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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-04-08
GlQotber 'Gnvitatton!

rng your and poultry where always
prices ana BRING your money along where always
your moneys worth OF reliable merchandise. glad
yon always to SELL but buying
don want Come and see if havn't it. ! get for you
me right price have not paid less than eggs
25c io duck April and hope be able
up See oc coHeesplendid. The
where some OF best they
Ver chilled pows right. CutivaOrs plove
ao"s prices low Back bands collar pads, hanes all
me lowest Grass seeds garden seeds Potatoes Good line
men and boys How about these prices?
IeSt HOUR 10 and II ID bags
1919 line horse collars from SIS
'eH'F trace ChauS rom. ... 4oc to 81
Full cream. milk and cheese
quart enameIed kettle, slip aachment.25c.
tea pot worth 4oc foT.
hrst-ciass solid shank garden hoe worth
inch money wrench
Burlap stable blankets .......... E...... eoc
gallon galvanized oil .......
TN ....5cs
Pretty China mating yard
8 quart tin 1aring pals. =. ... $500. Ioc.
he best overals made per pair ........... o5c
These overalls warranted rip.
Hope to show you these very soon.
Yours for business
.. A. BROWN.
NORTH VlRGINh
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-04-08

APPOINTMENTS ON MATTHEWS
CIRCUIT.
March Ii. Salem, II A. M.
Bethel, 3 p. NJ.
"a 2I Central. Nj.
Salem. 8 p. Nj.
- - Is Bethel, IRA. Nj.
) Central. 3 p. NJ
APPOINTMENTS ON EAST MATH
81 EwS CIRCUIT.
Beulah II A.M.Ist and Sd Sur.
3 PM. I'd " 4th q
St. Paul'S II AM I'd" 4th g
3P. .Ist" Sd Z"
THURSDAY April, & 1000
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The revival which has been in
progress at Bethel since March
2S. is still going on. Deep inter-
est is being manifested. quite a
number of people have made a
profession of faith in Christ. The
pastor Rev. L. ]. Phaup. has
been doing the preaching and he
has had two ladies from Ports
mouth helping in the singing.
They have charmed the audience
by their sweet gospel singing.
Bethel is taking on new life and
the pastor is happy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
NOTns.

Senator J. w. Bailey of Texas, who is
afraid the automobile IL going to knock
the foundations from under this nation. "a
the proprietor Of a stock farm and a raiser
OF fine horses. fN0
The most brilliant feature OF the OPEN
ing of Parliament was the great CulInan
diamond worn on the breast of Queen
Alexandra. His majesty's opening speech
didn't begin to sparkle like this.
Approximately seventy men met a horrible
death by fire or drowning in the Chicago
water works crib and the coroner's jury
modestly recommends that an improved
method Of thawing dynamite be discovered.
Nicholas Schneider, proprietor OF a
Bloomfield On. - barber shop. had the
unusual experience Of shaving his brother,
Joseph Schneider, without recognising him
In the chair. The two had not met for
thirty-two years.
omahA's tax wagon scheme has been put
into action IN Chicago and is doing a lively
business among aereIicts. With great
unanimity and mud indignation tax shirk-
ers the hurry-up as 4 reflection
on their integrity. s.
The Short and ugly word" in sonorous
native tones. passed between two members
OF the Turkish Chamber of Deputies lately.
The Young Turks party Is absorbing ali
the kinks Of the trade OF rulers from alder
men 10 congressional solonsL
AS a rare tip on government ownership
It is worth noting that the Manitoba tele-
phone system, operated by the government,
netted a surplus Of l6s.O 900 during the first
year, justifying an immediate reduction Of
one-third In the present rates.
TIT sure sign OF a long extra session
for the revision Of the tariff Is Senator
Frye's action in notifying Maine friends
that he will not go fishing next summer
on account OF his anticipated attendance
at the coming session OF congress.
The Dill family, living near Pierceton.
Ind, is remarkable in that fourteen brothers
and sisters. all of the same parents, are
living and well. and none was born later
thai June IA. 1856. the combined ages being
1 .Olo years. Originally there were eighteen
children. three dying when young.
The legislature Of Illinois is called upon
to settle a problem which goes down
deep into the very roots OF society. The
maidens of that state want a distinctive
title, such as women have, 10 distinguish
bachelors from married men. as Miss
distinguishes the maid from Mrs" the
matFon. When this distinction Is made, a
sympathetic senator proposes 10 intrOduee
a bill making II a felony for a married
man TO pass himself off as a bachelor.
The women have been complaining that
from the standpoint OF status. all "Mr.'s''
look alike 20 an unsuspectinG and confidins
maidsu- Hence. they want them tagged
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22

