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MAKES APPEAL TO
\ WOMEN OF WORLD
TELLS OF NARROWING CoNDI
TON IN INDIA
Calls Attention to Deplorabie
Cruelty to Child Wives
and Widows

IN WO American women, gifted with
rare ! telligence and -ndomitable
energy, have recently been from
California to India. They lived there
for more than one year, going from
one city TO another, not to merely sat
isfy an idle curiosity, but with the
aim of investigating the conditions OF
the Hindu women, of which they had
heard tales that make the flesh creep,
What they have seen showed them
that the horrible reality was worse
than they could have thought.
Returning to their country, they
have undertaken, as only American
women can, a crusade against the
frightful slavery of the Hindu woman
They have gone from town to town
giving lectures and telling what they
had seen, enlisting pity and indigna-
ton wherever they went. A league
was formed under the name of the
Undo American Womans Restoration
League" to present a petition to the
viceroy and council of India, asking
that a law should be established to
protect little girls against the fright
full custom of child marriage" 1t is
we'll to know how terrible is the fate
of Hindu widows Gotten mere children)
and how the priests with ferocious IN
genuity make their lives a continuous
martyrdom. The custom of Suffice has
been abolished because the whole
world would have risen in horror If
the English government had allowed
their subjects to burn the widows.
But what goes on today is not much
better-and even, to a certain point OF
view, might be considered still worse.
Under the excuse of a law of Manu-
they allow the marriage of children of
seven or eight years. 1t can be said
that the Hindus. by their cruel GUS
toms, have abolished childhood in
India.
Childhood Destroyed
Childish joys. it's happy ignorance OF
evil, its games. it's hopes, are unknown
In that country.
The consequence of these premature
marriages are so frightful that pc
tition signed by women doctors was
presented i'm 1890 to the council of an
dia to obtain the necessary reform,
but SO far as is known, no measure
has been taken.
So the movement produced by tho
league is rising to great Importance
Its aim is to make an appeal to hu-
mainly and to collect an immense
quantity of names that will reinforce
the petition when it shall be presented
to the viceroy and council OF India
The league will be carried in India
and viii be upheld by a minority OF
Intelligent Hindus who deplore these
abuses and attribute to them the de-
generacy of their race.
In France the question was discussed
three years ago in Paris under the
presidence OF we'll known and emil
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times of a shape not unlike the plant
from which is derived their colloquial
name, sea cucumber, but with fiowery
tentacles at one end. They are often
of bright colors and their shade, like
that of many birds, insects, fishes and
other animals, is usually determined
by the color of their surroundings--as
in this case by the corals and seaweeds
among which they live. Thus in
Jamaica they are of the reddish brown
prevailing among the submarine
growths off that island, and off Ber-
muda they are of bright green hue.
Found in Deep Sea
They are found, however, in all parts
of the world, from above the low wa
ter mark to as deep as two and a half
miles at least. They appear to be most
abundant southeast of Asia and scar
cest west of South America. Though
they flourish in tropical waters many
genera are found in Arctic and SUBJ
Arctic regions.
separate modes of life. Some live in
burrows which they make for them
selves by swallowing and working
aside the sand and mud In their way.
Some hide under stones and in similar
protected places. A third group loaf
out their existence -mong corals and
seaweeds. Why they should hide, how
ever, is not known, for as far as can
be discovered they have no enemies.
A feature of their life, IL the mode
of their existence may be called life,
Is the almost prohibitive rate at which
they are able to move. They get along
by contraction and expansion of their
bodies and by the aid of liquids in
side of them, at about a twentieth to
a quarter of an inch a minute.
Their method of breathing is by taxi
ing in oxygen through the skin of all
parts of their bodies, mainly through
their tentacles. They have no true cir
culation in their blood system and
their so-called blood merely serves TO
carry nutrition throughout their bodies.
Their senses are extremely simple.
They have touch, particularly in their
tentacles. and the character OF the
tied degree. By sight they can only
distinguish between light and shade.
and experiment has shown that some
possessed by some species. They have
no sense of hearing but they can tell
whether they are going up or down
They have nothing which can be
called intelligence, and though 1t is
practically impossible to prove they
probably have no pain.
II parts of their bodies are cut off.
as in similar submarine animals, those
parts will grow out again OF their own
accord, and only by cutting entirely all
the tentac1es, which are the most vital
part of their bodies, will the animals
be killed
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INVESTIGATE LIVES
OF SEA CUcUMBERS
SCIENTISTS STUDY THE SMALL
MARINE ANIMALS
Manner of Living Is Peculiar One
and So Far Little Has Been
Known About Them or
Their Habits

