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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

John R. Walsh of Chicago has died
so pathetieally, within "a few days
after his release from prison on pa
role, that few can have an incentive
to rake over the scandals and crimes
of his remarkable business career
Il can be said of him, in charity that
he was product Of his time; and it
was indeed the burden~of his moral
defense when charged with violations
of the banking laws, that his offenses
had become the common practice of
men engaged in the large financial
affairs of the country.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
a worn TO FIRST VOTERS.

Young men, life is before you,
Two voices are calling you7-one
coming from the swamps of selfish
ness and force, where success means
death; and the other from the hill
tops of justice and progress, where
even failure brings glory. Two
lights are. seen in your horizon
one the fast fading marsh light Of
power, and the other the slowly ris-
ing sun of human brotherhood Two
ways lie open for you--one leading
to an ever lower and lower plain,
where are heard cries of despair and
the curses of the poor, where man
hood shriyels and possession rots
down the possessor; and the other
leading off to- the highlands of the
morning, where are heard the glad
shouts of humanity and where
honest effort is rewarded with i'm
mortality.
JOHN P. ALTGELD.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
TO Those Who Vote in Pike County
Kentucky.

You are going to be called upon
in a few days to settle a question
that means much to you as citizens.
Crooked politics are playing 7aavQc
with our eountry's cherished ideals
men who despise the sanctity OF the
ballot are holding our public offices;
Doodle and booze furnish the chief
source of inspiration in our political
campaigns; patriotism is by-word
The people groan under load OF
taxation from which they get but lit
| tie benefit We have no roads; our
school houses are a shame and yet
We pay our taxes for these purposes.
What goes with the money? Pike
county is a monument to her own.
shame Our purse strings are united
by the hand of a political machine
that puts gold above manhood, dis
honor above honor; and when we cry
out in our disgust, We are told that
everything is all right All right
with whom? With him who has his
hands in te peoples pockets? Yes
But with him whose back is bent
with toll, whose horny hand never
held "a dollar not paid for in sweat,
No!
We are promised much. but every
promise is sealed with an 1nholy
kiss. We have lean ana fat prom
Uses, long and short promises and
court promises filed away in a bank
of Promises notes of promise en-
dorsed by Promise The altar OF
citizenship anhood's affairs de-
secrated by the touch of Mammon's
gold strong minded men weep for
their country's peril. Shall We plead
to you in vain? Will you go to the
polls on the It'll of November and
register your vote against this con-
dition of affairs AMI for the Citizen s
ticket?
And Mingo, the land Of Doodle and
booze, has been called upon to fur
| nish speaker to exploit the good
graces of misrule in Pike county
Do you want to follow Mingo? Can
| the silvery tongue of Mr. Rhodes
| make political crookedness seem
straight? Does he not carry about his
| person enough of the odor Of rotten
ness in Mingo TO make his presence
| known in Pike from one end of the
| county to the other? When lid he
win the right to speak in the name
| OF, decent governments Will the
white people of Kentucky along Tug
River stand for thezgoting of niggers
from West Virginia? That's what
Mr. Rhodes would have you do. He
was elected to Office IN Mingo by
votes SO rich i'm African scent that
the ballot boxes smell to this day
He gets $4,000 year, AMI has an
assistant who gets 81 ,009 a year te
punish crime in Mingo How can he
use himself to defend crime in pike
crime against every political
virtue possessed by the people?
There is mo politics in this con
test, 1t is contest for better
\ condition of affairs in Pike county
You can help. Stand by your home
your manhood and your county. We
need you in this fight Against the
day when oppression's hand vii
clutch your throat or your children!
threats, stand firm for the truth.
Yours very truly,
The POND CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
Advertising Rates aade known on ApIlicstisa-
Nnthine shall warp me from the

Nothing shah warp me from the
belief that every man is a lover OF
truth. There is no pure lie no pure
malignlty in nature. The entertain
ment OF the proposition OF depraSltS
is the last proaigacy and protana-
ton. There is no skepticism, no
atheism but that. Could it be re-
ceived into common belief, suicide
would unpeopIe the planet. 1t has
had a name to live in some dogmat-
ic theology, but each mans limo
cence and his real liking OF his
neighbor, have kept it a dead letter
Emerson.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
JUSTICE NEWS.

