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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

THERE are those who sneer at
a mans inability tomake money
or perhaps indifference on the
subject, but he may be a real
man and still be poor. Governor
johnson, of Minnesota, died
worth only $1S, 900, and possibly
1t is a compliment to him that he
aimed at other things than simply
money making, Possibly had he
kept this distinctly in view he
may not have been the man he
was and may not have accom-
plished the things he did.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
Friday. October L. 1909
REMINISCENT BIRTHDAYS,

The wise man or woman in de-
clining years will refuse to remi-
nisce very much. The happiest
friend we ever knew made it a
policy never to go back over a
yearin any retrospect. Age, how
ever, advances a newspaper. and
so, once in about every five years.
we let our friends know we are
enteringupon a new volume. The
CITIZEN celebrates with this issue
its 18th birthday. entering upon
the period when, if memory is not
at fault, the Roman boy assumed
the toga and the position of a
man.
Long ago the CITIZEN cut it's
proverbial eye-teeth; had to, in
deed, in self-defence, finding itself
In the midst of surroundings
where shrewdness was essential.
and it trusts that, considering
circumstances, it is entitled to at
least some of it's wisdom teeth.
though these, if our dentist is to
be believed, are cut slowly and
with difficulty. Looking back at
the years that have elapsed since
the initial number of the CITIZEN
was published, we have feelings
mixed:-of gratitude for what
success we have achieved, and
thanks for the many. very MANY.
friends we have been able to
make, and, what is better, have
kept (for the keeping of friends is
as difficult rs the acquiring of
them). The CITIZEN had from its
start. distinct ideals, and it has
tried to remain steadfast to these.
What these are and have been
needSno setting forth here. only to
stale that in all things the paper
has been true to its friends, chart
table and Just to its enemies.
such as ii has had, and the cour-
age to speak for what it has
deemed the truth and the right,
ana neverslow to takea position
and fight it out on that line. In
defeat, we take our medicine like
men; ifeuchred. we try To see that
false deals do not occur in the
future.
Somehow or other we have been
always on the closest friendly
terms with the hu sting little
Echo at HeathsVi;le, aud with
every publisher at Reedville and
Colonial Beach. and we must
conclude that we are not such a
bad sort after ali, viewed in the
testimony of our neighbors. Per-
sonal enmity and political ami
mostly are no criterions which
to ''size up a man or a paper,
SO any abuse we may have re-
celved has been to us like pouring
water upon n duck back.
Thankful for the past, cour-
ageons for the future, determined
to be of use in it's generation, the
CITIZEN modestly claims con-
tlnued place in the esteem and
affections of it's readers. Words
ofcompliment, entirely unsought. |
come TO us from time to time. |
Honest praise is always helpful. |
and we are encouraged by it.
We trust.that the coming year
VIII bring as much of success to
the rsilders of the paper as we
covet Tor the paper itself. News
paper work is largely a labor of
love, for few certainly of the
country journals can be made to
pay. But one of the grea test
stimulants to an editor is the
knowledge that he has apprecia-
tive readers, and we are quite
sure we have these, not few but i
many. So, with renewed courage ,
and with firm confidence in future
success, the CITIZEN makes it's ,
birthday bow to thereading pub
Inc and wishes all God speed and
happiness for the coming year.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
VETERANS HAVE REUNION.
onfederate Survivors OF Westmsrr
land Honor M-n.ory OF Dead.

The annual reunion of the Westmore-
land Confederate Camp was held al
Montross Tuesday. The meeting. which
was presided over by Commander j. N.
Wright, was addressed by DIR. w. M.
Kirk, of White Stone; Captain John
Lamb, OF Richmond, and Hon. w. A.
Jones, of Warsaw. The speakers were
introduced by Judge T. X. b. Wright.
of Tappahannock.
A handsome tablet to the memory of
S. +. Atwell and j. c. Wheelwrip hit.
cadets OF Virginia Military Institute,
who were killed in the Battle of New
Market, on May "a, 1864. was unveiled.
Memorials to the memory of Captain
j. Fl. Chandler, Robert F. Parker, F..
M. Hutchinson. w. w. Palmer and
Ogle HUT, deceased members of the
camp, were read.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
POLITICAL.

