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The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

A woman who creates and sustains
a home. and under whose hands chill.
dren grow up to be strong and pure
men and women, is creator second
only to God.-Helen Hunt jackson.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24
The Strategic Point

General. we are outgeneraled."
"Caramba! But how is that?"
1.-THE other side has beaten us to
the cable Office"
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

Worth Its Weight In Gold.
PETTIT'S EYE SALVE strengthens old
eyes, tonic for eye strain, weak, watery eyes
Druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children tcethng, softens the gums, reduces In
ANIMATION aays pain, cures wind coU. 25c bottle.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

DO NOT ACCEPT a SUBSTITUTE
when you want Perry Dayis Painkillcr, as nothing
Is good for rheumatism, neuralgia and similar
troubles. 20 years In constant 25c, 35o and Soc
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

OF course it was an old bachelor
who said that love was Matched in IN
incubator and raised In an insane asy-
lum.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

Did anybody ever ask the weeping
willow why it does it?
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

DR.. Picrccs Pleasant Pellets regulate and nvie.
prutc stomach, liver and bowels. SuSar-conted
tiny grinulcs, easy TO take as candy.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

married man can always get n lit
tie off his sentence for bad behavior
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24
Her Wardrobe.

Winter wears a coat of ice,
AS we know,
Under which she sports a nice
Waste of snow.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

Don't worry. and you'll have nothing
to worry you.
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24

Two days later Marjorie Hollis was
In Washington; and on the morning of
The Springfield herald., 1909-12-24
Anticipating the Modes.

Anticipating the Modes.
"This is what others are wearing,
madame"
But don't want to wear what 9TH
ers are wearing. Show me the style
after next"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
Tsnnyson.s First Poems.

The wind came sweeping through the
garden OF an old lincolnshire rectory
one morning I'm the beginning or last
century and blew upon a child OF Ave
years old. who opened his arms to the
blast and let II carry him along. cry
ing as he Travelled IL hear voice
that's calling In the wind" That was
Tennyson's first. line or poetry. The
first poem he ever composed was writ
ten upon slate one Sunday morning
at Louth. The subject. set him by his
brother Charles. was Flowers" and
little Alfred covered his slate with
blank verse AFTER the model or Thom9
sons Seasons His next attempt was
an elegy upon his grandmother. who
had just died. written at the request
OF his grandfather. When It was writ
ten the old man put 10 shillings Into
the boys hand and said. 'srhere. that
Is the first money you have ever earn
ed by your poetry, and. take my word
for 1t. 1t will be the last."-Westmin-
ster Gazette.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
PIPE RACK.

gift that an ingenious woman who Is
clever with carpenters tools can make.
This present Is a novel pipe rack. To
from carpenter-two eighteen inches
long by six inches wide and two eight
cen inches long by five inches wide
In one Of the latter pieces get a car
penter to bore four holes three-eighths
OF an inch in diameter and running
lengthwise In the board. The two end
holes are four inches from the ends OF
the board, and all OF the holes are two
and half inches apart. The two
larger boards are Joined together by
means OF braces. which screw ON the
backs with very small screws. Five
inches from the top OF the longer side
Is fastened the board with the holes In
II, 80 that 1t makes q shelf on the first
piece. Then. FIVE inches below this, Is
fastened the other board In the same
manner as the firstly means Of
screws from the back. The rack Is fin
ished as far as the carpentering goes.
The upper shelf is for the pipes, the
holes being made for them to rest In.
while the lower shelf Is for tobacco
boxes, matches. etc,
The next thing Is to stain 1t the pop
ular mission color. Then get screw
eyes and put them on the back. and
through these put picture wire to hang
1t by. The hardest thing is to print
above the first shelf. "a Mans Best
Friend" Paint the letters with gold
paint. which sets or the dark color OF
the wood and gives the rack a finished,
decorative appearance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE.

