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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-06-19

-Docteur, je travaille CONNIE un
boeuf, Je suis fatigue CONNIE un
vieux cheval, ct j'engra1sse CONNIE
un cochon, qu'est-ce que vous me
conseillez?
DE consulter un v6t6rinaire!
L'arbre don't la racine est pro.
fonde ne GRANT pas lie vent.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
HALF BAKED DEMOCRATS.

Richmond, that city of tempestuous
teapots and excessive independence in
politics, is now stirred to boiling point
by the action of the City Democratic
committee in prescribing that persons
voting in the primary shall pledge
themselves to vote not only for the
nominees of that primary for mayor
and councilmen, but likewise to support
the nominees of the national Democratic
convention. Inasmuch as delegates to
the national convention at Denver are
to be nominated or rather elected in the
same primary which nominates munich
pal officers, we hardly see how any
Democrat can escape his obligation, re-
gardless of pledge. If only city officers
were to be nominated the matter would
be very different, but inasmuch as dele
gates to the convention which will nomi-
nate Democratic candidate for the
presidency are to be chosen and will,
therefore, represent the voters partici-
pating in the primary, we hardly see
how any man voting can escape his
obligation to support the nominees of
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

the Denver convention, whoever the
nominee and whatever the platform.
Why, then, should any Democrat object
to a pledge? If he be an honorable
man, he is bound as surely as if he
specifically signed q written pledge.
1t the protest of the newspapers
there and of certain independent
Democrats" means anything, it means
that some of those who participate in
the selection of delegates to Denver
are not certain of their willingness to
support the convention nominees. Can
such men consistently regard them
selves as Democrats? We think not.
These half baked Richmond Democrats,
who are Democrats on one side and
Republicans on the other, ought not to
expect to play fast and loose with the
party in any such fashion. They want
the opportunity to influence the Denver
nomination, and then, if they fail to
secure the man or the platform they
are contending for, the right to knife
them. The committee is clearly right.
and the decisive vote by which they
provided a pledge gives little hope that
they will relax conditions to please
these fair weather Democrats. Dan
vile Register,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
TRIBUTE TO THE HEN.

''Poets may sing of the glory of the
eagle, and artists may paint the beau
ties of the birds of plumage, but the
modest American hen is entitled to a
tribute for her industry. her usefulness
and her productivity. The American
hen can produce wealth equal to the
capitol stock of all the banks of the
New York Clearing House in three
months and have week to spare. In
less than sixty days she can equal the
total production of all the gold mines
of the United States. The United
States proudly boasts of its enormous
production of pig iron, by far the great.
est of any country in the world, and yet
the American hen produces as much in
six months as the iron mines of the
country produce in a year. In one
year and ten months she could pay off
the interest-bearing debt of the United
States. Congressman Dawson, OF
Iowa, in the Congressional Record.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
A SHARP MOVE.

Hon. John Sharp Williams, leader of
the minority in the House of Repre-
sentatives, has demonstrated his ability
as leader in the stand he has taken
on a number of recommendations made
by the President to Congress, and
which, while desirable and beneficial
recommendations, the majority in Con-
gress have been slow and unwilling to
enact into law. Mr.. Williams has in
formed the Republicans that if twenty
one of their ramber will vote for the
measures, the minority will furnish
sufficient votes to enact them into law.
AS these recommendations of the
President involve publicity of cam
paign contributions. regulation of child
labor, an employers liability bill, COM
pensation to government employees for
injury or death incurred in its service,
and reduction of tariff on wood pulp
and print papers, matters in which the
masses of the people are vitality inter-
ested, it can readily be seen what an
advantage Mr.. Williams has given his
party in the coming presidential cleo
ton, and how he will during the cam
paign preceding it put the Republicans
on the defensive. Free Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.

