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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
HDesdheadv tons

Some 30.S5T "deadheads," aggregat
Ing 100000 feet of lumber, have been
pulled out of the bay in the Mississippi
river short distance above Minneapo.
lis. The method employed in raising
the "deadheads," which are water.
logged, with but one end floating. is as
follows. Part of the crew approach
the "deadhead" in bateau and reacl,
down with their plckpoles and catch
the sunken end with the spur on the
pole and bring this end to the surface.
An iron spike is then driven into the
sunken end OF the log and n stout rope
attached. When several logs have been
harnessed in this fashion. the ropes are
taken to the shore and horses hitched
TO them. The tension ON the ropes Is
sufficient TO raise the sunken end of
the log, and the "deadheads" are floated
to shore, where they are skidded ND to
the bank and left TO dry. a large log
Jam formed In this bay n few years
ago and backed up the river two or
three miles. and as consequence there
are thousands of the "deadheads."
The whole river for four or five miles
north Of the city is a veritable mine,
anu the number OF logs taken out last
summer is only a small portion of
tnose there.-aiinneapolls Journal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
BETTER SERVICE PROMISED.

A delegation of business men of Bal
timore called on Second Assistant
Postmaster General Jas. T. McClearv
in Washington Monday and presented a
petition asking that recent orders af-
fecting the dispatch of mails in terri
tory along the bay be modified. Mr..
McCleary promised immediate relief on
one point, telling the delegation that
Route 14.100 will be changed in accor-
dance with their request from Thursday
to Tuesday.
Mr.. McCleary made it evident that
he was willing to consider the COM
plants, stating that while he was rep
resenting the Government of the United
States in one branch of its mails and
was to look out for its best interests no
was glad to see if anything could be
done to remedy the wrong. The reason
Tor discriminating in regard to certain
routes, Mr.. McCieary said, was because
they entailed great expense, consider
Ing the few apparent advantages de-
rived. Tnegreatest trouble encountered
larged by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tor carrying the mails. In some cases.
n said, it amounted to IL cents for each
p zee of mail.
The conference, which was informal
and brief, brought out the fact that the
Postoffice Department will Cooperate
with the Baltimore merchants in regard
to the specific complaints set forth in
the petition.
One route discontinued affected Har-
vey. Grace Point, Ocran, Enoch, Gwynn.
Ruark, Dixie, Hopeside, Byrdton, Chase.
Cricket Hill. Fitchetts, Warehouse and
Freeport, Va.
Petitions have been forwarded to
Washington from along the Rappahan-
mock asking that mails discontinued on
the M. ID. & V. boats be reestablisbed
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
In THE VAN.

In every newspaper we pick up
we're sure to find a lot of gusb
about the man behind the counter. and
the man behind the gun; the man
behind the buzz-saw and the man be-
hind the son; the man behind the times
and the man behind his rents; the man
behind the pillow share and the man be-
hind the fence; the man behind the
whistle, the man behind the cars. the
man behind the kodak. the man behind
the bars the man behind his whiskers.
the man behind his fist and enerytbino
that entered on the list. But thew
have skipped another of whom nothing
has been said-the fellow who is even
or little ways ahead; who pays for
what he gets; whose bills are always
signed, he is blamed sight more i'm
portant than the man who is behind
All we merchants and the whole COM
mercial clan are indebted for this
honest fellow-man. He keeps all in
business and his town is never dead and
so we take our hat off to the man who
is ahead"-on his subscription. Tide,
water Democrat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
THE BOOK OF PSALMS.
Best Known Because II Appeals 4
Common Religious FEELING.


