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Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-17
WHY HlNous ARE oEpoarso.
Washington Post.

w hsHlhHtOu FObl.
The department Of commerce. and u
Dor. 1t appears. is not riding roughshod
over laws and treaties In ordering the
deportation OF certain Hindus. In the
first place. the Hindus have NO treaty
rights. although they are subjects Of
the British crown. The treaty with
Great Britain touching the rishts OF
British subjects in the United States ~
lates to the inhabitants Of the terri
tories OF his Britannia majesty In Eu.
rope In the second place. the Hin
dus are not excluded ON the ground
that they are undesirable catissna." |"
which In no ground at ali In Law, bat
because they are likely to bseoms pub-
lie charges. The immigratipa ack a
1905 does not give such great anthor.
ity to the secretary Of coRmsrcs md
labor ~ to permit him 70 exclude aay
aliens whom b may regard = ~un.
desirable" but II does givs hin the
right 70 exclude psrsoaa wko are lIks.
" 70 become publtc charges.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-17

him In the forehead. severing the tor
OF his head. The Hulleatts are pros
porous people.
| CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Abraham Bern.
stein, a p~'nter. aged % years. was
found dead and Mrs. Sarah Feinberg
| aged 76, and her son Eugene. were
overcome by gas early today In their
fected by the fumes in the rescue
work. The police say Bernstein turn
ed on the Jets while respondent.
NEW YORK. Dec l5.-American
Smelling was under pressure again
when the stock market opened today
and declined l 1-s. American Sugar
was down point and St Louis and
San Francisco second preferred, and
Consolidated Gas "a. American Car
advanced l and New York Central and
lnterborough Metropolitan preferred
large fractions. Otherwise the chang.
es were small, divided between gains
and losses.
NEW YORK CITY. Dec. 15.-Ten
thousand of New York's bread liners |
Will be sent west to work In the mines |
of Colorado. Utah and Montana. E. |
II. Gary. head of the steel trust. and |
Henry Demar decided to relieve New
York of its unemployed after they
had seen the breadline at Bowery mis-.
sion In the early morning hours to
lay.
ST, PETERSBURG, Dec. ia dis
patch from Urimiah says the Turkish
arrived at Dilman today TO
protect the inhabitants against the ex.
,esses of the Persian 'irregulars com.
by Satar Khan. The latter,
Who has been authorized by the shah
o restore order. rushed force of
<urds and pillaged and burned a mum
'er of Armenian villages, killing and
men. women and children
The Armenians appealed first to local
turkish authorities, and then to Con.
tantinople. when authority for inter.
ention was received
The shah's special envoy, All UIl
lux, arrived at st. Petersburg, os.
ensibly to present condolences upon
he death of Grand Duke Alexis, but
is reported that his real object Is
o seek support for the shah against
eyolutionists.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-17
ANOTHER
MESSAGE
Pres. Roosevelt Wants
Editor Pulitzer Pun
ished

WASHINGTON Dec. l5.-Presiden.
Roosevelt sent another message to the
senate today. In IL he desired that
Joseph Pulitzer OF the New York
World be punished. He brands him as
a liar in all he says about the Pan.
anna canal scandal. The senate re.
eeived the message with laughter and
declined to have the accompanying pa
pers read.
Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-17
coLoRAoo NEMs.

A Pueblo man has skipped out with
bis pretty stenosrapher. Wives should
see that their husbands do not en-
ploy pretty" girls.
Chief Forester Pinehot h working
Tor harmony aAd Tie slininatioa Il
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
JULIAN HARRIS SUCCEEDS HIS
FATHER.

