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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
SHOT BROTHER FOR BURGLAR

Norfolk Especially j. w Mason
Is years old, mistaken for a burglar
was shot down by his brother Charles
in his home and will likely die.
Young Mason. returning homg
late. reported to his brother he heard
a burglar in the house. The boys
went TO look for him and separated
Charles. hearing a noise, asked who
was there. No reply coming, he fir.
ed. The ball entered his brother :
left breast At ST. Vincent's Hospi.
tai it was reported his condition Is
grave. j. w. Mason is a clerk in
a telegraph office and Charles is .
clerk in a department store.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
News of Virginia
A CLOSE CALL.

Roanes Especially Mr.. G. w. Sea-
well was shot mysteriously while
asleep on a couch in his hall. A
bullet passed through a feather pill
low and struck him on the top of
the head, inflicting a scalp wound.
That he was not killed is probably
because the pillow was struck first
No motive for the shooting has
been fixed definitely, but it is believ-
ed that negroes of the locality are
responsible.
Mr.. Seawell was taking a nap on a
settee in his hall with the doors
open. About 2.15 O'Clock ne was hit.
the bullet coming from a 32-caliber
revolver. This shows that it was
fired from no great distance. The
wound was only a couple of inches
long, and was fiat across the head
as If it was fired level. The victim
is not sure that it was not an &C
cident, but is inclined to believe
that it was the work OF a negro. He
has been apprehensive lately, as he
has been conducting a campaign for
the introduction of white labor into
this section. Besides forbidding
stealing wood, trespassing of any
kind by the blacks and their stock,
he has been advocating white farm
labor.
He has also been urging the pur-
chase of small farms by young white
persons, and in this has been very
successful. No serious results from
his wound are feared.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Telling the Fortunes Of Monkeys.

Monkey palmistry is a profession
essayed by DR.. Walker Kidd. the
zoologist of London. He finds re-
markable specific variations displayed
by the fine raised lines in the tactile
surfaces of the hands and feets of
apes, monkeys and lemurs. The ex-
IRENE completely of type presented
In this respect by the lemurs is es-
pecially notable. The ridges in the
palm attain their full and typical
development only in man, apes. mon
Keys and lemurs, but the degree of
specialization does not by any means
accord with the relative grade of
these animals in the geological scale
The simple pattern is Characterization
OF the higher forms, and the complex
pattern is characteristic of the lower
forms. The complex ridges OF the
lemur Dr. Kidd associates with this
animals need for facility in maintain
ing the bodily equilibrium in crea-
lures of purely nocturnal habits.
Therefore the ridges are specially de-
veloped for helping to do this.-New
York World.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
is Pe-ru-na Useful
for Catarrh?

Should q list OF the ingredients of Pc
runa be submitted TO any medical ex-
pert, OF whatever school or nationality,
be would be Obliged to admit without
reserve that the medicinal herbs COM
posing PerunR are of two kinds. First,
standard and weil-tried catarrh reme-
dies. Second, well-known and gener-
ally acknowledged tonic remedies.
That I'm Que or the other of these uses
they have stood the test of many years.
experience by physicians of different
schools. There can be no dispute about
this, whatever. Perupa is composed of
some of the most eficacious and uni
versally used herbal remedies for ca
tarrhal diseases, and for such conditions
of the human system as require 9 tonic.
Each one of the principal ingredients
OF Peruua has reputation of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh or
as a tonic medicine.
The fact is, chronic catarrh is a dis
ease which is very prevalent. Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. They have visited doc
tors over and over again, and been told
that their case is one of chronic catarrh.
1t may be of the nose, throat, lungs,
stomach or some other internal organ.
There is no doubt as to the nature Of
the disease. The only trouble is the
remedy. This doctor has tried to cure
them. That doctor has tried to pre-
scribe for them.
No other household remedy so uni
versally advertised carries upon the
label the principal active constituents,
showing that Peruna invites the full
inspection of the critics.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
BABY CRIED AND SCRATCHED
All the Time-Was Covered with Tor.
turing Eczema-DoctOr Said Sores
Would Last for Years-Per-
feet Cure by CutiCura.

