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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
Business Failures

ihere Is more than one kind of bust
ness failure. The first and what might
be called the only true failure In bust
ness from statistical standpoint is
that where person fails owing money
to others. This Is the failure In which
the business world is really interested
because In 1t is involved the loss of
other peoples money. The failure
merely to succeed and the temporarv
or permanent withdrawal of the fail
Ing trader with only the loss of his
own capital cannot have the interest
Tor the community at large that would
follow IL the failing trader had lost
some other persons money besides his
own For the first kind of failure
there Is usually a public record OF
some kind which can be statisticaIly
measured; for the second there is real
~ no record at all. and the unfortunate
business mariner sinks without the
traditional ripple. AS regards the lat
ter sort Of failure it is well to remem-
Der. too. the old saying regarding
square pegs and round holes. A man
may fail To succeed several times. vet
ultimately win In another line of bust
ness. and some of the most conspicu-
Gus hnal successes i'm business have
sometimes met with these temporary
ulscoura gements.-Century.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
cIassed With Guinea PIos.

II any city IN the United States has
more than Its share Of thoroughbred
impostors 1t is Washington. where
they flourish and apparently multiply,
and they are Of every known type and
variety. One can find men there who
Will represent themselves to be almost
anything within the sphere of human
possibilities, and Representatives,. too.
II they catch you when you aren't
looking.
An old fellow met an official OF the
Smithsonian institution walking In the
surrounding mall one day and grasped
an opportunity to unfold his tale of
woe. representing himself to be a
friend since boyhood days of a distin-
guished Confederate general and his
wife. AS the generals wife was then
residing in Washington and was a
personal friend Of the official. he took
the fellow to her, with view to help
Ing the unfortunate, provided he was
genuine. Mrs. General conversed with
him for few moments and then re-
marked:
well. sir. you remind me of
guinea pig"
The man looked at her In amaze
ment until she finally added, "You
know it isn't pig at all, and it does
not come from Guinea.
Star
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
A CHINESE SOLOMON.
His Decision In a Case of a Woman
With Two Husbands

His Decision In a Case of a Woman
With Two Husbands.
There was n Chinese Judge named
Wang, who was as wise as Solomon.
Before Wang two men and a woman
appeared. The older man was the wo-
mans first husband. He had gone TO
the wars and been reported dead. Now
ne returned alive to claim his wife.
But she meanwhile had married the
younger man, who refused to give her
up; hence all three came before Wang
that he might decide this truly difficult
case.
Yang H." said the Judge to the wo-
man, (which OF these two men made
the better husbandY
Both We're perfect husbands. nv
lord judge" Yang Ki modestly replied.
So the judge told the men that he
would keen the woman by him for a
week, examining her thoroughly, and
week hence he would decide the
case. Well, the week passed, and the
two husbands came once more before
the judge. He shook his head gravely
and said TO them:
1.-The woman. Yang Xxi. has died.
There is no case. Let her original hus-
band take the body away from my
house and pay for the burial"
"Ho, not To- said the original hus-
band. And, SO saying, he darted from
the court and was soon lost to view.
You. them" said the Judge TO the
other man, must stand these burial
expenses"
YES" the man answered, "that Is
just, and / VIII give this woman, who
was good and kind, the finest burial
my purse win allow"
The judge clapped his hands. Yang
Xxi, blushing and smiling. entered the
IN a rich dress OF gold bro
cade
Take her." said the wise judge, "for
you and not the other merit her love
and service"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
BELIEVE in YOURSELF.

