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The evening world., 1910-12-21
Symptoms Of Kidney Trouble.

Swamp-Eoot Is no, recommended for
everything, but II you are obliged 10 pass
your water frequently night and day,
smar,ing or irritation in passing. brick
dust or sediment in the urine. headache,
back ache, lame back. dizziness, poor
digestion. slccplessncss, nervousness,
heart disturbance due to bad kidney
trouble, skin eruptions from bad blood.
neuralgia, rheumatism, lunbago. bloat-
ing, ~irritability, WORKOUT feeling, lack OF
ambition. may be loss Of flesh, or sallow
complexion, Dright's disease may be
stealing upon you, which is the worst
form Of kidney trouble.
Swamp-Poot Is Pleasant to Take.
II you are already convinced that
Swrmp-Root is what you need, you can
purchase the regular ifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles at all drug stores.
Don't make any mistake. but remember
the name. DR., Kilmer's Swamp-Root
and the address, Binghamton. n. Y,
which you will find on every bottle.
The evening world., 1910-12-21
NEWS.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
INCOMING STEAMSHIPS
ALMANAC FOR u

DIE Tp-pAN
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thicasp, HAVE. George Washington,
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tatnis, Color.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
The Books w. Rad

What we read has an actual effect
on u.s. Books are also like people in
that. The people among whom you
spend most of your time will make
YOU more or less like them, and the
books You read will make your mind
something like themselves. If we get
into the habit OF reading silly or care
less or cheap literature we gradually
lose the power to read what is strong
and true and fine. It is occasionally
necessary to take a good deal of trou-
bic to read fine book. just as It re-
quires care and time to do a tiue piece
or work. But 1t is worth the trouble.
What Is called taste for good iitera.
ture Is one OF the most delightful pos
sessions In life. We must begin to get
this taste while we are still young or
we run risk OF never getting 1t at
all. In which case we lose forever out
or our lives all the beautiful and wise
and noble books which the world has
been making for us these many hun
dred years. 1t would be like going
about In a few ugly rags when the
closet upstairs is full OF charming
clothes ready to put on and ours only
for the trouble OF unlocking the closet
door.-St. Nicholas.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
Phosnhorn.ocnt Eor....

The phosphorescence OF certain aga.
RIGS OF Borneo has more than ouce de-
moralized the superstitious natives and
astonished whites. Some years ago a
party of English engineers found II
necessary to survey n tract of low "
ing country which was almost impene-
trah.e, and to blaze the trail natives
were employed to work at night, 9th.
ers during the day. The former came
into camp one night stating that they
could not so through a portion OF the
bush or forest, strange Spirits on the
trees telling them that evil would be-
fall them IL they continued. The "spir.
it's proved to be a magnificent display
or phosphorescence emanatinc from
agaries growing upon the dead limbs
or the trees. These vegetable FIRE bod.
les were traced for a considera Bile dis.
lance, producing most remarkable
exhibition, the light i'm some places
being so brilliant that II was difficult
to believe that the forest was not afire.
To test the brilliancy the men held
pape-s near the most brilliant portions
and read by the light.-London Globe.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
Daudet's Bowl of Coins.

FOR careless generosity Daudet. the
great French writer. could not be ont.
eiassed by any man Of his time. At
one time he used to place on the man.
teipiece OF his study. at tAe time when
ne held his weekly receptions. a bowl
winch was filed with silver coins. II
was understood that IL any one of
tne Dohemians Of letters who came to
pee MN needed little financial as
ISSUANCE ne could go to the bowl and
eeip himself. The experiment natural
~ failed. There were those who came
10 the receptions only for the sake OF
the bowl. There were those who nut
TOO liberal an Interpretation ON the
mute invitation extended to them. ~
used to see fellows pocketing the coins
oy handfuls," said Daudet, "and I'm the
enc l had to abandon the practice. -
Argonaut.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
CAUTION IN THE MINT.
They Almost Strain the Air to Saw,
Particles Of Gold

