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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
BREAKFAST BY ELECTRICITY.
Modern Breakfast Is Cooked on Dining
 Room Table.

Thanks to the science of electricity the trouble and delay of getting breakfast have been reduced to a minimum. No longer does the man of the house tread nervously about the dining room while the good wife patiently shakes the kitchen range and endeavors to hurry the slug gish fire so her lord and master can have his breakfast before going to work. And then, just as the reluctant kettle begins to boil his last car comes round the corner and he slams the front door and hurries breakfastless to work.
 Breakfast these days, in the modern home, is merely a matter of pushing the button. Snap a switch and the invisible current boils the water In the teakettle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
Rather Hard.

From the Boston Post.
 The messenger entered the palace with the dispatches.
 "Brimstone and asphalt!' ejaculated Castro, as he read the yellow slip. 'Hol- land threatens to spank us'
 Well. what of it. your excelleney?' responded the secretary. Other nations have threatened to do the same.'
 ''Yes, but, confound it. this is a spank ing that will hurt. The Dutch wear wooden shoes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13

slices to be toasted on either side of the heating unit The heating element con- sits of four zig-zag coils of special re- sistance when suspended vertically. The four heating coils being connected in null tiple, all danger of short-circuiting the de- vice with fork Is eliminated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13

Our SIS Suits and Overcoats, worth $22.50, consist of the most advanced styles and the latest weaves and shades in splendid materials.
 MARLEY & BAUMAN
 CLOTHING CO.,,
 1910 THIRD AVENUE.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-17
#ougnn s Gai2or STOP

O. G. HoUGAN, Prop
First class tailoring in all it's
Misunderstanding, press
ing and repairing done On
short notice. All work
guaranteed satisfactory in
every particular. Reason.
able charges.
BEACH, N, D.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-17
Tor I have tested him myself as

Tor I have tested him myself as a
dancee."
departed in a singular state of
mind. My happiness had received a
shock. regretted nothing. l did not
blame myself nor my first love. Thus
far I had lived under the impression
that elderly people had come from
some far distant land with which the
rest of us have nothing to do. Here
was one Of my own generation who
had passed In a twinkling, it seemed,
from the bud to that bloom wherein
the petals fall.
HORACE B. GAYLORD.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-07-17

: 49, ~ -.Iz. --....AaAHA4u.n. - -
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
Seras.

- 8Ianco. Sn bieiioer @egeno
mill elm Sariner einen 8eriud nit
benz gnpfIon5en ben OIinenbGlimen
MAIDEN. Ole 8unOesregierung bat
Inn Ole n6tbigen 8fIdu8en geliefert.
- Guero. Sier In Gliero tuurSe
Der Reeer Senrp Green tpeeen &aub-
anfollS at 5ehn Sabren 3uhtbaiis
ueritrtbeiIt. Green mar elmer BET bei-
Ben gteger, 6ie Dor mebreren Wono.
ten Den iuilgen auguit Bilbelm 9ruIe
aus Sohhcim 81 beroilben Iudten;
Srilie fam nit ieinem @oaen bon
IDoofum auriif no or 9oltnrpolIe Der.
tauft bate. l1nterpegs boten i'm spei
geser, mttfnbten 81 Oiirfeu unO ct er'
fonbte ihnett, oft ben @oaen Sl itci
laen. gtn eiuer einioncn StelIe oes
Beges fieIen sic @eiSeli iiber i'm her
Iano ueriudten, i'm iein @el6 atSlr
pebnten, Gr icete lid sir @ebr idoB
ben @iucil bon liner nieNer mo ingte
ben anSerit m Die 5lubt. 2esterer,
|berielbe, Ser lest p%crurtbeilt lit, lDur.
he ipater berhaftet.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
lieg niht menantr naen pernohr

