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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24
CANDIlATES' CARD.

& To THE VOTERS OF THE WESr-
VILE MACIsTERlAL DISTRICT.
l take the liberty Of addressing
you in behalf of my candidacy for
the Office Of Supervisor Of the
| Westvi.le Magisterial District.
| Permit me to assure you that this
contest il none Of my seeking,
and that it is with regret that
learn the former Supervisor. Mr..
Thurston, will oppose me. l had
understood that he would not be
a candidate. Now, however,
that am the recognized
Democratic nominee, con-
slider it my duty, TO myself and
party, to make the best canvass /
can, and use every fair and legIti-
mate means to insure my election.
In regard to the questions now
attracting public attention in this
county, | desire to say that per
sOnaliy | would favor the reduc-
ton of the county levy to a
point sufficient to meet the
county expenses, and the cor
responding increase OF the
school levy. l would favor
|
the first proposition because I be-
iicve it TO be the true purpose of
government TO take from the citi-
zen in taxes only so much rs is
necessary to protect the citizen
III the administration Of Justice.
and insure the conducting of pub
lie affairs in an economical man
ner. favor increasing the
school levy, because by so !
doing we can give our chill
drsn better school facilities
without increasing the present tax
rate. In the event of my eieva-
ton to the position OF Supervisor,
l shall steadily vote against the
arbitrary increase of taxation for
any purpose without first sub
hitting the advisability of such
increase to the people, for con-
iirmation or rejection. IN my
! opinion. to do otherwise is a form
of taxation without representa-
lion, which is at best contrary to
Republican form Of government.
To the question of good roads
I have given more time and study
than 10 any other matter outside
Of my own personal affairs, and
the duties OF my position as Sec
retaly OF the Southside Agricul-
tural Association, and it is my
opinion that the maintenance Of
good roads, certainly over the
greater part Of Mathews county,
IS simply q question Of proper
drainage. Our present road levy
amounts in round numbers to
about SEQ per mile. and in my
opinion is ample to repair the
bridges, to grade, crown and
smooth the public highways and
maintain rs good surface at all
times Except during freezing
weather. as our citizens desire
or need.
In closing this card please per-
NIT me 10 say that should you
think Mr.. Thurston the proper
one to represent you in this re-
spousible position l will cndeavor
to accept your decision as a
Christian gentleman, but as the
nominee of your party and mine.
if | shall again receive the vote so
generously given me in the recent
| primary, l can only assn. you
that l will bring to the work the
same energetic effort l have ever
endeavOred to apply to the other
| interests committed to my care.
| Very Truly Your Fellow-County-
man. PERCIVAL HICKS.
OCTOBER 10. 1907
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Ar. Philadelphia %10:15a IN *10:15 am
Ar. New York SPAS IN %12:35 am
Nv. Baltimore Light st near
pier) direct for the South $3.50 D IN
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-10-24

DAILY except Sunday, *Daily.
Tickets sold and stateroOms reserved
upon application at CCmrany's office
corner Main ard Grady streets, New
steamer,
For further information, apply 10
GEO. 6. ROBSON, ecu Agent.
J Y, ILCNE, JR,, SO, Pass, Ag'
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NOTICE,

All persons indebted to me for
goods purchased at my store
previous to S-ptembr I, 1907, will
please pay CT. S. Marchant.
want to close this business at once
as | will be away.
J. +. MARCHANT.
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OCTOBER 10, 1907

