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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
A WISE BUSINESS DEAL.

Mr.. James Brinkley a prominent farmer
living near Drivers in Nanesmond county
died recently while in the prime OF life, ana
his Death illustrates forcibly the Importance
of certain precautions In business matters
that men are often likely to overlook.
Nearly all business men. and particularl,
men in the busiEess OF farming. have plans ion
hand at all times that Others cannot take up
on the instant and mature successfully. They
must have time to become familiar with
details, and have ready money 10 cover delays
involved, as well as to continue operations.
Mr.. Brinkley could always command money
needed To tide him over emergencies; but for
his estate TO do such thing is entirely a Diff
ferent proposition.
Mr.. Brinkley was always active I'm business
and seldom had large balance in bank. He
kept his money at work. As a consequence
when stricken down by death, business losses
would almost certainly have ensued had he
not forseen such dificulities and as a prudent
business man prepared for them several years.
ago by taking out policy of life insurance I'M
the Phoenix Mutual of Hartford. The money
received frsm The Phoenix I'm payment of this
policy was. as Mr.. Brinkley foresaw, worth
several times the amount TO his family in the
protection which it afforded its various
interests.
Upon receipt OF request we will send psm-
phlet describing Phmnir policies.
BEN. A. RAWLINGS, State Manager,
Richmond, Va
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
PEACE COMES TO MRS. wIGGs.

A Louisville dispatch says: Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch is thank
full. Peace has come to her humble
shack in Shantytown, and she is
once more able to visit the pump or
water the flowers in her "denomina-
tional" garden without being as
saulted by dozen pairs of sightseers'
eyes or harassed by questions of Curl
Gus tourists. Public concern over her
aud her neighbors is quoted, the
visitor posters her no more, and her
son no longer has to stand guard
over the premises with q shotgun to
frighten away intruders.
There were indications for a time
that Mrs. Wiggs was "gettin' sour"
Her sudden leap to fame and the
rush of visitors into the region
"across the tracks" affected her nerves
tritle, and she laid aside the rose
colored spectacles through which she
had been wont to view her troubles.
They broke off the boughs of her
peach tree, they shipped sprigs from
the "denominational" flowers, they
peered into her windows and asked
foolish questions, all of which she
bore with forbearance-until Louis
vile society woman shifted at her
closets and peeped under her bed one
day. Then she rose in her wrath
and deluged the offending person
with dishwater. She was arrested
and put III Jail, but the police mag
istrate told her that she had done
right, and since that time the visiting
has almost ceased.
I'm gettin' back to right way
of livin' now," she told one of her
acquaintance. "Fer a while there
| was 'feered they'd drive me crazy
with their Mrs. Wiggs business, but
since l soused that woman with the
dishwater, fer which they didn't do
nNthin' to me, they've kind o. let me
alone. | s'pose they meant all right,
but even an angel wouldn't stand
bein' treated like menagerie. Now
that Pm feelin' better over it | may
go to see that play they've writ
about HE, though l swore I'd never
go near it AS long as i lived"
BY many persons the Cabbage
Patch and it's people are supposed to
be myths-merely creatures of a
novel written by Mrs. Rice and dra-
matized by friend. But the Cab
bage Patch is real, and so is Mrs.
WiDos
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

Did you ever think about it that
the average man has no philosophy
of life and consequently lacks the
poise and misses the content that
such philosophy would give?
There is so much Of petty leal-
ousies, of small ambitions, Of reaeh-
ing opt for things that when grasped
are not worth while-and out of it
all there comes nothing more than
gray hairs, the wrinkles born of care
and sense of the futility of exis-
tence. In other words life teaches
the majority of men and women
nothing better than pessimism.
They are driven to the expedient
Of looking to the hereafter for COM
pensation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
TERRIBLE WORK OF JAP;s
POWDER.

