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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
MAKES IMPURE WATER PURE.

There is plant growing in the
southern waters of the United States
which possesses the singular property
of being able to render the most impure
standing water perfectly healthful. The
people of Louisiana and Mississippi cali
it the water lotus. 1t consists of leaves
about the size Of the head of a pin and
roots so fine as to escape notice save
under microscopic inspection.
Where it grows at all. it covers the
water, and to the casual observer looks
like coating of green scum. But
wherever it does appear the water be-
meath is always fit to drink. So marked
is this property that families using the
water from bayous where the lotus is
abundant are known to have better gen.
eral health than those taking their
drinking water from places where the
lotus is not found. 1t is often trans
planted into ponds, bayous and lakes.
spreads with wonderful rapidity and
never fails to do its work we'll.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
CLOSING THE DOORS.

l have closed the door on Doubt:
l will go by what light I can,
And hold up my hands and reach them
out
To the gIimmer of God in the dark, and
call
u am Thine though ! grope and
stumble and fall.
! servei and Thy service is kind"
have closed the door on Fear,
He has lived with me far too long:
1t he were to break forth and reap
pear
| should lift my eyes and look at the sky,
And sing aloud and run lightly by,
| have closed the door on Gloom.
His house has too narrow a view,
! must seek for my soul wider room,
With windows to open and let in the sun,
And radiant lamps when the day is
done,
And the breeze of the world blowing
through.
Irene P. McKoehan, in Century Mag
azine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
MY GUEST.

I prayed of sorrow: "Wait a little
space
Before come TO sit and talk with you;
For duty calls to me from every place;
Thereis is so much my hands alone must
do.
"Since you are here, obeying some
decree,
would most fain commune with you
at length,
Yet crave narrow interval. for see,
ssThese tasks claim all my slender store
of strength.
So Sorrow kindly drew herself aside,
Acceding graciously unto my will;
Through days that throbbed with life 3
assRiling tide
She bided with me, patiently and still.
When years of burden sternly bade me
rest
with snow-hecked locks and labor
fretted brow)
l spoke unto nay accomplishing guest:
Come, Sorrow, you will find me ready
now"
With smile as tender as the dawn of
She said: ''since duty left you never
free.
Ny sister, Sorrow, went long since,
away.
And am Memory, cozne sit with me-
Harriet Whitney Durbin. in Aipslee's,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
TRY THIS ON FLIES.

l desire to give the public through
this means, positive, safe and cheap
remedy for the pest of flies: Procure q
dimes worth of formalin, (which is
simply 40 per cent. solution of form
aldehydel, from any druggist. Place
two teaspoonsful of this in a soup plate
of water. Place on a shelf or mantel.
or other convenient place. In a few
hours hundreds of dead flies will be
found near the dish on the floor and
about the room. Renew solution every
other day.
A fly drinks at least twice every
twenty-four hours, especially in the
early afternoon and morning. Every
fly in reach will go to this plate to
drink. The result is magical. Some
drop dead on the dish, some fly a few
feet and drop, others act as if intoxi-
Gated few seconds then stiffen out. II
is remarkable that such minute
amount should prove toxic to the fly.
Cats and dogs will not drink enough of
it to hurt themselves. However, it is
better to place the plates away from
them,
Formalin taken In very small amounts
Ia not toxic (Hare) and the flies if eaten
by other animals are not toxic. One or
more dishes of the solution should be
placed in each room.
1 shall be very glad to hear of results
and will be very glad to give any fur
ther advice to anyone.
Very truly,
DIR. HENRY TETE, in New Orleans
Item.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
SOME PEPPERMINT DOSES.

While we were waiting for great
things to come along, which we could
not do even If they should come we
allow to slip by US unnoticed thousand
little things, which we could do to our
own advantage and that of others.
The man who prays that the world
may become better, but who does noth=
ing to improve its condition does not
really pray-he only thinks he does.
The best way to convince another
that he is wrong is by doing good. One
pound of good example is worth a
whole ton of argument.
We are in this world not to be bur-
dens to others but to help bear the bur.
dens of others. Bedford Democrat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
WE FORGET.