Sea cucumbers are not plants but
small marine animals that look much
like the land growth from which their
popular name is taken. Although their
manner of living Is peculiar one. un-
til lately comparatively little has been
authoritatively known about them.
Two families of them. officially called
the synaptidae and the molpadiidae OF
the special scientific variety of apodous
holothurians, which means sea cucun-
bers without tube feet, have been the
subject of thorough research by DR..
Hubert Lyman Clark Of the Museum
of Comparative Zoology In Cambridge.
His conclusions are published by the
Smithsonian institution in its series of
original contributions to knowledge.
These animals. ranging from a quar-
ter of an inch to a foot In length, ac-
cording to their species, are some-
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nent woman. At that time, however,
the political state of feeling between
France and England was not what
it is now, so that. while giving all
their sympathy to the work, it was
thought better not to make 1t too
widely known.
Now the circumstances have changed
and the league will be stronger in
that it is upheld by some of the Hindus
themselves.
Want Monster Petition
The moral influence of the greatest
number of signatures possible VIII ADD
certainly great weight in the balance
and will help to get a favorable re-
ception from the government of India.
sixteen thousand signatures had
been collected a few months ago.
The two women who have founded
this league are women of great piety.
but they have determined that the
work must remain purely humanitar-
ian, without restriction of sects or re-
lIgions. This is a valuable point to
bring Hindus to join the league, for
they could never enter it if it came as
missionary or religious work. We
must not forget that France has foot
in India by its colony of Pondichery.
and that she cannot overlook what is
going on in her close neighborhood.
In the present day, however, all the
different countric1 of the globe are
more and more linked to one another
and have joint responsibility.
Modern civilization is becoming more
and more universal, and Christians
ought to take care to help it to be-
come more and more humane, just and
generous, protecting the feeble and the
little ones. 1t is so in principle, but
the application is often far from the
principle. Do not let us object to the
distance. Whenever right is violated,
all the righteous souls feel the injury;
they suffer, they feel they are them
selves hurt. L'EGLISE LIBRE.
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His Only Chance

