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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
FdrDiviHc, Ia.

Dear Sirs: II is a great thing for a
merchant 10 have the exclusive sale
i'm his region, of counsel Of anything
wanted by everybody.
There are two ways 10 treat such
goods. One is: put the price up and
make big profit. The other way is:
be fair and make more.
DevOe is the paint that takes least
gallons and costs least money house,
a Job, year, lifetime-no matter how
you reckon your costs, except by the
gallOn-DeYOe is the best care-taker
and costs least money.
Don't forget that the principal part
Of the cost Of paint is putting IL on.
Less gallons, less cost. Don't forget
that another principal part OF economy
is long wear less gallons, less cost and
long wear
1t is a great thing to have the eX-
elusive sale Of popular goods, Of goods
that make friends, Of goods that en-
rich both buyer and seller. Doyoe Is
perhaps only ten per cent better than
one or two others; but ten is a plenty
its 200 or 800 better than many.
There's many "A merchant who hasn't
fOund-Out his goods. IL doesn't take a
man long to find-Out that Deyoe il the
least-money paint and why, no matter
which side he is on:
Yours truly
IA +. w. DEVOE & co.
p. S.-J. +. Walton q Co., sell our
paint.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
End Ofauseiul Life.

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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
Notice.

Owing TO the high price Of material
and my bad health, ] will have TO
discontinue to send work out ON cred
u. ! mean no oileuse to anyone, but
IL is absolutely a case Of necessity.
Respectfully,
J. NJ. ORANGE.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

will close the 18th Of this month.
The farmers around here have been
quite busy the last several days pre-
pairing plant beds.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

Newest designs in white wa stings
at "Hillsman s.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

THE FARMvfLLE MERCURY, Febru-
AIRY 18th, 1862
On Wednesday morning, the 10th,
at the Methodist Church, by Rev. Mr.
Manning, Mr.. John j. Hatchett and
Miss c .rolina r., youngest daughter
Of Col. Richard a. Booker, were mar
ried. All OF Farmville.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
Notice..

The Planters Protective Association
of Prince Edward county will meet IN
Farmville on saturday, February -,
at m O'Clock. All tobacco growers are
requ ested TO attend.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
Shirt Waist Bands, aud Flouncings.
y. b. Davidson.

Efforts Of homely girl who tries to
look pretty are very often vain.
A woman has a real good time shop
ping unless she buys something.
There would be a heap Of virtue In
the world if there was more fun in 1t.
A man has 10 be mighty amlable to
laugh at a joke he was going to get of
himself when the chance came.
You can nearly always tell man
who is making money by the way he
doesn't feel ne has 10 spend it to prove
IL
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

French Madras paper for l9 cents at
lIIllsman s..
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

When any Que has done youa iaVor
how small it looks the day ate.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

THE MERCURY, January DIST, lS75.)
On Thursday night last at the
Methodist Church, just before the
time to begin services, very large
congregation being present, a couple
who had come from Buckingham on
"matrimony BENT" entered the
church and proceeded up the aisle pre-
Sented themselves before DR.. Rosser
and signifed their desire to be zone
flesh.n The Doctor responded
promptly, and saw the "knot was
tied" in the presence, we venture to
say, Of the largest number Of witnesses
that ever attended marriage in Farm
willie The bridegroom's name, we
learn, was Payne and that Of the
bride Miller.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

Nothing New in ladies oxfords that
cannot be found at "llillsman's.'
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

New Embroideues, Laces and
Handkerchiefs. y. b. Davidson.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

New Embroideries aud Novelties.
y. b. Davidson.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

New stock val. and Torchon laces.
r.. y. Hillsman & Co.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

Soft people occasionally use hard
l.-..rL-
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22

Lingerie, Batiste, Linen Lawn
Colored Linens and Linene.
y. b. Davidson.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
Local News Thlriy.TwO Years Ago..

1.-The Farmvillo Mercury Jan. z. 1871
Mr.. b. s. Hooper has been reap
pointed postmaster Of Farmville.
The members Of the Baptist Church
have recently provided their choir
with one Of the best Mason d Ham
Inns church organs. The instrument
in the hands Of that magnificent per
former, the pastors wife, discourses
sweet music like thing Of life.
We are panied to announce the
death, after a protracted illness at
Hampder sidney, on Tuesday, the
9Th, of Mrs. Atkinson, wife Of Rev
DR.. Atkinson, president Of Hampden-
Sidney College. Mrs. Atkinson was q
most excellent Christian lady, and hel
death is a heavy sorrow TO a wide cir
Gle of friends and relatives.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
Letter to Geo. Richardson & Co

