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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
OYSTERS BOOMING.

The cold snap, lasting, off and on.
some weeks has been blessing to the
Virginia oyster trade. Virginia tongers
and shuckers report the December just
gone the best for many years.
The creeks on the Potomac and all
rivers above the Virginia line have been
frozen most of the time, and this has
created a great demand for the Virginia
bivalve. Baltimore has been suffering
dearth of oysters for a week, and
steamers from the lower Chesapeake
have, gone up the bay heavily loaded,
while freights to eastern markets have
been heavy.
Reports from various Virginia points
show a greater quantity and better
quality of oysters than for some years
past.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
AND LIQUOR LEGISLATION

Two subjects which are likely to en-
gage the attention of the solons for
many days are oysters and liquor. In
portant recommendations concerning
the former will be made by Governor
Swanson in his message. to the General
Assembly. and, for the first time in
many years, there appears to be a fair
prospect OF a satisfactory adjustment of
the long existing war between the tong
ers and the planters in the waters of
James river. This question and the
question OF prohibition in the State will
precIpitate the most stupendous battles
OF the session. Richmond Corr. Nor.
folk Landmark.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
JUDGE WILLIAMS AND
HIS ACCUSERS,

Farmville Herald)
we fail to understand conditions in
West Virginia. as they have reference
to the case of MISUNDERSTANDING
Williams, who is under Indictment in
one of her courts, charged with assault.
and that assault the outcome of the
d-n lie given in open court. We are
told that excitement runs high in and
about WEIGH, where the trouble O, ioi-
mated. that threats are being made
against Judge Williams, that negroes
are to serve on the trial, etc. And all
this because gallant gentleman re-
sented an irritating insult. If these
things be so, then do we rejoice that
the rough hand of war severed the tics
that bound West Virginia to Virginia
proper, for surely her people are not
our people. BY virtue of an agree
ment between the States, it would seem
that Governor Swanson is under oblioa-
ton to honor requisition for the return
Of Judge Williams, but we do not adj
nit that this means that a citizen of
is to be delivered into the
hands of a bowling mob, or to the ten
der keeping of the passions and pre-
udices of jury of negroes,
Judge Williams is a man of real
courage and is ready to face his ac-
,users and fair trial, but this doesn't
mean that he is reckless enough alone
% fight gang inhamed by unreasona-
Die hate, and led by the quasi endorse
nent of the constituted authorities of
IN independent State, independent in
lame at least.
Questions of great moment are in
olved in this controversy.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

A VALUED local exchange, in
notifying it's readers that it will
have no issue of that paper dur
ing Christmas week, asked it's cor.
respondents to send in long let
ters for the New Year. The CITIZEN
asks short letters. They are
harder to make, as a rule, than
long ones, the art of condensine
news being difficult of attain.
ment. While all papers crave
country letters, these being prob
ably more widely read than any
other department of the paper.
there is not room for lengthy
epistles. BY all means, friends,
give us the news, frequent and
accurate, but study conciseness,
and the editor, and possibly the
reader, will bless you.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
NOMINI GROVE

We send New Years greetings to the
VIRGINIA CITIZEN, its Editor and readers.
wishing them year of health, pros
perity and happiness. AS the old wear
has passed with its record of good or
evil deeds, many good resolution was
made and broken, but recorded on the
page of the year there to lie until the
Great Day when our life's record will
be read. Oh! May it be filled with
deeds OF love and goodness. Now as
the clean pure page of New Year has
opened upon US let us strive to have
only pure deeds and actions written
thereon; let US make new resolutions
ana keep them unbroken by Gods help.
as he alone can help us to live lives of
purity and goodness.
Let US strive to fill each page
With deeds of goodness ever:
Let no sin our lives engage.
FROM Christ our hearts to sever.
But strive each year to live our best.
= AND make each page more fair:
30 When we reach land of rest.
"A clean, pure record we'll have there.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
CRISP NEWS.