VIM. j. Bryan has refused the chal
ienge of joint deba tie made by Senatol
10. Bailey, of Texas. a protectionisl
Democrat, to discuss the tariff.
The more the Republican candidate
for superintendent of Public Instruc.
ton has to say in behalf of his election.
the more argument he presents in
favor of his Democratic opponent. =
Southside Sentinel.
When Republicans in Virginia as
sumo to criticise the increase of salaries
to State officers they should not forget
that to the increased cost of living, due
to Republican policies in the nation, is
due in large measure the necessity of
increasing these salaries. Free Lance.
Captain w. P. Kent, Republican
nominee for Governor, and George
helms Wise, of Newport News, adj
dressed small crowd at Hampton last
Friday night. Captain Kent read the
same speech he has made at other
places, in which he attacks the Demo-
cratic party for extravaganza, and
makes sighting references to the record
of Judge Mann, his Democratic oppo
nent.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

oil. He assumes that any nitro
gen that resulted from the decom-
position of the fish would escape
i'll the form of ammonia. So it
seems quite possible, even prob
able, that the coal oil we are
using is the remaining oil left
from menhaden or other fish, long
buried beneath the earth-fish
that lived when that part of the
earth was ocean.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
THE CAMPAIGN Is ON.

The gubernatorial campaign is fairly
on In Virginia and speeches are the
order OF the day in many quarters of
the Commonwealth. That of Hon. st.
George Tucker at Stanton is reported
as one of unusual strength and force.
Mr.. Tucker will speak in Essex on
October 18th, and in Westmoreland on
October 25Ih.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

A BOY fell into the dock at Bal
timore the other day and a man
jumped overheard, swan out to
the drowning lad and brought
him safely ashore. His mother
was sent for, she looked the boy
over, took an inventory of the
damage to his clothes and handed
the rescuer % cents. be politely
declined the coin, possibly think
ing that the boy was dear at the
price.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
RICHMOND COUNTY.
SHARPS.

SHAPPS.
Miss Lummie McKenney, of Iberis.
who has been visiting Mrs. A. A. Head
ley. returned home last week.
Mrs. John Lewis, of Farnham, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. A. ID. Davis.
Miss Lille Balderson, of Norfolk, is
the guest of her sister. Mrs. b. b.
Lewis.
Lemuel Carter and wife, of Balti-
more, who have been visiting j. w.
Smith, returned home last week.
PHLOx
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

For the first time within our
Ken an up-country legislator
Jumps into the arena and cham
Pions that part of Tidewater
known as the ''Outside Row" by
the uninitiated, as the Northern
Neck" by archaeologists, and as
Gods Country, by those for
tunate enough to have habita-
ton therein. Senator Eileen G..
Folkes, OF Richmond, writes to
the Richmond Times-Dispatch a
plea in behalf of this section anept
railroad facilities. The letter ap-
pears on this page, and we will
have more to follow on this
subject, as it has opened virgin
field OF thought and speculation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
REPUBLICAN SPEAKING

Hon. Geo. N. Wise, of Newport News.
and L. N. Massey, OF Westmoreland
county. and Others will speak at bur
CESS Store Thursday October 7th. asa
p; m; R-edviile. 8 q. IN; Wicomico
Church. Friday, Sth. p. m: White
stone, Saturday afternoon 9th, and
irvington. 3 y. m, of 9Th.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

NAMES of DIR. Cooks two Eski-
mo companions-Ahwelah and
Etukhisbook. All! well, ah! if
e took his book, "mine enemy"
will shortly write one, and then
Cook can get square.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

