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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The "HERE SHALL T ESTABLISHED 1882. A REPLY BY THE REV, J. O. THOMPSON, D. D. The Pioneer Press of January 11 contains a question addressed to "Mrs. J. O. Thompson." I am sorry to say that she is physically unable to reply. On the evening of Nov. 11 she fell, from some unexplained cause, on the floor of her home and so injured her right leg that she has not, up to this time, been able to walk, nor even, much of the time to sit up in the bed. She can, at this writing, turn herself in the bed, but cannot rise to a sitting posture without assistance. She is, however, improving slowly, and her physician gives us hope that she will soon be able to walk. At her request I attempt to answer the editor's question. God made men to love life. Like all the doings of our Heavenly Father, the provision is an infinitely wise one. To the rule there is no exception among good people—genuine Christians. These do not "submit" to their Father's will. "Submit" is a slave's word; it implies that that to which we submit is bad, is a hardship, and must be borne simply because we can not help ourselves. The really good man heartily, cheerfully, gladly acquiesces in his Father's will, he is in harmony with it, because he sees and realizes that it is not only not bad, but that it is the absolute "best." There are many reasons why we should love life. One is that we are stationed here by our Creator for a purpose—an infinitely beneficent purpose. Purpose, design, is to me one of the most plainly apparent facts. The soldier on guard or more active duty is a traitor and a coward if he deserts or longs to desert his post. It is his business to faithfully perform his duty till he receives from his Commanders orders to quit. Another is that, if we are what we ought to be, our lives are worth a good deal to our fellow men, especially those near to us by the ties of relationship or friendship. Many would be afflicted, would suffer grief and loss at our departure. We ought to be in love with life for their sake. Few of us are so worthless that some one does not surely need us. Then there is always, in most people, a feeling of uncertainty about our future life. Hamlet voices the common feeling when he says: "Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, That undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns—puzzles the will. And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of?" But the editor is very much mistaken in his supposition that there are only a very few who so cling to life as to be unwilling to go when they recognize Tennyson's 'One clear call for me.' The willingness "To depart and be with Christ" on the part of real Christians—and there are a good many of them in the world—is not so rare as he thinks. There are many who, like the great philosopher, Borden P. Bowne, would, were it not for the loss and grief caused to loved ones, rejoice "As a boy let loose from --- school to go and be forever with the Lord." I have personally known scores of people who could say, with truth, if I am capable of judging of frankness and honesty, "I would not live alway." I, for one, would earnestly desire, when my work is done, my usefulness at an end, to go to the land of eternal betterness. St. Petersburg, Florida About $3,000,000 was spent last year by fraternal organizations, labor unions and insurance companies in special funds for the treatment of their tuberculous members and policyholders, according to a statement issued today by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Sanatoria for the care of tuberculous members of such organizations have been established by four fraternal orders, The Royal League at Black Mountain, N. C. the Modern Woodmen of America at Colorado Springs, the Independent Order of Foresters at Rainbow Lake, N. Y., and the Workmen's Circle at Liberty, N. Y. The Loyal Order of Moose have voted to erect a sanatorium and the Order of Owls is considering the project. The Odd Fellows, Eiks, Knights of Pythias and Knights of Columbus have all voted unfavorably against national sanatoria but have in each case made some provision for the care of tuberculous members in already existing institutions near their homes. Among the labor unions, the Printers and the Printing Pressmen are the only two national bodies having tuberculosis senatoria, the former at Colorado Springs, and the latter at Rogersville, Tennessee. Active propaganda against tuberculosis among their members are carried on also among the Cigarmakers Union, the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, the Photo-Engravers, and several other similar groups. In some of the unions funds are set aside for the care of sick members. Insurance companies are also engaged in a tuberculosis campaign. The Metropolitan Insurance Company is building a sanatorium at Mt. McGregor, N Y., and is spending large sums every year in caring for its sick policy holders. The Equitable, Prudential, Postal and several others of the large companies are carrying on active educational campaigns among their policy holders. Blease of South Carolina has this to say among other things: I want to warn you today, passing as I am rapidly from state politics, that if I go higher it will be to a broader and national field, when I will fight the education of the Negro. I blush to say that in a Yankee state he is breaking down the social barriers. Please should keep cool, if it be possible for one like him to keep cool. No matter what the Negro may do in a Yankee state," no self-respecting Negro in any state would attempt to break down any social barrier between himself and Please. Please expects to sit in the United States Senate as a member from South Carolina. His expectation is a blanket indictment of South Carolina. Anecdotal Literature Bx W. G. A POINT TO REMEMBER A popular and witty temperance lecturer, in delivering an address, concluded with an abjuration to the men in the audience, to proceed directly home from their business places without any stops as this or that cef, "for", said he, "the man who goes straight home will always go home straight." IT'S COME TO THAT. 