Governor-elect Mann announces the
appointment of Col. w. w. Sale, of
Norfolk, as Adjutant General.
England is building an airship 500 feet
long. 1t will be ready to sail or fly in
the spring. Germany has one 9s4 feet
long.
Although 20 lynchings occurred in the
United States in 1909 not single one
happened in Virginia, North Carolina
or Maryland. Georgia heads the list
with IL.
A flock of ], 1865 turkeys, representing
money value of $4,000, was recently
sold in Highland county to the Swift
meat people.
Captain Owens, of New York, saw a
young woman plunge into the surf and
CALAMITY sprang in and pulled her out.
She offered him ten cents as a reward
possibly not valuing her life over that
figure. ,e.
Engineer Davis, of the Georgia Gen.
trail, saved the lives of 100 passengers
few days ago by thrusting his hand
into boiling cauldron of steam escap-
ing from his broken engine. He grasped
the lever and stopped the train, but
his hand was literally cooked.
The Jews of Palestine regard the
locust as excellent food. AS they are
reported to be due in Virginia this year
it may be worth while, considering the
high price Of meat, to save few bush
els OF locusts. The way to use them is
to parch them brown and mix them
with meal and bake into q cake-a sort
of cracklin bread.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
RESOLUTIONS.

Scarcely worth while to hunt
up new resolutions for the New
Year. In that waste basket of
the memory you can fish up the
ones you made a year ago, and
they will do just as well. In fact
you do not need many, one or
two will serve the purpose. If
each man and woman would
start out determining to accom-
plish just one thing this year.
this would be vastly better than
a page OF resolutions. Most
campaigns are best carried on in
detail, and ifyOu have weaknesses
1T is wise to take these one at a
time, just as a good general car
ries the day by capturing the
Outposts. OF all the deficiencies
that beset human character that
OF deficient purpose is the most
common. Probably few men Law
of a definite and clearly defined
plan of campaign for improve
ment morally, and yet no man
ever accomplished anything great
in physical or moral life until he
had plan.
All this takes hard thinking at
the outset, and the plan is no
child's play, it is indeed the main
thing. Unless one sees the end,
at least in part, from the begin
ming, he is beset from the start
with surprises and upset by
emergencies. But the man who
frankly says to himself that he
has not been q success SO far. !
searches forthecause ofhis failure.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

We THINK the Anti-Saloon
League will move in a conserva-
tive and acceptable way on the
Statewide proposition if it fol-
lows the suggestion recently made
through the press by DR.. James
Cannon, jr. This seems to be the
concensus of opinion of the Vir-
ginianewspapers, and we heartily
congratulate the State as well as
the leaders in the temperance
movement upon the prospects of
a generally satisfactory settle
ment OF this once disturbing
question.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
TOO MANY OYSTERS
NOW FOR SOME FOLKS.

Mr.. c. E. Dagger, at Tidwells, who
is large and very successful oyster
planter, says he hasn't sold an oyster
this season and he can't see anything
bright or encouraging as to the future
demand. He thinks production is
the cause of the low price and want of
orders. We have many more than We
need and that is true wherever they
grow. -Westmoreland Corr. N. N. News
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

ACCORDING to press reports one
big Connecticut grower has
bought up and is about to effect
a combination that will entirely
control the Blue Point oyster out
put. Connecticut's oyster indus
try is pretty nearly controlled
now by an oyster trust. This
should not alarm Virginians,
since ours is too vast an industry
to corral. 1t is about time. we
think, foragitators to stop hold
ing up the nutmeg State as an
to Virginia. Connecticut
derives only about five Thousand
dollars a year direct revenues
from her oyster industry.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

Dir: SAMUEL BAfLY, of Iowa;
declares that apple eating de-
stroys the taste for strong drink.
he also states that meat eating
is responsible for much of the
taste for cocktails and such bev-
erages. As meat is pretty much
out OF sight for the average table,
this may account fort the decrease
IN the demand for stimulating
drinks.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

A VETERAN of Antietam sneezed
three bullets from his nose which
had been there 43 years. He
must have been ratified during
that tscrimmage and mistaken
his nose for the muzzle of his
musket.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

ONE is struck, says an exchange
with the fact that the spirits that
are called up from the other
world by the mediums that fol-
low this profession are as bare of
intellectual shrewdness as the
average child of five years. One
may call up Plato or Socrates
and get answers that are as
peurile as infancy. Perhaps the
spirits have to begin over again
IN the spirit land and for some
centuries are still in the infant
class.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

