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He has been left to the tender mercies of his southern enemies, and once in every four years does this socalled republican party look in that direction, and that is when delegates are wanted in the National Convention to defeat the will of those states whose vote means something. This brings to the light one of the strong points of the Progressive Party. She stands as a rock against this policy. If these Southern states which mean nothing to the republican party had been eliminated, Roosevelt and not Taft would have been the candidate,—and not alone the candidate—but he would have been the President-elect today. All through the late campaign the democrats were more afraid of Roosevelt than they were of Taft. Bro. Thompson will admit that in nearly all the states where the direct primary was in operation it was shown that the people—the common people if you please—preferred Col. Roosevelt, and yet Bro. Thompson contends that the popular sentiment was not in his favor. If not Roosevelt who? It certainly was not William Howard Taft. I believe Mr. Taft is an honest, patriotic citizen, but in accepting the republican nomination he was entrapped into receiving stolen goods. He says Roosevelt stood for no principle that was not a part of the record of the republican party. It is hardly necessary that I go into an extended argument here farther than to caution Bro. Thompson to be careful of his statements in this direction, for he is certainly venturing upon very thin ice. That the records are against this statement I shall show. The Republican Party has not as yet agreed in favor of the direct primary. It has not by far agreed upon the election of United States Senators by popular vote. Both of these reforms are fixtures in the Progressive platform. The judicial reforms advocated by the Progressive Party, (and all fair minded men will agree that reforms are needed) are denounced by the Republican party as revolutionary in the extreme. Col. Roosevelt's stand on the Southern N gro question is the correct one. There we are practically disfranchised. This, too, in defiance ESTABLISHED 1882 ALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W of Republican pretensions and in violation of Constitutional provisions. If our friends who have the power to prevent it, will stand idly by and see us robbed of those rights for which our fathers and brothers laid down their lives, then the quicker we cut loose from such friends the better it will be for us and our children. Coming back to the point we do not hesitate to take our stand with Mr. Roosevelt. Inasmuch as the Southern Negro vote counts only at national election time, and that only to choose delegates, it is likely to do more harm than good, by defeating the will of the majority, as was clearly shown at the convention last June. Having accomplished this piece of devilment, they go back home and are prevented by democratic disfranchising laws from voting for either the victor or vanquished candidate. "If,' says Bro. Thompson "Mr. Roosevelt is the reformer, Bro. Jackson claims him to be, we would like to know why he appointed the Apostle of special privilege. Mr. Root to the most exalted position in his official family?" This is easy. Mr. Root in 1904 was an entirely different proposition to Root of 1912. "Same old snake in a new skin." In 1904 we saw him as a great lawyer, whose magnificent attainments fitted him for the post of Secretary of State. In 1912, when again we focused our glasses upon him, we recognized a great corporation lawyer, a servant of special privilege, a politician egged on by the money powers and backed up by a one sided National Committee, and willing to obey the behests of his masters, even to the extent of defeating the will of the people and inviting the sure destruction of a rotten party which party in defiance all its glorious traditions was willing to stoop so low as to rob a victorious candidate of the honor that was rightly his. Eight years of intimate association with this astute chairman of the National Convention caused Mr. Roosevelt to take a different view of Root. As to the size of the Roosevelt campaign fund of 1904 I will make no statement which I cannot prove. Doubtless both sides had an abundance of money for all purposes, legitimate and illegitimate. The common people did not have this money to give, hence it must have come from the pockets of those who could afford it. There is absolutely nothing wrong about this contributing to campaign funds, so long as there is no string tied to it. Not even the government has authority to control my pocketbook unless I use it in violation of law. It was not shown during the investigation by the Congressional Committee that any illegal bargains had been made by Col. Roosevelt and those who contributed to this large campaign fund. As long as there are political parties there will be campaign contributions and these will come from those who are in a position to give. All this ranting about big campaign contributions is rank hypocrisy. It is simply the old cry of "mad dog" raised to divert attention from the real evil. I care not how close Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt stood together. it is not within the power of any one man to know the thoughts of another until they are revealed in his actions Shall Dances Be Indulged In? With a negligible minority, among the technically religious, the world has accepted as true the Bible dictum that "there is a time to dance." Dancing is older than man. The birds sing and strut and the lambkina gambol. Dancing is allied to melody. It is the social instinct making common cause with art. It would be impossible as it is undesirable to eliminate the rhythm out of life and the joy that comes from an expression of the same. Spite of this, perhaps on this account, dancing is a dangerous and difficult indulgence. The "Dance Hall represents the most dangerous places of resort in a great city. There the unwary take their first wayward step; the exhileration, at first so innocent, becomes an intoxication most dangerous. Just now there seems to be, in Chicago at least, a revelry of the dance, a rioting on the dance floors that is most disturbing and distressing. There has sprung up a whole brood of new and fantastic girations and attitudes, posturings and movements that call for a new lot of names: "The Tango" and the "Dip," the "Hesitation," the 'Chicken Scratch,' and more cryptic titles beyond our knowledge. Whether these questionable forms of amusement started with the elite and have sifted downward among the multitude of young people, necessitating vigorous action on the part of Park Commissioners and Playground Directors, we do not know. But we read in the "announcements" of popular family clubs, in the favored residential districts, of "Tango Classes" proving very popular and being largely attended by the dames as and words. Evidently Col. Roosevelt did not know Mr. Taft as well as he thought. The fact of Mr. Roosevelt's recognition of Mr. Taft as a scholar and statesman, does not in the least add to the sincerity of his professions of