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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13
MAN WHO WROTE "Dlx,E,"
Dan Emmett Lives to See tho North and
South Sing His Song Together.

South Sing His Song Together.
Perhaps very few people know that
Dan Emmett, who wrote ''DiXie,' is
still living.
Ills home is in Mount Vernon O.,
where he was born and where We
hopes to end his days. The old man il
picturesque figure on the streets OF
the town. In his prime he was one
OF the mid-ccntury handles OF New
York city, bat now, With calm nGic
ference TO the conventional he usually
carries Il long staff uad wears his coat
fastened in 1T the waist by Il bit OF
rope.
Ills home Is n little cottage on the
edge OF the town. where he lives en-.
tlrely alone. On almost any warm
afternoon he can be found seated be
fore his door reading. but he is ready
whose curiosity to meet the composer
OF one Of the national songs OF Amer.
lea has brought him out from town
1T was this curiosity that took nlc &c
the cottage. The old composer was
seated in the shade 10y his house with
book open before him. AS | went
up the path ! said. for had some
doubt in my own mind:
Are YOU Dan Emmett, who wrote
'Dlxie':"
Wei, have heard of the fellow;
sit down." ana he nu,iul,ed to tie
steps. ...
Won't YOU tell me low tne song
was written?"
Like most everything else I ever
did. because il had L. non". ~ one sat
urday night. in 1857, / was leaving
biyanrS theatre. where was ,lav-
Ing Bryant called after me- 4 want
walk-round for Monday, Dan
"Ihe next DAY 1t raincd and STAYED
indoors At first when went ~, The
Song l couldn't get anything. But u
1ne. \ wish I was in Dixie. KEN re-
pcatins itself in my mind. and I
finally took it for my start. The rest
wasn't long in coming. And lhnt's
the story of how DIXIE was written.
~ made a hit at once. ana before
the end OF the week everybody in
New YORK waS whiStlng it, Then the
South took it up ana claincd it for rs
own. sold the copyright for 500,
which was all ] ever made from II.
III SHOW you my first COPY" He
went into the house and returned, in
moment with a yellow. worn.lonk.
ing manuscript IN his hand.
| That's Dixie" h. said. II am
going to give il To some historical So
clcty IN the South one of these l;,,s.
Tor though was born here in ohio,
! count myself Il Snuthrrner. as my
father was Il Nirgini;u."
| Half century ago Emmett was 4
famous minstrel Those were Tho
| balmy days Of burnt cork art wien
Eryants theatre on lower Eroadwuy
was one OF the most popular resorts
IN New York city. i.lnmcl, was born
IN 1915, at Mount Vernon, coming Of
n family. all of whose members had
| local reputation still traditional in
the county-as musicians In his own
case this talent was but LITTLE less
than crude and undcvclopcd sort OF
genius.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13
While the. War Last.

All who march. walk or stand, should
shake into their shoes Aliens Foot
Ease. a powder. 1t cures aching, tired,
sore. swollen feet, and makes tight or
new shoes easy. 1t absorbs moisture.
and prevents chatting, hot, smarting,
blistered. sweating feet. All the regula r
Volunteers IN hot climates can't exist
In comfort without it. Aliens Foot
Ease is sold by all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c.5 Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress. Allen $. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
june25-3m
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13
Fragrant Hath Nnt,..

rave the cook save all the lemon
skns, after she has made her pies and
ie:lies. and put them into the waipr
pitcher on the wash-stand The re-
suit Is fragrant toilet water, which is
beneficial to the skin. Several s1icas
u lemon in the bath a:e very good
Care must be taken TO remove tho
seeds. else the plumbing will lie In
:ured.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13

The Alabama voters have simply fol-
lowed the example Of Il number OF ma
triotic business men, whose clerks went
t" the front in holding Fighting
Joe" Wheclcr's Job oppn for him.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13
Capital Dry Goods House
POLO Washington Avenue.
New Summer Resort.
THE Blu CKROE BEACH HOTEL

Is situated on Hampton Roads in
sight OF Fort Monroe, where electric
cars meet incoming and outgoing
steamers. This delightful summer re-
sort will be
OPENED MAY 2. 1898.
The hotel has been enlarged. Per
feet sanitary condition and plumbing
Bathing is unexcelled. Fishing and
boating unrivalled. No malaria. The
cool breezes of the Atlantic. Electric
cars every Is minutes for Fort Monroe,
Hampton and Newport News No lio-
uors sold or gambling permitted Pic
mic parties allowed the use OF the
mammoth pavilion during the day.
Music every night except Sunday.
For terms apply to
CHARLES H. HEWINS. Manager.
Buck Roe Reach Hotel,
Hampton, Va
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AS n last resort Spain might send her
i"rcadois oyer TO fight us assuming. of
course. that they are now willing to
advance us n few points beyond the
pig class
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catlon: Contractors are not allowed to
exceed their space or advertise other
THAN their legitimate business, except
oy paving especially for the same. Ad-
vert1sernents discontinued before the
expiration of contract will be charged
1or at transient rates for the time in
aerted.
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Proposals..

