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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
vIRGINIAN AND THE CLOCK.

At the luncheon following the
launching of the submarine torpedo
boat, Simon Lake X, Mr.. Foster NJ.
voorhees,, former Governor of New
Jersey, told this story on a distin-
guished Virginian:
The son of the old Dominion had
been out with the boys. AS he softly
opened the hall door the melodious
voice of his better-hslf greeted him
with the query
"Whst time is it?"
"It is early, my DEAR" responded
the Virginian.
"How can you say So" exclaimed
his spouse, "when the clock has just
struck two?"
"All right" said the Virginian,
his voice Indicating virtuous indig.
nation. GAIL right! If you choose
to take the word of a id yankee
clock against that of a Virginia gen.
tleman you may do so; but have my
opinion of you!'
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
MOTHER and BABE FREEZE.
Only One Instance Among Thous.
ands That Occur Daily to the
Poor in Our BID Cities.

Evicted on the coldest day of the
winter, and weak from hunger and
exposure, Mrs. Elizabeth Dietz, with
her four children, sought death BY
freezing shortly after midnight under
factory stoop in Brooklyn.
"I had no home, and could not
bear to hear my babies cry" she told
a policeman who found the starving
family, $50 / thought the best thing
to do was to freeze l got the chill
dren as warm as / could so they
would go to sleep, and l hoped that
none of US would waken alive"
Policeman Mshoney heard the
faint whimper of q child coming
from under the porch Of a moulding
factory, and he found the family.
Three of the childreu-Henrietta,
Catherine and Sarah, seven, Eve and
four years old, respectively-were
unconscious from the cold, while
Mrs. Dietz lay huddled in front of
them with her fifteen-month-old
babe. Dolores, clasped to her breast.
1t was the babes cry that saved the
family.
At first the policeman could get
no information from Mrs. Dietz or
the older children, ss they all were
too weak from cold and hunger to be
able to talk. They appeared on the
verge of starvation, and the thinly
clad bodies of the children were
emaciated to an extreme.
The hands and feet of the three
older children were found to be
severely frozen. They were taken to
q hospital, while the matron at the
police station prepared a warm bed
for Mrs. Dietz and the baby.
When the mother was arraigned
Magistrate Higginbotham and others
in the court room made up a purse
of $25, which they gave Mrs. Dietz,
telling her to go and find home.
The magistrate said he would see
that she obtained employment that
she might support the family.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
BACHELOR CAUGHT BY HIS OWN
DECREE.

To escape payment of $500 fine,
Mayor E. w. Sorber, of Gowrie, Iowa,
has taken wife.
In the early part of last year May or
Sorber decreed that every old maid
bachelor, widow or widower refusing
an offer of marriage during leap-year
would be fined from S. to $40, the
money to go to the public library
fund.
Mayor Sorber was himself bache-
lor, and within short time PROPOSE
tions from msrriageable females
began rolling in. Each offer was re-
fused, and on one pretext or anoth er
the Mayor kept postponing the fines
which the public declared should be
assessed against him.
On New Years Eve committee
OF citizens waited upon the Mayor
and informed him that for ten Gowrie
women, whose hands he had refused.
ne was fined the limit, -aggregating
5000. The Mayor asked for a stay
of thirty days and it was granted on
condition that he give q bond for the
amount, which he did.
The next day Mayor Sorber married
Lillian Cooper, of st. Louis.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
THE INDUSTRIOUS VIRGINIA
HEN

The western part of Virginia has
been known for years as a great sec.
ton for raising poultry, and the in
dnstry is increasing at rapid rate.
The shipment of Than ksgiving turk.
eys and chickens for all seasons brings
in a considerable revenue. The Har-
risonburg News has just complied
the figures of the egg production of
Rockingham county for the past year.
100000 crates were shipped to market,
a total of l0,S00, 900 eggs sold from
one county in a single year. This
does not include many thousands
consumed on the farms where they
were laid. The lowest pr,ce of the
year was Ia to Is cents dozen, and
In December 80 cents was paid. The
average for the year was % cents.
The profit from eggs alone to Rock
ingham county farmers was nearly
$500, 900.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
LADIES SAW WHOLE OF CIVIL
WAR.

Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, now a silver
haired matron, is the only woman
who from start to finish of the Civil
War was in Confederate camps,
Her husband was a southern hriga,
dier general.-Exchange.
Oh, no, there was q Fredericksburg
woman, known to all the old Confeds
of the 30th Virginia Regiment. Her
name was Mrs. "Katie" Cox, wife of
James A. Cox, O private, 90. A, 3Oth
Virginia Regiment. and daughter Of
Jessie White, the cold practical
printer Of fredericksburg" She
went ont with the regiment at the
commencement of the war, nursed
and cooked for the boys in camp
until the disastrous fight at Five
Forks, when she was separated with
what was left of the gallant regi-
ment in that fight. She came home
and died few years ago and her old
comrades buried her in the Confed-
crate Cemetery here, and have placed
q handsome monument over her
grave.-Fredericksburg Free Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
RAISED AS FROM THE DEAD

81 only remember kissing my
husband and feeling l was getting
colder and colder. Everything was
blank to my mind until ! knew
was being-carried downs tairs. Then
| tainted again"
Thus spoke Mrs. Holden, young
woman of Hampton village, England
In explanation of the extraordinary
circumstances under which she was
brought back to life while being
measured for a coffin by an under.
taker.
81 have been subject to fainting," /"
she added, sever since / was born,
and this is the third time they have
put me by as dead. When / was is
i was laid out three days and SINH
lar thing happened when | was q
small child, but 1 do not remember
anything about that except what my
mother told me-"
Her husband is an engineer. They
have three children, one an infant
six months old.
Mrs. Holden was supposed to have
died at D o'clock Monday morning,
and a few minutes before that hour
she told her husband she felt she
was going. She became motionless,
but asked him in whisper to kiss
her and give her love and kisses to
the children, who were sleeping up
stairs.
After time she became death
like and her husband could detec,
no movement of her pulse or heart
Concluding she was dead he carried
her upstairs, went to 3 physician who
had attended her and got certificate
of death from heart disease. With
little covering the poor woman lay
in the room for six hoprs in the
bitter cold.
The undertaken called to measure
the body. He was leaning over the
supposed corpse when he was startled
TO observe the twitching of an eyelid
Then he placed a hand over the wo.
mans heart, but not the slightest
pulsation could be discerned. The
next instant the twitching was re-.
peated In even more pronounced
fashion. BE applied friction to the
body. Slowly and with trembling
uncertainty the woman's arm was
raised, the CLASSY eyes quivered and
her hand, still deathly cold, clutched
at his own. The husband was called,
restoratives were administered and
the woman was carried downstairs
Mrs. Holden went into repeated
swoons, but they gradually lessened
in duration and later she was able
to talk.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
VAST RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND
MANY PEOPLES

Area (one-sixth of the land sur
face of the globe)-S S,660.395 square
miles.
Population Empire-129, -O04, ,5I4.
Composition of the Empire-Eu.
ropean Russia, Poland, Finland,
North Caucasia, Transcaucasia, the
Steppes, Turkestan, the Caspian, the
Transcaspian, Siberia, Asiatic Rus
sia, Amur Region, Bokhara, Khiva,
Sakhalin.
Religious divisions-Greek Catho-
lies, 100000; Jews, 100000,
Roman Catholics, $500, 900; Protes.
tants, 2,95O,OOO; Mohammedans,
1900, 900.
Divisions of Peoples-Russians
proper, Firms, Kalmucks, Slavonians,
Poles, Lithuanians, Let's, Walach.
ians, Servians, Tartars, Germans,
Swedes, Danes, Greeks, Jews.
Principal cities-St. Petersburg,
l,534,000 of population; Moscow,
1,173, ,427; Warsaw, 63S. zoe; Odessa,
405, ,O41; Lodz, 3l5, ,209; Riga, ,256,197;
Kiev, 247,432; Kharkov, 174, SAG;
Wilma, 154,532; Saralov, 137,1O9;
Kazan, 131, sos; Ekaterinoslay, l2I,.
2l6; Rostov-on-the-Don, 1IS,SS9,
Astrakhan, 112,S80; Tula, 1I1,O4S'
Kishenef, 10s,796; Nijni-Novgorod,
3d. ,124; Tiflis, l60,645; Tashkend,
l56, Ala; Baku, 1l2,253 Sic
Exports (190O, $429, ,852. .0OO)-
Timber, oats, fax, tow, wheat, bar.
ley, eggs, linseed.
Imports ($S75,S22 ,00o)-Ootton
wool, silk, coal, machinery, copper
lead, ships.
Military Sersice-Mainly by con-
scription.
Period of Service-Eighteen years
National debt-$3, 500, 900, 900.
Annualhnterest on debt-$S0, ,OO0,,
600.
Expended on Siberian and Man.
chnrian roads, 1900, ,O00, 900.
Taxes unpaid by peasants (l9OO)--
$60,000,00O.
Loss by industrial depression in
three years-$300,00O, 900.
Loss by famines in five years pre-.
ceding 1902-$500, 100000.
Eight famines, five since 1902, los.
5000. 100000.
Loss to toilers by $50 to TO holi.
days each year-$1OO,OO 900, 600.
War loss to date-$40O, ,OOO, 900.
Expenses of holy synod annually
In relation to these figures, vel
known writer says:
"The simple truth is the Russian
peasant, 100,00O,0OO of him, is, un
der present conditions, slowly starv
ing to death. His average earning
in the central provinces are II or is
copecks (eight or nine cents) da,
throughout the year; during tn,
busiest harvest time they rise to ar
average of ~ to SO copecks GA to II
cents) a day; during the whole win
ter he and his family earn nothing
His diet consists of meal, -four ant
grits;, cabbage and potatoes; no mes
except three times q year. His die
is insufficient, and less than in an,
civilized country. The hoyel h,
lives In is two and half yards Ions
and one and one-half yards high
harboring the whole family, anc
whatever cattle he possesses. Thes
data are taken from official sources.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
USES FOE BLOTTINs PAPER.