friendliness toward the Roosevelt policies which the country was led to believe he would carry out. He would have been wise had he given Mr. Roosevelt to understand at the outstart that he intended to be President Taft minus the Roosevelt collar. I do not believe that Roosevelt tried to facten the collar on him at all. In our former article we mentioned three men whom we believed had not outlived their usefulness—Beveridge, Johnson and Glasscock. Beveridge though defeated for Senator and Governor, has not been discredited by the country. The country looks upon him as a strong and able man. Johnson is a young man who has not spent all of his life in pursuit of public office. Glasscock though not nominated in the usual way was elected by the people, thus exhibiting his strength. I take the ground that the colored man should do just as white men. If it is right for white men to change when Reforms are necessary, it is right for colored men to do the same. We should do our own thinking and act accordingly. Frostburg, Md. J. W. Jackson. well as the misses of the clubs. We read of special high "functions," organized in the interest of certain Crying "Charities," where the "censorship was lifted and all the newer dances indulged in and enjoyed." One significant fact remains, that recently the South Park Commissioners in Chicago have placed their stamp of approval on action taken by certain directors of the South Park Playground who have issued in their rules and regulations a list of ten dances that are "positively prohibited." To the uninitiated it would seem that what is improper in the Davis Square Field House cannot be so very proper at the Blackstone, and what is vulgar or dangerous in the Stockyards district cannot be very refining in the Kenwood and Wood-lawn club houses. Herein lies the perplexity of the social worker. Dancing cannot be eliminated from society, it would be a sad day for society were such elimination possible,—still, dancing is always in danger of becoming not only the most fascinating, but the most idle and indulgent of passions. The endless waltz, the two-by-two swinging round and round, until the breath is exhausted, is followed by an interval that allows the overheated to fasten themselves to the wall in idle and practically silent inanity until the recovered breath starts again on its monotous swings. This, continued until the 'wee-sma' hours, of the night, offers the minimum of intellectual culture or even social enjoyment aside from the swingingg joys of partners. What is there to be done about it? Is it not possible to inject into the dance program an occasional interlude of poetry and song? During the three hours intercourse, which is too of en stretched to four or five, is it not possible to give an occasional fifteen minutes to something else,—a gathering around the piano for the singing of a few old time favorites, ladea with both music and feeling "Annie Laurie," "Swance River," and the rest of them? Would it not be possible for someone interested in the social center work to inject a poem from a recent, or an unknown source; to tell a story, or at least, to "make an announcement" of something good observed or pending. And then, is there not something beside the waltz, even in its most chastened form, that will gratify the hunger for melody and make the feet move rhythmically. In our playground and small park assemblies, expert workers are spending much time and energy in trying to revive or reproduce the folk dances of the elder world. The pictureque movement, for instance, of Scandinavian peasants, Swiss milkmaids, Irish lassies and old English swains, and the reward is worthy the effort. There is patriotism and history, as well as the poetry of motion, in these dances. But while they are at it, why should they not continue until they revive some of the delightful folk dances of America. The graceful cotillions and quadrilles that made the "Quilting Bees," "Corn Huskings," and long winter nights in the clearings, so full of hearty jollity, healthy activity and social release. Why not try again "Money-musk," "Pop Goes the Weasel," the "Arkansas Traveler," and the many Continued on second page. NO. 49 Anglo-Saxon Inconsistent For thousands of years the intermixture of races has progressed in all parts of the world, and we feel safe in saying that until the trumpet of Gabriel sounds the work of mixing up will still be in operation. It is a law of nature. In slavery days, in this country, masters, overseers and slaves mingled promiscuously, until now the vast bulk of colored people are loaded with white blood. Since the war the white man has continued his work in that direction, practically protected by law. The Negro man, even in Northern States, can hardly look upon the white female and live! White prostitutes are put of business whenever it is found that they love to linger in dalliance with dusky lovers. Now, since the Jack Johnson episode, intermarriage laws are as thick as "leaves in Vallambroso." Of course we know that the white brother has for an excuse the preservation of race purity, yet it seems so strange that the bats are let down for illicit sexual relations, while marriage is barred. Evidently there is an ax to grind somewhere. An Ethiopian in the woodpile, so to speak. The Negro is now sufficiently intelligent to see through the subterfuge. The idea is to bar intermarriage, yet to leave the Negro woman at the mercy of the white man, with no recourse for betrayal. Strange, in the States where intermarriage is prohibited, we find the greatest crop of Mulattoes. In the States where any one can marry, few intermarriages occur, and in proportion very few Mulattoes are born. In the great West Indies, where the races mingle freely, there is no rape, little intermixture, and few intermarriages. While we care nothing for social intercourse with white women, care nothing for intermarriages, yet as citizens of this country, such laws as contemplated are a blow to our liberties and rights, and designed solely to lower our self respect and standing in the estimation of other races. It is an injustice, that we bitterly resent. As slaves, stolen from our sunny African homes, we labored to develop this country. As soldiers, on a hundred battlefields, we gave our blood to defend it. As citizens, we demand, whether we exercise them or not, all rights accorded to other citizens, under the U. S. Constitution, and all personal rights and privileges that have been the heritage of mankind since the days when Adam, in the beautiful Garden of Eden, sang songs of love to Eve.—W. P. Dabney, in Cincinnati Union. Rewards Man Who Rescued Children. By his keen foresight in stopping a team of frightened horses in Philadelphia recently Shedwick Waters, Jr., of Paschall, Pa., saved the lives of more than half a dozen children. As a token of gratitude for his services Mr. Waters was awarded the sum of $5 and a vote of thanks by those interested in the welfare of the children. Larger Benefits For Sons of Virginia. The board of directors of the Society of the Sons of Virginia has recommended an increase in the benefits due financial members when ill and claims due to the heirs of deceased financial members. The recommendation of the board will be voted upon by the society at the first meeting in September. INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER VOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ART. 