Schedule in effect Saturday, May 18th. bua
tn e. trips weekly between Baltimore ana
| Washington. anu
lie We Bal imo'e. Pier g. Light streot
vea,oer per mittirg ats p. N , every Monday
| seunesuay ana Saturday. for the following
| 'iVer landings. Alexandria and Washinvton.
| haulmore y. IN Mil ers Ero lmes Porto
be 10. Grasons. CoRn a. m. Bundicks Lakes
| ~ainut Point, Cowsrts. Levi eta KInsale
Louge. Mundv Point &c mt A. Piney Point m
=. IN Leonardtown 10 noon Abells Cobrums
Stotes Bushwood. Lancaster ID m River
Toe liverpool Point. Gly mont, Alexandria.
stops only on signal
Leave warrington. ID C.. foot of Seventh
s,,reSt. weather ernittiuR. at u. m everv
noniuay. w edn' sday and saturday. for the fol-
lowing river landings and Btitimore:
washington. Alexandria 4:45 d. NJ Ciymont
Liverpool Point. Rivers d :. Bush rood Ian
CASTER, CObrums Stone Leouardtown 40 m
Aoclls. Piney Point. sCintra Lodge no n m
mundy Point. Kinsale IL noon Coau Ih,n-
oicks LAT es. alnut Point. [, owarts Lewis
y IA Millets 4 m rasDns 8 u. IN. Broomes
lotto bello y. m. Baltimore
stop only on signal
ArrivinR In Ba timore carly wedoesdav r.,
nd Monday mornings
Freight received i'm Baltimore on sailiny
days until p. IN.
This timetable shows the time Mt which
stcahers may be expected TO arrive at AMI
depart from the several wharves but their
arrivals or departure at the times stated ia NOT
guaranteed nor does the Company hold itself
Responsible Tor any delay or any consequences
arising theI efrom.
STEPHENSON * pRO., Agt. Washington
nha hDoN ana CIR MES. Asts..Alexandria.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
Heart toHeart
Talks.
THE ESKIMOS.
By EDWIN A. NYR.

IhE kSkkMOS.
Now that the way has been biazed ~
will hereafter be comparatively easy
matter to reach the pole. And civili-
cation, stopped for time by the arc
tic circle, will march northward
But the Eskimo does not want our
civilization. He is instinctively afraid
lest 1t may mean the extinction OF his
race
I'VE do not want your way OF liv-
ing,r says the Eskimo to the explorer
missionary 1T is perhaps good for
you. We are content as It is. Make
us accept your civilization and we will
all perish"
Whereat We wonder.
These. primitive people are so hospi-
table and kind hearted and they have
such hard lines! We long to make
their harsh and forbidding lives easier
and, as we think, happier.
But the Eskimo sits beside his igloo,
that ice hut with just two crude arti-
cles OF furniture, the wide family
sleeping bench and the big oil lamp
stove, and listens to the tribal rumor
OF the COluluS VI tue Wullc ulhh Win
great fear in his heart.
Well, the little brown men" that
stood by Cook and Peary as they have
stood by all the arctic explorers In
their search for the summit OF the
world are entitled to a lions share OF
the honors that have been won. and
their wishes ought to be respected by
the world.
They are right about 1t.
Our civilization would ruin them, as
1t has ruined the aborigines OF Amer
lea. Living I'm the bleak barrens OF
the northland, the Eskimo through
centuries of struggle has adopted the
only mode OF living that makes his ex-
istence possible.
And perhaps, after all, we have not
so very much to offer him. His reli-
gion may be a crude sort but practi-
cally 1t is the essence OF Christianity.
There are no pauper Eskimos. No
one is rich, and no one Is poor. All
things are in common. The wrecked
mariner is welcome to what they have
so long as he chooses to stay.
do some people in your land starve
and shiver while others eat and are
warmly clad?" asked a shocked Eski-
mo Of an explorer who was surprised
at their great kindness. The explorer
was compelled to reply that ''some
do" sse-
why, them" said the native. 10 you
call yourselves civilized?"
The explorer found It hard to an
swer. Can you?
why do you ask us to accept your
civilizationT' continued the Eskimo.
'That,never happens here. II one goes
hungry we are all hungry. II one eats
we all eat. why should some starve?''
DO not pity the poor frozen people,
too much. They like their country. 1t
is to them the center OF the earth. In
their way they are happy and content.
Why disturb them?
The Eskimo only asks to be let alone.
And. alas for him, that is the very
thing the civilized world will not do.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
JOHN A. JOHNSON.
lie WAS of the LINCOLN type

