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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESA3[S I D 1 882. From Far-Off South America Dear Editor:—You will undoubtedly remember that I have said some things within the last 18 or 20 months which would appear decidedly radical, but I knew then as I know now, that time and just a bit of observation would most surely teach you all how very tame and rational my utterances were and are now according to the occasion. I am compelled to wonder if time and experience have taught the American colored people how very careful they must be in allowing any one man to represent them as a whole? Or in other words, have you all yet been able to realize the damnableness of Dr. Booker T Washington's leadership? Or have you been awakened to the dangers of any one horse leadership for a people of more than 10,000,000 in number, and whose relative position in universal politics is so singular as to be called unique. I can not remember ever reading in history anything approaching the social and political conditions of the American Negroes, and more especially when we remember the effect his every move is having on his brother race man in all parts of the world, aside from the unparalleled suffering that you are undergoing at home. This is a question greater than that with which Moses and the Jews were involved. The world must be much different by its ultimate results, and yet some of you seem to think it a light thing for one man to take you all into a sure heaven. I tell you sire, that the world holds no record of a man who is capable of handling this problem, and I speak after much reflection. When I look back upon the hellishness resulting from those Washington, (Booker'e) theories, which nearly all of the enlightened of the race agreed to as the most reasonable solution of the badly complexed problem, I am moved to say with boldness that the Negroes cannot afford to trust their future in the hands of no living man either their or any other race. I do not advise you to even trust it into the hands of God until every means has been exhausted upon your own part. There are but few, if any among you who thoroughly appreciate the gravity of your social condition. Washington's segregation theory was argued with such deft cunning that even today your best men are mystified with what they call advantages from compulsory race division. You can easily count what you have, and see whether or not it was gained by this cursed clandestineness. But what you have lost by it and are still loosing is far beyond your best calculation. And when this wizard annually gives out in figures what you have accumulated since 1865 you are much pleased with the results, and are satisfied to say that had you been granted equal rights you would not have had so much. I am persuaded to believe, however, that counting all you have you lost a life by the lynch domination for every hundred thousand dollars possessed by the blacks in America. If you were equally recognized this whole sum would not pay the damage fees recoverable by the families of the victims alone. Again, you people seem to count your gain without once thinking about what others have gained in the same or much less time. You seem to calculate like that great sage himself who announced that his people from Tuskegee, after graduating are able to earn $600 per annum, while all the rest of the Negroes in America put together only average three hundred dollars per capita. Here is a very good example of his ability at economical comparison, which shows most clearly that in such a case Tuskegee is not a success even against the massees of Negroes. But the greater point would be how would the Tuskegee alumnus compare with that of any other American Institute, white or black, since you are in America and cannot take any other advantage but what is common to America? I am sick at heart at such wonderful men and things. When this "wizard" (as we are taught to recognize him,) manages to go North and beg a few hundred thousand dollars some of your most able men are ready to call him a wonder as a race leader. Cursed be any such leadership where I am concerned. So far I have only talked of what effect you are having generally in the States. But he went far beyond those bounds with his little game and let us go with him to see what good did he bring to his race? If he had gone to learn how some particular thing was done which made those sections successful and famous, he might teach the same art in America; then we should think that it was beneficial. But he brings you a message of how much misery exists among the people in the slums of Europe, a country which affords no comparative possibilities with what can be found anywhere on the American continent. If he was a man who was for social equality under similar conditions we could then take his point in good faith, but it is the other way. This alone should give you some hint of the purpose of his voyage. Why did he not go into Africa, India, China, Japan, or better yet, come South of the United States on this side of the world? Can you believe that he intends to heighten the aspirations and inspirations of the colored people in America? Do you note how he praised your opportunities in the South to those of said parts of Europe? Men, men wake up, for God's sake! That was not all; look what happened shortly after in London, England. DuBois was asked to surrender an invitation