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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
PROFANITY INBOYS.

1t Is regretable fact that profanity
mas become common among the boys.
1t IS not il the least out of the ordinary.
where group of boys of 10 to Is years
are together upon the streets or in an
open space to play game of ball, to
hear them using oaths that might suit
the tongues of the proverbial fishwife
or costermonger, but which are shock
ing falling from the tongues of children
of tender years.
Of all stupid and silly vices, profanity
is one of the worst and most abominable.
"A SIMPLE statement of fact is much
stronger than any statement emellisbed
with swearwords, and no lie is made anv
the more believable by being framed in
profanity. In fact, both truth and false
hood are weakened by swearing and
taking the Lords name in vain. Foul
epithets and comparisons are not con.
vlncing, but are almost invariably dis
gusting, except to those making use OF
them. Profanity among men seems to
be growing less and less, at least in
public places and among those who mas
lay claim to decency and some education.
But the habit seems to have firmly
fixed itself upon a great many of the
boys, who may imagine it mannish tc
use profanity and smoke cigarettes.
Savannah News.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
A TOAST TO GENTLEMEN.

The following toast to. gentlemen is
handed in by lady contributor.
Bless 'em! They halve our Joy, they
double our sorrows, they treble our ex-
penses, they quadruple our cares, they
excite our magnanimity, they increase
our self-respect, waken our enthusiasm,
arouse our affections, control our prop
erty, and out. .maneuver US in every
thing. This world is dreary world
without them. In fact, / may say with
out prospect of successful contradiction,
that without them this wouldn't be
much of a world anyhow. We love
them, and the dear things can't help it,
we control them, and the precious fel.
lows don't know it. AS husbands thew
are convenient. though not always on
hand; as beaux they are by no means
'Matchless." They are most agreeable
as visitors, handy at state fairs, and in
dispensible at oyster saloons. They are
SPLENDID as escorts for some other fell
lows wife or sister. and as friends they
are better than women. AS our fathers
they are inexpressibly grand. A man
may be failure in business. wreck in
constitution, not enough to boast of as
beauty nothing as wit, less than MOTH
ing as legislator for women's rights,
and not very brilliant as a member of
the press, but if our father We overlook
his shortcomings and cover his peccadil-
loes with the divine mantle of charity.
Then, as our husbands, how we love to
parade them as paragons! In the SUBJ
lime language of the poet:
Wen lie for 'em,
We'll cry for 'em
And if we could we'd fly for 'em;
We'd anything but die for 'em
Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
ALL IS WELL.

Written for the VIRGINIA CrrIzEN.l
lnthe eastern sky beams brilliant ray,
To herald the dawn of another day;
And the sun with serene. majestic grace,
Slowly presents smiling face.
Lo! the earth is bathed in golden light,
And what has become of the long dark
night?
For a thousand sunbeams hide and play
And drive the shadows from earth away.
Surely never before was sky so blue,
Mother earth so fair, or friends so true;
In the distance hear the sweet chime
of bell,
1t message is golden: "All, all is well"i
Gay-feathered songsters take up the
refrainI
"An is well,'' how they trilI it, again
and again!
They know nothing" you say, with
sighs and tears.
Ofsorrows and trouble, trials and fears?
No; they bark to the bells, and the bells
sing of love
And of faith and trust in the Father
above.
On the land, on the sea, there is peace
and rest
AS the sun in its glory sinks in the west;
In the soul there is joy as the chimes of
the bell
Echo the hearts message; .:All, all
is Well"l
IRENE DAVIS.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
OF THOSE VINO WALK ALONE.

Women there are on earth, most sweet
and high,
VINO lose their own, and walk bereft
and lonely,
Loving that one lost heart until they die
Loving it only.
And so they never see beside them grow
Children, whose coming is like breath
of flowers;
Consoled by subtler loves the angels
know
Though childless hours.
Good deeds they do; they comfort and
they bless
In duties others put off till the morrow
Their look is balm, their touch is ten
derness
To all in sorrow.
Betimes the world smiles at them, as It
were shame,
This maiden guise, long after youths
departed;
But in Gods book they bear another
''The faithful hearted
Faithful in life, and faithful unto death.
Such souls, in sooth. illume with luster
splendid
That glimpsed, glad land wherein the
vision saith,
Earth's wrongs are ended.
Richard Burton, in Century Magazine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
NEED NOTLEGALIzE THE PRIMARY.

