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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." "HERE SHALL THE ESTABLISHED 1882. SEEKING TO SAVE DOOMED WOMAN Mrs. Wakefield Sentenced to Be Hanged. MAY ESCAPE THE GALLOWS. Various Organizations and Prominent Women In Connecticut Protest Against Extreme Penalty—She, With Aid of a Man, Brought About the Death of Her Husband. Hartford, Conn.—Aroused as they never have been before, Connecticut women of every walk in life are shouldering the burden of preventing the state from inflicting the death punishment upon Mrs. Bessie J. Wakefield, convicted as an accomplice in the murder of her husband. From every conceivable vantage point wives and daughters of prominent men, suffragists and women opposed to their sex exercising the right of franchise are attacking as disgrace- A. Photo by American Press Association. MRS. BESSIR WAKEFIELD. ful and unwarranted the carrying out of the court edict that Mrs. Wakefield shall be hung. From every corner of the state the protests of the women are being voiced in the form of publicly circulated petitions to which many thousands of names are being signed daily, in publicity campaigns and in personal demands being made upon members of the state board of pardons, legislators and jurists. Although Mrs. Wakefield still is in a cell in the prison death house, no word yet has been received by her indicating what will be the result of the unique crusade. If Mrs. Wakefield dies for the murder of her husband, in the actual commission of which she was not accused of having taken a hand, she will be the first woman put to death in the state since 1786. Connecticut's lenency toward women who have been convicted of murder is explained in part by its efforts to atone for its unsavory record in Colonial days, when six women were burned or hanged as witches. In 1745 Elizabeth Shaw, a feeble minded girl, was hanged on her father's testimony that she had killed her infant child. She was executed after she had ridden a mile to the scaffold seated on her coffin and crying aloud to be saved. But since Connecticut became a state only one woman has been legally put to death within its limits. Mrs. Wakefield is twenty-four years old and is one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Webster of Middlebury, an uncultured, but honest, couple, who for years have eked a bare living out of a rocky farm. The daughter received practically no education, and she was only seventeen when she was married to Wakefield, a Bristol farm hand. She became housekeeper for James Plew, a Middlebury farmer. Plew and Wakefield soon quarreled about her. Wakefield was found slain last June. Plew confessed the deed, but he and Mrs. Wakefield blamed each other for plotting the murder so that they could be married. Plew, who has a wife and child, and Mrs. Wakefield, who has two children, have been sentenced to be hanged on March 4, 1914. It has been stated in the Connecticut press that the vote of the board must be unanimous to commute a sentence, but the law was changed four years ago to make a favorable vote of five members effective. Mrs. Wakefield's children are with her parents. The boy, who is six years old, and the girl, who is four, know nothing of their parents' fate, and they daily say to their grandmother, "Mamma will be home today." The fact that many women have been convicted of single handed and premeditated murder in Connecticut in the last half century, and that all have escaped the death penalty, and that Mrs. Wakefield is not even charged with a part in the actual killing of her husband, has incited a widespread revolt against the decree of the extreme penalty in her case. 77, SHE WALKS 100 MILES. Woman Makes Journey to Old Home In Four Days. Philadelphia.—Mrs. Fannie McGlynn, seventy-seven years old, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, left her home to visit relatives in South Philadelphia and was found later 100 miles away in Palo Alto, a small town just outside of Pottsville. She had made the distance in four days. Mrs. McGlynn recently had talked a great deal about going back to a little house in Palo Alto in which the family lived thirty years ago. When the woman reached the house she said that she had come to collect the rent due. Report of the 100 mile trip of the woman aroused the interest of the authorities, who found that the McGlynn property was sold by the county commissioners in 1884 for nonpayment of taxes. DEER FIGHT TWO HOURS. Bucks Lock Horns Finally and Aro Shot to End Sufferings. South Orange. N. J.-After fighting for two hours two male deer belonging to the Essex county park commission locked horns on the hillside paddock at the South mountain reservation and had to be shot to end their sufferings. It is just a year ago since a dozen maimed bucks and does were found on the reservation. Alonzo Church, secretary to the park commission, summoned Dr. Hormaday of the Bronx zoological garden to solve the mystery. He found that it was the season when the larger bucks become vicious, and a number of them were shot. Then two other bucks which had shown murderous dispositions were also shot to insure the safety of those that remained. Norfolk, Neb.