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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-02-08
Postman-"Well, Anty; pretty soon
I'll have to get pushcart."

Postman-"Well, Anty; pretty soon
I'll have to get a pushcart."
Anty Drudge-"Sakes alive! They're
writing to me from everywhere
wanting to know how to clean this,
that and the other thing with
Fels-Naptha Soap. But answer
them every one. just say: 'Anty
Drudge, Philadelphia, Pa"
Next to a will
ing h u S b a n d
Fels-Naptha Soaps
the handiest thing
a woman can have
about the house.
Not only on wash.
day is Fels-Naptha
useful, but when
ever there is any,
thing to be cleaned.
For W a S h i n g
floors, walls, limo
leum, fine china and
glass or anything
else that is wash
able just u S e
Fels-Naptha Soap,
cool or luke warm
water and a soft
cloth.
Follotp directions on the Fed and
Green Wrapper.
Fels g. Co., Philadelphia.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
A DISTINCT ADVANTAGE.

The republicans object to the appoint
ment of Senator Lafollette III the sen
ate conference committee. as one of the
republican conferecs.
Yet it must be remembered that most
of the points in the bill which were op-
posed by the republicans were opposed
by Lafollctte. who was in fact the lead
Ell III opposition.
No republican has Il better right to
be in the conference. The fact that he
voted for the bill in its entirety by no
means juStifies the conclusion that he
has changed his mind aS to the partic
ulars in which he wanted the bill chang
ed.
There is no unfairncSS to the rcpubli
rams in the naming Of the Wisconsin man
on the committee. On the contrary there
is a distict advantage to the republicans
in his selection.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
SCHOOL HYGIENE

San Antonio. Texas. Sept 13.-The San
Antonio council of mothers are vigorous
~ pressing the campaign for school by
giene. They want Il system of free med
zeal examination, for each child as it eli
terS school. 4 free dental clinic and the
employment of a free nurse. who shall
supervise the health of the children both
at school and ut home when necessary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
BUTCHER COWS ADVANCE

Fort Worth, Sept. developments
Thursday and yesterday were light to this
point and prices Of butcher stock adj
vanced. Thursdays receipts were about
half of those of the day before. both in
COWS and calves Butcher stock quoted
Thursday ut 500. the best of hte week.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Il. 1913,
RIVAL OF THE HOME.

The social club is one Of the oldest Of
the social influences in our civilization
that %antagonize the home. The fact OF
individual selfishncss lies at the root
of the club idea. Early in life, the club
appeals to the boy. as a place
where. in mpa Of c%ongcnial fellows
he NAV escape the duties and restraints.
and too often) the decencieS Of home.
The idea goes with the man into man
hood. 1t becomes the refuge OF the mar
ried man particularly. from the tamenesS
of home joys, the burdens Of home life.
and also (too often) from the wholesome
restraints of home life.
We must also hold the novels Of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries res
ponsible for much of the glamour that
hangs over the social club. From Thack
cry to the latest best seller" the club
is represented to us as the glorified home
of the socially exalted in which the
large cold bottle and the small hot
bird are among the commOnest joys Of
the elect. On the subject Of the social
club. a recent editorial in the Houston
AuEOHlClr IL WI hiuNH " ~ Ppih'' CIV
is well worth the persual Of The Herald
readers
The social club. as commonly mn
derstOOd. is rather attractive in con
ception but a veritablc nuisance i'll
design. 1t works beautifully in the
Ory but causes much disturbance in
practice.
A., ,np.,n.f,I1n man Hn1 a vary
contenial social club in their homes
and the homes Of their nciehbors.
For them the ordinary social club
has little attraction.
1t is the MAN who cares little for
home ties. who has scant thought of
resonsibilpity who possesses erratic
tendencies, that finds pleasure III the
social club.
To him il becomes a haven of ref
uge. lie doesn't have to hear the
baby cry, or help his tired wife with
I the work. He can forget that he is
the head of Il family and be 4 boy
once more. He can smoke and drink
with cOngenial companions. can keep
up to date with the latest stories,
Stl IOStth dN " IL hbhN HhW ~
the stage, absorb the last word in
slang. and he generally progressive
in the extreme sense Of the word.
If he is ambitious and original
he can find opportunity for exploits
sufficiently vicious and sufficiently
remunerative to placatc the most i'm
aginative.
Being cStrangcd from the atmoS-
phere Of the homo and outside the in
fluence of decent women and respect
able men. the social club is Succpt
ible Of most any diversion.
As nj first established il is not gen
orally Il very bad institution. but,
as its members usually are of the
variety-lOying sort. il becomes too
tame and too mO%nOtOnUuS.
Its doubtful cXcluSivencSS makes
it a convenient channel for whimsi-
cal and irresponsible delinquency
Since there is no influence to elevate i
il. its COURSE is steadily downward.
and the decline is Softcned and made
attractive bv convivialitv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
THE PORT. OF DALLAS