My baby niece was suffering from that
terrible torture, eczema. It was all over
her body, but the worst was on her face
aud hands. She cried and scratched all the
time and could not sleep night or day from
the scratching. had her under the doc
tors care for year and a half and he
seemed to do her no good. 1 took her to
the best doctor In the city and he said that
she would have the sores until she was six
years old. But if had depended on the
doctor my baby would have lost her mind
and died from the want of aid. But used
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and
she was cured in three months Alice L.
Dowell, 4769 Easton Ave, st. Louis, Mo,
May 2 and 90 1907"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
PROTECTION AT JAMESTOWN

Norfolk Especially - jamestown
Exposition grounds will again havs
water. Upon a petition filed by this
receivers of the company showing
that the Norfolk County Water Com.
pany had cut off all water supply
leaving the buildings valued at more
than $1,000,000 without fire pro-
lection, Federal Judge Waddill is.
sued a mandamus which will compel
the water company to turn on the
water supply. He granted an in
junction restraining it from again
cutting off the supply. The water
company is owned in Philadelphia.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Arms. Legs. AND rhe NAM

How many OF US have noticed
we walk with our arms as well q
with our legs? Sitting on a grasS
slope overlooking a seaside prom
ade the other day was strucki ~
the mechanical swing OF the syfins
of the stream of passers-by-t tho
right arm always keeping position
with the left leg and the LETT arm
With the right leg. BY attempting
to reverse the order of the swing i
found that l had a tendency to pro-.
gress like crab. while the EFFORT
to keep them fixed by the side was
like the shutting off the steam from
the engine. Arms and the man must
be amended to arms, legs, and man!
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
PAINTERS HURT IN ARNIORY,

Richmond Especially Thrown 80
feet from a scaffold while painting
the roof inside the Seventieth Regi
George Smith, young painters. we're
severely, if not fatally, injured
shortly before 2 o'clock. each man
sustaining a broken leg. broken ribs
and internal injuries.
They fell from near the ceiling as
they were lowering the scaffold and
a moment after Joseph Murray, a
fellow-workman, had descended to
the floor.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Up. Saul Elected Moderator.

Roanoke Especially The Valley
Baptist Association, embracing CT
churches, and including in its terri
tory the counties of Roanoke, Bote-
tourt, Montgomery. Giles and parts
of adjoining counties, met at Vim
ton, a suburb of Roanoke. j. p.
Saul, of Salem, was elected modera-
tor, to succeed Judge w. w. Moffett,
who mad filled that office two years,
and who declined reelection. G.. A.
Johnson, of Christiansburg, was cho-
sen vice moderator.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

The possibility of definitely arriv-
ing at the age of the earth through
the radioactive properties of radium
and helium has been pointed out by
X. I. Strut before the Royal Institu-
tlon or London. Accepting the hy-
pothesis that helium is constantly at
a definite speed from radium, Mr..
Strut proposed a quantitative estima-
ton of the radium and the helium
present in various minerals as a
means of determining their relative
ages. Proceeding on similar lines.
when once the rate at which radium
is transformed should have been es-
umated, simple operation in arith-
metic would solve the problem of the
age OF the earth. IL have" said Mr.
Strut, been able to find that the
age of fiints in chalk is only one
th1rtieth of the age of the mineral
that is being mined in Cornwall"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
SELF DELUSION
Many People Deceived by Coffee.

We like to defend our indulgencies
and habits even though we may be
convinced Of their actual harmful
ness.
A man can convince himself that
whisky is good for him on a cold
morning, of beer on a hot summer
day-when. he wants the whisky or
beer.
It's the same with coffee. Thou
sands Of people suffer headache and
nervousness year after year but try
to persuade themselves the cause is
not coffee-because they like coffee.
While yet a child I commenced
using coffee and continued It," writes
Wis. man, until I was q regular
cofree f1end. l drank it every morn
Ing and in consequence had binding
headache nearly every afternoon.
My folks thought 1t was coffee
that allied me, but liked 1t and
would not admit it was the cause of
my trouble, so 1 stuck to coffee and
the headaches stuck to me.
Finally, the folks stopped buying
conee and brought home some Pos
tum. They made 1t right directions
on PKG and told me to see what
difference 1t would make with nv
head, and during that first week on
Postum my old affiiction did not
bother mo once. From that day to
this we have used nothing but Postum
In place OF coffee--headaches are a
thing CT the past and the whole fam
lily is in fine health. {"
Postum looks good, smells good,
tastes good, is good, and does good
to the whole body" There's q Rea-
son."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, ~The Road to
MELVILLE" In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter2 A new
one appears from time 10 time. They
arc anuines true, and full OF human
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
STATE ITEMS.

