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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22


Captafn Hank Spurrer OF Ptttsburv
an oid Ohio river steamboat captain,
was the speaker.
l remember wen my first trip I'D the
Ono' said Captain Spurrer. Il was In
command Of the Sally Ann. Mr.. Com
SUCK, the mate. was at his station IN
me 'front.' According to his notion of
enings the steamer was getting a little
100 close TO certain fats which Law
along the larboard side. So up he
cones to me and. with his hat cooked
on one side. says:
Capn Spurrer. you're gettin' leetle
100 close TO them fats. Hadn't Won
better go aboutY
Oomstock. L replied, you lust 90
forward and attend to your part OF the
"oat' ana III attend to mine
Comstock went for'ard I'm hipb p,ee
and yelled out:
BOYS, see that thar mud hook all
clear for lettin' gop
aye, aye, sir; all clear
Let 90, them said he.
Down went the anchor. out ratified
the chain, and like q fash the Sally
Ann was brought up to a standing.
Comstock walked aft to me. touched
ms hat and politely said:
Well, cap'n. my part of the boat is
attended to. It's in anchor "-I,ouIs-
Vile Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Birth a, tn. elements.

~ Is an old question. Are the seven
" odd chemical elements really ele
mentary. or ARE they compounded OF
something still more elementary ?" In
me light OF the recent discoveries about
Fadlum Professor i. w. Clarke recurs
10 theory. advocated by him many
years ago. that as the planets were
evolved out OF the Original nebula which
gave birth to the Solar system the
rheinical elements themselves were also
evolved out OF something far less com.
pick than themselves The fact that
existing nebui'e are very simple I'm
composition. while stars Ia yarious
Stages "r evolution exhibit more and
more compieNity. until. In solidified
bodies, like iiIr Garth. great number
OF Chemical eleInents with u myriad OF
compounds are found. Is regarded as
strongly supporting this theory. The
phenoinena ar radium lead TO the addi-
uonai suggestion that in the develop
ment or the heavenly bodies we seem
To see The growth OF the elements. SO in
radio activity we witness their decay
Exchange
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Human N Rnxn

The latest discovery, n rays, sounds
less mysterious than Y rays, and I'm.
deed they are more human. But as hui
mainly Is the greatest mystery Of Gre
alton so N rays are the greatest mys-
terry OF radiation. They are, in a word.
human rays-rays thrown OF by the
muscular and the nervous activity of
our own corruptible bodies. at present
we are asked to believe that IL n man
expose his naked chest to a screen of
calcium sulphide something of the
same kind OF bombardment will be
witnessed there as is the case with
radium-that is to say, particles of
matter are continually being thrown
or by the human frame, and these par
tieles of matter become visible" on a
phosphorescent screen.-London Mail.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
He Ought to BE n c.n.a.-


Burton Holmes, the lecturer. wa,
teuing his experiences during a recent
Visit to Japan. In Tokyo one dav he
saw an English army officer enter 8
Jlnrlkisha, saying. II want to go to
the British consulate"
The rickshaw man shook his head
stamped on the ground and muttered
something unintelligible.
L want to go to the British CONSUL
ate' repeated the officer I'm a louder
tone This was followed by more
stamping and muttering.
Inc passenger leaped angrily from
the vehicle. Then an old resident went
forward and volunteered to translate
the instructions to the rickshaw man.
The fool" said the officer, docs not
understand n word of English"
Would you expect London cabmap
TO understand Japanese?" asked his IN.
terpreter.
"Of course not"
Wen," answered the other, s.this
nckshaw man is a cross between the
cabman and the horse"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
College Douxhnuts.

In coeducational college near Chica
so the senior class recently decided I,
give an old fashioned "sociabic." ro,
which the girls OF the class should pro
vide the supper. TO two or them wa.
assigned the task or bringing dough
nuts or their own manufacture.
For several days they went about
with puckered foreheads, evidently
wrestling with some mighty problem
Their study, which had been haven
or peace. resounded through long even
lngs with argument aud expostulatIon
AT last, when their relations wer,
somewhat strained, they applied TO q
court or arbitration TO settle their diff
rerences. Mrs. Smith, wife OF one OF
the professors. was taken into their
confidence.
Mrs. Smith," begged one OF them
wont yeu settle II dispute for us? It's
ABOUT doughnuts. and l can't convince
Anna that Pm right. She thinks they
ought to be fried In milk"
And what would you do with
them!'
why. i know just what to do. I've
been In the kitchen and seen Imovene
cook them. You fry them in water. OF
course. In whole kettleful."-Youth.s
Companion
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
A DAINTY OPERATION.
wandering a Valuable PaintIn
From Wood to Cnnyas.