Best Known Because IL Appeals to
Common Religious Feeling.
The book OF Psalms is perhaps the
best known book in the world. No
other portion OF the Bible speaks to US
rs 1t were, with more familiar voice.
says the London Spectator. 1t has an
intimate and almost homely charm
which commends il at once to the af-
fectons. Critics and theologlans have
discussed In endless volumes it's origin.
Its Interpretation or its authority. but
neither comment nor controversy much
Affects the countless multitudes who
love the Psalter. Men do not come to
1t with curious intellects. but with
yearning hearts. What they seek i'm IL
Is not learning or instruction. but COM
fort consolation and some confidence
OF nope 1t is to the sorrowful, the af-
ticted and the despairing that these
sublime yet simple hymns make their
constant and irresistible appeal. And
they do so; they go home so to the
heart because they come so directly
from the heart. They have that in
spiration which Is not less divine be-
cause 1t seems for the most part hui
man, because ii seems not SO much q
message communicated from without
as an outfiowing from the deepest
springs of being or revelation Of
thoughts written on the heart itself
by the very Finger of God"
Their words, in fact touch us so
nearly exactly because they are so nat
ural. The writers are subject to hu-
man weaknesses. They often exhibit
the fierce passions of their age or
form narrow conceptions OF Jehovah
or seem to look only for temporal
promises, and yet their very failings
only bind them to us with closer
bond and place in clearer relief the
wonder of their strength, the perpetual
marvel of their faith. For the stead
fastneSs and sureness of their faith fs
indeed true marvel. They walk in
darkness, but have 10 doubt, and amid
dangers, but are without fear. "They
shall put their trust in the Lord, shall
be even as the Mount Zion, which may
not be removed, but standeth fast for
ever" Such Is the continual burden Of
the psalmists.
I'll 40 AuSANlLOit lONlnS t1u
righteous and that as their fathers
put their trust in him and were not
confounded" even so also 1t shall be
with themselves is the firm foundation
of their simple creed, as it must every.
where and always be the foundation
of all creeds, however complex; and It
is Just, we believe, because Of this sim
gleness, this simplicity Of thought that
the influence of the Psalms Is so uni
versal. They make their common ap-
peal to oil minds because they dwell
almost wholly on those basic ideas
which underlie not one particular be-
lief only, but all religious beliefs that
have risen above the stage OF super
stitioU
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
HER signs.

1t is impossible not to think of the
old adage about the longevity of fools.
when one meets with superstitious
persons, like those described below.
Candor compels us to say, however.
that such believers in signs do not all
live in the ''back districts" A trav-
eler once put up for the night with a
supplemented old couple, in a lonely
farmhouse. AS he rode up to the door.
he heard the old lady say, in tone of
deep conviction.
'Therel l knowed somebody'd come
before night, for l dropped my fork on
the floor this morning, and it stuck
straight up. Then l dropped the dish
cloth at noon, another sure sign of COM
pany."
On entering the house the visitor
carelessly struck his foot against the
step, aud came near falling.
''Ah!' said the old lady. quickly
which toe did you stub, the right or the
left?'
'"The right" was the reply.
That's good; it's a sure sign you're
going where you're wanted. Pa. shoe
the rooster off the fence. If he crows
there. it will rain before morning."
A little boy suddenly ran into the
room, crying out, go grandma, look
Here's copper found in the road -
"1'm not bit surprised. Don't YOU
remember, Tommy, that you dreamed
OF finding nest of hens eggs last
night? told you then you'd find
some money before week."
A young woman was washing on a
porch at the back of the house. and the
old lady suddenly cried out:
There, there, Susan. if YOU haven #
splashed soapsuds all over the front of
your dress! And if you don't get a
drunken husband for it. Pm wonder
fully mistaken. I've known that SIGN
to come true often and often. But Won
can keep it from coming true by hang.
ing all the clothes on the line WRONG
side out, and you'd better do it,
Susan did, as the traveller noticed to
his great amusement.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
Friday, January. 81, 1905.
AS WE WOULD BE DONE BY.

