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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05

many years We have spent In this
State, we have noticed no desire on
the part Of the people in general TO
reintroduce strong drink ennporiums.
wouldn't 10 be q nice kettle Of hsh II.
after having secured . substantial
footing In State and municipal affairs
through their own sobriety and up.
right conduct, Catholics were now to
block the path of progress by bring
ing back the damnable saloon with all
its degrading infinences7
The American saloon 10 an ac-
cursed thing; spawned OF the devil
and nursed by his unions through
all it's stages. There IL not one good
word to be said in its favor. It sucks
the Iifeblood OF the nation, corrupts
the young, blasts homes, breaks
hearts, creates criminals It robs
brilliant minds of their intellect, turns
prayer to blasphemy. snatches the
lustre from the eye OF ambition and
changes Gods noblest creatures into a
thing SO vile that no name At to
characterize 1t has yet been found.
There Is no apology possible for the
saloon and those who annihilate Its
influence are the savtors OF their
country.
ITO ask American Catholics to
stand sponsors for the saloon is to
ask them to damn their race etern-
ally"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
DRINK HOT WATER
BEFORE BREAKFAST
Says you really feel clean, sweet
and fresh inside, and
are seldom III.

II you are accustomed TO wake mp
with a coated tongue. foul breath or
a dull, dizzy headache; or. II your
meals sour and turn into gas and
aids, you have q real surprise await
ing you.
Tomorrow morning. Immediately
upon arising. drink a glass of hot
water with a teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate in 1t. This 10 intended to
your stomach. liver, kidneys ana
thirty feet Of intestines oil tho indi-
gestible waste, poisons. sour bile ana
toxins. thus cleansing. sweetening
and purifying the entire alimentary
canal.
Those subject to sick headaches,
backache. bilious attacks, constipation
or any form Of stomach trouble, are
urged to get a quarter-pound OF limo
stone phosphate from the drug store
and begin enjoying this morning in
side bath. 1t In said that men ana
women who try this become enthu-
siastic and keep 1t up daily. 1t In .
plendid health measure for 1t h
mora important to keep clean ana
pure on the inside than on the out
side. because the skin pores do not
absorb impurities into the blood,
causing disease, while the bowel pores
do.
The principle OF bathing inside IL
not new, as millions of people prac-
tice IT. Just as hot water and soap
cleanse. purify and fresien the skin.
SO hot water and . teaspoon
full of limestone phosphate act
on the stomach, oliver, kidneys and
bowels. Limestone phosphate is an
inexpensive white powder and almost
Ia steiess-Adv.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
wAvERLY.

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
wavsrIy, VA. March Airs. w.
E. Norris and daughter have returned
home, after spending several weeks
with relatives and friends In Roanoke
Rapids, North Carolina. %
Mrs John D. Gray ~ visiting
friends In Norfolk.
DR.. and Mrs. c. w Waters, who
were recently married In Mobile, Ala.
visited In the home OF Colonel Robert
w. Arnold. on Sunday last,
Mrs. v. c. Parham. at Petersburg,
is the guest OF Miss Myrtle Harrison,
on Copperhaunk Avsnue.
Miss Florence Miller. of Norfolk,
who has been visiting IN town for the
past month, has returned to her home
in Norfolk. va.
Foster d. Cornell. Of Circievtlle,
Ohio. visited at the home OF p. Fleet
wood the past week.
Joe STEERS. OF Logan. Ohio. 10 spend
ing q short time with his father, J. A.
EtierS. near Waverly.
Missea Leth Duncanson and Grace
Hoofn&gfs are spending the Weekend
with friends and relatives in Rich
mond.
Miss Josephine Jerrsl. who has
been visiting relatives In King and
Queen County, has returned to Way
erly, to resume her duties At the
waveriy High School.
v. l. Arnold left wavsrfy on Mon
dav last for Mobile. Aha, where he
will spend two weeks.
Mrs. Jeff Collier has returned to her
homo In waverly, after undergoing
treatment at one of the hospitals In
Richmond
Miss Carruthers, OF Colonial Beach.
Va, is the guest OF her sister. Mrs
G. r. johnson. on Copperhaunk Ave-
nue..
: Judge J. r. West left WAseriy on
Monday evening for Lawrencevtiie,
where he held tho regular term OF
Brunswick Circuit Court this week.
Miss Lucille ChAppell has returned
TO her home In Waverly. after spend
ing several days with friends and reia-
tives In Petersburg. Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
PROHIBITION HELPS
THEATER BUSINESS
Managers Attribute Increased Patron
age and Receipts At B~tter-easss
Houses To Fact That Saloons
Have Been Eliminated.

