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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
THE OYSTER TO PAY MORE.

The delegates from Tidewater Viz
ginia to the Constitutional Conven-
ton will have to watch the PROPOSE
tions from the mountains that will
be presented to make the oyster pay
more taxes Not long ago a we'll
known political leader FROM middle
Virginia said "that he wanted to 90
to the Constitutional Convention to
promote the oyster industry, to pro-
tect the rights of the State and make
the oyster yield a larger revenue"
The oyster at present is paying
quite handsome revenue, and as for
the Tidewater counties they are The
hewers of wood aud drawefs Of water
under the present tax system.-Nor-
foM Journal of Commerce.
The address of Governor Tyler to
the Constitutional body has been
pronounced the best that has ever
proceeded from the present Execu-
tive. Certainly it was elcqment and
chaste, but one passage admits of
protest. For several terms now the
Governors of Virginia have felt that
the "luscious oyster" should be held
up as target for legislators, and ii
usually comes in for ''stabbing." !"
The taxes imposed upon the oyster
and the enterprises growing out of il
have been rapidly increased from
time to time until they have become
excessive. There is no natural
resource in Virginia that labors
under so onerous legislation Is does
the oyster, and while it is a matter
of congratulation that Nature has
endowed us above other States in the
vastness and richness of our oyster
properties there is limit in taxa
ton, which, if passed, will dwarf
the industry and make 1t less pro-
ductiye. We protest, in the name
of Tidewater Virginia, against un-
wisely directed shafts from states
men ignorant of the subject-from
Governor down to the up-country
member that harps upon this chord
TO gain seat in the Legislature
The Fee Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
WHY THE FLY STICKS.

1t is to DR.. Rombout's expert
ments that, science owes what is now
regarded as the true theory of the
walkingof flies on smooth substances
that they hang on by the help of
capillary adhesion-the molecular
attraction between solid and liquid
bodies. DR.. Rombout proved that
capillary attraction would uphold
a fly were it four-ninths as heavy
again as it is at present. 1t is true
that the foot hairs are very minute,
but as each fly is said to be furnished
with about one hundred and twenty
thousand of them we need not be
surprised at what they can do.
Reasoning from this theory, we
might conclude that flies find it diff
cult to mount glass slightly dam
pened, because of the repulsion
between the watery surface and the
oily liquid exuding from the feet;
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
The CAROLINE MEETING.
How 1t is Viewed by a Prominent
Citizen OF That County.
To THE FREE LANCE:

~ HE FREE LANCE:
The quotation in your paper from
the Richmond Times has the true
ring IN it. The grand farce in the
Caroline meeting was when the Mon
tagueites put their candidate up for
aspeech he condemned the very thing
they had just enacted ard his fol-
lowers had to sit still and hang down
their heads while he condemned
mass-meetings and advocated giving
the people fair play by allowing them
precinct meetings in every county.
One could but wonder if this was
really the game: "The followers to
bulldoze, the leader to give taify."
Shades OF our fathersl What a
travesty on the Democracy of by-goue
days. When we drove into the Green
on court-dav we we're surprised to
see such convention. The leading
Greenites from judge down seemed to
be worked up to such a high pitch
of feeling that they all appeared mad.
They seemed to know everything
from the last move on the political
chess-board to the wish and senti-
ment of every citizen of Caroline
county, aud ventured to instruct
everyone, committeeman aud all, as
to their duty. TO an outsider, how
ever, they translated wrong, like the
boy at college who pretended to be a
great linguist, when asked to trans
late the quotation that was being
handed around, "De gustibus non est
disputandum," said it was ''you can't
get blood out of turnip." These
solons, however, had better learn the
meaning Of yox populi. vox del. You
cannot afford to bulldoze the people.
A bulldog may run over a terrier,
but that does not stop the terrier
from barking, and sometimes he
bites" Mr.. Lincoln said: "You can
fool some people all the time, and you
can fool all the people sometimes,
but you cannot fool all the people all
the time" A spirit of fairness should
pervade every organization aud every
body of men and every individual
man; We cannot afford to do other
wise. | have no fellowship with the
saying that Everything is fair in war
and politics" a man who has been
maltreated by some soldiers once said
to me that war made many rascals.
| replied no, it only gave rascals a
chance to uncover themselves. Now,
| am not a kicker, but have simply
recorded a few things as they appear
ed to ZACCHEUs.
up the sycomore tree, where he could
observe passing events.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
"zE-cE-Aw1s" FROM EVERYWHERE,

