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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Curse Of Race Hatred The Curse Of Race Hatred Sir, the letters appearing from time to time in the press for and against the Negro are most interesting reading and they discover the fact that there are some good hearts in this nation, and some not so good. The latter I am willing to believe do not know the Negro as well as the former, and hence do not seem to be willing to record him a white man's chance in his struggle to rise superior to his condition. The tone of some of these letters appear to convey the impression that their writers believe all the junkkind, uncharitable and unfair statements that they make about us. Their race prejudice is out of plumb with their sense of justice and equity, they do not like the Negro and their reason therefor is like unto that expressed in the famous lines: STABLISHED 1882. editor Pioneer Press; "I do not like thee Dr. Fell The reason why I cannot tell, But this I do know very well, I do not like thee Dr. Fell." Now this is the essence of prejudice, and prejudice is only ignorance. Now the Negro Race is not deserving of the unjust treatment of which Rev. Charles Martin spoke a few weeks ago through the medium of The New York World at the hands of that class of white people who comchow or other seem to feel that, when God made them he finished his work. Negroes do not apologize to those whites for their black skin and crisp hair because none is necessary. God made them and he evidently know what he was about when he did so. There are black horses and cows, black fowl, etc., in the animal kingdom and every variety of colors to be found in the vegetable kingdom. Their color does not in the slightest degree affect their value or mass, nor is it a criterion of inferiority. A black horse will pull as much as a white horse, the milk of a black cow is as white and as sweet as that of a white cow; the flesh of black sheep tastes no different from that of any other color. Science informs us that black is the foundation of all colors, and an oriental poet affirmed several centuries ago, that: "Black is the color that princes wear." But black seems to have the same effect on some white people—especially those who are narrow between the eyes, that a red rag has on a Mad Bull. The people who go out of their way to insult and ennub black people and to heap indignities upon them merely because they are black have either forgotten or they do not know, what this deepised race has given to present day civilization, science, art religion, government, navigation. They do not seem to realize when they are moved to look down on us with a sort of pitying contempt and a desire to push us off the earth because of our unfashionable complexion and misfit hair—according to Anglo-Saxon standards, that they are not insulting us nearly so much as they are the Almighty who made us just as we are. They forget also what was said to Peter in the vision on the housetop, recorded in Acts 10:928, who was as exclusive and snobbish as some of his lower day imitators. If Negroes are good assessment of Archives, Ga- lton, W. Va. ne WE SHALL THE PRES MARTIN BALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, enough to be accepted of God how much better are prejudiced white people than the Almighty? Do whitman who loath the Negro as though he is a mere beggar at the gate, know that one of the Magii was a member of the black races? That when the life of the young child Jesus was sought by Herod, Joseph was commanded to rise and flee into Egypt, with the young child where the warm hearted Africans gave him asylum and protection until Herod was dead, that through the mouth of the prophet Amos, God speaking to the Israelites said: Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me O, children of Israel? And that when the Christ was bearing the Cross upon which he suffered an ignominious death, was it not a black man, Simon the Cyrenian who helped him to bear it? Do our critics know that in the Church at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers, and that among them was Simeon, that was called Niger (black) so called to distinguish him from another of the same name. He was one of the beloved prophets of our Lord. The early ancestors of the blacks of the present day, were considered the only fit company for the Olympian Gods and by them were called "The blameless Ethiopians." These early blacks were once the schoolmasters of the world, and the Greeks and the Romans made annual pilgrimages into Africa, to sit at the feet of its abon philosophers, and drink in wisdom. The Greeks in compliment to these blacks represented Minerva their favorite goddess of Wisdom as an African princess. To these blacks civilization owes more than it is willing to admit. But the truth cannot be destroyed—it will endure to the end of time. We are evolving as no other race has ever done and the process seems to be slow but it is not as slow as it seems. The crab is Africa's Zodiacal sign, the crab seems ever to be going backward when even running forward. Like the crab the Negro holds on tenaciously and is silent. Who has ever heard the voice of the crab? Scholars and Savants from every clime are today journeying in Africa in search of wisdom and knowledge. Why do they run after these "ignorant heathen" whose forbears constructed the Pyramids, and the mighty Monoliths that have stood for centuries in its burning sands, and the Sphynx whose riddle has found no satisfactory answer? How can a people with such a past, and a future so full of promise be so utterly unworthy of respect, and so persistently denied the christian courtesy of the most christian nation of the Western world? or the opportunity to develop the latent abilities