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are they so contented nor SO healthy
as when given the freedom Of a five
or ten acre plot over which to play
and feed
Science has long since taught us
that grass and root crops must be
grown. II soil fertility is to be main
tanned. In the end all profits must
come from the soil whether It's prod
ucts are marketed in the mineral.
vegetable, or animal form. and to keep
his land yielding large and increas-
ing crops annually should be every
farmers first business. How better
can he subserve this end than by
growing grass crops to improve the
physical condition and give humus to
the soil, and feeding them to sheep
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that will not alone make good use OF
them. but will likewise help to i'm.
prove fertility by scattering their ma
nure about the fields where 1t Is need.
ed. and by eating up the noxious
weeds that sap the life Of the crops? ?
We should have fewer run down and
weed overgrown crops to-day II pas.
ture crops had been grown. and sheep
kept to eat them down.
For the sake OF saving a few dol
lars In fence. many farmers use the
same piece OF land from month tc
month and from year to year. for pas
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SHEEP AND PASTURES
ARE CLOSELY ALLIED
Latter " Absolutely Necessary for Successful Raising
OF Formsr.-NumerOus Crops
Grown.

PASTURES and successful sheep rails
ing are so closely allied that It may
almost be said the one can not exist
In the absence OF the other. Certainly
II Is true that sheep are not being
grown as economically and advantage
ousiy AZ they can be nor are
the maximum benefits to the
SOIL being realized. unless pastures
arc provided to furnish feed for the
sheep from early spring until late fall.
The man who is seeking the very
cheapest sort OF feed for his sheep
hnds II In pastures. writes ID. A. Gaum.
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Special Round Trip Homeseekers'
Rates to New Mexico and Tesaa.

On the first and third Tuesdays Of
zach month. during the entire year.
the Colorado g. Southern Railway will
sell round trip Homeseekers' tickets
to great many points in New Mexico
and Texas at one fare plus $500 for
the round trip. Final limit twenty-five
days. allowing liberal stopover prlvil-
eges. For detailed Information. rates.
etc. call on the Colorado & Southern
agent. or address T. f. Fisher. General
Passenger hgcnt. Denver. Colorado.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30

A good article deserves an attrac
paraffin paper. Usually the home but.
ter tubs should be nicely lined with
pariffin paper. Usually the home but
ter maker can sell his product to bet
ter advantage in pound cakes.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30
Halted the Bottle.

An officer. at a state camp. decided
to see for himself how his sentriss
were doing their duty. He was some
what surprised at overhearing the
following:
Halt! Who goes there?"
"Friend-with a bottle"
Pass. friend. Halt. bottle!"-Ev.
erybody's Magazine.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30

over one another. squealing for their
breakfast-the old SOW wants to be
milked. They push under the creep.
the SOW throws herself upon her side
and the little fellows commence bust.
ness. but they have to give it up in
about two minutes. They are already
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Not Exactly a podo,

Teacher-Bessie. name one bird
that is now extinct.
Little Bessie-Dick.
Teacher-Dick? What sort Of q bird
is that?
Little Bessie-Our canary. The cat
sxtincted him.-The Presbyterian.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30

The farmers Of Kansas plant 9.oOo.-
900 bushels OF wheat every year, from
which they harvest about 74,0OO,000
bushels, most Of which is ground into
flour in the home mills.
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Tho Money safe.

Needy Client-If lose my case.
don't see how you are to be paid"
Lawyer-Oh. don't worry about that.
my dear sir. The lawyer on the other
side IL my partner.-New York Week.
~.
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full from the trough and from the al
falfa and have to suspend operations
owing to the lack Of capacity.
II this plan is followed in week
or 10 days the SOW will have dried
completely up and the pigs will have
been weaned without either of them
knowing that any change has taken
place.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30

OF themselves. and some others take
antifat.
The Ordway new era., 1909-07-30

A man has NO business with religion
II he Doesn't use It In his business.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
GOD PITY THE MAN.