'A politician was talking to a reporter about the abuse, so frequently unjust which nowadays attaches to men of great wealth. "A little boy," he said, once remarked to his father: "Pa, I often read in the low priced magazines about "poor but honest people"—why do they never say, "rich but honest? "Because, my son," the father answered, "Nobody would believe them?" FOR PEACE Customer—I want to order a new suit for myself; but, please measure my son for that purpose; for you see he wears my cast off clothes, and the rescal always complains they do not fit him. \* \* A YOUNG SKEPTIC. Tommy—"Do you believe in ghosts, Willie?" Willie—"No—not unless I'm alone in the dark." TIT FOR TAT. The Rev. Mr. Walker, one Sunday morning, saw his friend Rev. Mr. Read in the audience. He forthwith went to him and urged him to preach for him. But Mr. Read, having made no preparation, at first declined, but finally yielded and seconded the pulpit, taking for his text, Job 1:7—"Then Satan answered the Lord, and said:—From going to and tro in the earth and from walking up and down in it." From this text he drew the doctrine that the devil was a great Walker, which produced a general smile among the hearers, and mortified Mr. Welker not a little. But Mr. Walker was not lacking the gift of repartee. In the evening he occupied the pulpit himself, taking for his text, Mat. 11:7, "A reed shaken with the wind." "The doctrine of the text," he said, "is the instability of Reade." And on this theme he discovered full Wreed wished he had never ventured his wit in the pulpit at the expense of his friend Walker. THE USES FOR EGGS We know that eggs are almost indispensible for cooking, but they are just as valuable for other things as well. A mustard plaster made with the white of an egg will not blister the tenderest skin. The fragile white skin that lines the shell of an egg is a fine application for a boil. White of egg beaten with loaf sugar and lemon juice relieves a cough and hoarseness; a teaspoonful every hour is the dose. If a fish bone lodges in the throat beyond the reach of the fingers, a raw egg swallowed (without being beaten) will in most instances carry the bone along. A good remedy for stomach and bowel trouble is a raw egg taken every six hours. The egg should be partly beaten, though not to a froth. A little white of egg spread over a scald or burn will prevent the air from getting to it and effect a cure. For preserving jelly in glasses, paper should be cut to fit at the top and smeared with raw white of eggs, the egg side down. A little white of egg curdled with a bit of powdered alum will stop a sty if used as soon as the sty appears. Be careful not to get the mixture inside the eye, although it will do no injury but it stings and is unpleasant. GOVERNOR BROWN'S POINT WELL TAKEN. With the white South so ripe with color prejudice, it is at least interesting if not really encouraging, to know of a white Southern governor taking a fair stand. It seems that the Governor has done this. It was a case where only Colored men were concerned, however, the Springfield Republican speaks as follows of the matter: "The remarks of Gov. Brown of Georgia in commuting to life imprisonment the sentence of a Negro condemned to hang for the murder of another Negro deserve general attention. The governor's main reason—that the accused was defended by an inexperienced lawyer—seems some what novel, but there is force rather than novelty in the contention that "an indigent defendant, when on trial for his life, should be furnished by the state with an advocate whose long practice would enable him to give the full extent and weight of the evidence in such manner as will exhaust the fountains of justice for the poor man as thoroughly as paid counsel will exhaust them for the rich." The general practice of throwing such cases to the rising young attorney to try his skill upon has doubtless at times resulted in a miscarriage of justice. And this condition of things is made all the worse when it is presented in contrast with the wealthy defendant who, in comparison, is enabled practically to buy his way to liberty. There is weight in the contention of many social reformers that an official defending attorney is as important to the ends of justice as an official prosecutor." DISEASE AND SECRECY. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, in such all the communicable diseases are spread largely through the carie- nees or ignorance of the people. A concealed case of contagion is a grave danger to any community. Every case should be promptly reported; and unless this is done, the health authorities can make but little headway in fighting the spread of the contagious diseases. —Chicago Broad Ax. Whatever may be said derogatory of the character and habits of the American Negro, it is a fact that he has his first time to organize or hold a convention of his behoise, all reports to the contrary no witt standing—Savannah Tribune Gov. Glasscock Praises Negroes Gov. Glasscock Praises Negroes I am happy to report that our colored schools have kept pace with other schools of the state. The reports show that the West Virginia Colored Institute had an average of 237 students last year and the Bluefield Colored Institute an average of 150 students—the full capacity of both these schools. At these schools the boys and girls are not only taught