Mrs. Emma Davis of Justice spent
Saturday and Sunday with friends
at Jaeger
Mrs. w. /. Hatfield of town visited
homefolks at Justice Sunday.
Prof. E. G. Mollohan of Cyclone,
W. Va. spent Saturday night at
J. 8. P. Stafford's
. Mrs. Brook Christian ami Mrs.
Mollie Stone were calling on friends
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. J. A. Mace and step7son Bub
OF Hotchkiss, w. Va, are spen Inns
the week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs A. D. Spratt AMI other relatives
Miss Suda Stafford returns home
Saturday after a two months visit
with Miss Mabel Mcdonald and other
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Rush Elkins and
family accompanied by Miss Ivy Hat
field returned Saturday from Farm
Vile, Va, where they had been visit
ing Mrs Elkins' brother, John White
and attending the fair
Rev H. E. Hoffman, mission worker
at Gilbert conducted series of meet
ings on Leatherwood last week.
Misses Ida and Mabel Stafford
visited friends at North Springs Fri
day.
Alex Lester passed through town
Saturday en- route home at Buffalo
Creek after weeks visit with
homefolks at Hanover. w Va.
Miss Oracle Ellis of West Gilbert
left Friday for Hanover to visit
friends Her horse became fright
ened and threw her, but fortunately
she was not seriously hurt.
Mrs. John Damron of Jaeger is
now with her parents at Justice,
while her husband is at Hot Springs,
Ark, to improve his health
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

have to pay some one owning large
farms $500 per month to pasture
your cows all for the benefit of
Walker Scott & Co. A vote under
the Rooster, the citizens device, as
well as the Democratic device will
kill the Walker & Scott stock law
Uncle Smith Carter and O'Rear
should have let Geo. Dotson kept
his farm, and we should not have
to pen our cows, hogs and sheep for
Walker and Scott's benefit. The
Scott ring has promised Walker if
he fails to pen the cows at this
election that the ring will call
special election in March apd ap-
point such persons as officers of the
election as Walker wants, so as, to
count the cows, hogs AMI sheep out
of Peter.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
NOTICE.

The Williamson Presby-
iterial Academy property
is for sale on reasonable
terms. The building is a
two-story and basement
brick, and is located on a
plot of ground embracing
nearly an acre. Persons
desiring to purchase may
submit private offers to
the undersigned.
C. w. CAMPBELL,
Huntington, w. Va.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The president Of the United He
brew charities Of the city of New
York, Leopold Plant, in his annual
report-in which, by the way, he
notes an increase during the year of
tuberculosis victims among working
people-hits the nail on the haed
when he says of the white plague.
Whatever may be its origin, there
Is no doubt that overwork, conges-
ton and undernourishment form soil
on which 1t thriyes. Factories must be
made sanitary, tenements must be
made habitable children must be
given room to play, and men and
women must not be oyerworked and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. society in all
It's strata will have to pay the penal
~
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Nine young midshipmen, just grad
uated at Annapolis, have resigned to
accept I'd lieutenancies in the army;
not rejecting on the navy, but pre-
ferring to have prospective wives
with them at the posts rather than
waiting ashore for the end of a
three-years' cruise. The consolation
of sweetheart in every port appears
to be losing its ancient appeal If
this thing keeps on the warship may
have to become sort of modern
floating apartment-house boat.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Did you ever know of anyone being
elected to Office by straw ballot?-
Macon (Ga) News.
Secretary Wilson opposes Gov
eminent aid for good roads because,
once starttd, it might lead to no
body knows where Why not put
guide posts along the road telling
where? Kansas City Star.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