—A baseball batted into a cornfield thirty-eight years ago by E. K. Ballantyne, later sergeant-at-arms in the United States senate, was found when excavations were being made for a new building. The ball had become petrified. This was the first league baseball ever bought for North Nebraska, and the game had to be stopped because the ball was lost. CITY CHRISTMAS TREE. Chicago to Have One With Glistening Ice and Presents. Chicago.—Children of the street here are to have a municipal Christmas tree for the first time this year. The tree is to stand in Grant park, facing the lake front, and is to be placed in position long enough before the holidays so that it can be sprayed with water and make a spire of glistening ice. According to plans of the Municipal Christmas Tree association, the lake front is to be a blaze of light during the entire week. Pioneer Petrified Baseball. IDENTIFIES CRIMINALS BY FINGER PRINTS IDENTIFIES CRIMINALS BY FINGER PRINTS Inspector Faurot Perfects Great Weapon For Detectives. New York.-Under the direction of Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, chief of New York city's detective bureau, the finger print system of identifying criminals has been almost perfected, and in this manner identification of criminals becomes a simple matter when P. Photo by American Press Association. they have "records"—that is, when they have been in the toils on previous occasions. Finger prints are divided into four classes, known as "loops," "arches," "swoles" and "composites." It takes an expert but an instant to classify the prints. These are all kept on file at police headquarters in large cities, and immediately after some crime is committed the detectives try to obtain the finger prints of the criminal. These are taken to the headquarters for comparison. Along with the prints there are kept descriptions of the criminals and in many instances photographs. Thus, once the print is obtained, identification becomes a simple matter if the record is on file. To bring out the prints and make the lines clear certain chemicals are used. The faintest marks can be made to show clearly upon any object. This system was inaugurated by Inspector Faurot, and he has developed it so that it is now considered one of the best weapons in the hands of the detectives. DANCING TANCO, LOSES EYE. Man Has Sight Destroyed by Quill in Hat of His Partner. Asheville, N. C.--For the pleasure of dancing the tango Brent Latimer of Greenville, S. C., paid the price of one eye, the sight being destroyed by a quill in the hat of the young woman with whom he was dancing. In making a turn the quill swept in behind his glasses, cutting the ball of the eye. Physicians announced that the sight of his right eye is destroyed. REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE Mrs. Phillips of New York Was Wedded Last December. Wilmington, Del.-Mrs. Edith Flosson Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street. New York, called the Rev. George L. Wolfe by telephone and asked him to announce her marriage on Dec. 18 last to Wallace B. Phillips. The couple were wedded here by Mr. Wolfe. "Wasn't your marriage published at the time?" the preacher asked. "No," was the answer. The woman would not give her reason for desiring the belated announcement. She said her husband was from Greensboro, N. C. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED STUDENTS BURN HISTORIES. Indignant Georgians Destroy Copies as Band Plays "Dixie." Waleska, Ga.—With the band playing "Dixie" the students of Reinherdt college, numbering nearly 409, gathered on the campus and made a bundle of every copy of a history of the United States which had been prescribed in the curriculum. The book was prepared by a northern historian, and the students allege that the writer is unfair to the south and unduly partial to the north, especially in dealing with the civil war. In the history Harriet Beecher Stowe is praised and Jefferson Davis is declared to have been a man of small mental caller and also a traitor. The character of some of the leading southern generals also is attacked. It is alleged that there are even insinuations against General Robert E. Lee. Reinhardt college is under the auspices of the Southern Methodist church. It is coeducational and is the largest educational institution in north Georgia. STRUNG UP TWENTY DAYS. Prison Warden Uses Harsh Means to Stop Drug Smuggling. Jefferson City, Mo.—Steve Willie, the St. Louis convict who underwent punishment "strung up" in the "rings" at the state penitentiary for twenty days for refusing to tell the source of whisky found in his possession, told Warden D. C. McCling before the hour when he was again to be strung up that he got the whisky from a Jackson county negro named Wright, who is serving seven years for robbery. Wright, who was a trusty, was sent to the punishment cells and strung up in the "rings" to compel him to tell where he obtained the liquor. Willie was permitted to go back to his own cell. During the past few months a large amount of hecoh has been brought into the penitentiary, and Warden MeGung believes a plant for smuggling drugs has been established. CN A GCOSEBERRY JAG. New Fruity Intoxicant Produces a Great Walloping Power. Fort Collins, Colo. - The weird dreams of the absinthe drinker have nothing on the peculiar effects of a new kind of jag inducer which has been discovered by some Russians who live near Loveland. This new booze is a fermented gooseberry juice and while under its influence Henry Moser, a small Russian, whipped Peter Kroeg and George Addison, both of them six feet tall. The battle took place at the home of Henry Schaffer, and in police court Moser gave a vivid description of the power he felt and told the court he was only sorry his legs were too short to make it possible for him to overtake Addison, who ran away before he was entirely knocked out. LEAN MEN WICKED, HE SAYS "Laughter, Fat Man's Gift, the Mark of Humanity," Quayle Says. Washington.