So many tender words and true
We meant to say, dear love, to you;
So many things we meant to do,
But we forgot.
The busy days were full of care;
The long night fell all unaware;
You passed beyond loves pleading
prayer,
While we forgot
Now evermore through heart and brain
There breathes an undertone of pain.
Yet should what has been be again,
We must forget.
We feel, we know, that there must b
Beyond the veil of mystery
Some place where love can clearly see
And not forget.
Ada Foster Murray.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20

dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you. This is the principal
difference between dog and man. -
Ledger Dispatch.
1t is thought that owing to the low.
prices paid during the past year for
canned tomatoes. the tomato crop in
the Northern Neck will not be so large
as In previous years. For many wears
this has been one of the leading money
crops with the people of this section.
One of the prominent residents of
tortamouth, N. H., a lady 20 years old.
was observed recently teaching a
number of young girls how to Jump
rope. The observer says that the lady
had all the tricks of the old-style rome
jumping down pat.
Some one once said there is. some
thing in me that has never been salts
fled. That showed a healthy tone
When man once gets satisfied with
his powers or work, it is a true sign
that decay has set in. So long as a
man is unsstisfied with his conditions
or his achievements there is always the
possibility of his becoming better and
doing better work. Bedford Demo-
crat.
The experience of States that have
adopted the primary plan of recommen-
ding to their legislatures party candi-
dates for United States Senators fully
lustihes the wisdom of the Democratic
State Convention of Indiana in dispens-
ing with the primary to name Senator
and itself making the recommendation.
-Index-Appeal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
GOD AND THE SCIENTIST.

81 have been botanist for 81 years, -
said the scientist. when l was a bow
l believed implicitly in God. 1 prayed
to Him, having vision of Him-a per-
son-before my eyes. AS l grew older
l believed, only in what l could see,
or hear, or feel, talked about Nature
and there was no God. / dismissed
Him from the universe. believed only
in what l could see, or hear, or feel
talked about Nature and reality"
He paused, the smile still lighting his
face, evidently recalling to himself the
old days. did not interrupt him. Fl.
nally he turned to. me and said alb.
ruptly:
"And now-it seems to me-there is
nothing but God, '%American Maya.
zine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
SHOOTING STARS.

People having strange ideas of what
they call shooting stars. They are
not stars by any means. The nearest
star is 25,OoO, 900, 600, 600 miles away
from us, while the farthest shooting
star" il not ever fifty miles. Quite a
difference. that These meteors or
shooting stars are of solid or gaseous
substance, that wander in from some
where. and upon striking the earth's
atmosphere their speed is So great as to
create intense friction. which ignites
the meteor. and thus we see it blazing
across the sky. Most of these meteors
are consumed by the heat thus created
while plungihg through the air; but few
strike the earth. The latter are metal,
mostly iron, and very hard. Where do
they come from? 1t is not exactly
known. Many of them are no doubt the
fragments of comets that have broken
up in their journey around the sun and
which still pursue the old orbits. Others
probably have been thrown out by the
sun, moon, planets. asteroids or other
heavenly bodies, and flying aimlessly
through space, have encountered the
earth and joined one glorious destiny.
There is!one very interesting fact con.
nected with meteors that have struck
the earth. Hundreds of them have
been examined and found to contain
animal remains; that is, of the very
lowest forms Of life. This Indicate.
that they are parts Of world that
burst into fragments long, long ago
What Thoughts world broken NJ
and scattering through spacsl May b,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
CELERY.

No plant is more delightful eating
and none more healthful than celery,
and none more easily raised, and still
there are very few of our local garden
ers who try to have it. 1t is fall plant,
doing most of its growing from Septem-
Der to November. The plants can be
bought, but it is easy to raise them
from the seed. Make bed about the
first of April much the same as for any
other sesd-crop, marking rows ahaut .
inches apart, and leaving space about
every eighth row for an alley in which
to walk when working the plants. Sow
seed rather thinly, being sure to tread
the soil down on the seed with the feet,
This Is Important, as many crop of
small seed plants is lost because the
seed dry up before they germinate. The
seed should be covered very lightly
about half an inch of earth is enough,
Hoe and keep clean Of weeds until the
plants are some size. and before they
are transplanted shear the tops off once
or twice. This gives them better roots.
Transplant ;about September. Care
should be taken to shade the yong
plants, as celery is easily burned by the
hot sun of our climate. If the bed is a
small one it may be sheltered by brush,
and should be watered.
When ready to transplant, set the
plants out in rows about three feet
apart and one foot from each other. In
setting out observe the same rule of
packing the soil about the plant with
the foot. Hoe and cultivate as any
other garden crop, until September or
October, when the work of bleaching or
blanching the stalks is begun. This is
done in several ways. One is by draw
ing the earth around the stalk, taking
care that it does not get into the bud of
the plant. As it grows more earth is
drawn about the stalk until all is finally
covered except the ends of the leaves.
One way that gives good results is to
set the plants close together about a
foot or less apart each way, and they
are thus crowded into an upright posi-
tion. and are. 30 to speak, self bleached.
A narrow board placed on either side
the plant, that will hold the earth in po-
sition, answers very well. Still another,
and good plan, is to buy number of
drain-tiles of say three inches in dame
ter and place these over the stalk, draw
ing up the leaves for that purpose.
This keeps the plant clean and the tiles
can be used year after year.
The plants will be fit for use in the
late fall. and in our climate do not need
special protection from frosts, as celery
is not hurt by cold, unlessvery extreme.
1t can be left in the ground and used as
needed. 1t may be well to place few
pine boughs over it. as we protect cab
bage beds.
The seed now almost universally used
is that of the dwarf celery. The giant
celery is too troublesome, though grow
ing to great size.
Very few know that celery is as good
palatable and wholesome cooked as raw
and the tops, often thrown away, max,
excellent food cooked, preserving tn,
peculiar celery taste and serving to fla
vor soups, etc.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
LADYBUGS VALUABLE.
Carried to Melon Fields to Destro,
Pests.

