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The La Jara chronicle., 1906-04-27
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER ONE.

Henry ddarr, European repyeserfafive of
dmeyfean AdnHfaefHrey;s, and a H;e5k Poinl
SraSlaie, rs uLSliing an PlyLs ar the LiNc OF
tpdr 6eIuees France and GERMANY. He suas
dratoIs fnfo conference irifh Tie Trench General
ofdD. The German t1U1Szoa has begun on IHe
southeastern border. daaMs declares lAir Q
Tei1f. He urges balloon yeeoHHoISSlHee 10 IHe
northeast and defosIof troops 10 biocS advance
Ftve IhoHsard aHfomobsIes are impressed, flleJ
General Martini, ReeAere tesperk ballo0nisO,
and iuireAeSs feIfgyaphy, lead EHe diusHee, car.
'ying fei9 tc1r bGiso0l. The ascent IS mate
and The man German J0ree rs GfSe0persd M0bll-
f5rng m Lorraine. The balloon is struck 6y a
GeyDudn shell and beg7ns "a, J9H ssuifily isIo III.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-04-27

charms OF Aimee who had gone to the
house to attend to the preparation OF
dinner; Somewhere near by a. heavy
door shut with a slam. 1t shocked me,
like a pistol-shot | jumped to my
feet with shout. Tho Germans-the
Wharf.-The French-Martini-R -Rechere-
all the exciting events of the past ten
days swept upon me like an avalanche.
Here L sat, in tho very path of tho in
vaders, passing my time in a Midsum-
mer- -night-drcam of love and seven
teenth-century Incidence. 1 ran to the
house. Preparations must be made
against the arrival of the troops. At
the pOrte-cocherc 1 saw the count, just
alighting from his ancient chaise. 1
hurried to his side.
"A word with you in private" 1
said. The serious look upon my face
startled him. We passed into the
house and entered his study. Here |
acquainted him with the events of
the past week, of my balloon recon-
noissance. OF the plan of the Ger
mans. Living, as he did, in such COM
plete Isolation. withdrawn from the
activity of the world about him since
the days of the Second Empire, he had
heard only rumors, and was quite un-
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-04-27

Hyacinths and lilies are artilcially
colored by putting their stems in liquid
dye.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
DOGS AND CHICKENS.

l. Is there law in Virginia that
will protect person who kills dog
caught in destroying property?
2. Can person compel the
owners of dogs to keep them at home,
especially at night?
3. What is the law regarding a
neigh boris chickens, always providing
said neighbor has been asked kindly
to keep them out of growing crops
where they are destroying dollars
worth of vegetables daily, and the
neighbor has made the reply that
she don't care how much they des.
troy? Mrs G. S. H.
L. Any one who catches dog
destroying his property may kill the
dog without liability for damages
for SO doing.
2. There is no law which compels
the owners of dogs to keep them at
home day or night, but if the owner
allows dogs to "prowl." he takes the
risk of having the dogs killed for
trespass.
3. Chickens may be killed to pre-
vent destruction of crops or gardens,
and especially after notice to the
owners of the injury done or being
done by Observation-Disclosures.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
"NOTHING BOSS;
SIMPLY OLD GILES. .

At the Negro Congressional Conven-
ton, composed of leading colored people
from all parts of the country, assembled
In Washington, Giles jackson, of Rich
mond, made an address on an INSTALL
ment plan. In the course of his re-
marks he told the Northern negro edu-
Gators some plain, straightforward
things.
Among other things he said:
II understand and you all know that
there is bitter opposition of peculiar
nature existing among my people as to
the jamestown scheme, and the colored
exhibit there. Many of you have said
you are not going to attend because of
the determinations and existence of
the Jim Crow" car law in Virginia.
Now, let me say thing to you.
Don't you know it puzzles me to under
stand how it is you negroes can with
stand the hardship of the North directed
against you and by your dear white
brothers there and can travel in Jim
Crow railroad car whenever you at.
tend Southern convention, yet cannot
attend the jamestown Exposition-ol
any part of it-simply because the
negro chooses to have separate ex
hibit there from that of the whites ant
and other races.
"The scheme had host of enemie
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
BACK SEAT FOR POOR MEN.