| Hlnh Wen or yourself.
| IL you do not others will not think
well Of you. because one IS accepted
largely at ones own estimate of one.
self
have read somewhere that the man
who does not think we'll of himself
and Is not good to himself blasphemes
the God who made him and pro-
nounced him good.
But the main reason for thinking
well OF yourself is to be found in this
Bible truth:
"As a man thinketh in his heart so
Is he"
IL you think yourself worthy Won
VIII try to be worthy; IL you think you
do not amount to much you will moi
amount to much; If you think yourself
capable of doing things you Will do
them.
somehow the mysterious life proc
esses OF mind and body tend to repr,-
duce In your mind and body what YOU
think.
Napoleon believed in his great des-
tiny. II he had not so believed there
would have been no great destiny.
Modest Abraham Lincoln-if Won
will read his life closely-never nut a
low estimate on himself, always be-
lieved In his own powers.
Think well Of yourself and of your
future. 1t Is as sinful to mistrust
yourself and cheat your future as to
mistrust and cheat your neighbor.
III you talk with the average young
man of today he will give one of two
excuses why he does not get along:
F1rst.-Heredity. He will say he is
handicapped because he was born to
mediocrity and therefore cannot be
what he wants to be, or
Second.-Environme He win foil
you he Is what he is because of his
surroundings and that he cannot be
what he ought to be.
Whereas
There Is power within himself
greater than both these other forces
communicative power OF personal en-
deavor
III modern psychology has revealed
any one thing 1t is the tremendous
power of the human will. If Won
greatly DESIRE to be or do and Try
IL you keep on desiring and trying.
you VIII be what you want to be-do
what you want to do.
Darwin tells US that at first the
eagle could not fly. but 1t WANTED
10 ny and TRIED to fly. 1t kept on,
through generations Of eagles, desiring
and trying to fly.
FINALLY. through the processes Of
evolution, came the day when the first
eagle scared into the emyprean.
So Of the human mind.
strong desire and continued trial. a
never railing belief In oneself and
possiDiiities-these are the conditions.
The result must follow.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
CONCENTRATION.

Possibly when you were young you
learned the way of the burning glass.
Using Il small mirror. you concen-
trated the rays of light upon some
ones hand or face. When the victim
felt slight burning sensation he
looked about him for the perpetrator.
Long ago men discovered that the
rays of the sun focused by n large
lens would set fire to combustibles.
Well
The human mind has qualities some
what like the sun. By concentrating
its attention upon n particular thing
for length. Of time results are pro-
duced.
Whereas
II the attention is distracted from
one thing to another and the fugitive
rays of thought are scattered. there is
no accomplishment
Concentration is power.
What we call mesmerism is merely
the power f the mind-raised to its
highest by concentration effort
If you would succeed iiSzfre learn &c
concentrate your mental faculties.
Education itself is largely the &C.
quired ability to focus the mind on its
task
Concentrate.
Fix your mind upon whatever pur-
pose you have In view. Bring TO bear
upon your concerted effort every unit
OF your will force. And keep at II.
That is the price of accomplishment.
AS the mischievous boy holds the
mirror at The proper angle until the
victim Of his practical joke feels the
sting of the burn, so must you hold the
mirror of your mind ut the proper an
gle until the effect is produced.
And this power. mind you, which no
one fully understands, is divine power.
You merely borrow 1t.
1t is lent to you for benign purposes.
DO not use 1t basely or selfishly.
IL you should misuse the mysterious
power. IL you should employ 1t to hurt
a weaker brother or ruin a weaker SIS
ter. bewarei
The reaction OF the lSw is as divine
as the law itself.
But wisely used concentration is the
only way 20 reach the right goal of n
life's desire.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE.

Schedule in effect Saturday, May 18th, ls,c
Washington. anu
Leave Baltimore. Pier 3, Light Street
ats y. m every Monday
w,eunesuay and saturday. for the following
river landings, Alexandria and washinrton.
baltimore y. M. Millers. Brootncs. Porto
Delo, Grasons. Coan a. M. Buudicks lakes
Wslnut Point, Cowarts. Lewisetta Kinsale
Lodge. Mundv Point. sClntra Piney Point IN
a. m. Leonardtown 10 noon Abells Cohrllms
STONES. Bushwood, Lancaster 4 D. m River
side Liverpool Point, Glymont, AieTandria.
Washington.
.Stops only on signal.
Leave Warrington, ID. c., foot of Seventh
Street, weather permitting. at 4 ID. m, every
lowing river landings and Ral timore:
MashinRton:Alexandr 4:45 D. m. Glymont
Liverpool Point Rivers de, Bush wood Ian
caster, Cobrums. Stone Leonardtown q a m :
Aoclis. P1ney Point. sCintrn, Lodge 10 A. m '
mundy Point. kinsale Il noon Coan R1n-
uicks: Lakes. walnut Point. Cowarts LewIs-
etta- Miilers p. m. Grasons 3 ID. M. Broom "a
Porto Bello u. M. Baltimore.
stop only on signal
Arriving In Baltimore early wedpesdav ri
daysnd Monday mornings.
Freight received in Baltimore ON sailing
days until p. m.
This timetable shows the time nj which
steamers may Toe expected to arrive nj and
depart from the several wharyes h,it their
hrrlNals or departure at the times stated "a nor
guaranteed. nor does the Company hold Itself
arising therefrom.
STEPHENSON BRO, Agts.. washingtop
hhAhDON and GRIMES, Agts., Alexandria
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
MONEY MANIA.

