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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THE MONEYED SOUTH.

I'm former years a New Yorker
could come South and select his own
place to invest money. Now he has to
come and take off his hat and say
please let me do business with you" ="
Virginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina are just now going through
the transformation period. 1t is not
generally known, but all three of these
states loaned money in New York dur
ing the panic. Demand loans were high
and Southern bankers made as much
as twenty-five per cent in few days.
''North Carolina and South Carolina
have become independent. Virginia has
always been Independent whether she
had any money or not. Formerly the
people of these States did Just what
the people of Kansas and Nebraska did
go to New York when they wanted
to borrow fifteen cents. 1t is not so
now. The money is here, the people
can move their own crops and have
money to conduct their own business.
Walter H. Savaroy, of New Jersey,
in Norfolk Landmark.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
RESOLUTION FOR THE NEW YEAR.

The noblest resolution that any citizen
could make for the new year would be
the resolution to live more faithfully
by the golden rule, that sublime princi-
pie of conduct for this world and for all
worlds. Failure to live by this law
causes the chief sorrows ana collisions
among men, says Edwin Markham in
Success.
Let each earnest man search into his
words and ways, determined to find the
special manner in which he breaks the
golden law-his specialhabit that works
injustice or unhappiness in his shop,
his Office, his home, his city. He will
find, perhaps, that in the shop he is in
the habit of misplacing tools, and this
hinders the work of his comrades; that
in the Office he is in the habit of being
late in keeping appointments, and thus
steals other peoples time; that in the
club he is in the habit of belittling
worthy competitors, and thus joins the
gang of thieves who steal regulations;
that in the home he is in the habit of
monopolizing the conversation, and thus
fails to draw out the powers of others;
that in the city he is in the habit of
splitting on the sidewalk, and thus spoils
the comfort of his townsmen; that in
business he is in the habit of misrepre-
senting his goods, and thus robs under
the cover of custom.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THE MANAGERS OF OUR BUSINESS.

Modern government is more and more
devoted to economic questions; it is
business, speaking in the largest and
best sense of that term. There has
been great deal of sentiment in dis
cussing the conservation of the resour
ces of this country. This is not neces-
sary. The United States now holds
property of infinite value. 1t is in the
management of officials who are Just
as responsible for it as are the officials
of a bank to their stockholders. The
day Of rampant individualism on the
political platform and of monopoly con-
troll in the committee room is coming to
an end, and political parties may well
recognize it. If one party or admins
tration will not manage our affairs in
our own interests, we will get another
management. 1t may not come to-
morrow, or next year, but it will
come very soon.-John E. Lathrop and
George Kibbe Turner in the January
McClure's.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

The strategic value of the Panama
Canal is estimated to be equivalent to
fleet of large battle ships. This is
the conclusion of DR.. Cornish, given
before the Royal Geographical Society
in London. Taking the cost of the
canal at $500, 600, 900, which would only
build forty-first-class battle ships nova
days, the United States will have a good
bargain, and be able to cover a total
coast line without any material increase
In her vessels.
The canal will double the sea efficiency
of our fleet for half the sum of monev
that would otherwise be necessary to
maintain communication between the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts. At the
same time the merchant marine of the
United States will some day be deyel-
oped, and justify the people in main
tanning naval armament that will be
fully equal to that of other nations
Joe Mitchell Chapple in affairs at
Washington" in the January National
Magazine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THE UNITED STATES
VS.. JOSEPH G. CANNON.