We all recall the great expense to
which candidates were put i'm the
last state primary, and now comes
the congressional primary for this
district with $4O0 assessed upon
each of the three candidates for the
Office. There was a time when the
poor man could 60 to the district
convention and have his claims put
forward and his aspiration told to
the delegates of the district. The
plans are changed, and this time it
takes $400 from each of the three
men who desire to stand for the
nomination. The poor man must
take back seat. The Democratic
party in Virginia is going to suffer
from this political innovation. The
$1.50 poll tax, with its requirements
for payment within prescribed dates.
will slowly reduce the vote until it
is repealed, and the abolition of the
State and district conventions will
slowly but surely lessen the party
enthusiasm in every campaign. Nc
scheme is wise that practically elimi.
mates any candidate who cannot en-.
ter contest with liberal bank &C.
count.-Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
DEATH BY DYNAMITE.
Tilted by his Girl he Tries the Sun
set Route.

set Route.
Onthe main street of Wellington, Kan,
and with hundreds of persons watching
him, but afraid to interfere, Graham
D. Dibbs blew himself into shreds with
dynamite.
Dibbs walked down Washington ave.,
carrying package of dynamite. He
stopped, tied the package about his
neck and produced fuse which he
deliberately lighted.
Dibbs slowly blew out the match
with which he had lighted the fuse
and tossed it towards the crowd.
AS the fire crept towards the package
around Dibbs' neck he shouted to the
spectators to get out of the way of the
explosion.
Then he seemed to loose courage. He
began to pull and tug at the package
and at the fuse, but it was too late to
avert the explosion.
A hole was torn in the street where
Dibbs had stood, but no trace of the
body could be found near the scene
Small bits of clothing and flesh were
found several rods away. The explo
sion shattered the windows in nearl,
every house in town.
Dibbs, railroad employe, was des
pondent over an unsuccessful love af
fair.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
HOW NOT TO SPOIL THE HAIR.

Don't use a comb to spread the
pompadour by pulling the hair forward
over the forehead.
Don't comb the hair from the fore
head over backward when arranging to
brush it. If the hair be long and heavy
the strain comes on the front hairs
with each stroke of the brush. If they
do not fracture and fall out at once,
they become loosened in the follicle,
kink up, and drop out later.
Avoid vigorous brushing; bear in
mind that one hair on the head is worth
two in the brush.
Don't use curriers' or kids during sleep
ing hours.
Don't grasp the front hair by the
points or ends and comb upward from
points to roots, '.roughing it, in order
to make full, round pompadour. This
needless abuse destroys life and lustre,
fractures the hair shaft, renders it
knotty, and produces frumpy, aged
appearance.
Don't use face bleach without first
protecting the hair line by saturating
the short hairs with sweet almond or
cocoanut OIL
Don't scrub the hair line with facial
brush; pin small towel over the hair
before you commence operations with q
facial brush.
Don't rub facial cream into the
hair lines when using it on the face, as
it fills the follicles with fatty substance
and prevents proper growth.
Don't use strong alkalies to tighten
the color, or shampoo too frequently to
keep the hair fluffy.
Don't linger on the beach after hath
ing and allow the salt to dry in the
hair.
Don't take everybody's advice and do
all sorts of things to your hair and
scalp. Juliet Marion Lee, in the Sep
tember Delineator.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
IRvINGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST "a, 1906.

opened a law office and won the FIRST
case in which he appeared in court
This wssin defense of a man charged
with burglary. Jesse regards this
as good omen.
Jesse james is thirty. one years
old. He is worth $4,000, every
dollar of which he has made by
bard work. He has two children.
He lives In his own house. In all
his life he has meyer tasted whiskey,
beer or any other intoxicating drink.
He does not use tobacco in any
form. lie is devoted husband and
father. He has no bad habits. He
is scrupulousIy honest, TO men
with whom he does business bis
word is as good as his bond.
Jesse james greatest pleasure is
TO go with bis wife aud babies on
Sunday to visit Frank James, bis
uncle, aud Mrs. Zerelda Samuels,
his grandmother, upon their farm
10 Clay county Ia corner of the
dooryard at this old Clay county
farmhouse, beneath giant coffee
bean tree, the body of Jesse James,
the outlaw, lies buried.
When young Jesse and his family
visit there, relatives from the neigh
borhood gather 10, and great stories
are told of the old days during and
after the war, when Jesse and Frank
were struggling against the soldiery.
Sometimes Frank james, who
lives there quietly as farmer, take
band IN the conservation, but he
never talks of those days if strangers
are present.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24

