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The ESTABLISHED 1882. AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. BY JOHN E. BRUCE GRIT. Continued from Pioneer Press of August 2nd., 1913. And he opened the big iron gate and lod the way up the steps to the massive door and rang the bell which was quickly answered by a liveried man servant who greeted him warmly. In a few moments the Captain's Maiden sister emerged from her bondeir to greet him, giving him a hearty handshake and a kiss. Turning to Phillip, she asked, and whom have you here brother? Smiling benignantly upon Phillip who was still considerably dazed—why Alice this is a little American black boy I found in New Orleans—his name is Phillip Engleston, he is my cabin boy on the Heron, and I have brought him to London and I wish you and Claudine to take charge of him. He tells me he is anxious to become educated. He is a bright little fellow and all he needs is an opportunity. He made a host of friends coming over, Alice and several of our passengers wanted to take him home with them and adopt him. How old are you my lad? asked Miss Alice, patting the little fellow on the cheeks, Deed Miss, ah don't know dat. Ab wish ah did, but I reckon sh caint be no mo' den twenty one." The captain and his sister Alice could not restrain themselves at this answer and laughed rather immoderately at Phillip, who looked as serious as a judge. As a matter of fact the boy was not more than 13 or 14 years at most. But he had passed the ordeal of fire and suffered more, perhaps than some men three times his age had, and so felt that he was of a man's age. Come Algernon, said Miss Alice, and you Phillip, my boy, I will show you to your rooms where you may wash and prepare your toilets for dinner for you both must be hungry. She led the way, the Captain and Phillip and the butler following—the latter carrying the captain's two handbags and Phillip's old fashioned American carpet bag containing all his earthly belongings. The captain's room had been changed since his last visit home from the third floor back to the second floor front with a communicating room which he could use for a den. Into the smaller room Miss Alice put Phillip whom the captain wished to be near him. Across the hall from this room was the toilet with bath and wash basin, and all the accessories necessary to a gentleman's toilet. Here the captain and Phillip performed their ablutious and after changing their shirts and collars were ready for dinner. Phillip was not particularly anxious to eat at the same table with white people as he had never done so in his life. His most sumptuous meal at Gretna had been handed to him at the kitchen door on a tin platter by his master's cook, Sally, a very large and very imperious Queen of the Kitchen, who was cross eyed and cross tempered. This meal consisted of corn pone, a small piece of fat pork and a liberal helping of cabbage Department of Archives, Ca D. W. Va. MALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MRTINSBURG, W. swimming in pot liquor, so he did not know what to make of this transformation and he locked and accustom his surprise, which seeing, the Captain and his sisters spoke to him soothingly and kindly. Miss Claudine put him at his ease by a gentle pat on his cheek and adjusted a large napkin in front of him shortly after he took the seat at table assigned to him which was next to here. Rev Dr. Hodder, who was a dinner guest and an old friend of the family asked the blessing. When all were served Phillip watched everybody closely and did everything he saw them do. He didn't put his knife in his mouth, and he didn't put his elbows on the table. When the soup was served he watched closely to see how the others took it and imitated them. He didn't even smack his mouth as some little boys do when eating, but he ate slowly and sparingly, sat upright in his chair and comported himself decorously. It was a struggle, but Phillip overcame by sheer will power. He realized that he was now in an atmosphere where people that God made, lived. Children like the lower order of animals; are responsive to kindness and they quickly learn to know, and love those who treat them kindly. The Misses Alice and Claudine Coverdale showered attention on their little colored guest, and were so clever in the plans to overcome his diffidence and basishiness that they had him telling stories about his life in the South before the dessert was served. Even the staid old English butler, a Yorkshire man, one of the kind who drops his H'e came near dropping a platter he was passing, when Phillip was telling a story about 'Hans and how he had seen a man with no head, and eyes as big as saucers one night on the plantation at Greene, coming through the orchard lickety split lak the Debbil was after him. If he had no head my little friend said Dr. Hodder where were his eyes that you could see them? Dey wuz on each shoulder ash, and doy shined des lak dese flseblights I'e seen on boxes coming over. Everybody laughed at Phillip's story—and he had to laugh a little himself when he thought it over. Captain Coverdale here took advantage of the opportunity to give his sister and niece and Dr. Hodder a brief history of the little fellow who had furnished them so much amusement. The story of the discovery of Phillip is as follows: THE MYSTERY OF DEATH O death, how bitter is the thought of thee! How speedy thy approach! How stoalthy thy steps! How uncertain thy hon! How universal thy sway! The powerful cannot escape thee; the wise know not how to avoid thee; the strong have no strength to oppose thee; the rich cannot bribe thee with their treasure. Thou art a hammer that always strikes, a sword that is never dull, a net into which all fall, a prison into which all must venture, a penalty which all must suffer, a tribute which all must pay. O death, death, implacable enemy to the human race, why didst thou enter into the world?—Luja de Granada. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shade. (To Be Continued.) An Interesting Little Recital An Interesting Little Recital This is "The Caminetti Story." This is "The Caminetti Story." A man in California was accused of a serious crime against a young woman. There was no apparent hope of his escaping if properly and promptly tried. His chief hope was in delay, subterfuge and waning public interest, and above all a disobedient or idifferent prosecution. The man accused and guilty, Caminetti, happened to have a father who held public offices under the Federal Government. And this father was a friend of the Attorney General, McNaynoids, appointed by Wrenon to enforce the laws that Caminetti was seeking to evade and to punish the crime of which Caminetti was accused. There was delay in the Caminetti matter and McNabb, representing the Government as a prosecutor in California resented the delay and denounced it. He showed that the Attorney General, McReynolds, sworn to enforce the law, and to punish violators of the law, bad, at the request of the criminal's father, actually directed that the prosecution be put off. That is to say that every opportunity be given to the criminal to escape the consequences of his crime. This is a most shameful act on the part of McReynolds. It makes his dismissal from office a duty. If a man, to oblige a friend whose son is accused of a serious crime, interferes with justice, what will that man do when bigger and other crimes are committed, not by individuals against individuals, but by corporations against the entire people. If McLeynolds, to oblige the father of Ciminetti, interferes with justice, what will he do to oblige the father of some trust, when the time comes? Is such a man fit for office? The amazing thing is that Mr. Wilson instead of praising and thanking McNabb, an honest officer, who denounced the infamous delay and favoritism, actually rebuked that man and accepted his resignation from office. And now, as Senator Ashurst earnestly and justly points out, comes the culprit ing outrage—the appointment of Hayden, a friend of Cammetti, to act in the place of McNabb, the conscientious official. Senator Ashurst is to be thanked for his timely and vigorous protest against a shameful miscarriage of justice. In the first place, we have Caminetti, who should long since have been tried, gaining delay, at the request of his father, who is a friend of McReynolds. And now, when McNabb, an honest man, is removed from the case, we have another friend of Caminetti, Hayden, put in as prosecutor. No collection of fine words or platitudes from McReynolds, President Wilson or anybody else will explain away in action such as this. It is not a matter of politics, as Senator Asburt proves. He is a Democrat, but he knows that there is nothing to be gained for the party by leaving smug and outrageous offshirts untoned. As well, talks of helping a leaving body by leaving a cancer Press. free from molestation in that body as to talk of helping a political party by leaving unrebuked such a shameful Government or me in the Canninetti case. It is bad enough when "friends in the Government" are used by men of the Archbold type, with the aid of their checkbooks, to permit extortion and robbery of the public. It is inconceivable and infamous that Government pull, the friendship of papa Caminetti for an Attorney General McReynolds, should be used to delay and frustrate the prosecution of a man accused of an infamous crime against a young woman. Such conduct by McReynolds and Caminetti, condoned apparently by President Wilson, does not fit in very well with the protestations that preceded the recent election — New York Evening Journal. VARDAMANS VICTORY Vardaman, the Negro later, has won his fight over President Wilson. The nomination of Adam E. Patterson, of Oklahoma, as Registrar of the Treasury, has been withdrawn. The name of a white Democrat from Oklahoma has been sent to the Senate instead. The Patterson case is peculiarly illuminative of the attitudes of the Southern Democrat toward the Negro. Patterson is an educated black man. He has been an active Democrat in Oklahoma. He was recommended for an important appointment by the two Democratic Senators from Oklahoma. He was appointed by the President, yet he appointment around such violent opposition from Democrat Senators from Southern States that President Wilson, with all the powers of the national administration back of him, was compelled to lower his colors and withdraw his name. Vardeman represents the type of Southern Democracy that flourishes on race hatred and that presches war upon the colored man wherever he raises his head above a condition of serfdom. To this element the President of the United States has surrendered. To this blatant demagogery the Democratic national administration has given way. Vardamanian and all it represents is the dominant factor in the Democracy of the South. — Wheeling Intelligence. HOW TO KILL PREJUDICE Mr. W. S. Boston of Minneapolis, a skilled Negro mechanic, who has been employed as foreman with the leading Structural and Ornamental Workers of the Northwest, accepted a position on July 2 with the Twin City Iron and Wire Co., of Saint Paul, Minnesota, doing a special line of ornamental work. On that day at 3 P. M. a whole department led by its foreman began a strike and threatened to quit unless Mr. Boston was immediately discharged. After a few minutes trying to reason with them, the Superintendent of the works fired the whole crew of strikers, including the foreman and immediately placed the offending Negro in charge of that department. In two days all the places were filled and threeds going smoothly. Four of the strikers have since applied for jobs to work under the man whose order offended them, but their applications are still on file.