Said Representative Murdock in the
office of the Wichita Daily Eagle:
eff Cannon and his inordinate rule
had been absent from the house of
Representatives in 1909, the woolen
schedule would not stand in the tariff
law as it does to day. It would have
been reduced. The cotton cloth schedule
would have been lowered. The noto-
rious joker in regard to structural steel
would have been eliminated. A mark
ed reduction in the duty on sugar, and
not an infinitesimal one, would have
been made. Barring those items in
which the House had a separate vote,
namely, lumber. hides, barley, barley
malt, and a single amendment pertain
ing to oil, and the other items where
the effects of the Presidents efforts
were shown, the compromise was one
between Speaker Joseph G. Cannon on
the one hand and the United States
Senate on the other" "-Henry Beach
Needham, in Everybody's Magazine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
FOR RGREATERPUBLICITY
Law Should Provide for Better
Information TO the Tay.payers

The Impartial Reporter of Front
Royal has begun a move to have pub
lished the public transactions, both for
county and State, so that the people
may know where the money taken for
taxes goes. The items enumerated in
the list which should be published in
some paper are as follows:
Publication Of bids for City and Coun-
ty contract work.
Publication of State and national
tickets. -
Proceedings of Council in each City.
and Board of Supervisors in each Coun-
ty.
All trustees, administrators, execu-
tors and commissioners notices.
Notices to taxpayers stating place
where treasurer will sit for collection
of taxes.
List of delinquent lands.
Amount of license tax paid by mer-
chants.
List of persons paying income tax
and amount of same.
List of delinquents for non-payment
of personal tax.
Notice of time to pay capitation tax.
and register.
Proceedings and regular statement
of school board.
Notice of every civil suit should be
given publication.
If the defendants are residents of
the county they should be served by
summons, but publication should be
required for non-residents of the county.
The docket of every trial court should
be published, showing names of liti-
giants, nature of action, names of at
torney and trial day.
Attachment for debt should be pub
lished.
Official bonds with names of sureties
should be published.
Constables' sales should be adyer-
tised, as should the sales of receivers.
agents, etc.
Substance of every county contract
should be published, including the re-
lection as we'll as the allowance of all
bills.
Notice of intention to apply for sa-
loon license should be published.
That the canvassing board should
publish the number of ballots cast in
the county for each political candi-
date and announce the successful can
didate.
That all laws enacted by the General
Assembly shall be published.
Some of these are already provided
for, but more general observance of
the policyishould be required. The idea is
an excellent one. 1t is to be hoped that
the next legislature will take up the
question seriously.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
HEALTH TALK.

The New York Herald gives some
excellent advice to girls, which, if they
will practise will make them beautiful,
or at any rate more comfortable and
useful in the world. which is after all
better than beauty. The writer saws
girls can lay up a store of health to fall
back on so to speak, and one is to take
a day off just to get out of doors and
sniff the fresh air, see the woods and
tread on the grass. Have your bed
close to the open window even if it is
city air, for any air from out doors is
better than that of your room. Quit
tea and coffee; neither are nutritious
and are in many cases injurious. You
can do without meat, at least with only
a small allowance, and feel the better
for it, and eat all the greens" you
can get.
Health is the best thing in the world.
Without it you can enjoy nothing; work
is drudgery and pleasure half-hearted.
The girl with bright eyes and ROSY
cheeks is JOY to look at, whether she
be plain or pretty.
When you feel well every pleasure Is
intensified tenfold, the sky seems bluel
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
LAUGH 1T OFF.

When you're suffering reversion
Ill 1t seems naught but diversion
Is the only thing you need to keep your
weary mind intact,
Try little healthy laughter.
Good. old-fashioned, jolly laughter.
And you'll find it bully medicine
tonic, for fact.
when y07 can't make any headway.
AND each day seems like a dead day.
AND the thorns begin to poster till
your nerves are shattered, racked.
stop bit; get busy quaffing
from the bottle labeled "Laugh-
ing
Get your fill and then start oyer-it's
a tonic, for fact.
Are you grumpy? Are you grouchy?
D9 you feel like saying ouchy
Every time some one gets near you7
Have you lost the thing called
Try cup of sunny chatting.
Sweetenedupw with merry laughing
lts the best thing on the market for
tonic, for fact.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
WHAT ROOSEVELT HAS NOT BAGGED

