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Weekly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Lancaster County in Particular; the Northern Neck and Rappahannocfc Valley in General, and the World at Large.
VOLUME XIX
IRVINGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1910.
Number 17.
CHARLES M STRUVEN & CO.,
8TEAM8HIP, FACTORY
t\HO
MACHIWI8T8' SUPPLIES.
WHOl.tSALB
GROCERS AND SHIP CHANDLERS.
BBO&EBS %NU 0?m?>*l<?N MKR< IIAVIS FOR
MENHADEN FISH 8CRAP AND FISH OIL.
114 Frederick St., BALTIMORE, IVID.
PAID UP CAPITAL, $108,000.00.
NORFOLK BUILDING S0PPLIES C0RP.,
SUCCESSORS TO
FRANK T. CLARK CO., LteL,
(A Partnership Association Expiring December 31st, 1909.)
C00KE, CLARK C0., & LUTHER SHELDON.
ESTABLISNED 1870.
There are six reasons why BUILDERS and OWNERS should buy their
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Builder's Hardware, Mantels,
Tiles, Grates, Paints, Oile, Glass, Etc, from
THE NORFOLK HUIIDMG SUPPLIES CORPORATION.
THE REASONS:
1. We contract no bad debta.
2. We are the cheapest buyers.
3. Our expenses are minimized.
4. Our facilities are the greatest.
5. Our organization is unrivalled.
6. Our profits are small.
NORFOLK BUILDINi SUPPLIES CORPORATION
NORFOLK, VA.
90-98 BROOKK AVENUE.
95-97 TAZBWELL 8T.
THE HAWKS-MAUPIN CO.,
SASH, MANTELS, PAINTS. BUILDING,
DOORS, TILING, OILS, PAPERS,
BLINDS, GRATES, GLASS, VARNISHES,
MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, ETC.
715-717 CRAWFORD ST., PORTSMOUTH, VA,
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS,
WINDOW AND DOJR PRAMES,
HARD WARE, POROH AND STAIN WORK,
PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS.
CLARK SASH & DOOR CORPORATION,
FRANK T. CLARK, Pres. and Manager,
Cor. Plume and Randolph Sts.,
NORFOLK, - - VIRGINIA.
U0NUMENTS AND GRAVESTQNES
IN HARBLE ANU GRANITE.
We pay freight and guarantee safe delivery.
As we employ no Canvaasers or Agents no commissions must
be added to our prices, therefore we can use first class material
and finish it right,
LAR?E*T STOCK IN THE SOUTH.
When in Norfolk call oa ua. You will find what you want: aee and
know what you ara buying' aad can get it quickly.
TBK COTJPRR MARBLE WORKS,
tt?taUUhed 62 Yeara)
159 to 163 Baik St., Norfolk, Va.
MONUMENTS AND GRAESTONE^
To all who oon
template the erec
tion of a Monu
men t, Statue or
QraTeetone in Mar?
ble or Granite, it
will be to their
interest to call on
or address
LAWSON & NEWTON,
Cor. 11th aad Williams Sta.,
NORFOLK. VA.
Bell 'Paoae No. 8752.
LANCASTER UNION LODGE, No. 88
A., *. ? A. M.,
Kilmabnocx, Va.
Stated Oommnnicationa
montkly?Thursday after the
thlid Monday, 11 a. m.
HEATHSVILLE LODGE,No. 10?,
a.,?.? A.M.
Stated Oommanicaiions tnontbv
Prtday after the tbird Mondav. il a.i
What would be more appreciated
than a well finished and good like
ness of a friend or relative? Then
why not go to
WM. FREEMAN,
PHOTOCRAPHER,
268 and 270 MAIN ST.,
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA?
Who is considered one
of the best in the south.
PICTURE FRAMEft. EASTMAN
KODAKS AND SUPPLIES.
Special attention to finishing for
amateurs.
Tall Oaks from little Aeerns grow.