—Minnesota Twin City Star. BY GAIN. " OL. 32. NO. 21 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. UNWELCOME TRUTH. A Keneas editor announced he would try for one week to print the truth, and he is still in the hospital. The following is one item he published. "Married—Mise Sylvia Rhodes to James Cannanan, Iasst Sunday evening at the Baptist Church. The bride was an ordinary town girl who didn't know any more than a rabbit about cooking, and never helped her mother three days in her life. She is not a beauty by any means, and has a gait like a duck. The groom is on up to date loafter, living off the old folks all his life, and don't amount to shucks coohow: They will have a hard time when they live together." ACCEPTED. Stella—"Lizzie, I have accepted Dave." Lizzie—"Why Stella, you told me positively that if Dave proposed your answer would be a word of two letters (meaning no). Stella—"But Lizzie, I answered Dave in Germson—la" HOW TO KEEP QUIET. Mistress—"Mollie, what's that terrible noise in the nursery—can't you keep the baby quiet?" Mollie—"Sure, mum, I can't keep him quiet unless I let him make a noise." SHE COULD ARRANGE IT. Mother—"I want you to under-stand that I will not have that, big fellow in my kitchen." Daughter—"All right, me, I know a smaller one." Dr. Lawrie White Allen, the Denver physiologist, was giving an informal talk on Physiology at Atlantic City. Among other things he said: "It has been found lately that the human being contains sulphur," "Solpherol" explained a girl in a blue and white blazer. "How much sulphur is there, then, in a girl's body?" "Oh," said Dr. Allen, smiling, "the amount varies." "And is that?" asked the girl, "why some of us make so much better matches than others?" SIGN OF APPROVAL. Morton—"So you think Jeff, you will propose to that young lady?" Jeff—"Yes indeed." Morton—"Do you think you would be acceptable to her parent?" Jeff—"I am sure of it. They have frequently invited me to dinner, and they invariably have fried chicken and ice cream." William Henry Lee, the Chicago publisher who left an estate of $200,-000, which will revert to the State unless relatives appear, was a Negro. This fact became known after his death. For years Lee moved in business sociale and circles as a white man. His former partner, Fred. C. Laird, admitted that he had known Lee's secret. The man never married, fearing that his ancestry would be revealed through his offspring. He was fifty years old and had always posed as a white man. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAI, RELIGIOUS A FINANCIAL ENHancement OF HUMAN I. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Cafford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone,101K Mar. tinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913 While Jim Vardaman, the loud monthed old Negro defamer, from Mississippi, is talking about Negroes, he should know that any person who fails to sufficiently use soap and water has an odor. This would be true too, even in the case of old Jim, and its more than likely that he has smelt himself many times if he has taken the trouble do a little nosing. "The Short Story for Boys", appearing in Pioneer Press, issues of August 2 and August 16, and which contains one more installment, is a serial of much merit. It deserves to be read by all who have that opportunity, and reflects credit upon its author, Mr. John E. Bruce. By the way, Mr. Bruce has offered a prize in connection with the reading of this story, particulars of which will be given in a subsequent issue. A full blooded African chief has just passed the entrance examinations for Harvard University, one of America's most exclusive schools, which has a curriculum adapted only to men who have brains. And yet we witness the spectacle of that contemptible old blatherskite and distorter of facts, James K. Vardaman, who disgraces the state of Mississippi in the United States Senate, telling an audience in Washington, the National Capitol, that Negroes and Africans are incapable of intellectual development Lawlessness has away enough now without those in authority giving way to it. It was wrong to take the fiend—Stone—to Moundsville to prevent a talked of lynching. Three earnest men could defy all the lynchers in Berkeley County, and that would have taught the bravado element a life long lesson, as they got 30 years ago, when Messers, Dr. McSherry, Capt. Colston and Archibald Oden with gun in hand stood on the Cumberland Valley bridge and defied a raging mob, who had a Negro at said place to kill him, and every one skulked off, the Negro taken back to jail, and later proved himself innocent of the charges against him. If Adam E. Patterson, the Oklahoma democratic Negro appointed as Register of the Treasury by President Wilson on the endorsement of that state's two Senators, is unfit for office holding in that party, what must a Negro do to hold office. Patterson stumped the state of Oklahoma for the Democrat while they were trying to disfranchise his own race voters—the same thing that Vardaman and his dirty tribe have done and gloat over it, in the United States Senate where Brooks tried to kill Charles Sumner, which aroused millions to arms through and by which billions of dollars were spent and tons of blood spilt that the blackest blot in civilization—human slavery should be wiped out. We hereby warn these objects for fool killers that God does nothing by halves, and stands for nothing that fails of finish to his satisfaction. Grover Cleveland and Theodore Rosevelt would have paid no more attention to what those Negro bating Southerners said, than did the elephant of the gnat that lit on his tusks and thought it was puncturing him. But why say more; for they had backbone. Mr. Wilson lacks it. We heard a conversation the other day and its conclusion was that the Negro is easy to catch on and do what the whites do before him. It may be true. Indeed we have always contended that all there is in goodness and badness, can be traced to the whites. Taking that as a fact, why not think seriously of what may happen by the mean teaching he is getting? If slavery made anarchists—and it did—why will not a class of slaves declared free, and so living for 50 years, and then virtually reenslaved, breed anarchists? Sure to do so. Nat Turner and his crowd were Anarchists in dog days, and as sure as God lives and is just, Tillman, Vardaman, and the Blease class, are arousing a peaceable people to serious thought that is as certain to strike down their mean traducors as Brutus was determined to stab Caesar. It is cowardice for any decent Negro man or youth to sit silently by and hear a fellow like Vardaman, Tillman or Blease say of the race what