within them which have been repressed by years of oppression and slavery, and which are now being stifled by the narrow prejudices and petty meanness of white men drunk with power and calling themselves civilized and christianized? Would Christ in whom most, if not all of our traducers profess to believe, treat the Negro as they are treating us were be now on earth? I hesitate to believe it. The attitude of white Christians so called toward the Negro—the moral cowardice of the pulpit, and the press in some quarters, is the saddest commentary imaginable on the civiliza good Continued on Second Page. --- LANE WORKS TO PREVENT FLOODS Says Deepening Rivers Will Solve Problem. WOULD RECLAIM VAST AREAS Secretary of the Interior Urges State and Federal Cooperation Similar to That Proposed In Oregon—Systematic Endeavor Essential to Success of the Plan, He Says. Washington.—Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, detailed a plan for preventing such floods as devastated Ohio and Indiana. The plan, which presents itself to the head of the department of the interior as an enormous reclamation project, hinges on the deepening and widening of the channels of all streams liable to flood conditions. Mr. Lane hopes to see the idea carried out through the co-operation of the federal government, with the aid of the states immediately endangered. The engineering in connection with channels is directly in the bands of the war department, and Mr. Lane takes no exception to that. But because of its reclamation features the plan he outlines falls within the Jurisdiction of his department. Aside from the perpetual protection against flood which he believes his plan would give to settlers in low regions, there are widespread districts along the Mississippi and many other rivers that would be thrown open to settlement. "The reclamation service," said the secretary of the interior, "usually is regarded as relating to the arid lands of the west, which are reclaimed by bringing water from the mountains, but in another way reclamation is a great problem in the Mississippi valley and the east. Here, of course, the land is not arid, and there is no scarcity of water. But the water is to be removed from the land, and that is as fit subr ```markdown ``` © 1913, by American Press Association. BUILDING DIKE AT LAKESIDE, IND., TO KEEP RIVER IN THIS COURSE. fect for reclamation work as that now being carried on in the desert lands out west. "The reclamation of these overwatered lands, however, to be of real value must be preceded by systematic work on the channels of the streams draining the areas to be improved. The disaster at Dayton illustrates the point. The trouble was simply that the neck of the bottle was too small for the water to run out. The rain fell in torrents, and with no 'unobstructed channel to the sea the water simply backed up over the river banks. The rainstorm, I know, was phenomenal, and even with the system I have sug VOL. 32. "In memory of James Bell, who died 1763 aged 42 years. Margaret, widow of the above James Bell, died Dec 20 aged 49 years. She was wife, after, to Wm. Fenwick. A father promised his little son a watch, if he would stick four pins in such a way that all would be equally distant from one another, because it was impossible. But the shrewd boy accomplished it,—and how did he do it? Since her typhoid attack Miss Schnatz has been unable to move without assistance. She has been an ardent student of scientific subjects. She has a telephone at her bedside and has seen troleys and automobiles from the window, but her greatest ambition is to see an aeroplane gested would have doubtless resulted in material damage and the loss of some lives. "It will not do for Ohio or Indiana or even the two states together to spend their money generously in clearing the beds of the streams within their boundaries. That would merely carry the flood more swiftly to the state lines to the south, and the water would back more angrily than ever into what would quickly be great lakes. The thing is too large for the states alone. A harmonious scientific system must be worked out by the federal authorities, and the states must then make their contributions in the way that will do the most good to the whole valley affected." How this co-operation between the federal and state governments might be effected Mr. Lane illustrated by plans now pending before his department for co-operation with the state of Oregon in reclaiming 30,000 acres of arid land. The land is under the government's ownership—as the rivers would be under the government's jurisdiction—and the government engineers of the reclamation service are asked to do the work. The state of Oregon supplies the water and contributes $150,000 to the work. A similar sum may be put forward by the reclamation service, but on the understanding that the sale of reclaimed lands will liquidate the obligations assumed by the United States. Women Will Legislate Them Out of Existence For Poor Man. Chicago.—When the Ohio legislature attempted to legislate against the extreme styles in women's dress it little knew what it was starting. Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, indorsed by the Chicago Woman's club, the National Dressmakers' association, the Milliners' National organization and the Association of Commerce, announces that she intends to maintain a "bureau of correct dress for men" in Washington and try to bring about legislation against these things: High collars. Pandemonium vesta. Loud neckties. The common hairbrush and comb. Dorby hats. Shaves and short hair cuts. Stareed shirts. "Men are becoming bald from wearing tight, stiff hats," said Mrs. Bishop. "They wear tight collars and high collars. They look binding and uncomfortable and hot. Yet their worshippers declare they keep wrinkles out of the neck and prevent double chins. The stiff straw and the stiff derby, the stiff shirt, the ugly brogan, the nightmare tie and the cubist vest will all be eliminated by the committee if possible. "Men keep their faces shaved, clip off their boards and wear their hair short. Nature intended him to have his hair rolling about his shoulders, his beard protecting his Adam's apple from the chilling blast and his mustache keeping the cinders and dust from his mouth and nose. "The hairbrush and comb should go with the drinking cup. We are organized for the protection of man and we are going to dress him right and comfortably." BITES INTO A FORTUNE Mrs. Stutz Finds $2,500 Pearl In an Oyster. Passale, N. J.-August Stutz, proprietor of a casino, is telling his friends how he got a pearl worth $2,500 through the purchase of 44 cents' worth of oysters. Stutz says his wife bought the oysters from a peddler. While she was eating one of them her teeth struck something hard and large and smooth. It looked like a pink pebble and was the size of a marble. Stutz says a New York jeweler offered him $2,500 for it. NO. Anecdotal Literature Bx W. G. HANNAH MORE. This excellent English authoress lived a life of celibacy, which gave her so much time to apply the powers of her mind in the interest of humanity. The following reason has been given as the cause of her celibacy and useful life. She was early engaged to a gentleman of family and fortune. The wedding day was fixed. The bride and her party moved off gaily to the church, where the groom was to make his appearance. But her lover came not; instead, a horseman rode up to the church door, and handed Miss More a letter, in which the faithless swain declared, with many apologies, that he could not take the responsibility of making her his wife." He was compelled to make a settlement upon the slighted lady of four hundred pounds sterling annually for life." FRANCHE BLUMDERS The French make awful havoc of John Bull's English in their attempts at temptation. They seem to be ignorant that English words have often many and remote significations. When Shakespeare makes one of his characters say that he expected "to curve for himself a fortune with his sword." Voltaire rendered it "With my sword I will make a fortune cutting meat." --- MARRYING IN PLUTO'S REALMS. The following is a copy of an epitaph in the churchyard at North Shuttle, England. It has been the subject of much laughter to many persons on account of its obscurity. The following lines were written underneath with a pencil: "As in the Scriptures it is said No marrige in Heaven is made, It seems that Margaret's ghost did go To Pluto's dreary realms below, Where she, poor soul, but shortly tarried, Till her friend Will and her got married. IN BED FOR FIFTY-NINE YEARS Woman Holder of All Hospital Time Records Celebrates Her Birthday Philadelphia.—Taken ill with typhoid fever at twenty-one years of age and still in bed at eighty is the experience of Miss Sybilla Schnatz, who, after fifty-nine years, has just celebrated her birthday in St. Joseph's hospital. She holds all hospital time records. INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ENVOID TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN BIRD. 3 months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 76c. Spending 50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawes: 869, and Soil Phone, 60K. Marlstburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913 The Negroes are the most prolifically organized disorganized people on the globe. Editor T. P. Manumitt, of the Omaha, Nebraska Enterprise, was a sufferer from the recent disastrous tornado which visited that city. Nothing daunted, he is beginning to gather up the fragments, and is forging ahead again. We wish our confrere more success in the future than he has ever had before. Brother Mitchell's information that "Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson has stopped talking" is not sufficient to convey the fact that busy hours are enforced, unless he has also stopped spitting. If both are stopped, the situation is almost as bad as it was with Bridget, whose death Pat announced twice, but still she breathed, and finally said: "Pat don't cry and worry about me dying, gist fill up me glass with wisky and put it to me lips and if I fail to swallow it, I am gone." See? Three essentials to prove the end. There is about as much probability and possibility of James K. Vardaman, repealing the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution, as that a snowball could remain a snowball in the infernal regions. Morgan of Alabama was a sly old fox, as were Gorman, Rayner and Tillman. The first three are dead, and Tillman, a slowly dying paralytic. And as an unseen hand stuck John C. Calhoun's hand while framing some devilish propositions for legislation, marked and blighted it for life—which soon thereafter blew out, may a worse fate than that, and also what Ben Tillman got, be his. Many people rejoice in the death of J. Pierpoint Morgan. We do not Others contend that he was a bad man. Never saw him in that light. Might as well blame the lakes because they have begins to hold their waters, or the ocean's low lands for holding the waters of the seas. He was born a great finances, just as the low lands were made to hold the world's waters. He simply showed the world what it is possible for one person to do, and in that he raised enough to run the government over its roughs and bumps in its financial life. He was honest, and this country's greatest type of what can be done. The world has never produced a parallel, and maybe, never will, and with it all, he owned a heart tender as a mother's, enriched by unostentation and ever ready to holy. The Negro race will