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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
Dangers IN Christmas
Decorations Pointed Out
lnflammabIe Material Should
MOT Be Used, Says Charles
ton Fire Chief.

In view Of. the fact that the Christ
mas holidays are at hand, the public
should take warning OF the danger in
the use of ihflanmable material for
decorations J. Cal Anderson, chief
of the Charleston fire department
i gives some splendid advice in this
regard, as follows: ~
iAs many fires are caused from the
use Of such.' said the chief, "as well
as where electric lights are for dec
Grating Christmas trees, the wiring
Should be done by competent cleo
itriciahs and Thoroughly inspected be-
fore used Electric light globes
Should not be covered With cloth or
paper shades or decorations. Holiday
fires in stores. churches and bazaars
while these are filed With people are
usually holocausts.
Light, inflammablc decorations
make fires easy to start and easy to
spread. A match, gas flame, a
candle. fame or; an electrical defect
may cause 1t. " tfgs ~
Distinguish gas Jets. Decorations
may pc carried against them by ~
currents Do not let smokers light
cigars inside buildings. 1Skc NO
changes in electric. WIRING Without
consulting a competent electrician.
Warnings for the Home
do not decorate your Christmas
tree with paper. cotton or any other
inftdmmable material. Use metallic
tinsel and other non-flanimable dec
atoms only. and set the tree secure
~ $50 that the children in reachiur
for things cannot tip 1t over.
Cotton should not be used to rep
resent snow, II you must have SNOW
use asbestos fibre. a
Do not permit children to light or
|relight candles while parents are not
present They frequently set fire to
their clothing instead,
Matches should not be left. within
reach of children at holiday time.
Candles are meant TO be lighted, and
~ the children can get matches they
VIII experiment with them They,
Initiate their elders.
n Should Remove Trees
Christmas trees should not be an.
lowed to remain inside buildings az
ter the holidays. The tree itself ig-
mites very readily when the needles
have become dry. Quite a number of
fires occur in January from this very
cause. ~.
~ Before attempting any hasty or ill
advised decorations which may cause.
FIRE, examine your insurance contract
and see what the policies contain IN
regard to increased hazard by any
means within the control or knowl-
edge OF the insured II. your prop
erty should burn. you want your in
demnity; do nothing, therefore, to i'm
pair your contract.
"A house Of merriment is much
better. than house of mourning.
Therefore be very careful Of fire.
Have a good time-bpt be CAREFUL
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
BEL!CIANS
May Be Exempted from Liter.
ary Test by United States
for Next Five Years.
laY asscclAIto ralSsl


WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.An
amendment to the Immigration bill TO
except from the proposed literacy test
for the next five years Belgians seek
ing home in the United States was
offered today by Senator Williams OF
Mississippi. No action was taken.
Senator Stone had spoken for max
ing an exception in favor Of those per-
secuted for race as well as for relig-
ion. Senator Smith OF South Caro-
lima opposed that on the ground tina.
one who drew religious persecution
showed possession OF a high moral
fibre. while the same could not be
said Of one prosecuted for race. Sem
ator Martin pleaded that the door Of
opportunity be not SHIT. to those who
have not attained an Education.
Senator Williams attacked the po-
|sition taken by both Senators Stone
and MARITIME. by declaring 1t would
admit food Of ignorants despite the
fact; he said that one Of the greatest
dangers Of q republic was ignorance.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
FALLS 800 FEET
AND Still LIVES
When Train is Wrecked Young
Man Plunges to Valley Below
without Fatal Result.