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. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. branding 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Marin burg, W. Va. Masonry in West Virginia, among our people, will never amount to any thing but disgrace, so long as a thief and a cowhidded chap are at the head of it, and the natural tendencies calling to and control their make up. We want to say to Bro. Thompson, of Thomas, that as time ripens and enriches wine, so will Bro. Jackson's replies grow with that "but up" and crushing finality, that might drive him to Weston. Beiter walk up to General Jackson as did Lee to Grant both big men, and with hat off, present your sword. Nothing more than an advice brother T. There are two new cases of smallpox in the West end of Martinsburg, and the same number of filthy houses of prostitution that for years have defied the churches and the law, and to which an endless procession of all kinds and clenches go night and day, with the implication and fearful conjecture of the few decent ones as to what will be the crushing finality, since punishment must and will follow sin? While in the House of Representatives a speech of Assistant Attorney General Lewis was handed up to read. Having done so, our conclusion was that he is a man of deep thought and of powerful expression, but shallow in a Douglass manhood for the rights of his race. Better that such a man had never been trained to traduce his race. We have no use for any Negro who knows different, yet brands himself and race as inferiors because and only because their skins differ from others—all products of the same divine source. The more Abraham Lincoln is thought of and talked about the more the world is aroused to think of him as an instrument in the hands of God to save this nation and free it of its slavery. That he fully intended and unalterably had it fixed in his soul to do both all same men agree. When a boy the sight of seeing human beings sold as cattle, hogs and dogs, rooted it deeply in his soul to say, "If ever I become president of this country, I'll hit that thing damned hard," and he did. If he had not been the child of God to do it, why such a thought within him? Judge R. W. Duiley, who held court here this week is considered and so known as one of the finest judges in the state. In law, reason, philosophy and psychology, he is profound. Coming from the stock he did—mothered and nurtured by the sweet woman he was, and loved by that stately jurist, the late Judge Armstrong, how else could he be than what he is? You must go to his home to see the model father and husband and grandpa, and into his courts to see a smiling placid ruler when the sea is raging. Then too, every man has equal sailing in his court and he is full of the courtesy that forces the world to say—the son of God was earth's only perfect gentleman. Gen. Nathan Goff. The Clarksburg Exponent takes advanced ground in predicting the death of the Progressive Party in the great state of West Virginia because of the election of General Nathan Geff as United States Senator. The wish may be father to the thought. However, rest assured brother, that no more harm will come to the Progressive Party by so progressive a man to the Progressive Party in this state, than will the state suffer by his election. He is progressive and has always been and that in the extreme. He was progressive with a mint of money—for he was born rich—to go into the army. He was very progressive on the battlefield. When captured and held for ransom to get back in the foe's lines a fighter, Nathan Goff, Jr., refused to be ransomed and his willingness to die a prisoner for his country's cause was written by him to President Lincoln and is on file and can at any time be seen. His offer of his life for his country, was akin to that of the Son of God for the sad condition of the souls of men. And for that progressive stand he was maltreated and starved to that point that his depleted nature made him eat rats to live. After the war, he was progressive in battling for the good of the children of men particularly within the confines of this state, and those of the country at large. He was progressive in developing the great hidden resources of unbounded wealth of West Virginia, and to no man can an unsubdued progression be given than to him for fighting democracy and keeping it in its place. He was progressive enough to have gone to Congress for three terms; to have been a cabinet official, and now steps down from a lofty position of a United States Judge—a position he has honored—giving to rich and poor, black and white, confederate and union—all equal justice, and in contact with the world's greatest thinkers, and rich experience, in his sublime hoary age, there is no need to fear any damage he will do to anything progressive, for religion and everything else is progressive. Might as well claim that Judge—but we like to say General Goff, will advocate going back to pine knots and the dip lights, claiming they are better than electricity. The fact and truth of the whole matter is that he is and always has been the right kind of a republican, and has lived and fully advocated in peace for the principles he fought for on the field of battle. Had the non-progressives played the man as he has, there would be no Progressive Party today. We go farther, and say, as no child will ever forget the sting of a hornet, neither will General Goff forget that he was robbed of the governorship of this state as was Theodore Roosevelt of the nomination for the presidency of the United States. Following the bobble skirt craze, men are going to wear pants as tight as they can be, and short coats. We suggest that they too, be required to have as high heels and as slender as the fashionable women wear on their shoes. There is as much sense in making decent and law abiding men stop (under a severe penalty) carrying revolvers because toughs do, as there was in making that fool law that honorable men and gentlemen, shall not have more than a half a pint of whiskey at a time in their houses, and of that half pint no one is to be given a swallow. Judging from some of the laws made, there is no better place for a fool killer to go, than the West Virginia legislature. Thugs carry pistols and disregard the law, hence where is the sense in keeping decent men from carrying same to protect their lives and belongings from such rascals; and why restrict sober men, because a lot of fools get drunk, from having as much whiskey as they see fit? A man has a right to do as he pleases in his own home, as long as he injures no one, and in spite of all such fool laws, they will. It is ten thousand times worse for men to lie to be sent to the legislature, take oaths to obey and make laws for the good of the people, and then take bribes, than it would be for every decent man in this state to have a barrel