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Santa
Came to
Cactus Gulch
BY ROBERTVS LOVE.

0O 0HEN Sanity come to Cactus
\MnW we wuz not expectin' him,
NV Our almanac connections
bein' broken off complete.
In fact, with us the trail o. time had
got so mortal dim
We only knowed twuz winter BY the
absence o. the heat.
Says to Pinky Perkins, witt, squint
at Desert Dan
Says 4: "We'd orter hustle for lit
tie extry feed.
It's 'Ionq about Thankssivin'!" IVY"
says Pinky P.-"w'y, man,
ri bet it's nearer New Years, for
the old ones gone to seed.'
We arsied il an arsied II till Desert
Dan put up
His canvas bag O. nuggets an pins
o. yalIer dust
He's spent the "a sssfsdM ~
year colIectin' e.ES1ssa,xzls2.&
in his pewter Z q ~
drinkin cup. &
ats Christmas T<A l7CWg ~
in a week." EI1 VIZ &F'
he says; "I'Il EsTANT $g
bet you, win 'Wf} M$hfl
or bust" B<zW WWG
still maintained Mn MxEEH
Th nix seivin Nzk INT I
wuz about the 7 r SYW Al
proper date, Y II I'm ~
AS judsin' by k0c\5E&E,~l
my appetite, sHzSSaHV2kN
an Pinky still - STW
declared INK
That New Years l~1~ XII
wuz the blow R[T ! w
out that wuz N.sa....--s.s~z1a~
next upon the THERE wUZ TEAR
slate, DKOrs IN inN f1A-''
But Desert waved his nugget bag
an dared an dared an dared.
"See here" says Desert, ~ can feel the
season in my bones;
sense a sort o. hankerin' for days
of old long sign,
| When | wuz back in Jersey an my
name wuz Daniel Jones;
I'm lonesome as the soldier wuz at
Bingen- on the Rhine
Then Desert up an tells us what he's
never said before
AS how he had a cottage an wo-
| man an a kid;
| But, some misunderstanding havin'
made bis sperrit sore, 80 Z.
Nigh on to twenty years ago he SIM
ply up and slid.
| looked at Pinky Perkins then, an
Pinky looked at me,
But both Of us wuz silent, an we
looked at Desert Dan,
But he wuz sizzIin' bacon for supper
feed for three,
An, shore as I'm a sinner, there wuz
teardrops in the pan!
That night we set an Rugged tho
stove, while all around the shack
a desert blizzard whistIed an the
snow wuz whirIin' thick.
Il shore wuz Christmas weather, but
there shoreIy wuz lack
Of anything suggestin' O. our ancient
friend ST. Nick.
The door bust open suddent-like, an,
stranger, dog my cat!
If there amt Sanity Claus hisself, in
fur an robe complete,
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Farmers s. nerchants National Bank,
Onley, Va.
Assets.

Statement of the Financial Condition
at the close of business Dec. 5,
1908.
Acoeto
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The sorrow Of yesterday is as moth
ing. that cf foda- = .2cr.i'lo. ''H: 'ia'
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fCopyright, 1903. by American Press Asso
ciationl
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A Fair Offer.