for the training OF business men. The
entire tendency in foreign universities
is away from the general courses and
toward limiting work to specific de-
lpartments. The graduats OF a foreign
university, having been trained Tor a
specific profession. represents all that
there is there embraced in the con-
ception of a university education. while
in this country the college graduate
is by no means a professional man.
The European college graduate is al
most inevitably a professional man,
while the American college graduate
Is more apt to be found in railroad
work, at the head-or foot-of some
industrial OF commercial enterprise.
This is one of the handicaps to the
movement in this country for a higher
commercial education. The public has
come to look upon the educated man
as one who has had the advantages Of
the training found in a general college
course and II has not yet learned to
look kindly upon college study spe-
cially adapted to fitting young men
for commercial life. One result of
this condition is that too many young
men who desire to enter business life
are disposed to go direct to 1t from
the high schools. Both the colleges
and the students lose by this defect
in the educational system.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
FEpERAL GRApINa on GRAIN.

The senate's amendment to the agri-
cultural bill for the appointment of
expert graders of grain. when re-
quested by a fixed number of grain
growers, to be paid by the growers, is
a short but wholly inadequate step
toward the remedy of an evil against
which grain growers and dealers, par
ticnlarly in the west, have long COM
planned. These graders are to deter
mine grades and condition of grain
offered for sale and to fix satisfactory
standards In the local markets.
The proposition may be effective in
adjusting local differences and to that
extent furnish relief to the growers
who are too often at the mercy of
the buyers, but it comes far from
reaching the real source or complaint
and discrimination. Wheat shipped
from Nebraska and Dakota points un-
der a certain grading by local buyers
and millers Is often given an entirely
different rating at Buffalo, Chicago.
New York and other milling and ex-
port centers n the record shows that
the change Is invariably to the loss
Of the shipper. The change of grad
ting by these eastern dealers costs
many thousands annually to the grow
ers of the west and the real need is
for a system Of standards applied at
the point of origin and good at the
destination. The plan proposed msy
result in strengthening the claims OF
growers and western shippers to more
just recognition in the eastern mar
kets and to that extent will prove
beneficial
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
PLANT OF THE F1MTLY MAN,
Chicago News.

SAAl@D0 49,
No person with an ugly-looking gun
Has ever pushed the same beneath my
And impolitely robbed me OF my mon"
It's strange this never happened ! sup
But I've a wife and daughters. to say
nothing Of my sons,
And they often go right through me,
though they do not carry guns.
I am cleaned out more completely py thelf
Than SG sny wretchsd victim OF the vulgar
hold-up man
I never woke in a back alley yet
In consequence of somsthinS In my
This Fact I do not mention with regret, 4,
Rut there are worse calamitie6, I think.
I have had some awful knoekouts IN my
bills for coal and gas.
And the people who bzye robbed me I
1t is awful TO encounter the m~onopoiistic
They have beaten to a frazzie any com
mon hota-up man.
I've never had q little bag Of SAND
Descend with crushing force upon my
The methods now employed on nae are
bland.
They will bring me- eeEE and butter and
occasionally beef,
which ! find quito necessary, 40 there's
no hope OF relief.
There IL no use of complaining; ] must
do the best i can, r-r- sr-a-
But some RroceFs can Rtqa poiAfors to the
common hold-up man
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
MUNICIPAL HOME. RULE.