Washington. DC, Sept. B-Dallas
0 has immediate transportation priv
ilcges, without appraiSement to mcrchan-
disc of all shipments designed for that
point, provided the bill passed under the
tutelage Of Senator Sheppard does not
oct vetoed by the president.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13

1t is now declared that Carranza has
announced that he will be a candidate
for the presidency of Mexico. If given
the proper guarantees by the Huprta GOV
arnment, he will. it is said. abide by the
result of the election. If this is true. it
is the most hopeful fact in the Mexican
situation. especially as Carranza is said
to have secured the consent of the Con
s~titutionalist leaders to this programme.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-13
PRESIDENTS VACATION

Washington. Sept. 13.-President Will
son left Thursday evening Tor Cornish.
n. H.. and is not expected to return I'M
til Tuesday Of next week.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
The Accused Woman.
(By II. G. Cupples)

A woman told me the, other day.
that some time ago every house in
st. Louis had two gas meters one for
fuel and one for lighting gas. Light
ing gas cost $1.1O per M and fuel gas
was only 90 cents per NJ The gas
company advertised in the papers tell
ing of the high quality of their IL
ILLUMINATING gas and also of the
splendid heating properties of their
fuel gas. Everybody went about their
work satisfied and paid their gas bills
regularly. 1t was taken for granted
that the patient and long suffering
gas company should get more for their
splendid ILLUMINATING gas than
for their common fuel gas. Any fair
minded person could easily understand
that.
But alas, one day an ill-bred woman
with a wicked tongue discovered that
she was getting the two kinds of gas
through the same pipe.
She did as all such people do. She
made herself very disagreeable to her
neighbors by repeating this evil
thought
1t was a slander on Mr.. Bixby, the
president of the gas company, and a
goood Christian gentleman-a member
of the Congregational church. The
good" neighbors were not slow to
mark this story as an invention Of the
devil Now, would YOU blame these
good people? Did not the whole
human race fall from grace just be-
cause a woman ate of the forbidden
fruit of knowledge?
Then why should not woman be
crucified for discovering that a gas
company was selling two kinds of gas
out of the same pipe? Especially
when a good Christian gentleman is
the president of the gas company.
Deplorable as was the conduct Of
this woman, good people may yet have
comfort in the thought that the way
of the transgressor is still almost as
hard as in the good old witch burning
days.
Did not Jesus feed whole multitude
on five loaves and some little fishes? ?
Then why could not goca Christian
gas company furnish two kinds of gas
from the same pipe?
Woe unto non-believers.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
SOCIALIST VOTE IN EUREKA
GOES UP TO 879; ELECT
FIVE TRUSTEES.

EUREKA, Cal, June 25.-Eureka's
city election which was held Monday
June 18th, was the warmest political
fight which the enemies of Socialism
have ever put up against the party
During the week preceding the elec.
tion the daily press turned their mud
batteries loose on the Socialists. A
large force of personal workers were
put to work to line up the wavering
ones and by any means swing into
the old camp. In the face of an end
less amount of misrepresentation in
which a trumped up charge of I. w.
W.ism was used with considerable
effect, the vote was nevertheless in
creased from 76S cast for the head of
the ticket two years ago to S79 for
the same office this year. Three out
of five library trustees were elected
by the Socialists and one Socialist
school trustee holds over The enemy
elected all the other officials but ex-
perienced the fight of their lives.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
CHINESE PLUTOCRATS
FATTEN ON FAMINE
Thousands of Natives Starve From
Failure of Crops While Prices
Soar.

