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The San Francisco call., 1904-04-08

The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy. is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of The most distressing cases.
Swamp-Root will set your whole sys-
tenn right. and the best proof OF this
is trial.
SO COTTAGE ST.. MELRosE. MASS.
Dear Sir: Jan. 11th 1904
Ever since 1 was in the army L had more
or less kidney trouble. and within the past
year 1t became so severe and complicated that
suffered everything and was much alarmed
/ saw advertisement of Swamp-Root and
wrote asking for advice. / began the use Of
the medicine and noted decided Improvement
after taking Swamp Root only short time.
continued its use and thankful to saw
that am entirely cured and strong. In order
anime some of water to-day, and he pro-
nounced II all right and in splendid condition.
know that your Swamp-Rodt is purely veg
stable and does not contain any harmful
cry and recommending Swamp-Roet to all suf
ferers. ] am. Very truly yours
l. c. RICHARDSON
You may have sample bottle Of tb;s
famous kidney remedy. Swamp Root
sent free by mail, postpaid. by which
you may test its virtues for such dis
orders as kidney. bladder and uric acid
diseases, poor digestion, being Obliged
to pass your water frequently night and
day. snarting or irritation in passing
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-08
mare Island ana vallejo steamers.

Steamer GEN. FRISBIE or MONTICELLO
9:45 a. m. 3:15 and $50 p m. except sunday.
Sunday. 0:45 a. M, $50 D. M Leave Vallejo
Z a. m. 2:30 and 8 p. m. except Sunday.
Sunday a. m, 4:15 o. m Fare. so cents.
Tel Main 15OS. Pier ?. Mssion-st dock
HATCH RROs-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02

and looked as if they were we'll cared
for.
AS a whole it was a great curiosity
and worth riding 1000 miles to see.
l arranged on my way home to travel
in the day time, so i could have a
good look at the country, as that
interested me nearly as much az the
Fair.
forgot to speak about the con-
dition Of the land in southern Illinois.
For hundreds of miles the fields were
covered with dead wire-grsss. They
told me it was prairie-grsss, but l
could not get hold of any, though
am sure it was what we call wire
grass. ] seldom saw green field
of grass. My friend told me he had
often heard his father say that he
bad sat on his horse and tied bow
knot of prairie-grass over the top Of
his head. They use no fertilizer and
burn all of their straw. The land
is very poor. My friend said an
average of 40 bushels of corn to the
acre was all they got off the land. l
think they do that we'll in Quintin-
oak where they use "Gill's Try Me-"
With best wishes,
Yours truly,
II. II. GILL.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
SOLD HIS PARKER PARROTS.
Their Occupation Gone After The
Election.
baltimore Sun.1

NOWst"sOFc CHN.l
Two parrots, with their occupation
gone, so to speak, were sold Saturday
by Alexander Wolfe, taxidermist
and hotelkeeper. The following ad-
vertisement, which brought about
the sale of the birds, also explains
their special accomplishment:
FOR SALE-Two PARROTS; will
holloa "Hurrah for Parkerl Cheap If
sold today, at WoLLE's HOTEL.
Six months ago Mr.. Wolfe received
from Brazil two plain, unsophisti-
Gated, young parrots of the yellow
head species. Mr.. Wolfe concluded to
teach the parrots their little speciality.
Two months before the ayalanc he,
otherwise known as the election, the
birds had learned their lines, and it
required but little inducement to
make them shout "Hurrah for Par
ker!" 1t made big hit. Good
Democrats bestowed numerous bless
ings upon the golden heads of the
parrots and ordered refreshments for
all present, and stanch Republicans
"set 'em up all around" just to show
there was no hard feeling. From both
sides of the political fence the
shekels rolled in.
Then came the cyclone, tidal wave
or whatever it was that swept over
the country that Tuesday. "Hurrah
for Parkerl" shouted the parrots in
duet Wednesday morning.
And the Democrat shook his fist
and said things that are excluded
by the postal laws, while the iubilant
Republican laughed scornfplly and
invited the birds to go back to the
tall forests of Brazil.
sit was no longer harmony, but
rank d;scord,' said Mr.. Wolfe.
"It didn't make hit. There was
nothing left to do hut sell them"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
KILLED BEFORE HER WEDDING

