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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02

writers, poets and musicians did their
real thinking in private. It's a mighty
shallow person who must always be
amused. If you will get together with
yourself sometimes and think; think
happiness and success and health you'll
be astonished at yourself. Take any
machine apart and it will not work.
When your mind is filled with trivial
things you are apart. Get il on one
thing and get it together and it will
accomplish wonders. Try it, don't take
my word for it.
Do you study mental photography?
Do you know that your mind develops
and prints an impression of thing
and that impression shapes your actions
and your success and health? If you
form mental picture of success, sue
cess must come, because our bodies obev
our mental picture. So when you see
sour face it is the print of sour
mental negative. Why will people go
to drug stores for facial preparations
when sweet, kind disposition will soon
transform their faces. Here's picture
for sick person to get on his mind and
it will cure him. Print this on a big
card and look at it every night. 1 am
well! He'll get it. Try it. Say it, too.
This is absolutely true.
All dishonesty is in the same class
lying, stealing or wasting your en-
ployer's time. The man who takes ad-
vantage of another man in a business
deal is thief. The man who misrepre-
sents his wares Or his prices is thief.
Brother, you are playing with fire when
you are dishonest and you'll get yours
just as surely as the night follows the
day. Yes, boys, honesty is the best and
only policy. When you are dishonest,
boy, you are just cheating yourself,
your own soul. Sounds silly, eh? Don't
take a chance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
RHEA'S POSITION SOUND.
Winchester Starr


The commission has now increased
the rate to 1-2 cents per mile. and
thus lost the advantage of the States
contract, and this without putting the
railroads upon terms as to mileage
books. The decree of the commission
that the mileage books now in use will
not be permitted to be withdrawn is a
mere dead letter, because the Supreme
Court of the United States has decided
that commission will not be permit
ted to compel railroads to issue mileage
books at all, and therefore if our COM
mission cannot compel the issue of
mileage books. it cannot compel the
continued use of mileage books.
We think that Judge Rhea's dissent
ing opinion embodies the equity of the
situation.
If it was proper to allow the railroads
to increase their passenger charges 25
per cent, then conditions should have
been made that the roads should issue
mileage books good in the hands of the
holder, as the Baltimore and Ohio does
now. for instance. This could and
should have been made a matter OF
contract between the State and the
railroads.
AS it now stands, the railroads are
permitted to charge more for trave
and the public is not protected agains
their inconvenient and unjust conditions
and limitations in the enjoyment O.
mileage books.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
WHESKEY AND GASOLINE.

Richard Armstrong, Edward Mathews
and man of the name of Skinner, got
in gasoline launch owned by Mr..
Edney, of Crittendens. near Suffolk and
started out for ride. Armstrong and
Mathews were drunk, and as the boat
turned in Chuckatuck creek, became
quarrelsome, and refused to let Skinner
come in the cabin of the boat.
The two shut themselves in and the
gasoline tank exploded and the intoxi-
Gated men were burned to death.
Skinner swan ashore calling for help.
With the aid of some men living near
the boat was extinguished and the
charred bodies of Armstrong and
Mathews taken out.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
SOME BUSTER BROWN PHILOSOPHY

Experience is the best teacher. The
only teacher. The chronic cross-patch
doesn't know the joy of being kind.
The miser can't know the happiness of
giving or spending money to help some
one; he hasn't had experience. The
man who is bound down by business
obligations, social ties, political affilia-
tions, religious fears and superstitions
doesn't know freedom, for he hasn't ex-
perienced it. If you want to win at
gambling don't gamble. If you want
justice you'll find it in the dictionary.
That because failed the first time is
no reason why can't do thing. I'd
rather begin with an honest failure than
an undeserved success. Boys, we can
do things and we should do things the
best we can because we can. The boy
who doesn't do his best is cheating.
Cheating his employer and cheating
himself. Here's fact; an honest, un-
selfish act benefits the one who performs
the act. A selfish and dishonest act
Injuries the one who does it. If you tell
a lie you are fixing banana skin for
yourself to step on. In Gods law there
is no such thing as honest effort being
unappreciatod.
We get just what is coming to US.
No more, no less. had no business to
be lonely and want company. Too much
sociability is what keeps. lots of men
from succeeding. All the great successes
were made by men who thought. And
the very best thinking is done alone.
All of the great leaders, inventors,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
THE SEEKER.

