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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03

till then, will there be the progress
here that should be. The Virginia
man, on an average. has a poor
standard of excellence, and the wo-
men as q rule are the best in the
world. Why not give them at least
a chance? We have at present
poor roads, poorer schools and mis-
erable and poorly directed political
economy. but a plenty to drink. Re-
verse your county and State officers,
as long as they have shown them
selves too weak to rule. Why
should public sentiment permit
them to longer ruin?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03
The End of the World

of troubles that robbed f. II. Wolf, of Bear
Grove, Ia, of all usefulness. came when he
began taking Electric Bitters. He writes:
Two years ago Kidney trouble caused me
great suffering, which 1 would never have
survived had not taken Electric Bitters.
They also cured me of General Debility" Sure
cure for all Stomach, Liver and Kidney COM
plants, Blood diseases. Headache, Dizziness
and Weakness or bodily decline.
Guaranteed by Il. c. Richardson, Kilmar-
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& Bass Litwalton. Price J0c.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03
THE TIME HAS NOT ARRIVED.
fredericksburg Free Lance,


The Baltimore Sun, which for
some time has been advocating the
repeal of the section of the United
States Constitution providing for
the election of United States Sena-
tors by the legislatures of the yari-
Gus States, or, in lieu of this, some
method of evading it, and substitu-
ting therefor a provision requiring
election by direct vote of the people,
in commenting upon an editorial in
the Cecil Democrat protesting
against the change and advising
that the Constitution of the fathers
be adhered to, urges among other
reasons for doing away with this
feature of our Federal Constitution
that the general education of the
present time had obviated the neces-
sity of this safeguard against un-
checked power in the hands of the
people.
We have heard great many rea-
sons assigned for change in the
Constitution to admit of the election
of q. S. Senators by the people, or
to justify the evasion of this pro-
vision, some of which have been
more or less plausible, but as an ar
gument in favor of the proposition
this strikes us as being the most i'm
potent we have yet heard. In the
first place a mans qualifications as
a voter do not depend, except in a
small measure, upon his ability to
read and write, but rather upon his
moral status and his sympathy with
the object and purpose of govern.
ment. At the time of the adoption
of the Federal Constitution the
American people were homogene-
Gus race of well nigh pure Anglo
Saxon extraction, imbued with a
common purpose, to-wit, to give to
the people themselves the right to
govern themselves as far as was con.
sistent with national safety. They
had just released themselves from
the dominion of Monarchy. For
these reasons they would have been
justified in going further than they
did at that time with the principle
of self government, but they chose
conservatively and wisely when they
commissioned the separate branches
of our law making body from diff.
ferent sources, so that one might bt
a check upon the other. If it wal
wise at that time, when our peopl,
could boast of their Anglo-Saxor
blood, it is wiser now when la,
immigration laws have filled oul
land with a mixed horde of people
many of whom would convert libert,
into license at the first opportunity
The South is the only section of tn,
country where the purity of the rac'
has been maintained, and the day il
not far distant when through tn,
efforts to supply the demand for la
Dor, this cannot be said of the South
In our judgment the day has not ye
come when United States Senator
should be elected by the people, an,
when it does come, if ever, ther
will be no reason for retaining tw
branches of the National Congress
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03
Ia Self Defense

Major Hamm, editor and manager of the Con-
stitntionalist, Eminence, KY, when he was
herceiy attacked, four years ago. by Piles.
bought a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salye, of
which he says: at cured me in ten days and
nm trouble SINCE" Quickest healer of Burns.
Sores. Cuts and Wounds
25c at Z. G. Richardson, Kilmarnock; Il. j.
Hayden Son. Irvington; Ficklin g. Bass, Lit
walton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03
4 Mystery Solved.

