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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
JOHN FOX-A PROSPEROUS PAR
MER

For the encouragement of many
farmers, who are working against APP
parent fate and hopeless prosperity,
we deem it meet and proper to say
something about Mr.. Fox. He lives
about two miles south Of Kearneys-
vile, Jefferson county, w. Va. He
began farming on the shares seven
years ago, and by industry and econ
omy, has since then, raised 10000
bushels of wheat and $4,000 bushels
of corn. He owns 7 head of work
horses and 3 colts a nice flock of
sheep; % head of stock cattle and
6 spring calves, and 14head of hogs.
He has 8 mich COWS. Owns 3 heavy
farm wagons, also good pair ofox-
en- an a wagon for their use. A bug
gy and spring wagon. He has now
ers, a reaper, and all necessary farm
ing implements. He shoes his horses,
points his plows and does all the
rough work in that line having
learned how, within the past seven
years. He uses annually 8 or 8
tons of phosphate, amounting to
about 5000. Readers, what think
you Of Mr.. Fox? We will say more
at another time, as there is still
plenty to say.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
PARKERSBURG PIOKINGs.

The Union Sunday School excur-
sion and picnic, on the 9th inst, I'M
der the auspices of the M. g., Bap-
fist and A. NJ. e. schools, was a
grand success. Money making was
studiously avoided still the>sale Of
tickets more than paid expenses.
Rev. A. M. Thomas left on the
10th inst, for an extended visit to
Danville, Richmond'and points east.
His pulpit, during his absence,9is to
be supplied by Rev. Perry, Baptist
State Missionary M .i4s MI
Miss Susie Simmons is visiting
friends in Ohio.
Miss Clara Thomas, one of our
teachers, is spending her vacation
visiting friends in GAINESVILLE. Y
Miss Mary L. Champ is visiting
Miss Caddie Williams, in Columbus,
Ohio.
Miss Florence Madison will leave
in q few days to visit relatives and
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

virtue and manhood Frustrated by
two hundred years of thraldom, and
build up race reputation; and yet
| have enough faith in Negro char
acter to believe it can be done. Take
the varied history of the Anglo
Saxon race since the ever memorable
day of Hastings, and we have pre-
cedent worthy of our emulation and
adoption. But we must not under
rate the indefatigable toll and pa
tience it will cost us. "There is no
excellence without great labor" is a
maxim as literally true to-day as q
thousand years ago. But, says one,
1--WE have toiled." I admit it /; but
all toll is vain when directed by ig-
norance and inexperience. A race
cannot build up on basis narrowed
down to two or three professions.
Our race has followed the number
two with fanaticism which seems
a premonition of fatalism. We have
two professions, preaching and teach
ing. Two trades, barbering and
farming. Two churches, Methodist
and Baptist. Two characteristical
proclivities, one to intemperance the
other to improvidence. Now I sub
nit it to the candor Of the thinking
men of the race, if q race can be
built up on these conditions, latent
with the giant powder of race elimi-
nation. No; we must go back to
the days of '63, when the effulgent
rays of liberty first dawned upon us,
and there, amid the recollections of
our first heart swellings, renew our
pledges to God and ourselves to be
men in the full status of manhood.
We must broaden and diversity our
industries. We must add to the
number ofour professions, and there
by increase our facilities to earn
money. We must add to our church
catalogue, which will raise our chris
tian standard by the potent force of
moral abrasion. More anon.
G. T. J.
Weston, W. Va, Aug. IL, 'S5.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
A long time having passed since I
made an attempt at quill driving"
/ shall not promise to say much this
time; but if you will indulge me in
a little space, I will make the attempt.
I aver from articles contained In
your issue for July, that the "Negro
Problem" is still agitating the minds
of our thinking men. This vexed
question has engaged the serious at
tention of thoughtful men of both
races, and this fact need excite no
surprise when we consider it's mag
nitude. For in it's solution are en-,
braced many important features.
The dominant race holds theories
and prejudices in error. The Negro
race does the same. We dwell with
a race whose traditions and national
prejudice have been against us for
thousand years. Add to this barrier,
a prejudice, created, fostered and
deepened by our condition for the
last two hundred and forty-three
years, and it makes a strong case
against us. Then come within the
ranks of the race and what do we
find? An illiteracy which PARALLELS
the efforts Of the few for the many.
We find prejudices and jealousies
existing that render futile the efforts
made to fraternize the race. These
conditions are Numerically opposed
to every condition Of human pro-
gress. Oh, when will my people see
that they are stumbling block and
q rock of ofense to themselves !!
Now that the hydra-headed monster,
slavery, is dead, our people must
busy themselves about expunging
his evil effects from the races gar
ment. tits task Of no little mag
nitude to go to work at the bottom
round with race, with it's energy,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
EVERY now and then storm of crude