Big Fires from little Matches arlow
Therefore, be wise and insure your
property before it is too late ln the
NORTHBRN NbCK MrjTCAL FlRK Ass'n,
(Home office) Irvington, Va.
t_TLess than balf the coat of old line
companies
B. H. BAiRD,
GENERAL FIRE INSURANCE.
POSTOFMCE AND 'PHONB- WARSAW, VIRGINIA.
Representing Companies having combined
assets of over $11.000,000.
RAXBURtt BREMEN FIRE INSURANCE CO.. Hamburg, Germany.
TIRG1N1A FIRE A MARINE INSURANCE CO- Richmond, Va!
8PRINGFIELD FIRE A MARINE INSURANCE CO.. Sprlagfleld, Mass.
TIRGINIA STATE INSURAN CO.. Richmond. Ta
THE OREAT POLICY-HOLPERS' CO.
t_l. WhT ls lt that the Union Central, whlle Us preminme are low, ear. na>
th? largest dl?Idends ?
Ut. Because the company la cholce ln se'octlsg its rlaka. Oonaeqoenct.
ow death rats.
Ind. Beoaose for twenty yeara lt haa reallsed the hlgheat interest r%w
O A MTIth what result f
We farnlsh maximam tnanranoe ai enlnlmnm coat
klng Ltfi
10. P. .
A. O. BALL, Molusk, Va.
M. 8. ?
Before taking Llfe Inaarance write for ratea In the greal Pollcy-holder
Company.
O. P. PALMER akd R H. NORRIS, Kilmarnock, Va.
' BALL, Molnsk, Va.
8TRINGFXLLOW, Brandy, Va.
LEARN TO SMILE BY THE WAY.
A man with a frown and a man with a
smile
Once met on Life's Road at the old turn
ing stile,
"You seem unconcerned," said the first
with a sneer,
"Fora man who has treacherous pitfalls
to fear.
I've worried along till I'm T/orn and
gray "
And the other said **You should have
smiled by the way."
"I've had many troubles, my heart has
been bled;
The joys that were mine are now with
ered and dead.
I'm treading this path not from fancy,
my friend,
but because not far off is the long
wished for end.
I've seen aught but darkness, no dawn
ing of day."
And the other said "You should have
smiled by the way."
"I know what it means," said the man
with the smile, n^
"To have my heart wrung every cruel,
weary mile,
My life has meant suffering, my way
has been long,
But still 1 have not grown deaf to Hope's
song.
And every drear winter to me has been
May.
Because I have learned how to smile by
the way."
? Philadelphia Bulletin.
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN.
[Published by requcst.]
There is no need to name Him. Un?
less, indeed, one hesitates to add to a
name so sacred a title now so worn by
careless use, so frayed and stained and
tattered.
What is meant is plain enough.
He who was born upon the day whose
shining anniversary glorifies this month
was the very pattern and mirror and
complete ideal of aU gentleness and
courtesy.
He cared for the social graces.
It is mignty pleasant to remember
that the first thing that He did after
the definite beginning of His mission
was to go not to a meeting, nor even to
a service, but to a wedding. It was
complained of Him He disregarded some
of the minor observances of religion,
but it was noticod that He insisted upon
the minor observances of hospitality.
He would not wash His hands before
He ate, because that was then a sign of
a belief that the world in general was
bad, and that the taint of it must be
washed off whenever one comes in from
out-of-doors. But when, one time, His
host at dinner omitted to have water
brought to wash His feet He was dis
pleased because it showed a lack of
consideration for the comfort of a
guest. It is true that once, when He
Himself was host, He fed the company
with bread and fish, and this they ate
sitting on the grass?a homely meal.
But on the supreme occasion of His
hospitality He provided bread and wine:
not only bread, a symbol of the neces
saries of existence, but also wine, a
symbol then of the graces, the lights
and colors, the fragrance and festivity
of social life.
He waa unfailingly considerate of the
neglected.
In His day children were neglected.