How to keep Off periodic attacks of bilious
ness and habitusl constipation was mystery
that DIR, Kings New Life Pills solved for me- y
writes John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind
The onlypills that are guaranteed TO give per-
feet satisfaction to everybody or money re-
funded.
25c. at E. c. Richardson. Kilmarnock; T. J.
Hayden Son, Irvington; Fickliu s. Bass. Lit
walton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03

court room did not regard the incl
dent as closed with the ruin of John
Hedlund. They took broad and
rather unusual view of the case, and
to the surprise of the saloon keepers,
they held that the latter were chiefly
responsibel for the ruin. 1t was
true, Hedlund might have got liquor
elsewhere, if they had refused him;
but knowing his failing and that its
indulgence was wrecking his family,
and IN defiance of pleas and warn
ings, they deliberately and wickedly
FASTENED his downfall by supplying
him with intoxicants. So the Jury
held that they must pay for the
damage they had inflicted upon John
Hedlund's children, and returned
verdict of $17,500 against them.
What is sound law in Illinois is
probably equally so in other States.
At all events, here is a precedent
which may be followed to advantage.
There are thousands of similar cases
all over the land, where the saloons
are being enriched at the cost of
ruined fathers, wrecked homes and
pauperized children. 1t might be
wise for the temperance societies to
turn their attention to this phase of
the liquor question, and see whether
they cannot succeed in bringing
home the responsibility where it be-
longs, taking the Chicago case as
model.-Louis Klopsch.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
WASHINGTON NEEDS sd. c."
WRITTEN AFTER IT ALWAYS

Washington is not big enough TO
be written on letter envelopes with
out the I'D. c." also, according TO
the New York Herald. The Herald
says:
a Patriotic American" through the
column OF letters from Herald readers
his morning argues that II should not
be necessary to write ID. c. after
the name of our Capital, Washington.
He points out that no one finds it
necessary TO describe the location OF
London or Paris by affixirg the county
or department. ard after narrating an
experience with capable operators
abroad concludes that II would be more
simple and digntffed to be able TO wire
from any part of the world 10 Wash
ingtOu, America.
Our correspondent fails to explain how
he would induce surrender of the name
by the bic state OF Washington. the
half dozen cities of Washington town
ships, numbering more than two hun
dred in all parts OF the Union, proudly
named for the Father Of His Country.
One London and one Paris" Will
do well enough for little places like Eng
land and France. but when il comes
to Washington in this mighty continent
of ours-nO, we guess ID. G. viii have
to stay.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
GOVERNOR STOKES ADMITS
HE DOES NOT KNOW SToRK

New Jersey is the mother of
trusts" according to the stump
speakers, but her governor is not
father of anything. In support Of
which the New York World prints
this story from Trenton:
While Governor Stokes was entering
the Mechanics National Bank. of which
he is president. he noticed a sweet-faced
child playing about the steps. He asked
her name to which she replied that it
was Catherine. and that she was eight
years Old The child then queried:
what is your name?"
Mr. Stokes" was his reply.
DO I know your little gtrls?" was the
next question
NO; I don't think you do answered
Governor Stokes. with a smile; Il have
mo babies? Never had any?" came
from tie little one with rapldity and
Never had any," answered the gov
Babies are so cute, said Catherine
with a smile.
You are not much more than a baby
yourseif - replied Governor Stokes.
Catharine then informed him that she
was old enough TO take care of one and
that If ever he had any at his house
she would come around and play with
Governor Stokes is a bachelor.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
To Improve the Race.

Ordinary human beings Will
doubtless watch with interest the
crusade of Willett NJ. Hayes, the
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture,
who has given up his bucolic investi-
cations for the purpose of improv-
ing the human race. Mr.. Hayes has
lost no time and minces no words
in the furthering Of his colossal un-
dertaking. He has appointed a COM
mittee of eminent scientists and
educators who are to make an in
vestigation of heredity in its appIi-
cation to the human species and
make a report at the next meeting
of the American Breeders Associa-
ton
Certainly there is no false senti-
ment or tender delicacy about the
body TO which the report shall ulti-
mately be made. DR.. Hayes has
previously experimental with plants
and animals and he feels that he
can tackle the breed of man with as
much certainty Of results as he got
when he was experimenting with
Ayrshire cattle and Poland China
hogs. No doubt he can, provided he
can find the same submissive de-
pendence on the part of the sub
jects.
1t is asserted that the commit
tees work will be entirely practical
and that it viii suggest methods by
which the laws of heredity can be
applied TO men so that disease, vice,
and crime MAJ be prevented. The
great question of marriage will, OF
course, be uppermost and some plan
viii doubtless be suggested to pre-
vent the weddings of people who
are likely to produce a race of
weaklings or to transmit disease
In this particular phase of the
work DR.. Hayes viii find worthy
eompeer in Prof. Charles r. Hender-
son, of the University Of Chicago
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
BRYAN TRoD THE BOARDS
IN ADA GRAY'S COMPANY

