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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04

productiveness. but we are not LOSING
sleep over idle wishing.
AS evidence of oysters being plenti-
full In most o. our waters, it is a fac,
that nearly ALI planters and shuck;nO
houses carried ever on their beds 4
large proporUio of last seasons ovs-
tiers, owing to the panic. which caused
low market This supply on hand.
with the hard times, largely accounts
Tor the exceedingly dull sales of OYSTERS
from rocks and beds today.
Had the various measures Offered
by the Board of Fisheries passed tbe
last legislature. we would have been
enabled to enlarge the planting inter-
ests without injury to the longing in
oostry, but we are not CRYING over
what might have been. All know how
difhcult it is to get measures considered
In a short and busy session, particularly
where there are one or more obstrnc-
tionists.
IL VIII be recalled that the ;oint
commission of the Maryland and Vir-
ginia legislatures, under advisement of
the Virginia Board of Fisheries, :agreed
upon recommendations that would have
oeen beneficial alike to the people of
the two states who operate upon the
seedbeds of the upper Potomac. These
were unanimously passed by the Vir-
GINA body. but failed of passage in the
Maryland legislature. Consequentlywe
nave no improved laws for the Potomac
river, where concurrent legislation is
required. A similar law to govern the
seed-beds of the upper James, intro
duced later, failed of passage before
the Virginia legislature for lack of time.
So the Commission of Fisheries has
been handicapped in improving condi-
tons In both of these seed-beds.''
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
RESENTs INSULT TO COUNTY.

AT the meeting of the Virginia school
1eachers IN Newport News Wednesday
Oh last week N. o. Bonham, of Rich
mond, said he had been told that the
ignorance prevailing generally in Glou-
cester county was so prevalent and the
public schools so poor that the white
people of the county, to get efficient
medical skill, had to call negro phvsi-
clan. This statement had not been
made long when Superintendent Herbert
l.. Bridges. of Gloucester, said the
was an insult and lie: that
there were plenty of reputable white
physicians in the county, and that the
public schools are fully up to the other
Virginia schools. ard that he Indignantly
any such statement.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
CHANCE FOR A ROW.
Says the Norfolk Landmark

Says the Norfolk Landmark.
The Farmville Herald, an uncompro
missing Bryanite, jumped on the LYNCH.
burg News for publishing the advertis.
ing of the Taft Democrats of the
Hill City (Which, of course, the News
could not refuse to do and be worthy of
the name of newspaper); and now the
Staunton Leader, another uncompro-
y smising Bryanite. takes issue with the
Farmville Herald and says:
s9S 1--WE. can find no fault with the sun-
s port the News gave the Democratic
nominees In any particular. Its SUD-
port was not supine grumbling, such
as came from two Richmond papers. one
; Staunton and one Norfolk paper. but
the militant support of virile and
argnmentative pen. If the Farmyille
Herald did as much it should rest well
: content
Says the Eastern Shore Herald.
During the recent campaign the news-
papers of the State were solicited to
take Republican literature as advertis-
ing matter for so much an inch. Of
course that was reasonably good as an
advertising proposition, but it is to be
NOTED that while number of the large
city papers accepted the offers and ran
this stuff, the stalwart country weekl;es
refused 1T. Whether this had anv in.
fuence or not, it was observable that
most of the city papers were only mildly
democratic, to say the least, while the
burden and brunL of the fray was borne
by those of the country. 1t is a conso-
lation to know that the country papers
still keep the citadels of democracy in |
violate and untarnished by the glitter
and glamour of the great white way in
to Republican affluence.
And with this last '-say, the
VIRGINIA CITIZEN heartily agrees +
We were not run mad" over
Bryan, and have not been since
SO, but took our medicine
Bryan and defeat-like n regular
! Democrat should. We do not ,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
CRISP NEWS.

