McDowell Times

VOLUME 15. SPEAKER NAMES COMMITTEE ON VIRGINIA DEBT No Step Toward Settlement Until Negotiations are Exhausted BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY MEETS DEFEAT House by a Vote of Forty nine to Thirty-five Tables Indefinitely the Bill Providing for the Certification to County Clerk of Birth and Deaths by Physicians. CHARLESTON, W. VA., Jan. 29. Passage of twenty bills by the house and five by the senate and the introduction of twenty new measures in the former and seventeen in the latter indicate something of the activity of the West Virginia legislature today. Introduction in both houses of a joint resolution directing that no steps be taken looking toward settlement of the Virginia debt judgment until further negotiations are exhausted, the appointment by Speaker J. S. Thurmond of the house special Virginia debt committee and the defeat of the Duty bill to abolish capital punishment for first degree murder were feature characterizing the day of action the house not getting its calendar cleared until late in the afternoon. The committee on Virginia debt named by the speaker is as follows: Septimus Hall, of Wetzel, chairman; J. F. Boncheil, of Kanawha; Robert Bland, of Logan; Frank C. Havmond, of Marion; B. M. Yager, of Pocahontas; A. B. C. Bray, of Greenbrier; A. A. Riddlebarger of Summers (seven Democrats); F. R. Pickman, of Tyler; W. H. Glover, of Preston; A. K. Fleming, of Doddridge C. H. Hunter, of Marshall (four Republicans). The capital punishment bill in the senate was killed on its reconsideration after passage by a vote of seventeen to twelve. In the house by a vote of torty-nine to thirty-five the bill providing for the certification of births and deaths by physicians was tabled indisfinitely. (By Associated Press.) Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 29. A resolution was introduced in the house of delegates today providing that the West Virginia legislature take no further action on the Virginia debt until congress has disposed of senator W. E. Chilton' bill relative to the settlement of claims against the federal government growing out of the creation of the northwest territory. The resolution was referred to a committee. MUST HAVE CHEAPER PAPER MUST HAVE CHEAPER PAPER Resolutions have been adopted by the Missouri senate stating that state departments in Missouri "should not enter into a contract with any Missouri jobbing house for paper supplies until reasonable proof has been furnished that such jobbing homes are selling and selling their material at fair prices and without any understanding as to charges to publishers of the state." The belief among newspaper publishers "that an unlawful combination" exist between jobbers in Missouri "to extort an unreasonable and unwarranted price for all classes of paper was given as the reason for the resolution." 46 Persons Baptized in Scott Street Bap. Church, Bluefield GREAT CPOWD WITNESS THE BAPTISMAL RITES. Last Saturday, January 28, in the city of Ellicott, Scott St. Baptist Church about 4 clock p.m. there was a great outpour of men, women, boys and girls to witness the always new baptismal ceremonies. Forty-six new converts presented themselves for baptism. Evangelist J. B. Evans, who helped Rev. W. H. Mitchell in the ten days revival at which the above named persons made professions was there and with that usual characteristic spirit of love, hope and faith he began the services in song. The people began to file in the beautiful and well built church several hours is foretime in order that they might get weats. And long before the hour sched- nled for baptism the church was crowded to its utmost capacity. Rev. Mitchell, pastor, and a man beloved by everybody, a man of power, strength and service, was there at the head of his great flock. His acknowledged leadership, his earnestness and his love for the growth and success of his work all attested the fact that this was a work of God. Promptly at 4 o'clock he steadily marched toward the pulpit followed by 46 converts wanting to be baptised. The great crowded audience stood as they marched in singing a familiar song by the congregation, led by Evangelist Evans. The gallery was packed and men and women ware standing all over the church contesting for at least a chance to see. Rev. L. Dabney, pastor of Mt. Zion Bap, church, was present and offered prayer. Just here awaiting everybody to get ready for this great occasion collection was lifted by Editor M T. Whittico) and Rev. Dabney, who happened to be present. Amount raised, which was done in a very few minutes, was $26 40. In 26 minutes, Rev. Mitchell, assisted alone by his deacon board, baptised every candidate without a hitch and amidst breathless silence except soft and melodious songs. Truly this is a great church and congregation. The women are most active, earnest and sacrificial workers for the success of this church that are to be found in any community. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Out on Mission and Finding Many Irregularities. Mr. Thomas J. Edwards, scaler of weights and measures for McDowell county, a young man extraordinarily bright and most eminently fitted for the position to which he was recently appointed by the County Court, is now actively out, visiting all the towns and carefully inspecting all the scales and measures in conformity to the law of the state. He is to be congratulated for the air, conservative, yet uncompromising position and exacting demand he is making on everybody to live up to and by the provisions of the law. He has found quite a number of scales and measures grossly out of place, some of which were working hardships on both the buyer and the seller. We are glad and the innocent people in general will hale with delight the fact that an honest basis of weighing and measuring shall be established under the law of the state so that all peoples will be properly protected and that confidence in men as men shall be equal. Mr. Edwards is a very capable young man and his position is being honored, the law conserved and the rights of every man respected without regard to political affiliations or concerns. Editor McDowell Recorder, First President W. Va. Publishers' Association, in Keystone. Col. J. J. Swope, editor McDowell Recorder, and one of the oldest and most experienced newspaper men in the state was adjusting some very important business matters in Keystone Monday. Col. Swope is the first man elected president of the West Virginia Publishers' Association. He is a jurist, a versatile newspaper man and a man of the highest integrity when it comes to the point of creating men right irrespective of race, nationality or condition. It was he, when first introduced and recommended a colored man to become a member of the West Virginia Publishers' Association, and his son, now a member of the House Delegates, was the first to present the name of a colored man to be placed on a committee in an annual meeting of the Publishers' Association. The McDowell Times is the first and only colored newspaper that is represented in this association and Attorney T. Edward Hill. Business Manager, was the first colored man to ever represent a colored news paper in the association. JACKSONVILLE, FL4, Jan. 24.