= -.
At last the Powers have decided to
let China borrow 1887, 100000 from
them at per cent. per annum for
the purpose of paying the indemnity.
What loan sum feeling the yellow
men will have,-Nor5oM Landmark.
The reason why so many teams
run away with lovers when they are
out driving is because the young men
have not learned to drive with one
hand. We noticed a young man the
other day with two heads on his
shoulders, but We didn't consider it
any curiosity, for one belonged to his
girl. Floyd Press.
Magistrate-"Now my boy, you
are on your oath. Do you know What
that means?" Witness-"Er-no, sir:
not exactly" Magistrate-"Do you
know what you're expected to tell?"
Witness (promptly)-"0h, yes, sir;
the lawyer that brought me here
wrote it all down SOS | could learn
it off by heart. TIT Bits.
Aman who goes to see girl twice
q week and takes her to entertain
ments occasionally is legally engaged
to her, according to Il recent court
decision. Then, we suppose, man
who throws a cuspidor at his wife a
couple of times week and gives her
a black eye every few months is
legally divorced from her, Orange
Observer.
1t is not so long ago that there
were no banks in the Northern Neck
of Nirginia-taat fertile and pros
porous territory which has been the
garden spot Of Virginia since its
discovery. There are now banks
throughout that district that are
giving satisfaction and comfort to
the communities which have hereto
fore been deprived of these facilities.
Richmond Times.
The following verse is framed and
hung up in a New York office:
PLUCK wins! IL always wins,
Though days be slow,
And nights bedark '.wixt days tha; come
and go;
Still pluck will win. It's average is sure
He gains the prize who can the most
endure,
Who faces issues-he who never shirks
Who waits and watches, and vino Away.
works"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28

and we might likewise expect them
to be impeded by slight coatiog of
dust, because the spaces between the
hairs would be filled with.dust.
Careful observation seems to con-
firm these infeTences. When We see
Il fly making his toilet, he is not, as
we might suppose, cleaning his body,
but his feet, so that they may the
more readily adhere. Every one has
noticed how quickly a ny takes flight,
even when be has been DOING balf
an hour in the same position. This
new theory makes it easier to under-
stand how be can so readily de!aca
himself, for the air-pressGre aid
gum" theories both implied more
or Jess effort in releasing his feet
OHr ARimol Friends.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
HE COULD USE THE MONEY.

Folks have made too many dents
in the amiable soul of the editor of
the Warsa,c (Ind.) Northern Indian
ian. He disapproves of them, one
imagines; at least, it seems like dis
approval, for in the issue of May 2
he prints list of names, addresses
and amounts exactly twelve inches
long and representing debts of about
$1,000 due the paper for subscrip-
tion account. The debtors are
dwellers in nearly every part of
Indiana and throughout the middle
west; and their creditor asks news
papers in their localities to copy his
claim in print. Prefacing the for
midable schedule are these honeyed
and persuasive phrases:
"Below We publish the names, ad.
dresses and amounts of Indebtedness
of people who have beat us on their
subscription to the Iadianian. We
have written to these people time and
again on several occasions enclosed
stamped envelope for reply and have
never received line from them. The
last letter that went to them contained
a proposition that any honest man
would have been glad to have &C.
cepted, but mary one of them re.
piled, and of course do rot intend to
They are dead-beats and not worthy
of credit"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
THE SECOND MARRIAGE.

Her soft brown eyes upgszirg to his face
AS through the aisle's one sunlight shat.
they pass
With measured pace,
He, smiling at the lips, but not the eyes
That seem to gaze upon some form that
flies
Far Off, clond wrapped, alssl
"He is too young to live alone" we hear,
"This woman's fair as was the first, aud
then
She's dead year."
All, true, she's lain twelve months be-
meath the clay;
But, oh. poor ghost, she only dies today,
Yea, with the priests amenl
The new life clings as fondly as The
old;"
There's love in brown eyes as there was
in blues"
"The grave is cold;"
"The elm, you know, looks bare without
vines"
But, ah, Death makes, when two souls
intertwine.
No void place for the newl
"Yet this his first true flow'r of love may
be-"
oh, on the dead wifc's grave why pour
out gall?
Yet bitterly
I'll say, The dead is gone forever now,
And better love should garland this
young brow
Than life be bloomless all.
Laughter and bells ring Ger the bridal
train,
But through them sigh upon the love
tuned eur
Low tones of pain.
oh, haste and gaze into mine eyes, my
wife,
Till soul tells soul that love is love for
life
- And fIfe begins but herel
-Joseph L. G. Clarke, in Criterion
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
LIFE INSURANCE.
A Statement of Faeta-