Baby Irish, Cluny, Insertions anC
AllOyers. n. b. Davidson.
The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13
SALOONS CENSUS ENUMERATION

A, .--o-.o-. f.-.., f,.- = long time
-
oie''l W - @''-H -a~-- --0-- S---'
OtheE section q Jae country
p a .0l- u-s IN republican
newspapers Il IL country tried 10
max. .- appear taat good lQu0r"
and -s.-u.ne democracy were syn
oual...- terms.
W --a-a.ter once that the New
Yo-. --....e SAID that ~-very demo
cra- IA. -o- a horse-,h.ef. 51- -tar
.y.r. .u---t1.at AS = democrat:
that ..s-., .-loc-ar Rzs lo- DRUNK
zra. a-- ia, eyery d-ElEsri was .
drrrr.-a-
Ind. % ~ south. where demo
cra,- a-. Indigenous % - soil, here
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n,-s Ran z a-y a-1-r seton Z I-e
Tu.s-.
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The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

Ocean voyages by rail will be posi-
BILE after January. One may go in a
parlor car from New York nearly to
Key West. From that point the car
will be placed upon an ocean trans
port and the passenger will land az
Havana, Cuba, without ever having
gotten out of his Pullman
The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

- .r 'I- liver.
Ta., -- lr tho dish:
Woods f-- 20 game
and water TN o. fish.
Tobacco in the she'd.
Oranges by the load:
Crr"o In the tin box
And suRr in the gourd.
cider in the pitcher.
Toddy IN the mug:
Wine In the demliohn
And Ticker In the jug.
New Smyrna Breeze
The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

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: orators IL southwest Georgia Iet Z
Albany last Tuesday afternoon ID -1.-
mulate plans Tor an organ.za-oa -5-E-
: Ing 70 limiting the production q L.
Val stores IN this section. i vas t-e
, general opinion OF those present IA,
the prevailing low prices for spirits
and roSin were due 20 oTer-P-o1-c-
uon.
According TO one OF the Dr0mlLe1,
operators who was attending tie
meeting. all the operators have los
- money this year. Prices have - =
, low and labor and other expenses u
- production kava le-n A.-l-r .:a- L
, any time in he i -or. ~ --a ---.-
ness. He SAID in parc:
A few years AGO common :.,,u
was bringing $40 p4, ,...T;.i p..l ..-
+, price has s.sadily declined uu.I T.
6av the ruling nr;ce IS $50. A. n
: same 7ima sDiri-s have ben d.c,.a.n.
~ an aoual1y J3shusrrauinr rare hay
Ing gone from - cents par gallon 70
rra nres.nt nr;c,. nj - - cents The
. decline in tho snirirs market amounts
In = matter of s1-5n = barrel
This e-a-a of affairs has finally
p b-o,,,-bt trrnentine face IN face with
= crisis Matters give no n~on,jse NJ
: announcement and whom few davs
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The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

n VI You Find
ALL KINDS OF TOILET CASES
ALL
ALL KINDS FURNITURE
ALL KINDS
ALL KINDS MAGIC LANTERNS
STEAMBOATS, STEAM ENGINES, STEAM AUTOMOBILES
CAL TRAINS MECHANICAL AUTOMOBILES MECHANICAL
AND MECHANICAL TOYS OF ALL KINDS.
Toys The Kind That Don't Wear
AUTOMOBILES FIRE ENGINES, WAGONS RAIL
ROAD ENGINES, ETC. CHILORENS WAGONS TRIcYcLEs
WHEELBARRoWs.
\ Our Inc Of
JOGNTED DOLLS SLEEPING DOLLS
WALKING DOLLS RlsQuE DOLLS
of actually believe that vc hay. r largest
line Dolls Florida popular on,l lll Dolls d..
to
For pretty Plates Cups
sauoe Etc Japanese Ware Glass
crockey Etc.
We cannot the horco wha
tee everything we sell give your
CANDLES FREE SCHOOLS
Special Prices Sunday
MERCHANTS EVERYWHERE CAN SAVE MONEY
HOLIDAY GOODS FROM
II Is an established fact that what .
our competitors we can easily DO The is
CASH ONLY. .......... ...
." visit to Our Store Il mi line of
NEWS AND BOYS CLOTHING, SHOES HOUSEHOLD
ER GARMENTS LADIES' FURNISHING
GOODS TRUNKS, HATS.
We will have Special Sale Mondays
Christmas
II WILL MAKE you FEEL YOUNG JUST TO LOOK AT 0us
TOY DEPARTMENT
The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

The orange sirua'iGr l4 F....a !.
a least IN good shape"
The Ocala banner., 1907-12-13