They Almost Strain the Air to Save
Particles of Gold.
1t has been APPLY said that no miser
guards his treasure more religiously
than Uncle Sam wat hes over the pre-
cious metals that pass through bis
mints. Then, too. the precautions
against waste are almost innumera ble
Every evening in each of the minis
OF the United States the floors of the
melting rooms are swept cleaner than
a New England housewives kitchen.
The dust Is carefully put aside. and
about once In two months the SCOT
scraped from every aue Is transferred
to the same precious dust heap. This
Is then burned, and from ITS ashes the
| government derives no inconsiderable
income. The earthenware crucibIes
used In melting are employed no more
than three times. they are crushed
beneath heavy rollers, and In their
porous sides are found fakes of the
precious metal.
In the melting room when the cast
ers raise their ladies from the melting
pots shower of sparks fly from the
molten surface OF the metal. For the
most part they are bits of lncandes-
cent carbon. but clinging to the car
bon Is often a minute particle of met
al. Lest such particles should escape.
the ashes and clinkers below the fur
naces are gathered up at night. This
debris Is ground into powder by means
or steam crusher aud then is sold to
a smelter. like ordinary ore. at a price
warranted by the assayer.
The ladies' that stir the precious met
al, the big Iron rods. the strainers and
the dippers. all are tested I'm a most
curious fashion. After considerable
use they become covered with n thin
layer OF oxidiZed silver, closely resem-
bling brown rust The implements
are then laid In baths of a solution of
sulphuric acid, which eats away the
iron and steel and leaves the silver
untouched.
Gradually the ladle. or whatever the
implement is, will disappear, and in
Its place remains hollow silver coun-
terpart of the original. delicate as
spung glass. These fragile casts repro
duce the ladle with perfect accuracy
In all Its details, although their sur
faces are perforated with innumera Bile
little holes. Scarcely have they been
nodded, however, before they are cast
into crucible to become In time dol
lars, quarters and dimes.
In one corner Of the melting room
there Is large tank into which new
~ cast silver bars are dropped and
left to cool. Infnitesimal flakes of sill
yer scale Off and rise to the surface of
the water, which acquires the metallic
ulster OF stagnant pool. Here is
silver that must not be lost. so be-
meath the pipe through which the tank
Is emptied is banked a thick layer
or mud. AS the water filters through
1t the mud retains the precious resi-
dunn. Four times year this mud
Is removed, and each experiment dis
closes the fact that some $50 has been
saved.-Baltimore American.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04

wuuteu 10 be tail. ike the pine.
He asked the pine what troubled IL
and the pine replied that It was dis
couraged because Il could not grow
grapes like the vine
Upon being Intercepted the vine
complained because II could not hold
up its top among the trees. And so on
The king came TO he beartsease anG
noticed that it held up it's head and
smiled
swell. heartsease,' said the king
how Is IL that you are the one brave
little plant that fourishes and blooms
in the midst OF the discouragemen,
and failure all about your"
why. your ma jesty." said the
heartsease, IT know l am small and
or little moment. but made up my
mind when you planted me you want.
ed heartsease. that's all. You didn't
want an oak or a pine"
Do you see?
Many OF us want to be an oak or n
pine in the kings garden and are no,
contented to be just heartsease.
One says, "If only were rich !
would do great things for the world
another. of only | had authority l
would lead the people in right paths. y
etc.
II! Did you ever stop to think that
you may be fitted for a small circle
rather than n larger one?
And that if you fill to the full meas.
ure the smaller circle you have done
as well as IL you had Oiled larger
sphere?
In fact. if you have met your obliga-
lions In the little circle You have done
more than IL you had only partially
filled circumference of greater re-
sponsibility.
Do your best In your place.
Angels can do no more,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
Tho siowness of st,rv.,;,,


During prolonged fast the loss OF
weight is unusually rapid at first and
decreases as the time goes on. Death
ensues when a certain percentage of
the loss has been reached, and this
percentage varies according to the
original weight. Fat animals may lose
half their weight. thinner ones per-
maps two-fifths. A man or woman OF
rather spare build weighing 143
pounds might therefore lose about tif-
y-hve pounds before succumbing.
Children die after fast of from three
10 nve days. during which they have
lost quarter Of their weight. Healthy
ADULTS. however, have tasted fifty DAYS
when water has been taken. A Ger
man physician reports the case of a
woman aged forty-seven years who
TASTED for forty-three days, taking wa
Ter freely. She lost forty-four pounds
out or LAB pounds and died from ex-
haustion.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
Heart toHeart
Talks.
IF A NAN lsE--

