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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
AFRO AMERICAN NOTES.

Berean Sunday School Convention of
the Northern Neck (BaptisD held its
annual meeting at Little Willie Chapel.
near Lancaster Courthouse, last week.
The convention was largely attended
and reports from delegates and mis-
sionaries were encouraging and show
ed decided increase along all lines.
Hon. T. c. Walker, of Gloucester, and
Prof. Tines. of the Northern Neck
Academy, Ivondale, were present and
made addresses on Home and Foreign
missions and Sunday school work.
Same officers were reelected for en-
suing year. They are as follows: Pres
idene, Mrs. Bette Gray, of Wicomico
Church; Vice-President, Rev. ID.
Tucker, of White Stone; Treasurer,
VIM. McCampbell, of Lynhams; Secre-
tary, w. ID. Laws, of Avalon; Mission
aries, r. II. Polk for Northumberland
and S. l.. Griffin for Lancaster. The
convention will meet next year with
the school at Sharon Baptist church,
near Irvington.
Miss Mary Johnson, of Baltimore, has
been visiting relatives at Tombs the
past two weeks. Lawson Carter, OF
Baltimore, also visited his mother at
Tombs this week.
Miss Fannie Coleman, of White
Stone, who has been attending school
In Baltimore, is home for the summer.
Mrs. Judy Anne Winder, of White
Stone, who has been spending the sum-
mer in Baltimore, was called home by
sickness in her family.
Mrs. Jennie Layton and daughter,
Ruth, of Pennsylvania are visiting the
formers parents at White Stone.
While driving to Kilmarnock on Fri
day last William Nickens, living on
Eastern Branch, unfortunately lost a
fine horse which he had just refused
$3.50 for. A stick in the road which
the animal stepped on flew up and pen
etrated vital parts of his stomach
which necessitated his being killed.
j. T. Hewin, of Richmond, Grand
Chief of the order of st. Lukes, was
recently visiting st. Nelhe's council
in that order. He also lectured
at Mt. Vernon church on the subject.
1.-THE Negro as a Race" which was
very interesting. r. Fl. H.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
SOME DEATHS.

Bishop Henry C. Potter, of the Dio.
cese OF New York. died at his home
at Coopertown, N. Y, Tuesday nigh,
after an illness of several weeks.
Bishop Potter was one Of the mos,
widely known churchmen in this coun.
try and was "a years of age.
The little nine-months-old son O,
Alvah E. Hayden, of Irvington, dice
Saturday afternoon last, after being
sick the most of his life. The baby
form was laid to rest by the side of his
mother, Tin the family burying ground
in Irvingtop,) who died eight months
before.
Mrs. Floyd l.. Roane, of 1914 Din
widdie street, received telegram yes
terday from Middlesex county announc-
ing the death of her sister, Mrs. d. X.
Garnett. Accompanied by Mr.. Roane
she will leave this morning for Middle
sex to attend the funeral services. =
Fridays Virginian-Pilot.
DR.. Patrick A. Fitzhugh, a well
known physician of Northampton coun-
ty, died recently at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. w. Bullitt Fitzhugh.
Although of an advanced age, having
entered his eighty-fifth year few days
ago, he had up to his last illness led an
active life and continued to go around.
DIR. Fitzhugh was native of Middle
sex county, but located in North amp
ton in early life. He married Miss
Georgianna Tankard. Mrs. Fitzhugh,
however, preceded the doctor to his
grave about nine years ago. DR.. Fitz-
hugh belonged to that old school of
Virginia gentlemen now fast disappear
ing.
DR.. M. B. Wharton, pastor of the
Baptist church of Eufsula, Ala, and
former United States council to Some
berg, Germany, died at Atlanta, Ga,
Monday. DR.. Wharton, who was an au-
thor of many religious books, and re-
garded as one of the ablest in the
Southern Baptist church, was born in
Orange county, Virginia, April 5, 1889.
During the civil war he was chief clerk
to Major A. M. Barbour, chief quarter
master of General Joseph E. Johnson.
He was brother of the noted evangelist,
DR. H. M. Wharton. DR.. Wharton has
filled many pastorates in the South. At
one time he was editor of the Christian
Index, of Atlanta. The body was taken
to Eufaula for interment.
At the advanced age of 81 years,
Mrs. Emily Meekins relict of the late
Columbus A. Meekins, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. w. E. Foxwell,
at Fisherman, Va, Friday of last week.
Mrs. Meekins had been very feeble for
many years, so much SO that the last
few years of her life was spent as an
invalid. But withal she held fast to
the faith that had supported her in
strength, and she went from happiness
here on earth to happiness above. She
was member of White Stone Metho-
dist church. Three sons VIM. Zebe-
dee, Robert F. and George w. Meekins
besides her daughter and several
grandchildren and great-grand-chil-
dren survive her. Interment Sunday
afternoon in White Stone Baptist Gem
etery. Rev. E. F. Garner, her pastor,
conducting the services.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
CRISP NEWS.

