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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Biology, O nstitution, W. Va. ESTABLISHED 1882 The Swinging Of The Pendulum The Swinging Of The Pendulum BY BRUCE GRIT. The Negro in America may now be said to be "up against the real thing." There are forces now at work to undo all that has been so well done, to fix him into the warf and woof of American citizenship and to define his status as a citizen and as a man. Whether these forces are to prevail will depend upon the vigilance of the Negro himself. That they are at work North and South, and working diligently and noiselessly I know, of a truth for I have in my possession the evidence of the conspiracy of which aims to destroy the solid foundation upon which the Negro thinks he is standing. I wrote a letter some weeks ago to the New York World, couched in polite phrases in which I took exceptions to certain utterances of Senator B. R. Tillman, and from which the World DELETED several of its most pointed paragraphs which would have interested the Senator. Within a week after its appearance I began to receive anonymous postal cards and letters from points in New York City, the gist of which were that this is a white man's country, that the amendments to the constitution will be repealed, that diggers have had their day lording it over white man, and that they will be made to know their place if permitted to remain here, etc., etc. One man in Staten Island, a Government employee, sent me a pamphlet in which he figured out that Negroes and the white men could not possibly have had the same origin. That it is scientifically impossible for a white father to have black children (of course he'd never been South) and that the story of the common origin of the species is a myth, etc., etc. After this mental leakage there follows Governor Vardaman's message to the Mississippi Legislature in which he outlines the plan for a united movement by state legislatures to attack the constitutionality and demand the repeal of the XIII, XIV and XVth amendments, shows the impossibility of two races dissimilar in color and characteristics living together on terms of equality, and appeals to white men as white men to save the country from the "Black Peril" and this document is being quietly circulated by a Northern man, in a Northern state, among Northern people, some of whom, when they read it will see a new light on the Negro question, and conclude that Governor Vardaman's solution of the problem is the proper one. Its phraseology is bound to appeal to the baser passions of the baser elements of the white race and to intensify race hatred in the North. Now this is the way the Pendulum is swinging today. But Tomorrow it will swing back, and then, as Bobbie Burn says: "The best laid plans of mice and man Gang aft agley." Still it is interesting to know that white men at the South, sided and abetted by white men of the North, have entered into a conspiracy to cast a blot on the nation's Excaution by appealing to race prejudice to nullify the nation's voluntary pledges to the N gro, of citizenship and protection in his rights of citizenship. If this conspirancy succeeds it will be because we Negroes are asleep, or blind, or busy with our Social Duties, Pink Tees, Balls, Receptions, etc., etc. No people whose liberties are threatened, whose rights are being gradually taken away from them by legalocus pocus can afford to give themselves up to idle pleasures and count on absolute security. The Pondulum is swinging the wrong way for us just now, and the way looks dark and dreary. Can we make it swing the other way tomorrow? A LITTLE COLORED BOY WHO IS LUCKY. Palm Beach, Florida — Edward B. McLran, who married Evelyn Walsh; daughter of Thomas R. Walsh, who has a three year old son, Vinson, commonly known as the "hundred-million-dollar baby", because he will inherit that sum, has taken a little Negro boy as their fosterling. He is John Winbush, Jr., five years old, son of John Winbush and wife, of P street, near Massachusetts avenue, Washington. P. T. Spencer, McLean's attorney, brought him to Palm Beach today after having prepared papers which the child's parents had signed for a consideration, relinquishing their right over the boy forever. By the contract Mr. and Mrs. McLean do not actually adopt the child. He is not to bear their name or inherit it from them except as specified in the contract. He is however, to be treated as an equal of young Vinson McLean and furnished with every luxury until he is 15 years old when he is to become Vinson's valet. Mr. McLean made this statement concerning the transaction: "I do not want my boy to grow up living the life common to children of wealthy people. I am getting this boy for my son's playmate because he is a healthy, normal, simple minded child. The companionship of this child will keep my son mindful of the people. I do not want a son of mine a snob. The trend of wealth is in that direction. Moreover, my son has been in the company of men, his detective and nurses, so much that he is becoming precocious. It is the best thing for him to have a healthy little boy of his own age to play with. I was brought up in the same way, first with a Negro mammy, then with a Negro boy who was my playmate and later my valet." Jack Winbush, Jr., began leading his new life when he left Washington, where he had been supplied with a fine wardrobe. He had a drawing room to himself on the Florida special on the Seaboard. He is the only Negro allowed on the