never rise higher than its ignorantty controlled churches—more numerous than the names of flowers, and more poisonous than the sap of a buckeye tree. True, there are a few fine men in the pulpit, but good Lord they are so sadly found. Most of them are church splitters, women destroyers, and home breakers. They throw to the winds the loving goodness of God toward mankind and make the hottest theory of their theme, hellfire, and only to shun it their mourners jump up from and over mourners benches like sheep jumping a fence following their leader. Into most any of the churches you go, can be seen two or three jackleg local preachers sitting within or around the altar, reminding decens onlookers of buzzards perched on some old dead limb waiting to pounce down on carriosa. Follow them to where they live, and as a rule, the most woe begone homes in their vicinity are theirs. Their children half cried and dirty; their houses disease breeders, and their moral standing a cipher. They can outbrey Sanator Faulkner's jack-knife; know nothing of grammar; less of God, truth, decency and religion, and if God called them, to enlighten the world, its four things damned. THE FLOOD AND INSTITUTE. Notwithstanding the serious damage to life and property along the Great Kanawha and Ohio River Valley, The West Virginia Colored Institute escaped unharmed except a very slight damage to some of the buildings by a storm on March 21. Many of the students and some of the teachers however, have friends in some of the flooded districts from whom they have not been able to hear since the disaster. The first passenger train for several days passed Institute Wednesday morning, April 2ad. Mail has been distributed from Charleston once, however, and as the school had telephone connection with Charleston, we were kept pretty well informed of the doings of the outside world. The teachers, students and citizens of Institute contributed $2600 to the flood sufferers. It was dispatched to Governor H. D. Hatfield by a special messenger Monday morning, March 31. WOMAN'S DAY AT DUDLEY CHURCH. Sunday, March 6th. was Woman's Day at the Dudley Baptist Church. We were not fortunate enough to be there in the morning or at the afternoon services, so must confine these few lines to the evening programme. On entering the door a nice looking woman becomingly attired touched us gently on the arm and pointed no to where we were expected to sit. The exercises commenced with music by the choir, reading of the scripture and prayer. The opening address by Mrs. Hattie J. Thompson, wife of the pastor, was timely, and was delivered with grace and ease of manner. Miss Hunter, of Kearnogaville, and Miss Annie Roman recited and were rewarded with much applause. Several of the women made their own selections and read. We recognized Mrs. Julie Crummell and Mrs. Bresie Stewart on the platform. Miss Melissa Wilson rendered a solo, giving evidence of a good, clear voice. Mrs. J. W. Corsey and Miss Edena Roberts sang a duet, Mrs. Thompson playing the accompaniment on the organ. Mrs. Thompson's skillful band was in evidence when Miss Mary E. Brady and Miss Ellis Dennis, of Harper's Ferry were introduced. The latter sang in a very natural and unaffected manner. Miss Brady is a teacher in St.orer College, and read an original paper on narcotics, paying a beautiful tribute to Frances E Willard, the great temperance crusader. She dwells on the baneful effects of cigarette smoking on boys and young men. Miss Brady's style was forceful and carried with it the approval and appreciation of her listeners. Mrs. Percy R. Fletcher read a short essay on the home and training of children, which in reality, was almost a forecast of the lives of most married women. The meeting was then turned over to the pastor, Rev. K. K. Thompson, who in his immutable way was be waiting the fact that the men had not been given an opportunity for any service whatever. At this juncture a women's voice from the audience called, "Sing me a solo." Every one who has board Mr. and Mrs. Thompson sing, knows how they charm the ear and make glad the soul, so it is unease to say everybody was delighted with his read response to the request. Meadamex, Lee Hanson and Lucy Green were then named to lift a collection. Although it was Women's Day, we have seldom if ever seen such an intelligent looking assemblage of men in any one church gathering in Martinsburg, and the most courteous attention was given the women throughout their entire programme. It speaks well for the loyalty of our men toward their wives, mothers and sisters. Now and Then. McRoynolds Dars Lawyers Over Sixty For Federal Bench. Washington - No lawyer of more than sixty years of age and no lawyers with large corporation and railroad connections need apply for appointment on the federal bench. This announcement was made by Attorney General McBrowns, who received delegations from Virginia and Maryland in behalf of lawyers of those states now being urged for the vacancy in the Fourth circuit court of the United States, composed of the states of North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia. By this announcement Mr. McReynolds eliminates almost the entire field of unprivates from Maryland and Virginia. The half dozen lawyers from Virginia who are advanced for judicial honors are either more than sixty years of age or have large corporation connections. The late Marylander, E. C. Dewsonon, was eliminated because he has had no previous experience on the bench and has had no practice in adjudication courts. The Virginia delegation was stunned by the announcement. The men eliminated include Charles V. Morrendell of Richmond, who is thirty-two years old; Lucien H. Cocke of Roanoke, who is division counsel for the Norfolk and Western railroad; Walter H. Taylor of