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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
POLITICAL.

If Dame rumor is not indulging in
idle gossip, the Democrats of Virginia
will have plenty of timber from which
to construct Governor. Swanson is
holding down that job of his to the credit
of himself, the good of his State, and
the admiration of his friends. Farm
vile Herald.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention has nominated the following
ticket: Governor, Louis Emery, jr., of
Bredford, the Lincoln party nominee.
observation-disclosures, Jere S. Black, of
York, Auditor General, William t.
Creasick, the prohibition nominee, Sec
rotary of Internal Affairs, John J..
Green, of Philadelphia. The Lincoln
Republicans are expected to meet this
month and ratify the ticket.
While we would not pluck one single
laurel from the wreath which Mr.. Jones
won in the late primary, but on the
other hand, expect to do what we can
to see him triumphantly elected to
congress, we are sorry that our esteem
ed contemporary, the Northern Neck
News, in its leading editorial on the re-
suit, assures Us that the sensible men
all voted for Jones. Well, brother. we
will try to live and learn, and will ACT
smart at any rate on election day. Co
lonial Beach Progress.
The Democrats of Maryland are
counting trouble in the agitation for a
primary election in the nomination OF
candidates for United States Senate.
They take the grounds that that method
is Democratic and reflects the voice
of the people. But is this true? nomi.
nation by primary may represent the
wishes of majority of party and al
the same time, in Democratic sense,
be the expression of the will of only a
minority of the people. Indeed, in a
majority af cases, that is so. 1t is
equally true, that in majority of cases
the result of the primary is what would
be the action of the convention or of the
legislature AT least, that has beer
so in Virginia. And those results are
attained without the labor agitation,
excitement and expense attendant or
primaries. -1ndex-Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
SOME NOTES
OF Interest to Truckers, Farmers
and Stock RaiSerS.

Lawson George has turned his farm
on Corrotoman Point into a henfiery
and has stocked it with a large variety
of valuable fowls.
The apple crop in Virginia and most
other states is poor one. The peach
crop of Maryland and Delaware will be
the largest in many years.
Indications around weem are that
there will be large crop of tomatoes,
but packers say that buyers are offering
very low prices for the fruit.
The wheat crop of America for 1906,
now about all harvested and much of it
threshed, smashed all previous records
as to quantity. The quality also is good.
Shipments of Irish potatoes from the
Eastern Shore are at their height now.
Besides the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk Railroad, which carries the
greater part of the crop, FIVE steamers,
making semi-weekly trips and a fleet of
smaller boats are necessary to handle
the Baltimore trade. The stock is i'm
proveing, and the prices are fairly
good.
Mr.. Thomas Oroxton tells a wonder
full story about the longevity of bed
bugs. He says that lady caught one
of the bugs and placed it in an old snuff
box for safe-keeping in order to test
how long the insect would live without
food. Twenty years thereafter she
happened to be cleaning up her old desk
drawer and came across this old snuff
box placed there the day she imprisoned
the bug and forgotten. 1t all came back
to her memory at once. She opened
the box and took out the imprisoned
Rip Van Wrinkle Bedibus Bedibus. It
looked emaciated and dead, but when
| permitted to rest on her arm its old in
stincts for blood aroused and back to
life it came and attacked her arm Wig
orousy. Quicksilver is better means
for determination than imprisonment.
Essex corr. Free Lance.
Perhaps all of our readers do not
know of the merits of sassafras. Tea
made from its roots is a good blood
purifier, while that of the bark, not
being so strong, is good for colds.
When putting away dried fruits for use
in winter, place bunch of the bark in
the sack and insects will not trouble it.
Place the dried bark on pantry shelves
to drive ants away. Use the dried
roots for smoking meat. 1t gives it a
nice flavor and makes it fly proof.
An excellent salve for burns. etc., can
be made by boiling the green bark in
fresh lard and adding few drops of
oil OF peppermint. 1t is the best remedy
l know for driving lice away from set
ting hens. Place some of the powdered
bark in the nests, under the eggs. Up
To-Date Farming.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
EMMERTON.