"Ladybug, ladybug. fly away home, -
is out of date.
The revised version is "Ladybup.
ladybug, take ride with the express
company"
Thousands-possibly millions-of the
beneficial little bugs are being hauled
by the express companies just now,
most of them going from State insect
ary at Sacramento to the melon fields
of the Imperial Valley.
Three consignments of big screened
plates have passed through Los Ange-
les within the last few days to Ell Centro
and other points.
They are hauled free by the express
company for the express purpose of
aiding the melon growers, and the cases
are returned free to Sacramento for
more.
The ladybugs delight to feed on the
aphides and other insect pests which
harm the melon crops. A nice, fat
aphis is just like porterhouse steak to
ladybug-and there are enough
aphides in the melon fields of the Inn
perial Valley to delight her ladybug-
ship for some time.
The melon raisers took up with the
State agricultural authorities some time
ago the question of obtaining a large
supply of ladybugs. The State insec-
tary undertook to:supply them and the
express company offered to carry them
to the melon fields free.
1t takes twenty-six thousand lady
bugs to make pound, and the State
insectary has more than a ton of them.
Consequently there are something like
a2 millions of them in storage at Sacra-
mento-or there were few days ago.
Los Angeles Express.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
NEEDED EVERYWHERE.

eve need Christian doctors at the bed
side, we need Christian men at the bar
and on the bench, we need Christian
men in politics and we need Christian
men in the every day life." said the
Mayor of Chicago recently in speech.
He is himself a strict Presbyterian, and
a strong believer in the teachings OF
the Bible. UNLESS we train men spir-
itually," the Mayor went on to say,
"our history will be but the history of
other nations that are now but dream,
with nothing lasting in their character
istics."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
An Ideal Husband

Is patient. even with nageing wife. for he knows
she needs help. She may be so nervous and run
down In health that trifies annoy her. II she is
melancholy. excitabe. troubled with loss of appe-
tte headache. sleepleseness constipation faint
ing and dizzy spells. she needs Electric Bitters. the
most wonderful remedy for ailing women. Thou
sands Of sufferers from female troubles nervous
troubles. backache and weak kidneys have used
them and become healthy and happy. Try them.
Only Soc Satisfaction guaranteed by all druggists.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is blood
constitutional disease and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure
is taken internally. and acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cureis not a
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
regular prescription. 1t is composed of the besi
tonics known. combined with the best blood puri-
ers. acting directly the mucous surfaces. THE
perfect combination Of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh
Send for testimonials free
f. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pil for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
NEW INDUSTRY.

In Talbot county, Md, a plant has
been erected to make fertilizer from
the shells and refuse of hard crabs
from the packing houses. There are 2
large number of these crab packing hou-
ses on the Eastern Shore and hereto
fore the refuse has been hauled out and
used in its rough state by farmers and
truckers, but it is said that with a Ger.
tain process and combination of 9th.
ingredients it makes the very best com.
mercial fertilizer.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
TAKING NO CHANCE.

Darling" he said, az wish to be
perfectly frank and honest with you.
We are to be married a week from next
Thursday. Don't you think l ought be-
fore it is forever too late to tell you the
story of my past life?''
The Boston girl recoiled in horror
from him, crying
''No-no! Please don't. The ar.
rangements for the wedding have al
been completed, and should never bs
able to face my friends again if it wers
to be nullified now!"-Chicago Record
Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A cents worth Of electricity, at the
average price in this country, will raise
10 tons IL feet high with crane in less
than minute.
Did you ever notice that it is always
the man who borrows his neighbor's
paper is the one who always says the
mean things about the paper.-Buens
Vista Times.
Mark Twain was also responsible for
this one: 'If you pick up starving
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
DRILLIANTS.