Childhood was a period which did not
count. It had to be endured, but nobody
was interested in it. When He came
whose birth was heralded by the Christ?
mas angels, and whose cradle was visited
by adoring shepherds and by pilgrims
out of the East, He illuminated and
sanctified all childhood. He put His
hands on little children and took them
up in His arms and blessed them.
With Him chivalry for woman began.
In His day women were disregarded.
Social intercourse, as He understood it
?the free and joyous intercourse of men
and women?hardly existed until He
came. One time the disciples found Him
talking with a woman by a well, and
were amazed that He should talk with
a woman? with any woman. The mother
hood of the Virgin Mary, the devotion of
the Magdalen, the ministration of wo?
men to His daily needs, gradually
changed the social situation. And so
chivalry began with Him, as did all the
best pleasures and finer courtesies of
society.
He made it His mission to make happy
the unhappy.
With Samaritans and publicans, and
such others as weie either despised or
disliked by their more cultivated or
more successful or more respectable
neighbors, His friendship was a mat?
ter of common scandal. He had a
theory that privileged persons 3hould
invite to dinner those who could not
return the invitation. Coming. as He
did, to increase the common store of
will and happiness, He addressed Him?
self particularly to the unhappy. He
madeit His mission, as He said, togive
sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf,
and deliverance to the captives. His
miraeles wereevidences of His kindness.
He feared no man.
When He found wealth allied with
selfishness, cruelty or fraud; when He
found religion reconciled_with hypocrisy
and selfseeking and supersition, He
spoke out. No prucrent consideration of
His own interests ever held Him back.
He was the frank enemy of every man
who was the enemy of society. They
said that He was like Elijah, the prophet
of flame and thunder, the strong ad
versary of wickedness in high places,
whom nobodv could buv nor intimirl_*?
nor silence.
At the same time He glorified the
gentle virtues.
Blessed are the meek, He said, blessed
are the merciful, blessed are the peace
makera, blessed are the pure in heart.
The qualities which were mostly prized
then were such as are useful in conter
tion. The common ambition was to get
on. Men cared for money and for
mastery. He astonished everybody by
caring forneither. He had two singular
ambitions; to grow in grace, and to
minister to others. He exalted service
over all the sovereignties.
And He lived in the light of great
ideals.
He dismissed with a single gesture of
His hand the questions which emphasize
tbe material side of life. What shall
we eat and drink? And wherewithai
shall we be clothed? The true concern
of gentlemen, He said, is the Kingdom
of God. That means the common wel
fare, the bettermentof social conditions,
the enrichment of men's minds and the
health of their souls. It has to do with
art and Ietters, with sanitation and
amu8ement, with polities and education:
with religion. The old distinction
between gentlefolk and trades-people
had its defense in the supposition that
they who dwelt in castles were alone
occupied with the graces, the refine
ments, the dignities, the large respon
sibilities of societyr those who lodged
over their shops were narrow and sordid
persons intent only on getting a living.
The theory was out of accord with the
facts, and has ever since been contra
dicted every Christmas by the remem
brance of Him who was born in a stable
and was bred to the labor of His hands.
That is the difference: they alone are
gentlefolk who think gentle thoughts
and do gentle deeds. Such keep the
feast of Christmas every day, in the
name of Him in whose honor all the
Christmas songs are sung and all the
Christmas trees are lighted, the Man of
gentleness and consideration. ?The First
Gentleman, in Ladies Home Journal of
December.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An insane woman recently taken to
Williamsburg was found to have nearly
$1,000 in gold sewed up in her clothing.
The three wealthiest nations: United
States $116,000,000,000; Great Britain
and Ireland, $62,200,000,000; France,
$42,800,000,000.
Last year was a record one in immi
gration. Over a million came into this
eountry, as against three quarters of a
million the year before.
After being declared free from leprosy,
and again pronouneed as a leper, and so
several different diagnoses, the man
Early has been officially decided really
leprous.