He WAS OF the Lincoln type.
Much has been written about the
late Governor John A. Johnson OF Min
nesota, but not too much. because
Here vas man whose entire ca
reer as boy and man s.. Y can be
held up as a stimulus and al inspira-
ton to American youth. His was not
mere money success.
Let us quit holding up as examples
mere moneycrats-little less than bust
ness brigands. Let US ask OF the would
be patterns. How did you succeed?
The life OF the lamented johnson
answers that he won upward fairly
and without guile.
Physically he was much like Lincoln
"A face with n network OF lines, put
there early by the vicissitudes OF hun
ger. deprivation and shame. Like Lin
coin. he was tall-tall enough TO be
above the Tags of political life. And.
like Lincoln. he was ungainly and
walked with sort OF awkward sham
BILE.
And there were in the story OF the
boy Johnson all the hardships and sor-
did surroundings of the young Lin
coin.
Here was n boy whose father was
the town drunkard. Deserted by the
husband. his mother took IN washing.
and John went after these washings
and delivered them In his little red
wagon. At thirteen years OF age he
left school and went to work to help
support the family.
In these few sentences Is condensed
n world OF poverty and lack.
Nevertheless. at the age OF fifteen he
made the mother sell her washtubs.
and at twenty-three he was the editor
and half owner OF n leading weekly
newspaper.
Then this youthful editor. the son
OF Gustav and Caroline Johnson. Swed-
Ish immigrants. went steadily up In
the esteem OF the people. Hardship
and privation. disgrace and worry. had
made OF him an honest. sincere. manly
man.
Nominated for governor. his oppo-
nent spread the story that his father
had died In the poorhouse. which he
md. a victim OF alcoholic mania.
Like Lincoln when Douglas tainted
him with his early obscurity. Johnson
made no answer. But the full story
came out. and IL elected johnson.
Becoming governor. he took up ev-
cry question presented to him. careful
~ figured out what was the right thing
to do and did it. He was careful. hon.
est. firm.
That Is why In state strongly op-
posed to him he was twice reelected.
No man ever got nearer the hearts of
the Minnesota people.
Young man, you can safely initiate
the career Of this honest man.
IL you are poor and obscure, so was
he. Nor was he a brilliant man" BE.
was better-a righteous man. All his
life he simply did the best he knew
how. And the people had the utmost
confidence In him. which was his chief
political asset.
You can emulate the life OF John A
Johnson and not go wrong very far.
He was the Lincoln kind.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
PLAYING THE STOCKS.
He Who Has knowledge and He Wine
CANDLES on Gossip,

He Who Has knowledge and He Who
CANDLES on Gossip.
or the many popular delusions touch
Ing Wall street and Its people none Is
more persistent or more dangerous to
the outsider than the belief that from
nothing great permanent fortunes have
been made by shrewd and lucky spec
ulation In prices. II isn't true. We
dinerentiate here between speculation
In prices only and the kind OF legiti-
mate speculation which seeks TO antici-
pate great economic changes I.egiti-
mate speculation has it's translation
into prices. too. but II takes, first. origi-
nal capital In SOM reasonable proper
ton to the profits expected and. Sec
ondly. the treatment OF exceptional
opportunity with correct Imagination.
It's risks at best are very large. Among
our Wall street acqualntances are sew
eral hard beaded men who succeed In
making $4,000 n year by speculation
Not one of them has a capital OF less
than S250.0O0. They make it earn
about 10 per cent.
Take Blank. one Of the ablest specu-
million dollars during the past FIVE
years. Very handsome return. you
say Let US look at Blank. he was
the chief accountant OF one OF the big
railway systems when an uncle. dying.
left him $4,000. Mind YOU. be was an
expert railway statlstician and an ex-
ceptionally able young man to boot.
He knew his own road like book. as
well as some other things that only the
directors were awane OF. The stock OF
the system looked cheap TO him. and
he used his $4,000 to margin 1000
shares. A bull market was beginning.
| and within month or two Blanks
capital had increased to 100000. He
was content with a ten point rise.
though the stock advanced ten poifts
more. That was the first Of Blanks
deals. Twelve months later he won
again. He thought that the stock OF
| a certain western system was selling
below It's value and set about an in
yestigation To find the facts. He hired
6rst class engines. and a retired traf-
&c manager 10 travel from one end OF
that railroad TO the other. and he him
self analysed the accounts. When all
the reports were In II seemed to him
that the system was earning enough
money to justify am increase OF It's
dividend. and he plunged once more
He waited six months for his point
this time. and his investigation had
cost him $4,000. he made $4,000
Good interest. you say. but think of
Blanks special equipment for the
game and the trouble he, took to be
right. You. Mr.. Thinmarglnist.. after
reading the Wall street gossip In your
daily paper. adventure your thousand
or two thousand dollars and expect to
double your money Mark the differ
ence.-John Parr In Everybody's Mag
azine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05

One of the most short lived clubs
ever formed was the Club des I.alde
urs-ciub for ugly women -organized
by the Princess Pauline Metternich.
who was an elegant woman. but 10
ugly that she used to cali herself IA
while monkey" Perhaps she felt lone
some. Anyhow. she tried to gather
some OF the other women she knew
who were not blessed with good looks
into a club. But the club proved un-
popular and died natural death. The
princess got back at her women ac-
quainiances by remrking that II there
were any candor In them her club
would be overrrowdsd.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
THEIR REAL WELCOME.