the text books used in such schools but also the mastery of a trade or profession that will give the student the ability to provide for himself and family, and as stated by Superintendent Shawkey, "not an example of a thrifty, well trained workman to those less fortunate." The West Vs. Colored Institute offers its students courses in English, ordinary mathematics, history and civics, geography, physiology and sanitation, the sciences and a minimum of foreign languages. And in addition to that teaching and training in domestic science and art, mechanics, carpentry and scientific farming. Also music, elementary art and good literature. The Bluefield Colored Institute gives instruction in the ordinary secondary work in the common branches, and also teaches domestic science and art. I hope you will deal with these schools according to their merit, and if so, I am sure they will receive appropriations larger than heretofore, and sufficient to enable those in charge of the institutions to give to the student body instruction and training equal to that received by students at any colored schools in the country. Our colored people have made wonderful progress since the abolition of slavery and the white man is as much interested in the education and preparation of the colored men and women for good citizenship as the colored men and women themselves. Fifty years ago the Negro was a slave, today he is competing with the white man as teacher, lawyer, doctor, former, and in fact in almost every trade and profession. And I believe that the colored people of West Virginia are above the average of the colored citizens of this country in education, intelligence and respect for law and order. They have their shortcomings, and so do we, but they are a part of our citizenship and it ought to be a source of a great pride to every loyal West Virginia that we have been liberal in our treatment of the colored man in every respect. Any other course would not only be a reflection upon us but a positive injury to both races. Extract from Governor Glascocke's Message to the West Virginia Legislature. POUTING SOME! When J. W. Free, a shoemaker was arraigned in Magistrate Gordon's court in Clarksburg on a charge of non support of his wife and daughter Callie, aged 20, it developed Free and his wife had lived together in the same house for six years and had not spoken to each other during that time. Free was acquitted. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RY. 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. Correction—In the third line of Dr. Gerhardt's story about Revs. Walker and Read, the printer made the learned scribe say "discovered" for discoursed. No one can fully realize the power and purity of the ballot, who sells his vote; and it goes without saying that he who buys, is worse than he who sells. Much is being said of the state primary to elect U. S. Senators, but will it not give wider territory and better means to spend money and win? Conditions in the Paint Creek region of this State are again in a condition of great disorder. Miners seem determined to run things their way The furore at Charleston is plorable. Yet, how forcibly it shows the frailty of men whose teachings have adorations for the dollar. No man, people or nation can live honorably who trample humanity under feet and live for the dollar. It is very important that a feeling for the good of the preservation of this country should take hold of all true Americans, that all classes and races of people, citizens by birth or adoption, who love this country, and are law abiding are interdependent one upon the other, for its holy perpetuity as God would have it. A certain Bishop declares that women have as much right to smoke as men, and on the heels of his assertion admits, that some women would stubbornly refuse to do so, and preserve their dignity and purity of sweet womanhood. His philosophy is fallacious from the fact, he admires those who would refuse to smoke. The County Court, a few days back made a decree, that all colored people in Berkeley County should be vaccinated, because they were the cause of the spread of smallpox. A week or so later, it was reported that a certain white person had the smallpox, and on examination by doctors, it is said, that the white man had not the smallpox, but one eighth of an inch of dirt over his entire body, that it had caused an itching, and that to wash it off they might cause sickness. In another column will be found an extract from Governor Glasscock's message to the 1913 session of the West Virginia Legislature. The governor is noted for his frankness, and this extract places him in his usual fair, intellingent and discerning attitude. The matter of which he treats, is one important to all citizens of our State. Because, education of Negroes—that is his subject, vitally concerns the welfare of the citizenry of the whole State, for, when Negroes are thrifty and intelligent, it means a citizenship of a high order. The governor heartily commends the Negro schools, and calls upon the Legislature to deal liberally with them in making appropriations for the State's educational institutions. How some people do bluster and bluff when the object of their wrath is out of the sound of their voices. All such creatures can be invariably put down as cowards. Martinsburg, like other towns, has some of these bluffers in her midst. They are not at all dangerous, though, the worst parts about them being their loud mouths. The honesty in the make up of the Hon. William Seymour Edwards detests fraud to that extent, that his detestation caused him to expose what has turned out to be, if all reports be true, the worst game of bribery known in this state. For the time, it may work against his election to the United States