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Department of Archives, Ch 2021 W. Va. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOKED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- K. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,50. 6 months.....75c. 9 months.....40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1911 Excuse this half sheet and its being late-sickness and death are the cause. "Frank" It will be thirty years March 2, 1912 since the Pioneer Press was started. Then wife and self tried to do the work,at times staying up all night. When our children were able to work they took to printing like ducks to water. This is the first time in twenty-five years that all the work of getting the paper out fell on us. It is because our eldest son and foreman's only son—Frank—is asleep in the icy arms of death at the age of almost 8 years, being the youngest of our printing force, and in whose hands "grandpa" had hoped the Pioneer Press would be some future day, but the hope is blighted, and our interest is greater over the river of life. Delicate little form; affectionate looks and smiles; sweet tones of voice; anxiety to please, and patience in sickness, have made you a model in memory for life, and may we feel thy presence for ever, is our good bye wish—happy in the divine admonition; "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven;" for truly, 'Life is a disease, of which sleep is an alleviation, and death the only cure,'—earthly. That we have without any mental strain, relative to the Ulrich-Washington affair, filtered the truth from the dregs and scum in which it was intermingled, we feel that every decent loving being sees. However, when we get a little more time, we desire to pour a little soothing lotion on the wounds of our friend, Prof. Kelly Miller. Had the Republican State Committee been thoroughly and honestly changed by a unific effort for good, it would be useless for the democratic to harness up the best men they have to achieve victory, but as it is, it is six to one, and a half dozen to the other which will win—with a shadow of odds in favor of democracy. What does Mr. B. T. Washington, mean by sending to editors a week behind time his rehash of the increase and decrease of Negroes here and there? We had the original a week before Mr. Washington took the facts reprinted them and resent them, credited to him himself. When will the big(?) men of our peculiar colors conclude that Negro editors, have common sense same as white ones? Religion is no longer a something too sacred to submit to investigation as to what it really is. We believe its intrinsic worth and purpose have been as much in the dark, as has been electricity and that as wonders are coming from a knowledge of that heretofore mystery, so will wonders follow a better understanding of religion—for as electricity is part of the earth, so is religion a part of the make up of a man, and it is only as necessary to awaken it in him, as it is for him to harness electricity. Reduced Rates to Curbs Send for Sample Copies This heretofore very much perturbed country over the ultimate domination of the Negroes, has, since the taking of the last census, simmered down to a normal state of mind, and says "there is no Negro problem," based on the ground that they are dying off. The rapid death rate of the real Negroes is true, but it is in the color and not the life. Millions of Negroes are passing for white and millions more are getting ready to do so. It would not be so, if all the American whites were like Messrs. Andrew Carnegie and President Baldwin, who are in favor of them having all the legal and civil rights that white men possess on the same terms. Thrashed a Conductor. This Negro bubbub is cutting a dido in this land of the free and home of the brave. A certain New York firm for years has been selling its goods from the lakes to the Gulf and from ocean to ocean. To do it successfully, it is necessary for the drummer man to have with him a French interpreter which fell to the lot of a finely educated French lady, who has been going the rounds with Mr. A. for the past five years. However, a short time ago, a railroad conductor near Patersburg, Virginia, attempted to jimcrow this interpreter, whom he said was a nigger. The drummer tried to reason with him to the contrary, but it only seemed to aggravate the judge of color who not only cursed the drummer but said he would put him off. Seeing no reason could be talked into his prejudiced bead, the drummer arose and thumped him. It is said he was terribly beaten. Reaching Petersburg they were arrested. The drummer phoned to a firm he had been selling for, explaining the matter, and the proprietor came to his aid, went his bail and they went on to New York for data as to her French birth, color, refinement and scholarly attainments. We have not learned the result of the trial, but feel sure they won a glorious victory, and that Mr. Conductor will not be so flip the next time to insult a woman on the ground of being a "nigger." Anecdotal Literature A certain wholesale clothier had fifty overcoats he couldn't get rid of. A business man gave him the following advice: "Mark them down 50 per cent. Then select ten customers, and send each five coats, with a bill for only four. They will be so tickled to think they have done you out of a coat, that they'll keep the lot.' So he followed his friend's advice, but in a few days he 'phoned to his friend: "Say, I'd like to kill you. You got me into a nice mess about those coats." "Why, didn't the scheme work?" "Work? I should say it didn't." Those ten customers held on to the fifth coat that hadn't been billed, and threw the others back on my hands," ECONOMY AND EXTRAVAGANCE. Miss Eleanor Sears, the fliance of Harold Vanderbilt, when in Boston, contemplated the purchase of a Bleriot monoplane equipped with a 100 horsepower motor. A friend ventured to lay before her the extravagant cost of aviation; whereupon she epigrammatically replied: "Well, I like extravagance. Economy, anybow, is only a way of spending money without getting any fun BY W. G. IT DIDN'T WORK. out of it." JUST A BITE. A fisherman had returned from a long, weary, unsuccessful fishing trip. A dog ran across the road barking fiercely at him. "Aren't you afraid he'll attack you?' asked a friend. "I wish he would," replied the fisherman, "I'd take almost any kind of a chance to be able to go home and say, I've had just one bite." CHILLY. Smith—"My dining room is the hottest place on earth. I don't know to cool it." Brown—"Take a friend home to dinner when your wife didn't expect it." \* \* Walter was the important witness and one of the lawyers, after cross questioning him severely said: "Your father has been talking to you and telling you how to testify, hasn't he?" "Yes," said the boy. "Now," said the lawyer; "just tell me how your father told you to testify." "Well," said the boy modestly, "father told me that the lawyers would try to tangle me, but if I would be careful and tell the truth, I could tell the same thing every time." The lawyer didn't try to tangle the boy any more. JOHN ADAMS' FRANKNESS After the close of the Revolutionary war John Adams was sent as the first Minister of the United States to the court of St. James. When he appeared before the King it was a memorable scene. After a few words in regard to his mission, Adams expressed a hope that "the good old humor" might be restored between the branches of the Anglo Saxon family. The King listened with respect and dignity. He was never accounted a good speaker, but there was pathos, manliness and a touch of eloquence in his reply. With a tremor in his voice, and with long pauses between the clauses of his sentences, he said, "I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do my duty to my people, I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having become inevitable, I have always said, and I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power." FOOD ADULTERATIONS. The board of food and drug in spectors at Washington last week published a list of twenty-three judgments obtained for violations of the pure food law. Some interesting facts can be gathered from this list. Five makers of food products were indicted and fined because of presence of putrid animal matter in their products. One case of Mocha and Java coffee was found to contain no Mocha and Java beans. Six milk dealers overwatered their milk One maker of cattle food misbraided the same. A mineral lithia water contained only a small amount of lithia. An American cheese maker was fined for branding his product "imported cheese." An American maker of macaroni suffered for the same offense. Several American wine makers attempted to sell "French champagne" that had never been in France. There is of course, a broad difference between selling impure food and selling food that may be pure barbelfess, under a false label. 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