The estate of Joseph Bryan, a lead
ing newspaper and business man OF
Richmond, who died week before last
Is valued at three-quarters of million
hve hundred thousand personal proper.
" and two hundred and fifty thousand
real estate.
"A steamer was burned just off the
Island of Malta. November 25tba in
sight of port, with $50 passengers
aboard, almost every one being lost.
The fire was so fierce that rescuinp
launches were unable to venture near
the blazing ship.
Two hundr ed and lightweight lives
were snuffed out Saturday, when an ex-
plosion wrecked the Model mine of the
Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company at Ma
rianna, Pa. Fire spread quickly to all
parts of the mine, and it was with great
difficulty that the 500 rescuers succeed
ed in reaching the bodies of the victims.
The explosion occurred 700 feet be-
low the surface.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, before which recently came the
case of the railroads of the State of
Virginia on the question of the legality
OF the two cent fare per mile, has sent
the case back to the Supreme Court of
this State, holding that it should have
been taken there instead of to the Vir-
ginia Federal Court. The State Com
mission had fixed the rate for travel
at two cents per mile, and the railroads
contesting the case, took it to the III
s. Court 1t seems that the decision
favors the railroads.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
SOD Reward, SIOO

The readers Of this paper will no nleaso,, %
learn that there is at least one dreaded al
eases that science has been able 10 c,,ro q, 81,
tes stages. aud that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
lure Is tue only positive cure now known TO
'ne medical fraternity. Catarrh being n CON
s'i'uuonai disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
,ernaily' acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system, thereby dc.
stroying the foundation of the disease and giv.
ing the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work The proprietors have so much faith I'm
It's curative powers that they offer one HIM
dred Dollars for any case that il fails To curo,
Send for list of testimonials.
Address, +. J. CHENEY Il Co. Toledo n
Sold by Druggists. zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipstlon-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04

The courts sure have got Vir-
glnia up in the air, so to sneak
What with a decision that does
not decide the railroad rate cues
ton, and another, that in 1910
every man who paid by cheque-
or other than by hand, in person
his poll taxes for any of the
years 1907, 1908 or 1909, will
not have the right to vote-unless
he asks for a reassessment of his
poll taxes for those years and
pays them over again in the phy-
slcal person. Hurrah for our
constitutional Convention bio.
heads, and the courts that are
taking the swelling down. Surely
we in Virginia are going some.
as the boys say.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
SOMETHING DOING POLITICALLY

Congressman Glass, of Lynchburg. is
announced as candidate for Governor
The four-cornered fight will now begin
in earnest.
Mr.. Henry c. Stuart, one of the can
didates, landed in Lancaster Tuesday
from Middlesex and is going THROUGH
our back country on a still hunt.
We may look for warm times before
the cold weather is over.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
THINKS at UNWIsE.

Says The Harrisenburg News:
81. Sidney Smith, attorney for the
snti-saloon forces in Norfolk, is quoted
in newspaper interview to the effect
that he expects the next session of the
Virginia Legislature will be called upon
to order an election on the issue of
Statewide prohibition. 1t is doubtful if
Mr.. Smith represents the best senti-
ment of the Anti-Saloon League in that
statement. With 80 per cent. of the
State already dry under the operation
of local option, the area of the dry ter
ritory constantly enlarging, the precipi-
tation of Statewide contest for pro-
hibition would appear to be unnecessary
and unwise from the standpoint of real
temperance REFORM
There is great deal of free
thought and private opinion in
the temperance work as pushed
by the Anti-Saloon League-and
there should be. No man. though
he be an officer in the League,
can speak for that body. 1t acts
for itself, in convention, and in
no uncertain tones. We know
somewhat of it's workings, and
are not strangers to those at its
head, and we most positively
believe there is no such general
sentiment in it as expressed by
the aforesaid Mr.. Smith, attor-
ney, etcetera. In fact, we believe
the ruling spirits of the League
are satisfied with pursuing the
work in Virginia on the local
option lines now lin vogue, and
that no intent to precipitate q
Statewide prohibition movement
is within them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
SOME FIRES.