bath beach. He eats at the table with young McLean in the family private dining room. Dressed alike in white sailor suits and both barelegged, Vinson and Jack played in the sand all morning in front of the Casino. The children made their appearance hand in hand, and seemed to be great chums as they played with shovels and pails. McLean engaged one of the Negro bellboys at the Hotel as personal servant for this child. Anecdotal Literature BY W. Q. In our childhood we love to be told little stories, Bible stories, fairy stories, fables, legends &c. These not only please and arouse the young mind, but can also be a source of instruction. Theainted mother of the writer was very profite in such stories, and he received the benefit of them. Among these was the traditional story of "The Man In The Moon." No doubt we have made many a childish speculation concerning this grave personage who has been an inhabitant of the moon for ages, and wondered how he got up there. Tradition tells us that he was sent there because a naughty and wicked fellow who picked up some sticks that did not belong to him, and that too on the Sabbath. "The man in the moon" is known to every nation and is pictured as leaning on a fork on which he carries a bundle of thorns or brushwood which he was caught stealing on the Sabbath day, and, as a punishment he was confined to the moon. $ \star^{0} $ IN TIME. Dr. J. Allen Smith of Seattle, discussing high prices, said one day: "We get for one our money the same value that the man got from the druggist. "Give me, sir," said this man, bitterly, ten pounds of your fly poison." "Ten pounds?" said the druggist, "that is rather a large quantity, isn't it?" "Yes, I know it is," said the man, but you see I liked that half pound I bought here yesterday extremely well. I gave it to a fly, and he seemed to relish it at first, but toward evening it made him quite ill. I propose to keep up the treatment for a week, for I think that in the end I may manage to kill him." A LAME DEFENCE Representative Littleton, discussing the Sherman law with a Pittsburg reporter, said: "You can't defend this law. Its defense is as lame as that of the man who defended the widow." A widow of a very overbearing temper was about to marry again. A man said of her at a lodge meeting. "Dear me, that termagant! I shouldn't want to be her second husband, would you?" Then the widow defender answered lamely: "Well, I'd rather be her second husband than her first." LOVE BEFORE MARRIAGE. William Dean Howells, a man of mark and genius, admitted that the love that exists before marriage in many cases, is apt to die out in a short time. He narrated a conversation between a young couple he overheard at Long Branch. They had been married but a short time. They were promescing on the beach side by side, when the young wife tossed her head and said: "Well, if I don't come to meet you every night at the station any longer, VOL. 31. Shocking Conditions Bishop Conjudutor Henry Nelson of Albany, in addressing a men's meeting recently told of a clan of white people in some of the mountain countries in the northern part of the Albany Episcopal diocese who think nothing of exchanging wives and who are heathens as far as spiritual knowledge is concerned. Bishop Nelson says he came in contact with these people during missionary tours through the diocese. "Their condition is almost unbelievable," he said. "They are not only illiterate, but lack common decency. They neglect marriage laws, men and women living together without marriage ceremony, and reeigbars think nothing of swapping wives." Bishop Nelson save religious meetings in this part of N. Y. state are rare, and told of a revival meeting conducted by two Mormons at the conclusion of which a number of young women went with the Mormons back to Utah. She Says We're Much Too Slender. A Russian princess who is now in Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the American women for being much too thin. "American women of good breeding are slender to the point of emaciation," says the princess. "They harry too much, that is the reason everywhere you see the American whether she is going shopping, visiting or elsewhere, she is moving fast, as if she did not have a second to lose." The princess doesn't seem to realize that just now the one aim of the American woman is the extreme slenderness which she finds so unlovely. should be leader in both ways, if he expects to hold it. God put Abram at the head of his people, and he put his people in leadership of the world to bring the world to him. When they failed he raised up other leaders. We trust our Church will keep this in mind, and be guided by it. We colored members are going to remain in the Church, and be missionaries along this line. Like the Jew girl in Naisman's home we are going to help you by reminding you of this weakness in you. We are going to stay for the advantage staying is to us. Our membership in the Old Church gives us two chances to oppose this wrong treatment, one in State and one in the Church, while other Afro Americans have one chance only. We are not going to fail either of these chances. A prominent Senator in Congress once, while discussing the race question said the subject could be handled much easier if the Negroes could be gotten out of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He meant these two standards of treatment could be much more easily applied if we were out. While we doubt it, we are praying that our white American membership may muster moral strength