HUNTINGTON, Dec. 19.-From the
Glinch valley of southwestern Vir-
ginia with commercial travellers as a
carrying medium, a story has drifted
into Huntington, the story OF wreck
in which young man plunged nine
hundred feet from q tramway rail-
road to the bottom of a mountain de-
clivity, striking against, to instantly
bound off, rocks, trees, logs and in
Vulnerable other obstacles and the
part surprising all imagination Is
that the young man lives to tell the
story of the plunge.
The story comes from an isolated
region of the famous valley where
the Honaker Lumber Company has a
private railroad into the richest tim
Der section Of the south.
The accident occurred where the
road crosses the summit of a gigan-
tic mountain in Buchanan county,
late Saturday afternoon.
With companion, the young man
was riding seated in the door OF a
Norfolk & Western box car loaded
with -four. potatoes and other kinds
of merchandise The car became de-
rallied and instantly the companion
fell out the door, His life was crush
ed out as the car turned over his
body. The other young man who
lives to tell the story did not fall from
the car for several seconds. How
ever. when he did fall, sie beat the car
to the bottom of the declivity. a
Other members of the crew climb
ed down the mountain side to gather
his remains and could scarcely be-
iieve their eyes when they found him
still alive. He was taken to DR.. Will
liams' hospital at Richlands. Va;
where It was found that he suffered
from fractured skull. An operation
lvas immediately performed and phys
icians have no doubt that he will live.
The body of the companion was
Icrushed into q pulp.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
RISONERS' RELIEF
! STIRRINGL Y URGED

ginia. So far as can be ascertained
the last legalized burning in the
hand Of a convicted man in West
Virginia, occurred July. 1928. in the
old court house in Hampshire county.
The record shows that after the
court had found the man guilty, the
sheriff Immediately burned him in the
hand in the presence of the court and
gave him then and there twenty-five
lashes.. The remaining seventy-five
ashes were reserved for future days.
by an act Of Virginia, passed De-
rember 26, 1893, 1t was provided that
a man who apprehended a runaway
servant and put him In jial, was to
receive S1.47. The runaway was to be
held for two months. At the end
of which time, ifunclatmed, the sher-
if must advertise him in the yir-
ginia Gazette; then aftegplacing an
iron collar on his neck marked with
the letter +. he might hire him out
to pay the costs OF his apprehension.
Agains.. Gossipers
About the same time they passed
stringent laws discouraging gossiping
and tattling.
"The carly lawmakers of Virginia
seemed to have considered hog
stealing as one of the highest OF
crimes. A law passed by the legisla-
ture December s, 1872, provided that
ia person stealing "a hog, shoat or pig
should receive thirty-fiye lashes on
the bare back, besides paying heavy
fine. For the second offense in hog
stealing he was made to stand two
hours in pillory in front of the
court house with both ears nailed to
the pillory and at the end OF two
hours should have his ears cut loose
from the nails. For the third offcnse
in hog stealing the punishment was
death For a slave to steal a, hog
called for greater punishment; for he
not only had his ears nailed to the
pillory, but at the end OF two hours
had his ears cut off
eff stealing hogs was crime al
most TOO hcinous to he adequately
punished in this world, horse stealing
was so much worse that the Vir-
ginia lawmakers felt themselves I'M
able 10 provide law of proper Sc
verify They therefore enacted, on
December 10, 1902. law declaring
that horse thief must be put to
death; and in order that he would
certainly be given everlasting punish
ment beyond the tomb, he was for
hidden to have spiritual advice
Soclety's Problem
while hanging ON the cross upon
Calvary 4Jesus Christ took upon him
self the problem Of the destiny OF
the thief upon whom was inflicted
the penalty of death, but in the
twentieth century the man whose
punishment takes the form OF term
in prison eventually comes back to
society, and his destiny is very large
ly soceity's problem.
I'm democracy like ours, a gov
eminent by the people'--if a man is
hanged. We all hanged him; If man
is imprisoned. we all imprison him.
When he comes back from prison. Il
he is too be reformed We must re-
form him.
Man climbs slowly and blindly up
to better. THINGS 1t has taken a long
time for men to grasp one Of the
greatest truths that civilization is
bull for purpose and that purpose
! Is the development OF human souls.
The development Of humanity should
be huinRnity's chief end.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
OF the State Board Of Trade
Will Meet in Parkersburg
December 20.

