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"HERE SHAD THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer Department of Archives. The "HERE SHALL ESTABLISHED 1882 PEACH TWIG MAY TURN THE TRICK Dan Helfibow Goes Out and "Finds Water"—Well Diggers Are a Failure. Shepherdstown, which was placed on the map 125 years ago by the members of the Shepherd family, of which R. D. Shepherd (McLean), a Shakespearean tragedian, is an illustrious descendent, is within a stone's throw of the Potomac river, and also car the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, yet Shepherdstown finds it next to impossible to get a good water supply. It is almost as hard up in that respect as was that poor fellow who was stranded on a raft. Even when James Rumsey sailed his first steamboat in 1777, or 20 years before Bob Fulton experimented on the Hudson, he found water aplenty in Shepherstown, but that was nearly 140 years ago, and there have been a few changes in Shepherdstown since then. Some time ago capitalists organized a company to install a modern water system, and it was banned to get a high-pressure flow from a huge artesian well, but the hole is now 200 feet deep, and still there is no water. The promoters would have ceased operations, but the well-diggers held out hope. Finally, all hope vanished and the boring has been stopped. It was found that after drilling through more than 200 feet of solid limestone and 100 feet of granite that the drill was somewhere near sea level. Shooting Well Suggested. A suggestion now under consideration is that the hole be rammed half full of dynamite and set off, and that if that upheaval does not produce water another location will be sought if the town remains on the map. In fact a new location that will surely be less expensive than the present hole has been guaranteed by Daniel Hefler-Power, of Rippon, who is noted as a "water smeller." He went in a smelling tour a day or two ago, equipped with the old-time peach twig, such as the ancients were supposed to have used in locating water. Suddenly Mr. Helfebower scented water within 100 feet of the surface near Goldsborough hill, on top of which the new reservoir is to be built. All the peach twigs clearly indicated an abundance of water. When the news was carried through town several of the older inhabitants recalled that the ancient water smellers used to locate streams and dig good wells right in Shepherdstown 125 years ago. Now everyone is in favor of following the advice of Mr. Helfebower's peach twig. MISSING MAN'S BODY IS FOUND Charles Shiver, of Hancock, Believed to Have Taken Life by Drowning. The body of Charles E. Shives, mysteriously missing from his home at Hancock since November 7, was found by Joseph Foley and Reed Johnston Saturday floating in the data at Johnson's mill. Fulton county, Pa., five miles north of Hancock. He was traced to the dam several days ago, and the waters dragged, but his body was not then discovered. His cap lay not far from the bank. Despondent over the removal to Oklahoma by his father and sister is thought to have prompted him to drown himself. ```markdown ``` THE 'YALE-HARVARD' GAME THANKSGIVING Football Fans From All Sections of the State Flock to Fairmont for Big Contest. The "Yale-Harvard" football game for West Virginia, that between Wesleyan and the State University will be played at South Side Park, Fairmont, on Thanksgiving day, Thursday, November 30th, at 2:30. This game annually settles the state championship for the gridiron sport and of late years has come to be by far the biggest sporting event staged in the state and draws one of the largest crowds that attends any event of state-wide interest. Last year the University triumphed for the first time in four years and the chances look good for her to repeat this year, but "Greasy" Neale and John Kellison at Wesleyan, assisted by such able players as Calac, the famous Indian, Beck; Morrison, and all their stars are looked to have something up their sleeves for Rodgers, Hite and other noted players who wear the Old Gold and Blue, and the game is attracting much wider notice than ever before. Three thousand tickets were sold for the game in the first week of the advance sale, but arrangements are being made to accommodate an even larger crowd than last year. Many local people will witness the contest. Some have already secured their tickets by mail having made application to H. A. Stansbury at Black hannon, who handles the mail orders. The advance sale at the reduced price of $1.25 per ticket will close November 25th, after which time all tickets will be $1.50 each. Any local fans who expect to see the game who have not applied for tickets should do so at once. OKMULGEE, OKLA. BUSINESS MEN HERE OKMULGEE, OKLA. BUSINESS MEN HERE Twelve Car Special Arrived in Martinsburg at 3.15 and Stayed An Hour. About 200 members of the Okmulgee, Okla., Commercial Club, returning from