EVERY now and then storm of crude
information, as to the condition of the
colored people, in the South, sweeps
over the North, upsetting many and
causing others to waver, who really
mean to help elevate the Negro, eff
be would only help himself" He
does help himself, but the trouble is,
these storm-raisers fail to see it.
They judge as to his moral, financial
and religious growth, from what they
see in towns and cities, where the
largest percent of the worthless be-
ings of the race are to be seen, hang
about railroad stations, hotels and
public places. Now, to see and un-
derstand the true condition Of the
Southern colored people, years should
be spent in travelling and that through
the rural regions and medium sized
towns. Heretofore, few pleasure
seekers, in special cars, have gone
through the railroad sections of the
South, and have really branded the
race as shiftless and lazy vagabonds,
simply because they have seen only
one side. We learn that President
Cleveland, intends to visit the South,
for the purpose of assertaining their
true condition. In case he does, we
hope he will get out of his palace car,
also out of the parlors of the grand
hotels, and spend little time free
from the control of reception commit
tees, and make an earnest effort to
get some information concerning the
Negro, from others than his enc
mics and oppressors.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

The Pioneer Press is read and APP
preciated by the best people of the
State, and is destined to be one of
the best papers in the country In
it's columns we shall boldly advocate
our thoughts, and never swerve an
inch in the full defence of the rights
of our race. We offer the use of our
columns to any one differing from us.
Our people must learn to allow man
to say what he thinks without wanting
to kill him for it, God gave us minds
with which to think. We should be
conscious that we are thinking right,
and then boldly, advocate, and de-
fend our thoughts.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

WE want it thoroughly understood
that we own pew in the Republican
church, and that we intend to stay
therein, brush down the cob-webs,
scrub and fresco it, and pay our an
nual fee of loyalty. We oppose q
gallery, exclusively for colored men,
bers, and are in favor of all commu-
ming at the same table, and at the
same time; with as little thought as
to who is white or black as a white
mans ballot thinks of black mans
ballot when cast into the same box.
We believe that it is cowardly to get
mad, leave and build another church
when things don't suit you, but that
it is manly to stay inside and battle
for purity and the fullright of every
member. Every member who will
become offended at such work for
the perpetuity of the sanctuary, is a
backslider, and should be expelled
or reconverted, and vigilantly watch
ed, on probation Of six months.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

The Democratic party say to US,
eve are your friends" Very well,
we need friendship, and we are close
ly watching and sitting the kind you
offer us. Some colored people who
were treated humanity, under the
d1a7eunaan system, to this day, remain
on the "old plantation y hence, to
encourage us to think well of you,
you as a party, must regret the past,
disregard color, and make every pos
sible amend. See that the Blair Ed
ucational Bill passes the House, as
it did the Senate, and we will score
an everlasting mark of friendship in
your favor
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

THE N. Y. Tribune contains a Sc
rial, that we wish might reach the
eyes of all the conscientious men and
women of the country. tbs intend
ed to portray the evil results of the
convict labor system as carried on
in some Of the Southern States.
That the cruelty with which the
poor prisoners (many of them inno-
cent, or committed for offenses the
most triviaD are treated, falls little
short ofthe most shocking things that
could have occurred under the State
laws of slavery itself, is apparent. 1t
is an inhuman and villainous legisla-
ton, that will make and support
such a system! Surely the righting
of this great wrong, belongs to the
whole American people. We trust
that from now, neither the pen Of
justice, nor the voice of right, will
be still until this beastial manner of
using criminals be done away with
and some better and more human
method Of punishment shall be insti-
tuted
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
Weston, W. Va, Aug. IL, '85.
PRE- VENT RI SCALITY.