—Louis Papas, (white), barrier by trade, jumped into the St. John's river here last week at the foot of Liberty street with the evident purpose of suicide, and but for the heroic intervention of two colored men who jumped into the river and rescued him he would have succeeded. Wonder if these two unknown black men will be given a medal for heroism. Oh no, that's no more than the average white man thinks is duty of the Negro. But if it were white men who done so heroic an act of human sympathy they would have been deserving the highest honors the government could give. But colored men, you did right to save life. Do it again. McDowell Times. KEYSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY. FEB. 2. 1917 Appellate Court Uphold States Civil Rights Law on Appeal CAFE MAN MUST PAY $1000 D. E. Tobias and Eugene L. Moore Win Suit Brought Against John Rheim for Dis- Reversing the judgement of the Municipal Court, which dismisused the complaint brought by two colored men who could not buy drinks in a saloon patronized exclusively by white men, the Appellate term of the Supreme Court awarded to David E. Tobias and Eugene L. Moore $500 damages each against John Rheim, keeper of a cafe at 21 Courtland street. The attorney for Tobias, editor of the searcher, said that the plaintiff was a graduate of Brown University Moore is associate editor r of the New York Age. The suit against the cafe keeper was brought under the civil pights ae, which aims to prevent discrimination against colored men when they want to eat and drink in public places with white patrons. The testimony in this case was to the effect that when the two plaintiffs walked into the Courtland street cafe the bartenders were so busy waiting on their regular white patrons that they never noticed the colored men and they finally went in disguist at the apparent discrimination. —Amster'am News. (New York City.) COUNTRY'S OLDEST PRINTER DEAD Thomas P. Nichols, who recently died at Lynn, Mass., aged eighty-seven, was believed to be the oldest printer in the country. He learned the trade at the age of thirteen and founded his own printing house later, publishing, among other periodicals, the Lynn (Mass.) Fraserriot Mr Nichols was a Mason and Ode Fellow, member of the Oxford and Lynn Yacht clubs, trustee of the Five Gent savings bank and served formerly on the water board GOLDEN RULE Still Paying Claims-- 4000 Members the Slogan. The last claim paid by the Golden Rule, Beneficial and Endowment Association were those of Mrs. Anna Hairston at the Lovely Zion Baptist church and a little girl. These claims were paid by one President Dr R. H. McKoy. The work all over the state and especially throughout the southern section is in every way very encouraging. The slogan is 400 new members and every loyal member will heed this great wave. New and renewed energy, life and interest and enthusiasm are becoming more and more active and evident every day. The people are learning that this association is no child's play, but is a living, growing and influential tratalern association for the uplift and the proper enlightenment of the race. Talk this institution over with your friends, explain to them the value of being a member, take their names and have them join now. Board of Directors Hold Big Meeting Joint Meeting of Two Associations to be Arranged---Bulletin to be Published. To the Teachers of the State: The board of directors of the West Virginia Teachers' Association held a meeting in the Garnett High School, Charleston, W. Va., on Saturday morning, January 13, 1917. Those present were: Mrs. Blanche Jeffries Taylor, Miss Mabel S. Brady, Professors Byrd Prillerman, J. W. Scott, W. W. Sanders, S. H. Guss, A W. Curtis, C W. Boyd, J. F. J. Clark, and James L. Hill. At the meeting, many things of great importance were taken up and discussed. The following subjects were decided to be --- presented to the proper authorities for consideration: High Schools, Summer School for Negro teachers, appropriations for Negro institutions, a more definite supervision of Negro schools, extension work among Negro people. The president of the Association was instructed to try and arrange a joint meeting with the Northern Teachers' Association in 1918. It was also decided that a bulletin containing the minutes of the Association and other matters of general interest to the teachers be published. The following committee on Legislation was appointed: A W. Curtis, C. W. Boyd, J. W. Scott, Mrs. Blanche Jeffries Tayler, W. Mabel S. Brady, Byrd Prillerman, W. W. Sanders, and S. H. Guss. A. W. CURTIS, Pres. W. Va. Teachers' Association, Institute. MISS MABEL S. BEADY, Sec. Pro., Bluefield. SHERIFF MUST PAY $45,000 Verdict in Favor of Negro at Nashville Must Stand In a Lengthy Decision Denying Petition of Former Sheriff J. A. Reichman and Certain Deputies. NASHVILLE, TENN - In a lengthy opinion, and one which scored the actions of the defendants, Judge J. E. McBall, of the federal court, has denied the petition of former sheriff J. A. Reichman and certain of his deputies for a new trial, with the exception of the possessor J. W. King. The latter will have his petition granted. Mr. Reichman and the deputies formerly on his staff, together with the other ossemen against whom a verdict for $15,000 was recently rendered in favor of Mathew Harris, colored, formerly residing near Capleville, will appeal from the decision. Deputies of the sheffle blew in the Harris Home with dynamite about a year ago in the effort to arrest Manne Harris, nephew of Mathew, and who, it developed later, was not in the house. Harris was frightfully mangled by the explosion besides being wounded by some of the shots fired into the cabin. In his opinion Judge McCall declare the conduct of the deputies "without an authority of law and in fact in violation of the law." The opinion quotes from Ginathan's speech on general warrants as follows: "The poorest man may in his cottage defiance to all the forces of the crown it may be trail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter, but the king of England may not enter; all his force dare not cross the threshold of the sacred tenement." The opinion includes the statement: "I shall not omit to state that it is undisputed and proven by the months of Lee and Linson (two of the deputies) that Mathew Harris was thoughtful enough to thank them that they were considerate enough not to kill him. "None but those who reside in a community with a large colored population can appreciate the fright that seizes the inmates of a Negro cabain when there comes a rap on the door after dark. What terror stirred the bosom of Mathew Harris and his family, who were innocent of any wrong doing, when following the rap came the information that the house was surrounded by officers, with the request that he come out, no one but Harris and those with him may know. The verdict is large, but not so large as to evince caprice, passion or prejudice — Ex. BOSTON, MASS., Jan. 22. -The National Equal Rights League, Rev. Byron Gunner of Hillburn, N. Y., President, and William Monroe Trotter, of Boston, Corresponding Sec., issued