Julian Harris, son of Joel Chandler
Harris, succeeds his father as editor of
Uncle Remus's-The Home Magazine,
retaining also his original position as
general manager. Don r. MARQUIS.
who has already made National repu-
tation through his editorials, poems
and short stories. is to continue as as
sociate editor of the magazine.
From his childhood Julian Harris had
been the comrade of his father, and he
was the organizing spirit of the maga-
zine.
When II years of age, the younger
Harris became reporter for the At
ianta Herald. A year later he became
connected with the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, and when 20 years Of age he went
to Chicago and became assistant SUM-
day editor of the Times Herald. He
returned to Atlanta to become night
editor of the Constitution when q
years of age. and two years later was
promoted to the managing editorship
OF that paper-a distinction probably
unprecedented for a man of his years
IN the history of Southern journalism.
He is the author of a play soon to be
staged by Nixon & Zimmerman, and
has written number of short stories,
descriptive articles and essays.
He is his fathers literary executor,
and not only are "Uncle Remus's" last
writings in his possession, but through
his collaboration with his father on two
important unpublished works which
will be given to the public during the
year-and his intimate acquaintance
with the purposes and ideals of his
father, he is eminently fitted to carry
out the cherished plans Of the founder
of the magazine
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
GOOD ROADS FUND.

The State of Virginia will be ready
to distribute quarter of a million of
dollars to the counties of the State
with the beginning of the year for the
building of good roads. The counties
receiving this money are to raise an
equal amount as that received from
the State and are to expend the entire
sum in improving the highways. The
highway commissioner, Captain p. st.
j. Wilson, has been at work apportion-
ing this sum among the counties for
some time. The counties which are
enjoying the benefits of the convict
forces on the highways can not partici-
pate in the distribution. The sum set
aside for such county reverts back to
the general fund and will go to making
a second fund for distribution. A county
can receive what is apportioned for it
and reduce the amount to such sums
as it sees fit. The belief is that few
counties will decline to meet the State
appropriation and devote the sum nec-
assary to building the roads.-Ledger
Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
WORDS FROM BISHOP OF LONDON.

(From the Wall Street open air SER
mon of the Bishop of London:)
Have you ever thought why there
are any rich and poor at all? That is
the question / have had to face in Lon
don. They have asked me how Irecon-
ciled the belief in the good God loving all
his children, with the wretched millions
in East London who seem abandoned by
both God and man. / had to face that
question. and have had to face it ever
since. There is but one answer-the
rich minority have what they have
merely in trust for all the others.
Stewardship. not ownership, is Gods
command to every one of US.
You are not your own. Nothing that
you haYe is your own. We haven't
learned the Christian religion if we have
not learned the lesson of stewardship.
My home has been the home of the
bishops of London for thirteen hundred
years. Suppose / should say that it
was my own, and that the Bishops in
come of $50,0O0 year was nv own.
would be called a madman. The man
who thinks he owns what he has in his
keeping is no less mailman. This ap-
plies alike to the boy and his pocket
money and to the millionaire and his
millions. Disregard of this trust is the
cause of all social evils of London and
New York. If every man considered
himself as steward there would be no
object in dishonesty. Stewardship
would do away with the tyranny of capi-
tai.
'This rise of bitter Socialism. the
new terror of Europe, is due to the ne
glectof the elementary principles of the
Christian social religion.
Let every man, be he rich or poor.
ask himself how he gains his money
and how he distributes it, and let him
test his stewardship by these questions
and his answers to them.'
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
AND ALL SUCH ARE RESPECTED.

Deal jackson is negro farmer down
in Georgia. He has just marketed the
first bale of cotton in his State. This
is the seventh time he has performed
this feat. He takes pride in his farm;
he hustles to get that first bale on the
market-and he gets itthere; regularly.
Jackson has relied entirely on his own
efforts all of his life. He is independ-
ent, and asks no man odds. His credit
is good for whatever he wants at any
store or bank in Albany. He has never
been known to want more than he
might reasonably be expected to pay
for; that is the keynote of his character.
He does not concern himself at all with
politics or politicians. He hasn't any
pull" anywhere, save such as is legit-
imately due him as a reward for his
honest endeavor. He has reduced cot
ton raising to an exact science: he
knows just what the plant will do un-
der given conditions. He has generally
managed to get his first bale in a little
ahead of his white competitors, in spite
of all their efforts-indeed, he broke all
of his own previous records this year.
Jackson's great card is attending to
his own business, and doing it well.
Nobody ever heard of Jackson's be.
ing mixed up in trouble of any variety
Business men value his opinions on
things agricultural. Washington Her.
aid
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
Communicated
THE PR0TRACTED MEETINGS.

