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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
IN FAVOR OF GIRLS.

In the late afternoon they come, in
thousands, out of stuffy Offices and
crowded stores. and noisy factories.
They'v been there all day long, patient
ly taking 'dictation" from fretful, per-
spring. irritating men, or trying to
satisfy thousand querulous voices over
the telephone, or deciphering the wishes
of impatient and undecided women
across the counter, or with twinkling
fingers guiding and feeding Unsuitable
machines.
Their days work over, they come out.
Weary they may be, but who would
suspect weariness in those straight, in
dependent, firm-stepping figures? Warm
they may be. but one might marvel at
the visions of coolness they look in their
CLEAN, well-fitting gowns of white, and
pink, and mauve. Troubled they may
be, but the sight of them is balm for
other peoples troubles.
Subordination may have been their
place all day, these girls who earn Their
living. All day they have been under
orders and prisoners of rule. But wher
they come forth in the late Afternoon
all that is changed. Then they domi
nate, and all men are subject to the
pleasant influence of their dominion.
They Danish discomfort and quie
complaint and make habitable the car
they crowd. But for the presence o
these marvelously neat. calm, unob
trusive. unconscious benefactors, tn,
homegoing cars in the evening would b.
as cages of sullen hyenas these tryini
days.
i That telephone manager back Eas
who said that every girl who is brigh
| and neat and clean is pretty girl,
everlastingly right. - Kansas CITY Time
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
A MARSHAL OF FRANCE.

That General Washington was mar
shal of France is the interesting story
recalled by the Baltimore Sun in con-
nection with the fact that Virginia has
just presented copy of the Houdon
statue to France. The Sun saws;
"it became necessary to give Wash
ington this commission in order to con-
fer upon him authority over the Count
de Rochambeau, who was an old lieu
tenant-general, and who could only
take orders from a marshal or the King
in person. When the French troops
were to be sent to America the difficult
ty about the command arose, and it
was settled this way upon the sugges-
ton of Colonel Laurens, the special
Ambassador to France. Mr.. Custis
gave proofs of the facts. This matter
does not seem to have been mentioned
in any of the standard lives of Wash.
ington. But Mr.. Custis' evidence is
strong. and the fact that Virginia i.
presenting TO France a statue of hipi
French official is most interesting.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
THE SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS.
Efforts To Repress It Have Met No
Great Success,
lFrom the Indianapolis News.

AiuldhdpohS FNeWs-i
There are some women who will moi
wear rfeather-trimmedha hats because they
do not believe in the slaughter of bird:
to supply such gauds. There should be-
more of such women. but, alasl with al
her immediate gentleness. woman j:
sometimes Indirectly most cruel. Doubt.
less if she could see the bird killed which
furnishes the feathers for her hat she
would recoil with horror at the thought
OF wearing an ornament, but she does
not see the bird killed-and out of sight
Is out of mind.
Nor does she consider the fact that a
live bird in its natural environment is
worth any number of dead birds or frag-
ments of dead birds on hat. There
are few birds that are not To be admired
either for their beauty. their song or
the general cheer their presence lends
to humanity. But this is not their whole
worth or even their greatest worth.
They have an economic value that is
not accurately calculable. In their
destruction of weed seeds and insect
and animal pests, and in some instances
acting as scnvengers, they do large
part of the work Of sustaining human
life on the earth. 1t is declared by
those who have made study of the sub
ject that If every bird were destroyed
the world would cease To be habitable
for humanity in very few years. The
advanced agriculturist and horticultural
realizes this. and does his share toward
protecting his feathered helpers; nor
does he grudge them the light toll they
take from his crops as a perquisite. Ii
is true that birds sometimes become a
nuisance and do great damage, but this
is only true when there are too many of
them-a congestion of birds, so to speak
and this does not happen often.
For good while efforts have been
made in this country to protect the
birds. These have met with varying
success in different sections, but none
has been completely successful The
call of commerce has meant the death
OF many a bird which not only had a
right To live, but was actually worth
more money 10 the world alive than dead.
Now, however, an international move
ment is on foot for the protection of
birds. il will make no appeal to senti-
ment, but will strike In the most efrec-
tive way by suppressing as far as pos
sible the traffic in feathers. The civil
lied countries will be asked to prohibit
the export of feathers. and thus strive
to save the birds by destroying the
market for their lives.
And in this connection let even wo-
man realize that she can render impor-
tant help in the work. She has created
the market for birds lives and she can,
If she will. abolish it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
LIFE's COMMON THINGS.