The newly elected Democratic
county committee for Jefferson Coun-
ty elected these officers: Chairman,
Thomas r. Moore; secretary, James
w. Strider; assistant secretary, Char
les A. Johnson, and treasurer, A. NJ.
S. Morgan.
Charles NJ. MINIS. colored, post
master at Occupacia, in Essex Coun-
ty, who was short $214.21 in his
postoffice accounts. and Is now on
$500 bail. has made good the money
to the government through hisAsure-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Dogs and Blacksmith shons.

Two or three dogs are nearly al
ways to be found loafng about every
blacksmith shop. This fact is so well
recognized that detectives when sent
out after valuable dogs that have been
lost Invariably visit first OF all the
blacksmith shops in the neighbor-
hood.
The reason why dogs frequent the
blacksmith shops is that they love in
ordinately the odor and taste of burn
ing hoofs. They sniff the doors as 4
woman shifts a rose, and they eat the
hoof parings as a gourmet eats
trufies
Landseer, the great animal painter,
knew this odd fact well, and in his
famous picture of 1.-THE Smiths Shop"
4 dog in the foreground is greedly
nunching slivers of toasted hoof.-
Minneapolis Journal.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
The Bridal Chest.

Every bride will want box to hold
the articles Of her trousseau as they
are gathered together. Beautiful
boxes of cedar may be purchased for
little, and are made in a very con-
venient way. Instead Of the lid lift
ing up, as did the box OF great-grand-
ma so long ago. the front may be
dropped down, revealing two drawers
to hold the things. The box locks
securely and the effect is very neat.
Dark cedar boxes are ornamented
with the brides initials in German
letters of solid brass placed on the
false id.-Washington Star.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
BURNED IN OIL EXPLOSION.

Fredericksburg Especially. - Miss
Myrtle Jones, the 12-year-old daugh-
ter of George b. Jones, of Spottsyl-
vania County, was burned to death
at her home. She was filling an oil
stove, struck a match and a piece
fell into the oil can, causing the ex-
plosiOn. Her sister and brother
threw a blanket around her, but she
died from her injuries in a short
time
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Peat Alcohol.

In the manufacture of alcohol from
peat a Danish company, with one
experimental plant I'm Denmark and
one in France, has found the cost
to be about one-fourth OF that made
from potatoes. IN the process Of
manufacture, the cellulose or fiber
OF the peat is converted by sulphuric
acid into a soluble carbohydrate and
this is fermented by a special yeast
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Value OF Roanoke Real Estate

Roanoke Especially Report made
by Commissioners of Revenue Hill
Tucker shows the total values of real
estate in Roanoke City. excluding
corporation real estate, to be S.,
8S9,365. The increase in taxable
values over last year is $65S,99S.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Effects OF Lightning.

A widespread belief is that dur
ing a thunder storm safety may be
found under a beech tree, and that
the danger from lightning is Is
times as great under a resin0us tree
and so times as great under an oak.
DR.. A. w. Borthwick, the British
naturalist, finds this view TO be en-
tirely without foundation. The beech
is not avoided by lightning. which
selects one species as readily as an
other, but the taller trees in a neigh
borhood appear to be the ones liable
to be struck. The effects of lightning
also are commonly misunderstood.
The cells of tree are not ruptured
or torn by the formation of steam
as so often stated. but they collapse
or shrink up without tearing. The
roots seem to escape damage.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

urinary troubles. bearing down SEN
sations, etc. On June goth, 1907,
four and one-half years later, she
said: Il haven't had kidney trouble
since. / repeat my testimony"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Wireless In Canada.