Now that the season of protracted
meetings is here, pastors are asking
the members of their fiocks how and
when shall they hold meetings. You
will hear different opinions. They all
realize the Importance of these meet
ings, and that this is the harvest time
for saving souls. A great majority
of the Christians of today were con-
verted in some revival meeting and
every Christian should be ready to make
any sacrifice that their church should
have one week, if no more, of revival
services. The church needs it and the
sinner needs it. But the questions of
dinner and time seem to be the problems
to solve. Some say they cannot get
help and that they themselves are not
able to cook, etc. Some say that they
have had this, that and the other mis-
fortune and that they are too busy.
Others that their plates, cups and other
dishes got broken last year and that
they can't afford it. Well, the only
solution l see to ali that is halliday
meetings. Have you ever read how
in olden times people observed regular
feasts, end took the first and best of
their hocks for sacrifice. Apparently
we are not so devote now. But
believe if the people would not make
this special occasion time of feasting
and display. seeing who could bring the
best dinner, they would enjoy the meet
ings more. No one likes a good dinner
more than do. especially when some
body else has had the trouble preparing
it. But l wish the ladies' of the church
would stop carting out plates, cups.
knives and forks and all unnecessary
dishes and eatables. Then there would
not be so much dread of the protracted
meeting week. Ham and bread, chicken.
beef or something that could be taken
IN the hand without taking table-cloths,
plates. ETC., would be enough for a mid
day lunch. l have heard of preachers
eating so much dinner at a protracted
meeting they We're too sluggish to
preach as they should and the congre-
CATION almost asleep. How can such
meetings be success? Let's stop try-
ing to make show of dinner, but just
take lunch. Often by the time the
ladies get through clearing up the table
and putting away dishes they are too
tired to enjoy the afternoon services.
Let US go to the meetings to worship
God. like Mary of old. The Master told
Martha she wastroubled about too much
serving. Some of the ladies of today
are troubled with too much serving. Take
to church simple lunch and the old
time revivals will soon return again.
ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
Communicated
IS 1T POSSIBLE?

Across the Pacific, ten thousand miles
away, cluster of island lie. Inhabited
by a race crowded together in small
space with the necessity on them of
water commerce, they were being
crowded by huge neighbor, a neighbor
that, had he his way, would have blighted
their commerce and hedged them in on
every side. The instinct of self-preserva-
tion forced them into costly and de-
structive war with their big neighbor,
and they saved their commercial life.
Reduced to great poverty by that
struggle. with taxation so great that
one-third of the peoples income is
taken by the government for taxes,
they are under the blight of wars con-
sequences. Judging from our own ex-
perience it will take them fifty years to
get back what they have lost. Yet
these poor islanders, with their billions
of debt, are charged with being anxious
to plunge into another war, more ex-
pensive and deadly than the one they
have just emerged from, war with
the best fighting people of the earth.
The pretext is given out is that they
have some little children in San Fran
cisco and the school authorities of that
city will not let these children go to
the same schools as the natives. The
war they had with Russia was to pre-
serve their national life; the war Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hobson predicts is
to come from matter of equal school
privileges in a coast city. Who besides
these two believes it? ]. B. H.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
THE flY-THEN AND NOW.

go, poor devil" said Uncle Toby,
when he had by chance entrapped a
fly; ''get thee gonel Why should /
hurt thee? This world, surely, Is wide
enough to hold both thee and mep'
So saying, Uncle Toby. in an immor-
tai burst of sentiment and in an i'm
mortal prose passage that is equal to
any like number of rythmic words in
our English speech, released the cap
tured fly to prey upon the human race.
But Sterne and all the succeeding
sentimentalists are in fatal error. The
world is not wide enough to hold the
fly and US. Had Uncle Toby destroyed
that poor devil'' of fly there would
have been millions fewer flies in the
world today to scatter broadcast the
fatal germs of disease. By sparine
the fly the gentle old gentleman is
doubtless responsible for many human
lives but what are human lives to senti-
ment? The fly must be spared. We
are so instructed from the cradle to
the grave into which the fly tosses us
with his little poison-laden proboscis.
The fly is our enemy, and should be
destroyed. We have come to the
parting of the ways of sentiment and
sentimentality. A single fly, after
visiting a diseased man, may trail
across the face or hand of another
person veritable highway of disease.
1t has been estimated that fly may
leave in its footprints millions of
germs, each one of which may cause
death. And each of these germs at
once multiplies its iniquitous race a
million-fold. The only just conclusion
is that Sterne and his delicious but
ignorant Uncle Toby were arrant fools
or knaves-Columbia State.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
AS TO DOGwOOD.

