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Department of Archives THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice. Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869..... Bell Phone 1013 SATURDAY FEB. 17. 1917. Being sick, it is impossible to get out more than a half sheet this week, and if feelings are safe to keep on it is doubtful what next week will bring forth. We have helped to clear the forests, till the fields, build the cities and defend the flag, and we have won the right by 300 years of service to live here. And not only to live here, but to enjoy the fruit of our labors on an equality with other citizens. According to statistics there are now 700,000 ministers of the Christian religion—would-be interpreter of Him who said: "One is our father, even God, and all ye are brethren." We are waiting for these ministers to put into practice their preachments about the brotherhood of man. Relative to the conglomerated exceptions taken by "Observer" in "Evangelist" Summerville's paper, the "Vigil," we've nothing to say, for it has been our long standing rule—to keep as far from a certain little bushy tailed animal as possible—Selah. They talk about the Negro problem. Theorists have been trying to solve the problem with the pen; that is the solution of ink. The Negro is solving the problem with hand and brain and implements; that is the solution of fact. And if there is any problem, it becomes the less by all the dollars we accumulate, all the education we acquire, and all the character we develop. We agree in toto with editor Cannady of the Portland Oregon Advocate, relative to decent Negro preachers going to new charges. He thinks they should take the Bible in one hand, and a club in the other. And there ought to be enough decent members in every church with clubs to belabor every dirty, nincompoop Negro preacher who goes to them. The Douglass birthday combustion and spectacular demonstrations are over. May we prove they were mere shaven-fires? The Douglass Homestead is in debt only a few thousand dollars—twenty will pay it off. It has been in debt and danger for more than twenty years. Was there a dollar raised and sent to Washington to help pay off the debt? Until that place is freed of debt and a sinking fund planned to protect it for all time to come, no more yearly celebrations should be held. There are less than four million Irishmen in America. Nearly fifteen million Negroes. A short while ago the Catholic University wanted ten million dollars. In less than one year every dollar was raised. Why can't we do likewise? Our weakness is: we talk too much, and do too little. If every man, woman and child would give one penny, it would pay off the debt and leave eighty-thousand dollars to take care of the homestead. Whynot try it? If war comes with Germany or with Japan, there is no need to ask what part the Negro would play. A glance backward through the pages of history shows that he always played his part and played it well. There were the colored soldiers who fought under Braddock, away back in the French and Indian War. There were the 3,000 black men who served in the American army during the Revolution. There was the War of 1812, when black men figured largely in the army and navy, and led the great Commodore Perry officially to praise their conduct and extol their bravery, and called forth this testimony: "It will be conceded that almost the only martial glory acquired by the Americans was acquired by the navy; and it will be conceded also that a large proportion of the fighting men of the navy were Negroes." Then in the dreadful Civil War, 200,000 colored men were regularly enlisted in the federal conduction by their general conduct and bearing in battle. In the more recent Spanish-American War, colored men were not only willing but eager to enlist, and in addition to the colored regulars, several regiments of immigrants went into commission, and by their bravery and dash led Col. Roosevelt to say that their conduct reflected honor on the whole American people. Then there is the present Mexican affair, with our punitive expedition, and the fact that in the only pitched battle between the Mexican and United States armies, the only soldiers who fought were the Negro soldiers of the famous Tenth Cavalry. The Negro has borne his part and borne it well; and that colored soldiers are as brave, disciplined and efficient as white is proved by the records of history and the testimony of military leaders. Besides many individual black men have distinguished themselves in arms—like Gen. Dumas who commanded Napoleon's cavalry in the Egyptian expedition, and Gen. Dodds another black officer in the French army, and Henry Diaz who at one time commanded the army of Brazil, and Crispus Attucks who raised the first musket and struck the first blow in the American Revolution, and Peter Salem who is credited with having killed the British commander, Major Pitcairn at Bunker Hill, and Gen. Maceo the genius of Cuba's struggle