William J. Bryan, admired for his
dramatic methods in oratory, and
also for the drama element in his
procedure when he carried off his
first Presidential nomination with
nothing to boost him but a speech,
may have acquired much of his valu-
able limelight knowledge by actual
experience on the stage.
The Detroit Free Press tells this
of him:
Hon. William ]. Bryan. twice candi-
date for the Presidency OF the United
States was a professional actor twenty
years ago. He was for a time a mem
ber OF the company OF Ada Gray. who
devoted many years TO East Lynne"
The Future Great acted the parts OF
Lord Mount-Severn and Sir Francis
Levi-0n, and. like POlonius OF old. when
he did enact julius Caesar in the
capitol" was accounted a good actor" ."
Mr. Bryans familiarity with stage lit
erature may account for his Chicago
convention use OF the cross Of gold
and crown of thOrns" metaphor, the
exact form OF which any searcher may
find in the old play Of Jack Cade, or
the Bondman," which was written for
Edwin Forrest and played by that ira
gedian during many years.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05

sociological department. That gen
tleman boldly announces that there
must be some way of limiting the
liberty of defective persons, and his
committee, he announces, will spend
its time in spreading information
on the subject and working up pub
lie opinion. 1--WE will probably" he
says, "agree upon a bill later to be
introduced in the various States"
Spite of the theoretical justice of
the pronunciamentos of both DR..
Hayes and Prof. Henderson, with
which most reasonable people agree,
il is nevertheless true that to inter
fere with marriage and the forming
of a family is one of the most diff
ficult things in the world, either by
moral suasion or by legislation. Any
such attempt to bar the way to
happiness for innocent men and
women who may yet be physically
unfit to perpetuate the race, has al
ways savored of tyranny-at any
rate, this side of Ancient Greece
and it is not to be believed that
the efforts of the gentlemen whose
views have been stated will result
in ANYTHING definite.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
PUBLIC BUILDING
RISING RAPIDLY
House of Representatives
Office Structure Reach
Fourth Floor.

The rapidity with which the work is
being carried or AT the new Office build
ing OF the House OF Representatives
under the direction of Elliott Woods.
superintendent of the United States Cap
itol, is shown by the fact that the first
brick in the new building was laid on the
sth day of July Of last year. and UP 10
the present time Ove- 100000 Of brick
have been laid. Already work has
reached TO the fourth story Mr.. Woods
says he hopes 10 have the roof on by
the coming Of cold weather. SO that the
work on the interior may continue
through the entire winter season.
In view of the common complaint that
public construction work is always RI
lowed To consume much more time than
is given 10 private enterprise. the eX-
peiitious manner in which this work IS
carried on is a strong refutation OF the
charge.
The magnitude OF this work may be
better understood when il is considered
that II these bricks were laid siugly IN
a direct line they would reach nearly 10
Denver. Col. or IL used in the cOnstruc-
ton OF ordinary buildings. they would
be sufficient TO build three buildings as
large as the New Willard Hotel
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
TAX ON MOTOR GAR
IS PLAN OF ENGLAND

LONDON, Nov. 5.-One OF the great
est OF the many battles during the
present parliamentary session VIII be
fought over the question Of the tax
on motor cars. The man IN the street
who does not cwn motor car is
strongly in favor Of a heavy tax being
imposed on automobiles according TO
horsepower and weight and there is
no doubt that such tax would be very
popular generally.
The extreme radicals now genarally
known as the progressively and the
Labor and the Socialist parties will
certainly do their best in the cause.
Meanwhile the motor manufacturers
are organizing against the tax and
there is likely TO be an avalanche Of
petitions presented 10 the government
for and against the tax. Those behind
the scenes declare that all automobiles
will be taxed with the exception of
those owned by mgdical men and those
run in the governwent service-such as
mail vans.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
CHANGES BRIDE
AFTER TWO YEARS
Fee Paid Justice to Wed An
other Serves His Pur-
pose Now.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Nov e.
Magistrate B. J. Ferguson, Of this city
performed a marriage ceremony for
which he was paid two years ago. VIII
liam II. May. OF. TaylorsviIle. KY. and
Louisa HilIeTich were the contracting
parties. Two years ago May called on
Ferguson, saying he was about TO marry
Alice Kitchener. of Louisville. He got
the license and paid the squire When
he returned 10 Louisville. he says. he
could not ind his bride-to-be, and has
never seen her since.
He came back and reminded Squire
Ferguson hat he had a marriage com
ing and the squire said 'ail right" he
could get one marriage ceremony with
out further charge May brought his
bride with him this time. and didn't let
her out of his sight until the knot was
tied
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
LA TOILETTE IS ACCUSED
OF HALF-HEARTED TALKS