Tables are printed to show that
twenty-one dukes possess nearly four
million acres, and the statement is made
that 615 persons who constitutc the
titled nobility hold title to twenty-five
of the seventy-eight million acres which
the British Islescomprise. It may sur
prise the average American reader to
learn that the holdings of the English
nobility in the United States are far in
excess of their possessions in their own
eountry. ?Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
AFTER THE AUT0M0BIUSTS.
"Swine of the Road" is what a con
temporary calls the automobilist who
whirls past the pedestrian or the horse
driver, with cloud of dust and smell of
gasoline, frightening the timid horse
and perhaps startling him into a run
away, with the smash and crash re
sultant,
We have a law that compels these
"swine" to decency, says the exchange,
but they are hard to catch, often run
ning away from the disaster they have
created. Some people carry revolvera
and try to puncture their tires with
bullet, but that takes good markman
ship, and the law would scarcely protect
the shooter did he happen to hit the
chauffer, which is, in English, the fire
man.
In New Jersey some road managera
thought of an expedient that drove them
from their roads. The plan was simple,
and consisted of making a hump or
break on the road every hundred
yards or so. This, while not greatly in
the way of wagons, knocked the senses
out of the rapid autoist. When the
machine came to the hump, it bounded
into the air, giving the ridera such a
shaking up that they were glad to "go
slow", and as going slow was against
their creed, they abandoned the routes
where the humps abounded, and the
farmer had peace.
?'KETCH-AWLS'TROMEVERYWHERE
Only the criminal lazy assert the
world owes them a living. It owes
them nothing except a hole in the
ground, and the sooner they fill it the
better.?Exchange.
When, as estimated, each family in
the United States has contributed $28
to John D. Rockefeller's fortune, it is
undoubtedly "prosperity" for Rocke?
feller, but what is it for each family??
Frostburg (Md.) Mining Journal.
There is no^ much hope of the man
who is so ignorant that he does not
realize his igncrance. But of tbe man
who knows he is ignorant and who seeks
to get away from that condition there
is every hope.?Catonsville (Md.) Argus.
Over half the cranks in the United
States now think that they can beat the
doctors at curing the sick; two-thirds
of them are sure they can beat the
ministers preaching the gospei, and all
of them know that they can beat all
creation running a newspaper. ?Orange
Observer.
A H0RR1BLE HOLD UP.
"About ten years ago my brother waa "held up'.
in hia work. health and happiness by what waa
believed to be hopeleas Conaumption." writea W.
R. Lipacomb. of Waahington, N. C. "H? took al1
kinda of remcdiea and treatment from several
doctors, but found no help till hc used Dr. King's
New Discovery and waa wholly cured by aix bot
tloa. He ia a well man today." It's quick to re
lieve and the surest cure for weak or sore lung.
Hemorrhagea. Coughs and Colda. Bronchit?,
LaGrippe. Aathma and all Bronchial affactiona.
60c and $1. Trial bottle fi_s. GuaranUed by all
drunrtr B.
KISMET.
[Written for tha Qrrnuof.l
One sowa his aeed in the flnsh of morning,
Faring forth at rise of sun.
Another garnera. The ao wer turns home
ward
With empty hands, when the harvest
is done.
Through cloud and sunahine one nurtures
a flower
Of white perfection odorous-sweet.
Another weara it who treasures but
lightly
The peerle88 blossom that falls at his
feet.
With soul undaunted, one toils for a
treasure
Theriong day through. At set of sun,
Wearied sore, he has lost forever
The prize tbat another, un-eager, has
won.
The harvestrmen sow, the flowers that
they cherish,
The treasures they toil for, heart
hungry and sore,
Go shpping away to hands that have
striven not.
Shall we drift, then, with Destiny,?
striving no more?
?Lucy Leland Robinson.
ANOTHER LEE.
iThc Roanoke Times.)
