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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABISHED 1882. The Man Of Education The first lesson the educated man must master is that of learning how to learn. Set a dunce down with a book, and he makes dog's ears on the corners of its leaves. Turn an uneducated man loose in a library and he is like an ant in a treasure house of jewels. You begin to be educated when you are first taught how to learn. A lifetime is all too short for training, and there are "finished schools" neither for young ladies nor old gentlemen. From all we can guess, the life beyond is also a school where wisdom speaks to every teachable spirit in the words of the angel. "Behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." A man may be content in some present ignorance if he knows how to find out what he needs as each necessity arises. Another quality which marks the educated man is that of order and proportion. The wheels of his mind go forward; they do not merely go round and round. He knows how to get at his tools. A mind full of disorderly and unrelated information is like a workshop full of tools whose owner is never able to lay his hand upon the one he wants. What is the use of a walking encyclopedia with no index? The educated man knows how to relate himself to companies and circumstances. He is adaptable. Education is a matter of right adjustment to life. It makes good sons and brothers, fathers, neighbors, citizens. He who, with slight opportunities in schools or libraries has learned to fit with efficiency and without friction into all companionships and conditions, has high claims upon the title of an educated man. A blight which often falls upon the souls of men who have studied long and perhaps bear learned titles is the blight of a narrow and ungeneral view of life. They end at a barred window, and not at an open door. Sympathy puts the crown upon the head of the educated man. He has a fellow feeling for all men, because his wide experience of life has enabled him to understand them. Mingled in this sympathetic attitude of the educated man is humanity that grows out of knowledge. He stands with Newton on the shore, aware of the wide, unattempted sea. He knows that the corner of knowledge where he works, though but a corner, is yet related to all learning and all places where others are at work. He has seen theories and opinions pass in the dawn of better knowledge, and is not too insistent that his own scheme of thought shall suffice for other men and ages. He keeps his mind sweet with humanity and faith, open to all the genial airs of fellowship that blow. The educated man grows to that high quality and wisdom which can only come through the experience of life with others. "Wisdom is the principal thing," without which "knowledge puffeth up." "But love buildeth up," the apostle hastens to add to that hard saying. Man exists for personal relations, in which his best powers have play and his best joys are born. The educated man is supremely practiced in high personal transactions with God and with his fellowmen. In these relations his individuality is not sacrificed, but heightened. He becomes more himself as he gives more to others. In the thought of Christ—the man of no school but that school of sympathy and thought from which he graduated with the title of "The Son of Man"—in the thought of Christ the completely educated man is he who is most successful in obedience of the great commandments of love of God and man.—The Congregationalist, Boston. Hard Water. The streams of water used in hydraulic mining are said to be so swift that if one tried to hack into them with a sword the weapon would fly to pieces. The water is moving so rapidly that it has no time to yield beneath the stroke and in consequence is like a bar of iron. A small bag cannot be made to contain what is large. A short rope cannot be used to draw water from a deep well.—Chinese Proverb. IN THE NEW SING SING They didn't oust Thomas Mott Osborne from the charge of Sing Sing prison. He had a needed vacation of 2 weeks instead. The reception he received from the inmates on his return goes far to tell why putting him out would be something even political trickery wouldn't dare. A band met him at the station. The horses which drew him wore plumes. The prison was decorated. There were cheers from hundreds of throats. There were tears of genuine love in hundreds of eyes. Now the cause of all this is not the popularity of the man who has given the inmates an easy time. It is not, as some would have it, the froth of foolish sentimentalism run wild. There was nothing of selfishness in the welcome to the warden. It was the outward expression of the spirit he has put into these men. Why do they love him. It is because he has found the man in them, and appealed to it. Sing Sing is revolutionized. Now if there were some small and inconspicuous prison, the instance of it might perhaps be neglected. But it is the most conspicuous, in a way the toughest prison in the country. The wonder that has been accomplished at Sing Sing is the greater for the prominence of the place among prisons. And if anyone has anything scoffing to say about new brooms that sweep clean, and fads whose glamour hasn't worn off, and the self-hynoptism of a new idea, let him travel westward. He will find a trail of just such prison reform from Sing Sing to the Pacific, where in a large measure the thing began. No, this is not a limited wonder that has been wrought. It is only a beginning. For man in his blindness has found at last the secret of curing what long in his ignorance he has, for lack of a better name, called crime.