The Alexandria Gazette is cele-
brating its one hundred and
eleventh anniversary. An old
paper, and has been in the hands
OF the Snowden family all these
years. Old, but one of the best in
the State.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

MosTeverybody is always wish
ing for something that, if he had
it, would make him wish forsome-
thing else. The Greeks had q
saying that they are most like
gods who want the least, for the
gods want nothing.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

A HARD case is reported in Nc
keesport, Pa. 1t seems that the
lady school teachers are marry
ing OFF so fast that the trustees
are about to require of a good
looking single teacher bond lest
she desert her post in the midst
OF session. Thus, little by little,
is old-maidism forced on the poor
things.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

MODEL EOTEL CONDUCTED For
YOUR COMFORT.
Location and size: Around the'corner
from the White House. Direct street
car route TO palatial Union Station
100 rooms, so baths.
Plans, rates and features: European.
$I.oO per day upward; with bath 50 30
upward. T'o0
bath, $500. "''''
Club breakfast 20 to 75c. Table
q Hote, breakfast S1.00; luncheon Soc:
Dinner $1.00. Music.
CLIFFORD NJ. LEWIS, Prop.
SUMMER SEASON.: The American
Lnzerne IN the Adirondack foot hills
Wayside Inn and Cottages on the bean.
tiful Lake Luzerne, Warren Co. N. Y.
open June 26 to October /. Booklet
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

PiTTsBURG, PA, is $50 years
old, and, if reports are to be
credited, abouta thousand years
wicked.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

VI, a chewing gum famine is predicted.
wen, we can stand little starving on
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
HERE'S A RECORD BREAKEp

IN our years the business of home fire association
mas more than quadped shown above Starting in
WIN less than hundred thousand dollars there is 70 nne
that much on our books todaymore than three millions -
dollars ~ "'i00 nhmOlS Oh
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07
ADVERTISING RATES.
3 mis- m.I1yr.

Notices in reading columns, 10 cents per
nonpareil line.
Obituaries, religious notices of entertain
ments, excursions. etc.. one-hslf regular
rates.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

John ID. Grant. clerk of the Court of
Accomac, died suddenly last week.
aged about IS years.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-01-07

All communications or business letters
should be addressed TO the VIRGINIA CITIZEN,
lrvinRton. Va. TO receive prompt attention.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
Shoots Man to Protect Honor.

Darlington, N. D., April 19.-Mrs.
Mildred How, shot and fatally wound
ed Chris Nelson on a farm in Johnson
township, this county, to protect her
self from the mans advances. The
shooting occurred Thursday night and
Nelson died from his wounds Satur-
day night. Owing to the storm details
of the affair did not reach Darlington
until today.
The farm belonged to Mrs. How.
brother and it has been leased for
some time by Nelson, who patched on
the premises with his hired man. Mrs.
How was at the farm packing up some
goods which belonged to her husband
and which she was going to ship to
Canada where her husband is now Ev-
ing and where she expects to join him
this week.
Thursday the two were alone to.
gether and Mrs. How states that Mel
son proposed that she desert her husz
band and run away with him. sic
rejected his advances and he threat
ened violence. She went into room
and shut the door and Nelson called
through the door that he had knife
and that he was coming into the room
and IL she did not yield to him he
would kill her.
She fired through the door and the
bullet entered the mans body causing
the wound to which he succumbed
Saturday.
A coroner's Jury was convened yes
terday and after an investigation they
held that the woman was justified dn
killing Nelson. The deceased has al
ways borne a good character here-to-
fore.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
Boston !. Now Third Port.

Boston, Mass, April 19.-Boston IL
now the third port in the United States
in amount of exports and imports and
is a close competitor Of New Orleans
for second, according to the Annual
report of the Chamber of commerce,
issued today. A year ago this city was
in fourth place, but since then the
import trade has increased 42.5 per
cent.
For 1909 the total imports and ex.
ports amounted to $199,96s,54s, an dn-.
crease Of $26,493,031, or 1872 per cenN
over 1908. New York holds first place
with $1,519,397,445 and New Orleans
second with $200,426,O77. During the
year merchandise valued at $13,563,329.
sent from Canada was shipped via this
port.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

CHEAP eli GRAIN / 4! ! IS / CAUSE /!
Close Observers Gay Meat Priess Will,
misunderstanding News for All
eavs the Farmsr-LarCe
Amount Of Grain.