George Washington was born in
1732, Robert E. Lee was born in 1807.
seventy-five years between them. Vir?
ginia has bred many great men, far
more for population and length of his?
tory than any other territory of like
size in the world. These two, however,
were the supreme and superb flowers
of her civilization and her blood, the
two, whose figures tower not only
above all her other sons but head and
shoulders above all the merely mortal
sons of men. The world has had other
men as good and great as these in aome
one way; but we can find nowhere in
history any man as good and so great
as these in so many ways?aoldiers so
skillful and daring, atatesmen so wise,
patriots so generous, citizens and gen?
tlemen so clean and high minded, hum
ble and kindly and perfect.
Probably when General Lee was born
people were saying that the day of
great men had past, that Virginia never
would produce a man to class with
Waahington. People have talked so in
every generation and each great man
has been supposed to bethe last. Gen?
eral Lee was born more than a hun?
dred yeara ago and we wonder some?
times whether there has been born or
will be born in Virginia a man to rank
with him. It may be he is somewhere
in the State now awaiting the smer
gency or occasion to make his qualities
manifest. Heaven grant it be not war.
We want no more war. In peace some?
times leadera and deliverera and men
who can uplift their people are needed
more than in war. Perhaps to inspire
and lead ua in some great development
of our resources, perhaps to carry us to
higher and broader and purer standards
of political thought and action, per?
haps to bring about a great moral or
religious awakening. a Lee may come.
He may arouse enthusiasm and com
mand confidence and devotion as Rob?
ert E. Lee did and by wisdom and skill
and majesty of character take bis place
in our history and memories and in the
world's history along with the splendid
warriora.
And why not?
Our tendency is to think, as they
thought when Lee was baby and boy
and young man, that there could be no
match for Washington, that there can
be no match for Lee. But why not?
We have the same stock and
blood that bred Washington and Lee,
the same traditions they inherited, the
same kind of women as bore and
trained them. We like to think that
Virginia may produce more Lees and
Washingtons. We like best of all to
think that maybe they will be the sons
or the grandsons of some of the hum
ble, undistinguished men who tramped ]
and toiled faithfully and (went f ear
lessly to face death because they loved
"Marse Bob" andyeamed of all things
to please him and because they were
true as tested steel to their cause and
State and eountry. Sir Walter Scott
in one of his novels tells of the English
Lees?the "Loyal Lees" they were
called and we believe "Loyal as a
Lee" was a proverb in their part of
the eountry more than four centuries
ago. As loyalty to land and truth and
pledge ever has marked the Lees, so it
has marked Virginia and Virginians.
She is the Old Dominion because of all
the possessions of England she alone
stood true and because of that she was
quartered on the royal arms of the
proud kingdom of Great Britain. Later
she was true to her own liberties and
rights and to her sister colonies, gave
the men who made the republic and
with lavish bounty bestowed upon the
new eountry from her own territory an
empire. Her sons and daughters are
born to such heritage and instincts.
Why should they not breed more Lees
and Washingtons? Why should not the
blood of some of those who without
hope of personal glory or any reward
but the approval of their own high souls
marched and suffered and fought, blos
som forth into new and splendid flowers
of great manhood and towering achieve
ment?
In almost every neighborbood there
is or bas been aome one of Lee's sol
diera consciously or unconscioualy
shaping his life and conduct to be like
the leader he adored so faithfully and
loved ao deeply, usually a man so timid
and modest in his bearing that none
would think he had ruahed rnadly to
meet death in the tumult of many
charges; a man clean in his life, kindly
snd gentle, inflexible in his allegiance
to pure principles, a patriot and a
Christian to his soul. From men of
thia kind noble fruit should come, we
believe must come. The Iions whelps
are lions and must prevail.
On the birthdays of Lee as they
come year after year we should think
and dream of these things. We waste
the release from the ordinary business
of life if we fail to use it to saturate
our souls with memories and thoughts
and the spirit of the great Virginian.
We should labor to instill these into the
very beings of our children. If we
could bring up a generation of boys in
tent on fashioning and shaping their
lives after Lee's, on being pure and
high and patriotic, generous and gen?
tle and brave as he was, we would have
a Commonwealth that might proudly
challenge comparison with the Com?
monwealth of Rome in its best days, a
people and a State the envy, the ad
miration and the inspiration of all man?
kind.