In his lecture here under the
auspices of the Omaha Real Estate
exchange, Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
secretary of the National Municipal
league, explained what municipal
home rule really means. He said that
1t meant the largest possible scope for
local self-government and that it
meant leaving it to the community to
provide for its own local affairs, sub
ject only TO the paramount authority
of the state in matters of law enforce
ment, sanitation and. sometimes, Of
police administration. Municipal home
rule, he explained further, does not
mean that any particular officer, or
class of officers, should be elected or
appointed, but rather that the people
of each community should be author
lied to decide for themselves upon the
manner or method of filling Offices
without being compelled to go to the
legislature for permission for every
change.
The definition of municipal home
rule given by MI. Woodruff unQues-
tionably conforms with the ideas that
prevail generally among those who
have given the best thought and study
to the problem OF city government.
The idea that home rule means
screens back in the saloons, beer on
Sunday. restoration of slot machine
gambling, a wide oper town, or
elective police commissioners, or all
Of them, is pure fiction, manufactured
for political capital and particular APP
plication by the candidate who hap
pens to be seeking office.
The kind of municipal home rule
which gives US real local self-govern-
ment will come. only when an end has
been made to biennial charter tinker
ing at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
THE NINE-Foor BED SHEET.
Cotton aud Manafacturers
Whoop for Nebraska Measure.
ChnrInEInn Ar.n.-.n A..I.. -

Cotton Growera and Maneeactarers
Whoop for Nebraska Measure.
Charleston News ana Courier.
AT last our interesting contemporary. tho
American Wool and Cotton Repeater Of
Boston. r. taking q more cheerful view of
the situation and discerns a ray Of hope
In Tire bill pending In the Nebraska legis.
lature requiring hotel proprietnrs 70 fur.
IRISH bed sheets nine feet lena. VAS the
textile and It's allied industriea,s remarks
our thrifty friend. furnish a liberal quota
OF customers for hotel proprtetors. ana a
standard f0s-inch sheeting would use up
more cotton, give more employment 10
mill workers. and benefit the growers OF
cotton. there IL no reason why the textile
industry should not heartily indorse such a
measure and agitate IN all states OF the
union for such a bed covering.
The point Of view OF our contemporary
is heavily laden with saCacions reasoning
and fragrant with suggestion besides. The
community OF interest In the nine-foot bed
sheet between the South Carolina farm.
ers' union and the South Carolina manu-
facturers' association is too obstouis to re-
qulre emphasis Of us and the fraternisa-
tion of the two orders should beslff at
once. before the session OF the general as
sernbiy shall adjourn. The manufacturers
and the farmers should move on tho state
hocse In a body and demand that the in
terests Of the two leading industries Of
South Carolina be given their rights. Mean
while It will not be disputed that the nine
foot bed sheet proposition has merits OF
Its own. or It would not have had the at
tention of the lawmakers Of Oklahoma and
Texas, as well as of the Sc OF the state OF
the Commoner.
II the bill should be introduced In the
South Carolina general assembly, we give
notice Of general amendments, among them
tie requirement for four-foot bath, towels
and thirty-inch towels for minor and see-~
ondary ablutions. The hotels also .shoule
be forbidden to allow the roll towel that
hangs behind the door IN thu laSatery to
remain on duty longer than a sixty-hour
week.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
FOR A SUMNER CAPITAL.

We doubt IL much enthusiasm in
congress or out will be aroused over
the bill offered by Mr.. Lands Of In
diana for the construction Of q ''Coun-
try White House. at West Point for
use as the summer home and business
office of the president.
The president will probably be
among the first to oppose such a prop
o%sition. Washington is unbearable In
the summer. to those who can afford
to get away during the heated term,
but 1t would mean little to the presi-
dent simply to transfer the deadly
grind of routine official business from
the Potomac to the Hudson. 1t would
mean that the ~offieeseekers and others
would go to West Point instead OF to
Washington at a time when the presi-
dent, being entirely human, would be
trying to get away from the cares of
office and to find a little recreation
In the enjoyment Of private life, or
an approach to 1t. OF course, there
is always a mass of official business
that must have the presidents atten-
ton, but he can better attend to this
In a summer home of his W seeking,
where he q put up the mo Tres
passing" sign and meet only those
whose business with him is public and
pressing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
The Norfolk News has unoova-sd

The Norfolk News has uncovered a
deep plot by prominent Nebraska DEM
ocrats, including Governor Shallen-
berger and Congressman Hitchcock"
TO retire Bryan from leadership, be
lieving he should withdraw after
everything has been sacrificed for him
by Nebraska democrats after sixteen
years" With Shallenberger in the
governors chair and Hitchcock draw
ing congressman's pay. while Bryan is
a high private, 1t is hard to tell who
has been sacrificed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
0 RAsHMGroN.