The unexpected has come and the
extraordinary has happened. Sena-
tor La Toilette. reputed fire-eater
and tanner of devouring trusts, is
charged with half-hearted utter
ances and side-stepping talk. The
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader hurls this
at him:
Senator La FolIette is theoretically
supporting Governor Davidson in Wis
COnsfn, but DaVidsOn's 5 friends are not
satisfied with the half-hearted speeches
which the Senator IS making
In a recent speech La Toilette intl-
mated that Davidson didn't know much.
but that he would do the best he could
The Senator said before the caucuses
that Davidson was "a tool Of the cor
porations," but he now says that he is
honest but without ability.
These chickens will come home TO roost
IN the La Toilette barnyard some day.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
SideLigI1tS on People
And EpentS of Today
HUGHES LOOKS A FIGHTER
IN EACH OF HIS FEATURES


Hughes, Of New York, who Is the
Administration opponent of
Hearst, is painted by the Review of
Reviews IS a fighter, with indica-
tions of his pugnacity in his lip, his
beard, his jaw. and his teeth. The
Review thus details it:
He gives YOU a glance that is pene-
are large and mobile He has straight
nose that Is very clearly cut. His un-
der lip juts forth beyond his upper.
conveying a sense of the fighteT
The beard, a bit shaggy. no doubt
stubborn against arrangement. might
serve TO conceal that capacity for com
bat confessed by the cast of the jaw
forth, tells the stoSy. And the teeth,
Behind the wide mouth OF sweeping
curves they are big and white. Those
IN the front rise prominently above their
fellows. They all suggest power,
There IS something about tire man that
intimates Roosevelt Not in his figure.
which, compared with Ihe PresidenJs 8
appearance, save possibly, for those
ivory battlements Of teeth. Not at all
In his manner OF speech The President
talks. as he acts. with a rush Mr.
Hughes words do not lag, but they are
deliberate.
The man who sits in the White House
has a buoyant, elated, almost joyous
you, or parting from you. Mr.. Hughes
Is grave without gloominess-the gray
tty Of the scholar who goes 10 the bot
tom OF things.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
STORK WORKED OVERTIME
WITH THE MILLER FAMILY

If anybody says Theodore Roose-
velt was alone some years ago in
his anti-race suicide doctrine, the
Detroit News will contradict the as
sertion, for it prints this:
Mr.. and Mrs. William Miller, who
live near Buchanan, have earned the
plaudit OF well done" Their. FIRST
twins, Mary and Eugene, arrived at
the tddges stand April II. 1883.
The second set. Kate and Clayton, got
there the following November 2. Slack
times followed under the Cleveland ad-
ministration. and il was not till Febru-
ary 9, 1856, that Frank and Fred enter
ed their appearance and demanded
judgment.
After this the infant industry Jagged
somewhat, only a single being born be-
tween the last named and their younger
brothers. Ray and Roy, who raced with
the new year and were born simul-
taneousIy with 1t January l, 1850.
There was another single = 1899. All
the twins were born Sunday and all are
living. THE better the day the better
the deed. Twins have run IN the Miller
family for generations.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
lust BEFORE THE BATTLE