an appeal to the colored people of America to hold a celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Frederick Donglass, great abolitionist orator, on Wednesday Feb. 14. That these observances may serve the great cause for which Donglass labored, it is suggested that the meeting be arranged by Equal Rights committees or Equal Rights Leagues, organized for that purpose. The appeal says: "The approach of Donglass' Centenary should be the signal for his people to rally to the standard of a fight of the race for rights denied because of our race." Bill Favorably Reported Out of Committee. PASSES SENATE UNANIMOUSLY Negroes Appear Before Committee on Medicine and Sanitation, Urge Measure as Means of Checking White Plague. CHARLESTON, W. VA., Jan. 27 — The committee on Medicine and Sanitation of the Senate composed of Senators (Dr) Simeel, Chairman; (Dr) Godby, Gregory, Billings Gribble, Hawey, Frazier, (Dr) Hogg and Krumpmaniously reported Senate Bill No 15, providing for a tuberculosis sanitation for Negroes, out of the committee with the recommendation that it pass. This bill was introduced by Senator K. L. Gregory of Wood county and provides for the establishment of an institution for person of the Negro race affected with tuberculosis. It carries with it an appropriation of $55,000 for the first year and $15,000 for the second year for grounds and buildings and $10,000 for equipment and fixtures. It further provides that the superintendent shall be a regular practicing physician of not less than six years experience, of good character and standing. The bill leaves the election of the location and site to the Board of Control and the Department of Public Health. COMMITTEE HOLD PUBLIC HEARING The committee on Medicine and Sanitation held a public hearing on the bill Thursday the 18th at noon and Prof. W Sanders, state supervisor of colorado schools, President Byrd Priferman, of the West Virginia College Institute and F. Edward Hill of The McDowell Times appeared before the committee and made a dresses pointing out the necessity of a tuberculosis sanitarium for Negro CORNWELL APPROVES MEASURES President Byrd Priferman introduced a copy of a letter which he received from governor-elect John J. Cornwell approving a bill for a Negro tuberculosis sanitarium. The letter was read by a member and placed on file. The Democratic members of the committee are Dr. Gory Hogg and Senators Frazier and Krump. The measure came up for final passage in the Senate Thursday and upon roll call every senator present 25 in number—voted for it. MORE NEGROES IN N. Y. THAN ANY CITY SOUTH Philadelphia Ranks Second in Negro Population and New Orleans Third. WASHINGTON, Jan 31. - Figures post made public by the bureau of the census show there were more colored people in New York on July 1, 1916, than there were in any city of the South. New York then had 116,842 colored citizens, according to the census estimates. Philadelphia had 99,224, and there were in際mental United States a total of 109,057. The population of Georgia, numbering 2,856,065, was divided into 1,431,802 whites and 1,177,319 colored. The largest part of the colored population in Georgia live in the open country. In the eleven towns having a population exceeding 5,000 there were 46,564 Negroes. The southern city having the largest colored population is New Orleans, with 96,900. Next comes Birmingham, with 67,280, and third, in the list is Atlanta, with 59,063. Wingfield Bap. Church Accepts Resignation of Rev. W. H. Mitchell Wingfield Bap. Church Accepts Resignation of Rev. W. H. Mitchell Our Dear Beloved Pastor: Your painful surprise announcing to us your resignation from the active and actual pastoral charge of this church and people in whose behalf you have so effectively and sacrificially labored for years and over whom you have so vigently watched as a hen doth that of her own, is acknowledged in sore grief and with bleeding hearts and tear dimmed eyes. And now, feeling that your call to other fields of spiritual labor is alone that of the Lord's and your acceptance to serve in a better and more responsible position and that your usefulness in the world for good is the wish and obedience of an humble servant in the cause of the Master, we here as humble children, obedient to a father's will, obedient to His mandates, fearful of His authority, accept your resignation. In doing so it is not without an open recognition that you have been our friend. As ordinary men and women, without the recognition of the Father's will, we do not want to give you up. You became a most welcome guest in our every home. Your advice, your tender and constant counsel were living testimonials of the fact that you were guided by the spirit of righteousness as were the men of the East who followed the Star to the birthplace of the babe of Balthicen. We miss you. And in giving you up, we do it with the hope that you will be as generous in the future as you have been kind and serviceable in the past. Do not finai leave and forsake us without seeing to it that a Shepherd shall be put in charge of this little humble flock. Your work for material improvements as well as the seeds of love, cheer, kindness of heart and that ever tender spirit of charity will ever perpetuate your name and be living monuments to point the way of light that leads to Heaven—these your servants. And now, may every day, and every thought os yours be those of strength and love. Our every wish for you and yours is that nothing but happiness, comfort and eternity with celestial happiness will be yours in this as well as in the life to come. Pray for us. Very respectfully. WINGFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH. Fekman, W. Va. Wednesday night, Jan. 24, 1917. RACE LOSES GROUND IN MATTER OF BIRTHS Federal Survey Demonstrates That Colored People Pay Heavy Death Toll and That Birth Rate is Lower Than Among the Whites. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Certain states containing a third of the country's population show a 28 per cent greater number of birth than deaths in 1915, in a survey completed recently by the census bureau. The statistics disclose that in the territory included in the investigation, foreign born parents gave birth to many more children than did the native born, and that among the colorease the death rate is higher and the birth rate lower than among the white. The era covered in the survey include New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and the district of Columbus. The figures are the first federal birth statistics ever published. COL. M'CLAREN IN KEY- STONE AND NORTHFORK Col. W. J. McClaren, our road engineer and a man of much business ability, also, perhaps, is doing an effective work for all the people in his position but any other one man in this county, was in Northbork, Clark and Keystone Tuesday on business. He was in consultation for a while with Attorney Ira J. Partlow. Mr. McClaren expects to go to Charleston next Tuesday where he will be the guest of Governor Hatfield at his annual reception. LIVELY SCRAP Over Committee Recom- mendation to Reje-t Coal Weighing Bill Swope, of McDowell, Leads Fight Against Rejection--Harper Res- ponds in Able Speech---Com- mittee Overruled 67 to 19. CHARLESTON, W. VA., Jan. 31.