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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. INDICATIONS OF MUCH PROGRESS Recent Traveler In Kentucky Makes Optimistic Report. CO-OPERATION THE KEYNOTE Interesting Account of the Thrift and Industry of Afro-Americans In Various Cities and Towns In the Bluegrass State—Both Races Working Together For Advancement. By RALPH W. TYLER. Lexington. Ky.—One who makes a trip through Kentucky and observes the homes of colored people, their thrift, the evidences of progress and the rivalry existing between some of the towns is at once impressed with the fact that there has been a great awakening among the colored people of this state. A wonderful stride forward is being made in business as well as in education. In this city, which is best known by the meeting of the annual Negro fair, there resides a clever, and progressive lot of colored people, not surpassed by the like in any state. Individual progress has been made here, and now members of the race are beginning to recognize that co-operative progress must command their attention if they expect to maintain the success already achieved. One thing that is very helpful to Lexington colored people, and especially throughout eastern Kentucky, is the good feeling existing between the two races. No better feeling exists between the races in any city of the north than exists here in Lexington. Perhaps this is due to the very high type of colored men and women, and possibly it is due to the high class of white citizens who reside in this section, or it may be it is due to both There are many very successful business enterprises conducted by men and women of the races here, and the degree of harmony existing within the races argues well for the establishment of other and larger and different business establishments in the very near future. Lexington is also fortunate in having such splendid race men such aggressive, progressive and efficient men as J. C. Jackson, Dr. P. D. Robinson, Dr. W. H. Ballard, Dr. J. A. Hunter and many others, who are constantly alert to advance the interests of their race along every possible line. Lexington possesses a most charming, cultured circle, and the colored schools, under Professor Pausf, are thoroughly up to date. These contribute greatly to make Lexington a real garden spot in the Blue Grass State. Included in the local Nogro Business league are the very best men who claim this city as their place of residence. No city can boast of a larger and better pharmacy than the one over which Dr. Ballard presides as proprietor, and not in all Kentucky is there a more skillful surgeon than Dr Hunter, or a better business man than J. C. Jackson. One thing which impressed me most favorably as a sign of racial harmony was the strong feeling among our people that it is their duty to patronize, one another in business. They realize that such action is necessary in order to provide places, as clerks, bookkeepers, etc., for young colored men and women who each year are graduated from the schools in this city and state. Usually the legal profession is the hardest in which men of our race can achieve the success their ability commands. Here in Lexington the colored lawyers are succeeding, and they receive every consideration due a lawyer from the city courts. Within a distance of one or two hours' ride from Lexington are the towns of Danville, Frankfort, Paris, Georgetown, each of whose colored population is one-third or one-half of the total population in Bavaria's town which reminds one greatly of the New England towns, because of the atmosphere of culture and its many beautiful residences, the colored people have a very excellent school, with one of the most earnest and best equipped educators, Professor Bate, as principal. In Danville colored skilled mechanics are kept busy. The most successful contractor is a colored man, the leading veterinary surgeon. Dr. Doram, is a colored man, and Dr. Jones is readily acknowledged by both races as one of the very best physicians the town boasts of. The Colored Baptist church, whose pastor is the widely known and popular minister, Rev. J. E. Wood, stands second to none in the city for size and beauty. Frankfort, Ky., is kept very much on the map by such energetic, capable and uniself uplifters as Dr. E. E. Underwood, Thomas K. Robb, T. L. Brooks, Rev. Silva, the very efficient principal of the colored schools and the president of the state normal school, and some others of Frankfort's splendid colored men and women. As in Lexington the feeling existing between the two races is most congenial. One only has to observe a little to learn that the condition of the race in Frankfort is rapidly improving, due to the co-operative efforts of part of the race and the evident desire of the whites to give the Negro a fair chance. EDUCATIONAL WORK SOUTH. Notable Advance In Rural School Improvement In Virginia. The demonstration work which is being carried on in six of the southern states is adding new life and hope to the people who send their children to "the schools in the background"—schools that are isolated and too often lacking in good teachers, physical equipment and ventilation. The value of the work of the industrial supervising teachers as they go about helping those at work in the rural districts can scarcely be estimated. The reflex influence of improved country schools on country homes and communities is most potent and beneficial. Jackson Davis of Richmond, state supervisor of rural elementary schools and a pioneer in helping colored industrial supervising teachers, has prepared a most interesting summary at Hampton institute of the work of twenty-three colored workers who are assisting rural teachers in twenty-five Virginia counties to introduce useful industrial work in the colored country schools. These school demonstrators are helping the people to lengthen school terms, build, remodel and repair schoolhouses, paint and whitewash buildings and outhouses, introduce individual drinking cups, teach cooking and sewing and organize