SHANGHAI, June 26.-Reliable re-
ports from the Anhui province tell a
grim tale of famine in the City of
Kaifeng and other parts of the prov
ince because fthe fact that no wheat
was planted last autumn north of the
Yellow River, and because droughts
have prevented the planting of spring
crops.
Thousands of beggars are seen on
the streets of Kaifeng, scores dying
every day. Hot soup is given out at
irregular intervals in Kaifeng, but the
people fight so fiercely that the huge
pot frequently overturns and pours
the scalding liquid over the famished
unfortunates. Mission hospitals care
for the burned and feed all they can.
Grain spectators are holding their
supplies at prices that are almost pro-
hibitory, but the provincial officers
have been advised by missionaries TO
set a reasonable price above which it
shall be unlawful to go. The native
magistrate at Kweitehfu is doing this
and is also boarding grain in case the
famine should reach his district.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
Horrors of War

(From an article in the N. Y. Call
by the only woman war correspondent
in the Balkan war;
l approached a woman who ap-
peared to be almost As years of age.
Once she must have been a good look
ing woman. Her right arm was in
slings, while her left breast was band
aged in dirty rags.
l addressed her in Turkish, but she
answered in Armenian. She was from
Mousoul, in far away Eastern Asia
Minor. When l assured her that
was a Christian and myself native
of Turkey, she wept bitterly, and, be-
tween heart-rending sobs, told me her
sad story.
Last August a detachment of 300
Turkish regulars entered the unhappy
their arrival in the village the young
officers commanding the group sent
for the muchtars (the elders of the
village). The officers ordered the
elders to supply them with twenty
young girls. The elders assured them
that they would comply with their
demands, but instead, on returning to
the village, they warned the villagers
to hide their women. The officers
waited till midnight, when at last they
discovered the elders had played a
trick on them, and their wrath knew
no bounds.
In companies of fives and tens, they
attacked the Christian houses at ran
dom. Only two weeks before the un-
fortunate villagers had been disarmed
by the strictest orders that were ever
issued from the capital.
That night they carried away more
than ninety young girls and matrons
between the ages of 13 and 25, after
outraging many others.
This woman's husband and his
brother fought desperately for the
honor of their women. But at last
they were overpowered. The Turks
tied the two men to the bars OF the
window, then they outraged this wom-
an before her husband, brother and
two daughters, who were IA and II
years of age, respectively. Then they
stabbed the two men until they died.
Finally they started off with her
two daughters. She reached for her
shrieking children. Whereupon. true
20 their savage Tartar ancestry, the
Turks reached for their swords and
slashed her until she fell on the floor
in a heap, In a pool OF blood
I noticed the arm that was I'm the
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
I. w. w. DRIVEN FROM COOS
BAY.
Secretary and Assistant Put Aboard
Boat-Marshfield Makes Holiday.

Marshfield, Or, June 25.-In one of
the most remarkable demonstrations
ever known on Coos bay, delegation
of 900 to 500 business men and citi-
zens of Marshfield met at $3.50 o'clock
this morning, and carrying an Ameri-
can flag, escorted w. J. Edgeworth
local secretary of the I. w. W., and
his assistant, Westley Everett, to the
dock, placed them aboard a boat and
with fifty men accompanying them
took them to Sumner, where they were
told to hit the trail for Roseberg and
never return to Coos bay. They were
provided with supply of food to last
until they reach Roseberg.
Edgeworth and Everett were arrest
ed last night as vagrants and thrown
into the city jail, and when released
this morning, the crowd of 500 was
waiting for them, seized them at once
and marched them to the boat. Every
store in the city was closed during the
demonstration.
After placing the men in the boat,
the delegation marched to the cigar
store of Andrew Storgard, recognized
as the local headquarters of the I. w.
w, and warned him that If he har-
bored or assisted the l. w. w in any
way he would receive the same treat
ment-Seattle P.-I.
Suppose there had been working
class socialist mayor and well-organ-
lied working class, do you suppose
they would have let bunch Of law
less anarchists perpetrate such an out
rage on members of the working class.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
STRIKE NEWS
Showing Labors' Unrest and dis
satisfaction with their lot.