they do, and not give them to understand that they must cease their wicked and senseless vaporings against us. A deal of talk is going the rounds nowadays about the "white slave trade." No better thing could be agitated and a stop put to it. But why not have as much to say about the black slave trade? Are Vardamans, Blesses and Tillman's colored women, educated and uneducated, cultured and refined, who "yet stink" not good enough to be protected? They ought to be, if from no other class those Southrons whose relationship with those "beasts in human," has covered not only the Southland with all kinds of colored people, but sprinkled the world with them. How strange it has always seemed to us that the South's high toned Negro haters, could have so mixed and mingled with Negro women who are so dirty, low, beastlike and stink for the want of washing, in the face of the fact, that their women were educated, refined and usually took daily baths. Set it down as undeniably true that the whites of the South are responsible because they caused the existing conditions of the Negroes, and when they decry them, they are spitting in their own faces. There are fifty white men busy in the black slave game in the South, to one in the North, East or West, and if they won't stop it, colored men should do to them, what they do to the colored fellows, and that very often after some white brute has blackened his face and hands and ravished his own women—kill them. Say what you please about our women, they smell as sweet, dress as neat, are as clean, and virtuous as any class of women in America, considering their forbears were blood stained and back-bruised mistresses of most of their masters old and young. W. M. Trotter, who last year so madly opposed Mr. Taft while at the same time advocating democracy, and who voted for Taft in the primary contest, is now condemning Woodrow Wilson for segregating colored people. There is as much sound sense in his condemnation of Mr. Wilson's action, as there is in his allegation that his National Independent Political League did so much to elect him and calling upon it to appeal to the Powers at Washington to stop it. The truth is, "The National Independent Political League did not support Mr. Wilson, but did support the Progressive Party, and it was because of its bold stand in favor of it, that Waldron, Trotter and his three useless heroes, one having been charged with rape, drew out and called themselves Wilson democrate; later some other name, and finally fully realizing that they were dead ducks, called themselves after the organization they had left—The National Independent Political League, has more to do with Mr. Wilson's conduct than anything we can conceive of. Bishop Walters betrayed the trust and confidence placed in him; Corrothers milked all the committees and gave freely of it to Trotter and Trotter knew whence and how he got it; and went so far as to offer a resolution which it passed would have empowered Corrothers to get all he could from the Committees. Rev. J. M. Waldron is not only a witness to all I have said, but we got a letter from him next day reiterating what Trotter said and severely condemning him for his conduct. Then how could and why did Rev. Mr. Waldron leave the aforesaid organization and go with the receiver of as good as stolen goods? When the five pulled out, thirty three members stood firm as the rocks of Gibraltar, hence how could they call themselves after our organization? When they pulled out, they called themselves democrats, and because and only because of the hope of getting money on the strength of the good name of our organization is why they took our name. They did Wilson no good, and Bishop Walters threw the fat in the fire and burned himself for all time. It is claimed by them that they did wonders in West Virginia. For every honest Negro in this state they prove to us that he voted for Wilson we will give a $10 bill. HARD WATER BENEFICIAL Hard water, particularly water containing much water in solution, is popularly supposed to be bad for the health. But the observations of a German specialist named Rose go to show that hard drinking water and good teeth go together. With the usual German thoroughness, he supports his claims with statistics, according to the Boston Globe. From several thousand examinations of the teeth of children, he says that where water has less than two degrees of hardness there are only 13 per cent. of sound sets of teeth. As the hardness of the water increases the percentage goes up, until, where the hardness is 38 degrees, more than 20 per cent. of the children have sound teeth. The best teeth were found in localities where, in addition to lime, there was magnesia, which hardens the enamel. As to general health, the number of young men fit for military service is greatest in the hard water districts. In one department where the degree of hardness was 10 degrees, the proportion of recruits was only half that of another, where 30 degrees was the rule. CONSIDERABLY LARGER Last Saturday noon, while Attorney Walter M. Farmer and the writer were passing the City Hall, on their way to lunch, a White lady approached the editor and requested him to inform her where the Record Herald building was located, and when it was pointed out to her, she turnd around and exclaimed. "I want to tell you that Chicago is a heap bigger than Nashville, Tennessee!" We agreed with the lady as she went on her way rejoicing.—Julius F, Taylor in Chicago Broad-Axe. Out in the interest of the Pioneer Press, to collect and solicit subscribers. Please be prepared to pay promptly, for I have a large territory to go over, and my time is limited, owing to other pressing matters. Very truly yours, J. R. Clifford. SAYS HE MURDERED GIRL Detectives at Work on New Clew In Alice Crispell Case. Wilkesbarre, Pa.