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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27
How 10 Make Hard Times and How
Not To.


There is a wealth OF wisdom in
the address OF Samuel Gompers. be-
fore the National Civic Federation.
urging employers not TO reduce
wages at this time. says the Louis
Vile Herald.
The president OF the American
Federation OF Labor declared that
he had been approached by men of
money who had declared that wages
must come down.
And | turned to- these men.
said Gompers. and asked them
whether the soil OF our country Is
less fertile. the treasures beneath the
soil less valuable. mems minds less
active, the laborlng men less indus
trious. Wherefore. asked them. is
there reason or necessity TO thus at
tack the American standard OF our
workingman?
We can make hard times. just as
we have made our prosperity, if we
are determined 10 have them. If we
cut off or reduce the purchasing pow
er of the laborer we will cut OFF
sales.
The wise and patriotic employer
is the one who realizes that the
foundation Of our countrys pros
perlty are as secure today as they
We're a year ago, and that It is the
yeriest folly to be frightened into
hard times by the cries of the New
York wolves.
Now is the time to stand pat.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27
NORTH SIDE ANNEX.

Jacob Galloway, Landon Summers
Charlie Lee, Josephine Hance, Gym.
thia Watson, Luella Colbert, Arelia
Colbert.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

1000 Hats at CSC; a perfect will
derness OF them The Paris.
1-21-Ct
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

Brown. Warren Brugh. Willie Clay
tor. Carl Clay Clark. John Carson,
Thomas Donahue, Carlyle Echols.
Nellie Hubble. Annie Hubble. Myrtle
Harry. Russell Johnston. Ruth
Johnston. Raymond Keith, Eleanor
King, Viola McCray. John O'Leary,
Ernest Pickett, Joe Pickett, Gree
yer Scanland, Ralph Vaughn. Harry
George White. Elmer woodward.
First Primary, a. - Paul
Bromm. Corum Cunningham. Ever
EFT Clark. Willie Haley. Marshall
ping. Emory Hypes, Willie Camp
bell, Ellen Speiden. MAYA Rush
brook. Elsie Faulkner.
SOUTH BLUEFIELD.
Fourth Grade--SallIe Bailey,
Lucy Cundiff. Mary Kahle, Ora Kidd.
Hester Lunsford, May McHaffa.
Maude Udy. Grace Thompson, Hal
lie Munsey, William Buchanan, Her
man Horton, Kenneth Thomas, Err
bin Kidd. Carl Mitchell, Aubrey will
son.
Third Grade-Bertha Lunsford,
Beulah Suffer. Lena Wolfe, Jesoph-
inc Sweeney. Clarence Fink, Early
Suffer, James Thompson, Jacob Cum
diff, Walter Pike.
GAL TWO-HONOR ROLL
Second Grade, A and B-Herbert
Cundiff. Cervera Devilbliss, Bernice
Kahle, Golden Land, Charles Nc
Haffa, Jack Munsey. Blaine Suffer,
Norval Thomas. Geore Wolf, Clara
Udy. Helen Horton, Nadine Cum
minis, Minnie Clay.
First Grade-Lourena Comings,
Hazel Crenshaw, Sallie Hall, Leila
Jones, Elizabeth Thompson. Hannah
Udy. Bertha Witt, Frank Buchanan,
Henry Jones, Russell Stewart, Por-
ter Stewart. Frank Stewart, Fred
erick Snead.
NORTH BLUEFIELD.
Second Grade-Guy Galloway,
Wilson Dunn, John Sanders, Minis
Henderson, Mamie Bolton, Helen
Bourne, Ola Turner. Sue Turner,
Beatrice Turner.
First Grade, "B"-Ora Gibson,
Howard Massey, Charles Parks, Lot
tie Thompson, Blake Stafford.
First Grade, "A"-Irene SturgIs,
Charlie Harris, Ellis Howell, Ar
mold Henderson, Johnnie NeIghbors,
Virgil Lowder.
COLORED SCHOOLS.
Sixth and Seventh Grades
Blanche Chapman. Dora Woody.
Fourth and Fifth Grades-Henry
Whisaker, Ernest Kelly, Myrtle
Chapman, Nomeka Jehries, James
Henderson.
Third and Fourth Grades-Bessie
Warren, Cornelia Kidd, Virginia Pc
terson, billiard Wilson, Warren Kyd
Second Grade-Chester Anderson,
Edward Galloway, John Dodson,
Ode Gordon, Dewey Johnson, Peter
Johnson. Earl Kyd, McGinnis
Branch, Rosa Reid, Jennie v. Simp-
son, Cornell Thompson, Mary
Woody, Ceola Adams.
First Grade, "A"-Frances Hook
err, Catherine Jeffries, Ernest How
ard, George Preston, Eldredge Ro-
tan.
First Grade, "B"-Sadie Meade.
Chauncey Cook.
NORTH SIDE ANNEX.
Jacob Galloway, Landon Summers,
Charlie Lee, Josephine Hance, Gym
thia Watson, Luella Colbert, Arelia
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