The things of every day are also sweet,
The morning meadows wet with dew
The dance OF daisies in the noon; the
blue
Of far-off hills where twilight shadows
lie,
The night with all its tender mystery
of sound
And silence. and Gods starry skyl
o. life-the whole life-is far toe
fleet,
The things of every day are all SC
sweet.
The common things of hfe are all SC
dear,
The waking in the warm half-gloom
To find again the old familiar room,
The scents and sights and sounds that
never tire,
The homely work, the plans, the lit
of baby's laugh,
The crackle of the open FIRE;
The waiting, then the footsteps coming
near
The opening door, the handclssp and the
kiss.
Is Heaven not. after all, the now and
here?
The common things of life are all SC
dear.
Anonymous.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
FALL OF ETERNAL CITY.

1t was exactly 1,500 years ago today
August "a. 4l0-that Rome was cap
tured and sacked by that splendid bar
barian, Alaric the Goth. In the words
of Gibbon: AT the hour of midnight
the Salarian gate was silently opened.
and the inhabitants were awakened by
the tremendous sound of the Gothic
trumpet.
Eleven hundred and sixty-three years
after the foundation of Rome the I'm
perial City, which had subdued and
civilized so considerable a portion of
mankind, wasdelivered to the Iicentious
fury of the tribes of Germany and
Scythia.
In the year 800 B. c., when Rome was
young and weak, it was captured by the
Gauls, but from that date to 40 A. d.
that is, for period of 700 years-no
hostile foot, other than that of a prisoner
or suppliant, had pressed its SOIL
The mighty capital had stood so long
upon the hills, from which it had swayed
the earth, that people had come to think
of it as the Eternal City," 1t was
associated in the minds of men with
God and Eternity and Omnipotence. All
roads led to it! All power famed from
itl It's Majesty awed the world
When. therefore, the intelligence of
it's fall was noised about, mems minds
were filed with consterDation The
world was coming to an endl Nay, the
world bad already come to an end, for
was not the world and Rome one and the
samel
But the sequel was TO show how
gtoundiess WAS the deep despair. Alaric
and his barharians. loaded down with
their spoils. departed, and Rome never
afterward lifted it's head. And it was
well that it did not The time had come
for Providence to clear the ground for
n fresh start. Rome had served its
purpose. and now. decayed and de-
praved. was fit for nothing hut to be
wiped out.
The terrible Goth was not destroying
the world. He was only paving the
way for the world To forge ahead along
more excellent lines. The fall of Rome
was the resurrection of newer and
better world.-Rev. Thomas b. Gregory.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
}. j. HAMMELL Co.
PlEASARTVIIIE. n. ].

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ID Booker Hale, Agent. Wheaton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
SHE COULDN'T GO BACK ON HER
RAlSiN

There was little girl
With pretty golden curl,
But with temperl Oh, it was sad, sad,
sad
For her Pa always said,
without putting her 10 bed)
why you know. mother. she's feeling
bad, bad. bad. "
And as this grille grew,
So did the conviction, too:
"When I'm bad tits because l am sick,
sick, sick"
And when she wants her way,
To her husband she will say,
Get the doctor, dear, and get him
quick, quick, quick"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
TRUCKERS NOTES.

Let us consider some of the good that
comes from turning over the soil in the
fall or winter. In doing this you bring
up and place on the surface soluble
matters that have leached down too
low for the feeders to reach. and you
cover in the soil the weeds, grass and
stubble of the gathered crops, where
they will undergo decomposition, and
be in the right place for the rootlets to
feed upon. The tilth is deepened also
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16
A Man Of Iron Nerve.

illndomitabe win and tremendous energy are
never found where Stomach. Liver. Kidneys and
Bowels are out of order. If you want these quail
ties and the success they bring. use Dr. King 8
New Life Pills. the matchless regulators for keen
brain and strong body. 25c at all dr,loprists
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-09-16

here in the university have been well
built upon; that today's commencement
was the bright beginning of a glorious
career; that you have made yourself an
example of thoroughly educated man.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
DEAD FACE OF FATHER
CAUSES CHILD TO SWOON

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 15.-The fu-
neral of Joseph MCGOWAN, who was
killed in an automobile accident on
the old York road near the Hunting
don Valley Country Club, last Mon
day, while he was returning from a
hunting trip, took place yesterday.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. Luther De Yoe, pastor of Trinity
church at the residence of Mrs. Thorn
as Warehouse, a sister of Mr.. Nc
Gowan, 1868 Belkeld avenue. Inter-
ment was maze in Ivy Hill cemetery.
AS Mr.. McGowan's little daughter,
Millicent is quarantined, the coffin
was placed on the porch of the home
and the child permitted to view the
dead face of her father through a
window. The sight caused the little
girl to swoon.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
Twenty Volume Novels.