Our Home Fire Association makes
no raise in rating for the use of the
various various gasoline lamps now becoming
common in stores.
On Sunday night the house of J. A.
emane; at Newland. was destroyed by
iIe win loss OF about $400. The
no9se haa been vacant for some time
and the fire was evidently of incend;ar,,
origin. There was $3.50 Insurance on
tual Fire Assn.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
Friday. December 4, 1905.
GERMANY VERSUS ENGLAND

s. We read about England's un
q easlness over the restless German
attitude, and wonder if there il
y good cause. The traveller does
not touch German soil before
some brusque Teuton fellow-trav
elef has delivered himself of a
symposium upon how his nation
would wipe up England if once
s they could land any number oil
men on England's soil. He has
an abiding faith that no one
q hundred-and-eighty pounds of
aVoirdupois that fits the earth
can withstand hundred-and-a-
half of German flesh and blood.
He realizes, strange to say, that
r. his navy is weaker than Eng
lands but if he had three-fourths
the fighting machines that John
Bull has he is satisfied he could
litter the seas with English hulks.
In conversing with the German,
every other one will voluntarily
breach this subject, and say all
they lack is a foot-hold. The
80. Emperor is not alone in these
O.: views; in fact, a tour of Germany
will disabuse the American mind
of the idea that Wilhelm is the
war-lord of reading repute. He
III truth holds his people largely
in subsection as to this impulse.
=. The belligerent spirit-or anti
pathy to English-crops out
everywhere, and is displayed
III no surer way than the
alteration given Count Zeppelin,
OF balloon fame. simultaneously
with the collapse last August OF
his machine little German town
was burned, and three hundred
people made destitute. The pub
: lie subscription to these homeless
81 ones was a mere pittance beside
the purse raised for Zeppelin.
49,, The fever of excitement that
az. pulsed the German heart at the
time made disagreeable the tour
Oh any Englishman or one who
E spoke English.
- % Beneath it all is the undyine
b '~hope that some air bird may and
--.. will be discovered that can drop
lyddlte shells all over the little
isle that now rules the sea, and
thus wipe out the barrier that
Keeps the Goths from sweeping
ocean to ocean. The German
aiT4 believes today that the time is not
asetsir distant when they will have
machines to do this, and that
London can be destroyed in q
night or laid subject to tribute.
Your Teuton travelling com
panion bucks his eyes when YOU
ask him-'What will the English
be doing?p when all these ships
are. sailing over head.
~ To our mind the hope of the
German will never be realized.
That there will be airships of war
and successful machines at that
We do not question, but they
VIII never be able to carry great
eargoes OF men or ammunition.
and when cruising they will be
- met by Others. A bullet-hole
from "a like belligerent or u fort
Will put 1T ont of business. and
there is no getting around that.
True, the night will afford much
assistance to cover London un-
seen, but winds do not always
blow across the English channel
to furnish schedule time for aerial
flights. And, too, as we have
said, there will be lookoutsmen
III the air before twilight as well
as in the morn.
The English should feel no
great unrest as to results that
are read in the embers of the
as German breast, but he can never
he entirely easy so long as the
spirit OF today is alive there.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04

To THE Colonial Beach Record
which Is making heroic efforts in
behalf of, its town and the old
county of ,5,''Westmoreland. the
CITIZEN wishes to answer it's call
and tender assistance, though
feeble 1T necessarily be, in behalf
OF a harbor for the upper Poto-
mac and "a, marine medical sta
ton. Monroe Bay is a point of
great impqrtaIeerass for
oyster boats, and the govern
ment is throwing away money
on dry river" streams, a minute
portion of which would make
Monroe Bay habitable for a large
fleet. The upper Potomac is
quite bleak in certain prevailing.
winds OF winter and the enterprise
OF the toilers of the deep often
comes to nought because of in
sufficient haven. .,~
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
sHrrrING FOR LADIES

Save travelling expenses and have f, on,
Shopping done by Mrs J. p. Meanlpy,
22O4 0ak ST.. Baltimore. She is in
close touch with the best stores and can
save our ladies money en- their purchases
In all lines. II costs them nothing extra
samples sent upon reqpest.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-04
SHARPS is THE PLACE
TO BUY GOODS.