New York, passed through here this afternoon and from 3.15 to 4.15 were the guests of Mayor Lieter and other city officials and many of the leading citizens of the city. The club travels in a special train of twelve cars, equipped with a diner, pullmans, sleepers, a barber shop, and every convenience, and have made the trip east for the purpose of seeing the country. They came by the way of Chicago, and will return via St. Louis. After leaving here they stop at Cumberland, Wheeling, Pittsburgh, or leading cities of the middle west, MR. KISNER BUYS DUDROW LAUNDRY Will Transfer Machinery to the K. & B. Laundry and Operate on Big Scale. Ardell Kisner, proprietor or the K. & B laundry, situated on South Water and East Stephen streets, has purchased from O. G. Dutrow, the laundry operated by him on South College street. Mr. Kisner's intention is not to run both plants but to transfer the machinery from Dutrow's to his plant and operate it on a much bigger scale. AMBASSADORS ARE TOLD BY ALLIES TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY GERMAN, AUSTRIAN, BULGARIAN AND TURKISH REPRESENTA TIVES TO GET OUT. CREDIT FOR THE FALL OF MONASTIR IS GIVEN THE HOLLAND AROUSED OVER DEPOR TION OF BELGIAN WOMEN TO GERMANY (Special to The World.) LONDON, Nov. 20.—A special News Agency dispatch from Athens said that the German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish amabassadors in the Greek capital, with their staffs, have been told by the allies that they must leave the country by Wednesday. Military critics here today agreed to accept the capture of Monastir as of great importance. Diplomatically most of the credit for the great victory is given to the Serbs, whose fighting along the Cerna forced the enemy to abandon its positions, which opened the way for the French and Russian armies to advance to the north. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20.—The Dutch minister at Berlin has been instructed to inform the government of "the painful impression" which Holland has received as a result of the deportation to Germany of the Belgian woman. BRYAN WILL NOT LEAVE NEBRASKA BRYAN WILL NOT LEAVE NEBRASKA The Commoner Says He Does Not Want to Leave a Good Dry State OHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 20—William J. Bryan denied here today that he intended leaving Nebraska. "Who would want to leave a good dry state like Nebraska," he asked. He declared he intended to leave for Florida for the winter and spent part of the summer in Asheville, N. C.; but would continue to make Nebraska his actual residence a good part of each year, and vote there. MILD WINTER AHEAD SAYS A PROPHET Western Maryland Prognosticator $ Declares, and Cites Indica Charles Beackley, the Clevelandville weather prohpet who has gained celebrity for the accuracy of his prognostications, says all signs point to a mild winter. The wet spring and dry fall are sure to be followed by a mild winter, he says. The corn husks are thin, there are few chestnuts and acorns, hornets' nests were built low this summer, chickens are mating late, crows are not collecting in large flocks, the fur on the caferpillar is very thin and the middle band, across the back of the worm, is light brown, while the end bands are quite dark—all of which means mild winter weather ahead. Beackley declares. Press. UNBRIDED BY GAIN" 1916. VOL. 35 NO. 37. OR IS ACTORY HUNTER'S LICENSE LAW NEEDS REVISION CONVICT LABOR IS VERY SATISFACTORY Tennessee Board of Control Is Committed to Abolishment to Contract System. "We have worked 400 men of the highways during this year, and the results have been highly satisfactory." states the president of the Tennessee State Board of Control in a recent letter to Adolph Lewisohn, president of the National Committee on Prisons. "The last legislature took a step forward," continues the Tennessee official, "In the enactment of a law authorizing the Board of Control to contract the labor of convicts in the public highways from April 1 to December 1 at the price of $1 per day. We maintain the men on the $1 per day, but little if any profit. The men thus employed are in better health and better condition in every way as a result of the outdoor employment and the state has in this way made a substantial contribution to the good roads cause. Next year we expect to have one thousand men working on the highway." The Tennessee Board of Control is committed to the abolishment of the contract system at the next legislature, and is endeavoring to secure an act which will enable all prisoners to be employed on roads and farms or in the manufacture of commodities for use in the state and county institutions and departments. The board is endeavoring to develop the road work of an efficient basis and has asked the National Committee on Prisons for data concerning the most practical and economical methods of housing, feeding, and caring for prisoners when working on the roads. The