To The VOTERS OF PIANKIrANK
MACIsTERIAL DISTRICT:
l am 4 candidate for Justice of
the Peace of Piankitank District
If l am elected. l shall endsavor
to discharge the duties Of the Of
fee to the best of my ability. and
in accordance with law.
Very Respectfully,
S. w. INGRAM.
Blakes, Va, Oct, I, 1907.
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satisfied afterwards you will buy
your millinery from me. Salts
faction guaranteed or money
Cneerfully refunded.
Very Respectfully,
l.. 3. Drodddus,
button. Va.
The Annual Fair Bail was held
at the Red Mems Hall ON Thurs
day night. Many couples par
tIclped and fine music and good
floor insured the success of the
occasion.
In most cases consumption results
from neglected or improperly treated
cold. Foley's Honey and Tar cures
the most obstinate Coughs and prevents
serious results. 1t costs you no more
Than the unknown preparations and
you should insist upon having the
genuine i'll the yellow package. Sold
Oy all druESiSeS.
Alter comparing different makes
OF Marine Engines. the Maryland
Oyster Navy has adopted the
OrIole Engise. and has installed
a number of them in boats to
guard Maryland Oyster Rocks.
FOR SALE - Gheap; good
work mule, sound and gentle.
l.. &. Garrett,
Mathews, Va.
Miss Virginia BIllul of Green
Mansion is with Miss Willie Kir-
wan Tins week,
Mrs. Virginia Lane has returned
TO Baltimore
Mrs. Walter Stoakes is in Nor
folk.
lion. ]. Boyd Sears was one of
the groOmSmen at the Taiaterro-
Sclater wedding in Hampton on
Wednesday evening.
NJ. b. Garrett and Miss Ellen
Douglass Garrett we're guests Of
Mrs. l-ulie Sears during the Fair.
No home is so pleasant, regardless
of the comfort that money will buy
as when the entire family is in perfect
health. n bottle of Orino Laxative
Fruit Syrup costs SO cents. 1t will
cure every member OF the family OF
constipation, sick headache or stomach
trouble. Sold by all druggists.
Ernest w. Browne, Souvenirs.
Tobacco and Cigars. 27o and 3I3
Main ST., Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Mary Davis has returned
- from a delightful visit TO Rich
mond and The Disciple Conven-
ton in Norfolk.
About 800 passengers on the
steamer Moblack last Thursday
enjoyed the dav at the Exposition
KEY. and Mrs. Henry Lane,
After visiting Mr.. Lanes old home,
Woodstock, left on Monday. MIR.
Lane is now located in Warsaw
Va.
Henry r. Jones of Tampa, Fla,
wIires: II can thank God for nv pre-.
sent health, due to Foley's Kidney
Cure. 1 tried doctors and all kinds
OF kidney cures, hut nothing done me
much good till took Foley's Kidney
Cure. Four bottles cured me, and
have no more pain in my back ant
shoulders. l am % wears old ant
suffered long, but thanks to Foley'.
Kidney Cure am we'll and can enio,
myself. 1t is pleasure to recommend
il to those needing a kidney medicine
Sold by all druggists.
For Sale = Choice cabbag,
plants, hay ahd COWS.
- w. IL. MILLER
y Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson Of Glou
cester are visiting DR.. and Mrs
Hoskins during the Fair.
Mr. Russell Hudgins Of New
York is Ola visit to Mr.. Thoma
Hudgins' family at Hudgins p. O
Mrs. Grace Sicgel of Richmon,
is a guest of her sister. Mrs
Robert Lee Sears.
Seventeen acres of fine timbe
land for sale or will divide int
five-acre tracts to suit purchaser
DR.. u. Il. Brown. Fitchetts
We are the agents for tn
Ladies Home Journal Pattern
and new style sheets to give ava
every month and have stock c
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13

to the door and raped. The servants
had fed. The "babybride" had never
seen President Lincoln, but she had
read his letters to her husband and
from him had learned to hold in the
highest esteem the great northern
president. With her baby in her arms
she opened the door and looked up at
the tall, guant man with the sad face
and uncouth ways.
Without a word of explanation he
asked:
as George Pickett about?"
To hear her husbands name bereft
of it's title by a Yankee. at that mo-
ment, was almost the limit, especially
as many a rumor had hoated about
| Richmond concerning the fate which
| awaited the leaders of the confederacy.
With all the proud dignity she could
command the baby-bride replied:
General Pickett is not at home.'
The stranger seemed disappointed
and, as he turned to go, remarked:
Il am Abraham Lincoln. an old
friend Of Georges"
Not President Lincoln!" Mrs. Pick
EFT exclaimed. The tall man shook
his head. repeating:
mo. Just Abraham Lincoln, George
Pickett's old friend"
Following the instant promptings of
the heart which still governs her, "the
baby-bride" thrust her baby boy into
the arms of the gaunt Yankee, as her
best effort to express her veneration
and confidence, saying:
Il am George Pickett's wife and this
is George Pickett's baby."-From The
World OF Today.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
SAYS LEAKS
CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES

Columbia, Mo-, June 6.-Dr. Thomas
Jefferson Jackson See, the astronomer.
at present In the federal employ at
the Mare Island navy yard, California.
in an interview here today, gave out
his revolutionary theory of the cause
of earthquakes. In substance 1t is
that earthquakes are caused by the
leakage Of water through the earth's
crust and chiefly from the leakage of
the ocean. In substantiation Of this
latter deduction, he pointed to the fact
that all serious seismic disasters occur
near the sea. The leakage OF cast
amounts of water through the earth's
crust and the contact with the molten
interior generates steam. which press
es with powerful force against the thin
places in the earth's crust, pushes 1t
upward and brings about the death
dealing and damaging earthquakes.
DR.. See is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Missouri and is one of the most
famous astronomers in the country.
He was for many years in charge of
the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff.
Ariz. He has discovered more than
100000 stars and 600 double stars. DR..
Sees words carry great weight among
scientists.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
DRAMATIZATION OF A
WALL STREET PANIC

March -, the day of the worst panic
Wall street has known in years, saw
many strange sights among the men
who play the speculation game. No
where did excitement run higher than
in the financial colony at the Waldorf.
Throughout the afternoon the cafes
and corridors of the Waldorf had re-
verberated with the echoes of a finan-
cial crash, which has gone down in
the annals of "the uptown Wall street"
marked with big, bad red letter.
There had been mighty, sickening
scare. The bottom of the market had
slid off SO quickly, easily, inexcusably
that the gamblers, big and little, swore
it had gone forever. Their nerve went
with it. They were left floating in the
air with not a single prop under them.
Men did strange things from 4
o'clock on. that day and didn't know
it. They walled and cursed and
kicked. They made hyena faces at
each other and blew smoke in each
others eyes-all unconsciously. They
hurried hither and thither and back
again, wrote kilograms and tore them
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13

up, gave orders to walters and coun-
termanded them, called pages and dis
charged them, pulled their mustaches
till they smarted down to the very
roots.
They lost all sense of true propor-
tions. One man who always bought
the most expensive cigars by the
thousand sneaked away to a cigar case,
purchased thre for quarter and slip
ped two stealthily and gingerly into
his pocket, as though they were mil
lion-dollar gold certificates. Another
man who was never, known to count
his change, accused waiter of rob-
bling him of 10 cents and demanded a
wine list that he might verify the price
of highballs.
They lost all sense of humor. AS
H. c. Frick stepped out of an elevator,
little Jew broker with glittering eyes
and pale, distraught face, plucked at
his coat sleeve.
"Ah, Mr.. Frick," he entreated in a
wheedling voice, give me your idea
of the market What do you Think"
The big man looked gravely at his
questioner and opened his lips to re-
ply. In a twinkling a crowd of men
with straining ears closed in about
him.
The market" said Frick, impertur-
badly, why, should say it was near
er the bottom today than yesterday"
He smiled and walked away, but the
humorous absurdity of his speech was
lost to his hearers.
Damn him." hissed the little pale
man savagely. "It wouldn't hurt him
to loosen up. He amt spittin' dia-
monds when he talks"
The scene was at once tragic and
ridiculous. Human judgment always
slumps with the market. Today not
a vestige remained. Men who were
used to thinking in thousands thought
and acted in dimes. Prosperity, the
greatest asset Wall street owns, faded
away like smhadow at night; power
ty, its most hated liability, stared every
hollow-eyed man full in the face. One
man who has lately purchased a $4,000
automobile went about hawking it for
1880. Some men in their excitement
talked of selling Newport villas.-W.
A. Johnston in Broadway Magazine.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13

OF the ring. No matter how other
things may turn out, the senior sena-
tor from Ohio will not be one-half 20
cocky when he returns to Washington
in the fall as he was when he left it
few months ago. This blow has also
been a strong hint to Senator Dick to
come in out of the rain"
1t has been many years since the
cry of the unemployed has been heard
In the United States, but 1t is heard in
loud and bitter tones throughout Lon
don today. Years have passed since
soup houses were necessary in any Of
the large cities of this country, but
thousands OF people are fed from soup
houses in London every day. Hundreds
of men, thrown out Of employment by
the government suspending operations
at the Woolwich arsenal, few days
ago marched to the ofhce Of the war
secretary and demanded employment.
They were told that he could do moth
ing for them and were advised to emi-
CRATE. What a commentary upon Brit
ish economies? What an outcome Of
sixty years of Cobden's system Of free
trade?
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
CURBSTONE MUTTERINGS.