A correspondent who read our little
article on "Intimations OF immortal
ity" says, Until science proves Inn
mortality 1 am an agnostIc"
Why, my dear friend. science Is hav-
ing lot of trouble nowadays to prove
anything, even the division OF force
and matter or the old doctrine OF the
conservation OF energy.
Besides, even should science prove
Immortality. would the fact sink into
your soul as an entity or become a
moral force I'm your life?
Life itself Is the best proof OF future
life. How can a soul that knows its
own potency doubt that 1t will live?
Says the Nazarene, He that wills
TO do his will shall know Of the tsoc-
trine." The soul that is rich In spir.
itual experience shall know-not guess
but KNOW.
Are you Mason?
II so, or an Odd Fellow. you have q
knowledge OF the sublime significance
OF certain teachings and symbols that
the outsider does not know.
So OF the great souls-the Emersons
and Brownings and Tennysons-souls
that have been initiated fully into the
spiritual life, TO these souls has the
mystery OF Immortality been largely
revealed.
Another thing. Suppose you were
given TO know your immortality and
have not the desire to fulfil the pur
poses OF futurity. What would be the
use?
To fit one for Immortality the SOU
must already be in tune with truth
and purity and righteousness. else you
would be as much out OF place in the
future life as a red handed robber be-
side the communion table.
Don't yon see?
Is your soul thus properly -attuned
The final proof must be there.
Moreover. the larger the soul the
greater It's capacity, the better IL Is at
tuned. the greater fits testimony TO au
eternal outcome.
That Is to say, the soul that is on its
tiptoes to learn will KNOW.
Permit me to substitute one word In
Victor Hugo's phrase: There is q
philosophy which denies the existence
of Immortality. There Is also q philos-
ophy which denies the existence OF the
sun. This philosophy Is called BLIND
NES3'
Poor you, You have so long per-
haps neglected your spiritual sight the
sense OF II has become atrophied.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
THE FORCE OF cENrLENEss.

Ever read "white Fang" Jack Lon
don's companion story to 1.-The Call Of
the wild?"
The latter story, you remember
shows how dog gently reared, stoler
for the Klondike sledge trade and
most cruelty treated, escaped to the
wolves, answering the call OF the wild
white Fang" shows the opposite, the
power OF kindness and good surround.
ings.
Briefly this is the story:
White Fang is part wolf and fights
for the mere love Of fighting. He IS
savagely cruel. Failing into the hands
or Weeden Scott, the latter's kindness
seems thrown away on the vicious
brute. But Scott persists In his steady
gentleness and finally finds the one
tender spot under the hide of the lit
tie beast.
The climax OF the good masters eff
forts comes when he leaves the dog
Tor a few days. White Fang pines
and refuses to eat and. what is more
significant, refuses to fight. When
Scott returns the dog meets him trem-
bling and. miracle Of miracles
THE WOLF is WAGGING HIS
TAIL.
Which means that White Fang was
conquered. civilized, saved. Redeem
ed by the force OF Kindness. the tail
wagging signifies everlasting friend
ship and devotion.
A lesson for parents:
II a wolf dog. hardened by mistreat-
ment can be changed-converted
persistent kindness. how much easier
to change rebellious child and melt
and transform 1t by continued kind
nessi
Cannot a father and mother be as
patient toward child as was Weeden
scott toward a hybrid beast? Is not
your child worth as much as a dogp
And teacher:
You ought never to forget that d.
vine power that is In you to mold and
iashion with tenderness the lives of
the little ones. some Of whom come
from wolfish homes.
You are doing-we say 1t reverentlv
what the Almighty power would do
II 1t could!
And so OF our laundering day. We
pirate OF Increasing prosperity, thrift.
invention, organization of industry. as
III TO pile up money were the great
problem Of government.
No! The problem Of government TO-
day Is to lift up and help the lives of
the Door, the wolfishly reared and neg
ieeted. Money making will take care
OF itself.
When this world shall have been
mace as good place for all men and
women ana children to live In as for
some unfortunate dogs, then, and not
un.li tnen' shall we have made real
progress in civilization.
III you have never read .sWb;ta
rang" do so. 1t will set You TO think.
ing.
or what is better, it viii set Won to
bEELING. ~
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
TO THE NAN or FORTY.

