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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11

In is the estimate of the Score.
tary OF the Treasury that the
cost OF running the government
the coming year will be about
fifty-eight millions more than
last year. The committee now
considering the tariff matter
seem to be of opinion that instead
OF lowering duties, will be raised.
as this will be necessary in order
to have revenue sufficient. A
tax OF 5 cents per pound is sug-
gested on coffee, but as this arti-
Gle, once thought so delightful and
healthful, is largely advertised as
poisonous, perhaps we may be
able to dispense with it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
D0INGS TN CONGRESS.

Sixtieth Congress met in It's last ses-
sion Monday.
Such power as he has Is necessary,
but 1t is also necessary that 1t be used
more wisely. The real argument is
not for better rules, but for a better
Speaker. Y. Post.
Attic present writing, tariff revision
seems quite likely to degenerate into
something like practical joke. And
we DO not know why we should say
degenerate" either. we sometimes
fear 1t has never been anything else. =
Washington Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
REVOLUTION IN HAITI.

The almost annually recurring revo.
luton in Haiti is on, and the ruler that
was is put down and out by new man.
The mob, tired Of the former governor,
set on him in good style. and but for
the saving Intervention Of the French
Consul he would have been mastered
by the bowling mob. who seem to have
been wound up to q frenzied pitch by
bad whiskey. No Intervention is in
tended by our government, 30 it is
stated. Hayti is one Of the fairest spots
IN the Antilles, a perfect paradise, but
IS inhabited by a people who have no
genius for government and whose sole
seem. to play soldier and drink
bad whiskey.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
FISH AND OYSTER NOTES.

Oysters have been selling for So cents
bushel on the lower Rappahannock. a
drop of 25 cents, due in part to the
warm weather.
The Norfolk oyster market is over
stocked and the business depressed,
this partly owing to the continued warm
weather. The stock arriving is in good
shape and Of fine quality.
Baltimore papers state that the
market of that city has been glutted
with oysters for the week ending
December End. There was practically
no outside demand for stock. Shelled
oysters sold at from 10 cents to 81 a
a bushel. and shucked at from S5 cents
to 81 per gallon for standards and 81. 80
to $1.40 for selects.
We learn that during the month of
November our navy kept things lively
in the Virginia waters and collected a
number of fines. 1t is said that
when the dredging season opened on
October 18th in the Potomac river and
Virginia waters the largest fleet in the
history of the business were in evil
dence.-The Oysterman.
MARKET FOR OYSTERS BAD.
Norfolk Ledger ispateh.I
Chairman Mcdonald Lee, of the Vir-
ginia State Fisheries C Commission, asked
today regarding the publication last
week that 100, 900 bushels of fine Chesa-
peake bay oysters were on vessels at
Baltimore with no market, said:
eyes, it is sadly true. For the first
time since the war probably a dozen
eggs will buy bushel of oysters, and
that bushel will open nearly gallon.
The cost of opening-twenty cents-is
almost the price of the oysters.
''This is the best season for the catch
OF oysters in a good many years, but
for the oyster packer it is the poorest
in many seasons. The oysters are
large. fine and plentiful, but there is
no market for them. The continued
warm weather is having much to do
with this. ! really don't know what
the packers and shippers are going to
do unless market conditions improve.
1.-THE tongers around Pocomoke and
Tangier sounds. Rappahannock river
and Guynn's Island are making more
money this year than last because they
have oysters in great numbers and they
can make more money by selling many
at low price than they made by sell
ling so few at high price. But this
does not help the business man who is
dealing in the oyster business and who,
when he buys from the longer finds>no |
outside market for his oysters"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
THE OYSTERS FOOD.