In these days Of political hysteria,
attendeDt On the birth Of new national
IDEAS n marking a transition period
when none but the stanchest patriots
see new ideals finally succeeding over
reaction, public men may well draw
inspiration from the calm, heroic
figure that on the battlefield and in
the council chamber led the forces
which made political liberty more than
a philosophers dream.
Of each age is the embodiment of the
strivings Of the period, that he crystal
Lies and harmonizes the various CON
flicting thoughts and by his genius
the desires of the majority. Many
leaders there have been who, lacking
the stamina to Withstand the stress of
the times have degenerated into dema-
gogues and the nation has suffered.
He is the real builder of nations who
not only hears the voices of his age
but who is not stampeded by its vol
ume, who critically and impartially
judges which of these voices sounds
the true note, who has the courage to
follow the almost resistless murmur
when II comedies with the fruits of re-
Election in the closet, and who has the
greatest courage to resist their impor-
tunities when passion and false senti-
ment furnish their well spring.
Had Moses listened to the COM
plants of the children Of Israel wan
dering in the wilderness. there had
been no Jewish nation, no conception
of Jehovah, no ten commandments.
Many contend that had Cromwell been
q less absolute dictator there would
have been no restoration. Had he
looked less lovingly on the crown
which, for political reasons, he must
perforce refuse, there had been no
monk TO reopen negotiations with the
tyrant Stuart family. History. in its
resistless e~volution, might have accom-
plished the anne result. but 1t would
have been long delayed.
George Washington was offered a
crown. but within him the fires of
patriotism had burned away the dross
OF selfish advantage. He stood upon
a pinnacle from which he .beheld the
puny glory attached to man-made
honors and knew what few have yet
learned, that the welfare of the nan
spells the happiness Of all. He an
ticipated many OF the lessons taught
today. His thought was far in adj
vance OF his time and yet the spirit
OF his own age. His faults, Judged
by contemporary standards, were
many and great. He was austere and
cold and lacked the general open
demeanor which characterizes the sue
cessful politician. He loved to hedge
himself about with the dignity that
doth stamp a king and yet this very
quality served to protect him and the
nation from the demagoguery which
was as rampant in those days as In
these. Through all the pages of his
tory a few names will sstill remain
and among these. not the least shall be
that Of George Washington, an in
SEPARATION to the future, as he is to
the past, as he was to his own age
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
STEERS AS FINISHED PRODUCT.
New England Sentiment on the Free
Hide Proposition.

Boston transcript
II is amusing to find the western advo-
Gates OF the retention OF the duty on hides
voieing the spirit Of nationality and re-
buking New England for putting forth q
sectional" demand liable to disturb the
sweet and holy harmony in which tariffs
are eoncOcted. Among those who tand
forth as champions OF the western farmer,
the humble tiller OF the soil, the owner Of
a single COW, perhaps, against the aggres-
sions Of the New England manufacturers,
are Senators Carter, Warren, Smoot. Nixon.
Hepburn and Dick; and Representatives
Campbell of Kansas, McLachlan OF Cali
fornia. Rodenberg OF Illinois. Hull and
Smith Of Iowa and Kennedy Of Ohio. They
are, or represent themselves to be. solely
concerned for the safety Of the western
farmer. Some of them indeed are western
farmers themselves. Senator Warren being
particularly noteworthy for his interest In
land, ana we all know that land is the
basis OF agriculture.
Representative Campbell Of Kansas, be-
sides maintaining that the soil is a raw
material" interjects a new definition into
the terminoloey OF political conomy by in
sistinE that . steer Is "a finished product"
and therefore as much entitled 10 the pro-
lection our fiscal policy affords as the fin
ished product ''of any manufacturer in the
country" Mr.. Campbell does not develop
his reasoning so fully as its novelty makes
desirable. but 1t may be inferred that the
soil being admitted to be raw material.
whatever draws from Il nutriment essential
to existence is a finished product. ergo a
steer is a finished product. and its hide
partakes OF the quality. h applies to
one animal applies to another, but will Mr..
Campbell assert that a hen 10 a finished
produetf
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
HIeHER COMMERCIAL 20 } AT1oN

htoahH ED
The adoption by various business
organizations throughout the country
Of resolutions endorsing the plan of
the State department at Washington
for giving its consnls and consular
agents a special course of training In
commercial work directs attention to
q growing demand everywhere for
some system of definite commercial
education. Some effort is being made
to connect the new movement for
commercial education with the univer-
stiles and several American educa-
tional institutions have taken steps in
that direction by the establishment of
special commercial courses, Dart
mouth and Harvard have already es-
tablished such departments. although
that at Dartmouth Is more particularly
devoted to the training Of teachers for
future work In commercial schools
Germany, which has long been the
leader In educating its consuIs and
business representatives. has recently
established commercial schools under
the auspices of the Chambers of Com
meres In Berlin. Zurich, Frankfort and
other centers, with the results that
these schools have become over
crowded. These schools are OF high
grades. some claiming even q univer-
sity title. and their purpose is solely
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
RevoIrtionirinE na1tie..

