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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNGRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Ch ston, W. Va. "HERE SHALL TH ESTABLISHED 1882. AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. BY JOHN E. BRUCE GRIT. Continued from Pioneer Press of August 16th., 1913. Our little friend here it appears, said the captain, is of very distinguished lineage. His father was a rich Louisiana planter who lost his estates and his fortune during the late War between the North and South. At the breaking out of the war he organized a company of young men—the sons of planters and fought against the Yankees. The dad's mother was his slave and she was sold some two or three years before the war began, and this little fellow, like Topsy just growed as Mrs. Stowe put it, in her admirable story of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mr. Haldene and I ran across him or whether he ran across us in New Orleans on our last voyage out. We were standing on the dock conversing one morning when he came along and asked for some work to do. His earnest manner impressed me most favorably and I was equally impressed by his manliness and politeness. I told Haldene to take him aboard after I bad questioned him a little as to what he could do, and find some place for him on our vessel. Haldene installed him as my cabin boy. When he reported to me for duty I asked him his full name and he told me that he had no other name than Phillip. I asked him what was his father's name and he told me that Marster's name wuz Eagleston. Here the sisters exchanged meaningful glances and Dr. Hodder shook his head the while looking silently but pityingly into the face of this diminutive contribution to Negro Criminality. Brutall he exclaimed, it is difficult to believe that such gross immorality can be practiced in a civilized country. I have heard some American speakers declare said the captain's young niece that these people really sell their own children, and when I was in America four years ago I saw a beautiful girl sold in the slave market in Riobmond whom I mistook for a white girl, but I afterward learned that she was classed as colored. Slavery is brutalizing both the Negro and the white man in America, and it is a blessing to both races that it has been abolished. Yes, said Dr. Hodder, its abolition is one of the best things that could have happened both for the Negro and for America yet I fear that its beneful and demoralizing effects will be felt for many years to come in that country. White men in America have mixed their blood with their Negro slaves and thus have sown to the wind, only to reap in a coming day the terrible whirlwind which, if it does not completely destroy them, will at least destroy their character as a virtuous and christian nation. We too have sinned against these blacks but I have never yet heard it said that any English slaveholder ever sold his own flesh and blood. We will have to pay the penalty for our misdeeds, but I think MALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MRTINSBURG, W. this charge cannot be successfully laid against us. No, said Captain Coverdale, that is a crime against all the finer feelings of humanity and decency which was regarded as a virtue among the slaveholders of America. Why there are more half castes I am told in the slaveholding states of America than in all the free states combined. These black men and women have the blood of the best whites in America coursing through their veins. Jefferson, Washington, Burr and nearly all that galaxy of American statesmen of the 17th and 18th centuries had Negro progeny. When last I was touring in Virginia there was pointed out to me a fine looking mulatto man, whom I was told was a descendant of the Father of the country, and I could but notice the striking resemblance, the contour of the finely shapped head and the fine face and Caucasian features of this proud descendant of America's greatest and most honored statesman. This lad Phillip is of this unfortunate class. Haldane and I got his story from people originally from a place called Baton Rouge, where they owned a large plantation with six or seven hundred slaves. At the death of the elder Eagleaton the estate came into the possession of the eldest con, the father of this lad, whose mother was maid to his wife. Eagleston it appears, was a pretty guy liver, a petron of the rocce and a gambler at cards. He lost heavily at the latter, and soon his estate, in Baton Rouge, were swept away from him, over the green baize. All his slaves, except a few old family servants, were sold to meet his gambling debts, next his live stock, horse, cows, sheep, hogs and family carriages, and household effects were sacrificed. When all these were disposed of, the old homestead was broken up forever, and Eagleton with his family and the few servants left to him, about a dozen in all, moved to Gretna, where he had purchased a 50 acre farm—with borrowed money, and attempted to recoup his fortune. Among the slaves he brought with him to Gretna was Clarisa, this lad's mother, who was above the ordinary slave woman, as she could read and write. She had always been a house girl, was a comely maiden, soft of speech, and attractive in manner. A few years before the breaking out of the Civil War, Clarisa was sold by Eagleton, who was just $950 oby on a note which was about to fall due, and which he had to meet or take the consequences. Clarisa was purchased at Public Auction in New Orleans and was obliged to submit to all the indignities which characterized those gatherings of lecherous roves and rakes assembled to inspect "housekeepers", offered for sale by impecunious and heartless masters who would barter their God for His image in gold. This lad was left on the plantation to grow up until atern necessity should make him the victim of the same fate as that of his mother. But rumors of war and the sudden bureting of the war cloud spared him this fate. It is a sad story, but there is a silver lining to it. Turning to Phillip, he said, my Continued on Second Page. Beauties Of Motherhood Agy Bill Ary our dear old writer, would say, "My mind often illuminates" on the story of Christ, especially that part where Luke tells "Mary kept these things, and poured them in her heart." I feel sure the virgin was in this respect, as every mother had been before her, and still is to the present day. So with sympathy and love born from the school of experience I would fain closer mothers and expect mothers, whose hearts are at present fraught