Apparently the price of meat does
not respond to the same economic laws
as the price of cotton, corn or pig iron.
Though dividends have been cut and
men laid off in many parts of the country.
though textile industries are slack and
the demand for cotton goods is small,
yet those who wish to eat meat must
pay a higher price for it than ever before.
Nor can this be sustained by the claim
that the growth of population in the
West has destroyed grazing grounds for
the sheep and cattle, because the
receipts of sheep and cattle for the first
three months of 1908 are fully equal to
those of 1907, while the number of pigs
received was somewhat larger.
The simple fact seems to be that a
carefully organized system, stretching
from the ranch to the retail merchant,
has control of the price of meat. can
that the traffic will bear" is the motto,
and under this principle the organization
is forcing up the cost of living in a
most essential staple. A remarkable
phase of this condition is that the pack
ers are trust without being a monop-
oily, and that they are able to extort
their additional tribute by means of
their superior capacity of organization
and not by the control of the entire
supply of raw material. The redress
for the held-up public, therefore, is a
difficult and doubtful matter. Times
Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
A SAILOR AT A BALL.

They gave ball uptown last night;
had girl in tow,
And she was rugged right up in style,
I'll have you all to know;
She had brand-new suit of sails, from
scupper up to truck,
And held her eye right in the wind, as
dainty as duck.
Her dress was bent on to her arms with
bands in some queer way.
And then twas cut down and aft, which
means decolytay.
They must have got the thing too long
you never saw such gear
1t had dozen reefs in front, and yet it
wasn't clear;
She had it guyed up in the ways-it
hung off in her wake,
And rose and fell just like a swell, with
out sign of break.
She had fan made fast around her
dainty little waist;
Twas made of figured satin, and in all
respects was chaste;
But when | swung that girl around, the
gear, as could see,
Was not clewed up shipshape as such
stuff like that should be;
And If I'd been less careful with that
silk and satin dress
Her halliards might have parted, and
there'd been pretty mess.
Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
SOME LITTLE SPECS.

lIf these specs fall on anybody, Just dust
EN- of, but stop bowling or somebody
think you are hurt.l
Don't think that your whole mission
in life is to crafty you own spleen and
shoot venom at other people because
you can't pull them around by the nose.
Don't think that because a man is not
all the time shooting off his mouth that
he can't talk.
If the dear people think that they
can make the price of coal and other
necessities drop any by economy in the
use of them they are mistaken. Men
will be laid off and less produced. The
only remedy is to reduce the tariff.
which is only to be done by electing
Bryan and Democratic Congress.
Don't expect to raise cabbage from
beet seed. But it is posslble-if you
plant free package from the Agri-
cultural Department
Evelyn Nesbit froze to Harry for
some time, but is now beginning to
Thaw out. AuNTY SPEC.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

An old criminal was once asked what
was the first step that led him to ruin
and he said: ''The first thing that led
to my downfall was cheating an editor
out of two years subscription. When
had done that the devil had such
grip on me that 1 could not shake him
off. - Western Publisher.
'Mr. Chairman, the nightingale, the
lark and the linnet have all had their
story told. but. the hen, more valuable
to the human race than all other birds,
is compelled to sing her own lay"
Thus sentimentally and eloquently Mr..
Olmstead of Pennsylvania in the House
of Representatives. The question under
discussion was, What does it cost to
keep hen a year? AS that is mere
matter of cackle-lation we should think
a phonOgraph in the barn yard the best
way to solve it.-Norfolk Landmark.
Air is one of the forces we can't see,
but my! can't it get busy and pull
things around or push 'em around!
There are other invisible forces that go
some. The law of gravitation holds
the whole universe together, but dom t
monkey with it when you're up any
distance from the ground. Friendship
and love are other things we can't see
bat they make this world worth living
in. Faith is more powerful than all; it
holds commerce and mart in place.
Thy faith will make thee whole. How's
that? Buffalo Bill says ''That
a broncho buster doesn't live long,"
l wouldn't want to live long if / were
one. Some of those broncos are like
some men; you can't get them to act
nice or be good-natured with all the
petting and kindness in the world.
Come, boys, let's smile and be kind.
Then everybody will like US and treat
US nice and Wen be happy, and happy
people are usually well. Happiness
and health are natural; unhappiness and
i'll health are our own doing. That's
right. Don't worry. Buster Brown
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
THE OYSTERS WOES.