"Col. Theodore Roosevelt has arrived.
The Colonel always arrives. But this
time he has arrived at Nariob, has ar
rived safe and sound, after one of the
greatest hunts that has taken place
since Nimrod used t. range up and down
the hill country shooting rabbits and
squirrels. He brings with him 6,6SS
specimens-if you don't believe it, count
'em yourself-all killed by his own hand,
without other weapons or assistance
except scientists, Is negroes, 4 Gatling
guns, cannon. 500 rifles, a gross of
pistols, pike, n razors belonging to
African auxiliary force), one big stick
and Kermit
But it is added that he didn't bag a
'bongo," which is ''giant pig" But
the big stick is only satisfied with the
whole hog" or nothing. Farmville
Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

Into gathering of suffragettes in
Chicago Mrs. N. d. Hills, wife of the
Brooklyn preacher, tossed rhetorical
bomb that caused CONSERVATION when
she advised them to go home, fall upon
their knees and give thanks to Heaven
for sending them such excellent and
long-suffering husbands. ''You talk of
your wrongs" said Mrs. Hills, ''but 1
tell you that your husbands have wrongs
a thousand times more bitter. They
must work hard while you are idle; they
must find the money to pay for your
vanities. No wonder the death rate
among husbands is greater than among
wives. No wonder widows outnumber
widowers in our cities" So saying,
Mrs. Hills retired from the rostrum,
and the assembled suffragettes begar
an indignant cackling.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

Little self-denials, little honesties,
little passing words of sympathy, little
nameless acts of kindness, little silent
victories over favorite temptations
these are the silent threads of gold
which, when woven together, CLEAN
out so brightly in the pattern of life
that God approves. Canon Farrar.
A thoughtful man said recently that
the familiar old motto, IA prophet is
not without honor save in his own
country" should be provided with a
companion piece in these days-"A
hero is not without glory save to the
next generation. The man or woman
Who has performed some great service
for the world gets his or her proper
need of praise and acclaim while those
great deeds are still fresh and warm,
and gains lasting and even greater
fame when history has put them upon
its pedestal; but there is a sorry inter
val to the aged great who have out
lived their own generation and linger
on after their splendid achievements
have cooled.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THE GOVERNMENT AND
THE MAGAZINES.

The magazines are chief producers of
the lucrative business of the postoffice.
Even without revision of the very favor
able contracts with the railroads for
carrying the mail, and without the 9TH
er economies that could be brought
about by better business organiza-
tion of the postal service, there is so
large profit collected by the Govern
ment upon all the business that the post
office does for private patrons, includ-
ing the newspapers and periodicals,
that this surplus practically pays the
Governments own great bill for carry
ing and distributing its own mail mat
ter. The magazines and periodicals. of
this country confessedly surpass in
merit those of any other part of the
world. Their merit is due to their
patronage by a!great and intelligent ma
tion spread from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. A hostile postal policy such as
Mr.. Taft proposes would have made
impossible the development of such val
liable and beautiful expressions of our
life as are typified, for example by the
Century Magazine. Let the Post Office
Department set its own house in order,
give US balance-sheet of its real trans
actions as the other departments of
the Government do, rid itself Of its
harmful and extravagant relations to
politics and party spoils, and bring a
permanent business head to the conduct
of its large affairs. Then, if necessary
to deal with such delicate questions as
radical che nges in rates, there will be
time enough to discuss them on their
merits. From ''The Progress of the
World" in the American Review of
Reviews for January.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THE RABBIT.

throughout the country very many
men are cunning just now for rabbits.
They do not know they are destroying
vermin.
In Austria rabbits are driven into
corrals and clubbed to death. In our
own Western orchards the rabbit is
such pest that the trees must be pro-
tected by wire at the lower end of the
bole.
But the rabbit is fairly good thing
to eat. So is the clean .rodent-even
the muskrat. Man eats anything, as a
matter of fact, which is palatable. An
oyster does not invite. Thackeray has
remarked upon the courage of the first
man who attempted one.
So with rabbits. Some women are
so squeamish that they would as soon
eat cat. 1t might be well to ask
them: Why will you eat ham, the
meat of the filthiest animal there is. or
chicken, the foulest next, and yet
revolt at the thought of eating a steak
of the cleanest of all animals, the horse?
Philadelphia Press.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
THROUGH THE SHADOWS.