The Oscar ii. loomed up through the
morning haze In New York harbor as
q smart tug. gay with bunting and
flags. approached 1t.
And woman's voice cried out:
FIRED, oh. Fredw
And MS he heard the cry OF his mate
long separated by waste OF Icy wa
ters and deprivation and months Of
wrung the hands OF the man nearest
him and hastily dropped down the
ships ladder
The woman In the gray coat and
picture hat. with the two little daugh-
tiers whom the explorer father had not
seen for two years. could scarcely
wait
The passengers on the Oscar looked
down on the tender reunion aud cheer
ed. And then the family group dis
appeared into the tihy cabin or the
tug, and there the full greeting took
place between the husband who had
gone to the top Of the world aud the
wife whose harder part IL was TO walt
Later DR.. Cook appeared on the up
per deck OF the tug with his wife by
S~0~t hOt0Ah6 AZ tue
girl who was baby when he left for
the north. Again the Passengers OF
the Oscar applauded. and the happy
Mrs Cook waved an American dag.
That Is one picture OF a homecom-
sing. And here is another:
The background OF this picture Is
the harber OF Sydney, N. S. Com
mander Peary. In the uniform Of
United States lieutenant, stood on the
upper deck OF the Roosevelt. AS he
caught sight of his wife and daughter
ON the forward deck OF the Sheeleh he
doffed his white cap In recognition.
Marie. the sixteen-year-old daughter.
was the. first to climb the black side
OF the arctic ship and was caught up
into the arms of her father. He said
not word as he pressed her fore
head to his lips.
Il haven't the slightest idea or what
! said to dad" Marie said afterward.
II was just In daze from beginning
to end"
From the daughter Commander Pea
~ turned to his wife as she stepped
on deck. She quietly wept as she
was infolded In his arms. Said the
wife:
You will not leave me so long
again, will you. Bert?"
Aren't these two beautiful. homely.
lheartful pictures? And are not these
welcomes OF wives and babes the real
reward OF the two brave explorers?
And did not these welcomes pay for
all the hardships Of the arctic Jour
neys?
Besides these welcomes, the ban
quets and the formal receptions and
the plaudits and the cheering are as
nothing
Now. indeed. were they coming
homei
Days of controversy, Of Indignation,
of misunderstanding. of disputed
claims, Of heartburnings-these things
unfortunately are theirs. but
Nothing. nothing, can rob these he
roic Americans of the exquisite heart
throbs that have come to them when
their own. their own. welcomed them
back to Gods country again. for
The bravest are the tenderest;
The loving are the daring.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05

ice and to provide food and provisions
the warmest. the food OF proper kind
and the instruments for observation
adapted TO northern ATTITUDES. Moth.
ing was left to chance.
And when IL came to the dash itself
the right sort CT sledges and dogs and
portable shelters OF silk must be rrs,
vided
The explorers had to photograph the
future. as 1t were. and provide for II.
And In the last stages OF the terrible
hike everything except the absoiutel~
necessary must be left behind. IL re-
solved itself into a test for the sur
vfval OF the fittest. both men and dogs.
They stripped themselves as an ath-
iete strips himself for the final dash.
Well. every young man must find his
north pole.
What I mean is every young man
has something In view that he wants
as badly as Cook and Peary wanted to
hnd the pole.
And II he gets what he wants he
must so after 1t. and inteiligently.
Like Cook and Peary. II he Is to sue
coed he must prepare a long way
ahead. else when Il comes TO the dash
he win have to turn back before be
gets TO the ninetieth degree
Health Is the very first considcra-
ton. Other things being equal. the
man with the best physique will win
out. And a good physique is not built
up by late hours and dissipation.
And the next important preparation
is education OF head and hand and
heart. A sharpened brain. a deft hand
and good morals are all needed In
your search For the pole.
There is i~e In the way. young man,
and wide seas aud bitter winds. You
will often lose your way. and you
must sometimes stop and take obServa-
lions TO know where you are.
And there are others trying to find
your pole-bosts OF them,
Prepare yourself thoroughly Take
plenty Of time. Time lost In prepare
ton Is gained In the outcome. And
when Ii comes TO the dash strip your
self OF all impediments and
Get there first,
II you are properly equipped to
''go TO it"-why. one by one the other
fellows will drop back before they
reach the eighty-seventh degree north
latitude. and
You are at the pole.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
DREAM INSPIRATION.
intellectual Achievements Born Of
Visions In Sleep.