Surprising as it may be to many to
find shells of oysters largely contribu-
ting to the crust of the globe, it is still
more so that creatures of extreme mi
nuteness should be associated with
them. The Egyptian pyramids are
actually built of a limestone entirely
composed of chambered shells. Other
rocks there are whose very substance
consists of microscopic shells of extra
ordinary beauty, once the habitation of
minute animals. Wherever oysters are
found they are beset by perils.
At the time when the adult individu-
ais composing an oyster bed give birth
to their offspring, this living dust issues
forth like thick cloud, which, dispers-
ing far from the spot whence it eman-
ated, and scattered by the movements
of the water, leaves upon the cultch an
imperceptible part of the produce; all
the rest disperses, and if the animalcu-
les, wandering here and there by myri-
ads, at the mercy of the waves, do not
meet with something solid on which to
fix themselves, their death is certain;
for those which have not become prey
to the inferior animals which feed on
infusoria, end by falling into medium
unsuitable to their ulterior develop
ment, and often by being swallowed up
by the mud. Let us suppose the en-
bryo mollusk to have escaped these
dangers and to have attained a respec,
table size, it is still open to the at
tack of its enemies, the most destruc-
tive of which is the star fish. No one
would think, on placing an oyster ard a
star fish side by side, that the star fish
was a relentless foe to the oyster.
Anyone who has tried to open an
oyster may naturally wonder how the
star fish can achieve such a feat; it
proceeds as follows: Clasping the oys-
ter in it's rays or fingers it brings its
mouth opposite the hinges. From the
mouth it pours secretion which paral-
Yves the hinge muscle and causes the
shell to open, then the stomach pro-
trudes and assimulates the bivalve at
leisure.-Pacific Fisherman.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
ONLY GIRL IN NINETY MILES.

MISS May remington, now attending
the Girls Collegiate School in Los An
ges, lives part of each year on her
fathers great ranch near Crater, in
Mono county, on the border of the Yo-
semitic Park, and she is the only girl
within a radius of ninety miles.
Hither every summer Uncle Sam
sends squadron of cavalry to guard
the park, and the khaki-clad scouts
have voted this slim little maid the
queen of the whole wide countryside.
She has yellow hat cords, buttons and
trophies galore. She has a splendid
chain of tiny gold nuggets for beads,
and the men Of the squadron presented
to her a uniform of their companies
blue. with yellow cavalry stripes on the
jaunty skirt.
Her gentle sway over her soldier sub
jects include inspection at stated inter
walls, when the young commandant-by-
brevet rode her prancing steed up and
down the lines of mounted soldiers
Los Angeles Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
WOULD BURN CONFEDERATE FLAGS

The Ohio Sun, at Columbus, states:
Patriotic Instructor T. T. Smith tells
what his first act in Congress would be:
IF am ever sent to Congress, the first
bill / will introduce will provide for the
cremation of every flag in this country
but the stars and stripes With these
words 7. T. Smith, Patriotic Instructor
of the Ohio Division of the Grand Army
of the Republic, launched his candidacy
for Congress at the Washington birth
day celebration of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America"
1t would be difficult for Mr.. T. T..
Smith to get possession of all these
flags. There are blood stains on MANY
of them which are valued above the
currency of the government or all of
the gold which declares that I'm God
we trust. THE Confederate Veteran.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
IRvINGTON, VIRGINIA. FRIDAY, MAY l, 1908.

drunks are concerned, and they say the
fact that there are only few drunks
lined up before the mayor these days
is principally due to the IL o'clock
closing hour. Before the Byrd bill
became operative it was a common oc-
currence for the mayor to have before
him at least six offenders charged with
drunkenness at each session of his
court, but now there are not more
than half dozen charges of drunken
ness docketed week. Mayor Reed is
seeing to it that the Byrd law is rigidly
enforced in Portsmouth,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
Office of
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.