—The House of Delegates was the scene of the most lively scrap witnessed during the present session of the legislature today when the committee on Mines and Mining reported House Bill No. 112 known as the coal weighing bill, with the recommendation that it do not pass. The light against the summary rejection of the bill was led by Delegate J. Buel Swope of Wetowell county who, when not legislating is the associate editor of The McDowell Recorder of Welch. When Speaker Thurmond put the question "Shall the bill be rejected?" Mr. Swope opened the battery of his eloquence against rejection. He stated that he represented a county of more than 65,000 inhabitants, practically all of whom made their living either directly or indirectly out of the mining of coal and that the miners wanted such a measure. (Continued on Page 2.) Miners, Coke Men and Laborers wanted all over McDowell Coun- tity-Business Openings. NUMBER 47 GOV. HATFIELD TO LIVE IN CITY OF HUNTINGTON Has Purchased Handsome Home There Already. Will go East After March 4th and Spend Months in Post Graduate Work. Governor Henry D. Hattfield, whose term of office expires on March 4th, has purchased the hands one residence property of Col. D. L. Morrow, on Fifth avenue, at the corner of Ninthenth street, Huntington, and will establish his residence there as soon as the necessary arrangements can be completed. He will devote his time to the direction of his coal interests, which are extensive, both in Logan and Norfolk and Westernfields, and to the practice of his profession in Huntington. As soon as he leaves the governorship Dr. Hattfield will go East to spend several months in post graduate work in medicine and surgery, after which he will open offices in Huntington. COLORED FARMER IS RAISING RECORD HOGS Takes a Dray to Hall One of Them ---He Attracts Attention of WAYCROSS, GA. Jan. 31.—A colored farmer whose place is near Waycross brought a couple of hogs into the city ceder-day and showed that when it comes to a hog raising he know a thing or two about the business. Like Lane is the farmer's name and the hogs weighed between 800 and 900 pounds. He has six that won't tip the scales a pound under the 800 mark and a few that weigh between 600 and 800 pounds. The hogs are 2 years old and cost very little to raise. like is satisfied he could feed one of his large hogs a few months longer and take the record for the largest hog in Georgia. One of the immense hogs made a dray bad and attracted considerable attention thruout the time it was on exhibition in the city. Yale Graduate Prejudiced Against Negro; Couldn't Give Justice A graduate of Yale (God save the mark') drawn (r 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 ideas should be disqualified from serving on a jury. I shall order that your name be stricken from the list. I think no man should sit in judgment on a human being in a case involving life or property who has a prejudice against a race. Such a man is not fit to serve as a juror. Judge Kosalsky 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 some way to punish men of this stamp, who either or unfit by nature to serve as jurors or profess such unfitness to avoid the obligations that go with citizenship. --- New York globe. TUSKEGEE MEETING AD- VISES RACE STAY SOUTH TUKEGLE, ALA, Jan 17.—Colored people from every section of the South attending the twenty-sixth annual Tuskegee colored conference adopted "declarations" adminscribing colored people to remain in the South and co-operate with white people in the improvement of labor conditions. The "declarations" deal principally with the migration of colored people northward, the boil weevil and distress among colored people because of floods. After stating that the enticement of high wages in the North is appreciated, the statement says: "Right here in the South are great and permanent opportunities for the masses of our people. This section, we feel, is just entering upon its greatest era of development. Here your labor in the future is going to be in still greater demand." NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION BE. RATHER THAN SEEM TO BE WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD HILL, Business Mgr. Articles on more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Publisheu every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race--His Civil and Political Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in advance..... $1.50 Six months in advance..... 80 Three months in advance..... 40 One month in advance..... 25 Single copy..... 05 ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST Special rates to churches, schools and colleges. Subscribers changing their Post Office address must notify the publishers or else his subscription will be collected just the same as if he had not. Entered as Second Class Matter March 22, 1904, at the Post Office at Keystone W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3 1879. FRIDAY FEB. 2, 1917 WORK PLENTIFUL THROUGHOUT COAL FIELD REGIONS--PLENTY MONEY TO BE MADE--WILL MEN SAVE IT IS THE ALL IMPORTANT QUESTION. Throughout the coal field section of the Norfolk and Western as well as all over the Virginian, good news is coming in from men engaged in the mining of coal and pulling of coke that there never have been better chances to make money digging coal and pulling coke than there is offered to laborers today by all the coal companies. The only thing that occasionally hinders is shortage of cars to haul the black diamond thus making hours of labor some what shorter. The companies, seemingly all over the field, are taking a greater and more active interest in their employees. They are seeking to know more about a proper protection of their domestic life and the surroundings for home con forts are seldom ever withheld from the men if they will just only let it be known what they want. A more friendly feeling between employee and employer is becoming evident every day. The cost operators are rejoicing when they learn that men on their operations have money and are saving it and putting it to some good account. Mothers, sons and daughters are better dressed, better fed and have better books to go to school in these days than they ever had. And while these are active and every day evidences of better times or better chances to make money, one alarming cry is being heard in every home and that is "Are the men saving their money or are they throwing it away for triffies?" Are they buying for themselves and their children a home or are they putting some of the money they are making in the bank. Another question often arises, and that is, are the men who make good money, insuring themselves against accidents and deaths so that in the event one should accidentally get killed or die a natural death would they have or leave any thing with which to feed, clothes and educate the little ones left without a father, on whom they depend for a living. These are questions that ought to be answered by the men themselves and mothers too, as for that part. But we fear it is too painful and lamentable a fact that 95 percent