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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
FREE SCHOOL FOR COIORFD
DEAF AND BLIND CHILDREN

NEWPORT NEWS, VA Special
The middle of September next the
Virginia State School for Deaf and
Blind Children in this city will open
us third session. Last session fifty
iour pupils were admitted and next
session the authorities are very desir-
Gus of admitting 100 pupils. The
trouble has been that the existence
OF me school is not generally known
oN the colored people. There are
nearly 500 deaf or blind colored chill
dren IN Virginia. as shown by the
States school census. as well as bv
the United States census
The school Is the only one in tn.
state. OF the fifty-four children nd
mited 10 the school last session FULLY
half of them were sent by white la
dies of the State.
In the city of Richmond the cen
sus shows nearly a dozen colorcd dear
or blind children who should be in
school at Newport News, where no
charge is made.
BESIDES given good working edu-
cation. the deaf boys are taught car
penter work. shocmakinS. farming.
etc' the dear girls plain and fancy
sewing, the making of dresses. gar
mentS, etc. cooking. laundering and
housekeeping generally. While tn.
blind get a good education which en-
ahles them TO read countless books
and newspapers printed for their use
i'm this country and which the Gov
eminent transmits through the mails
free OF cost. thus Frightening their
lives The blind boys are taught
trades by which they can make "a
comfortable living, such as mattress
making. broom making and chair
Gaming. Music also has q prominent
part in their training.
Governor Mann, who visited tn
school last spring, was agreeably sur
priSed at the splendid fancy work
showing made by the blind girls. This
session the making of dresses. aprons.
ETC. Will be taken up by these girls
and the superintendent is cOnsidering
the Introduction of chair-caning bv
the blind girls also.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
NEWS OF HORSES
AND H9RSEMEN
RACE PROGRAM OF VIRGINIA
FAIR CIRCUIT MOST ATTRAC-
TIVE YET OFFERED.
(By w. j. Carter.)

The complete speed program of the
virginia fair circuit has been issued
by the circuit secretary, j. r. Flippo
or Roanoke, and shows that nine
meetings are scheduled, with a total
OF over $32, 1000 offered in purses for
harness races, while something more
than $4,000 will be hung up for the
runners. The circuit opens at Galax
on September 18th and continues
three days, while Tazewell follows on
september 19th-21st; then come Roa-
noke, september 26th-29th; lynch
burg, October 3d-6th; Richmond, Oc-
toDer Sth-14th; Petersburg, October
lth-21st; SUFFOLK, October 24th-26th ;
tarmville, October 24th-27th, and
Emporia, October 31st-NoVember Sd
With the exception OF Galax early
closing purses are offered at each place
ana range in value from $400 to $4,000
each for the 2:16. 2:24 and three
year-old classes, trotting, and for the
2:l4 and 2:2O classes, pacing, while
open class range in value from $500
TO $500 each at the larger places. The
Virginia State Fair, at Richmond, of
terS larger amount Of money than
any other member of the circuit as
the early closing events, five in num-
Der, aggregate $4,000, while the open
purses eight in number, are of the
uniform value of $500. Shipments
are conveniently arranged and the
circuit offers a fall campaign that
seems likely to prove attractive not
only to owners and trainers having
nominations i'm the early closing
events, but will afford an opportunity
Tor others to earn winter oats by en-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
SAY GOVERNOR INSUITED
WOMAN TICKET AGENT

COLUMBIA, S. c. Special-"I am
Governor. the skunks who use pens
Tor the newspapers to the contrary
Notwithstanding"
This is one of the dignified state
ments which Governor Cole. l.. Blease
makes in letter published Thursday
denying he was disCourteOus to Miss
Rogers, ticket agent OF the Southern
Railway. at Bolton, this State.
j. A. Villa editor of the Times.
which first published the story is a
member of the Legislature. His at
torney, l.. l.. Rice, said today that Mr.
Willis plans to bring impeachment
proceedings against the Governor.
1t is charged that while one hun
ored persons were waiting to buy tick
cts for train which left in ten min
utes, Governor Blease approached
Miss Rogers and asked her to ex-
change mileage for a train which left
hfty-five minutes later. Miss Rogers
asked him 10 wait until she had at
tended to the others.
According to the Bolton Times the
Governor Strengthened up and in a
most insulting manner informed Miss
Rogers that she must know who she
was talking to-" He further inform
ed her: Il am Cole Blease the Gov
erLOr of South Carolina. I've got a
right to buy a ticket any time / call
for il and you've got to sell it TO me-"
According TO the Times. the Cover
nor added:
'I'll write about you TO the super
intendent Of your old road. which ]
would not ride on if L did not have
to-"
In his letter Governor Blease de-
clares he told Miss Rogers who he
was so that he could call her as "a
witness if he decided to sue the rail-
road for damages.
Some people will hear from this
dirty transaction later writes the
Governor He has summarily revoked
the commissions of three notaries
public-James NJ. Alexander. j. n.
Merritt and John y. Horton-Afr
Alexander having made an affidavit
supporting the charges and the two
others having attested to similar af-
fidavits
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
HER THROAT JUST DRY
WHEN THE DOCTOR CAME