Senate, but in the near future, the whole state will honor him. In keeping with what a certain honest man, who was running for the Presidency of the United States should be your happy consolation, that: "I would rather be right than to be President" and so will you than to be Senator. What a terrible thing it is for a man to be a good citizen and in the face of it denied the rights of such, because the sun of God on Africa and its people, made those who have lived there for thousands of years black and their hair wooly—the one thing essential to protect the bresia from heat. In clearing the forests, fencing in the soil, toiling unceasingly for centuries, and fighting in every war for this country's good, what a shame that in our statute books are found laws inimical to our rights, and that after giving this nation and the world undying truth that they possess the pride, courage and devotion of the patriot soldier. Do you know that hundreds who went to the Philippines will never return here again to live? Do you know that France is bidding for a million Negroes to become its citizens on equal terms with its subjects? Have you forgotten what Andrew Carnegie said he could do with the Negroes of this country in opposition to foreign foes? And do you know that this country is not free from war, and never will be so long as she tramples on the rights of men in defiance of protests? If it could not stand half free and half slave, as Lincoln said, we say it has more right to fall when two hundred thousand brave blacks bared their breasts to make it stand, and are now treated worse as free men, than they were before war as slaves. Jimcrowed, disfranchised, lynched, deprived of education, and the rights of a civilization, claimed to be hallowed by the religion of Jesus Christ. Not the heathen; Tis the Christian with the Bible in his hand, Stands for pain and death, to tyrannize Nevertheless, we own over five hundred thousand homes, and have acquired property greater in value, than that of Belgium and Holland combined A GENUINE SERVICE. "I believe," says an old subscriber, "that every time The Youth's Companion enters a home it does that home a genuine service." That describes the purpose of the publishers exactly. The paper is not filled with mischievous or idle thoughts to fill an idle hour. It provides healthy pastime, recreation that builds up. It is to the minds of eager and impressionable young people what sound athletics are to their bodies. At a cost of less than four cents a week The Youth's Companion opens the door to a company of the most distinguished men and women in America and Europe. Whether they are revealing the latest discoveries in science, or describing great industrial achievements, or telling of their wanderings in strange corners of the world, or feeding the imagination with rare stories, they are giving Companion readers the best of themselves. Seven serials at least will be published by The Companion in 1913, and nearly 200 other complete stories, in addition to some 50 special contributions, and a treasure box of sketches, anecdotes, expert advice as to athletic sports, ideas for handy devices round the house, and so forth—long hours of companionship with the wise, the adventurous and the entertaining. Announcement for 1913 will be sent with sample copies of the paper to any address on request. Every new subscriber who sends $2.00 for the fifty two weekly issues of 1913 will receive as a gift The Companion Window Transparency and Calendar for 1913, the most exquisite novelty ever offered to Companion readers. Hampton, Va.—Founder's Day at Hampton Institute, celebrated in honor of Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong's birthday, brought to gether a most interesting group of wide awake men and women, representing important interests in education and public life for the study of vital problems relating to rural school and rural life improvement. State superintendents of public instruction were present from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia, to hear the successful white and Negro supervising in dustrial teachers of Virginia report on their aims and methods in bringing new life to men, women, and children in the country districts. Dr. Wallace Buttrick, secretary of the General Education Board, New York, told the large company of Hampton visitors that in his judgment "the greatest single force for the blessing of the people, white and black, in the South" has been Hampton Institute. Dr. Wickliffe Rose, executive officer of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, showed the relation of Hampton to the fundamentals in the education, life, and civilization of the American people. ARMSTRONG'S BOYHOOD. On the evening preceding Founder's Day, Mrs. Ellen A. Weaver, who is the younger sister of General Armstrong, told the interesting story of Samuel Chapman Armstrong's boyhood, which was spent in the Hawaiian Islands with his missionary parents whose lives were unselfliably devoted to teaching the natives bow to live more useful and more Christian lives. Mrs. Weaver recounted many entertaining incidents of young Armstrong's boyhood training, among the lovable, care free, improvident Hawaiians; for his brave, self sacrificing service for Negro and Indian youth on the Lower Virginia Peninsula. In all his play and work, through boyhood and manhood, on every occasion, Armstrong was genuine, spiritual, and open minded. He was always impatient with pretense. "To be rather than to seem" was Armstrong's motto. FOUNDER'S DAY ADDRESS Dr. Henry Pitt Warren, who for many years has been the head master of Albany Academy, of Albany, New York, showed how naturally General Armstrong had been trained for his work at Hampton Institute through the interesting experiences