for freedom, and Villa, the wity, slippery racalhom the whole United States army could not catch. What a country! Rumor has it, that up in Maine twenty-eight thousand barrels of potatoes were burned the first of this week, and that Michigan has millions of bushels for sale. In this neck of the woods they are 52,600 a bushel. Onions 10 cents a pound and cabbage 10 and 12 cents a pound; eggs and butter 40 and 45. Abuse of the conditions will do no good. The all important lesson to learn is plain to everybody-produce for your own consumption or出售给别人. When a boy, every boy in a house of cabbage, beets and tomato plants growing within the house. They sowed onion-seed and had their own sets ready for early planting, and whenever a good variety of all or anything was grown, its seed was saved. Plant a good head of cabbage, on its stalk to get seed. Beets, onions, &c. will give you seed of their kind. A peek of navy beans, two bushels of potatoes planted in good soil and well cultivated, will produce enough to last a large family for a year. ```markdown ``` Of all the forces that drive mankind, the greatest is personal influence. By personal influence we mean that force which goes out from you because of what you are. It has nothing to do with what you say. "What you say you are makes so much noise. I cannot hear what you are," said Emerson; which is only a striking way of saying that your personal influence speaks more eloquently than your talk. It is doubtful why her any real good was ever hone by more talking. All the moral maxims in the world are poor and weak alongside of one good deed. Words are dead and wooden unless they become a part of your life; then they have and begin to work in othersmen. In other words, the only way to improve the race is to be something that inspires your fellows; your argument and plea are of little use. But de contagious. We mustate then when we have it, we "give it." 1. A great herooged class is a personnel inservice organization. It is liable to break out in revolution—the most likely be on war. In reaction is naturally to be expected—as naturally as explosion follows touching fire to gunpowders. The beast or devil in man will break out and do so work. But the Negro has not risen in insurrection against the tyranny and injustice heaped upon him, is not because he is a coward, but because he lacks a leader. Let such a leader arise, with a strong will, an unselfish purpose and an utter disregard for his own fate, and he could lead this great race into a revolution that would shake this Republic to its foundation. --- If this country and Japan get in war, the sole cause will be on account of color prejudice: Fifty that climate, or the sun that gives light and heat to all living souls alike, should cause a hatred among the one-blood family that can only be satisfied by a world wide slaughter of human beings. It is segregation new, but when this war comes, mark our word, there will be a union of tears, with all classes and colors on bended knees in supplication to a throne of grace, far more hallowed than that sad picture on Knob hill, Sunday, after the San Francisco earthquake. The community will sadly miss the eloquence and teachings of Rev. Dr. F. F. Martyn. JUDGE ROSALIEY ADMINISTERS DESERVED REBUKE TO PREJUDICED JUROK. A graduate of Yale (God save the mark!) drawn for duty as a juror in Judge Rosalsky's court said he could not give the defendant, a Negro, a fair trial because he was prejudiced against the black race. Judge Rosalsky righteously indignant, replied: Any man with such a be disqualified from jury jury. I shall order that your name be stricken from the list. I will make no promises to sit in jury 席 or a court before in a case involving a suit or for a jury who has been guilty and a court will suit against you to serve as a juror. Judge Koehl might have added that such a man was not fit to vote. His name ought to be stricken from the citizenship list as well as the jury list. There should be no way to punish them or his state, who either are unfit to be nature to serve as jurors or profess such unfitness as in the obligations that go with citizenship.—New York Globe. When God made the Plains. In pioneer days the railroads crossing the plains were often delayed for many hours by buffaloes. In 1871 and 1872 trains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad were charged by the entire beasts, cars were deferred and returned and the lives of the crowds and passeurs endangered. Many tales of buffaloes encamped were recorded by small parties of soldiers, fromPersian and engrants, and it is possible that many an emigrant wagon with its occupants that left the Missouri river and was never seen again was overwhelmed by the buffaloes rather than wiped out of existence by the buffaloes, whose all unexplained disarrangements are attributable, many of which buffaloes killed 1,000 portraits of animals and cows weighed in the near school of 1,200 pounds, herds numbering many thousands were heavily trotted