previously extended to him by a certain club there. Still later a world's conference was called there to decide how free men should be treated as a race. Cursed be them and their conference. They know very well how they should treat you, but they wanted to know how much you would stand for. That was all. And the representative showed them pretty well what you Americans were ready for. This tells me something about such men as leaders for between ten and twenty millions of people! Now you just take a squint at what is happening to your race in Central America, next door to you. And the game is still going on. Why did the doctor not visit these parts if he really meant to benefit his race? I think Continued on second page. The Progressive Candidate Gains A poll was taken recently in the strongest Democratic ward of Richmond, Indiana, the results stood as follows: Prog. Rep Dem Prohi Soc. D'tful 50 40 47 1 15 97 It can be seen from this that the doubtful vote is running very high, although in this Democratic stronghold the progressive vote led all others. The Progressive leaders like nothing better than to work among open minded voters. They have no doubt of the result when once the Bali Moose Platform is really understood. Samuel M. Davis, President of the Federal Voting Machine Co. of Pawtucket R. I. has sent to the Progressive headquarters in New York the result of a straw vote which he is making daily among his employees. The regular voting machine is used in taking this vote. "Col. Roosevelt has led in the voting every day," writes Mr. Davis, and is creating some consternation among the republicans and democrate." The voting on Sept. 10th brought these results: Roosevelt — 172 Taft — 157 Wilson — 127 Debs — 46 Chafin — 37 Here are a few instances of the way that sentiment throughout the country is turning in favor of Col. Roosevelt. These aren't generalities. They are concrete instances. Former District Attorney P. Fred Rothermel, Jr. of Philadelphia came out with a statement this week in which he expresses his reasons for refusing to support Mr. Taft and tells why he has lined up with the Progressives. Mr. Rothermel has been a lifelong Republican, but now he asks this question: "How should the fact that a gross fraud on the part of a handful of political tricksters defeated the will of the party affect its members? Should they stand by these dishonest manipulators of the fraud, and so become parties to it or should they repudiate it?" Robert J. Valentine of Massachusetts, who has been Commissioner of Indian affairs through most of President Taft's administration, resigned his office this week in order to become a member of the Progressive Party. In his statement of resignation he says that even if the Progressive party should be defeated it will carry "the leaven the yeast the true hope of the future" and he adds that he would not leave so important a work as the Indian service if he did not feel a pressing obligation to take part in the larger work on the same lines." T. R. James, a democrat prominent in the ranks near his home at Lucedale, Miss., where he has held the offices of Mayor and Prosecuting Attorney through several terms, has just been elected President of the Progressive Club of Lis town. John M. Cook who has always been a republican was elected vice-president. Walter W. Lewie, whose father was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention, was chosen Secretary. Clubs like this one are being formed in every part of the country by men who find that they cannot reconcile their consciences with the positions of either of the old parties. The way in which one of these clubs was put into operation is described in a message from Stephenville, Tex. A public meeting of voters was held at which it was decided to form a county league of the Progressive party consisting of a central county chairman and secretary, a central committee of one member from each of the thirty voting precincts in the county and a general committee of members of each of the public school districts in the county. The voters of each precinct elected a chairman to organize clubs in each of their school districts. The Bull Moose And The Negro The following communication is sent us by one of the best known men in this country, and is well worth a careful perusal. Some of the colored men who are now opposed to Col. Roosevelt's candidacy and who are occupying Federal positions owe their political prominence in large measure to him, and they might with a great deal of propriety be less vociferous in utterance and less active in action, than some of them appear to be. Not one of these men will honestly declare his belief that Col. Roosevelt is an enemy of the Negro race or that if elected, as he will be, he will do any thing to retard its progress, or to deprive it of any legal or constitutional right belonging to it by virtue of their citizenship. We have no fears whatever of the Roosevelt leadership and we are not prepared to condemn him because he has had the decency and the courage to admit that former political conditions to which he was a party were wrong morally and politically, that leaders in both parties toyed with the Negro while pretending to be his friend and used him for their own benefit—(not nie) and practically forgot him, until they again needed his services. The old conditions kept to the fore a number of political time servers and barnacles who controlled no votes, not even their own; who