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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
THEsE AND FORMER r,mEs.

Speaker Cannon says We aro n con-
siderable improvement on our fathers
That depends on what particular
time he counts back TO. If bo HoE3
ut tier 60 wo may agree with him.
When wo recall the rnnscontinental
X. II. deals. tho Credit MobilIcr. tn.
WhiSkcy Ring, TO say nothing OF the
Crime Of 49," or tho Hayes Steal,
NO ruay expand our complaconcy
several notchcs but If We glance
further along the line TO tho days
OF Webster, Clay. Jackson Adams
Jefferson or Hamilton our expansion
would likely be- perforated.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
IVORY CARVING.
rhe Chtnenc sim Excel In Making
Elsb0rnte Fnn sttcks.

"Tou M? say ,hNt the Chinese still
FOR fan 5ticts,' 6a!d n finn Importer.
Years OF labor arc represented In
aoInc of the fans made in tho orient.
Tor nearly tTo centuries the manufac-
ture Of cans Cov tho European market
has been an important industry Of
China.
"T1c Chinese wurl;men, brought TO
Poris in the seventeenth century in
order "a teach Fronchmcn the art, aid
c1 greatly in giving the prominence
TO French fans. At Dicppc and other
Industrial centers In France fine exam
pies oi carved ivory fan sticks are pro.
;ilccd, and Iunny Of the most beautiful,
Tons reaching the New York market
colRc FROM there. There Is q wide
choice uf niiitcrial for the sticks, couI-
prisinR ivory, mother-o pearl, tcrtoia.
shell. horn, sandai and other woods
will occasionally flllgrcc work iu
metal.
"rie most common materials. uf
course, arc wood and bone, which arr
decorated with prints OF pressed work
Ore &C the most notable fans, mace
with metni sticks, ;s the one of CARVED
silver said Ia have once belonged Ia
Marie An;ojneite. This fan is now IN
The South K"ns;nstou collection. The
moher.of.pearl a!icks sire an exec,
lieut. opportunity Tor artistic earring
and Gjao for cie;cT gii'l!Dg"--Jewclcr.
CiTcuinr. Weekly.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
ARMY WANTS CANTEEN
Officers Practically Unanimous for
Restoration Of Privilege.
DIVES FLOURISH NEAR THE POSTS
Morale OF Men Being Destroyed by
Frcquenting Of PIaces Of Lowest
Characteristic That Beer win De-
crsace Drunkenness.
tsDsciai to the Daily presa,

WASHINGTON. Dec. 27-Tho OIL.
c!al Rtatemont in the House by Repro
sentative AIorreIl. of peangylvarin,
that every general ia tho United
States army with the exception of
two; every colonel of cavalry, Infantry
and artillery, with one exception. and
50t out Of SIC commanders Of military
posts have unhcs!ta:ingly and strongly
recommended the restoration Of tho
canteou Ia the army, nnd the priYil-
eGe Of selling beer to Roldicrs, hag
awakened tremendous interest la con-
ereSs The showing ban been suhl-
Client to arouse men who are even
prohib!t'onistH. Senator Reed Smool.
Of Utah. for instance. declared: II
nm a temperance man. but l shall
vote for tho restoration of the can
tenn. The statements of sensible
army men will 20 further with me
than the statements Of theorists"
The greatest fight ever known is
promised. The prohib,ion!sta urged
the secretary OF war to restrain army
officers from expressing their views az
to the absence OF the canteen for an
other year, SO % TO Insure another
years trial Of the motto: The Unit.
cd state reservations Rre sacred" but
cr1ora did no. have the desired effect.
Representative Morrell points out In
his bill that drunkenness In the army,
deSertion, disease, have become ramp-
mt under the no-cantCcn system. He
shows where the unanimous opiu!on
ot the army IL that the soldier who
can not get a glass of beer in q post
c"ntoen will go outside and drink
whiskcy unfit for the lowest OF hN.
mans, associate with degraded char
acters AMI l1wcr his morals. If he
could get the beer he would stay
within the enclosure and be cOntcntcd.
Colonel Edwards. Of the insular af
ia'ri bureau Of the war department,
asserts that he was in charge OF three
cantccns IN the Southwest ut ono time
and that he managed II go that he
actually drove out OF business all the
low dives end saloons surrounding the
posts, the soldiers being SO we'll patia-
lied with the beer in the post that
they did not care 10 visit the saloons,
which We're forced 20 close ZIP with
financial loss. II is understood that
SolonCf Edwards will he called before
congressional committee to give :, his
testimony. which iEtSaid To be wonder.
tnl IN itH showing that drunkenness in
the army can ne almost abolished hy
the sale Of beer in the cnntcers.
Figures viii hr presented from the
snrSeop,gcncral Of. the army showing
That shc cusea of. acute alcoholism
treated in tho United States army in
the last Gscsl yeat' were one hundrpil
,an>l fifty timc0 greater than N the
German array. where tho soldiers arc
allowed beer az often as they desire
and where they Go not ask for the
stronger drinks.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
GETS PLENTY OF LIGHT.
One Hotel Gnest who travels Pre-
pnred For Emergenciea

