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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-28
PROPOSALS.
WAR DEPARTMENT, General Depot Q

WAR DEPARTMENT, General Depot of
w the Qla-termaster's Department, Wash
ington, D. e., April Ath. 1909. Sealed pro-
Office until Wednesday, May 18th, 1909. and
then publicly opened, fer repairing )vern-
ment roadway from Rosslyn. Virglni,, to
Fort Myer. Virginia. Specific tons, blank
forms aud instructions for making prcpo ais
and further information will be furnished in
tending bidders on application to this Office.
NJ. GRAY la INSKI, Major and Quarter
master. II. : Army Depot Quartermsster.
anr % % 30 MavlO1l
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A new line of Belt Pins Just received at H.
w. Wildi d Sons. los north Royal street.
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JOHN HERBERT COMING, sec'y.
.Urog al
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spr 49, 20 q, my4.

A SPECIAL MEETING ofthe stockholders
n Of the WILL IAMS WATCHMAN.'S
CLOCK COMPANY, incorporated, will be
held at the offices of said Company. Rooms l
and 2, Alexandria National Bank Building.
Alexandria. Virginia, on MONDAY, May
Srd. 1909. at II O'Clock m by order of the
Board OF Directors. L. V. RECTOR
apr. l9th.t d. Secretary.
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~ Stoakholders Of the COLUMBIA REAL
ESTATE COMPANY will be held at the
Office Of the company, No. Ill south Fairfax
street, Alexandria, Va. On MONDAY, Nay.
g. 1909, at O'Clock p. m. for the election Of
officers aud other business.
A. P. PARDON, President.
A. s. JONES, Secretary.
80 % a.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-28

The annual stockholders meeting Of the
! Citizens Saving Bank, Incorporated, will
south Fairfax street, Alexandria, Virginia. on
TUESDAY, May II, at IL q. N. for the cleo
ton of directors and the transaction Of such
other business as may properly come before
the meeting.
p. HUDDLEsON. Secretary.
ar,r 10 On d nnud
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
THE HOME.

A group of successful men were
once recounting the scenes and in
fluences that had stayed by them
since youth and gave them help and
inspiration through their struggling
manhood One said his dearest mem
cries & !usE cred about the old apple
tree by the kitchen door where his
grandmother sat and sung familiar
hymns of ole while she sewed and
spun. Another said that memories OF
a certain corner in the living room
in his childhood's home always called
into action his best thoughts and
highest motives. This corner was GOV
cred with pictures of great men and
women taken from newspapers and
on the wall with flour paste-but thel
magazines unframed-simply fastened
influence has never been effaced. Still
another said, Whenever sit down to
a dinner table, be it grand banquet or
a simple restaurant, the memory OF
my mothers table comes back to
me and | once more see the plain.
glass vase with its few green leaves
and it's spray of pinks or its sprlg
of mignonette, always there-summer
or winter, shedding sweet bene-
diction upon us. You may smile II
you like, but that memory has kept
me pure"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
BRANN's RELIGION.

Il belong to no particular cult or
creed, but l do know beyond perad-
venture of doubt that the mighty
universe is not without master It's
origin and attributes are beyond my
comprehension. / connot comprehend
the creature; how then can l compre-
bend the creator | know nothing
of the future; | spend no time specu-
lating upon it am overwhelmed
with the past and at deaths grip
with the present. At the grave, God
draws the line between two eterni-
ties. Never has living man lifted the
veil of death and looked beyond Re-
vealed religion was not born of rea-
son or nursed by knowledge;it is the
child of love or pain, and lives be-
tween the rosy breasts of hope There
is his destiny.I have felt his presence
and heard his voice; / have been era
died in his imperial robe. All that
is or ever will be is but the visible
garment of God seek to know moth
ing of his plan or purposes. / seek
no written covenant with God, for he
is my father. | trust him without
requiring priests or prophets to in
dorse his note.
AS l write, my little son awakes
and comes cropping through the dark
ness to the door, He sees the light
shining through the transom and re-
turns toits little bed and lies down to
dream. He knows that beyond the
light his father keeps watch, and he
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
DENYING DEATH DAILY.