The great Lick telescope will pick
out star so small that it would re-
quire 10000 Of them put together to be
visible to the naked eye.
Sixty-five thousand elephants :were
killed in Africa last year, and more
than a million and half pounds of
ivory were taken from them and ship
ped off to Europe.
James t. Harraman, President of the
Illinois Central railroad said the other
day. lone of three things must occur:
Freight rates must go up, wages must
be reduced, or the railroads must in
crease materially.
If persons bitten on the arms. hands
or feet by dogs, cats, snakes or poison
Gus insects will at once put the pune
tured parts in a vessel filled with kero-
sene, the venom will be drawn out and
probably all the dreaded after effects
prevented.
There is little doubt that were it not
Tor the fact that the United States is
just at present entering upon presi-
dental campaign President Castro. of
Venezuela, would be getting good, hard
spanking. 1t will come after the Presi-
Dental election.
The limit of mining operations in Eng
land is 1000 feet. The most remarkable
mine in England is a copper mine. ex-
tending out under the sea, at all times
the roar of the waves can be heard. and
in great storms the noise is so terrific
that no one has the courage to remain
in the mine.
Judge Cochran, in the Wilmington.
DEL, Court, ordered that witnesses
should not refer to negroes as "Mr."
and Mrs" or Miss" and then, to
enforce his decision, fined Brooks, a
negro, So and costs for contempt of
court because, after being warned, he
called Sarah Archer, negress, ''Mrs.
Archer"
The famous decision in the case of
the Government against the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana, in which the
latter was fined 500, 24O. 900 by Judge
Lands in the District Court was multi
fed by the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals in Chicago Wednesday. and
the case must be retired.
The Presidents yacht, Mayfower.
with the President on board. in dense
fog Tuesday night ran into and sank
the lumber laden schooner Menawa off
Newport, R. /. All on board the schoon-
er, consisting of captain and five men,
were taken on board the Mayhower.
The Mayfiower had her bowsprit and
one anchor carried away.
The new steamboat laws now in force
are stringent. and make for the safety
OF the passenger and also for his identi-
lcation in case of disaster, One of
the recently adopted laws makes it
compulsory on the part of steamboat
owners to keep a complete list of all
Passengers and to have the number of
the passengers with their names and
addresses.
Col. Maude, of the English army.
points out that the actinic rays of the
sun and not merely the heat are the
cause Of the discomfort of hot weather,
and which by the influence of the actinic
rays upon the spinal nerve centres will
produce all degrees up to vomiting and
sunstroke and death. He shows that
by actual practical results obtained by
experiment the wearing of red, which
cuts off the actinic rays, in the form of
underwear and the Innings of clothing
and the coloring of straw and other
light hats red, produces a remarkable
degree of comfort and safety.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
DOWEINGS.