Spokane, Wash. March 3.--An the
better-class local theaters are on a
paying basis, and are showing weekly
profits for the first time In several
years, according TO theatrical men
who are in close touch with the situa-
ton. The unprecedented increase in
business since the first Of the year is
showing no sign of abatement. and. In
fact, the theater business is improv-
ing weekly. Theater managers are
inclined to give credit to improved
business conditions generally and to
prohibition particularly the dry
regime having directed many nick els
and dimes into the box offices which
formerly went over the bars.
70. Clarke Walker, manager Of Pan
taEes Theater, estimates that his busf-
ness IL 80 per cent better than Il was
this dns . year ago. While gtving
prohibition ana better general condi-
tons due credit. Manager Walker also
calls attention TO the fact that he was
facing Loew opposition . year ago
and that the standard of his attrac-
tons has been raised noticeabIy in
the last year. He believes peopls are
seekinB pieaSure TO greater extent
than they have for several years, ana
that moro ready money is in circula-
ton and available
The Ernest Wilkes stock company,
at the American Theater. is simply
shatterfng all Its previous records ac-
cordin4 to Manager A. g. Hatfield.
The washington's Birthday matinee
was the biggest Tuesday matinee in
the history of the theater.
The Clemmer Theater, which In ~s1e-
oradng its first anniversary, never
played to such big business, and all
house records are bound to go by the
boards this week. 1t IS believed. the
Pfckfcrd picture being held for the
entire seven days
The Liberty, Casino and Class A
theaters are also sharing the general
increase in attendance.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
BILL IS
SOON TO CONE UP
Ldne-Up On Question of Nationwide
Prohibition In Congress ID Matter
Of Very Near Future; Hobson
Again . Candidate.

Washington. d. c., March S.-while
the House of Representatives has
been busy for more than q week with
the postofiice bin. the Senate has been,
and still L.. engaged in big fight over
the water power bill. When this bill Il
finally disposed of in the Senate. a
lively wet and dry fight II pretty cor
tain to come up over the Sheppard
prohibition bill for the District OF
Columbia.
Senator shsppard served notice
sometime ago that when the water
power bill under consideration wa
cut .of the way he would have .
water power bill which he would In
dst should be taken up for considers
ton Immediately. his bfll having been
fAvorably reported.
The opposition 10 the district pro-
hibition bin IL planning to bring the
Tillman armor plant bill up for con-
sideration by the Senate. Immediately
the water power bi11 10 out Of the way.
thus side-traoking. the prohibition
measure. Senator Sheppard IL expect
90 10 make vigorous ngnt TO nave
his bill taken up. and this probably
will mean that . lineup on the prohi-
bitfon question will b brought about.
An interesting situation, also In
volving the prohibition question and
one which ID attracting keen interest
in Washington, that brought about
by the announcement In Alabama OF
Captain Richmond p. Robson, thai
he will DO q candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Representative
In the newly-created Tenth District OF
Alabama. Captain Hobson II not
q resident Of the Tenth District
which. however, Ia made UP In part
Of the old Sixth District which he long
represented. II he should be elected,
It would set . new precedent foI
Congressional elections. A son OF
Senator John II. Bankhead. OF Ala
bame will oppose Captain Hobson.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
EDUCATORS ARE HAVING
BIG TINE At RADF0RD
Training schoos Demonstration Given
by Normal Pupils TO Graded
= Puptls.
superintendents Hold Conference and
TAX ON Great Variety Of Subjects.
Many Prominent spdakers-Night
Session.