bies nibt pe95ubr noen permo6y
Don Der Sbe ais Roth5lIhtsanjta.: sc
ipro6en (iun0 Gbnlides mebr. oas
mir niht pieoerbolen mogen~ Aui
3. 8eo. .. gtmerifo.) Inter oieien
llmItGnoen 1T gu GithDramben in DER
8lodpreiie fem Anlab. @rai Su,
be1ou 1T nifJt mebr @cnerolnoiutaut
oes aaiicrs. Ser aoiiel ou3i iEu
ni6t mebr, er itcbt Dor chem ariegS
eeridt; unO Die 9lGtter meloen, onp
Die SGlle, nm Die eS LID lnuoelt, ihoE
perjGbrt iiHo. SroBoem gi5t eS nod
cine 4n5obI 9ertid'er, Sic Der Iniidjt
iinb, oaB iolde Mlitpliroer Der @ei.II'
i6ait, mcml lie aud dc @ohltbnten
Der 8crIGbrung 9eriebcr, nidt in
Die gtdHc 5eiuer Wtoicidt geboreH.
Sn 4ot50am merSen ncn &rupper
reft nl.bmenbige 8ortrG0c iibcr f..
moierueIIe @ciobren 1ebolten. &e"r
2ecomte it eiiigit aus Berlin ob9e
jogen ul0 hot lid nit gried,iiten
8erb0Itniiien -aemiB cine carte Rild'
iidt Ser irouBoiii6en Hegierlmo =
I'll bciaiicu. Mcr bat ors Ser0i3nt>
MorimiGun SarOen llro nllr pey
Den @raicn 6obeunlt lulO sen 8raicl
2pnor uid)t Dor sic Rid)ter wiinibt,
Toll StGuc GIf I'm .srErer."
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
MoScrne Sultur.

Ole @erliner ggteue Hlutoidou" F,
cine ourd0ltS liberal gefiibrte Belt,
ifrift. urtbeilt in piuem rGolitii6e
aetgite einca llnpolitii6en 'Nlonue5"
iibcrihricbcuen 9(rtitel ijber oie mo-
berne, pom Mt0tcriali8mulS beberrid)te
&ultllr foIgenOermnBen:
yStebt eS in 8obrbeit INN ultiere
4ltItilr oas 8ort i'm abgeihlp1f.
ten Sinne ~ 10, oab mir ihrer frob
Iein oiirftcu2 Nor einem MenihelaI.
ter baben ole 5ortgeidritteniten oorii-
Der 81 tlagen gebobt, oaB Die Deut'
i6en feincr onoern aIs elmer popier.
men 9ilOung m1dtig w6reu; bag
ieIbit bieienigeu inter linen oeren
Niijell llo W}ei1ien, oereu Deufell
uito 3eilteu nit Sartuddigfeit nm Die
@oeISHauen 0cs nleni9Iihcu @eiiteS
beniiht mare =. lid, /. 5piiden p6beI'
bait geldmadloietn 6ol8rath uno int
@ampi bon itiled)tem Sabat ~5ufrieoen
b%erpegten. Gas Bat lid ireiIih bis
oui ben anopi Der elettriiheu Tlingel
ge1nocrt ltHo menrt mir in elm so.
reubdlts 9ebpn ooer auf einen Stubl
nieOeriiBen elm Bud 5ur @ano neb'
men tlno Sbee trinten, fomten mir
uns einbiloen, in Shonbeit 5u leben.
Ni6tsoeitomeniger miro in Der Inter.
grlul0bam gerauht in Die 9benter
fomnlt man 81 ipGt. aus ben aon5er'
ten gebt man 5u friib, man applait.
biert Der S1ngerin Den ShluB Der
8egleitumg meg uno Der 9iirgerSs
mann iiibrt ieine b~ulbentbloBte Srau
,u5eiteu Die nt6t seriiitet limb, einem
beimfebrenoen &rieger oas 8lut 81
erfriiden. Ri6tsbeitopeniger lit bas
SoeoL oes 8eibes bic 9roBe <ltilr
ut6 bas oes Mannes Der gepinnrei6e
gonfier, beioe, nerftebt iih, nit pin
hologil6en Sinterariinoen uno nit
Sammlingen BON @emGlben unb al.
ten 3rufen. @thts6eitotpeniger mar
e unierer Belt %porbebalten, ben beim.
lthen 4aiier Momnton iogdr often.
bar 5ll MAIDEN ilno ollie @ertbe 10 iebr
in @oren 3u perpauOeln, 6as Elm Sc.
ben a~ltberboI6 bon @riolg un6 Mitn8'
Bartlett uno i%enieits Der Sittltffeit
iiberhaupt nift peritanosn pir6.
SelbIt oas Sittli1e miro in hirseiter
Griit sur Uerfstuerrrrs Der Gimme oer-
arbsitet unb sur @ereiherune ienes
GsnieBen3, 6aS, mad @oetbes @ort,
eeinein maht. Ser @eidmad, bon
Der Wo6e in Stlanerei sebalten, l6Bt
it'd, tpie etne %Ientimentale 0trne, trot
oIfer gerfeinerune Ieibter betriiaen
ais lie. Sheen tuurbet seboren, lie
nerfIiidtigten I'M iiberm6dtisen &au'
jfen bes Bapiers 3u Sbeorien unb
trur6en bon betriebiomer 8cpulart'
Rerlrne IN erneuter 8oniilten5 als
&onbboben sum orbtn0rcn Rampf Der
Sntereiien tpieoer oareereidt. -. g.
ift nit unierer @ultur ieit oreiBie
Sobren in 8abrbeit nidt better, ION
bern ihledter eetporoen."
gs more fpiinIhensipertb, ooB nit
bie'er @rfenntnis Der fuIture!len uni
Fittltfen 8erid,le1terung ais Solgt
6eS geiItig Sesraoiertpr 6reiiinns aud
bic grfenntnts Der Mittel CUR abbilfe
bic nahe eeritq Iieecr, 9leihen Shriti
bate ionit fommt bel oil ben alaQer
nidlts beraliS ais cine S~teiaerung bes
&efiibls oes llnbebagens, oo9 heut(
idpn groB 9erltg lit, itno Dem %.iocioI
unreIt4 icine @ruroItimmune ser I'm.
sufrieocuhrit nerleiht
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
9mfneriittfhes.
sdrcdlidlcs @inS.

