Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-02-06
'KETcH-AwIs" FROM EVERYWHERE.

''KETcH-AwLS" FROM EVERYWHERE
"What is honestly" asks the Bir
mingham News. That's dead cas-,
one; it's keeping ones subscription
paid up Montgomery AdcertiSer.
Had Congress repealed the tariff
on cattle and on coal last year there
would have been neither meat nor
coal famine in the United States
alexandria Gazette.
AS We understand it, the Virgins
school teachers came to the conclu-
sion that the negro should be
educated, but he should not get toe
smart.-Richmond Times.
1t is rather rough on the kerosene
consumers of America that they
should have to dig up $4,000, 900
whenever Coal Oil johnny gives
a million Memphis CONNER
cial appeal. -ss.
Wilcox probably killed Miss Crop
sey, but too many people are punished
for what nobody sees them do and
too few are punished for crimes COM
mitted in public sight.-Morfolk
Landmark.
An army officer relates this CONVEX
satlon overheard between two South
Carolina negroes: "Whar you been,
Scipio?" "Ah been down to Hutton
Haid." "What you see dar, SON." sI
see dem disapp'intin' guns fer kill
Spaniols. "What dey do, Scipio?''
"Unc' Quash, dey fling ball what
weigh a m;llyun pound and Int fly
thoo de air fer fifty mile mo- and den
she bust and fling rocks fer week."
The condition of Mr.. Rockefeller's
digestive system requires him to live
on milk and crackers, it is said.
Think of thati He could have any,
thing his palate craved, but his health
requires him to live on infants food.
There his enormous wealth does not
count for anything. Much of it he
would be willing to give up, we dare
say, if he had the appetite and the
capacity for sleep that the Lord has
bestowed upon the average plowman.
Richmond Dispatch.
We hope sincerely that the story
printed from New York of the ac-
tion of the coal operators is untrue,
1t is reported that they are holding
miles of freight cars loaded with
coal just outside of New York city,
waiting until the public need and
desperation have forced prices high
er than the present exorbitant rates.
If this is true, the act is one of the
most brutal and murderous in all
history. 1t is hard to conceive how
men with human hearts can delib-
erately hold necessity of life with
in mile of four million people, can
look on while men and women and
little children are suffering and shiv-
ering and in some cases, no doubt,
sickening and dying, and refuse re-
lief. BY comparison with such con-
duct the man who would cut a
WOuudu tuIOstt W IUU ueT VI IeW
dollars is an exemplary and humane
citizen.-RichmOnd NeacS.
The appointment by the President
Of William III. Lewis, colored, as as
sistant U. S. District Attorney in
Boston has brought forth earnest pro-
tests from lawyers of the "hub." This
has surprised no one, as all who visit
northern cities observe that the negro
is not in demand for public or pri-
vate positions but that he is gener-
ally ignored, Notwithstanding the
bulky abolition literature which
emanated from these places nearly
half century ago. Boston, the hot
bed of anti-slavery ideas, is now af-
forded an opportunity to practice
what has been preached by many OF
its "philanthrophic" citizens. The
city has a negro for its assistant U
S. District Attorney, and all the
lawyers who have been interviewed