Some time ago we made an allu-
sion to the deficit in the State School
Fund, amounting to over $4,000.
1t is but right that the taxpayers
should know where their taxes are
going. In two years the fund has
been reduced over 40 per cent, The
rate of taxation for school purposes
has been the same, but the large in
crease in the valuation of property,
instead Of increasing the School
Fund, has greatly diminished it. No
good man, be he Democrat or Re
publican, will sanction such a robbie
ny of the funds that educate his chill
dren. The Grafton Eagle has the
following truthful article in relation
thereto:
estate Superintendent Morgan in
a letter admits that the fund for the
current year is $4,000 short. Last
year there was near 100000 of de-
ficiency as compared with the pre-
ceding year, making a total short
age of $4,000 in two years, when it
should have been at least 500, 900
larger by reason of the double-bar-
relied assessments. There does not
seem to be any shortage for any 9TH
er State purposes. Yet every man
pays all the taxes, charged on sin
gle receipt; if,one be paid all must
be; they are not separated. The
truth is the school tax has been paid
into the State Treasury, and the
presumption is that it has been mis-
applied. This is not the first time
the school fund has been robbed to
supply the extravagances of the
State Democratic Administration.
The people have borne it heretofore
and returned the Democrats to pow
er, which they interpret as a license
to continue it."
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

Mr.. WHITE, That you are an edi-
torial artist and handle we'll your
brush we all agree, but Champ did
his work so we'll that we are pleased
with the picture. We expected your
reserved amen! But, on the contra
~, you tinted it here and there with
colors that faded since the demise of
Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Garfield,
Grant, Morton and Wade" AS to
Logan and Sherman, they belong to
the old Garrison school and we re-
we're them. But as for Blaine, he is a
man OF policy. He defeated the force
bill, said nothing about the colored
man in his letter of acceptance, but
as soon as he was defeated, wrote
lavishly about the wrongs done to the
colored people in the South.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
MORAL BUILDING.

The activities Of the Universe are
employed in building. Why not we
here in a young, promising State,
where all things are ready (even the
Pioneer Press to enlighten,) 60 to
work? God has created materials
and forces, and has set the forces to
building out of the materials. The
power by which forces build, is call
ed life. The material, forces and
life are evolved out Of the infinitude
of Gods existence. Mr.. Emerson
said that an angel had thrown out
air, water, SUN and earth for mans
convenience. lsThese will yield at
the touch oftrained hands and brain.
That we are building socially is man.
fest. See our schools and churches.
| venture to say that we have some
social privileges that are not agreea-
bly, enjoyed in many of the old free
States. But these reflections do not
bear upon our subject. Force and
life are as subtle as the essence Of
matter. Spring comes, and count
less forces, guided by countless pha-
SEES of life, awake from the sleep Of
winter, and structures as numerous
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
CONSUL GENERAL 70 EGYPT.

CONSUL GENERAL TO EGYPT. \
We referred briefly last issue to
the appointment Of Hon. r. Boyd
Faulkner to this honorable and i'm
portant position. A formal accept
ance has not yet been made. Our
appreciation Of Mr.. Faulkner's fit
ness for this or any other position
of honor and trust is purely from a
personal standpoint and non-politi-
cal. We do not endorse his selec-
ton as Democrat or a Republican,
but as man, the most proper as
well as the highest sphere for citi-
sensjudgment. His education, train
ing, experience and standing will en-
able him to adorn creditably to him
self as well as to the people among
whom he was born and has been
reared, any position he may ac-
cept and bring to the government he
represents full measure of useful
ness. Those who recommended Mr..
Faulkner did worthy act, for he
merits not only the confidence of his
political friends, but the respect of
his party oponents.-Indepe,adent.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

