Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-05-10

and the mothers were allowed to
soberupin order to care for their broods,
which they are doing with true mater
nal tenderness, though both seem some
what puzzled over the matter. Two
more turkey hens have now been put
to nest upon twenty-five eggs each, and
if the little black jug holds out there
will soon be four dozen more chickens
running about on the farm.
DR.. Theodore Gill, associate in zoology
at the U. S. National Musem, vindi-
Gated the fish from the charge that it
was deficient of all parental instinct, a
belief which, he says, has prevailed
since Aristotle's time. He saws the
male fish does the guarding of the eggs.
and the raising of the young, and that
often times the female would eat the
eggs and small fry but for the male
fish. This discovery is the result of
almost lifetime of study.
The suspension of publication of the
newspapers of Butte, Montana, because
the publishers would not meet what
they regarded as exorbitant demand
for the raise of wages on the part of
the pressmen, has proved a fine adver-
tisement of the advantages of adver-
tising. The business of the retail mer-
chants has been practically paralyzed,
owing to their inability to advertise.
and the leading department store of the
city, which has population of sc, 600,
is said to have sustained loss of 60
per cent. An article in an outside paper
says it is admitted that all retail busi-
ness has fallen off from % to so per cent
since the suspension.
A gift of one 81, 900, 600 for the estab-
lishment of fund for rudimentary.
schools for Southern negroes was an
nounced in Philadelphia Tuesday. The
donor is Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quak-
eress of that city. Booker T. Washing
ton, head of Tuskegee Institute, and
Hollis Burke Frissell, president of the
Hampton Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute, are named as trustees Of the fund,
but neither of the institutions they
represent will share in the gift. The
income of the million dollars is to be
used for the sole purpose of assisting
in the Southern United States COM
munity," country and rural schools for
the great class of negroes to whom the
small rural and community schools are
alone available.
This world is scared to death-the peo-
pie 1 mean. It's easy to frighten peo-
pie because they're ready for it all the
time. Fear, fear, fear! Afraid of
something all the time; looking for
trouble. Oh let's be happy and forget
it, We're not sick or sinful; let us be
happy. What people think is
what they are, and the world is what
you think it is. To some it is paradise,
filled with sunshine, flowers, loving
friends, etc. To others it is a prison.
The trouble is there are too few people
who do their own thinking, they let
others tell them what to believe. If
you want to believe something, believe
the dictates of the divine soul within
you. Use your brains-God gave them
to you to use. Buster Brown.
Isn't it true that we are often quite
ready to condemn our neighbor when
often we, too, are floundering in sin
and corruption? 'That man has sold
his vote!' you might yell across the
Senate floor. Very well, you may yell it
if you know it to be true, but first
reflect: ''Have l ever sold my voter"
THAT man is a liar-that man is
drunkard-that man is theft" Very
well, Let him who is without sin
among you cast the first stone!"
''Have ever told lie?" you might
ask yourself before you start in to fiay
the liar. 1t is possible that you have.
Truly the drunkard, the thief and the
liar will have their reward-every
ounce. But tits quite impossible for
you to administer it. Your business is
first to find out your mistakes and get
rid of them. Then you may have the
privilege of casting your stone-not at
the man, but at the evil that has bound
him-and by so doing help to usher in
the millennium. Richmond Journal