When shall cease to take delight
In forms of transcient grace
Will-o'-the-wisps that all the night
Flicker before my faceI
o some time shall not be less
A creature of desire,
With gain of autumn happiness
For loss of April fire?
Nay, was sent to wander far
On desperate quest and lone,
To follow wind and bird and star
And cloud forever flown?
And all these forms so frail and fleet
Whereafter run tonight
Ny weary and enamored feet
They are the garment bright.
The flying glance, the floating hair,
The call and cry of One
This flesh shall see not, though fare
Onward from sun to sun.
Floyd Dell. in Harper's s
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED

with LOCAL ATOMS. as they cannot
r ach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a
blood or constitutional disease. and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies
Halls Catarrh cure is taken Internally. aud
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Hairs Catarrh Cure is not a quack
medicine. It was prescribed by one OF the
best physicians in this country for years and
is reguar prescription. 1t is composed of
the best onics known, combined with the best
blood purinerssActing directly on the mucous
surfaces. The perfect combination of the two
ingredients is what produces such wonderful
results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimo-
mails free.
+. J. CHENEY & co Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
EXCHANGING CONFIDENCE.

''Doin' any good?" asked the curious
individual on the bridge.
ANY good?" answered the fisherman
in the creek below. why caught 40
bass out O. here yesterday"
''Say do you know who ann" asked
the man on the bridge.
The fisherman replied that he did
not.
"Well, / am the county fish and
game warden"
The angler. after moments thought,
exclaimed. ''say, dc you know who /
ann"
'No." the officer replied.
"Well, I'm the biggest liar in Eastern
Indiana" said the crafty angler, with
a grin Recreation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
WEEDS THAT STEAL OYSTERS.

A seaweed has invaded the oyster
beds of France and carried off 400. .OOO
oysters. 1t has carried them off bodily
as thief would do.
The minute seed Of this weed float
up the English channel in the current
OF the gulf stream. they settle OH oys-
ters in the Breton beds of Morbihan,
Quiberon and Belle Isle. and they grow
to the size of ducks egg.
They are full of water, but at ma
turity the water evaporates, and air
takes its place. The egg-shaped sea-
weed is then a. balloon. and like a bal
loon it lifts its oyster from the bottom
and bears it out to .sea.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
DR.. WILEY ON SOFT DRINKS.

IF you only knew what know about
what these soft drinks contain you
would abstain from them," he said
ut will surprise you to know that most
of them contain more caffeine than cof-
fee, and drug which is more deadly.
So beware of the soft drink. 1t Is more
harmful than coffee, and / advise all
young people against the use of this
stimulant. Perhaps you would be in
terested to know have collected more
than 100 samples of soft drinks sold at
soda fountains and each contains caf-
feline and many of them deadly drug /"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
CURE DRINKING AND SMOKING.

eff you have strong appetite for
King Alcohol and tobacco, and want to
be cured of the habit, just eat vege-
table diet for six MONTHS" This was
the advice given by DR.. d. H.
Kress, in an address entitled ''Dys-
pepsia and Its Relation to Inebri-
ETY." before the American Society
for the Study of Alcohol and Other
Drug Narcotics. He discussed the evil
effects of an excessive diet, and declared
that over-eating leads to drunkenness.
''Ifyou wouldnot become drunkard, -
said Dr. Kress, "quit eating meat"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02