WHENEVER colored man has, and
expresses an advanced thought as to
reasonable~r religion, he is by q certain
class of blacks called an 'sinfdez,"
and whenever he votes to suit him
self, he is, by another class ofwhites,
"Democrat."
''The best way to do is to do as you please,
And your mind, if you have one, will then
be at ease,
=; For people will talk"
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
W. T. HARRIS, P. E,

LEO TAXI, one of the leading
atheists of France, who has written
many books against Christianity, and
has done, perhaps, more than any liv-
ing Frenchman in organizing atheis-
tic societies and fighting the clergy,
has lately published a recantation.
His followers were highly incensed
and summoned him to answer before
the FreeThought Societies. When he
appeared these "free thinkers" denied
him the privilege of thinking as he
pleased, and expelled him as "trai-
tor and coward"
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

THE probabilities are that the
Morrill, House and lot, the most de-
sirable property on Camp Hill, will
be sold. It has an excellent peach
orchard and other fruit trees. This
property was given to the College
by the U. S. Government. 1t is we'll
worth every cent of 70 or $4,000,
and whoever gets it at these figures
will get cheap property.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
GARD.

To the members and friends of the
Mt. Zion M. 3. Church I wish to say
that, had I known when your camp
meeting was going on, it would have
given me much pleasure to have been
with you and participated in the good
work. For owing to the recent de-
struction of your church you have my
deepest sympathy,
Yours in Christ,
W. T. HARRIS, P. E.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

1T has been decided to introduce
the special delivery system on the
LIST of October, 1885, at all the post
offices at which it is permitted by
the law, viz: Those at which the free
delivery system is in operation, and
those in cities and towns having a
population Of four thousand or over,
as shown by the last federal census,
This will give Martinsburg letter
carriers.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

WE congratulate Hon. E. B. Faulk-
ner, who has been appointed Consul
General to Egypt. Refined in cul-
ture and courtesy; well versed in
the study and practice of law, and
having been his fathers secretary
when Minister to France, with his
Tuetonic pluck, we predict for him
q brilliant career.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01
friends in Clarksburg.

lTleHuS III ClaTKSDuTg. NJ
Principal j. Il. Champ has just re-
turned from Washington county, O.
Wonder if he brought Charley
Brown any news?
Miss Gorden, one of Wheeling's
most charming young ladies, is Wis
iting Mrs. Fountain, ON Avery St.
Now, boys, don't all go at once.
The great sensation of the season
was the marriage Of Miss Mary Sim
mons to Mr.. W. Fl. Wilson, our en-
terprising Market St. tobacconist.
Rumor of the event was circulated
here some six months ago, but no
one gave it credence until by q mere
accident the facts leaked out about
two weeks ago. The happy pair
will go to housekeeping on 9Th St.,
where the groom is erecting a very
cozy residence. While we extend to
them both our congratulations, and
hope they may have clear skies and
q happy voyage over the sea Of mar
ried blessedness, we particularly
commend Mr.. w. for his judicious
choice, and hope that in the bust
ness of life he may always manifest
the same practical sense.
We would like to know
fits going to get any hotter?
fla certain lady has heard from
Rev. A. M. S.?
If Charley Brown is going to Cut
Ter soon?
If VIM. Miller hears from The
"Ferry"?
IF Ed. Edmonson has been buggy
riding since the picnic?
If S. Willis has got over his
scare?
If I. Carr is to be married soon?
If Geo. Scott realizes that that
lady is married
IF any colored man will turn Dem.
to get the workmanship of the post
office?
IF the hard times has curtailed the
sale Of beer and whiskey?
If ParEersburg has not colored
man competent to fill the office of
Recorder?
1.-THE Camden-Jackson fight means
oil or ability for U. S. Senator next
time?
If Mike Tulley sees any difference
between an Irish working man and
a "Nagur," in politics? Who will
tell us? Now AND THEN.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