—Charleston Post. Might Makes Meanness "Why don't you fight a boy of your own size if you want to be such a bully," said a little fellow to a bigger boy, who had struck him. But it seems to me this spirit of cowardice follows from boyhood to manhood. Take for instance the attitude of President Wilson. Germany has offered this country all kinds of insults, only to receive a number of love letters from our president. And if all accounts are true, he is still engaged in the very pleasant pastime of writing such letters, while at the same time he bristles all over with courage, calls out troops and gunboats to whip little Mexico and Haiti into subjection to his Kingly Mandates. For years the United States has been anxious to secure a coaling station at Haiti and today she is stretching a line in the Monroe doctrine, which will doubtless in the end bring a long cherished desire. It is after all the old story of the big boy courageous enough to lick the little boy. If all reports are true, Germany regards this country as a joke. As a lady who has just returned from Germany says: "We have been something of a joke to the Germans because of the notes which say nothing in substance and are the same thing over and over again. Everybody laughs at them. You will find them posted, and below them will be printed: 'Another note will be received day after tomorrow.'" But in my judgment the United States is physically and mentally able to give any country that offers her an affront a good trouncing. Our country can build machines to fight in the air, or do submarine work, as thoroughly as can any other country, despite the fact of the seeming evidence of moral weakness.—Just Gone, in the Philadelphia Tribune. PLUG HATS IN CHINA Plug hats were worn in China several centuries before they were worn in Europe and America. The proof of this is found in a pair of life-sized marble statues made to grace the Ming tombs, and recently set up in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The report of the National Art Collections fund, by which the statutes were acquired, says the statutes "represent high civil officials (mandarians), apparently in Korean court dress, one holding out a scroll and the other a casket. Both wear high hats and elaborately embroidered robes." They were taken from China last year and are assigned by experts to the earlier half of the Ming dynasty, about the fifteenth century of our era. Similar figures adorn the celebrated avenues of the graves of the emperors at Changjiang and of the other royal tombs near Nanking.—New York World. Mr. Barber was the new clergyman in a parish which held quite a Press. KEY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. VO few horse raisers who had been known to race their stock. He was a very unsophisticated old gentle man and rarely was suspicious of any one. One day one of the Deacons requested that prayers should be offered upon three successive Sundays for Dora Gray, and it was accordingly done. On the fourth Sunday, the Deacon sought out Parson Barber just before the morning service, and told him that the prayer need not be repeated. "Indeed?" queried the pastor, with an expression of anxiety. "I trust Dora's not dead?" "Oh no," came the quick reply, "she's wont!" FIRST VISIT IN 20 YEARS A FATAL ONE. Going into the mines for the first time in twenty years, John Shiner, 35, ot Ashley, was instantly killed when tons of rock caved and completely buried him under the debris. His body was recovered, after searchers had worked all night. Shiner was killed in sight of his brother, whom he was assisting. Shiner, when a boy of 15,worked in the mines, but left that employment after a brief period. He secured a position at the Sugar Notch breaker of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. Having a day off, he went to the Stanton Colliery, operated by the same company, to assist his brother. When the day's work was nearly completed, the roof caved without warning and Shiner was buried. This really happened in New York the other day: Displaced Parent Molly, I find you have been buying three pairs of gloves without my permission. Why did you do it? Miss Molly aged (twelve)—Why, daddy. I was obliged to have some gloves. I hadn't a pair to wear! Displaced Parent It was very wrong of you to buy the gloves without asking either your mother or me about it. Miss Molly Well, never mind, daddy, dear. They won't cost anything. I had them charged! New York Post There was a time when Calais was represented in the English parliament. It was in the reign of Henry VIII. that Calais was granted the right to send its representative to Westminster, and the names of some of its members have been preserved. Its best sitting member, for instance, was one Edmund Peyton, abberman of Calais, London Standard. COCOANUT TRADEPOOR. War is working have with the coconut industry, according to Nick Riplinger, for many years an employee in the Seattle city treasury and for the last nine years a resident of Honduras. In a letter to employees of the treasury here, Riplinger complains that the price of cocoanuts has dropped because of the war from $75 to $80 a thousand to $6 a thousand, and very little demand at even that price. "The war has shot everything in the shape of business into small pieces," Riplinger says, 'and we may have to live on bananas if it continues much longer.' Mollified The Member For Calais. A Southerner And A Negro It has ever been the custom, for some Southern white men to abuse, insult and even strike colored waiters when they have been pleased to do so, but this time honored custom was upset and knocked into a cocked hat, and so was a blustering bullying southerner, at an incident which occurred recently in a dining room where Edward W. Henry is employed as headwaiter. One of the afore aid white southerners became