posed in the limelight quadrennially as race leaders when the white bosses pulled the string and filled their depleted wallets. The Progressives promise to change the system by breaking up this Southern black political trust, to relegate them to the rear, and put new men on guard. Naturally they object, but deep down in their hearts they know that Roosevelt has told the truth about them and their value as political integers. And like the man out of whom Jesus cast the Devil, they want to be let alone. The hour has come and now is, for the Negro in politics to find out whether he is Man or a Monkey. We believe we shall ascertain the fact and to our complete satisfaction under Roosevelt. Therefore we are for Roosevelt and we are proud of it. VOL. 31. NO.29 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. CLERICAL VESTMENT. A Protestant parson in a small town became infected with the desire to introduce a vested choir. But the good parson's knowledge of things ecclesiastical was more limited than his ambition, and he electrified a member of the "Ladies Aid," that she told in their meeting, that the choir would wear "hassocks and bibs." * * HIS WILL. A Philadelphia, on his way to Europe, was experiencing sea-sickness for the first time. Calling his wife to his bedside, he said in a weak voice: "Jenny, my will is in the Commercial Trust Company's care. Everything is left to you, dear. My various stocks you will find in my safe deposit box." Then he said fervently; "And, Jenny, bury me on the other side; I can't stand this trip again, alive or dead." \* \* DIRT PLENTY. A gentleman and a friend strolling through the streets of a suburb of London, met a small boy. The gentleman asked him his age. "Seven," replied the boy. "Oh, you must be more than that." "Seven!" insisted the boy, proudly. Turning to his friend, the gentleman said: "Do you think it possible that he really could have gotten as dirty as that in only seven years?" SLOW. Jack was a very quiet boy, of a studious turn of mind, and for that reason his fond parents apprenticed him to a naturalist. In his new sphere he was willing enough but painfully slow. After giving the canary seed, which occupied him two hours, he said: What will I do now?" "Well," said his master, "I think you may take the tortoise out for a run." THE DEEP PARSON. Three hearers and a celebrated divine were talking in the vestibule after service: First hearer—"We must admit that our parson dives deeper into his subject than any other preacher." Second hearer—"And stays under longer." Third hearer—"And comes up drier." STEEL VERSUS STEAL. Upton Sinclair at a Trust Banquet, smiling, and lifting his glass high, declared: "Gentlemen, this is the age of steel, I drink to it." Then he frowned and added hastily: "Of course the gentlemen of the press in the gallery will understand that I spell the word with a double e. The Pioneer Press AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. B. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21st., 1912 A CHALLENGE The editor of this paper challenges any Negro Taftite—office holders preferred,—meant for Johnson, Tyler, Napier et al; the audience to act the part of a jury, decide which has the better of the contest. And, be it understood that the defeated party is to pay rent of hall or church and all incidental expenses thereupon. Subject: Resolved, That, Theodore Roosevelt is a better man for the American Negro to support in the pending contest for Chief Executive than William Howard Taft, or any of the other candidates. J. R. Clifford, President of The National Independent Political League. The Democrats have centered what they consider a withering fire upon Dr. Hatfield. It is all to no avail, though, because he is going to be the next Governor. Read an unqualified endorsement of him to be found elsewhere in this paper, from Former Governor MacCorkle, one of the most prominent democrats in West Virginia. It borders on souring the nature of the editor of this paper to hear the little whipper whoppers condemning Perkins and Morgan for being rich. Had they had as much sense, pluck and push as they have, they too would have been rich like them. There is so much good in the worst of us. And so much bad in the best of us. That it doesn't behoove the rest of us, To talk about the worst of us. Colonel Roosevelt is zig zagging the West, and his running mate is doing the same in the East, and when and wherever either speaks, thousands surrender and fall in line. Victory is so patent, that a wayfaring man, though he be running can read it, and it would be, if Mack's editor was matched at the jim crow department—the blunder in our contest—cut it out. Mack's Negro is brainy—associate editor of his paper, and he is bringing out Negro news papers everywhere he can, and the other fellow don't want them. Boehl A drop of ink, discreetly used, will make millions think, and Mack and his Negro editor, whom he says is as good, wise and decent as any white man, know it. Inaemnch as it is Governor Wilson's belief that it was a calamity to this country to give the Negro the right to vote, and since he finds pleasure in what is true, that no Negro has gone to Princeton since he has been president there, makes it obligatory upon him if he wants a few Negro votes, that the best thing he can do, is to repeat his apology to Editor Burvey and say; "Forgive me and forget my manners." The American Southern Negro, and in part, the others, as a rule, are