—Bishop Quayle of the Methodist church has compiled some statistics on fat and lean men. He said: "Man, when he is lean, takes himself too seriously and squeaks when he walks. He is wicked and has not half the chance the fat man has of being good. "Laughter, the gift of the fat man, is the mark of humanity. "Men have not so much to laugh at, but women can laugh easier, for they have a subject—to wit, the man." DISMEMBER LIVING MAN. Sons-in-law Suspected of Atrocious Crime In Spain. Badajoz, Spain.—The police have discovered in a vacant lot the dismembered body of Senor Higuera Real, who disappeared and for whom a general alarm had been issued. The theory that he was killed by his sons-in-law, some money affair being the motive for the crime, is held by the police. The physicians assert that the dismembering of the body had begun when the man was fat alive. NOVEMBER BY GAIN." VOL. 32 NO. 38 MODERN RIP AWAKES FROM 9 YEARS' SLEEP Like the Van Winkle of Irving, Ho Finds Many Changes. Tarrytown, N. Y.—A Living Rip Van Winkle, awakening from nine years of oblivion to find old friends dead and his children grown to manhood, walks, be wildered, in the streets of his home town, in that very Sleepy Hollow country of which Irving, author of Rip, wrote many tales. He is Hyman Levy, long a leading merchant in Tarrytown before the "sleep" of years began. It was a mental cloud that shrouded him and made him almost as one dead to his wrists. Now, with tottering step, but clear seeing eyes, he has come slowly back from the mysterious wilderness of lost memory. He sees new faces that are somehow old—the faces of the children who are men and women now. He seeks the inuits of former friends to find them held by strangers. Many that he know are now but nurses upon the graves steps in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. But Levy's is not a mournful awakening. There are scores of his old enemies alive and rejoicing in his recovery. He remembers them all. He remembers everything that happened up to nine years ago. These nine years are an utter blank. At the height of his business career he worried so much over a scratch on his leg which was infected that he became ill. He recovered physically, but made himself a hermit in his home. When he went out, at long intervals, he passed his friends without recognition. NAVY NEGLECTS RELIGION. Daniels Wants Number of Chaplains Increased. Newport News, Va.—Neglect of religion by the United States in its navy is a reproach to the republic, Secretary Daniels declared here in an address before the United Brotherhood of Men's Bible Classes. The secretary announced that he would ask congress immediately to provide chaplains and welfare secretaries proportionate to the navy's personnel. Twenty-four chaplains, he said, are all that the government now provides to look after the religious welfare of the navy's 67,000 men, the number of chaplains not having been increased since 1842, when the personnel of the navy numbered only 12,000 men. The secretary added that more than seventy-five important ships in the navy have no religious leader attached, while the marine corps, with an enlistment of 10,226 men, has not a single chaplain to look after the spiritual development of its personnel. MAIL COURTSHIP WINS. Postal Cards Unite Couple Whose Ages Are Seventy-six and Seventy-one. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—After courting five months through the mails and meeting his bride only five weeks ago, Joseph W. Oliver, seventy-one years old, of Sweet Valley, Pa., and Mrs. Mary Van Ault, seventy-six years old, of this city, were united in marriage here by Aiderman John P. Pollock. Frank Lewis, a truck farmer, was the matchmaker. After the death of Mrs. Van Ault's husband five months ago Lewis learned that she was heartbroken. One day he suggested that she marry again, declaring that he knew an aged man out in the country who would make her a good husband. Then Lewis saw Oliver and suggested marriage to him. Oliver became interested at once and asked for the woman's name and address. The next day he mailed a colored postal to him, giving his name and rural address. In a short time he received a colored postal from Mrs. Van Ault, and then he ventured to write a letter. The correspondence led to a meeting and the marriage followed. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DIVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AY IMANAL ENVIRONMENT OF HUMAN I. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Senior for Sample Copies. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Self'Phone,101K Mtr. Izaburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 13 About as we foresaid, other countries are backing Huerta. Japan is an anxious onlooker and more anxious to fire shot and shell into this country's policies encouraged from church and congress to epit on and tread down all except of the lightest color. Woe be the hour when the first gun is fired. General Stewart L Woodford, former American minister to Spain, said one time, in a speech in New York: "We didn't give the Negro freedom until we had to, and we are not going to give them equal rights until compelled to." He is dead and the Negroes are getting their rights and making wonderful progress as well. In reply to the "Eastern Pan Handle Association for the study and prevention of consumption," the Pioneer Press has this to say; if said society can induce our girls and young women to do away with gauze stockings to exhibit their ankles, and low-neck dresses—obief causes of consumption, then it will join in with them to help stay its ravages, other wise, otherwise. Last week one neighbor shot a quail on his land, but the quail managed to get over on the next neighbor's land. The man who shot it, went over and got it and for doing it his neighbor had him arrested for treepassing. He was brought to Martinsburg, tried by a certain magistrate and fined four dollars. What do you think of the neighbor and what of the magistrate? Believe the Governor will refund that fine and rebuke the justice of the 'piece.' That old wry faced, glossy eyed and tongue thickened—all the cause of paralyzation—Ben Tillman is at his old game again abusing Negroes and advocating lynching them. There're plenty of sincere God loving and serving colored men and women who ought to wrestle with God as did Jacob to paralyze him one more time. Certain as tight is right, God will do it, if it is gone about in His divine way. If a spirit struck John C. Calhoun's band while writing his wicked intentions, and so hurt and frightened him that he died, surely H. will help the Negroes get rid of Ben Tillman, whose life He spared to give him time to atone for the wrongs he had done an inoffensive people. It's a blot on the original intention of America's constitutional rights, for a man who took its oath which calls on God and man to witness it, as did William Howard Taft, to tell any party the best thing they should do. He incists this nation treat the Japanese fair and square to live up to this country's treaty agreements. Has it not a stronger agreement to be fair, square, kind and just with its own darker citizens, who have unceasingly toiled here for 300 years, than with Japanese? Mr. Taft is about as sincere over the rights of Japanese as he was in his North Carolina, Kentucky and New Hampshire speeches about the Negroes' constitutional rights. He set the pace the Democrats are travelling—went farther and told them in substance to obey their masters. He is the very one who put all Negroes in office in the South out. A country that goes off 13000 miles and kills hundreds and thousands to start civilization there; when hundreds and thousands are disfranchised, burned, shot and lynched at home, puts itself in the eyes of the world as rotten to the core. When Filipinos were being shot like rabbits, letters were coming here telling how they were slaying Niggers. Mr. Taft isn't half as much interested in helping the Japanese as he is in hurting Roosevelt and Johnson, who caused him to get only 7 electoral votes in the whole United States—New Hampshire and, Utah voting for him. Japan don't want his help nor advice; for she is able to shoot for her rights and the world knows it. Judging from all viewpoints, Storer College, situated as it is and inspired as it was, ought to be the best school in the world and we wish it was. It is right to exercise the body, but the vital question is, what is the best method of exercise? To our way of seeing it, to roam over those mountains, bills, valleys and ravines gathering things for inspection with a powerful microscope would not only give the best of exercise for the body, but at the same time powerful development of the brain. There geology can be learned and read as nowhere else in America to a better advantage. That there was a vast body of water, or lake high as London and Maryland Heights, is true as gospel, and that during a great storm or convulsion of the earth, said water rushed over the mountain cutting a small channel and continued to flow over and cut the channel deeper till this whole valley was emptied is absolutely true. Where, then, is a better place to learn the age of the earth than Harper's Ferry, and who ought to be more anxious to do it than the students of Storer College? Young men throw football and base ball to the winds as idols and follow our advice and become wise in that which will do you good. Never have heard so much fuss and feathers before about typhoid fever since last week's lecture at the High School. The speaker was pleased to call it filth's disease, and if the papers quoted him correctly, Berkeley County has more typhoid germs in it than the whole United States. If that be true, what a filthy place this county must be. If there be a town in this wide world