The longest novels of today are pyg-
mics compared with those published
In the seventeenth century. Mile. de
Scudery's lie Grand Cyrus" ran into
ten volumes. its publication being
spread over five years. And when
1t was translated, or, to quote the title
page. "Englished by Person of Hon.
our" it appeared in five folio volumes
Of some 500 pages apiece. Another
novelist Of the same period. La Cal
prenede. was even more diffuse. one
Of his works. Cleopatra" extending
over twenty-three volumes. These
novels found plenty of readers despite
their enormous length. The Paris pub
Usher Of lie Grand Cyrus" made
100000 crowns by the first edition
alone. Nearly all the works of Sou
derry and Calprenede We're translated
into English as soon as they appeared
and many of them into German as
well.-London Chronicle.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
SWALLOWED PENNY WHISTLE
SURGEONS TO USE KNIFE

York, Pa, Dec. 15.-Miles Hoffman
four years old, of 1440 North Marshall
street, swallowed penny whistle
while playing. He was taken to the
Children's Homeopathic Hospital.
After the accident the child's moth
er was astonished to hear low whist
ling noise coming from her sons
throat. Unable to diagnose the cause
institution, where the physicians ad
ministered dose of mashed potatoes
which at last stopped the noise.
1t will be necessary to perform an
operation on the child's throat to re-
move the whistle
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
A Historic SPOT,

Linlithgow palace, on the shore of
the beautiful sheet of water of that
name in Scotland. is somewhat square
and heavy looking Linlitbgow was
the birthplace of Mary. queen of Scots;
in Linlithgow church James ~. of
Scotland was forewarned by an appa-
rition of the coming disaster at Flod-
den Field; in its streets the regent
Murray was shot; close by the town
Edward l. had two ribs broken by his
horse the night before Falkirk. and on
its loch chancellor of the exchequer,
bent on economy. issued instructions
that the royal swans should be kept
down to acknowledgement
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
AFRICAN WITCH DOCTORS.
They Make Themselves, Like Their
Idols, as Hideous as Possible.


Idols, as Hideous as Possible.
The most important period of the
young Africans life is that between
youth and manhood Tor womanhood)
1t is then that the witch doctor is ex-
tremely busy with his various mys-
FERROUS rites. 1t is an important part of
his calling to be hideous. as in most
cases he undoubtedly is. A ridiculous
mask covers his head, and wildcat or
other skins are hung around his loins.
Pigment of various colors is plenti-
fully daubed over his body, and in this
hideous state it is not to be wondered
at that he strikes terror into the
maidens' hearts as he dances wildly
in the dim freight, glaring at them
with fiendish eyes. The timid young
creatures are like the hare which trem-
bles as the lowering bird of prey flut-
tiers over its head. Self will Is crushed,
and the erstwhile playful. willful child
is transformed in most cases into q
frightened creature. with. for the time
being, no will of her own. 1t is a curl
Gus thing that nothing connected with
what one may call the spiritual side
Of the blacks life is ever beauti-
full. Their carved figures are always,
to say the least. grotesque and calcu-
lated to frighten rather than comfort
the bereaved.-Wide World Magazine.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
WOMEN CUT OUT MILK
AND THE TRUST BROKE

Reading, Pa, Dec. 15.-The milk
trust here has been broken. Eight
cents was the price that the dealers
had placed on the commodity for win
ter months. Consequently house
wives used very little of it at the in
creased cost.
Milkmen were unable to dispose OF
their supply, and today quite mum
Der of them went back to the ole
price of six cents a quart, at which
figure it will likely remain. Efforts
to raise the price in recent years were
complete failure.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
A Useful Christmas
Present FREE