with the same sober meditations. What bu maternal love could inspire woman to suffer and yet be strong? Not all of us can say "the hold the handmotion of the Lord," and I am certainly convinced that this holy characteristic is expected from us less favored women. Just a quarter of a century ago I was married to my prince Charming, our chief assets in this world's gooddeal being good health, some common sense and a good name, with much "better to do" relatives on either side to forcibly remind us of our lack of filthy lucre. We made many mistakes, but never the one of trying to emulate the dress or luxuries of these richer kinefolk. When just six short years rolled from our calendar five gems of babyhood had come as jewels to our fireside ring. By way of epology I must add two of these were twins. At the end of nine more years our family numbered seven, one golden-beired girl and six brown eyed boys. Our girl is married and at the age of forty nine I am "Dan Mamma" to a curly haired boy of three summers. Two of our boys passed over the river in three short weeks' time, teaching in a new and lasting lesson the true meaning of the "Valley of the Shadow." These missing notes in the music have proven blessings in disguise, making us strive as nothing else would have to fear God and keep His commandments. Our eldest boy is in a bluegrass town making his own way, armed with a wolf stored mind. The remaining two sons are still in the home ness, a pretty cottage, built on a small farm of eighty four acres. So, little mothers, especially busy country ones, I, who have known and still know, all the stress and strain of a would be righteous woman's share, bid you a loving God-speed. Treasure as the most sacred duty committed to you, the keeping of these human souls. Of such is the kingdom of Heaven," said the greatest teacher of our New Testament. Teach them cloudiness is next to Godliness in mind as well as body—even more so according to the inspired writers. Teach them the high value of good literature as early in life as they seem capable. Read with them well written stories of the Bible. As they grow older give them books by such authors as G. A. Henty and Horation Alger, for your boys, and for your girls and boys, such writers as Miss Alcott, Rosa N. Carey, J. Fenimore Cooper, John Esten Cooke and so on. Read yourself The Prince of the House of David, Hugo's Lea Miersables, Ben Hur and any other good books you can find. I always read white I am obscuring and never Press. notfect any other duty for this pleasure. Repulse, with motherly counsel, every thought of any "love all it" between more children. If there is any one thing more disgusting than any other of the present age it is this "sweetheart business" between young children. However I think it also gether an error to prohibit them playing freely together, but would have them oblivious of the sex part as long as they can be trusted for purity in all their games. Watch must be our duty as well as pray and as our girls blossom into womanhood let us still cherish as a holy task the proving to them that their bodies are the temples of their souls, too accred to be carelessly handled by any men. Thus prayerfully taught and guided from babyhood, I think in deep enough to go, in our instructions to them of the mysteries of life. My printed mother went no further and her counsel proved sufficient for all needs. Wiser once may differ with me, but "To err is human, to forgive is divine," and all our lives are a "patchwork of folly and wisdom," to be finally passed on by illion who commands "children, obey your parents" and "Fathers, provoke not your children last they be discouraged." -Optimist, in Louisville, Ky., Home and Farm. TWO YOUNGSTERS TURNING BLACK. In adjoining cots in the infant ward of the children's homeopathic hospital in Philadelphia, are two eighteen months old toys, twin brothers, both afflicted with a rare malady that is attracting the attention of medical man throughout the city. The boys are slowly turning black, and at the present time the disease has reached a stage where the little chaps present the appearance of being two thirds Caucasian, to which division of the human race they belong by birth, and one third Ethiopian. The twins are Tony and Powell Amato. They were admitted to the hospital on June 29th last. At that time the skin of their faces had begun to assume a dark tint and since then has been slowly spreading and deepening in color until now their these are of a chocolate hue and the discoloration extends to the lower part of the chest. Their legs and feet are of the natural, pinkish white color. The youngsters do not seem to suffer any pain. The disease from which the twins are suffering has been diagnosed, after careful laboratory tests as 'psycholakemia'. What the outcome of the case will be the physicians decided to hazard even a guess. No medical or surgical treatment is possible and the only reliance is in good nourishment." SNAKE BITE CURABLE It is stated that about 20 000 persons are bitten annually by the corpse of India, and until a short time ago these bites were generally fatal, but the discovery of an antitoxin has been the means of cutting down the number of deaths very materially. The same statement applies to the several hundred which are bitten each year by the poisonous snakes of this country. The discovery of this remedy was due to the activities of the Pasture Institute in Paris, Dr. Raymond Dumas, director of the aquatic department, New York. BY GAIN." Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. BE PREPARED A certain Grecian warrior, wheretoever he walked, was thinking of battles. He asked himself continually, if he should be attacked on such or such a place, how he would dispose of his army for defence. So a Christian should always be thinking how to meet the attacks of the devil and his army. When heavenly things take up our souls, our souls will soon be taken up to heaven. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Teacher—"Now I have explained to you class, the nature and effects of heat and cold, telling you that heat expands and cold contracts objects in nature. Will any one of the class give me an example?" Bright boy—"Please, Sir,—heat expands the days in Summer and makes them longer, and the cold in winter contracts them and makes them shorter." SCOTCKED. An English general was in company whose some Scotchmen were present. After supper, when the wine was served up, the general rose and addressed the company in the following words: "Gentlemen, I must inform you that when I get a little too much drink, I have an absurd custom of railing against the Scotch, I hope no gentleman in company will take it amiss." With this he sat down. A Scotch gentleman immediately rose, and without seeming the least displeased, said: "I, when I have drunk rather freely, and hear any person railing against the Scotch, have an absurd custom of kicking him out of the company, I hope no gentleman will take it amiss." It is said that on that occasion, the Scotchman had no opportunity for the exercise of his talents. Stage Manager—"I can't get the girl who plays the heroine in deadly peril to scream on if she honestly meant it." Leading Man—"Never mind; when we get to that part in the scene, just tell her, there's a caterpillar on her neck, and she'll scream all right." MAUD MULLER Mand Muller refused the Judge, 'Whee!' she said—' Marry a fellow who may lose his job any moment on the recall' she scuffed—'Not much," and then smiled on a farmer instead. THE VERY IDEA. Henry—'Millie, will you go riding with me?' Millie—'I should say not. Exhibit it my 1913 gown in your old 1911 car? Excuse me.' zoological garden, has been handling and hunting enakes for 20 years, and yet he has never been bitten, and only three cases of enake bite have been called to his attention in New York, and as these were within recent times they were all cured by the antitoxin, which is always kept on hand at the New York Pasture Institution. NO. 25. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter W. A. Fisher, the famous traveller and all around good fellow, was in to see us the other day. Miss Marie Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hamilton, of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting relatives and friends in our city. Mr. Moses Gordon, a policeman in the City of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting friends and relatives in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties. Mr. A. C. Perry, our friend from the Doglass Grove neighborhood, who runs a saw mill, grows vegetables and hustles generally, was in to see us the other day. Miss Birdie Keets leaves Sunday for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other points in the east. She goes for pleasure, and we hope she will have it to the fullest extent, The editor is in Philadelphia, where he presided over the deliberations of the National Independent Political League, preped in on the Business League, and saw things generally. Mrs. Sallie Hopewell, and her daughter Hilda, are visiting in Atlantic City, Philadelphia and other points in the East. We hope they pay enjoy their vacation, and return some thoroughly refreshed in health and spirits. Don't fail to see and hear Prof. R. R. Holloway's Concert Band, on Monday, August 25, when it appears in the street parade with J. C. Brien's Georgia Minstrels. It is a musical organization of merit, and every member in it is a real artist. Mrs. Canary Cheirs, and little daughter Elizabeth, are visiting the former's mother in Frederick, Md. We hope they will enjoy themselves, and we are of the opinion that their return will prove of much pleasure. Mr. Cheirs, because he looks tightly lonely. Among the teachers who attended the Teachers' Institute this week, we noticed Mr. W. H. Phillips, Hedgesville; Mr. James W. Walker, Darkaille; Miss Elena Roberts, Middleway, Miss Julia Morgan, Charlesown, as well as many others whose mes we did not learn. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD The above amount will be paid to one who will furnish information ding to the arrest and conviction the person who poisoned the fine dog belonging to the editor sween the hours of ten and twelve look on Saturday, July 26 Mr. Mark King, traveling agent in the Radium Crystal Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., is causing throughout the Shenandoah Valley. His business is enlarging stores and furnishing frames for him, and we cheerfully recommend to the general public as a man to live up to his promises. Out in the interest of the Pioneeress, to collect and solicit subscribes. Please be prepared to pay simply, for I have a large territory to go over, and my time is limoing to other pressing mat Very truly youre. J. R Clifford. C. O Brien's Famous and Farmed Georgia Minstrels visit the of Martinsburg, Monday, Aug. 25 This show has always been of the classiest minstrels on the H, but in the year 1913 it has far used anything in its line standing in now as one grand, gorgeous, statcular and glittering amusement orprise which is not excelled the day over. It has to be seen to be recited, and all who can should themselves of the opportunityitnessing this mammoth exhibition next Monday. Dr. George W. Baylis, the Charles Street medico, is spending some time in Virginia, where he is seeing friends, hunting, fishing, and having an enjoyab'e time generally. While away, he will also visit his parents in Fauquier County, and attend several religious gatherings in Northern Virginia. Don't miss J. C. O'Brien's Georgia Minstrels, Monday, August 25. NEGRO YEAR BOOK, 1913. 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 race. 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 Negro in 1862 and 1912, 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. Tu-kegee Institute, Alabama San Quentin, Cal.-With the time at his disposal in the last eleven months of his seven year term for burglary, E. J. McCalla, a prisoner employed as a waiter 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. J.R CLIFFORD: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. Next holiday i Labor Day. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE. Farmer Puts Up Chickens, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt this secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All home-stead exemption rights are waived by the maker of the mortgage. The question is being asked, "Does this mortgage emphasize the increasing value of the 'hog and hemliny' propaganda, or is it but another indication of the extreme stringency in the land about which so much has been sold and written--which?" 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 87 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy of capacity need be deprived of its advantages. 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. Cummings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, Sce 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 Polyclinic. 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 less essential. Whole time or spare time. 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