school improvement leagues. Mr. Davis reports that the Virginia industrial supervising teachers have visited regularly 417 colored schools out of 591 in twenty-five counties. By private subscription the school term was extended at least one month in 189 schools. Brunswick county, Va. extended the school term in forty out of forty-four schools. Cumberland, Caroline and Northampton counties, in Virginia, also made unusual records in the extension of the rural school terms. Twenty new schoolhouses were erected, costing $24,000. Fifteen schools were enlarged at a cost of $2,000. Forty-six schools were painted, eighty-one whitewashed; 122 sanitary outhouses were built, 317 individual drinking cups were introduced, and 428 school improvement leagues raised for school purposes nearly $23,000 among the colored people. These figures do not include labor and material furnished by the colored people. Gardening and canning work were successfully carried on during the summer months in fifteen counties. The reports show that 417 gardens were rated "good." Some 22,773 jars of vegetables and fruits were canned for winter use. 153 cooking lessons were given in rural homes. 178 sewing lessons were taught and 136 homes were whitewashed. School demonstration work in Virginia means better schools and better homes for those who live in the country and deserves all the help that it can receive. GEORGE USURPER THIS QUEEN SAYS MANY CLING TO BELIEFS. Still Maria Is Happy With Her Bavarian Throne and Title—Her Eldest Son Is Now Forty-four Years Old. No Other Royal Family Is Richer Than This In Romantic Legends. London.—Occasionally a letter passing through the British mail bears another stamp along with the usual one. The customary one, which has on it the picture of King George V., is placed upside down, and the other occupies the normal position. The stamp of King George is the one which assures the letter's delivery, but the other to the knowing clerk is an unmistakable sign that the sender belongs A. MARIA TERESA, QUEEN OF BAVARIA to those who denounce the present reigning family as illegal and maintain that the throne belongs to a certain old woman who now shares another throne with her husband, for this extra stamp bears the picture of Maria Teresa, now queen of Bavaria. The recent change of rulers in the little kingdom of Bavaria, when the diet removed the insane King Otto from the throne and called as his successor Prince Ludwig, formerly the regent, brings to mind once more that contention against the legitimacy of the enthroned British dynasty. It announces that there are still Jacobites who persist that the rightful ruler is this wife of the Bavarian king, who is also a direct heir to the regal state of Charles I. of England. But if these legitimists do now and then assemble to drink toasts to Queen Mary IV, and do use their own postage stamps, thus proclaiming themselves traitors, nobody in England worries and nobody outside the empire knows such a party exists except as a memory arise from history book days or when, as now, attention is attracted to one involved in this contention. Year by year those who give allegiance to Maria Teresa as the rightful queen of England become fewer. Long ago the Jacobites ceased to trouble the minds of those who wear the crown. To all but themselves the whole matter has become little more than a romantic idea. Now that Maria Teresa wears one crown it canoal but mean a shadow to the enthusiasm of those who decorate the statue of Charles I. on the anniversary of his execution. It makes still more remote any chance that this descendant of the beheaded monarch or any others who may come after her will ever wear the British crown. She and her husband are firmly fixed on the throne of Bavaria Their oldest son, Prince Rupert, is now forty-four years old and popular among the people. He, too, has a son, a bright, handsome little fellow, twelve years old. Thus the line reaches unbroken generations into the future. But yet the Jacobites have hopes. Eagerly they watch the marriages and births in this Stuart line, hailing each new arrival as king or queen or heir to the throne, and eagerly, too, they watch the Hanoverian line, hoping that some breach may appear and they be given a chance to gather their strength and force their own "ruler" into his or her "rightful" place. Among us there are few who pay any attention to the study of lineage, but ancestry is too important a thing with kings and queens to be passed over lightly. So it is that the legitimists are able to trace the blood of their Queen Mary back through all the intricacies which come at last to Charles I. And, too, it is equally important to them in an opposite way that they can trace the descent of George V. through the Hanoverian line to Elizabeth, a sister of Charles I, and daughter of James I, which makes the descent of this line one degree more remote than that of the Stuarts. Among all the royal families none is richer than this one of the Bavarian queen in its romance, legends and bewildering claims. TURNER HEADS VIRGINIANS. Popular Brooklyn Society Holds Reception and Re-elects Officers. Brooklyn.That the Society of the Sons of Virginia in this city continues to occupy a high place in public favor was again made evident by the large attendance at its sixteenth annual reception, held at Summer hall Thursday evening, Dec. 11. The occasion afforded ample opportunity for friendly greetings between resident Virginians in Greater New York and was noted for the presence of a representative class of citizens of high business, professional and social standing. Music was furnished by the New Amsterdam orchestra, led by J. O. Allen. The activities of the society during the year have been directed toward a revision of the constitution and bylaws of the organization to more adequately meet the demands of the constantly increasing membership, increase in the amount paid to its members in time of illness and the amount paid to the heirs of a deceased member. It has contributed to several organizations which exist for charitable and