Sealed proposals will be received al
the Architects Office until T.. Nj. Mon
day. the 18th day of July. !S9S for tn,
erection OF a three story brick hotel
i'lans may De Seen ut the office Of VIM
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ii'SclteaVenuc. The right TO reject
any or al bids Is reserved by the own
eiS.
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Newport News. Va.
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Madam Arae.

The celebrated Spiritual, Trance and
business Medium. has just arrived
rom the lilnntlike gold fields. She
reads llt" from the cradle to the gr.tv..
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The Daily Press may be obtained
every morning at the following place:
Crossley Bros, Washington avenues.
]. A. Cory, Acre
Chesapeake & Ohio Restaurant.
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13
just what You've
Been Waiting For.
Our semi annu al Clearance Sale OF
MEMS SUITS QDd TROUSERS

iILs1 v UUi!U ullu lllUUULNU
Atpriccs thatWould
surprise the makers I!
We endeavor to close
out every suit each
season so we will be
enabled to sell you an
entire new one the
next. Note the gen
ulne cut in prices for
Reliable Clothing:
S14. So for SUITS that
were $500.
S11.98 fo)--stiiitts that
" ere $500.
1898 for suits that
were Sl2. SO.
bl 9S Tor suits that
were $1,000.
S6.78 for suits that
We're $3.50.
1898 for suits that
were $3.50.
These low prices
will prevail through
out the entire sesOna
till the stock is closed
out.
Special sale in Hats.
Special sale in La
dies and Children S
Shoes.
Bargain day here is
every day in the
week.
m No goods will be char e
ed at sale prices.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-13

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WANTtl'--A position by Il white girl
I" d" general house Work Apply at
$500 Lafayette avenue in la-lt.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
HER BROWN.

By James Bayne in Puck. There is magic in the music when the fountains of her mirth Into liquid waves of laughter ripple down And her eyes a deeper rapture In their dreamy moments capture, But I cherish most her features archly gathered in a frown. In the masquerade of faces desolation wears a smile,
 While the gravest in demeanor is the clown; But 1 know that in revealing Every transient thought and feeling She is nearest when her forehead sweet ly furrows with frown. In her eyes there gleams a splendor which no shadows can subdue, Like the glint upon the wavering fields of brown;
 As the glowing embers mingle With the ashes on the ingle - Glows her soul among the thoughts W. ich gravely wait upon her frown. All the shifting lights and shadows which her April eyes assume Wear charm of which this aspect is the crown;
 And if she could guess the ardor Of my thoughts as I regard her, How I wonder would her features coldly gather in frown.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08

Beauty patches, by the way, are coming in again. When the hair is. dressed la pompadour the patch. quite large and round, is worn on the left temple.
 To complete the airy, towering effect so ardently desired for evening cultures a skeleton bow of wrinkled ribbon, wired s6 as to stand upright, has taken the place of the tall ostrich plume of the early part of the season. A tuft of mixed black and white osprey p!umes or jewelled agrigette placed just where the bunch of curls or loop of hair is brought to a point, are also smart and pretty finishing touches to the fashionable cotffure. Those who have an abundance of hair cannot do bet ter than loop it loftily placing in the cen- ter a tuft of two or three curled ostrich tips springing from knot of bright t-tinted velvet.
 The Louis Seize bow of black or colored velvet ribbon, or black gauge, studded with jewels, is a dainty Parslan fancy, which is especially pretty for fair hair. One or these bows is of black gauze studded with diamonds back and front, another ds Of black velvet traced with tiny pearls. With these bows an osprey is always worn, ana it is usually white-a suggestion ot the threatened revival of the turban.
 Besides the many sheil-pins and combs which shine on every head jewelled hair clasps are seen, some almost as large as waist buckles, and composed Of dEamonls and ether precious stones on goid or sil- yer filigree foundation. Another pretty oddtty is the double -jewelled fillet bands that catch in the hair across the front or the head by a row Of tiny teeth. They are extremely becoming.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
Hunting in By-Gone Days

w. A. Bailie- -Grohman in the Pail mall
 Magazine.
 What long apprenticeship the would-be huntsmen had to serve in by-gone days! Gaston de Folk considered a beginning should be made when the child has reached the age of seven, when it should be placed in the kennels. King Charles says that to become a perfect huntsman the young gen. veneur should be taken at the age of twelve; he must be healthy and well built, he must have good sense and especially a quick and prompt judgment. One of the principal things required is that he should be painstaking. Alas! a hundred and fifty years later we have DYauville telling us that a man needs two years tuition to qualify as a huntsman! It was not only the paid gentlemen of the hunting estab- lishments, however, who became real con- noisseurs, for their loyal masters took such personal interest in everything connected with the chase that most of them knew all their hounds by name, and on the eve of a days hunting would name each hound that \ was to be taken out. They also prided themselves on being able to faire le bois themselves-that is, go out with their lymers in the morning and quest for and harbour the stag.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
It makes the weak strong. We have it.
Aabers, Morrow & Sinnige,

