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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Quite a Difference.

A story is being told of Slbley
(Mo.) young lady who found package
of love letters that had been written
to her mother by her father before
they were married. The daughter saw
that she could have little sport and
read one of them to her mother, sub
stitutipg her own name for that OF her
mother, and that of young man ac-
quaintance for that of her father. The
mother seemed utterly Disguised and
forbade her daughter to have anything
to do with the young man who would
write such nonsensical stuff to girl
When the young lady handed the letter
to her mother to read the house became
so still that one could almost hear the
grass going in the yard.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Mans Life is Full of Woe ana Dis
appointment.

A mans life is ful! of crosses and
temptations. He comes in the world
without his consent and goes out
against his will, and the trip between
the two is exceedingly rocky. The rule
of contraries is one. of the important
features of bis trip. When he is little
the big girls kiss him, aud when ne is
big the little girls kiss him.
If be is poor ma he is bad mana
ger if be is irich be is dishOnst; if he
is in politics it's for pie; if he is out of
politics you can't place him and he's
no good to his country.
If he raises a large family he is a
chump if be raise a small check be is
a thief.
If be does not give to charity he is
stingy; if he does, it's for show.
If he dies young there's a great fu-
ture before him; if be lives to good old
age he has missed his calling.
The road is rocky, but the man loves
to travel it.-De Laval Monthly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Iona Live The King!

is the popular cry throughout European
countries: while in America, the cry
of the present day is Long live DIR.
Kings New Discovery. King of Throat
and Lung Remedies T. of which Mrs.
Julia Ryder Paine, Truro, Mass, says:
cit never fails to give immediate relief
and to quickly cure cough or cold"
Mrs. Paine's opinion is shared by a
majority of the habitants of this coun
try. New Discovered cures weak
lungs and sore thrOats after all other
remedies have failed; and for coughs
and colds it's the only sure cure
Guaranteed by B. F. Hughes. Drug
gist. 5Oc and 81 90 Trial bottle free.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
$40 POUND BRIDEGROOM.

COURTED LITTLE BRIDE BY MAIL, AS
HE CAN'T RIDE IN RAILROAD CARS.
Cupid has been hunting big game ir
Georgia, and the tiny gods unerrine
shaft has transfxed the heart Of the
champion mastodonic Elk of the world
W. T. Brinson, who is little more
than five times the weight of the bride
Mr. Brinson, biggest o f bridegrooms.
is a wealthy turpentine distiller, and
his neighbors assert that he has the
biggest heart in Georgia.
AS bis fiance lived in Seperton, about
100 miles from his Waycross home,
Mr.. Brinson did his courting by mail.
There is not railway Car that can ac-
commodate traveller with a glrth OF
more than eight feet and knee meas
urement of 2 feet s inches. He tried
1t once, but had to stand up in the bag
gage Car all the 100 miles.
When she went over her new home
little Mrs. Brinson, who weighs only
los pounds, gasped with wonder at
the furniture. Mr.. Brinson's room is
fitted with extra large things, all REIN
forced.
This quarter-Of a ton bridegroom is
6 feet inches tall and strong as an OK.
1t is impossible for team of mules to
pull against him. They have tried it,
but all Mr.. Brinson has to do is to
throw bis weight on the reins and pull
them by the bits right up on their hind
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.

FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
The Washington Times prints the
following:
Two years hence the first true trans
continental railroad system will be
opened across the United States. 1t
will extend from the Atlantic tideWat-
er, at Newport News, Va. to Seattle
and Portland. by way of Chicago. Ev-
cry mile of it will be controlled by the
STANDARD OIL interest, and from the
day it opens it will be the most potent
transportation influence on the conti-
ent.
1t will give the oil monopoly a new
handle by which to control railroad
relations. 1t will enable the Standard
group not only to make oil rates IA
vorable to their own interests. but also
will place in their hands a power over
railroad rates in general, which, in
connection with their dominating in
terests in other railroad systems, will
make the Rockefeller coterie as bso-
lutely dominant in the railroad tinan-
cial quarters as they now are in the
oil industry.
The new systems will be composed
of the following roads, which will, ac-
cording to statements recently imade
in Washington On the highest author
ity soon be welded together into trans
continental system.
The Virginian Railway commonly
known as the Tidewater and Deepwa
ter.) from Newport News, Va, into
West Virginia, and soon to be connect
ed with the Ohio river.
The Detroit, Toledo & IrontOn, ex'
tending from Ironton, Ohio, on the Ohio
river, north and west across Ohio an d
Michigan.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
from Chicago and Milwaukee west to
the Pacific coast.
Every road in the group is unde1
Rockefeller control today. There III
one gap to be filled, from Toledo ol
Detroit to Chicago, and 1t is said, Oh
the authority of a recent declaration
of Henry Fl. Rogers, that this gap will
shortly be filled by the purchase OF
minor line that will be added to th'
system.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
A Wonderful Happe ing.

Port By ron, N. Y, has witnessed
one of the most remarkable cases of
healing ever recorded. Amos F. King
of that place, says: "Bucklen Is Arnica
Salve cured a sore on my leg with
which had suffered over so years I
am now S5." Guaranteed to cure all
sores by B. F. Hughes, druggist. 25c
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
A Memorable Day.

One of the days we remember with
pleasure, as we'll as with profit to our
health, is the one on which we became
AGO uainted with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, the painless purifiers that cure
headache and biliousness. and keep the
bowels right. Csc at B. F. Hug hes
ug3tOre.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
ALARGE APPLE CROP.
DAMAGE BY LATE FROST DID NOT
GREATLY HURT APPLES.

1 u "A MAt LATE tOol I'LL 1NOA
GREATLY HURT APPLES.
G. E Sydnor, of the firm of G.. E.
Sydnor & Co, Richmond. an expert in
the Virginia apple and fruit market,
has just compiled a report on prospec-
tive local crops for IL. L. Preston, edi-
tor of the Fruit and Produce News, of
| New York.
Contrary to previously published
statements, Mr.. Sydnor ls of the opin-
ion that this year s apple crop will be
unusually large. This belief on his
part is not taken at random, but Is
based on communications receiv ed by
him from all sections of the apple belt
in Virginia
a. B. Wayland, of C0vesville, Va,
who Mr.. Sydnor refers to as zone OF
the largest growers of decidedly the
finest Albemarle pippins ever put iE
BARREL" writes.
Il have been through the pippin
belts of Virginia looking over the crops
since the severe frost. Many of them
were damaged. The fruit is now set
and I have prospects of a very large
crop. l propose to give you this sea-
son some of the finest Albemarle pip.
pins you have ever shipped in the
South or to Europe. All peaches and
other fruit have been killed here"
In concluding his New York report,
Mr.. SYdnor says:
my other letters are from all up the
Valley, including Madison, Orange.
Culpeper and Rappahannock counties.
do not think from observation that
the growers in counties named spray
as heavily as they do in Augusta and
Albemarle, though some of their fruit
is very ha ndsome, and brings the top
market price at all times. The grow
ers in the latter sections report about
Is per cent. of crop. Last year was
known as an off year, and have rea
sons to expect heavy crop this season.
Our firms business Is In fruits and
vegetables exclusively, and unusually
heavy operators in Virginia apples.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Took Time.

l want to talk to you, Mary, about
that young man of yours, said her
father; when did he say good night
to you last evening?
At 10 O'Clock, replied the fair girl.
What? Why, it was o'clock at
least.
Oh, that was when be finished say
ing .-Phi!adelphla Ledger.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Why He Reqretted the Sale.