in his house. Baptism Not Essential. A spirited contest is on in this city ancient baptism. It does seem to us that there are many other matters of far more importance to seriously look into and after. Baptism is nothing but a form—imblematic—an outward sign of an inward grace—that's all. Jesus Christ was not in his nature antagonistic, and always joined in with whatever he found the people doing that conducted to no harm to them. He flashed with men; sowed seed with men, and to be reasonable went down and was plunged under the water by John. If baptism is essential to salvation, what was its forerunner, for it certainly is a substitute for circumcision, and it has been declared of no avail to a real religious life of man. We see but one thing essential to salvation, and that is sin, for it must exist to be mastered by the undaunted follower of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The one thing to get up a burning fever heat over is the sugar of the whole Bible—"Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul, mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself." To do the above would make earth a heaven, destroy looks and firearms, and turn battleships into pleasure boats. We will go farther and say, we doubt very much if our custom of praying and giving in our experiences of our hopes and certainty of heaven amount to any good. Sincere work on absolutely divine lines, is all the prayer God wants of men. Wilberforce once was a great prayer, shouter, and as Col. Forrest Brown said of Judge Brannon, in "wheel horse" in the class room, but he lopped them all off, and several years later one of the old trumpeters took him to teak for backsliding, and asked him—"how about your soul?" Mr. Wilberforce, looking on the shadow of christian character replied: "I have been so busy about other's soule, I had forgotten about my own." How God-like, and we would the souls of the whole world were so built and worked up. We believe there are more lies told in the class rooms, and more hypocrisy sprouted and cultivated in the prayer rooms than any other two places in a church. There is about as much sound sense in a man who has money to live on to meet weekly, and tell how he lives and the good things he enjoys and expects to enjoy as there is in the "heaven bent and heaven bound" today christian palavering about something he knows nothing. We will take another final step. If our idea of man be correct, it's useless and fruitless for us to pray to God at all. From the fact we ought to and can be our own goddess. When Christ spoke of the little mustard seed He had reference to the little spark of God divinely therein placed to be our eternal guide and master and as the birds rest on the mustard branches so can the human family get comfort from those whose faith and work have made them visible, miniature, walking and talking earthly gods. And so faith without words is worthless, then work must be God's yardstick for man to measure his objection growth. Throw baptism to the winds so far as being essential to salvation, and spend the rest of your life feeding and growing by good works the God already within you. Hardwick's anti intermarriage bill is the most devilish thing ever offered in Congress and the fact that 98 voted for it, and only 12 against it, shows what fools Negroes are, who boast of being democrats. Locally colored men in the North, West and East, may be what they wish politically, because there are democrats in these sections fair minded as Progressives and republicans, but in the south, where they have mixed their blood with millions of Negro women, and are now living with all colors of colored women, is enough in itself, to brand them as the most consummate hypocrites on earth. Every man who voted for that bill should be published and held up for the eternal damnation in reservation for them. It is not impossible that the man's record who fathered that bill is rotten as to our charge, and it should be rigidly looked into. It is our candid belief, however, that this wicked bill will die in the Senate, but should it not, another hope lingers, that our next President will veto it. If he does not, the 2 every Negro who supported, and still cries for democracy, must be jumped as the worst foe the race has on earth. MARRIAGE AND DIVORC LAWS The debate on the miscegregation law, which recently took place in the state legislature, brought out forcibly one of our great national evils—the lack of uniform laws on marriage and divorce. It was proposed that no marriage of whites and blacks should be valid in West Virginia, no matter whether contracted in this state or some other place. This is perhaps an extreme illustration, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that scarcely any two states of the union have the same statutes on marriage and divorce. It would seem that the marriage relation being the foundation of society, would be governed throughout the same nation by uniform laws. Undoubtedly this should be the case. That the ease with which divorces may be granted in some states has become a glaring national evil, is not open to dispute. What does it mean when the proportion of divorces secured here is forty-three times as great as in Eogland? Does it not show beyond the shadow of a doubt that we are in some way making a terrible blunder. And is it not apparent that this blunder is a legislative one? There are some cases in which divorce is an actual benefit to society as well as a just relief to one of the parties, but there are many other cases in which it is merely the result of discontent following a hasty or inadvisable marriage. It should be impossible to secure divorce except on adequate grounds, and there should be made as few as possible. At the same time, there should be enacted uniform marriage laws, containing provisions that would tend to eliminate basty unions. The inevitable result would be fewer of the "affinity" scandals that have disgraced the nation, and more happy home life — Wheeling Intelligencer. 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. Shall Dances Be Indulged In? Continued from first page. more movements, unknown to the present writer, which were danced with such healthy vigor, in "hard times" and calico by our fore-elders? If, with the revival of the old movements, there could be for dramatic effect, at least, a revival of the old costumes, it might add zeal to the dance. Before it is altogether too late, can there not be a movement inaugurated at our "social centers" by our "settlement workers" to bring about a revival in this direction? This perhaps is one way to counteract the dangerous innovations from foreign fields. We are assured by experts that all these forbidden dances are capable of being danced innocently, but that the objection lies in the fact that they offer opportunity for the dancers to forget the boundaries of propriety and ignore the prudent courtesies. Before the last "Fiddler" is dead who knows how to "Call Off" and "fiddle," too, let our directors of playgrounds take lessons of him and thus perpetuate wholesome recreations for the simpler and more industrial generations of American life. Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, in Unity, Chicago. POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT Wilson Polled Less Than Bryan in 1903. THE BALLOTS TABULATED President-Elect Received 6,154,748 Roosevelt, 3,923,140; Taft, 3,376,422 and Debs, 673,783. The popular vote for president in the elections of 1912 shows that Wilson polled throughout the country a total of 6,156,747 votes, Roosevelt 8, 928,140 and Taft 3,376,422. The Socialist vote for Debs amounted to 673,783, with the Socialist count still unfinished in seven states. In 1908 Bryan's popular vote was 6,393,182 and that of Taft 7,637,676. The vote in New Jersey gives Wilson 178,238; Roosevelt, 145,410; Taft, 88,835; Debs, 15,901; Chafin, 2878. Maryland—Wilson, 112,674; Roosevelt, 57,789; Taft, 54,596; Debs, 3996; Chafin, 2244. Virginia—Wilson, 90,338; Roosevelt, 21,737; Taft, 23,277; Debs, 787; Chafin, 699. Delaware—Wilson, 22,139; Roosevelt, 8061; Taft, 16,222; Debs, 350; Chafin, 434. West Virginia — Wilson, 112,584; Roosevelt, 76,608; Taft, 56,232; Debs, 20,000; Chafin, 4500. TO GIVE AN EQUAL CHANCE Investigations started by Edward C. Wentworth, chairman of the executive board of Frederick Douglass center, 3032 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, to determine whether there is a prejudice against employment of Afro Americans in Chicago stores and offices resulted in the publication, recently, by the center of letters written by Chicago bankers, lawyers and merchants, recognizing that such a prejudice exists and pledging their help to eradicate this feeling. Among the men who assured Mr. Wentworth that they will lend their aid to give our young men and women an equal opportunity with whites were Julius Rosenwald, William E. Mason, Judge Edward O. Brown, N. W. Harris, George H. Webster, Irwin S. Rosenfeis, John O'Connor, Maurice S. Kubns, George Packard, Francis E Bromeli, Luis F Post, Robert McMurdy, Harold Eckes and others representing many professions. 2 Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as second Class Matter March came in quite a docile manner, but there is no telling how she will go out. Mr. Ernest Garner has returned home, after spending a week with friends and relatives in Winchester, and he reports a royal time. Miss Virginia Thornton, of Washington, is spending some time with her parents at Inwood. She looks well and friends are glad to see her Mr. Trip Crummell, the drayman and all around man of town, has been very ill with pneumonia during the week, but as we go to press, he is somewhat improved. Mr. Henry Ford, one of the best known and finest colored men in the county, and a resident of Darksville was in to see us the other day. We are always glad to see the above named gentleman, because his visits invariably bring cheer. In accordance with the requirements of notice issued by the Treasury Department of the United States, effective March first, prohibiting Common Carriers from providing drinking cups and towels for common use. The Cumberland Valley Railroad has withdrawn from their Cars and Stations all drinking cups, glasses and towels. In order to comply with the above health regulations The Cumberland Valley is installing in some of its Stations The Spouting Fountains commonly known as "Bubblers." They consist of a large bowl containing in the middle a nozzle pointing straight upward. By pressing a lever or a button a stream of water will shoot up from the nozzle and fall back into the bowl, which will be drained off when the pressure is released. The tips do not come with anything but the water. 10,000 TURKEYS ON PARADE Governor of Texas Reviews Great March of Native Fowl. Ten thousand turkeys marched in a parade in Cuero, Texas. Governor Colquitt and his military staff headed the "turkey-trot." It was the greatest gathering of turkeys ever seen at one time in this country. The turkeys were brought in by farmers from all sections of the state. Mrs. John C. Layman and three young sons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a farm house of the Mennonite settlement near Newport News, Va. The house was occupied by several families and a number of other occupants had narrow escapes. One woman was dangerously burned. A GIFT WITH A THOUGHT IN IT There's one very simple way out of the Christmas New Year's shopping problem: don't shop, but sit quietly at home and subscribe for the Youth's Companion. The chances are, too, that no present you could buy for the young friend or the family you delight to honor could confer, so much pleasure as this gift of the Youth's Companion for a whole round year—fifty two week's issues, and the fifty second as keenly anticipated and enjoyed as the very first. There will be stories for readers of every age; sound advice as to athletics; suggestions for the girl at college or making her own way in the world; good things for every member of the family—all for $2.00—less than four cents a week. Tae one to whom you give the subscription will receive free of cost The Companion Window Transparency and Calendar for 1913, in rich, translucent colors. It is to be hung in the window or over the lamp shade. You, too, as giver of the present will receive a copy of it. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 144 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions Received at this Office. PROGRESS IN EDUCATION. What Dr. Isaac M. Agard Has Accomplished at Tillotson College. Modern educational methods as applied in the institutions and among the colored people of the south and southwest have resulted in notable advancement for the progress and uplift of the race, according to the report of Dr. Isaac M. Agard, president of Tillotson college, at Austin, Tex., and connected with the American Missionary association. During the seven years that he has been at the head of that institution he has made a detailed and exhaustive study of educational work throughout the south, observations made forming the basis of numerous lectures and articles. That Texas has a great future is his belief and also that the future of the colored people in the south and southwest is bright. Much of this, in his opinion, will be due to the educational work being carried on by northern men and women. The result of their efforts can be noted from year to year and is a steady march of progress, a betterment in conditions among the people for whom the work is carried on and in the building up of that section of the country. The value of applying modern educational methods is noted in the rapid growth of Tillotson college since Dr. Agard has been at its head. Not only has there been a notable increase in enrollment, but the scope of work has been enlarged and a new concrete industrial building has been added. Other buildings are planned. While he emphasizes the value of industrial education and instruction in domestic sciences, he does not consider that it should be taught to the exclusion of the details of the so called higher education. A general education, fitting for professional, home and business branches of life's work, is advocated. At present a movement is on foot to establish a fund for