Captain John r. Pillsbury, the navy
boards new member. said the other day
In Washington of a recruit who could not
shoot:
1.-THE sergeant tried the fellow first at
500 yards, and he failed to come within
mile of the target.
'"rhen he was tried at 800 yards. then
at 200, then at 100; and his last shot was
worse, II possible, than his first.
1.-THE sergeant looked at him disgust
adly. got very angry, and. walking up
close to him. shouted IN his face:
Attention. Fix bayoneti Charge the
targetl It's your only chancer Wash
ington Post.
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become a means of keeping the plum
age in good condition.
Any kitchen scraps that you may
have on hand daily. throw them to the
moulting hens. They have finished
their work for the season; see you APP
preciate it, and your thoughtfulness
will be repaid by rapid moult, and
this means again a more rapid return
to their business of producing good
supply of eggs for your household, for
the market for breeding purposes. or
whatever your object of egg produce
ton may be. But to house your fowls
well, and to feed them well, in these
two, you will find included almost
every essential to successful poultry
keeping.
by feeders of experience that may be
safely followed, some of which is as
follows:
THAT it may be safely said that there
is no better all-round grain for poultry
than wheat.
THAT corn is the best reished grain
by poultry, of all the grains.
THAT oats contains some essentials
necessary for poultry that is not fully
understood; that there is some stimulat-
ing virtue in oats, therefore it is fed"
These are the three principal grains
used in the feeding OF poultry and any
other can we'll be dispensed with, though
where barley and buckwheat can be read
lily obtained they make good food though
the barley is not readily taken to by
poultry.
and feeders of experience, and the poul-
and feeders of experience and the poul~
try itself has a similar dislike to 1t, hence
it is seldom used in the regular bill OF
fare.
Corn, wheat and oats, mixed in equal
proportion, makes a good ail-round
scratch food, and will answer all practi-
cal purposes,
AS to what constitutes a good mash,
dry or moist, would be very hard to de-
eide. for a balanced ration may be made
out of most any kind Of foodstuff. The
one we ourselves PREFER is the one that
is palatable TO the fowls. for 1t is with
them, like with ourselves-they have a
liking for things that taste good.
One Of the rations to grow young
chickens on, that has given us the most
excellent results, is the one advocated
and used by the Maine state experiment
station and is compounded as follows:
Two parts bran, four parts cornmeal.
two parts white middlings, one part beef
scraps Mix thoroughly and feed it to
Young chickens q few weeks old four
times day all they will eat up clean,
and they eat IL greedily. Feed 1t either
dry or moist, but we fed 1t moist and
had broilers from two and half to three
pounds apiece at 10 weeks old.
A report just received from an Aus
tra.ian experiment station says that six
hens under observation have laid more
than 1000 eggs IN seven and one-half
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months. Last year at the same station
six hens laid more than 400 eggs in a
year.
Egg-eating is a habit hens Sometimes
fall into. A good way to prevent this is
to make the nests rather dark, give the
hens straw to work in, and In the straw
keep half dozen china nest eggs for
them to dig out They learn that they
cannot break the nest eggs. and do not
try the real ones,
Caponizing is not practiced as much in
this country as 1t would be If the adj
vantages were better known. The quality
Is improved and the weight very much in
creased. 1t is a very profitable way to
dispose of cockerels that are not wanted
for breeding Capon growing requires
especial attention and it takes a good
while to work into it, but the business is
profitable when wei, understood and
managed as it should be.
Close watching is necessary to know
how much to feed a flock of poultry. Too
much is detriment and the necessary
quantity varies. Observation is a valu-
able characteristic in a feeder. If hens
are kept hungry and still are supplied
with all the food they can make good
duce to their full. capacity, but once over
feeding will often put them on the bum.
Poultry like other stock, requires a lit
salt, but it won't do to feed salt care
lessly to poultry; it is easy to give them
too much Where mashes are fed, salt
may be carefully introduced without
| working any mischief and corn may be
dampened with salt water without doing
much harm. But the salt problem is a
| worry to a good many poultry men.
What have you done toward arranging
suitable dust baths for the hens this win
ter? Have you changed the material in
the boxes and do you know that it is
suitable, or are the boxes half full of
damp earth mixed with straw and other
| trash? Suppose you lay the paper down
| long enough to go and find out.
| There Is no best way to feed hens, nor
any best formula. Give them "a little of
everything" keep them busy, never let
them get very hungry, and they will do
their best.
The wastes from an ordinary kitchen
will half keep a dozen hens and turn into
eggs what would otherwise go into the
garbage box.
Lice often multiply in rubbish that II
cleaned out of the poultry house. Keep
it far enough away to prevent trouble.
In producing eggs at profit young
hens only should be considered. Pullets
and yearlings are the ones to make
money.
If market stock is in a healthy thrifty
condition, two weeks of strenuous feed
ing should be enough to finish them.
Some cockerels that are otherwise good
birds have lazy, sluggish disposition,
and for this reason should be disposed Of
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ticular page, it had not been found.
The paper was already behind its
schedule in going to press and work
upon the makeup of this. the last
page to go to the stereotypers was
going with rush. The editor who
had written the captions had gone for
a sandwich and could not be found. In
his necessity the makeup man scrutin-
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Heroic Treatment