NEW DIRK Special-Dr. Paul
Norwood, physician, with offices at
223 West FOrty-third Street Manhat-
tan. has filed in the county clerk $
office in Brooklyn an answer to "a
suit for divorce brought AGAINST him
by Mrs. Bertha Mason Norwood. OF
ICES Shore Road. Sheepshead Bay
Mrs. Norwood wants $25 a week ali
mony, counsel fees OF $500 and per
manent custody Of Josephine Mason
Norwood, their seven-year-ol child.
The couple were married in Deem
Der, 1896.
Mrs. Norwood alleges she learned
last May that her husband was pay
1873 attention TO another woman and
that she found him at the Hotel Man
haitian. brooklyn. on July eth with
this woman, after having him fol-
lowed
in his reply Norwood says that on
July 1th Harry Van Finiay. a SUP
posed intimate friend. EStcl him 70
So 10 rNoS'Nu To give medical treat
ncnt 90 girl suffering FROM a sore
throat Norwood went. He says there
was "a ta>lcaD in front of the girls
house and as he entered he found
the supposed girl i'll and another girl
putting ON their street wraps Then
Van Finiay, according to Norwood
said the girls throat was all right.
but little dry.
Norwood asserts he took the party
10 a cafe where they had dinner.
The next thing he remembers was
when his wife's party began pound
ing at the door of a room occupied
by him and one of the women. He
swoars ne was the victim Of a plot.
arranged by Van Finlay, and that he
doeSn L even know the name of the
girl who was found i'm the room with
him when his wife hammered at the
door.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
TRUE BILL FOUND
AGAINST BEATTIE

The, following is the indictment pre-
scented against Henry G. Beattie. Jr.. &C
cused Of wife murder:
The jurors OF theCommonWealth OF
Virginia, in and for the body OF tho
county OF Chesterfield. and now attend
ing the said court. upon their oath
on the 18th day OF July, in the year one
thousand nine hundred and eleven, with
force and arms in the county aforesaid,
In and upon the body Of one Louise
owen Beattie. In the peace of said Com
monwealth, then and there being, felo-
niously, wilfully and OF his malice
aforethought, did make an assault; and
that the said Henry Clay Besttie, Jr.,
"a certain shotgun then and there
charged with gunPowder and leaden
balls. which said shotgun he, the said
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. In his hands
then and there had and held. then and
there feloniously. wilfully and OF his
malice aforethought. did discharge and
shoot on, TO. against and upon the said
Louise owen Beattie: and that the said
Henry Clay Beattie. Jr.. with the leaden
pals aforesaid. out OF the shotgun by
the said Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. dis
charged and shot OF as aforesaid then
and there feloniously, Wilfully and OF
citrate and wound the said Louise owen
Beattie in and upon the left side OF the
race OF her, the sal dLouise owen Beat
tie; giving TO her, the said Louise owen
Beattie. then and there. with the leaden
balls aforesaid. so as aforesaid dis
charged and shot out of the shotv,,r,
aforesaid by the said Henry CLAY Rsst-
tie. Jr., in and upon the left side of the,
race OF her, the said Louise owen Beat
ne, one mortal wound: OF which said
mortal wound she. the said Louise Owen
Beattte, then and there Instantly died
Ana SO the jurors aforesaid. do say that
the said Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, her,
the said Louise owen Beattie, in the
manner and by the means aforesaid.
feloniously, wilfully and Of his malice
a arc, hought did kin and murder.
against the peace and dignity OF the
commonwealth OF Virginia"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
TO PROHIBIT THE MAILING
OF OBSCENE POST CARDS.
Success of Movement in Michigan to Pun
ish Local Promulg of the Evil