The Misses Bauman, of Madison
county, who have been the guests of
Miss Belle Barber, returned to their
home last week. They were accom-
panied as far as Fredericksburg by Miss
Barber.
R. H. Cook and family have moved
to Sharp where they will reside during
the summer.
A. Z. Hanks has accepted position
as clerk for w. f. Griffith.
Miss Mamie Rock, who has filed the
position as milliner at Gwynn's Island
the past season, has returned home to
the delight of her many friends here.
Miss Jane Davis is attending the
Normal in Fredericksburg.
Mrs. w. R. Gardy and children. of
Philadelphia. We're recent guests of the
lady's father, G. A. Carter.
William Rowe, of Wicomico Church.
visited relatives here last week.
Miss Irene Newbill, of Essex, is a
welcome guest at the home of DIR. A..
c. Fisher.
Miss Helen Oldham is visiting rela-
tives at Lancaster Courthouse.
Misses Belle Davis and Mamye
Hanks are welcome. guests of Mrs. w.
E. Headley this week.
The dance given at B. B. Mitchells
last week was greatly enjoyed by all
who had the pleasure of being present.
The many friends of Miss Margaret
Fisher are grieved to hear of her illness
in Norfolk. We hope she may soon
recover.
Miss Tena Douglass is quite sick at
the home of James Connellee.
CHATTER Box.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
Communicated
A TRIP TO THE WEST

EDITOR CITIZEN: Allow me space in
your valuable paper to say have just
returned from 30-days' trip through the
west with party of gentlemen from
Florida and Virginia. where we have
been on business and pleasure through
the Rocky Mountains. We left Rich
mond, Va, June 9Th via C. & o. route to
Cincinnati; from Cincinnati to Chicago,
and thence via Union Pacific to Omaha,
Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo,
Kansas City and st. Louis. These
are the principal cities we passed
through, and ! must say have never
seen such grand country as the west.
Prosperity everywhere it seemed. And
We are away behind in get-up-and-push
and it is worth any mans money to
take trip of this kind to give him new
ideas of life and business. felt a pride
in old Virginia and the coming exposi-
ton at jamestown and I thought /
would find out the best could if the
western people knew anything about
this grand affair to be held in our State
next year. / inquired at the hotels and
of gentlemen whom met, but they did
not seem to know anything about it. ]
write these few lines to know if it
would not be good plan to post the
west with some good posters, telling
all about what is to be done, putting
them IN the hotels, restaurants and all
public places, also advertising in the
large daily papers. There is plenty of
money in the west and people do not
mind spending it, and as we need money
to run such an exposition, would it not
pay to advertise.
/ am, respectfully,
ELLIS C. RICHARDSON.
Kilmarnock, Va.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
PELION UPON OSSA.

To say the least of it, the State
Corporation Commission has acted
very unwisely in refusing to confirm
Col. Joseph Button, elected Insur-
ance Commissioner by the last Leg
islature. Notwithstanding the de-
Tense of friendly papers that fl,od us
with homiletics on the frailty of hu-
man natures seeing through dark
glasses the acts of political friends
or enemies, this act on the part of
the Commission strikes us as the
most arrant piece of political wire
working we have seen in many day.
Ii it were solely strike at Colonel
Button Individually and as a lieu
tenant Of Senator Martin it would
not have been SO bad, and would
have been among the things expected
from members of the Commission
But it goes farther. The act not only
utilities one of the most important
works of the Legislature, but throws
into chaotic condition important in
surance affairs of the Commonwealth.
July first Col. Button was to 90 into
office and insurance matters were to
be put upon different pedestal than
heretofore. Today nsurauce-which
Is so important 10 our material well
fare-doesn't know where it is cat. -
Viewed in political light Col.
Button is persona non grata to the
members of the Commission, but the
Commission and its friendly papers
profess to defend the revolutionary
act upon the ground that the Legis-
iature did not declare the method of
the insurance chiefs election and in
electing Col. Button it acted without
authority-or something to that eff
feet If we interpret Alright this e1-
cuse is all fudge. Says the Legisla-
tive act
3. The Commissioner of Insurance
shall be elected by the joint vote of the
two houses Of the General Assembly.
The said Commissioner of Insur~
ance provided for hereunder shall, before
entering upon the discharge of his
duties, qualify before the State Cor
poration Commission by taking the oaths
required by the Constitution and the
laws of this State, and shall give bond
in the penalty of ten thousand dollars.
This reprehensible act upon the
part of the Corporation Commission,
following so closely upon the brash
dismissal'of clerks as result of the
commonly termed "scandal," must
make our people feel that the Cor,
poration Commission should be abol-
ished or else taken out of politics.
These structures may appear severe,
but it will be recalled we defended
Judge Crump in his original "indis-
cretion." Following so closely, one
upon another. We begin to doubt
whether our defense was deserved.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
PURCHASES MARINE RAILWAY.