committee has furnished scientific information gathered by graduate students of the Department of Highway engineering at Columbia University who have nationwide studies of convict road work under the joint direction of the department and the National Committee on Prisons. The application of scientific methods to the road work already well under way in Tennessee insures further success and will encourage the Board of Control in its efforts to develop all the prison industries of the state on a right basis. WILL TRY TO CHANGE COMPENSATION LAW Manufacturers of State Are Not Sat isfled With It The Workmen's Compensation law of West Virginia is not entirely satisfactory to the manufacturers of the state. That fact was demonstrated at the annual convention of the West Virginia Manufacturers' Association at Charleston when after considerable discussion, a resolution was passed authorizing the appointment by the president, G. O. Nagle, of Wheeling, of a committee to investigate the details of the workings of compensation law and together with the officers of the association draft amendments which the 1917 legislature will be asked to adopt. --- State Game Warden of West Virginia Declares More Revenue Is WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 20.—West Virginia needs a resident hunters license law, Hon. J. A. Viquesney, state forest, game and fish warden, of Bellington, declared, while in Wheel ing, on his way to Pittsburgh, on business. At the last session of the legislature, Mr. Viquesney attempted to have enacted a law which provided for a resident hunters's license of $1 in one county or $2 for the entire state. The law finally passed differed greatly from one urged by Mr. Viquesney, providing that resident county licenses be granted, free and that state-wide licenses cost $3. At the next regular session of the legislature, Mr. Vlquesney will attempt to have enacted the measure which he proposed two years ago. Sentiment has changed considerably during the past few years, and the need of such a measure is now generally recognized, he says, and he believes the bill will now pass. The proposed measure would produce between $40,000 and $50,000 in revenue which would maintain the department, create funds to carry on the work of fish and game propagation and forest preservation, besides paying the bounties provided by the present law. The proposed law raises between $10,000 and $5,000, which is not sufficient to carry on all the work of the department and pay the bounties. The law provides that ten per cent of the collections from licenses shall be turned into a fund from the bounties are paid. The following rewards or bounties are offered: For each wild cat, $5; for each hawk, (except sparrow or muse hawk), 25 cents cents; for each horned owl, 25 cents; and for each crow, 10 cents. However, the fund of $1,000 or $1,200 created under the present law is sufficient to pay bounties for only a month or two. Several hundred claims for killing wild cats were turned into the department last year, so the fund was quickly exhausted. Game Is Plentiful. Game is plentiful in West Virginia this year, according to Forest, Game and Fish Warden Viquesney. Many bears and deer are being killed, and wild turkeys, he said, are unusually plentiful this year. Deer may be hunted until December 1. According to reports reaching Mr. Viquesney from different sections of the state, game birds are numerous. As an experiment the game department a few years ago placed several Chinese ring-neck phasants in about twenty counties. The birds quickly became acclimated and have multiplied until they are now quite numerous. The experiment was entirely successful Mr. Viquesney says. Mr. Viquesney said that violations of the game laws are rare and each year are becoming less frequent. The sportsmen, he said, are fairly well informed as to the laws, and the deputies of the department have prevented many violations. Child is Buried. The funeral of the three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loeb, who died a few days ago, took place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Methodist church in Hedgesville, following which interment was made in the cemetery there. The child's death was due to pneumonia, which followed measles. Devotions to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION for all advertisements value in advance unless advertising is used by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Osawar 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1916. Moton, to offset the condemnation piled on him by the Negro press and all decent thinkers—men and women, is trying to get the white South's plaudits in a way akin to his predecessor. He got his by his fingers and palm of his hand speech in Atlanta, and Moton thinks his comparing Negroes in the North to dying rats and urging them to go back home to the south, will fix up his hope. It may do it, but