Small boy (who has been watching
amateur gunner's failures for an hour
or mOre)-Say, mister.
Sportsman-Well, what is it. boy?
Gimme a nickel an a start as far
as the fence an you kin have one at
me"-Life.
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To the Examination Committee OF
the Farmers & Merchants Nat
ional Bank OF Onley, Va:
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VOLUME XVI
O. WAITER MAPP. J. BROOKS MAPP
MAPP & MAPP,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Offices: Grangeville, Keller and
Accomac Q. H.,
Practice in all courts on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia.
OHIO F. MEARS,
--Attorney-at-Law,--
Ofices: Eastville, Northampton
County and AccOmsck Court House
Practices In all courts on the Eastern
Shore Of Virginia.
JOHN S. PARSONS,
Attorney-at-Law,
Accomac Courthouse, Va.
VIII practice in all courts OF Acco-
mac and Northampton Counties.
s. JAMES BURLINGTON
Attorney-at-Law.
Ofrices-Accomac G. II. and Fair
Oaks, Va.
Practices in all the courts on the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia.
JNO. r. and ]. HARRY REV,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Or3css-Accomac G. H. and Parks
lsy. At Accomac G. h., every wed
nesday.
viii practice in all the courts on the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia.
ROY d. WHITE,
-Attorney-at-Ia -
.Oflces: Parksley and Kccomac {. IL.
Practices In all courts OF Accomae
and Northampton Counties.
Prompt attention to all business.
BEN T. GUNTER,
Attorney-at-Law,
Accomac Q. H., Va,
VIII practice in all the courts OF
Accomac and Northampton countles
WARNER AMES,
-Attorney-at-Law,--
Onices: Accomac q. II. and Onancock'
At Accomac &. II. every Wednesday
and Friday.
VIII practice in all the courts. ol
Accomac and Northampton counties
John Il. NOTTINGHAM, JR,
-ATroRNEY-AT-LAw,-
FranktOwn, Va
Practices in all the courts on the
Eastern Shore CT Virginia.
Will be at Eastville and Accomac Z
II. first day Of every court anu al East
vile sverV Wednesday.
L. FLOYD MOCK,
-ATToRNEY-AT-LAw
Accomac Q. H., Va.
Practices in all the courts on tht
Eastern Shore of Virginia.
DIR. H. d. LILLlSTON,
DENTIST.
-Accomack Court House, Va
Office hours from 8 IA. III. 10 p. III. VII
tie at Parksley every Tuesday.
DR.. w. NJ. TURLlNGTON
VETERINARIAN,
FAIR OAKS, Va.
Reference, past patrons.
Oan be called by Phone day o
night.
w. G. EMMETT,
Notary
Public,
Belle Haven. Va.
FRED. E. RUEDIGER.
COUNTY vEYOk,-
Accomac c. H., Va.
Thoroughly equipped with latest an
hest instruments, offers bis services I
he citizens Of Accomac County.
Will meet all engagements promptly
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AccOMAC C. H. VA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1908.
january
Christmas Of the
JulianiteS
By ROBERT DONNELL.

copyright, 1908, by American Press Asso'
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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-08-14

VI. c. KENNEDY, ] II. ToNGE, Supt.
Vice Pres. & Gen'l Supt.
A, Riddle. Ger. Psss Agt.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
CATCHING PESTS WITH PESTS.

Experts of the Department of Agri-
culture have figured that the annual
loss to crops in this country from the
ravages Of pests runs into millions,
enough to build a Panama canal every
year and leave a surplus suflcient to
afioat. The department is accordingly
constantly on the search for insects
that will destroy the other insects that
thrive and fatten at the expense of the
line is a bug, found by a scientist of
the department and brought from Eu-
rope to make war on the elm leaf
beetle. The bug in question is about
the size Of a pinhead, but is worth
thousands of times its weight in gold,
as the experts have become convinced
that it and It's progeny will soon extri-
pate the elm beetle and save the for
ests of the country.
The department has mad many ex-
periences in this search for pest
destroying insects. A few years ago
when the cotton boil weevil began eat
ing up about $40, 900, 900 worth of cot
ton annually, the department went to
much expense and trouble to import
a colony of Guatemala ants and planted
them in a Texas %cotton1eld and waited
for the battle with the boil weevils.
The next day not a remnant of the
Guatemala immigrants could be
found. Further experiments showed
that the boil weevil, after gorging
itself with the heart of the cotton
bolls, liked nothing better for desert
than about a peck Of nice, fat Guate-
mala ants. The department is still
hunting for a foe to the boil weevil.
No friends of the department will
remind its officials Of the mistake
made when the government imported
the English sparrow under the impress
sion thai this active and vo%racious bird
would o eat up all the bugs in the
country. The man who can suggest
some effective method of exterminating
the sparrow will be welcomed by the
department officials.
While some mistakes have been
made, the department is really doing
a most valuable work in It's war
against crOp-destroying pests. The
Hessian fly, for many years the great
est foe of the wheat raiser, has been
put to rout by the Polygnotus hiemalis,
a bug imported from Russia by the de-
partment. A bug has been found
which robs the %greenbug of its terror
and within the last few years the de-
partment has filled the orchards of the
country with a bug that makes war
to the death against the San Jose
scale. The work is saving millions to
the farmers of the nation by furnish
ing insect soldiers to hght the battles
which the farmer is powerless to fight
for himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
AN EpIDEMIo OF LYNchiNG.