-County Detective James Holman returned from Harvey's lake, where he had been trying to learn from the friends of Miss Alice Crispell whether they ever had heard the girl mention the name of a suitor with the initials A. N., the only signature to a postal mail from New Rochelle, N. X., to William Crispell, in which the writer said that he had murdered her. Detective Holman was unable to find any one who ever had heard of a man with those initials. The letters which have passed between Herbert Johns and the girl have been examined and, while references are made to a suitor, no name is mentioned. County Detective James Price said, "We will thoroughly investigate this card and will ask the postal authorities to help us find the writer. At this time the postal would appear to have been written by a fanatic, but we are not taking any chances. "We give some credence to the postal because we have reasoned all along that a jealous rival probably figured in the case. It may develop that the initials A. N. are assumed and that the slayer of the girl is really suffering from a tortured conscience." J.R. CLIFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. ZHONGQIANG CO.,LTD. Trains leaye Mattinsburg as follows. No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheling No 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Grafton Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburgh and Chicago. 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CHARLESTON. - W VA. EXPECT SPEEDY END OF OPIUM TRAFFIC Nations Unite to Control Shipment of Drug. Washington.—Dr. Hamilton Wright, American delegate to the second international opium conference at The Hague, has returned from the Netherlands enthusiastic over what was accomplished at the conference and confident that before the end of the present year all the world will have ratified the convention of the opium conference of 1912, the provisions of which call for international control of traffic in opium and other habit forming drugs. While some nations have not signed the agreement of 1912 and others have declined for the moment to deposit ratifications of it, the recently ended conference at The Hague adopted a unique measure to exert enough pressure upon the governments still holding out to bring about ratification within a few months. The conference adopted a resolution calling on the Dutch government to make representations urging adoption of the opium convention on the outstanding countries through the Dutch ministers in the various capitals. CITIZENS BUILD SCHOOL County Treasury Depleted, Residents Do the Work Quickly. Craig. Coko.—Instead of becoming discouraged at the refusal of the county to build a schoolhouse at Illinois Park, owing to the fact that the treasury was depleted, 100 citizens turned out in a body and, armed with hammers, saws, etc., completed by nightfall one of the nearest and most substantial school buildings in northwestern Colorado. In addition to the labor, they also furnished the material. A local divinity student, Ernest Kline, has volunteered his services as instructor. The school will open at once for a summer session. WAITER'S $1,000 LUNCH Dines into Black Pearl, Which is Appraised by Jowetors. Akron, O.-While outing chums at a restaurant Jack Newman, a waiter, bit into something hard, and when he painfully removed a piece of foreign substance from his broken tooth a large black pearl was revealed. Newman took the pearl to several jewelors, and its value was placed at $1,000. It is one of the finest of the black pearl varieties. At first it was feared that the jewel was damaged by cooking, but exports pronounced it perfect. Circular on Lime. The Experiment Station has in press Circular No. 6, on the use of lime on the farm, by Professor D. H. Hite Station Chemist. During the last year or two there has been greatly increased interest among the farmers of the state upon this important subject, and the circular is prepared to answer numerous inquiries for information. It includes a discussion of how lime improves soil texture, the growth of grass and clover, and promotes beneficial soil bacteria. It discusses how lime makes plant food available, and how it affects sour and worn out soils. Directions are given for the application of different forms of lime; and a list of dealers in time from whom West Virginia farmers may purchase it is appended. This circular will have wide distribution, and will be sent free to all those applying for it who are not now on the Station mailing list. Agr'cultural improvements: Several minor improvements are being made in the plans of the College of Agriculture. The greenhouses are being thoroughly repaired, and new beds are being installed. A cellar for storage of fruits is being built in connection with the barn, where fruit for glass work may be stored during the fall and winter months. The horticultural department has erected She Says We're Much Too Slender. A Russian princess who is now in Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the American women for being much too thin. "American women of good breeding are slender to the point of emaciation," says the princess. "They hurry too much, that is the reason. Everywhere you see the American, whether she is going shopping, visiting or elsewhere, she is moving fast, as if she did not have a second to lose." The princess doesn't seem to realize that just now the one aim of the American woman is the extreme slenderness which she finds so unlovely. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Our friend, Mr. Henry Ford, who has been calling on the Press for twenty years, was a welcome visitor at our office the other day. Messers, James Hutton and J. Frank Briscoe, two prominent Martinsburgers, attended the G. U. O. F. Lodge in Clarksburg this week. Mrs. George W. Green went to Harrisburg last Saturday afternoon, and returned to this city on Monday accompanied by her little grand daughter, Mildred Baker. Miss Maggie Gaston, of this city, has returned home after a pleasant stay of a month or two in Pittsburg, where she saw friends and enjoyed herself generally. A Union Pic Nic, composed of the Sunday Schools of Hagerstown, Winchester and Martinsburg, will be held at Inwood Park, Tuesday August 19th. Mise Helen Clifford, who has been teaching in Blue Plains, D. C., for the past six years, has resigned her position and will take up other work in future. The advance guard of Dr. Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League, will pass through Martinsburg about 4.20 Monday morning in a special train of Pullman cars. Mrs. Sallie Jackson, of Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D. O., visited her brother, Dr. George W. Boylis, on Sunday last. She is kindly natured, well informed and a person whom to meet is to admire. Moritz Hack, son of Philip Hack, the hotel and ladies tailoring establishment proprietor, was fatally hurt early last Sunday morning when he rode his motorcycle full speed into a buggy, and had his brain pierced by one of the shafts. Harry Stone, the vicious white man who was arrested in Riverton, Virginia, and who was identified as the man who raped little Virginia Minghini, has been removed to the State Penitentiary at Moundsville for safe keeping. Mr. Mark King, traveling agent for the Radium Crystal Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pa., is in our city and is vigorously canvassing in the interest of his employers. He is a pleasant gentleman. The Pioneer Press received a call on last Saturday from Mr. E Henderson, of Troop C., 10th Cavalry. He was a pleasant person to meet, and gave our force much interesting information relative to the duties of a United States cavalryman. Mr. Fred. Allen, of Uniontown, Pa., and his son Fred, visited friends and relatives in Martineburg, Charles Town and Middleway during the past two weeks. They both looked well, everybody was glad to see them and that they enjoyed themselves goes without saying. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD The above amount will be paid to anyone who will furnish information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who poisoned the fine bird dog belonging to the editor between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock on Saturday, July 26 Mr. Oscar Childs, who formerly lived here, but a resident of Pitta- burg for several years, died there on Sunday last, following a brief illness with pneumonia. His body was brought here on Thursday morning, and funeral services over the remains were held in Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church, that afternoon, the pastor, Rev. George H. Carter, officiating. The deceased was a Pythian, and the members of that order were especially considerate of him during sickness and death. The "Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" of the Negro Year Book was put on sale on or about July 15th. An attempt has been made to make this edition of the book a miniature encyclopedia of the Negro reco. The author, Monroe N. Work, who has charge of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, has enlarged, revised, indexed and brought all the facts about the Negro in America down to date. Every name, fact, or event, which anyone interested in the progress of the race needs to know, will almost certainly be recorded or referred to in this book. A new and complete index makes all these facts which were formerly sometimes lost sight of under chapter headings, easily accessible. An enlarged and carefully classified list of articles and publications on the Negro furnishes the reader with references to any phase of Negro life or the Negro problem. If there is anything about the Negro which you want to know and do not find recorded in this book, write to the editor, enclosing a stamped envelope, and he will either tell you what it is or indicate where the information may be found. Some special features of the 1913 Negro Year Book are: A review of the progress of the race during the past fifty years; The race problem in America, Europe, and Africa; Progress of the Negro in the church, education, business and the professions. The latest census statistics: The movement and dislocation of the Negro population; The Negro and disease, vital statistics in town and country; Negro crime and Negro lynchings; Negro farms and farmers Directories: Names and locations of Negro banks, schools, periodicals, and benevolent and fraternal, and national organizations. The Negro in history: The principal names and dates in the history of the American Negro; Legal definition of a Negro in different states; Civil status in different states of Negro in slavery and freedom; Legal discriminations of the various states against the Negro. The price per copy will be the same as for the 1912 edition, 25 cents; by mail 30 cents. A considerable reduction will be made to persons desiring ten or more copies NEGRO YEAR BOOK CO. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama ONE SQUIRREL DID IT ALL. Brought Out Police and Lured Two Men Near Death. Atlantic City, N. J.—Two men were nearly fatally shocked, police reserves were called out and business temporarily suspended in the center of the city because of the antics of a gray squirrel which escaped from a store, climbed a telegraph pole and then walked over a ullie of wire along the main thoroughfare of the city. The two men had a close call when they climbed poles and tried to capture the squirrel. Thereafter a squad of police followed its trail to keep others from climbing the poles. At night the squirrel camped on a pole on the board walk. Next day he was electrocuted while endeavoring to go back over the route he covered. Invents Nonrefillable Bottle. San Quentin, Cal.—With the time an his disposal in the last eleven months of his seven year term for burglary, E J. McCalla, a prisoner employed as a wafter for the officers' table at the prison here, has perfected a patent non-refillable bottle device which he asserts will not him a fortune upon his release two years hence. The device can be fitted to any bottle. SUMMER SCHOOL THE WEST VIRGINIA COLOR ED INSTITUTE. Commences June 16, 1913, and Lasts Seven Weeks. Two MAIN COURSES: Teachers Review and Professional. Expenses Low. For further information, write Prof. Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D.C. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, D. D 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 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly 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 to 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. Cutamings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography 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. Furinshes 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 co. 