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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
PROHIBITION SEEMS INEVITABLE.
From staunton pispatch.l

tFrom Staunton Dispatch.1
The situation as to Statewide prohi-
bition in this State reminds US of an
incident. Several years ago highly
esteemed gentleman of this city, then
verging on manhood, was learning to
ride wheel on the street, and natur-
ally many of his friends were standing
around guying him and having little
fun at his expense. A block-and-a-half
away, where repairs to building were
in progress, was mortar bed about
the size of wagon bed filed with NOR
tar in a very fluid state. AS the youth
mounted his wheel and started down
the street friend warned him joking
ly to keep out of the mortar bed, but
from that remark he got his eyes fixed
on that mortar bed and straight toward
it he sped, not because he wanted to.
but because he didn't want to- and to
the surprise of his friends on he went,
unable to turn to the right or to the
left, till the wheel struck the end of the
bed and over into the mortar he dived
full length.
Those who are most bitterly opposed
to Statewide prohibition have acquired
the fatal stare. No matter that the
people who are supposed to have the
temperance issue in their keeping as
sert their purpose to refrain at the
present time from introducing the
Statewide issue, those on the other
side are moving straight to it, impel-
led as our young friend was toward the
mortar bed. They cannot let the issue
alone, but are forcing it themselves.
1t is like the battle that does not come
off as desired by the general in command
on either side. Each would like to pick
his ground, but irresistibly drawn to-
gether the battle is fought on ground
that neither would have selected and at
time that neither would have select
ed.
The Anti-Saloon League made an ef-
fort to postpone the Statewide con-
test, but the other side drawn to the
candle like the candle-fiy, cannot let
the subject alone, but insist on forcing
it to the front, and it would now be q
miracle if the question does not enter
fully into the gubernatorial and legisla-
tive campaigns.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
Starring the Star.
A. A.s

WHO'S tAe starr
Such n the question frequently
asked whom the problem, ''Shan we
visit such and such a play tonightT'
hangs In the balance. And, whke
pretty nearly every theassr goer Il
conversant with the terms Star
principal actor-aRd starring" few
know how they originally arose.
In the printing Or programs it was
formerly the practice especially IN
Germany. where the ssstsu - stin.
ON eccasion. nasinssAASd. - isavs the
name OF the stAeolpai aeser vawrasssn.
Thas. vhsis tie Not 81 sssracssca In
Hamlet weuid show. say, 'Herstie.
Ar. Tea ses-a-Nasasasr; rsls.t.s. Nj.
Three -Qudd-a- Weeksc,- the name o<
the eAssf actor w4Saa be let 4 nays
terry. ~ 'sNsnsaet, sesss."
At the fees st shs RreGran would be
aaethsr sssF. Or astsisk, and after
this the Ae.as e tire great actor. snd
frsm these rows ez stars It u that
leading astoes dertye thstr sobrtqaets
which do not. sitter all. an Asny pse
pie imagine. arise frsn a likenins
OF their histrionts senius to heavenly
uminnries--I.ordon Mail.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
AGREE TO DIFFER.

Differences of honest conviction be-
tween others and ourselves ought not
to trouble US. Such differences ought
only to challenge the best that is on
both sides, while each respects the
others right to differ. There are some
persons who differ with no one, be-
cause lacking the energy and the inter
ests that are called for by the effort
of having an opinion of their own.
They are not burdened with life pur-
poses or convictions. If, indeed, we find
none ever differing with us. we may
fairly ask ourselves whether there is
enough healthy purpose in our lives to
call out any expression of difference
from others. AS a keen thinker has
well said: Living men differ: it is
only the dead who agree. If you want
uniformity you can get it In the cems-
tery. Sunday School Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
TEMPERANCE.