The determination OF southern gov
errors and state officials to deal rigor-
ously with lynchers appears to have
been ineffective. For a year or more
there has been a diminution In the
number of lynchings n some hope
has been held out that the south was
being broken of its old habits of mob
violence, but within the last ten days
a veritable epidemic of lynch law has
broken out throughout the south.
A few days ago a mob in Texas
Iynched a negro who was shown later
to have been entirely innocent. A day
or W later another mob burned a
negro to death in the public square in
the presence of more than a thousand
spectators, none Of whom offered any
protest or made any effort later to
identity the mob leaders. On August
1 four negroes were lynched at Russle-
Vile. KY, who had committed no
crime, but were charged merely with
having expressed sympathy for an
other negro who had killed a white
man. The tree from which the
negroes were hanged had been used
before for the same purpose" says the
report of the affair. In the month
Of July the state Of Louisiana was dis
graeed by six lynchings.
In but one of the numerous lynch
ing affairs of recent date did the Of
ficers of the law offer any opposition
to the wishes of the mob. The sheriff
and his deputies at Pensacola, Fla
resisted the lynchers with bullets, kill
ing three men and wounding eight,
but the mob finally had It's way and
lynched a negro. In explanation OF
his conduct, the sheriff said; While
I regret the death OF the three men
and the wounding Of others, have
done nothing except what / was called
upon to do when l took the oath OF
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05

office" The sherlff's brave example
deserves emulation and the shameful
record OF l%ynching will cease when the
defense OF the law is placed in the
keeping Of men of his standard OF
courage and loyalty.
The south has been slow to learn
that brutality on the part Of a criminal
furnishes no justification for greater
brutality on the part of a mob, and
that every lynching impsirs respect
for the law and makes life and prop
erty less ecu The white partici-
pants in a lynching bee injure them
selves and their community as much
as they wrong their victim. The low
ering of the moral standard remains
long after the victim and the crime he
committed are forgotten.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
pRosPECr OF TARIFF REVISION.

. a w. 8S@
Americans interested in tariff re-
vision will do well to consider what
the effect would be by the election of
Mr. Bryan to the presidency in Novem-
Der. All parties are practically agreed
that the time is ripe for tariff revision
and a readjustment of schedules to
meet the changed conditions developed
since the enactment of the Dingley bill.
1t remains only to determine the man
ner of the revision and the party that
shall have charge of the work.
No revision of the tariff need be ex-
pected in case of the election of Mr..
Bryan. The democratic tariff pro-
gram is in direct conflict with the
established republican principle of pro-
lection and even If Mr.. Bryan should
be elected with a democratic house, 1t
is beyond the bounds of probability to
expect that the republican senate
would agree to any democratic revision
program. No matter what the returns
In November. the political control of
the senate cannot be changed in less
than six years. If Mr.. Bryan is
elected, he will have a republican SEN
ate during his full term of office.
Colonel Henry Watterson, one Of Mr..
Bryan's most enthusiastic supporters,
has called attention to this fact and
offered 1t as an argument to those who
fanr fk1 A1anffa- ~ nryan would he
followed by extremely radical legisla-
ton. Colonel Watterson assures those
who are afraid of Mr.. Bryan's ultra
radicalism that the old reliable repub-
lican senate will be on guard to save
the nation from Organism in legisla-
tive form.
The republican attitude, on the
other hand, is clear cut and well de-
fined. The party has declared for a
revision of the tariff, at an extra ses-
sion to be called Immediately after
March 4, 1909. Committees of con-
gress are already collecting and com
piling data to have the material in
shape for consideration by the new
congress as soon as it is convened.
The maximum and minimum tariff
plan, recommended by the National
Manufacturers association, is meet
ing with some favor and may be the
basis of legislation by the republican
congress. With the preliminary work
out of the way, the revision of the
tariff should be accomplished in a
session of a few months, without inter
fering with business, as would be the
case IL the work were taken up at a
regular session.
If Mr.. Taft is elected, the country
may expect a new tariff law by July l,
1909. II Mr.. Bryan is elected there
can be no satisfactory revision of the
tariff for at least four years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
A OFFER.

