The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-05-31

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We send our congratulations Z"
opr worthy and able contemporaries
me sunalk Herald. lts eNro-''''"
edition i,a jcm of the first water
r,e interest. of thc railroads and
ne neople are the same. says f'er'-
dent Finley. Then al's well as Ie"
clks are foolish enough To ho" ''e'
own interests.
In France they are re>ortIne TO "'
nGcial heat TO promote Nese''o''
cr,wtb II could have been proh''o'S
employed boy us during ''e ''''
spring.
The Baltimore sun is 20 years old.
Venerable with years and yet n".
wrinkles ON its brow and no uimi'l
Of age to mar the splendid work.
"Many returns
Mr. Roosevelt can never go down to|
history as "a great President until mel
beeome, broad enough TO appoint al
representative from the co;ton-gro"
inv south as member of his cabinet
"Uope0 was the name Of am AT
kansas town and yet the tornado came
and swept out Of existence. "N hat
inaname?" by any other name i'
might have suffered like fate
No community can get ON without
hank conveniencies. There is OF.
now in full swing on the exposition
grounds. Some men handle the hoe
and make money, other men handle
money and make money.
Commonwealths, cities. towns and
counties can all borrow money ON long
time and at reasonable rate of interest
so let them do it and transmit the
debt with good roads to rostenty No
richer legacy could be left them.
President Wilson, of Princeton, says |
"chewing tobacco promotes clear
timing What an array Of young |
"chewers" may be born Of the sugges-
ton. Fortunately the learned gentle
man has mo- word of commentator
for the cigarette.
Some one Of our exchanges has re-
Gently remarked on the fact that there
are 1900 more women i'm Washington
than there are men, and yet the men
are vain enough TO say they run the
Government. ave are the people.
Ifthe State assumes the expenses of
the primary and then the law is rigidly
enforced against tine corrupt use Of
money i'm political canvasses may be
the "defects" Of which the Nirginian
Pilot complains, will have been re-
moved.
The Exposition promises to be m
full swing from and after June 10th,
and from now until the gate close the
attendance will no doubt be as large
a. the most ardent friends ever hoped
for. Virginia's good name is involv-
ed in the venture and no stain or
shame has ever rested upon it in all
its resplendent and glorious history.
virginiaus to the rescue
Mrs. Vanderbilt, the millionaire
mistress Of Fillmore, has been wear
ing home spun dress and now society
is going wild on the subject. The
trouble is that our looms are all gone
and we fear cannot be reproduced for
the good reason that the trusts will
Jump on the home industries. The /
rest of our house wives can be as in-
dependent as is Mrs. Vanderbilt
The United States Supreme Court
has just decided that liquor may be
sent from "wet" State into "dry,
by virtue Of constitutional protection
to interstate commerce.
OF course this has nothing to do with
State control of the subject within the
borders of the State. The state has b
the power, if it cares to exercise 1t, of }
protecting her 'dry" counties or "dry g
towns against the eucroachments Of B.
her "wetn neghbors. y
1t is said that within the past ten
years two Of the leading banks Of a
New York have lost 100000, 900 Of de $
posits. 1t is comforting TO know that =
the money hasn't been "lost, strayed
or stolen, but has been placed in the l.
smaller working institutions of the Z
country which are now dotting the
nation over. Tbs is a good sign Of
healthful progress along financial lines. z
Relieve the unnatural congestion which V
has so long been the cause of abnor- J.,
mai condition in the financial system. M
Columbus, the "dreamer, died ga
vagabOnd beggar although his dreams '
had enriched the world, while a pickle u
dealer of Seville gave his name TO the
mighty continent Columbus had dis al
covered ~
And il is still SO, one sOws while an ~
other reaps, one digs in the dark Of +,
the mine that another may live in ease G.
and luxury, one bores for oil and
Rockefeller is known of all men.
Some grub and Others give. The W.
grubber is unknown, the gyer the on
of an ohserNers.N