rrhhs a valuable Painting
From Wood to Canvas.
A Madonna" by Botticeili, owned
by Secretary Hay and valued at $40.
GOO. has been saved by most deli
cate operation. The painting was on
wooden panel an inch thick, and ow.
ing TO its age (the painting is about
s0O years old the wood began TO
crack. the assures threatening TO ex.
tend to the paint itself and ruin the
picture. IL was decided TO have the
paint transferred from the wood to
canvas, and the work was intrusted
TO u New York expert, who nut i'm n
year az his task. IL being munifestly
impossible TO remove the paint from,
the wood. the only thing to be done
was TO remove the wood from the
paint. The first move In this process
was TO smear the surface or the paint-
Ing with thin. slightly adhesive sub
STANCE, over which were pasted tiny
DTS or the thinnest tissue paper cure
fully made 10 follow the slight ridges
ana bumps in the paint Then liver
after layer OF paper was added I'm the
same way until thick niatrix WINS
formed. Then the really delicate work
Degan-that or removing the wood
from the back OF the paint. This was
done almost entirely with sandpaper.
The closer the operator came TO the
paint the more careful his movements
had To be. and when at last sheet OF
wood no thicker than piece or paper
was iett over the back or the sheet or
paint which formed the picture slight
slip meant utter ruin OF the master
piece. But care, patience, keen eye
siSht ana steady nerve won the day,
and the last vestige or wood was re-
solved into powder, leaving only n thin
layer of paint lying on a bed OF tissue
paper Then strip OF heavy canvas
was pasted 10 the paint. The whole
thing was put into Il drying room for
weeks; then the tissue paper was re-
moved, the picture vanished. and the
Job was complete. The picture now
hangs In Mr.. Hays house in Washing
ton.-ArgOnaut
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
APPLE DAY AT ST. LOUIS.
Twenty Car Loads of the Fr.ft vvs,,
he Given AWAY


Twenty Car Loads of the Fruit Will
he Given Away.
Sept. "a next will be apple day.
at the worlds fair. This novel and
interesting idea originated with Mr..
John t. Stinson. superintendent of
pomology, department of horticuI,ure
for the worlds fair. He suggested that
an apple day" be named, on which
every visitor TO the worlds fair should
De presented with few eating apples.
So 1t comes about that the 9th OF Son.
temDer Is to be made memorable as
apple day" Already the mouths OF
many thousands OF prospective fair
visitors are beginning to water I'm
anticipation Of treat of the popular
fruit. Every man. woman and child
who attends the exposition on that dav
Is TO be presented with three or fonr
me apples, daintily wrapped I'm tissue
paper, on which will be printed the
local habitation and the name Of aach
apple, The person eating the annie
viii enjoy the added pleasure of know
ing what kind of apple ii is and whore
1t came from.
Ihis free apple distribution Will NOT
De SO simple an affair as it may seem
on the surface. September is one of
the golden months for exposition ot-
tendance. The management confident
~ expects to have about 100000 per
sons In attendance If the day he
bright. Estimating the attendance Mt
ooo'OoO and allowing three or four
apples to each guest, we have. I'm
round numbers, 100000 apples to be
given away.
1here are 800 apples on an average
To barrel and $50 barrels to n car
load. n very little figuring will show
tnat more than twenty car loads of the
fruit will be required.
The object of this distribution Of
apples, aside from the Temporary de-
light which the feast will afford % 10
promote the interests of the annie ne
tood' The American apple growers
congress- Is engaged I'm systematic
exploitation OF the apple, to the end
that IL may be adopted as a regular
iood' either raw or cooked in any one
or a hundred ways, for n still greater
portion OF humanity than is using IT MT
present. The apple is bidding for the
place OF the potato as n universal
edible. and the congress hopes to dem.
onstrate its value as n health food nj
the worlds fair. In furthernnce of
this end, considerable quantity of
apple literature Is TO be distributed on
apple day" and other days.
The apples to be given AWAY on
apple day" will he chiefly Of the
Grimes Golden, Jonathan. Mniden,s
Blush and Fulton varieties. all of which
VIII be ripe and ready by Sept %.
There VIII also be on hand some lots
or the Wealthy variety, from the ex.
IRENE north, which will come from
cold storage, and the Chenango Straw
berry apple will be good to eat at that
date.
Every one eating an apple on that
DAY VIII be requested, through the lit
erature presented with the fruit. TO
join the Apple Consumers league
stockman and Farmer.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22

Queen Alexandra begins her day
with very little more formaiity than
any other lady OF the higher classes.
performs her toilet with the aid OF a
maid or dresser and is not surround
ed by bevy OF ladies In waiting, as
was the custom Mt court In past reigns.
Then the toilet Of a queen consort was
serious matter, and the most trivial
lapse In correct waiting" on the part
OF the ladies and women OF the bed
chamber met with sharp reproof.
When the queen rose and began to
dress woman OF the bedchamber took
the garments in order, as required.
passed them TO a lady Of higher rank.
who In turn handed them to her royal
mistress. 1t was the duty OF one at
tendant to pour water into the basin
and of another to present 1t knecling
while her majesty was pleased "a
wash.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Logical Auswer.