enough to pass at the coming General Conference this amendment as a compromise for justice, and in the near future develop enough morally to give every race full justice. Rev, S H. Norwood Baltimore, Md. what does it signify? Her husband, smiling sadly, answered. "It signifies, that, though married but five months, that the flame of love, once glowing so brightly, is growing dim." BISHOPS FOR RACES AND LANGUAGES. (Coucluded.) Editor of the Pioneer Press, Si:— In your paper of Jan. 4, 1913. I closed my article on the passage of the proposed amendment—"Bishops for Races and Languages" with the thought that: the moral inability of the white American membership would defeat its passage. Slavery made two standards of treatment, a just one for the white man, and an unjust one for the black man, which still exists. Owing to centuries of leadership by him among all other races he has acquired personal and racial ideas of his superiority to all other races, which to him is a temptation to extend these two standards of treatment to all other men. In harmony with the above view, the black man was brought here a slave, while the brown and yellow men have not been permitted to enter this country at all. Much will have to be done by these other races before these different standards of treatment will be adjusted, which adjustments seem impossible since this white man is spreading himself everywhere, becoming teacher of these other race citizens of their countries, and owners of their lends. As a result of his ideas he seeks to fence himself in from all others to prevent contact that he conceives might be burrowed to himself. Hence, one can see how easy it is for him to be more likely to capable of treating other races correctly, instead of disfranchising, segregating, jim Crowing them, and in this way making those unfavorable conditions easy and convenient channels through which to more conveniently apply these two standards of treatment. The above is true of the natural man. The Church is the spiritual man in which the standard of treatment growing out of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man is different. But this churchman is in the State where these two standards of treatment rule, and from which they can be, and actually are transferred to the Church, which transfer forms the basis of our fear for the defeat of the passage of the amendment. This moral inability stands in the way. It is impossible for a citizen who will make all passengers pay the same fare on the same public highways, who will give certain passengers inferior, unequal accommodations, who will make it impossible for certain of these passengers to obtain a piece of bread or a cup of coffee at a public counter, who will apply Lynch law instead of the civil law to certain citizens when accused of crime, and then when in the Church apply to these same citizens the Golden Rule. Therefore the amendment will hardly pass the next General Conference. We would remind our Caucasian brother that some one must lead, and others must follow. He is the world's leader intellectually. His moral leadership is in doubt. He NO.48 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN IY. 3 months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. BAR J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 13 Equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nationality, race, color or persecution. A free ballot and a fair count—Grover Cleveland. The Negro who is ashamed to labor with pick and shovel is generally identified with the loafing and criminal class—the destructive element of the race.—Minneapolis Twin City Star. Elsewhere in these columns will be found a review of racial conditions in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and it makes mighty interesting reading. It emanates from the pen of Rev. Dr. Sylvester H. Norwood, Secretary of the Washington Conference of the M.E. Church, and like its predecessors, it is worthy of a very careful perusal. Managing Editor John H. Murphy, of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger, is on an extensive tour through the South, and he is sending some highly interesting news accounts of the trip to his paper. Mr. Murphy's letters team with Negro achievements and successes in Dixi-land, and show, that despite some bindraces, that is the best place for the Negro. "The most virtuous creature in the United States of America is a virtuous Negro woman. Her resisting and enduring powers are of the highest order. In this she is a prototype and prophecy of what her race is to be, if it will overcome. Her character is often assailed in fact, and her reputation more often assailed in slander."—Prof. William Pickens, of Talladega College. President Byrd Prillerman, of the West Virginia Colored Institute, sent us one of his annual catalogues the other day, as well as some other literature concerning the school over which he presides. Thanks Professor Prillerman, and may you and your school continue the good work that you are now doing with more success in the future than you have had in the past. One has only to read the M Dowell Times, of Keystone, this State, to see that it is a newspaper with an opinion. It is pleasing to find a paper like the Times in these days of newspaper dishonesty and trickery. There is no better medium in the world for civic betterment than a strong publication, and that is why we admire the Times, because it has the courage of its convictions, and cannot help but do great good in the section where it circulates. Our