The "Oysterman" states that
the food of the oyster is 'dia-
toms, but leaves us to guess
what these are. Diatoms are
minute. microscopic shell-fish, SO
small that they are invisible to
thenaked eye, but when examined
under the microscope are exceed
nngly curious creatures indeed.
Imagine a little clam, with top
and bottom leaves like a real
clam, but the top fitting on the
bottom shell something like a
little box. Inside the shell is the
dlatom, really live creature,
but, as said, so small it takes
2 smagnifYing glass to see him.
.-ths body is soft and ielly-like,
just the sort of food that the
oyster can readily digest, and
the shell is composed of the same
materials-lime-stuff-tha that the
oyster-shell is made of. So when
the oyster takes into his company
the diatOms-millions of them
are floating in the water-he not
only gets his meals, but materials
to build up his shell, so that the
diatom is. peculiarly fitted for
oyster-food. Heis a funny sort OF
creature, this diatom, and when
he decides to multiply he simply
splits himself, or herself, which
ever itmay be, in half Orquarters,
and at once two or four young
diatoms are ready for individual
existence. There is none of the
trouble of raising families, only a
division of the original creature,
and that's the end, or perhaps
more correctly, the beginning oi
a new life. As this sort of thing
may be done good many times
day, the diatom family is a
rapid increaser, and no race sui
eide troubles them.
One of the most remarkable
things about the diatom is the
markings on the shell. Although
OF microscopic size, his shell has
the most curious markings on il
Lines that are traced across the
shell. lines so fine and so close
together that 125,000 of them
side by side only measure an inch
and these linesare used by micro,
scopists as a test of the power OF
"a microscope. In some parts OF
ibis State fossil diatoms are found
las. mineral deposits in great
quantities, and this deposit is
used for polishing powder. The
j.. powder, known as rottenstone. is
one form of fossil diatom shells
INthe water 1,500 varieties OF
diatoms are to be found, but
whether all these are food for
oysters we cannot say.
Some time ago We were watch.
ing a Fiddler crab" feeding him.
self. He took up a bit of mud in
his plncers from the bottom, ex-
!. posed by the low tide, and carried
this to his mouth, repeating this
Tor some minutes much the same
+ as n man would eat his meals,
Puzzling over his choice of a diet
OF mud we concluded that i'm this
substance were diatoms, these
- forming the food of the ''fiddler. -
lie had no doubt astomach that
would absorb the good that was
IN the mud and would throw out
the refuse, much as the earth.
worm does.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT

The annual message of the
President to the Congress was
read to that body on Tuesday
last 1t is distinctly Rooseveltian
n tone, and seems to be In part
an appeal for additional author,
x NY on the part of the Executive
Tor forwarding the work, SO well
begun by him, of Capitalization
and OF accumulated power in his
hands and those of his disciple
Mr.. Taft.
Among the salient points in
the message are u demand for an
Improved currency system; a
larger use of the existing consti.
tutlonal rights now in the hands
OF the President for controlling
the trusts; placing telephone and
telegraph companies under the
control OF the Interstate Com.
merce Commission; passage of a
bill that will allow still greater
combinations in business; more
complete control of interstate
railroads; legislation that will
g1ye the wage-earner a right to
IA share in. the interests of the
concern for which he is laboring:
and other big enterprises. The
Postal Bank system comes in for
a boost; legislation is recon.
mended that will prohibit more
effectively child labor, and limit
the work of women; the inheri-
tance tax matter comes in for
consideration: higher salaries for
Federal judges, and a plan for
expediting judicial transactions.
The Capitalization idea runs
through the message, and stem
by step the encroachment on
states rights creeps in, in some
ways openly, in others covertlv.
but the subversion of that doc
trine is always in mind-more
control, more power, more execu-
tive margin, more rule of the
State and less of the people.
Revolutions do not go backward.
says the proyerb, and there seems
no probability that the drift to-
wards Federalism will stop, nor
indeed in the present temper of
the people does there seem any
great desire to check it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11

WHILE we of Lancaster had
only a slight freeze week before
last the cold was so intense in
Warrenton, not 200 miles away.
that the water froze in the fire,
hose and difficulty was exper.
fenced in distinguishing a burning
building on account of this fact
We are without railroads and
such facilities for commerce, but
we have a fine climate all the
same. At that time young cab
bages were being set out, and
roses, big and blushing, are still
blooming in the open with us, and
dandeliOns on the lawn.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11

Notice is hereby given that by con.
sent of all parties / have withdrawn
from the partnership heretofore exist
ing between William White, C. F. Ball.
h 5. Hall, Carroll Hurst, w. b. Carter
and myself. under the name and firm
style of Dividing Creek Packing Co.
All debts due to or by the said company
are payable to or by the said company
Respectfully,
G. l.. CARTER.
December 8, 1908.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
OYSTERS AND TURKEY GALORE

A phenonhinal condition as to these
choice viands exists today land has
for some weeks) in Tidewater Virginia
"a dozen eggs will buy a bushel of
good oysters, and chicken ia cheaper
than turkey.
Ii the markets do not change. Christ
mas will groan with oysters and tur-
key, but buildings and cakes will be
scarce. Again, II the market does not
change chicken raisers will be o. X
but turkey growers and oyster dealers
will have to shut up shop.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
OF PUBLICATIONS,