engaged in such traffic may be protect
ed from any possible detection. The
names Of the publishers are In every
case omitted from such cards which Is
an admission OF their illegality
Although no definite action has yet
been taken, the general idea pursuant
to the movement started here seems to
be that board OF censorship be estab-
lished under immediate direction of the
GovernOr,tO which all designs and sub
scriptions for postcards must be sub
mttted before tho cards are permitted
to be published.
IL is understood that the Governor
viii be pctttioned to use his influence
at the next session OF the General As
Sembly TO secure the proper enactmentS
to empower the authorities to act and
TO mete out speedy punishment to those
who persist in promulgating the pub
LEGATION. sale and distribution of such
improper postcards.
II is hoped that such legislation win
be enacted at the earliest possible mo-
ment, and that the penalty will be as.
severe as possible and the language so
clear that there will be no chance OF
evading II.
The postal law bearing on the sub
tect is as follows:
Every postcard bearing picture
that is obscene. indecent or improp-
erly suggestive should be Immediately
Withdrawn from the mails and for
warded to the Fourth Assistant POST
master general division of dead letters.
POstmasters are directed to exercises an
possible vigilance in the enforcement of
this regulation"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
DECLINES OFFER OF
BYRD TO ASSIST

CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE.
Special.-Confident that he needs
no assistance in prosecuting Henry
Clay Beattie. Jr., who is charged with
wife murder, Judge James NJ. Greg
orN commonwealth Attorney Of
Chesterfield county, today declined to
allow Richard Evelyn Byrd to take
part in the trial, though assured that
such assistance would not incur any
additional expense, whatsoever, to the
county.
Mr.. Byrd, who is Speaker of the
House of Delegates. is recognized as
)ne Of the most brilliant and success
ful lawyers in the State.
Judge Gregory was approached
Saturday by a man authorized {,
speak for Mr.. Byrd. While Mr.. Ryrd
was represented as by no means az
tempting to force himself into tho
case. Judge Gregory was assured thai
his assistance could be procured with
ont cost to the Commonwealth.
The name of the man who called
upon Judge Gregory is being withheld
for obvious reasons. but il viii be
given out If necessary
"As commemorative Attorney OF
Chesterfield county, / am fully capa-
BILE of taking care Of the Common
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
SIGHT RESTORED
BY HYPN0TISM

NEW DIRK Special.-George H.
Swineston, who was retired from the
New York police with a pension in
July. 1908, as hopelessly blind. was
able to read ordinary print Wednes-
day after DR.. Alfred J. Fox had hyp-
noticed him in the Hotel Frederick
Fifty-siXth Street, near Broadway.
DR.. Fox three months ago treated
MelchOir Luysterberg in st. Marks
Hospital for a week and demonstrated
that ne could make the man walk
though Luysterberg had been a hope
less paralytic three years.
DIR. Fox, naturally delighted after
Wednesdays experiment, said he be-
Heved il was the first time true afro
ply Of the eye had respond ID to any
treatment. The former policeman has
had two treatments. He lives at 41S
West Fortieth Street.
One unusual feature Of the expert
ment lies in the fact that hypnotism
generally depends upon a concen-
trated look of the subject into the
eyes of the hypnotist. Swineston could
give no such glance and the physi-
clan experimental with him in a mild
way for several days before definitely
putting the siX-footer into a hypnotic
state.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
LONG N0uRS AND PeOR PAY
BOY SEES NOTHING TO LIVE FOR
Working Fifteen Hours Day Seathop to Sixty Cents He
Got Discouraged and Turned

NEW YORK-Special.- Discouraged
at the age OF fifteen, Philip Cohen tried
10 kill himself Tuesday night by gas in
hts small bare room at 915 Moproe
Street other tenants in the house
smelled the fumes and ran around TO
the Madison Street Police station. Fear
had kept them from forcing the door OF
his room.
Detective Gleason found Philip UNI
conscious. He tried to revive the boy.
who was lying on the little bed in
which he and his twenty-one-year-o old
brother Louis slept. Stin unconscious.
the boy was taken to GOuverneur Hos
pital
There were two notes on the bureau.
The first one read:
haven't anything TO live for.
L am Disguised OF life. know
that my only friend so far would be
To the one who fnds my body will
kindly see that my brother win in
Cleveland. o., is given my last words
10 him.
Regards TO the world and all who
know L am Disguised.
Do not try TO save my life, please
The note was signed, as was also the
following:
L am tired OF life.
q day in a sweat shop. L have earned
only 60 cents a day. 1 have been away
from my father for over two years and
there have been days when I went
without anything to eat.
The hospital physicians brought
Philip around without much trouble
and he was then taken to the Chill
dren's Society and booked as a juvenile
delinquent He was arraigned We'd
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
RIG ND. VA.-Sepcial.-