sometime ago, but not now. Why! old
Giles has won and every devil is now
trying to get foothold on the rear
step of the band wagon. This show is
going on anyhow.
Sometime ago when called on the
Congressional Committee of these
United States in this very city, they
paid little or no attention to me. One
wanted to know who is that black
negro and what is he. / spoke up and
said. Il is nothin', boss; just simply
old Giles But when they found that
the gentlemen from Virginia who are
in Congress knew me and greeted me
cordially here, they all came around.
saying, 'There must be something to
that negro anyhow
eve have fought the battle against
much opposition, but finally our efforts
have been crowned with success"
The next speaker was an old colored
man of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, who represented the farmers of
Orangeburg, S. C. He said in part:
''This is our country, but the Anglo
Saxon is master of the land, just as he
is master of ali other races and ma
tions. God has blessed us by bringing
us in close and constant contact with
this great race of people. We must
give them our muscle and get their
skill. Let us stay here and behave
ourselves
After this speech the great concourse
of negroes held jollification meeting,
and everybody arose and sang "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
Unnecessary Expense

Acute attacks of collie and diarrhoea come
on without warning and prompt relief must
be obtained. There is no necessity of incur
ring the expense of a physician's service in
such cases If Chamberlain'sC Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy is at hand. A dose of this
remedy will relieve the patient before doctor
could arrive. II has never been known to fail,
even in the most severe and dangerous cases
and no family should be without it.
For sale by Messick & Gunby, Irvington; w.
A. cameron Bro, Weems; G. W. Sanders &
Son, and ID. r. James, White Stone.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
REQUIEsCAT.

written for the VA. CrrizENJ
BY an idol all shattered that lay on the
sod,
With the moss and the mold on its
marbles so white,
Knelt a worshipper sad of the long
fallen god
Till the shadows of even were lost in
the night;
But twas not for the fragments of
crystalline stone
That the faithful one sighed with his
head lowly bowed
Twas the altar to which in the days
that were flown
He had knelt in devotion to deity proud.
'Twixt the leaves of a volume unopened
for years
Lay blossom once fair but now
yellowed with age,
And the eyes of reader were blinded
with tears
AS by chance in his sketching he
turned to the page:
Not the petals so dry though still dear
to his soul
Made his vision grow faint, and ne
whispered in truth
That a flame had burst forth shoulder
ing coal,
And he loved once again with the love
of his youth.
And so often with grieving our sad
dened hearts burn
AS we stand by the tomb, and the
bitter tears flow;
But tits not for the dead that we wist-
fully yearn-
But for what the dead was in the
years long ago.
And the idol, the blossom, the one
passed away
Though the years in their flight have
our troubled hearts stilled
And have frosted each brow with a
silvery grey
We win love them for aye for the
places they filled.
20. M. C.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
PORTENDs A MILD WINTER.

Capt. Jensen of the fruit steamer
Admiral Schley which arrived at
Boston last week brought news of
the erratic movement of the Gulf
Stream. He says that ordinarily tine
stream runs north from latitude "a
degrees to latitude 3S degrees, where
it turns to the east and is lost to
vessels bound for Boston. Now it
is running strongly from latitude "a
degrees to latitude 40 degrees Is
minutes or within twenty-five miles
of Nantucket south shoal lightship.
Capt. Jensen said the change in the
course of the stream is thought to
portend mild winter.-Alexandris
Gazette.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
make aaylwhne the SUN shines.

There is lesson in the work of the thrifty
farmer. He knows that the bright sunshine
may last but day and he prepares for the
showers which are so liable to follow. So it
should be with every household. Dysentery.
diarrhoea and cholera morbus may attack
some member of the home without warning.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which is the best known medicine
for these diseases, shoald always be kept al
hand, as immediate treatment is necessary
and delay may prove fatal.
For sale by Messick s. Gunby, Irvington; w
A. Dameron Bro. Weems; G. w. Sanders a
Son, and ID. II. James, White Stone.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
TO REPRODUCE CONFLICT.