religious betterment. President Charles H. Turner has given much time to the work of the society and is held in the highest esteem by the members. At the annual election of officers for the ensuing year, held Thursday evening, Dec. 18, all the officers were re-elected except Chaplain Alexander Brown, who declined to serve another year. They are the following: Charles H. Turner, president; I. H. Chandler, vice president; P. H. F. treasurer; financial secretary; G. H. Carter, treasurer; A. R. Nash, corresponding secretary; Charles J. D. Kemp, recording secretary; William H. Banks, chaplain; J. S. Watkins, sergeant-at-arms. Board of Directors—Charles J. D. Kemp, secretary; L. H. Berry, chairman; G. H. Carter, treasurer; Charles H. Turner, J. W. Winters, H. S. Newton, T. P. Mosley, P. B. Swan and P. H. Fisher. High Honor For Dr. E. C. Morris. The American committee for the celebration of the signing of the treaty of Ghent, and the 100 years of peace between the United States and England recently met in Richmond. Va. Afro-Americans the country over are proud of their representative in that important body in the person of Dr. Elias O. Morris, president of the national Baptist convention. Good Fortune of the Curry Institute. The Curry institute at Urbana, O..has recently come into possession of real estate valued at $2,000, which was given by Mrs. Martha Foust. This gift and the $1,000 contributed to the Indianapolis (Ind.) branch of the Y. M. C. A..are the largest contributions thus far recorded from any of the women of the colored race. VOL. 32 NO. 43 JACKSON COLLEGE HEADS THE LIST BELIEVES IN EFFICIENCY. Institution Founded Thirty-six Years Ago and Carried on Under the Auspices of the American Baptist Home Mission Society Is Well Managed by President Z. T. Hubert. Jackson, Miss.—Jackson colleges in this city is recognized as one of the foremost institutions for the education of Afro-Americans in the south. Under the management of Z. T. Hubert as president, the school is meeting the needs of its large student body in a most satisfactory way. President Hubert by his close attention to the various phases of educational work among our people has won his way to the front solely upon his merit. Realizing that the greatest drayback to the newly emancipated people was ignorance, the college was brought A. PRESIDENT Z. T. HUBERT. into existence for the purpose of giving them a chance to get an education. It started in Natchez in 1877, solely for the purpose of training teachers and preachers. In this it has been successful, and during the thirty-six years of its existence over 7,000 students have been taught in the school, and some of the leading men and women of the country are graduates of it. Jackson college graduates can be found in various parts of the country. preaching, practicing law and medicine, in business, teaching, farming and filling high positions in the national government. The enrollment is over 350, and many others will enter the first of the year (1914). They are from Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. The high class work done by the institution places it in the front rank. Possibly nowhere can be found an institution which is more alive to the best interests of its students. The character of its work is shown in the fact that at the state fair recently held it won first prizes in all of its department exhibits excepting one, and this was in competition with practically all the schools of the state. In a recent oratorical contest between Tougaloo university, Alcorn A. and M. college, Campbell college, Utica Normal and Industrial college, Christian college and Jackson college Jackson college won. The faculty, with Z. T. Hubert as president, consists of seventeen well trained men and women, some of whom are graduates from the leading institutions of the country. President Hubert shows that he is choice in the selection of his faculty, and it is esteemed an unusual honor to be numbered therewith. Yale, Chicago, Amherst, Brown, Morehouse, Spelman, Fisk, Atlanta and Talladega are among the schools represented on the faculty thus selected. Mr. Hubert is the first Continued on fourth page. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PRESENTED TO THE MORAI, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANIT C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 year.....$1.50 6 months......75c 3 months......40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone,101K Mart- insburg, W. Va. $ ^{ \circ} $ATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913 Mr. Claude Stewart has gone through two legal cross-fires of white heat, and each time, like gold, came out brighter and brighter. Success—our wish. We urge and certainly hope that id decent and sensible editors will keep out of the Boyd-Washington graphic spider web. Clifford wears his sovereignty under his own hat and the collar of no man. The article over the signature of the Sylvester H. Norwood, Secretary of the Washington Annual Conference, as usual is manly, and very pertinent. He is a resourceful and forceful character, and wields a trenchant pen. Hold up his hands and espouse his advocacy of right, as in this case, and fruitful for good will grow your organization. Col. Stuart Wilson Walker has our wholehearted congratulations on his appointment and confirmation as United States District Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia. He is a man of superb courage. Danger never weakens him, and disaster never appalls him. He is a man for emergencies. When his very needed a leader, he responded to its call. Set this fact down, that, we never there is something good to do, and do, often from which other shrink, he is ready. And you must set down another fact, that, no more poor hard working Negroes and whites will be railroaded over this state and tried (?) out of their hail-wick that marshale may finish their pockets with Uncle Sam's money. Col. my hat's off to you. Lame and Blind. Hunt out the little lame girl, The poor boy who is blind; Hunt out the weary widow Who thinks the world