Norfolk, who is counsel for the late H. H. Regers' Virginia railroad; W. Leigh Williams of Norfolk, who is counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and A. W. Patterson and H. R. Polkard, barred on account of the arrest. Lt. Minor Lyle, dean of the Law school of the University of Virginia, is the only aspirant now in the field from Virginia who comes within the McKay-moeds rule. There are both a dozen sundress appointments which the president has to make. Most of them are carried over from the Trust administration and were tied up in the Senate filibuster against all the civil appointments made by 17. Trust after his election. In it taken here that the pole had down by the attorney general application to all judicial appointments that will come up during the coming four years. It will apply equally to the United States supreme court as to the district courts. Just now there is a pressing demand upon the president to appoint a chief justice of the United States court of claims. The work of this tribunal has been retarded since the retirement of Chief Justice Booth and the refusal of the senate to confirm the promotion of Associate Justice Booth for this place. 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. - >ditor. MIGHER PAY FOR YOUR DEPLOYMENTS We Ask Too Great a Sacrifice, Says President. "TRESERVICE IS HAMPERED" Mr. Wilson declares It is impossible For Him to Get the Men He Wants. Troubled by Repeated Refusals—Expert Says Salaries Should Be at Least $25,000 a Year. Washington.—President Wilson is seriously troubled by the repeated refusals of prominent Democrats to accept high diplomatic appointments on account of financial inability to maintain the positions, and he has practically appealed to the country to support him in a request that congress pay ambassadors and ministers enough to enable poor men to represent this country abroad. This appeal was made in a statement concerning the refusal by William McCormbs of the ambassadorship to ```markdown ``` CHARLES W. ELIOT AND WILLIAM E. MOOMER. Prince, which was based solely on the ground that he could not afford to take the prize. Mr. McCombs' refused followed that of Richard Olsay and Charles W. Elliot, former president of Harvard, to both of whom the ambassadorship to the coast of US. James was offered. Neither could afford to take the prize. Whatever Beck, the former ambassador, maintained an establishment that cost him $100,000 a year. Ambassador Horowitz, now holding the post retired by Mr. McCombs, is said to be spending more than $100,000 a year in keeping up the embassy. It is known that Norman E. Mack has been beckoning about going as ambassador to Vienna because he fears it would cost too much, and it is said that H. B. Fite, dean of the faculty at Princeton, cannot make up his mind to be ambassador to Berlin, bring a poor man. representativo Nicholas Longworth not long ago made a report on the subject and introduced a bill appropriating money to build embassies. It failed. The salary of an ambassador is $17,500 a year, and an expert opinion given here today by John Barrett, who has been in the diplomatic service as minister and is now director of the Pan-American union, is that $25,000 is the least that one can spend and maintain the dignity of an embassy. Even at that figure it costs an ambassador or minister $8,000 a year more than his salary. The following table shows what it costs to maintain an embassy at the eight posts of the ambassadorial rank: truce that ambassadors to England, Mexico, Japan and Russia and a minister to China shall be named within a short time. For none of these posts, except that of Mexico, has President Washington be able to find a suitable man who would accept the post. Wedo "Wish the Ocain Franklin, I. I. - Jefferson Madison, aged seventy-one, refused to marry Hittle Mason, aged twenty-three, until he knew how the "floor run." He wished to stand in line with the length of the planks while the ceremony was being performed, otherwise his married life might be full of crosses. Neither bride nor bridegroom can write. The Curse Of Race Hatred Continued from first page. ion and the religion of the white man. No greater travesty on the religion which Jesus Christ taught and practiced was ever inflicted upon a suffering public. Its ethics are entirely out of harmony with his teachings, if I read and correctly understand the fundamentals of the religion which he taught and which are expressed in this sentence: "The Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man" and this: "If any man say he love God whom he bath not seen and hateth his brother whom he has seen the truth is not in him." About how many white Christians are there in New York City, who can honestly subscribe to this broad platform? The issue is plain and it can neither be evaded nor avoided. There is no middle ground, as in the last analysis there is bound to come a test of the sincerity and faith of all those who claim kinship with the Master of us all: Why would it not be a good thing for white people North, South, East and West to try the experiment of treating the Negro as a human being rather than as a mendicant to whom many of them feel they have been divinely appointed as almoners, to bestow the "gift of God," and to keep him in his place in the social and Christian progression. The experiment is worth trying, and it will be a happy day for this country and the world when men of all races forget their prejudices of race and color and to put into practical application the great laws— "As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." The people we do not know are as good as those we do know, therefore we should get acquainted with those we do not know before we form a harsh opinion of them. It is not fair, it is not just and it