Negotiations are now pending for the
exhibit at the jamestown Exposition of
an unusual illustration of Japanese art
and industry. 1t is set of wood,
costumed life-sized figures, put on ex-
hibition and arranged to portray battle
scene in Japan in the olden time.
The house that it appears in is a sort
of a pagoda, lightly-built and wide
gabled thing, such as they live in in that
lotus-land. 1t begins with party of
Japs charging on the inmates with
arrow, sword and spear.
The conflict wakes hot and there is
action in every figure. Heads are split
open. Men crawlunder the porch. Two
women are in the melee.
The chieftan in one band sits in the
center and directs his warriors. The
leader of the opposing force beckons on
his crazed soldiers to fight amidst
bloodiest carnage, and it is said that no
human being can enter the place and
gaze upon the figures without feeling
nightly stirred by the supreme living,
breathing life Of the man images.
If they are not really fighting. then
we never saw a fight" is the usual
declaration of those who witness the
battle.
There lies head that has been split
open by cleaver and the culprit who
did the deed is crouching to brain
another. There stands the defender of
the house, spear in hand, ready to jab
his vis-a-vis, and at that instant man
on the outside has shot an arrow into
his breast.
Figures with swords poised in the air
are about to cut and slash watchman,
who has been surprised and bound hand
and foot, is watched by the keeper, the
head Of the clan.
The costumes are correct to a hair
and sword hilt.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
summer piarrha.o in ch,rdren,

During the hot weather OF the summer
months the first unnatural looscness of n
child's bowels should have immediate aSten-
ton, so as to check the disease before it
becomes serious. All that is necessary is a
Few doses of Chambcrlair's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoca Remedy followed 10y dose of
castor oil 10 cleanse the system. Rev. NJ. o.
Stockland. pa tor OF the first NJ f.. Church.
Little Falls. Minn., writes; 1--WE have used
ChamberlaiI's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy for several years and find il very
valuable remedy, especially for summer dis
orders i'm children"
For sale by Mcssick Gunby, Irvington; w.
A Dameron & Bro, weems; G. W. Sanders Il
Son. and ID. x. James. White Stone.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
JESSE JAMES,
SON A LAWYER,

Jesse James, son of Jesse James,
the old Missouri outlaw, is now a
full-fedged lawyer. Last month he
passed a successful examination
before the Missouri State Board of
Examiners. In class of thirty
seven, James stood first. His aver
age in all branches was 81 per cent.
Henry Ashley, chairman of the
Board of Examiners, said that James
had the brightest legal mind of any
young man who had ever appeared
before the Board.
Jesse James is a self-made man.
He was handicapped as few boys are.
The son of an outlaw, he was left
an orphan at six years of age, with
out money and with the heritage of
bad name. Soon after the burial of
his father, his mother came to
Kansas City and made living for
herself and two children by sewing.
Jesse went to school until he was
twelve years old, when he decided
that he was old enough to work for
his mother. One Sunday he saw the
following advertisement in news
paper:
WANTED-AN OFFICE BOY. T. Il.
CRITTENDEN, JR.
Jesse answered the advertisement
the next morning: Twenty other
boys answered it, too, and Jesse was
the youngest of them all. Mr.. Crit
tenden, at his desk. looked over the
crowd of boys and beckoned to the
smallest of them.
"What do you wish, my boy?" he
asked.
81 want to be your office boy"
"What is your name?"
"Jesse James, jr."
Mr.. Crittenden Was surprised. He
was the son of L. Il. Crittenden, sr.,
Governor of Missouri, who offered a
reward of $4,000 for the capture,
dead or alive, of the outlaw, Jesse
James. And now here was the son
of the dead bandit asking work of the
son of that Governor. Crittenden
hired the boy, and he testifies that
he was faithful.
A few years later Jesse went to
work in Armour's packing plant as
q clerk. He studied at home. His
mother was his teacher. After a
few years IN the packing house he
opened cigar store in the coun ty
courthouse. He wrote book in
defense of his father, and it was
published. 1t sold we'll. When
he was twenty-one years old he had
$500 in the bank and owned cot
tage in which his mother and sister
lived. Then he opened a cigar store
in the business center of Kansas
City.
jesse worked harder than ever al
his business. He had chance tc
sell out and did so at a good profit
Then he opened pawn shop ant
married. But he wished to be /,
lawyer. He attended the night ses
sion of a law school here, and al
day long sat in his pawnshop readin,
law. He graduated with highes
honorss his preceptor compIimentin,
him.
/ He has sold ont his pawnshor
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
WHY STOESSEL MUST DIE
BY WIN II. Brill. Stan Correspondent, in III