a peculiar people. Why all of their blood seems overcharged with servility is more than passing strange. Yet it's true. They do more chattering about heaven, and do more than all other peoples to keep from going there. The idea of Negroes celebrating their emancipation, and knowing bow to shoot, allowing a low white element to bulldoze, shoot dead their innocent men, lynch them whenever they please and say not a word. The appeals of Wm. M. Trotter, editor of Boston Guardian; Jack Johnson, John Redmond—(Irishman), and Miss Peters, of Boston, for Clifford to go back on Theodore Roosevelt rebound to these persons as spit does against the wind. Mr. Roosevelt did not disfranchise the colored men of the South, but the Democrats did by the permission of the Republicans, who are to blame for it all. No man in America has more backbone and better purposes and plans for the good of this country and the Negro than Theodore Roosevelt. He did nothing against, but much for the Negroes of the South, and if he gets elected it will be as much of a blessing for the colored people as that of Abraham Lincoln. It means a second emancipation for the Negro of the South and a blessing to all poor people. The editor of this paper is delighted over the growth and widespread tendency of his once much abused propaganda, of which he is and has been president for the past 25 years. It is castration for rape. The New England states are favoring it, New York has gone further and has selected a surgeon for the work, and some of the Southern states are talking it up. Not only should it be enforced our country over for rape, but it is the only remedy to redeem the poisoned blood of the human family from its loathsome and filthy condition. There are human looking beings whose offspring are as deadly and dangerous to true humanity and its desired progress as the breeding and birth of copper snakes. If it can, and it has lifted up stock to the highest degree, why can't it bless humanity a thousand times more? Enforce it, and the many ills that curse the born and unborn children will stop, as will scrofula, consumption, &c. Venereal diseases require as much as rape. Advocate it. Osoar S. Straus Not a man nor a paper has a mean thing to say of our caption, but honor him for his clean hands, pure motives and for the fulness of the milk of human kindness. As we see it there is nothing ahead of him but a glorious victory as Governor of New York and its our prayer that he may be. That the Progressive party is in part made up of the whipped cream of American humanity was fixed in our mind by our own strained observation as the best type of a christian political convention ever held in America except the formation, by God's men for freedom, of the Republican party, in 1856. The Negroes then thanked God, were with it and today they are in the boat, but unfortunately some of those Negroes who are at the head, it seems, know as much about steering the ship to the part of victory, as a frog does of the tail it lost when a tadpole. Not only is it unfortunate, but a calamity, and if the Progressive party loses, the blame must be placed at their doors. Every Negro newspaper in this country where their electorate vote, should be properly compensated to enthuse them. The Pioneer Press asks no compensation, but has asked for Roosevelt plate matter and Bull Moose cuts, to be published free, but a mouth has gone by—no reply and no plate matter. One of the finest men and speakers, Rev. Dr. E. W. Moore, and Rev. Dr. Davis, of Philadelphia, should be out speaking every day from now until election day. There is not a man in Philadelphia, white or black, who can say a word of evil against Mr. A. P. Caldwell, editor of the Courant, and the Progressive Party could use his paper to an advantage. OSCAR STRAUS'S NOMINATION WAKES RINGSTERS UP. The nomination of a Governor by the democratic party in the State of New York is a matter of more than ordinary importance to National and State leaders in that party. There's a reason. It is the nomination of Straus by the Progressives. A nomination that has sent cold shivers down the spines of the bosses in both the old parties because the nominee is a man of spotless character, and admitted ability and whose record is as clean as a bound's tooth. The wise ones are saying that the enubbing of Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany Boss, who had picked Dix to succeed himself, and the governor by Prof. Wilson, of Princeton, at Syracuse, was a frame up, planned and executed for the purpose of shelving Dix and relieving Murphy—(who is nothing if not resourceful, in a crisis) from an embarrassing situation. That he will of course make a bluff of being still an ardent Dix supporter, but will ultimately be forced to unload as the opposition to his candidate develops. That Gov. Dix is weak was clearly shown during his first candidacy for Governor. The Wall Paper Trust scandal from which he emerged with a soiled optic proves that he would neither be invincible nor invulnerable to attack if nominated again for this office. Governor Wilson has rendered Tammany a distinct service in thus aiding it to back down gracefully and to throw off reluctantly an incubus which spells defeat. Of course many people believe the reports from Syracuse, concerning the meeting between Wilson, Murphy and Dix and the outcome of that meeting "just happened" so. Well it did. But there are many indications to show that it was