that he had as a boy in the Hawaiian Islands, as a student at Williams College under Mark Hopkins, as a soldier in the Civil War, and as an officer in the Freed men's Bureau. Dr. Warren said: "Slavery did what the unscrupulous press and demagogues are doing today in this country; it destroyed confidence of man in man. This same lack of confidence has retarded Negro progress since the war. There can be no advancement until there is hearty acceptance of leaders and faith in them. Slavery made men suspicious of one another and prevented true organization of society. "The lack of directive energy of the Negro, in my judgment, was the fruit of slavery, not a racial weakness." STUDENT Y. M. C. A. BUILDING Clarke Hall, the new thirty.thousand dollar Y. M. C. A. building, was dedicated to the use of Hampton Institute students on Founder's Day. Walter R Brown, president of the school Y. M. C. A., reviewed the work of the student Association; Charles B. Randall, a Hampton graduate, told of his pioneer Y. M. C. A. work in Brunswick County, Va. William A. Hunton, Washington, D.C., senior secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A., work, declared that Olarke Hall should serve as the social center for the Negro boys; should develop men in the expression of their religious life; and should train an army of laymen for religious work. Dr. William J. Sobieffelin, of New York, a Hampton trustee and chairman of the International Committee on Colored Y. M. C. A. Work, showed how the Hampton school has taught applied Christianity through its excellent neighborhood work. "Hampton has always been doing Y. M. C. A. work in neighborhood work," he said. Dr. Charles F. Goss, Cincinnati, O., appealed to the Hampton students to consecrate their powers to the development of their race; to absorb the truths that have regenerative power, to enter more fully into their duty to life. Dr. Frissell presented the keys of the building to Dr. James W. Cooper, who represented the Hampton board of trustees, and outlined the story of Mrs. Clarke's deep interest in Hampton during her life. At a special student Y. M. C. A. meeting, short addresses were delivered by Samuel A. Ackley, Y. M. C. A. state secretary for Virginia; Carl B. Bare, student secretary for Virginia; Harry T. Baker, boys' secretary for Virginia; and Frank N. D. Buohman, secretary at State College, Pennsylvania. WORK OF HAMPTON TRADESMEN The Hampton Institute Y. M. C. A. building was designed by Meere. Ludlow and Peabody of New York City. With the exception of the slate roof, it was built by Hampton Institute tradesmen. Clarke Hall is a brick structure two stories high, and exclusive of two verandas and a terrace at the rear, is seventy feet wide by forty feet deep. It is the first colored student Y. M. C. A. building in the country. Everything possible has been done to give the Hampton students a comfortable and inviting recreation center. Of the five hundred Negro boys at Hampton Institute, over three hundred fifty are members of the Y. M. C. A., which is a very active organization and one that does a great deal of good for the students. BETTER COUNTRY LIFE Dr. James Hardy Dillard, of New Orleans, president of the Negro Rural School Fund Board, firmly believes that the time has come and gone when "any old thing will do for the country boy and girl." The primary aim of the Jeanes work now being done by 119 teachers in 121 Southern counties, is to make country life better and happier; to link the school with the community life. This rural school improvement work has been of untold benefit to the Negroes of Virginia, ably led by Jackson Davis, a Southern white man, who has helped effectively in taking the Humpton idea of education to men, women and children in the country districts. Miss Rhea C. Scott, a white superviseing industrial teacher, of Buckingham County, Va., pointed out the problems confronting rural schools: Ill fitting courses of study; lack of proper grading, adequate school equipment, and community interests; untrained teachers, poor salaries; short terms; school sanitary conditions; isolation; poor attendance. Miss Scott suggested the introduction of vital subjects into the rural school curriculum, entertainments to raise additional school funds, medical inspection, individual drinking cups, and patrons' leagues. Supervising industrial teachers, white and colored, at work in Virginia, have won cooperation by serving communities unselfishly. They have helped people improve school buildings, within and without, lengthen the term, and secure improved conditions in the school, churches, and homes. MEANING OF HAMPTON The genuiness, reality, and sincerity of Hampton have always appealed to Dr. Buttrick, who declared that there is a painful need of real teachers, superintendents and supervisors, who train people to live—men and women who will serve their generation. Wherever he has met a Hampton student, there he has met Hampton itself—genuine living and unselfish service. NEW HAMPTON TRUSTEE Robert Bacon, of Boston, was elected to membership on the Hampton Institute Board of Trustees on last Saturday. Mr. Bacon is well known in public life, both as a business man and a diplomat. After graduation from Harvard in 1880, he entered the banking business. PROMINENT VISITOR3 The following Southern state superintendents were present during the Hampton Institute Founder's Day celebration: M. L. Brittain, Georgia; George B. Cook, Arkansas; Barkedale Hamlett, Kentucky; T. H. Harris, Louisiana; M. P. Shawkey, West Virginia; William N. Sheats, Florida; R. C Stearnes, Virginia; and Henry J. Willingham, Alabama. Among the Hampton trustees present were: Hollis B. Frissell; Charles E Bigelow, New York; William J Schieffelin, New York; Lunsford L. Lewis, Richmond; Rev. James W. Cooper, New York; Frank W. Darling, Hampton; Clarence H. Kelsey, New York; and Robert Bacon, Boston. No better offer to farmers, and gardeners could be made. Any and every one who will send one dollar and fifty cents to the Pioneer Press will not only get it for a year, but also two hundred and fifty first class cold-framed and guaranteed frost-proof cabbage plants free. They are grown by that well known firm, Wm. C. Geraty Co. of South Carolina. The subscriber to pay mail charges only a few cents.