of the men and women in these coal fields are spending all and more than they make extravagantly dressing, eating andaping the rich. There is not enough economy practiced which goes a long way in causing the alarming cry of "The high cost of living." The real cause, in our opinion, of much of this great ado about living, is not so much the high cost of living as it is the living so high. Pay for The Times. GOVERNOR HATFIELD'S FRIENDS DISAP POINTED AT HIS LEAVE OF MC-DOWELL COUNTY. When it was learned that Gov. Hatfield had nad up his mind to locate in the city of Huntington instead of coming back to old McDowell as was anticipated by his great host of friends, loud and regretful feelings of disappointment were expressed by everybody. Not only his friends, but we dare say those who have at times thought him to be their enemy regret now that this big hearted, four-square, even-handed-dealing white man of statesman like ideas and principles, is to locate in any other section of West Virginia than the one in which he became famous and from whence he ascended the ladder of the highest political prominence. Men of standing, power and influence, who, in the past have been thought to be his political enemies, will regret to vote the fact that the Governor, be people's former Dr Hatfield, is not going to come back to his one county for which he did so much in every way. His expert medical aid and attention, his public spirited methods of dealing with the people in general, as he was accustomed to come in contact with them daily, will be greatly missed. his fearlessness of cruticism because of his philanthropic and sympathetic defense and protection of the poor, defenseless and innocent creatures of chance, may have mitigated against him by the "kid glove element," and may have justified some men to have tried to injure him in his social standing as well as in his position as an exceptional man of power, statesmanship and merit, let we dare say, the great wave in sentiment which was his and make him respectful of the common interests of mankind is and will continue to become so strong that all men, whether white, black, green grizzly or gray, will learn that this man had a bigger heart, a more generous soul and a broader scope of the mutual good will feeling between theces as well as between the employer and employee than any other man holding public office today. His faults may have been many, some may have been grave; but when it comes to comparison, his virtues tower as high over his faults as Mount Blac does over an ordinary mole hill. We are sorry the Governor is not coming again among us. But we are glad he is not leaving the state. WHAT VALUE ARE THEY TO SOCIETY? To whom and for what are the climates of the red light element contributors? They don't help the church erection or extension, they don't and are not assets to the moral growth of society, the beautification of the home nor of the community in which they live. Then why is it that they should have such unlimited latitude? Tell us what public institution is it that they help to support and we will erect a monument to the tran that does it such and costly as the one erected to George Washington. We will ask other questions later that may be astounding unless we learn that there is a decided change in the conduct of certain methods of doing things in this town, county and state as far as lies within our knowledge to as certain facts and particulars. Make them scarce. Take them off the main streets. ENFORGE THE LAW If you violate the law then you may just expect to be punished therefor. The courts are absolutely honest and fair and take no pleasure in punishing any man whether he be guilty or innocent. But when men know the law and will prominently violate it then they may expect whatever happens. Enforce the law. Again prohibition does not prohibit. You may pass all laws from earth to heaven against a man's individuality and civil rights and it will mean no more than throwing water on a duck's back. Morals are the results of men's conscience, love and religion and not legislation. Is snugly located between some of the most picturesque and superb mountains laden with the best coal to be found in the whole round world. From the standpoint of Civilization, Keystone is the ATHENS of West Virginia. With reference to Religion, this city is the Jerusalem of Southern W. Virginia. W.L.JONES The Hustler, The Barber, The Business Man and The Man Who is Expert at Feeding You MAIN STREET Opposite The McDowell Times Office KEYSTONE Special preparations now being made for UPTODATE accommodations. Strargers, acquaintences, friends and everybody will be welcomed at the well known In the H L. Lord Old Building near the bridge across from Laviscount's Tailor Shop. Call for and See JONES elite accommodation Satisfaction Keystone Has been and is destined to remain the MEDIA of trade for this great inexhaustible wealth imbedded under mother earth for ages to come. The newly purchased plot of land by Attorney Ira J. Partlow and his associates has started a wave of progress, development and such business industries as have never been seen before. The many hard things formerly said about Keystone are of the past, and can't be said now. Fights and drunks are as scarce as hen's teeth. The best people come to and trade in Keystone. Petty jealousies and knockers are rapidly disappearing and men and women are becoming BOOSEERS. Financial institutions are continually preaching thrift and economy in the columns of newspapers because it pays to ADVERTISE. Proprietor of the Celebrated ARK Is Now Located on REET Opposite The McD KEYS g made for UPTODATE ac and everybody will be welcome mark g near the bridge across fro JONES elite accomodation Guaranteed. (Continued from Page One.) he passed. He further stated that he had no fight to make on the coal operator and did not believe that the bill if passed would work a hardship upon them but that it would be fair and just to both miner and operator. The speech of Mr. Swowe was able and effective and caused the opponent of the measure to rally their forces and put to the front their ablest orators. COLORED DELEGATE SPEAKS Delegate E. Howard Harper, of McDowell county, the only colored member of the House, made his midden speech in opposition to rejecting the bill. It soon became noise through the capital that the "Negro member" was speaking and the gallery and the space back of the railing on the floor of the House quickly filled with people who cranked and rubbered in an effort to see the speaker. Mr. Harper reviewed the growth of the nine cars in McDowell county and stated that upon many operations men were loading cars which held five tons and more for from 60 cent. to $1,00, and that since the operator sold his coal by weight it was equally fair that he should pay by weight for the mining thereof. He stated that several coal companies in McDowell had put in scales of their own accord and that it would be fair to them to say that the coal shall be paid for by weignthe speaker made no attack on the operator but discussed the mine's site if the case which he knew well from his 50 years experience among them Other speeches