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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
ARREST POST CARD DEALERS.

Sellers of racy post cards. are hang
ing by their eye lids, owing to cru
sade started by the postoffice depart
ment against vulgar and obscene mail
matter of this kind.
The Inspector visits dealer and looks
over the cards offered for sale on the
public stand. Seeing nothing which
comes under the law here, he
asks, in a confidential whisper,
"Have you anything racy?" Some did
and some didn't. The ones who had
cards under the counter for specialpu
poses, brought them forth, unsuspect-
ingly, and the Inspector bought some of
these to use as evidence against them.
The law in this matter is severe.
Section 1lS of the Postal Laws and
Regulations, says that any person or
firm who shall mail or express any
printed card, letter, circular or book,
cor who shall take from such express
company or other common carrier with
intent to sell, distribute or circulate any
matter or thing herein forbidden to be
deposited for carriage, shall for each
offense. upon conviction thereof, be
fined not more than five thousand dol
lars, or imprisoned at hard labor not
more than five years. or both, at the
discretion of the court
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
WHEN SHE IS GONE.

When she is gone the MONDAY sun
Dies out till all is dark to me,
And shadows gather one by one
Where merry sunbeamsd danced in glee:
And day SO soon will turn to night,
And darkness reigns instead of light
When she is gone.
When she is gone the west winds song
So soft and low at twilight dim
In somber tones that echo long
Turns to a dreary funeral hymn:
And night winds Groom among the pines
A dirge-like air with mournful lines
When she is gone.
When she is gone for days yearn
With longings which perhaps are vain
When day to night shall never turn
And life shall know no throb of pain
For days which shall no moments Know
Midsummer's sbloom or winters SNOW
When she is gone. M.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
Jamestown EXPOSITION NOTES.

In visiting the Warpath everyone
should see Chiquita the human midget,
"a years old. Ladies and children
woman who sings, and speaks in En-
glish, Spanish, and Italian, also dances.
Governor Swanson has loaned the
Virginia Blues 10 South Carolina for
South Carolina Day, which occurs June
2Sth. On that occasion the Blues will
fly the South Carolina flag and Gov
ernor Ansell. of that state, will be in
charge.
In this Exposition year it is fortunate
for Virginia that she has young gov
ernor who is vigorous in body as well as
in intellect, and to whom mental or
physical fatigue seems to be a stranger.
No war governor was probably ever
subjected to the strain which Swanson
has undergone since the jamestown
Exposition opened, and certainly none
has ever met it better or stood it as
well. If the country is looking for a
strenuous successor to Roosevelt, it
need look no farther than Virginia
Index-Appeal
President Roosevelt, while he ac-
corded merit to all of the troops par
ticipating in the parade, was especially
loud in his laudation of the Virginia
regiments and corps. To Governor
Swanson he declared: 1.-THE. Virginia
troops are a splendid body of men. /
am delighted with the review. and en-
joyed seeing the Richmond Blues. a
command which has a national repu-
tation. The cadets from the Virginia
Military Institute and Virginia Poly
technic Institute are we'll called mill
tary men of the Sonth." For the first
time in the history of the State a Gov
ernor of Virginia, the commander-in-
chief of the army, encamped with the
Virginia troops. Governor Swanson
visited the camp of the Virginia bri-
gade, and with Mrs. Swanson, dined
with General Vaughan and the bri-
gade staff. Later the Governor at
tended the banquet given by the bri-
gade officers in his honor at the Swiss
Village. There were present 200 of
ficers, including all of the regular army
and navy officers on duty at Che expos
ition. The Governor made one of the
most notable speeches that he has ever
delivered. The banquet was a great
success. That night Governor Swanson
spent in camp with General Vaughan,
and was serenaded by the three bands,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Not necessary to buy a Especial
delivery" stamp now; ten cents in ordi
nary stamps in addition to the 2-cent
one otherwise required, will entitle
letter to special delivery.
There is CONSERVATION among the
BARRIERS of England over the invention
of Londoner named Witherington.
He has made paste which removes
the beard without the use of razor in
ten minutes. ''You rub on the paste;
wipe it off with the sponge, and,
presto.
Wisconsin's Legislature passed by
almost unanimous vote bill prohibiting
the smoking of cigarettes by adults or
boys in public places. Speaker Ekerton
told how the big tobacco companies are
violating the spirit of the State law by
teaching children how to get cigarettes
outside the State, and made the point
that persons to whom cigarette smoking
is offensive are entitled to rights as
well as smokers.
OF freak newspapers, one of the
most remarkable, says an exchange,
was the Luminaria, published in Mad
rid. The ink with which it was printed
contained small percentage of phos-
phorous, so that the letters were
visible and the paper could be read
in the dark Another was the Regal,
printed with an ink guaranteed non-
poisonous on thin sheets of dough.
After absorbing all the information the
sheet contained one could eat it, thus
deriving from it nourishment for mind
and body. Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE,
lFrederlcl1shnrr Free Lnnce