I In spite of Governor Hatfield's dec
larations against the use of Baldwin
guards and the existence Of a state
statute shearing the guards of their
police powers, the hired army of mine
thugs stin seems to thrive. In ex-
pectation of a renewal of the strike
the mine owners have been importing
these guards. The only effect that
this has produced up to the present
time has been to turn public senti-
ment more and more in favor of the
miners.
With the exposures thus far made
by the investigating committee of the
United States it is hardly to be eX-
pected that he safe administration will
again dare o send the militia into the
strike regions there to hold drum-head
court martials.
From every viewpoint the miners
will have everything in their favor If
hostilities are again renewed.
When the senate subcommittee left
here for Washington after an investi-
CATION lasting eight days, during which
all the contentious made by the miners
were substantiated, it was understood
that the probers would return for a
few days about July 10, and that i'm
mediately after the hearings would be
resumed in Washington, D. c.
In the meantime everyone has prac-
tically forgotten about the indictments
brought against nineteen officials of
the United Mine Workers charging
that they had conspired with the mine
owners of Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indian and Illinois to destroy
the coal industry of West Virginia.
The indicted officials are out on $1,000
bonds while up to the present time no
mention has been made of any indict-
ments against the mine owners with
whom they are supposed to have con-
spired. Before the senate sub-commit-
tee hearings aresover it will be shown
that much of the West Virginia coal
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
SOCIALISM DEFENDED AT
HARVARD EXERCISES.

Cambridge, Mass, June 25.-In the
presence of national, state and city
dignataries, sixteen honorary and
1,015 ordinary degrees we're conferred
by Harvard college at the annual COM
mencement day exercises in Saunders
theatre, marked by a surprising dec
laration in favor of socialism.
Shattering all precedents, Park J.
White, jr., in his commencement ad-
dress, Harvard Radicals" vigorously
defended the collegiate socialists, de-
claring ''the empty stomach is respon-
sible for their very existence"
"It is the radical, not the conserva-
tive undergraduate, who is doing most
to free Harvard from the opprobrius
epithete rich mans college," he said.
"It is the radical, not the conservative
who is showing the workingman that
Harvard contains men in sympathy
with their movement. Last September
when the Socialist club marched be-
hind it's banner to the Debs rally at
the arena, the ovation it received from
the thousands of men and women
gathered there meant something for
Harvard"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
PREFERS DEATH TO
NAVAL SERVICE

Savannah, Ca, June 24.-Rather
than submit to arrest for leaving his
ship without permission, T. Eaton, a
seaman of the United States ship Ia
coma, killed himself in public square
this morning.
When his captors surrounded him
the sailor drew revolver.
"I'll kill myself before I'll return, "
he cried.
The next instant he had pressed the
weapon against his breast and fired.
He died in few minutes.
Leaving without permission is an
other way of designating desertion.
1t appears that this unfortunate
young man was not satisfied with see
ing the world through port hole and
submitting to the calling, humiliating
domineering of petty officers but chose
death instead when escape was out of
the question.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
tBy J. l.. Engdahl,1

Charleston, W. Va, June S0.-Blind
greed on the part of the West Virginia
mine owners threatens to precipitate
a renewal of the industrial war in the
coal regions far surprising anything
that has already taken place.
With the obstinate refusal of nearly
all the coal barons to recognize the
miners union in the three coal fields
along Paint and Cabin Creeks and
and New River, where the United
Mine Workers now has foothold, the
strike is the only thing left to the coal
diggers with which to fight for their
rights.
It is now more than probable that
hostilities will be renewed in all three
of these fields not later than the early
part of July following numerous walk
outs and lockouts in individual mines
that are already taking place.
The New River miners have already
gone on record in convention at Beck
ley, Raleigh county, in favor OF
strike. This declaration embraces
Fayette, Raleigh and Wyoming coun-
ties in which about $4,000 miners are
employed.
The principal contentious of the
miners in this as we'll as in the other
fields are the right to organize with
out discrimination, the nine-hour day,
two weeks pay, a check weighman,
the short ton, the right to buy the
necessities of life wherever they may
choose without interference or dis
elimination and the abolition of the
Baldwin mine guards. The territory
includes one of the richest coal Sec
tions of the state.
With discomfort in the Paint Creek
and Cabin Creek coal fields gradually
increasing in volume from day to day
the situation is now described as
''shaky" with the prospect that the
miners will drop their tools without
exception when the strike order Is
given.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
ENGLISH STUDENTS ALIVE
TO IMPORTANCE OF
SOCIALISM.