We commend legitimate competition
and laudable rivalry in all n.en; but this
spirit of jealousy and half-hearted
desire, it seems to be. that this one or
that one of our neighbors shall not sue
ceed in his projects and efforts unless
this one or that one is to share in the
pie" is a dangerous, selfish and
diabolical spirit and one to be condemn
ed. 1t is the spirit of selfishness and
covetousness. 1t is a menace to our
local growth and development. No man
liveth to himself is the wise teaching of
Holy Writ, Men are wear and fallible
creatures and they need the wise counsel
and sincere and honest assistance of
their fellow men; help your neighbor to
succeed and you bless yourself. God
pity the man who cannot see beyond the
circle of his own personal welfare and
God pity the man whoswould try to pull
his neighbor down, or try to frustrate
him in making a success of his honest
and legitimate endeavors. If a man
has noble and praiseworthy spirit
within him he will wish for the success
of his neighbor even If he should fail in
his own undertakings. NORTHAMPTON
Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
SOME THINGS ABOUT DROWNING.

Deaths from drowning seem so com
mon as to excite little comment
outside the neighborhood in which
they occur. Statistics show that over
three thousand deaths from drowning
have occurred up to August 9th of this
year in this country. most of these be-
ing children. During July of this year
95l drownings occurred-almost a thous.
and fatalities in one month, There are
few girls and women who are not abso-
lutely helpless when they find them.
selves in water over their heads. and
their fright renders their rescue all the
more difficult. And yet. in spite of the
danger, there is no place where such
people are more careless or foolhardy
than in the water.
1t is criminal negligence that causes
this annual waste of life In the water.
One can learn to swim almost as easily
as to walk.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
ALASKA'S SURPRISE AT WORLDS FAIR
Exhibits Prove The Women or The
Territory Are with The Process.
sion In Modern Progress

The Alaska Building is one of the
surprises of the Alaska-Yu ukon- Pacific
Exposition and at the same time one of
the chief evidences of woman sparticipa-
ton and handiwork, Too many people
have the erroneous impression that
Alaska is land of perpetual sno " and
Ice. its only product the golden treasury
which the sand and mountains yield.
The credit for bringing together an ex-
hibit which dispels this idea belongs TO
Mrs. Mary E. Hart, special agent of
the United States Government, a wo-
man of literary and executive ability,
well known in the Territory since 1900.
Her 'call to arms" met with ready res
ponse;and as she went forth from town TO
toviliage, setting forth the opportunities
afforded by the Exposition for telling
the world that the Alaskan woman of
to-day is neither nomad nor an adven-
turess, but home making, home-keep-
ing pioneer wife and mother, she aroused
enthusiasm and energy. resulting in one
OF the most varied, comprehensive and
interesting exhibits. At twenty diff
ferent places ladies' auxiliaries" were
ormcd and the work went bravely on.
The native religions, crafts and in
dustries are shown beside the work of
the white people, and in contrast to the
improved methods and products of
Indian labor as instructed by the whites.
The collections of Indian work and of
chronological illustrations are of keen
interest, The preservation of the many
sorts of native berries and Of cultivated
fruits attracts the attention of every
visitor, while prominent among tho
displays are the native flowers, ferns
and leaves pressed and mounted. The
New Idea Woman's Magazine for
September.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
THE PEANUTS GROWTH.

"Do you know how peanut grows?''
asked Joseph ID. Warren, of Richmond.
Va. at the Riggs House recently. 81
have found few persons of the North
and West who can answer that question.
Some say on vine. some on bush,
some on tree, and some in the ground,
like potatoes.
''The peculiar thing about peanut is
that it grows in two ways-on bush
and like potato. The first step in the
process is the planting of single pea
nut. From that bush grows, lying
close to the ground. A branch stretches
out close to the earth, and sends up into
the air shoots on which are little yellow
flowers, like but.ercups Directly be-
meath these flowers, growing straight
downward, swall. sharp pointed shoots
appear, ike thorns. They are called
pegs ard grow back into the ground.
1t is at the end of these pegs that the
peanuts are found.
"rhe growing and selling of peanuts
is one of the important agricultural In,
dustries in the South, and contribute
materially to the wealth Of the country
below the Mason and Dixon line. In
fact. Suffolk. Va, is in the center oi
the greatest peanut raising district il
the world
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
THE PRIMARY.

