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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11
The Wise Course.

More than half OF us wear masks
ar better be a Jolly sham than 8
mourner over ghosts.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11

i love the gentle sunshine.
And I love the new-mown hay.
And bcefsteak rarel and maidens fair
June and the joyful jay.
But hate a cassowary.
And I loathe arithemetc;
And diamond studs and evening buds
And parsnips make me sick!
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11

DUBLIN IAN S.-A daughter was
born 10 the Duchess OF Manchester.
who was formerly Miss Helen Tim
norman OF Cincinnati, at Kylemore
castle, near here.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11
A Question.
At Just what age.
Now 90 you think
Our pretty girls
Learn how TO wink?
Detroit Free Press
On the ~. Of SANITATION.

The fool and h.s money were about
10 be parted
'Incompatlbiity." he explained to
the bystanders.
He might also have pleaded deser-
ton and lack OF support. but ne
was too busy arranging the details of
a separation.-Clicago Tribune.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-01-11
Approval.

Approval.
Il hope your titled son-in-law will
like you"
Were getting on" answered Mr..
Cumrox. looking up from his check
book; he seems TO think very well OF
my handwriting and the kind OF cigars
i smoke-"-Washingtcn Star.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
DE GOSPEL TRUTH

II what the Virginian-Pilot does not
claim to know about the fish and oyster
problem should be published in book
form, the result would be volume
quite as bulky as the Century dictionary.
But if the knowledge on that subject
which our bumptious Richmond con-
temporary, the News Leader. lacks were
to be printed between two covers, the
tome would reach dimensions which
would bring paper famine on the land
and put the price of printers ink beyond
the reach of all but millionaires. Our
neighbor has long way to 60 before
it reaches our enlightened state. We
have arrived, at a realization of our
ignorance. -Virginian-Pilot.
Heaven be praisedI These books will
not be printed. Who knows anything
about the fish and oyster problem, any
how? Commodore Lee thinks he knows
all about the menhaden section of the
problem. and once upon time started
in to instruct the Virginia Press Asso-
citation concerning it. But, like the rest
of the fish problem, the subject was
elusive, the instruction never material
lied, and there are now able editors
living in the mountains of Virginia who
believe that the menhaden is mere
Pigment of the Commodore's imagina-
ton, and that the Commodore couldn't
tell to save his soul the difference be-
tween a mossbunker and porgy. or a
bugfish and fatback! We dare him to
try.-Petersburg Index-Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
BURGARlA'S REVOLT.

Bulgaria. a state for centuries under
the yoke of Turkey, and for centuries
under the iron heel of the Sultans of
that last refuge of tyranny, has re-
volted and declared her independence.
1t was in the early days of Christianity
a rich and powerful state, learned and
strong when most of Europe grovelled
in barbarism. and was for centuries
Europe's barrier against the Turk. She
has now declared her independence, and
it would seem that the declaration NAV
be made good if the Powers will sustain
her position. Alone and unsupported.
Bulgaria may be reduced to submits
sion, but if the European Powers will
give the revolution even moral support,
the declaration of independence NAV
mean another nail driven in the coffin
of Turkey. That government was de-
clared by Napoleon TO be the ''the sick
man OF the East" and while the sick
ness has been prolonged for ages, still.
even in spite of some sort of compromise
to enlightment of opinion, by the recent
grant of Constitution, the death may
be nearer than seems probable. Thus
Turkey and Russia go the way of despot-
ism in the far East-down to the fate
that has little by little befallen ali
despotisms. and the light of Christianity
may be brightly shed on the country so
long under the spell of the Moslem.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
A GOOD HIT.