New York, April 19.-Close observers
Of the food products markets today
expressed the belief in a probable
speedy setting in Of an era Of low prices
for food stuffs.
One provision man today declared
that the tendency Of prices is just now
unmistakable downward and that the
people may look for decrease in the
retail prices Of beef and pork in q
short time. The pientitude of grain
he argued, has compelled the farmer
to feed it to his cattle, which are wax
ing fat. and which must be put on the
market.
Other provision men expressed sim,
liar views based largely on the decline
in the grain markets and the predic
tons Of bountiful crops both here and
abroad.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

The United States collector of in
ternal revenue in New York reports
that the corporations are generally
responding to the requirements of the
new federal law calling for returns
as basis for taxation. This is com.
mendable, and shows a much better
spirit than indicated in many quarters
at first. The best intelligence in cor
porate management is beginning to
realize and recognize that reasonable
restriction and regulation are equit
able and in the public interest, and
managers are governing Themselves
accordingly.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
For Uniform ln.uranee lawn.

Chicago, April ia committee of
the Association Of Insurance Commits.
sioners assembled here for q confer.
ence that will have far-reaching effect
on the fraternal insurance societies.
Representatives Of nearly al bodies
which are members Of the National
Fraternal congress and the Associated
Fraternities are present and IN effort
will be made to agree on uniform laws
for the government Of fraternal insur-
ance which will increase the security
Of the 100000 worth Of such in
surance.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

The idea of running INSTRUCTION
trains" for the benefit of farmers ap.
pears to be growing in popularity.
One of these trains, in charge of the
state agricultural department, is on a
trip through New Jersey and the farm.
ers are flocking to the stopping places
in large numbers to listen to the lee.
lures and witness the demonstrations.
The practical value Of this method is
recognized, and the American farmer
who wants to be up to date is catch.
ing on. New Jersey evidently is wide
awake as to the importance of uti,
uzing its natural resources.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
Canadian Train Wr,cI<,

Quebec. April 10. Further details Of
yesterdays disaster on the line Of the
Transcontinental, north Of La Tuque,
received today, show that ten men were
killed and twenty three injured, six
fatally. The disaster was not caused
by land slide, aslat first reported, but
by the collapse OF q ninety foot wood
en- trestle at Lake Macdonald near Ka-.
koucache. over which the train with q
large construction gang. was passing.
Tho lake ct this point Is twenty feet
deep. Most Of those who lost their
lives were pinned underneath the
wreckage and drowned. Eight bodles
have besn recovered.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

The police. on medical advice
stopped q Marathon endurance dance
IN San Francisco which had lasted Is
hours. One Of the dancers seemed
urging himself to the point Of torture,
but that did not prevent the crowd IN
attendance from resenting the humane
action Of the police. Il IL the same
old story. Scratch the skin Of civil.
sation ard ind the human brute un,
le9n9oEh
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

tAMERicANss IN THE HANDS on
WILD MOB.
Two Foreigners Fail 70 Escape When
Chinese Rioters Capture
chanesha.