Large pieces of blotting paper laid
upon small tables or washstands be-
meath the thin covers will prevent
ugly scars on the polished wood,
while small squares should be placed
beneath doilies,upon mantels or desks
where vases filled with fresh flowers
stand. The soft, absorbent pads will
De found useful in every room in the
house, but the dining room needs q
whole package of them kept in q
handy place for emergencies. When
ever any liquid is spilled upon the
table, q blotter laid quickly over the
spot will work wonders If spread
upon pantry shelves beneath jars of
fruit or heavy utensils, they will save
us the nnsightly rings that come be-
fore we know it and refuse to come
off. Indeed, when housewife gets
the blotter habit, she wonders how
she got along without them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

In peculiar keeping with the re-
port that the cold Storage egg Trust
bad launched millions of eggs from
their refrigerators upon the market
when prices were way up, and that it
was this that caused prices to fall and
untold thousands upon thousands OF
dollars taken from the farmers
pockets, we reproduce from the New
ark News this little
ROMANCE IN COLD STORAGE.
She wrote her name upon an egg;
simple country girl was she.
"Go, little egg, 20 FORTH" she said.
And bring a sweetheart back to me. 4"
Into the wide, wide world 1t went,
Upon its shell the message plain.
The maiden waited, waited on.
With ,brobbipg heart-but hope wa;
vain.
The days, the weeks, the months flew past
a year, another year rolled by,
Alas no lover ventured near
To dry the teardrops In her eye.
Sad at her easement In the night
She wondered where the egg could be
10 voiceless moon, dost thou behold,
Somewhere, my true affinity ?"
Somewhere, indeed, there was a man
Whom fate had made for her 10 own;
Somewhere. aud waiting for the egg,
He led his loveless life alone.
The years sped on, till gray and bent,
She looked sdown the road one day,
And, trembling, saw an aged man
Approaching slowly on the way.
Hislocks were white, his shoulders bowed
he feebly leaned upon a cane,
She looked-and in her faded cheeks
The blush Of roses glowed again.
Twas he, her lover, come at last
"Are you Miss Mary Jones, pray?
L found your name upon an egg
l bought in market yesterday"
Cheated Of youthful life aud love,
Kept parted till the journeys end,
The evening OF their wasted day
Together now they sadly spend.
o, Egg Trust cold, how many crimes
Are done In thy disgrsceful names
Gaze, gaze upon thy cruel work
And hide thy hydra head in shame.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

Nearly 1000 years ago the Romans
knew how to manufacture wire rope
which closely resembled the wire
rope In use at the present day, says a
writer in Popular Mechanics. This
astonishing fact was brought to light
by the recent discovery of a coil of
wire rope In the ruins of Pompeii.
The rope is about 10 feet long and /
inch in circumference. 1t is made
of bronze wire, and consists of three
strands of spirally connected wire,
each strand being made of Is wires
twisted together. A most interesting
fact is that the rope is stranded in
accordance with lang lay, which is
in general use today,
1t is believed that the rope was
used as crane rope, for pieces of
cranes were found also. These cranes,
it is generally believed, were worked
by slaves, who were placed inside q
large drum, which was turned in q
tread-mill fashion, and thus worked
the small drum around which the
rope was found.
Pompeii was buried in A. ID. 70,
about l, ,S26 years ago.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