Judge Parker, in his Baltimore speech.
called attention to the fact that. al
though Hartman contributed to the
Republican fund in 1904, and though
Hartman sent in pile to ''heIp the
cause" and had boldly violated the law
10 many ways, he was never found
fault with untilhe declined to contribute
to the fund to defeat certain Democratic
candidates for Congress in doubtful dis.
tricts. So long as Hartman was help
full he was let alone, but when he re-
fused to be further bled he was promptly
put on the black list. The whole speech
was "corker," if we may purloin one
of Roosevelt's phrases. Even the Bal
timore Sun acknowledges that the
audience was wildly enthusiastic. 1t
is understood that the charge made by
the Judge that the Standard Oil Com
pany was asked by Roosevelt's man
Cortelyou for $3.50. 600 in 1904 to aid in
electing the Republican ticket, and got
800, 900, will not be answered by the
President. Perhaps he thinks that it is
very unkind in the Judge to rake up
such old issues.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

The Washington Herald says
that at least one of the Presi-
dents pet schemes has been car
ried through with flying colors-
that to label whiskies honestly.
Judge Humphreys has rendered
a judicial opinion, too long TO
copy, but it concludes with the
striking remark that ''whiskey
has a flavor, an aroma, d color,
a blending of inherent constit-
uents, resulting in a beverage
agreeable to the smell and taste. -
That should settle forever the
question of what whiskey is, and
DR.. Wiley can take a back seat
from now on. 1t was Pat, we
think, who disputed the assertion
that any whiskey was bad. "It's
all good" he claimed. "Some is
better than some other but
it is all good"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

ALTHOUGH it is less than 20
miles from Irvington to Rich
mOnd, it takes letter two days
to reach that nearby city. Our
mail reaches West Point about
FIVE O'Clock p M, too late for the
mail going west to Richmond
and letters by that route lie over
at the former place until the
next day. But even this is an
Improvement over the route
taken by the mails in former
years. In 1880 letters from
Washington for the Hague in
Westmoreland, went to Rich
mond, thence next day by stage
to Tappahannock, thence anoth
er day to Warsaw, and still an
other day to the Hague-in al
four days and four stages to get
less than 100 miles; travelling
meantime some 200 miles.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
Friday. October 8, 1905.
MAY WE NOT LEARN2

Here in Tidewater Virginia far
mers are cutting tops and pulling
fodder. IF a New York farmer
were to be told this he would
probably ask what was meant by
pulling fodder. Such work is
unknown in the North or even In
the Shenandoah Valley of Vir-
ginia. Those people set to
great a value on their labor to
employ it in such ways. South,
ern italy, where labor is worth
only twenty cents a day, is about
the only European country where
fodder is pulled and tops cut.
Thegtime taken to gather fodder
and tops could be much better
utilized in other work. Even il
the crop is worth the labor, the
time lost can be better used in
some other way. III fodder is
needed sowed corn will give it
Just as well. Weare slow to learn
labor.sfving methods. The land
in the Northern Neck is admira-
bly, fitted for cultivation by ma
chinery, it is free from stones. is
light aid fairly level. 1t pre-
sents an ideal situation to the
progressive farmer. Yet we are
ploughing corn in the same old
way, making a single furrow with
one horse, when n two-horse cul-
tiEator with one man much more
thoroughly cultivates two rows.
The single plough makes four
trips between the rows, the ma
chine ploughs eight burrows at
once-two rows ploughed while
the old style is making a single
furrOw!
Takes a little more money
Yes, but it would come back the
first year. 1t will not come back.
however, if the farmer did as one
this writer saw not long ago, be-
ing at his house in March. This
farmer had -cultivators, reapers.
harEows-many usefullabor-say-
ing appliances-but they were all
out in the weather, and had been
all the winter, rusting, rotting,
wasting. His farming wasn't a
success. In the middle west a
mans foot never touches the
ground, unless possibly to thin
the corn. He mounts his sulky
plough, runs through the crop,
runs through it again, perhaps
again, and it is ''laid by" We
can do it here If we will.
Said an acute observer from a.
State not $50 miles north of us !:
"Ifolr farmers had this land they
would get rich;" and so they
would. Our labor goes to the
water-fish, oysters. These bring
ready money, but the land lies
idle, when it would bring richer
recompense.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
'TIs "HOr AIR."
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The Times-Dispatch is bewailing the
scarcity of seed-oysters in the James
river, and lays the blame at the door of
the State Board of Fisheries, and to
insufficient oyster laws. This is hot air.
What would the people of Virginia know
about its oyster industry if it had not
been for this Board? 1t cannot make
oysters grow, nor can it prevent the
freshets from killing the young growth.
In the Potomac, along the shores and on
the shallow rocks. it is said the oysters
have been killed as far down the river
as Swan Point, but on the deeper rocks
they are unhurt, showing that the fresh
cts extended only certain depth in the
salt water. This condition was dis
covered early in the spring. 1t is not
improbable that the same conditions
exist in the James river.
The Newport News Daily Press also
has much to say about the oyster failure,
and says reports of the distressing con-
ditions were made by oystermen from
Saxis Island. They say that pirates
operated in the river during the summer
months, and that gasoline boats were
seen dredging the beds at night. This
is mere hearsay; but if it be, true, then
it was the duty Of those who saw them
to file complaint and have the violators
punished. Every law-abiding citizen is
duty bound to uphold and assist in carry
ing out the State laws, whether they
apply to oysters or the government of
citizens on land. Laws are ineffective
if not respected by the citizens. The
oysternavy is for the purpose of appre-
hending violators of the law-law-abid-
ing citizens do not need to be watched.
Nor is it possible that police boat can
be at two or three places at one time.
The report that 25 gasoline boats
depleted the oyster beds in the James
river in FIVE months is almost unreason-
able, if the same rocks gave 800 people
profitable employment for seven months.
tits plain that some political see-sawing
is going on, and the above is used as an
argument to carry political ends. The
only practical way to protect the oysters
is to let them grow. and nature take its
course. We do not mean to dispense
with the oyster navy or sbridge its
power, because there will always be
violators of the law and pirates who
will take oysters in season and out OF
season.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