Corn in this community has been cut
short at least one-third the yield by
the three weeks of dry weather. Ger
man clover recently seeded is suffering
and third or more of that, sown will
not come up unless we have rain soon.
Corn is tasseling low, which proves a
poor corn year. Some of our farmers
have already predicted that corn will
be 81 barrel next year.
Early tomatoes were selling on the
market last week for 40 and SO cents a
bushel.
If your ice supply is getting low Won
had better plan to keep a little for
September, the month when ice is most
needed. according to physicians theory.
John Bell was in Waynesboro. Pa,
last week after repairs for his mill.
Z. 5. Thomasson had about seventy
i've cords of excelsior wood and several
hundred railroad ties destroyed by fire
recently. The fire caught from a burn
ing slab pile at Waterfield's mill not far
from here. Be careful with fire this
dry weather.
Next Sunday will be the last Sunday
of services at Fsrnham until the first
Sunday in September, owing to the
camp meetings. Brother Devault needs
little rest once a year.
Vegetables are getting to be hard and
stringy on account of the continued
dry spell and it is said they are danger
Gus when in that condition. Save
doctors bills if possible.
DIR. Harrison is daily attending the
sick.
The members of Farnham gave the
children picnic on the river shore at
Clarence Motley's last Friday.
REPORTER.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

MIR. CoRTELyoU comes to the
front and says that the deficit of
sixty million in the l.. s. Treas
ury is apparent, not real, and is
the result OF a wrong system of
book keeping. "It% 1.-THE defcit)
should have been placed on the
credit, not on the debit. sides OF
the account" Should have been
is good. Undoubtedly it should
have been, and would, but it was
voted the other way by Congress.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
Friday, July "a, 1905

BETWEEN the air ships: and
the new powderless gun, war
will be a step in advance OF what
General Sherman called it. This
new gun, a silent affair. lin this
respect not at all like the politi-
cal big guns Incorporating to 90
ON will throw bullets at the rate
OF 5000 a minute, with no more
noise than an ordinary fly-wheel
makes III revolving. The only
sound that comes from the GUN
is the dropping of the bullets
INTO the machine. AS to the air
ships, really what was considered
almost a subject for Joking seems
to be rapidly. approaching. a
point where the atmosphere can
be navigated as well almost as
the water. The genius of man is
wonderful and so many are now
at work at the problem, and so
well advanced the practical work
. ing OF the aerial machines that
the time seems right at hand
when the whole theory of war
strategy will have to be aban-
doned as at present practised
and a new study made of the
whole subject. The foundation
OF war strategy consists practi-
cally in being able to conceal from
the enemy ones movements. In
so far as this was found practi-
cable war was a success, as no.
lice the movements of the armies
OF, for example, Stonewall Jack
son. But if all the movements
OF an army can be closely OBJ
served from a safe height. intel
iiigence signalled to the army be-
low, concealment of movements
becomes impossible. 1t begins to
look as if before long war would
have to be abandoned from sheer
lmpracticability. Even now a bull
let-is deadly at a mile-and-a-half.
Maxim gun will send 5000 a
minute, air-ships will reveal every
movement of the enemy, and
what remains to be done?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
ELLYsON AND CATION IN RACE

Hon, j. r. Cation, of Alexandria.
has already announced his candidacy
for Lieutenant-Governor next year.
The only other candidate so far.
whose intention is known is that of
Northumberland j. Taylor Ellyson,
who will announce his candidacy in due
time.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

In TAKES all sorts of people to
make up theworld. The Socialist
candidate for President OF the
United States is now residing lin
Carson City jail, serving "a long
sentence for manslaughter. ii
elected it is supposed that he
will pardon himself out.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

The Petersburg Index-Appeal
notifies Mr.. Taft that the molly
coddles are fooling him. They
don't represent anything and
they are too few and feeble to
carry themselves. Probably
Taft himself is wise enough to
see that the season is not suffi-
GENTLY advanced to Judge as to
ultimate results. So far hardly
a survey OF the ground has been
made, and the alignment of the
forces is necessarily slow, and SO
far very dimly drawn. Taft is a
nice, fat and somewhat plausible
leader; but he is simply pipe
dreaming if he thinks that it is
his mission to break the "solid
South" If Roosevelt, past-mas-
ter that he is, could not do it,
how can his handicapped disci-
pie accomplish it?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
WHEAT NEARING slxARx.