FROGS.
France has no monopoly of frogs
and exports only to England, yet the
annual production of 48,000,000 frogs
would make a pie many feet high.
Certain towns have specialties of frogs,
as othera have specialties of snails, liv?
er pies and truffles. Fresnes, a village
in the environs of Paris, is the most
renowned. In the height of the season
Fifine Boulinier and the Diard restau
rants receive processions of automo
biles bringing the fashionable Parisians
to eat Fresnes frogs. Each of the two
restaurants serve over 80,000 frogs in
the short season.
ln frog ranching, as practised at
Fresnes, great ponds are alive with the
jumping animals. At night their song
goes up to heaven and it is at night
that the round-up is accomplished.
This is a romantic and picturesque
sight. In the midst of the concert,
dancing lights aurprise the musical
creatures. They are facinated by the
glare. In thousands they go dancing
toward a long line of flaming faggots
aoaked in tar and carried steadily by
small boys. Behind the boys go men
with frog nets. As many as 30 fasci
nated frcgs, leaping to the lights, are
gathered up in one swipe of the net.
Magnificent "fattened" frogs' legs
sell at $1 the brochette. on which are
spitted six or eight. They are served
in omelettes, fricasseed in butter, fried
in bread crumbs with a white sauce, or
grilled with beaten eggs. An authentic
English lord at Monte Carlo last winter
ordered a pie of frogs' legs and truffles,
which cost him $120.?Fishing Gazette.
ENORMOUS COST OF THE FLY.
Speaking at Lakewood, N. J., to the
members of the New Jersey Sanitary
Association, Dr. Daniel D. Jackson, of
New York, said the other day that, on
the basis of present scientific knowl
edge, he estimated that two years
might be added to the average span of
each and every human life in the Uni?
ted States by the elimination of the
transmission of diseases by the common
housefly. This would mean a saving of
170,000,000 yeara of human life, or
4,000,000 lives of the present average
length, and, incidentally, a money sav?
ing of about twenty billion dollars.
Besides this there would be the inesti
mable saving to families and friends of
suffering, worry and misery, and also
of an euorraous amount of illness that
is not fatal.
This is not the "fly season," but every
one should, before next summer, study
methods and devices for the suppression
of the fly. If you are in absolute ig
norance, ask your family doctor, and
if he is an up-to-date, informed phyai?
cian, he will give you many practical
ideas and hints on the subject. ?Rich?
mond Journal.
THE HORSE.
The horae is in many ways a remark
able animal; not least so in the fact
that it presents us with an example of
one of the most perfect pieces of ma
chinery in the living world. In truth,
among the works of human ingenuity
it cannot be said that there is any lo
comotive so perfectly adapted to its
purposes, doing so much work with so
small a quantity of f uel, as this ma?
chine of nature's manufacture?the
horae. And as a necessary conaequence
of any sort of perfection (of mechani
cal perfection as of othera), you find
that the horae is a beautiful creature,
one of the most beautiful of all land
animals. Look at the perfect balance
of its form, and the rythm and force
of its action. The locomotive machine
ry is, as you are aware, resident in its
slender fore and hind limbs; they are
slender and flexible elastic levers, capa
ble of being moved by very powerful
mucles; and in order to supply the en
gines which work these levers with the
force which they expend. the horse is
provided with a very perfect apparatus
for grinding its food and extracting
therefrom the requisite fuel.?T. H.
Huxley, on The Horae.
SHY ON HIS GRAMMAR.
Sam Cornshuck?What's aU this talk
about suffragees?suttin 'bout wimmen
votin', ain't it?
Bill Oats?'Tain't suffragees, itssuf
frashees. Suffragees is men votin';
when the women votes it's suffrasheei
of course. Wimmen is always shees.
You don't seem to know any grammar.
PRESIDENT HELPS ORPIIANS.