After the Hon. Cave johnson had
served his long ana brilliant career In
congress and had retired to the quiet
OF private life. he once stepped into
the ONCE OF his nephew. Robert John
son. then young lawyer OF much
promise. and finding the young man
engaged In writing with a gold pen
had occasion to remark upon the sx-
travagance Of the rising generation.
why Is It," he asked, that every
young man now has his gold pen, while
those OF my day were content to use
their goose quillsr'
Il suppose" replied Robert. In the
most innocent manner possible, .ft Is
because there were more geese when
you were young man."-Boston Post.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Unworthy a~n


Shakespeare's counsel, Look with
thine ears" becomes more picturesque
than trustworthy IL read in the light O,
a happening which the New York Trib
une notes:
During his recent visit to the Yellow.
stone park the president OF the United
states. who Is close student or Ameri.
can dialects. thought he detected in the
speech Of the driver OF the coach the
region from which he hailed.
You come from Missouri, do YOU
notE' asked Mr.. Roosevelt.
The driver pulled in his four horses
set his brake with his foot and turned
impressively toward the chief magis.
trate.
Mr.. President" he said. my father
and mother onct went to Missouri on a
visit. and they visited there twenty
year. During tibet time / was born.
But l want to tell you right now tibet
I'm no derned Missourian."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Never occurred 40 H,m

i don't know why Il is" said Mr..
CLOSEUP as he came downstairs red
eyed and sleepy and greeted his guest,
Hbut ! never can get used to the strik.
Ing OF that clock in our. room.
"lt has such a loud. insistent 'bunp'
when 1t strikes the hours that it wakes
me up nearly every time. We've had II
In the house two or three years, but i
can't become accustomed to II. We
would have put IL In the attic long ago,
only It's a present from my wife's
mother, and that would never do. Good
clock. too. aside from that, but II wor-
ries me nearly to death. wish I knew
what to do with it."
"Why don't you wind merely the
dmekeeping part of It," said his guest,
"and let the striking part go un-
wound?"
johnson, you have saved my lifew
exclaimed Mr.. CLOSEUP joyfully. az
never thought Of that"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
She Took Them mt Their Word.

Keuka lake is one OK the most attrac-
i've or the great chain OF lakes In the
interior OF New York state. Bluff point
at Its head is a bold promontory which
rises grandly and impressively. 1t was
upon the banks of this lake that the
famous "Jemima Wilkinson founded
colony nearly three generations ago
and announced that she could walk up
on the water Of the lake. A large crowd
gathered to see her undertake the ex-
pertinent Turning to her followers.
she asked, '.Have you all faith that I
can walk upon the waters" eve have,
We have!' her followers replied. "Then
there Is no use In my undertaking to do
So" she replied, IF ye have faith We
shall be saved without my walking up
on the water."-Syracuse Telegram.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22

AS there are no labor saving ma
chimes in Korea, women's work is done
by the crudest and hardest methods
possible, from hulling rice with n
heavy wood or stone pcstle to washing
clothes by beating them In the streams
and Ironing them with sticks. In or
der TO iron, the clothes must always be
ripped apart and wrapped round a
wooden roller willie damp. They are
then beaten by. either one or two wom-
en-. 1t is surprising TO see the gloss
IN the white calico and the sheen upon
the linen produced by this method OF
ironing. IL surpasses the dressing one
sees in this country on newly bought
linen. Since the people dress exclu.
sively in white, the woman's day-and
often much OF the night, tools spent
n wash-ironing, ironing and sewing.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
COUNTRY LIFE.
Tho Change That Has Come Frsu
the Methods NJ Irfffv v..r~ A.