—Editor. J.R. CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. Battered in Post Office at Martinsburg .Va., as Second Class Matter Judge John M. Wood went to Charles Town on Tuesday, where he convened the February term of the Jefferson County Circuit Court. Mr. Robert Brown, a well known drill runner at the Blair Limestone Company Quarries, was a visitor to town the other day. Sisseretta Jones's Black Patti Company was in Martinsburg last Monday and played to a packed house that night. Mr. Samuel Rector has been very much indisposed for a week or two as a result of being vaccinated, but he is getting better. Mrs. James Roman has suffered considerably of late with a bone feon, but as we go to press, we learn it is much better. Moses. Abraham and George Miller have the contract for building the concrete foundation of Dr. T. K. Oates's new house on North Raleigh Street. Mr. George Oliver, who is a chef cook in the Baltimore and [Oak] dining car service, running between Pittsburgh and Chicago, was a recent visitor to his family in this city. Mr. John Runner has been kept at home for a week or two with an abacus, but his physician having laced it, he expects to be around soon again. Quarterly meeting will be held at Dudley Baptist Church tomorrow. It is expected that a number of out of town people will be here, and a big time is anticipated in Baptist circles. Mr. Ernest Gaither has bought a Victor graphophone, and the other day he dropped in the Press office and gave us a fine concert. His selections include operatic airs and comical music, and his coming to our office was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Edward Tucker has gone to Pittsburgh, in which place he will be engaged at cleaning wall paper for the next few months. He has done this sort of work for years, and the fact that his employers annually send for him, is evidence that he knows how to please. A Lincoln and Douglass celebration was held at Mount Zion M. E. Church on Wednesday night. The program included several musical and literary selections, and an address by Rev. Meeks, pastor of the First M. E. Church, which is said to have been excellent in both makeup and delivery. Commits Schrank to Asylum. John Schrank, the New York man, who shot Colonel Roosevelt was committed by Judge A. C. Backus in Milwaukee, Wis., to the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh. This disposition of the case was taken after the commission of five alienists had filed its report declaring Schrank insane and after ten or twelve witnesses had given testimony in connection with the shooting. The conclusions of the report signed by the alienists follow: "First — John Schrank is suffering from insane delusions, grandiose in character and of a systematic variety. "Second—In our opinion, he is insane at the present time. "Third—On account of the connection between his deluctions an the act with which he stands charged, we are of the opinion he is unable to confer intelligently with counsel on the conduct of his defense." Family Slain With Axe. The bodies of William Esley, his wife and four-year-old child were found in their home in Philadelphia, Miss. All had been murdered with an axe. The police believe that they were victims of the "sacrifice sect," to which they were reported to have belonged. Clementine Barnabet, "high priestess" of the cult, who admitted taking eighteen human lives, is in prison at Lafayette, La., but she is believed to have knowledge of the killings in Philadelphia. AFRICAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIANS Evidence That They Are of the Hamitic Line. VIEWS OF DR. VON LUSCHAN. Migration and Colonization Chief Among Many Causes Given For Amalgamation of Primitive Races. Anthropology of African and Pacific Islanders Pointed Out. By JOHN E. BRUCE (CRIT). 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 loins of Harn these did. Nothing seems to be more certain to those who have studied the question closely. Dr. Felix von Luschan, professor of anthropology in the University of Berlin, in an admirable paper before the first universal races congress, which met in London in 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 peopleled about 900 or 1000 A. D. by Indonesian colonists coming from Sumatra, so untold ages ago the first inhabitants of Africa came from a place somewhere in southern Asia on the great line from Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or skeletons of these earliest Africans are 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. Third Race Makes Its Appearance. But I have already stated that we are as yet quite ignorant of the real home of these small races. To these two oldest elements in Africa was added ages afterward, but still in prehistoric times, a third one, the Hamitite. It is descended from the same ancient Gibraltar-Australia line, but was in a higher stage of civilization. These Hamites had already a greatly refined language, with an admirable grammar closely related to that of the Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages. In Egypt they created more than 6,000 years ago the marvelous civilization we now admire as the mother of our own. Ancient Hamitic influences can be traced all through Africa. In Abysinia, in Galla, Somali, and in Maysaland we find even now Hamitic languages or at least Hamitic grammars. PREPARED FOR BUSINESS. Success of Dr. H. M. Williams as Optician and Student. Richmond. Va.