Sdngerin: SIR Behalf ent8iitt
mid uber meincn iitBeiten 9otn
,mpiing i'd bod bon oielem tleInen
Qlmitcutbuiiaitcu "a, Der mir 3pei
9on6oi$ III Ole &auo idlob. $40 bat
!eit bu Oeiu Die 9nnhoIt3 Der, mem
.8inO?@ - Ser feline 6riB: o0ie
.riege i'd inlmer boll 0tauna, wenn llc
pill, oaB i'd Jill iein loll".
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
Gstbeilt.

Rutter: n9u SStar, beine Sftpe
tier beflaet iidL oab on ben 8firii&
nidt nit ibr 9etbeilt bait!" - Osfar;
Gas lit ni6t wnbr DIANA, i6 babe
ibr Den 9ern gegeben, oomit fam ite
ii6 i'm @arten einen aaraen 9altnl
p~flan5en."
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
SIM @eridltsiaals.

anpalt: r9lio oieIe 6rau tpnroa
in ibrer Saustbiire geiGoiFenS" -
3Seuge: ,Nein, tie nuroe in ben Hr1n
qeidoiier2" anmalt (uiitben6):
sic 6enfen pobl, sic iino wtbiGa"
3euge (rubis): Rein, meiu $err,
mein Rome lit &isigl"
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
(: DIV. NAL-Z,
COAX woe SALOON :.
%aeaeuiiber Der Miiblc,
herntdnu,

Itss lit Der cleganieIe SaIoon IN Ser.
mann ilno Iinoci mar bort aud bic beiten
tSetrdnfe unb Sigarren,
geionoers quite 28btetps, Alctni9er
glocnt IN 6ermonu fir ben beriibmien unb
ed,ien Aourbon uno yipe g0htefn ben Ser
nam Tiltiaing 50 gerrs ncrieibe mic IN
: CT Tit,gerp
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
@Oransiidt.

Gle fleine @mmo mclfe idon rUie'
oer6olt ihrer 0aih5oitigteit lpegeu
6eitroft poroGn, iaat nit oormuris.
oollem Zone our 9httter, Die chen ms
Reben3immer geben mill; aaber,
9}omi, on hnit ia iGou nieoer oergei.
len, oie 3uderooie w~egSuiteIlen, uno
nnd)6er, nertn e8 gu ipGt lit, befomme
i'd gie0er Sdldge bafiirl"
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
Sin b0ies Gtmiiisn.

Gin befonnter @rferer rpollte nit
einem 8iencr 6iafer fabren. - *
fann nit @w. 6nobeu fnbren", ami
mortete Der 6iafer, oOenn itoun en-
@uaOelL lpem nit Sbuen iabr', Il
ioo'n sic 9eltt' ga f1brt Der SpisbiIb
Der @aI1tnfel unb / neib bunn afs
mails, gebt's mi an, ODER Go. @na
oen."
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
cstOnon1iia.