unkind Search down among the hovels, Where gladness seldom strays, And teach the doubting people There still are Christmas days. You have been busy planning To spread your gifts afar, To add your fair love-tokens Where joys and comforts fare; But have you in your gladness Bestowed one kindly thought On those who slt in darkness, Whose crusts are dearly bought? Your heart is full of kindness, You hear the anthems sung, And gaze up at the windows, Where ribboned wreaths are hung You've heard the sweet old story, With reverence retold— But there are hungry children Where all is dark and cold. Hunt out the little lame girl, The poor boy who is blind; Hunt out the weary widow Who thinks the world unkind; Go down among the victims Of chance and greed and crime, And cause them to remember That this is Christmas time, —North American Mr. Frank Harris of Uniontown, visiting friends and relatives here. He is energetic, industrious, economical, having made and many thousands. When the boys were small they were allowed freedom by omitting an issue to go to grandma's to eat and romp through the holidays, perhaps, they love her so much. They strike every year and defy us and poor old grandma is 84, and she and cruls and cakes and pies, sweetened with kisses and hugs seemingly is forgotten dear old soul, angels own you. Dr. Norwood Blazes the Way 574 Oxford Street, Baltimore, Md. December 19, 1913. Editor Of The Pioneer Press, Dear Sir: On page 16 of the Washington Annual Conference minutes of 1913 under "Annual Disciplinary Questions" under question 16 the place of holding the 50th session of said conference was referred to the District Superintendents. The D. S.'s met and selected Simpson M. E. Church of Charleston, W. Va. Since the time of that selection the said church building has been sold, and the said church themselves at the time of our conference will have no building in which to worship of their own, much less one in which for us to hold conference. It is reported that we are to hold our session in the basement of a church of the W. Va. Conference. It is further reported that the present pastor had an invitation recalled to a lecture to be given in said W. Va. Conference after the said church learned that he is a colored man. Owing to these changes much discussion has risen about the wisdom of holding the conference in the said Charleston. Two conditions face us, the delicacy on the part of Simpson church notifying us of the changed conditions making them unable to entertain us, and the impropriety of us seeking another place without being so notified. In view of the above reported conditions, the Baltimore Preachers' Meeting requested the writer to write the pastor at Charleston for information. The letter was sent the same day requested, December 2nd, to said pastor. Three weeks have elapsed, and no answer from Charleston has been received yet. Since writing for said information, Asbury, Annapolis, learning of our supposed dilemma has almost unanimously invited the conference there. Two conditions face us going to Charleston and be "jimcrowed" in the basement of a white church—be humiliated in the sight of other colored denominations by being thus "jimcrowed." Shall we go where the pastor in these changed conditions since its election by the D. S.'s, refuses to tell us what we may meet by way of entertainment? We ought to know what conditions we will meet if we go, or we ought to know the conditions so that if we go the responsibilty will rest on us. Sylvester H. Norwood. John Jackson is a citizen of the United States. He is a clerk in one of the departments at Washington. He owes his place to no one but himself. It did not come by favor. He won it by merit alone. He won it in a competitive examination, the doors of which were open to the world. He became an employee of the Government because his rating in the examination gave him the position. He has been a clerk in the Government service for many years. He has proved himself intelligent, competent and faithful. No complaint of his work has been made. No fault has been found with his services. On the contrary, he stands well with his superiors, and with his associates. The atmosphere of his work room has been congenial, and his relations with others have been pleasant. Suddenly and without warning, he is told to give up the desk he is occupying, at which he has long done his work. He is moved abruptly into another room, or into a restricted space in the same room, shut off by screens or tall cases. His new work place is dark and unsanitary. What is his offense? Has he been laggard in his work? Has he shown incompetency? No,nothing of these. What, then, is the fault, what the cause of such action? It is done because he is a colored man. That is the one and only reason. This is no fancy sketch. It is a picture of department life at Washington today. It is what is going on in the Government workroom. It is going on with the knowledge, and, therefore, the sanction of President Wilson. Yet only a year and a month have passed since this same Mr. Wilson, Democratic nominee for President, declared; "Should I become President of the United States.the colored people may count upon me for absolute fair dealing." Can there be greater gulf between promise and performance? This segregation of the races is now a settled policy of the administration. There is nothing accidental or haphazard about it. It is confined to no one Department; no one Cabinet officer is responsible. The two Departments that thus far have shown the greater aptitude in carrying out the new policy, are the Treasury and the Post Office. The bead of the Treasury is Mr. McAdoo, Georgia born and Tennessee bred; Mr. Burleson, ruler of the post office, is the fair flower of Texas life. Nor are they the only ones of those who sit about the Cabinet table who come from the land of race prejudice and the "Jim Crow" car. The Attorney General is from Tennessee. One of his first official acts was the dismissal of Assistant Attorney General Lewis, whose only crime was that of color. Yet Lewis had