we carry, line of clothing, readv-maSe
and made-to-order, and Ladies' CloaLs
Window Glass all sizes. o
Druggits, Mattings, Iron Beds and
Springs; Jap-a-lac at New York nr;ces
Best flour S. 5 to So. rs the barrel
"A big line of Drugs and Patent Med;.
cine at cut prices.
Two hundred pound sacks fine salt 81 10
we are here to stay and do business on
the square. Our goods are bought for
cash and sold at prices that cannot he
knocked out and seldom duplicated.
Respectfully,
J. ". GARRISON.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
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poor ventilation, or other unsanftary influences during the early months of infancy. It Is common in anaemic, emaciated and rachitic children who have suffered much from indigestion and intestinal disorders. Pearly white teeth are more fragile, as rule. than those of yellOwish cast, and rougt- ness, irregularity and opaque white specks usually mean early decay.
 The discovery of these nutritlonal de- fleets in an infant should be an incen- tive to careful investigation of its general health and the institution of corrective treatment. In some cases no more is required than regulation of the diet; sometimes a special diet is necessary, with, perhaps, the admins tration of tonics designed to increase the deposit of lime for the hardening of the teeth.
 Decay is caused hy bacteria. The knowledge of tEls fact enables us to do great deal for the preservation of the most imperfect teeth. When the tem- porary teeth have been preserved. the growth of the second teeth progresses normally. and the result is more uni form and of better quality.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
The Patient Woman.

Patience is the supreme quality of good wife. When humanity shall have evolved a perfect race of men there will be less need of this virtue In women. Now It Is chief of the in dispensable qualities. For the 20th century wife must inevitably learn that she has married an unprotected creature many degrees below the god of her girlish fancy. And for the fac ing. of this unwelcome fact she re- Quires abundant patience.
 Woman's most blessed work in the world Is the long. long task of foster ing the blossoms and rlpening the fruit of character in the young. For this there is need of a patience half divine.
 You are growing to have the look in your face that mother has. You don't look like us boys any more, said a boy to his sister. That new look which the boy noted but could not name was patience. There Is scarcely a wifely virtue but by over. indulgence may become a defect. Yet no wife has ever had too large a stock of patience. The patient wife for gives her husbands ill humors. She discounts his failures and exaggerates his successes.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
What One Woman Did.

A prominent woman of Barron, Wis,
 has adopted a new plan to break her husband from loafng In bar rooms. A few nights ago she sent to a saloon three times for her better half to come home. Not receiving any response, she went to the saloon, where she found him in chair asleep. She aroused him. saying, Wake up and let us have a good time!" Then stepping to the bar she asked the crowd up to drink with her. By this time the husband was on his feet and wanted her to go home with him, but she insisted on staying and having some fun," and for a sec ond time called for the drinks for the crowd. which by this time was scatter
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
How . Flea Jumps.

It Is said that flea leaps POO times its height, and, while 1t usually does land on its feet, 1t often falls, especial. ly when 1t falls on perfectly smooth surface, where the claws can get only a slight hold. A flea has six legs, whose great length and bulk make them so heavy that they must be a great help in keeping their owner right side up when 1t makes one of these gigantic jumps, and when 1t lands up- side down or In some other way its ability to kick is so great that not more than one wriggle is needed to set things right A fea's wings are mere scales and of no use but, small and worthless as they are, they tell the entomologist something about the proper classification of the insect To the fea itself they have no value.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
STQrGI2e;Srsmtll G4iISBbsE
Reso1utfons.
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Resolutions.
 'Did you make any solutions this yearT'
 Solutions? I don't know what you mean"
 "Why, yes, you do. Don't make be- lieve be stupid. Polly, for you know that always makes me cross, and my first solution this year was not to be cross with you any more."
 You mean resolutions, don't you, Jennyr
 "Oh, yes, perhaps 1t Is resolutions, though don't see much difference, only one syllable. Well, did you make any?'
 "I-don't remember said Polly, slowly. She was a serious, thoughtful little girl, who was apt to think before she spoke. "I haven't thought much about the new year yet, to tell the truth. Jenny. Mother is sick, you see, and I have had the breakfasts to get and the children to dress, so I've been pretty busy"
 Well, I've made lots and lots of them. First place. I'm not gong to be cross at all any more. Then I am going to keep my bureau drawers in or der-apple-pie order, just the way Aunt Grace keeps hers. Next-you aren't listening to me. Polly Strong! I think its just as rude as 1t can be, not to listen when person speaks to you!"
 Yes, I am, Jenny dear. I thought l heard mother call me. that's all. What else are you going to do?" I'm not going to eat candy-at least, not nearly So much-as soon as I have finished my Christmas boxes. I am going to eat just one piece at a time, so as to make them last long, long time. Then-then-oh well, am going to be generous and kind. and do all sorts of things for everybody. Don't you want to make solu-I mean resolutions, too?
 "I should not want to make quite so many, It seems to me-" said Polly, quiet ly. "I might not be able to keep them all. Now l must go and take care of baby. Don't you want to come to the nursery with mel"
 "No, I don't want to sit in the nurs- cry and take care of babies"
 Of walked the maker of good reso- lutions, with head in the air; and away went Polly, with smile on her lips, { and never thinking about whether she was being good herself or not.-Youth's s Companion.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14