Through the shadows let me smile,
Through the thunder let me sing;
1 have bled my mile by mile,
i have felt the lightning's sting,
Nothing can be worse to know
Than the things we've known ere this
Through the tempests let me go
With keen lips the sleet to kiss.
Through the battle let me trust,
Meath the bludgeons let me keep
Faith IN dreams that make the dust
Splendid in value Of sleep.
There's no woonding we've not felt,
There's no saber like the steel
OF the storms that round s'pelt
Who have lived and found it real.
Through the conflict let me mount
AS winged one, with no heed
To the wounds that others count
Or the hurts from which they bleed,
Through the shadows let me smile,
Through the darkness let me dream
Of the light that breaks erewhile
In CLEAN beyond the CLEAN.
Baltimore Sun.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
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Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

education, will find these articles help
full and enlightening. The first. on
"Some Notable Deficiencies" will be
found in the January number. Other
papers, on Education Outside of
Books" ''The Teacher" Some Re-
forms Suggested" ''The Cost of I'm
provements, and "a Model School
Outlined" will appear in consecutive
numbers. It is not too much to say
that this is one of the most striking
and noteworthy series of articles ever
brought out by any magazine.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
RABBIT ANSWERS PRAYER.

1t may have been just coincidence,
but the hungry have been known to be
fed through prayer. Here goes a sto-
ry from Nanticoke, Pa, for what it is
worth:
Having gone through the hunting
season without tasting a rabbit stew, of
which she is particularly fond, Mrs.
Mary Coleman prayed that her appe-
tite for rabbit might be appeased, and
as she had great faith in prayer, she
waited hopefully ali morning for some
hunter friend to bring one.
At dinnertime the rabbit had not
come, and she went into the cellar for
potatoes. In the potato bin sat rab-
bit. too frightened to run, and one blow
with a stick killed it. Mrs. Coleman
says she never ate a better stew.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
SOME NOTES
OF Interest to Farmers and Stock
and Fruit Growers.

Only 81 per cent of the total area of
the world is tillable.
A farmer can treat fence post with
creosote for about 10 cents and make
it last twenty years.
President Finley, of the Southern
railway, says mo one can look for
ward into the future with greater con-
fidence than can the farmer, and in my
opinion there is no area of equal ,ex-
tent in the world where the agricul-
tural outlook is better than in our
Southern States.
Mr.. T. o. Sandy, of Nottoway coun-
ty, is quoted as a model example of
successful farming because he realized
net profits for three years of 81. .232 on a
tract of ten acres. That must be q
good profit, or Mr.. Sandy and the news
papers would not be Dragging about it,
but how does it compare with the poul-
try yard of 20 square feet on which
was made sl.5OO in one year?-Index
Appeal.
A story is going the rounds that not
long ago Maine man purchased tract
of swamp land which his neighbors said
was worthless for agricultural purposes.
He drained the land and planted pota-
toes on portion Of it. 1t yielded him
nine thousand bushels of first quality
potatoes. There are probably thou
sands of acres of swamp land in Vir-
ginia now undeveloped, which would dc
the same. There is gold enough with
out going into mines to hunt for it, and
much less danger of being blown up in
quest of it.-Tidewater Democrat.
A Kansas grand jury has been at
work on eggs. AS they work out the
problem it costs the farmer under nor
NAL conditions IL cents q dozen to
raise eggs that he sells to the country
merchant for 25 cents, profit of more
than 100 per cent. The country mer-
chant crates the eggs and ships them
and receives but q cents, allowing him.
self two-thirds of cent a dozen over
and above expenses. The produce deal
er sells for 80 cents, leaving himself
three cents dozen to cover the cost
and the loss of handling, while the re-
taller in Kansas City sells at SO cents a
dozen.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
A CREED.