Little SamueI-Papa, that gun you
sold to Scannelli last week burst the
first time be used it, and killed him
Father-dod of Abraham ! That is
terrible! I sold him that gun on the
instaIlment plan ?-Tales.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12

I hear Col. BourbOn's left arm was
cut off in the railway accident.
Yes, sur, a most unfawtunate occur
renee, but fawtunately his drinking
arm was uninjured.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12

The Valley River Railroad Co. has
been Incorporated with $50, 200 capital
to build line from point near Mill
Creek in Randolph county, w. Va. to
a point at or near Glover Creek In 70
cahOntas county.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Items That Will Interest Our
Readers

Citizens of RappahannOck ard War
rem counties have organized a company
to promote railroad from Front
Royal via Chester's Gap to Richmond
and the Chesapeake bay.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
Mustn't Learn to Swim.

Little Frank-Mamma, please tell
me how father got to know you?
Mother-One day | fell into "a deep
river, and your father jumped in and
saved me
Little FraDk-Well, that's funny, he
won't let me learn how to swim.-Har.
per's Weekly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12
EDUCATIONAL.

Devoted to the interests CT the schools,
teachers and children OF Virginia and
conducted by Miss Margare Fallon.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12

The Bonanza Coal Co. of Charleston,
w. Va, has been incorporated with
capital stock of $50. 900 to develop a
tract of about 1000 acres of coal land
in Raleigh county in that State. The
property is located on Upper Plney
creek. accessible to both the Chesa-
peake & Ohio and Virginian railroads,
and is sald to contain seam of coal
averaging five feet in thickness.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-07-12

THE WESTERN MARYLAND S PLANS.
The Gould interests, which control
the Western Maryland Railroad, are
reported to have acquired the surveys
and rights of way for the proposed
West Virginia Connecting Railroad
from Belington, W. Va, on the West
ern Maryland's line, to Rogersville,
near Waynesburg, Pa. This new line
was projected by d. F. Marony of
Pittsburg, and Josiah V. Thompson OF
Uniontown, Pa, who planned the
Uniontown & Wheeling Short Line,
which project was taken over last year
in the interest of the Western Mary
land. The two proposed lines are to be
connected. Surveys have been com
pleted from Rogersville to continue the
line to Carnegie. Pa, for entrance over
the Wabash into Pittsburg. The
Western Maryland Railroad Co. pro.
poses to build these lines. it is said,
and the announcement is made that
construction to Wheeling and Pitts
burg will be undertaken as soon as con
ditions in the financial market will
permit.
The independent., 1907-02-28
MUST WORK Both WAYS.

The state revenue law is immensely
strengthened by the victory before the
supreme court OF the United States on
the railroad tax cases, but Ii still Ie-
quires the attention of tee law making
and the law enforcing officers In It's
operation 1t is Tar from perfect. There
is reason to believe that large
amount Of intangible property entirely
escapes assessment 1t is notorious
that in certain counties stocks of mer-
chandise are assessed ON only frac-
tion of their real value. The people
of Nebraska cannot afford to hold the
railroads up to an, assessment at their
full market value, at the same time
winking at the coneealment and under
valuation Of property held by private
individuals. The square deal must york
both ways
The tendency in modern scientific
taxation l. TO cease attempts TO do the
impossible In matters of assessment.
If Ii Is possible for half Of the people
TO conceal considerable portion of
their property and il this prac-
tice prevails generally, IL is held wise
TO so amend the laws that equality car
be secured. In some states this goes
Co the extent of abandoning all at
tempts 10 tax intangible property.
In Nebraska specific defects need at
tentlon. One Is the under valuation OF
visible property In certain districts
The other Ii the escape of invisible
property. These matters adjusted the
state revenues will be- on as firm and
equitable n hasis az IN possible under
the present constitution.
The independent., 1907-02-28
HENRY w. LONGFELLow.