It is novel AMI amusing expert
ence, one would say, for Senator La
Toilette 10 be so busy writing his
autobiography that he cannot go
laundering against the interests, on
the stump. Whether he is showing
good political judgment the experts
must decide. The presidents friends
however. may well,feel apprehensive
when the senator is willing to let
the president do all the talking.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

According TO a comic. weekly
Adam and Eve We're the original in
surgents. Joe" Cannon will observe
that they were permanently removed
from the shade Of the plum trees
Louisville Courier-Journa
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Mrs. Caroline Severance, 81, has
completed So years of fighting for
woman's acknowledgements by regis
tering as a voter at Los Angeles, Cal.
May she turn the century mark with
out missing an election.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The mugwumps ana halfbreeds OF
20 years ago are now insurgents or
progressiyes, and they are increasing
in numbers. Those yetoes did it
Birmingham Age-Herald ~
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02
JOHN P. ALTGELD.

DR.. Wiley says cooking is first
class cure for the divorce evil in this
country. A little good sense also
would help some.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

i Champ Clark says the tide is turn
ing toward Democracy. We entreat
Champ to remember however, that
it is essential for the party to get
on the tide. We do not need any
high tide to run os.er s.-Houston
Post.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

A Detroit suffragist wants a law
passed requiring husbands to pay
their wives a salary. Why law
when the wives already get a salary
their husbands.?- City
Journal
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Pushing tea as a substitute for
coffee is the plan proposed by a
western dealer for Furnishing the in
iquitous international syndicate
which is accused of keeping up.
prices by holding back vast quaint
ties OF coffee during the past three
years
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The initiative is to be tried in Los
Angeles cn a proposal to establish a,
municipal newspaper. If the scheme
carries it will be interesting to see
how Old Subscriber gets along with
this additional right of proprietor
ship.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Tomorrow, and tomorrow and to-
morrow creeps in this petty pace
from day to day says Macbeth,
propaesying, no doubt presest base
ball conditions.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

1t cost the Socialist candidate for
United States Senator in Arizona
nothing for his expenses, while the
Democratic candidate admits it cost
him s. for renewing old acquaint-
ances" and s1o.for making new &C
quaintances But Arizona is new
yet in politics New York World.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, wife of the
novelist, is the only Englishwoman
who holds an air pilots license. She
thinks that while the future of aero
nautics may not be as promising for
women as for men, the time will
come when every woman can drive
her own car will also be able to pilot
her own aeroplane.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

On the lsthmus of Panama there
are 4,7S6 bachelors and only lS7
spinsters. Go south, young woman
go south!
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

A New York cafe proprietor says
that simpler dinners are coming
into fashion. OF course; one must
save enough to tip the waiter.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

If you are looking for dishes, we
have them. The prices are right,
5 10 and 25cent store.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The world must be getting bet
ter Nobody was lynchen in Penn
syttsnia last week. Charleston
News and Courier.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

Women may yet do the shopping
AMI the voting for the family-Birm
ingham Age-Herald
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

True love is like ghosts, which ev-
erybody talks about and few have
seen. De la Rochefoncauld.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

The above is picture of the negro school house built
~ by the Court House Gang, Boed by jim They
paid SOO cash for the lot which ST. building
the house and placed blackboard 20 feet long with
the finest down the river that could bought did
the Gang build kind
QUIT unit
" - ~
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-11-02

He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
THE WIT OF BEES

: Virginia farmer had kept a few
swarms of bees. which he kept in
what are called box hives. says
Harper's Weekly. Inside these were
small boxes which would hold about
two or three pounds Of honey each
About eight of these were placed in
the top of the hive, and as at least
one side of each box was of glass,
the Keeper could easily look into the
hive and see when the boxes We're
filled with honey.
The farmer usually chose to do this
early in the morning, before the bees
came out To begin the labOrs of the
day, or at night, when they had fin
ished them. Bees do not like 10 have
their dwelling molested. and generally
try To- sting the intruder
one day some friends were at the
farmers house. and as they wanted
honey very much, the farmer thought
he would venture 10 take it out in
the afternoon He knew that some
OF the boxes were quite fun The
hives stood few rods from the
house. ana ON that side of the house
were large doors leading into the
cellar.
II has been mentioned that the
boxes were partly oi glass, but the
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28