B y viii II. Brill. stan Correspondent. In the
Japanese-Russiau War;
With the surrender of Port Ar
thur, January l, 1905. Russia's hope
of winning the war with Japan
ceased.
10 the north in a semi circle be-
fore Mukden lay the victorious ar
mics of Kuroki, Oku and Nodzu,
with the newly formed corps under
Kawimura, facing the Russian hos.
under KuropatkiD. For three
months these armies had been idle,
for they were not equal to the task
of attacking the strongly fortified
positions of the Russians. They
needed help if they were to be sue
cessful in their advance and the
ancient Mauchu capital and still
stronger mountain pass at Tel ling.
When General Stoessel raised the
white flag over Port Arthur this as
sistance was assured. General Nogi's
veterans were no longer needed at
: Port Arthur, and within twenty
four hours after the occupation of
the fortress they were on their way
to the north. In six weeks Nogi's
entire army had taken its place on
the left of the line facing Mukden,
his enormous siege guns which had
been battering down the defenses at
Port Arthur were trained on the
Russian positions, and scores of
other great guns which had been
erected on the forts at Port Arthur
were ready to throw Russian shells
iuto the Russian lines.
10 the last days of February
began the greatest battle the world
has ever seen. Nogi's veterans
circled far around the right of the
Russian line, threatening communi-
cations-and on March 10th Kuro-
patkin's army was IN panicstricken
flight.
Had Nogi's army been detained
six months longer at Port Arthur
the battle of Mukden would never
have been fought. Had Stoessel
held Port Arthur for half year the
end of the war would have been diff
ferent. And he could have held it.
But kondrachenko was dead, killed
in a defective bombproof, honey
combed by graft. With him died
the hope of the defense, for poor
old doddering Folk was useless and
Stoessel never for one moment had
the confidence of the men or the of
ficers under him. He said it was
lack of ammunition, but it wasn't.
Any one who visited Port Arthur
after the surrender knows that. 1t
would have cost many lives and in
the end the fortress must have fallen,
but Kuropatkin and the army of
the north would have been saved.
But Stoessel thought only of his
own suffering and his own weari-
ness at the length of the siege. He
was incompetent and badly advised.
His surrender of Port Arthur just
at the time did more to settle the
fate of Russia in the Far East than
any other one thing.
"If Kondrachenko had been spared
to u.s." said wounded Russian of
ficer to me at Port Arthur a week
after the occupation Of the fortress,
"we could have held out for another
year. But with Stoessel and Folk
-oh, we'll, what's the use talking
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24

makes life now as safe in that city as on the
higher uplands- +. W. Goodloe, who resides
on DuttonSt.. In Waco, Tex, needs NO sea wall
for safety. He writes: II have used DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption the
past hve years and 1t keeps me well and safe.
Before that time I had cough which for
years had been growing worse. Now it's gone. "
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
The End of the World

of troubles that robbed 4. ii. Wolf, of Bear
Grove, Ia. of all usefulness. came when he
began taking Electric Bittes. He writes:
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They also cured me of General Debility Sure
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24

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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24

The intense itching characteristic of salt
rheum and eczema is instantly allayed by an
plying Chamberlain's Salve. AS a cure for
skin diseases this saive is unequaled.
For sale by Messick q Gunby, Irvington; w
"A. Dameron Bro. weems; G. w. Sanders 8
Son. and ID. r.. James. White Stone.