Americas S most popular poet was born
one hundred years ago today Out of
Difference to the cities we may not say
that Longfellow is thus far America s
greatest poet, or that he was even a
great poet. On the point of popularity
however, there can be no disagreement
The Psalm of Life, Excelsior, Hiawa-
tha, Evangeline, have had their run
through one and two generations, and
the spontaneousness of his praise in
the celebrations of today will warrant
that as Lowell predicted "the next age
in praise shall double this" Only Whit
tier, whose centenary comes next De-
cember. is to be mentioned as a close
competitor for popular favor.
Longfellow's poetry does not lend it
self to analytical study. 1t is too trans
parent Tor that. A child can grasp it..
Herein we find why the critics decly
him while the common people hear him
gladly He is surpassed for profundity,
subtlety, vigor, wit, imagination. He is
not a deep philosophic abstrusity to
be delved for intellectual exercise. But
I'm the Interpretation of the common, In
appeal to plain human nature. in kind
liness and purity, ii supplying the
light that lubricates the bearings of
common life he is supreme. That is why
he is and will be the children's poet
the poet of the common people, and one
of the most widely diffused forces in
American life.
The independent., 1907-02-28

And are we not sometimes a little
inconsistent ourselves. Here we are
cxcrting ourselves and our govern
mental powers in bringing to bay the
great captains of finance who have
been filching untold millions from us
in the form of extortionate railroad
rates, and just as we seem to be in
fair way to succeed in getting our
own out of their railroad possessions
our congressman are lying awake
nights trying to figure out a scheme
whereby we will be compelled to give
it all back to the frenzied financiers
in the form of a ship subsidy. Some
how congress does not seem to see
the inconsistency Of the thing. Is 1t
possible that the masses, who pay the
freight, can be equally obtuse?
1t is true that the original PROPOSE
tion was so bald faced that it has
been amended and the Hartman and
Hill steamship lines to the Orient have
been cut out. But the Stiffness Of the
inconsistency is shown in that it was
proposed to give some 100000 to these
two lines alone. However the names
Hill and Hartman made the scheme
too transparent and congress cut them
out But it has simply painted out
the trademark without changing in
the least the contents of the package.
And now it is declared that the sub
sidy promoters are preparing to push
1t through by trickery in the confu-
sion of the closing hours Of the ses-
sion amending ii before passage to
make it more nearly what the subsidy
grabbers want. That is what is
termed in congressional parlance
handing the taxpayer lemon. Speaker
Cannon is the only person who can
afford us any protection. 1t is pro-
claimed that he will do it. If he does
his presidential boom will sustain
new popular impetus.
The independent., 1907-02-28
FEBRUARY rs, 1907.

other lumber to a large extent is based,
he bought in 1898 for sl2. 20 per thousand
for $14, in 1908 he paid $3.50 and it now
averages $25 per thousand feet.
Mr.. Harrison said he bought clear yell
low pine flooring in 1900 for $1S and that
ne now pays 81 for the same kind.
Gear red cedar shingles that were bought
In Grand Island in 1900 for an average
of $3.50 thousand are now quoted at
from s3.25 to $3.36, but cannot be fur
nished by the mills at any price and re-
tailerS are paying for them wherever
they can be bought, free on board the
cars at $3.75 to 81. Mr.. Harrison said that
his stock of assorted lumber and sup
plies averaged in 1899 SIS per thousand,
and on the first of last January it av-
eraged $2S. 25 per thousand
The independent., 1907-02-28
DENY VIOLATION OF LAW

