the part of an educated person, Asd that is why Teny, give ell the same chance, and ‘then whosoever fails, why then puo- isb bim according vo bis faulte, acd for them only. You eee by this that you all have gotten yourselves into o most miserable tavgle and muet go back to tbe mother of logic belore you can get straight again, and the quicker tbe better. “O God; in eyes Tam nothing. Bat my brother ig not much more, and seving tbat we allareso little I beg that thy blessings be equally distrivates awong us. For in thine oyes we are sll but sinners, and mus’ wait upon thy salvation. Thou art the only God.” “We learn from thy com- mendments that tiou art jus} and demandest us to be of the samo epirit ope with the otber.” | And we cau ree clearly Low to say ‘this in oor hearts when we are ready for the favors of God, ant voy be- fore. Tieretore stop laying your troubles upon the irresponsible lower clace, or ratber tbe weaker people. T bave often wondered bow all tho colored people in America suffered di Om Ke Gabe ae Te ee te profit from colored patronage? Ad- Vertis ments ore the res] support of aoy good joursal, Youallseem to think it the snbsoription. The grestcs: department io a journal's «fice is the edvertising department. You con not ius this neglect to. the mif-raff color d wan. Do all you cap ee) of yeuluud the thing will soun fight itecit 1.S Moore, Bobis, Brazil, FIND DYNAMITE IN HOTEL® Forty-five Sticks of Explosive in Ce icy of Mount Carmel Butiding. Wile oscavating in a cellar of the hotel of Poter Lubins, in the business center of Mount Carmel, Pa, a tim can, coniaining tarty-ive sticks of the highest grade of dynamite, was die covered. The dynamite had been hidden by some unidentified persons, evidently with the intent of blowing up the hoe tel, but who, it is believed, lost cour- age heeause of the fear of the popu- Jar sentiment against such depreda- uions owing to the developments in the MeNamara case at Los Angeles. BIRD'S NEST CAUSES DEATH Blocks Chimney Flue and Man an@ Wife Are Asphyxiated, A last summer bird’s nest caused the deaths in Mount Zion, IL, of Henry Scott and iis wife, The nest blocked a chimney fue, and when a gas stove was lighted Ip the couple's bedroom the fumes were forced back and they were asphyxfat- ed. Scott Was forty-eight years old and his wite sls years his senlor. They were married last August. MURDERED BY SWEETHEART Following Mysterious Shooting, Mar Tries to Kill Himecl#, Margaret Schroeder, a pretty girl ninciven years of age, was shot ane killed in West Porty-sixth street, Ip New York city, by her sweetheart, Michael Grasso, thirty-one years old, who aiteipted suicide by firing a bul let iuio his head. He was removed to f& hospital umconscious, What cause the shooting has not been learned. of g DALTINORE & OHI Regs RafLROAD. Corrected to May s6th, 1912. Trains ieaye Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a m for Pittsburg Cincinnai., Louisville and St: Loris Conncets ter Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 15 Daily ut 1.50am for Grafton, Pittsburg ard Chicago. No 5 Jaily,at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsbur, and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 p a fur Wheeling, Oolv umbus aud Chicago. No.1 Daily at 6.20 p m ior Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Uaily at 2.36. a m for Cincinnati: Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No. 39, 5-37 p.m. ‘i No.9 Daily at 11.28 p 1a: for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Suaday at 6.30 a m orCunterland asd intermediate staz ons, Connects for Berkeiey Spriags,. EAST BOUND. | Now Daily at4.1r9a m for Washing: ton, Lattimore, Philadelphia and New York, Tio to Daily 6.26 m lor Washingtow and Kaitimore, No 3 Daily at 10.37 a m for Washing- ton, Baitiiore, Philadelphia and New. Vork, Connects for Lexington Va., and Hepersiowa except Sanday and Freder ick. No. 40 9.41 8. m, for Washington and intermediate stations. Nez Daily al 40.17 am foe Washing ~ ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New. York. No 6 Daily at 2,38 p m for Washington Baltimore, Mialadelpuia aad New York, No Ig Vary at 8.09 p m for Washington Baltimore, Yiiladelphia and New York, Noiz Daily Duquesne Limited” at 14,23 a. m. (or Washington, Baltimore, Pidladelphia and New York. No 10 Daily except Sunday at 11,55 am for Frederick, Baliimore ad all anter~ mediate stations via old line. Noss i aily except Sunday at 6.30 pm for Washingion and Baltimore and all in- termediate stations, Connects fox, Freder- ick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen, Pass Agent. Baltimor. mfd. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W, Ve J. B.CLIFFORD, ATVORNEY AL Law MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA se Practicesin all the Courts of Ww Va., the Supreme Coart of Appeale aud toe United States Courts, Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. John McGill paid a flying visit to Winchester on Thursday of this week. Judge Aleton G. Dayton, of Phi-ippi, held a special term of United States Court here during the week. Mrs. Maggie Brunewick, of Harper's Ferry, is visiting friends and relatives in our city. Miss Gertrude Carter, of Johnson town, Jefferson County, was the guest of her father, Mr. Thomas Carter, during the week. 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. Follow the crowd to Fletchers West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition Phone 287K P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Miss Sophie Roman and Mrs. Fannie Wilson, who came here from Yonkers, New York, to attend the funeral of their father, Mr. William Roman, have returned to that city. * Mrs. Claudia Willis, of Thomas, W Vs., visited Mr. and Mrs. William O. Turner during the week. She looked well and friends here gled to see her. Mrs. Georganna Simpeon, the well known rooming house proprietress of Charles Street, received the sad news the other day that her brother, Mr. Elijah Veals, of McGabeysville, Virginia, was dead. He had been ailing for a long time, and his death was not unexpected. An infant grandson of Mr. Amos Holley, a child of Mr. and Mrs. George Blake, who live northwest of Berkeley Station, this county, was accidentally shot on last Saturday, its brains being blown out and death resulting the next day. The be reaved parents and grandparents have our sympathy in their sadness Miss A. E. Levy, of East Orange, New Jersey, was a recent visitor to our city, her trip being occasioned by the serious illness of her brother, Mr. James Levy. She was a pleasant lady, and formed the acquaintance of many persons who will ever remember her for her kindliness and genial disposition. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, the well known builder and contractor, of Clarksburg, this State, was a business visitor to Martineburg on last Thursday. The gentleman above named is a fine workman, a worthy example for young colored men to follow after, and a person of whom any race might well be proud. Mr. Charles Williams, a popular barber and restaurant keeper of Fairmont, was in Martinsburg during the week, and circulated among friends. Mr. Williams is a very companionable gentleman, stands high as an Odd Fellow, and to meet him is to like him. Come again, good friend, we are always glad to see you. 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, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolite Magazine, 1879 Broadway, New City. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. "A POPULAR DEFINITION. Senator Depew had just seen seventeen office-seekers. Tired, but ever genial, he shook his eighteenth caller by the hand and said: My dear sir, do you know the definition of a Senator? Well, in the opinion of too many of his constituents, a Senator may be defined as a man who won't give you a job." CARNEGIE'S PUN. In response to a compliment upon the high library quality of the contents of the various Carnegie libraries, Andrew condescended to make a pun. "Why, yes," he said, "these libraries are literary through and through. One of them burned down, the other day, and even the smoke issued in volumes." TO BE SURE Uncle Joe Cannon, in his conservative way was ridiculing the progressive, the socialists and other radical platforms. "Oh yes," he said with a chuckle. "Money is the root of all evil—the other man's money of course." ** WELL ALL WALK SOON. "If the high cost of living keeps up the rich themselves will feel the pinch of it," said Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo. He continued: I know a Toledo banker who has already begun to retrench. His daughter said to him the other day: "Father, dear, I need a new riding habit: "Can't afford it," the banker growled. But, father, what am I to do without a ridin' habit." "Get the walking habit." ALL QUIET NOW. When Noah sent each kind of beast Into his wond'rous ark. Of trouble there was not the least: Not one unkind remark. And watched the others play. The Bull Moore was a gentle brute, As mild as any cow. He did not voice a fierce salute, Nor seek to raise a row. Alas! What battles strange we see When campaign days arrive: How sweet and perfect life might be If Nosh were alive. 