Already the muttering of the ap-
preaching storm of dissatisfaction
with the primary can be heard in the
distance. and unless something is done
in the near future to relieve the situa-
tion, it will burst forth in all its fury.
sweeping the Democratic party out of
power in Virginia. l didn't get
the man of my choice for gubernatorial
honors, but will now give my hearty
support to Judge Mann, the successful
aspirant; but no more primary for me,
and l have heard a number of my neigh
bors express themselves in the same
way. And | wo~ld suggest that at the
next election we be allowed to vote as
to whether we will retain or abolish the
primary. If not allowed to do SO, the
people may be afraid to trust those that
are afraid to trust them. "a Demo.
crat." in Soutkside Sentinel.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Statistics show that nearly Is pei
cent of the deaths occurring will
persons over 16 years old ar,
caused by consumption, and that o.
these the large number are of person:
exposed to dust of some sort, minera
dust being the most fatal.
1t is probable that the law docs mo-
directly influence, sanction, or contro
more than per cent of the action of :
mans life. They are apart from the law
and beyond its reach. The law cannot
make man moral or even honest. anc
he may break the rules of morality anc
honesty in many ways without coming
within reach of statute.
Sea water contains about "a parts oi
solid matter to 1000 parts of water,
although its capacity for dissolvine
solids is so great that it will hold in
solution part of solid matter to parts
of water. No less than so parts of this
solid matter is common salt, and the
lime in solution is only about 8 or 4
per cent of the total of solids. This
lime is in the form of sulphate or COM
mon gypsum. and out of this small
amount the shell-fish. such as oysters,
CLAIMS and the innumerable univale and
bivale creatures. get the materials for
their shells, besides the crabs, etc. As
these die the shell is very slowly re-
dissolved in the water and so returned
to be used over again. Curiously
enough although the lime in solution in
the water is mostly in the form of
sulphate, it is converted by the occult
chemistry of the living ostracean and
his congeners into the carbonate, a
form in which lime is not found in salt
water. But natures works are very
hidden and it seems a wonder that the
crab is able to get from the water
enough lime to make himself a shell in
a day or so, or that the oyster can Sc,
lect from the numerous mineral sub,
stances dissolved in salt water iust
what he needs to build his house.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
baltimore Evening News)

Threadbsre carpets and rugs are nc
longer the despair of the thrifty house
wife. In all large cities there are fac
tories where old carpets of all kinds
are woven into beautiful rugs. The
new fabric retains the colors of the
original, and the effect is soft and
artistic.
There is no stain more difficult to re-
move from fabrics than ink. If the
material stained is white and either
linen or cotton, the task is possible.
Use for this solution of oxalic acid.
Lay the stained part of the garment in
the solution and allow it to remain for
an hour or more. then wash thorough
ly in clear water to avoid all danger of
the fabric being attacked by the acid.
II on the other hand, the garment
stained is colored or woolen. | should
pat the matter of cleaning it up to a
professional, and so shove the respon-
sibllity on more competent shoulders,
II the stained portion is put at once
into skinned milk, it is said, no trace
of the ink will remain; but have never
tried this except upon carpet, where
it proved very efficacious.
Chop pint of peanuts kernels fine.
Beat three eggs, add two tablespoon
fuls milk, cup of sugar and two
ounces of butter. Thenladd the peanuts
and enough sifted flour to make a soft
dough. Cut in strips and bake in a
moderate oven. These are delicious.
Brown bread, cut thin, lightly but
tered and spread with cream cheese
and layer of chopped peanut kernels
makes very appetizing sandwiches to
serve with salad at luncheon.
Any sort of cold meat or fish NAV
be made into dainty dish by chopping.
mixing with white sauce and baking in
cups in a moderate oven. first setting
the cups in shallow pan of boiling
water. Turn out on platter and pour
hot tomato sauce over them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
CON.
FEDERATE VETERANS,