We do not see the necessity of legaliz.
ing the primary, nor does it seem ex.
pedient since it would impose an un-
necessary expense on the State. There
would have to be primary for every
party that had specified number of
voters; and the State might have to
provide for Democratic, Republican
and Prohibition primary, and perhaps
even more. Let the parties provide for
their own primaries. The important,
nay imperative. thing to do is TO do
away with the present vast and unneces-
sary cost of the primary and the ex-
orbitant amount of money required of
candidates, which prevents men of small
means from aspiring to Office. There
is no need of all this money, and its
exaction is all wrong. The reform
needed in the primary is the doing
away with the lavish use of money
Charlottesville Progress.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
SEAWEED AS FERTILIZER.

Seaweed as fertilizer is very much
appreciated by the French fishermen
who cultivate little vegetable gardens
on st. Pierre and Dog Islands, near New
foundland. Even the farmers of Mi
quelon and Langley, the two large
islands in the group, find the sea
grass deposited in large quantities along
the shore equally asvalnable as manure
from the barn-yards.
Dog Island seems to be but little
more than great rock, and st. Pierre
is not much better, but here and there
in the pockets" are found little plots
of earth. These are carefully and grad
ually developed by annual applications
of seaweed until the maximum of pro-
duction is reached. From that time on
the weed is used to maintain the
strength Of the soil.
Seaweed is used for fertilizer in some
other parts of the world, but usually
the grass is first burned, and only the
ashes are put on the land. In st.
Pierre, however, the weed is gathered
on the rocky shores is scattered broad
cast in its natural state.
Cabbages, celery and lettuce thrive
in this sea fertilizer. Potatoes. how
ever, do not seem to do so we'll. Beets
and certain kinds of varieties of peas
also yield satisfactorily. The summer
season, however, is very short.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
CHASING RAINBOWS.

How many people go through life de-
luded with the conviction that if they
could only get little more money, get
into little more comfortable position,
own little better home, or if they
could only get over the particular
trouble that'is annoying them at the
time, they would be happy.
know a man who had a very hard
boyhood, suffered great poverty, who
is now fifty years old and he has al
ways honestly believed that if he could
only get the particular thing he was
after or get over the particular difficult
ty that was annoying him at the mo-
ment he would be perfectly happy
but he is the same anxious, restless,
expectant spirit today as when u youth.
He has been quite successful and has
done some very remarkable things,
but he is invariably in hot water. There
Is always something that nettles or de-
stroys his happiness. and although he is
well meaning man, he has made his
family. his employees and everybody
about him very unhappy because he is
always fretting and worrying. always
borrowing trouble. Success.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
THE INSECT INVASION.
Much Is Spent and More is Saved in
Fighting Pests.

There are now In bearing in this
country les, 900. 900 apple trees, and not
less than So. $50, 900 per annum is spent
In spraying and In otherwise treating
them for protection against the codling
moth. When this Ia added to the
shrinkage, aud full allowance Is made
for the damaged fruit, the bug in
question must be chargeable with at
least $40, 900, 600. Other orchard fruits
suffer losses equally heavy, and for
all Of them. including small fruits also.
the yearly damage is fully % per cent
of the entire crop.
Enormous as is the annual loss which
may now be fairly charged to preda-
tory bugs, it would certainly be vastly
greater If such enemies were left un-
checked and no efforts were made to
restrict their operations. BY the adop-
tion of such means as science has been
able to devise for the control of these
innumerable foes, an immense amount
of saving has been accomplished. The
damage done by the cotton boil weevil
has been steadily cut down, but the
weevil continues his pillage and his
field is at all times growing larger.
The fight against the Hessian fly saves
each year wheat worth from 800. 600, =
600 to $500, ,0O0, 900. Defensive meas
ures against the codling moth reduces
the net loss each year from Sl5, 900. 600
$50, 600, 900 and the existence of the
orange industry of California has been
made possible only by the introduction
from Australia of a natural enemy of
the white scale-a pestiferious crea-
ture which few years ago was destroy
ing the orange and lemon orchards of
the Southwest.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
SAY. YOU FELLOWS! LET'S FORGET.