81 was troubled for several years with
chronic indigestion and nervous debility "
writes u. j. Green. OF Lancaster, N. II. mo
remedy helped me until began using Elec-
trie Bitters. which did me more good than all
the incidence ever used. They have also
kept my wife In excellent heath for years.
She says Electric Bitters are Just splendid for
female troubles; that they are grand tonic
and invigorator for weak, run down women.
No other medicine can take its place In our
family" Try them. Only SOC. sstisfaction
guaranteed by E.C. Richardson. OF KiImar-
mock; T.J. Hayden s. Son. OF Iryington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
The Richmond Times Dispatch
recently contained this editorial,
which is well worth reproducing:
at is reported that q movement
for the adoption of the dispensary
plan for the sale of LIQUOR has at
tained such proportions in West Vir-
gioia that the Legislature now in
session will probably enact a law
which will allow towns and cities to
establish dispeusaries.
"The Times Dispatch believes IN
local option. Each and every COM
munity should be at liberty to settle
in its own way the question of dis
pensing alcoholic drinks, but as a
State institution we do not believe in
the dispensary. 1t has been tried in
South Carolina, and if we may form
an opinion from influential news
papers in that State, it has had no
good effect whatsoever, ssve to in
crease the revenues of the State. 1t
has not materially decreased the sale
of alcoholic drinks, and it has not
improved the quality of the liquor
dispensed. There has certainly been
no decrease in those crimes for which
the liquor evil is held responsible,
and it is notorious that it has not
improved the morals of the State
government. From all accounts,
Senator Tillmau is not so much in
love as he once was with the dis
pensary system.
1--WE take this occasion to remark
that, in our opinion, the VirginiR
plan is as good as any that has ever
heen devised to regulate the liquor
traffic. The Mann law has operated
we'll in the rural districts, where there
is no police protection, and the cities
and towns which have police protec-
tion are left free to regulate the
traffic according to the will of the
majority. The Virginia plan is not
perfect, but there is no doubt that it
is the best plan ever tried in this
State, and temperance sentiment is
improving and growing stronger
every year. Other reforms will
probably come as public sentiment
becomes prepared for them"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
CAN FRIENDSHIP BE FORCED,

"Friendship cannot be forced" is q
common expression. What does one
mean who says this? Usually that
We cannot force other people-to be
our friends. One who uses the phrase
in that way has missed the very idea
of friendship. Friendship has moth
ing to do with another persons atti-
tude toward ourselves. We can be
friends to those who hate us. The
test of friendship rests solely with
ourselves. In sense, friendship can
be forced, for no barrier can stand
against the love Of friend. Life is
empty without friendship. Its bless
ings are open to all who will accept
its high responsibilities.-Sunday
School Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
Escaped an Awful Fate.

Mr.. IL. Haggins of Melbourne. Fla. writes,
''My doctor told me had Consumption and
nothing could be done for me. / was given
up to die. The offer of free trial bottle OF
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consumption.
induced me to try 1t. Results were startling.
/ am now on the road to recovery and owe all
to DR.. Kings New Discovery. It surely saved
my hfe." This great cure Is guaranteed for
all throat and lung diseases by Il. G. Richard
son. of Kilmarnock: T. ]. Hayden Son, OF
Irvington. Price SOC and $I.00. Trial bottles
free.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS.

we vile O pride In what we have been able accomplish
plant was entirely destroyed om which
oochol which
number Of orders a re receiving. So
of
fa and b. & o. r. r.
installed will
when eyiu
prompt and satisfactory attention netting
exended to us good friends
The VIM. ]. Hooper Manufacturing Co.,
Jonnson and Barney Sts., BALTIMORE, MD.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

One was pale and sallow and the other fresh
and rosy. Whence the dinerencei She who
is biushing with health uses DIR. Kings New
Life Pills to maintain it. by gently arousinr
the lazy organs they compel good digestion
and head of constipation. Try them. Only
25c, at L. G. Richardson, of Kilmarnock; T. J
Hayden s Son, of Irvington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

A runaway almost ending fatally, started a
horrible ulcer on the leg or j. B. Orner.
Franklin Grove. III. For four years IL defied
all doctors and all remedies. But Buchlens
Arnica Salve had no trouble to cure him.
Equally good for Burns. Bruises. Skin Erup-
tions and Piles, 25c at x. c. Richardson, OF
kilmarnock; I. ). Hayden & Son of Iryington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
GROWTH OF SECRET SOCIETIES.