Fredericksburg Free Lance
. Under the editorial heading, "a
Screw Loose" the Washington Post
of June IL says:
The cost of living continues to in
crease, and Notwithstanding all this
octopus chasing and trust busting
nobody has put a cheaper shirt on his
back or a cheaper biscuit down his
throat. All the row was in the name
OF the poor man-to make it easier for
him to earn living and save a penny
for rainy day. For that eloquent
statesmen have exclaimed i'm Congress.
and out of Congress, my country, oh,
how she bleeds" and then scampered
afCer the octopuses and trusts that had
done the injurious things to our country
aforesaid.
Just across the border i'm Canada
living is two-thirds, or less, what it is
with US, and hundreds of thousands of
American citizens well to do have fled
from prosperity in this country and
voluntarily become subjects of a descen-
dent and successor of George III.
Ihere is a screw loose somewhere.
Ihere is an octopus unchased.
The Washington Post no doubt knows.
although it failed to mention it, that all
the trust busting, octopus chasing and
railroad regulation efforts on earth will
never reduce the cost of living one cent
until our statesmen remove the real
cause. The trusts no doubt bleed the
people, but the high tariff now pre-
vailing enables the trusts to exist and
to fix prices. The cost of living will go
down just in proportion as the tariff
is lowered.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
G00DROADSIN AMHERST
URichmond Times-D Dispatch,


AT the recent meeting of the Virginia
Press Association, Judge c. j. Camp
bell, of Amherst, read an instructive
paper on the relation between public
schools and public roads, in the course
of which he outlined the work of the
public road Improvement in his county
''For years." said he, 1--WE in Vir-
ginia have had upon our statutes law
by which the counties could obtain from
the State the use of practically free
labor, but none of the counties, except
Amherst and Bedford, until recently,
had the foresight to take the gift,
even when it was offered to Them"
In 1890, when Judge Campbell ac-
quired the ownership of the Amherst
New Era, he began to agitate the
question of and advocate the use of
convicts on the county roads. At first
opposition was strong, but he continued
to agitate, and at last, in 1901, it was
decided to ask for convicts. Since then
force of twenty conyicts has been
kept continuously at work on the puplic
roads of Amherst, and the roads have
improved at least one hundred per cent.
Under this law the State furnishes
the labor free, and provides clothing:
the county pays for transportation,
board and guards, and the cost so far
IN Amherst averages about forty cents
per capita per day. Having seen the
benefit of good roads, the people finally
voted bond issue of $50, 600 for road
Improvement. Under the new State
law Amherst will get all the necessary
convict labor from the state, and it is
proposed to have macadamized roads
throughout the county. Judge Camp
bell believes that this will be a valua-
BILE investment for the county, as it
will largly increase the value of land
and the number of desirable settlers.
to say nothing of the public convenience.
Amherst has set an example which
other counties will do well to follow:
for it must ever be remembered that
the problem of transportation by road
to the railroad is one of the most i'm
portant factors in determining the value
of farm products, and thereby the
value of farm lands. Virginia, once
the first agricultural Commonwealth
on this continent, can in great measure
recover her position by good roads and
modern methods.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
SPRING WORKING OF DIRT ROADS.
by Use of Drag and Rut scraper.