The saddest thing about the result
of the late primary is that Mr.. Tucker s
little twinses. as he calls them. will new
er have the pleasure of calling their
daddy Governor. Matthews Journal.
Harry st. George fuckers close po-
litical friends say he will run for Con-
gress against Representative Hal ID,
Flood. Mr.. Tucker carried the Tenth
district for Governor by a thousand
majority, but he win find it different
proposition in going up against an old
campaigner of his own district. -Ex-
change.
''Mr. Tucker makes his first post
election statement. It is about time
he was making his first congratulations
also" says the Petersburg Index-Ap-
peal, in commenting on the Lexingto-
mans public statement pledging sup
port of the successful contestant for
the governorship. The Emporia Inde-
pendent, writing along the same line
says: "We are patiently waiting for
the Hon. Harry St. George Tucker to
send the Nottoway nominee word of
congratulation. Be game" Our con-
temporaries are impatient. We have
no doubt Mr.. Tucker will do the manly
and the graceful thing when he has
leisure. We would have preferred his
doing SO earlier, but we are not aware
of his reasons for delay. .-Danville Reg
lister.
Brother Beasley, of the South Bos-
ton News, is slightly disfigured, but
not yet in the Ring. He can't stomach
Judge Mann because the liquor men
were for him. Lord bless you. Brother,
if you had been in Petersburg on cleo
tion day you would have spewed Tuck
er all over the earth when you saw how
solidly the liquor men voted for him.
But it is all over now. Take your
medicine like man. tell your neigh
bDrs you made mistake and join them
in voting for one of the best governors
Virginia has ever had. 1t isn't very
black crow you've got to eat, anyhow,
Petersburg Index-Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
LET EVERYBODY PLANT TREES.

If every land owner would plant in
every available place such trees as
would not only give present beauty,
but also insure future supply of valu-
able timber it would so supplement the
larger works of government forest
reserve that reforestration and the pre-
servation of an adequate supply of good
timber would be much simplified.
The precious and almost Indispensable
white oak is naturally only a forest
tree. but the black walnut, which intrin-
sically is even more valuable, will
grow almost anywhere and in a much
shorter time, and will pay for itself
from the time it begins to bear. The
same is true of the chestnut.
There is no question that cabinet
woods will always be in demand. for
no other material can possibly take the
place of wood in the making of furni-
ture. re.-Craftsman.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
THE VIRGINIA PRESS ASSOCIATION
lRichmond Times Dispstch.I

i bNN~Hu'oho -ItspSIcn.l
The Chamber of Commerce is for
tunate in having secured for Richmond
special meeting this fall of the State
Press Association.
These meetings are of high Importance
both to the association and to the cities
in which they are held.
Probably in no other organization
whose membership is so widely scatter
ed are members in such close touch
with one another. Yet there is much
that these personal meetings may do
that daily and constant interchange of
editorial opinions and comparison of
views cannot accomplish.
The power which the men composing
this association WELD, and the Influence,
whether for good or for evil, which
they exercise throughout the State can
not we'll be overestimated. Entirely
united, it is difficult to imagine what
possible thing they could not incite or
inspire the people of Virginia to do.
When they assemble here in Novem-
Der the political tumult and the shouting
will be done. The fierce contest will be
finished. and these men may then
unite and confer together to devise the
best method by which their concerted
action may push forward the material
prosperity and industrial development
of the State. Here all can and will
unite, There will be no difference of
opinion as to the ends TO be attained.
1t will only be for them to confer as TO
the best means their immense influence
can aid in attaining these ends,
This meeting can, and, therefore,
must be, of great advantage to Virginia.
and give impetus so that industrial and
commercial progress upon which the
State has entered There may be many
differences of opinion among the men,
oers of the Press Association, but there
Is not one who does not earnestly wish
to see our people rich. prosperous and
happy.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
BUSTER AGAIN RESOLVES.