According TO a report issued by
the Canadian government the Do
minion owns 13 Marconi stations on
the Gulf and on the Atlantic sea-
board. Three of these are what are
known as 'low-pOwer" stations and
cost $1,000 each; the others are
known as "high-power" stations and
cost $4,000 each. The Marconl Com
pany receives $500 and 500 per
annum, respectively. for operating
them. retaining all the receipts.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Cottage Pudding.---One cup sugar
one cup OF milk, one egg, beat and
add to milk one and one-half cups OF
-four. and half cup pastry flour, one
quarter cup melted butter; steam
thirty minutes. Serve with sauce.
Sultana Sauce.--Pick the stems
from one-fourth cup OF Sultana rails
ms, add a cup of boiling water and
let simmer half an hour, adding water
u needed: then add half a cup of su-
gar and let boil to syrup; flavor to
taste.
baldwin Cake.-One cupful of SUI
gar, one-third eupfui of butter or
shortening, one-half eupful of milk.
one cupful OF lard. one tablespoonful
OF -four. three eggs, leaving out the
white of one for frosting, two scant
teaspoonfuls OF baking powder.
lemon Pie.---SQueeze the Juice OF
two lemons in cup. add one cupfuI
sugar. two cupf, OF warm water.
not hot one tablespoonful OF corn
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Shit AGAINST N. & w. nv. Co.

Roanoke (SpeciaD A suit for
$4,000 was instituted here against
the Norfolk and Western Railway
Company by A. Lama, administrator
for Frank Parolla, an Italian, who
was killed recently at Welch, W.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

A great tunnel which has lately
been found at Gezer, in the land of
the Philistines. in Palestine, was de-
scribed at the annual meeting of the
Palestine Exploration Fund. Profess
sor Macalister, whose son has been
making the excavations, said that the
tunnel, which was made about 1000
B. c. is as high as the "Two-penny
Tube" and half as wide. 1t descends
by eighty steps, the lowest of which is
$50 feet below ground. The tunnel
is the greatest engineering work that
has been found in Palestine and it
has'astonished everyone who has seen
it.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
His Finest Act

How was your speech received at
the club?" asked one of Chumley's
friends
why. they congratulated me very
heartily. In fact, one of the mem
bers came to me and told me that
when ! sat down he had said to him.
self it was the best thing | had ever
done. Youths Companion.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
A Winner.

but he's always telling her shSf;
clever" -
That's nothing, I'll cut him Old:
I'll tell her she is beautiful. "-Ho,ss.
ton Post.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

kidney troubles. Is
that relief lasting?
Let Mrs James M.
Long. of 11S N. Au-
gusta ST.. Staunton,
Va, tell you. On
January 31st: 1908,
Mrs. Long wrote:
"Doan's Kidney Pills
have cured me" (of
main in the hack
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Household
Matters.
Blackened Silver.
SSeee+ ~4< ss9SeE

Dissolve one pounG of hyposulphate
OF soda in just as much water as 1t
VIII absorb and moisten the silver
with this, leaving it on for a few
minutes. Wash it off with warm
water, rinse in hot water and dry. II
it is not then clean. rub with whit
ing in the ordinary way.-New York
Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

For more than half a century 1t
has been understood that the lateral
line of scales along each side of fishes
is connected to a special nerve. The
use of these lateral organs has been
matter of much speculation, but
the late experiments of Hofer seem
to show that their chief function is
the perception of water currents.
They supply a new sense in place of
the lacking sense of touch. They
cause a blindfolded fish to stop and
turn aside within an inch of a solid
object, lead to streams and spawning
brooks, and keep the fish world in
formed and warned.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Capudine Cures Indigestion Pains,
Belching, Sour Stomach, and Heartburn,
from whatever cause. It's Liquid. Effects
Immediately. Doctors prescribe it. 1Oc.,
25c., and Soc, at drug stores.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND
SXTY-FIVE MEN

with teams are selling our products TO
FARMERS In thirty four different States.
seventy useful articles that country people
need; We furnish the goods and give agents
une 10 turn them into money. Address, 4
= X WATKINS CO., Winona, MINI, !
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Hicks CapudIne Cures Nervousness,
Whether tired out, worried, overworked, or
what not. It refreshes the brain and
nerves. It's Liquid and pleasant to take
l0c., 25c., and Soc, at drug stores.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Chickens emerging from their
shells surely come under the head
of live issues.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