We are not 10 the newspaper bust
hess to boom other papers; we are
supposed to be in il for money, as
We are not wealthy aud consequently
over-philanthropical But tins lat
ter is not altogether true, for the
local newspaper gives far more than
IL re celyrs, aud the local d tor, typo
and devil" all cJuid, with the same
hard work, make aud accumulate far
more III some other calling-6nan-
cisiiy, we mean. There Is, however,
certain glamour aud peculiar fasci-
nation winch, once taking hold, seems
never TO let 60 the newspaper man
lt Is truisn that one can never en-.
tirely wash printers ink from his
bands; which same, being interpre-
ted, means that once in the business,
like officeholders, all may die but
few resign. But this aside; we started
out to say that we always like to say
kind word for contemporaries; it
makes us feel good, them better, and
should not hurt cur paper if we are
getting out" the right sort of a
'sbeet."
We have been reading for some
months a paper called the "Home
Herald. published at ITO La Sale
ave-, Chicago, which is fastening
itself involuutarily upon us. We
could wish it were in every household.
Whatever tends to uplift the freside,
or our people generally in any way,
wins our commentator, and this
Home Herald strikes a chord We
have seen nowhere else. Its pages
are interesting, instructive and ex-
ceedingly elevating. We have no
advertisement from it, no combination
price and no request from the pub.
fishers to "puff' it. We wish solely to
help our readers to higher life and
thought, and if you will drop a pos
tai to them we believe they will send
you copy. After perusal, We feel
satisfied your opinion will accord
with ours.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
POLITICAL.

Governor Swanson declines to allow
himself to be made party to the I'M
foreground movement of certain oldline
Democrats in New York, who are
seeking to prevent the denomination of
William Jennings Bryan for the presi-
dency.
Democrats of Mathews county have
recognized by electing a new county
committee, as follows: r. B. F. Hudgins,
). Il. Williams, j. T.. Christian.
Stephen Adams, r. f. Godsey, DR.. T.
b. Lane, M. c. Burroughs, Sands
Smith, Floyd M. White, A. j. Miller,
DR.. c. c. White, w. Fitchett, ]. j..
Burke, s. F. Miller and C. f. Diggs.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
FISH AND OYSTER.

Many seaside planters who have the
twenty year leases are fearful lest at
the expiration of that time, in many
cases this time has almost been reached,
after having carefully cultivated these
areas and put shells upon them and
otherwise made them more valuable,
they should be compelled to give them
up to others, but they need have no
fears as the law provides that they
have prior right to rent them again
If they so desire. -Oysterman.
The oyster trade is in a demoralized
condition. At the opening of the sea-
son the prospects were very bright.
The slump in stock soon affected the
consumption. The shutting down of
factories throughout the country closed
an outlet for stock, for the masses are
the largest consumers of oysters. The
holiday trade frightened up business,
but since the first of January trade has
dropped off fully 100 per cent, and there
Is little prospect of an improvement.
The weather continues unreasonable
and probably will not improve, for it is
too late in the season to look for much
winter weather. The season will no
doubt end by showing loss to many of
the large shippers. Fishing Gazette.
Under the sea wall Of st. Augustine
Fla, there is style of oyster that is
enough to disgust any one with the
whole race. The oysters that we are
used to see served up on the half shell
are large, luscious; in their way, hand
some and appetizing enticing. They
suggestgood breeding and good feed
ing and wise cultivation and decent
associations. They are clean, and
though Jumping together, fasten on to
rock bottoms; are honorable like noun
tain trout. They are credit, where
ever they are served, in any form of
dressing. There is no donbt or discredit
about the contents of their bread
baskets. They are food for epicures
and delicacies for the sick. They al
most remind us of good, amiable, COM
Portable, cheering citizens, who grow
up IN good company, are fed on pure
truth, and whose place of defence is
solid, honest dealing, though almost
las dumb as an oyster" They reach
advanced life in full age and are
smiling and enjoyable all through. and
pleasant to think about. They please
us when they come in; leave us in a
good humour when they go. But those
wretched little mollusks down in Florida
are only mean, vile, little low rowdies.
Ill tavoured, that feed on sewerage. and
answering to diaholic gossip; fasten on
trash that comes in their way, and make
the very name ofoyster repulsive. And
yet these fellows are oysters in hold
ing on to their shells, and making it
the business of their lives to fill their
stomachs. These recall and remind us
OF the Cretans-''slow stomachs"- ne
characterized by st. Paul. Thew have
all the low ways of the family of ovs-
ter, without the merit of being eatable
or even endurable. They are like low
and vile that go loaded with dirty
stores; OF whom it is said at the close
thatnothing in their lives became them
so much as the leaving of themes
pecially II they are well and honestly
insured; profanum culgus. Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
OF TENNESSEE,