is a vile and vicious thing for those calling themselves superior to do. Let kindness and justice enter into the solution of this human problem called the Race problem, and patriots will spring up in every corner of this land to defend its flag, and its honor whenever either are accused. Let race hate and race prejudice continue to grow and develop, and only God can tell what the harvest will be. Well might Thomas Jefferson say: "I tremble for my country when I remember that God is Just." If there is any doubt in the minds of those who are seeking to eliminate the Negro, as to the power of God in the affairs of nations let them reflect on the terrible catastrophes of the past week or so. Respectfully, John Edward Bruce, Sunbyslope Farm, Yonkers, New York. IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving remembrance of my dear brother, Pembroke Gaither, who died two years ago today, April 9, 1913. 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Let us tell you about this new work. 1 WRITE for specimen of new divided page. G. & C. MERRIAM CO., Publishers, Springfield, Fla. Portion this paper, receive FREE 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 For cleaning, dyeing and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordner 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. WARNED--A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are making many few. Write for full particulars and special offer at cost. NO MORE REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone anywhere in the U.S. without a cent beyond in advance, pretty tight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are to be not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at your expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $10 to $55 midday profits by buying directly us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unhoard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED that you receive our beautiful catalogue fully low prices you can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles less money, heavier other factory. We resold with $1.00 profit above factory prices. BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled we do. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our change station. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $20 to $40. Descriptive bargain lists mailed from us. COASTER-BRAKES, single whoops, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the regular retail prices. $10.00 Hedgehorn Puncture-Proof $4.80 Self-healing Tires A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY The regular retail price of these tires is BICYCLE D Owned and t SECOND. money fast. Write for us and special offer atonets. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone in advance, preyfly fee, and allow TEN DAYS FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put to any test you wish. You are then a not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle back to us at our expense and you will miss one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest grade bicycle. HONESTLY, it is possible to make at least grade bicycles it is actual factory cost. You save $10 to $15 midshipment profit above buying direct orders of the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from an annual price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unhoard of factory prices and remarkable special offers from agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED. fully low prices we can make you this year. We sell the most grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We resell them with £100 price to factory costs. Custom filled the day received. We sell your bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. WE HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number hand in trade in by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES. THE PROFESSOR, ONLY The regular retail price of these tires is $10.00 per pallet, but to introduce use will sell you a sample pair for $4.99, (with order $4.59) NO MORE TROUGE FROM PUNCTURES NAILB, Tocks, or Glass will not let the air out. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. PUNCTURES PUNCTURES PUNCTURES allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture missing qualities being given by several layers of the specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special price to the riders. stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the picture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.50 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. Worship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a contant until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 10% on orders. We will allow a cash discount of 6 percent (thereby making the prices $4.85 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose them for payment. You run no risk in sending us an order; the tires may be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are defective on examination. We are perfectly happy to send you in a bank. If you order a bicycle there tires, you will find that they will ride easier and fun faster, last longer and look finer than any tires you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once and are unaware of any price until you send for a pair of Hedgethorn price quoted above; or write for our big tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and tires at about half the prices. DO NOT WAIT but write a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH - That’s $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 a Day DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. If only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW J. L. 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