Miss Gertrude Thomas Shelly, of
Ayletts, King William county, went
around the house near the barn to
meet friend who had come to
borrow book, and found her little
brother, Herbert, aged twelve, sitting
on the ground with his fathers gun.
She told him he had better put the
gun down, as he might shoot some
one. She was standing over him at
the time, the gun pointed directly
towards her. The boy playfully
declared he would shoot, and pulled
the trigger. The boy did not know
the gun was cooked or that it was
loaded. The charge struck the young
lady in the cheek; entered the right
eye, and carried away a part of the
skull on that side.
The unfortunate girl, who was
just twenty-three years old, was
engaged to be married to William d.
Burch, well to do farmer of the
county, and the marriage would have
occurred in few weeks. Funeral
services were held in the presence of
a large concourse of friends. Nearly
every family in the county brought
floral tributes.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
ROAD AGED 1000 YEARS.

The road from HONS to Hama
runs almost due north, straight
white line cutting across the green
fields. 1t is one of the oldest routes
in the world. Caravans have been
passing along it for at least five
thousand years, Just as we saw them
long strings of slow moving camels
with their bright colored bags of
wheat.
One couldsslmost imagine that
Pharaoh was again calling down the
corn of Klamath to fill his granaries
against the seven years of famine.
But even here the old things are
passing. Just beyond the long line
of camels was a longer line of fellah
women, their blue robes killed above
their knees, carrying upon their
shoulders baskets of earth and stone
for the roadbed of the new French
railway. The carriage road is
French, too; aud very good road it
is. Some men were repairing it with
a most ingenious roller. 1t was
great round stone, drawn by two
oxen.
ALL along the ride we were re-
minded of the past. 1t is fertile
soil, but the very wheat fields are
different from ours. Only a few
yards in width, they are often Of
tremendous length. / hesitate to
commit myself to figures; but it is
certain that the thin, green fields
would stretch away in the distance
until lost over some little elevation.
At one place the road was cut through
a hill honeycombed with rock tombs,
which the hal said were Jewish.
Every now and then we passed
tall of great hemispherical mound,
built up of the rubbish of a dozen
ruined towns; for even as late as
Roman times this was well.culi-
waited and populous country. There
is now no lumber available for build
ing purposes, and in a number of
villages the houses are all built with
conical roofs of stone. Where the
rock happens to be of reddish tinge
the houses remind one of nothing so
much as collection of Indian
wigwams; where the stone is white,
as at Tell el-Biseh, it glitters and
sparkles like fairy city cut out of
loaf sugar.-Scri6ner's Magazine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02

places where in an American OF
British army be has no place. lie
is as much at the front as in the
rear. He is with the first screen of
scouts with his microscope and chemi-
Gals, testing and labelling wells SO
that the army to follow shall drink
no contaminated water. When the
scouts reach town, he Immediately
institutes thorough examination of
its sanitary condition, and if con-
tagion or infection is found he quar-
antines and places a guard around
the dangerous district. Notices are
posted SO that the approaching
column is warned and no soldiers are
billeted where danger exists. Micros-
copic blood tests are made in all
fever cases-and archaeological ex-
perts, fully equipped, form part of
the staff of every divisional head
quarters.
"The medical officer also accom-
panies foraging parties, and with the
com missariat officers samples the
various food, fruits, and vegetables
sold by the natives along the line
of march long before the arrival of
the army. If the food is tainted or
the fruit overripe, or the water re-
quires boiling, notice is posted to
that effect, and such is the respect
and discipline of every soldier from
commanding officer to the file in the
ranks that obedience to its order is
absolute.
"The medical officer is also found
in camp, lecturing the men on sani-
tation and the hundred and one
details of personal hygiene, how to
cook-to eat-and when not to drink
to bathe and even to the direction
of the pairing aud cleansing of the
hnger-nails to prevent danger from
bacteria. Long before the outbreak
of hostilities he was with the advance
agents of the army, testing provisions
that were being collected for troops
that were to follow, and as a conse-
quence of these precautions, be is
not now found treating thousands of
cases OF intestinal diseases, diarrheas
or dysenteries, contagion, and feyers
that follow improper subsistence and
neglected sanitation-diseases that
have brought more campaigns to dis
astrous terminations than the strate-
gies of opposing generals or the bull
lets of their followers"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
JAPAN'S CHIEF ALLY.