intellectual Achievements Born Of
Visions In Sleep.
Ii Is well known. says Fl. Addington
Bruce In Success Magazine. that
dreams have stimulated men to re-
markabie intellectual achievements
and have even supplied the material
for these achievements. Thus Cole
ridge composed "Kublai Khan" in a
dream. Tartini got his Devils So
nata'' from dream I'm which the devil
appeared and challenged him to mu-
steal competition. II was a dream that
gave Voltalre the first canto OF his
"Henriade." and Dante's "Divina Com
media" Is likewise said TO have been
inspired by dream.
Many noveiists on their own admis-
sion have obtained the plots for some
OF their hest works from materials
provided In dreams. A particularly
impressive instance Ia that OF Robert
Louis Stevenson. whose Chapter on
Dreams" In his book Across the
Plains" should be read by all VINO
would learn what dreams can do for
man intellectually. The solution Of
baffiing mathematical problems. the
IDEAS necessary to complete some In
venfinn. have heen supplied hy dream s
Occasionally the dreamer has heen
known Ia rise in his steep and lot
down the Information thus acquired.
In such cases he usual, forcets aIl
about the helpful dream ard avn nwak-
Ing IN greatly surprised at finding the
record he has made of IL. which shows
that-as with the visions so patiently
influencing h"aiih-il Is possible for
dreams tn aid a man IN an intellectual
way without his being cons. iouSly
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05

When wife or daughter makes a to-
bacco pouch for the pater he's always
delighted. A pretty pouch in rich
brown or dark green. lined with a
maroon silk, would be attractive when
the edges are pinked and a draw
string OF heavy silk with long tassels
run In near the top. It's not the kid,
the lining or the cord that makes these
bags so unusual. for without the mon
ogram or crest done In gilt thread or
I'm bright colored silks the pouches,
aside from being handmade, would be
quite the same as those bought In the
shops. But with an attractive emblem
or two or three initials prettily en-
brOidered In one corner the pouches
are presents any man, no matter how
surfeited with gifts. would be glad to
receive at Christmas.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-11-05
MOORISH SOLDIERS.
THEW Methods In Battle and Thei
System of Signals.

THEW Methods In Battle and Their
System OF Signals.
AT fghtin,: Oh hvrseba the Moor,
are 40, pts snd -szrenleiy mobile. But
they are incorrigibly lazy and seldom
tadalge In night attack. When they
attack m force the horsennru usually
give bft TO the foot soldiers who ac-
company them or allow them to run
alongside aud bold on to n stirrup iron.
The mounted men then make a charge.
wheel round and retire aud make way
for the footrnen. who era WI along the
ground, almost Invisible, and who rise
10 the attack IL they come within strik-
lug distance OF the enemy. As u rule.
the Rifiiaus prefer to lure detached
parties into an ambush or vefile and
thus infiict heavy loss upon them. The
mounted men seldom dismount TO Dire.
and their firing. being from the sad
die. Is very Inaccurate. Should the ad-
vance OF the white troops be slow or
hesitating the Moors effect u bold
combination between horsemen and
footmen and generally succeed In in
ficting heavy losses on their enemy.
The prime tactics Of the Moors are to
delay the advance OF an enemy as
much as possible by mounted rife Dire
until they can discern its extent and
direction and subsequently to try en-
yeloping the advancing force. The
tribes also indulge 10 sniping. but not
to very great extent. and they also
fight individually. They do not neglect
opportunities for stratagem and cen
effect some very clever ruses. They
are also guilty OF abusing the services
OF the white flag In action.
The Moorish Intelligence system is
an excellent one, and the tribes are
seldom without information regarding
the movements OF an enemy. They
have also an excellent system OF sig
mailing at night by means OF small fires
dotted about the hills and ravines.
which are obscured and revealed In
accordance with an ingenious code OF
signals known to themselves.-Cb Chicago
News