The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-03-29


be the sermon limit.
The Washington Herald is coming
e., fine front i'm newspaper circles. 10
il only five months old, and has cir
onlstion of 5000. Printers ink ami
nush have joined 100 "a splendid "S"'
And Mr.. Rockefciler's pocket book
opens again. aud out pours q volume
of money i'm such proportion, as 1"
amaze the world. And we don F.
know that OH is any higher. We VIII
not "loop the gift horse 100 'he mouth
Iudpe Witt. of the Hastings COURT
of Richmond. went down othe station
house at a late hour of the night To
"bail a little negro boy We have
more than once said that The heart OBJ
The Judge is just as big as his body
Texas wants The capitol of the coun-
try. and give, a, reason that straw
berries are selling at this season Tor
.ten cents a basket but ho" about
brandy. beer. wine and miNture- there
of? The strawberry is an 'ncon-ileI-
able portion of juiep
The Harri-ouburg Daily Times
thinks that mo- moral guilt attached To-
George W. Perkins when hc gave
$4,000 of other peoples money to help
elect his choice for President of the
United states. Hereafter, when ask
ed for a political contribution, just
hand out somebody else's money.
Thaw from his prison cell, sent "a
500 check to Pittsburg TO aid the sui-
ferers from the great freshet. lie eN-
pressed regret that tine "present de-
mands upon his purse would not "i-
low of a larger contribution. Win
experts Of two leading professions pull
ing at il, no doubt but that the "dc-
mandsn are excessive if not eNhau,-
tive.
President Alderman is most grace
ful ofliving writers, and nothing which
has vet come from his pen has more OF
exquisite charm about it than has his
recent letter to venerable professor
Smith, who after 81 years Of service a.
member of the University faculty, re-
signs the trust. 1t will hold sure
place among the gems Of English
literature.
The New York Times, commenting
ON the Wall street scare, takes the
position we have all the time occupied
and that is that the general business
Of the country should be Unaffected by
the gamblers carousal, "unless, as il
adds. "the banks Of the country are
mixed up with it," And let as de
voutly hope that this is not true. II
everybody gets to be reckless, oflcourse
there il nothing but ruin ahead.
Secretary Taft has sent troop OF
negro Cavalrymen to West Point for
duty, the first time this has been done
in the history Of the school. lie gives
as his reason that the negroes Will
groom the horses Of the cadet, against
which white troopers protested. The
experiment is a dangerous one, and il
will not be surprising should sue
cession Of "brain storms follow.
Richmond has designated the lith
of June as her exposition day, and
will invest $4,000 in carrying out a
proper programme. And yet some Of
our counties, many Of them indeed.
refused to put a few hundred in an
all-round exposition investment. The
only thing Richmond was ever little
slow about has been its effort 20 raise
that old confederate entertainment
fund.
Water at Pittsburg and at New
York. Both did immense damage.
In the former place it destroyed hu-
man life as well as human possessions.
In the latter 10 spent its fury on tocks.
Our sympathies go out to the people Of
Pittsburg, but for the gamblers Of
New YORK there is no such thing pos
sible. How faulty is our financial
fame when lion can tear it down at
its own sweet will or bull may upon
his horns lift it up and hold it to its
foundations.
strenuous" Mr.. Roosevelt is still
slashing away at things far and near.
The last dash is to be made against all
State legislation, as it effects the rail-
roads of the country, and the bold
claim is made that with the aid Of the
Supreme Court, he will blot out all
such enactments by the first ofcomiug
December. The plot thickens, the
drama becomes more intensely inter
esting, and we will all watch the un-
folding Of coming events with quick
ening pulse-beats.
That great preacher, DR.. Cuyler, Of
New York, in a recent communication
10 the Religious Herald, Richmond,
says: "Jesus Christ does not make
Christians simply to make them conn
Portable. lie provides no palace cars
for transportation Of self-coddliug di-
sciples.'
And yet the tendency of our day is
10 he immensely comfortable, and 90