Jacksonville. F.CrEz.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

to impress you with their knowledge,
and no matter how much knowledge
they have they are always craving for
more.
THE American woman is slave in
every sense of the word. She is the
slave of fashion-if her neighbor has
two maids then she must have three
she is the slave of convention she
chains herself by her spirit of unrest
her grasping for more. No matter
what she is, or what she has, she is
still unsatisded; she always thinks
there are other worlds to conquer and
gain. know the French woman.
know the Greek woman, know the
English woman, know the American
woman. and know the Turkish wo.
man, and of all the Turkish woman is
by far the happiest. Why, may be an
unanswerable question. And she is
intellectual. It is not the happiness
Of ignorance. OF course I know
American women who are perfectly
charming and delightful and lovable,
but as class they are dreadfully tire
some and woefully unhappy. They are
intellectual bugbears. :"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

Later in life man may purchase
as many wives as he choose. Four Is
the usual number, though lately many
Turks have no more than one on &C
count of the great expense You see
if one wife has two servants SO must
the Others Then they don't live in
the same house as the husband, so the
expense of large household is very
heavy.
I suppose all this seems quite
strange, but you know the Turkish
woman does not think it wrong in
man that he loves another woman. 1t
is that Allah has made him that way.
One of the wives of Selim Pasha,
1Djimlah, sweet and lovable creature,
talked quite confidentally to me OF
this subject one day in her apartment.
She loved her husband with deep
and abiding love that knew no doubt.
".Djimlah,' said to her, wouldn't
that love be stronger if he loved only
your She caressed my hand and
smiled so .sweetly at me, as she re-
Piled: My little one, don't make this
mistake in life. If you were the most
intelligent woman in the world, the
most entertaining, the most brilliant,
the most beautiful, you could never be
everything to your husband. That is
the way Allah has made them, that
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

toothless mouth opened wide in ex-
pectation of palatable food is greeted
instead with mouthful Of coal dust.
This he votes poor hospitality, and
naturally, when next year comes
around, he not only stays away, but
advises his friends to do so.
The spawning grounds for Della
ware shad are at the headwaters Of
the river, almost up to New York
State. In the past the shad never OBJ
jected to this journey, and was caught
during his migration at all points en-
route, but now the only fishing OF
any consequence on the river is at
Gloucester, N. j.
This year fishermen along the river
have been eagerly watching for the
scouts" as they call the first corners.
There has been nothing in this first
indication to hold out any hope that
the season will see an Improvement.
Now in place Of the optimistic pre-
dictions of other days, all that can be
heard is doleful admission that the
conditions are all wrong.
"The moon is wrong" ''too much
snow water on account of the late
late spring" winds unfavorable," the
fishermen say, in addition to the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

i forget just whom, and it does not
matter, that, after all, the Stoics were
stoics, but where in all Christendom
do you find Christian??'
"True,' said Mrs. Brown, true It
might be said Of Turkey. The Turk
ish religion has done much better for
the Turks than the Christian religion
has done for the Christians. Then you
see most children are sold at once into.
slavery, so the question Of expense
plays little part in the bringing Of
large families into the world
The remark seemed horrifying. But
the explanation placed it in a different
light.
You see," continued the speaker,
slavery is not slavery as you under
stand it, It carries with it no dis
grace. The slaves are practically
equal to their mistresses. Frequently
they marry the same husband. They
perform their duties, which are very
light, and then they sit at the feet OF
their mistresses and at once they are
in perfect communion. They sew to-
Equality. And they have very little
to do. No slave works more than four
hours day.
They are all educated Ignorance
is a disgrace to the rich. If a man
have four sons then he must take
three of the sons Of the poor and edu-
cate them with his own Each man in
his sphere must help his poorer neigh
Dor. The hording of vast fortunes is
impossible. You see man must buy
a wife for his son. This usually is
done when the boy is seventeen or
eighteen. Usually, except among the
very high personages, he buys slave
you must remember there is no
stigma in slavery. There is no caste.
The purchase price becomes the dow
ry of the wife, and no one can take it
from her AS matter of fact slaves
in Turkey are far more free than
women in America.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