Henry Brusstar, an experienced ship
builder and railway man, of Baltimore,
yesterday purchased the Rappahan-
mock Marine Railway, located at Weems,
Lancaster county, from Messrs. Squires,
Thomas and Crittenden, who establish
ed it and have been successfully operat-
ing it for the past year. The new pur-
chaser announces that he will operate
on more extensive scale. Woodland
fnli and the owners SON. Walter HI.
Brusstar, will assist in the management.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Waycross, Ca, is license town. II
has been for sixteen years. True, no,
saloon-keeper has come forward with
the $50, goo necessary to secure license,
and in sense it is prohibition town.
The population is some 5000 souls.
Here are a few significant statistics:
Policemen, 4; children in school, 80 pei
cent; nine out of ten whites own their
own homes: there is no poor house.
Two railroad shops and a car factory
have located there of late for the reason
OF the trustworthiness Of men employed.
If this is good for Waycross, why not
for otherr TOWNSVILLE Voice.
Colonel Thomas T. Knox, Governor
OF the Hampton Federal Soldiers Home.
has issued an order directing the closing
OF the canteen on the reservation on
Saturday evening, and forbidding the
sale OF beer at the Little Hygeia hotel
after that date. The order is in keep
ing with the act recently passed by
Congress forbidding the sale of intoxi-
cants on reservation of the United
States government for the disabled
volunteer soldiers. The fiscal year
began on July and the law became
operative Immediately. There is a deal
of dissatisfaction among the inmates of
the Homes over the abolition of the
canteen or ''beer hail." as most old
soldiers prefer to call it.
One of the police magistrates at
Washington has an optimistic soul,
whatever may be said of his Judgment
or his experience in worldly affairs.
The other day confirmed drunkard
just out of his teens was before the
magistrate for larcency. At the end of
two years Of thorough intoxication he
had stolen from friend money to con-
tinue his orgy. The magistrate listened
to the usual plea for mercy, but held to
the idea that punishment was necessary
for the good of the offender. "I will
sentence him to confinement for two
months, so that he may get rid of his
thirst for liquor" said the official.
Aside from the working of a miracle,
two months in Jail would probably have
no more effect than abstinence for ten
minutes in q case like this, and the
miracle is as likely out of jail as in.
What the world needs, and what the
law should more efficiently provide for,
is that liquor should be kept from the
very young. -Index-Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06

TO Every Reader Of the Virginia Citi.
zens one Fuli-size Package Of
VIRGINIA VELVETS.
The velvet Secret Is Free to you
The Longer tho Lesser-A
Wonderful Discovery.

After many years Of study and prac-
tee prominent Virginia physicians has
discovered the cure for all forms of
Constipation. 1t is called in his honor
Virginia Velvets. az do not mean -
said the Virginia Doctor to several of
his colleagues announcing his success
that this fake cure-all, guaranteed
to cure everything from pimples to
paralysis, neither do l mean lust an
other pill which breeds the pill habit;
my remedy is cure for one thing-a
specihc which never fails. By gently
toning the digestive organs so that they
perform their natural functions. II
restores them all to health and strength,
removes Immediately and in a short
time cures Constipation and Liver
troubles.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
THE MORE THELEss

THE more you take the less YOU need
until you need none-for you are cured.
My effort all along was to avoid the
evil of the ordinary remedy which
pampers organs already weak and SO
makes the patient a slave to the pill
habit. Remember Nature expects
every organ to do it's duty"
Physicians have long recognized the
fact that constipation is at the bottom
of nearly every disease. 1t saps All
energy and makes life a burden: II
opens the doors to all evil germs and
makes the body too weak to resist
them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
DISTRICT CONFERENCE DELEGATES