PARKERSBuRG, Dec. 19.-No-
tees have been received here of the
meeting to be held here at Q o'clock
p. m. December 20 at the room of the
board of commerce at the city build
ing of the executive council of the
state board of trade. Some import
ant matters are to be discussed. Chief
among them will be the consideration
of Industrial peace and the submits
sion to-the legislature of bill mod
eled after that of Canada, where an
act is in operation which It is claimed
makes industrial dispute Impossible
with the attendant strikes and gem
eral disorder.
The matter was discussed at the
last meeting held at Wheeling and a
committee was appointed to go into
the matter further The executive
council will take up the matter and
make some recommendation.
Louis Bennett. the president Of the
state board OF trade, win preside. All
the officers and past presidents Of the
state board OF trade are members OF
the executive council. s.,s
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
WOODWARD
Buys Part Interest in Spencer
Newspaper and Will Help
Run 1t.

The Times-Record, Of Spencer, an
nounces that former Congressman
Harry G, woodward will, after jan
uary ], be part owner of that paper,
and will be actively associated with
the present management in the con-
duct Of that paper. This news will
be of interest not only all over the
Fourth congressional district, which
Mr.. woodward represented so long
and ably in the national legislature,
but all over the state-and then some
for the territory covered by Mr..
Woodyard's acquaintance is pretty
extensive. II Harry is as successful
as an editor as he was as a congress
nan-and no one who knows him will
doubt that he will be-he has no need
TO worry over his journalistic future.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
0'A q ACQUITTED
Along with Twelve Other Off
GERS and Employees Of In i
diana Legislature.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 19-
Lieutenant; Governor w. p. o,Neai
and twelve other officers and en-
ployes of the 1913 legislature who
We're indicted December & charged
with signing. and presenting illegal
claims against, the state, were acquit-
ted by Judge j. T. Marley In the
criminal court here today. Fl
In addition to Lieutenant Governor
.O'Neal. the acquitted include Homer
L. Cook, former speaker Of; the House
and now secretary of state; Levi p.
Harlan. state senator; George w.
Sands and John j. Keegan, state rep
resentatives, and, eight employees OF
the two houses.
The men were indicted. under a
statute Of 1895, which limited the
number of employees of the legisila-
ture and the salary they should be
paid, The defense did not deny that
the claims had been signed and pre-
sented but argued that the statute
of 1895 was unconstitutional. which
was sustained by Judge Marley.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20

children, are Ito be kept aliYe food
must be sent and. at once. a. re-
quest is made that any contributions
Of food, clothing or money be sent to
the commissioned at its sheadauhrters
in New York. Non perishabie food
Is wanted, pa y q t9el
The woman's section Of the COM
mission was organized on November
10 and by December 10 they had sup
porting them presidentss:of ofganiza-
lions representing collectively j over
SIX million women. Through the ef-
forts of the woman's section. many
governors have appointed committees
and 1t is requested that everyone
lend every possible aid TO these COM
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20

The wreck Of "a human character
Is one OF tine cztastTe.l ,.ies OF sociely,
tie%wreck Of q human soul Is one 81
the tragedies OF eternity, but mos
sad when 1t carries In its wake brok.
en- and helpless inotuess. wives ;snt
children, from whose eyes have faded
tie lignt OF hope. and from whose
lives have vanished the ministratlon.
Of love.
1.-The regeneration OF souls is q
problem and a task for the strong
the wise aud the phiiantnropfc %,
every .ciyilized nation.
When the poet philosopher said
Let me write The songs OF people
and I care not who writes their laws.
he meant that the destiny OF thu
race, like the destiny Of the indiyid.
pal. Is determined largely by its as.
piiations.
Y There is a spirit Of the age-oui
own age-that Is driving us all to q
belief essential unIty OF men.
All interviewer
"Out of the clamor. and unrest oil
the centuries this tremendous idea IL
slowly shaping itself. The. pure, the
cultured, the rich cannot get away
from The impure and the wretciIel
OF humanit.; All must live and move
In the, same sphere, We must all
progress or retrograde together, be-
cause a spot one one OF us, wether
sof- disease sr deprayity or ignorance
or poverty or degencracy, is a spol
on all.
lin SONG mysterious way, as the
centuries have rolled by, the Golden
Rule has grown in the under con
seriousness OF men.
THE spirit OF the present age IN
America is the outcome OF centuries
Iof Christian civilization, the mighty
frliton or the prayers and dreams oil
the men and women who stood sem
tinel at the birth OF the republic. we
see II in a vast propaganda linking
science With ideals. Itmeans new
science of education, business, COM
mercc, penology, criminol6gy and
philanthropy.
II love America; have faith In
America; ! love its government OF
the people, 0y the people; its inheri-
lance unblemished by primogeniture
or entail; its call to the common man
10 grasp opportunity; It's unisefsaiity
or enlightment; It's prophesy Of great
achievements. Great tasks create
and challenge great folks Let our
slogan be mans humanity to man.
a theme that will call out the grand
est OF our impulses and build. the
loftiest national character beneath
the stars
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
IRAINMEN TO MEEI
In Grafton Tuesday Evening to
Discuss Economies and
Working Conditions.