A man died i'm Chicago recently
who was supposedly a pauper. He
was buried In the potter's field by the
county.
Later. it developed. the man was
possessed OF 100000.
He was insane.
That is to say. an inquiry might not
have sent him TO an asylum. Never
theless his mind was warped out OF
normal shape.
He died for want of common com.
forts, clutchinG at his money. lie was
a literal martyr TO his money.
A man who cares more for mere
dollars than for that which dollars
can buy is more or less crazy.
Somebody has said something like
this: The spendthrift believes coined
money was minted in round shape
SO that It would roll easily. The mise
, believes that coined money was mint
ed fiat so that it would easily pile up.
However that may be. neither miser
nor spendthrift knows the true mean
ing OF money-that 1t is measure of
values and medium of exchange
The spendthrift cares little for his
| dollar. puts upon 1t Il low purchasin,
power aud cares nothing for value re
| ceived. The miser cares too muck
for his dollar. estimates too highly
its purchasing power and is not will
ing to part with 1t for value received.
And both spendthrift and miser make
defense by saying:
ut is my money!
But In Il wider sense that is not
| true. That money represents some
body's toll and sweat and sacrifice. 1t
was Intended to buy somebody clothes.
food. roof over head. 1t is part of the
accumulated capital Of society.
Suppose one were to say: Here IS
$1,000. 1t is mine. will throw it
into the fire."
No. nor you would interpose.
And yet in Il social sense n man has
as much right TO burn his money in
the fire as to squander 1t foolishly or
pile IL up uselessly.
The Chicago miser had money ma
mia.
Thousands have the same disease.
more or less.
And were we TO put ali the people
who are troubled by this distemper
into insane hospitals 1t might be there
would be more people inside the asy-
lum than out of it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25

that tell Of his whereabouts. II his
steps have strayed In wantonness or
IL they have gone on a mission of
mercy the fact is catalogued.
The irrevocable pastl
"And 1. John. saw the dead. both
great and small. standing before the
throne. aud the books were opened.
and another book was opened which
is the book OF life, and the dead were
judged out of the things written in
the books, according to their works"
fou may or may not believe Johns
vision. but you Must believe in the
book of memory. You know that you
can live a half lifetime In brief
dream. You can cross the ocean to
some remembered haunt in flash or
recall long buried event of years at
your will
The drowning man sees the sweep
or lifetime In few seconds. Moth
ing is missing. The panorama moves
with lightning speed. but it is all I'M
rolled.
Nothing is really hidden.
All things must some day be reveal
ed.
Be careful OF your scroll!
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
EASILY MANAGED.
The Clever Scheme Evolved by the
Clock Winder.


The Clever Scheme Evolved by the
Clock Winder.
The contract for keeping the church
and town hall clocks In order was civ.
en- to new man. Unfortunately from
the start he experienced difficulty In
getting the clocks to strike at the same
time. At last the district council re-
Quested an interview with the watch
maker.
You are not so successful with the
clocks as your predecessor" he was
told. 1T is very misleading TO have
one clock striking three or four min
utes after the other. Before you took
them IN hand we could hardly tell the
two were striking. Surely you are rs
competent?"
Every workman has his own meth
DDS. gentlemen replied the watch
maker. land mine Amt the same as
H.'s were"
I'm decidedly OF the opinion that Il
would be for the general good II they
were" remarked one OF the councillors.
Very well. sir. In future they shall
be-" came the reply. II happened TO
write to him last week about the trou-
BILE had with the clocks. and-but
perhaps" be added as he produced II
letter and handed II to the chairman.
you'd like to see what he said"
Dear sir" ran the letter-"about
them clocks. When you get to know
what a cantankerous lot OF busybodies
the council consists OF you'll do the
same as did for fifteen years-forget
to wind up the striker OF the town hail
clock, and the blooming jackasses
won't be able to tell that both clocks
amt striking togetherr'-London Tit
Riffs
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
ODD ELECTION SIGNS.
The Signs Are In Washington. th,
Elections Elsewhere.