when he lives out his brief life, Robert Burms once wrote an epitaph that would suit him, and every decent Negro would stop and after reading it, applaud it. Every day or so something can be seen in the newspapers about Villa killing Americans. If these Americans have quit America for the sake of making money, knowing Villa is dead against them and stay there, why should I or any of you worry and flurry over their deaths by Villa? If I am building a wall, and have put up signs to the moving public not to endanger itself, and regardless of my warning they continue to go to and fro, and some get killed, whose fault is it? Is it necessary to say more? Is not the solution reasonable? True enough, the big daily papers have had wonderful influence in all avenues of life, but if carefully looked into, half of the influence was obtained because of ignorance. The public school system is adding thought, strength, intelligence and scrutiny to the electorate, and it's well. Millions of dollars were put in their getting and keeping during the late campaign, while the country newspapers were used as jacks and stepping stones. Added to that the various Press Associations plated all the campaign literature and offered it free to country papers. By that method they got millions. What did the country newspapers get? Thanks and political thanks at that. It will not be so four years to come. Depend upon it, that most country people believe in their local papers more than they do in the big dailies, and they will have to be reckoned with. They reach the voters; tell the stories, and arouse them to action. Without them, no party can tell where it will land four years hence, and the quicker the politicians learn it, the better. HONOR IN DEFEAT. Full credit has been given to the winner in the presidential race for his marvelous achievement. What kind of a run did the loser make? Is there no honor-conferring quality in his performance? Mr. Justice Hughes was drafted against his inclination by the unanimous vote of the republican convention in order to reunite the republican party. His patriotic and self-sacrificing candidacy effected this reunion, broadly speaking, east of the Mississippi. This reunion was not effected in California. The republican candidate for senator in that state, upon whom both factions united, won by 300,000. Mr. Hughes, to whom reunion was denied, lost by 3,000 votes. If in this state alone this reunion had been even approximately effected, Mr. Hughes would have won the presidency. As a candidate Mr. Hughes showed himself a strong man, a just man, a brave man, a man of brains. of vlm, of integrity, of manly independence. How did the people respond to the appeal of his candidacy? He received approximately 8,200,000 votes. He polled approximately 595,000 more votes than were given to Roosevelt and Taft combined in 1912. Everybody knows and nobody denies that in the south there are hundreds of thousands of constitutional voters, represented by votes in the electoral college, who are not permitted to vote because, if they could, they would vote for the party of which Mr. Hughes was the candidate. If these constitutional voters might, solely for statistical purposes, be viewed as existing, and their votes be counted as largely for Mr. Hughes he would overc me Mr. Wilson's 400,000 plurality and himself have a distinct plurality of the popular vote. If the electoral votes representing these disfranchised but constitutional voters were nullified like the voters themselves, and not transferred to Mr. Hughes, but merely withdrawn from Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hughes would win in the electoral college. Or to view the situation from another angle: It is conceded that in the southern as distinguished from the border states there is no pretense of a genuine struggle in national elections over political economic issues. Irrespective of their individual beliefs concerning such issues as protection, sound money, preparedness and virile Americanism, both whites and blacks are restrained from voting for the candidates and doctrines of the republican party, even though that party may be disguised under another name, and even though as the party of protection it comes "bearing gifts." In those sections and states, therefore, where genuine national elections are held, where men after full discussion vote as they think, and where the ballots are not perfunctorily cast and are not meaningless or misleading, Mr. Hughes was on the aggregate vote overwhelmingly elected. The defeated candidate in this election won practically the solid north and east, including the ever-doubtful states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and of the middle west such states as Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota. He lost California, and with it victory, by the narrowest of margins by a "fluke"—through the monumental and almost incredible blundering or treachery of nominal supporters. The record of the loser in the presidential race thus rivals in honorable achievement that of the winner. The greater the glory justly bestowed upon the loser, the greater becomes that won by the man who beat him. The same principle applies as that utilized by Caesar to magnify himself when in his Commentaries he eulogized enthusiastically the bravery and fighting qualities of the Gauls. For "Caesar conquered the Gauls."