0nhiSSeIS anu laymen attending con-
ference for Rappahannock District al
White Marsh, near Lancaster C. H.,
July lib, have been accorded round
trips at rate of one fare for per-
son and teams by the companies operat-
ing on the Rappahannock, Potomac
and Piankatank routes. They will pay
full fare going, taking receipt from
purser, and upon proper endorsement
from officials at Conference will be
given return trip without cost.
White Marsh is five miles from
Merry Point, the nearest wharf on the
Rappahannock. Following is program
of proceedings:
FIRST DAY-MoRNING SESSION.
l. Opening devotional exercises.
2. Preliminary business.
3. Opening sermon. Rev. N. ]. Pruden.
q. Administration of the Lords Supper.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
i. Devotional exercises.
2. Business.
3. Report on Spiritual state of charges.
d. Volunteer talks on the same.
Suggested topics: Attendance on pub
lie worship; Prayer meetings in country
churches; Family religion; Private
prayer; Neglect of infant baptism; Ne
glect of Lords Supper; How to utilize
the Church Conference; Should elias.
meetings be revived?l
3. Sermon, Rev. Richard Ferguson.
SECOND DAY-MoRNING SESSION.
l. Prayer Meeting, conducted by Rev.
w. j. Williams.
Q. Business.
8. Report on Missions, w. F. M. So
ciety, Rosebuds, etc.
4. Volunteer talks on the same.
tSuggested topics: Openings for
new missions; How to raise the Assess
ments for missions; w. F. M. society
work; w. H. M. societies; The Rose
bud movement; Cultivating a mission
airy conscience
5. Sermon on missions, by Rev. E. F..
Garner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
/. Devotional exercises.
2. Business.
3. Reports on Sunday schools and
Epworth Leagues.
a. Volunteer talks on the same.
Suggested topics: Supreme aim of
the Sunday school: The element of
Worship; More efficient Superinten-
dents; Better teaching; What can the
country Pastor do?; The Sunday school
as missionary society; Recruiting the
ranks; Value Of the Epworth League:
How to have good League in the
country.l
B. Sermon, by Rev. H. H. Smith.
THIRD DAY-MoRNNG SESSION.
l. Love Feast, conducted by Rev. ].
S. Wallace.
2. Business.
8. Reports on education and the Bible
cause.
a. Volunteer talks on the same.
lSuggested topics: How to stimulate
our people to educate their children.
Loyalty to our church schools; The col
lection for education; Our obligation to
Bible societies; The claims of the
American Bible society; Bible Distribu-
ton in our charges
5. Sermon, by Rev. j. E. DeShazo.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
l. Devotional exercises.
2. Business.
3. Report on finance and church
property.
q. Volunteer talks on the same.
Suggested topics: Better plans to
raise money for Support of the ministry:
Best way to raise the assessments for
benevolent objects; Neglect of insur-
ance; The parsonage, and how to care
for it.
g. Sermon, by Rev. r, L, Busby.
g. Final adjournment
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06

IL was loser in twenty year batte with
chrome pilesan malignant sores. until tried
Bucklen's Arnica Salve; which tnrnod the tide,
by curing both, till not trace remains. writes
a NJ. Bruce. of Farmvillc. Va. Best for old
Ulcers, Cuts. Purns and Wounds.
25c. at 4. G. Richardson, Kiimarnock; T. j.
Hayden 4 Son. Irvington: Ficklin s. Bass. Lit
walton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06

The cigarette fiend in numbers is
to meet his demolition. The most
powerful influence. excelling even
public sentiment in potency-.he
corporations-has decreed he must
60. The Norfolk and Western Rail-
way Company has posted bulletins
forbidding the use of cigarettes by
employees of the company. Those
who do not obey the order will be
discharged. Heads of departments
are forbidden to employ new clerks
who use cigarettes. A similar stand
was taken a few years back BY the
railroads and other corporations in
respect to liquor drinking. and untold
good has been accomplished. 1t is
not to be presumed that the corpora
tons take this stand from any high
moral impulse, as we have remarked
In the past, but because it is to their
financial interest. 1t has been de-
monstrated that habitual drinkers
and smokers of cigarettes lose their
nerve, thus causing danger and dis
aster to lives and property when
holding responsible positions. Next
to theinebriate, the puny, sallow,
nerveless shrimp that follows cigar
cites is most to be pitied and Stunned.
Like with drinking, the occasional
cigarette does little harm more than
the certainty of fastening itself upon
one, finally getting you within it's
grasp 80 firmly that the stoutest
heart becomes paltry slave.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
NEWS ITEMS.