A Colorado currant bush will pro-
duce at least one gallon of fruit.
Some plants will yield 10 times this
amount.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

The German Baptist Brethren have
organizations in forty-one of the
States, with 1854 churches, an in
crease Of fifty-eight over the last re-
mort
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

wife corresponds to a mans three
square meals; the "other woman" to
banquet with fancy dishes and
CHAMPAGNE.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
THE TIME TEST.

That Is What Proves True Merit.
Doan's Kidney Pills bring ths
quickest OF relief from backachs and
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
To Drive Out Malaria and Build Up
the System

Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTE
LESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui-
nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the
most effectual form For grown people
and children. soc.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
FACTS FOR SICK WomEN

For thirty years Lydia d. PM
hams Vegetable Compound, mafs
from roots and herbs, has been The
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcefa-
ton, tibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
in%-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges.
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address. Lynn, Mass.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20
Es8E0
8scIEsMI:N7CEBl

The strings Of beads or pearls that
some observers have seen as much as
a second in the wake of lightning
flashes are attributed by DR.. w. ]. S.
Lockyer to incandesceHce of the air.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Edison's $1,000 concrete house will
cost not less than $2462. Experts
have figured up the cost on the lowest
basis practicable and found it i'm
possible to crowd the expense into
the $1,000 limit.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

One can't blame a man for kick
ing when he has TO foot another's
bills.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg, Va,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
" l want other suffering women TO
know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me. For
months / suffered from feminine i1lk
so that L thought could not live. 4
wrote you, and after taking Lydia b
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, AMI
using the treatment you prescribed
felt like new woman. / am nov
strong, and well as ever, and tE<nk you
for the good You have done me n
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-08-20

This woman says that after
months of suffering Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made her as well as ever.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1908-08-22
SOLO HAY UN "BRoMo ouI-

NINA y ese es ell LAXATIVE BROMO QUINTNA
usadO en- tOdO ell mundO para curar Resfriados en- un
dia: La frma de e. W. GROVE, Sc halla en- cada
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1908-08-22
DEPARTAMENTO DEL INTERIOR.
BUREAU De OBRAs PuBLlCAs.

San Juan, P. r. AgOsto~24 de 1908 -
PrOpoBicionsB en- plisgng CeETRdoB para Ia
aljudicsci6n On p6blica Bubasta do Is
construction do rs kil6metPoB mas me-
NOS do la CaFFsteEa n6msFo II; Secci6n
Cisles Racodo, kmB. 5.84 al $50, % Rdmi'
tiF6n On e1ta ofiCina haata laB 10 O. m. del
diA "a de AgO0tO, 1908, en- que % abEiE6n
pdb'iCRms6ts.
El pTeBupueBso apFoximado de las obEaB
asCieDde & $16 1890.
TodoB Lon dates nacsBarios, impragos do
pEopoG' clones contEatos inBtEuccicnsB
los poBtoY0g 90 daF6n en- Osta ofCina.
SsEG condiCi6n esenCial del ContrAto que
eI ContERlists, paTtiE del segundo meI
inclusive del plaza paER Ia torminaci6n de
los trRbsioB, ejsc0ts cHds mel obraB poE
vRVor no menoF de S. 100000 menBuaIsg.
La administrator GO rsB0Eva el dsrecho
de rsehRzaE cualquieER tOdaH lGs pFopo'
HiOionss de adjudicRF sI COntFatO bSjo
otFRB condolences que les de pFscio EOls'
monta. PoF orden del Comiionado del
fntsEioT, j. j. Jim6Ne9, SupsEintsndOnte
de ObFss P6blicag. 18v. 9.