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 Polytechnic. 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. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful, salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1879 Broadway, New City. HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE NON- BALKABLE SELF-POINTING A Hammerless Gun with Solid Frame. Easiest operating and smooth- est 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 Repeater. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box 5004, CHHOOPEE FALLS, MASS. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Topic FOR SALE AT ALL PROGISTS. BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reverence 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 terms to Agents, Address, John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press HUSBAND I DESPA After Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.—In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows: "I suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, I could only sit up for a little while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, I would have severe pains in my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treatment relieved me for a while, but I was soon confined to my bed again. After that, nothing seemed to do me any good. Manlouring, Facial, Soap Massage and Scientific Soap Trusting. ```markdown ``` The above cut represents Mme. Johnson as she is today, with her own HAIRURAL HAIR cultivated by the use of our own Hair Remedies. She can do for you what she has done for herself and thousands of others in every part of this country. Use Johnson's Hair Food, for growing Hair on bald heads and bare temples. It makes hard, dry hair; soft, moist, glossy and luxurient. Per Jar, 50c. 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If you are all run down from womanly troubles, don't give up in despair. Try Cardui, the woman's tonic. It has helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of continuous success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardui for years. He knows what it will do. Ask him. He will recommend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn. or Special Instructions on your case and 60-page letter. BARS UP ON ELOPERS. Five Days' Notice In Connecticut After Aug. 1 to Get a License. New Haven, Conn.—Prospective elopers may save time and a trip to Connecticut if they beed the notice given by the secretary of state that no more hair trigger marriage licenses will be issued. This law became effective on Aug. 1. Five days' notice will be required before a license can be issued. For several years the custom has grown of runaway couples swarming into Connecticut, securing licenses under the liberal state laws and often being married the same afternoon. This city has been a center for elopers. Aldermen and lawyers protested violently against the passage by the legislature of the new law, the revenue from the elopers having proved a substantial part of their income. 300 WOMEN ASK PENSIONS Ten Receive Grants Under the New Washington Law. Seattle, Washington—Ten women received grants of pensions from Superior Judge Frater when he heard the first batch of cases under the mothers' pension law, enacted by the recent legislature. Fifteen cases were heard. Three were denoted and two were referred for further investigation. The largest pension granted was for $37.50 a month to a destitute widow with seven children. The amounts in the other cases ranged from $15 to $30 a month, according to the circumstances of the petitioners. The investigator of the pension department reported that 300 applications for mothers' pensions had been filed, of which 150 came within the provisions of the law. STORK'S LITTLE TRICK. Makes Ambulance Call Twice at the Same House. Chicago.—Twin boys, each weighing three pounds, were born to Mrs. Lena Cohen of 1415 South Halsted street. They arrived fifteen minutes apart and necessitated two trips of the Desplaines street police ambulance to the County hospital, where they were placed in incubators. Dr. L. A. Sutton, ambulance surgeon, hurried to the Cohen home in response to a telephone call, arriving a few minutes after the birth of the first Cohen heir. The mother refused to be taken to the hospital. Upon arriving at the institution Dr. Sutton found a telephone message asking him to hurry back to the Cohen home, where he learned of the birth of the second boy. Shakeup Under Way to Affect Every Station. Washington.—A complete reorganization of the weather bureau is in process, and it was said it would affect every station in the country, to say nothing of the effect of the change on commission merchants, farmers and others who are in receipt of daily weather maps which issued from forecasting stations. For some time inspectors have been visiting the various stations collecting data by which it is hoped not only to improve the service and cause the daily forecasts to be more accurate, but at the same time introduce economies. Charles F. Marvin of Columbus, O. has been appointed chief of the bureau. One of the important changes contemplated in the service is to issue a night map instead of a day one. This change from day to night, it is calculated, will save money because it will eliminate from many stations the duty of publishing a daily weather chart. Men longest in the service, however, declare that the night map is unlikely to be regarded as an improvement because it will reach the persons interested about twelve hours late. HISTORIC DOCUMENT FOUND? May Be the Draft of Lecompton Constitution of Kansas. Milltown, N. J.—In looking over a bundle of papers which belonged to an uncle who died in Kansas, Justice of the Peace Joseph A. Headley of this place found what appears to him to be the original draft of the famous Lecompton constitution of Kansas. a document for which the authorities of that state have been looking for the past half century. Mr. Headley has written to the secretary of state of Kansas telling him of the find. The Lecompton constitution was the first organic law of Kansas and provided for slavery. It was recognized by President Buchanan, but afterward supplanted with a new instrument that forbade slavery within the state. Rosebush Eighty Years Old. Maryville, Mo.