One hears a great deal in these
days of the exploits of Admiral Togo,
of Generals Kuroki and Oku. Mill
tary experts all over the world ex-
press their admiration for Japanese
strategyI naval eEperts declare that
Togo has almost revolutionized war
fare on sea. Doubtless these encom-
iums are deserved, but the military
and naval experts all seem to forget
one man who, as matter of simple
fact, has done more to secure victory
tor Japan than all her generals and
admlrals together. There ia work.
ing in the University of Toxic a
quiet little man who, if he is almost
ignored outside his own country, is
fully recognized in Japan itself as a
national benefactor.
No one outside of Japan, and very
few persons there, know how the
powder invented by Professor Shi-
mose, Of the University of Toxic, is
made. The secret ls regarded in ia
pan as one of the greatest of national
assets, and it is guarded with an
amount of care extraordinary even
when compared with the elaborate
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are within three million of as
many persons enroll ed in the Sunday
schools of this country as in the
public schools, there being thirteen
million in the former and sixteen
million in the latter. The total Sun
day-school membership throughout
the whole world is twenty-five
million.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis was
the first Democrat to enter the Uni.
ted States senate from West Virginia
after the war between the States, and
In his twenty yeSTs in congress Mr..
Blaine pays high tribute to the
Democratic nominee for the vice
presidency. Among other things,
Mr.. Blaine says: "He Davis stead :
lily grew IN the esteem and confidence
of both sides of the senate, and
when his party obtained the major
ity he was entrusted with the respon-
sible duty of The chairmanship Of
the committee on appropriations.
No more painstaking or trustworthy
man ever held the place. While
firmly adherips to his party, he was
at ell times courteous, and to the
business of the senate or in social in
tercourse he never obtruded partisan
views" Mr.. Blaine's tribute has been
widely reproduced by the Democratic
press, and in order to discount the
effect thereof an esteemed Repnbli-
can contemporary reminds it's read
ers that Mr.. blaine never approx we'd
fully of the creation of West Vir-
ginia into new State. In his book,
adds our contemporary, he took the
position that the division of Virginia
into two States even as war meas
ure was scarcely just to the old COM
m0nwaalfh
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
SIBERIAN FLEAS COME HIGH.

A. M. Raher, East Cape agent of
the Northeastern Siberian Company,
has reached Seattle, Wash, with two
Siberian fleas, for which he expects
to get 5000 from Charles Rothschild.
a aLondon financier and memb Der of the
famous Rothschild family of ban kers.
Mr.. Rothschild's collection of fleas
was incomplete without the Siberian
product. 1t was an offer of $4,000
apiece that stirred Baber to make
the long journey to the Arctic
regions. Mr.. Ra6er found two fleas
on live Arctic fox. They were
alive when he left Seattle last night
for st. Louis, where there is an ex-
hibition of ieas.
For many years Mr.. Rothschild has
made study of the Pulex Irritans,
the scientific name given to the insect,
He has gathered them from the re-
mote parts of the world. At Trlng
Park, London, he has thousands and
thousands of the insects in glass jars.
Every flea known to science is in Mr..
Rothschild's collection with the ex-
ception of the flea found upon the
body of the Arctic fox.
Mr.. Rothschild succeeded in OBJ
tanning specimens of the polar bear
flea and the Esquimaux dog flea and
has for years been trying to complete
the collection with the Arctic fox
flea. A year ago an offer of So, 900
was made for specimen from the
body of the fox.
1t is said that Mr.. Rothsohild had
the Gresteat difficulty in getting
natives to pick aeas from the bodies
of wild tigers in the jungles of India,
or from the South African lion while
that animal was rowing in his native
state. He got them, however.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
DAVID A. HAY 4
GOOD WORK FOR VOTING MEN

The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Norfolk, Va, is an institu-
tion for the physical, social, mental
and spiritual welfare of young men,
and In order to accomplish this work
the citizens have erected four story
building on the principal street of
the city, namely Main street in which
will be found reading-room sup-
piled with all the leading papers and
periodicals, public correspondence
table where young men can write
letters, social rooms, lecture halls,
gymnasium and bathrooms. There
is carried on in this building for the
mental welfare of young men,
night school in which all the impor-
tant branches are taught that help
man to be bread-winuer. Lectures
and practical talks are given by
prominent men from time to time,
and all young men are welcome to
use the reading room without charge.
On the social side there are enter
talnments, social gatherings and good
fellowship, with plenty of games of
skill. In the physical department
there is thoroughly equipped gym
nasium with competent trained in
structor in charge. Glasses for young
men, business men and boys are con-
Quoted regularly. From the religious
standpoint there are meetings for
men on Sunday afternoons at 4
o'clock, that are addressed by strong
speakers. Bible classes are conducted
at stated times. The General Secre-
tary, Mr.. A. NJ. Clemence, and his
assistants can be found at the office
from 8 o'clock in the morning until
1880 at night, and will be glad to
welcome young men as strangers,
direct them to boarding houses, and
assist them to find employment, for
which there is no charge made. ANY
young man reading this is cordially
invited to make the building his
headquarters any time he is in the
CITY of Norfolk.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
GEN. STOESSEL AND TOGO.
Typical Leaders In Russo. j apanese
War Compared.