81 called on o friend ut one OF the
New York hotels the other day." said a
man, "And found him in room thar
WAS far, far away from daylight,
There was one electric light. which did
not make the apartment lustrous. w,
had some papers 80 look ovsr. and
.ostinctivciy moved over near the air
SHIFT window.
81 eau do better than that lie said.
;Oing IN his satclel and taking out an
electric bulb. 4 carry this around with
roc for Just such occasicns.' he laughed.
That one docs well enough for tran
nicpt guests WHO are not in their rooms
except to sleep. but sometimes need
more than sixteen candlcpowcr. and
carry q thirty-two.'
Ito unscrrwed the sixteen, and In q
jifty had on his thirty two. The cur.
rent was there. al right. and wa had
10 more trouble about too little light.
Lntcr ho showed ME large gas tin
which he carried along for hotels tLat
used gas instead OF electric light. This
needed pair OF pliers Ia addition, but
lie had thcin III his spial! box. and hs
told Inc II was mighty poor quality Of
gas ard o powerful low pressure that
wonldn't respond With tho goods when
no put on his accommodation tip. There
is nothing crafty about that llttlo
scheme possibly, iout joat The same he
is getting something the landlord Is
paying for."--NeT' i"rk Press.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
HE FRANklhG GRAEr.

Vice is a; monster of. ouch hldeous
: mien. =. =, :,
That to bc hated needs but 70 bc
seen.
Dut seen too on. familiar with IT.
face.
Wo first pity. then endure, then elm.
brace.
Tho great conplct vriter mover
indited q greater truth thnn this nnd
how men who arc collected by ths
people to enact lava can so to work
uud abuse thoiso lag3 is passing
strange, According TO r. III. Gen.
Cortelyou thero Is none moro abused
than tho frankinG privilege
According TO tbs Washington Post,
poultry. furniture, tho family wash
and ercn fcrmynrd animals ars
franked.
Wo might summit TO the family
wash being sent by mail; n congress.
man wants II clean shirt occasionally.
but when Congressman Smith lends
yoke OF steers TO his active cor.
stituent farmer Jonea we cannot dis.
cover why 10 Hhould soui It at our
expense
Mr.. Corteiyou did RICH, to call
attention TO the abuse.
II was undoubtedly done because
1t was tho fashion and VIII BE-
abetcd ~ once.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
,r,,n Kinds of Ambition.

Men baya two kiads OF ambition. one
Cor dollor nmking. the other for life
makng. Some trru al! thsir nhiiite,
cducntioa, ;ranl.h an,i energy toward
tile first OF these dollar making, aud
cnlI the result success Others t,irn
thclh toward the second--into charac.
ter. usefulness, heipfIlness--iife mak.
Ing, aud tue world sometin1Ns cati1
them failures. but history cnlis them
SUCCESSES. NO price liz too great TO pay
FOR an untarnished namc.-O. $. MAJ
dei. ~ S3ccesS Magazine.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
PELICAN ISLAND.
Yope of Al he Pcltcens of the Er,i
Coast of I>yoyIJa 1