1000 Hats at csc; a perfect will
derness OF them. The Paris.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

S cretary Tart may feel good over
his West Virginia enforcement, but
when he learns the source from
which 1t came, he will, doubtless,
have expressions Of regret When
only Office holders and office seek
ers endorse a candidate the object
is clearly understood.-Cla rksburg
News.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

See The Paris" remnant sale.
1-21-6t
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27
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Published every evening except
Sunday. 81
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-27

Advertising rates made known on
application.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
State Aid for Good Roads

September l is not far away, and at that time Senator Bankhead and Con- gressman Underwood have promised to stump the state in favor of good roads. They will advocate the adop- tion of the Overton amendment. and will explain it's provisions and bear ings. It has been twisted and distort- ed and magnified so that its best friends would not know it. It will be vindicated before the people by Sen ator Bankhead and Congressman Un- derwood. It is to be hoped they will in September and October be able to visit every one of the 67 counties in this state.
 Unless Alabama shows some desire to build good roads. it will be idle to expect national aid. Appropriations by the national government are be- coming more popular, and they will assuredly be granted, but they will be based on state appropriations. At present Alabama's hands are tied by a constitutional amendment-one of those restrictive measures that the constitution makers of 1903 were fond of devising. The Overton amendment would simply permit the people to have what they want in the respect of good roads. It would enable Alabama to get in position to receive federal aid, and every economic reason that can be adduced stands behind it.
 All honor to our senior senator and our own representative for their patri- otic determination to make it's value fully known from the stump. A pub lie meeting in every county will no doubt be arranged for by Chairman Overton of the Good Roads Campaign committee, and local influences will be asked to bring the people together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
A COUNTY OF OUTLAWS.

Muskogee q. ID Cor. Kansas City Star.
 Pushmata county is not only one of the largest in the state, but it contains more inaccessible mountain fastnesses and pos sibly more outlaws hiding in the noun tains than any other county in the state. Within the last six months the depreda- tions of the outlaws have become of a most exasperating nature, and officers of that and surrounding counties seem unable to break up the outlaw haunts. ,
 Posse after posse has gone into the Jack Fork mountains to try to drive out the horse thieves and robbers known to rendezvous there, but the officers seldom succeed in finding them. In fact, the outlaws have become so bold and self confident that they send taunting and de- liant letters to the officers, and favor ite custom is to get posse on the chase and then steal horses and rob stores and postoffices right in the path of the pur- suers.
 Smithville, Tn McCurtin county, seems to be close to the outlaw headquarters, and 1t is said the outlaws have even written the officers where their head quarters are in both counties, and dared them to try to come in and make arrests. The character of the country and the desperate outlaws make outlaw chasing a very dangerous business in that partic- ular section of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
An Encouraging Sign.