1t Is commonly accepted saying
that unless n man succeeds I'm life by
the time he is forty years of age he
will never succeed.
The statement is untrue.
1t Is too broad
The facts are against It.
A study OF the lives OF successful
men VIII show that success comes to
most men after rather than before
forty.
Is II financial success? Whoever
made great fortune before he was
forty years old?
Or politics? Few men get started in
before forty. The man who
goes TO the United States senate at
fifty Is rated as a young member.
Or merchandise. or literature, or art.
or the professions?
Most men at forty are just ready for
successful endeavor. They have made
mistakes and have learned by expert
ence. They have found their real place
and discovered their limitations. Years
have taught judgment and self control.
and the brain stands guard over the
passions.
1t is not necessary to give examples.
Life and literature are full OF men
who have distinguished themselves at
forty, fifty. sixty. seventy and even at
ninety-selGom before forty.
Fortunate indeed is that man who
Is well on his way toward success at
forty. Fully as fortunate he. though
unsuccessful, who at forty has learned
the world AMI himself-and has not
lost courage.
Courage-that's the main thing.
You cannot keep q brave man down,
no matter what his age. He may fail
and fall. But be will rise! And some
day when he has worked his will he
will have his charmed circle where
none burst walk but he.''
Are you forty or more?
Then you are fairly fitted for real
living. No young man can buy your
personal experience at any price.
at forty years you have learned to
know things as they are. You have
no illusions. You know your fellow
man. You know yourself.
And so
From the fullness OF that knowledge
you are nightly equipped to organize
victory out of defeat.
Having overcome yourself, you are
able to overcome the world, because
''he that ruleth his own spirit is
greater than he that taketh a city"
Courage! The spirit Of the conquer
or comes only through conquest Of self
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
LET'S FIGURE

Pull up your chairs 20 the library ia
bic. sharpen your pencils and let's fig
ure.
Here is the story OF a man who de
liberately shot his wife In her bed
and then lured his little son to the bed
side and killed him. Afterward the
man spent the night with a paramount
A few years ago this man was pros
porous and highly respected.
How did he fall?
Take n long sheet OF paper and hg.
ure. In the first place, the man lost
his~character before he lost his repu.
tation. did he not?
Another sheet OF paper, please.
The body and the mind are Siamese
twins. Affect one and you affect the
other. Now. 1t is Of record this man
abused his body by excuses, shattered
his nerves by dissipation and poisoned
his blood by liquors.
Then conscience, that chaplain of
the soul, no longer preached his mes
sage. Brain cells were broken down:
moral consciousness was blunted.
Finally the king OF the mind, the will.
was muddled on his throne.
Still another sheet, please.
There yet was something left Of the
man. He was not all In. Outside the
process was slow. Inside was q bun
die OF diseased flesh, erratic impulses
and tigerish appetite.
A few more figures.
The man was not born a derelict
He made himself. manufactured him.
self, into a wreck.
Might have turned himself out n DIFF
ferent product? Certainly.
One more sheet.
Was the man responsible for his foul
deed OF murderi Fully SO. legally and
morally. He had besmirched himself
into bestiality. he had wooed him.
self into species OF Insanity. He had
deliberately immersed his soul In the
depths of hades.
Now, let us foot up.
What do your figures show? The
arithmetic that estimates moral ana
mental decline is just as accurate.
mind you. as any law OF physics. Here
is my footing up:
First.-A free moral agent may in
earnate himself into a devil II he
chooses.
Second.-He can do this with omen
eyes. knowing, even fearing. the GER
tain end.
Third.-we may learn lesson of
warning from
But you have the data. Make your
own deductions.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE.