and end in a stampede arrested before them. The Senaturs Stream For many years there served in the United States Senate a map of brilliant mind and true quality, but who was foregoing away with whom he is intended to be friendly by reason of his naturally savage manners of speech and action, since an intimate friend wrote the senator urging the appointment of another friend to a minor position in the government. The senator returned a most arresting reply, describing the appointment it is said that he never forgot the modified retina, he served from the time who had urged him to do so. Now these standards I think it would be worth not only to preserve your own work but to preserve your own knowledge of your enemies, instead of offering it to the deceiving number of your friends, of whom I am one. Net In Any Dictionary Truth—A lie that boasts plausible enough until its illuminated value is gone. Genius—The instinct to nobility in its most highly evolved form. Wise—A kind of lightning that always reads petrified tree stumps. Optimist—A man who doesn't know there is a brains peel waiting for him around every corner and who believes anyhow that banana peels are all for the best. Pack. Title of Courtesy Only Friend of the Family—William, can it be possible that I heard you say, 'Hello, governor!' to your Father? William—Yes; it pleases poor old dad. You see, he never really has any say in anything at home. Mother's the real executive.—London: Stray Stories. NOT AN EIGHT HOUR DAY. Recent Hold up Legislation Does Not Shot on Workday a Minute. As a matter of fact, it is not an eight hour law at all. It does not curtail the trainmen's work day by a single minute. If an engineer has been receiving $5 for workhours ten hours a day this law will raise his pay to $625, but it will not shorten his work day even the tenth part of a second. This is no more like the true eight hour principle than elk is like cheese. The reason why people call this or eight hour law is because the laws that the case of gall road arrests the will get theirs as a reward for their eight hours, owe all the rest is we are red overtime. Do not tell me that this strike could not have been called off or postponed if President Wilson had shown that he meant bus- ness. I do not for one minute believe that those four broth- hood leaders started the blaze going will not knowing how to put it on. One of them admi- ted that he could put it out so for his his own brotherhood was concerned, but that his followe- er would think that he had gone back to them if he were to do so. —Statement of Congressman A. P. Gardner. "About the current-Milton Courier." "In the past and after with me at it." "May I courier twice some of them for you be said. "How'd you like to take me as a detective?"—Louisville Courier-Journal. Exactly. "The majority of enlightens begin here the day." "We most of them — Baltimore, American." All enough life be sure you put your feet in the right place and then stand firm.—Lincoln. Wisdom is a priceless possession. NAMING A CITY. How It Camp About That Sedalia Was Net Culted Sedville. The city of Sedalia was both founded and named by General George R. Smith, who was a distinguished citizen of Missouri. He was a Virginian by birth and a Kentuckian by upbringing. With a young man he came to Missouri and Sedalia, at Georgetown, which is three miles north of the present city of Sedalia. He was prominent both in politics and business and was instrumental in the building of the Missouri Pacific railway from St. Louis to Kansas City during the fifties of the last century. It could not induce his fellow township to unite the necessary effort to have the railway pass through Georgetown, and, believing that that would condemn the village to decay, he bought a large tract of land beside the railway tracks and laid out a town site there, from which, in course of time, has grown the flourishing city of Secaida. When it came to furnishing a name for the new settlement General Smith determined to christen it Sedville, in honor of his younger daughter Sarah, whose pet name in the family circle was "Sedk." One of his friends, Josiah Dent of St. Louis, suggested that "ville" was a commonplace termination and that Sedalia would be a more beautiful and unusual name. General St. Clare, loved of the suggestion, and sedalia, so politically into being when he and his family, the nets, inhabitants of the new town, moved thither in 1830, Youth Companion. An interesting Illusion A curious and interesting effect may be produced in the following simple manner. Take a sheet of paper or thin cardboard about five inches square and roll it into a tube with one end just large enough to of around the eye and the other end double what smaller. Hold the tube between the thumb and first finger of the right hand—do not grasp the tube with the whole hand—and place the larger end of the tube close inside the right eye. With the left hand place a book against the side of the tube. If both eyes are now kept open there