rehearsed by the principal actors, before they took their places on the stage to perform for the edification and delectation of the public. Mr. Strauss is responsible for the whole trick; had the Progressives nominated a less prominent man, Gov. Dix would be the democratic nominee this year. Clever as this trick was, it will not lessen the zeal of the Progressives, nor dampen their ardor, nor will it deceive them into believing that the democrats of New York will soon be at each other's throats because of this treachery(?) to Governor Dix. The Democrats religiously believe that Wilson will be elected in November. Dix has been shown, that he cannot win, over Strauss. He will be contented to occupy a minor diplomatic post under Wilson if—— he wins, and so will permit(?) himself to be eliminated for the good of the party, because it has been a good many years since we have had a real Southern democrat and a Free trader in the White House at Washington. We must give Prof. Wilson credit for knowing a few political tricks innocent as they look on their face. We must also give the Prog- resive leaders credit for having sense enough to close up their ranks and the courage to fight bravely for what is theirs. BLUEFIELD'S DISGRACE. Editor Pioneer Press, Dear Sir: West Virginia has at last put herself in line with Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Maryland, Ohio, Delaware, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma and I guess others in the lynching and burning of Negroes, and yet the white pulpits are silent so far as I have been able to learn. I am not condoning the crimes of my race any more than I would condone the crime of any race, but looking at the law of West Virginia, which is stringent enough to run down any culprit and bring him to the bar, I am appalled at the atrocious crime committed at Princeton on Walter Johnson, who is reported to have been an innocent man. I hope he was innocent, and if he was guilty he ought to have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law and not mobbed as he was, but God is just and can not be otherwise. Rev. N. H. Fields. Eikine, W. V. South America Continued from first page. that he could have learned much to your advantage between Mexico and Panama. But you will agree with me that the money was not given for that purpose, and further that would have defeated the purpose of his employers. Men can you not perceive that you often rejoice when you read of your own blood money being received by your socialled leaders? With all my admiration for that most wonderful man, John Mitchell, Jr., I say with emphasis, that he is not able to manage this fight alone. Your fight does not affect the United States alone, but your entire race, as you may have well seen by this time. I am almost ready to point out to you a people in your midst whom you have little thought of in this matter, and with whom you can correct Dr. Washington and many other of your racial lights in America. You who are so anxious for a national leader, think but little of the danger of such a procedure. Why do you not get together like other factions and compose an issue to be introduced on your own behalf if you really mean business. I think that if you had called such men as John Mitchell Jr., editor of the Richmond, (Va.) Planet, the editor of the Pioneer Press, Mr. Jack Davenport, of Tampa, Florida, and some more whom I will not take time to name you would have had an issue drawn up suitable to present to all the conferences. I laugh when I read where the Roosevelt bolters began their organization by having a Negro minister to officiate as prelate, but I look in vain to find where any issue had been considered to give the race more of their citizen rights. Negroes seem from high to low to be much satisfied to be among men, no matter how they are faring. This is disgusting, when one thinks of what a struggle the whole race is compelled to make for dear life, even in these days of universal prosperity, and if there were not so much jealousy and contention among white people I would say that the Negro was most hopelessly doomed. Gentlemen, why can you not understand that these are times for activity on the part of every individual after consultations among your best men. I believe that you certainly have an able man in the person of Bishop Walters, but you men of ability and understanding must realize the importance of unity in actions after a proper determination has been reached. I have ever and will ever contend in my weak way for social equality, and feel very sure that even this or some thing greater will surely be the ultimate result. My best wishes to all. I S. Moore P. S. Further they talk about a leader. Why even the white union delegates and all other officers are paid, but Negroes will not even pay ministers who presach to them well, and whether they believe me or not they will all have to learn to do as other people before they can live like other people. I have made a long and serious study of Negroes, and will say boldly that the eight of money makes too great a reaction on their minds. They think well until the money comes to their hands and then they forget it all. However, this is not a decided disadvantage were there enough real men who would trouble themselves enough to help them, from the fact that they never count small matters closely, and generally give very freely in small sums. Colored men "Know yourselves," and learn to act according to