were made both for and against the rejection of the bill. At the close of the debate when the question was put Mr. Swowe demanded the ayes and nayes in order that the vote of each member would become a matter of record. At the conclusion of the roll call the speaker announced that 19 had voted in favor of rejecting the bill and 67 against rejection. The tour delegates from McCowell voted against rejection. The bill now goes on the calander and another lively scrap is anticipated when it starts on its passage. Pressing Clothes is as Much An Art As Making Them We in that to properly and thoroughly press any kind of garment it must be done on a Hofman sanitary steam clothes pressing machine. This method produces the natural body shape in clothes of every description, raises the nap, brings out the color, gives the garment an appearance of newness and causes it to last much longer. Let us Convince you A. LAVRICK, THE TAILOR, Bridge St. Keystone, W. Va. Don't forget we clean, press and make clothing. We guarantee all work. We save you money. WANTED: Men and women in all communities. Men to get names and address, etc. Nothing to sell. $15.00 weekly. Women to address envelopes and do plain sewing at home. $8.00 weekly. Information for a stamp. NATIONAL BUSINESS BUREAU, Box 85, RICHMOND, VA Notice of Judicial Sale Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court of McDowell County, West Virginia, made and entered on the 12th day of October, 1916, in the chancery cause of the Princeton Banking Company, a corporation, vs. A. L. Calhoun, G. N. Marshall, Lizzie Marshall, J. M. Lankin, E. B. Lankin, Sherman Finney, and Larry Finney, and A. L. Colhoun, G. N. Marshall, J. M. Lankin, and Sherman Finney, partners trusting and doing business under the firm name and style of the Keystone Supply Company, I will on MONDAY, the 19th DAY of FEB- BRUARY, 1917. at the front door of the circuit house of McDowell county, West Virginia, at eleven o'clock a.m. of that day, for sale to the high stocker the following described real estate: A house and lot坐落在 Midway Addition of the town of Keystone. Dowell County. West Virginia. Known as lot N. 164 a municipal district, which is not on the land, vested to Elmore U. Bridge of O. atletie K. Meadows and James E. Meadows, husband, and W. H. H. H. and Mary H. his wife, by deed dated on the 22nd day of November, 1053, and recorded in McDowell County Court Clerk's office in bed book 46, page 53 the said Emina H. bridge of afterwards having intermitted with one I. M. Lamkin, and after said intermarriage with said J. M. Lamkin, dropped the letter H in her name and took and used in lieu thereof the letter B, which stands for Bridge, the home and lot now being owned by Emina Bridge of Lamkin, or E. B. Lamkin, for a more particular description of said lot reference is hereby made to said deed. The terms of sale will be cash to be paid for said property on the day of sale. THE McDOWELL TIMES GIVES YOU ALL THE NEWS READ IT 1809-Abraham Lincoln-1865 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion: that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth, Lincoln Memorial LINCOLN HAPPY WITH MARY TODD LINCOLN HAPPY WITH MARY TODD Reports That the Great President and His Wife Were Incompatible Are Without Truth, According to One Who Knew Them Well. THERE are stories, some of them written into the biographies of the martyred president, that the married life of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln was unhappy. These stories go so far as to say that when the wedding day came around— 25 Mary Todd Lincoln, as she Appeared in the White House. they fix the date in 1840—the guests arrived and the bride appeared in her finery, but the groom remained away; that finally, when they did marry, Mary Todd accepted Lincoln and "married him in a spirit of pique and petty spite to wreak vengeance on him through their married life"; while with Lincoln it was a case of a "willing sacrifice." "A cruel fiction." Henry B. Rankin A calls this in his book, "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln." Mr. Rankin was a schoolboy who acted as court messenger at Petersburg, Ill., while his father was sheriff, when he first met Mr. Lincoln, then a rising young lawyer. Later he was a student in the Lincoln and Hernnd law office in Springfield, admitted to the family circle. The picture of Mary Todd which Mr Rankin draws is a charming one. Though not beautiful, she was decidedly pretty, he says, with clear blue eyes which looked through one, and a mobile face which was responsive to her every thought. She was easily the belle of Springfield during her residence there with a married sister, her own home being in Lexington, Ky. Her family objected to Lincoln because of his humble parentage and his poverty, and their engagement was broken off but two years later Mary Todd defied the family opposition and wedded the man of her choice. Mrs. Lincoln was not only attractive, but she was cultured, Mr. Rankin says, and throughout her married life, at least until the tragedy of the assassination, she kept up her French reading and other literary pursuits. Hers was a keen political perception amounting to almost prevision, too, and her advice was that most carefully weighed by Lincoln in his political and public affairs. All the world knows that when Lincoln received the news of his nomination he said: "There is a little woman over on Eighth street who is deeply interested in this news; I will carry it to her," and he left his cheering, congratulating friends to hurry to his home. Not so well known is the fact that the happiest person in Springfield was Mrs. Lincoln, and that she never closed her eyes that night, for fear she would miss some of the town's joy over the honor done its brilliant son. Mrs. Lincoln's terrible sorrow on the death of the martyr drove her abroad—"the loneliest of all the wives widowed by the Civil war"—and she was allowed to spend the last years of her life "amid chilling neglect and misrepresentation." Mr. Rankin says, but he adds that when history shall reflect the truth, in time to come if it is not already here, "she will be awarded the recognition her merits have always deserved. Till then she can wait; for, like her husband, she belongs to the ages." LINCOLN Twas not his head that made him great It was his heart, That gentler part, Which, in its kindliness, went straight To all the people, torn and sore, And like a balm lay softly o'er The Nation's wounds, and glorified The life beginning when he died. LINCOLN EVER KIND Tenderness of Heart Evinced at Times When He Was Under the Greatest Stress. LET me present another aspect of Lincoln's many-sided character. During the momentous week when Grant was hammering at the gates of the Confederate capital, the president, feeling in every liber of his being that the end was near, took passage for City Point, in order that with his own eager eyes, weary with long watching, he might see the last act in the drama of war—and, I doubt not, that he might check any overt and unseemly act, should occasion require, writes Johnson Brigham, state librarian of Iowa, in the Youth's Companion. Late one afternoon, while he