II will be necessary for the poets OF the
future to revise imagery as they describe
the conflicts Of arms. Furious Frank ana
fiery Hun no longer struggle under a sui
phurous canopy. The lines Of Tennyson In
celebration Of the exploit of the Light
Brigade will become archaic. Soldiers on
the eve of battle will not continue to dance
until the roll Of distant guns summon them
from their partners. The battlefield during
the most tremendous grapple may be as
smiling as a plain Of Provence, and the
song of birds may he heard as missiles
weighing a ton are hurled through the air.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
A NaticnaI libel Ca.s.
Springfield Republican.

The indictment Tor libel by the grand
jury Of the District OF Columbia against
the New York World and the indianapolis
News, under the libel avs which the dis
trict Inherited over 100 years ago from
eishteen-eentury Maryland. brings those
journals face TO face with the same issue
OF the freedom Of the press which Charles
A. Dannaso successfully meta dozen or
fifteen years 8 Judge Brown Of the
United States court decided that Mr..
Dana OF the New York Sun could not be
hailed to Washington and there tried for
libel under the district libel laws; and II
is TO be hoped that the World and the
News will fight extradition today for the
reasons which were expounded In so mas
terly a style by Ellhu Root In defending
Mr.. Dana on the former Occasio
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22

A st. Louis man seeks a divorce be-
cause he has been compelled to live
up to rules framed by his wife. He
declares that he has been forced to
go to bed when the gong rang at Q
p. m. and has been allowed but one
bath a week, while the household pup
always got two. The fact that he has
stood for that regime for a quarter
OF a century indicates that IL there
is n alimony in the Ease his wife
will have to pay It.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22
child Rartsred Cor pebt.
Boston Herald.

1t does not require a Daniel come to
Judgment to decide that a child cannot
be bartered for debt. yet the decree OF
Justice Greenbaum OF the supreme court
of New York to that effect is worth
noting by persons who may think of sup
plying by adoption a want of their house
hold circle. The child in question was
boarded by the parents, who were unable
to pay the board bill. 1t was advertised
for adoption by the creditor, and was
actually sold for $50 to a charitable child
less couple who acted in good faith and
parted with the little one with regret.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22

The Omaha Real Estate exchange
should take the hint and prosecute a
campaign against the billboards to a
inish. We fear. however. hat any
anti-billboard campaign would nnd
some OF the real estate men lined up
in defense Of the billboard nuisance
because they derive q small revenAA
for contributing 70 this disnguring OF
the city,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22

Briefly, the. arrangements provide for the
ncrring escort of the president from the
White House to the capitol at 10 o'clock
by the veteran grand division; the exercises
at the capitol, on a stand accommodating
1000 persons, concluding with the admins
tration of the oath Of office to the presi-
dent and his address; the assembly Of the
military and grand division In the streets
south and southeast OF the civic grand
division in the streets west and northwest
of the capitol; the afternoon escort Of the
president by the military and civic grand
divisions from the capitol to the White
House at the conclusion Of his inaugural
address, at about f:2o o'clock: review OF
the military and civic grand divisions by
the president from his stand In the court
Of honor In front OF the white House. from
about 3 to 8 in the afternoon, and the dis
niissal of the parade; the display Of fire.
works from 1880 to 0 o'clock.
In the military division there will be
about 5000. sailors and marines from the
battieship fleet, fresh from Its cruise around
the world. the famous Philippine con-
stabuiarly band, the midshipmen and cadets
from the academies at Annapolis ana West
Point.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-22

Walter Wellman has discovered that
Mr.. Knox may decline the appoint
ment to be secretary of state in MIR.
Taft's cabinet. WeIlman is almost as
successful in discovering facts that
aren't SO as he is in discovering the
north pole.