Early in June, 1900, James a. Self, Of
Northumberland county, insured his life
10 the Mutual Life Insurance Co, of New
York, for the sum of one thousand dol
lars. On the 9th of August, 1900, he died
and In two weeks after papers showing
proof of death were handed To Messrs'
Hughlett & Efford, the special agents in
this section, for transmission to the homo
Office in New York, they handed me the
check for one thousand dollars in full
payment of the policy. l do most heart
iy commend the promptness of this COM
pany and its polite and attentive agents,
Messrs. Hughlett & EfTord, TO any who
think oftaking out policies of Life In
surance which / regard as the best in
a dependent family. G.. T. EuBANK.
Administrator of j. a. Self.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
TAX HANDSOME WOMEN.
(Ne,o York Press.)

Probably there never were seen
more pretty women in New York
than there are at the beginning of
this century. Physically greatly i'm
proved, the present type of loveliness
is usually highly intelligent. for wo-
men have learned to exercise both
their brains and their, muscles to the
immense advantage of their personal
appearance. While our publicists
are racking their minds to devise
methods of raising revenues for the
State, has it never occurred to them,
that tax or good-looking women
would put into the treasury large
sum of money, and that the imposi-
ton would never be a burden? Every
spinster would pay gladly, because
she thinks herself a beauty, and every
wife's husband would fight for the
chance to prove his deary darling
didlum one of the pretty women in
society. 1t would be the most pop
ular tox of all.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
Woman Married a Woman.

Miss Anna Schultz. of Jersey CITY,
N. j., walked into the first precinct
police station and told strange
story. According to the law of the
State she is a wife, but Miss Schultz
declares sheis still a maid. 1t seems
that she became acquainted with a
'nice young man" who said his name
was Joseph Gorden; that he proposed
marriage to her and was accepted.
Their married life lasted one night.
Miss Schultz says she discovered she
had been married to woman. The
"nice young man" disappeared with
Miss Schultz's savin gs, $50, and it is
the money she wants, not her fake
husband.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
A LUCKY EDITOR.

An editor printed an item which
stated that "the man who was hug
ging the hired girl had better stop it
or his name would be Published" in
a few days. About fifty citizens paid
up their subscription and told the
editor to pay no attention to foolish
stories going around.-Bland Rep0r-
ter.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
YE OLD TIME EDITOR.
How the News Might Have Been
Written when We We're Twenty


One."
There is entirely too much loafng
about the depot. Yesterday when
the flier passed through a little boy
came near meeting with a serious ac-
cident by sitting with his legs dang
ling over the edge Of the platform.
We met Jim Reed on the street
yesterday. He told us that before
he would take dinner with the dircc-
tors Of the Subway Company he
would put his manhood in mis- pocket
aud send his conscience TO the wash.
We believe Jim means what he saws.
Our farmers are getting very care
less about their grammar. While
driving out in the country recently
to see "a delinquent subscriber we
noticed the following sign posted on
the gate of an oatfield; "If any mans
or woman's cows or oxen gifts in this
here field his OF her tail will be cut
of as the case may be-
The meanest woman in Missouri
lives in Kansas City. She recently
gave her husband money enough to
60 to Denver on visit. In spite of
two pathetic letters from him, she
Will not send him the money to come
back on.
1t has not yet been decided who
is the handsomest man in the city,
but John Stewart is a dozen lengths
.in the lead at the three-qnarter turn
and running easy under dou BILE
wrap.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
= Good Cough Mediclnc.