shown competency as a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts and as an Assistant United States District Attorney at Boston before he was called to Washington. For two years he was an idolized member of the Harvard football team and after graduation he was the chief coach. And he left Harvard with class honors as well as athletic. SECRETARY DANIELS CHAMBERS H The Secretary of the Navy comes to Washington with the sectional feeling of his North Carolina. His sudden lack of enthusiasm regarding his proclaimed plan of having officers and men meet together was the result of information conveyed to him that among the sailors on the war ships there were men of both races. The Secretary of Agriculture is Southern born, and spent most of his life in that section. In the Dead Letter Office of the Post Office Department colored employees have been segregated back of a row of lockers in a corner of the room. And there is not only segregation going on in this division, but elimination. The colored clerks have been transferred, no matter what the personal inconvenience and the financial loss to those concerned in the moving. In the office of the auditor of the Post Office, segregation has been thoroughly and skillfully worked out. Colored operatives and white operatives doing the same kind of work, occupy different rooms entirely. Where such arrangement is not possible, colored employees occupy an alcove, where light and ventilation are equally poor. Previously these same persons were in rooms with white clerks, where they had good light and air. In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under the control of the Treasury, workers have been paired and separated according to race. They must now occupy separate tables and separate sections. In the Department building itself the process of segregation is going on gradually, but steadily, along a well defined line. The purpose is to put all of the colored clerks into one division of the department, that of the Register of the Treasury. COLORED WORKERS SUFFER. And invariably, where segregation takes place, those aggregated receive the less desirable accommodations. It requires no great exercise of the imagination to picture that a future step will be the sending to these quarters of the broken down deks. antiquated lockers and worn out paraphernalia of every kind that has been discarded by the clerks of another race. Nor does the policy stop here. Segregation in type of work will next be in order. Already it has tentatively begun. The excuse will be a readjustment in the work to increase efficiency. Clerks will be moved from one room to another, duties will be changed; and when the process is completed, the colored clerks will find not only that they are in quarters all their own, but that their work has been shifted to that of a lower grade. These are the conditions that exist. Such a change in policy cannot be concealed. It is known and it is recognized. But officials continue to deny the policy, though assenting to the facts. The Treasury Department, however, has refused to permit a picture to be taken showing the state of things in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It has declared the new platform that pictures must be taken only of the machines, not of the persons employed and running them. PHOTOGRAPHERS BARRED. Attempts to photograph other divisions of department life have been without result. It is a new policy in Washington. Previously, photographers have not been taboned. They have had the run of the office buildings. Proper credentials have been the only requisite. Now this is all changed. Yet Woodrow Wilson wrote in his famous volume on "The New Freedom" these words: "There is no air so wholesome as the air of utter publicity." The segregation rule applies to men and to women alike. And the persons who are thus declared as unfit to associate with those of another race are not the roustahont and the irresponsible. They are educated men and women, many of them college graduates, cleanly and well behaved. They are persons who have come here from all over the country. They have passed a rigid civil service examination and entered the Government's employ with faith in its justice. They ask only to receive their just deserts, to have their place in the service measured by accomplishment. A short time ago the newspapers reported a recent Democratic appointee in the South as making this statement. "There are no' Government positions for Negroes in the South; Negro's place is in the cornfield," and announcing his intention of throwing every colored employee out of his office on charges of incompetency drawn and tried by him. Are Woodrow Wilson and his Administration believers in this doctrine?—Philadelphia P. New Jersey) Women In Uplift Work. Under the auspices of an organization known as the Women's congress, an effort is being made to raise funds with which to build a house for orphans and aged persons in Sonoma Plainfield, N. J. The congress is composed of women from the various counties of the state, with Mrs. P. H. Brown as president. The organization recently held a successful series of meetings in Newark in the interest of the project. Mrs. P. H. Brown is one of the most widely known missionary workers in the northern and New England states, having been for many years president of the woman's branch of the New England Baptist Missionary convention, of which he the Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, LL. D. of Washington is president. Business Men Start New Organization. The business and professional men of Dallas, Tex. held an interesting meeting Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, for the purpose of organizing themselves into a league to be known as the Business, Professional and Laboring Men's league. The movement is headed by Joseph Austin, E. W. D. Welch, D. J. Crawford and J. P. Ganther. CALLS BIRDS "AIR POLICE." Audubon Secretary Saye Hunters Let In Boll Weevil. Atlanta, Ga. James Henry Rice, Jr., field secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, addressed