Especial to The Richmond virginian.1
East Radford, Va, March 1.-Two
mills tax instead of one, the present
State tax for education, In recommend
ed by resolution by the conference OF
educators of the Eighth and Ninth
Congressional Districts in session here
at the State Normal School. Despite
the storm here. the Normal scnooi
was alive with the large and entnuG-
yastic gathering Of educators.
Yesterday morning demonstrA
tion was given Of work In the train
Ing school, for which purpose the
graded school Of East Nadford u
used. Model lessons were given ~ tns
normal pupils to the GRADED school
pupils In the presence OF the teach
eYs and superintendents.
J. NJ. Montgomery. secretary OF the
Cooperative Educational Association.
made an address on the Importance
OF cooperation. especially as be-
tween citisens and schools. which he
has found rather weak In the South
west. He displayed exhibits show
Ing the Disparity between the old
ana the new schooIhouses in the coun-
try districts.
Miss Ella Asnew, agent Of the vir-
auspices of the Virginia Agricultural
einiA Home Demonstration, under the
Board. TOLD or the g1rlG canning
clubs, which make good housewives
besides making the girls sconomi-
cally Independent.
Professor w. ed. 0fTbert, OF Rad
ford Normal, told Of the work of the
Appalachian Foundation Find and
showed exhibits OF things available to
communities Wishing TO improve their
schools. W. @. McCarty. secretary
Of the State r. III. c, A. held worker
in the southwest, told OF his work.
which In the only work OF its kind in
this STATE.
The superintendent held a confer
eAce and talked on a great variety
OF subjects. which included certi-
Gates for professional work. the get
ting Of . stronger class OF teachers
for the one room school: cooperation
Of citixens. promotion employment
OF professionally trained teachers: the
use OF local newspapers to stimulate
public interest and teachers institutes.
Among tho Leading Speakers
Among the leading speakers were
Harris Hart. w. A. Thompson, @. r.
suffard. J. N. Hiiman, II. w. Fugate.
r. II. Copenhaver. J.. c. Boatright, r.
ri. Farrfer, r. b. Fitzpatrick. u, l.
Darst. c. r. Carr, w. .. Smith. w. r.
Ownehy, r. e. Cook, G. NJ Abbott and
W J. Edmondson.
In the Afternoon were conferences
for primary, grammar and high
training received especial attention
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05

-sss xxsr ~ xx~w~xs - tn. ma
800 Na-,.t. No.. n.rsshs stors ~
~ pss z,schs.cn
- 49,
NAL. presided over the Southwest
Virginia Music Association conferences.
The talking covered the question OF
music In schools and the value OF
civic music In the community. A
musical program was Eis-n BY MISS
Katharine Spindle. Of Chrfstfansburs.
She was q bright and particular
star. Her delightful soprano was very
sweet. She was recalled time and
again.
Luncheon was serve by the Ladies
Aid Society.
Mr.. Burkett . Speaker.
q. ]. Burkett. of the United states
Bureau OF Hducahon. VINO 10 inspect
ing Appalachian TERRITORY. y ners' ns
gave . short talk IN wnicn ne salo
he found much In MS trip very en-
couraging but In the p&ck oounuss
very unfavorabiS conditions exist AZ
had found a. many ~ hundred
pupils In one-room scnooL unoer one
teacher.
An importantA ccnuerencs OF tne
afternoon va nnM OF tns .snos
-. rnr,rs, rr.ssd,n~
: rhs afternoon session snded with
nnvsac.i dan,orstrs ticn In ~. rvm-
nssium under Ma Rn~ria.' physical
N;r~c,nr ~ ~. ro,.r,sI sot,oo,
S, C--.-
AaAs On ccaoH
W. M. Black. Of the Sixth Digtrics'
presided ut last nights session 6
msr" Jarvis. OF the United STATES
Bureau of Education talked on scnooi
gardens. Tsachsrs, he said fcuno tnat
pupils study better when they nave
work to do with their hands. ne oe-
clared that gardens must o meas
commercial to get results. Ine pro-
fits should take the place OF tine prises.
The gardens sivs health, recreaton.
labor and . common interest between
teachers. pupils and parents. the nor
NAL schools OF the country havs NOT
yet done much in this work and tne
best way now TO provide teachers
to hire a gardener who shall teacn AZ
least one teacher and begin with one
school. In the small towns the gar
den can DO the home garden. wnefs
all the family can take part. lnten-
stvs culture should be enccurased.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
Unluse Crit1cluuA

whom the Lord lovsth He chAstsn-
eth" can surely BE- applied 70 DR..
James Cannon, Tor II there h any ons
man In virginia that has besnN abused.
Knocked ana hsrshiy cr4ticassd. II u
he. He has evsr besn the champion
against the pubic sale Of whisksy In
virginia. having spent his time and
money In the service OF the Anti-Sa-
loon League and what thGt organixa-
ton stands for. and what he wants or
expects 1t the hands Of tho people for
this ssrvica w arc not able to sAy.
hut 30 far he has asked nothing and
evidently sxpects nothing In the WAY
OF pubic once, 20 why ridicule and
abuse : man for championing the
cause OF right? There are. no argu-
ments that can be advanced that are
worth anything in favor Of strong
drink. 1t IL acknowledged to -be the
greatest evil OF the country. but, like
every, other evil, It cannot be gotten
rid OF 1t once. So when man lends
his time. ability ana means to the
adjustment OF this great curse. why
should he be condsnaned7 Cheap a.
tire and unjust criticism win never
much either for those who
induIge III II 81 tor the tsDue involved.
n out hatde osntinsi kyJfhaanl) !.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05

that IL base has . ring b = hef -
echo In every manly soul H0ae4
dirnation 10 admirAbie becAuee 81 ~
honesty In Il and the force beAtn4
whether Ne agree with nAn or ~
we reverence the man that sninx
a man ana talks like one. That's ~
way the advance thinks and 01tkm
Catholic Temperance Advocate.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05