was resting from his writing on the gunboat River Queen, he observed several little kittens, hardly able to stand, blindly crawling about the floor. He For Some Time He Watched Their Movements. lifted them tenderly to his desk, and for sometime watched their movements, as if pondering the greatest of all problems—the mystery of life. Seeing a lossening film over the eye of one of the kittens, he carefully wiped it away with his handkerchief, and as he placed the little fellow on the floor again, said gently, "There, little one, I've done for you what even your mother couldn't do." As I have time and again recalled to my mind that incidental use of the word "mother," I have thought that at that moment there must have come to the president some recollection of the delicate, hard-worked woman who had toiled and struggled for her son, and who yet in her poverty felt that she could do so little for him. What the word "mother" meant to this man can be inferred from his oft-quoted saying to a friend: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother—blessings on her memory!" STABBED BY BOOTH Theatrical Man Recalls Struggle With Lincoln's Murderer on Stage of Ford's. SEATED before a crackling log fire in a sturdy bungalow at Rye Beach, overlooking Long Island Sound, an old man told me of his regret that he does not hold a greater place in history, writes Pearl Louise Beck in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine. He has had this feeling of regret ever since a certain fateful hour on the evening of April 14, 1865, when he found himself flat on his back in the wings of Ford's theater in Washington, and sat up to hear the stumbling footsteps of John Wilkes Booth dying away in the distance. William Withers was leader of the orchestra in Ford's theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination. He was acquainted with the martyred president, and with Booth, who killed him, having spent an hour with the latter before the fatal performance. A few seconds after Booth had jumped from the president's box to the stage, he found Witthers blocking his way. With the fury of a madman, he drew a dagger and rushed at the musician. The steel missed its mark, but it tore a ragged gash in Witthers' left shoulder. "The dagger fell to the floor," said Mr. Witthers, in telling the story of that historic night. "I remember looking at it in a dazed way and wondering why Booth should have attacked me." Mr. Witthers is an invalid now, but his mind is wonderfully clear. He can tell in detail everything that happened to him, from the time he took his place and led the orchestra in playing "Hall to the Chief" as Lincoln entered, until his thrilling meeting with Booth immediately after the assassination. He says: "Suddenly I heard the report of a pistol and a second later a great thud upon the stage. I stepped back into the wing to see what had happened. A woman screamed, there was a stumbling rush, and a man's voice broke into bitter curses. I hurried through the wing to the stage, and A "His Face Was Ashen." came face to face with John Wilkes Booth. His face was ashen, his eyes bulged, and his hair seemed to stand on end. "The memory of that face will remain with me until I die. It was the face of a maniac. "Before I could move he was upon me with his dagger, which he tried to plunge into my heart. I caught his arm, and the blade went into my left shoulder. That wound left me with a six-inch scar, which I carry to this day. I call it the 'Booth barometer,' because every time the weather begins to fix itself for a northeast storm that old wound starts to ache. I was taken before the police authorities immediately after the assassination, and gave the first evidence that led to the positive identification of Booth as the murderer." Those words of solenm breath, What voice may little break, The silence, doubly hallowed, left by him? We can but bow the breath, with eyes grown dim, And, as a nation's litany, repeat The phrase his martyrdom hath made complete, Noble as then, but now more sadly sweet; "Let us, the living, rather dedicate Ourselves to the unfinished work which they Thus far advanced so nobly on its way. And save the periled state! Let us, upon this field, where they, the brave, Their last full measure of devotion gave, Highly resolve they have not died in vain! That, under God the nation's later birth Of freedom, and the people's gain Of their own sovereignty, shall never wane And parish from the circle of the earth! Krom such a perfect text, shall song aspire To light her faded fire, And into wandering music turn Its virtue, simple, sorrowful and stern? His voice all elegies anticipated: KNEW LINCOLN FROM HIS BIRTH Dennis Hanks, Cousin of the Emancipator, Has Left Record of the Early Days in the Humble Little Kentucky Log Cabin. WEDDINGS and births always attract attention, so it is interesting to note that the marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, the parents of Abraham Lincoln, and the advent into the world of the Great Emancipator were not without exception. It was always the proud boast of Rev. Edward Head, a Methodist minister, and likewise a carpenter, that he performed the ceremony that united Abraham Lincoln's parents in marriage. In telling of the bridal couple and the feast, he said: "Nancy Hanks was a fresh-looking girl, I should say past twenty. Tom was a respectable mechanic, who could take his choice; and she was to be treated with respect. I was at the infare given by John H. Parrott, her guardian—and it was only girls with money who had had guardians appointed by the court. Our table was of puncheons cut from the solid logs, and they were the cabin's floor next day. We had bear meat, venison, wild turkey, ducks' eggs, wild and tame—so common that you could buy them at two bits a bushel—maple sugar, swung on a string, to bite off for coffee or whisky; sipup in big gourds, peach and honey; a sheep that the two families barbecued whole over coals of wood burned in a pit, and covered with green boughs to keep in the juices; and a race for the whisky bottle." Another guest at the wedding was Christopher Columbus Graham, who lived to be more than one hundred years old. In explaining his presence at the festivities, Graham said: "You see, I was out hunting roots for medicines, and I just went to the wedding to get a good supper—and I got it. Tom Lincoln was a carpenter, and a good one for those days, when a cabin was built mostly with an ax. It didn't have a nail or a bolt or a hinge in it—only leathers and pins to the door. There wasn't any glass, either, except what you might find in bottles or watches and spectacles, if they owned them. But Tom Lincoln had the best set of tools in the whole county." Dennis Hanks, Lincoln's cousin and playmate, takes up the story: "When Nancy married Tom he was working in a carpenter shop. It wasn't Tom's fault he couldn't make a living by his trade; there was scarcely any money in the country. So Tom took up some land—mighty poor land, but the best he could get when he hadn't much to trade for it. "Tom and Nancy lived on a farm about two miles from us when Abe was born." Dennis Hanks recalled. "I recollect Tom