—A rosebush that has been in one family for eighty years is owned by A. Souwers of this city. The original sprout was brought from Pennsylvania to Ohio by Souer's grandmother. Then the family moved to Indiana, and the old rosebush went along. Mrs. Souwers recently went on a visit to Indiana and while there got a sprout off the bush and brought it home. The bush here is thriving And has reached a height of ten feet. ICEBERGS REAL TERRORS. Captains Who Were on Patrol Duty Issue Timely Warnings. Washington.— Icebergs are the real terrors of the sea, giving no warning of their approach in thick weather, and the only rational course for a navigator to adopt when his ship is in a fog in their vicinity is to stop and wait for the haze to lift. This, in effect, is the burden of the reports of Captains C. E. Johnston and A. S. Gamble of the cutters Seneca and Miami, which from April to July patrolled the transatlantic line of travel to prevent a repetition of the Titanic disaster. "The only safe way to navigate in regions of icebergs," warned Caygun Johnston. "Is to stop during Gleck weather and to run very slowly end dark nights." A COLLARLESS SENATOR. Washington Heat Makes Thornton Forget His Neckwear. Washington.—One of the hottest days of Washington's summer explains why Senator Thornton of Louisiana as he stepped aboard an elevator at the capital remarked, with conviction: "It's hot, isn't it? "Yes, senator," replied the elevator man, "but you seem to be fixed for hot weather." "How's that?" asked the senator, looking down nervously at his attire. "By leaving off your collar and tie," was the answer. Mr. Thornton's hand fumbled under his heavy white beard. "Good heavens!" he exclaimed. "Did I leave them off? And I have just been making a round of departmental calls! I talked for an hour with the postmaster general." "Then the senator hurried back to his office and telephoned for the missing neckwear. DOG IN FIGHT WITH SNAKE. Seizee Rattler as He Is About to Strike Master and Kills Him. Clearfield, Pa.—Tippy, a little mongrel dog, saved the life of his master, Frank G. Harris, one time county treasurer, while the latter was on a fishing trip to Moose creek, near here, by attacking a big rattlesnake that was about to strike Harris in the face. Mr. Harris, desiring to reach the other side of the stream, started to crawl over on a slippery log. Just as he reached the far end of the log a big rattler raised its head directly in front of his face and drew back to strike. Tippy, who had swum the creek, darted at the snake and obtained a hold just back of the head. His keen teeth made short work of the rattler. PARCEL POST ORDER STANDS. Expansion Planned by Burleson Legal, Senate Committee Holds. Washington.-Without a formal vote the senate committee on postoffices and post roads decided that Postmaster General Burleson was within his powers in ordering an increase in the weight limit of parcel post packages and a decrease in the postal rutes. This means that Mr. Burleson's order will go into effect without legislative interference. The committee had before it a bill and a joint resolution, both sponsored by Senator Bryan of Florida, repealing that section of the law under which Mr. Burleson's order was issued. No action was taken by the committee on either measure, and the subject is considered settled for the present. Works Beside Husband—Says Strength Is the Test of Equality. Merrilmac, Mass.-Mrs. Willard W. Chase, mother of five children, is now a full fledged housewrecker, having been taken into partnership by her husband. She goes out to work with her husband every day and performs the labor of tearing down houses with the vigor of an average man. "It's a grand thing for those women to be interested in educational things and take up civic problems," said Mrs. Chase. "But if women really want to get anywhere it's high time they begin to show that they are capable of doing the same sort of physical work that the men do." COULD SCARCELY WALK ABOUT believe I would have died if I hadn't taken it. After I began taking Cardui, I was greatly helped, and all three bottles relieved me entirely. I fattened up, and grew so much stronger in three months, I felt like another person altogether.' Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle-acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic effect, on the womanly constitution. Cardui makes for increased strength, improves the appetite, tones up the nervous system, and helps to make pale, sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy. Cardui has helped more than a million weak women, during the past 50 years. It will surely do for you, what it has done for them. Try Cardui today. Writes for: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies' Advisory Corps, Chattanooga, Tenn. for Special Instructions on your case and 4-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain manuscript. The Marlin hammerless 12-caliber repeating shotgun, model 28, is a fine appearing, beautiful balanced gun, without any objectionable humps, bumps, no through or water to get in; can't freeze up with rain, snow, (not a shell of wood) permits a thoroughly symmetrical gun safety; it is the safest breech-loading shotgun ever built. It is Hammerless with Solid Steel Breech (inside as Ejection-Matted Barrel (which costs $4,00 extra on other Release—(to remove loaded cartridges quickly from magazine Double Extractors—Take-Down Feature—Trigger and Hammer guaranteed in shooting ability; price standard Grade "A" gun). Send 3 stamps postage for big catalog describing No. 28 A, B, C, D, T and Trap Special and all other Marlin repeating rifles and shotguns. Do it now! 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COFFEE, ELAVILS and COFFEE PIPING. ```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. 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