COMMENTING on the old saw
that figures can't lie, some one
has retorted that nevertheless
they are the most active and
nimble little liars in existence. "
The Department of Justice has
lately given out a political bro
chure showing that under the
Roosevelt administration some
157 cases have been prosecuted.
under the Interstate commerce
laws. The honest reader
would naturally infer that 157
trusts had been prosecuted
whereas, the fact is that many OF
the Indictments were against two
orthree railroads, and not trusts
proper. For example, indict-
mezfts were obtained for false
billing on the part of railroads.
for free transportation, for de-
parture from published tariff
schedules, for charging less than
established rates, and SO on.
Very clever manipulators of fig-
ures, these legal politicians. You
can foolsome people all the time.
Forty of these indictments were
for railroad rebates, a class en-
tirely distinctfrom trusts proper.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

The State Board of Agricul.
ture of the State of Virginia cop.
les from the U. S. statistical re.
ports figures that show Virginia
to be the wealthiest of the
Southern States with the sole ex-
ception of Texas. That nearly
1000 farms have been purchased
in our State by parties outside
of our borders during the year
1907 is a grand showing for the
popularity of the Old Dominion,
and that the value of the crops
OF the State for that year were
approximately $S1 900, 900 and
the live stock $6S,00O,000 is
proof that "Old Virginia never
tires" now as in the days "befo'
de wah."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
POLITICAL.