Some people are always looking for
trouble, and are not satisfied when they
find it.
"a scientist says buckwheat cakes
are full of microbes" Blessed be the
microbe. News Leader.
Most of US try to forget the mean
things we know about ourselves-and
remember those of others.
$50, 600, 900 was the net profit of
Standard Oil in 1907. When John d.
Rockefeller stated in his humble way
he was 50, 900 wurse off than nothing.
A Baltimore police justice recon.
mends to the governor of Maryland a
special regulation fining persons carry
ing concealed weapons 81, 900 instead of
$25 as at present. He thinks this pen
atty would stop the practice.
The tetse fly, the deadly insect which
produces the sleeping Sickness" first
appeared in Uganda, Africa. in the sum-
mer of 1901. and within five years had
killed about two out of three of all the
inhabitants, no less than 200, 600 persons
dying from the poison which he spread.
The Virginia editors will meet at the
Yellow Sulphur next spring, and now if
any one of them dare say anything
about Yellow Journalism, shoot him on
the spot. -Farmville Herald.
But it cannot be denied that we al
ready have quite a lot of sulphurous
journalism. .-Index-Appeal.
"The American flag does not wave
from the masthead of anything in the
way of an American merchant ma
rine," moan the subsidy propagandists.
No the American flag does not, and that
is exactly the trouble. We are sailing
American-owned ships under foreign
flags, and we are doing it because if the
real strength of the American merchant
marine were known there would be an
end to any pretext for ship subsidy. -
Henry Clews.
1t is not from the ultra rich that
people are apt to look for wise bit OF
philosophy, but William Vanderbilt
while being interviewed recectly on di
vorces in high society in New York anc
in his own family in particular, said
'Men and women today live in tn,
strenuous atmosphere that will not en-
dure one thing for long. Marriag
is one of the things that can only con
tinue pleasantly with the simple life.
Alexandria Gazette.
The Supreme Court of Virginia, in
decision just handed down, deprive
divorced women of ali standing in la,
in breach-of-promise suits. The wor
unmarried" says the court, "mean
never to have been married. and add
that there is nothing in the law to sho,
that it is used in the less compreher
sive sense of mot having husband @
wife at the time in question.
j In New York the argument to tn
jury is limited to one speech for tn
defense and one for the prosecution.
is the custom in the South for bot
defense and prosecution to put out dra
nets for lawyers and have a speec
from all of them. Virginia is on
Southern State where escape from tn
penalty of the law is not so easy, thoug
her record was not long ago broken
one notable instance. Charlotte IN. C.
Chronicle.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
THE JUNGLE.

The lion S mighty roar has sunk down to
a whimper,
The impudent monkeys no more smirk
and simper,
The stately giraffe though he tries to
dissemble-
'Tis plain to be seen he is all of a tremble;
The callous old rhino and wild cassowary
Go bursting and tearing through forest
and prairie;
And everything there that has four legs
or over
Lights out for its life-no more living
in clover:
For now there comes one who was ne'er
known to bungle,
To give them a cast of his art in the
jungle.
Helpl
Murderll
Firelll
And they fly and they flee
Over rock, bush and lea,
Some run and some trot,
And some gallop and carter;
Some go like shot
But they all go instanter;
And they creep and they crawl,
They skip. jump and amble,
Post haste, one and all,
of they waddle and scramble;
For it can't be denied
That at this time o. day,
The African jungle
Is no place to stay.
BiFl
BoomIi
Banglll
But, alas all in vain is this haste; moth
ing helps;
The retreat ends, at last, in chorus of
yelps,l
When they squirm in the grip of the
strenuous life
And there learn the true meaning of
battle and strife;
For he who at home was ne'er known
TO bungle
Will not otbedenied in the African Jungle
Slashl
Smashl
Crashlll
". b. in n. Y. Sun March %, 1909.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02