LION. LAPS. ID. MoCORD, 1925 q ST.,
l Washington, ID. e., Ex-Adiutant
General State of Tennessee, and States
Attorney at Nashville, is an ardent
friend of Peruna. He does not hesitate
to give public endorsement to this very
excellent remedy.
AS tonic Peruna has no superior.
But 1T is as catarrh remedy il has
achieved its worldwide notoriety and
success.
Any catarrh remedy to become per-
manently effectual in the cure OF ca
tarrh must contain tonic and invigorat-
ing qualities with it's anti-catarrhal
qualities. CstarrIi Is always an express
sion of nerve weakness, either focal
or general 1t is, therefore, important
that "a catarrh remedy should possess
reliable invigorating qualities in order
to thoroughly rid the system of catarrh.
Pe-ru-na for Colds.
Hon. r.. S. Ryan, now residing in
Nome, Alaska, yeas formerly member
of the English House of Parliament
and Secretary to the late Irish patriot,
Charles Stewart Parnen. His Wash
ington address is, New Willard Hotel,
Washington, ID. c.. He writes:
''I have used Pcruna and can recon-
mend your remedy as a very effective
cure for colds and catarrhal COM
plants. ''-R. S. Ryan.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
WORK.

Letme butdo my work from day TO day.
In field or forest, at the desk or loom,
In roaring market place or tranquil
room;
Let me but find it in my heart to say,
When vagrant wishes beckon me astray,
This is my work; my blessing, not
my doom;
Of all who live, am the one by whom
This work can best be done in the right
way"
Then shall | see it not too great, NOR
small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my
powers;
Then shall cheerful greet the labor
ing hours,
And cheerful turn. when the long
shadows fall
AT even-tide, to play and love and rest,
Because l know for me my work is best.
Henry Van Dyke.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
NAVIGATING THE Air.
why Mar Personally Can Never Be.
come a Flying Machine.


Flight as q personal matter car
never be attempted by man, for tho
pain reason that he is not provided
with flying body" writes DR.. Andrew
Wilson. "a near neighbor quadruped
OF his, the bat, has evolved flying pow
ers, but IL has developed frame
which, like that of the bird, Is made
for flight as its true means of locomo
lion. Its bones are filed with air. and
otherwise 1T has points which render
Its aerial trips, not so extensive as
those Of the bird, easily performed. In
the bird 1t is simply the whole arm OF
fore limb which is modified in the
wing, and It is the actual movement
OF this feathered arm which propels its
possessor through the air. But the
bats flight is of different kind. II
calls to It's aid a skin fold which
stretches between the four enormously
elongated fingers, runs between fore
limbs and hind limbs and between hind
limbs and tail. In the bat, therefore,
we have something OF the boats san
order OF things added to the wing as
opposed to the movements OF the wing
pure and simple in the bird.
"a flying fish does not fly. 1t leaps
from the sea. spreading its big breast
fms wide, and is carried so far by the
initial velocity 1t acquired in its pre-
liminary rush through the water. Nor
do flying squirrels or flying lizards fly.
They possess folds of skin fringins
their bodies, which merely act as para.
chutes, sustaining them in their aerial
leaps from bough to bough. Engineers
have calculated that a relatively enor-
nous amount of energy would be re-
CURED TO be eXerted by n man to raise
him from the ground into the air under
the existing circumstances of his life.
This energy ii is impossible to gener-
ate within his frame, and so the per-
sonal flight problem must be put out
of court altogether.
lit may be very different matter
when motor power, light and Of suffi-
Client extent. can be provided to assist
man In his aerial excursions. The idea
that some personal apparatus, so to
speak, might enable man to convert
himself into fiier has its own attrac-
ton, and possibly the idea may take
practical shape. But the more hopeful
solution of human flight is the dirigi.
bic flying machine, man being merely
the passenger in 1t and not itS propel.
ling genius. "-Chicago News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
CRISP NEWS.