better drained than Martinsburg, and considering the migratory labor element from most everywhere on earth here working in the quarries &c, flocking to our town and flooding our streets, nevertheless and notwithstanding it all, show us another place where there is as little real sickness and death resulting therefrom as Martinsburg. Mr. Leoy, with means to afford it, traveled the world over for the restoration of his health, finally returned to Berkeley County, and pronounced it the healthiest Eldorado of the world. Don't get scared and leave your county; stay where you were born or have cast your lot, sweep before your own doors and keep your back yards clean and go on in the even tenor of your ways. Thanking the gentleman for the advice given, we will wager a flip and a bit that his headquarters—Washington, D. C., is a hundred per cent more filthy than Berkeley County, and has a hundred cases of typhoid fever to Berkeley's one. The Auburndale Driving Club promises great sport to those who love fine horse racing on Thanksgiving Day. Everybody go, Partridges. A mundlin sentiment is on the waves of the winds about "these poor birds," and laws more rigid every year are being enacted to stop men from killing them. Why not take it as a fact that they as well as rabbits, pheasants, turkeys, geese and ducks were made to be eaten same as hogs, beetles and sheep? And then go about it in the right way to protect them, and let that protection be for the use of man. Do our print paper protectionists know that hawks and crows kill twice as many of these birds as the huntemen do? It is a fact. The year around hawks kill them daily by the hundreds, and when the ground is covered with snow and their food is hard to find, crows search for them like good monsters for mice, and they find them, and kill them—many times leaving not one of a covey. A short time ago, we heard a wonderful crow noise, and soon saw hundreds of crows close to, around, on and some inside a corn shock. Now and then, a frantic rush would be made with a deafening quawking. We watched it for sometime, and our curiosity made us anxious to know what they were up and after, and over there we went. The ground was covered with quail feathers. They were bold and daring, not wanting to leave and showed signs of attacking us. Standing sometime, a frightened quail was beard making noise within the shock, and on our opening up the shock out flew a crow. Put a premium on killing hawks and crowds, and there will be plenty of partridges for men to kill and eat, provided they are not hunted commercially. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOV- ERNOR TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA We are nearing the time when in keeping with custom, the gray haired parents see the link of affection restored, the matron smiles where the girl smiled before, to meet loved ones and discuss loved ones who are absent. We read the past by the light of the present. The forms vary as the shadow falls or the point of vision falter. The graciousness of our Great Benefactor comes before us brightly as we, at the accustomed time designated by our Puritan ancestors for giving thanks to Almighty God, recount the manifold blessings of which we have been the recipients and offer our supplications to Him, the Giver of all good things. In the nation we have religion that is without a prelate, a government without a king, and our motto should be comfort, not extravagance, acquiring knowledge that will guarantee to each and every one independence based upon increasing the earnings and the best possible way of conserving that which affords each and every one more prosperity and greater thrift in the homes which make greater achievements for the boys and girls of these homes and add to our nation's wealth. In a nation which is at peace with the whole world we find that the spirit of independence and fairness among the citizenship, the foundation stone of the government laid by our forefathers has been exercised to a degree that foretells good, for the advancement of the whole people. In our state we are happy, prosperous and contented; the turmoil of industrial strife, which was one of our most serious problems, has been satisfactorily settled, cool judgment has prevailed on both sides, and through this settlement a better feeling of co operation has been brought about between all parties, the flood devastation wrought great damage to us, but we were able to recover so quickly as to astonish the world the appeals that were sent out to the citizenship of our State were answered by the Great Brotherhood of Mankind which threw the broad mantle of charity about those who were stricken and in distress. Our crops are bountiful; our industries are busy, our development has attracted wonderful attention, and in the past year we have seen the enactment of a law which gives to those dependent upon the unfortunate whose life may be sacrificed in a/hazardous occupation the State's strong arm of protection. Our educational, humane and religious advancement has kept pace with our industrial strides. With all these providings before us our people should come to a full realization of the benefits bestowed upon them and should we not pause and ask ourselves, have we not great cause for returning thanks to our Almighty God. Therefore, I, Henry D, Hatfield Governor of West Virginia, in recognition of these most gratifying conditions designate the twenty seventh day of November as Thanksgiving Day, and call upon the people to refrain from their labors and in their respective houses of worship to join in prayer and praise, and beseech the continuation of the abundance of His providence through the future years. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Less Seal of the State to be affixed. Done at the Capitol, in the City of Charleston, this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and in the fifty-first year of the State. H. D. HATFIELD. By the Governor: Stuart F. Reed, Sec'y of State. Literature BY W. G. KEEPING UP WITH PROVIDENCE "In Americus, Georgia," said James L. Fort, secretary to Representative Dudley M. Hughes, of that state, "there is an old man who has quite a record for marrying. Four wives have died, and he has married the fifth. A neighbor meeting the old man's son, said; "Well John, I hear your father has married again." "Yes sir," said the boy. "Every time the Lord takes one the old man takes another." SHAKEN FAITH. $ \star^{\circ} \star $ A certain famous bronco buster of Montana belongs to a lodge which keeps him out late at nights occasionally. When he gets in and his wife asks him what time it was, he always says, "A little after ten," or something like that. One night—or rather morning, he returned just as dawn was breaking. "What time is it?" called his sleepy wife. "A quarter to eleven," replied the husband. His wife lighted a lamp and looked at an alarm clock near the bed. It showed twenty minutes after four. She took her husband to task. Whereupon he put on his coat and hat again and started out in a dignified manner. "Where are you going?" she asked. "I am going away," he replied—away never to return. When things have come to such a pass in this house, that you, the wife of my bosom, have reached a point where you will rather believe an ordinary, tiny six bit alarm clock instead of your loving husband, it is time I left for parts unknown." TOAST LIMITS A Right Honorable Member of Parliament had the first response on the toast list at an English banquet. He began drearily and talked soggy politics. After he had been on his feet for an hour, the chairman or toastmaster sent a note to a man sitting near the talker, who was also scheduled for a toast. The note read: "For Heaven's sake twitch his coat tails and tell him he has exceeded his time limit." Presently a note from the talker came back to the chairman, which read: "I am astonished at your request. If I cannot speak longer than this, I must refuse to speak at all." A well known local character of Townsend, Montana, lost a leg in a switching yard on the railroad. The railroad boys raised; a purse for the victim. After paying the hospital and doctors bills, he bought a coffin and a cemetery lot, and had his amputated leg buried in good style. "Now," said he: "when I die, all they have to do is to dig up the coffin, and put me in with the leg." J.R CLIFFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS 10.4 Per Cent of Employees In Cotton Mills Under Sixteen Years Old. Washington. Of the 387,771 persons employed in the cotton goods industry in 1900 in the United States, 39,306, or 10.4 per cent, were children under sixteen years of age and half of them girls, according to a final report of the census bureau. Alabama. North and South Carolina employ 19 per cent of children and Massachusetts 5.7 per cent. These children worked on an average of from fifty-four to sixty hours a week. The 1,324 establishments in the industry produced $628,391,813 worth of goods. The cost of materials totaled $371,009,470, and the total paid in salaries and wages was $147,270,903. There was an increase of the previous census of 25.5 per cent in the number of plants, and the total capital invested in the industry in 1909 was $822,237,529, an increase of 70 per cent over 1830. PRISONERS TO KEEP NAMES: Number System and Lettered Uniforms Abolished at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.—As a result of the efforts of Warden Moyer, which have met with the approval of the department of justice, prisoners at the Atlanta penitentiary hereafter will be known by names instead of numbers, and their uniforms no longer will bear the letters "U. S. P.," branding them as United States prisoners. Announcement of this radical departure from prison custom was made by Good Words, the paper which is edited and published in the penitentiary. While each prisoner's clothing will bear his registration number, it will be for identification only and will be concealed from sight. BALTIMORE & ONT RAILROAD. Corrected to Dec. 1st, 1912. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows. WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.21 a.m for Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling. No 15 Daily at 11.50 a.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p.m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7.42 p.m for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No, 1 Daily at 6.20 p m for Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 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 11.29 p.m; for Pittsburg No 23 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a.m. Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND No 16 Daily except Sunday at 11.55 a m for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations via old line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 0.30 p m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Baltimore, M. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter BETTER HEALTH. BETTER EDUCATION. The Richmond meeting, November 6 and 7 of the Negro Organizations Society which aims to federate all colored organizations in Virginia for "Better Schools, Better Health, Better Homes, Better Farms," brought together for hearty cooperation, on a broad platform of public uplift work, the influential race leaders and some of the Negro's best Southern white friends. Prof. J. M. Gardy, of Petersburg Va., the executive secretary, gave a summary of the Society's work showing that it has inspired the building of five graded schoolhouses; has aided in the raising of money for six other graded schoolhouses, at an estimated cost of $7000; has urged the interest of white and colored people in sanitary schools, homes, and churches; has organized school improvement leagues, which aim to improve the physical conditions of rural schools, extend school terms, and raise money for general school purposes; has emphasized the importance of ventilation, cleanliness and pure water supply; has secured the hearty cooperation of the Virginia State Health Board; has succeeded in showing the colored people the importance of "Clean up Day;" has helped to create a new attitude toward public health safety for all Virginians. Major R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute, who is the president of the Negro Organization Society, said: "It plans not merely to pass resolutions; not to find fault; not to criticise either black folks or white folks; not to break down, but to build up, not to separate, but to unite. Our work is for the social, civic, intellectual, industrial, and moral betterment of the black men in Virginia." We plan to make the Negro more efficient, more self respecting, and thereby more respected, more useful to himself and to his neighbors. Our purpose is not to interfere in any way with the plans, policies, and purposes of any individual or organization. We wish to bring together in helpful, sympathetic, and unselfish cooperation all Negro organization. We are working together for the good of our people, our country and our state." "There certainly can be no interest more fundamental to the white people than that the black people should be clean and healthy, that they should be efficient and frugal, for disease in the Negro cabin will very likely find its way to the white mansion. For the protection of our white neighbors, to say nothing about the interest of my own people, I want to ask for the continued interest, sympathy, backing, and best wishes of our white people, than whom there is no finer type to be found in this old Commonwealth." Dr. Bocker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, emphasized the value of having level headed, conservative, unselfish, and able colored leaders; the importance of white people setting colored people a good example; the necessity of colored people focusing their attention on the fundamentals of life-education, health and cleanliness. Governor Mann of Virginia addressed 4000 Negroes in the City Auditorium and commended the leaders for what they had done to get all the Negro organizations of Virginia to work as a single unit for better health and better education. He promised his hearty cooperation in carrying out the Negro Organization Society's plan of improving school, health, farm, and home life in Virginia. Mayor Ainslie of Richmond, Mrs. B B. Munford, Dr. S. C. Mitchell, Dr. H B. Frissell, Dr. Kelly Miller, Rev. A A. Graham, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, W. T, B, Williams, and John B. Pierce were among the speakers at the two day session of the first annual meeting of the Negro Organization Society. NOTICE TO CITIZENS. WANTED, AGENTS-EITHER SEX, for our new book, "Life Lines of Success," for Colored Americans. Just off the press, ready for delivery October 30,1913. 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"Such a task as that which Gibbon set himself over a century ago would be impossible today, even for a syndicate of Gibbons. There are too many books now to enable another history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire to be composed. "Productivity of the highest type is checked by the excess of facilities. This is true both of books and of physical apparatus. We could get along well with far fewer books and far less apparatus, and we should be likely to get more ideas and a higher type of human being. The universities of the world search restlessly for truth, but A. B. DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. too often they overlook the indubitable which lies at their feet." Gifts to Columbia during the year aggregated $1,605,935. The university showed a deficit of $63,821 for the year. 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