friend Charles Sumner Smith, editor of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Twin City Star, in a recent number of his journal had something to say about the aptitude of the big Negro to almost systematically ignore Negro papers. His argument as to the attitude of these race moguls will admit of no contradiction, and for our part we think Editor Smith was rather sparing in his indictment of the parasites who style themselves race leaders and make it a business to continually sponge off of and retard the race in every way possible. We have been thinking a good deal about Cole Blease, governor of South Carolina, and we have about come to the conclusion that he is no worse than thousands of other men in the South. Possibly he's a little better than they are, because he says what he thinks, and they are too artful to do likewise. On the principle that a "false friend is worse than a known enemy," we believe that it is only just and proper that Blease be given credit for his frankness, and that our secret enemies be claused as worse than the fiery governor of South Carolina. Mr. J. F. Marsh, Secretary State Board of Regents, has the thanks of the Pioneer Press for a "Special Report on Agriculture," which he was thoughtful enough to send us. It is quite an interesting pamphlet, and contains some maps on pages 18 and 60 and a number of diagrams on pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 35, 44 and 57, which, if carefully viewed will amply repay those who look at them. Agriculture is a profession in which it is possible to make big money, if brain and brawn go hand in hand, therefore, any one who is fortunate enough to peruse this agricultural treatise is bound to gain knowledge which will prove beneficial to him for a long time to come. We are glad that the American Baptist, Louisville, Kentucky, Mr William H. Seward, editor, has entered upon its thirty fifth year. A great record, and one of which the gentleman named above can well be proud. This paper has been just what it is named—an American Baptist in every sense of the word. It has always been an able defender of the race with which it is identified, and as a conserver of its morals, intellectuality and physical well being. The American Baptist is not surpassed. To the Negro Baptists in the United States it has carried cheer and information under all sorts of conditions, and today it stands forth as one of the best publications run by Baptists in the world. --- It has always been our opinion that there were any number of black and white heatbens in our country, and the longer we live the more firmly convinced we are that we are right. There is hardly a day passes, that a dirty black or white scoundrel doesn't commit some beastly crime, while repine, murder, anarchy and adultery have full sway in every part of the land. Yet in the face of all this high handed deviltry, the arrogant American is continually boasting about his superiority. And in truth, he hasn't even self respect, much less superiority. We defy a successful contradiction of what we have said above, and we are sorry of it, too, because we would like to say that America is the greatest country on earth along all lines. --- John E Bruce, our brainy correspondent from Yonkers, New York, has an article in this week's issue of the Pioneer Press, which can be read with profit by anyone who cares to so engage himself. Bruce's writings are always interesting, and this one is no exception to the rule. Then again, from a racial, as well as an argumentative standpoint, the man from Yonkers has certainly shown himself to be fully conversant with the conditions of which he treats. Along with his calm, but firm indictment of the white race for its wrong tower i the Negro race, he has also given his own people to understand that trifling, when their very life is at stake, is absolutely wrong. Some of the "smart Alecks" with which this country is infested, may boot at Mr. Bruce's warning, but unless they heed what he says, they will be sorry when it will be too late. The smallpox situation is in very fine shape, Dr. William T. Henshaw, the County Health officer, having officially declared that all of the patients under his care at the peat house have been completely cured and discharged. This is good news to everybody, and Dr. Henshaw is deserving of great praise for the skillful and painstaking manner in which he handled the whole affair, because, in the hands of a less careful man than he, Martinsburg and Berkeley County might have been subjected to much more trouble from smallpox than was the case. The shocking moral conditions that exist within the confines of the Albany diocese of the Episcopal church according to Bishop Nelson, should occasion widespread surprise. One ordinarily, would be loth to believe that the moral standard of whites, and that too, in the state of New York, could be so low, but when a man of Bishop Nelson's unimpeachable character makes a statement, it must be accepted as a fact. In view of such a deplorable state of affairs among these rural New Yorkers, we think it would be a fine thing for the American Missionary Society to send some of its best men and women workers to that section at once. The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill making it a felony for Negroes to marry whites and for whites to marry Negroes in the District of Columbia. Such a measure is a reflection on the boasted superiority of the white man and shows that things have reached a sorry pass when laws have to be enacted to