mat railroad train is no good with
out track. 1t may be a fine and good
train but it will come to grief. For it
must have a track to its destination.
Man is just the same, he must have a
purpose or he will not succeed. Char
acter IS the engine, purpose is the track.
Love and faith are the motive mower
Brother ifyou are wasting your time you
are destroying your track and it's the
ditch for yours. Cut out the paste-
boards and the gah fest. Read some
good books and think little. Don t
waste time in kicks and complaints.
Just smile and push. Its pretty nice
world, full of mighty sweet people. see
If you can't be one of them. Or two
of them if possible.
People would be better off if they We're
not so serious. $50 live that when tbv
summons comes to join the innumerable
caravan which moves to that mysterious
realm where each shall take his chamber
in the silent halls ofdeath, thou go not
ike the quarry-slave at night scourged
to his dungeon; but, sustained and
soothed by anunfautering,trust approach
thy grave like one who wraps the
drapery of his coach about him, and
lies down to pleasant dreams. Ma
made me learn that by heart because |
was bad boy. Pm glad she did. All
of US should learn good things by heart.
like this we reap what we sow-and
we don't get anything that isn't coming
TO US; So look out boys, don't plant
lemons or you'll get lemons-what do
you know about that?-B Buster.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
Peaches From Tree So Years Old,

Mr.. Alexander Pratt. of King George,
brought in basket of peaches Satur-
day which grew on a tree that was
planted on his farm in 1856. The peaches
are open stone, good size and delicious
flavor. The seed was brought from
Vicksburg. Miss, by the late Charles
Ellis, of this city, and planted by Mrs.
Lucy Pratt, mother of Mr.. Alexander
Pratt. Free Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Many ducks having mysteriously dis
appeared from Virginia pond. the
owner caused it to be drained. This
brought to light mammoth turtle sur
rounded by ducks bones. 1t is believed
tht turtle had been living for years on
the water fowl.
Maine is the home of the pine tree.
A stump 6 feet inches across is shown,
the trunk of the tree furnished 25.OOO
shingles and 900 feet of boards. This
pi ne stump measured more than z feet
across before it rotted around the edges
and lost its bark and part of the wood
on the outer edges.
The railways of the world: For the
old world, 274. 900 miles; for the new
world. 800, 600 miles. OF this. North
America has 26S. 600 miles. those of the
United Statea being 260. 600 miles. All
this built since ls27-s2 years. 100, 900
locomotives move two billion tons of
freight for US annually.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
SULPHUR FOR RATS AND MICE.

A farmers method of ridding his
premises of rats and mice is given by
the Southern Cultivator as follows: If
you sprinkle sulphur on your barn floor
and through your corn as you gather it
there will not be a rat or mouse to
bother. In stacking hay or oats
sprinkle on the ground and a little
through each load. and my word for il
rats or mice can't stay there. A pound
OF sulphur will be sufficient to preserve
large barn of corn, and is good for
stock an will not hurt the corn or
bread.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
A LIGHTNING METHOD OF CALCU.
LATING INTEREST

One of the shortest and simplest
methods known for calculating interest
is to multiply the principal by the num-
ber of days and divide as follows:
For 4 per cent, divide by 80.
For 8 per cent, divide by u.
For 6 per cent, divide by 60.
For z per cent, divide by 81.
For 8 per cent. divide by 45.
Then point off four decimal places
For instance to find interest on
$S6O.OO for 92 days at per cent, multi
ply $3.50. 90 by 92, divide by As, and
point off four decimal places. The
result is $7.36. Implement Age.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
HE LEADETH ME-.
take his little hand and go

l take his little hand and go
Down to the pastures green,
The babbling brooks and waters still.
With meadows stretched between.
l take his little hand and go
Beyond the city's roar,
To walk amid the perfect peace
Within the greenwood door.
His little hand, his little voice,
His sweet companionship
OF heart and hope and innocence,
The rosebud of his lip
To fare amid the sun and flowers,
And climb the green-clad hill.
He leadeth me to pastures new
And by the waters still.
Sweeter shall my communion be
Beneath the happy skies
Just for his little hand to hold,
The wonder of his eyes;
The marvel of his childhood cheer
When all the lanes are bright.
And now the robin. now the lark,
Flash wings against the light.
Into the hills l shall ascend,
The gates shall lift their heads;
Open shall swing the mighty doors.
Behold, His table spreads
The mama of its beauty where
take his hand and go
To lie me down in pastures green
Where peaceful waters fowl
We shall be brethren in thy bond
OF love; o places fair!
Under the freedom of the fields.
The largess of the air;
Under the blessing of the hills,
And brooks that ring with glee,
When to the verges of the meads
He gently leadeth me.
When, with his little hand in mine,
His little faith and trust,
We turn the roads that stretch away
From marts of roar and dust,
From streets that TEEN with sunless lif
To blue skies bending Ger.
And lanes beyond the central strife,
And then the greenwood door!
Baltimore Sun.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
HANDSOME GIFTS.
northumberland County to Receive
Portrait and Bust ofDistinguished
People,