by Use Of Drag and Rut Scraper.
To The Free Lance:
| am sending you some extracts from
the Rural New Yorker. A great number
of miles of dirt road are kept in good
travel condition by this simple method
in the State of New York.
Yours for good roads,
Thos. H. Harris.
With the opening of spring comes the
most important time of the year to put
the dirt roads of the State in shape that
their stability, surfice drainage and best
possible condition at the least expense
may be insured. Atshght effort and lit
tie expense more can be accomplished by
the use of drags on the roads at this time
of the year than couldbe done by double
the amount of work later in the season.
The best time to use drag on road
is during the winter and spring, when
the road is thawed on top. If dragged
at this time it will allow the spring
rains to run off from the beaten path, in
stead of lying in pools to soften the sur
face and reduce the road material to
mud. Later In the season the roadway
should be frequently dragged following
a rain, and before the material has an
opportunity to dry out. If this is done
our ordinary dirt roads can be kept in
good condition, a crown preserved, ruts
prevented and driveway furnished free
from deep mud and puddles, and which
will be pleasure and a comfort to all of
its users. Drag the
road as soon after every rain as pos
sible, but not when the mud is in such
condition as to stick to the drag. Do
not drag dry road. Drag whenever
possible at all seasons of the year. y
Always drag a little earth to-
wards the center of the road until it is
raised from ten to twelve inches above
the edges of the travelled way. If the
drag cuts in to much, shorten the hitch.
The amount of earth that the drag will
carry along can be very considerably
controlled by the driver, accordingly as
he stands near the cutting end or away
from it. When the roads are first
dragged after very muddy spell the
wagons should drive, if possible, to one
side until the roadway has chance to
freeze or partially dry out. The best
results from dragging are obtained only
by repeated applications. Constant at
tention is necessary in order to main
tain an earth road in its best condition.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
OLD MAN BORROW.

Old Man Borrow's everywhere,
Borrowing trouble, borrowing care,
Borrowing grief when life is bright,
Borrowing gloom when hearts are light!
Old Man Borrow's at the door
OF Mr.. Rich and Mr.. Poor,
borrowing ache and borrowing pain,
Borrowing shadow, borrowing rain,
Always wants to borrow care
If you've got enough to spare!
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
I.uCuS COuNTY. 50.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that ne is SEN
ior partner of the firm of +. j. Cheney & Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo. County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d.
lSSo. A. w. GLEASON,
tSEAI"l NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free. Il. j. CHENEY * CO., Toledo o.
Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28

The medicine that sets the world thinking.
The remedy on which all doctors agree,
The prescription all your friends are taking is
Holsters Rocky Mountain Tea.
X. NJ. Sanders, White Stone: T.. G. Richard
son, Kilmarnock.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-06-28

You can't tell a woman's age after she takes
Holsters Rocky Mountain Tea. Her com
plexion is fine. She is round, plump, and
handsome; ia fact she is young again.
% cents, Tea or Tablets. Ellis G. Richard
son, Kilmarnock; II. NJ. Sanders, White Stone.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
The Rural School Campaign.