Wheat continues to advance with the
demand sufficiently active to point to
still higher prices. 1t sold for 97a cents
bushel in Baltimore Monday, the
highest prices reached this early in the
season for many years.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

The subject of the West Point
and Urbanna railroad is still be-
ing agitated by newspapers.
Keep it up, friends, the way to
get a thing done is to keep ever
lastingly at it, and after a little
Richmond will see that the trade
OF that section is worth cunning
for.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

As TO the horrors of peonage.
and OF southern lynchings, we
seelots OF writing in the enlight-
ened Journals of the North, hor-
rifying and gruesome. But here
Is little story ofwhat happened
to William Johnson on Long Is
land, who for lack of money stole
a pair OF pants, alleged value OF
81. He had 80 cents, but could
not buy them, so took them, and
was caught in the act.
His captors Uong Island farmers)
covering him with guns marched him
to the marshes on the sound. There
they stripped off his shirt and cut the
tattered legs of his trousers to a little
above the knee. In this nude condition
theytied him, hand and foot, to a tree,
where the mosquitoes speared his flesh
with their poisoned bills. His torture
was excruciating. and he finally hung
limp and unconscious to the stake. The
farmers sat about watching his agony
and cracking merry rustic Jokes.
When turned over to the officers, his
body was SO swollen from MOSQUITO
bites he could hardly navigate. He
will be tried tomorrow if he has suffi-
GENTLY recovered from this mornings
torture"
All this not in benighted Flor
ida, but in enlighted New York
State.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24

The Richmond Times-Dispatch
seems somewhat snappish over
the criticisms made on it's con-
version to the Bryan ticket. But
the weather is hot. Here's the
way it gets after us poor coun-
try fellows who think the Su-
preme in Virginia should tread
the straight Democratic paths
ITO the impotent crew that have snap
ped at its heels through these IL years
this newspaper feels nothing but indif-
ference. 1t had the courage of its
convictions at time when this meant
heavy loss to newspaper-loss of cir
euiation, of money and, most important,
OF influence. That courage which
they could never have, it still possesses.
But now. happily, it has the gratifca-
ton of seeing its course largely vindi-
, Gated and its conception of a newspa-
per's duty in the ascendant"
What some of the local press
is doing for the big-headed daily
is too chaste for print.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-24
ADVERTISING RATES.

y % per cent additional for special position
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13
GOVERNMENT BY JOE CANNON.

Congress adjourned with record of than billion dol lars appropriations It did few things that it ought not to perhaps it left undone great things that
 should have done Instead of passing national law prohb ting child labor soemny forbade the employment of children factories of Columbia where there fac refused to establish postal savings banks to reduce the Philippine establish forest the East require publicity campaign expenses cody the laws of the United States give the Interstate Commerce Commission upon increased railroad before they take make Porto Rcans citizens of the United States prevent abuses of the power of injunction.
 would permit Congress to do of things for Congress do nothing without his perms son is alleged to be government by the people, etc., but it isn't it by very narrow obstinate pro- fane ignorant old politician called Uncle Joe The aves sent by the people Washington have literally nothing say laws shall be passed The speaker and two or three men under his control run the whole show.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13
WHAT THE COUNTY SEAT LACKS.

Fl the county seat has substantial business blocks
 than other valley town but it has fewer shade trees the streets and the business district is barren dusty and ugly The Townse Company lacked the foresight and taste to make the site attractive by setting out trees reervng park site and utilizing the water at it's disposal and the present o lots concerted repair that shorsghted neg gence few citizens have planted trees shrubs and flowers their residence ots and parts of the will be attractive but the good taste of few not suf redeem the whole from the reproach of lack of proper public spirit in this direction
 Holtve attractive because it's people love trees and
 things and have planted them avishy Caexco has started systematic scheme of eepantng, and BraWley is paying at enon the oamenaton of her streets Visitors to Ell Gen. unfavoraby by the barenness of the town They applaud the solid building going but they amazed nothing been done beauy the town and they ask pontedy why trees have been planted where it grow everything The only plausible that be given
 that arrangement has been made for conducting water from the canals through the streets and it is useless to plant until can be supplied to them regularly.
 That absoves the individual oowner perhaps but that E Cenro is organized municipality for neglect of planting be found It is practicable to make provision for conducting water along the streets and be within the of it's require of property to set out trees if they neglect to do At least the city provide the condu and that water is made available and no doubt pride will the citizens of E Cenro to do the rest
 This certain the town that gives most intelligent atten treegrowng will be the most attractive and will attract the most residents
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13
DESERT oxYGENs EFFECT UPON TRAHELLERs.