A FARMER in Isle of Wight
county last week ploughed up a
gold coin worth 81. But it will
hardly be worth while to stop
your plough in every furrow to
see ifyou have orhave not turned
up a valuable coin. The plough,
ii kept steadily running, will turn
up more coin than that in the
usual way. flrs' p.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

The U. S. Treasury Depart
ment says the law, about which
there is much concern, does not
make it unlawful to issue bank
cheeks of4ess than 81.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

IT Is an old German saving,
that one father can support ten
sons but that ten sons cannot
support one father. The proverb
was verified afew days ago in the
case of an Indiana man who is
reported to have been married
four times and was the father of
3S children, and who died i'm the
poor-house. 1t is suggested that
the effort of caring for so many
children had broken him down
beyond further effort, but the
small sum of ten cents per day
would have kept him in COMPARE
tive comfort outside the charity
institution. ''How sharper than
a serpent's tooth it is to have a
thankless child, says Shake
speare, and if one child causes
such soul-ache, what will 80
cause? What deeply rooted
plant is selfishness, and how cruel
OF all cruelty is the neglect of a
parent by childrenl And yet we
have seen it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
FARNH NJ.

Mrs. Arthur Cuthbert Cave. OF
Rocky Mount, N. c., is visiting her
mother, Mrs. S. E. Mozingo.
Miss Carrie Lewis, of Sharps, has
returned home after a weeks stay
with her friend. Miss Bessie /. Mo.
lingo.
Edgar Davis, of this place, left Sat
urday for Bedford City, where he is a
student at Randolph-Macon Academy.
Miss Lola Mozingo. who has been
spending several weeks at her home
here, has returned to Baltimore to re-
sumo her duties as milIiner for Arm
strong, Gator & Co.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

PELLA0RA. that so alarming
end until now apparently rare
disease III this country. has been
and isa veritable scourge in some
parts of Europe, in certain parts
OF Italy as much as 80 per cent
OF the population being affected.
The opinion is held in Europe
that the disease is caused by eat
ing corn that has undergone GER
tain chemical changes. The idea
is expressed that the frequency OF
the disease in Italy is due to the
TACT that that country is not well
adapted tocorn, is not it's natural
home, and the grains are more
apt to become diseased. AT least
ten per cent of those afflicted are
mentally unbalanced by it. That
it is rare in this country is
thought to be due to corn being
more healthfully developed here,
the natural home of that grain.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

FOLLOWING close upon Judge
Mann's able keynotecomes a rat
tier from Governor Swanson that
opens the political ball in force
ful shape. The Governors speech
at Surrey Tuesday is replete
with the record of Democracy
in Virginia during years past and
is one of the ablest documents
among political files. The two
speeches-of Governor and Gov
ernor-to-be-will be distributed
shortly in pamphlet form. We
hope to publish in full next week
the speech of Governor Swanson.
1t is an interesting documentand
he puts it up to the Republican
party hard.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
SHAR 8,

The cheapest place in Virginia TO
buy goods In New York today these
goods would cost you twice the money.
We offer only this lot while they last
at these prices.
:, 5 gross search-light matches, 500 to
box. 2 boxes for sc.
ESQ joints of stove pipe and elbows
at &c joint.
200 yards good calico at SC per ward,
worth Sc. Blue flannel and tweed at
zoe per yard, worth 35c.
15 dozen boys and mems caps, Is to
25c. worth double the money.
Gowan's pneumonia cure 15c bottle.
international collie or worm cure
either, at 25c, worth soc every where.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

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nent businsss without capital. Complete outfit
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-10-01

Dredging on the Potomac opens Octo-
Der 18th. Patent longing begins today,
October LIST.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
BETTERINe THE CONDITIONS.