The authorities of Obion county,
Tennessee, have done good piece of
work not only for their own commun-
ity and the country round about Reel
foot Lake, but for every other local
ity in the South where the masked
face of lawIessness has shown itself.
On January 9th, 1909, six of the
night riders on trial for the murder of
Captain Quentin Rankin, were SEN
fenced to be hanged; the two others
were CONDEMNED to twenty years i'm
priSOnment each. The moral effect
of this legal action in the Reelfoot
Lake district cannot help but be be-
neficial throughout the other parts of
Tennessee and Kentucky that have
suffered from organized lawlessness.
Had judge and jury at Union City
not done their duty, the later winter
would undoubtedly have witnessed a
revival of night rider outrages. A fail
ure to convict would have been all
the warrant necessary for a belief on
the part of the night riders that the
authorities were permanently bluffed.
But the judge-Judge Joseph e.
Jones-and the jury did their duty
at a time and under circumstances
when the performance of duty re-
quired no ordinary degree of courage.
From the very moment that Judge
Jones convened the special grand jury
of Obion county in extra session at
Union City, until the date on which
he sentenced the convicted night
riders to the gallows, there was not
an hour when the claw and order peo-
pie" did not fear that his life might
be taken.
When l was in Union City the
Judge himself did not seem to be
greatly apprehensive,b but walked about
the streets unarmed and placid, evil
IDENTIFY under the belief that if any of
the people from the lake district inten
ded to make target of him they
would choose such time and place and
method that it would be all over be-
fore he had chance to defend him
self.
The prosecuting attorneys were all
threatened, at one time or another,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
ALL SORTS.

"Being a Bohemian" says the Phi
losopher of Folly, SIS a lot of fun
| if you don't have to be one. "-Cleve-
land Leader.
Don't you think you could learn
to love me?" asked old Gotrox. "Oh,
| don't know" replied Miss Young
budd ''How much are you willing to
spend on my education ?'-Chicago
Daily News.
why don't you read up on scien-
tific farming?" Il started that once,
answered Mr. Corntossel. ut didn't
|'pay. 1 got so interested readin' that
| forgot to go out and farm. Wash
ington Star.
what are the names of that YOUNG
couple next door," 1--WE won't be able
to find out for several weeks. They've
just been married, and ne called her
Birdie and she calls him Petite. y
Cleveland Leader.
The Artists Wife Tin a Whisper:
There's someone knocking, Jack, Shall
open the door," mo, it's Jabber's
knock It's a special knock / gave
him, so l wouldn't let him in by mis-
take Life.
elf-Denial: What are you going
to give up during Lent? Wen, I've
thought it all over and I've de.
cided to give up kissing George An
what about kissing George" ''Oh, ne
dosen't observe Lent. Detroit Free
Press.
Too bad old man," said the sympa-
thetic friend to the train. You didn
run fast enough" "Oh, / ran fast
enough, answered the other, but
unfortunately didn't start soon enough
Chicago Daily News
Uncle Allen Demurs: 1t has al
ways seemed to hme," said Uncle
Allen Sparks: that it's unjust to q
call 'em 'Ananias clubs 1t ism quits.
fair to Ananias. He didn't actually
utter any lies; he only lied by impli-
cation. He wasn't really eligible hing
self to membership in an Ananias
club. Chicago Tribune.
Phyology of the Kitchen: A woman
of this city had to discharge her wait
ress and cook, who were sisters. She
had occasion to call up the person
through whom she had originally OBJ
tanned these jewels. The latter said, 1
laughing, 81 should like to tell you
of the character that they gave you.
"Oh do, said the other. II isn't.
ssWell the cook came to see me at 4
once / don't think them people is
married, she remarked. No married (
man is that polite to his Wife"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
THE WIFE IN THE HOME.