Every fifth man with whom one
shakes hands in the United States is
a member OF secret organization.
a liberal estimate ten years ago was
one man to every eight in secret
orders. A comparative statement of
the memberships in some secret
societies for 1894 and for 1904 fol-
1owa-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
SOME WHISKY DROPS.


Carolina has adopted a joint resolu-
ton asking the representatives of the
State in Congress to vote for the
passage of the Hepburn-Dolliver bill,
prohibiting interstate shipping OF
whisky into prohibition territory by
jugs aud other vessels.
In a sermon recently at his church
in Newport News, Rev. w. B. Beau.
champ said: ain the Methodist
Orpbanage at Richmond there are
20 children. Out of the 20, 63 are
orphans, made so by the saloon.
That" he said, isis what this evil il
doing for the men, the women, and
the children of the State" What is
true of the Methodist Orphanage at
Richmond is no doubt true of all the
rest in the State.
From Richmond News Leader.)
We can hardly walk a hundred
yards on the streets without meeting
some one under arrest of natures
police officers or wearing her convict
clothes. What is the meaning of
these clogs and yokes and hand cuffs
and fetters of ebony and sandwood
and gold and silver? Yes, all the
same fetters and manacles and clogs
Has not nature imposed them fol-
offences? And whence that COM
plexion and all those protuberances
and swellings and thousand dishon.
orable blemishes? The infinite fool.
cries and falaehoods of fashion and
self-indulgences brag of all these
plain punishments, and faces them
out. But what do they mean? Ar,
they not natures plain punishment,
for broken laws?
"For this, be sure, tonight thou shsl
have cramps,
Side stitches that shallpen thy breath up
urchins
Shall, for that vast OF night that the,
may work,
Allexercise on thee: thou shall be pinchet
Asthick as honeycombs; each pinch NOR,
| stinging
Than bees that made them"
A FEARFUL RECORD.
Upon the parents of Chicago ha,
been placed the blame for condition.
which have brought about the great
est years work in the history of th,
juvenile court, says the Chicago
Post. The report of the court
work puts neglect and intemperanc,
In the front rank of the causes o.
crime in children.
During eleven months 1 400 "bad'
boys and 32S wayward girls hav.
been tried in the court. In the sam,
time Judges Mack and Tuthill hay,
been asked to decide the future fol
1856 homeless boys and GAL neglected
girls. Records of the court stand a
accusing drunkenness, ,laziness ans
their resultant poverty of parents a.
causing the childrens' plight. "Whis
key causes poverty. Poverty cause
crime. That summarizes the situa
ton, said officer McManamsn. "Chil
dren come to us fret as dependents
but with age dependency become
delinquency. Parental neglect lie
at the foundation of work of the ju
venile court.'
Pointing the force of the chsrg
that intemperance and neglect, an,
not misfortune, has caused the worl
of the courts, reference is made TO
table of causes Of dependency il
children, the first ever prepared il
connection with the Chicago juvenil
court. The table deals with cases o
children taken into court for the frs
time. The causes of the little ones
poverty are.shown thus:
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

All the foregoing are considered
preventable causes. OF the causes
listed officially as non-preventable
the officers who Investigated the cases
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo oulnine Tablets. An
druggists refund the money II it fails to cure
8. w. Groves signature is on each boz. S6c
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-10
IRvINGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY TO- 1905

say fully rs per cent. could be traced
to their origin in the neglect and
drunkenness of parents.
Arizona republican., 1905-08-24
Temperance and Free Delivery.

Probably the projectors of the rural free delivery system never dreamed they were establishing an instrument of moral reform. They were serving the convenience and planning the en- lightenment of the community. They wanted to bring the country people into closer contact with the world. but as for adding to the basic virtues of an already virtuous populace, that was doubtless furthest from their thoughts. Yet, if we may believe The Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee. the rural carrier. in hat state at least, has been a potent agent of sobriety
 In <i=@ old times. it says-and the statement is supported by the recol- lection of almost everybody familiar with conditions at night, especially Saturday night, in a hamlet-when the farmers went to town for their mail they found 1t convenient to stop at the village store to hear the news, syvap gossip, tell a few stories, and get q few drinks. sometimes a great many. before driving back to the farm. The trip to the postofice was a convenient cover for the desire to drink The liquor dealer could safely count on the necessity which brought the farmers