lures, such as the daughters of the north seldom emulate Next, she is a pianist of unusual ability, and has studied for three years under the great Leschestiszky, the teacher of Padrewski, who will ac- cept no pupil who does not bid fair to do him honor And third, during the past four years, which she has spent abroad, Miss Dismukes has contributed to a local paper a series of foreign letters good enough to prove that the world has lost writer Tor the sake of musician. These three-and in woman the greatest of these is beauty make her prominent figure in Nashville society. Out of the dead past Miss Dis mukes can claim a fourth right to promi- hence, for many of her ancestors have honorable mention in the history of Ten nessee. One founded Knoxville, another by diplomacy rid the state of the Cherokee Indians, an uncle, Col. C. M. McGhee, was the founder of the states greatest railway system. Miss Dismukes is still very young, and has only just made her first bow to Nashville society,"" The Puritan also con tains an excellent picture of Miss Dis mukcs who is a niece of Mrs. George H. Rogers, of Birmingham.
 Miss Florence Wertheimer left Saturday night for Jackson, Miss, and New Orleans. She will attend the weddings of Miss Bes- sic Hart and Miss Fannie Asher during her absence.
 The library society of the Sunday school of Temple Emanuel held an interesting meeting on Sunday evening, when an en- joyable programme was rendered.
 Mrs. L. P. Worl visited friends at Mont gomery during the past week.
 Miss Helen Mushat has returned from visit to Miss Nora Sparn, at Montgomery
The age-herald., 1898-03-08

relatives at Montgomery and Mobile, and in both cities she was the recipient of many charming social attentions.
 Mrs. E. G. Chandler is making a short visit to relatives in Mississippi.
 Mrs. Zac P Smith returned Saturday night from visit to New Orleans.
 Miss Kate Earle, who has been visiting friends for several weeks in Georgia, is ex- pected home in few days.
 MT. Wilbur Brown, Jr., of Montgomery, spent Sunday in Birmingham.
 Mrs. George s. Houston and Miss Hous- ton, after a visit of several weeks to Mr and Mrs. D. M. Drennen, have returned to their home at Athens, Ala.
 MT. and Mrs. D. NJ Drennen are now with MT and Mrs. w E. Leake, on Twen- tieth street and Fourth avenue, South Highlands, while their residence is being remodeled and enlarged.
 MT. and Mrs E. W. Barrett will entertain the Fortnightly Euchre club this evening at o'clock.
 Rt. Rev. Bishop R. H. Wilmur will preach and administer the rite of confirmation at St. Mary s-on-the- H ghands on the after noon of Sunday, the 27th inst.
 Mrs. Oliver Belmont has had her llfe-slze full-length portrait done in stained glass for a hall window that confronts the vs- itor on entering the hall of her New York residence. Only the queen of Italy has anything like it. She stands in a frame work of glass roses, in yellow brocaded satin, wearing her famous turquoise tiara, necklace and brooches. It took two years to do the work. The Duchess of Marl- borough is sitting to Alma Tadema for a similar portrait.
 The portrait fad runs in many lines. Mrs John Jacob .Astor has her portrait on six Sevres plates, each in different costume They were made in France, and cost $l50 each. Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Sloane are having themselves done in the same way by an American girl artist.
 
 Misses Critenden, at their home on Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street, entertained number of their friends last evening, com plimentary to Miss Trousdale of Nashville
 
 There will be a very important meeting of the ladies interested in the creche this aft ernoon at o'clock with the president, Mrs R. F. Johnston at Mrs. J. T. Nixon's.
  Miss Blanche Krauss of Fayette, Miss, is visiting MT. and Mrs. B. M Jacobs, on Seventh avenue.
 The March Puritan pays Miss Co,nc,a Dismukes, of Nashville, a pretty comp. ment. The Puritan says: Miss Cornelia Dismukes has a triple right to public ir- terest. First of all, she is good to look at, having a southern grace of form and fea-
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
The Newest Notes About
 The Latest C0iffure

