Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-03-06

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schools of the time. But time
have indeed changed. The grea
political and educational prophe
Jefferson saw it, and seeing triet
bard to save his people, but the
would not heed. SWAMP.
"XETcH-AwLs' FROM EVERYWHERE
The cigarette cough is the hacl
which rrecedes the hearse.-Prince
ton Tiger.
Mrs. Taylor, the woman who haG
the courage to 60 over Niagara FALL
in barrel, tainted from fright anc
nervousness when she entered ,
dentists chair.
A member Of the Tennessee Hous,
who introduced an anti-kissing bill
had the tables turned on him by thu
passage of the bill making it applica
bic to him alone.
"Tbere are so-called business mer
who seldom spend dollar with theil
county paper" There is where $50
called" fits In to a nicety.-Rich
naond NeaoS Leader.
The schooner Polly, which was
built in 1905, has just been sold to 8
Maine man. How many boats built in
this country this year will be afloat
in 2008?-BoSton Advertiser.
There are more sawmills in opera.
ton in the Northern Neck at this
time than ever before. All of the
big tracts of forest land have been
invaded 10y these mills and the lum-
bermen are unable to fiji many
orders.
There were 223 bomicides in South
Carolina last year, and we suppose
that it is perfectly safe to say that
200 of them were committed under
the influence of drink, more OF
less directly.-C4arlest0a Ne,cs ana
Courier.
An exchange has developed the
biggest trust on earth. 1t is the coun-
try newspaper. 1t trusts everybody
gets cussed for trusting, mistrusted
for cussing, and If it busts for trust
ing gets cussed for busting. Sc
there you are.
The Monroe doctrine will be OF
national and international import
ance as long as We are strong enough
10 enforce it. 1t is like gun--only
significant while there is shell to
go in it, man behind it and the will
to fire it of.--NeD York Eventng San,
One of the poorest illustrations OF
practical economy is to be found in the
annual expenditure of many dollars
for repairs TO vehicles rather than the
paying of few dollars in taxes fol-
the purpose of improving our roads.
Isn't it about time to consider?-
Free Lance.
With Orange and Lancaster coun-
ties making strenuous efforts to rid
themselves of bad roads, it is in or
der for the people of this section to
join the procession. We need good
roads just as much as either Orange
or Lancaster and are just as able to
pay for them Fredericksburg Star.
A bank in Jacksonville, Texas,
conducted entirely by negroes and
whose customers were all negroes,
has failed, leaving assets of 10 cents.
Who says the negro isn't coming on!
Still, when you come to think of it,
there is no reason why We should not
have negro "Napoleons of Finance .
too.-AtlantQ Journal.
We pay too much money to the
politicians and not enough to the
school teachers. But the wrong will
not be righted as long as the poll.
ticians arrange the pay rolls Wash.
ington Post. Right you are. And
yet the politicians raise more fuss
about raise of wages than the
teachers do.-Free Lance.
The d1pensary system was moi
started to lessen intemperance. Oh
no! If it was it would never have
originated in South Carolina in the
very heart of the ring which controls
that State. 1t only puts the whiskey
business into the hands of wire-puli,
ing politicians, and it is almost use
less to state that Virginia is full OF
them. We would gladly support
any genuine anti-liquor measure tha,
would be presented to the Legisla
ture, but as for the dispsnsary system
We want none Of it.--Salem Sentinel
| In Virginia there are laws for tn,
protection of birds. But they art
not enforced. An enenlightenet
and therefore an indifferent public
opinion ia responsible. We mus
come perilously near to exterminat
ing our birds and feel some of tn,
dread consequences of that condition
before we realize our folly. Wher
the green things of the earth are
devoured by caterpillars, the army
worm and other insects as fast a.
they spring up we will know then
and not until then, how great ani
beneficent is the work of the BIRDS
Portsmouth Star.