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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." TABLISHED 1882 N ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. BY JOHN E BRUCE-GRIT. continued from Picturer Press of Oct tober 18th., 1913. A board of 15 directors was elected to look after its immense business which was growing by leaps and bounds. A clerical force of 90 educated young Africans, typewriters, stenographers, bookkeepers, &c., was required to handle the great volume of business done by the company which was now reaching out for trade into other fields—Germany, France, Belgium, and the United States. The company had also in contemplation the establishment of a branch at Barbadoes, W. I., for the exportation of the tropical fruits and vegetables of that island to the United States and contiguous points and at the close of its third year a branch was established and a small vessel, purchased at Barbadoes, fitted up and put into the trade. The succulent yam, Eddoe, the luscious grape fruit, game, fowl and other products of the island found a ready market in New York, where there are thousands of West Indians, and whites who prefer these commodities to the American products. Stores in various parts of New York City were opened by West Indians, for the sale of West Indian products. So the company grew and grew under the masterly direction of Phillip Eagleston, until its fame was known all over Africa, and Africans began to realize their potentiality as a force in the commercial life of the world of business and commerce. Hundreds of educated young men and women of the race found useful employments in the establishments of business men of color throughout West Africa and parts of the West Indies, where black men were really alive, and awoke to the importance of doing something worthy and commendable in a business way. Phillip prospered and grew to the full stature of a Man, honored and respected by men of high and low degree for his uprightness and nobility of character, for his loyalty to his race, for his clear thinking, and the accuracy of his business judgment. He never lost his head nor forgot the depths from which he had risen. He loved the Negro race—it was his mother's race, and with Henry at Agin court. He said: "For he to day who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, be he he'er so vile this day shall gentle his condition." He had been in correspondence with a son of Mr. Lermonte in New Orleans, whose father had been the means of finding his mother years before. Young Lermonte was four or five years his senior, they had never met but a strong friendship had grown up between them. He invited young Lermonte to be his guest for a month in London, during the Easter Holidays as he wished to consult him about some very important matters. With his invitation he sent him 60 pounds to pay his passage over. In due course young Lermonte reached London and was met at the Easton Station by Philip when the train come up from Liverpool, and was taken in a cab to his lodgings. Young Lermonte having previously sent a photograph of himself to his friend was the more easily recognized by Phillip among the incoming passengers. They greeted each other effusively, when they met, and were soon on their way to Stonar Road, West Kensington, W. London, where Phillip had a splendid suite, with all the comforts of a gentleman's home. They talked of Louisiana and the old days, of the elder Lermonte and many other things. Phillip spoke with feelings of grateful emotion of his friend father now deceased, and said that his only regret was, that he had not been able during his life to give him a more substantial proof of his gratitude for having found his mother than mere words of thanks. Since this privilege had not been permitted him he would now make his son the beneficiary of the gift which he was now able to bestow, in return for an act performed by his father which had brought him happiness and prosperity in a larger measure than he felt he deserved. He was now independent, rich and receiving a yearly income from the business which he had established of $50,000. He could well afford to give the son of his mother's friend $20,000, in appreciation of an act of kindness which he could never forget. Tomorrow morning he said we will go to my Bankers and I will hand you this money Charles. Now we will go down to dinner and after dinner we will go to the Haymarket Theatre. Charles Lermonte was dumbfounded and could hardly find words to express coherently his feelings. He stammered out a few words of thanks, however, and told Phillip that what he was about to do was so unexpected and unusual and unselfish that it staggered him. He had long wanted means to complete his law studies and he now saw the way open for him to enter college where his father had intended sending him, but died before he could carry out his plans. I then had to leave school and become the breadwinner as mother and three sisters are entirely dependent on me for support. My salary as a clerk in the New Orleans Custom House just enables us to live plainly and simply in a modest home and to have a few dollars left each month which I am trying to lay by for the rainy day. How much is your salary Charlie? It is now a $1,000 per year he answered. And four of you live, eat, dress and keep house on this amount. Pray how do you do it? Well we manage in some way to do it. Of course mother and the girls do all the housework, and my oldest sister Clandine who is clever with the needle occasionally finds plenty to do, and so helps out a little. We are a very happy family and we realize that our conditions could be a great deal worse. That is true Charles, said Phillip reflectively. I have spoken and written to mother, who is, as you know, now living in West Africa, and to Father also about you and your family, and my mother has decided, with the consent and approval of her