James ]. Montague in Chicago American.
The question Is not whether one can get
the reform he wants, but whether he can
get the most reform. The democratic party
offers him the best opportunity to get all
that is obtalnable at this time.-Willlam J.
Bryan.
Why worry and fret for the things you
can't get, when cheerfully. right off the
Tom Tassart and Ryan and Belmont and
Bryan can make you an offer like that?
You perhaps want reform, and would fain
make It warm for the placidly plumber
Who hsve always had cravings to collar
your savings and spend all your earn
But please want something else. for Tom
Taggarts heart melts with SORROW for
Persons Of Gain:
He would not hurt their feelings by stop
ping their stealings, but he'll get yen
h HE can obtain.
chip-and although your luck may be
He Will freely let you have an hour or two
20 figure w wnSt e cs+n Z WOW Won nae hTsstns ali
the air you can find in this lands far
flung borders
So long as he draws all the corporate laws
and writes the executive orders.
What you want you won't get-upon that
you may ~bet-under old Miss Demoe-
But trust to the fearless and Earruious
Peerless to get what HE can obtain.
once siXteen-to-one was the glorious sun
that arose for the good democrat
To dispel all his trouble and worries like
bubbles-but somehow he couldn't get
that!
Then he took q few hacks at the salary
tax--he missed-but he said that he
would
Be around pretty soon with a popular boom
something eise-but exactly as good;
And he duly appeared and was toyously
cheered like a hottentot battle alarm.
With Ryan and Mack standing right at his
back and TaRgart tucked under his ami
All willing performers, these lofty REFORM
rs-they make all his promises plain.
Don't need them?-tuti tut! Please don't
talk like a m~utt-Bryan offers all he
can obtain!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
SEEKING THE TEACHER VOTE.
Time Given to "ThInkinE and Talk
Ing About the DoIIar.U

Hartford Comm. Times idem.).
It is remarkable how much Of his time
the Nebraska man devotes TO thinking
and talking about the dollar. He made
a speech on a recent Saturday to 200
or more. school teachers of Nebraska.
who visited him and dropped posies at his
feet. To them he said;
Il have wondered why the teachers in
this country would go. year after year, and
vote to turn the nation over to exploitation
by great trusts and monopolies when they
themselves are so poorly paid for the great
and important work they are doing"
The teachers of the country are poorl:
paid II a comparison be made between
their salaries and the incomes which Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. La Toilette
and other popular public lecturers de-
rive from their efforts. On the other
hand most of them are fairly we'll paid
In comparison with the great majority
of employed persons.
Mr.. Bryan does not hold out the slight
est inducement to any school teacher to
expect an increase in his or her emolu-
ment by favoring the election OF Bryan
and Kern this year. What he does ac-
complish by such a speech, however, is
to stir up discomfort. and the man who
VI IN ltOnif the
discontinued person how to get what he
wants Is not a public benefactor.
OF course the inference OF the person
who does not stop to think about 1t is
that voting for Mr.. Bryan may tend to
raise the wages or salaries Of the school
teachers Of the country. Twelve years
ago Mr.. Bryan was working hard, with
the aid Of Marcus Days cash, Ia cut In
half the value of the dollars in which
the school teachers of the country are
paid. He is suggesting no financial
schemes this year, but he would much
like to have the school teachers of the
country vote for him. This year he is
willing to let the dollar continue to be
worth 100 cents in gold. and all his talk
is about the number Of dollars he and
other people are getting instead Of the
intrinsic value Of government coin. Some
times 1t seems as II he had lost the power
to think much about anything else.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
PERSONAL T

The Washingtonian who got a coat OF tar
and feathers seems to be displessed. Posi-
bly, he thought an a%ggrieved husband
would fit him out with a nice easy divorce
suit.
Who says the English Language is not
flexible? The Philadelphia water board
publishes a list OF n~inety-three different
ways Of spelling 'hydrant.' culled from
letters It has received.
New York's first skyscraper, only % years
old. is to be torn down to give place to n
new one, twenty-nine stories higher.
There is a fine opportunity here to guess
what will be going on twenty years hence.
William w. Russell. former American
minister to Venezuela, will leave the United
States in September for Quito, Ecuador,
where there is to be an exposition next
year and for which congress appropriated
$1,000. Mr.. Russell Is the American COM
missioner to the exposition.
Nothing could nave been finer than the
generosity OF the new candidate for presi-
dent on the socialist labor ticket. The
original candidate is in prison for murder
and could not conveniently serve. but the
substitute will let the convict name the
cabinet. There's usefulness for you.
Process stephanie of Belgium, who has
just put a patent chatting dish and spirit
lamp on the market in her own name. is
no novice in the difficult pursuit OF in
vention. The patent offices OF Belgium.
England, France. Germany and italy con-
tain records Of many OF her labor-saving
Improvements and discoveries. but none
nave been so Thoroughly placed before the
public as her chatting dish, which is an i'm
provement on all It's predecessors.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
A DELICATE TASK,