There are two reasons why General
Kuroh cannot be taken to task for
declaring that American women are
beautiful: (a) They are. (b) What
else could he say?
Twenty years ago a mans shirt cuffs
were brought around in a circle and
fastened with a huge cuff button that
went through both sides of the cuff.
button had to be removed before the
cuff could be slipped off. A man who
worked in an office decided that the
cuffs should slip over the hand freely.
He invented the link cuff button. Now
adays, whether one wears detachable
cuffs or the kind sewed on the sleeves,
the links are almost universal. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is one of the few men
in the country who sticks to round
cuffs and old fashioned cuff buttons in
preference to the fiat cuffs and links.
Captain Thomas Franklin, who is re-
sponsible for the food OF the cadets at
West Point, makes the following in
teresting statement; For four years
have pasteurized every gallon OF milk
used in the cadet mess. We average
$50 gallons a day, nearly all of which
is drunk by students, very little being
used in cooking. Previous to the time
when we began to pasturize the milk
we had some cases of typhoid every
year, and just before l put in the cadet
mess the necessary plant to pasteurize
the milk we had quite number of
cases. Since the milk has been steri-
lized there has not been case Of ty-
phoid fever in the corps of cadets. 1t
may be a coincidence, but think not"
I; =
Bishop Sanford Olmstead at a dim
ner in Denver said, in referring to
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13

Sabbath breaking: II was talking to
an eastern clergyman the other day
about his church attendance. 4 sup
pose I said, that in your district rain
affects the attendance considerably.
He smiled family. Indeed, yes.' he
said. L hardly have vacant seat
when it is too wet for golf or motor
ing"
An old admiral we'll known for his
powers of exaggeration, was at supper
one night describing voyage. while
cruising In the Pacific" said he, I'VE
passed an island which was positively
red with Holsters" But" said one Of
the guests, smiling incredulously,
HOLSTERS are not red until boiled"
"Of course not" replied the undaunted
admiral, but this was a volcanic
island with boiling springs"
At the banquet given in New York
to General Kuroki, the Japanese hero.
Admiral Dewey was seated beside Wis.,
count Aoki, the Japanese ambassador.
The latter became SO enthusiastic
while cheering a speaker that he upset
a glass of water over the admiral's
coat. The diplomat was greatly per-
turbed because of the accident, but
Admiral Dewey laughed 1t of, saying:
DO not be distressed, beg Of you. or
course l should have preferred salt
water, but do not let the matter annoy
you in the least"
There Is one observation I would
like to make on the political situation" "
remarked a Republican, quoted in a
Washington letter. President Roose-
welt may or may not be useful to Sec
retary Taft in the long run. but Taft
had already been mighty useful to
Roosevelt. The president has picked
up Taft's ponderous form and with it
has knocked Senator Foraker clear out
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
WILLIAMSBURG POSTOFFICE
ROBBERS WILL BE INDICTED

Denver, Colo, June 1.-TWO of the
indictments to be returned by the spe-
cial federal grand jury in its next re-.
port will be against a couple OF the
worst criminals that Colorado ever
produced, and they will undoubtedly be
sent to Canon City in a short time.
They are James e. Mitchell and Chas.
Williams, Denver Frenchy," and the
indictment will charge them with
blowing open the postofice safe ut
Williamsburg, Colo. on the night Of
May IL. Their arrest by the Pueblo
officers followed the next day.
Mitchell is already quaking for fear
that he will be sent to Canon City, as
he believes that his imprisonment there
will be anything but pleasant. It was
he who led the gang that made Z d9ah
for liberty several years ago, when hs
blew open the gates Of the penitsntiary
with dynamite. He fears that on 90
count Of ths part that he took IN thi0
affair the oASuials viii make life eooi
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
long burden for him. He will ask to
be sent elsewhere