A bill was recently introduced in
Congress to prohibit the issuing by the
Federal Government of tax receipt
for the sale of liquor to any person,
firm or corporation who has not first
obtained State, county, municipal or
local license.
/ Representative Bartholdt stated in a
speech in the House last week that the
proposed law supervising packages in
transit from one State to another was
unconstitutional, and also unnecessary.
If the States themselves would enforce
their own laws. He thought the prohi-
bitionists We're injuring their own
cause in coming to Congress.
In the local option elections in eighty
four counties of Illinois, outside of the
city of Chicago, twenty counties became
absolutely anti-saloon territory, and APP
proximately 1,500, or about one-half of
the total number of saloons in that ter
ritory, were voted out of business. Most
of the larger cities of the state, how
ever. voted in favor of licensing saloons.
Gov. Folk. of Missouri, recently said
in an address: Another sign of the
times is afforded by the liquor traffic.
A few years ago the saloons seemed to
consider themselves above the law.
They defied the authorities of city and
State. Was the idea of enforcing the
law graciously received by the liquor
interests? Did they welcome reign
of law? Not at all. On the contrary,
they attempted to defy the orders tc
enforce the law until they saw defiance
was useless. Then they gave unwilling
acquiescence. while vowing vengeance
on the officials who dared consider that
laws were made for them to obey the
same as ordinary mortals. By their
own conduct they have created senti.
ment against them that is now assum.
ing cyclonic proportions. They
are putting it squarely up to the peo-
pie of the State as to whether the
saloons shall be allowed to run the
politics of the State or be run out OF
the politics of the State"
BYRD Law WORKING WELL.
The local authorities are daily motto
ing the material effect the Byrd liquor
bill is having upon the liquor traffic ir
Portsmouth, so far as the arrests Of
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
If THE CHILD WERE YOURS.

A significant question came in a let
ter to the editorial rooms of The Delin-
Gator recently-a question which cuts
right through all the problems discov-
cred in the progress of the Child-Res-
cue Campaign, and solves them in short
order.
''What would you want done with
your child if he were to become a pub
lie charger
What would you? What would you
want done with that little fellow who
stands at your knee as you read this,
rubbing his small head affectionately
on your arm as he begs your attention?
What would you want done with the
golden-haired fairy in white who plays
at your feet? if-yes, / know there is a
lump in your throat and tears in your
eyes and that it is a cruel and heartless
question, but for the sake of one hun
dred thousand homeless little ones
like yours-what would you?
Think for one moment of the choice
you may make, the almshouse-where
today in one State alone forty-four
children are existing, branded as pau
pers, without even chance-in the
country of freedom and equality; the
asylum or the home to which no child
has come, the hearts that ache for the
touch of baby hands and the joy that
only child can bring, the home where
tender care and love will bring the
foster-child to manhood and woman.
hood worthy of the name-which woulG
you choose if the child were yours?
And when you have answered the
question, and answered it with the will
and the purpose to make your answer
come true-there will be inaugurated il
this country such movement for tn,
child without home that every door il
the land will stand open and the asylum
will close for lack of inmates.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
TO THYSELF.

A solemn proverb haunts my mind
With meaning deep and vast,
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving heart and true;
Golden years are passing by,
Life is ebbing, too.
Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time can never bring thee back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while life shall last.
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
BEYOND THE BLUE.

No more doubts nor fears;
No more bitter tears;
No more dreary years
Beyond the blue.
No more weary sighs;
No more aching eyes;
No more sad gOod-bys-
Reyond the blue.
Sweet rest know there'll be;
Peace, peace for you, for me;
Gods face well surely see
Beyond the blue.
SARA M. JARBoE.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
TO DRIVE OUT MOSQUITOES.

To clear the room of mosquitoes,
take piece of camphor gum about the
size of a small hickory nut. and evap-
crate it by placing it in a tin vessel
and holding it over lamp or candle,
taking care that it does not ignite. The
smoke will soon fill the room and expel
the mosquitoes.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
mot GUILTY."