The statement is made on good
authority that for every hundred
men disabled in battle during the
Spanish-American War, fourteen
hundred were disabled by disease.
In modern warfare the usual expecta-
ton is that four will die of disease
for every one killed in action.
Modern science claims that the
mortality from disease may be greatly
reduced, and this claim is being sub
stantiated in very practical way by
the medical department of the Japa,
nese army, says Major-Surgeon Louis
l.. Seaman. DIR. Seaman was a mill
tary surgeon in the Spanish-Am
War, and has just returned from the
far East where he enjoyed excep-
tional opportunities for inspecting
the Japanese Medical Service.
According to DR.. Seaman the Japa-
nese Government has employed medi-
cal science in saving the lives of ita
soldiers as no other Government ever
has. The hope for final success in
the present contest is based upon the
total elimination of disease as a
factor. He reports Japanese officer
as saying: "Russia may be able to
place 1900, 900 men in the field. We
can furnish 100000. You know in
every war four men die of disease for
every one who falls from bullets.
That will be the position of Russia
in this war. We propose to eliminate
disease as factor. Every man who
dies in our army must fall on the
field of battle. In this way shall we
neutralize the superiority of Russian
numbers and stand on a compare.
lively equal footing"
DIR. Seaman thus describes the
work of Japanese medical officer:
"The medical officer is omnipres-
ent. You will find him in countless
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
ALTGELD'S PHILOSOPHY.

The highwayman and the burglar
both get something for nothing; they
will eventually go down to distruc-
ton.
The man given to lying, TO trick
cry, and deception dwindles as time
passes; the liar is destroyed by his
own lies, the trickster by his own
tricks.
Taking something for nothing, or
wronging fellow being in any other
way, will recoil on the actor with
deadly results.
No other industry in America has
amassed such gigantic wealth and
welded such power for evil as the
Standard Oil Company.
If liquors were made and sold as
drugs and groceries are sold the
effect would be different.
Saloons become lounging places,
where characters and habits of indus
try are destroyed, where habits of
drinking and carousing are formed
that pull down not only the indi-
vidual but his family.
The judge who gives way to pres
sure and allows his high office to be
used for purposes of oppression and
of wrong is curse to his country.
One bridge builder, risking his
life in the construction of passage
way across some turbulent water dis
plays more courage and is worth
more to his country than a whole
regiment of strutting and posing
army officials.
Happiness does not necessarily
demand a mansion and we'll filled
pocketbook, nor are high social
status and the plaudits of admirers
essential.
He who has deep down in his soul
the knowledge that he has always
fought for the right, and that he never
knowingly has wronged another,
could not be unhappy, though the
whole world were arrayed against
HIM.
Neither man nor woman can
become really great while the other
is kept subordinate; the different
peoples of the earth rank on the
scale of progress according to the
treatment their women receive.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
"KETcE-Aw1s" FROM EVERYWHERE.