Delaware shad' on the bill of fare
in American hotels and restaurants is
becoming delusion and snare.
The restauranter does not willingly
substitute shad from any other water
for those taken in the Delaware, but
year after year the Delaware catch
has decreased so steadily that the sup
ply is out of all proportion to the de-
mand. In fact the fishing was SO bad
in 1905 and 1906 that the opening of
the season of 1907 finds many of the
Delaware fishermen either. out of the
business or working in the South
where the catch offers somewhat bet
ter rewards.
After all is said and done, Delaware
shad had the reputation of outclassing
all its fellows. The Chesapeake shad
had its adherents, but gourmets the
nation over, who disregard all local
preJudices, have ever been a unit in
awarding the palm to the fish caught
in the Delaware, 100 miles from the
seacoast =
In the past, everybody had chance
to feast literally on the big fellows.
Shad were caught in such quantities
that he humblest housewife could
have them for two meals day in sea-
son If she wished. A great big shad
two feet long could be purchased at
quarter, and in one year 100000
shad were taken out of the river and
its tributaries.
Last year the climax was reached in
the gradual decline of Delaware shad
fishing, and the total catch did not
run up to one million during the entire
season.
Fishermen stuck to their task long
and faithfully, and employed every
recourse of their knowledge, but more
often than not the nets came up empty
or with such few that the catch did
not pay for the expense of making the
cast.
If the same falling off was general,
less apprehension might be felt about
it, but in other streams, like the Sa-
vannah and st. Johns rivers, and the
Chesapeake bay, the catch was up to
the normal. Only the Delaware seem
ed to be involved in the famine
Pennsylvania experts and members
of the United Ctates fish commission
have, during the nine months inter-
vening since the end of the season of
1906, been investigating the condi-
tions, shat threaten to clean Off the
table one of the most notable of spring
delicacies.
The question is not an easy one to
solve, for the shad is riddle at best,
and most of the knowledge of it's hab-
It's is more or less conjecture, contra
dicted frequently, and notable for
many exceptions.
Some high spots stand out on which
all experts are agreed. Shad are mi
gratory, and are found in the coastal
waters during only short portion of
the year. In their annual migration,
they first appear in the southernmost
waters of the rivers and streams
emptying into the Atlantic, about the
closing days of December and the
opening ones of January.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

is the way all of them are-and those
that are not are good for nothing
Asked her if the women, too, did not
need more than one in their lives. She
smiled again, her wise smile. Women
are not like men, she said. Women,
good women, natural women, are
mothers above all. Their hearts are
filled the moment they become moth.
ers. All their effort, their ambition,
their love settles on the head of the
child
"And what of the divorce cond1-
tions," I suggested. =
IF man says, three times, Go, you
are free wife is divorced. She takes
her dowry, of course.
A woman secures divorce simply
by leaving her husband She has
nothing to explain.
There lis no rush, no hustle. Time
to the Turk is a limitless quantity
from which he can take as much as
he pleases and leave as much as he
pleases. He differs widely in every
way from the European. He has
abolished entirely the spirit of rest
lessness, And so has the Turkish
woman. So they love their lives. What
you conceive to be confinement forms
their great happiness"
But their amusements?''
The bath-then, sometimes, they
go to the cemetery for picnic-pos-
sibly an OK drive in the afternoon"
And don't these rather exciting di-
versions lead to flirtation?" suggest
ed.
Mrs. Brown pursed up her little
mouth again and nodded her head.
the best of it. She may f1irt, but
man may not firt back.
There is a beautiful simplicity in
the Turkish woman. They are COM
pletely honest. They will discuss
with perfect candor the physical fail
ings of the other. There is no spirit
OF jealousy. American women are
competitive. They are always vieing
with each other for the favor of a
man. Let a man enter the room and
both are changed instantly. The at
fections may play no part. But each
woman wants the attention of the
man. She desires to outdistance her
rival-the Turkish women have no
rivals. 1t is this strain, this artificial
ly that makes the American women as
class so boresome. Always they are
competing. Always they are trying
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04
PASSING AWAY OF
THE TOOTHSOME SHAD
Catch Not Twenty fue Per Cent of What 1t Was, and
Is Steadily Decreasing.


Toward the end of January they are
In the Savannah river. About the list
of March they have worked northward
to the Chesapeake, and in the closing
days OF March they are noted in the
Delaware.
In the Connecticut they are first
caught on the 18th of April. After re-
naming in the inland waters for a
short time, they disappear.
Their habitat from this time on till
the opening of another season is I'M
known.
Old fishermen always argued that
the superiority of the Delaware shad
resulted from the distance the fish
had to swim from the South before it
made the ascent of the river that
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plant about the damage being done
by the coal dirt
It is also possible that the position
of asgreat. city ight mid WaA along the
course of the river, between the sea
and the spawning ground, has resulted
in fouling the water till it has become
distasteful to the highly aristocratic
shad.
The United States government has
done what it can to avert the famine
of Delaware shad. Systematic propa-
cation has been put into effect, and
fishermen have been taught the i'm
perative need of putting the little fell
lows that the net gets back into the
water. ....
But all to no avail, and grief is
keen among American epicures that
the Delaware shad is soon to go the
way of the Maryland diamond-back
terrapin.