Hundreds of orphana have been helped by the
President of The Industrial and Orphan'a Home
at Maeon, Ga.. whowritaa: "We have uaed Elec
trkfBittars in thia Inatitution for nine yeara. It
haa proveda moat excellent medicine for Stomach,
Uvar and Kidney trouble*. We regard it as one
of tha beat family medicinea on earth." It invigo*
ratea tha vital organa, purifiee the blood. aids di
geation. createa appetite. To atrengthen and
build up thin, pale, weak chlldren or run-down
people it haa no equal. Beat for female compiainta.
Onry 50c at all druggisU.
VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACROSTIC.
Yery best of papers art thou?
I enjoy thy pages fair;
Read thee with delight;
Hive to thee my time a share;
I've clungto thee from thy early youth;
Naught can our friendship sever;
I'll stand by theein future days,
And wish thy friendship ever.
Come8 to cheer in times of sorrow?
I greet thee with good cheer;
Truer friend is never found;
l feel when thou art near.
Zealous for the side of right;
Ever live to show thy light;
Naught be thy future but might.
R. D. C.
USE OF ROAD DRAG.
Costs no More Than Old Way and
Gives Better Roads.
R. L. Shuford, of Catawba county, N.
C, writing in the Progressive Farmer
has the following to say concerning the
road drag:
Bad roads are keeping us back in the
south more than any one thing. Our
people are very slow to see what they
are costing us yearly. While I believe
in building all the macadam road we can
I think it much better to first put our
dirt roads in good condition. This can
be done very cheaply, if we will go at
it in the right way, and where we have
both clay and sand, we can build roads
that will stand a lot of travel.
For building xiirt roads there is
nothing better than the V-shaped drag,
and the only reason I can think of why
people do not use them more is they
are so cheap and simple. All that ia
needed are two 3x4 pieces of scantling,
and two of timber, 3x12, twelve feet
long, the edges plated with iron. A
drag to make an 18-foot road should be
spread eight feet at the back. A drag
of this kind with four good horees or
mules to draw it, will do effective work.
NEWSPAPERS AND TEACHERS AUKE
Let a teacher make one mistake,
which is possible but not probable, and
the whole community is ready to criti
cise, reprehend, anathematize, but they
may go up and down the world doing
good, making useful citizens for such,
civilizing hoodlums, taming coyotes,
toning down wildcats and no word of
commendation is heard. It is accepta
ble as a matter of course. It is taken
to be the teacher's duty. There is no
use talking, things in this world are
unequal, but there may be a world
where the inequalities are not, on the
golden shore, where men shall see face
to face. All good teachera ought, and
will eventually, go to heaven, but it
would be no more than decency and
justice if earth were made more agreea
ble.?TheEcho.
A NEW YEAR SUGGESTION.
Ti Uiw ekam ruoy wen raey a retteb
eno fi uoy dnes ni ruoy tsap eud noit
pircsbus thgir won. Ew evah tnes uoy
eht nezitiC ylraluger dna epoh uoy
evah deyojne ti dna emoceb a retteb
nam ro namow yb gnidaer ti. Fi uoy
era ton tsap eud siht si ton rof uoy.
Ees emit ot hcihw uoy evah diap de
kram no ruoy sserdda.
This is not Greek or Peraian, as you
will see by reading each word from
RIGHT TO LEFT.
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The readers of thia paper will be pleased to learn
that there ia at loast one dreaded diaeaae that
science has been able to cure in all its stages. and
thatis Catarth. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia the only
poaitive cure now known to the rnedical f raternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia
taken IntemaJly, acting directly upon the blood
and mucoua surfacea of the aystem. thereby de
stroying the f oundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the constitu
tion and asaiating nature in doing ita work. The
proprietors have so much faith in ita curative
powers that they offer Oue Hundred Dollars for
any case that it faila to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address: F. J. Cheney _ Co., Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall'a Family Pilla for constipation.