The Irvington VIRGINIA CITIZEN,
sometimes kown as the Light of the
world" perpetrates the following
breach of journalistic propriety;
1.-The session of the Legislature, just
closed, disclosed many men of genius
poets. orators, scholars, statesmen and
the like. There was none more promi-
nent IN hard fighting and extempora-
neous eloquence than the handsome
young delegate from Elizabeth City,
Hon. Harry r. Houston, who will
surely come to the fore at the proper
time in the First Congressional District.
and later if he lives, in State affairs.
Here is gem from one of his i'm
promptu etfusions caught by one of the
stenographers:
90 In the language of Shakespeare,
said Delegate Houston. "a rolling stone
spareth not the child if he is gathering
moss; so it is in my mind wrong thing
for us to reflect upon those who cannot
do US harm, because the law upholds
those who labor in the vineyard, and
Jest at scars who never felt a wound
Hamlet says never hit q man in the
back when he is down, and it has been
my practice TO always give the under
dog chance TO prove that he hasn't
the traits that people try to fasten
upon him, and / would rather cut a
dogs tail off little at time to save
PAIN. There are other things TO be
considered when we come to think of it,
but L refrain from saying some of the
things that ! carry in my mind, and
when my friend Mundy says a few
things in defense of the situation YOU
cannot blame him, for he knows which
side of the butter the bread is on. And
now, l move We lay the resolution un-
der the table.
The Monitor, naturally enough, feels
kindly interest in it's fellow towns
man, Mr.. Houston, and was endeavor-
ing to find an adequate denial which
would exonerate our delegate from ever
having given utterance to the above eff
fusion, when the following threatening
letter, under the hand and seal of the
editor of the Richmond Dump Blade.
comes along:
Office of
The Dump Blade,
Richmond, Va, u. S. N. A.,
April q, A. ID. 1908.
Dear sir, If you do not get the edi-
tor man at lrvington to give The Blade
credit for what he yanks from its col
umns, there is going to be few lurid
letters passing around in the mails.
Yours in anger,
HARRY TUCKER.
Thus is Houston acquitted without a
technicality.
And thus doth the blue-jay warble
his little lay in the verdant frontyard
of the Richmond Dump Blade, and
peace doth reign therein.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

BYRD LAW WORKING WELL.
The local authorities are daily MOTTO
ing the material effect the Byrd liquor
bill is having upon the liquor traffic in
Portsmouth, so far as the arrests of
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-25
Call Hart
Greatest Camp
in California

"The greatest camp in California, !"
is the way Charles G. Bevis described
the camp of Hart, where he is now
located. 'There are five properties
now being worked and there is amout
sixty men on the pay rolls" said Mr..
Bevis yesterday. "The Tonopah scale
of wages has been adopted, this be-
ing the second camp in California to
adopt that scale.
"The formation of the country is
exactly the same as Tonopah, there
being porphyry and rhyolite. The val
ues are free milling gold. Although
the mines have only attained a depth
of 200 feet it is the belief of the min
ing men operating in that vicinity
that the lodges will increase with
depth and the place will be one of the
greatest high grade camps in the
south. Most of the ore is being treat
ed at the mill at Searchlight, which is
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-25
MADE A RECORD
run TO HELENA

John Seward, of the Seward Auto
company, made record run Wednes-
day when on his regular semi-weekly
run to Clifford with the United States
mail for that place. He left the
Union drug store on Main street, this
city, at 10 o'clock a. M, reaching He
lena at 1850 a. M, carrying the mail
in his big Pope Hartford machine,
and on the return trip covered the
fifty-two miles over the steep grades
in just two hours, and with three pas
sengers. The machine left Helena at
1880 o'clock in the afternoon, arriv-
ing here at $3.50. Mr.. Seward says
the big car went over both mountain
ranges which are crossed on the high
gear, which is remarkable perform
ance. The Seward machine makes
regular Sunday and Wednesday trips
to Helena, and extra trips when the
business warrants, and owing to the
fact that the big machine always gets
there on time, with no accidents, this
route is proving popular one to the
new bonanza mining camp.