dissatisfied with the service he was getting and when Mr. Henry tried to remedy matters and gratify him, he—with the old time honored custom in mind—was rash enough to call the headwaiter a "nigger" and remarked that he would fix him if he had him down in his home town. But unfortunately for this bully ing, blustering southerner, he happened to be in Mr. Henry's home town and he most likely got the surprise of his life when Henry slapped him square in the face and knocked him down. The most gratifying feature of the incident is that the proprietor of the place upheld his headwaiter, only remarking that Henry should have given the dumb founded southerner more of the same kind. It is safe to presume that the word "nigger" will be left out of this white man's vocabulary, at least while he is up in this section of the country. Philadelphia Tribune. ECONOMY A POSSESSION TOO FEW HAVE. A sort of paradox is the fact that thousands of people who make no effort to save a dollar when times are highly prosperous will develop and practice economy when work and opportunity are less plentiful, writes H. H. Windsor in Popular Mechanics. The best way, of course, is to try and save at least a little all the time, putting by a larger amount when earnings are at their height. As a nation we are not taught that economy which makes Finance the banker of the world, and whose accumulation come not from the vast exports of natural resources, but from the combined small savings, consistently continued year after year, by the French people as a whole. If the people of this country would save during the year 1915 an average of $10 per capita, the grand total at the end of the first twelve months would be the magnificent sum of one billion dollars. The French save, partly because it has become hereditary and chiefly because the children are brought up that way and are taught the dignity of accumulation. We, on the contrary, in a spirit of false pride, are inclined to scorn the necessity of saving, as though it were something of which to be ashamed. If our present experiences shall teach us thrift, it will be a strengthening of a great national weakness. NO. 28. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matters. J. H. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. Some folks have begun a new thing in the canning line—the contents is whiskey, not fruit. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. —W. Drummond. Earth's big men and women are little in their own estimation, but those whose heads hold the wisdom of everything, and then to be full, must be crammed with prejudice, are human thorns that the fire of hell will live on. A certain big "I am" of Berkeley County hopes to homeswoggle the citizens into voting once more for him, but rest assured he'll get a stiff knockout blow. Never will anyone have to hold his ear to the ground to get the sentiment of his friends(?) for it is in the air. The world's record in stenography and typewriting is held by a colored lady, in spite of allegations that as a people we lack in grey of brain. Keep acoming sisters, for we are a new issue diffused through and through with the world's best blood, and its bound to tell, because it is in giant bodies. True as 2 and 2 are 4—in the face of all the praise for Mr. Wilson's wise action in keeping war down, we are closer to the break for it than ever before. War is inevitable, and we may as well get ready for it, for come it will, and fight we must. Cowards are always imposed on, braves respected. It seems to be a foregone conclusion, and time is proving it, that flies and mosquitoes are among the worst causes of many deadly diseases. In addition to a free use of fly swatters, every family in the United States ought to be given a carton of fly paper early next spring and advised how to use them. To have a good knowledge of language, history, geography, botany, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, is of some importance, but far more so is the knowledge that all true success in life depends on integrity that everything good comes to those who love and practice the golden rule. It has struck back like an adder. For years, many of the Western States absolutely refused Japanese the right to own land. Now that the Minnesota has been sold to England, and will no longer sail on the Pacific ocean, the Westerners who want to cross that ocean, are compelled to sail on Japanese ships or stay home. It certainly is a very serious lesson for American prejudice. The time is rapidly approaching when everything colored with man-hatred will act as a deadly boomerang. The Minnesota should never have been sold, and would not, had not President Wilson insisted on the seamen's bill which he signed and fathered. Hypocrisy and deceit are only forms of debility, mental imbecility and bodily disease and that the knowledge and ability to perform useful, honest labor of any kind is of infinitely more importance and value than all the so called culture of the schools which too often turn out nervous pedantic victims. If the shouting christians can explain to us why their cups get so full and run over on Sundays in church, while their boys are out on the hills or under bushes playing crap or cards, it will relieve the tension of our mind. Why not take them to church with you, and better still, why not shout every day in reality in your own homes, and teach the children to do well what they'll have to do when men and women. O! ye hypocrites! Colored people, as well as people of other races, will be glad to learn that the celebrated "Hoosier poet," James Whitecomb Riley, who was paralyzed some four or five years ago, is nearly himself again. If we remember rightly, and we don't think we are in error, the noted Riley was a