In the Clerks Office Of the Circuit Cour,
OF the County of Lancaster. on the
18th day of November, 1903.
Hannah Parks, Plaintiff,
against
Isaac Parks, Defendant,
The object of this suit is to obtain q
divorce vinculo matrimonii, and it an.
pearing from a certified copy of the
Judgment OF the Circuit Court of Ian
caster County, Virginia, herein filed that
the defendant, Isaac Parks, has been
IN the penitentiary, it is ordered that he
do appear here within fifteen DAYS after
due publication hereof, and do what
may De necessary to protect his interest
IN this suit. And it is further ordered
that copy hereof be published once a
week for four weeks in the VIRGINIA
CITIZEN, newspaper published in the
County of Lancaster, and that a copv
be posted at the front door of the court
house of this county on the 7th day of
December. 1903. that being the next
succeeding rule day after this order was
entered.
A copy-Teste: WIN Chiffon, Clerk.
F. G. NEwBILL, p. q.
In the Clerk s Office of the Circuit Court
toh eiio SOuHSy VI Lancaster, on the
18th day of November, 1908.
Erasmus Brown, Plaintiff.
against
Kizzie Brown, Defendant,
The object of this suit is to obtain a
divorce from the defendant a vinculo
matrimonii. And an affidavit having
been made and filed that the defendant
Kizzie Brown, is not resident of the
State OF Virginia, It is ordered that she
do appear here within fifteen DAYS after
due publication hereof, and do what NAV
be necessary to protect her interest in
this suit. And it is further ordered that
4 copy hereof be published once week
For four weeks in the VIRGINIA CITIZEN. !
: newspaper published in the County of
lancaster, and thata copy be posted at |
he front door of the courthouse of this .
county on the 7th day Of December. /
sos, that being the next succeeding
ule day after this order was entered
Teste: VIM. Chiffon, Clerk. !
F. G. NEWELL, p. q.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
STUART TO JACKSON'S MEN
rs He Led the Charge at ChancelIors-
Vile, Daybrs.ak. Nay Slst. lS8s-

rs He Led the Charge at ChapcelIors-
Vile. Daybrs-ak. Nay sIst. 1853.
LAir: Allan watsr."o
Men who followed Stonewan jackson
Come! and follow mel
Fix your bayonetsl Day is dawning
For our victoryl
See yon lines of Northern bresstworksl
Mark each frowning gun!
rear them not! For we will conquer,
Though they're three to onei
CHORUS.
Men who have so often conquered
Conquer now with mel
Forward! and remember Jacksoni
On to victory!
Men who fought with Stonewall jackson,
Now his teachings prove,
Strike for Home and God and Freedom
Strike for all you love!
Strikel and think of your great leader
AS you deal each stroke!
Come! while Jackson's life is passing.
Finish Jackson's work.
tCHoRUs.)
Though the mighty chief be fallen
Shall the fight be won,
For the soul of Stonewsn Jackson
Still will lead US onl
You who have so often charged them.
Charge them now with mel
Whatare Yankee forts or numbers
To the swords Of Lee?
(cHoRus)
Make the field that cost US jackson
Glorious and sublime!
Make this day name immortal
In the Book of Timel
Men who have so often conquered,
Conquer now with mel
Forward and remember JscksonI
On to Victoryl
(CHoPUs.l
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
NOTICE,

Pursuant to order of the Circuit
Court Of Northumberland county, Va,
! will offer for sale at public auction. al
Reedville, Va, on Saturday. December
18th. 1908. at p. m, the skip Jack
known and named the ''Lida Ward, -
or Cape Charles. Va, about 80 feet
long and tons burden, and a canoe
(of unknown name) about 80 feet Ion@
with one sail and cabin forward. to-
gether with all their rigging. sails.
tackle, anchors. appurtenances. dredpes'
scrapes, cranks and all else that oer.
tains to said boats; also about 80 bush.
els OF oysters. Terms: Cash.
w. E. FLYNT,
Sheriff of Northumberland Co.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11

E. w. Long & Co., on the lower Rap.
pahannock, say they cannot begin to
open all the oysters offered them al
low figures, and that their condition is
that OF other packers throughout this
section.
This week there were thousands upon
thousands of bushels of good merchant
able oysters offered on the lower Rap
pahannock at rs cents bushel and no
buyers.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11

The Baylor Survey is a menagerie
lion going around the edges of the
Chesapeake bay seeking whom it NAV
devour. Hampton Monitor.
And in Warwick county, as we'll
as other places, being devoured
by whom it may meet.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
OTHER STATES SUFFER TOO.