X l G II NJ o n ID, VA.-Sepcial.-
Following the example OF Michigan
reformers, who have just closed an
eminently successful campaign against
the publication and mailing or i'm
proper, indecent or otherwiSely i'm
moral postcards, a movement is about
to be launched in this city and State
having the same object I'm view.
1t is declared by people who have
made investigation that tho publication
in especial. and the mailing in general,
OF postcards bearing pictures and IN
ScriptionS which are in many cases
lewdly suggestive and sometimes overt
ly immoral are decided menaces 20
moral conditions here and elsewhere
and operate to hinder and countera CT
much of the rood work done by re-
ligious and moral welfare organiza-
tons
While emphatic in prohibiting the
mailing of such cards, IL is asserted
the postal laws are not sufficiently
specific and comprehensive and do not
affect the publishers of such cards or
The merchant who exhibits them for
sale In his show windows where men,
women and children are almost com
PEELED to see them.
Moreover, IL is known that many Of
these cards are sent through tho mails
In sealed envelopes by which method
the postal laws are escaped. Also a
large number of postcards fraught with
the vilest and most vulgar indecency
are published and hung up in the In
terror of stores and sold with the un-
outstanding that they are to be mailed
under cover only so that those who are
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
HE KNOWS SECRET
OF WHY IT'S HOT

WASHINGTON, d. c. Special
Professor Harry -. FrapkenheId. Gov
ernment forecaster, knows just what
VIII make 1t hot today, just what made
ii hot yesterday, and in fact what has
caused all this holiness all this sum
mer.
II is hot air.
The professor has discovered that
this earth is in the clutch of a STAG
nant belt of hot air $4,000 miles
long, 5000 miles wide and FORTY miles
hlSh, which grips the earth on either
side OF the Equator.
just how long the earth is going 10
suLer from this hot air strangle hold
the professor cannot say. but he is
sure there viii be relief when cooler
AR punctures the torrid belt Asked
what brought about this accumulation
OF not air, the professor said he be-
heVed ii was due to a peculiar dis
turpance OF atmospheric pressure
no; he doesn't blame Halley's
comet in any way
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24

nesday morning before Judge Hoyt IN
the Children's Court. The justice want
eel 10 know why a hfteen-year-old boy
should want to end his life.
Il couldn't see any reason for liv-
Ing" said Philip. My father married
didn't want Louis and me around the
house. We had TO get out. L couldnt
find boys job, so 1 had to look for
work usually done by a grown man.
Il got job as an operator in a
sweat shop, but L couldn't last at it. /
have been out Of work for a week. 1
didn't have any money saved hadn't
earned enough to do that. so L had to
so without eating at times.
II guess l was wrong. I'm pretty
young to die, and now 1 don't want to
die. L want another chance. Judge,
will you give IL TO meY'
The boys story moved Justice Hoyt.
and he leaned over the desk and said
Ny boy, you arc so very young
there 10 no doubt of your ability to and
work and make enough to live on.
There Is a good chance for you. We
want to help you. Clear your mind OF
thing for anyone. young or old. to be-
come Disguised with life. Brace up, be
for you"
He then called Herman Simon, pro-
oatiOnary ofhcer of the Jewish Pro-
"Dou you think you can do anything
for this lad, Mr.. Simon?" the justice
asked.
Well. I'll try to ind him a Job II
you Will place him in my care,'' an
swered Simon.
Two hours later Philip had a job.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
6 KILLED 80 HURT IN
WRECK OF FLYER
Learning Extent of Casualties in
Wreck of Flyer-Four Others
Nav Die.

FORT WAYNE, IND.-Special.-
wreckage OF the eighteen hour Penn
sylvania Railroad flyer was cleared
away today and definite facts learned
as to the number OF casualties. SIN
persons were killed ard more than
thirty injured. Four OF those in the
hospital are expected TO die All Of
the dead are members OF the crew ex-
Ccpt one, Il passenger.
she train jumped the tracks while
going at a rate OF fifty mics al hour
ycstVI day evening.
The dead: Sell. porter: Valentine
snyder, Crestlin, o.; Peter Malone,
engineer. Fort Wayne: w Creigh. Gre
man, Fort Wayne; w. r. Arrlrk
freight engineer, Fort Wa:'ne. and one
under titled man. HOSPITALS here .re
filled with the injured and every PLY ST
clan and surgeon in The city has been
called into the service
- Because of the great Speed of the
tram and the Sud1Cnness Of the shock
railroad men express surprise today
that the accident was not worse.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24
TOLD PAUL BEATTIE
TO KEEP MOUTH SHUT
MOND. vA-Sne