Virginia dogwood grows. as we all
know, not larger usually than FIVE or
six inches across the stump, but out in
Oregon dogwood trees attain height of
70 feet and are foot or more across
the stump. Our dogwood is mostly
used up. the demand being extensive
for making ioom-shuttles, bobbins and
spindles. Persimmon is used for the
same purpose. Dogwood takes high
polish and wears perfectly smooth by
friction under water. 1t obtained its
name IN singular way. A wood of
the same sort grows in England, and
was used among other purposes for
making the skewers used by butchers
for fastening pieces of meat. These
were made of dogwood, and as they
were used 10 stick pieces of meat the
old Anglo-Saxon name, ..daeg" from
which comes dagger, was used, mean
ing to stick. Naturally the name came
to be used for the use of the wood, and
the skewers We're called daegsticks, and
thence by an easy descent to dogwood.
Queer how names originate.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
Mr.. KERN'S POPULARITY IN HIS
HOME TOWN.

Trae to his antecedents and the cir
cumstances of his bringing up, Mr.. Kern
is democrat of democrats. In man.
ners, as in principles, he is pre-eminent-
ly man OF the people, though he is
quite above any attempt to appeal to
the voting hoi polloi by the mere affec-
tation of bucolic tastes and interests.
In making up an estimate Of the man
one cannot do better than to accept the
judgment of his Indiana neighbors,
and especially Of his every day acquaint-
aDces in Indianapolis. Indianapolis is
a fiourishing and progressive city, but
it has not yet thrown off certain of the
characteristics of a big, overgrown
country town. One of the pleasantest
OF these characteristics is the neigh
borly pride which its citizens take in
the honors that fall to any one of their
number. Everybody knows Fairbanks,
Beveridge. Kern and the lesser lights,
and everybody, irrespective of political
affiliations is ready to hang out Old
Glory, burn red fire, and twhoop things
up generally when unusual distinction
has fallen to fellow-townsman. The
non-partisan demonstration spontane-
ously arranged for the occasion of Mr..
Kern's return from Denver was, how
ever, really remarkable and excep-
tional testimonial to the nominees nom
uiarity among his own people, In
city like Indianapolis there would have
been an ovation for any similarly honored
favorite son, but it is doubtful whether
the nomination of any other man would
have made the occasion for so widely
participated in and so heartfelt a re-
ception as that given the present can
didate. From John Worth Kern, Dem
ocratic Candidate for Vice-President,
by Frederic Austin Ogg, in the Amer
lean Review of Reviews for August.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07

Just at this time when so much is
heard about mad dogs it is interesting
to know what one who has made a
study Of rabies has to say on the sub
ject. Says Caspar Whitney, in Outing:
"Hydrophobia is in reality so rare and
SO terrifying that its SYMPTOMS and treat
ment are little understood. AS mat
ter of fact the commonly accepted ex-
preston of madness in a dog is often
misleading. The real mad dog does
not shun water, as it is said. On the
contrary, mad dogs often rush to the
water and drink eagerly, if they are
able to swallow. The mad dog does not
froth at the mouth. 1t does not run
amuck, swapping at everything in it's
path. What then, are the indications
of the mad dogp To those familiar with
agiven dog the surest symtom and the
one which should excite closest atten-
tion is distinct and unaccountable
change in the dogs disposition-a staid
dog becoming excitable and frisky one
dull. That condition does not necessa-
rily mean rabies. but it is suspicious,
and if in addition, the dog has trouble
in swallowing-as though it seemed to
have bone in its throat-bewarei
That dog should be instantly tied up,
because if it be rabies it takes but a
day or two for ferocious insticts to de-
velOp. The unmistakable evidence how
ever Of dog with rabies is the sticky,
whitish saliva which covers the teeth
and shows on the drawn lips. The eyes
glare and are red; the dog has paroxysms
Of running fury, during which it barks
hoarsely, alternating with periods of
temporary exhaustion.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
BRYAN's POPULARITY.