The able and popular president of
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, Mr. J. c. Hardy, filed four APP
pointments last Friday and Saturday,
on the east side of the river, and adj
dressed large audiences at Rural Hill,
Barttahatchie, Hamilton and Lackey,
| in behalf of the proposed two-mil
tax for the benefit of the country
schools outside of separate school dis
tricts. Professor Hardy IS a forcible
and convincing speaker and made the
proposition so plain TO his hearers
that they expressed thorough accord
with il and gave assurances of a sue
cessful issue at the election. He was
attended on this round by County
| Superintendent of Education T T.
Davenport, who occupied himself
profitably by imparting such informa-
ton as promiscuous queries required.
The campaign will be continued
next Monday, commencing at Willis
Store in the fifth district and closing
Saturday night at Stonewall High
School, by State superintendent H.
L. Whitfield, who viii be accompa-
MED by County Superintendent Ed
gar Greene, of Lincoln county. The
list of these appointments appears
elsewhere under the head of Public
| Speaking" 1t is unnecessary to urge a
generous attendance at these dates,
as the prominence OF the speakers
and the worthiness of the cause which
they viii advocate, assure the pres
/ ence of the more interested people.
In addition to the above appoint
ments, Prof. D. c. Hull of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College,
will speak in the interest of the same
cause, at Lebanon school house at u
O'Clock noon, Saturday, May II, and
az New Hope Church (CoontaiD at
night of the same day. The people of
those communities are expected to
give Prof. Hull fine audience at each
place.
The election is ordered for Tuesday,
May 14th.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03

On Wednesday, May 8th, there will
be a basket dinner at the Hatley
High School, given in honor of Hon.
H. L. Whitfield, our wide awake State
superintendent of Education who will
make an address at that time and
place on the Educational question OF
the day, especially the two-mill tax
proposed for the rural schools. The
Superintendent of Education of Lin
coin county, Edgar Greene viii ac-
company Mr.. Whitfield and will also
address the people, and other speak
ers are expected.
come one and all; bring well filed
baskets, and talk with us about the
future of our boys and girls
L. G.. PULLEN,
b. w. DILWORTH,
B. S. JONES,
committee.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
Center Point School.

GREENWOOD SPRINGS, MISS,
April 29th, 1906.
EEITOR ABERDEEN WEEKLY:
The closing exercises of the center
Point school occurred Friday, April
rs, and were attended by large num-
Der Of patrons and others.
This was Miss Sharpe's first term
at center Point and she has attained
a highly satisfactory degree of sue
cess, and made many friends in this
community.
The pupils recited speeches in the
morning hours, and the programme
was carried out nicely by Prof. J. l..
Lochridge. Music by Mrs. S. A.
Pickle.
At the close of the declarations
there was a dinner hour intermission,
and after dinner Mr.. w. G. Davis
made a grand speech on education.
W NJ. GIDEON.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
Episcopal Confirmation.

The West Point Times-Herald pays
our former young fellow-citizen, Rev.
''Lundy" Sykes the following merited
compliment:
Bishop Bratton preached a force
full sermon to an overlooking house at
the Episcopal church last night, and
confirmed the largest class in the his
tory of the local church, being pre-
sented by the rector Rev. J. L. Sykes.
Sunday morning the Bishop preached
IN the chapel at the A. & Nj. College
and confirmed four persons. Today
he viii make visitations TO Mr.. Sykes
missions at Macon and Okolona, ac-
companied by the rector.
The Master is surely blessing the
modest, unassuming and consecrated
earnest labors of this young divine
(Mr. j. L. Sykes for during his brief
charge here the membership of his
charge has increased about sixty per
cent, showing that the talents en-
trusted TO him have been invested
in manner that is yielding rich re-
turns"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
We Guarantee Satisfaction.

J. A. Brogdon, of the National Sign
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of Oct. u, 1906: "NOsENA is the only
preparation | have ever used that re-
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experienced since / contracted ca
tarrh six years ago. Money would not
buy my tube of NOsENA if I could not
get another" Buy NosENA from J.
A. GAY and get yaur mony back if
not satisfied. Sample tube and book
let by mail 1Oc.
Brown MANUFACTURING Co.,
St. Louis, Mo. and Greenville, Tenn.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
T. r. Maxwell of DeSOtO County
for State Auditor.