The wife becomes pillar of
strength by being the inspiration OF
her husbands life. For her he is
strong, and through the years of we'd
ded life he has drawn from her the
inspiration that would hold him in a
spell of love; and the desire to retain
that love developes in his character
all that is good in him.
Some one has said a good wife is
heavens last and best gift to man,
his angel and minister of graces IN
Vulnerable, his gem of mainly virtues
her voice his sweetest music, her
smiles his bright day, her kiss the
guardian of his innocence, her bosom
the safest pillows for his cares, her
prayers the ablest advocate OF heaV-
ems blessing upon his head. A true
wife makes a mans life better, no.
bier, stronger, by the inspiration OF
her love and devotion turning all the
forces of his nature heavenward. BY
her refinement she clothes him with
the gentle graces of refined and cul
tured manhood.
The wife makes the spirit of home
The wife makes the spirit of the
home. AS an inspiration in the home
she is universally loved, and no wom-
an need feel her sphere of influence
is limited as long as she is the crown
ed queen of worthy mans home.
She is the ruler of his career, and
she can inspire him by filling his
home with the desire to be what she
truly is.
May God bless every wife and
mother in the home in this com1nun-
ity with His richest benediction.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

and it might be that the members of
the jury are still in some danger. Had
it not been for the activity of num-
Der of men in Lake and Obion and
Dyer counties, in Tennessee, who
cared more for the good name and
peace of their communities than for
their own personal safety, and around
whose personalities public sentiment
finally crystalized, the night riders
would still be doing business at the
old stand in the Reelfoot Lake region.
Don Marquis, in Uncle Remus s.
The Home Magazine OF March.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
THE HuRRYiNc HOURS.
How often the thought comes home

How often the thought comes home
tr ~
As the moments hurry awly.
OF the things intended to do
Somehow, some time, some day.
There are promises that have not
been kept,
Though / always meant TO be true,
But time is too short for all these
things
That body intends to do.
/ will answer a letter, or read book,
! will write bit of rhyme;
] will do the things that ought to do
Some day when have time.
So look beyond, as hope and plan
For the days that are just ahead,
While the day that is here goes into
the grave
With its opportunities dead.
Today is the day that we have,
OF tomorrow we can't be sure;
To seize the chance as it comes along
Is the way to make it secure,
For every year is a shorter year,
And this is a truth sublime
A moment misspent is jewel lost
From the treasury of time.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
SEES DANGER IN EGGS.

1t has long been known that milk
may be vehicle for the diptheria
germ, but eggs have not until recent
ly been suspected of having any part
iii the communication of this noisome
malady. A recent number of the Lon
don Lancet contains a startling COM
munication from Dr. Sambon, one of
the professors in theLondon school of
Tropical Medicine, in which it is
shown that fowls as well as birds
are subject to diptheria and that eggs
often contain virulent germs of this
disease. The doctor claims that he
has even found active diptheria germs
in an egg at his own breakfast table.
In view of these facts, says Good
Health, it is apparent that eggs must
be invariably cooked to avoid the dan
ger of infection. Raw eggs are TN
questionably quite as dangerous rs
raw milk, or possible even more SO.
The egg is doubtless much more of
ten source of serious illness than
is generally supposed. A stale egg
or sick or infested egg may be the
cause of sudden nausea, vomiting, and
purging, the real cause of which may
not be suspected. Certainly the egg
is very far from being the safe and
innocent food which it has so long en-
joyed the reputation of being. Va
rious species of germs have been
found inside of shells of the eggs
which were apparently perfectly fresh
1t is known that germs may be picked
UP and included in the egg during its
transit along the oviduct of the fowl,
and that germs may penetrate the
egg after it is laid.-New York Times
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
THE PRESIDENTS vacation.

