Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
KETCR-AWLS FROM EVERYWHERE.

The making of more laws for a people
who do not obey those they have, is like
propounding new questions to liar.
''The Virginia military are certainly
unequaled in the United States" saws
President Roosevelt Teddy is great
discerner after all.
The Worlds Work IN. W pays its
respects to Southern newspapers, and
says that the personality of the editors
counts for more than CORRESPONDING
editors in the Northern States.
Justice John has decided that a wife
has the perfect right TO beat drunken
husband. We commend both the wis
dom and the justice of this decision.
Nothing tends to sober man so-much
as the hickory. Free Lance.
The Government has issued orders
that this summer letter carriers will
be dressed in ga shirtwaist, necktie.
and neat belt" F" This will make a
delightful cool costume for the heated
period, even if it is a trife startling. =
Columbia State.
There is a strong belief in some quar-
ters that the most difficult thing in the
world is the conviction of a lawyer.
The nature of the profession is such
that one member does not desire to
punish an associate unless his offense is
no ,.ttf snl lo -, c1o a..
worst form. however, to charge that it
is due to the old proverb that there is
honor among thieves -Times-D Dispatch.
The News believes that the courts
are trying to do their full duty, but it
ampliiies this statement by saying that
it has reference to the trial judges, and
perhaps the prosecuting officers, al
though it is not satisfied with the work
of the men in the jury room. The
failure of jurors to convict when un-
deniable evidence of guilt is presented,
under oath, is most discouraging to our
people. -Times-Dispatch.
In Virginia if one is fined by the mayor
of town for an offence, and afterwards
the offender abuses the mayor, it is not
crime, and he cannot be held for libel,
provided the abuse is contained i'm a
newspaper article. Recently Mayor w.
G.. Campbell, of Woodstock, fined a
drunken man. The man abused the
mayor through the press. 1t was de-
cided last week in Judge Harrison's
court that no offence had been commit
tedsince the abuse was printed in a news
paper; that, in other words, ii was no
contempt of court. .-Staunton Spectator.
The Nelson County Times says that
the only way to get good roads is to
issue bonds and thereby secure money
enough to fix them permanently. ''The
slip shod way of fixing the roads about
in places, time after time, year after
year, is like throwing money down q
rat hole. We would venture to say
that enough money has been thrown
away on the dirt roads. in the county in
the last fifteen years to macadamize
every road and keep in thorough re-
pair for the next ten years." says the
Times.
That is wise teacher who, according
to the Morganfield (Ky.) Sun, says that
pupils who have access to newspapers
at home, when compared with those
who do not, are better readers, better
spoilers, better grammarians, better
punctuators, and read more under
standingly. and obtain practical know
ledge of geography, in almost half
the time required by Others" The
newspaper is decidedly an important
factor in modern life. This will not be
disputed by anyone who has taken the
trouble to investigate the matter for
himself. Washington County Journal.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
The increasing price of white paper,
and the threatened famine of the
material for its production are more
ascribable to the big newspapers of the
country than to any other or to all other
causes combined. There has been
shameful, indeed criminal waste of
most valuable product in the printing
of debasing comic supplements and of
Sunday editions of such enormous pro-
portions as to battle all attempts to
read them, and now the penalty comes
when manufacturers are at. their wits
end to find the necessary raw material
to fill their contracts with, and publish
ers of mammouth sheets will either
have to reduce the size of their papers,
charge five cents copy for them, or
put additional burdens upon the adver-
tisers. Indeed, there is grave danger
of suspension eventually in many cases
if science does not find some substitute
for the present raw materials used in
the manufacture of white paper.
Index-Appeal.
A few days after the wreck of the
steamer Central America" sent hun
dreds to watery grave and plunged
the nation into mourning, pilot boat
was seen approaching New York. AS
the vessel neared the harbor the words
Three more savedi Three more savedw
reached the nearest listeners. The
tidings '"Three more saved ran along
the streets. The newsboys left off
crying the last murder and shouted,
Three more saved!" The porter threw
down his load, busy salesmen dropped
their goods, bookkeepers their pens,
ha nkare thair. diSconntS holIo.c tLo;,.