Edward Alexander Mcdowell, who
has been recognized as one of America s
foremost music composers, died in New
York Thursday night of last week.
Several cases of small pox have
broken out near Potomac Creek, King
George county. The authorities are
taking precautions to keep the disease
from spreading.
The Cubans are to take over the gov
eminent on February l, next year, and
1T behooves them to attend strictly to
business, for another revolution might
compel Uncle Sam to return and never
leave again.
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, daughter of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, was mar
ried to Count Laszio Szechenyi, a
young Hungarian nobleman, in the
Fifth Avenue home of Mrs. Vanderbilt
Monday.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
PEARLS FROM THE SHELLS.

More love is bored to death than is
killed in any other way. When Cupid
yawns the game is over, and its time
to put out the lights.
Pa can swim so he isn't afraid to 20
on wall street. He has lots on his
mind I'd rather be poor and free.
Maybe I'll change my mind; still |
know poor people are happier, but they
don't know it. We are only rich or
poor by comparison, anyhow. When
you've got one friend or dog or horse
that you really love, you are rich
Buster Brown.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
SOME FIRES.

Fire early Monday destroyed property
at Ocean View, Va, to the value OF
$4,000 Structures burned were the
big Bay Shore railway pavilion, the
home of Capt. w. S. Foster. the Avoca
Club building and lighthouses and
booths. Captain Foster, pilot, was
passing Ocean View aboard an incoming
steamship when the fire was burning
He saw from the vessel his home en-.
veioped in flames. The loss was almost
completely covered by insurance.
BALTIMORE AGAIN SUFFERS
On Friday morning of last week Bal.
timore was again visited by destruc-
tive fire, which broke out a short time
after midnight in the upper part of the
building occupied by the firm of J. Reg.
ester & Sons, Holiday and Saratoga
streets. The high wind from the
northwest caused the fire to spread rap
idly and in an incredibly short time the
northern wall of the building fell. Sar-
atoga street being very narrow, three
hremen were killed and % injured.
1t is believed the fire was of incen-
diary origin. The loss will reach near
ly 500, 900, well covered by insurance
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
A GENTLEMAN.

Here's newspaper mans definition
OF gentleman, credited to an Eek
changeW "a man that's clean inside
and outside; who neither looks I'D To
the rich nor down on the poor; who
can lose without squealing; who is con-
siderate to women, children and old
people; who is too brave to lie, too gen
erous to cheat, and who takes his share
of the world and lets other people have
theirs"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court of the county of Lancaster. on
the 2Sth day of January, 1908.
The Marine Paint Cor
poration, a corporation,
Plaintiff, J
against In assumpsit
The Fisheries Company,
Corporation, Defend
ant.
The object of this suit is to attach
the estate of the defendant and subject
same to the payment of the plaintiff
claim. And an affidavit having been
made and filed that the defendant, The
FISHERIES Company, a corporation, is
not resident of the State of Virginia. it
is ordered that it do appear here with
in Is days after due publication hereof.
and do what may be necessary to pro-
tect its interest in this suit. And It is
further ordered that copy hereof be
published once week for four weeks
in the VIRGINIA CITIZEN, and that a
copy be posted at the front door of the
court house of this county on the first
day of the next succeeding rules.
A Copy-teste:
VIM. Chiffon, Clerk.
y. l.. SHACKLEFoRD, p. q.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31

The reason that most marriages are
failures is because after the wedding
both husband and wife throw away the
halt with which they caught each other.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
THESUN AT GNE CENT
Is The Cheapest High Glass PAPER
In The United States

THE suns special correspondents through
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China. South Africa, the Philippines. Porto
Hco, Cuba and i'm every other part of the
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Its Washington and New York bu reaus are
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THE SUNS readers the earliest information
upon all important events in the legislative
and financial centers OF the country.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, VIRGINIA,
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA,
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
SHINGLES! SHIRGLES!l

we keep constantly on hand 4, 5, and
inch cypress shingles ct lowest prices.
W. A. CAMERON & Bro, Weens.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31

Notices IA reauinv co;nmps. 10 cents per
uonpareil line.
obituaries, religious notices OF entertain
neotss excursions. etc.. oue-half regular
rates.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31

AL. communications or business letters
shouId be addressed TO the VIRGINIA CITIZEN,
lrvlngtOn, Va. 70 receive prompt attention.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-31
TIE FARMERS PAPFR

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