BALTIMORE. Md, December 8th.-
Oysters are bringing but 20 or rs
cents bushel at Baltimore, and many
cargoes have been returned to
where they were taken, for bed
ding, because they cannot be sold at
all. In West River, an oyster ground
below Annapolis, over 100000 bushels
have been bedded. their owners hoping
that better prices will be obtained in a
few weeks.-Washingto Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
SHARPS Is THE PLACE
TO BUY GOODS.

We carry. line of clothing, ready-made
and -to-order. and Ladies' Cloaks.
Window Glass all sizes.
Druggits, Mattings, Iron Beds and
Springs; Jap-a-lac at New York prices.
Best flour 1925 to s5.75 the barrel.
A big line Of Drugs and Patent Medi-
cine at cut prices.
Two hundred pound sacks fine salt 81 .l2
We are here to stay and do business on
the square Our goods are bought for
cash and sold at prices that cannot be
knocked out and seldom duplicated.
Respectfully,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-12-11
WHEN IN R0,iF0lK STOP At
1.-THE ATLANTIC"

Most conveniently located Hotel
CORNER MAIN AND GRANNY SITS.
Rooms $l.O0 and S1.5O.
American Plan $3.50 and $500.
Fine Cafe Oynn's) newly fitted up
on first floor.
Rappahannock Valley people make it
headquarters.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
RADICAL CHANGES
PROPOSED BY JARRETT

One of the radical departures propos-
ed by Sheriff Jarrett when he assumes
charge of the police department next
month is the establishment of a bicycle
corps of plain clothes men for the resi-
dence districts. Their duty viii be to
patrol the districts of Makiki, Manoa,
waikiki, Kalihi, Nuuanu, SO that the
outlying Territory will at all times have
some one connected with the police de-
partment, keeping an eye on providers
and suspicious characters.
Another change will be to have each
watch of the foot police entirely sepa-
rate from the other two. Eight-hour
watches will be maintained, but in fu-
ture each watch will have its own
patrol-wagon driver, turnkey and re-
ceiving clerk. There will be no over
tapping of one watch into another. At
present the patrOl-wagon drlvers-tWo
of them-have twelve hour watches. In
future there will be three. 1t is likely
that during the next administration an
effort will be made to secure an auto
mobile patrol wagon, which can make
quick runs on all occasions. At present
it is necessary to save the horses as
much as possible on ordinary runs, as
there is no knowing whether the next
run may not require the fastest kind
of speed.
1t is said that the new Sheriff hopes
to establish secret service bureau in
which will be a couple of men who will
not report at the station, and whose
identities will be secret.
The new Sheriff does not believe in
drilling the men, but is of the opinion
that instructing them in the way to
handle prisoners will be better.
The detective bureau may be placed
in the second story of the police sta
ton, over the stable, and a centra.
| phone system installed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
ANERICAN-HbWAIILN
AND ATSOR LINES

TACOMA, December 1.-Maintaining
the fourteen-day schedule between Pu-
get Sound and the Hawaiian Islands
for the American Hawaiian Steamship
Company, the steamer Alaskan of the
fleet will be in port the first of next
week to load general freight. The
Alaskan will follow the steamer Column
bian, which has been on the Sound for
the past few days loading.
The change in the schedule OF the
American Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany was made following the announce
ment of the Inauguration of Puget
Sound Honolulu service by the Matson
Navigation company, and some lively
opposition is expected.
The Matson Navigation company will
operate the steamer Hyades from this
port and at first will maintain a forty
five day schedule between Tacoma, Sc
attic. San Francisco and the islands.
The Hyades is now at Quartermaster.
She will come to Tacoma the latter part
of the week to load for the islands. The
first of her cargo will consist largely of
hay
The American Hawaiian liner Mis-
sourian is scheduled 20 come to this port
shortly from Bremerton to load general
freight for New York. She has been
at the Puget Sound navy yard discharg'
ing coal for some days.
The latter part of the week the
steamer Nevadan, another of the Amer
lean Hawaiian liners, is due in port.
The Nevadan will take cargo destined
for Salina Cruz and New York.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
ASHES Of DR.. HIRAM
BINGHAM LAID AWAY