The editor says more. bat what We
quote 10 20 much in accord with the
best sentiments Of American Catho-
lies that II IL . classic - II stands. Tho
editor IL mad and We admire him IN
his wrath. OF course We shouldn't
get mad. but when q man n mad, he
often shows how much Of man he H.
Manhood's protest against anything
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
FREEIING NOTES.

Especial to The Richmond virginian.o
Freezing, Va, March 4--Reuben p.
MoFail IL viSiting relatives at Pound.
william p Moore is at HELLER, KY.
negotiating the purchase of . stave
mill to be installed near here.
Mrs Philip w. McFAn ID ATTENDING
her sister. Mrs. Alpha Mullins. OF
near Isona. who 10 quite Ill.
- Millard McFail, of Osborn's Gap,
IL visiting relatives near Freeing
Mrs. Mary Huff Il visiting relatives
At Myra. Ky.
g. c. vanover was at Fremont on
business during tho week.
Master Sherman MoFail has return
ed home from school ut Pound. the
term having closed.
Patton Killen, OF Osborn's Gap. ii
tho guest Of his aunt, Mrs Nancy p.
McFAli.
william W. Beverly IL visiting rsla-
tives At Baden.
Russell Haynes has gone 70 rhipps,
where he has q position w1th the
Curr1sr Lnmber Company.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
No Sir-Rre

NO Sir Rec.
The Catholic Advance of Wichita.
Kan, In its issue dated January ~.
has an editorial which Ia headed as
we have headed this The request re-
ferred to by the Advance is a most
astonishing one. We feel entirely as
the Advance does about It. The editor
says:
One OF the strangest requests that
has ever been made of any paper.
comes from 81. Louis 10 the Advance.
1t fs nothing less than a demand that
we Join the Catholic press in an organ
ixed campaign against prohibition.
The actionsof those who want to en-
list us In such a campaign Is about as
delicats land stactful as that of the
man whu strongly advised O neixhbor
to crack his rife over the head with a
roiling-pin.
Kansas has a prohibition law that
has been fr force for twenty-five years.
Prohibition iss one of the corner stones
of Kansas~ prosperity. During the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05

the training in the schools. he said.
The conference passed resolution ask
ing the Legislature 70 adopt the bill
providing for effective, statewide COM,
puisory education.
Evening star., 1916-03-12

orable voyage resulted only in the re-
discovery Of the new world which the
Mortimer are said to have visited cen
turtles before. and which had persisted
from the memory of the old world.
Fulton, who put into practical use
Rumsey's steamboat invention, had
passed the fortieth milestone; so had
Morse of the telegraph marvel, and so
also had Stephenson, who made the rail-
road locomotive go. 1t would be no hard
task to go through the biographies Of
done the world some service" and find
that perhaps a majority Of them, and
certainly a largo percentage of them.
reached the climax of their inventive
careers after the age of forty.
Pasteur. when he made his name i'm
mortal. was beyond the fiftieth mark,
and so was Joseph Lister at the time
of his discovery Of tho antiseptic treat
ment in surgery, while Jenner at the
time when he discovered vaccination
against smallpox, an epoch ma king dis
covery, was we'll advanced toward his
nftieth birthday.
In writing-literary and scientific
the old men have the advantage. While
there are some brilliant examples on
the side Of youth. as in the cases of
Byron. Keats. Shelley. Poe and others.
there are on the other hand Darwin.
manuel Kant, Isaac Newton, Dante,
Milton. Victor Hugo. Goethe. Browning,
Tennyson, and 1t is believed by stu
dents Of Shakespeare that the immor-
tai bard of Avon had passed his for
tieth year when he gave to the world
Hamlet" and numerous others Of his
major works.
Evening star., 1916-03-12