It is said by those in authority, says an exchange, that one might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, and there is really only one fashion just now for dressing the hair. That, whether pos sible or impossible, is in the encircling pompadour. And when even the hairdress- CTS fail it is rather discouraging. Then We are left disconsolately to our own devices, and it occasionally happens that we dis cover our own hitherto unsuspected ability
 At least such was the case with certain south side girl who has been in despair since the advent of the pompadour because of the scantiness of her golden locks. Last matinee day she appeared down town with face radiently happy beneath halo or blonde hair puffed simply to perfection. Her best friend when they met her failed to recognize her at first glance, but paused for second look at the most beautiful pompadour she had ever seen. She told the secret-and a very precious one II IS. The unsightly frizzy pompadour roll Is used but only as a foundation. You must get from the hardresser what IS called puff, exactly matching your own hair. These puffs are made of straight long hair stitched at one end to wire. They come rolled in a hollow puff. The puff must De unrolled and the wired 'end pinned to the pompadour pad, then rolled up agaln over the bad, completely covering it. ana oeing stuck here and there with lhVlsipie piiis eo hold the roll firm
 Then the regular directions can be fol- lowed: Comb the front half of the hair down over the face-the back half to the middle of the back of the head, where It must be tied Pin the roll-covered pompa- dour on securely toward the forehead and brush the front hair back over it and pin 1t down where the back hair is tied. It will be found upon trial that the roll follows the line of the hair so exactly that 1t seems a mart of it. and if it matches perfectly 1t IS impossible to distinguish 1t from the natural hair. Invisible hairpins must be used without stint. The pad is regular hairpin cushion, and is thick enough to hold the little pins in all directions. when the round comb is placed teeth hrst ana inc hack hair is twisted in double eight the coiffure is complete, and the girl wno devised this very successful scheme feels that she can give points to the best hair- dressers in the city.
 The latest variation of the pompadour style is the addition of a couple Of fnger length curls to the bunch of hair low at the back of the head. The curls are a'- lowed to stray carelessly over the shoul- ders. This mode IS reserved exclusively for full dress occasions, when the hair is very lightly powdered. It Is the fashion of almost a hundred years ago.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
What Notable Women Are
 D0nu in the World

The Camelot new club for women typewriters, clerks and the like-Which has been recently started in London England, is unique organization in that it is a Sum day club. The founder is the Hon. Coralie Glyn, who has discovered that Sunday in London IS an unpleasantly lonely day for business women. With this idea in mind Miss Glyn made arrangements to occupy on one day in the week a suite of rooms In the picturesque eighteenth century building of the college for men and wo- men, in Queens square, Bloomsbury In the suite may be found a drawing-room dining-rooh.. tearoom and silence" room. The dues Of the club are shillings a year, the prices for tea and more substantial vlands are very reasonable. Men friends are allowed ia the drawing and dining room.
 Professor Grace Espy Patton. of Denver. IS one of the brightest women of that mecca of the modern woman-Colorado Not only has she become widely known as the first woman to hold the high posi- ton of state superintendent of public in- struction, but in recognition of her splen- did services she has won a new honor of a national character From this city Profess sor Patton will go to Chattanooga Tenn to attend the national convention of the state superintendents of public instruction over which masculine assembfage she has been invited to be presiding officer
 Professor Patton. who is barely old
  gathered about her in Denver a clever CO., terie of feminine assistants. Out of the ffty-nine counties in the state twenty seven have women superntendents of schools, and every school board has from one to two women members. In fact the entire department is in the hands of the fair sex. to whom United States Commits sioner Harris was able to say recently: "The Colorado schools are the model schools of the country"
 Mrs. Katherine Alice Tingley, the one personality most prominent in the work of the Theosophical Society today, is in many respects similar to her illustrious prede- cessor, Mime. Blavatsky The latter had always predicted that she would be suc- ceeded by an American. This she was when the late William O. Judge took up the work of leadership. When he died he bequeathed his leadership to Mrs. Tingley who during the two years of her reign has won the respect and love of all the theo- sophists with whom she has come in con- tact.
 Before going into theosophy Mrs. Tingley was spirit medium in Brooklyn. It is said that MT. Judge was directed by the mahatmas to her address, and that it was the mahatmas who disclosed to him the fact that she was destined to bear the burden of the theosophlcal movement dur ing her early life.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis. who computes the ephemeris of the sun for the Nautical Almanac, is but little more than 30 years of age, and she is a remark able mathematician. Originally a Washing ton school teacher, she entered the Colum- bian university, and while there she star tied her instructors and other astronomers by discovering and correcting an error in
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
In the Social Realm of
 Rirminaham and Elsewhere

There will be an important meeting Of the Daughters of the Confederacy Wedhes- day afternoon at o'clock at the home Of Mrs. Frank White, 52O Eighteenth street, North All who desire to become members of the local chapter are cordially invited to attend the meeting tomorrow afternoon.
 Miss Bentley, after brief stay in New York, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. w. Fucker, on the South Highlands.
 Miss Virginia Cooke of Virginia is visit ing her cousin, Mrs. l.. G. Woodson, Nine teenth street. South Highlands. Miss Cooke has spent a portion of the winter with