Tuesday, the 2Sth day of September.
1909, having been selected as the dav
Tor the annual reunion of Westmoreland
Camp of Confederate Veterans-there-
lore the "Old Vets" are requested to
make arrangements for themselves and
families to meet at Montross on that
day with dinner for all, and while the
old soldiers, the honored guests of the
day are eating, their friends NAV eat
also, In order to expedite matters, and
that we all may have more time to en-
JOY the afternoon speeches. From IL
q. m. to 1890 p. m. will be given to
attend to the business of the Camp.
after which the old soldiers as usual will
form in front of the Courthouse to do
reverence to the memory of both the
dead and the living defenders of South
ern Rights. Dinner at l p. M, after
which the audience may expect to be
entertained by the silver-tongued ora
tors. Hons. t. S. Garnett, w. A. Jones
and perhaps short addresses from others.
The following ladies' have been chosen
committee on arrangements. viz:
Mrs. II. II. Horner, Mrs. DIR. Tayloe.
Mrs. Ruth Johnson and Mrs. Bush Will
kins, from Washington District; Mrs.
Shipley. Mrs. James Parker, Miss Mag
gle Jenkins and Mrs. J. M. Hutt, from
Montross District; and Mrs. E. c.. New
ton, Mrs. VIM. Mayo. Miss Sallie Davis
and Mrs. M. C. Walker, from Cople
District. j. N. WRIGHT, Com.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
THE COST OF LIVING.

The conditions now prevailing seem
anomalous in the living world. Statis-
tics seem to show that the supply of
food stuffs was never more abundant.
and yet prices are going up steadily.
While it is true that in many cases
wages are higher than in former years.
the advance in wages has not at all
kept pace with the rising prices of the
necessaries OF life, and the average
work,ngman finds it mere and more diff
part of this is dpe TO the increased de-
mands of the family, for it is certainly
trpe that the present day workman re-
turning from the shop carries home with
him many luxury his father never
dreamed of purchasing. and wears
clothing far more costly than that of SO
years ago.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
A HIGH TONED ENTERTAINMENT.

On last Thursday night august 19th)
a large audience greeted the Misses
Beauchamp in the High School building,
at Centre Cross, Essex County, Va. ..
where they gave an entertainment 1t
was their first appearance and seldom,
if ever. has an audience here been more
thoroughly captured. each selection
receiving hearty applause. and the
young ladies were encored time and
again, to which they responded willingly
and cheerfully, and their abilities were
amply demonstrated. Both the recita-
tions and solos were exceptionally good,
and showed the effects OF thorough
training. The dumb-bell exercises were
worthy of especial mention.
To hear them once is To wish them to
return, and this community counts itself
NEST fortunate in having secured their
services for another entertainment early
in September. On that date. which
will be fixed later. a tournament will
be given, and at night these talented
young artists will give another of their
high class entertainments in the skating
rink at Centre Cross. the proceeds
going to complete the new High School
here.
Let the people turn out and give
them the audience they deserve. thereby
aiding a worthy cause. as well as being
delightfully."- entertained, for if you miss
this opportunity of hearing them. it
may be your last, and you will always
have cause to regret it. Come and help
US and let us spend delightful evening
together. MEMBER OF AUpIENGE.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
WHEN THE HOME LIGHTS SHINE,

When the home lights shine on the wa,
go,
And the lilies lean down to the lips they
know;
Toll grown silent and care forgot,
do! for the JOY of the dreamer's lot.
When the home lights shine on the little
hill,
And the wheels at rest and the spindles
still;
With love in the door to light the wav.
Ho! for the lips at the end of day.
When the home lights shine. alb. let me
fare
Through lilac gates to the love-Iight
there;
Urine and grind and the grief put by
For the lights of home and the twilight
sky!
The Bentztown Bard.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
HOW THE FLY PLANTS GERMS.