Persistent reports are in circulation
that Lieutenant Governor Ellyson will
enter the contest for gubernatorial
honors.
Taft Campaign planners are bothered
because Bryan is following in his steps.
They say that just so soon as the Re-
publican candidate stops off at a town
and speaks, in few days Bryan is
there and undoes it all.
1t IS stated that so strong is the SEN
timent against Joe Cannon, requests are
pouring in at Republican headquarters
imploring that Cannon be not sent to
their regions to speak. Uncle Joe is
evidently down and OUT
The Republicans are planning a vigo-
rous campaign in the Ninth District
and are about to send Leslie Shaw. Sen
ator Thurston and perhaps others into
that disputed territory in the endeavor
to keep at least one Virginia district in
the Republican column.
Hon. Geo. N. Wise will speak in
Northern Neck next week as follows:
Monday, Heathsville and Lodge; Tues
day, Kinsale and Montross; Wednesday.
Oak Grove and Colonial Beach; Thurs
day, Newlands and Warsaw. He NAV
also speak at Reedvillle on the 10Th and
kilmarnock and Irvington on the
17th.
Chairman Hitchcock is complaining
that the publicity scheme is keeping his
Republican friends from contributing
to the Taft fund. We are wondering
why these rich fellows are seemingly
ashamed of the party. 1t looks as if
something is the matter when men are
found reluctant to be seen in company
with such good people.
The gigantic Republican mass meet
ing In Baltimore Wednesday night of
last week was attended by over 5000
people, and at which Governor Charles
E. Hughes, of New York, made the
principal speech, was the scene of a
monster ovation to William Jennings
Bryan, the Democratic candidate,
which lasted for nearly five minutes,
and which gave promise of breaking up
the meeting.
From Democratic standpoint moth
ing could happen that would more help
the Democratic ticket than for the
President to take the stump. with his
recklessness of statement and disre.
gard of all the proprieties. But it
would be humiliating spectacle for
the American people, who cherish a
reverence for the Presidential Office.
justified by more than century in the
dignity and lofty bearing of the incum-
bent. Staunton Dispatch.
Nicholas Longworth, the son-in-law of
the President, has been speaking. He
tells his listeners that we are to have
eight years of Taft, then eight more of
Roosevelt, and then eight years of
Sherman. Nice programme, but the
mischief of it is that the Republicans
are bowling over such prediction and
say that, no matter how this may be.
it is damaging the party sadly to tell
such tales out of school. Longworth
may be speaking for the President
| who knows? Later he explained that
he did not mean it that way.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
CRISP NEWS.

Six little boys, with ages ranging
from to 9 years, have been arrested
for burglary in Baltimore.
1t is estimated that as many as so, 900
lives were lost in the recent floods in
India, and the loss of property is stated
to amount to SIS. 900, 900.
Two negroes will be electrocuted in
Richmond this month. The new law
providing that all executions shall be
at the penitentiary and by electricity.
Two cent mail is now the order be-
tween this country and England. The
Montreal banks took advantage of the
lower rates and sent $4,000 letters
through their houses in New York, saw
ing on these about $780,.
The Japanese are reported as so
alarmed by the approach of the Ameri-
can feet that they are leaving Amboy.
the report being spread that the Amer
leans are to sieze that city as base of
operations in the expected war.
The smallest man-Prince Nicholi-
so years old, &c inches tall and weighs
16a pounds. is in Richmond. But little
as he is he called for a Manhattan cock
tail, a porterhouse steak, potatoes,
sliced tomatoes and a glass of beer,
saying he WASH hungry.
4 d - =
A few nights ago a Pittsburg girl
stepped out of bed on the face of a
burglar who had gone to sleep under
her bed. Instead of fainting, like the
girls of days gone by. she turned on an
electric light, seized sword hanging
by and drove the fellow out Of the room.
Think of our paying Is cents gallon
for coal oil, when down in Mexico there
is well afire that is consuming $38, 900
worth daily. The heat is 80 great that
one can go no nearer than 200 yards
with comfort, the surrounding plain is
lake of fire and the flame is seen at
sea 80 miles out.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
A SILVER WEDDING:
STATE FAIR.

The Virginia State Fair at Richmond
opened October 5th with large at
tendance, crowd of 5000 being pres
emit. One of the best features is the
large exhibit ofagriculturalimple
and farm machinery. Everything from
the most approved reaper and thresher
to steam plows, from garden trowel
to cornfield hoe, is on the grounds.
In view of the scarcity of farmhands in
late years. the farmers should take as
much interest in the machinery as they
will in the produce.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
WRIGHTs SELL PATENT.