DR.. Wiley. of poison oyster fame,
believes that 80 per cent of the liquor
sold as whiskey is fraud.
During the past year the people OF
the United States have voted out of ex-
istence nearly IL, 900 saloons. At pres
ent 46, 600, 900 people are living in ter
ritories from which the saloon has been
banished.
At the recently adjourned Baptist
Convention at Louisville, KY, it was
resolved that we urge people every
where not to vote for any one for any
office who is known to be in sympathy
with the liquor traffic.
o. L. Dodson, writing in the Times
Dispatch, states that inside the Is years
that have passed since Danvi.le went
dry, the condition of the farmer folk in
the region south of and ten miles from
it have so improved that the country is
hardly the same.
Under the new Kansas liquor law q
penalty attaches to the mere drinking
out of private bottle in mans pri-
vate dwelling. which seems pretty hard
but at all events it's only legally pena-
lizing an act that usually brings its owr
punishment sooner or later.
A Philadelphia nan bet he coulC
drink two quarts of whisAey within two
hours. He did; but he is dead.
Chicago girl bet she could waltz one
hour without stopping. She did; but
she is dead. These things save tn.
fool-ki!ler trouble. however. Washing
/ ton Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
BE A MAN, BOY.

So you are twenty-one?
And you stand up clear-eyed, clean
minded, to look all the world squarely
in the eye. You are mani
Did you ever think, son, how much
it has cost to make q man out of YOU?
Some one has figured up the cost in
money Of rearing child. He says to
bring young man to legal age, care
for him and educate him, costs S25, 900.
Whichis lot Of money to put into flesh
and blood.
But that isn't ALL
You have cost your father many
hard knocks and short dinners, and
worry and gray streaks in his hair.
And your mother-ah, boys, you will
never know! You have cost her days
and night of anxiety and wrinkles in
her dear face and heartaches and sac
rifice.
1t has been expensive to grow you.
But
I If you are what we think you are;
you are worth all you cost-and much,
much more.
Be sure Of this: While father doesn't
say much but Hello. son." way down
deep in his tough. staunch heart he
thinks you are the finest ever. And as
for the little mother, she simply can
not keep her love and pride for you out
Of her eyes.
You are man now.
And some time you must step into
your fathers shoes. He wouldn't like
you to call him old. but just the same
he isn't as young as he used to be-
You see, young man, he has been work
Y ing pretty hard for more than twent,
III years to help you up. And alread,
Ayour mother is beginning to lean on you
A Doesn't that sober you up. Twenty
one?
Your father has done fairly well, bu
you can do better. You may not thinl
so, but he does. He has given you
Z better chance than he had In man,
ways you can begin where he left off
He expects good deal from you, an
that is why he has tried to make
man of you.
4 Don't finch, boy.
4 The world will try you out. 1t Wi
put to the test every fiber in you. Bu
] you are made of good stuff. Once tn,
load is fairly strapped on your young
shoulders you will carry it and scarcel
feel tiff only there be the willing an
cheerful mind.
All hail, you, on the Threshold
It's high time you were beginning t
pay the freight. And your back debt
to father and mother. You will pa
them, won't you. boy?
How shall you pay them?
:. By being always and everywhers
mani-Grand Rapids Chronicle.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
THE VALUE OF A BRAIN.
lFrom Uncle Sans Msgazin..l

One good strategist is worth several
armies That is why Napoleon could ac-
complish more than all his marshals to-
gether. II was he who said: ''You
can never outnumber brain"
That is why the single Robert E. Lee,
south of Mason and Dixon's Line, was
more formidable than all the Union gen.
erals together. Had Lee served with
the North rather than the South. said
Lincoln, the war would have ended two
years sooner.
Thus. too the greatest living military
writer, Lecompte. has declared that
one Moltke, on the side of the French,
in 1870, would have turned the scale in
favor of France.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
REVERIE.
Dusk upon the river,