—Washington, (D. C.,) Star. If the many first class newspapers had listened to the contention of this paper for years and years relative to what the South's disfranchisement of the Negroes would bring about, and acted as they are now doing, and forced constitutional recognition and obedience of law, Hughes would have been our President. If I had been Woodrow Wilsou's opponent and he had gone into a race of sworn honesty, with 126 electoral votes, his by fraud, never would I have congratuiated him as President of the United States. What does an honest world think of it? THE DISHONESTY OF IT. President Wilson takes the result of the recent election as an endorsement of his policies, when nothing is farther from the truth. Take away the electoral vote of the Solid South and what would be the result? And the suppressed Negro vote of the South to that of the Republican candidate and where would Wilson's popular majority be? We are not raising a sectional cry; we are stating facts. The Democrats always go into a campaign with 126 electoral votes predetermined. These votes are furnished without any regard as to who the candidate is and what he stands for. It is simply a blind devotion to sectional prejudice, which there is little hope of removing. They profess protection proclivities in the Southern States but they vote for free trade. Nothing is so striking in this inequality of vote value as the power wielded by one southern vote, which carries three times as much weight in the electoral college as does one northern vote, based on the voting strength of the two sections. This is convincingly set forth by the Chicago Tribune, which shows the disparity between the vote of the South and its total population. It says: Alabama cast twelve votes in the electoral college. Her population in 1915 was 2,301,277. In the election of 1912 her total vote was 117,879. Minnesota casts the same number of votes in the electoral college as Alabama. Her population in 1915 was 2,246,761. In the election of 1912 her total vote was 334,219. The Alabama population of 2,300,000 contained, according to the census of 1910, over 900,000 Negroes. That is the chief reason why the popular vote is one-third that of Minnesota. The situation in short is this: The Negro does not vote in the solid south, but his strength is voted regularly for the Democratic candidate in the electoral college. If this is not plain injustice, what in the name of equal rights to all is it? The only way to balance this situation is to deprive the South of the count of that population in arranging Congressional representation, which it does not allow to express itself at the ballot box. This is an old story, but it is a true one and none the less a preposterous wrong against free government. Lincoln said this nation could not exist half slave and half free, and it will not continue to exist one-third dishonest and two-thirds honest.—Wheeling Intelligencer. Good for your manly stand Editor Ogden. You struck the keynote of this Nation's rock-ribbed honesty, and there can be no sectionalism in it. As it exists, it is murder, robbery, and the lowest kind of human slavery. And if this country is bent on honesty in government rule it will enforce constitutional obedience or denounce our Republican form of government. For Mr. Hughes to congratulate Mr. Wilson as President is absolutely endorsing the disfranchisement of millions of Negro voters. How can he deny it? Mr. Mason Roman, formerly a resident of Martinsburg, but now of Meyersdale, Pa., was in town this week visiting relatives. He looked well and reported doing likewise. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE BEGINS RAILWAY INQUIRY MAY CHANGE PRESENT SYSTEM Officials of Roads Prepared to Advocate Federal Incorporation, Supervision of Securities and Extension of Authority of Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington, Nov. 20.