The transcontinental railroads have receded
from many of the rates fixed in their tariff sheets
that went into effect January of this year. These
reductions include agricultural Implements We
hicles, wire fencing, ETC., of interest to farmers
on the westbound rates. and deciduous fruits.
hides and leather eastbound.
This recession rates has been Immediately
followed by the decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in the Spokane case, that ma
terialy modifes the rates permissible for freight
billed to interior points of the great West Slope
of our country. Heretofore the rates have been
that to Coast terminals, where water transporta-
ton connections compel relatively low rates. plus
the eastbound rate from these terminals to the
point inland-in the mase under consideration 1t
was Spokane but the principle applies to other
towns similarly situated. The decision will az
feet all roads west of the Missouri river.
The effect of these modified rates will be as
beneficial as the modification of passenger rates
has proved wherever it has gone into effect. 1t
will tend to equalize the opportunities open to
people of different communities and to widen
their means for development. 1t will also tend TO
counterfeit the tendency to congestion at terminal
points, while other valuable locations are unable
to develop their latent possibilities to advantage
Another movement in this direction is the rapid
extension of electric lines of travel throughout
the land. These give close and easy connections
between communities and between city and coun-
try.
They tend to increase commercial trans
actions and stimulate the production and sale OF
farm products thereby making these lines feeders
of and distributors for enlarged traffic over the
steam lines of transportation
These conditions should prove important fac
tors in stimulating the influx of homeseekers to
the Pacific Northwest now that the specially low
rates of travel offered for this season have gone
into effect To all such the Gland of opportunity
offers a welcome and reaches a reckoning hand
from it's irrigated tracts, its loggedof lands It's
rich valleys, it's fertile slopes and its varied
uplands All these are pregnant with possibilities
that await the hands of industry and intelligence
to call them from inaction to full and rich de-
velopment of their latent powers for satisfying
the manifold wants of mankind.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
OPPOSING 2-cENT FARES.

Judge MCPHERSON of the United States circuit
court of the Kansas City district rendered de-
cision adverse to the Missouri 2-cent fare and
maximum freight law. He held that it would not
give railroads of that state reasonable compensa-
ton for their freight and passenger transporta-
ton above necessary expenses. He claimed TO
follow the decision by the United States supreme
court in the New York case against gas COM
pany The adverse decision affects Is roads and
seems to be at variance with cases decided in
Pennsylvania and Michigan that were taken to
the United States supreme court, to which this
case will be finally appealed. What constitutes
a reasonable rate is vital question to all parties
concerned.
A meeting of the executive officials OF the west
ern roads will be held soon with view to con-
certed action against all 2-cent passenger laws.
It is expected that suits will be begun soon in
Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska Iowa, Min
nesota Wisconsin and Indiana and possibly Mich
gan The Kansas Senate killed the 2-cent BILL but
2cent rate made by the state commission is In
effect
After Directing to having jury made up OF
farmers and giving repeated rulings favorng the
Standard Oil Co. and by requiring an instructed
verdict in favor of that company from the jury.
Judge Anderson, at Chicago, has nullifed the
famous $29, 100000 fine imposed on the company
bv Judge Lands. The case will be carried to the
United States supreme court and we will have a
chance to see if that is controlled by the Standard
Oil Co.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
LAWS MARK PROGRESS.

Two bills adopted by the Legislature have spe-
cia Importance to the country homes One is
the Local Option law. The liquor business has
been closely allied to the of the govern
ment and it's curtailment is strongly opposed by
many for it's financial features. 1t is question
of vast Importance economically and farm organ
izations have been prominent in demanding more
restricted sale of liquor. The power of public
sentiment has prevailed to give the people
a chance to express majority view as to whether
it shall be sold not beverage
The other law gives the voters chance to say
whether Washington shall again adopt law
giving the women of the state a chance to vote
in it's local and general elections. These women
have intelligence, education, an interest in the
public welfare, and many of them are taxpayers.
Here too the majority will decide
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
= editorial =
THE HOMELESS.