Rodin (sn benz neiien 8ienItmao'
den, mel6es benz Sun0 Elm StiIf
iibriggebliebenes Sleiia aeben mill):
,aber, annd, mas fdllt Sbneu elm;
aus Dem iibrig9ebliebenen 5leii9
miro suerit @ulaib uno oann Sad.
braten semaGt; oas onuert nod Ian.
ee, bis Der 6orl bos frieet.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
gnf BEN gf,rS,martt.

Batter: ,Spief reit' aud oas BfeSs
bon Sem Serrn rorl" Soief: 10
ter, fpie loIl ids reitcn ouf ben aaili
o6er gerfauf9~
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
9eGfats Nraas.

Gris: .@agte Dir GruHe bic @nbr,
belt, aIs Gu lie frosteit, wie aIt lie
lei ?" - aorl; So. ~ Sris: D@as
IagteTt Gu oenn2" - Sorl: p@s gin.
ae mid nidts on"
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
3nradsswieIsner gDrparf.

Ridter: sic miiiien ii9 in iaubs.
rer @eleIIidaft beruntreibenl"- &n'
geflagter: Set 5molf Sabren bdbe
id nit Den &erren fiftern gu tbInl'
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
n~nscabut.r GrfOla.

Sn einem aon5ertberiat bieB es:
Der fiinfiGbriqe 9ioItniis purbe am
S6Iuiie Oes &on3ertes NIT eiuem rnu.
I6enoen greifoIl iiberidittet".
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
Sine eebtusmirSisfsit

.gIio Der teus aoIIegs lit ID ntber.
oroeutlid fleibig2" Sra, i'd iags
Sbnen aus allen 8ureoiis fomrlel ~
All urs beriiber uno i6auen Dem 5u.1
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06

rghmen Der gIieren.
~truutbeit nitt nui.
: bwobl uussiunbt
cine beI
aepob nlidiien nnt
b%duiisiten g ranthrit
1T. ipsl1c criitirt,
Diro iie idit INNER
bis gu oueUlebt oils
porbanbrn ertnnni
bon Batisntsn unb
llfr.ten ME id,no
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
GaulenOe (ci0en an er6ran6lca
Jlieren unO a6aen eS ni6t.
9as lleberbansnehmen etr Nirrtnfranfhtit

Zen msiittn seuteu idQt ser alarmiyenss Sorts
idrltt uno has GiiduHensmtrtbe lleberbanbs
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06

bdmit betrtebiet eeIeQt piien, Ietdtbin
rlr bic Symptom Az bebanoeIn, ipd6renS
big ti9sntii4s Sran,beit bos sdnSe Soitsm nntsr,
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06

Eu9tIden, ptI9t9 Sbnfn
allies ert.ctt, portoirei
sueri9itt betom NJ { II.
Nan nbreiiire on Or.
Gilmet 81 Co., Siu9bams
ton, q. .. @enn sic
ihreiben. erpihnen Gle
bjeie 5eitung unb beSGbt
ioubem merfen gle IT'D 3
SnmpiwurselsA feot3iu,
Sin9hamton, Y. y.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
@as man tbun ion.

Gs bistet cine gentle sembi uug bic b~stpielcue
9bltiade, bah Or. 8ilmers SumpiwurSel, has
sr6bte Ricren=o eilmittG. jeSer Gupartuns euts
ipyibt in Der SeiiIRg uoii Gbtumatismus,
RidenidmtrSen, Rieren. esber. 9luie unb is6sn
GbetI bes llrintanals. Sic linecrt bic llni6higs
tcit bas @aIer einJubuItsu iopie bas brennn1Se
G:il5l beim @oiierlaiieu, uub bru9t fblen folqtn
80. re uah GcRub uou gStiu, gier pber Stuaps
crt n tonnen. pie 6iteres @alicrlaiiea ees
g., uber uno b6uiipeS auIfehcn ,pGh.sEe oes
9ta9ts. Ter milbe unb oubrrgeu0bnlide Giiett
Der Suinptiuut ScIs wiebtSin pertuirttitt lid
ihrsa. Sic itebt ALIEN ba fir Sic punberbaren
ntllungen rnb In ben drerfannt itlimmiten
Sdaeu. Saben Sic cine 3ebi;iu n6tbi9, aebmen
Sic bic Bette. gu babsIt in alien Apotbtten IN
50 Gent unb etnen 0olar fIdldGi.
Sic fSnnen cine Grobe5Iai9e un6 Elm HstneS
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06