—Ten members of Congress, five Senators and five members of the House of Representatives, began here today an inquiry into the subject of public control and supervision of railroads that may lead to the revolutionizing of the whole scheme of governmental regulation of the country's transportation lines. Incidentally the committee is to look into the question of government ownership of railways, telephone and telegraph lines and express companies. The members of the committee which will conduct this important investigation are Senator Newlands of Nevada, chairman: Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Underwood of Alabama, Cummins of Iowa and Brandegee of Connecticut, and Representatives Adamson of Georgia, Sims of Tennessee, Culpec of Indiana, Esch of Wisconsin and Hamilton of Michigan. The inquiry was recommended by President Wilson in his message to Congress in December of last year. He described as its purpose to determine what could be done "for bettering the conditions under which the railroads are operated and for making them more useful servants of the country as a whole." Prominent Men as Witnesses. In order to obtain the views of all interests affected by the operations of the transportation lines the committee has invited prominent shippers, bankers, representatives of commercial organizations, railway executives, economists and others to appear before them. The first to be heard are railroad commissioners of various states who began their evidence today. Their testimony is directed chiefly to opposing any enlargement of the federal authority over commerce that would detract from the powers now exercised by state bodies. They will be followed shortly by officials of railway labor organizations who are expected to register their opposition to the increase of governmental authority over wages and conditions of labor. Chief interest in the hearings centers in the proposals that will be put forward by representatives of the railroads, for it is reported that they will advocate an extension of federal authority over rates and securities to the practical exclusion of state control of these matters. It is understood also that they will go on record in favor of federal incorporation of all railroad lines Legislative Program of Railroads. From an authoritative source is obtained the following outline of the legislative program which the railroads will ask the committee to consider in its investigation: They will endeavor to demonstrate to the commission that one of the principal defects in the present system of railroad regulation is the lack of coordination resulting from the simultaneous and conflicting regulation by the federal government and by the 48 states. They will, therefore, ask that entire governmental control of the rates and practices of interstate carriers, except purely local matters, be placed in the hands of a federal body so that interstate traffic may be regulated without reference to state lines, leaving to the state commissions jurisdiction only over local matters and local public utilities. As a part of this plan, a compulsory system of federal incorporation is to be recommended, accompanied by federal supervision of railroad stock and bond issues. A reorganization of the Interstate Commerce Commission will be asked, in order to enable the commission properly to exercise its increased powers. It is also proposed that the preparation and prosecution of cases against the railroads, shall be delegated to some other agency of the government, possibly the Department of Justice, so that the commission may devote its energies to its administrative functions. With the commission, thus relieved of some of its present duties and equipped to handle its business more promptly, the railroads will urge that the period during which the commission may now suspend proposed increases in rates be reduced from ten months to 60 days, with provision for reparation to be paid to the shippers if the advance shall be declared unreasonable. They will also ask that the commission be given the power to prescribe minimum as well as maximum rates so that in meeting complaints of discrimination the commission may order the advance of a rate which it considers too low. One of the most important recommendations for which the railroads will ask favorable consideration is that the commission be specifically authorized to take into account in rate regulation the effect of rates upon total earnings in the light of expenses. While the Newlands Committee is required, under the resolution creating it, to submit a report by January 2 next, it is not anticipated that the Committee will have come anywhere near completing its labors then DOCTOR SHIPPER BUYS BIG FARM Saturday He Bought 200 Acres of the Miller Farm-Other Sales At the front door of the county court house Saturday afternoon Auctioneer John W. Dodd sold 41 acres of the Samuel Miller farm to Dr. J. H. Shipper for $25.25 per acre, and 179 acres of the same farm, which contained some dwellings, to the doctor for $65.25 per acre. The farm is situated near Smoketown, in Opequon district. This property was advertised as one of the best farms in Berkeley county, and it is especially adapted to grazing, being a natural blue grass soil and well watered. Dr. Shipper states that he will convert it into a livestock proposition. The sale of the Hamilton Knipe place was continued. Auctioneer Keesecker offered for sale the Landis property, near Marlowe, but it was also continued until