In a recent visit to a house in
Rappahannock county it was noticed
that great number of little old time
wrens abounded about the house.
Their presence was accounted for by
a number of boxes in convenient
places which had holes in them
through which an English sparrow
could not enter, and in which the
small wrens reared their broods.
The newspaper men of the country
usually bear their part of the burden
of the national campaign, yet as a
rule, they have received scant recog-
milton from the party for their SER
vices. Perhaps this is because the
newspaper men have asked for no
recognition. They are in the habit
OF performing public services with
out compensation. 1t is a part of
their training, and all the reward
they expect is the approval of a good
conscience. - Richmond Times Dis
patch.
Most new advertisers expect COM
pensating if not profitable returns
within few months, while Mr..
Pinkham always figured that it re-
quired three years to make terri
tory profitable. The first year he
looked for loss, the second ought
to about balance expenditures, and
the third should show a profit.
"When | hear men say that they will
try an advertisement or a system of
advertising for three months, 1 feel
like telling them that they might as
well take their money out and have
good time with it."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
THE COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
COMMISSION OF VIRGINIA

Will hold its next meeting in the
city of Norfolk, Decembe 6 and z,
1904. The program is now in
course of preparation. Among its
notable features will be an address
by DR.. Edwin A. Alderman. This
will be DIR. Alderman's first official
utterance since his acceptance Of the
presidency of the University of
Virginia. This fact, in connection
with his remarkable success as an
educator, and his rare oratorical
gifts, will create widespread interest
in his treatment of the chosen theme
for this occasion, "The Education of
All the People"
General Fitzhugh Lee will talk of
Education and the jamestown Ex.
position" He is deeply interested
in both, and will emphasize the
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
REVOLUTION IMMINENT,

A sure sign Of approaching revolt and SER
ious trouble In your system is nervousness.
slceplessness, or stomach upsets. Electric
Bitters will quickly dismember the trouble
some causes. IL never fails to tone the stou
ach, regulate the Kidneys and Bowels. stimu-
late the Liver, and clarity the blood. Run
down systems benefit particularly and all the
usual attending aches vanish under its search
ing and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bit
ters is only 50c., and chat is returned IL IL
don't give perfect satisfaction Guaranteed bv
n. j. Hayden Son, IrvIngton, ard Il. G..
Richardson, Kilmarnock.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
Sufficient Reason.

Why editors generally believe there
is hell is thus sufficiently accounted
for by an exchange: Occasionally
we get notice from a postmaster
stating that the ReUiea0 lies dead in
his office; cause, the subscriber has
removed. Almost invariably we find
that he is in arrears for two or three
years and has sneaked off without
paying the debt. 1t was little things
like these that made it so hard for
Bob Ingersoll to make people believe
there is no hell"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
A TOAST.

Let him who will, drink to his love;
Or pledge friend in wine;
A rousing toast l'll give to thee,
o enemy of minel
Pour forth the amber liquid; fill
Your glasses to the brim;
Here's to the man whose heart for me
Bears naught but hatred griml
How oft when steep ascents / climb
Would cast down my load
Did not his royal enmity
My tagging sootsteps goadl
So drink againl your bumpers raise
And gaily clink with me;
Here's TO the man who hates me we'll
Down with "Mine Enemy"
-Btdnclte Goodman, IN Smart Set
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02

Not every young man, it is true.
can grow wealthy at farming, but
any one can live we'll and lay aside a
competence for old age, says the
Agriculturai Epif0mist. Buy the
right kind of farm for poor young
man to start with. Having bat
little capital, invest that little in a
small tract of land which is easily
susceptible of improvement, free of
hills, we'll watered, and if possible ad
joining land that may be purchased.
Get farm reasonably close to good
market. Having such farm, and
possessing those two indispensable
qualities-energy and determination
the young man is safe for good
living and gradual and constant
advancement in worldly comforts
and accumulation. Of course, to be
successful the young man must be
blessed with the essential prerequi-
sites of good health, good Judgment
and an economical disposition. tbs
a mistaken idea that any sort Of a
man can make farmer. Farming
requires brains-good, practical
farm-brains. The object in buying
a small farm at first is to keep out
of debt, for debt is decidedly incu-
bus under all circumstances. The
injunction of Holy Writ, "Owe no
man anything" is franght with
much wisdom. No mistake need be
apprehended in investing in land
that is favorably situated and eapa-
BILE of high degree of improvement.
There is an abundance of just such
land in this section, the people are
kind and hospitable, and parties in
search of farms will find it to their
interest to visit this section and see
for themselves.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
FIaHr WILL BE s1rrER