In the great drama that is now
being enacted around the Russian
fortress of Port Arthur two men
stand clearly outlined against the dark
background whose names are likely to
be remembered while brave men are
honored.
One is Togo, the commander of
the Japanese fleet, keen, shrewd, per-
tlnaclous, working silently toward
the single end of his campaign, the
finest type of the modern scientific,
man of war.
The other is Stoessel, the Russian
commander of the bsleaguered town,
a bluff, roaring bravo, absolutely
fearless, ever optimistic, fighting his
losing battle with unbroken cheerful
ness, leading his men in person, and
swearing most terrifically' when his
courteous foe, seeing the hopelessness
of his gallant fight, suggest that he
surrender with all the honors of war.
and thus prevent the sacrifice of
more lives.
logo, the Occlden talized Oriental,
retains the characteristics of his race.
yet is SO thoroughly drilled in the
SCIENCE of the West that his European
critics proclaim him the greatest
sea captain of modern times.
Stoessel IAN Orientalized Occidental.
a Teuton by race, but glazed over
with the glittering varnish of the
Russian, is man of gallantry in
time of peace, but in war man of
the sword, who rides swearing into
battle as his ancestors did in German
forest, bulldog who rejoices in his
strength, in the keenness' of his wea,
pons and never knows he is beaten.
AS Togo is essentially typical of
the new order that makes war by the
rule of three, carefully calculating
every possible chance and leaving
nothing to that chance, so Stoessel
is as typical Of the OLD order, "Up,
gaurds, and at 'em." man who
fights squarely and yet cannot
help feeling the least bit disdainfnl
of the cunning calculators who ac-
complish by science what brute force
fails to do.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16

measures taken in Japan to make all
military aud naval details inviolate
But as to the terrific power of the
Shimose powder there is no secrecy
now, though no foreigners knew
anything about it before the present
war began. The Russians are in the
unfortunate position of learning all
about its effects by personal exper-
fence, while the foreign military at
taches at the seat of war look on and
marvel.
The Shimose powder forms the
bursting charge of the Japanese
army aud navy shell. The result of
the explosion it causes has astouished
the foreign experts now at the front.
The armor- piercing shell is rent
into thousands of small fragments,
which are hurled through the air
with such force that they tear
through the sides of an iron ship as
would a projectile from a machine
gun. The Russian wsrships Variag
and Korietz, sunk by the Japanese
at Che-mul-po, were found on exam
ination to be riddled all over
their decks and sides by fragments
Of shells which had been filled with
the Shimose powder.
The explosive force of the powder
is known to exceed that of guncot-
ton or dynamite many times. While
a shell with a bursting charge of
these explosives is broken into COM
paratively few pieces, the majority of
which are scattered through a limi-
teG arc, the Shimose explosive scat
ters the projectile into 5000 or more
fragments. Moreover these frag-
ments are driven in every direction
with equal force, the result being, as
one expert says, that "nothing in the
vicinity can live"
The reports of the land battles
from Russian sources dwell with pa
thetic emphasis on the invariable
superiority of the japanese artillery.
1t was to this artillery that the Rus
slams gave the credit for the Japa-
nese victory in the battle of the Yalu
and it was largely on account of their
artillery that the Mikado's troops
won at Naushan Hill, Vafangow and
Liaoyang.
In spite of its tremendous force
the powder can be handled with per-
feet safety. 1t is also extraordina-
rily cheap, it's cost being less than
half that of guncotton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
FATE.

Two shall be born the whole wide world
apart
And speak in different tongues aud
have no thought
Each of the others being, and no heed.
And these DER unknown seas to un-
known lands
Shall cross. escaping wreck, defying G
death;
And all unconsciously shape every act
And bend each wandering step to this
one end;
That one day out of darkness they shall
meet,
And read life's meaning in each others
eyes.
And two shall walk some narrow way OF
life
So nearly side by side that should one
turn
Ever so little space to left or right
They needs must stand acknowledged
face to face,
And yet with wishful eyes that never
meet,
With cropping hands that never clasp,
and lips
Calling In vain TO ears that never hear,
They seek each other all their weary
days.
And die unsatisfied; and this is fate.
SUSAN MARR SPALDwIN.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
A Boys Wild Ride For Life.

With family around expecting him to die,
and son riding for life, IS miles, to get DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
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Ind, endured deaths agonies from asthma;
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
Fearful Odds aya,ns, Him

Bodriddon, alone aud destitute. Such. in
brief was the condition of an old soldier by
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
A PENNY FOR SAVING HIS LIFE.
1t Was All Boy Had And EquaIed
MilliOnaire's Fortune.