keep the black race away from the white race, and that too, in the Capitol of the Nation! The author of the bill is named Hardwick, and he hails from Georgia, which is but natural. In view of this vile attempt at class legislation, we would suggest that Congress, to be consistent, ought to pass a law making it obligatory upon all Southern States to send every white man in that section who has children by a colored woman to the penitentiary for two years. If such a thing could be done there wouldn't be enough prisons in the South to hold the white traducers of our women. And worst of all these are the fellows who are always talking about purity, yet with them it is an unknown quantity. In conclusion, we can only say of these wicked creatures, that we hope God may have mercy on them, because His protection is certainly needed in their cases. We guess, in truth, that they are rather to be pitied than censured. THE PROPER PROOEDURE W. Calvin Chase, editor of The Washington, D. O. Bee, and a veteran journalist of thirty years standing, has the audacity to criticise a brother journalist for getting personal mention in the column of his own journal when he knows as well as anybody else that this is about all that he gets out of the publication of a race journal. We call this treason to the profession and we are in favor of placing him on trial with T. Thomas Fortune of the New York Age as judge, Fred R. Moore of the same publication as sheriff, George L. Knox of the Indianapolis, Ind. Freeman and ourselves as prosecuting attorneys, William Mouroe Trotter of the Boston, Mass. Guardian and Chris J. Petry of the Philadelphia, Pa. Tribune as deputy sheriffs and J. R. Clifford of the Martinsburg Pioneer Press as jailer. We name H. C. Smith of the Cleveland, O. Gazette as appellate judge. We shall ask that he be fined the cost of a supper including everything that he, himself would demand if some one else was required to pay for the same and we ask for his solitary confinement in the New York Age office for a period of six days. being satisfied that the non appetizing menu for that period of time would be bread and water. The failure of the colored press of the country to oppose this mode of procedure shall be accepted as prima-facie evidence of Editor Chase's guilt.—John Mitchell, Jr., in Richmond Planet. As jailer, we guarantee to give Chase crow potpie three times daily through the week, and an extra supply of turkey-buzzard for his Sunday dinner. FALSE CHARGES ARE DISMISSED FALSE CHARGES ARE DISMISSED Case Against Candidate for United States Senate Collapses When Trial Time Comes, as Party Causing Arreot Does Not Materialize—Grand Jury Is Still Investigating Graft in Legislature. Charleaton, W. Va., Feb. 18, 1912. The trumped-up charges against William Seymour Edwards of this city, candidate for United States Senator, collapsed today and the warrant against him was dismissed by Judge M. Gilchrist. Edwards was instrumental in bringing about the detection and arrest of five members of the State Legislature a week ago on charges of soliciting and robbing bribes. The men were taken into custody by operatives of William J. Burns, and had more than twenty-five thousand dollars in their possession when caught. They were later indicted on several counts in the Criminal Court. One of the alleged grafters had Edwards arrested as retaliation, and his trial was set for today. After waiting an hour for the plaintiff to appear, Delegate John M. Smith, upon whose evidence the graft leader alleged the charges were founded, went on the witness stand and stated emphatically that Edwards had never talked with him but once, never even asked him to vote for him, and never offered him any money, bribe or other valuable thing. A final effort to suppress the cases against the grafters by removing the District Attorney by an act of the Legislature also failed today, and the complete exoneration of Edwards gives a new phase to the case, coupled with the announcement of the District Attorney that the special Grand Jury still investigating graft in the Legislature will likely return many more indictments. BETTER THAN JUMBO The big circus of Barnum and Bailey was not always under one management. For many years Mr. Bailey ran a small show of his own, doing his best in the small towns, while Mr. Barnum stopped only at the large cities. At this time Bailey owned the big elephant, Jumbo, the largest in captivity. Barnum had sent his agents to purchase it, but without avail. Mr. Bailey refused to set a price. Then Mr. Barnum telegraphed to his competitor: I will give you $10,000 for Jumbo. No answer came. On the third day he passed through a small town where Bailey was to show on the following day. Every billboard in town was plastered with monster reproductions of his identical message and signature, mixed in with the usual advertising of the Bailey show. With a grin Barnum turned to his assistants. 'I can't Jumbo we want,' he told them; 'it's Bailey'. The next year it was Barnum & Bailey. 1. Attend carefully to the details of your business. 2. Be prompt in all things. 3. Consider well, then decide positively. 4. Dare to do right, fear to do wrong. 5. Endure trials patiently. 6. Fight life's battle bravely, manfully. 7. Go not into the society of the vicious. 8. Hold integrity sacred. 9. Injure not another's reputation nor business. 10. Join hands only with the virtuous. 11. Keep your mind from evil thoughts. 12. Never try to appear to be what you are not. 13. Lie not for any consideration. 