1,217,502 Votes Cast In Pennsylvania. The computation of the official vote cast in Pennsylvania Nov. 5 is completed, the returns of Allegheny county, the last to be filed, having arrived at Harrisburg. The returns show a total of 1,217,502 votes cast for the presidential electors, the vote for the first elector on each ticket being as follows in the order the parties appended on the ballot: Republican, 273,305; Democratic, 305,619; Prohibition, 19,533; Socialist, 80,915; Bull Moose, 60,964; Industrialist, 704; Roosevelt Progressive, 35,513; Washington, 350,949. This makes Roosevelt's total vote in the state 447,426, a plurality over Wilson of 51,807, and over Taft of 174,121. The vote for state treasurer was: Young, 607,743; Republican, 263,743; Bull Moose, 43,780; Roosevelt Progressive, 25,583; Washington, 274,669; Berry, 413,853; Democratic, 377,826; Keystone, 36,070; Huntingdon Prohibition, 18,141; Schwartz, Socialist, 79,063. Total, 1,118,800. Young's plurality over Berry, 193,890. Young's majority, 96,686. The vote for auditor general was: Powell, 621,234; Republican, 269,292; Bull Moose, 44,388; Roosevelt Progressive, 26,912; Washington, 280,642. Cresswell, 381,987; Democratic, 356,574; Keystone, 25,413. Cannon, Prohibition, 20,948; Eldridge, Socialist, 81,237. Total, 1,105,406. Powell's plurality over Cresswell, 239,247. Powell's majority, 137,062. The total vote for presidential electors is 49,948 less than that cast in 1908. NOVEMBER 1 TO APRIL 30. GOOD RETURNING UNTIL MAY 31. SECURE FULL INFORMATION FROM TICKET AGENTS. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D.C. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsupassed. 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In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Bicycles. ot ead must be our ‘ : 1 vee it our Bob ~ eve end hum a 1 tine 3 i 3 her privet aie ernine ese inomne nwt pe Sand high priv Bloxe te oy ived from our Colo: yink Veyeiviionnry forebears, Mure ¢ Vy and aura tntly than fave ot now imbabiting any other § . the Cnien. vin Messaze T would bring you tots venid bid vou yo forth fre : Vege Walls full Teden with th the rasponsibilities, herote ¢ aa e fathors and de voted qoathers t ‘ined to you in tens, Privii so ef Free Speech. Sou paid vo vel another borttaye wl Voted © Coght to Couerish OVER aE seened yas the splsitual sod wivibae ty thy aireudy ours ple of Wess Virettin aud og vou and Of myseti isure Unie ohmes? pron! 1a eile Sid. qureaaove Uiovur Coiby core se, the sinmlest re Inert expressive tongue now own te tins, We West Vireinians do not speak Whe Eselish ene: in modern. ine Jand, with it tinbrous be talved Tobteoninn torus, ver do we tins in Mt; bat we vee) predominantly the speech bende! down tous oy the mien who relied nad Klizabeth, who wmathered ai the cet of King dames 1, and pave iy the vorld that priceless amowtincst itaple, straight-spoken, Jucid lit speech —the King James Version of ite Holy Bible; of the mea who foil ito yank st the’ werd of OF Sver Cromiwel, and who made that BL ble the morad vtatute-book of the men of Britain, wt then forevor of the English-speo sng races of ths enrti Tt is ass os Cost Tyler has so a@ptiy sali: “oho history ef our lan. guage, ike cur iiterature, eay be traced back from the present hour, as Mt recedes along the track of our Na tlonal fife, through the early days ot the Republic, Guough five generations of Colontu existence, nad, in the first decade of Cre seventeenth century, It is mersed in tis splendid parentage the soekea sed written speech of Mr for saginnd. "This birth epoch ot ihe togve We Ins aad write was one of splendor. [0 was amidst the full dow ering mugaifieance of the Hlcabeuun, timo, a goidon age, whose creative vt tality, whore suverh fruitage reach ol forward and crt thelr yiory across the entire generation sueceadiag i death of KLzabeth bersolf, ‘Phe frst words of Englieh speech upon tis contineat were heard along the wash: ing waters of tho Juines Kiver, where ft mixes ind is lost