husband, to give your dear old mother a pension of $150 per month for life, and to provide for the future of your sisters a trust fund of $75,000, the interest Judge Kavanagh's Great Address! Pleading for "simple justice" for the American Negro, Judge Marcus Kavanagh of the Superior Court recently suggested that a national commission be appointed to work toward the removal of the prejudices which keep the Negro race from competing in the business world. Judge Kavanagh's demand was made before the Irish Fellowship Club luncheon at Hotel La Salle. His subject was "The Future of the American Negro." The black man is shut off from everything worth while, he said: What possible cure can we offer for this situation? There is only one cure—the cure we apply in all other cases—simply justice. The first thing that we must do is to free ourselves and others from prejudices. To this end I propose that a national commission be appointed to take evidence on the status of the Negro and to make such a report on this matter, that justice, long delayed, can be obtained. The Judge asked his audience just how much the race had been freed. He answered the question: Not much. He is unable to engage in any wage earning employment which can be filled by a white man. There is not a great store that dares to employ a Negro behind its counter. There is not a street car company that dares to put a Negro conductor on one of its cars. Let a Negro get employment as a bricklayer, carpenter, electrician or clerk on equal terms with white employees and the white men will quit work as surely and as quickly as if a fearful plague had attacked the place. I want you men to put yourselves and your families in the place of the decent, honorable, high minded Negro and his family. The time has come when the bighearted men and women of the country must do something in this matter. The speaker pointed out that the Colored population of the United States is increasing at the rate of 11 per cent a year. Today we have more than 10,000, 000 Negroes he said. Few of these are of pure African blood. Here they are about us, with white men's hearts and white men's brains, but yet they are held aloof by those of us who by turn of Providence have been born with skins that are light. Chicago InterOcean. on which they are to receive for their support while they remain single, and when they marry $25,000 each. Charles Lermonte's eyes bulged; he was not quite sure whether he was awake, or crazy, or conversing with a man who dealt in romances. Well he said, replying to Phillip, you and your mother and step father have certainly treated us generously friend Eagleston, and if I do not enthuse over what you have told me of your own and your parents' intentions regarding my family, it is because my heart is too full now to give adequate expression to my feelings. You are a noble 1913. follow and your mother and father are typical examples of a class of philanthropists, too few among us, who believe in practical charity and who have the fellow feeling which makes us wondrous kind. I pray God's blessings on you all for what you have done and are going to do said Charles. But this is not charity we are giving, said Phillip and you must not regard it as such. It is a debt of gratitude we are paying with compound interest to the wife and children of the man who made it possible for us to acquire the wealth which has come to us. It is a duty which we are glad to perform and as long as any of us are alive Charlie none of your family shall ever come to want or know what want is. Charlie arose from his chair walked over to where Phillip sat and embraced him like a brother, and in a choking voice gave him the pledge of undying loyalty. That's all right, Charlie, said Phillip; don't go on like that. Cheer up old man, I thank God that he has put it into my heart and power to change the current of your life and to put you in the way of becoming the man you want to be and will be. Continued on Second Page. WORLD CONFERENCE The Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the World Conference on Faith and Order has received many thousand letters from Christians of every Communion and from every part of the world expressing warm interest in the proposal and commending highly the pamphlets published by the Commission. There is, therefore, reason to hope that a wider circulation of these pamphlets would help to foster the desire for reunion, the comprehension of the objects and methods of the Conference, and above all the practice of earnest and regular prayer that God the Holy Ghost will direct all the preparations for the Conference, and will turn the hearts of all Christians to the search for that visible unity which shall convince the world of the Truth as it is revealed in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We would be grateful for the help of everybody in increasing the circulation of these pamphlets and others which will be published hereafter. A list of those already printed can be easily obtained. Pamphlets and a card containing suggested prayers will be sent to you for distribution or directly to any names and addresses you may be good enough to send to the secretary, Robert H. Gardiner, Gardiner Mature, U. S. A. MOST VERSATILE POSTMAN The most versatile postman of any time was probably the late H. A. Major of London, who was for many years a familiar figure in the neighborhood of St. Clement Dunes and the Strand. In his spare time, until he lost his voice, he was an actor—he was one of the original cast of "Black Eyed Susan." He wrote innumerable forces and some thirteen dramas, most of them successfully produced. He painted pictures and obtained the king of Italy's medal for his "lifelike representation of fruit," and in addition he achieved more than a local reputation as a violinist. Many of his pictures are bung in the wards of King's College hospital. VOL. 32 NO. 34 Anecdotal Literature By W. G. HIS