Owing to the reopening of many fao tories, the labor situation has shown further improvement in our great cities. There is still exceptional need, and such appeals for relief funds as are be ing made by responsible bodies should be generously needed; but 1t is reas- surfing to know that the situation is steadily growing better. One of the re suits of the industrial emergency Is likely to be the establishment in the State of New York of a permanent agency of relief and employment for jobless men who are able and willing to work. The United Charity Organi- zatfon Societies of the Eastern metrop- olis have considered and approved q plan for State agricultural colonies. The idea is to make these farm colo nies entirely selfsupportlng. They might, for example. produce and pre- pare supplies for the States charitable and penal institutions. provided tho consent of the farmers and kitchen gar deners could be secured. In France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland farm colonies have long been in e1- istence, not so much to provide the honest workmen who are temporarily idle with fairly remuneratiye employ ment, although that object Is by To means neglected, as to rid the cities of vagrants and loafers of the really un- employable class. In the United States potato patches" were tried in several cities in the panic year of 1893 and later, and they served their purpose re- markably well, considering the circum- stances under which the experiment was resorted to and carried out Cleve- land, however, has not unsuccessfully endeavored to extend and develop the farm colony scheme, and the best stu- dents of the problem of social relief and unemployment believe that the ex- ample of that municipality is a good one to follow. It is recognized, how ever, that 1t will be necessary to exer- else great care in separating the tramps from the worthy and respectable labor CTS. Compulsory work for the former is excellent treatment, but any colony which assumes the character of a semi penal institution is necessarily avoided and shunned by the deserving whom se- were necessity alone drives to apply for relief. Two kinds of farm colonies may prove to be needful, to avoid humilia- question Is to be discussed in the New York Legislature in connection with a bill already drawn.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14

The production of sugar in Mexico is on the increase and the sugar plant. CTS in Southern Mexico are rapidly learning that increased cultivation means larger stand of cane and con- sequently a greater production of sugar J. NJ. Parker, superintendent of the Oaxaquena plantation, in the State of Vera Cruz, gives his opinion of the sugar outlook in Mexico to this effect He states that the cane crop now being moved is an extremely heavy one, and will be one of the largest for many years. This, he states, is largely due to better cultivation. The planters of tropical Mexico have apparently neg lected this important item in past years and only recently have commenced to cultivate by stumping and blowing and keeping well cultivated with mules. This year, however, many of them de voted considerable attention to the cul- tfyation of the sugar land. and the re- suit has been a larger crop than for uany years.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-05-14
Thought It Was Her Husband.

Mrs. Addle Lother, who, with her husband, lives in cabin In the moun- talnous section west of Winchester. Va, Is without doubt the only woman who, after having been In the embrace of a shaggy bear, routed the monster with a womans weapon and refused to faint afterward. In speaking of the occur renee which took place few weeks ago, Mrs. Lother said that she never in all her life had such hugglng as the bear gave her. At first she thought she was In the arms of her husbanl.
 "Oh, John, your awful whiskers." she exclaimed, without looking up, when a shaggy head brushed her cheek.
 John, you hug like bear." she ex- claimed. and twisting in the embrace, she looked squarely into the face of bruin.
 You ornery brute," yelled the wom. an, swinging her dishpan in her sur prise on the animals head. She fol- lowed up this advantage with a natiron and a poker, with which she prodded bruin So vigorously that the surprised beast sought safety in flight.
 When Lother returned home he found his wife calmly arranging her hair as If nothing had happened.