IL speaks well for Chamberlain's Cough
remedy when druggists use IL In their own
tamtlies In preference TO any other. Il have
sold Chambor.ain's Cough Remedy for the
past five years with complete satisfaction to
myself and customers" says Druggist j.
Goldsmith, Van Etten. N. Y. ~ have always
used it I'm my own family both for ordinary
coughs and colds and for the cough followiup
la grippe. and find it very efiicacious."
For sale by T. J. Willing & Co.. Irvingtou:
G. W. Sanders, White stone.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28

The Boston man, who recently married a
siclly rich young woman, is happy now. for
he got DIR. Kings New Life Pills. which re-
stored her to perfect health. Infalliblo for
Jaundice. Billiousness, Malaria, Fever and
Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles.
Gentle but effective. Only 20 cts. at II. j.
Hayden sons. Irvington; l.. ID. StonehaIn's s,
Molusk; t. G. BANDS, Rehoboth Church.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28

Dyspeptics cannot be long lived because to
live requires nourishment. Food is not nour-
ishing until il is digested. A disordered
stomach cannot digest food, il must have as
sistance. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests all
kinds of food without aid from the stomach
allowing it to rest aud regain it's natural
functions Its elements are exactly the same
aus the natural digestive fluids and it simply
can't help but do you good.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28

local newspaper has the strongest
Kind of claims for real dyed-in-the
wool value TO the advertiser. Let us
give credit where it is due.-News-
paperdOm.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
THE DOCTOR AT HOME.

Great care should be exercised as to rere-
a. iSs given. You can be your own doctor fOl
coughs, Group. hoarseness, sore au1 tickling
OF the throat and all bronchial troGbies, 10y
using Cherry Glyccrine. the inviucible Cough
Curc. Large bottles p cts.
JAS. BAILY Son., Pro- s., Baltimore, Ma.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.

GEO. II. CIAPIN, Boston. Mass.
JNo. a. PALMER. Kilmaruock. Va.
Il. Il. BRoUN, Broun's Store, Va.
McSsrs. Palmer & Broun have made
arrangements with Chapin's Farm
Agency. established 1872 to furnish
buycrs fOr Virginia lands, and desire
sll who wish TO sell TO list their prop
erty at once. All lands given them will
be extensively advertised I'm the pros
porous Northern and Western sections
of the United States free of charpe
Chapin's Farm Agency an G the largest
Reai Estate dealers in the United
states. Established over fifty years
ago.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-06-28
HEALTH
sM INSURANCE.

The man who insures his life Is
wise for his family.
The man who insures his health
is wise both for his family and
himself.
You may insure health by guard
ing 1t. IL is worth guarding.
At the first attack of disease,
which generally approaches
through the LIVER and mapi-
tests itself in innumerabIe ways
TAKE
TUFTS Pills
And save your health.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30
Spring Things.

We carry a complete assortment Of
choice. fresh
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30

During thunder shower at Martinsburg
Thursday evening lightning struck large
barn on the home farm of Col. William T.
Stewart, on the suburbs of the town. and
set it on fire. The barn and its contents
were destroyed, and several large stacks of
W heat, making a loss of nearly $1,000, with
noinsu rance. Several carpenters were work
ing on building near by and when the ram
began they took refuge in the barn. One of
them, Thomas T. Chapman, was instantly
killed land his felow-workmen were so stunn-
ed that the whole of them came near burn
ing up. Chapman was IS years Of age and
on March last was m arried to Miss Daisy
0neal, of that city.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30
i. S. c. v. Reunion and Picnic.