will appear to be a hole through the book, and it will appear that objects are seen through this hole and not through the tube. The effect is even more odd if the left hand instead of a book is held against the tube, when the hole will appear through the center of the band. Tombstone to a Fish In the little village of Blockley, in South Worcestershire, stands a picturesque little dwelling named Fish Cottage. Enter its garden and you will find what is probably the only tombstone ever erected to the memory of a fish. The inscription, with its quadnt punctuation, reads as follows: IN MEMORY OF THE OLD FISH. the old toddler fish, do he. it waters, he lived then, did, died he was to bear, you, understand he would come and eat out of our hand d, come and out, out, of, our hand Died April the 20th, 1855. On to Him. Rowneder—my dear, it was, of course, behiness that denied me till midnight. Mrs. Rowneder. Yes. Rowneder—You know I wouldn't deceive you. Mrs. Rowneder—No, Charlie, you wouldn't deceive me, no matter what you said. New York Times. Safo. Turtlebub—Why have you never married. Sinclairton—Woof, the women have always regarded me as an unfortunate fellow who wasn't bad enough to need reforming or good enough to make a desirable husband.—Life. Started Early. He-When old she begin to fear that he had married her for her money! She-Well. I believe her suspicions were first aroused when she had to pay the minister. London Telegraph. Graba and Toads While crab are known to have lived for half a century, the average life of the oyster is but four years. Frogs die sooner than toads, as the latter may live for thirty-six years. Limited Liability. in this paper in one of our large offices contained the following unique matter. After this date I will not be responsible for any bills except those contracted by any other than myself. John F. M.—Cruse and Comment. in a University in work in Marin. 1818. and found utility. Different Now. New York had 150 watchmen in 1811, and in the same year Philadelphia had forty. Real friends are few. Mrs. Lillie Carter, who has been quite sick is slowly improving. Miss Lucinda Fox is visiting relatives and friends in Steelton, Po. Mr. Jack Jones is erecting a fine and commodious dwelling house on amucl St. Progress of the right port. Mrs. Mary Moody, of Harrisburg, a., is in our city this week attending to business and seeing friends. He looks well and says she is enjoying her share of life's blessings. Mrs. Susan Willis, widow of the late James Willis, was buried fromft. Zion M. B. church M. publy st, Rev. S. H. Norwooll. pastor, dieciating. Mrs. Willis was highly expected in this community, and had been a member for many years the Church from which her funerals was held. Mrs. Willis is survived by one daughter and a number of grandchildren who have our empathy in their sadness. Mrs. Linda Grace well known all Martinborough residents in this district Mrs. Lillian Lewis, of Newport, WV, manufacturer of Sun Glow, a tool to a realization of woman's glory, a xurient and beautiful growth of ir. Mrs. Hogsett is also representative of the Logan Fabric Co., makers of beits and other health pliances, necessary to a hale and arty constitution. Number 2056. Spring St., and hints from 11 1:30. OWARD FIFTY YEARS (1920). niversity to Celebrate Colon Anniversary With a Re-Union Of Its Graduates. Trustees of Howard University to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the institution with a Sociological Conference, at which addresses and reports will be made by some of the most distinguished sociologists, teachers and leaders of the color race; and also with a Re Union in church 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, of the unni, many of whom will probably remain in Washington for the inauguration on March 5th. Advance figure from the official program of the Anniversary show at the University as graduated 01 students since 1867, including 00 doctors, 844 teachers and teachers, 774 lawyer 423 ministers, dentists, 264 pharmacists, 703 in the Academy, and all other partments 362. 1. bigst Mail Order House on its kind in America. kinds of Toilet Articles for sale. man Hair Goods of the finest quality. 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Says the Public Teacher: The placing of unusual restrictions upon the granting of license transfers to reputable subkeepers whose places of business have been wiped out by the Porkway Improvement would be unfair, according to Dr. Clarence Gibbons, president of the Law and Order Society, who said to this effect would have been guilty by Mr. Gibbons as the official minister on the License Court. If the ruling of the court is carried out these laws holding will have to petition for the court to be appointed in the immediate vicinity of that, former establishments. "Square Load for Saloorists." "While I am pleased with the action taken by the court, I would Mr. Gibboney, it is above all in favor of a square deck. 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