Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-10-17
"xEycE-AwLs' FROM EVERYWHERE

iuiat HAL ueiiNery OOXeS as tSrgel
In rifle practice.-Richmond Times
The fool sits down and worries
about the living the world owes him,
but the wise guy hustles around and
collects the interest on the debt.
Are you cold ? Put on your over
coat, take turn around the square
and mediate on the coal question,
1t will warm you up -i3auaton
Nevs.
If cotton continues TO Jump in
price it will affect materially the
price of netting, and may increase the
price to the ishermen.-Fshinq
Gazette.
Congressman can begin to rush the
pub. docs. to the sanctums of the
rural editors. Coal will be out of
sight this winter, and wood will be
high.-RichmOnd Ne1cs.
This is the time of year you get
under a shower of SCOT from YOUR
stovepipe you are putting up and lose
the summer camp-meeting religion
you got.-KnogUille Sentinel.
Those ministers who are using
moving pictures, professional whist.
lers and other devices to attract con-
gregations should try the Gospel oc-
casionally.-Birmingham Ne,cs.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes said:
"The human race is divided into
two classes: those who go ahead aud
do something, and those who sit still
and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the
other way ?"
A Missouri farmer saw in q paper
an advertisement of fire-escape for
So. He sent the 81 and received a
copy of the New Testament. He
Indignantly claims that he was SWIM
dled.-Hn0TUiHe Sentinel.
The number of song birds has
been greatly reduced by pot hunters
and so-cailed sportsmen. Think of
throat that can't sing yankee
doodle, swallowing broiled mocking
birds and revelling in baked thrush.
Bristol Ne,cs.
Hasn't the Sam Small jag been
magnified in Vermont? 1t does not
mean either that Prohibition is a
fraud or success. 1t tsignifies merely
that one man was weak under temp
tation-a fact as old as the hills
Memphis Commercial appeal.
Mr.. Dooley said all that was neces-
sary about the Smart Set when he
remarked of Newport that it is "the
abode of luxury and alimony," where
"the husband of Yesterday inthra-
jooces the wife that was to the wife
that is, or ought to be-"
The Portsmouth Star, in a sensi-
BILE disquisition on swearing, says:
Oaths are neither witty nor appro-
pirate. They spoil any story. They
stamp the man who uses them as
lacking IN words, remiss in manners,
and deficient either in taste or in
telligence.
And now Messrs. Mccormick and
Deering have combined" and the
sharp contests of recent years are all
one. What use now of Worlds Fair
medals and international diplomas
And what will the drummers do to
atone for all their sins of extrava-
CANT utterances and denunciations
And are machines to come cheaper
to the farmer? This is matter of
most concern FdrmviHe Herald.
Nobody pretends to deny that the
nicotine in tobacco has the effect up.
on boys of stunting their growth,
weaking their mental powers ard
warping their moral sensibilities.
Everybody agrees that boys should
not use tobacco in any form until
after they have "got their growth, .
if it is ever to be encouraged at all
The only mooted question is one OF
how to stop the boys from getting
into the tobacco habit Richmo,,o
Times.
The Columbia State has a kind
word for Mr.. Small, as follows: 9Th,
Rev. Sam Small's lapse during hii
Vermont campaign tour elected not
a few uncharitable criticisms from
his brethren of the press and hi,
brethren of the church. But he ha,
gone back to his work on the editorial
page of the -Atksnta Constellation, ant
in Sundays issne there is fine edi
torial on "The Equity of Charity
which expounds the doctrine of for
giveness, the charity that assists tn,
weak and tempted and does not con
denim. It's good sermon from
good text, and by man whose i'm
pulses are good in the main."
The Staunton NesUs contends tina
, the attitude of the newspapers o
! the country on the coal strike prett
J etfectually cuts the ground fror
! under the feet of those who are 6
fond of prating about the "subsidize
> press" The truth that reference
; to the subsidized press" comes, as
f. general rule, from those who al
/ grossly ignorant of what they al
e talking about, or from those VIII
: have failed to influence some pape
: or papers in their own interest. AND
e not infrequently, the slander orig
: mates with ungrateful politician
J. whom the newspapers have mad
e but been compelled finally to den
/, some favor.-Richm0nd Dispatch.