- W. TT ~ uN HHU THE Tug NV,
Irtbpoler als jeoes droere ntdt
br gang Ianbere, a6er eS If mir
yt,n ~perthpples anDenten. Subs ta
"a boo gernSe beute Setrusen. beute,
MO ih sum s~ritenntdl ben Weg bon
ORinaborf al SUB 8uriifselest babe,
neil i'd mtine &arte bergeHen 6otte.
Daruut m5dte i'd es ni9t miGen
nnb bite, es fir mid uufSubeben
nnb aaf meinen Rdmer nottren ~
loHsn. gusemiilIsr belize i'd
limb bomit smpFabI It@ Der sRd9'
Bar sur einten" BON Germ 6tiids
Direttor 2einitetff.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1908-03-06
Nk~


9aborniprien Der
SumpiWurSelsNee
N Sic tsiueu 9rrtbuu.
'en 9tamen I'll. 3ilmer .
Uu3 bic 9loreHs
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS"

If some day the newspaper man
should print the contents of his waste
basket there would probably be riot.
There would certainly be trouble in
many homes, arrests inssome directions,
shot guns in others, and trouble all
around. But the patron never sees the
waste-basket. He only glances at the
beautifully printed pages, complains if
one letter in fifty is upside down,
growls his disappointment if one name
in five hundred has happened to go
wrong, kicks because his communica-
tion, signed TAX Payer" has been
condensed into respectable English,
frowns because the editor didn't take
his advice about publicly warning his
neighbor against throwing more melons
in the alley and is generally disgrun-
ted. not SO much as what he finds but
what he fails to find. He knows his
share of the waste-basket, but if he
could have one look at the contribu-
tions made to that receptacle by his
neighbors and friends he would thank
God for the existence of a man with
sufficient intelligence and courage not
to print all he knows and to temper
even that which he does print, -Ex-
change.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
SUPERVISORS AND ROAD LAW.

Be it enacted by the general as
sembly of Virginia, That the boards of
supervisors of the counties of Caroline,
Frederick. Mecklenburg, Princess Anne,
Orange, Goochland, Isle of Wight,
Westmoreland, Northumberland, Hall
fax, Lancaster, Stafford, King George
and Richmond shall have power to
adopt, in part or in full. any road law
or laws, which may now or hereafter
be in force in any other county or
counties of the State.
Public notice of such legislation by the
board of supervisors shall be given by
posting a copy of such proposed adop-
tion at each voting precinct in the
county, and on the front door of the
courthouse, not less than ten days before
it is to go into effect, or by publishing
q copy thereof at least once in a news
paper published in the county, not less
than ten days before it is to go into
effect.
This adoption shall continue in effect
at the will of the board of supervisors
even though the original law so adopted
may be repealed or amended.
An emergency existing in that the
road laws of the aforesaid counties are
insufficient, and in that the roads are in
need of immediate repair. this act shall
be in force from its passage.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
PEARLS FROM THE SHELLS.

You can't raise child right in a city
hotel any more than you can raise a
sun flower in the dark cellar. Nice
green grass, blue skies, birds, trees
and flowers are the healthy things for
children to know; not electric lights,
bad music, artificial folks. fancy food,
and groveled help on the scent for tips.
A child's soul will be as big and broad
as its environment. Narrow and crowded
streets and rooms never produced
many big minds. ds.-Buster Brown.
Next to face to face talk with in
dividual citizens of every walk of life,
nothing so gives the temper and spirit
of the country as close reading of
the weeklies and country dailies. The
editors of these journals are rightly
supposed to be in much closer touch
with the sentiment of their vicinage
than are the editors of the papers in
the larger cities. To be in accord with
the weekly papers of Virginia is to be
in accord with the sentiments of the
great body Of Virginia voters. The
mere difference between the weekly
and the daily is the fact that the
weekly is nearer the hearts of its
readers. and much more often expresses
their feelings. -Tithes-Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
WHALE ATTACKS SHIP.