your advantages. You believe in letting things run themselves too much. No one man is able to handle your national affairs successful alone and must have money for what is done. This is my point. I. S. M. Rev. J. Henry Reed, editor of the Churchman, Luray, Va., and a prominent Baptist divine, preached a series of sermons at Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church throughout the whole of the week. Mr. Reed is a forceful speaker, has a style that is as entertaining as it can possibly be, and best of all, he is said to be an absolutely clean living man. What we need is more like him in the ministerial and other professions. Follow the crowd to Fletcher's West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition. Phone 287K, P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Martinsburg to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references, H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. SPECIALOFFER 6½ Months for 35 Cents. 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Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mrs. Charlotte Reed spent last Sunday in Hedgesville, where she visited her sister, Mrs. Sallie Turner. Mrs. Jennie Crane, of Harper's Ferry, visited the family of Mr. Perry Scott during the week. Rev. Asbury J. Conley, of Harper's Ferry, was a pleasant caller at our office the other day. Mr. James Thornton, who resided in the county, was a pleasant caller at our office the other day. Miss Annie Watkins, of Richmond, Va., has been the guest of Miss Matilda Green for several days this week. Judge Faulkner has dismissed the jury for the September Court term, and that body's business is practically finished. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Garner, of Berryville, were welcome callers at the Press office just about the time we were going to press. Special services were held at Mt. Zion M. E. Church all week, and much interest was evinced in them, a fact readily attested by the large crowds which were in attendance. Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Dotsou, of Charlestown, accompanied by Miss Carter, of Reisterstown, Md., visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Fairfax two or three days during the week. Rev. S. A. Lewis, a former member of the Press's staff, who now resides at Harper's Ferry, dropped in to see us the other day. Having many friends here, and being a very companionable gentleman, his visit was greatly enjoyed. Mr. David Robinson, a well known and highly respected resident of Donglass Grove, this County, was given a local minister's license by the recent District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which met at Winchester. United States Court convened on Tuesday, His Honor, Judge Alston Gordon Dayton, of Philippi, presiding. The present has been the longest term of U. S. Court held here since Judge Dayton has been on the bench, and it bids fair to run over into next week. Rev. James H. E. Carter, Secretary of Staunton District Conference, and a prominent member of the Washington Conference, circulated among friends in Martinsburg, Shepherdstown and Kearneysville for several days this week. He looked very well, and we were mighty glad to see him. On last Sunday night, shortly after six o'clock, an alarm of fire was sounded, and upon investigation, it was found that the Stewart Vehicle Company's big factory was on fire. At first the fire could not get much headway, owing to a lack of draft, but in a short while, flames began to shoot out from almost every part of the building, and the thousands of people assembled saw that it was only a question of time until the huge establishment would be a thing of the past. During the progress of the fire, the sky was lit up, people were entertained with the magnificent spectacle of the brilliantly burning building, and taken all in all, it was a sight that will never be forgotten. The most forcible thing in connection with this awful fire was the utter inadequacy of the Martinsburg Fire Department to cope with a fire of large proportions, and something should be done and that speedily to forever hereafter render a condition like that which we were incident to on last Sunday night an impossibility, because, had there been a brisk wind blowing, the whole southwestern section of our city would now be in ashes. Mrs. Amanda Rector and children are visiting her husband's parents in Fauquier County, near Markham Station, Va. We hope their trip may prove an enjoyable one. While alighting from Mr. Roscoe Lamar's automobile at his home on the Winchester pike Thursday afternoon, Mr. H. Frank Trigg was almost instantly killed. The dead man was a well known farmer, and has many friends throughout the county who are very sad over his untimely end. Agricultural Aids The Extension Division of the College of Agriculture is planning a great amount of work to be given as direct aid to the farmer in improving the farm, and the teacher in teaching agriculture in the rural schools. Agricultural trains are to be run, on which lectures on timely subjects will be given, illustrated lectures to school children, and an exhibit car showing varieties of chickens, models of poultry houses and poultry equipment, varieties of corn, methods of storing seed corn, equipment and supplies necessary for the truck garden and the orchard. Agricultural extension schools will be held in different counties, at which instruction in agriculture will be given