bottom of each was made of little
Stats, SO that the bees could go in
and out as they liked.
The farmer took out several boxes.
carried them into the cellar. shut the
cellar doors nearly together and hur-
ried away. He put the boxes into
the cellar in order to allow any bees
which might be in them To fly out
and return To the hive; but, in his
haste To avoid being stung. the far
mer left the doors open too much
50 that the cellar Was quite light
whereas. it should have been nearly
dark.
The bees We're So excited and en-
ragged that they flew i'm all directions.
attacking everyone who came in their
way. A woman on the porch was
stung on her cheek. a ncighbor pass
ing along the road Jared no better.
and Il great running and screaming
ensued
When supper time came. there We're
So many bees flying about the cellar
doors that no one cared to 90 near
them. Early the next morning the
farmer looked ont of the dining room
window. and observed that the air
was still full of bees.
At abo ut 10 O'Clock he looked again.
and not bee could be seen. lie
went down and brought up the boxes
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28

cumstances it was not difficult to dis
cover the significance OF his wonder
full singing.
1t is completely adapted TO a leisure
w solitary waterman who. stretched
out in his boat lies on these quiet ca
nails awaiting his master of customers,
humming something to himself to pass
the time and falling back on the poems
he knows by heart as a burden to his
song. Sometimes he will pipe forth
his air as loudly as possible and his
melody viii float over the still mirror
All around him is hushed. In the midst
OF great populOus town he is in soil
tude No rattle Of carriages, 10 hustle
of foot passengers reaches him; only
a silent gondola hovers past him, the
slash Of whose oars he hardly hears.
In the distance another waterman,
perhaps an entire stranger, catches his
strain The melody and poem weave
ties Of communication between the two
men who were otherwise unknown to
each other The second man becomes
the echo of the first and he. too, now
eXerIs himself 10 grow audible to the
man who awakened response in him.
Convention directs them To proceed in
turn verse by verse. The singing may
last through whole nights. They enter
tain without wearying each other. The
listener, moving between both takes in
terest in the performance, while the
two singers are intent on each other.
The singing sounds with an unspeak
able charm in the far distance for only
i'm the distance is it i'm harmony with
its purpose. II sound like a lament
purified of sadness. and YOU can hard
~ listen without tears My companion.
a man of no very fine organization, said
quite spontaneously. 1t is strange
how affecting such singing is."-Trav-
els IN italy.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
HE BELIEVED IN THE PLANT.

Joseph Anderson is a master printer
and he halls from Sacramento. In Port
land the other day he won the envy of
a number of fellow printers. NO better
foreman than mine is to be found in
any printing office in the world" he
said He believes in the office and To
him it is the only spot on earth. Once
year / give him money to % off and
brush the cobwebs Off-get new ideas
in the printing business. Every time
ne comes back he turns back part of
the money given him.
That is a wonderful trait for a
printer. But he beat that. one day 1
felt 50 good about his work and his
faithfulness that / said:
Tom. I'm going to raise your
wages
What do you think his reply was?
He said: Joe, don't you think you had
better buy new type with the money!"
-OgegOnian.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
SAVOY THEATER IS
READY FOR OPENING
New Picture House Begins Business
Tonight.