New York, June 25.-That the uni
versity students of Great Britain are
fully alive to the importance of the
socialist movement is seen by the re-
prot of Clifford Allen on the First
Annual Convention of the British Uni
versity Socialist Federation of this
spring, just received by Harry w.
Ladder, organizing secretary of the
Intercollegiate Socialist society The
report reads in part as follows
The first annual conference of the
University Socialist Federation met in
the English Lake district for a week
at Easter. The conference was at
tended by delegates from all the uni
versity socialist societies in the coun-
try, whilst a number of ex-university
men and women and friends of the
were also present.
To the conference the executive
committee presented the GREETINGS
sent by the American Federation con-
ference, and it was unanimously de-
cided cordially to reciprocate these
The conference resolved
that efforts should be Immediately set
on foot to promote the establishment
of an international student socialist
committee, whose object should be to
establish similar organizations in
other countries of the world.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
Boost for The Commonwealth.
COMPANY rs
UNABLE TO DECEIVE
BERKELEY'S MAYOR
Socialist Executive Demands That
Contract Be FuIfilIed-Cites
Gunmen as Added Menace.

Berkeley, Cal, June 8.-Illustrating
the manner in which socialist city Of
ficials deal with strike situations, the
letters of Mayor ]. Stitt Wilson to the
Pacific Gas e Electric company are
Illuminating and forceful.
eve demand that the company shall
proceed to fulfill the terms of the con-
tract at the earliest possible moment"
is the terse demand of the socialist
mayor to the corporation which is
fighting the demands of its workers
for a better living
Approved by Council.
Mayor Wilson's letters were read to
the city council and approved by that
body In speaking to the council of
his first letter Mayor Wilson said:
"The letter is not really strong
enough to express our true feelings
of this deplorable condition of our
street lights, but believe it will do
for starter If we do not get re-
sponse to this communication we will
take further action on the matter, as
something must be done to provide
lights for our streets"
Armed Men Menace.
That armed men, believed to be
strike-breakers, are an added menace
to the darkness that has pervaded the
city's streets since the failure of the
company to provide lights began more
than a month ago. These modern ban
dts have, however, been compelled to
keep a close watch on them and on
one occasion four of them were halted
and warned by city police because Of
reckless conduct.
The reckless driving of the armed
men in the streets of Berkeley has re-
quired the interference of the police
for the protection of the pedestrians
and traffic. These armed men are be-
lieved by the police to be strike-break-
ers Armed men riding recklessly in
the streets of Berkeley cannot be ar
rested If weapons are unconcealed, but
certainly constitute an added menace
to the comfort and peace Of our citi-
zens
'In conclusion, wish TO assure you
that the police Of the city Of Berke-
ley will continue TO fulfill their legiti'
mate duties. and / entertain the hope
that the company will from his date
carry out all the terms OF the con
tract. and that the city will again be
satisfactorily lighted"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-03
SOCIALISM GROWING
Evidences of the increasing interest in Socialism and
the activity of it's adherentS
TO STUDY SOCIALISM.

San Francisco, Cal, June 30-To
ascertain the effects of modified state
socialism on industrial conditions, a
committee representing the National
Association of Manufacturers will sail
from this city tomorrow for an ex.
tensive tour of Australia and New
ZEALAND. The members of the commit.
tee are John Kirby, Jr., of Dayton, o.,
and David M. Parry of Indianapolis,
both of whom are former presidents
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, and DR.. Albert A. Snowden,
an experienced investigator of Eu-
ropean and American industrial con-
ditions.