y. GRAFTON, Dec Is. Superinten-
dent j. M. Scott has issued a call for
e meeting. which will be held in the
Eagles hall In the Wehn building at
S:15 o'clock Tuesday evening for the
purpose of discussing economies and
|. general working conditions on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The
call is. extended to every branch of
the railroad service, and engineers,
conductors, brakemen, firemen, ma
ohinists. boilermakers, track em-
ployes, shop men and those from
every branch of the work are re-
quested to attend this meeting.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
BY the Hon. Stuart F. Reed in a
Brilliant Address before So
eietyat Huntington.

HUNTINGTON, Dec. 1s.-Although
having been organized since last
June Is, not until a recent afternoon
in the auditorium of the Carnegie
Library did the Prisoners Relief So
ciety make its formal bow to the
public by mass meeting OF which
the Hon. Stuart F. Reed, secretary OF
state, was principal speaker.
In part he spoke as follows:
The struggle OF the race to reach
reign of law was long and ardu-
Gus. In a savage state we find the
Individual exercising the right to be
law unto himself. He surrendered
this right only when he was convinc-
ed that society would honestly en-
deayor to project him and avenge his
wrongs. The result is civilization
Society is impossible under any other
conditions.
Every enlightened race on the
! earth which is charging the boun-
diaries OF freedom believes law and
the enforcement of its penalties a ne
cessity. This faith in law does not
mean that laws will make all men
honest and kind.
"The earliest object sought in
maintaining prisons was not punish
fnent but to provide a place 10 de-
tain accused persons until the guilt
4 or Innocence could be determined
and often to protect them from the
wrath OF those whom they were sup
posed to have injured.
1.-THE ancient forms of punishment
III Ra,.S Mt
mutilation, hideous torture, and death
in many ways.
Ancient Prisons
''Long years elapsed before deten-
ton in prison was designated as
< method of punishment; and to more
recent times belongs the dawnlns
recognition OF a duty incumbent upon
society to seek by humane cndeayors
to reform those on whom the law
had laid its strong hand.
John Howard's awful description
of the European prison methods near
the close OF the eighteenth century
Is enough to make modern civilization
and 4 more humane age shudder.
"They Were dark. dirty, pcstifev-
Gus, foul smelling. over crowded dens
In which starving human beings had
the last spark OF humanity eXtinguish-
ed forever.
1.-THE old idos seemed to he that af-
ter g. map had been convicted of a
crime. he was unworthy of any rec
ognition as a human being.
Early Virginia Laws
"A brief reference to some OF the
severe laws passed by the state OF
Virginia will prove interesting | am
not speaking OF the Draccnian laws
written in blood am talking OF
laws that once were in force in the
territory nav called West Virginia
laws enacted by the people of stasr
at time when their leaders wcr.
such men as Madison, Jefferson, Ran
doIph, Marshall and other famous in
the annals of Virginia.
The early laws Of Virginia requir-
ed every county. to provide at the
court house. In addition to the jail
q pillory, whipping post, stocks and a
ducking stool. The whipping posi-
was the last Of these implements ol
barbarism 10 be abandoned by vir,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
NOMAN'S SECTIsN
of American Commission for
Relief in Belgium Makes
an Appeal for Aid.

