Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-15

answer, till Decemberl7 z; and Japan's
next note of January was retained
by Russia unanswered for a month.
On February 8, Japan broke off dip
lomatio relations with Russia, and
on the night of February g, Japan
attacked the Russian fleet at Port
Arthur.-Christian Observer.
"KETcH-Aw1sy FROM EVERYWHERE.
When a girl says Young man is
"just heavenly" he is probably of no
earthly use.
Yes. The voting machine is a guar
antee of honesty aud it is secret. But
the average politician is as much op-
posed to that as he is to the viva yoce
system of voting. AS matter of
fact, he is not looking for guarantees
of honesty IN election. On the con-
trary, quite the reverse. Petersburg
IRder appeal.
So Russia is much pleased with
President Roosevelt's declaration of
neutrality Vet if there are any
islands lying loose or bitches to be
dug they would do we'll to watch
him, for he is very like John Carel-
sons old sow-''Not to say rougish,
but if she sees anything she wants
she willhave it."-Potomao Progress.
1t is so easy to nominate-a Demo
cratic candidate for l90sl -There is
no objection from anybody. The
Atlanta Constitution named Bailey,
of Texas, week ago, and not
a protest has been heard nor
will be heard If the paper keeps
on nominating him from 1904
to 1907. elbow much for pulling
teethp" asked the Irishman of the
dentist. "Fifty cents for the first
and twenty-five for the second" he
was told. "Thin ye may pull the
sicond wan," said the Irishman.-
Petersburg Index-Appeal.
We viii never have good roads
generally throughout the country
until the II. S. Government assists
in making them, and the benefit of
free rural delivery to the farmers is
not to be compared to the benefit to
be derived from good roads. The
government can as we'll afford to do
the one as the other, and the two 90
hand in hand. Indeed we have seen
the delivery of mails absolutely sus-
pended at times in this section on
account of the impossible conditions
of the highways and streams.-Free
Lance.
Governor Montague might well
have brought to bear on the law
abolishing the Jail penalty for Sun
day liquor-sellers some of that sharp
ly-critical faculty which he exercised
against the Norfolk County Toll
Roads bill. One of the reasons he
gave for signing the liquor measure
is that it had been passed by such a
large majority (though it. passed the
Senate by vote of II to l2). The
Norfolk County Toll-Roads bill
passed by much heavier msjority
than the liquor measure--N0rfolk
Landmark.
Men are as brave today as they
ever were, The courage of the
knights of old could not surpass the
calm dauntlessness which enabled
Leonidas Hubbard, who went on an
exploring expedition to. Labrador for
the magazine Outing, to make notes
of his condition and sensations as he
died of starvation. The description
he wrote for those who should find
his body is minute, and bears no
evidence of trepidation. MIR. Hub
bard realized that he must die and
set about leaving astndy' of the ex-
perience. A few years ago Vienna
doctor who was accidentally inocu-
lated with germs of the bubonic
plague wrote record of the progress
of his disease until the near approach
of death rendered him unconscious.
This heroic doctor voluntarily iso-
lated himself after he found that he
was infected. He suffered and died
in solitude.-Norfolk Landmark.
1t is true saying that we only
get out of life what we bring to it.
If we give dross we cannot expect
gold. If woman is selfish, frivolous,
vain, immodest, her record keeps
step with "the defects of her quail
ties" If she has no higher ambition
than the out-rivalling, out-jewelling,
out-dressing, or out-scandalizing the
smartest of her "smart" sisterhood,
what wonder if her end be the sleep
of drugs, or the interior of a maison
de sante. She reoklessly challenges
such "6nis." She throws down
the gauntlet to living death. OF
great wealth wisely spent no
one complains; of great rank nobly
lived the world is proud. But the
senseless squandering of the one, the
degradation of the other, are criminal
offences against the nation as against
the individual. Dishonored homes,
ruined fortunes, vicious and un-
healthy progeny-are these worthy
return for life's good gifts? Have
mind and soul no higher duty
than bodily selfishness? Can the
creative brain that has invented all
the vagaries of "smart" life think of
nothing more ennobhng than crazy
nastinoeso,,- p;fo