Tho Change That Has Come From
the Methods OF Fifty Year. Ago.
IL Is not yet fifty years since the
people OF our country villages lived by
farming. the men making their own
sleds, shingles, ak handles, seythes,
brooms, OK bows. bread troughs and
mortars; the women carding, spinning,
braiding. binding and dyeing. They sat
round great fireplaces with hanging
crane. firedogs and a spit turned by
hand or by clockwork; they made their
own tallow candles and used, even on
festive occasions, wooden blocks or
raw potatoes for candlesticks; they ate
from pewter kept bright by the wild
securing brush; they doctored their
own diseases by hundred and one
dlnerent wild herbs, all gathered near
home, and all put up in bags for the
winter or hung in rows of dried
punches. Soap was made at home; so
were the apple butter, cheese. pearlash.
birch vinegar, cider, beer, basket. Each
farm was factory OF odds and ends
village store in itself, laboratory of
applied mechanics.
Now all that period of sturdy indiyid-
ualism Is as utterly passed as Is the
government of the pharaohs. The rail.
roads have killed 1t all. Every process
on the farm has been revolutionized by
science or mechanical invention: every
article can now be bought more cheap
ly than 1t can be made at home. The
very mending OF clothes now hardly
marks the good housewife; you are
told that 1t is cheaper for the elder
daughter to go to work In tSe factory
and buy with her wages new suits of
ready made for the boys. 1t is all
gone. The old life now lives only In
tender memories.
Estates of 1000 acres and more. own
ed by nonresidents, are rapidly multi
plying along the coasts of the seas and
gulf, the shores Of the lakes and rivers.
In the mountains and villages. Is there
reason TO believe that the alteration
that has taken place within fifty years
is any greater than the next fifty years
will show9 The property thus taken is
not wrested away from the poor, for II
1t were offered as a gift In small hold.
ings 1t would not commonly be taken.
IL Is precisely the poor who cannot M.
ford to hold II under existing cond,.
tons; 1t is only available az a toy for
the rich man or as a pinything for his
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
The PIX Chanel

Ihe Pyx chapel, in Westminster alb
oey. Is about TO be lighted by electrici-
ty and thrown open to the public. The
chapel. which is now under the control
OF the office OF works, was at one time
tue depository OF the regalia OF the
scottish kings. Access to this remark.
able apartment, with its double doors
OF oak, was possible only by the aid of
seven Keys. which were in the posses
sion OF as many officials OF the ex-
chequer. In former times the govern
ment standards aud assays OF gold
were deposited there. and among the
other contents or the place are n curl
Gus stone altar and some ancient
chests. in which state documents. ex-
chequcr tally sticks and other things
were stored. The woodwork OF the in
ner door was formerly covered with
human skin, "A warning no doubt TO the
criminal classes.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
An Apt Quotation.

The readiness OF repartee of Thomas
B. Reed was never better illustrated
than on one occasion when he went to
visit friend who lived at the top of a
long and narrow flight OF stairs. Half
way UP Reed missed his footing and
fell to the bottom. His friend, hear
ing the racket, rushed to the door and
shouted down the semidarkness Of the
ball. "Who Is thatY
"'Tis Eiser rolling rapidly" drawled
the man from Maine rs he picked him
self up.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
ChfckXeed.

Like the piantain. which the Indians
called "the white mans foot" because
1t sprang up wherever the whites pene.
trated, the chickweed seems to follow
the track OF the white colonist, and in
New Zealand the Maoris call It "the
mark OF the paleface." The little fiow-
er Is a sort OF barometer. 1t opens
when fine weather is coming, remains
closed II rain is In the air.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
RICHMoND, FREDERICKsBURe n
POTOMAC R.R.

Schedule in effect Aprz ,7n, 1904.
LEAVE FREDERICKSBURG NoRrBwIpn
w g, m; daily. Stops on signal at oceoopsr
Sundays only. OSSOquhn
10 IS IS a. .. m. sally; Stops at Alexandria.
Iceland BROOKE. Ao S1GpS W. on signal at
9uantico. Cherry Hill. Negley. occoonse,r,
N 4. Lorton and Alexandra.
!" NJ q; IA. ually except Sundays Sion. m
signal ut Iceland. Brooke Ao,,s. ven On
Matier ouantico. Cherry Hill, Frecstone'
EEegIey, Occoquan, LortUn. Accotins
Il - z; M, daily except Sunday. stops n
49p S;S: daily. Stops on signal at Brood,
andria. S'er' heid' ouanticO and AIeI-
III VI ,: m. daily. Stops at Alexandria. s,o,.
s'snai StOccoquap Sunday only.
LEAVE SOUTHWARK.
oO a. m. daily except Sunday. Rjcbuo,,
a a, recommendation. Makes All local sfo,1s
Sto n o oai ~, Atlantie Coast Line train.
Ssuhhdays only; at Milford, DoswsiI snS
1 asaI aally, and on signal at Other
- a. M daily except Sunday. NaLo. L.,
stops on signal. Aco local
l. % y. M daily ,Seaboard Airline train s.o,.
oav ssnsi at Lorton and OccoQuan sun
a. DOS" Ell and Ashland.
%e M s 1,Iy, Al e. L. train. Stops at Dos.
q" ?, m. daily. s; A. L. train. Stops M p 1,.
Acc wpn ana Ash on signal.
Experimentation train leaves RichmondI -
burg 80 p. m. RTeoerioks-
NOTE:-Time of arrivals and denarfuro..
connections not guaranteed Ano
=. e. cox, Agent.
W. ID DUKE, C.w.CULP. w.P.TAy,op
Gen. Man. Asst Gen. Man. Trsf. Man.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Inference.