Dusk upon the river,
And dusk upon the land;
But oh, the sorrow in my heart too deep
to understand!
Who of my kin is dead, my heart, that
you should mourn them so?
Or is it that you died yourself a thou
sand years ago?
Shadows in the water,
And light upon the sea;
But oh, the shadows in my heart that
are no part Of me!
The western sky is faded gray; the
night wind is ablow.
What is it in your silence, world, that
makes me sorrow so?
Darkness on the river,
And darkness in the sky;
But oh, the sadness of the tomb where
silence is cry!
Evening on the ocean,
And far off ships at sea;
And oh, the sadness of my soul that
breaks the heart o. mel
Who Of my kin Is dead. o heart, that
you should sorrow so?
Or do you mourn death you died a
thousand years ago?
And the heart sighed low, as tbs night
wind stirred the bay;
grieve part Of me that died; mourn
the death of day.
In the darkness murmur
The voices of the sea,
But oh, the voice within my heart
awhispering to me?
Herman de Costa, in June Smart Set.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Not understood. We move along
asunder;
Our paths grow wider as the seasons
creep
Along the years; we marvel and we
wonder,
Why life is life. and then we fall
asleep
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false i'm
pressions
And hug them closer as the years
go by,
Till virtues often seem to us trans
gressions;
And thus men rise and fall and live
and die
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with
stunted vision
Oft measure giants by the narrow
gauge,
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and
derision
And oft impelled 'sainst those who
mold the age
Not understood.
Not understood. The secret springs
of action,
Which lie beneath the surface and
the show
Are disregarded. With self-satisfac-
ton
We judge our neighbors, and they
often 60
Not understood.
Not understood. How trifies often
change u.s.
The thoughtless sentence of the fan
cied slight
Destroy long years Of friendship and
estrange US
And on our souls there falls 8 freez-
ing blight
Not understood.
Not understood. How many breasts
are aching
For lack of sympathy. Ah, day 10y
day,
How many cheerless. hearts are
breakingI
How many noble spirits pass away
Not understood.
10 Godl that men would see a little
clearer,
Or judge less harshly when they
cannot seel
0 Godl that men would draw a little
nearer
To one another!-they'd be nearer
Thee.
And understood.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
N. N. BAPTIST S. S. CONVENTION

Programme of the Northern Neck
Baptist Sunday School Convention, to
be held with Shiloh Church, King
George county. beginning Saturday,
May 10Th, 1909, at 1890 q. m.
Preacher Of annual sermon, Rev. w.
E. Wright.
l. "The falling off in attendance in
our Sunday Schools following the pro-
tracted and camp meetings, and how
may we remedy it." Essayist, John l..
Beale; Speakers, Wilmore Balderson.
Rev. F. w. Claybrook.
2 "How pastors may, and ought to,
aid the Sunday Schools in the intervals
3. "Is special study of methods in
Sunday School work desirable and prac-
ticable for Gus Sunday School teachers?''
Essayist, Pew. H. S. Driscoll; Speakers,
Rev. S. P. DeVault, Rev. w. w.
Owens.
a. "Should Baptists patronize inpe-
pendentor Union Sunday Schools?" Es-
sAyist, w. J. Rodgers; Speakers, Rev.
II. II. Fones, d. Frank Coskley.
s. do We. rs Baptists, attach suffi-
eient importance to the teaching of
Baptist doctrine and principles in our
Sunday Sehools?" Esssyist, C. B.
Arnold: Speakers. Rev. A. D. Reynolds,
7. l.. White.
6. The relation of the Sunday Schoo
to the chuicA." Essayist. A. S. Rice
Speakers, Il. Fuller Hunton. Rev. Geo
Nj. Connolly.
An address will be delivered by Rev.
Jos. T. Watts, State Secretary of Bap.
tist Sunday Schools in Virginia.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
NORTHUMBERLAND ITEMS.
IGleaned Fronn the Heath.uilIn Echn /