the full equipment of the new Evans Industrial ```markdown ``` PRESIDENT ISAAC M. AGARD building and the securing of new buildings. The industrial building is the result of a fund gathered in the north to meet the conditional bequest of Major Evans of Austin, a prominent business man and native of New Hampshire. For his work in the Lone Star State and studying conditions in the southland Dr. Agard was particularly well fitted for taking up the presidency of Tillotson seven years ago. Preceding this he was for over twenty years principal of the Rockville high school and superintendent of schools in that city. During his thirty years' active teaching in New England he became known as one of the most successful and progressive preparatory school headmasters with the Rockville schools as a monument to his efforts. During that time he became well known throughout New England as twice president of the Connecticut Association of Classical and High School Teachers and as a member of the Connecticut council of education. The same quality of work which made him so successful in the east is responsible for his success in the southwest. People in Connecticut have a peculiar interest in Tillotson college on account of its having been founded by and named after Rev. George J. Tillotson, for many years a prominent Congregational clergyman of the state and having a pastorate in Wethersfield. Believes In Future of Colored Race. Hon. James T. Lloyd, a member of congress from Missouri, is now serving his seventh term in the national house of representatives. He comes from a district where there is a large population of colored people. He is well known to his constituents and commands not only their respect, but their confidence. He is that type of man who firmly believes in opening wide the door of hope to the colored people Eighteen Miners Hurt In Cave-In. Eighteen men were seriously injured by a cave-in at the Barnum mine, No. 2, of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Duryea, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The cave-in came without warning, and the injured men were partly covered by the slate and coal. Rescuers promptly went to work and the entombed men were taken to the surface before gas could accumulate. Thirty other men, who were in the mine at the time, escaped by a second opening. The most seriously injured are: A. E. Jetter, superintendent of the colliery, injured internally; John J. McNulty, miner and treasurer of the school district of Pittston; Frank Flannery, miner; Martin Reap, miner, and James Langan, miner. All the other victims are foreigners. Several of the injured are likely to die. Nearly all the physicians in the vicinity were summoned to the shaft to attend to the injured. Most of the victims were removed to the Pittston hospital. An investigation shows that the accident was caused by a depression in the surface, which caused the roof to fall and entombed the men in the place they were working. Take 596 Gall Stones From Woman. Mrs. John Schnee, forty-two years of age, of Lavelle, near Shepandoah, Pa., died at the state hospital at Fountain Springs, following an operation in which 596 gall stones were removed from her. The woman suffered exorciating pain for the last six months. Two Years For Intimidating Workmen L. A. Hays, charged with intimidating workmen in the strike district in West Virginia, was sentenced by the military commission to serve two years in the penitentiary, and the sentence was officially approved by Governor Glosscook. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D. PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1382 students from 37 states and 19 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 Muller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology. Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped in positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Scenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinishes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough courses. 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 Polychinic. Edward A. Balloch, 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. Jeremiah F. Leachhorn, LL R., Dean. 420 5th street N. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. NON- BALKABLE SELF-POINTING A Hammerless Gun with SELF Frame. Bestest operating and smoothest action. THE STEVENS Repeating Shotgun No. 520 LISTING AT $25.00, Is indorsed by Shoot- ers 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 Reporter. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box 5004, CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. For cleaning, dyeing and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Corduer has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business, Winchester Ave., P. O. 609—Both Phones. BIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNFED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race 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 accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and term to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnylope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Chifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. HOTEL BROWN CHARLESTON, WEST VA. CHARLESTON, WEST VA. Couldn't Walk! "I used to be troubled with a weakness peculiar to women," writes Mrs. Anna Jones, of Kenny, Ill. "For nearly a year, I could not walk, without holding my sides. I tried several different doctors, but I grew worse. Finally, our druggist advised Cardui for my complaint. I was so thin, my weight was 115. Now, I weigh 163, and I am never sick. I ride horseback as good as ever. I am in fine health at 52 years." Mmc. M. L. JOHNSON GRADUATE SCALP SPECIALIST AND HAIR CULTURIST Manlouring, Feaisl, Soap Massage and Scientific Soap Training. ```markdown ``` The above cut represents Mare. Johnson as she is today, with her own NURAL HAIR cultivated by the use of our own Hair Remedies. She can do for you what she has done for her client 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, 500c. Use Johnson's Hair Grower, for lively-aging, Strengthening, Nourishing the Roots and Stimulating the Hair growth. Per Bottle, 200c. Use Johnson's Dandruff Cure. Helps the scalp of gum, grit, dandruff, dandles and dirt, and leaves it healthy and purer. Per Jar, 250c. Use Johnson's Itch Cure. It will stop that itching Scalp. Use Johnson's Shampoo Cream, for champooing the scalp and hair. It cleanses and beautifies. Per Jar,..... 250c Use Johnson's Medicated Soap, for the complexion, shaving, shampooing and skin diseases. Per Cake,..... 250c Use Johnson's Cream of Camphor. It beautifies the face, hands and neck. Relieves headache and neuralgia and will gradually lighten the skin. Per Lot, 50c. 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 Brids, Puffs and front Parts to match your hair. Best work- manship. Lowest prices. Send 10c for a large sample jar of Johnson's Hair Food and terms to Agents. Write your letter to DR. W. ALKANDER JOHNSON OR Mo. MARY L. JOHNSON Scalp Spoolallist 681 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Mass. Please mention this paper. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &o &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Speare and get them at reasonable prices, also tire and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Ricycles. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS FROM THE ORIGINAL CABBAGE PLANT GROWERS Established 1868. Paid in Capital Stock $30,000.00 We grew the first FROST PROOF PLANTS in 1861. How have over twenty thousand satisfied customers. We have grown and sold more cabbage plants than all other perennials. States enabled. WAY! Because our plants must please or we send your money back. Order now. If it times to get these plants in your section to get extra early cabbage, and they are the ones that sell for the most money. WE BOW THREE TONS OF CABBAGE SEED PER SEASON. Earn Your Plants for a Slight Service—Ask Us How! Prices on Cabbage Postage paid to cents per 100 plants. By express, buyer paying express charges, which under special note is very low for 10,000, 1,400 to 4,000 $1.50 per thousand; 5,000 to 9,000 $1.25 per thousand; 10,000 and over $1.00 per thousand. WM. C. GERATY, CO., Box 138 Yonges 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 ejection are always a protection, keep shells, powder and gases from your face, allow instant repeat shots. Quick take-down construction—easily cleaned—takes little space and brings greatest pleasure at small expense. Learn more about the full Marlin line. Send 3 change package for the 136 page Marlin catalog. The Marlin Firearms Co. Shange package for the 136 page Marlin catalog. Willow Street New Haven, Conn. ```markdown ``` BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Crested to Dec. 1st, 1912. Training leave Martinsburg as follower WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Council tor Kennedy except Sunday and of Grison for Wheeling. No. 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No. 5 Daily at 3:17 p.m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7:42 p.m for Wheeling, Col- umbus and Chicago. No.1 Daily at 6:20 p.m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2:36 a.m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39 5:37 p.m. No.9 Daily at 11.28 p.m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6:30 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate stud- ors. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11:55 a.m. for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6:30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen, Pass Agent. Baltimore, Ma. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg, W. Va. SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent cities. Salary or Commission. Address Lincoln Oil Co. Cleveland, Ohio. Wanted—Compostolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Compostol to Magazine, 1879 Broadway New York C. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road 3 TOURS TO FLORIDA VIA WASHINGTON ROUND $46.25 ALL TRIP EXPENSES JANUARY 28 Via Seaboard Line Railway FEBRUARY 11 Via Southern Railway FEBRUARY 28 Via Atlantic Coast Line BOOKLET GIVING FULL IN- FORMATION AT TICKET OFFICES THE KEYSER, MOOREFIELD AND PETERSBURG STAGE LINE Runs daily except Sunday. Persons wishing to travel in the direction mentioned will find it a great convenience and very cheap—the round rip only $3, and the distance being to either place and back, 87 miles. Persons traveling it once, will never forget the kindness of the proprieto Mr. George Shank. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly assertion our opinion free whether an invention or patent is particularly patentable, communications strictly confidential, HARDWICK patent is not free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken from Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms. $3 a month. U.S. & C. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 351 12nd roadway, New York Branch Office, 655 F. St. Washington, D.C. Marlin NEW MODEL 29 Repeating Rifle The gun to use for rab- bits, squirrels, hawks, crows and all small game. WANTED—A KIDLE IN EACH YOUNG and district to ride and exhibit "Ranger" bicycle furnished by us. Our agency money fast. Write for full particular and special NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive WE ship to anyone anywhere in the in advance, prepay freight, and allow TEN DAY which time you may ride the bicycle and put you are the only satisfied or bicycle ship it oak to us at expense and FACTORY PRICES We furnish a possible to make actual factory cost. You save $10 to $5 million direct of us and have the manufacturer bicycle not DO NOT buy a bicycle or a pair price until you have our catalogues and leaf prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you fully low prices we can make you this year. We sell less money! you can sell our bicycles under your own DEALER! you can sell our factory. We are satisfied with this day received. We do not regularly handle second hand taken in train by us. We sell our or $10. Descriptive bargain list matted to BRAKES, single wheels, imported roller chains Nedgethorn Puncture-Pr Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE TO INTRODUC regular retail price of these tires WANTED-A KIDER AGENT IN EACH DOWN and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "RINGO" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making meep fast, free for full particulars and special offer at once. NO MONEY REMAINED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone in the U. S. without a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight, and the TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are the not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship' back to us at our expense you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest FACTOR TROUSS possible to make highest grade bicycles it is actual factory cost. You save $10 to $25 midweek profit above buying of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind bicycle by BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable specs from rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED. WILLIE ASTONISHED receive our beautiful catalogue fully low price and make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other. We offer wished with $10.00 profit above factory cost. BICYCLE DEALER, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled by SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not guarantee delivery. a number on hand taken in trade by a dealer retails fancing from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain list issued single whois, imported equipment of all kinds at COASTER-BRAKES, $1000 Medgethorn Puncture Self-healing Tires A TO The regular retail price of these tires is $100. ranging from $3 to $8, we hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail store, and we clear out promptly at prices COASTER-BRAKER, simple wheels, large mat free, small wheels, excellent choice CARVED PAINTED FURNITURE PROOF KILLED WAINING without allowing the air to escape. We have had many letters from satisfied customers stating that their t-shirts