GREAT SPEECH. A young man who got married insisted that it was his duty to make a speech, and this is how he did it. "My dear friends, I—it—it gives me great pleasure to tell—that is, to inform you that I shouldn't like to be a widow—I mean a bachelor—again, and I'm sure my wife wouldn't be a spin—that is, a spinster, if she could. E—I cannot sit down—I mean I cannot resume my seat without thanking you for the birthday—er—I mean wedding presents which you have showered upon me with each confusion—er I mean profusion. You have made us very happy with your gifts, which we value far more than your presence—er—I mean—that—I should have said exactly opposite to what I said when I said that I mean—I—she—or rather we—we—said— Here be gave it up. TWO JUDICIAL PUNS Obief Justice Story, at a dinner where Edward Everett was present desiring to pay a delicate compliment to the latter, the learned judge proposed, as a volunteer toast: "Fame follows merit where Ever it (Everett) goes." Then Everett rose and responded: "To whatever heights judicial learning may attain in this country, it will never get above one Story. Great applause followed. HER SUDDEN START. A lecturer on economics said that in some parts of America the number of men exceeded that of women and added humourously: "I can, therefore, recommend the ladies to emigrate to that part." A young lady in the rear of the auditorium got up in great indignation and left, whereupon the lecturer remarked: "I did not mean that it should be done in such a hurry." Gor Hjs Orders Horace—"When we are married, Mabel, how sweet it will be to sit in the garden of an evening, with the summer sun setting, and— "Mabel—"Yes, darling, and I will bring out needle work, while you water the garden, and roll the lawn and pull up the weeds, and you will chop the wood and bring up the coal. Won't it be lovely dear?" MADE HAPPY. S. S. Terber—'It is the duty of every one of you to make at least one person happy during the week. Have you, Johnny? Johnny—'I did. I went to see my aunt, and she is always happy when I leave.' Joker Ships Twenty-four Live Snakes. Othello, Wash.—One of the strangest shipments ever sent from here consisted of a box containing two dozen snakes, billed to Mitchell, S. D. The snakes are all small and harmless. The shipment is intended as a joke upon the consignee. 18 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DAVIDED TO THE MORAT, KRALGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN I T. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. year.....$1.50 6 months.....75c 8 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 75c. Standing.....50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K. Mar. tusburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1913 In the face of defeat in the 1st district this paper still believes in the initiative, referendum and recall, and that Theodore Roosevelt will be the next president. --- Col. Theodore Roosevelt has been at Rio de Janeiro. Warmly received...ted to He and his party were escout the Cuanabara palace, where they will reside while there. A few summers ago, the Democrates sent up a terrible bowl about a billion dollar Republican Congress. What can the Oats say at the close of this one? Notwithstanding hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent to run Congress, the Senate is making a fuss because it can not muster up a quorum. From all indications there is a cause for it, for even children often get tired, quit play, and go home. Timothy L. Woodruff, in his time one of the best known and most powerful politicians in New York, will no longer be seen on the bustings or around political convention, he having gone to his final reward. In addition to his political prowess, Mr. Woodruff bore the reputation of being one of the best dressed men in America. Prof. Kelly Miller, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University has the thanks of the Press for the current number of his Monographic Magazine. It is a publication of much merit, and deserves to be widely read by Negroes everywhere. Its price puts it within the reach of every one, and its value from a literary and historical stand point is almost inestimable. --- Thomas Mott Osborne, head of New York's Prison Commission, is to be commended for donning a prison uniform and undergoing imprisonment and other hardships that condemned felons are incident to, for the purpose of arriving at a conclusion as to how best to better the conditions of New York's unfortunates who are confined in penal institutions. His example is one of great unselfishness, and stamps him as a real manly man. A thousand cheers for Sulzer. He is sure to go to the New York Assembly. Judge Cullen, the best and fairest man on his case, voted not guilty on every charge, and bad it not been for Senator White's vote, Sulzer would have been pronounced free and clear—for he alone made the two thirds necessary to a decision—which, that it was rotten, sanity denieth not. Governor, as honor has crowned and glorified Zola, so will it you. Trust in God and fight for right, though the foes of hell face you. Mr. Julian Hawthorne, the great author and man of letters, is again free after a number of months in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. His experiences while confined therein, will doubtless afford him much food for reflection, and may cause him to engage in some literary pursuits which the world will read with pleasure and profit. It may be that Mr. Hawthorne's temporary discomfiure will prove a blessing in disguise, because he is a humanitarian. As the great Kentucky editor, Colonel Henry Watterson said, there was no doubt about the High Court of Impeachment finding William Sulzer guilty. It was foreordained, and had to be carried out, Murphy and Tammany having decreed that Sulzer be deposed. His crime consisted in disobeying the mandates of the bosses—he committed no other. Some partisans may say otherwise, but we know better, and so does any one else who can see beyond the tip of his nose. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. Pursuant with its policy of cooperating in the agricultural development of the communities served by its lines, the Baltimore and Ohio will operate a Live Stock train through and Soil Fertility West Virginia for nine days, October 21 to 30 inclusive. This train will be operated in connection with the College of Agriculture of West Virginia University, and experts thoroughly conversant with the care of live stock and the fertilization of the soil will be provided by the educational institution. Director E. D. Sanderson, of the Agricultural Experiment Station, will be in charge of the lecturer, which will be delivered by W. D. Zinn, R. E. Hunt, J. B. Huvett, W. H. Kendrick and G. M. Kile. The lectures, which will be delivered in the coaches included in the equipment of the special train, will be illustrated and a special coach will be reserved for school children who will be instructed in the elementary phases of farming. Among others who will accompany the train are C. R. Tutlow, Director of Agricultural Extension of West Virginia; George H. Campbell, assistant to president, and W. W. Wood: general industrial agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Company. THE THRICE A WEEK EDITION OF THE WORLD Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newspaper in the world gives so much at so low a price. This is a time of great evente, and you will want the news accurately and promptly. All the countries of the world steadily draw closer together, and the telegraph wires bring the happenings of every one. No other newspaper has a service equal to that of The World and it relates everything fully and promptly. The World long since established a record for impartiality, and anybody can afford its Thrice-a-Week edition, which comes every other day in the week, except Sunday. It will be of particular value to you now. The Thrice-a Week World also abounds in other strong features, serial stories, humor, markets, cartoons; in fact, everything that is to be found in a first class daily. THE THRICE - A - WEEK WORLD'S regular subscription price is only $1 00 per year, and this pays for 156 papers. We offer this unequalled newspaper and the Pioneer Press together for one year for $1.75. The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2 50 per year. Never Wore a Hat; Is a Hundred. Somerset, Pa.—Mrs. Mattie Crise. who became 100 years old recently, has always lived in the same place, and in her 100 years never saw a rail- road train, street car or a telephone. She never wore a hat, a knitted hood taking its place. AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FOR BOYS. Continued From First Page. Now there is another matter, I want to talk with you about old man. I have long thought of establishing as you know a school for business and commercial training, a great school for Negro youth of both sexes in my home state. When you go back to New Orleans, I will commission you to look around for a site for such a school. The family is going to lay out several hundred thousands of dollars for the building and equipment of the school, and it must be first class in every detail. Father is going to endow a chair of Negro history and will send out from Sierra Leone one of the most scholarly and erudite teachers in that colony to teach Negro history, whose salary he will pay. This will be the most important pay. Our curriculum, a feature in the school, true knowledge of one's race and real achievements past and present tend to whet the ambition and stiffen the backbone of the race. It is because Negroes know so little of themselves that they think meanly of themselves and believe all the slanders spoken and written about their race. If you want to see dignified and proud Negroes Charley go to Egypt and the west coast where the blacks are conscious of their past greatness and future possibilities and you will return with a little higher opinion of your race. Now we want this school in Louisiana to be officered by blacks from Principal to Janitor, and I am going to commission and pay you to find the site, look after its construction and equipment, secure the principal instructors, subject to our approval, and a good library of books written by, and about Negroes and especially the African Negro. Father and mother are contributing $200,000 toward the erection of this school. My own contribution is $500,000 $250,000 of which is to go into an endowment fund, out of which teachers' salaries and other necessary expenses will be met. This is my tribute to my race in America Charlie—my monument to the gray-haired mother of civilization to be raised in the land from which I was taken as an ignorant boy and brought to this country where I was made a man. I want other black boys to have a better beginning than I had and trust that God will bless and prosper the effort we shall make to establish in Louisiana a school for Negro youth which will be at once a man-factory and a typical institution of Negro learning in which the best and noblest traits of the Negro character will be taught to generations yet unborn together with a practical knowledge of business and commerce. Charley if you are the man your father was, and I believe you are, you will not fail us in this mission. Go then, build this school; the money is ready for the work, we will on its completion come over to the dedication in one of our steemers, the King Menelik, and bring with us a party of African friends to bid you God speed. So ends the story of Phillip Eagleston a little Negro boy, in whom the elements were so mixed, that all the world may stand forth and say this was a man! boys aim high, be proud of your race and of yourselves, and some day your race will be proud of you. THE END. EDUCATION NOTES. Detroit has appropriated $8000 for school dental inspection and clinics in 1913 14. In Wisconsin 72 towns have entered a State wide social center organization. Students at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Mass., learn to work concrete as a regular part of their course in agriculture. In a group of 25 boys taking "part time" agricultural schools in Massachusetts last year, 2 earned more than $300 each, 12 more than $200, and only 3 less than $100, from their farm produce. Notwitbetanding the troubled conditions in Mexico, 157 new Government schools for the native population have been organized in the various States, according to a statement on Latin American republics in the annual report of the Commissioner of Education. As a result of a vigorous corn campaign waged by the Philippine bureau of education at Manila, there has been a decided increase in the production of corn, and a large decrease in the use of rice, formerly the chief article of diet in the archipelago. School pupils in 8 American cities spend a mu nition and a half dolcities each school year for lunches The American Home Economics Association estimates that this amount, spend for lunches onside of school, will buy only 81,000,000 calories in food value; whereas if spent in the school lunch room, with its carefully supervised menu, it will purchase the equivalent of 178,000,000 calorie. Women students in American colleges and universities will have a chance to reveal their sentiments on "International Peace." The Lake Mohonk Conference offers two prizes of $200 and $100, respectively, for the best essays on the subject by undergraduate women students in American colleges. For men students there is a prize of $100 for an essay on "International Arbitration." Comparisons based on a butter-scoring contest so aroused the citizens of Rome, S.C, that they have erected a dairy barn and milk room on the grounds of the local school, in order that the children may learn dairying as a regular part of their school work. Accommodations have been provided for 5 cows. Boys and girls of the 7th and 8th grades are studying the best methods of dairying under the direction of an extension worker from Clemson Agricultural College. School officials in Beverly, Mass., recently calculated the money gain for their pupils in vocational education. They found that an expenditure of $800 per boy in industrial training had raised the capitalization of the boy's economic value from $6,000 to $15,000 or $18,000. "We are destroying the eyes of a large number of school children by the burden of continuous near work to which they are subjected," says Dr. F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo. He suggests as a remedy, in addition to the use of eyeglasses, reduction in the amount of work dependent directly upon the printed page. "Let us have more thinking and fewer books," he declares. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in artinsburg 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. Corrected to Deci 1st. 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:21 a.m for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling. 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. No. 7 Daily 7.42 p.m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No. 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.36 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39 5.37 p. m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p m: for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m for Cumberland and intermediate sta- tions. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old lines. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore- Md. R. S. BOUIC Ticket Agent, Martinsburg. W. W. GIRL SLEEPS 150 HOURS. Doesn't Feel Any Unusual Effects of Her Long Nap. St. Louis—Miss Christine Fischer, who had slept uninterruptedly for 150 hours following a tennis match, has regained consciousness at the Jewish hospital. "I was awfully tired. My work as a schoolteacher has been most wearing, and for a month I have felt as though I could sleep a million years," she said. "I went out on the hot tennis court, and when I went to dinner I sat on the edge of the bed to rest myself. "Suddenly I felt myself going, sinking, sinking, and I must have fallen asleep then, for I can remember nothing more. I didn't feel anything unusual." ONE SQUIRREL DID IT ALL Brought Out Police and Lured Two. Men Near Doath. 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 mile 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. MILLIONAIRE DAY WORKER. Yale Man Puts In Long Hours at Rubber Factory. Boston.—Dinner pall in hand, young Ellisha S. Converse, Yale student and a millionaire son of a multimillionaire, steps from his Beacon street home into a costly automobile, drives over to a Malden rubber shoe factory and tolls nine hours in a room where the temperature is hardly ever less than 100 degrees. This happens every weekday. Young Converse is determined to learn his father's business from top to bottom, but instead of beginning at the top he has begun at the bottom. The father is Colonel Harry E. Converse of Marlon, rubber manufacturer and prominent yachtman. Sometimes young Converse has to handle redhot heels which he puts on the rubber shoes. He swings big shears, too, with which he cuts off the corners of the heels. All in all, his work at his bench in the heel room is considered a pretty hot job. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. A. C. Perry, the well known former and lumberman was in town recently, and was so busy as usual. Master Robert Veney, who makes his home with Mrs. Fennie Moten, is here again after an absence of several months in Hagerstown. Mrs. Mary Runner, who was operated on for tumor at the City Hospital, is improving rapidly, and if nothing happens, she will soon be well again. Key. William Craven, pastor of the Charles Town Baptist Church, was a visitor to our city the other day. He looked well and numerous friends were glad to see him. The Pioneer Press has received the annual report of Principal Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute. It makes interesting reading, and shows what everyone knows—that Tuskegee is an institution of great magnitude. A shooting affair took place at Hansrote, Morgan County, on Wednesday evening, and when the smoke of battle cleared away, Officers Orr and Kinney, of the R & O. police force, and one Negro were found to be badly and probably fatally wounded. Kinney and Orr were taken to the Cumberland Hospital, and the wounded Negro was brought here and placed in the City Hospital. If people generally believed all Dick Murphy says about his shooting ability, no huntsman in Berkeley County would go with him because he would kill all the game. However, the other day he happened to see a rabbit sitting and invited Mr. Recor tor and a Dr. to see him kick up Mr. Bunny, ejaculating "I never shoot a rabbit sitting." Mr. Bunny was roused, and Mr. Murphy shot, but on went Mr. Bunny. Going on a little further a huge blackenake with its head up and tongue in rapid motion greeted Dick within about 5 feet. Dick threw up his hands, dropped his gun and fainted. When he recovered, he said: has the devil gone? STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., of Pioneer Press, published weekly at Martinsburg, required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Editor, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Publisher, J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va. Owner, J. R. Clifford. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None. J. R. Clifford. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of Oct 1913. E. A. Hobbs, N. P. Illustrious Imperial Potentate William W. Irwin, of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, in company with a party of Shriners from Wheeling, will visit Martinsburg on Saturday, October 25, and attend exercises which are being arranged by the Martinsburg Shriners. The Illustrious Imperial Potentate, who was chosen at the Dallas Conclave, last summer, will leave Wheeling with his party in a special car over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Friday night, reaching Martinsburg Saturday morning. The visit of the Potentate will be an occasion of great moment among the Masons of Martinsburg, as well as among other members of the Order in the cast, and it is expected that the meeting will be largely attended by visitors from far and near. IS DISCOVERED GERMAN'S CLOCK Amite City, La.—George Zollenburg returned to his home near this city after another ineffectual attempt to have the jinx taken out of his grandfather's clock. The ancient time is to blame for a long train of fortunes that started Friday, June 19, 1913. The following details have been supplied by Mr. Zollenburg: The clock was brought to this country by Mr. Zollenburg from the fatherland. The old time mill had never missed a tick or let a second slip by unrecorded until noon on that fatal Friday. While waiting for dinner Zollenburg was surprised and alarmed to hear the old heirloom strike thirteen times for noon. "You'd better take that to some clock mender in Hammond," said the watch fixer, and he put his hand behind him as though the old timepiece were hot. Zollenburg took the clock to Hammond and, not wishing to have it fixed under false pretenses, told the jewelers thore about its having struck thirteen. Neither of the Hammond clocksmiths would have touched the hoodoo with a fishing pole. Since then Zollenburg has taken the clock to every expert near here, only to have the job declined. That is not all. Here are a few of the things that have happened since, for which he biames the clock! His rich mother-in-law departed this life back in Germany without leaving him a red pfennig. His valued hen (the one that walks with a limp) deserted her nest after sitting patiently for two and a half weeks on thirteen—there it is again—thoroughbred Cochin china eggs. His hired girl eloped with his best stable hand. Twelve kittens fell in a well near his home and were drowned. His brindle cow Bossie gave birth to triplets, all of which were black as coal dust and males. 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 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 banke, schools, periodicals, and banevolent 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. As coefficient reduction will be made persons desiring ten or more copies NEGRO YEAR BOOK 60. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. GOLD FAMINE IN GERMANY. Shortage Brings Crisis Near and Government Departments Are Warned. London. The shortage of gold in Germany is rapidly assuming the proportions of a crisis. The government is steadily engaing and increasing gold reserves in readiness, it is said, for possible war or an economic crisis. The imperial and Prussian administrations, and notably those of the post-office department, have been invited to retain all the gold they receive and pay out only paper money. 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Orders placed the day received. SECOND HARD BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number of bargains in trade by our Caloque retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from £3 to £8 or £10. Our adaptive bargains in lists marked free. punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers state that a vacuum has been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. We also have an ordinary tire, the puncture-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 $1. The special factory price to the rider of only $1.50 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter. You do not pay a ceil until you have examined and found them directly as represented. have examined and found them strictly as required. 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