Youe of All the Peltcens of the En,i
Coast of IyorIda.
In ,hat lon,. narrow lagoon on tils
fast coast OF Florida known 90 Indian
riYer there Is g mpddy lslct three or
four acrrs in extent. Originally &c
doubtless lid not differ FROM hundreds
d strnllor ncirhboriNr isieta. but, for
e>'pe reason past finding out. this isiet,
End this alone. forms the nesting resort,
The ho1ft, Of ~, tae pelicaps Of the II.
dian river. X uni, indeed. or the east
coast Of FLORIDA. The brown pelican,
Juiiee i!s whitc coua:n. prst: normally
III low trras nnj bushes. sud uicfe ia
cTidenee that when tie original pn!ican
cpiouigts 'anttG,i ~ Tho i.tct -rhfciI now
'''NisI their uI;rc il WAS ,vci Crown
with black and rcd mauarovcs. in uaici,
the bids p,a.rd their SrnToIdins nc
sticks Exceptionally low temperature
and high wntar-pnrhap also c1c-ssiyo
use by tie birds. which sometimes
hui!d ~ inrny ~ snv"a ucs;s in "A
s;nelc have killed tree after
tree. until NJ prcscnt ouly tilrer servi.:e.
a'le frees renaiu. Still tic birds core
tnck, The iinpclIine motive which
prompts them 20 return to ;h,s ;,1rticu.
lar spot being evidently stronger thau
'h9t which induced them 10 rest IL
treeA.-f'rUuk N. Chapman in Century.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
TIE koToW.
Ssithrr IHRrHccTo' Sor DccradipR as
Perform; Cd by Ihincec.


The io,"w pronounced kcv-,nc an,l
Bicanil,g lirrrGiiy 10 bow tl,t head i.
used ~; q TORN III ,bantS and is not y
maun"T 81 -,r"tin-. Int actors ky-
COW Ia t:,c;,' JD;iea;i,. nj tbu bcSin
ming ani 'ud ri each l,,'cf":IulD"r ~
tie iE.Gtc" FIRST ;u ih:nb Tor The honor
5ncy ~, - iccriic in i.ciu: allowed -
act before tilcin ANA - III" end IT, ihaUs
FOR ,br ;n!,'!ic.c rr;n,;c,i. The oiliriui,
bow t'ic hru,i' 10 tIaaly FOR nn :,.G!.
nnc' to- nny favnr ~ a:tt taey hay,,
'2c"iic;i OF sue 10 receive from fhc;;'
fnai':at'"- 1'hc hct1-v l. NO; Gully
n'nde ~ rc",,, n, iur palace ard ~
imperial uu,,''1c"s: il fl sometime
0ae1 ~ "iu;is "a each other as D prop
y mama; oi t,1ui,i,: flY SONS great
i27t'. IA na.ic thu hutrv tie per.
ia kuttiS ;!'rnv t;;nr; ami each tiiu.,
bows Isl" head ulTcc lines. trnchint; ,:,,'
,To'lai with Il. Tie kol>N could nri
:" mad" Ivy :; fOr"iEuc; W;Thou, l"o;.
;"u I'r-t awkward ana appearing, muat
"rvii". but he Chinese al" i, With III:
nifty. ANA !; IS uc.thvr uusr:,cu;ul MOI.
degrading. i. j. - ,ii;r hrnOr,d man
'l"i Of niriIi': ihaul;s. "a ChiirSr iIrij
:iou surviving rruiu time when utc
co,r'i""H We're perhaps Ike slaves, but
~ present il; does not Imply any slave
iik" iiifcriol.;y on the part of him who
performs it.--kailiari,Ic. y. Carl in Cen
,ury.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
RATHER LATE.

Some OF oUr contemporaries arc
expressing alarm at our rapid up.
preach 10 Capitalization. We have been
moving In that direction fer quite
u while and strenuous efforts were
made in the year '6l TO oct up n
centrifugal force without avail.
Too late to cry danger ahead" nov
ana whistle down brakes"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
eIrUATioN AT MOSCOW.

Dispatches from Moscow are to
the effect that the situation tlr,c
10 practically uachan2rd. rhc rev.
olutionary forces 20 said e. 10 ~.
vidcd into three forces OF aljont
1000 men each. az i,sisnlfcapt
forco when compared eth the men
who niey 10 thrown against thom
The most important feature Of the
fighting IS that the downtrodden peo-
pic OF the Russian cities Will find
that tho so!d!org arc not lnvincihic
Tho struggles behind the barricadea
VIII give them new confidence IL
their powers OF resistance. Tho uao
OF deadly arme will give then new
and dangerous knowledge and they
may como out OF the preliminary
saTmiehes as dangerous opponents
as wore The men who oYerlhrew Che
Bast1la and tho French government
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

Mr.. Hamilton modestly admits
that "judlcious advocacy OF tho press"
has been effective In killing antago-
companies by b!ucknailers and BY
crank Legislators. 1t would bo O
greater tribute to the press IL he
honestly might have left cir the
comment that L. was ccutly.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
Charged with Numbering sister
Especial 60 The Daily Prcn..)