Every man is the architect of his own
fortune. -Appius Claudius.
Some persons are so devotional they
have not bit of true religion in them.
-R. r. Hayden.
Lying rides upon debts back. -
Franklin.
Danger for dangers sake is sense
less. Leigh Hunt.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us
more ourselves, it enables US to express
ourselves. --Hamerton.
When a man is wrong and won't ad.
NIT it, he always gets angry. -Halibur.
ton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20

we had another moon once, but that
broke into pieces and these are the
pieces; and may be they are parts of
the planet that once revolved between
Mars and Jupiter. Over 500 of the
larger pieces of this planet have been
discovered and catalogued, One of
these few away inside of Mars outfits
why may not many of the smaller pieces
and these solid meteors be they? 1t Is
probably so-Columbus Journal,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
j. HAMMELL CO.,
FlEASAhTYIlLE. N. ].

Designers and Manufacturers of Artistic
Memorials in Marble and Granite.
OFFICES-Atlantic City, N. j.; Phil
adelphia, Pa; Wheaton, Va. Address
ii. Booker Hale, Agent. Wheaton.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-05-20
when IN NORFOLK STOP I
1.-THE ATLANTIC"

Most conveniently located Hotel
CORNER MAIN AND CRANKY STS
Rooms S1.OO and $1.5O.
American Plan $3.50 and $500.
Fine Cafe. Uynn's) newly fitted up
on first floor.
Rappahannock Valley people make Il
headquarters.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-11-02
Thouahts For Housewife.

Love covereth a multitude of sins.
and Indifference in little things may
cover up much love.
If clubs club more nerve force out Of
you than brain force into you you may
some time want to club yourself for
belonging to clubs.
When trying to iron out domestic
wrinkles have acare that you do not
scorch out some ones good nature.
Hold up the mirror to nature-that
Is. the nature of your husband-and
you cannot always hold down his tend
ency to hold off from holding you in
his confidence.
Domestic equilibrium generally de-
ponds on the correct balance of the
whole matrimonial sketch. When the
atmosphere of love is rarefied by the
superheating Of tempers cold cur.
rent Of resentment may flow in to fill
the vacuum, and sometimes the re-
suit is a cyclone of Indignation fatal
to the affections.
Short tempers and long faces are the
rule when you would rule your house.
hold with rules.
The good deed in my head availeth
little unless l will put it on foot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-11-02
He'd Learned the Trick.

A group of young women connected
with a church where a popular young
clergyman has recently been installed
as assistant recently attended a chris
tening at which he officiated. He had
great success with the bairnies. whom
he handled SO gently and effectively
that the girls stopped in at the old
sections office in the church afterward
and chatted away about it.
"Oh, he had to practice a lot with a
dummy baby before he got to doing
the trick of holding the kid comfort
ably" they were told. ''In the divinity
school where he studied the students
had to practice with a rag baby in
long clothes, so that is the way our
new assistant got to be so perfect"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-11-02
NO REASON FOR IT
When morrisvilIe Citizens Show
the Certain WAY Out

There can be no Just reason why any
reader of this will continue to suffer the
tortures of an aching back, the ANNOYANCE
OF urinary disorders, the dangers of dia-
betes or any Kidney ills when relief is so
near at hand and the most positive proof
given that tley can be cured. Read what
Morrisvllle citizen says:
II Z. Ballow, Jersey Heights. ST. Nor.
'lsNille, VT, says; 81 suffered consider
ably from backache and disordered kid
neys. The kidney secretions were too FREE
qnent in passage and unnatural. used
medicine for these troubles, but failed to
find any relief until 1 procured Doan's
Kidney Pills from A. L. Cheney's Drug
store. After taking them short time,
was helped and continued use entirely
rid me of my trouble. | am glad to
speak word in praise of Doan's Kidney
Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milburn Co., New York, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and take
no other.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-11-02

One funny thing, it seemed to me,
Ut was hardly good horse sense,)
Some of our leading business men
Would take no stock, nor contribute I cts.
But just the same row am done,
These men smile and look glad;
And if sh ould prove to be worth cent,
For that they would surely grab.
One thing was very encouraging,
The people of Hyde Park Street
Spoke words of cheer and helpfulness
Whenever we did meet.
In spite of their dire catastrophe,
Loss of homes and county seat
They went down into their pockets
Their generosity can't be beat.
Ny neighbors on the west,
Johnson's loyal men,
Saw what | most needed,
And a helping hand did lend;
Their money and goods were ready,
They furnished their goods at cost.
Their kindness in my behalf
Shall surely not be lost.
Now if never had been built,
Our honors would not be so great
We could not have seen and listened to
The leading men of our State.
Now, friends, we have talked it over,
Let US shake the friendly hand,
And in conclusion, will say
Three cheers for the speakers and band.