Elections Elsewhere.
"Of course we doisr tssve my cleo
lions or our owu.'' Siid, man from
Washington. but week.-Mrs. election In
timations. IL l may call them that.
which can't be Duplicated anywhere
else In the country.
You see. when we Neutrality-suspicious.
want to vote we've got to do it some
where else. and as most OF us have n
lingering fondness for the franchise.
we are pretty likely to hang on to IA
residence somewhere outside the Dis
tricti
I'VE especially like to do 1t because.
1t makes us feel as IL we had some
sort or weapon 10 flourish before the
observing eyes of the politicians who
may have something TO say about our
hold on our jobs. and when the time
comes to go home TO vote we visibly
swell with Importance
Naturally a national election is the
one that catches us all at once. and IL
is then that the intima tons [ spoke OF
do most abound. The papers are full
OF advertisements OF loans for election
expenses. Department clerks can be
accommodated with sums covering
their railway fare. new clothes for
the trip and a substantial margin over
and above necessary items The inter
est Is bit high. but clerk who Is
pining to go back home TO spIurge n
bit Is willing 10 mortgage his re-
sources for the pleasure.
These offers OF loans fill columns
of the daily papers. Alongside of them
are other advertisements. all turning
on the one theme. the election. Buy
yourself a new suit to go home and
vote inr The grammar is a bit of.
but the prices are asserted TO be all
right.
In the shop windows there are doz-
ems Of election placards: Just the hat
to wear when you go home TO vote,
Specials in suit cases for the election
Take souvenir hatpin to your best
girl when you go home to vote
Swell suit for the election. only 81
week. and In shoe store window.
Tramp, tramp. tramp. the boys are
marching-home TO vote; wear IS
shoes and you won't get sore feetr e
The railways offer special rates to
voters. and so 1t goes. You won't find
anything like 1t in any other town.
New York Sun.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
or;oi, Of ,bs Word c.,.a,

On April 20. 1854. Jacques Cartier
sailed from St Maio, Brittany, with
two ships and sixty-one men for Lab
rador, skirted Newfoundland. named
Chaleur bay. crossed the eastern end
OF Anticosti and then headed for
France again. The next year Cartier
returned with three ships. thought he
saw ia the st. Lawrence the wished
Tor passage TO India and was only I'M
deceived by the freshness of the wa
yer ON. reaching the mouth Of The Sa-
guenay. Then was revealed the ma
Jestlc size of the continent. for. with
the exception of the Amazon and Tho
orlnoco. no American river gives one
such sense of power and gr; nde,Ir.
As The Frenchmen inquired the nnnes
OF the Indian villages along the ban ks
they were answered "Canadu." n NO
haWk word meaning village. but which
was applied by the Frenchmen To the
country.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
In Honor of Minerva

The most notable festival ut Athens
was IN honor Of Minerva. All classes
OF citizens on this particular day
marched in procession. The oldest
went first, then the young men, then
the children. the young women, the
mntrons and the people OF the lower
orders. The most prominent object In
the parade was a ship propelled by
hidden machinery and bearing at its
masthead the sacred banner Of the
goddess.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
TO A MOTHER
1ou love your little pirI?

lou love your little girl?
of course you do. else you would
not DE mother. and it verges on i'm.
pertinenee TO make the inquiry.
Iaking that for granted, then. Won
VIII not object to few plain words
from a man old enough to be vour
girfs father. will you?
of course You know as well as l do
the Importance of maintaining conf
Dental relations with your daughter
But what i want to speak to Won
about specifically is this:
You should impress 1t upon your
daughter that the man who asks her
to keep anything from her mother il
TO be regarded with grave suspicion.
Make her realize that the fact itself
or proposing to her TO keep her family
In Ignorance Of his intentions is prima
racie evidence that such mans pur.
poses are not honorable to her.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