among the salty tides of the Chesapeake, at the very time whea ihe firmsment. of English thought end written and spoken speech were all ablase with tho light of her fullozbed ana inoss wonderful welters, the wits, the dramatists, the scholars, orstors, singers, philerephers, who. formed that incomparable group of Utante men gathered around the tit tering Trtor court during the carilr years of the seventeenth century; when London had become a spleadid and opulen: capital; when the very air of Londow invest have become clec tric with ite duily words of those im mortals whose casiial tall upon the pavement bh, the curh sido was a cola age of speech richer, more virile more oxprevrive, than has been known on this plavet since the great days cf Athenlan povtry, eloquence And inirth.” Tt was the period of the renalszance, of the Martish tongue, | It i Unis Ioagvage of the Elizabeth’ aa uses whies we Amorleans more than any cer portion of the Englisi Speaking races, and we Woet Virgi fang phove SU others in the Nation, dr. our dyily fyiorconrse have preserys 1 among cur nountaings and our valley. es & Vitel, living tongne. We sneak the tongue of Sher ' speare, of Viton, of King James; we have never tnken en the burdens of) the ponderous schotor’tp of Dr. Jown| Bo ANd the school that follow hin. | Our West Virginia home: and! and mouths ere fu’! of the expressive words, tho prctent forms, tho telling fdloms end sinnie dletion af the ric Inherited Dictinguished Ancesiry. isis ‘ Tevet aud thei divided valless, againet wnich ig couvend for these obetucies of nature have long hop wide gpart our peop pei, sit are so eiosely knit to. gether In race and origin and in th common iaheritance of unr da speech, the time lies sureiy come who the cloceknbting ties of common (i Giions aud like aspiration shall giv tothet culty as a people which ia sc ulbessential, in order to assure us the Krewe La whick we feel oursel Wherefore it is that P would ike t iandled fn the breast of ever Inga and weman, in every young mit und tustid very bay and girl ot ti Nit whe sentiment fur vi West Virginians, And I zl ein st pela and en ia ' Hod conse oreeddtie the pr! in tie pe fen ty Hhoaners oa s {o\ommeu from: when you ar vprans, aid whowe tonvae you speek, flove yeur inte with a proud heort, for yeu are verily a chosen peo le, with the seal of a great destiny toss your brows—you are West Vit Appeals to Wesleyan Students, Snd now if Is that 1 would speal: « word with you concerning this notice institution of learning —West Viiiale Wosleyan College, We know your ili tory; your early establshinent in tho days of small things; your Jevation to high ideale; quallty’ rather than teentity having been your aim; your Kisersant struggle eganst | what Feomed at times unconquerable odds; your present emergence like a new- Lera star from the dim distances of Uncortainty and dowbi; your present ferure position as a compact and evi- eieat orpantaation under the leader: Phin of the great man at your tend put Wis stat of deveted lentensats, hed by Ube growing power ef tue Mot militant, solloreriGeing and po eat Christian orpeniceion of 7 wists TH Gu OWas Ehoerd . ei Viratinn din bleod 5 ' tar vgd abst toe : toa 5 i eet gpractiean ad will V hh Cellors tie exenilie of tp rosie tau) of spiritual amd ace Pea Onibive, ner merely for the ate, bet alse for the Navion And now, Me. President snd meny bers of the Board of ‘Trustees and face nity and friends of West Virginie Wes- van College, permit mo to express my Seep senve of the henor you do and hove done ime in conferring upon me the degree of Doctor of Litt. for it expresses to mo and to the world the approclation you have for what men- tality a Kindly Providence has be- slowed upon me, and brings to my heart that joy which every creator feels in the apprecistion by others of iho ch!ldron of his brain, THE KEYSER, MOOREFIFLD AND PETERSBURG A States ER op hae PMSA Ho pe POE STAGE LINE Rune daily execpt Sunday, Persons wishing to irevel in the direction mentinored will find itagrest cone venienes and very cheap—the round frip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 37 miles Vorsons traveling it once, will never f -got the kindness of the propriet o Mr. George Shank. kiG@iAds ovcr 6s yearns’ aah ae fe ExPERiEnce: = 5 aa 5 = a As | Be ee tae | Rte AA AR we Tnace MaRKs FANE cop miants fic. 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