Chester Perkins, aged years, saw
his playmate, Ray Martin, two years
his junior, fall into well at Dan
bury, N. H., and instead of rSpn,ng
away climbed dowa ca soHne inside
staging ana saved his life, pulling
him ont as he came to the surface.
When young Martain was taken
home and told that Perkins had
saved his life, he promptly dug deep
into his tiny pocket and fished out a
penny, which he gravely handed to
his rescuer.
"It's all ! got" be said.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16

In the last analysts nobody knows, but we
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
. IioW's This E?

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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
The RUSSOJAPANESE WAR.

Modern naval warfare is one of the
most costly things that can be
imagined, and a combat between two
fleets means the expenditure of vast
sums Of money. Some idea of the
high cost can be arrived at by taking
japanese warship like the Kasuga
or Nysshin and calculating the
number of shots she would discharge,
say, at Port Arthur. The first
named ship carries four cannon
which cost $4,000 each. One OF
these guns can fire two shots per
minute and every shot costs $500;
thus in five minutes these four can
non can discharge forty bombs at n
cost of $4,000. The smaller cannon
cost each $4,000, and every shot
they fire means an expenditure Of
$40. They are very rapid, and it is
estimated that in five minutes the
twelve cannon could discharge shot
to the value of nearly $4,000.
Major Louis l.. Seaman, a special
ist in military surgery, who has seen
much of the Japanese hospitals, and
who has been with the Chunchuses,
or Chinese bandits near Mukden, has
given some interesting observations
on the japanese method Of treating
wounded men. He says that the
japanese are giving proof of the
benefits TO be derived from the nom
interference with wounds on the
fields, where they content themselves
with the application of first.aid
banadges and antiseptics, leaving the
more serious work to be done in the
hospitals, at home. This course is
followed except where there is danger
of the wounded man bleeding to
death, or where his condition is
precarious. The result of this
practice has been that many men
suffering from bullet wounds at the
front are nearly well when they
reach japan. On one hospital ship
returning to Japan from the front
were 1920 wounded men, and there
was not a single death on board
during the trip. Three per cent.
will cover all the deaths among the
wounded who have been returned to
Japan after having received first-aid
treatment only. If the Japanese
soldier is not killed outright the
chances are that he will recover.
His temperate habits and his plain
and healthful diet of fish and rice.
varied occasionally with meat, con-
tribute much to his recovery. Rus
sian wounded captured by the Japa-
nese have been treated in a similar
manner, and the recoveries among
these men are scarcely less in pro-
portion than among the Japanese.
A new complication has been dlscov-
cred in the wounds sustained in this
war due to the extraordinary high
speed of small-caliber bullets, which
produce aneprisms by their speed.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
NUMBER SO.
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-16
4 REIGN OF TRRgOR.

h HElGN OF TERROR.
Russia is plunged IN reign of
terror that grows more horrible with
every passing day. Maltreatment
has been piled upon the shoulders of
the people till they can stand it but
little longer. Terror from above is
met with terror from below. Mine
is met with countermine.
The secret dungeons of st. Peters
burg and Schusselberg await the
patriots and reformers, while bombs
and the assassin's knife await the
petty despots who, representing an
autocracy, deal with men and women
as though they were venomous vipers
Thousands of men, women and
children, including noblemen, are
arrested in the dead of night and
taken to the police stations, where
they are subjected to the most terri
bic of inquisltions. They are finally
spirited away to confinement in
solitudes and madness or to torture
and death. Young girls are dragged
from their beds at night, and with
out opportunity to clothe. themselves,
are taken to the stations and then
spirited away.
Recently twenty-five noblemen
were banished from their estates for
showing pity for the peasants.
Lawyers are seized at night and
bundled off to Siberia for pointing
out the difference between the writ
ten law of the country and the appa-
rition the officers call Justice.
Women are deported for receiving
and reading papers that in any other
country would be considered as ultra
conservative.
1t has reached that point where
the prisons are not big enough to
hold the people arrested.
HOW JAPs HAVE WON.
With the fall of Liaoyang Japa-
nese strategy has orumbled to pieces
the elaborate plan for the defense of
Manchuria that was adopted by the
Russian commanders almost a year
ago, when they were preparing for
war with Japan.
Millions of dollars worth of stores.
positions that the best engineers of
Russia have planned and that have
cost many months toll and fortunes
to build, and finally control Of the
great valley of the Liao are the
prizes that the Japanese have gained
and the Russians have lost by the
brilliant thanking movement that has
carried General Kuroki's ever-victori-
ous army over river and into posi-
tion to threaten the destruction of