Send th;s advertisement. together with name
ofFapcr in which Il appears your address and
four cents to cover postage. and we will send
you Complete Handy Atlas of the World"
SCOTT & BOVINE, 4O9 Pearl St. New Ycr,:
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
SCOTS
Emulsion !

of Cod Liver Oil is the meal s
of life and enjoyment of life 20
thousands: men, women and
children.
When appetite fails, it restores
it: When food is a burden, it
lifts the burden.
When you lose flesh, it brings
the plumpneSs of health.
When work is hard and duty
is heavy, it makes life bright.
tits the thin edge of the wedge;
the thick end is food. But
what is the use of food when
you hate it and can't digest it?
Scott S Emulsion of Cod Liver
Old is the food that makes you
forget your stomach.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
WHAT GOOD ROADS DO.

A reduction in the cost of hauling
from 25 cents to IL cents would mean
an average saving of over $3.50. 600, 900.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
}. j. HAMMELL CO.,
PLEASANTVIllE, N. ].

Designers and Manufacturers of Artistic
Memorials in Marble and Granite.
OFFICES-Atlantic City, N. j.; Phil
adelphia, Pa: Wheaton, Va. Address
III. Booker Hale, Agent, Wheaton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02

Ask your doctor to name some OF the
results OF constipation. His long list will
begin with sick headache, biliousness,
dyspepsia, thin blood, bad skin. Then
ask him il he would recommend your
using Ayers Pills.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Some people are always looking for
trouble, and are not satisfied when they
find it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-04-02

". b. in N. Y. Sun March %, 1909.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18

revenue, does not furnish income
enough to pay the authorized ex-
penditures. By July first next,
the excess of expenses over receipts
for the current fiscal year will
equal S10O,OOO,OOO.
The successful party in the late
election is pledged to a revision of
the tariff. The country and the
business community especially, ex-
pect it. The prospect of a change
in the rates of import duties al
ways causes suspension or halt
in business because of the uncer-
tainty as to the changes to be
made and their effect. tits, there
fore, of the highest Importance
that the new bill should be agreed
upon and passed with as much
speed as possible consistent with
its due and thorough considera-
tion.
For these reasons / have deem
ed the present to be an extraordi-
nary occasion, within the meaning
of the constitution, justifying and
requiring the calling of, an extra
session.
In my inaugural address, / stat
ed in summary way the princi-
pies upon which, in my Judgment,
the revision of tariff should pro-
ceed and indicated at least one
new source of revenue that might
properly be resorted to i'm order to
avoid future deficit, it is not
necessary for me to repeat what I
then said.
l venture to suggest that the
vital business interests of the
country require that the attention
of the congress in this session be
chiefly devoted to the considera-
tion of the new tariff bill and that
the less time given to other sub
jects of legislation in this session,
the better for the country.
WILLIAM FL. TAFT.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18

the protection of civil service rules.
In case where such employment exists
the official could not be discharged un-
der the Peterson bill and must be re-
tanned in Office after the expiration OF
the term for which he was appointed
unless charges were made against him
and these charges sustained by evil
dence before a commission composed
of the governor, the lieutenant gov
ernor and the attorney general.
What is wrong with that kind of a
bill9 Nothing, thought the republi-
can senators. Everything, declared
their democratic colleagues. Why, il
you pass that bill the governor will be
compelled to retain Mr.. Leavitt in of
fee, and everyone knows that he has
said he wouldn't reappoint him. And
that's the rub, and the whole rub.
Everybody knows that no charges
could be preferred against Mr.. Leayitt
that any impartial tribunal would Sc
Continued on page
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18

The attendance and interest at the
Sunday Bible study class of the Young
Mems Christian Association is grow
ing each week. Last Sundays session
was an interesting one, number Of
the members OF the class taking part
in the discussion. The class is now
studying the life of st. Paul. Next
Sundays lessenswill take up the. first
missionary journey Of the great apos-
tie. There are over twenty young men
enrolled i'm the class.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18
AGAINST CANNON
Congressman c. A. Lindbergh
Votes for Hepburn
REMAINS AN INSURGfNI
President Taft Sends His First Mes.
sage to Congress, Document
Being Very Brief