schedule in effect Saturday, May 18th. lpoc
nth, Three trips weekly between Baltimore an a
| Was hington. an u
| Leave baltimore. Pier g Light street
| wuea1oer permitting ats p. IN every Monday
/ 49,, eon,esuay ana saturday. for the following
4 river ianolngs. Alexandria and W ashineto1.
/ po'1n m ore y; m. hillers, Broomes Porto
| 10 10, Orasons, CoRn q. m. Bundicks Iakee
| rainut Point, Cowarts. Lewisetta. KfusaIe'
| Lodge; Mundy Point. FCintra PineT Point IA
| =. M, Leonardtown 12 noon Abells Cobrnms
| stones, Bushwood, Lancaster q D. m Rivar
Washington. ~
STOPS only on signal.
Leave Warrington. ID. c., foot of 6eventh
SsaIeet. Weatner permitting. at d. m every
lowing river landings and baltimore.
Warrington lexandria 4:l5 D. m. G,ymanf
LiNerpool Point. Riverside, Bush uo,d Ian
caster, Cobrums. Stone Icons I'd town n . -,
Aoclis. Piney Point. sCintra, Lodge 10 a :,
Muhdy foint. kinsale IL noon Coan Ru1-
oicks; Lakes. Walnut Point. Cowarts- iswis-
3.ts, Milers 4 p. m, Grasons d. M. Broomes
foTto Bello p. M. Baltimore.
stop only on signal
Arriving In baltimore early wed nas5.v u.
dayand Monday mornings hri
Freight received In baltimore ON sas,,n~
days until u. M y" o1iAins
This timetable shows the time M vwh,ch
steamers may be expected to arrive AZ .nd
oepart from the several wharves hut their
arIivMs or departure at the times stated "a NOT
guaranteed, nor does the Company hold Itself
responsible for any delay or any commencement
PHENsoN& BRO, Agts., washingtor
nhAhDoN and GRlhEo. Aets.. Aiexandrfs-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
YOUR LITTLE CIRCLE

Said a friend of the writer. a man
who has led an unusually useful life
though In the lowly walks OF the
world
II have done so little for humanity %
He really believed so.
And yet ! happened to know that
several young persons had been in.
spired to great success by that mans
humble career.
When we do our best we do much
When We I'LL to the full the oblipa.
ton OF fatherhood or motherhood ~
citizenship. of neighborliness, we 6Il
an important place In the scheme of
things as they are.
Listen to this story:
once upon a time a certain king
went into his flower garden and found
the plants and trees withered and Ian.
gushing. He asked an oak what was
the matter. and the oak replied thai
it was tired OF growing so slowly. II
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
THE WAY OF A WOMAN.

Here are three stories from real M,
about women. One Is from GERMANY
one from France and one from Spain
The story from Germany:
A German singer goes to Paris as n
military spy. She is a very attractive
woman and in the cafes where she
sings makes the acquaintance OF young
French army officers.
one by one these officers fan I'm love
with the handsome spy. She demands
money OF her victims. When their
money gives out she suggests to then,
that an easy way to her further fayors
would be to sell military secrets
And this one from France:
The burning Of the converts in Bar
celena. Spain, during the riots there
iase summer came near to causing the
downfall or the king. A Frenchwom-
an melted the women OF Barcelona to
this work Of arson as protest OF the
trades unions against the undersellIng
or the nuns in embroidery and needle
work.
And this from Spain:
For several weeks before he was ar
rested and executed by the govern
ment Ferrer, the popular champion OF
the Spanish people. was in hiding. He
was effectually concealed by a woman
VINO dug cave behind her house,
sheltered the fugitive and gave him
food and lodging when IL meant death
to do so.
Here are three women. One Ia a
spy, one an agitator, one a savior.
: With such material our modern nov
elists should not complain Of a lack
OF the necessary soul stun for stirring
tales.
Three women
One sells herself body and soul for
the sake OF her country.
One risks her life to help her strug-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04

giing sisters In the trades UNION.
One challenges death TO protect from
harm a popular leader.
1, Aud that is the woman OF IL.
Characterize these women as you
will, differ from their viewpoints as
you may, IL IS worth while to look be-
hind what they did for the motive OF
their doing
Behind the deed is the self sacrific-
ing motive. And behind the self sac
rifice is the browning feature OF wo-
manhood-unselfshn
Trace back to its original source and
fountain the action of any woman and
you will find 1t In her desire to sacri-
fee herself for another or for q cause.
These three stories from overseas
simply serve to illustrate again the
way OF a woman.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-02-04
The Svbarifes

The Sybs rites were the inhabitants
or the ancient city of Sybaris. in
southern Italy, founded 720 b. G. They
were so greatly addicted to voIuptu-
BUSINESS and self indulgence that their
name became a byword among the
peoples of antiquity. The word "syba.
rite is used at the present day to de-
note a person devoted to luxury and
pleasure.