One of the most encouraging signs of the time to me Is the fact that there are so many handsome homes being built in and around Birmingham," said one of this clty's oldest and best known mer- chants "A person riding from Birming- ham to Ensley over the South Ensley line will see en route a number of nice homes. Several of them cost from s5ooo to $l0,0o0
 T notice several new houses at Ensley Highlands, the new residence section of Ensley, which is building up so rapidly, and they are modern two-story strue- lures complete in every detail and as handsome as many houses on the South Highlands of Birmingham. In fact this section of Ensley very much resembles certain portions of the South Highlands and is frequently called the South High lands of Ensley.
 Several prominent citizens of Ensley are building in this section, among them MT. Morrison, MT. Simpson and Prof. A. w. Lynch, who are erecting very hand some residences. When a person con- siders such building activity during such times as we have just passed through. 1t speaks well for Birmingham and neigh boring cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Historical Inaccuracies,

"A casual reader of encyclopedias and other reference books is surprised to find glaring mistakes, but when dhe considers tine enormous amount of work involved ir the compilation of historic facts the wonder should be that errors are so few, remarked a student.
 Among mistakes that I have come across recently are these: In the late Vice President Wilson's History of Slavery the statement is made that the ratification of the amendment of the na tional constitution abolishing slavery was proclaimed by Lincoln in December, 1865 Lincoln died April 15 1865; and yet MT. Wilson was painstaking and well equipped for his work.
 Tn a year book published in London Alabama appears to have only 66 coun- ties when in fact the number is 67.
 Tn a sketch of Cardinal Gibbons in one of the new encyclopedias it is stated that his eminence was the first American cardinal. Gibbons was created a car dinal in 1SS6 but Archbishop McClosky Of New York was created a cardinal in 1875. The popular Baltimore prelate is, there fore, the second American to be honored with a seat in the sacred college. An other encyclopedia just out has St. Ber- nard monastery and college situated in Mobile, Instead of Cullman county.
 While such mistakes cause surprise. they detract but little from the genera merits of the books in which they occur. They only emphasize the fact that mis- takes will happen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Turkey to Have a Parliament

The young Turks who were in con dition of discontent verging on revolt have won a victory. Ferid Pasha has been dismissed from the grand vizier-I ship, and Said Pasha takes his place. Better still, the constitution of 1876 has been restored, and an imperial firmin has been issued authorizing the holding of elections for members of chamber of deputies which is to sit as Turkeys first real potential parlia- ment. This doubtless puts personal government and autocracy in the way of disappearance in Turkey, for par liaments naturally and inevitably be- come aggressive. Even the duma, filled with landlords, became insistent and courageous.
 Now that Russia, Turkey, Persia and China have adopted constitutional pal lol1CAIdiy 5OfOiA ment, there is not much absolutism left in the world, at least in name. Morocco would be an autocracy were it not in the hands of the French. No parliament has been heard from in Abyssinia, and conquered provinces 
 are widely held by conquerors who grant no reasonable representation Poland, for example, in Russia Our own Philippines were in that condi- tion, but now they have parliament of their own, and delegate who sits, but does not vote, in Congress. Here and there are spots on the earths surface that are tyrannically ruled but these will be granted their just rights after while, for the spirit of popular rule is sweeping over the en- tire globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

human-nature side and the tender spir- ltual side of youth in a manner at once Yirlle and engaging. Tom Brown was a high-bred Christian lad and he was at the same time athletic and plucky He was noble boy, and Hughes books, as an offset or protest to cant and the two-by-four type of Christian weakling, have had a far-reaching in- fluence for good. And never has the effect of Hughes delightful stories been so directly felt as today.
 In Catholic church clubs and in Protestant institutional churches and auxiliary associations muscular Chris tianity is making stalwart young men men strong in body and strong in morals.
 The Young Mems Christian Associa- tion has done practical and telling work along the line of clean athletic sport, and now comes the Sunday School Athletic league with ball teams and boxing contests, and other sorts of manly and invigoratlng pastimes. A strong body means a stronger mind, and the result is almost sure to be d finer moral tone in the rising genera tion of young men. At any rate, the world will no longer sheer at the Sun day school boy as a namby-pamby fellow. The cynical saying of men indifferent to religion or of those who feel themselves above it, that churches are all right for women and children" with its insidious counter suggestion, are best answered by the living examples of the countless thou sands of members of church associa- tions and Sunday school leagues that have for their object the development of the muscles and the cultivation of legitimate sport in a quickening re- ligious atmosphere. All success, then, to the new athletic league composed of Sunday school young men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Unlque Sign.