All things leave their imprint
The outline Of the leaf is discovered
in the broken lump of coal. Every
tremor OF the earth is recorded on the
seismograph.
If you will visit a federal weather
bureau you will note all sorts of meas
uring and recording Instruments for
the velocity of the wind, the tempera-
ture, even the time of sunshine and of
cloud.
Scientists say every passing thought
makes its stamp on the cells Of the
brain. ..
keen observer may read a mans
character. 1t is written indelibly on
his face.
lie us say it reverently, God him
self cannot wipe out the scroll Of the
past. He can forgive. but he cannot
change the record.
What is written is written.
DR.. Conwell tells about the ingenuity
or one OF the London banks In keeping
tab on its Waterman. Each square
OF the marble floor rested on a steel
point which was connected with an
electric dial.
The Waterman was told to keep
awake by walking the floor. One did
so for awhile. Then he took book,
sat down to read and fell asleep.
When discharged next day he threat
ened to sue the bank.
Then he was shown the registry.
AT three minutes to IL you stopped
walking and remained in one spot for
two hours"
There was the entry.
Under every mans feet are the wires
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
ONE BRAVE WOMAN

A mob OF Infatuated strikers at,Twin
Lakes. Wis, came near TO hanging n
foreman.
The victim was taken,to an icehouse,
where he was placed on a block, and
the moose adjusted about his neck, lie
asked permission TO offer a prayer, be-
fore he died. The mob hesitated, ibut
consented.
Having in mind the possibility OF n
rescue. the unfortunate man raised his
voice In petition such as you may
have heard at some old time camp
meeting.
The accents OF the prayer reached
the ears OF Mrs John Ardell, who kept
the boarding house where the men
lodged.
Suspecting that something was
wrong, she set out armed withla poker
and shotgun.
The voice OF prayer had ceased The
woman rushed into the icehouse. push
ing aside the men. With knife she
cut the rope. Turning toward the
crowd with the shotgun, she declared
she would shoot the first man who
~ the
The mob growled in its throat: ,but.
looking into the flashing eyes oft the
determined woman. no man dared Tap
proach.
Meantime the friends of the fore
man had rallied. They arrived on the
scene. dispersed the mob and rescued
the man.
And thus did one lone. fearless wo-
man save the life OF a man.
Which leads us to say
II some sheriffs. sworn to uphold the
law and supposedly brave, were as
prompt and courageous as Mrs. John
Ardeil or Twin Lakes, many. a prison
er placed in their custody might be
saved for fair trial.
mob is cowardly. .,
IL Is not an aggregation lof intelli-
gence. 1t Is Il coalition of brutality.
And 1t is cowed by a display of cour-
age.
The mob knows 1t is arraigning it.
self against the law. and it isa afraid OF
the law. -
1t has been said, "God and zone man
are a majority. In the same sense
the law and one officer of the law are
majority.
The trouble with the average, sheriff
or deputy Is lack Of courage. Either
on account of personal cowardice or
because of political fears he is tempt.
ed TO become willing accessory to
mob murder. /.
Mrs. John 'Ardell should be elected
high sheriff of her county.
She is highly qualified for,the Office.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
How the Rash Comes.

In measles a rash appears on the
fourth day Of the fever. 1t is first
seen on the forehead, face and neck,
afterward over the whole body. 1t
consists Of raised red spots. In scarlet
fever the rash appears on the second
day OF the fever. commencing on the
upper part of the chest and neck.
whence 1t spreads over the body. In
smallpox an eruption is seen on the
third or fourth day on the face neck
and wrists. In chicken pox the erup
ton is made OF small blebs. In typhoid
fever the rash rarely shows itself be
fore the seventh day OF the fever. The
spots are rose colored. and they disap
pear on pressure.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-03-25
HE Planning Machine

As to the original inventor Of The
plaplng machine there is perhaps
scarcely machine about which there
mas been more controversy than this.
and there are many claimants TO the
honor. There are records. however.
showing that Nicholas Forq. French
cIockmaker used metal planer in
l'oi for machining pump cylinders. ap-
parentiy being under the impression
that they could be made more accu-
rately in this manner than by re-
volvinS cutter.-Cassier's Magazine.