to those interested. The instruction at these schools will be from the College of Agriculture and specialists secured from the state. Field meetings will be held at the demonstrational plots conducted in the different counties of the state. On these plots different varieties of corn and soy beans have been growing to determine the proper variety for that community. Different kinds of fertilizer and lime have been used to determine the kind to use to produce the most profitable crop. Outline. lesson. exercise. and experiment on Elementary Agriculture are published each month and sent free to teachers of the state so that the country boy or girl may be as well trained in the science of agriculture as in the city boy or girl trained in the principles of a business life. Nearly 5,000 boys and girls of the state belong to the State Agricultural Clubs. A large per cent of these club members is producing a very large yield of corn or tomatoes on their plots. Very often the yield on their plot far exceeds the average yield on the remainder of the farm. County shows will be held for these clubs and the first of January a State Show will be held at Charleston. Baltimore & Ohio Rail-Road GREATLY REDUCED CONVENTION FARES TO ATLANTIC CITY. BALTIMORE MD. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. KANSAS CITY, MO. LOUISVILLE, KY. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. PAUL, MINN. TOLEDO, O. WASHINGTON, D. C. AND MANY POINTS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. FOR FURTHER DETAILS APPLY TO NEAREST BALTIMORE & OHIO TICKET AGENT. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, DC., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For futher particulars see O. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. ROOM 2, K. P. BUILDING. CHARLESTON W. VA. MARTINSEURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of Va., the Supreme Court of Appeal and the United States Courts. 国家税务总局监制 BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to May 26th, 1912. Trains leave Mattinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11:31 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Crafton for Wheeling daily. No. 15 Daily at 11:50 a.m for Crafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 5:17 p.m for Crafton Pittsburgh and Chicago. No. 7 Daily 7:44 p.m for Wheeling, Col umbus and Chicago. No, I Daily at 6:20 pm for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 5 Daily at 2.36 a.m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39.5.37 p.m. No 9 Daily at 11.28 p.m for Pittsburgh No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 4 Daily at 4.19 a.m for Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 10 Daily 6.20 a.m for Washington and Baltimore. No 8 Daily at 10.37 a.m for Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Connects for Lexington Va., and Higerstown except Sunday and Frederick. No 40 0.47 a.m. for Washington and intermediate stations. No 2 Daily at 10.07 a.m for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 6 Daily at 2.38 p.m for Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 14 Daily at 8.00 p.m for Washington Baltimore, Baltimore and New York. No 12 Daily Ladies Luncheon at 12.25 a.m. for Washington, Galimore, Philadelphia and New York. No 12 Daily except January at 11.55 a.m. for Frederick, Fairmount and all intermediate stations with old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 p.m. for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Contract for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Dice Agent. R. S. BOLIC Ticket Agent. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. U. WILBUR P, THIRKIELD, D. D., PRESIDENT. Located in Capitol of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred. 1352 students from 37 states and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, such as are given in the best approved colleges. 16 professors. Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE. THE TEACHERS COLLEGE. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology. Pedagogy, Education, &c., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts, and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Lewis B. Moore A. M., Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of 13. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography Commercial Law, History, Civics, &c. Business and English high school education combined. George W. Cook, A. M. Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL AUTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Furinches thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four-year courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and Architecture. Professional Schools THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough co. es. Advantages of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses, Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedman's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polychronic. Edward A. Balloch, M. D., Dean, 5th and W. Streets N. W. W. C. McNeil, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. THE UNITED STATES Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—51.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and forms to Agents, Address, John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yorkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Esq. Editor Pioneer Press. 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