Peking, China. The riots inaug
urated by the natives at Changsha
continue. The provincial governor ia
reported to have been killed. The
city wall is in the hands Of the mob.
The property Of all foreigners at
Changsha has been destroyed. but the
foreign residents escaped. except two
Americans. whose names are I'M
known, who are reported to be still
inside the city. Chinese troops have
been dispatched to Changsha.
Americans Reported Safe.
Washington, D. G. = The rice riots
at Changsha, capital Of the Hun
an province Of China, continued
through Wednesday and Thursday Of
this week and probably are still un-
checked. So far. two English and one
Norwegian mission have been burned.
The American ambassador at Pc
king. in dispatch to the state depart
ment giving this information, states
that three British gunboats are pro.
ceeding to Changsha to protect Brit
ish interests here. It is reported that
the Chinese governors residence at
Changsha also was burned.
The American ambassador is in.
formed by the Chinese foreign Office
that there need be no anxiety regard.
ing the safety of Americans.
Rice Corner the Cause.
Shanghai, China. - The rioting Of
natives at Changsha continues. Al
ready three missions, all situated on
the main street near the rice shops,
have been destroyed and fears are en-
tertained for the safety of the other
missions.
The provincial treasurer has asked
the government to supply rice to the
natives in the hope of quieting them.
The scarcity Of rice. due to its having
been cornered, was the chief cause Of
the outbreak, which has been long
coming. Recently the i'll feeling has
been increased by anti-foreign propa.
ganda. in which the lives of foreigners
were threatened. Another grievance
was found from the fact that the Brit
ish consulate building was constructed
by imported labor.
Y. 8. Cruiser on Way.
Annoy, China. - The cruiser Cleve-
land of the United States Asiatic
fleet has been dispatched to Hankow
because of the anti-missionary riots
at Changsha.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
an ] : I / L !
% oPPoeGn 10 slxsEooT CHAM
MEL FOR RIVER. SIS
Archbishop ireland and Gov. John
Burke Among the !.
.xIaiz..- speakers ID a

81. Paul. Hon. James ]. Hill,
empire builder and railway magnate.
was the principal speaker at the open.
ing Of the new. st. Paul hotel.
Surrounded BY men prominent in
every active w&lk Of life, Mr.. Hill dis
cussed the problem Of transportation
In the Northwest, with special appli-
cation to the Twin Cities. He criti.
cixed the plan of constructing six
foot channel in the Mississippi river
from the Twin Cities to st. Louis, say
ing that less than a 20.foot boat was
beaten by box car every day in the
week. He referred to st. Louis, where
. 10 to 12-foot channel from st. Louis
to New Orleans is the regular order.
asserting that even under such condi-
lions. less than per cent Of the
straight business done out of that city
was carried by water.
IT we could get IA nor 1s.foot
channel 1t might do some good, but
you might as@well lath and plaster
the river as to dig six-foot channel.
built some boats on Lake Superior
and they were the largest boats on
the lake. They carried 5000 tons.
Soon I found that for S2S a day more.
I could run boats that carried 10000
tons. A box car will beat any ten
foot channel on earth, but when you
get fifteen-foot channel, the boxcar
Is out Of the running.
Speaking again of the waterways
questions, he said that deepening the
channel to 20 feet made Duluth the
largest seaport in the world and yet
the largest part Of the lake business
of the freight there is handled by rail.
Governor Eberhart talked of the ad-
vantage st. Paul and Minneapolis
hold in commercial way and said
that the Twin Cities were the key 20
the commercial situation in the North.
west.
The program Of addresses was as
follows:
Observation-Disclosures Butler.
1.-THE Growing Northwest. James
]. Hill.
1.-THE Business League, Promoters Of
the New Saint Paul."-Paul Doty.
"The State of Minnesota."-Gover
nor Eberhart.
"The Future" Archbishop ireland.
"The Sister City and the New Saint
Pau" Mayor James G. Haynes.
"The Press and the New Saint
Paul."-George Thompson.
"The Railroads and the New Saint
Paul."-Howard Elliott.
North Dakota and the New Saint
Paul Governor John Burke.
1.-THE City and the New Saint Paul"
The Mayor of st. Paul.
1.-THE Management Of the New Saint
Paul."-Henry D. Laughlin.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22
Bio crep says Elliott.

New York, N. Y.-Howard W. Ell
lott, president Of the Northern Pacific
railroad, said before leaving for the
west that here will be q record crop Of
wheat this year. There IL the rieht
degree Of moisture In the ground for
fne YIELD" he said. and there 10 an
increased acreage under cultivation.
The fruit yield also will be larger.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-22

The appendix, thinking the human
race has not enough trouble of its
own just now, has started to make
more by inventing for itself a new and
exclusive disease. This disease the
doctors have agreed to call "appendic.
ular gastralgia." and there is small
doubt that those who wish to keep
strictly up to date will contract it
without delay. Indeed, appendicitis
may go quite out of fashion.