great friend, and gave much encouragement to our late lamented poetical genius, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and he is always a friend to those who need him. May he live long, and continue to write his inimitable verses is the wish of the Pioneer Press. --- S. W. Kent Miller is the jolliest, finest and best automobile man in Martinsburg. He knows the inside workings of a car as well as a fine clock maker does the works and parts of a clock. To do work well, and give satisfaction is his supreme delight. No wonder his immense garage is packed with cars, and his workmen always busy. Those who go there once will never cease to talk of S. W. Kent Miller and the good work he has done by the best of mechanics, working under Mr. Bovey, an expert mechanic, who has worked in some of the best factories in America—and Martinsburg is grateful for the whole concern. You are right. Kill it dead as Hector. The absurdity of a railroad company compelling American citizens to ride in stinking parts of cars, where roughs may drink, curse and smoke, and the finest ladies be subjected thereto, and that in the state of West Virginia. It is and has been done by the Norfolk and Western, for years, and by allowing it, it has gone a step further and built "a nigger waiting room" in Shepherdstown and Charles Town. Not only petition the Public Service Commission, but refuse to go into the provided pigpens, and the slave-huts at either station above named, and if you are forced in the huts or stinking apartments of cars, come to us, and we'll fight your cases free of charge. Through the courtesy of Lieut. Colonel James J. Healy, we received a booklet giving a brief history of the famous Healy family. No other, except the Lane family, can go down the annals of history in more glory. Loyal and patriotic; energetic and honest; heroic and lion-like in fights for right and with it all—gentle and simple—attributes that attract the Son of God to mankind. When the Hons. John J. Healy and Daniel, his brother died, Chicago was a mourner, and at the death of Mrs. Curtin, the Courts of Chicago were draped. They have all lived to help others do well here, that they may do better hereafter. The editor is delighted that he was taken when a lad, loved, cared for and schooled by the Lanes and VIOLA SCHOTTISCHE A Beautiful Dance Played by SOUSA'S CELEBRATED MILITARY BAND. Healys, no boy ever had a more painstaking,tender and loving father, than Capt. John J. Healy was to him-color cut no figure-for we were one of the family here and hope to be reunited hereafter. As it doesn't pay to keep a cow that gives a pail of milk and kicks it over, it doesn't pay to accept and endorse a speaker whose speech takes on the same fault. Dr. J.W. E. Bowen can be called an educated person, but his "Play Ball" talk delivered here the evening of Sept. 7, was on Booker T. Washington's toadyism to get the South's endorsement. We would have Mr. Bowen to understand that manhood is greater than education, and that our peoples' worst foes are among the educated in letters who lack manhood. The lack of it, with such lettered characters, always gets the upper hand of them when speaking to their own color, if whites are present, to say things to please them. If they only knew what fair minded white people think of them, they would stop it. The whites who listened to Dr. Bowen, were manly men and womanly women, and would not have endorsed such a speech relative to them, by a white man, without criticism. To create laughter, he referred to the Negro's thick lips, broad nostrils and eculiar head. He took the ground that slavery was necessary to make the Negroes good citizens. To prove it, as he thought, he compared them to the Indian, whom he declares is rapidly passing away before the march of civilization. God may cause curses to bring on blessings, but, to make children, then see his weakness, and then enforce slavery to complete his word, is a God we would hate, and could have no love for. He made the white man a tall giant, and by his side he stood a Negro, and compared him to a baby and tried to impress them that they should not expect so and so from such weaklings - that a thousand years toil on our part "might" make us men. Does the Dr. forget that new seed keep the old alive? Was he talking to the best class of patriotic Americans or not? Let see? Had his hearers thick ups receding heads and flat noses? No. They were of all classes of men, and the very type that is to keep humanity going upward. The African at home is the finest type for kindness, devotion and honesty on earth. These are the essential qualities that make a noble civilization, and the fellow who tries to force on us that the lash, huddled together as hogs, no regard for virtue and the sale of the master's own sons and daughters are God's decrees to make high civilization is to us, contemptible. A NOTABLE OCCASION One of the largest crowds gathered on Monday the 6th at the corner stone laying of Asbury M. E. Church, on the corner of 11th and K. Streets, N. W., that I have had the pleasure to witness in a long time. The officiating clergymen selected for the service were W. A. C. Hughes, District Supt., and Rev. M. W. Clair, pastor in charge. The cornerstone sermon was deliv ered on Sunday preceding the excises proper, by Rev. N. M. Carroll, of Baltimore, his subject being, "Behold I Lay in Zion a Foundation, a Chief Corner Stone." The Grand Lodge of Masons had charge of the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the stone, and Grand Master Weatherless, of the District of Columbia, was the directing head of the affair. There were about five hundred masons in line, and they made a beautiful appearance as they were led by the Howard University Cornet Band