a meeting of bird lovers here on the value of birds to mankind. Mr. Rice, in by explaining how birds were made with insevous sight, muscles of enormous strength, high body temperature and with ability to move over great space of country in a short interval. For these reasons birds were fitted to be great air police, for they could concentrate in a small area, subdue an insect outbreak and return to their appointed places with incredible swiftness. The stark and terrible world of insects was described with vivid power as "not only outnumbering all other kingdoms in nature, but actually outweighing men, mammals of all kinds, birds, fishes, reptiles, all taken together." How insects multiply and spread from country to country was told in detail. A monumental case in point was the entry of the Mexican cotton poll weevil into the United States. The weevil, a native of Guatemala, followed the cotton fields through Mexico to the state of Coahuila and entered Texas at Brownville, on the Tla Grande, in 1812. Texas had daughtered its birds. Every town had its shooting labs. From pioneer days Texas had been brought up to shoot, first at Indians and buffaloes, then small game, and to keep up practice nongame birds were killed wantonly until the bird population was reduced far below the disaster point. There is a record for thirty-four carloads of prairie chickens, having been shipped to New York city in a single day. FINDS "DEAD" WIFE ALIVE. Man Identifies Aphasia Victim—Sees Plot In Illinois. Newark, N. J. Harold Garrison of Irvington. N. J. visited the City hospital and identified the young woman who was brought to the institution apparently an aphasia victim as his wife. Florence Garrison, twenty-four years old. Garrison said that he had been separated from his wife for two years. He heard that she was in an institution in Rhode Island and thought she was dead. He visited her sister in Brooklyn and learned otherwise. Garrison says he believes she was brought here and abandoned by her relatives. The woman was found at noon near Center market. She carried a card on which was written: "Please send this woman to the city dispensary. She can't talk." BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1913. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows. WEST BOUND 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 Pittsburg, and Chicago. 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Place of business, Winchester Ave., P. O. 609.—Both Phones. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person, but no identifiable features or clothing can be discerned. INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS. Noted White Men Join Race Journal In Fight Against Wrong. Washington. The result is wspite reports that the Democrats had relied in their policy of segregating obered employees at Washington shows that the widespread criticism of the effort has had the desired effect. No only did race journals join in the campaign against segregation, but representative journals like the New York Evening Post, the Springfield Republican, the Boston Advertiser, the Chicago Record-Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the Cosgressationalist enteru in emphatic protest. The New York Age, the Boston Guardian, the Chicago Decoder, the Afro-American Ledger, the Amsterdam News, the Freeman and the Crisis were among the rare publications that exposed the secrecy. The utterances of such white men a Senator Chapp, Moorfield Honey, Oswald Garland Villard and L. John Garn also had a telling effect. It must be said, however, that colored men and women are themselves largely responsible for the imposition of the light. One colored man here who pretends that his mind is the art made, public, enlisted over a leading dailies in fighting the secrecy. J. C. Napier, who serves in a position as register of the presidents rather than a suit to secrecy, is entitled to praise for former office on the united modern plan. It has always whose attitude was good and unappreciated, was also an honest and conscientious life of cooperation. In his 90's will he left the Whose and other generous benefactors here in always with his disgraceful of the plan. He obedient that the Lord Chapson William was given the confidence when he charged that he also his up favored secrecy. After the old lay wrote air. Visited that he was greatly in error and that President Wilson Secretary Mr. Admon and others would back him up in this statement Mr. Whitard wrote the bishop as follows: "I in regard to the recent happening at Washburn, I stated to the audience that it bired been said to me by his authority that a bishop in a favored staging, that I should not mention his name because the head decided it and that I would not make an issue between him, a president of the United States and a bishop. Since you wrote me that you have been informed by the White House and the Treasury department that no such statement was made to me there is nothing left for me to do but to infer that I was misinformed or misunderstood and to express my regret to you that such appears to have been the case." Though the administration is recalled to have claimed its attitude regarding segregation there has been no public announcement of that fact. W. Monroe Trotter and others, who pressed a monster protest into the hands of the president, are, it is said, still awaiting a reply. Segregated washrooms are still in vogue in the treasury, postoffice and other departments. TOWON IT MAY CONCE Take notice that the ordinance good will be 22 days after January 14, 1844, to apply to the prosecution of the State of West Virginia for a pardon having been indicted and convicted as the April 19, 1840, of the Circuit Court of Beck County and sentenced to life imprisonment. autur Hinden. 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 engaged in increasing gold reserves in readiness, it is said, for possible war or an economic crisis. 