The members of the State Board Of
Equalization have a delicate task on
their hands In their effort to eQualize
the assessment of land values returned
from all parts OF the state in Nebraska.
The real estate assessment Is made
only once in four years and in that
time it is inevitable that considerable
changes must take place and likewise
more or less variation in the rule OF
measurement applied by ninety differ
ent assessors in as many different
counties.
The state board has been industri-
ously endeavoring to locate the low
spots and the high spots and to bring
them to a common level, but in this
work of equalization of land values 1t
must not overlook the relations which
the real estate assessment bears TO
the assessments of other classes OF
property, personal property, railroad
property, ETC., that have been listed
for taxes with special reference to the
scale on which the real estate has beer
appraised. We mean to say that the
board must take into consideration the
relative burden of taxation which
should rightfully be borne by land
owners as compared with those which
should rest upon the owners of per-
sonal property, railroad property n
other classes.
It is not so much a question whether
the assessments be put up to the high
est selling price in the various locali-
ties as that they be equalized in fact
SO that the burdens OF government
press evenly and e~quitably upon all
who should bear them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05

starts In Early snd Promises 60 work
Overtime,

New York Times.
The short-ieREed and GREATNESS lie known
generally as the roorback has stumbled
into the political campaign Of 1908 II is
not originai-it never is any more-and the
two specimens thai appeared in the public
prints bark back toward 1886, the year In
which the mythical Baron Roorbach &C
cused James X. Polk. the running for the
presidency, OF selling to the Duck river
slave drivers forty-three negroes upon
whose shoulders he had branded the initials
Of his name.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers is moved to stis-
Matte as an Infamous lie" the report
that he ever boosted that he would, or
could. deliver the labor vote TO any political
party. Such heat was lnexcusablc, con-
sidering that no intelligent person could
believe that Mr.. Gompers would say out
right any such thing, particularly II he
really intended to bargain away the labor
vote. Even secret promises OF this kind
are rarely formulated in words between the
b~argainers.
Mr.. Taft's private secretary recently pub.
lished upon the authority OF Mr., Taft him,
SELF a denial OF the story circulating in
the neighborhood Of Cincinnati hi Mr..
Taft had, in some speech or at some time,
declared that "a dollar a day, or a dollar
and a quarter a day, was enough for any
workman"
That one, now. has a flavor every old
voter will recognize. We know not from
whom the fathers OF the men who circu.
lated the mendacity got II, but they accused
Henry Ward Beecher Of the very same
thing back In the seventies, since which
time It has been held up to the blinking
eyes of the laboring man upon every OPP
perfume occasion. We think Mr.. Blaine,
Mr.. Harrison. and Mr.. Cleveland success
sively denied the story as relating to
themselves. Indeed. the deniais are the
only thing that gives the roorback dignity.
We suppose before the campaign has
passed the hot weather stage, Mr.. Taft will
be called on to deny the charge first
lodged against Chester A. Arthur. that he
was born in Canada, and is therefore in
eligible, or Mr.. Bryan will be called upon
to discuss the document bearing his sig
nature, like the forged letter Of James A.
Garfield which Abram s, Hewitt declared
to be genuine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
W1LLIAM roYp ALLMnN.

The death Of William Boyd Allison.
rounding into his SOth year, takes
Iowa's Grand Old Man from the stage
Of American political history, where
for many years he has played so prom
inent and so honorable a role.
OF the long line of distinguished
public men who have been given by
the Hawkeye state into the country's
service. none has reflected greater
credit than Senator Allison. A leader
among the nations lawmakers for
more than a third of a century, he has
left HIS impress upon our constructive
legislation as have few other men.
Cabinet portfolios and foreign mis-
sions might easily have been his. At
n time he aspired to the presidential
chair, and was seriously considered
among the eligibles by his country
men. But he preferred to end his
days as the Nestor of the senate.
It must be forever a source of salts
faction to the people of Iowa that, not
withstanding deep-seated division of
opinion as to his ability for continued
usefulness, a decisive vote of conf
dence was recorded for his retention as
a result of the primary held only last
June, and that the end, II it had to
come, should have found him still in
vested with his robes of office. 1t
goes without saying that Iowa's grief
at her loss does not stop at factional
or party lines, nor at state boundaries,
but is shared in only lesser degree by
all the sisterhood of states.