1.-The typhoid fly says E. T. Brews.
ter. in McClure's for September, ''has
been found out at last. He is no longer
the pretty, harmless creature to be
rescued from the coffee, shooed off the
bread. or dug out of the omelet. He is
the bearer of dysentery and typhoid
fever. of cholera and tuberculosis,
ophthalmia. and even smallpox. In our
last war he killed more men in camp
than the Spaniards killed in battle.
"Almost overnight, we are beginning
to realize where the fly is born and bred,
and where his travels take him, and
what it is he washes off into the milk.
are calculated to make the householder
sit up and take notice. Breast-fed
babies. for instance, are exposed to
dangers through air and water, but not
through their food. and they die, at the
worst, third more frequent during
fiy-time. Bottle babies die three and
four times more frequent.
But, after all, one does not need
statistics to make him suspicious of the
fly; for even such painstaking studies
as that of Daniel ID. Jackson, in New
York City, who by means of fiy-traps
placed in various places showed a re-
markably close coincidence between the
prevalence of flies and the onset of
fatal cases of typhoid fever. The con-
vincing evidence is that flies have been
caught with the goods.
''It is an old device, almost as old as
the science of bacteriology, to let fly
crawl about on sterilized plate of
nutritive gelatin, such as is commonly
employed for growing cultures of bac-
terra. AT first there is no sign; but,
after few hours in the incubator. the
insects track on the gelatin is outlined
in fiourishing colonies of microbes. Vir-
tually every time the fly has put down
any one of his six feet, he has planted
at least one germ. A march of one inch
results in a hundred vigorous cultures.
ut is pretty clean fly that does not
bear thousand germs. A fairly dirty
one will carry fifty thousands. A fly
just back from swill-pail or pig-pen. at
the height of the season for flies and
germs. carries load approaching the
record number in a drop of city mill -.
and this is well into the millions. -
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
ON THE CONTRARY.
Washington HeraldJ
) the Mobile Register.

Says the Mobile Register:
THE late Sam Jones' favorite replv
to his critics was, The hit dog howls. -
The Rev. Sam p. Jones is dead. and
is now enjoying righteous reward.
Tor Sam was good man and true and
If there are rewards for the good and
true hereafter, his title to large share
of the same would seem to have been
firmly established here on earth. But
for all that, We never liked that favor
ite expression of his, and we fear we
shall never learn to. 1t does not have
the right ring; it is one of those pat
utterances that fail to satisfy, and GER
tainly offer little by way of an answer
to criticism.
The hit dog does not always howl.
Mr. Jones employed slashing. smash-
Ing. Observation-Disclosures out method.
lie had the ear of the public. and he
thundered things into that ear stren-
uously on occasions. Heaccused thous-
ands of people of wrong-doing. Many
of them. perhaps the greater part of
them, were guilty. no doubt, and de-
served all they got from the famous
evangelist. But at times Mr.. Jones.
like rnany another zealot, hit the wrong
dog, and sometimes the dog howled.
and sometimes he was sorely wounded.
and sometimes he was killed-in repu-
tation, we mean-and grevious wrong
n
was done, albeit at the hands of an ear
nest and consecrated minister, of course.
We never liked Renjaman Franklin's
old suggestion. Honesty lis the best
policy" because. as we have said be-
fore, we do not like the idea of making
a policy of honesty in any eircumstan-
ees-a mere policy. And yet Franklin
was a great and good man. We homo,
and revere his memory. and we hold
him up as model of excellence tc
young Americans. That is all right. ts
be sure. Homer nodded now and then
and even Franklin and Sam Jones coulC
say things that would better have beer
left unsaid.
! 1t is not charitable 10 assume that tn,
hit dog always howls. The man wb,
makes business of throwing rock.
does not always throw them accurately
m ores the pity.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-09-03
the LAST SONG.

Lay me down beneaf de willers in de
grass,
Wherede branch'llgo a-singin' asst pass.
An wen rs a-lyin' low,
l kin hear it as it go
Singin', "Sleep. my honey. tax yo' res
at las.''
Lay me nigh to where it makes a little
pool,
An de water STAINS so quiet like and
cool.
Where de little birds in spring
Ust to come an drink an sing,
An de chillen waded on deir way to
school.
Let me settle wen my shoulders drops
deir load
Nigh enough to hear de noises in de
road;
For | t'ink de las long res
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes',
Eff rs iayin' 'mong de t'ings rs allus
knowed.
Paul Laurence Dunbar.