About this time of year the October
crop OF brides and grOoms begin 10 feel
the first touch OF matrimonial frost and
your Aunt Dotty is getting many tear
ful appeals for help. We Will answer
a few:
Dear Aunt Ootty-I married what I
believed 70 be a very beautiful girl. but
have discovered that her hair is false
her form not her own, one eye Is glass.
and she has an artificial le-limb. Now.
she couldn't have got me to propose If
had known this. What do YOU advise
BEN BUNNCOED.
We advise YOU TO have her arrested
on charge Of getting goods under false
pretenses.
deer Ant dotty-I have just saw that
lovely pickcheWer OF your sweet Ease
and 1 kno you viii help me ! have
ben merrid two weaks and mi husbund
insists on Getting with his knife. is ii
proper? LII PEECH.
You dear lii Peech. from what we can
judge from your letter we should say
1t was quite proper for him TO eat with
his knife. is he stands "A better chance
OF cutting his throat in that manner.
Dear Aunt Dotty-I am awfully wor-
ried about my husband, only a week
after we were married he began eating
cloves. Now. ] know cloves are harm
ful, and / tell him so, bat he only
laughs. Why do you suppose he comes
home every night with his mouth full OF
cloves? INA SIMPELLTUN.
Because he-because he-Oh, we hate
TO do this-because he likes them.
Dear Aunt Dotty-We have been mar
ried nearly a month now, and my hus-
band always gave me his pay envelope
without opening IL. but last Saturday he
had opened IL and taken out Is cents.
What shall ! do? IDA KNOUGH.
This is terrible. Ida. TO shatter your
sweet young love I'm such a manner.
We advise you TO get the mean thing
In corner ana choke him until he gives
you back them 10 cents.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW RAPS
PHYSICIANS FOR MURDERS

George Bernard Shaw, the un-
crowned king Of the anvil chorus, is
at work on a play Ia answer to a
challenge from critic that he put
death on the stage. lie thinks
death an easy proposition, but he
SHES at the physician. IS reported
in the Chicago Tribune. he said:
why a baby in arms could have
written this play of mine So far as the
death part is concerned. Pathos? Oh
yes, there will be lots of pathos: the
court theater will be damp with tears an1
windy with sniffs; the fourth act will
difficult and interesting part is the hand
ling OF that preSsin~ modern problem,
the physician-the man who has a Pc
cuniary interest in mutilation and an alb
solute license 70 commit murder.
The Washington times., 1906-11-05
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1906.
immigration to the South.

The South-the new, vitalized, in
dustriaI South-has made a start
toward getting its share of the inn
migration from Europe. For "A long
time the South has wanted this. It's
labor problem has been the greatest
drawback to development. The col
ored people have furnished a supply
of agricultural Iaborers, but the
new industrial development of the
South has created demand for an
other class of labor which was not
easily supplied. Out of this situa-
tion the South has faced the scan
dals of child labor and of peonage.
immigration has long moved in
established channels. The immi-
grants came to Northern ports, and
Northern railroads hauled them
West, to fill up the pew lands that
were largely owned by the land
grant roads of the far West. The
South had no free hands, and it was
not on the route of the movement.
Recently Southern States have been
making determined efforts to divert
some of this steam of immigration,
and at length the North German
Lloyd line has undertaken the eX-
pertinent of sending part of its i'm
migrants to the South. The first
shipload of newcomers has just
reached Charleston, composed chief
~ of Belgians, Germans, Swiss, and
Austrians, the very best Europe is
Offering TO this country.
The South is to be congratulated
on having made so good a start to-
ward the desired goal. There viii
always be protest against such free
: admission of immigrants; but pro-
test will be useless when industry
! from Maine to Mexico is crying out
for more help. The problem viii
have to wait for consideration when
the problem of the unemployed is
again with the country.
Meanwhile. 4 suggestion to the
South. Let it study the tendency of
immigration to move along isother-
NAL lines. 1t is an instinct of the
race that plants the scandinavian in
the northern border States and in
Canada; that caused the Germans
and the Irish, in the decades when
they were fiocking thither, to locate
in a cline Approximately like that
from which they came. The South
viii do well to encourage immigra-
tion of PAppIo who will not find
themselves, when once located in
TINS country, living under striking
~ different conditions of climate
than those Of their native countries.
They win be more contented and
more prosperous; the chance of
their remaining will be better, and
the prospect that they viii encour-
age friends at home to follow them
will corresPondingly improve.