RICHMOND, VA, Dec. 27.--Denia.
min Reid hue boom arrested charged
With the murder OF his sister. Elias
Reid, who wac found dead in he. homo
naar Pocahontas last week. The cyl
ience against tho accused is said to
be ceTp dameaine
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

villa! would YOU do iirury," ashod
Mrs. ,Iolns'cn. II burglars got IN,
tlm'houso*' 700. .. J. -
rl'o:" rpi''silc's hrthay,f: "l.SNr
pose ! wuc:0 is I'D w'las they ,c.i
me. ~" mover 'iad 10y own way IL
'hi' house N.,;."
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

That Detroit man who set up a.
statue OF Satan In his front yard
seems TO have lived up TO his dew
ilish principles. He did not even
pay tho stonWutter who did the
work ion him.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

- is @f'tn. caSict.,5 r3.r,r Two. mss
tcrs ;jiaH 10. pi;Ia;tr rn.r' 'Vat.is.-'
Ph!iadetutiia lc"pri,
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No emp'oye or the Daily Press Com.
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legation IN tho mime Of the company
or to make pnrchaaee in the name Of
the same except upon orders signed by
the PUBLISHER OF THE DAILY
PRESS.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

25 per cent. oil all Farlor Suitee thls
week Three and fve-pisIo luitee,
ccveTed vita elk tareutry. Verona,
silk plueh, otc. ,t Interested I. Will
pay you 10 ace these suites.
IL BUXTON & PARKER
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

Cndeas q mon Is married he 10
pretty sure 10 make a girl think no
10 proposing If he aahs her what
church allc goes TO.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28

Ccnteotmeat ~ g rrcwn whs-,
fortune ha.:, dcn!aI it.-Ford.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-28
GOVERNOR AND L,rsRA.
iTURE.

70 oae questions tho right OF any
70, make money By Ills pen pro
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MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
,yaO!e Invariably in Advance.

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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05
~
D'ri and | |
By IRVING BACHELLER
Author Of Eben Holden" Darrell of
the Blessed Isles, Etc.
CHAPTER I.-CoNTINUED.

Copyright, 1901, by LotnTop Publishing compan
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05
Need for Haste.

In a Massachusetts seaport town
many stories are still told of an &C.
centric cid man who was a conspicuous
figure in it's streets 80 years ago.
Not many years before he died he
married a young wife, who was a con-
stant surprise to him. One day an old
friend met him hurrying along the
main street of the town, one arm held
ont stifIy in front of him and carrying
white paper parcel.
Don't touch me and don't detain
mel" he cried, as his friend ap-
preached.
what in the world is the matter?"
asked the other Anybody sick up at
your house?"
"Nobody's SICK" answered the old
man, over his shoulder, "but I'm fetch
ing home a new bunnit for my wife,
and | want to get there before the
styles change. e."-Youth's Companion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05
Where the snob Made a Mistake.

Abroad one meets good many
snobs among Travellers" said Phila-
delphia man who has just returned
from Europe. Here is an example:
I'm England with a party of tour
lists, | visited a noted castle belonging
to a well known peer. We were all
strangers to the castles noble owner,
but there was one among us who did
MT care to admit the fact. He was d
fat, pompous man of about middle
age and because none of us knew him
he tried to impress us with his social
importance. So he said to the house,
keeper who was our guide:
Flows the Duke"
Very well, sir, thank you,' she re-
piled.
"'Is Lady Gertrude also well%
Very well, thank you
"'And the Duchess?' continued the
pompous fellow.
1.-The Duchess said the house
keeper, has been dead for % years. +"
philadelphia Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05