Wilbur Wright has fulfilled his con-
tract with the French government, fly
ing for over an hour with two men in
the maehine-himself and another and
making speed of 40 miles an hour.
Mr.. Wright thus fulfils the conditions
Of the contract signed by him and
Lazare WELLER, representing a syndi-
cate, whereby Mr.. Wright was required
to make two fights within week with
passenger. The contract calls for
payment to Mr.. Wright of 500, 900 by
the syndicate, in return for which the
syndicatesecures the patent rights of the
machine in France and the colonies.
They have contracted with him for
building fifty machines.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
BOTH TURNED DOWN.

The section meeting of The Bankers
Convention in session at Denver, afte,
a thorough discussion Of the Postal
Banking system, as proposed by Mr..
Myer, and advocated by Mr.. Taft as an
integralpart of his policy, almost unani-
mousiy voted the subject down as an
impracticable thing. 1t also showed
decided opposition to theguarantee plan
of Mr.. Bryan. though the final vote on
this was deferred until the full meeting
convened.
The Savings Bank system was recon-
mended as superior to either of the plans
proposed by the political leaders in the
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

The decision of the President
not to further answer Mr.. Bryan
was urged on him, so report
goes, by two members ofhis Cab.
met. 1t would seem that there
are some discreet men in the Cab.
met, men who are willing to in
cur risk in taking the President
to one side and telling him fatty
that he is making'a IDOL OF him
self.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

Governor Haskell does not mince
words with the President. He uses
plain talk and of the sort the President
enjoys. He says very plainly that Mr..
Roosevelt does not tell the truth, and
what is worse. seems to prove his state
rnent. AS the Washington Herald gently
remarks, "the law vouchsafes the pri-
mary presumption of innocence to the
blacklist criminal in the land. but it APP
pears that it must be denied a distin-
guished United States senator and the
governor of a State" In any case
Haskell has not "hollered enough" as
yet.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

RATHER queer that each one OF
the political speakers is insistent
that he or they is a reformer,
with a big r. And still queerer
that each and every one insists
that the Others are not sincere,
but are trying TO fool the 'dear
people"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

THE Eastern Shore Herald is
another of our bright exchanges,
celebrating a birthday-the Doth.
Its last issue was largely an in
dustrial one, exploiting Eastville,
the county seat of Northampton.
Long live and prosper the
Herald and old Northampton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

THE Baltimore SUMS as sweet
~ footing its horn for Taft and
Republicanism as if it had never
posed as a Dem6orstH Sbufnal.
But the dear old "Sun-paper" is
not as influential as in days gone
by, and its mailing list in Vir-
ginia is reported as fast dimin-
ishing. There are more reliable
papers nearer home.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

Do YOU remember-not "sweet
Alice, Ben Bolt?'-but remember
when you had to stand up and
spell "phthisis" or go to the foot
OF the class? Well, it's a longer
spelling now, but easier-''tuber-
culosis," and means the same.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09
A "RoAD CoNvENrIoN,isah ,

A HRoAD CONVENTION" is about
to assemble in Paris. In our
country, of over two million
miles of public roads, only about
10000 are improved-about 7
per cent. The French have
200, 900 miles ofimproved roads.
from "a to As feet wide. There
are roads in England and Italy,
built by the Romans about the
time OF the Christian Era, that
are good now-2,O00 years old,
but still substantial.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

Mr.. Edison says that in five
years the Ocean-meaning, we
suppose, the Atlantic-will be
crossed with airshipsin Is hours.
Kindly take the first "trip,
Thomas, and clear the channel
of the derelicts.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

AN EXCHANGE states that Pres
ident Roosevelt has done much
to educate the people to think
for themselves. Really, is it not
rather that he has been strug-
Cling to get them to think as he
does?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

WHAT a club Willie Hearst is
laying up for himself should he
have the temerity to pose as a
candidate for the Presidency
next time!
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

'TRUTH lies at the bottom of a
well' says the old proverb. And
much OF the truth about fish lies
at the bottom of the sea. And
these are not fish lies either.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

KERN has served crooks, so
Mr.. Hearst states. Is it posi-
bic that Kern ever worked for
Hearst?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-10-09

IT Is stated that there is
a hen on exhibition at the Vir-
ginia State Fair valued xaf
$40, 900. Possibly she swallow
ed a big diamond.