The political horoscope of Mis-
sissippi just now presents some in.
teresting features.
In all localities of the State strong
men are being brought out for the
various State offices, one among the
last being Mr.. T. r. Maxwell. Of
| DeSotO county, who, in our opin-
ion, comes as near being qualified
in every particular for the office
mentioned as anyone whose name,
to this writing, has been brought to
the surface.
Mr.. Maxwell, for many years,
was chancery and circuit clerk of
his county, (DeSoto). and in that
position distinguished himself for
| aptness as an accountant and for a
clean, satisfactory stewardship, no
clerk the county ever had having
more ably discharged the duties in
cum bent.
At present Mr.. Maxwell is the
clerk of the State Railroad Comis-
sion and in this position has ac-
quired a knowledge of the State )
affairs which would be of much
value to him as auditor.
In the election of Mr. Maxwell to
the office, the question of and audi
tor not being allowed to succeed
himself would be solved, for he is
opposed, it is said, by a man who
has served in both the auditors and
State treasurer's office, he having
been deputy in the former and clerk
in the latter.
Moreover, it is said that Mr..
Smith claims Monroe comfy as his
home yet registers and votes in
Kinds county.
DeSoto has never, so far as we
know, been represented with a State
office, and now that she preseE is
the name of a man whose qualifica-
tions all must acknowledge and
whose coming into the race would
put To the test the question of State
auditors and treasurers succeeding
themselves same as sheriffs and
county treaSurers are not allowed
to succeed themselves, it seems that
Mr.. Maxwell is the man for the
place and that he would have no
trouble in getting a sufficiency of
strength to rally to his standard to
make victory certain. -Waynesbora |
News Beacon.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
For Bailiff.
SECOND DISTRICT.
J. O. MOON.

A man was killed at Wallace, Idaho,
last week, as result of a dispute over
President Roosevelt's letter on Mover
and Haywood as undesirable citi-
zens." They are on trial for the muir
der of Governor Stunenburg of that
State two years ago
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
CATARRH
and
CATARRHAL HEADACHES

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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03
The Faint=tfearted.
Memphis Commercial Appeal

Memphis Commercial Appeal
The Jackson Miss Clarion-Ledger. answer
ing a correspondent who favors the Vardaman
/ view of settling the negro question, says;
/ He tthe correspondent desires the right Of
/ franchise taken away from the negro, and so
I does every other democrat in the South He be
/ Ileves II can be done by the utterance and effort
I OF one lone man. which of course Is an absurdlty
/ We confess to quite degree of surprise at the
attitude of some of the South stanchest papers
/ toward this question. Like the Clarion-Ledger
/ these journals acknowledge that it would be to
the best interest Of the South and, indeed, to the
whole country, TO repeal the amendment giving
the franchise to the negro yet, because there is
opposition to this course in the ranks Of polti-
cal enemies, they either make haste TO capitulate
utterly or supinely leave others to fight for what
they believe to be right.
1t is all the more surprising that this spirit
of accepting defeat upon this question should
come to the South at this particular time when
it must be apparent to all that much of the wis
dom of the North has, of late years veered to the
Southern view. a decade ago and the suggestion
of the repeal of the fifteenth amendment would
have been met with fiery protest from all parts
Of the North. with much waving of the bloody
shirt. Now, Northern writer's Of little fame
are found urging the necessity Of a separate set
of laws for the government of the negro race
True. this is urged for scientific discoveries
demonstrating raClai QIuEfeuCeS TOO pronounced
for any one set of laws to impartially ht the
mental attributes of both races.
Passing by the causes generating this North
ern opinion we leave the positive fact that the
opinion does exist and, what IS more, that it
gains ground every day. This means that
Southerners Of today have powerful allies in the
North ready and willing to help in work which
ten years ago found nothing but enemies in the
North Truly, here is evidence that the repeal
OF the fifteenth amendment is no such absurd un-
dertaking as these faint-hearted Southern jour
mails would have US believe. Here is proof that
the movement has powerful friends even in the
stronghold of the enemy Why, then, should /
we who know the political importance and ma /
terial benefit of the successful issue in this mat
ter. give up the battle just when strong and /
potent succor is coming TO our assistance? Sure +.
", if there be absurdity anywhere. it is among /
those who give up a fight when they are making /
inroad into the enemy lines.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-03

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