g 'A'e SANDS OF the SCI
from lawn, garden, and 'fo3(
germ Of a. rose seed, i
life, builds bush ST 4
branches, aid covers it with
In flowers Of beauty and a
note the tinging of each
blossom. The more careful You
anime, the more beautiful it apnesysg
T" nat materials compose this beastxJ
and fragrance? What is thas lsfey
which reaches forward with ul,sFr.
ing fingers and gathers from LIGHT
air, water and earth, those)nnaterials
and adjusts them so perfectly? Pro.
found mystery wraps them from our.
vision-except the results.
Let us turn our thoughts from 81
unconscious vegetable to the build I
ing of an intelligent, sensitive. ira,aesr-
tai being. God has evolved otys ST
himself spiritual forces, inspired then
with life, and set them to 15ilildibo-
structures in his own likeness out o ye
materials ample, as his own natttSe
lie has created us living spirits 'wyhoa II
normal activity is eternal growth is jI|
his own image. Consciousness, Win
affection, memory, reason, and power
to suffer, this latter is well DEVELOPED
with us. IF it were otherwise. +
would have become extinct, rath I
than retaining place among otl \
nations. Let the watch wordR r
"eternal vigilance" The bulldog u |
good conscience toward God and
man is important We are chaFged
with the awful responsibility of direct
ing the forces of our lives in building{
process. We have self-determining
power, our character is growing Under
our own fashioning hand. If the -
forces of a rose are commissioned
build, and adorn with such bead
and sweetness, a structure viii
to-day is, and tomorrow dectsB
what kind of a structure ought We
to rear for our State, for our chill rell,s
for our God? If the uncorsel ous1
vegetable life selects ETHEREAL alimeli
out of heaps of rubbish, with whld
to grow and build, on what shpu
we feed, that we may grow into ire
likeness of God? An inspired writer
names the different elements olat OF
which spiritual manhood is to be con-
structed, when he says, whatsoever
things are true and pure, and loTely-
or beautiful, and of good report, if
there be any virtue, think on these
things" G.. w. HoLLHanR.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

J. M. AFTER, ESQ.,, who completed
the philosophical course at Hillsdale
College, Mich, has returned to West
Virginia. Welcome he isl The
more men of such stamp we have in
the State, the better for all con-
cerned.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

THE people have witnessed in the
recent funeral services of the grand
old hero-U. S. Grant, how it is pos
sible for a private citizen Of this Re-
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

WHY does it rain when folks go to
camp-meetings? May I ask if you
are putting coal in the cellar, flour
in the pantry and preparing meat
for winter
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

WHILE at Medley, Grant county,
W. Va, we had need for medical aid,
and the manner in which DR.. F. j.
Scott treated us, we feel it our duty
to congratulate the people of that
section for having such a physician.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

KEEP your doors locked with the
key Of cleanliness, for the cholera
never was more anxious to visit us
than at this time.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

THE Governor of Massachusetts
gets q salary of $4,000 a year, and
the mayor of Boston $4,000.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

BLAINE is to write eulogy on Gen.
Grant.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1885-08-01

GO no JAS. F. THOMPsOi
for bargains in all kinds of q
and children's clothirn mh ey
Is per cent beloWem
the city.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-25
Diseases Absorbed by Cholera

Ihave inspected sites where cholera
has prevailed, and so far as my limit
ed knowledge informed me could
come to no definite conclusion as to
the causes producing the disease In
one place and not in others. / could
not find it in surface and visible filth
ness, in polluted water, nor In impure
rivers, nor in over-crowded and filthy
dwellings. There were all these con-
ditions, but no cholera. Then, as to
individuals, some of the oleanest men
I have ever known have died of cholera.
It has, however, been noted by medl.
cal men that cholera, like the rod OF
Aron when thrown down before the
rods of the Egyptian magneians, pro,
duced g. serpent which devoured all
the other serpents. So with cholera.
When this is prevalent all minor dis
eases are absorbed into, it. What in
ordinary times would be a simple
boyyel complaint merges into cholera.
An excess in living which would pass
in a bilious headache ends in cholera.
Over fatigue and a adiscrdered stomach
! which would bemoI lifted by an aperient
| and rest, if ifneglected, results ncholera
| A consideration of these facts should
induce extra caution and Immediate
attention to any disordered state O
| the stomach, and for more serious all
ment consultation with the family
doctor.-Sir Robert Parkinson in thu
Pail Mall Gazette.