Bacon-He is troubled with melan-
choly, you say?
Egbert-Oh, yes.
Does he do anything for it?"
.Oh, yes; he gets his wife to invite
her mother to visit them. That makes
him forget all his other troubles. -
Yankers Statesman.
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hypnotic influence of the william who
makes her do many things that she
would not countenance were she in her
right mind. The story abounds in
thrilling adventure and hair-breadth
escapes and ends with the death of
the villain and the release of the wom-
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Each cut before being sent to the
composing room was labeled with an
appropriate caption, but in some way
the line for one of the half dozen
metal pictures got lost and, when the
time arrived for making UP that par
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ORPHEUM-Fred Walton, English
pantomimist, in his original creation
of "The Toy Soldier in the fantastic
playlet, "Cissie's Dream" is the fea-
tured attraction of the Orpheum pro-
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by Frank Lalor. The chorus and bal
let, numbering sixty or more, Is said
to be most attractive assemblage of
sweet-faced, graceful girls. The
scenery, costumes and other adjuncts
effective.
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STAGE WIT AND HUMOR

A western weekly was printing a
page of pictures, showing Miss Bates
at home ON her Hudson river farm.
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report just received from an Aus
tra:ian experiment station says that six
hens under observation have laid more
than 1000 eggs IN seven and one-half
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months. Last year at the same station
six hens laid more than 400 eggs in a
year.
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Egg-eating is a habit hens Sometimes
fall into A good way to prevent this is
to make the nests rather dark, give the
hens straw to work in, and In the straw
keep half a dozen china nest eggs for
them to dig out. They learn that they
cannot break the nest eggs. and do not
try the real ones.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-10-15

AND OTHERS ADDRESS ROUSING
MEETING. a.
Republicans Of Charleston Crowd
Court House to Hear ELOQUENT
United States Consul Discuss Is-
sues Of Campaign Especially
Affecting the Colored
Voter,

, Although the Hon. Chris. Payne,
consul to St. Thomas, Danish West
Indies, has always been q favorite
among the folks Of Charleston, nev-
er. in his life has he been greeted
with a larger, more enthusiastic or
more appreciative audience than the
one gathered at the Kanawha court
house, Monday night Of last week, to
hear him discuss and diSsect the
Democratic issues
Throughout the whole meeting
there was perfect quiet .nt1 the col
Ored leader would sound a keynote,
and then bcdlam br0kes loose. Ills
voice was a little husky from the
hard campaigning he has been do
ing, but he could be plainly heard
over the court room. The crowd was
too large to get into the room and
many we're forced to turn back at the
door
The success of the meeting is not
wondered at and is more gratifying
when it is realized that the meeting
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-10-15

sented by that many Democrats. ~
Aentucy under Democratic Cover
nor Beckham, had Negro lynchfngs.
And Kentucky maintains Democratic
supremacy in Congress, and has uni
formlY voted for a Democrat Tor
President. = g.. .''> ..'
Maryland, under DemQcrauc rule,
and with her agitation to'restrict the
Negro's right of suffrage, lynched 8
Negroes.
North Carolina had 5, and in
North Carolina Repu blican represen-
tation In State, county or Congress
has been but an irridescent dream.
II Missouri, under Democratic Coy
ernor, exploited for his enforcement
Of law, lynched 3d. -. =,
Tennessee, a State that has corr;
sistently cast her electoral vote for
any and every candidate the Demo
Gratis narhed, femained In sympathy
with her sister Southern States by
!lynching 3 Negroes, in defiance of
law. f.-3 : i.' - a .
The Question that naturally arises
In the mind of every Negro, Is, If all
the Negroes lynched, and without
hearing or trial, and many for but
petty crimes, and some FOR. no crime
at all, We're lynched in States chat
deny the right Of suffrage, and the
privileges 1ative-bofh> American citi-
zens are entitled to, and In States on
ly that arel Democratic, If the icandi-
date Of the Democratic party Is elect
ed, how soott will it be when the
same spirit of Democracy, as repre-
sented by Bryan's Southern allies, ln-
duences the rest of the country into
restricting Negro suffrage, and lynch
ing Of Negroes, without hearing or
trial, at the proporGonate rate of 122
every two years? ~,
One hundred and twenty-five Ne
groes lynched in rock-ribbed, stead
fastIy Democratic States! What an
appalling number Of brutal, un3usti-
fable MURDERS .....,
And the mob did not stop at lynch
ing nen alone, but mere boys, and
women, too. whose; skin was black,
~
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Il asnca 81
spec eches; have set this g y; prosluctfve
country aHanle. The people, have
hear& him gladly and their convic-
ton that the Republican party Is. the
sheet-anchor ofIthe, nation 8 prosperi-
ty Is! SO strong that Mr.. Bryan, with
all of his gAttering rhetoric and fas-
c1nating periods, will not be able ~Co
follow him and wrest from him the
advantage, his statesmanly discus
slons and engaging personality have
gained for him among the business
and industrial forces of the nations
garden spot. He won the affections
OF the farmers and the manufacture
ers, and at Omaha, Kansas City, To
peka and st. Louis his reception at
the hands Of the colored people indi-
Gated that be had a host Of sincere
admirers among the race. New York,
New England and the tier Of import
ant states along the Atlantic have
been with the Ohioan from the start,
because Of the party's unwavering
stand for sound finance. Now, add
Ing to this score the electoral votes
,of. the. agricultural region between
the Alleghenies and the Rockies, to-
gether with the Ell Dorado that lies
along the Pacific slope, the success
OF Taft and Sherman Is only a matter.
OF counting the ballots. Their tri-
umph is written in the stars, ~ 81.
The council Of the Hpianfe',, Io CT
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-10-15
'1MSp pESs ~ CD NJ.

