Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-03
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Busy Reader

Inc woes OF I summer map
have begun. The first shirtwsisi
mar OF the season was denied ad.
mission to the baseball game q,
Annapolis.
Former President Grover Clevs.
land deprecates the popular out.
cry againet corporations and urges
tariff reform as the real Gu for
our political and economic ills.
The U. S. Supreme Court zee.
terday decided that Island No.
70 in the Mississippi river lie in
the State Of Arkansas and not IN
Mississippi. The decislon ends =
dispute Of half century.
The Pope in addition to Great
ing elk cardinals on April Is,
will hold another consistory later,
at which an English and one or
TWO American cardinals will be
created.
william Lloyd Garrison, IN q
speech in Boston, Saturday, said
.hat Re was more disturbed by the
CONCESSIONS of northern friends of
the negroes than by the altitude Of
Southerners WHO are making CAPT.
tai out of race hatred.
Some Boston scientists claim
that they have discovered through
scientific processes that the human
body has a soul-snd that 10
weighs about one ounce. We have
heard snall.souled people and now
we have had it proven by Boston
savants. Yes, the world do move.
Virginia produced during the
year 1905 a total of 4,276,27l
shert tons Of coal, valued at So
tn, 1926. These are the figures OF
the United States geological eur.
vey. The coal mining industry Of
Virginia has grown with grsa,
rapidity during the last fifteen
years.
William j. Bryan, az the guest
Of the Democratic club Of Cincin-
rati last week, delivered g lecture.
At the close of it he said: when
the fighting is hot in the next
campaign want to be on the
firing line, where the firing is the
hottest. Put me in the next
fight"
In order to deter boys from
smoking cigarettes it was suggest
ed at q meeting of the education
committee Of the Loudon County
Council, the diagrams Of cigarette
smokers handwriting which ap-
pear in the medical officers report
should be enlarged and displayed
in schools.
A map just Published shows
that of the 100 counties in Vir.
ginia, 81 have 10 liquor licenses
and 81 no saloons in rural dis
trictS. 81 of loI incorporated
towns have saloons and ~ nave
dispensaries. 1870, 900 Of the l.
$780, 900 population reside in "dry"
territory aad more than half Of the
1850 are in four counties.
Jones arrived in a email Wis
consin town late at night and the
livery man wanted s. to drive him
to his brothers, which was i've
miles in the country. Jones only
had 90, so he went to a doctor and
asked hin what be would charge
to uake a call five miles In the
country. The doctor said 81, and
when they arrived at Jones broth
er's house the doctor was dis
missed without seeing patient.
AS an expression of his graft
tude for kindly treatment ct The
hands OF Confederate 'OldIers
during the civil war, CsrtSin E.
8. Griswold. of the Eleventh YER
mont Volunteers, las written .
etter to Postmaster Cabell Of
Richmond, Offering his pension Of
If $l2 a north to any camp of
Confederate Veterans there which
will accept it, fer the benefit Of
.ged and needy ones who followed
he dag of Lee.
Former Secretary Shaw, speak
ng at thu banquet OF the South
Carolina Society CT New York
asst week, said it was the duty Of
Ill citizens to 60 GU record a.
branding the safety of railroad
investments from the reckless man.
pulalOs rs we'll as fI0m tie reck-
ess demagOgue. Those who
leard the speech knew Instantly
hat Mr.. Shsw's hit was at Presi>
lent Roosevelt.
With the opening nf the james
own Exposition nearly month
If, $4,000 persons paid adu ission
ee to ecter the grounds Sunday
IfteTnoon to witness the coIstruc-
ion work now being rushed by
1000 work linen. The attendance
vas the largest that has yet visi-
he grounds. Work never ceases
here Sundays, week days or
lights. A vast field Of activity
8 the exposition Enclosure, and
he show bids fair TO be in good
hspe by opening day, April 20.
The products of the pepper mills
t the country, mostly in New
England and the North Central
'tatss, have increased lS fold
jnce 1850. Over $500, 900 cords
I woods are being used every