wood when the chopping was over.
That done, we fired the rows, filling
the deep of heaven with smoke, as it
seemed to me- and lighting the night
with great pillows of flame.
BY mid-autumn we had cleared to
the stumps a strip half down the val
ley from our door. Then we turned
to on the land Of our neighbors, my
time counting half, for | was sturdy
and could swing the ak to line, and
felt JOY in seeing the chips fly. But
my father kept an eye on me, and held
me back as with a leash.
My mother was often sorely tried
for the lack of things common as dirt
these better days. Frequently our
only baking-powder was white lye,
made by dropping ash-cinders into
water. Our cinders were made by
letting the sap of green timber drip
into hot ashes. Often deers tallOw,
bears grease, or raccoon's oil served
for shortening, and the leaves of the
wild raspberry for tea. Our neighboTs
went to mill at CantOn-a journey of
five days, going and coming, with an
OK team, and beset with many difficult
ties. Then one of them followed the
top of a stump for his mortar and tied
his pestle to the bough of tree. With
a rope he drew the bough down, which,
as it sprang back, lifted the pestle that
ground his grain.
But money was the rarest of all
things in our neighborhood those days.
Pc earlash, blaCk-salts, West India pipe
slaves and RATS of timber brought
cash, but no other products of the
early settler. Late that fall my mother
gave a dance, rude but hearty pleas
uring that followed a long conference
in which my father had a part. They
all agreed to turn to, after snowfall, on
the overland, cut a raft of timber,
and send it to Montreal in the spring.
Our things had come, including Dri's
fiddle, so that we had chairs and bed
steadS and other accessories of life
not common among our neighbOrS.
My mother had a few jewels and some
fine old furniture that her father had
given her-really beautiful things,
have since come to lnow-and she
showed them to those simple folk with
mighty pride in her eyes.
Business over, Dri took down his
fiddle, that hung on the wall, and made
the strings roar as he tuned them.
Then he threw his long right leg over
the other, and, as he drew the bow.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05
CHAPTER Ii.

June was half over when we came
Madrid-then a home only for the
foxes and the fowls of the air and
their wild kin of the forest The road
ran through little valley thick with
timber and rock bound within a mile
of us, all comfortably settled in small
log houses. For temporary use we
built a rude bark shanty that had a
partition of blankets, living in this
primitive manner until my father and
D'ri had felled the timber and built a
log house We brought flour from Ma
lone-a dozen sacks or more-and
while they were building | had to
supply my mother with fish and game
and berries for the table-a thing easy
enough 10 do in that land of plenty.
When the logs were cut and hewn
went away, horseback, to Canton for a
jug of rum. | was all day and half the
night going and coming, and fording
the Grasse took me stirrups under.
Then the neighbors came to the rails
ing-a jolly company that shouted
"Hee, oh, heel" as they lifted each
heavy log to its place and grew noisier
quaffng the odorous red rum, that had
a mighty good look to me, although
my father would not hear of my tast-
ing it. When it was all over there
was nothing to pay but our gratitude.
While they were building hunks [
went off to sawmill with the oxen
for boards and shingles. Then, short
ly, we had a roof over us and floors
to walk on and that luxury D'ri called
''pydz," although it was not more
than a mere shelf with a roof over it.
We chinled the logs with moss and
clay at first, putting up creased paper
in the window spaces. For months we
knew not the luxury of the glass pane.
That summer we changed work"
with the neighbors and after we had
helped them awhile they turned to in
the clearing of our farm. We felled the
trees in long, bushy windrows, heap
ing them up with brush and small
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05

There we're six more days of travel
in that journey-travel so fraught
with hardships, | wonder that some
days we had the heart to press on.
More than all, | wonder that the frail
body of my mother was equal to it,
But | am writing no vain record of en-.
durance. | have written enough to
suggest what moving meant in the
wilderness. There is but one more
color in the scenes of that journey.
The fourth day after we left Chateau
gay my grandmother fell i'll and died
suddenly there in the deep woods. We
were far from any village, and sorrow
slowed our steps. We pushed on, COM
ing soon to a sawmill and small set
tlement They told us there was
neither minister nor undertaken with
in 40 miles. My father and D'ri made
the coffin of planed lumber, and lined
it with deerskin, and dug the grave on
top of a high hill When all was
ready, my father, who had always been
much given to profanity, albeit | know
he was a kindly and honest man with
no irreyerence in his heart, called Dri
aside.
"DTi," said he, "ye we alwus been
more proper-spoFen than | hev. Say
word O prayer?"
Don't much b'lieve | could" said
he, thoughtfully. 81 hev been t meet
in, but | hain't never been no great
hand fer prayin'"
'"T would mt sound right nohow fer
me t pray" said my father, 81 got s.
kind o rough when | was in the army"
Fraid it'll come a leetle unhandy
fer me" said DTi, with look of en-
barrassment but | don't never shirll
a tough Job ef it hes t be done"
Then he stepped forward, took off
his faded hat, his brow wrinkling deep,
and said, in a drawing preacher tone
that had no sound of Dri in it: 30
God, TEX care O gran'ma. Help us T.
go on careful an when we re riled.
help us t. keep er mouths shet. o God,
help the OF cart, an the ex in per-
tic'lar. An don't be noway hard on
us. Amen"