The new theater recently built at
First and Adams streets will he known
as the Savoy and its doors win he
opened to the public tonight one
Of the best programs of moving pic
lures ever shown in Phoenix is prom
ised for the initial bill The large
$1,000 electric piano which has been
furnishing pleasing music at the
New Airdome. has been installed in
the rear of the Savoy and will hence
forth be- used on special and desirable
occasions. while an orchestra of Sc
leCted talent has been secured for
the regular programs. To furnish ap-
propriate music with each picture \
feature OF tonights entertainment will
be the singing ofMiss Blaine. a vocal
ist Of rare accomplishments
The picture program will be as fol-
lows: A Western Courtship." The
Lily Of the Tenements," Tanning a
Tyrant." and THE Eye of Conscience"
Manager J. r. Brought insists that
his new theater viii be as fully up
to date as any picture house in the
territory and that it will excel any
open air amusement place ever con-
structed in Phoenix Every con-
venience that can possibly be provided
for such a place has been carefully
furnished. with an eye single To
pleasing the public
Mr. Brought who built and has con-
Quoted the New Airdome on Third
street TO a flattering financial sue
cess. has erected the Savoy to sue
coed il in interest. the old place now
being practically dismantled All Of
the Airdome furnishings and equip
ment that could be utilized in the
Savoy have been moved To the new
house, and other things needed have
been added The building itself is
rather a tame looking affair com
pared with the monster Doris across
the street, but il is a notable i'm
provement over the wooden shack
that has occupied the corner So long
and is withal, the most pretentious of
all the city's airdome fronts.
1t is built of iron and is at least
new and neat and its front towers
up behind the gallery seats in way
that adds at least a little To the
former architectural appearance Of
the scene at that street intersection.
When the electric lights beam forth
tonight the effect Will doubtless be
quite spectacular and add a new
luster To- the activities on First
street
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
.LECTURING TO THE
RESERVATION FOLK
Apaches Enjoyed Moving Pictures and
White Mans Lecture

Dr F. Shoemaker and Joseph Sin
gIrton returned to Phoenix yesterday
from Fort Mcdowell where DIR. Shoe
maker lectured the night before to
about fifty Apache Indians on the
subject of tuberculosis and methods
for its prevention. Dr. Shoemaker is
"A specialist OF the Indian service and
AIR. Singleton accompanies him as an
expert photographer and as the me-
chauician I'm presenting stereOpticon
slides and moving picture films for
the Illustration Of the lectures.
The gentlemen were more than
pleased with their reception at Nc
DoweM They were rather doubtful
oi securing an audience as the Apache
Indian has at least one virtue. that
OF staying home at night and he has
hitherto had no club" or Chautauqua
course as an excuse for roaming
around after dark Moreover he has
not been noted for his interest in
feature Of the entertainment was too
strong 10 resist.
When night came the natives began
To- assemble and oddly they all came
with lanterns. about the last thing
one would expect Apache Indians to
Dee provided with. 1t transpires that
their recent adoption Of the white
mans mode of life to the extent of
raising their crops by irrigation has
developed them in various ways and
among other things they have found
the lantern just as convenient for
night irrigation Of their fields as has
the white man. The use of il, too.
has robbed them Of their skulking
habits in the nights Of other days
and when business now calls an
Apache abroad between suns he goes
with a headlight
They were much pleased with the
show and took especial delight in see
ing tire representation of how the In
dians of the northern tribes live. and
seeing them go about their tasks in
the animated pictures. The lecture
part Of the entertainment was through
an Interpreter and they gave evidence
OF having a quite intelligent under
standing Of what the doctor sought to
teach them concerning the necessity
of pure air cleanliness. and general
hygienic rules. Pictures were shown
of healthy bodies and Of diseased It's
sues illustrating the ravages Of con-
sumption. which ailment has in re-
cent years been sadly borne in upon
them by observation Of the short
ened careers of their fellow tribes
men.
On Monday and Tuesday nights DR.
Shoemaker and Mr.. Singleton were
N SacatOn. where they had still
larger audiences as the Pima tribe
has had more educational advantages
than the Apaches and many Of them
are already quite civilized. on Tues
day night the lecturers had an aud
fence of about $50
Arizona republican., 1911-04-28
SONG OF THE GoNDoLIERS.
Idle Chants With Responses Are
Strangely Moving.

The still canals. the high buildings,
the splendor of the moon, the deep
shadows, the ghost-like appearance Of
the few black gOndolas gliding up and
down. added To the peculiar character
of the scene, and amid all these cir