washington dispatches intimate that
President Taft has already completes
his plans for the disposition OF hi
time, from the adjournment of the
special session of Congress in June
to the opening of the regular session
in December. IT. the correspondents
are correctly informed he will spend
the greater part of the interval be-
tween sessions in travel. Incidentally
he will open" such meetings, con-
ventions and expositions as may
be conveniently timed and situated
upon his line of march. He will at
tend, it is said, the Lake Champlain
terccnienary, III, GA r. encampment
in Salt Lake City, the Transmississ-
ippi convention in Denver and the
Alaska ukOn-Pacific Exposition at
Seattle. He will make a trip along
the Pacific coast and if there is time
he will pay a brief visit to Alaska.
In September he hopes to begin
trip through the South which may, ac-
cOrding to the present reports, last
two months. AS has already been an
nounced, he will visit New Orleans
when the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wat
erway Association holds its annual
convention The schedule no doubt is (
subject to change on short notice, and
contingencies mayarise that will force
the abandonment of some of the Wis
it's planned.
Mr.. Taft was recently described bEN
clever magazine writer as "the first
travelling man to reach the Presh
dency." During his late journeyingA
up and down the earth as travelling
representative of the United States
in general and the Roosevelt admins
tration in particular, many thousands
of his countrymen, whose encounters
with train schedules, upper births and
railroad luch counters are numbered
amoung their unhappy experiences,
have sympathized deeply with him an
commented pityingly upon his trials
and tribulations ON the road. Their
sympathy was probably wasted. In
Mr.. Taft's case,it appears duty jump
ed with inclination. The summers to
Panama, or Havana, or Manila, or
Toxic, as the case might be, was but
call to holiday, to meet with Joyous
response. So much is made plain by
his plans for the summer. Most of
us, after circling the globe, setting
things to right in the four corners
and winding up with a great cam
paign trek like that of last fall, would
welcome the opportunity to spend a
summer or two in restful quiet Yet
here is President who has probably
travelled as far and as fast as any
man living, planning a summer vaca-
ton journey that will turn the anna
teur vacation tourist green with en- J
Wy.
After all, however, it may be admit
ted that thePresident could not spend
his vacation to better advantage thaH
by making acquaintance with quarters
of the country still unvisted by him,
andin renewing his acquaintance with
the p eople and the places hitherto
visited. Mr. Taft constitutes one of j
the best Illustrations of the broaden
ing Influence of travel and there
can be no doubt that his coming trip
will prove a decided benefit, in a num-
Der of ways, aiding him to thorough
knowledge of the needs of the various
sections and bringing him into closer
touch with the people whose interests
he was chosen to serve.-Times De-
mOcrat.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18
THE HORRORS or WAR.

The Church of God will yet be-
come the arbiter of nations. If the
world would allow it, it would today
step in between nations that are fly
ing at each others threats, and com
mand peace and disband armies, and
harness for the pillow the war horses
nov being hitched to ammunition wag
ons. or saddle for calvary charge. The
time must come, or, through the in
creased facility fer shooting men or
blowing up cities and Overwhelming
hosts to instant death, or so that we
could XIII a regiment easier than we
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

asks no more. Through a thousand
celestial transoms sweeps the light of
God. Why should / fear the sleep
of death, the unknown terror of the
starless night, the waves of the river
Styx. Why should l seek assurance
from the lips of men that the love,
wisdom and power of my father will
not fail.-The Iconocalst.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

Man has his strength and the ex-
erciSe of his power he is busy, goes
about, occupies his attention, thinks
looks forward to the future, and finds
consolation in it; but woman stays at
.home, remains face to face with her
sorrows, from which nothing distracts
her; she descends to the very depths
of the abyss it has opened measures
it, and often fills it with her VOWS
and tears. To, feel, to love, to SUI
fer, TO devote herself, will always be
the text of the life of woman. Man
has a precise and distinct language,
the world being luminous speech.
Woman possesses apeculiarly musical
and magical language, intersperSlng
the words with song. Woman is az
fectionate and suffers; she is constan-
thy in need of something to lean upon
like the honeysuckle upon the tree
or fence. Man is attached to the
fireside, by his affection for her, and
the happiness it gives him to protect
and support her. Superior and inferior
to man, Inundated by the heavy hand
of nature, but at the same time inspir
ed by intuitions of a higher order
than man can ever experience, she
has fascinated him, inpocently be-
Witched him for life And man has
remained enchanted by the spell.
Women are generally better creatures
than men. Perhaps they have, taken
universally, weaker appetites ana
weaker intellects, but they may have
much stronger affections. A man
with bad heart has been sometimes
saved by a strong head; but corrupt
woman is lost ofreyer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

could once kill company, and kill a
brigade easier than we could once kill
a regiment, the patent offices of the
world more busy than ever in recog-
nizing new enginery of destruction,
the human race will after a while go
fighting with one arm, and hObbling
with one foot, and stumbling along
with one eye, and some ingenious
inventor, inspired of the archangel of
all mischief, will contrive machine
that will bore hole to the earth's
center, and some desperate nation
will throw into that hole enough dy-
Mantle to blow this hulk of a plan
ct into fragments, dropping like me-
teoric stones on surrounding stellar
habitations.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