To be earnest; to be strong;
To make light the way with song;
Slow to anger; quick to praise;
Walking steadfast through the days,
Firm of purpose, sure of soul,
Pressing onward to the goal,
Upright, even, undismayed,
Sure, serene, and unafraid.
To be patient; to be kind;
To be purposeful, and find
Sweetness all along the way;
Loath to judge, but firm to say
Truth with unrelenting tongue
BY no cavil veered or swung
From the right; and to endure
Hopeful, helpful, clean, and pure.
To be gentle; to forgive;
True to life and glad to live;
To be watchful and to be
Rich with boundless charity;
To be humble in success.
Strong of heart in bitterness,
Tender, gracious, thoughtful, good
In our man-and-womanhood.
To be smiling; to be glad
For the yesterdays we've had;
To be grateful all the way
For the beauties of today;
To be hopeful and to see
In the days that are to be,
Bigger, better. broader things,
Robes of purple, crowns of kingsI
IN. D. Bismarck, in Golfers.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
WHAT IS WRONG WITH
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The foregoing is the generic title of an
extraordinary series of six special arti-
cles, by Joseph M. Rogers, to be
published in Lippincott's Magazine,
beginning with the January issue. Notice
that there is no interrogation-point
after the title. 1t is not a question.
MIR. Rogers is dealing with facts-facts
ascertained by him after months of the
most arduous and careful research.
Says Mr.. Rogers:
There is something wrong with the
public schools. More than that, there
is something fundamentally wrong with
our theories of education. We teach,
but we do not educate. We spend a
good deal of money and energy to little
purpose. 1t is not necessary to prove
these statements. They are admitted
by educators, from university presi-
dents to primary teachers; by school
administrators, from state and federal
officials down to those in the smallest
country districts; by parents the country
over; while children themselves are, of
course, dissatisfied. This series of
articles is designed to examine-un-
technically defects of existing
systems, offer some constructive criti-
cism, and make suggestions looking
toward improvement. 1t is hoped
through them to arouse among both
parents and teachers deeper interest
in the needs Of our public schools, to the
end that there may be less complaining
and more intelligent effort to amenc
conditions.
Some months ago, Mr.. Rogers con
tributed to Lippincott's series o.
papers entitled Educating Our BOYS, ,
which attracted wide attention. Tn.
new series will make still stronger
appeal, for it deals clearly and sue
cinctly with topic of vital interest t,
every man, woman and child in tb,
United States. Teachers everywher,
and, in fact, everybody who is directl,
or indirectly interested in the cause o.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
HELPS ORPHANS

Hundreds Of orphans have been helped by the
President Of The Industrial and Orphans Home
at Macon, Ca. who writes: We have used Elec-
triclBitters in this Institution for nine years 1t
has proved n most excellent medicine for Stomach.
Liver and Kidney troubles. We regard Il as one
of the best family medicines on earth- 1t invigo-
rates the vital organs, purifes the blood aids d.
gestion. creates appetite. To strengthen and
build up thin. pale. weak children or rundown
people it has no equal. Best for female complaints
Only soc at all druggists
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
A HORRIBLE HOLD-UP.

About ten years ago my brother was held up,
in his work. health and happiness by what was
believed to be hopeless Consumption" writes w.
r. Lpscomb. Of Washington, N. C. He took all
kinds Of remedies and treatment from several
doctors. but found no help till he used Dr. King s
New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bot
ties He is well man today" It's quick to re-
ieve and the surest cure for weak or sore lungs
Hemorrhages. Coughs and Colds. Bronchitis.
LaGrippe. Asthma and all Bronchial affections.
Soc and 81. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
and the sun brighter, and life a Joyous

and the sun brighter, and life a Joyous
song.
Ii you are nervous and tired out. and
feel half sick most of the time, nothing
seems worth while. To be healthy you
must take proper care of yourself, and
that means fresh air and sensible living.
Greasy, indigestible food will make
you feel like you have not a friend in
the world. Plenty of good water will
do you more good than all the soda
water and coca-cola in the drug stores.