A gigantic whale, 40 feet long, tried
conclusions with the Atlantic liner
Fuerst Bismark on the high seas, with
fatal results for the whale. Having
wandered further south than the usual
whale haunts, the leviathan got into
the track of the Atlantic liners.
When it sighted the Bismark it ap-
parently took the liner for some new
kind of whale, whose rivalry it decided
not to tolerate. Anyhow, the whale
charged furiously at the ship, striking
it with terrific force on the starboard
side.
The only effect the mighty impact had
on the liner was to make her shiver
from stem to stern; she was otherwise
unharmed, and her course was un-
checked. Meanwhile the whale disap.
peared.
Four days later the steamer Pegeio
fell in with the body of huge whale
a danger to navigation-fo floating off the
coast of Cornwall. 1t was doubtless the
liners antagonist, which had not sur.
vived the conflict with a leviathan OF
steel.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
WILLIAMS FLAYS THEM.
Norfolk Landmark |

The policy of the majority is to do
nothing at this session of Congress ex-
cept to pass the appropriation bill and
few others necessary to keep the
wheels going: but in order to accom-
plish this purpose it is essential that
certain important bills backed by the
President and the public shall not
come TO vote at all. This means that
they must be throttled in committee or
placed so low on the calendar that they
will never be reached, because it is
doubtful if the party autocracy could
prevent great many Republican Con-
gressmen from voting for these meas
ures if the test of publicity were en-
countered. That is what Mr.. Williams
Democratic leader) meant last Friday
when he tainted the majority with this
clever piece of wit:
''1f ever there was q man bestride a
situation of which he was afraid, and
was so much afraid that he fully de-
served to be named after the Indian
chief who was called old Man Afraid
of His Horse. it is the present
Speaker OF this House.
Referring to the way the Republican
party has of meeting the national de-
mand for legislation needed in the
interest of the public, but damaging to
the interests of the monopolists whom
the party has fattened, Mr.. Williams
set the House in an uproar" 1--WE
quote the Washington Correspondent of
the New York Tribune) by shaking his
finger at the Republicans and saying:
Every time anybody wants to pass
any of this reform legislation, so much
of which is desired by honest men i'm
your own party, you cry out, After
the election! After the election! After
the election!' You remind me little
bit of piece of poetry my boy picked
up the other day somewhere at the
public school and brought home and re-
cited to me and his grandmother, and
of which. when he got through, his
grandmother said, Kit, you ought
never TO repeat that any more, because
that is just about the same as telling
anybody to go to the bad place. That
poetry ran after this wise:
" When / asked my girl to marry ms. she
said
go to father"
She knew that knew that her father was
dead;
She knew that knew the life he had led;
She knew that / knew what che meant when
she said:
"Go to father"
That is beautifully apt with regard
to the promise of tariff revislon-after
election. 1t will be recalled that Mr..
Taft won great applause year ago
by coming out fiatfootedly for imme-
diate tariff revision. Before the sum-
mer had passed he had reversed him
self and declared for postponement.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
THE WAR UPON THE AMERICAN
SALOON.

In two-thirds of all the territory of
the United States the saloon has been
abolished by law. Forty years ago
there were $500, 900 people living in a
territory where the sale of liquor was
prohibited. Now there are $4,000, 900
people under prohibitory law. Since
that time the population of the country
has scarcely doubled. while the popula-
tion in prohibition territory has in
creased tenfold. There are 20. 600. 600
In the fourteen Southern States. II. =
100000 of whom are under prohibitory
law in some form. In 1900 there were
lS. 900, 900 under prohibition in the
United States; now there are SO, 900. =
600. In eight months Statewide pro
hibition has cleared the saloon from an
area as great as that of France. In
that area there is a solid block of terri
tory 300 miles north and south by 72O
miles east and west, in which on the
first day of next January bird can fly
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic
ocean, and from the boundary of Ten
nessee to the Gulf of Mexico. without
looking down upon a legalized saloon.
Great Britain and ireland could be set
down over this space without covering
1t. There would be 10000 square miles
OF dry territory left as a border. -
From THE Nations Anti-Drink Cru
sade, by Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart, in
the American Review of Reviews for
ADril
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-17
ROOFING PLANTS.

In roofing geraniums and other soft
wooded plants, it is best to take box
that can be easily lifted around. Have
one side three inches higher than the
other, after putting in good sharp sand,
fill it with slips and tack piece of
white muslin over the top, leaving 1t so
that the cover can be laid back while
wetting the slips. for they must never
be allowed to get very dry. Set where
the sum will shine on the box at least
half of the day, and if you are as sue
cesstul as you should be, ninety per cent,
will grow. The muslin allows the air
to reach the slips, and is far better for
the amateur than glass.-From Home
Department, April National Magazine.