14. Observe good manners. 15. Pay your debts promptly. 16. Question not the veracity of a friend. 17. Respect the counsel of your parents. 18. Sacrifice money rather than principle. 19. Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating liquors. 20. Use your leisure time for improvement. 21. Venture not upon the threshold of wrong. 22. Watch carefully over your passions. 22. Extend to every one a kind salutation. 24. Yield not to discouragement. 25. Z-alonely labor for the right, and success is certain. Some Fish Reports. One thousand sword fish were weight in ten days in August by Nova Scotia fishermen, one ship bringing in five tons. As a consequence the market was glutted, and some sales were made as low as two cents a pound. Fishing is increasing in Nova Scotia waters to the extent that recently a million dollar corporation, known as the North Atlantic Fisheries, Limited, was organized. Holland is an extensive exporter of fish, especially to Belgium. The latter's total imports of fish and mussels for the first six months of 1912 aggregated $1,228,744, an increase of $86,349 over the same period last year. Imports of fish by weight in the first half of this year totaled 6,518,500 kilos (kilo, 2.2 pounds). Dutch harring figuring at 2,586,126 kilos. Mussels from Holland are also much in demand in Belgium, the imports for the month of June alone being 1,789,017 kilos. Tuesday, March 4, 1913, may be the quietest day Washington has known for a long time. The President elect decided against an inaugural ball, the House and Senate practically have determined that there shall be no public reception at the Capitol, the House has refused to appropriate money to bring Annapolis and West Point Cadets here for the parade and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, encouraged by this evidence of a return to the simple life, has asked that the saloons be closed that day. The only thing that stops the saloon closing is that Alexander McKenzie of the District Excise Board hasn't a way to do it, under the law, but he may. Christian Index 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. Bateredin Post Offce at Martinsburg » Va..as Secoud Class Matter Little Carrie Woods, dauppter of t, Samuel Woods, was taken io ch itv Hospital the omer day, wter je onderweat a alight operation. ee Sy Meatrs, James and Earnest Perry O well known young men cf tir anty, were pleasent cellera aot the ree ¢ fice oa Thuredey last, Mr. Robert Lewie, of Weet Mar le Street, ia conficed to bis home ith a very eore arm, the reenle of fag vaccinated aevern] weeks apa, — Toe Quarterly Messing at Dedies spitas Coarch, caused 9 number ot rangers to visit our town on Sen y last, Mr. Roodes Warrick, the well own Samuel Street storekeeper a bought himaelf a borae. Ao ec- ence of prosperity, and we are glad Gee it. Mre. Joboson, of Oburles Town, « ter cf Rev. R.R Thompson, pag of Dadiey Chorch, tbia city, wee Martinubarg for several doys tie ek. If ev fficient money is fortheoming, ie qnite probable that the Mariiox tg City Band and the local mili ty company will attend the inuog ration, Untees plane are cbanged, prelim ary legal ekirmisbee will occar im ¢ Stewart sreon caee before Judy: .W. Dailey, of Romvey, in tie erkeley Qouvty Circait Court on xs Toesdey, Febraary 25, Mra. Roas Torner, who baa bern pgerously ill et ber bome on Scuth sple Avenue for the past foar ow re weeke, is somewbat improved, d bright bopes ere held out for fF ultimate recovery, erin tl Jost as we xo 10 preca, Mr. anc ra, HS. Krombine, of Gilpex, d., bo have been wintering in ‘orida, etopped bere, enroute home. bey look well, avd consider Fiorid: great piace in which to live, Sa ae Mr. Oarter Oumpbell,of Kearneys Ie, wae in to ece na tbe otber das, e bas eccepted the agenoy in this dthe sorrounding neighborbood t ‘Loe Great American Herb Com- ny of Wasbingion, D. O, meno csurers of Indian berb medicines. The emall frame bunee, owned by re, Edward Wesbing‘on, of Pitte arg, eod located on Barke strees, rectly noroea the O, V. Reilroad ‘om Obarles,was partially destroyed fire on Thareday evening aboat § folock, J: is reported that the fire ee caueed by o Inmp exploding, ees Dr. George W. Bayle bae returned d bia mony friends iv ead sround artinebarg sre gled to have bio ith them egein, Hie practice ba: een beavy since he came back, be loving been busy both nigbs and y,8 fact which resdily showa that is service is eatisfectory, end bis tention careful, Baosbrod Wosbing:on,a well known ung colored man of Charles Town, eopposed to bave bad bie neck oken by being thrown oat of o ildiog iv that ploce carly Jast Sun y morning. Three young white eonre pow being held ia jail, erged with being reeponsible for io deatb nn In calling the roll of membera of e U. S. House of Re preacotatives honty minutes are consumed io ing the prefix “Mister”? to every me. This time amounte to sabunt (00.000 per annum to the people, tt has been decided to omit tuts refix end now it Ie simoly J. P. jones instead of “Mr, J. P. Jones hen the roll is called.