T.
The second annual tri-State meeting,
reunion and picnic Of the surviving Con-
federate Veterans. their Sons and Dangh-
tiers, of Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia, viii be held at Morgan's Grove
Fair Grounds, Shepherdstown, on We'd |
nesday, Aug 7, 1901, under the auspices
Of the Henry Kyd Douglas Camp No 100,
United Sons of Confederate Veterans, of
this place.
Aside from the reunion of the Veterans
and the picnic OF their children, the meet
ing this year is intended more especially
to create an enthusiasm in all branches
of work undertaken by the three organi-
zations Veterans. Sons and Daughters)
in the States named. Major General
Edwin P, Cox. of Richmond, Va, Com
mander Of the Department Of the Army
of Northern Virginia, Z. S. c. ", and
Gen. Richard B. Houghton, Commander
in-Chief u. S. c. Y, St. Louis, Mo-, are
making great effort through the State
Division Commander of this department
to organize additional camps Of the Sons
in these States.
Ex-senator Chas. ]. Faulkner will act
as presiding officer and chairman at the
reunion. Senator Faulkner expects to
have with him on that occasion General
Fitzhugh Lee and General Joseph Wheel
er. Gen. Thos. T. Munford and Col.
mo. S. Mosby have also been invited to
attend. Capt. John Lamb, who served
in the Second Virginia Cavalry, now a
member of Congress from the Sixth Vir-
ginia district. Major J, ]. Williams and
! Hon. T. H. Edwards, member of the Vir-
ginia Legislature from West Point, Va,
will visit Capt w. H. Keartott and at
tend the reunion and make speeches
/ Our local camp, through its commit.
tees and with the unuring commander,
Capt. VIM. H. Kearfott, has its commit
tees actively at work, and the reunion
promises to be great success. The fol
lowing programme will be observed
10 A. M. Reception of the Veterans
Sons and Daughters, followed by reu
Mon of the Veterans and parade of the
different camps of the Sons.
II A. M.-Vocal and instrumental mu
sic and band concert.
~ M.-Dinner on the lawn by tht
spring.
? to 4 p M.-Publ1c meeting, with adj
dresses by prominent Veterans and Sons
recitations and vocal music, including
the old Southern Songs,
4 to 6P. MA jolly good time, frater
, nizing, swapping stories of the war ant
general enjoyment.
9. ?. M.-Supper.
s P. M.-Theatrical performance Oh
the lawn at Bellevue on the bank of tn
P Potomac, given by Mrs. Minnie Shep
herd at her home for the beneft Of th
!, local camp. Refreshments will be serv
ed during and after the play.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30
Temnerance Picnic.

A Temperance Picnic, under the aus
pieces of the Anti-Saloon League, will be
held IN McGarry's woods at Shenandoah
Junction, Saturday, August 8, 1901,
morning and afternoon. An interesting
will be arranged Good
will be present. You are in
vlted to spend the day with us and hear
the discussions on this important topic.
S. D. ENGLE,
Chairman Of Committee.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30

The town council of ShepherdstowD
has ordered the attorney to draft an or
dinance prohibiting the sale of cannon
crackers within the corporate limits
of that town. Will the Town Council
of Charles Town do a like ccmmendable
act, and not wait until some man or
woman or somebody's child is killed by
one of these death-dealing explosives.
and then hastily proceed to "lock the
door after the horse is stolen "
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30

A whole novel in each number of Lip
pincott's Magazine is its winning feature.
For railway travel or idling on hotel
porch this gives several hours of con
tinuous diversion as against the lapsine
interest of the continued story. In the
August number the Complete Novel is
1.-THE Lifting of Finger, by Ina Bre-
WORT Roberts, a story of gay society life,
without break in interest.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30

Admiral Schley has asked for investi-
cation by paval court of inquiry into the
the Santiago campaign and the case IS to
be taken up in September Admiral
Dewey will be president OF the court,
which will sit IN Washington and be open
10 the public, and the other two members
will be -Admirals Kimberly and
Renhan1
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30
LeetoWn Roller Mill.

In addition to previous Improvements. the
has added TO the equipment OF
the Lteiown 10 Ter Mil frst-class, i4-horsc
power
NEW ERA GASOLINE ENGINE,
whereby he is enabled to run his mill at full
capacity without iGtermission.
Custom Grinding done romptly at all
times, and good Flour. Meal and DIAL always
on hand. Give me yoar trade, and you will
find saiisfact on assured.
July 9-3m. JOHN II. GARDNER.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30

Mr.. Howard M. Gill. of Baltimore, will
leave home this afternoon in his auto
mobile, on a trip through the Shenan-
andoah Valley. Mr.. Gill expects to
reach Frederick City about noon to-mor-
row, and from hence will pass through
Harpers Ferry. Charles Town and Win
chester. and on up the Valley.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1901-07-30
Attention !! Sons of Veterans.

All members of Stonewall Jackson
Camp, U. S. c. ", and other sons Of
Confederate Veterans are requested to
attend the meeting of the camp at the
courthouse next Saturday night, Aug. 3,
at O'Clock. A drum corps is to be or
ganized, arrangements made to uniform
the camp, and other business transacted.
CLAYTON L. HAINRs, Adjutant.