Harvard University delivered himself
OF the following:
believe that the mental and physi-
cal maxfma are reached at very nearly
the same period. A man reaches his
ful! physical growth when he is about
eighteen or nineteen years old and by
the time he Is twenty-three he is be-
ginning to lose his keener perceptions,
so that this age may be called the
physical maximum The mental mari
mum is reached a great deal earlier
than most people suppose. If this be
true you have reached your physical
maximum and are close upon your
mental maximum. You will proba bIy
gain something more from experience.
but your actual capacity will increase
very little"
A careful and scholarly commentator
has said, In reply both to DR.. Osler
and Dr. Lowell. that: THE facts of his
tory and biography contradict both DR..
Loweil and Sir William Osler. and 1t is
simply not true that all the great and
have been given to the world by mon
on whose back the sun was still shin
ing"
George Washington had entered upon
MS forty-fourth year when he was CIV
en- the post Of commander-in-chief Of
the Continental Army. and ffty-seven
when ne became the first President of
the United States. Christopher Colum-
bus. according to his biographers, was
forty-stx when he set sail on his first
voyage across the Atlantic, that mem-
orable voyage which resulted in the
discovery Of America, and the result
was none the less magnificent
achievement. even though that mem
Evening star., 1916-03-12
Nature Worked Backward.

r. HE following is an interesting ina
stance of the reversal of the ordi.
nary course OF nature that cost an
English market-gardener dear.
watercress is eagerly devoured by
caddis-worms. and caddis-worms are q
favorite food of trout. The trout, in
turn. have a voracious enemy in heronss
which ordinarily catch the fsh after
they have grown fat on caddis- worms.
Now, in the case referred to. il hap
pened that a large grower of water
cress had three-quarters Of his crop
ruined by the ravages of caddis-
worms. On investigation II was found
that the trout. which ordinarily pro-
tected the plants from the worms. had
been devoured, ahead of time, so to
speak. by a flock of hungry herons,
which, in thus reversing the course OF
events. had brought disaster to the
owner of the watercress.
Evening star., 1916-03-12
~ LID men for counsel and young
IL U men for action" Is q saying
that for so many years has

60 ID me: e: 70: :::s s:ss:'' and
that for SO many years has
been current in the ordinary speech of
men that no quarrel ought to be pro-
voked II that saying be called an
aphorism or even a proverb. But like
so many sayings that arrive at a stage
OF great popularity and then become
fixed In the language of people. II is not
altogether true. and In many cases and
at many times is absolutely untrue.
A Juror of excitement and controversy
followed an address made several years
ago by DR.. osler. now generally well
known as Sir William Osler, who was
reported to have expressed the belief
that. for all the good they could do to-
ward the material advancement Of the
world. men Of sixty years Of age might
Just as well be chioroformed. There
were many ahirmations and denials a.
to what DR.. Osler said Of the useful
the ages OF forty and sixty, but II was
finally settled that DR.. Osler did say
something to the effect that q mans
best achievements were accomplished ID
by the time he reached his fortieth
year and that by the time he reached
his stxtteth year he was practically a
back number. q dead one," or some
thing equally useless AZ finally reported
and probably after some revision DR..
oeler's remarks on this subject were:
II 10 dimeult to name . great and
Evening star., 1916-03-12

destruction. Once, at Fontainebleau,
she almost led Eugenie into going to
the races in short skirts. They were
nothing to what women wear this year,
but in those days 1t was daring.
MY dear Pauline" some one asked
her. would you counsel your own EN-.
press to get herself up in short skirts"
That is different" replied the Met
ternich. my empress is a royal prin-
cess. a real empress, while yours. my
dear. 10 Mile. de Montijo,"
Her looks were her fortune.
Dress was her forte.
Yet, in the final tragedy. Napoleon's
throne was lost because she could not
find an insignificant black skirt and
corsage!
The news of Sedan circulated in Paris
on the night of September 3. Eugene
held cabinet council. and 1t was
agreed that in the morning she must
go on horseback. with brilliant escort,
to the legislative body. Even Emile de
Girardin, whom she welcomed as 'the
gravedigger of dynasties," told her seri-
ously:
Should your majesty appear bravely
on horseback in the midst of the peo-
pie your majesty can still count on
their enthusiasm and devotion.
Eugenie resolved to show herself on
horseback.
She ordered that the riding habit be
chosen. 1t must be all black. OF the
severest simplicity. and she would just
pin the red ribbon of the Legion of
Honor on her left breast.
Often the slightest causes bring about
the gravest results. When a woman
dresses herself to do a certain thing,
she regularly succeeds in accomplish
ing it. The tragedy Of the empires last
chance. therefore. must be looked for
along with the black habit.
BY incredible ill-luck. 1t could NOT be
found. There had been one. but IT had
isappeared-"doubtless stolen" There
were others at Compiegne and Fontaine-
bleau. They found riding habit of
dark green. with heavy gold braid,
costume of the imperial stag hunts.
'It will not do" Eugenie sobbed. 'is
will not do"
All, the girl Of two splendid wishes!
STERLING HEILIG.