next Saturday. Auctioneer Dodd also sold a six-cylinder Columbia automobile owned by Mr. Price, of Shepherdstown, to Horace E. Owen for $420. WHAT WILL THEY DO FOR EGGNOGG? Virginians Seek to Circumvent Law Regulating the Sale of Liquor. Heroic efforts are being made in many sections of the state to twist the new prohibition law so that Virginians may be enabled to celebrate the Christmas festival with a huge snow-capped bowl of eggnog.. According to the law, a man can order only a quart of liquor a month, and those who know how to make eggnog a la Virginia declare they could not begin the recipe with one little quart of liquor. A constitutional lawyer states that the law permits every male person 21 years of age and over to receive one quart per month. Dealers in soft drinks also profess to discern a loophole in the law which will permit them to sell cider that does not contain more than 1 per cent of alcohol. There has been a great wrangle over the cider clause, but it is said no objection will be made to the sale of cider that does not "kick." Mme. L.C. Parrish Hair Culturing Scaip Treatment THE All kinds of Toilet Articles for sale. Human Hair Goods of the finest quality. Our Hair Food and Skin Food never fail. If the trouble is with the hair, scalp or skin, we have the remedy. We guarantee a remedy to make hair grow on bald spots and bare temples. Send 10a. for a sample and catalogue. Send for our terms to agents. Address Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 98 Camden Street, Boston, Mass. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hanion, who underwent an operation at the City Hospital for appendicitis, is getting along nicely. Mr. Milton Washington has moved his family into the cozy home which he recently built on Samuel Street. He is commended for his enterprise, and we think has set a worthy example to many men younger in years than is he. --- Mr. Jack Jones is having the excavating done preparatory to erecting the foundation for his new house on Samuel Street. It has been a difficult piece of work, too, he having struck an almost solid body of rock shortly after ground was broken. UNION SERVICE A Union Thanksgiving Service will be held Thursday, November 30th, at 11 o'clock A. M., (Thanks giving Day Morning) under the auspices of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dudley Baptist Church. The service will be held at Dudley Baptist Church, will be conducted by Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. J. T. Reid, Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Special music will be rendered by the three combined choirs, under the direction of Rev. F. F. Martyn, pastor of Dudley Baptist Church. A cordial invitation is extended to all our people to join in this service. NOTED MAN COMING Rev. P. O'Connell, Ph. D., D. D., one of the brainiest and most scholarly Americans of color in this country, will lecture at Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Tuesday night, December 5. The Doctor is now Field Agent for Morgan College, Baltimore, and those who are fortunate enough to hear him will be afforded a rare treat, because as a forceful public speaker he has few equals, and fewer, if any superiors. The Dr. is an alumnus of the Philosophical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and has done much notable work in Columbia College, New York, all of which learning has been heightened by wide travel and large experience. STORY OF A NEGRO VOTER Politician: (on day of election,) "Bill, where have you been ail day? I have sent my automobile down to your house for you twice today and couldn't get you. Why didn't you ride up?" Bill: "Because tomorrow if I were to break my leg and wanted to get home you wouldn't send me home in your wheelbarrow." NEW IT TODAY PICTURES ARTICLES FOR PORTRAIT MECHANICS JAGAZINE For Father and Son AND ALL THE FAMILY Everything in it is WELCOMED to the Gan Universities. Everyone every month who wishes to have a child soon. Apply to the Gan Universities a postal will do. EXAMINATION DAY DECEMBER 6TH Anti-Tuberculosis League Appeals to Everybody to Take Advantage of It. Medical Examination Day will be the second annual effort on a national scale, to induce every one, sick or well, to have an annual physical examination. This does not necessarily mean that all who apply need be examined on this day. The intention is to interest everyone possible in the subject of at least one medical examination a year. Now Is the Time. Do not imagine because you feel perfectly well, you need no examination. Out of thousands who have been examined found to be impaired, only 10 per cent imagined there was anything wrong with them; the remaining 90 per cent supposed themselves "perfectly well." Careful examinations have shown that the physically perfect man is impossible to find. Almost every one who has reached the age of 30 has some impairment or defect of his body. Out of 2,000 