The News is offering to all subscrib-
ers who will pay for one full year in
advance, handsome premium that
would serve as useful and acceptable
Christmas gift to any house-keeper.
If you are taking The Daily News,
and will pay a year in advance, the
premium present will cost you moth
ing.
This premium consists of:
Eight useful household articles. AS
follows:
Three carving knives, of different
sizes and shapes; one for the kitchen,
two for the table.
One medium size meat axe.
One meat saw.
One large meat fork.
One can opener.
One knife sharpener.
These articles all have black
handles and look good and the quality
is guaranteed to be good and to give
satisfaction. They sell in the stores
at from $3.50 to SO per set. They will
cost you nothing, because The News
is worth the money, and you can get
the whole outfit with The News for
one year, at exactly the price of The
| News.
What nicer, what more Useful or
acceptable present could you give your
mother. your wife, or any friend who
is housekeeping.
Call at the News office and take
look atathis OUTFIT 1t may help you to
solve the problem, what to give?"
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
FENNEL.
Il 10 to the Italians Somewhat as Gel.
cry Is to Us.

cry is TO Us.
"'Tisn't often that an Italian table
d'hote furnishes anything that takes
me back to my graHdmother's time"
said New York man, but that was
my experience last night. The first
nibble of something I'd supposed was
celery sent my mind wandering back
fifty years to an old New England vii
lage.
He nodded and smiled and gave me
the italian form of the word, which
carefully wrote down on scrap of
paper, 'Fennocchi.' l suppose it showed
my ignorance, but never before did
know that fennel is to the Italians
what celery is to US. Evidently the
large bases of the leafstalks are
bleached in similar fashion, and from
the way it was served l could see it
was intended to be dipped in salt, as
we eat celery. My obliging waiter told
me that it was delicious as a salad
and when boiled and served with
cream sauce 1t made popular Italian
dish.
But after all what did those cult
nary details matter? What really
counted was that strange. penetrating
favor which took me back to my child
hood. AS | thoughtfully nibbled my
fennel stalks the last fifty years
seemed blank. | was child again,
picking big clusters of yellow. aromatic
fennel seeds in my grandmather's gar
den."-New York Sun.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15

II you are suffering from bilious
ness, constipation, Indigestion, chron-
ic headache, invest one cent in a
postal card, send to Chamberlain
Medicine Co., Des Moines, Iowa, with
your name and address plainly on the
back, and they will forward you a
free sample or Chamberlain's stomach
and Liver Tablets. Sold by Hays K
Field.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
NAPOLEON CHANGED WIVES
cRAMER TRIED AND FAILED

st. Louis. Mo-, Dec. 15.--In de
position filed in the circuit court by
attorneys for Mrs. Anna Cramer, for,
mer wife of F. Ernest Cramer, once
candidate for mayor and now presi
dent of the Broadway National Bank
Mrs. Cramer testified that her hus
band agreed to pay her $4,000 1C
years ago, if she would free him from
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
Good at Arithmetic.

For goodness salne. John. how long
did you boil these eggs?
"Just as long as you told me to, my
dear"
impossible! They're hard as bricks"
Il boiled them just twelve minutes"
Twelve! Why. told you that three
minutes was long enough for an egg!"
Eyes. dear. but l boiled four of them"
Toledo Blade.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15

BENE-ARIA TABLETS CURE MA
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Money back if not satisfied with re
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
the matrimonial bonds,
Mrs Cramar adds.

the matrimonial bonds
Mrs, Cramer adds:
my husband gave me money TO
get a divorce so he could marry a
woman who he said suited him bet.
ter than l did. He said he was a
second Napoleon, and that Napoleon
changed his wives in spite of all oppo.
sition when he made up his mind to-
He said | wasn't sport enough to suit
him.
''The other woman, he said, always
had whiskey and seltzer waiting fol-
him when he called. He declared he
would make. himself known to the
world as gay Lothario and Beau
Brummel as soon as he was divorced.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
In Musical Terms,

Chief Editor-Look here, Sharpe,
here's a fiddler been hanged for muir
der, How shall l headline it? Musical
Editor-How would Difficult Execu-
ton on One String" do?-St. Louis
Times.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
Pardon,

The highest of characters is his who
is as ready to pardon the moral errors
OF mankind as if he were every day
guilty of the same himself, and at the
same time as cautious of committing
fault as IL he never forgave one
Pliny the Younger
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
English as She is Spoke.

Must you go?'
"Yes. The wife's sitting up for me,
and If l miss the last train / shall
catch t."-Lippincott's
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15
A Hard Job.

Husband-What are you looking for
dear? Wife, was looking for the In
visible hairpin l just dropped.-Ex-
change. eT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-15

Being angry is like emptying the
pepper pot into your own porridge.