Peace! Forever roll off the sky the
black pillars of smoke from the Ma
rengoes, and Salamancas and Borodi-
nos, and Sedans, and Gettysburg OF
earth. And right after then roll into
the heavens the peaceful vapors from
the chimneys of farm houses, and asy-
lums, and churches and capitals OF
Christian nations, and as the sunlight
strikes through these vapors they will
write in letters in black and gold all
over the sky from horizon to zenith,
GLORY to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men!" Then
let all the men-of-war fire broadside
and all the forts thunder forth re-
sounding volley, and the earth be CIR
died with the cannonades over the
final victory of the truth.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

But this shall not be, for whatever
else we let go, we hang on to our
Bible, which tells us that the black
smiths shop shall yet come to its
grandest use when the warrior and
the husbandman shall enter it side
by side, and the soldier shall throw
into its bank of fire. his sword, and
the farmer shall pi = it up a ploW-
share, and the stroig 4est spear shall
be bent into crook ON each end, and
then cut in two, and what was one
spear shall be two pruning forks.
Down with Moloch and up with
Christ Let no more war horses eat
out of the manger where Jesus was
born.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-11-06
THE TREGO MER. co.


nado plate glass and life insur-
ance in reliable companies and
sells steamship tickets to for
eign countries.
5 The most credulous people /
SNOW Of" continues Mr.. Jones,
$ are those who send away for
jewelry and watches. Cheap,
unreliable grades are the stock
in trade of the Catchem & Doem
catalogue houses. 1t is so easy
to fill a mail order with trash
and so impossible to get redress.
With a house like w. E. Crabill's
you are safe. Back of the fact
that the goods are on hand for
inspection, is the guarantee of a
well known citizen who could not
afford, if he would, to misrepre-
seat Soality. w E. Crabill car
ries the best grade of watches,
diamonds, jewelry, sterling sill
yer, plated ware and clocks from
the most noted manufacturers,
and does repairing promptly
and at moderate prices. Mr..
Crabill is an expert in difficult
watch and jewelry repairing.
He will display an attractive as
sortment of holiday novelties, at
an early date, from which useful,
beautiful and valuable gifts may
be selected"
These fellers quote cut prices
on patent medicines, said Dea-
con Titefist. referring to the
Catchem & Doem catalogue
Some kinds" said Jones.
Shelf worn goods bought in job
lots. When 1 use medicine I
want the best and to be sure of
getting it l don't send to a mail
order house. W. W. Gibson's
drug store is thoroughly reliable
and we are assured of the genu-
inc quality of the goods we get.
He carries full lines of every
thing known in the realm of
pharmacy and makes point of
having it fresh and pure Health
is too precious to take chances
with. want to know that the
man is skilled and reliable who
deals out my medicines. W. w.
Gibson makes a speciality of fill
ing physicians prescriptions and
family recipes with purest drugs
at lowest prices. He sells fine
stationery school supplies. per-
fumes, toilet articles, cut glass
and fancy china, souvenir cards,
high grade cigars, a large selec-
ton of latest designs of wall pa
pers, Lincoln absolutely pure
paints, oils, varnishes, stains,
ETC.
DIR. Cureem's wife called at
tention to a Catchem&Doem cata-
logue house list of books and said
she couldn't get them for any
such low prices at home.
Z fear you are not very well
posted on Wa-Keeney dealers
goods and prices asserted Mr..
Jones. Take any legitimate
edition published and Mrs. Ida
Persons book store will sell it
to you at as low or lower price
than you can get elsewhere. and
the books will be fresh, clean
and no broken bindings. Mrs
Pierson viii show you as nice a
line of fine stationery, popular
magazines, late copyrights, 1909
designs in artistic wall papers,
fancy china, dinner sets, glass
ware, toys, etc, as can be found
in this section of Kansas. She
has a full line of school books
and school supplies. She es-