With a few of his closest friends
gathered round the grave to pay their
last loving respects to the famous mis-,
sionary, the remains of DR.. Hiram Bing
ham were laid away next to those of
HIS wife in the missionary burial
ground in the Kawaiahao churchyard
yesterday afternoon.
The service was very short and sim
pie and only few were present; just
his closest personal friends in Homo
lulu Rev. 0. II. GuIick conducted the
service which he opened by reading
selections from the Congregational ser
vice. 4 hymn was then sung in which
those present were led by a Hawaiian
quartet. The hymn chosen was "In
Emmanuel 5 Land and was sung at
the special request of Mrs. Coan, sister
of the great missionary.
After the hymn Rev W. n. Lono, a
former pupil of DR.. Bingham, prayed IN
Hawaiian and finally Mr. Gulick gave
the benediction and the company silent
ly dispersed after pausing for mo-
ment to watch the urn containing the
ashes, placed in the grave.
Among the close friends of DR.. Bing-
ham who were present were z. c. Jones,
G. P. Castle, T. c. Atherton, Mrs. J.
NJ. Atherton, A. F. Cooke, Judge and
Mrs. Dole and Theodore Richards.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16

Two people sometimes keep a secret;
more than two never do. The girl at
Central has all the fun Call OF
phone to Waterhouse Trust Co., and
subscribe for the automatic telephone
Absolutely secret service.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
PROPERTY CONVEYED.

BY deed filed yesterday J. Alfred
Magoon, in consideration Of one dollar,
has conveyed TO Charles A Brown thir.
ty-four pieces Of real estate in various
parts of the Island of Oahu. BY another
deed and for a like consideration Ma
Coon in his own right and as trustee
conveys three other pieces IF land one
of them in Hawaii, Re 9th,
Oahu. to Brown.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-13

ed, will bring up the reputation and
price of Pecos Valley goods, and
place them at the very top, thus bring
ing in much more money than by the
hap-hazard methods now practiced.
First class packing requires the hire
of an expert overseer; but the in
vestment pays many times over.
"The statements I have made about
apples can be applied to hay, all down
the line.
Zone thing more about the apple
market. II is a mistaken idea that
there are no apples except in the Pc
cos Valley this year. There is a big
crop in New York, Colorado, n in
parts of Kansas. California, Wash
ington, Oregon and all the extreme
West have n of the biggest crops
they have yer had. There are three
big apples states, however, that are
short, Arkansas, Missouri and Illi-
nois. The market is owerstocked, fair
ly glutted, with inferior apples, a great
many sections sending out the same
output as that of the Pecos Valley,
that is, poorly packed and graded
stuff that might nave brought better
prices but for a few culls in the best
grades and aIl-misrepresented as to
quality and kind.
81 would now recommend that ap-
pies be left OF trees as long as posi-
BILE. Then carefully picked, graded
and packed and sem to some agent in
the city who will put them In cold
cation that will bring about a high
standard of shipped goods will bene-
FIT the hay and apple industries of the
Pecos Valley more than any other
thing"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-13
ORDINANCE NO. 159.

An Ordinance Amending Section 5
of Ordinance No. &c Of the Compiled
Ordinances Of the City Of Roswell.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROSWELL:
Sec. L. That Section 5 of Ordin-
ance No. 26 of the Compiled Ordin-
ances of the City of Roswell, be and
the same is hereby amended by add
ing at the end of said Section 5, the
words, theatrical performances of
any description, under canvas $25 for
the first performance; each addition
al performance $15;". and from and
after the passage of this Ordinance
theatrical performances of any des-
cription under canvas shall pay a hc-
ense OF $25 for the first performance
and SIS for each additional perform
ance within the city limits of the City
of Roswell; ant the words, shoot
ing gallery $500" and from and af-
ter the passage of this ordinance
shooting galleries shall pay a yearly
license of $36, payable quarterly, in
advance, for operating within the
City limits of Roswell.
Sec. a. That Section 5 Of Ordin-
No. 26 Of the Compiled Ordin-
ances of the City OF Roswell, be and
the same Is further amended by
striking out the words Circus, first
performance $500 each additional
performance $500, and inserting
performance 100000. each addi-
tional performance $4,000" and from
and after the passage of this ordin-
ance circus performances shall pay al
license o 100000 for the first perform
NICE and 5000 for zach additional