Those who will persist in closing their ears
against the continual recommendation OF DIR.
Kings Now Discovery for Consumption, will
nave long and bitter fight with their trou-
lbes, If not ended cartier by fatal termination.
head what T. tt. Beall, of BcaIl, Miss, has 10
say; Last fall my wife had every symptom
OF consumption. She took DIR. Kings New
Discovery after everything else had failed.
Improvement came at once and four bottles
entirely cured her." Guaranteed by n. ].
Hayden & Son. Iryington, and K. c. Richard
son, Kilmarnock.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
DAVID A. HAY

value of the Exposition as an educa-
tional factor.
DR.. w. w. Smith, President of
Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
will discuss "The Public Schools and
the Higher Education of Women"
"The Press aud the Public
Schools" one of the most vital
subjects on the program, has been
assigned to Mr.. w. S. Copeland,
Editor of the Times Dispatch, whose
patriotic service in behalf of better
schools is well known.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
Has stood The rss. a5 Year.

The old. original GROVES Tasteless Chill
Tonic. You know what YOU are taking III is
iron and quinlne in a tasteless form, No cure,
no pay, 5Oc.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
THE WOMAN AND TIE RIB.

To make woman's shape.
CThus the story's writ;
There is no escapeD
Many an arctic whale,
Witless of the blame,
Also gives his rib
For TO make the same!
l sorrow not for man,
He gets bis riblet back;
But for the poor old whale,
Alas. my friends. alackl
-Neao Orleans Times Democrat
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-02
NUMBER 9.
TO OUR FRIENDS and PATRONS:

pride
netting plant entirely destroyed which
machinery
sharp stockholm which
number OF orders that we receiving.
and o.
tin
we had
prompt and attention to all orders for netting twne
the many avos extended by friends
The VIM. ]. Hooper Manufacturing Co.,
2O2 West Camden ST.. BALTIMORE, MD.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-18

The Regular and Reliable Chi.
cago Specialist, who has visited
Manchester, every month since
1901, will be at the Clarence
House,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-18
A Letter Of the South Land.

Manchester, Iowa May 1904
Editors Democrat,
AS l have just returned from
another trip south including the
Fair, it may be of interest to give
something of report.
Leaving Manchester May 4th, I
soon reached my old landing-Benoit,
miss, a small thriving railroad town
with block of brick stores. Three
more will go up this summer. Two
wooden ones have been built this
spring. There are about dozen
large fine dwelling houses and
number Of lesser size. There are
two cotton gins, a large saw-mill,
artesian well etc. The mill has
been built since I bought there and
is saving the timber from the
Dahomey plantation, one Of the
largest single tracts in the south.
There are 5000 acres in cultivation
and $4,000 acres in timber. They
are getting a net profit of something
like $25 per acre from the timber.
Such timber with the land and all
a couple Of miles from there can be
bought for little over one half of
$25. Another saw-lnill has gone
into the woods very near mine since
| was there last March and still
another is now on the R. R. enroute
to be placed between Benoit and my
timber. q have taken two saw-mill
men down there since March LIST,
both Of which are liable to locate
there this fall. The timber is going
to be sawed and at an immense
proft.)
We struck a very heavy rain
which impeded our progress very
much. We saw only a very little Of
the timber but enough to show
something of what is there.
They are just cleaning out their
cotton which is 2 or 3 in. high.
When this is done it looks very
pretty. Corn is from 3to 10 in.
nigh. Alfalfa clover is beng cut
the first time and is about 2 feet
high In the woods we saw cattle
and horses in fine condition pastur-
ing on nothing but the cane.
Bermuda grass is also in use as a
pasturage. Some Of the largest
mules | have ever seen are in use on
the Dahoney plantation.
There is school house in the town,
and fine little church. The people
look as well and healthy as any 1
ever saw. They are good thrifty
business people and are jolly and
sociable. They say with the use of
good water their health is as good
as it will average for the whole
United States. l have been there
now for the fifth time and like it
better every time.
On my return home I knew that