Much of the prejudice which has at
tended him in politics has been over
come by close personal association with
thousands of people who have listened
to him as an instructor. He has been
able not only to make. friends far and
wide, but also to take observations
which aid him is measuring public SEN
timent and in adjusting his conduct and
ideas to what he conceives to be the
most common chord Of harmony. He
knows what suits best the people he
meets and where to find those who
will give him hearing. Washington
Correspondent Baltimore Sun.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
MOTHER KNOWS BEST.

A Gibson girl of the highest degree
Stood on the coral strand,
Laving her toes in the salty sea,
Cooling her heels in the sand.
"Oh, mamma, may go in and swim, "
She asked her darling mother,
AS she stood first on one shapely limb
And then stood on the other.
May, daughter, nay; it cannot be-
You must not enter the water,
You are not for the sea, you see,
But for to be seen, my daughter"
Dallas (Texas) News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

The President he seems to have
cajoled or frightened lot of people
into thinking his way-says that ''the
Monroe Doctrine can have no force
without a big navy to back it up"
Well, some years ago Grover Cleve-
land, then President of the United
States. used the doctrine successfully
with England when that country had a
navy seventeen times larger than ours.
No! there is not people with waters
on the Atlantic who would dream of
attacking this country, and certainly
Japan does not come under that doc
trine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR
CATARRH THAT CONTAIN
MERCURY.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering 1t through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never he used
except on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians as the damage they will do is ten fold
TO the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
+. J. Cheney Co. Toledo, O.. contains no
mercury, and 10 taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
be sure you got the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. j.
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, TIC. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
UNTO THE END.

Brief space for tears and prayers
To him who loves and dares,
The high gods send;
But laughter lighted days
Through all life's winding ways,
Unto the end.
stand beside the sea,
And salt waves cover me
With spray.
know that who stand
Betwixt the sea and land
All day,
Shall be as yellow dust
Blown here and there
Heavens winds shall carry me,
wist not where.
But this one thing l know,
Where'er my dust shall blow,
The life of love will go.
Frederick Marvin.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
THE UNDISCOVERED GREAT.

They were discussing who was the
greatest man, and names all the way
from Buddha to Shakespeare, from
Aristotle to julius Caesar were called
over, while probably the greatest man
of all ages is pegging away among US
unnoticed, and unrecognized, while we
snapshot and interview all the little men,
or go back to some one who has been
dead long enough for us to find out
that we may safely praise him.
Is it possible that the truly great man
did not step to the front some fourth
OF March few years ago and exclaim:
"Here am /; behold mep'
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07

Billy Muldooney came down the
street the other day. He had Win
chester slung over his shoulder, a re-
volver stuck in each side of his belt, q
bowie knife handle projected from his
shirt collar, and big stick in his hand.
What's out, Billy" we asked; 1.-The
Japs coming?"
Nor; m just an armed neutral, that's
all.''
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
NOMINI GROVE.

Right much damage was done by the
electric storms here the past week.
The barn and contents of M. F. Luttrell
were destroyed. valuable horse belong
ing to w. Moss Hall was killed and a
SOW and pigs of aunt Betsy Lomax were
killed, all in miles distance of this
place.
Mrs. A. j. Rock, of Oldhams is right
much indisposed.
Congratulations are extended Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. w. Smith, of Oldhams,
on the advent of two fine little ladies'.
r. ID. c.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07
SURE HE'S RIGHT.

1t must be a great conf ort to feel SO
cock-sure of being right as Roosevelt
seems to be. Taft's speech (nine
pages in alp had pages devoted to
laudation of the President and his poll
cies, and he took all this to Oyster Bay
and it was approved. Verify. it's nice
to ''be sure you're right"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-07

Lightning recently struck a big ce-
dar tree in the yard Of a residence at
Atlantic City, N. j.. and killed more
than 500 sparrows.