NEW YORK. Dec. sls.-The wom-
ans section Of the American Com
mission for Relief in Belgium has is
sued an attractive y pamphlet, con-
tanning an appeal to the. American
people for aid for the starving Bel
gians f>s 81 s,
The pamphlet sets forth that IL six
million Belgians, men, women and
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
POULTRY RING
Murderers Of Barnet Baff and
tnstigators Of the Crime to
Be Indicted.
Is. !, ....e,.rsp r.s..,

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Not only the
murderers Of Barnet Baff, enemy Of
the so-called poultry ring shot down
in West Washington market in No=
vember, but also the instigators Of
the crime, probably will he indicted
during the coming week, according to
a. statement today by Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney Delehanty.
Governor-elect Whitman will take
actual charge of the examination OF
witnesses both in his Office and be-
fore the grand jury. Mr., Delehanty
said.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
PRISONER
Who Got Away from Hupp is
Taken to Parkersburg Jail
as a "Bootlegger."

]. D. Moore, United States deputy
Saturday taking Carl Johnson from
Philippi to the Wood county jail at
Parkerslburg, johnson having been
held for the January term OF federal
district court there on charge of
bootlegging:
Johnson is the man who enjoys the
distinction of being the only prisoner
who ever got away from the late
Deputy Marshal E. d. Hrpp. He
jumped through the window Of a
moving train some years ago while
being removed by Deputy Hlipp from
Clarksburg to Martinsburg.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
MEHED NAMED
As Deputy Forest, Game and
Fish Warden for Wood
County upon Request.

PARKERSBURG. Dec. l9.Capt.
James r. Mehen, Of this city. has Just
received from j. A.. viquesney, Of
Belington. the state forest game and
fish warden, commission as deputy
forest, game and tlsh warden for
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20

Wood county. This appointment was
made by the state Officer at the ex-
press request of the members of the
West Virginia Audubon Society Of
Parkersburg.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-10

to buying it.
Walter Love went to Texas
Monday, to take charge of "A sec
ton near Dalhart, in the absence
of the regular foreman, who is
spending the month in Iowa.
Neumon Parker. who vas al
home during Thanksgiving week.
owing to the closing of schools
incident to the State Teachers
Association, has returned to his
work at Logan.
NJ. +. Dobbs. who registered
his position here with the rail-
road last spring, arrived from
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-10

Did you ever see "A fellow who
could not decide whether he was
dead or alive: No? Then see
him at the high school Dec. II.
One of the finest paintings ev-
er shown in this city is on exhi-
bition in the show window at the
Sands Dorsey drug store. 1t rep
resents a Roman girl at "A fountain
and is nearly life-size. The work
was performed by a sister of
Emmett Jennings and was sent
here to sell.
The merchants have used lib
eral amount OF printers ink this
week in the News and a glance
at these ads will direct you TO the
right place to buy suitable Christ
mas presents for any member of
the family. Our merchants are
better prepared than ever before
to supply your wants and if you
shop early you will rot regret it.
Read the ads.
Samona Barnes. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. >. a. Barnes, died
Saturday at the home in north
east part of town, after an illness
of several months. Funeral SER
vices were conducted at the resi-
dence Monday and the remains
were laid to rest in Sunnyside
cemetery. Miss Barnes vas a
f~avorite among her school mates
and the family is joined by a host
OF friends in mourning the death
of this bright young girl.
Woman's Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church.
Dec. ~, ; p. M. Topic. Noun
tains of the South. Prayer. BIZ
bic reading, God claims the peo-
pie of the hills for his own; from
references. Roll call. Items on
mission progress of the South.
Industrial growth in the South
ern Mountains, Mrs. Cady.
Reading, Mrs. Savage.
What boys of the mountains
may become, Mrs. Shields.
Violin solo, Miss Edna Koch.
Changed educational conditions
in the mountains, Mrs. Davidson.
Closing Hymn and prayer.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-10

The North school resumed
work on Monday of last week,
after an interim of nearly three
weeks. In conduct. this school
is model, the department of the
pupils being almost perfect. 1t
is the observation of the teacher
that not an unkind word has
been spoken on the school
school grounds this year. Tn
der these conditions it was not
imperative that the instructor
be completely recovered froTS
the accident of four weeks ago,)
before returning To the class
room.