long burden for him. He will ask to
be sent elsewhere.
In that famous break for liberty the
six prisoners used the wife of the war
den as a shield and backed across the
mesa. Mitchell himself, after concoct-
ing the whole scheme and watching the
others make their break for freedom,
remained in the prison and did not try
to escape. Deputy United States Mar
shall Thomas Clark, one of the present
vigilants on Marshal Bailey's staff,
was guard at the penitentiary at the
time and when Kurch Kuydendall was
getting too far away and threatened to
escape, pulled his Winchester and in
trying to wing the fleeing prisoner sent
bullet through vital spot and the
convict fell dead in his tracks.
Mitchell is wanted in Omaha for the
theft of a tray of diamonds valued at
$4,000. which he is supposed to have
stolen in company with kid" Harris.
They beat the proprietor of the place
and left him for dead. One OF Mitch
ellis associates in crime, Cardona, Is
now serving a term at Canon City.
Several rewards were offered for
Mitchells arrest, both by the Omaha
officials and the postofice authorities.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-06-13
A NEW ANECDOTE
OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

The day after the great fire follow
ing the fall of Richmond. Lincoln, with
a small body guard, walked through
the streets of the charred city. AS he
approached the corner occupied by
General Pickett's residence, he direct
ed the guard to wait, and to their as
constituent ran two steps at time up
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-01
INTERESTED.

We have not heard it said YET
who Honest Dan" and "the gang
are to make town marshall and san
itary officer, keeper of the strong
box and City attorney. Pions
Jake" should not be forgotten, and
Little Billie Sanford should have
a plumb, and how about Brother
Kent and Honorable Harvey E
Ellis. Why not he scrupe.Iously
honest for a change, and make
Domergue Getty Auditor OF Ac-
counts. = That would be fine.
esNow let all the wives, mothers,
daughters, cousins, sweethearts,
old maids and aunts, with a few
grandmothers, great grandmothers,
cooks and house girls throw IN, get
to work and coerce husbands,
fathers, sons, nephews, uncles and
the rest of the male persuasion TO
vote for a cleaner Coyington, 4
latter Ellis. Yes, get busy and
land the progressive ticket, headed
by DR.. Williams and made up Of
men who have thou sands Of dollars
invested in the town.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-01

party that will use unfair means to
boost itself into power, by trying
TO create the impression that there
has been neglect of duty when
there has been none; by clothing
trivial circumstances in the garb
of criminal negligence; by attempt
ing to make people believe that
there was no ticket in the field
against them las appeared IN their
organ, the News), is not the party
to tie to; not the party to put your
trust in to develop future Gov
ington; not the party that is going
TO be placed in power on the 4th
day of June; not the party to pull
the wool over the eyes of discern
ing public, whose judgment, as a
majority, seldom tails IN the right
thing.
As we have before remarked, if
this new party polls seventy votes
it Will be doing we'll.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-06-01
Covingt0n COlOred School

We wish to say to the patrons and
the many generous friends of the Cow
ington Colored School who have donat-
ed to the cause, that the school house
which has been on foot for some time
is now nearing completion. The house
is up and the roof is on.s
The work has often been delayed by
circumstances over which we had no
control, but it is now being done by
contract, let out by the trustees OF the
Covington High School.
There has been careful and correct
record kept of every cent OF the money
raised by subscription, donation and
otherwise. by the Secretary and collec-
tor, and if anyone doubts his integrity,
or the misrepresentation OF the money,
we would gladly refer him TO our HOOKS
which will show the names ana ara nus
of each and every person who gave
from SC up to $500. fhe total disburse
ment will tally with the total amount
received.
It's true that a deal of public money
collected from colored people around
Coyington has been misappropriated,
but we all should remember that stall
coons may look aIike'', but they are not
alike, nor do they conduct themselves
alike.
We have raised, up to date, with the
generous aid of the white citizens, the
/ sum Of S22I.0 for the school building,
and the Parish School Board appropri-
ated 500 90 for which wo feel very
grateful.