Four San Degans to Imperial Valley recently got themselves filled with the OXygenno to hot air of the desert and went home with their heads in the clouds The San Diego Union prints the story of the trip told by of the and reads like rOmance which is putting it mildly.
 The travellers accumulated remarkable information and
 great deal of enthusiasm They everywhere thousands o of alfalfa, from which twelve crops ary cattle weighing less than half ton each melon pckcs earning S day plants at enoo dams all the canals
 railroad completed from Caexco Yuma and another being built Esenada by the Southern Pacific mountain 400 feet high just showing its top above San Sea Saon Sea being SO feet deep in the mddle)
 And the things they heard less astonishing They told that the railroad will be unable to handle the melon crop with day during the three weeks of the melon That would be 1880 carloads three weeks and would be going prominent railroad man told them that the Southern Pacific going to build line through Ssbee to San Diego and all its trains to San Diego abandoning the line Los Angeles by of Beaumonta piece of railroad news that will make Angeles feel like yspeck on the
 MeeOroopists and other have been unable to
 trace any substantial modification of climate in the desert to the the Saton basn but the Marco Polo from San Diego settles the question sentence He the Saon Sea coo the climate perceptby The weather has been and comfortable up date this year, and If Saon Sea IS the cause of cUOiness may it never dry up
 The Degans surely enthusiastic boomers and the have been prophetic visions vivdy visual zed If the details of their sketch bit Overdrawn their era all right for they t is paradise down San Diego points the valley It will be for those people imagine that San Diego has back country The enthusiastic the proposed road be Diego and stand ready to do their share toward it's construction and maintenance.
 It remains if the valley people sufficiently husa proposed road to vote county bonds for building it.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

Naval engineers reported more than a year ago that boiler tubes supplied for twelve war ships, including the Tennessee, were defective, and three officers of the Shelby Steel Tube Com pany were indicted and tried.
 The jury disagreed, and the Navy Bureaus promised to make further investigations. While the bureaus were winding uD themselves and the case in red tape, the defective tubes were put into the ships. One Of the rennessee's tubes has furnished the required evidence and solved the reasonable doubts" of jury
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

The New York World having charged that Bryan's support of Parker was bought by Thomas Ryan with $20,0O0 cash, Bryan comes back with a specific denial of the whole yarn and gets un- der PulitZer's short ribs with this thrust: "While the World was selling it's columns to the Republican committee to be used in caricaturing Judge Parker, my paper was urging his elec- tion."
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

President Roosevelt expects the time of his life in Africa, but perhaps stalking elephants and the black rhinoceros will prove to be but tame sport after four years of hunting the mon- sters of predatory wealth." " Standard Oil is bigger game than herd of elephants.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

Young people of the San Diego Baptist church recently had a banquet and general good time, and the Unions printer made the reporter say that it was "an evening of unhallowed pleas ure." One of the Unions con- temporaries asserts that seven stenographers, who tried to take down what the managing editor said about the break, are recu- perating in sanitarium.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

A doctor of Chicago, the city of freaks and fads, asserts that construction is not fatal dis ease. He says the tubercle bacilli alone never caused a death, and argues that "when a patient is down with tuberculo- sis, tIe over of resistance is decreased 10 such an extent that he is an easy prey. to a score of other diseas ases Waieh soon make their ap0earance." If a con- sumDtivo .o1 eElract any conso- lation or lore from that, he is easily co0s2'e1. It is analogous to to'l'no a soldier that bullets do not cause death; they only open the way 10 "heart failure" want or 1~eath and other fatal complaints.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-06-13

The Republican platform, cut and dried for the convention, favors a revision of the tariff that will not change anything materially, and reiterates the wearisome old gulf about pro- tecting American labor from competition with foreign labor. Protection" may be a good bus mess policy, but the pretence that the tariff is designed for the benefit of labor is worn down to gauzy transparency. The manu- lecturers and traders, not the workmen, dictate the schedules. Great is humbug in politics.