—American ptist, BISHOP WALTERS ON THE PROBLEM Eminent Churchman Explains tils Pasiiion {1 Politics, LOYAL ¥6 INTEREST GF RAGE end For the Peoplo—Human Slavery | Not Chargaable to Acts of Any Ons Political Party. | “In advocating a division 0? the Nezre vote | have met with severe criticisiy fron: somo people that ought to kauw deter,” euys Bishop Alexander Walters “However, much ef the criticism is un- | founded. It iy the same old cry heard }in other days, ‘Our ruft is in danger. Since I have nothing but the good of hy people at heart I have nothing to fear nov need I be disturbed by the un Just criticism so freely indulged in ig bone quarters. “It has been said that 1 desire all the Negroes to vote the Democratic ticket. I want nothing of the kind, nor have Lever by speoch, letter or otherwise advised euch a course, We should be ag badly otf politically as we are now ff all the Negroes entitled to the fran chise were to go over to the Demvo- eruiie party. Our present political illy have largely come through the solidar- fly of the Negro vote. “If Democracy stunds for anything at all it stands for the brotherhood of )man and the rule of the people. And the principles of Democracy will tn- [ump uiciuately. It in the light in our republic that is to shine more and moze unto the perfect day. Its growth ts coutinuous. The Negro, being a mem- ber of this great republic, will be a re ciplent of ite blessings. “Governor Folk of Missourt says: * "Democracy would bave all unite ta enforcing the Inws and In counteract- fog any attempt to cefy them. it Would not array claus agulust class, bs would protect the rights of all by hav- ing cach respoct tha rights of the other, It would not uttack wealth hon- eatly acquired, but would wage un- ending war xgainat the privileges that Produce tainted riches on one side and undeserved poverty on the other side. | ‘Is syould protect property rights, bot would recognixe that property rigits are best protected by preserving tnvio Inte the public rights. it woul! not combat mon, but the ey mon do. Ht would peck oe a remedy for existing “evils, not less governaxens by the poo- ple, bat inore government by the peo- Die. “Tt would place conscience above cun. ning and the yrblic good above private greed. It would not offer a man an advantage in the way of a rubeldy or bounty or protective trrif?, enabling him to make money at the expense of tis fellow men, but tt would assure hin that It would give no one else such 6 mpectal privilege over him, “It would also guarantee to all an equal opportunity to Ire and Iabor and enjoy the quins of honest toil” “T admit, no far of the Negro ta con- cerned, the Democrutie party has not lived up to its high principles. Hu- man sinvery has been the great stur- bling block for which the Democratic party wax not wholly reaponeihle, Long, long before any Democratic pur- ty was forined in this country slurery existed here, and tt was the economle value of the slave that caused the per- petuity of the institution. “The southerp climate, so much Hike the native hubltat of the African, wan suited to bim and he to it. It respond ed to his touch, producing In abun- dance cotton. tobacco, rice, sugar cine. ete, He Iived, thrived and made tho southland blossom like n rose, He was considered n necessity, and schemes, were devised to enslave him forever, Neither Federalists, Democruts, Whigs nor Republicans were responsible for {ts becinning, but rather the rulers of, England who permitted the slave trade. thus enriching themselves, “For a time slavery existed both north und south. The cold climate of the north mide slavery unprofitable iv that section. while the southern states form: ed a suitable fleld for slave Inbor in the production of its staple products. With thix discovery came the defense of the system, And on and on it weut until the system was hedged about wiih Jaws enncted by state legislature and the national congress. Next came the agitation against slavery by those wno perceived the iniquity of the institu. tion and that slavery was a menace to the continuation of the republic, WOMEN IN UPLIFT WORK} AwxNiery to New England Convention ‘hide (natitutions and individuals evra Nae Tt a Tee tee eee Toe women's ausilinry to the New Engtand Baptist missionary convention reported recelpts tor the yuar of $275.87 at the receut annual meeting in Orange, MJ. The work of the organ ization under the avle leadership of the prestdent, Mrs. &. B, Holland, for the past two yours has steadily grown, Who ausitiary, besides assisting tha gensral convention In vartous ways, does a Jarge missionary and educa tional work. The institutions to which the orgauization xuve tinanehal assis: Ance At the recent meeting were the Vieginfa Seminary and College ta Drachburs, Va; the Watchman Indus- toh school, Providence, Ro Ls: the Tioward Orphanage and Tudustriat schoo, Kings Park, X. Y., and two tn Siituibons malncained for working girls, ‘The Baptist mission work in Africa tris given the suta of $25 and the on. ere! convenjion toward Its missionary and educational work §50. ‘Two wid- ows were given £5 euch, The mem- Uers are loyal to the work, and cach year an increase ts noted in indlvidual achievements, ‘The election of ofticers Yor the ensuing year resulted as fol hows: President, Mrs. EP. Holland of Providence, Ro L; first viee president, Mrs. Wiley Seay of Brooklyn: second vice president, Mrs. Christina Harris of Stamford, Conn.; recording secre- tary, Mis. Margaret L. Shepard of Now York: corresponding secrotary, Mrs. Mo J. Glascoe of Pravidence; treasurer, Mrs. 8. A Harris of front lyn; executive board, Mea M.S ‘rib bett and Mrs. A. Vribleit of Philudels phia: Mrs. Shepsrd and Mrs. Mattle V. Ellis of Tiartford, Conn; Mrs. El Vina Washington of Hoxton, Mrs. Juiia O'Nayan of New York and Miss Lucy Washington of Orange. HOW A” ED UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DG. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D, D PL BsIpENT | Located in Capitol of the Nation. Caaypus of over twenty aeres, Advan- Lages Unsaspassed. Modera ssientiie and general equipmner. | New Carnegie Library. New Scence Hall Waeulty of over one burdid 1382 stucents from 37 siaies and 10 Other counties. Unusual opportunities tor gcif-support. No young au or Wousn of enercy ut capacity need be deprived of its advan~ Lawes. ‘THE COLLEGE OF ATs AN} SULENCES, | Devoted to liberal studies. Courses Jin dsuglish, Mathematies, Latin, Greee, Brench, German, Physics, Chemisiry Hiclogy, History. Viniesophy. aud ie Social SteHOES, SUCH af are given 1h ile fest approved toheyes. 16 protessers. Kelly atiner, A. ML, Dean. | MEE TEACHERS? COLLEGE, Special opportunities for teachers. Resulay college courses in Psycholozy. Vedaye cy, Education, &., with dextee of A. 55" Pedagogical courses ieadin: to Ph. GB degree. High-crode cours: i Nounal Teaming, stusic, Marval Aris, and Domestic Seieuces. Grada- ates helped io positious. Lewis $3. Muote AM. 2u D., beau. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. ‘Three courses of four years cach. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. Mo, Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Courses in Booskeepi +, Sicnograp iy Commercial Law. Hisiory, Civics, oc Business and Bughsh big school eda: Canon combined George W. Covi, aL. Dean, SCHOOL OF MANUALARTS AND! APPL Tap SO ThN“utha Purivshes thorough cotitses, Six instruciors. Offers lour-year cout-e- do Mechameal and Civil Unyineering ard Aremtecture, E ‘ ‘ ale Professional Schools TUESCHOOLOP TiMOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five profes: sors. Liead and thorough co. os. Ad Vvaovages of Gonnecticn with & great University. Students? Aid. Low ex- penses, Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean. THE SCUOOL OF MEDIGCINE. Forty-nine professors. Modoin tab- oratories and equipment. Connect: d wih new Freedmen’s Hospital, costing alfanliion dollars. Clinical facilities ‘ surpassed in America Posi-g cade ite School and Polyeuaic, bdw ard A Balloch, ma. Dis Dean 5! aud W, Sirerts NL W W.C. MeNeill, vi. D., secretary, 1 R SU. N. Ww. THE SCUOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of chree yous. ging @ borough now edve or heory and practice of law. Occayt ve building opposite the court house rerfamin B. Leehton, Lb. 4.. Deau i2u dtu siseet N. We For catalosue and special i formation waudress Dean of Department. 9 le ea kA a SSS 2 SSRN Le ANAS ae a a Sy 4 e . f d rac Snatis a 4 ARS. au ‘| Kad Spelis . a Y “T suffered, during girlhood, from womanly weakness,” 5 \ writes Mrs. Mollie Navy, of Walnut, N.C. “st last, | was : 4 almost bed-ridden, and had to give up. We hod three 4 doctors. All the time, I was getting worse. | had bad A + spells, that lasted from 7 to 28 days. In one week, after 1 my SY gave Cardui a trial, | could eat, sleep, and joke, as weil as i MM anybody. Ji 8 weeks, I was well. 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You save $10 to $25 middlemen's profits by buying direct of necessity from the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of frogs from anyone at any price until you receive our enquiries and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers agents. number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago dealers handle second ranging from $10 to $30 or $10. Descriptive bargains listed trained by COASTER-BRAKES single wheels, imported roller chassis equipment of all kinds of half the required $1000 Hodgethorn Puncture-Pro Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE TO INTRODUC 11 riding, very durable and easy to handle inside with a special quality of raider, which never becomes porous and which closes well until punesures without allowing the air to escape. There are hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a year season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the other qualities being given by several layers of their tire. Prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we can give a special factory price to the rider of only six days received. Wo ship C. O. D. on aprons have examined it. a day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you found them strictly as represented. We will allow $500 off each pair. We will allow a cash discount of $4.50 per week on orders and enclose this advertisement. We will send us a receipt at our expense if for any reason they are not sent on our examines and may not be sent as in a bank. If you order a pair of these cats, run faster, wear better, buy a new coat, or you will be saved a trial order at once, here is the remark that you will need if you need tires. 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BICYCLE Ordera filled to SECOND HA will sell you a sample pair for $1.00 on the wonder $1.55 NO MORE TROUBLE FROM FUNCTURES MAILS, Tacks, or Class will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pates sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION ```markdown ``` [ ] ```markdown ``` 4 一 Notice the thick rubber cross "A" and puncture strips "B" and "B" also rim strip "H" and rim cutting. This tire will make a good other make- SOFT, ELAETIG and EADY RIDING. ```markdown ``` The 50th anniversary of our company was celebrated by erecting the most modern safe factory in the world. Wide-scale men who received our special billing indemnity, rendered it necessary to double our output. We are spending many thousands of dollars enlarging our sales organization, but to learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. 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