have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season, they weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture causing qualities being given by several layers of thin rubber prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of the tread is $10.99 per pair, but for advertising purposes we can offer a special factory price to the rider of only 54 day t-shirts. Of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped samo on approval. You do not pay a cent until you represented. making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH you run no risk in acquiring us an order as the tires may be not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable order a pair of these tires, you will find that they willride than any tire you have ever used or seen any way you can ride a bicycle you will give us your order. We want tare tire offer. any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Flexgorm proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory untry Catalogo which describes and quotes all makes and today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of till you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. 10.00 A MONTH -- That's almost $10.00 a Day A letter is received. Wo ship C. O. D. on approval. All orders shipped samo have letter. They then sit strictly as represented. You do not pay a cent until you will allow cash disguise. have examined and paid them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of fifty per cent. thereby making the付 WITH ORDER and onclose this advertisement. You run with a regional COUP EXPENSE for any reason they are not satisfactor and money sort to be paid to last minute bank. If you order a pair of easier, run faster, wear better, last minute than any anay. We know that you will be so well pleased that when we want you to use a trial order at once, heco this remarkable tiro offer IF YOU NEED TIRES buy any kind at any prices quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalog kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT DO NOT tires from anyone until you know t It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A $50.00 a Week, almost WE ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not carm them strictly as represented. amount of gift money by mailing the price $4.55 per close this advertisement. You may wish on in sending us else if for any reason they are not satisfactory in our examines. If you order a pair of these tires, have better, last longer, and if any other tire you have boo so well pleased that when you want bicycle you will offer at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. DO TIRES you buy any kind at any price until you write on our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which doesnt affit the usual prices. AIR you buy a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF three from anyone until you know the new and we learn everything. Write it NOW. DCYCLE COMPANY, CH MAKE $200.00 A MONTH $0.00 a Week, almost $10.00 DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of things from anyone until you have new and wonderful offers we are making. Only offers postat to learn more about them. WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH -- That's $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 a Day Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof boxes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and well-to-do doctors, all of whom realize the need of a fire do not know how easy it is to own one. Salesmen declare on request one of the best, clean-out money-making opportunities ever received. Without previous experience YOU can duplicate the success of others. Our handsomely illustrated 200-page catalog will help you to present the subject to customers in a timely manner. you were plating them through our factory. Your a man who receives advice and instructions for seating much detailing points which it is impossible for a person. You be the first to apply from your vicinity be the only favor only one, salesman out of each locality. them through our factory. Many appointed as advice and instructions for selling safes, giving points which it is impossible for a prospective first to apply from your vicinity before someone one, salesman out of each locality. you were plitting them through our factory. Men appointed a consultation service advice and instructions for selling sales, giving notion of taking points which it is impossible for a prospective customer to deny. Why Did be the first to apply from your vicinity before someone else gets the territory; would favor only one, salesman out of each locality. The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by creating the most modern safe factory in the world. Were awake men who received our special selling inducement, rendered it necessary to double our output. We are spending many thousands of dollars en- larging our sales organization, but be learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? Because it is a NEW CREA- TION, covering every field of the world's thought, action and culture. The only new unabridged dictionary in many years. Because it defines over 400,000 Words; more than ever before appeared between two covers. 2700 Pages. 6000 Illu- strations. Because it is the only dictionary with the new divided page. A "Stroke of Genius." Because it is an encyclopedia in a single volume. Because it is accepted by the Courts, Schools and Press as the one supreme authority. Because ho who knows Wins Success. Let us tell you about this new work. WRITE for spatimen of new divided paper. C. & C. MERRIAM CO., Publishers, Spartan, Flas. Mention this paper, receive PRIZE a set of pocket maps. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition. Phone 287K P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. BICYCLE D Odor filled t SECOND will sell you a sample pair for $4.99 cash, but to introduce you to more cash, you must buy it from $4.99. NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Taaks, or Class will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Blade in all sizes. OUR MAGNIFICENT PROPOSITION ```markdown ``` 480 1 Notice the thick rubbertoehead "A" and puncture sticks "B" and "D" also rim strip "H" prevent cutting. This tire makes any other make--SOFT, ELABYTIC and EASY RIDING. ```markdown ``` The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by creating the most modern safec factory in the world. Wide-awake men who received our speech training, inducement, 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. CINCINNATI, ORIO ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. It contains reliable news, interesting editorials and clever special articles. 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 PIONEER 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 Anglo Saxon circulation— WHY 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 ABUNDANT AND PROFITABLE RETURNS. TO ITS ADVERTISERS. Viewed from the standpoint of news merit, circulation or advertising power, THE FIONEER PRESS is the peer of its competitors and stands forth as a brilliant example of successful modern newspaper methods.