President Roosevelt is at Oyster Bay
for the summer.
Emperor William of Germany will
enter two yachts in the jamestown Ex-
position International races in Septem-
Der. 1907.
| The summer normal institute for
teachers of this part of the State was
opened in Fredericksburg Thursday
night of last week.
Twenty-three Americans, Just landed
from the steamer New York at Ply
mouth, England, were killed Sunday
morning last by the wreck of the train
which was carrying them to London.
Judge Kinkade of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, ofToledo, Ohio, who recently
sentenced FIVE members of the Ice
Trust to the workhouse for IL months
and to pay fine of $1,000 each for
raising the price of ice, last week SEN
fenced the three Trust lawyers to 10
days in Jail for charging the Judge
with misconduct in the trial of the ice
men.
Booker T. Washington, the most dis
tinguished man of his race in this
country, was asked the other day his
preference in words to designate MEM
bers of the colored race. whether it
should be ''three members of the colored
race" or ''three negroes" Without
hesitation he declaredhis preference for
negro with capital N. Other educated
colored men take the same view and
refer to the NEGRO race"
A charter has been granted to the
Tidewater Agricultural Association, of
Gloucester Courthouse. Object and
purposes to promote science and practice
of agriculture. The State Corporation
Commission has granted charter to
the Beneficial and Protective Live
Stock Insurance Company -Gncorpo-
rated, huntsville. .Catesby Ware, Sec
retary;L. II. Anderson, Lamar Hundley.
E. M. Ware, Jr. Capitol, $4,000.
4
The State Corporation Commission has
refused to allow Colonel Joseph Button,
elected by the general assembly to the
Office of insurance commissioner, to
qualify before that body. Judge Crump,
Chairman of the Commission, declined
to administer the oath, saying there was
some doubt as to the right of the general
assembly to elect the commissioner.
They suggested to Col. Button that he
take the case to court and let the court
straighten the matter out.
The past week witnessed intense suf-
fering in the cities of our country. The
poor suffered most for the lack of ice,
and the well-to-do were greatly incon-
venienced. The hottest weather of the
summer began last Friday and was not
relieved until the breeze and rains of
Tuesday. An ice famine prevailed in
New York, Washington, Richmond and
other; cities. People walked the streets
begging ice. The Fourth of July demand
could not be satisfied.
Attorney-General Anderson has held
several conferences with Governor
Swanson, and they have decided to pro-
coed against all the railroad companies
in the State in an endeavor to force the
roads to comply with the Churchman
two-cent passenger fare law. The At
torpey General will file complaint a.
gainst the roads, and they will be COM
PEELED to show cause why they should
not be fined. The commission has
power to impose fine of $500 day for
each day of failure to comply with the
law and to place tickets on sale.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06

This new discovery is in small tablets.
easily taken, and they are packed in
watch-shape bottles which fit the vest
pocket. The tablet is mild, all vege-
table, never gripes or Injuries the most
delicate organs. But it does the work
So naturally and soothingly they slim
ulate, regulate and strengthen that
they have been nicknamed 1.-THE Little
Velvet Workers"
Don't shuttle along with this great
burdenl Be healthy, be strong, be
happy.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06

AS A result of Fourth of July
frolicking Msud's "hee-haw" has
gone::with. the thin air. Lots of other
Mauds, of different persuasion, )" also
lost their voices aud are hors de
combat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
Warning to Edythe and Wayne.

There is no glory in spelling your
name wrong. Dallas News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
Mss CtNEVIVE MAY.
cATARRH Of STOMACH
CURED BY PE-RU-NA.

Miss 0enevive May, 1917 s. Meridian
st., Indianapolis, Ind, Member Second
High School Alumni Assn, writes:
"Peruna ID the finest regulator of q
dfsordered stomach have ever found.
II cerfsin!y deserves high praise, for IL
Is skiIfuliy prepared.
al was In . terrible condition from q
neglected case OF catarrh or the stomach.
My food had long ceased to be of any
good and only distressed me after eat
ing. was nauseated, had heartburn
and headaches, and felt run down COM
pletely. But in two weeks after took
Peruna was q changed person. A few
bottles OF the medicine made o great
change, and in three months my stom-
ach was cleared Of catarrh, and my en-
tire system in . better condition. -
Geneyive May.
Write DR.. Hartman, President OF The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio,
for free medical advice. All CORES
pondence held strictly confidential.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-06
WANTeD-uLp HOME.

0OMETHING on the Colonial STYLE.
~ in Tidewater Virginia House of ~
~ or Is room, 900 to 500 acres Prefer
on nsvigable stream and somewhat con-
venient TO railroad Address "Y," 2O3
E. Lsnvale st Baltimore, Md.