Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-03-06
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for tho
Busy Reader

Faultless people are usually
o forceless people.
8 W. j. Bryan thinks the trusts
could be curbed by denying them
the use Of the United States mails
One Of the times to get busy is
when you are discouraged and
think there lie no use trying any
more.
1t lie rumored that becaufs of
the 2-cent fare law passed by the
West Virginia Legislature that
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
will reduce its service at some
points in that State.
Several horseman temporarily put
out OF business at Nashville aud
Memphis by Legislation prohibit
ing racing in Tennessee, are plan.
ming to establish q race track across
the Georgia line, FIVE miles away.
Amy Rockhold. Virginia slave.
l02 years old, is dead ct her home
ut Piqua, Ohio. She rememb ered
numerous stirring incidents of the
War of 1912, when she nursed
many wounded American SOL
! diers.
1t has been discovered that the
$l7S, 900 missing from the Chicago
Subtreasury was stolen by a prom
inent business man, who used an
ordinary ruler to draw the cash
from behind the tsller's screen.
After thrilling night of three
hours through the air tho giant
balloon America" alighted gent
y upon farm Ia Prince George
county, Md, about twenty miles
from where it left it's moorings in
Washington Saturday afternoon.
Major General Grant, command
ing the Department Of the East,
recently visited the jamestown
Exposition to inspect the grounds
upon which the federal troops will
encamp during the Exposition.
The crack military organizations
of the South will attend the Expo.
sition.
The New York State Court of
Appeals has sustained the IudR-
ment of the lower court that
George W. Perkins, as a vice. pres
ident of the New York Life Insur.
ance Company, was not guilty Of
larceny in the use of funds of the
company for contributions to the
Republican campaign fund.
At a cost of "a ceAts japanese
doctors can dress the wounds of
500 men. They use a finely pow
dered charcoal obtained by the
slow combustion OF straw in
closed furnaces. Sachets filed
with it are applied to the wounds,
and lite antiseLtic and absorbant
qualities generally effect a rapid
sure.
In the American Magazine q
maiden thirty-six years old
slories in her single blessedness
With 80 much seIf.com pIacency
hat there is no way to answer her
no way except by reminding her
If the snail boy, who, coming
pom the epitaph, ~ would not
i've Away" paused, recovered his
mental balance, and then wrote in
h"lk upon the tomb: "Sour
Grapes"
While opening oysters in
lorristown, N. J. market, Maui
Ice F, Morrison opened one of the
valves Of the size known ss hox
ysters. He perceived embedded
it a foreign object, which he
arefully dug out with his knife.
be object was encased in a thin
bell sin liar to isinglsss, which he
eeled OF, disclosing large pearl.
he gem is ovel In shape, fat at
ne end, about the size Of mans
lumbnsil. Morrison took the
earl to ieweler, who, after a
lrsory examine ton, told him it
as worth at least $500,
1t nov appears that according
the laws of Virginia, any per-
N having negro blood in his
'ins, yet possessed of less than
le-fourth CT it, is recognized I'M
'r the statutes as a white man or
oman. The people generally
I'D that one drop of negro blood
axes negro, and the solution of
70 problem bids fair to become an
sue in this State in the near
ture. The Virginia Legislative
dy will assemble in Richmond
xt year and there seems scarcely
y doubt tut that the existing
.uation will be brought to the
tention of the memb ers.
Ire idea of preventing repro.
ction of insane persons is con-
med in bill before the Wis-
nsin Legislature, which pro-
ses to create an examining
ard OF three persons: a physi-
IN, a lawyer and neurologist.
ielr duty would ne tt pass upon
condition OF imbeciles and
pelessly insane, and to perform
operation of sterilization, At
same time, the State board
ltrolling insane asylums and
sons has recommended the PEN
y OF sterilization for criminal
ault, Such a course was pro-
,eQ in Dalewapa and oaaooa