That is unique sign" said A. L.. Fulenwider, while standing in front of the Brown-Marx building yesterday. T am glad to see that the South Highlands Land company is opening up offices in Birmingham, for I have great confidence in the value and beauty of Shades valley and mountain property
 ''The boys have planned one of the pret- tiest real estate signs there I have ever seen. The eastern cities have usually set the pace in this matter but I believe for telling the whole story this has more originality than any of them.
 T have not been surprised at the num- Der of people who pause to look at the artist as he puts on the finishing touches. The map of Edgewood shows exactly the position of the property in every detail, showing how 1t connects with Glen Iris, and is nine blocks from Idlewild."
 The new company which has just been organized and has opened up headquar- ters on the lower floor of the Brown Marx building is officered by Stephen Smith, president; George H. Harris, vice president, and G. T. Brazealton, secre- tary and treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
MOTHERS STRANGE DELusIoN.
Branded Son Because She Believed
 Him to Be the Messiah.

From the New York Times.
 The head nurse in the pyscopathic ward at Bellevue said last night that the case of Mrs. Collar and the latters daughter Mrs. Goodsell, who were taken there on Thursday night suffering from the effects of delusion that Mrs. Goodselrs 6-year- old son George is the Messiah of the Jews is one of the strangest cases ever received in Bellevue. The woman raveI about the child being the son of God crying out that he has come into the world to redeem it a second time.
 The boy is now in Bellevue recovering rom the effects of severe burnings to which his mother subjected him in at~ tempting to brand the word Messiah" on his forehead and neck Only the ar rival of the police at the Goodsell flat on Thursday night saved the boy from being further tortured by his distracted mother snd grandmother.
 There was evidence that the boy had been tortured on occasions prior to last night, as indicated by several scars or burns on his forehead and neck The branding had been done with curling iron.
 This child" Mrs. Goodsell told the po- Ice, 'is the long-looked-for Messiah of
  he shall be known of all men. He must be known, distinct and marked for life, sc that those who are to be saved may always know him."
 With her mother, Mrs. Mary Collar, the woman moved into the East Sixty-sixth street house three days ago. It was through the kindness of some person who took the little boy to Roosevelt hospital to have the old burns on his head and neck dressed that the police learned what had been going on in the Goodsell fiat. The boy had burns on his head and neck and black eye. He had evidently been awed by his mother, for at first he re- fused to tell how he had been burned. Late Thursday afternoon, however, in answer to persistent questioning by Dr. Mills, one of the hospital physicians, he confessed that it was his own mother who had inflicted his injuries. The doctors say the boy will recover but that he will carry the marks of his mothers mad cruelty to the grave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
ONE ON THE SODA CLERK.

From Judge.
 The day was hot and business at the soda fountain had been of the rush de- scription. The clerk at the upper end was enjoying breathing spell when a tall, thin man in a bamboo hat dashed in hur- riedly and walked brlslkly up to the bar.
 Just give me half glass of water, will you?' jerked the newcomer. as he threw up his elbows and '1it'' on a stool. The clerk obligingly drew half a glass of water and slid it in front of him, brac- ing himself for further orders.
 "A slice of that lemon-just a wafer" suggested the newcomer, with sudden interest.
 The clerk. though slightly bewildered. compiled. The man dropped the lemon into the water and then put both hands into is coat pockets. His right hand brought up pint bottle of whisky and his left produced an egg. Sl Rsfully cracking the egg with a blow he dumped the contents into the glass, following 1t Immediately by three stiff fingers of the. liquor. Diving into a vest pocket he pro- duced sprig of green that proved to be mint This went in, and the man then slightly rose on his toes and scanned the array of condiments and fiavors before him. Suddenly he shot out a long arm and clutched the cinnamon shaker.
 A few dashes of cinnamon and he seized soda spoon from a nearby rack and began stirring the mixture dexterously. When bead appeared on top he with drew the spoon, yanked the glass to his lips and drank the contents in six big, satisfying gulps
 Setting the empty glass down carefully. as he wiped his taffy-colored mustache with handkerchief, he rose slowly to his feet.
 Gee! Aint this warm oneg' he re- marked, as he tugged at his collar in an effort to loosen it from his neck.
 Then he went out, leaving the clerk weak In the knees and absolutely speech less. He had been up against the very latest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Direct Action In Alabama