lGeaned From the Heathsville Echo
Hon. G. Harding Walker has the
incest lot of German clover in this COM
munity.
Our progressive and modern farmer,
Mr.. r. S. Brent, whose duties keep him
IN his Office most of the time, is direct
ing his farm work in a manner and pro-
ducing crops on his place which is liable
to arouse the envy Of his fellow farm
ers. Mr.. Brent's most promising crop
is asparagus, which will be ready for
shipping next spring. Mr.. Brent's
sons have much of his energy and they
are developing muscle as well as brain.
The Office of Mr.. E. Hugh Smith is
an ornament to the village in its new
coat Of paint. Garner Bros. did the
work.
Not in many years has there been
such spiritual awakening in Heaths-
vile as has been experienced during
the past ten days under the preaching
of Evangelist Louis P. Bransford, of
DaDville, Va. 1t seems that the Chris
tian spirit is permeating everyone and
desire for higher living is manifest
ing itself everywhere. Revs. Drisco.l,
Williams, Harrison and Ryder were in
attendance.
The Heathsville High School closed
on Friday and Prof Carter left for his
home at Kilmarneck on Monday. He
had successful session and made quite
a number of friends while here, who
hope to see him return again next
session.
On last Friday the Camp Committee
of Kirkland Grove Camp Grounds met
at the Grove and transacted routine
business. Extensive improvements
were planned and efficient committees
were appointed TO carry out these plans.
The improvements contemplate better
lights for the tabernacle and an ade-
quate supply of pure water. Every
well on the grounds will be cleaned out
and pumps put in thorough repair be-
fore Camp opens. Several new pumps
will be installed. The committee ex-
poets to use Gospel Hymns 1-6 and re-
quests all the people having either word
or note editions of these hymns to bring
their books with them to the Camp
meeting.
Miss Theresa c. Tignor, formerly of
Heathsville. Va, and Mr.. Charles G.
Parker, of Washington, ID. c.. stole a
march on their friends and relations
Saturday, April "a, and were quietly
married at Alexandria, Va. Mr.. and
Mrs. Parker will reside in Washington,
ID. C.-The Echo.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
TRUCKERS NOTES.

Five drops Of nux vomica to a chick
each day, mixed with the dough, will
soon eliminate the hawks.
The United States ranks third in the
production of barley and produces more
corn than all the rest Of the world put
together.
There were three hundred barrels of
peas shipped from Wares Wharf, Essex
county, Tuesday. This is the largest
shipment made, 90 far as we can learn,
from any wharf on the Rappahannock
in single day this season. -Southside
Sentinel.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
II is littIe whether we consider matt

1t is little whether we consider matter
as created by God, or existing from all
eternity, since in any case either it
must have had an origin-no other
hypothesis is conceivable-and if it ex-
listed at all must have been either cock
istent with him or after him or before
him. To assume that it existed before
him is simply inconceivable; to imagine
that it was contsmporaneous with God
is to assert that Matter is God; to as
sumo that il came after him is to ac-
that he is its author.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
lived 152 Years.

VIM. Parr -Englands Oldest man-married the
third time at ~. worked in the fields till ls2 and
lived 20 years l4ns~r. People should be youthful
at 80. James W+sat. OF Spurlack. KY, shows
how TO remain young. 'Ifesl Just like n l6-year
old boy" he writes. after taking six bottles OF
Electric bitters. For thirty years Kidney trouble
made life n burden. but the first bottle of this
wonderful mslicine convinced me had found the
greatest cure ON earth" They're a godsend to
weak. siciSly rundown old people. Try them
50c at all druggists.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
Sn ashss All Records.

As all-rSund laxative tonic and health
builder no other pills can compare with DR. King s
New Life Pills. They tone and regulate stomach
liver and kidneys. purify the blood strengthen the
nerves. cure Constipation. Dyspepsia. Biliousness
Jaundce. Headache Chills and Malaria. Try
them. 2sc at all Druggists.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
Kills To Stop The Friend.

The worse foe for IL years Of John Deye. Of
Gladwin. Mich. was q running ulcer. He paid
doctors over 500. 90 without b.neit. Then Buck
lens Arniea Salvs killed the ulcer and cured him
Cures Fever-sores. Boils. Felons. Ecxma. Salt
Rheum. Infallible for Piles. Burns. Scalds. Cuts.
Corns. 25e at all druggists.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-05-28
J. HAMMELL CO..
PLEaSANTvIlle, N. ].

Designers and Manufacturers of Artistic
Memorials in Marble and Granite.
OFFICES-Atlantic City, N. j.; Phil
adelphia, Pa; Wheaton, Va. Address
H. Booker Hale, Agent. Wheaton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-18
YOUNG GIRL Is HELD
ON FORGERY CHARGE
Miss Katherine Porter, From
Select Girls School in
Virginia, Under Arrest.