Congressman C. A. Lindbergh, of
the sixth Minnesota district, did not
help re-elect Joseph G. Cannon speak
er of the house at Washington on
Monday. Mr.. Cannon was reelected
but Mr.. Lindbergh, who has been an
''insurgent" for some months, cast
his vote for Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa,
who is not a member of the house.
Mr.. Lindbergh was the only man in
the house who voted for Hepburn.
Representative c. r. Davis Of the
third Minnesota district voted for
Henry A. Cooper, member from Wis
consin. The. other members of the
Minnesota delegation voted for Mr..
Cannon, though some of them, not
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18
Bl NDlNG 7 WINE
Farmers Rushing Their Orders in to
The Prison Plant at
= Saltwater

"A Saltwater special to the st. Paul
Dispatch says, under date of March Is:
"The farmers of Minnesota are send
ing in orders for binder twine to the
state prison with a rush that was
never known before. The output this
season will be considerably larger, than
for any year in the history of prison
manufacture.
"The orders up to day cover Il, 500, 600
pounds and are still coming in rapidly
every day. The indications are that
long before the season closes in August
the entire output of the factories at
the old and new prison will be covered.
That will amount to 10000, 900 pounds
or 1900, 900 pounds more than ever be-
fore.
GAS the new prison factory did not
begin until half the year was over the
output this season will fall short, OF
the increased annual capacity. War
den Wolfer is of the opinion that with
all the spindles in both factories rum
ming to their utmost they will not be
able to meet the demands of farmers
of the state OF the present rate of use,
and not allowing for the>yearly growth
of the demand. Twine is being ship.
ed in carload lots daily, making room
in warehouses for arriving fiber and
the new twine."
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-03-18
BOUQUETS FOR Dubois
St. Cloud Papers Say Nice Things
About the Sauk Centre Doctor
and His Lecture

On Thursday evening of last, week
DR.. ]. A. Du Bois of this city gave a
free lecture at the st. Cloud normal
school on "The Last of the Barbar-
ians". This is the doctors famous
lecture on Napoleon, which many
have heard and admired, but the doc
tor has given it new name. The
speaker was greeted by a large
audience. That his lecture was well
received and greatly appreciated is evil
dencedb by what the county eat papers
say about it. The Times says:
From literary standpoint the lee
ture was gem and it was thoroughly
enjoyed by those who were in attend
ance. The doctor spoke for an hour
and half, deeply interesting his
audience. He pictured Napoleon vi
wildly, and made an estimate of what
such life is worth to humanity. He
was very bitter in his denunciation of
the mans destructiveness, saying that
he laid waste more than could almost
ever be repaired, and this was given
the abhorrent coloring by the fact
that Napoleon's only guiding motive
was his own personal ambition. There
was no welfare for country or country
men in his heart" -
The Journal-Press remarks, among
other things:
''Dr. Dubois, one of the leading ply
sicians of the commonwealth, is also
a student, and occasionally takes a
fling at politics as a recreation. He
is an independent thinker, and is well
founded on the underlying principles
of all public questions.
''That he has made a profound and
thoughtful study of Napoleon was
manifested during the course of the
lecture which was bubbling over with
information regarding this great mill
tary genius.
'Dr. Dubois prelude to the lecture
proper was discussion of the things
worth while, the things that last and
live on. There had been SO much of
blundering and SO much wasted toll
and blood, all for no real purpose:
The building of the pyramids, which
are as useless as the shifting sands
about them, the strife of armies and
principalities which have long ago
been forgotten, and even the great
ones that once were the rulers of
Rome, are now mere names to us,
while the poor footsore Jew, Paul, who
travelled to the Eternal City, is an in
spring force today, whose messages to
humanity have overleaped the cen
turies.v