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Out of the same family have come three other boys who are also graduates of northern universities and who are now doing good work. President Hubert received his early education in the graded schools of his native state and at Morehouse (Atlanta Baptist) college, Atlanta, Ga., and when he graduated he was employed as one of the instructors in his alma mater. He is also an honor graduate of Amherst It was during the early fall of 1901 that he was appointed to teach science and agriculture in the Florida State college, Tallahassee, Fla., and it was while in this position that he laid the foundation for his present position, which he is filling well. Step by step, he has made his way up. He was called to the Spelman seminary, a school for girls, to take charge of buildings and grounds. A slight idea of the confidence the society had in his ability is shown in that when he was called to the presidency of the school he was requested to select an entire new faculty to take the place of the white men and women who had been in the school for years. It was his first work as president of a large institution. BIG PROTEST MEETING HELD National Association Continues Campaign Against Race Segregation. The first of a series of public meetings planned by the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People to protest against race segregation in the national government service and also in local affairs was held in the Mount Olivet Baptist church, in New York, Thursday evening, Dec. 18. The local committee was headed by the Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal church. The presiding officer was the Rev. Dr. William P. Hayes, pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist church. The meeting was well attended and enthusiastic. Both white and colored people are among the leaders in this movement to check what is at present the most shameful, unfair and cruel attack upon the civil rights of the colored people of the United States that has been attempted since the days of reconstruction. White men and women of wealth and influence are among the most aggressive workers, and they are bringing good results from their efforts in connection with this humanitarian movement. The disregard for the constitutional rights of the colored citizens as shown by the enactment of unjust laws is pointed out as a menace to the welfare of the body politic as well as a direct personal handicap to those who are deprived of their right to share in the privileges of a free government. That the force and influence of the recent investigation made by the National association into the conduct of the various government departments in Washington have struck a responsive chord in the minds of those in charge of the work in the departments is acknowledged. The speakers at the meeting Dec. 18 were Attorney Arthur Spingarn, chairman of the legal committee of the National association; Mrs. Mary C. Lawton, well known in women's club work and as reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, and Attorney Wiiford H. Smith. Music for the occasion was furnished by the Barnett quartet. Each speaker received the closest attention of the audience, and each was earnest and forceful in the presentation of facts, which cannot be truthfully denied by those responsible for the existence of race prejudice in places where each person holds his position on his merit shown by civil service examination. BOY EARNS $42,000. His Share of Profits Coming From His Expert Knowledge of Farming. Jollet. Ill. — Werner Kreimer, nineteen-year-old son of J. F. Kreimer, a farmer of Jackson township. Will county, has bought a 160 acre farm for $40,000, all of which he has realized himself from his share of the profits of his father's farm. The lad is a student of scientific culture and has taken a long course of study from the University of He has applied his knowledge in the management of his father's farm and has increased the earnings of the farm 40 per cent. The Kreimer farm is said to be the most profitable in Will county as a result of the boy's modern methods. Business and Social Duties of Mayor Archer of Battlesfield, England The high honor of being received by the king as an officer, always an item of more than ordinary interest to those whose service it may be to preside over any of the land's possessions or the various boroughs of London. John Richard Archer, who was recently executed in Battersea, will receive all the congratulation and courteset so congratulated to an official of his rank, Mrs. Archer, wife of the mayor, will also serve with her husband the honors in his place. They will be received by the king and queen at social functions on equal terms with other othrs. The so far furnished office at the Mansion house against the mayor of London are all the most important. That Mayor At the will measure up to the dignity of its office is not questioned. As soon as he to have splendid ability and the social manners. Then authority is possessed in the requirements of his office. A remarkable feat goes on the campaign which Mr. Archer has won was the fact that no one that for the office mentioned Mr. Archer's color in a stump speech. But since the election Mayor Archer, said in a speech, "It is a victory such as has never been gained before. I am a man of color. Many of the things that have been said about me, however, are absolutely untrue. I have been charged with not being of the superior race, and it behoves you to show that you do belong to the superior race. "I am the son of a man born in the West Indian islands. I was born in M. MAYOR AND MES. J. R. ARCHER. England, in a little, obscure village probably never heard of until now—the city of Liverpool. I am a Lancastrian bred and born. My mother—well, she was my mother. My mother was not born in Rangoon. She was not Earmese. She belonged to one of the grandest races on the face of the earth. My mother was an Irishwooman. "So there is not so much of the foreigner about me, after all. They have said I am a man of color. I am. I am proud to be. I would not change my color if I could, is it true that 'cast is east and west is west, and