WI '"" oeEihhu county TO Receive
Portrait and Bust OfDistinguished
People,
The fine work which Judge T. r. B.
Wright has for years been doing in
making the courthouses in his circuit
shrines of history and patriotism still
goes bravely on. News has come from
Seattle in the far off State of Washing
ton, that Richard Stephens Eskridge, a
distinguished attorney of that city, is
going TO give Northumberland county
a $3.50 oil portrait of his great-great-
greate-grandfather, Colonel George Esk-
ridge, Queens attorney for Northum-
berland from 1878 to 1899. and guar
dian of Mary Ball. mother of Washing
ton. The original, from which the por-
TRAIT Is to be painted, hangs on the
walls at Washington's home at Mt.
Vernon.
Another gift to Northumberland
comes from Captain James C. Fisher.
president of the Fisher Morris Menhaden
Company of Reedville. who has inform
ed Judge that he has given an
order for bust of Washington. model
ed after Houdon's famous statue in the
Capital of Richmond. This bust. with
pedestal. will serve as counterpart to
the bust. with pedestal, of chief Justice
Marshall, recently presented to Nor
thumberland county by John l.. Will
iiams, of Richmond, and modelled after
the bust of the great Chief Justice now
in the Boston Athenaeum. m.-Lancaster
Corr. Times-Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
THE FLY NUISANCE.
Rules for Dealing With it Prepared
By The Hatch Commission of
New York CITY.

Keep the flies away from the sick,
especially those i'll with contagious dis
eases. Kill every fly that strays into
the sick room. His body is covered
with disease germs.
DO not allow decaying material of any
sort to accumulate on or near your pre-.
misses,
All refuse which tends in any way tc
fermentation, such as bedding straw,
paper waste and Vegetable matter, should
be disposed OF or covered with lime ol
kerosene oil.
Screen all food, whether in the house
or exposed for sale.
Keep all receptacles for garbage
carefully covered and the cans cleaned
or sprinkled with oil or lime.
Keep all stable manure in vault or
pit, screened or sprinkled with lime. oil
or other cheap preparations, such as are
sold by a number of reliable manufac-
turers.
See that your sewage system is in
good order; that it does not leak, is up
to date and not exposed to flies.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Burn or bury all stable refuse.
Screen all windows and doors, espe-
cially in the kitchen and dining room.
If you see flies, you may be sure that
their breeding place is in nearby filth.
1t may be behind the door, under the
table or in the cuspidor.
If there is no dirt or filth there will
be no flies.
If there is nuisance in the neighbor-
hood write at once to the Health De-
partment.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
TEMPERANCE.

Roanoke's Judge has granted a new
local option election for September.
A doctor says 80 per cent of the cases
of chronic alcoholism coming under his
observation are found in people who can
drink 1T or let it alone, as they please.
seems that they can do beth, but in
variably only do one. Washington
Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
TO Kill FLIEs.

The London Lancet, the leading medi-
cal journal of the world, says that the
best and simplest fiy-killer is a weak
solution of formaldehyde in water 1.-TWO
teaspoonfulls to the pint. Place in
plates or saucers throughout the house.
Zen cents worth of formaldehyde will
last an ordinary family all summer. 1t
has no offensive smell, is fatal to
disease organisms, and is practically
non-poisonous except to insects.
Pyrethrum powder, which may be
bought at any drug store, burned in the
house will also kill the flies,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-27
wAsHlNGToN's PL,GuE spors

lie an the low. marshy bottoms of the Potomac the
breeding ground Of malaria germs. These germs
cause chills. fever and ague. biousness. jaundice
iassitude. weakness general debility and bring suf
ring or death to thousands yearly But Electric
Bitters never fail to destroy them and cure malaria
troubles. They are the best all-round tonic and
cure for malaria ever used" writea r. M.
James. Of Looellen. s. C. They curo Stomach,
Liver Kidney and Rlood TSoubles anc, Will pravent
Typhoid. nx them. soc. Guaranteed by all
Druggists.