on 19th street to the church. Fully five thousand people witnessed the ceremony, and among all of that number I did not see a single white person, although I have been informed that the Chief of Police was present. Just think of it, an occasion like that, in the great city of Washington, where all are boasting about Christianity. I do not know whose fault it is, but it looks bad to me. N. G. Washington, D. C Sign For a Dog. "Ive bought a dentlog," said Parsniff to his friend Lessup, "and I want a motto to put over his kennel. Can you think of one?" "Why not use a dentist's sign, 'Teeth Inserted Here?'" suggested Lessup-Kansas City Star. WANTED---A colored woman for first class boarding house, to cook and help generally. Good wages and room furnished. Also want two colored girls to do waiting or help in dining room and do light chambermaid work. Write or come right to work Walter Hartgrove, Jefferson House, Shenandoah Junction, W. Va. TRIO. grazioso. mf D. C. LOCAL NOTES Rev. Carter is back home after an extensive trip to points in Ohio and reports a pleasant trip. Mrs. Janie Bennett, of Hagerstown, is visiting her parents for a few days. She looks well, and friends are glad to see her. After spending a number of months in Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Sallie Sampson is again occupying her apartments on Samuel Street. Mrs. Christena Smith, well known to practically all the older citizens of our town, and a woman of great energy, has been sick for a week or more. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. A. C. Perry, well known market man and farmer, is bringing some good things to eat to our city at this time. His good wife is a hustler just like he is, and when he don't come to town marketing she does. Mrs. James Roman, of Charles Street, was a visitor to Berkeley Springs for a few days recently. While there she was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson. She says that these two hustling young people made her stay a very enjoyable one. While en route to his home in this city on last Saturday, Henry Whittaker was dangerously stabbed by a vicious Negro who wanted his victim to give him a drink of whiskey. After stabbing Whittaker, his would-be-murder escaped, left him bleeding profusely, and he would doubtless have died from loss of blood, had he not been taken from the freight train on which he was riding, and hurried to the hospital when he reached here. An automobile party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Williams, Mr. Dave Saunders, Mr. John Spriggs Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Clifford, motored to Martinsburg from Mechanicsburg, Pa., Sunday last, and spent half of the day here. On the return journey they stopped over in Hagerstown, where they remained until near midnight, making the final lap of their journey, sixty-six miles, by five minutes of three on Monday morning. Mr. Saunders was at the wheel, and being a very careful driver, the trip of nearly two hundred miles was covered without a mishap of any kind, a fact greatly to his credit. A NEW DEPARTURE. The North American is going to make a new departure in picture supplements by issuing with its edition of September 19 a wonder- fully artistic photogravure print entitled "Family Cares." This is a picture which will appeal to every lover of children and every one who is interested in child life. It represents a little girl clad in her nightie going downstairs with a sick pet. The expression on the child's face shows the real trouble with which her soul is burdened. It is the work of a master artist, and will find instant favor with North American readers. The North American picture policy, which will be followed for several weeks to come, is based upon the idea that a picture worth preservation should be issued in such form as will allow it to be preserved. The print of "Family Cares" is on handsome heavy paper. It is done in the best style of the photogravure art and is ready for framing. It is worthy of a place on the wall of any home. The Stuart Penny A pamphlet published in 1677, entitled "The Worth of a Penny, or, a Caution to Keep Money, With the Causes of the Scarcity and Misery of the Winn Thereof In These Hard and Mercelless Times," contains a list of articles obtainable for a penny in the days of Charles II. These include "a dish of coffee to quicken your stomach and refresh your spirits," "a fair encumber" and "portions of such commodities as nuts, vinegar, grapes, cake, orices and oatmeal." The catalogue of penny worths obtainable at an apothecary's is a lengthy one and includes "lettuce to make you sleep, mithridate to make you sweat and aniseed, which may save your life in a fainting or swound."—London Mirror. 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There was a certain college professor of machine design who was as original in his views as he was able in his subject. One of his pet theories was the interrelation between nature and correct design. "Boys," he would say, "there has been only one designer who never made a mistake, and the more we study his work the better machines we will build. When you put logs under a machine think of a horse or a cow, and get them as far apart as you can. Don't get too much overhang at either end. "And, speaking of a counterbalance, study the kangaroo. There is no prettier example of equilibrium in all positions. The further over he leans the more his tail comes into action off the ground. And again, in speaking of general design, wherever possible, try to work for elasticity as against rigidity. You find very little of the rigid in nature, and little trees often survive a gate by bending, where big ones are blown down." 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