The examination of the members of
the Nebraska lumber dealers association
before Referee A. M Post, representing
the supreme court, continued during the
day and will probably be finished by this
evening. The state, in it's suit under the
antitrust laws, says it has gone into the
enemy's country by calling members of
the association to ascertain whether or
not any of the methods of the association
are in violation of the state law. The
states attorneys say they did not expect
to find much by this process and they
have not been disappointed. Invariably
the members of the association testify
that they buy from whom they please re-
gardless of whether or not wholesalers
sell to contractors or consumers, that
they sell to whom they please for any
price they please without fear of being
penalized. and that no conspiracy exists
as to prices or to division OF territory.
The state has been able TO get some tes-
timony to show that retailers do not
buy a great deal from wholesalers who
sell to contractors or to consumers and
that often the retailers make complaints
TO the secretary of the association about
other dealers who encroach upon their
territory or on account of business prac-
tces of competitors. Little has been
cleaned as to what III any means arc
taken by the secretary OF the association
to satisfy complanants. Some of his
letters are in the hands of the state but
u majority OF them contain little.
W. ii. Harrison OF Grand Island Was
about the only retail lumber dealer called
as "a witness who was able 60 tell any.
thing about the change In the prices OF
lumber during the past eight or ten years.
Like others he testified that as n recent
member OF the association he had not
heard of any instructions In regard TO
prices. division or territory and that he
sold 10 whom he pleased ~ prices he set
himself and that he tried To meet com
petition by making prices accordingly
According 20 Mr. Harrison his hooks
show that the advance la prices charged
by retailers IN not due 20 the association
but Is due to the Increased cost OF lum,
her TO retailers. He said his books
showed ~ per cent in three years and
some prices had advanced 100 per cent
in eight years. lie said No. I common
dimension. on which the prices Of all
The independent., 1907-02-28

print regarding the operations of the
rebel river during the last two years
The Colorado desert, like Palestine.
lies below sea level. In climate and soil
it is duplicate of Egypt Like Egypt
ancient Chaldea and Babylon, it is
barren without the artificial application
of water through irrigation, and like
those countries it is wonderfully pro-
ductive when irrigated. Alfalfa is cut
from eight to ten times a year. Grapes
are picked any time from June to Jan
uary.
Thls country found in the Colorado
river all that the Nile in Egypt, and
colonization was begun here in 1901
Development was rapid, and today
ten thousand people reside in that part
or the former desert known as Imperial
valley
Two years ago through faulty en-,
gineering the river broke from control
flowing through what had been drv
channels known as New and Alamo
river, to Salton sink and forming
Salton sea-
In their course the rivers widened
and about 1000 acres of cultivated
land, with three farm cottages were de-
stroyed, with several thousand more
acres of unoccupied public land which
would have been of value at some
time.
The lowest farm in Imperial valley
is 124 feet below sea level. The nresent
level of Salton sea is 200 feet fellow sea
level. 1t would have been necessarv for
the water to rise seventy-six feet more
requiring five or six years of uninter-
fupted flow, to cover the lowest form.
Statements that farms and towns
nave been submerged are untrue. One
farm cottage remote from other settle
ments on undeveloped land was sub
merged, and that is the only case of
the kind
lt was not what the water did. but
what 1t threatened to do. that made
the need for the control of the river
imperative. There was danger that if
would cut channel so deep that ir
rigation' water could not be obtained
That danger fortunately is at an end.
Though President Roosevelt in his
special message says these lands will
eventually be worth from $500 to ST.
800 an acre, they are now selling for
from $500 to $75, and colonization is now
proceeding rapidly through subdivis
ion, there being no land now within
reach of water but that is already filed
acts.
January | of this year there was un-
der irrigation and cultivation in I'm
perial valley 127 400 acres, an increase
of $4,000 acres over the preceding year,
despite the loss of 200 acres by water.
The annual output of the valley, now
rising rapidly, amounts to $450,000 in
grain, $4,000 in hay, $1,200,000 in beef
and pork, 100000 in cantaloupes, $780,
600 in butter and cream, and lesser
amounts for other products, which is
considered fair showing for country
where there was not a foot of titled
land, not an irrigation ditch, not a
human being six and half years ago
Wide publicity of the story of the
rebellious river is doing the hardy pio-
nees who are redeeming the desert an
injustice, and in fairness to them it is
hoped that this brief statement of
actual conditions will be given wide
publicity, to offset the exaggerated re-
ports.