The politicians are trying to stir up opposition to direct voting, because state and congressional primaries are expensive. So they are, but the rich are not monopolizing offices under the primary plan. Senator Bankhead ceI- tainly is not plutocrat and the nine Congressmen that Alabama sends to Washington are not overloaded with this worlds goods. Governor Conner is wealthy. but the other state officials are not, as rule, down with that com plaint.
 Progressive politics in all parts of the country calls for direct action by the people. The qualified voter needs no middlemen and he will have none if ]de can have his own way. There is no mettod more popular, more trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Sunday Schools and Athletics

Muscular Christianity, term famil- jar to men who have taken a sympa- thetic interest in Hughes From Brown at Rugby" and Tom Brown at Ox- ford" is making rapid progress. In those two wholesome and stimulating books is developed the principle that it is a part of religious duty to main tain a healthful and vigorous physical state"
 In presenting his hero Mir. Hughes portrayed with skill, truth and beauty the manly grammar schoolboy and the manly undergraduate. combining the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
Tennis Cabinet Doomed

Washington begins to see that the Tennis cabinet is to be dissolved, no matter who Is elected president in No vember. MT. Taft plays golf, but he is not spry enough to play tennis, and Mir. Bryan has had other fish to fry throughout his active life. He has no use for a tennis cabinet. All see, therefore, that the tennis ground in the rear of the executive offices of the White House is destined to become once more flower bed, or at any rate a playground for children. No more will be summoned thither by telephone the French ambassador or this man or the other of the secretarial or social sets in Washington. This is why Washington is grieved. It had become accustomed to tennis cabinet instead of the old-time kitchen cabinet, and t 1Or6S0eS SCdI ClLy Ol AlNC gOuu5 men" and diners out.
 The present tennis cabinet speaks French at least besides the mother tongue, and it went far therefore to make the country world power of the European sort. There are appre- hensions in Washington that all this is to be rudely undone, and that new social arrangements and conditions will have to be devised. But Wash ington social life is accustomed to rapid and even radical changes, and pretty soon after the 4th of next March it will see that the Rooseveltian era was not the whole cheese, ana that the republic can jog along com fortably without tennis cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
To Locate Here.

What is Valdostas loss is Birming- hams gain" said a prominent man of the industrial world. Edward L. Thomas is selling his machine shops and machine business in Valdosta, one Of Georgia's thriving cities, for the pur- pose of settling here.'
 The Valdosta Daily Times of last Wednesday, in referring to Mr. Thomas and his projected change of base, says: 'He will make the change in order to get in a larger manufacturing city. His business here is thoroughly organized and is one that Is making money. MT. Thomas has built it up from a small beginning, making it not only profitable business to himself, but one of Valdosta s most successful industries. That MT. Thomas expects to leave Valdosta will cause regret among his many friends
 "He is full of energy and enterprise and his enthusiastic manner of going after business makes him valuable as- set in the life of any community The Times hopes that he will yet decide to remain in Valdosta. The city's busi- ness circles need him and it's social and church circles nee dhs excellent fam fly.
 Should his decision be unchangeable, however, we can only hope that his large business here will fall in<the hands of others who will keep 1t up to it's pres ent prestige"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
BATTLE CRY.

By John c. Neihardt, in the Outing Mag
 azine. More than half beaten, but fearless, Facing the storm and the night; Breathless and reeling, but fearless, Here in the lull of the fight, I who bow not but before Three, God of the fighting Clan, Lifting my fists I implore Thee, Give me the heart of a Mani What though I live with the winners Or perish with those who fall? Only the towards are sinners, Fighting the fight is all. Strong is my Foe-he advances! Snapt is my blade. o Lord! See the proud banners and lances! O spare me this stub of a sword! Give me no pity, nor spare me; Calm not the wrath of my Foe. See where he beckons to dare me! Bleeding, half beaten-I go. Not for the glory of winning, Not for the fear of the night Stunning the battle is shining O spare me the heart to fight! Red is the midst about me; Deep is the wound in my side: Coward" thou criest to fout me? O terrible Foe, thou hast liedi Here with my battle before me, God of the fighting Clan, Grant that the woman who bore mo Suffered to suclxle a. Man!