Dorothy-What Frank werser ever
could have seen In Bessie Brown Is
past my knowledge.
Bella-Why. Dorothy. didn't know
you cared SO much for Frank.-Boston
Transcript.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22

Marriage is Ike besieged city"
''In what wayr'
So many OF the people are trying to
get In and so many TO get out."-Lifc.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22

Smith-Your wife has fine voice.
Jones-Yes; one OF the best in the
world. Otherwise 1t would have been
worn out several years ago.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22

cured with DIR. Davids Cough Syrup OF pure
zine. Tar. Horehound and Wild Cherry. Re,t
on earth for coughs. colds. cramp, consump-
.ion' bronchitis and ali throat and lung trou-
pies. LARGE bottle rs cents at DR.. J. IL.
Smiths. Irvington. Va.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Renounce SIN.

Inc human and divine sacrifices OF
NE! Who can overlook them? We
glory In the fact when a hero pbys-
ically dies to physically save mankind
when DR.. Robert Koch. the noted dis
coverer or the bacIlii OF tuberculosis.
advocated the Idea that the tubercuio-
Sis OF cattle was not infectious for man
ana young bacteriologist. to prove
mat theory false. inoculated himself
WIN the cattle tuberculosis germ and
died as result OF the incubation. We
SAID: That Is glorious, that Is grand,
That young man died In order that we
might physically live. He died in order
10 prove the necessity OF our guarding
against the tuberculosis Of the dumb
brute" But this young maiden OF INV
text did more than TO die I'm order that
her father might live. / can imagine
that In the crude belief OF those DAYS
IL may have been held that the man
who failed to fulfill his deliberate VOW
would perish eternalIy. IT NAV have
oeen that Jephthab's daughter yielded
her IRE to avert that dreadful fate
from her father. II so. how heroic
was her sacrihce How he must have
loved her for doing SO, while he be-
walled the rash VOW that had made n
necessary! Have we no love for Christ
whose death was rendered necessary
Dy our transgres:ions? He who died
to save us from the penalty of our sin
asks US for our grateful love. Can we
withhold 1t? Let us ever hate and re.
nounce the sin which he died TO wipe
away. and let us give to hIm our
hearts alteration and consecrata our
lives to his service.
We. too. with him are dead
And shall with him arise
The cross on which he hung h,s head
shall watt us to the skies.
copyright. 1905. by Louis Klopsc-.l
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
A Thought Illustrated.

What do l mean by this statementa
Let me illustrate my thought NV
lather' In an address on the bright
Side or Things" began In this wise.
This world always appears IN mar
AZ exactly the same colors as are the
eoiored glasses through which he looks.
II ne uses green glasses, It is O stupid
world; II red glasses, a martial world,
II yellow glasses. jaundiced world .
put IL crystal glasses, the same bright
glorious world In which the birds sing
and the brooks gurgle, and the younc
people and the old people love: the
same bright glorious world as God
made It," What, again" Won ask $50
.he meaning of this" Why, simply
,iiat II you are dishonest in your ac-
IONS, you will think all other people
are dishonest; IL you are mean. Won
VIII think others are mean. II Won
are deceitful, you Will be looking onlv
Tor bad motives in others. But if Won
are pure and good, and true and low
Ing, you will intuitiveiy begin to see,s
only what Is good and true and loving
In others. Therefore, my brother when
inc dishonest man seeks temporal
success at the expense OF Christian I'm.
tegrity he Is always doing 1t MT the
expense Of his respect for his neigh
DORIS. AS bad man. he always feels
as though he was surrounded by bad
men; while. on the other hand, II a
true man absolutely refuses to win
temporal success. unless lie himself
remains good and true and pure he is
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-04-22
Potomac River Ro1,ta

HENRY WILLIAMS, Agent,
STEPHENSON & BRO, Agents
"M' M. REARDON, Agent,
Alexandria. Va.