c H NJ o N d, VA.-Special.-
men Faui Be3ttle taxes the stand
10 testify before the jury which is
10 try Henry Clay Bcattie for the muir
der of his wife. he Will make some dis
closures which have so far escaped
the general public.
The night of the funeral OF the dead
wife, Henry Clay Beattie telephoned
FauI Beatte to keep his mouth shut.
ana that same night he came 10 tbiS
side OF the river and met Paul Reat-
tie, whether at his home or on the
street is not yet definitely known.
Henry Beattie Is said TO have told
PauI Beatue over the telephone to
keep his mouth shut and to say moth
ing. but when lac met Paul Rcottje
he il said To have told him Thai hS
must keep his mouth shut at All haz-
ards and that lac would lose. nothinw
by 50 doing.
The finding or the gun win, which
the crime was committed the fact tbot
the detectives had found the man who
Solu the weapon and had given the
name, and the fact that Paul bcattie
had bought the gun for Henry Reartfe
proved on his mind, and he s,nt me
detectives word that he had holrht tbo
weapon. lie then gave the written
ana the cartridges
Paul Beattie knew nothing of The
crime tllI he read OF it the morning
IoHoWlnE the murder" said a relati,.e
OF the man. As soon as il No. -
known that Henry Bcattie was sus-
pectyn ne began To worry and told The
members or his family that he bad
bought gun for Henry and describ5
the weapon in detail
AS 10 raul being scared. 7 c~uqse tI,ot
- SO. w men he saw that Henry Root
ne mad been taken i'm custody rigbt
LII UJt1Ie ms eyes realizing the crime
YIN ,Whlch ne was charged, the foct
1hat MIS-; Beattie had been a school
mate or the wife of his cousin ali co.,
Dlhed to make himsick and to prodmco
What was really nothing more nor IesS
tndh hySteria. He will take the stanS
ana ne VIII tell all that he knoSvs w
nave nays advised him to do that. and he
have had a talk with him In t,,o
t ta5S rev Gays and he is all right He
Solu me that ne was scared nearly 10
uedth, that ne was a stranger to co,rt
proceedings, and the fact that he 49,
tGIceu 10 tell things which might noSsi
DiS throw a suspicion on him. made bir,
SICK, De did not want TO fesfift,
a,SdlhSt Beattte, but when he reeit1aS
I1at there might be an attempt 70 in
pleate him he told all he knew bnd
nrot' e Is attacked he will be able TO
9Pe an aIoi. That is positive
oo auL ,beattle was hurt in a street
a. 81 dccIdeht some years ago and nm 70
rIaI time ne had never had one OF tbaso
nervous attacks. He has had savereI
VI theLn since that accident and vbe1I
ever ne becomes excited or confnsnd
ne gives way" S0HI useo
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-08-24

Il first went TO the doctor one week
ago, said SWineston to a reporter for
the Journal Wednesday. I'd heard
of what he did to a man in St. Mark S
and thought he might be able to do
something for me.
When I left the force / could stand
on the curb Of a street and not see
a car passing. 1 could not see any
persons full face. BY looking side
ways I'd get a hazy view. 1 could
not read anything. I could not see
an electric lamp If it shone straight
in front.
After I was retired with a small
pension for total disability 1 went to
making little toys. Then I got a Job
in paper box factory cutting cor
ners That doesn't need sight. Two
OF the men working with me were
totally blind.
Il could just see 81 general blurr OF
light That was disappearing when &
friend read to me about the hypno
fist making that paralyzed man walk
l said. If he can do that why can
he make me see again?' So l camo
to him."
After explaining his case Swinestol
dropped his head on the back of al
arm chair and DR.. Fox talked to him
In low voice. making passes before
his eyes. There was nothing spec
tacular about the performance.
Swineston went into a sleep that last
ed nearly an hour. In its course the
physician whispered to him many
times:
The arteries that supply your eyes
are getting stronger. The nerves arr
growing stronger. You can see You
can see letters. Your eyes are much
stronger. They will soon be all right.
The big fellow, breathing heavily.
was brought out Of his sleep. He
looked the reF Orter squarely in the
eye. He read promptly an advertise
ment in large type. He failed on
smaller type.
sure" he said. Wouldn't it be great
II they got so good l could go back
on the fOrce9''