—One of the most enterprising young men of this section, who is destined to take a high place in the affairs pertaining to the uplift of the race, is H. M. Williams, Jr. of this city, who is a graduate optician. Mr. Williams is the only colored optician in the city and stands high in the profession and by steady devotion to his work is succeeding in building up a lucrative practice. His patients consist of some of the most prominent colored citizens of the city, many of whom are students and teachers of the Virginia Union university in this city. Dr. Williams ranks among the foremost in his profession and has givenample satisfaction to his patrons. He was born in Goldsboro, N. C., and waseducated in the public school of his — DR. B. M. WILLIAMS. native city. He later entered Biddle university, from which he graduated in 1800. While at Biddle he made a good record as a student and was prominent in Y. M. C. A. circles at the university. HOW A BD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unstupassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. D. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Pau D. Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Photography Commercial Law, History, Civics, etc. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furioushes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co., es. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polycitic. Edward A. Bailoch, M. D., Dean 5th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeill, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 4205th street N.W. Fine catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. A hunting dog on the farm of James Librandt, near Ellizabhtown, Pa., which recently gave birth to a litter of pups, is also mothering four little pigs, whose mother died. NON- DARKABLE -- SELF-POINTING A Hammerless Gun with Solid Frame. Bestest operating and smoothest action. THE STEVENS Repeating Shotgun No. 520 LISTING AT $25.00, is indorsed by Shooters everywhere as "Superb for Trap or Field." Made in five styles and illustrated and described in Stevens Shotgun Catalog. Have your Dealer show you a Stevens Repeater. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box 5004, CHICOPFE FALLS, MASS. For cleaning, dyeing and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Candler has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business: Winchester, A. P., 0. 609 --- Bath Plains. MOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Adapted to the use of Students of trace history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00. Cash must invariably be company all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Publisher Sunyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. HOTEL BROWN CHARLESTON, WEST VA. Be Happy! Happy the girl, or woman any of the diseases of women sufferer, happy is she if she benefits of Cardui, the woman. Cardui is a gentle, tonic. It is a natural medicine—sa. 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Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. for Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women." sent to 1-56 Mme. M. L. JOHNSON GRADUATE SCALP SPECIALIST AND HAIR CULTURIST ```markdown ``` The above cut represents Misc. Johnson as she is today, with her own NATURAL HAIR cultivated by the use of our own Hair Remedies. She can do for you what she has done for herself and thousands of others in every part of this country. Use Johnson's Hair Food, for growing Hair on bald heads and bare temples. It makes hard, dry hair; soft, moist, glossy and luxurient. Per Jar, .50c. Use Johnson's Hair Grower, for Invigorating, Strengthening. Nourishing the Roots and Stimulating the Hair growth. Per Bottle, .80c. Use Johnson's Dandruff Cure. It cleans the scalp, of gum, grit, dandruff, scales and dirt, and leaves it healthy and pure. Per Jar, .25c. Use Johnson's Itch Cure. It will stop that Itching Scalp. Per Jar, .25c. Use Johnson's Shampoo Cream, for champoing the scalp and hair. It cleanses and beautifies. Per jar,.....25c. Use Johnson's Medicated Soap, for the complexion, abaving, champoing and skin diseases. Per Cule,.....25c. Use Johnson's Cream of Camphor. It beautifies the face, hands and neck. Relieves headache and neuralgia and will gradually lighten the skin. Per Bot. 60c. Use Johnson's Sure Hair Dye. Changes the grayest hair dark after a few applications. Per Bottle,.....$1.00 We are the pioneer manufacturers of Scientific Hair Preparations in the United States. We also make Wigs, Switches, Pomps, Coronet Braids, Puffs and front Parts to match your hair. Best workmanship. Lowest prices. Send 10c for a large sample jar of Johnson's Hair Food and terms to Agents. 681 Shawmut Avenue, - Boston, Mass. Please mention this paper. WILLIAM SPEARS BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting to new crank hangers, &c. &c. is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sandries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second band bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and serve only man in town who repairs Bicycles. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANIS GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS FROM THE ORIGINAL CABBAGE PLANT GROWERS Established 1868. Paid in Capital Stock $30,000.00 We grow the first FROST PROOF PLANTS in 1863. Now have over twenty thousand mail-fed customers. We have grown and sold more cabbage plants than all other persons in the Southern States combined. WHY? Because our plants must please or we send your money back. Order now. It is time to sell these plants in your section to get even early cabbage, and they are the ones that sell for the most money. WK SOW THREE TONS OF CABBAGE SEED PENNSYLVANIA. Earn Your Plants for a Slight Service—Ask Us Row Plants—by mail Postage Paid 30 cents per 100 plants. By express, buyer paying express charges, which under special rate is very low. By mail, 1,000 to 1,400 $1.50 per thousand; 5000 to 60,000 $1.25 per thousand; 10,000 and over $1.00 per thousand. WM. C. GERATY, CO., Box 138 Yongos Island, S. C. The Marlin NEW MODEL 29 Repeating Rifle The gun to use for rabbits, squirrels, hawks, crows and all small game. Here's the rifle you have been waiting for—an up-to-date.22 caliber repeater that handles without change or adjustment.22 short, 22 long and.22 long-rifle cartridges of all makes and styles, yet sells at the surprisingly low price of $8.50. The solid-top and side ojection are always a protection, keep shells, powder and gases from your face, allow instant repeat shots. Quick take-down construction—oonly cleaned—takes little space and brings greatest pleasure at small expense. Are more about the full Marlin line. 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Marlin NEW MODEL 29 Repeating Rifle The gun to use for rab- bits, squirrels, hawks, crows and all small game. ER PRESS WEAVER YOU and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle furnished by us in your agency everywhere are making money fast. For further details and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you have live and approve of your bicycle. We supply any anywhere in the country in advance, group feeble, and allow a cent deposit in advance which you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. You are to be a not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle until one to us at our expense and you will be one cent. PROTOTYPE PRICES We furnish the nicest grade bicycles it is possible to make at one small factory cost. You save $10 to $15 middleness's profits by actual factory cost. You save $10 to $15 middleness's profits by direct direct of us and having the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DON'T BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unhoard of factory prices and reasonable special offers. We receive our beautiful catalogue fully low priced and you also this year. We sell the highest grade bicycle BICYCLE ALLEY. You can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the same day we receive our beautiful catalogue. ringing from hand to hand taken in intervals by our Chicago radio station and second hand bicycles, but usually have COASTER - BRATES - single wrist bracelets that we clear out promptly at prices ii We have hundreds of letters with the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters that their thieves have only once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than a pound and the puncture assisting qualities being given by several of them, especially prepared fabric on the trouser. The price of these trousers is $0.00 per pet. for a delivery of one. The price of making a special factory price to the rider of our car is also received. Worship C. O. D. of our parish have examined it. have examined and approved. No ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a ship until you will have received such documents as are presented. Why is the 2025 and another this not very small, and the very strong size price $4.05 per tbn) if you read WELL, card and the OJS expense it for my payment they are not a孤注獄死 on a similar way to order the two to the new and can be used to make a new bank. If you order a new bank, you will find that they will be the same. You can also order a new bank, but long-term to the end of these times. You'll point to which you will be no well-pleased last week to you that is the you have ever used or have never only prized if you need a trial order a new bank you'll have no new bank you will give you will give you you and you'll be the most. You'll be the most if you need a new bank you'll be the most. 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It is safely recommended to you as a perfect newspaper for the home and family. IT LEADS in the quantity of original matter which it furnishes its patrons. IT LEADS in its spicy editorials and fearless sayings. IT LEADS in its general, local and miscellany pages. TAKEN all in all, we don't feel that we are exaggerating when we state that The PIONEER PRESS is one of the best all around weekly papers in this country today. WE ARE not alone in making this statement, for some of the best and most prominent men of the United States have done likewise. These persons above referred to, were not confined to one particular race, either, but to both. THE PIONDER PRESS Has the LARGEST city circulation— The LARGEST Foreign circulation— The LARGEST domestic and general circulation— The LARGEST county and rural circulation of any Negro newspaper in the United States— Has the LARGEST Angle Saxon circulation— IS THE ABOVE SO? BECAUSE it is the pioneer of this section in blazing the way for truth, honesty, piety and frugality and all other requisites that are necessary for the making of manly men and womanly women of all races. BECAUSE it merits support and gets it is proof positive that people know a good thing when they see it. BECAUSE of its unique and original qualities the PIONEER PRESS has a noticeable exclusiveness enjoyed by no other paper in the class wherein it circulates. The Pioneer Press With its generally large and intelligent circulation will bring AND PROFITABLE RETURNS. TO ITS ADVERTISERS. Viewed from the standpoint of news merit, circulation or advertising power, THE PIONEER PRESS is the peer of its competitors and stands forth as a brilliant example of successful modern newspaper methods.