coming over to our house one cold morning in February and saying, kind of slow: "'Nancy's got a boy baby.' "Mother got flustered and hurried up her work to go over and look after the little fellow; but I didn't have nothing to wait for, so I cut and run the whole two miles to see my new cousin. You bet I was tickled to death. Babies wasn't as common as blackberries in the woods of Kentucky. "I rolled up and slept in a bearskin that night by the fireplace, so I could see the little fellow when he cried, and Tom had to get up and tend to him. Nancy let me hold him pretty soon. "Folks often ask me if Abe was a good-looking baby. Well, now, he looked just like any other baby at first—like red cherry pulp squeezed dry. And he didn't improve as he grew older. Abe never was much for looks. I recollect how Tom joked about Abe's long legs when he was toddling about the cabin. He grew out of his clothes faster than Nancy could make them. "After he could walk Albe never gave Nancy any trouble, except to keep him in clothes. Most of the time we went barefoot. Did you ever wear a wet buckskin glove? Well, moccasins weren't any protection against the wet. For snow, birch bark with hickory bark soles, strapped over yarn socks, beat A man lifts a child in his arms. "Nancy Let Me Hold Him Pretty Soon." buckskin all hollow. Abe and he got pretty handy contriving things that way. And Abe, about as soon as he was weaned, was right out in the woods, fishing in the creek, setting traps for rabbits and muskrats, going on coon-hunts with Tom and me and the dogs, following up bees to find the bee trees and dropping corn for his puppy. It was a mighty interesting life for a boy, but there was a good many chances that he wouldn't live to grow up." So, taken all in all, even admitting the dignity conferred on Tom Lincoln's bride by the possession of a guardian, it was a lowly chronicle—this of the backwoods wedding and the children's log-cabin birth. But it has been the story of the origins of hundreds of other Americans, who, like their most famous exemplar, have risen by the sheer force of their energy and brains to positions commanding the respect of those born to the earth's richest comforts and most lavish luxuries. And there is this to be said of it: That Lincoln's emancipation of the poor blacks was not the only freedom he gained for humanity through his career. He had the cabin of his birth flung in his teeth many a time before his home was the nation's most coveted place of residence. After that, no son of poverty need take shame for the humble roof that sheltered him in infancy. JUILD SHIPS AT COST PRICE JUILD SHIPS AT COST PRICE Bethlehem Steel Will Make Offer to Uncle Sam. BIDS ON 16 INCH NAVY SHELLS No Chance For Profit In Them Under Present Tests, Grace Says—Possible Explanation of the Prices Made by an English Firm Which Bids Under All American Manufacturers. Speaking recently before the Terraplin Club of Philadelphia, Luene G. Grace, President of the Bathhehem Steel Company, said in part: In a peculiar sense Bathhehem Steel serves the American people. For example, though we have been able to obtain in Europe almost any price, we have adhered, in our charges to the United States Government, to the basis of prices established before the war began. We agreed—if the Government would abandon its plans for a Federal plant—to make armor for our Navy at any price the Government itself might consider fair. Our ordinance plants are at the disposal of the nation at a fair operating cost, plus a small margin, thus saving the Government investment and depreciation. One of the special needs of the new navy is sixteen-inch guns—guns sixty feet long and capable of hurting a 2000 pound shell with such power and accuracy as to hit a 50 foot square target fifteen miles away. We have undertaken voluntarily to construct, at a cost of $4,500,000, a plant fitted to build sixteen-inch guns. Under no conceivable circumstances can orders which we may receive for this plant pay even a fair return on the investment. Considerable comment has been made upon the fact that a British manufacturer recently bid less than American manufacturers for sixteen and fourteen-inch shells for the navy. I am unable to state the basis upon which the English bid was made. It should be remembered, however, that this bid was for a specific shell samples of which are being sent over for test—a test not yet made. Two years ago we took an order for 2400 fourteen inch armor-piercing shells at a contract price of $768,000, to be delivered within a certain time or we had to pay a large penalty. The only specifications for making these shells are that they shall be of a certain size and must pierce armor-plate at a certain velocity on impact. It is impossible to foretell the exact conditions of the tests. We had made large quantities of shells in the past which had been accepted. But in placing this particular order the Department altered the angle at which the tested shells must pierce armor plate. The result, however, has been absolute inability on our part to produce in any quantity, shells which will meet these novel tests. In fact we know of no process of product making through which it is possible to produce in quantities shells which will conform to the requirements. The result is that up to now on that contract of $768,000 we have put into actual operating expense $447,881, and have been penalized for non-delivery $495,744, a total of $493,625, with no receipts whatever. Such was the experience in the light of which we were called upon recently to bid for sixteen-inch shells. We bid on these shells at approximately the same rate per pound as that of a fourteen inch shell contract of one year ago upon which the Government awarded contracts. We have not the slightest idea what profit there will be in the making of these shells. We do not know that there will be any. There is no certainty that it would be possible for us to deliver a shell to meet the test. For officers in the Navy to assume that any bid made under such conditions is "exorbitant" is utterly unfair. We bid on the new battle-cruisers sums which Navy department experts, after examination of our books, found would yield a profit of less than ten per cent. We agreed to assume risks for increased costs of materials and labor, that made it possible that these contracts might yield no profit whatever. The costs run beyond the amount appropriated by Congress on the basis of the cost estimates made a year ago. And because shipbuilders could not alter the inexorable cost facts and reduce bids to early estimates of the Navy Department, the prices are called "exorbitant." It would be a real advantage to be relieved of this naval construction. The profit from it cannot possibly amount to much, and the responsibility is enormous. We have determined to make this offer to the American Government. "If you will build two of the battle-cruisers in Government navy yards, we will build the other two at the ascertained cost of building the ships in the Government yards, without additional expense or commissions of any kind. We will a so contract to save our ships ready for service ahead of the Government ships."