Sesn6stE Ill
fiSsa s
Fthe splendid ser vice
velt has rendered on Spsople
and indirectly, and 81
that MI Taft will i SasE
To the wheel to secnk
ment Of the war amend linen Us
clauses I'm the eonstHA ton
teeing the fulfilled gea Cit teizens tD
the Negro on every foot ss39!
soil. Mr.. Taft, freed from
Of misrepresentation that aa 81
quilted him, appears before
garbed in the robe of righteoS
and the masses find him III man s0s
traordinary affabilitys sturdy Ghats s
acter and keen sense of iugttes
they are anxious to repair any
age that they may have inadYerte
ly done him through; the naiEtak ke d
impression they had gained Of his % ss
titude on the race question y,
ord of the Repu blican party and sSgs
Taft's' frank avowalss In? behaif of5
Negro are rallying the race aTound q.
the old flag; the record OF the DeIAa
cratic party, with it's champs oIs
Of slavery, and it's ydisfranch hissud siit
and jim-crow laws OF today & eoaxps
with MFR. Bryan's criminai silence
on what the Negro may expect ma AssEg
1T absolutely impossible for arta fils
telligent. colored man to ally hin5ssi6
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was announced onlyn one day in ad-
vance. The meeting was arranged
be held under the AUSPICES of tho
local members, J. M. Hazlewood and
j. w. Viney, Of the auxiliary to the
Republican State committee. go.
It. was after O'Clock when Presi-
dent Viney called the meeting to or
DER and introduced T.. G. Nutter as
chairman Of the meeting. Chairman
Nutter with a few appropriate re-
marks introduced Hon. Chris. Payne
the speaker. of the evening, who talk
ed for an hour and thirty minutes.
the big crowd listening attentively to
the arguments he adduced In favor
Of continuation Of .,epublican rule
He emphasized his remarks on conf,,.
tons in the South; where the Negro
and hosts Of white men have been
disfranchised by the enactment OF
disfranchisement laws similar to
those which the Democratic party Is
pledged to enact in the State of West
Virginia. H., ~
AS Consul Payne was admonish-
ing the folored voters for their own
protection to vote the Republican
ticket straight, a mighty cheer went
up from the audience for Press
Smith, the Republican candidate for
sheriff. This demonstration was one
Of the features Of the meeting, and
Mr.. Smith was forced to the front.
and made a short address, during
which be was repeatedly cheered.
Chairman Nutter, after Mr.. Smith
had introduced Phil Waters, the
orator Of the Kanawha, and this
splendid Republican enthused his
people from the beginning Of his
speech, telling them that i'm. this
campaign thei" liberties, gained
through years of conflict, we're at
stake, and the colored man, could
afford to take no chance by scratch
ing his ticket.