never the two in shall be?' Why, not sootion, a so you must break your neck to put it on, breaking on the edge of the earth you can all alike with a knife. "You would not only yourselves will be so well and you enter into an alliance with you think you will be so well and you allan Girls will be so well and colored man was so well and so Theftford, County, so well and so the parents hailed from the West Indies, and he was born and cared for there." DANCING LUNCH LOSES EYE Man Has Sight Destroyed by Quill In Hat of His Partner. Asheville, N. C. - For the pleasure of dancing the three brent latimer of Greenville, S. C., paid the price of one eye, the sight being destroyed by a quill in the hat of the young woman with whom he was dancing. In making a turn the quill swept in behind his glasses, cutting the ball of the eye. Physicians announced that the sight of his right eye is destroyed Saved Girl's Life "I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have received from the use of Thedford's Black-Draught," writes Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. "It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, liver and stomach troubles. 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BOREMAN, First Governor of West Virginia. his parents to Tyler county, West Virginia, where he attended the school of that day. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843, in which year he located in Parkersburg, and began the practice of his profession, in which he soon rose to distinction. In 1855 he represented Wood county in the General Assembly of Virginia, and by successive elections continued in that capacity until 1860. He became an ardent new State man, and was president of the Second Wheeling Convention which assembled June 11, 1861, and which reorganized the Resored Government of Virginia and prepared the way for the formation of West Virginia. He was elected first Governor of West Virginia; was inaugurated June 20, 1863, and by successive elections served until 1869, when he was elected a member of the United States Senate, in which body he served six years. Thereafter he resumed the practiced of law in Parkesburg, where he was later elected Judge of the Circuit Court, and served eight years, his term beginning January 1, 1889. He was a leader of men in the time in which he lived, not from the intrigues of craft and cunning, but from an innate and rightful sovereignty of human nature. TRUST ACTION NEXT SESSION President Then Will Recommend Strengthening of Sherman Law. Washington. There will be no antitrust legislation at this extra session of congress. it was stated on the highest authority. President Wilson will recommend to congress soon after the beginning of the regular session In December the strengthening of the Sherman law. Between now and then he and his advisers will go over the Sherman law, dig into the history of its operation and make a careful study of what has been done with the law and its effect on business. It became known that the president will have before him the anti-trust laws of New Jersey, known as "the seven sisters" act enacted during the last year of Mr. Wilson's administration as governor of that state. ALPHEUS GARRISON Alpheus Garrison was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1833; moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1836; in 1842 moved to Monongalia county, Virginia, now West Virginia, where he still resides. Mr. Garrison was married to Charlotte Henderson in 1853. In 1856 he was elected constable and served the term; in 1859 was appointed deputy sheriff and served until May, 1861, when he resigned and was appointed a delegate to the Wheeling convention. He was appointed recruiting agent for soldiers and deputy provost marshal until 1864. He joined the Union army as 2d lieutenant and later was promoted to captain of Company E, 17th W. Va. Infantry. He served until June 30, 1865, and returned home in 1866. He was appointed assessor to fill a vacancy and in 1866 was elected assessor; in 1868 he was elected to the legislature and served the winter of 1869 in Wheeling, Wa. Va.; in 1870 was elected sheriff of the county and in 1890 was elected to the state senate from the Eleventh Senatorial district and served in Charleston, W. Va., 1891 and 1893. Since that time Mr. Garrison has lived on his farm. He has been a member of the Christian church for more than 52 years and is a prominent Mason. He is now in his 81st year, well preserved, active and keenly interested in the current events of the day. GEORGE ROBERT LATHAM. George Robert Latham was born in Prince William county, Virginia, in right of the Dull Run battle ground, March 9, 1832, and was reared on a farm. In November, 1849, his father moved his family into Western Virginia and settled in Taylor county. In January, 1850, Mr. Latham had a severe attack of plague followed by general persecution, from which he was totally disabled for farm work for three years. In 1855, having partially regained his health, he taught school in Taylor and Bartour counties, Virginia, until the winter of 1859. From 1859 to 1860 he was a citizen of Grafton, where he was married on December 18, 1857, to Caroline A. Thayer, 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 woman 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. REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE Mrs. Phillips of New York Was Wedded Last December. Wilmington. Del.-Mrs. Edith Slosson Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street, New York, called the Rev. George L. Woife by telephone and asked him to announce her marriage on Dec. 18 last to Wallace B. Phillips. The couple were wedded here by Mr Wolfe. "Wasn't your marriage published at the time?" the preacher asked. "No." was the answer. The woman would not give her reason for desiring the belated announcement. She said her husband was from Greensboro, N. C. ```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 matte where the interest of the race was involved. 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