men and women examined, 70 per cent found to have impairments of a more or less serious nature while all of the remaining 30 per cent had some defects of a minor nature. Are you sure you are physically perfect? Many little defects of the body sap the vitality and lower resistance so that a person readily becomes a prey to the ever present and deadly tuberculosis germ. The time to prevent tuberculosis is before it attacks you. The time to prevent disease sapping your vitality is before it gets a foothold. Inspecting the Human Machine If you have an automobile, plough or other machine you look it over once in a while to see whether there are any parts that are wearing out or needing repair. Do you have your body inspected at regular intervals to see if there are any leaks or breaks in the human machine. How? If you have a regular family physician arrange with him for a thorough overhauling of your body. Examinations of eyes, ears, nose, throat, mouth, teeth, tongue, skin glands, lungs, heart, circulation, stomach, liver and other abdominal organs. Tests of the brain and nervous system. Blood pressure tests. If careful examinations of your family doctor reveals some impairment that demands special attention, it will pay you to see aspecialist. No matter how well you feel, you need a careful examination to show the working condition of every part of your body machinery. Cost. You can get a thorough physical examination including all of the things mentioned and many other features for not more than $5.000 anywhere in West Virginia. In many communities for very much less. If there is a free dispensary nearby, it need cost you nothing, if you cannot afford to pay your doctor. If an inspection of your body reveals a little break that can be repaired for a dollar or two, which is cheaper to let that little break continue until it becomes chronic tuberculosis, cancer or Bright's disease, which will cost you hundreds of dollars to treat and which may never be cured or to stop it at its beginning? The best way to discover disease early is to have a periodic examination of your body (at least once a year.) Send for the leaflet, Periodic Medical Examination. HARRIET B. JONES, Executive Secretary, W. Va. Anti-Tuberculosis League. --- Mr. Gardner should not quote what Mr. Wilson said while president of Princeton. His utterances are outlawed by himself in seven days. That man Hughes is causing the Democratic newspapers an endless amount of worry. Apparently they will never be satisfied until, he turns the management of his campaign over to them. Mr. Hughes' speeches are giving poor satisfaction to the Democratic press which proves they are very good WILLIAM E. BEWICK GIVES RESIGNATION AS COUNTY AGENT RESIGNATION WILL TAKE EFECT THE FIRST OF NEXT MONTH. MEETING OF FARM BUREAU SATURDAY TO DECIDE UPON THE NEW AGENT. ILLUSRATED TALK TONIGHT AT SHANGHAI TO THE FARMERS' CLUB. State Leader Nat T. Frame was in Martinsburg on Saturday and that was made the occasion for a special meeting of the Farm Bureau. As the present agent has resigned to leave December 1, the principle business before the meeting was a consideration of the future of the work and a possible successor to Mr. Bewick. Each member present was called upon for his view of the work and each man expressed a strong desire that the work be continued without a break, giving it as the view of his neighbors, and fellow club members as well as his own. The matter of a successor was then discussed and, at the request of those who met Mr. Branson when he judged the school exhibit recently, it was decided to ask him to spend a few days in the county this week. if he is interested, looking over the field and getting acquainted with the county. There is no certainty that Mr. Bronson will care to come to Berkeley county but if he does, he will probably spend the latter half of this week with Mr. Bewick. Tonight, the county agent gives an illustrated talk on "Soil Improvement" before the Shanghai Farmers' Club. Tomorrow night the Failing Waters Club will hold their semi-monthly meeting and will take up a trial lesson in one of the Reading Circle Courses offered by the Extension Department. In case it proves interesting, a regular course will be taken up for the winter study. Wednesday night, a meeting of farmers and their families is called for Stokes or New Haven school house at 7.30 p.m. The county agent will give his illustrated talk on "Soil improvement." He will also explain the work of the county agent and plans of the Farm Bureau and will determine if there is a desire to organize a Farmers' Club there. We are pleased to announce that the fertilizers purchased through the Farm Bureau, instead of being of inferior quality and poor condition, was delivered in excellent condition and samples submitted for analysis to the Extension Department were reported back as follows: By J. H. 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