Miss aKtharine Porter, ire eighteen
year-old daughter Of w F. Porter. q
prominent real estate dealer Of Lincoln,
Neb-, found herself in the National
Capital without money enough to tele-
graph home. and. to help her out of
her dilemma. signed the name of a
friend 10 a check for S25. which led TO
her arrest today.
Miss Porter is a stunning blonde, vi
vacious. and apparently without any
seuse Of having committed a crime in
using some one else's name TO obtain
money When brought into police head
quarters this afternoon from the Young
WOmcus Christian Union. where she
spent the night she frankly told IN
spector Boardman her situation. and
declared she had notified her IA her of
her act with some of the moIey she
obtained with the check, and that she
has no doubt he has already taken
steps TO repay the money.
Miss Porter arrived here yesterday
from Roanoke, Virginia, where she
has been a student at the Virginia Wo-
mems College since early in the fall.
Her father lives al 1901 Sumner street
Lincoln, Nebraska. The check was
cashed at one of the downtown depart
meut stores and bore the name OF one
as Miss Porter knew. this young lady
did not have a bank account here. She
will be held by the police until some
word from her father reaches here,
Inspector Boardman having notified him
Of her detention.
II is understood the charge will not
be pressed against Miss Porter, If her
story proves true.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-18
Constipation the Cause OF
Disease
Natures Own Remedy

Constipation is ECt only disagreeable, IL
IS dangerous If allowed to become
chronic it will prove the forerunner OF
disease. Nature intended the bowels 20
move regularly once a day. The delicate
stomach and bowels are the keystone Of
the physical organization. and should be
kept in normal working order 10 pre-
serve health. When the bowels become
sluggish they require a natural and
harmless laxative. Too often they are
permanently damaged by powerful
drugs taken to force action. In the
famous Natural HUNKADI JANOS Wa
ter. nature herself has provided her
own harmless laxative. which can be
relied on for quick and sure results. y
a tuniblerful on arising will, within an
piously. a bottle costs but tri1e and
contains many doses.
Look out for INSCRIPTIONS druggists.
who will substitute unless you ask for
HCNYADI JANoS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-18
TOWN IS AROUSED
OYER GIRL MURDER
Milwaukee Police Search for
Men Who Killed Minis
ter'S Cousin.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 1S.-Every
effort is being made by tbs police to
set some clue to the wherea bouts of
the mUrderers of Hattie linda, the
eighteen year-old girl VINO was stran-
gled TO death IN an abandoned office
in Humboldt Boulevard, near Com
merce street.
The whole neighborhood is wrought
up over the crime and # the men who
killed the girl are apprenenoad. sum
mary punishment viii be melted out TO
them
The girls body was found yesterday,
but It was evident that rsne had been
dead since Friday Empty beer bottles
were scattered about the room, and
there was evidence that there had been
a struggle. II is believed the men who
made the office their headquarters for
about a week have fed 70 Chicago.
The girl was a cousin OF the Rev. Fa-
Their linda, of st. HedWig's parish The
police are Of the opinion that she was
first strangled with the hand, and then
with scarf. There We're deep finger
prints on the neck and chest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-18
WEST POINT WANTS
ALL ATHLETIC SPORT

Col, Scot superintendent of the Mill
tary Academy, who has ; st made his
annual report 70 the Secretary of War,
strongly favors all sort of athletic
Sports AMI diversions at Yves. Point.
He says they are good for improving
the discipline and perpetuating a reso-
lutte and sportsmanlike spirit i'm the
corps Of cadets"
Col. Scott says there is an increasing
number Of principals and alternates
designated for the Academy who fail
to report for examination, thus prevent
ing West Point from getting its normal
strength lie recommends the appoint
meut Of candidates every three years
instead Of every four years that the APP
pointees may have time 10 prepare
themselves for examinaf ons. That,
however. viii have no effect on the
four-year course Of study.