There is rest for every living thing
The wide-winged bird comes from the darkening sea
At nightfall to the quiet of his nest
The gray fox slips with morning to his hole
In the high cliffs the little lonely worm,
Weary with many travels in the grass
Creeps to his crevice home and is at peace
But the wild souls that go the way of hate,
They have sheltering roof hiding place;
They wander wander in the night and rain,
They tread the DESERT for their wild hands
Have broken down the bright warm house of Love
The only covert for the heart of man.
Edward Markham in Nautilus
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15

One of the important measures acted on by the
LEGISLATURE was the bill providing for the sale of
lands granted by the government for state capt.
toll by which the standing debt on the capitol
foundation built some years ago will be paid and
a new capitol building will be erected thereon at
an expense of $1000,O00 or more. This marks
a vital step of progress in the development of the
Evergreen State, as we'll as fixing the location Of
the capitol at Olympia permanently. 1t is good
thing for state as well for an individual to es
tablish home site as center for activities.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15

Oregon and Washington legislatures have pro-
yided for the erection of sanatorums for the
treatment of human tuberculosis. Washington Is
also to be provided with State Board of Health.
However it is always in order to do those things
that tend to home sanitation, and they make
more for the promotion of public health than do
all the expensive accessories. We notice. too, that
some communities of the state have cleanup"
days that aid appearances and healthfulness In
their localities
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-03-15
INCREASE THE OUTPUT.


following COMMENT There falling off OF
1000 cattle in the state of Massachusetts last
year Instead of less, Massachusetts, needs more
CATTLE if her farm lands are to be built up in
fertility"
The Department of Agriculture reports 1000
less COWS in Massachusetts, than year ago. and
1000 more other CATTLE leaving the total number
the same. Whichever estimate is correct the de-
crease in the number of cows may be for the
betterment of the state. Hoards Dairymen and
other dairy authorities advocate culling out the
low-producing, nonproftable COWS from the nerds,
thereby saving the and feed now going into
improbable channels.
The Sunnyside Sun cites an instance that
proves the value of carefully selecting the COWS
that make up the dairy herd. Frank Weber &
Son, of Outlook, during December, 1907, received
from their herd of 16 COWS $129.30, averaging
$S.OS per cow. During December 1908 they re-
tanned but of the 16 cows and received $1O1.27,
an average of SLIPS per cow-an increase OF
S317 EACH over the returns of the previous year.
Colorado cattleman takes the beef-producing
side of the question and puts it in this form:
what ought to do is to quit growing can
ners on the range. Half as many cattle, twice as
good as the kind growing, would
get us out of the hole" The Denver Field and
Farm in commenting this statement says:
"Pure-bred bulls, high-grade cows and plenty OF
feed is formula simple enough it is true, but
by means of it cattle can be made worth 81 to
$3.50 per cwt. more than the common, longlegged,
sm-beled, thick-hided kind so frequently FOUND
on our Western ranges"
The same principle applies to other lines OF
agriculture In commenting on the stimulus in
cited by the demonstration trains now at work
among the farm communities, the Oregonian says:
"The principal gain expected under the new sys-
tenn Of farming to be taught by the experts, is IN
making an produce two crops where only one
is now possible" The change OF system from
the single-crop, summer-fallow plan to that or
mixed farming with stock-growing as an impor-
tant branch is expected to double the income
from the farms of the Inland Empire.
Hon. James J. Hill has called attention to the
great increase of population that is inevitable in
this country ere 1850 That means corresponding
increase in the consumption of farm products the
supplies Of which must come from better methods
of production instead of from an extension OF
area as in the past The present consumption OF
milk in New York City is five times what 1t was
25 years ago. and this is but single item OF
food An Eastern professor declares that the
cost of living will be 80 per cent higher only
ten years from now. He may be mistaken, but
the demand will surely increase, and the time
is ripe for the adoption of more careful and pains
taking practice in all departments OF agriculture
In this work the sources of increase and means
of conservation of fertility must largely enter as
intimated by Hoard's Dairyman.