JOYSTERS FORDYSPEPSIA, ETC.;
According to the hospital London
some English physicians are ordering
patients to eat oysters that have been
well soaked in sea water as a cure for
dyspepsia and tuberculosis. The good
effects of the sea water. which is too
acrid when taken alone, is increased by
the albumen, fat hydrocarbons and
mineral salts, especially phosphates
contained in the oyster. The oyster is
at once a tonic and a food.
Virginia oysters fill the prescription
without adding the salt, as ours possess
the sufficient saline properties.
SLSOME BEAR WATCHING.
It is good for every man's moral sys
tem to know that he is watched. The
conductor of the trolly ear has to ring
up fares. The cashier of a bank has to
make reports, and is subject to visita
tion by examiners. Bank presidents
and insuranee presidents who have an
idea that no one is looking get on too
familiar terms with the funds of their
institutions. The Phenix Fire Insur?
anee Company was a "one-man" com?
pany; the president did as he pleased
with its assets, and now they are a
million dollars short. ? Philadelphia
Record.
Sl'ROFULA
Scro/ula dis figures and
causes lif e-Iong misery.
Children become
strong and lively when
given small doses of
Scott's Emulsion
every day. The starved
body is fed; the swollen
glands healed, and the
tainted blood vitalized.
Good food, fresh air and
Scott's Emulsion con
quer scrofula and many
other blood disease*.
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Send 10c, name of paper and this ad. for
our beautiful Savings Bank and Child'a
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O. J. HAMMELL CO.,
PLEsSANTVIlLE, N. J.
Designers and Manufacturera of Artistic
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OFFICES-Atlantic City, N. J.; Phil
adelphia, Pa.; Whealton, Va. Address
H. Booker Hale. Agent.. Whealton.
SAMPLE OF OUR WORK.
This monument was designed, exe?
cuted and erected to the memory of
Dr. Lawrence Gunyon Mitchell, atFarn
ham Baptist Church, Richmond Co., Va.
WHEN IN NORFOLK STOP AT
"THE ATLANTIC"
Most conveniently located Hotel?
CORNER MAIN AND GRANBY STS.
Rooms $1.00 and $1.50.
American Plan $2.50 and $3.00.
Fine Cafe (Lynn's) newly fitted up
on first floor.
Rappahannock Valley people make it
headquarters.
PKOFESSIONAL.
R W. PALMER,
xv* DENTIST,
Will be ln lOcdvl.lf the flrst Monday of
oaoh month and remain two weeks. Tbe
reatof month in Kilmarnock. [Hank Hldjr. |
D
R. G. H. OLIVER,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
IRVINGTON, - - VIRGINIA,
(Omce ovor Bank.)
Nitroue Ozlde Gaa admlniatered.
Appointments for atttlags of any length
should be made severai daya in advanoe.
Terms: Cash.
Y^TARNER BALL,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,:
Monaskon, Lancaster Co., Va.
Wlll practice in all the Courts of this and
adjoining counties.
Prompt attentlon given to all legal business
^T^ MoDONALD LEE,
(NOTART PUBLIC.)
CITIL ENGINEER ANDSU K VEYOR
IRVINGTON, VA.
Lands surveyed and plats made. Kstl
mates, Plana and SpeciflcatiOBS for Brldg
and Vladuet wora and constructlona of a!
descrintiona. Topography and Draughtln*
specialties.
Some Alcohol Questiotts
Is alcohol a tonic? No! Does it make the blood pure?
No! Does it strengthen the nerves? No! Is Ayer's
Sarsaparilla a tonic? Yes! Does it make the blood pure?
Yes! Does it strengthen the nerves? Yes! Is it the only
barsaparilla entirely free from alcohol? Yes! Ask your
doctor about this non-alcoholic medicine. If he approves,
your confidence will be complete. JJCJ^CoTZo^iTMc^.
w^1fe!HDui,8ir,Sl.1I>Ua,n,fn^ Du? "<>"""* Heavy-hcaded! Downhearted! All
very often due to constipation I Yet the cure b so easv.?Ayer's Pilla. Ask your doctor.