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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25
Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, Aug. Ri Estimates fore.
castihg the shipment of immense u,ian-
ti'icS oil the cereal from Argentina
prccipitated a sharp break in wheat
prices hero today. September closed
.i-lM Is down. September corn is up
IS. Oats are 1-SMi.l higher. provis.
ions advanced , - 10 Z -.
me leading futures ranged as fol
lows.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25

Apalachicoia has elected an editor
% its mayor. II is wonderful what an
s#fnl effect bad company will some
Jmes, have on newspaper men.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25

Elitah Dowie is, Of the opinion tina,
$lS0.O00. 900 will flow into the GOLFERS
~ bis Zion City in the next five years.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25

Three cans milk for 25c.
S-20-Gt G.. r. WOOD.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25
STOCKS AND BONDS


NEW YORK, Amg. 24.--Thc faith Of
Il large part Of the financial world in
a happy solution Of the proceedings at
Portsmouth seems to be so strong that
1t ignored all rumOrs Of another serious
hitch in the negotiations today and
continued 10 establish new high rec.
ords in the stock market. The issues
which came in for this distinction in.
cllded those of the market leaders.
namely. Union Pacific United States
steel. pid. and Reading. Pennsylvania
was the most conspicuous at the open.
inT, which was broad. The stock all
rancci easily ON heavy trading. Anal.
Samated Copper shared honors with
Pennsylvania.
Bonds We're irregular. Total sales.
par value. ~$3.lS0,O0o. United States
bonds were all unchanged OH ca,I,.
Total sales Of stocks. 1.22?,30
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25

This week 25.ib. bags sugar at $1.40.
GEO. r. WOOD.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25

Entered at the Newport News, Va.
ePostofice as so%cond-class matter.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-25
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06

scattered. Here was the ranchmen's
chance, and so well did they improve
II, thanks to their quick habit OF think
Ing and acting in an emergency, that
Bolter left nearly half his gang prls-
oners in the hands of their intended
victims.
Cowboy skill soon rounded up the
scared and scattered cattle. The
scout? Poor fellow, he had kept his
last watch, Boilers sharpshooters
had surprised him at the post of duty.
And Ernest? Well, week later, a
half dozen Of the ranch owners came
up from Denver and held a meeting
In the main ranch house. AS they sat
around the fire they were told the
story Of Ernests exploit, and immedi-
ately they dubbed together to send
him East to school. He graduated
with high honors, and not many years
later became the prosperous owner of
the very ranch which his pluck and
cool-headedness had saved from Bolter
and his desperadoes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
Yankee Inventiveness.

In little Massachusetts town lives
man who for two causes enjoys
deathIess local fame. For one thing,
he is the only native of the place who
has been to Europe; and he, moreover,
performed while there the ensuing feat,
which the neighbors still recount with
breathless admiratiOn:
While in Rome the New Englander
was shown a certain shrine before
which burned solitary taper
"That taper" explained the guide in
machine-built English-"that taper he
has burned before this shrine 700 years
He miraculous taper. Never he has
been eXtinguish. For seven long CEN
fury that taper has mlraculously burn
before our shrine, and not once has he
been-what you call-put out"
The Yankee viewed the miracle
candle in silence for. a full minute.
Then, leaning slowly forward, he ex-
tinguished the flames with one mighty
puff"
Turning with a triumphant chuckle
to the sandallzed and speeches. guide,
lie announced calmly:
"Wa'al, it's aout nowp'-Lippincott's
Magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
The Hope Of Misfortune.

Pain Is soul tonic. Sorrow often
brings out the best there Is in us
Happiness does not develop character
II gives 1t surface brightness and
decks 1t with prismatic bubbles. 1t
takes the deep,reechins arm of mis-
fortune to trouble the depths and
bring out the pearls that lie there, The
most magnetic faces are lined by
thought and noble care.
Strong, unselfish love, even If mis-.
placed and unappreciated, ennobles the
lover. 1t is the frivolous, vanity-born
emotions that fritter away character
and make faces insignificant. To fai
in high aim after earnest and honest
effort is not failure. The gain it brings
I'm strength and discipline VIII appear
in other directions.
Misfortune has often in the history
of the world been the means of max
ing poet, orator, philanthropist,
scientist or statesman out of a person
whose career, but for the misfortune or
physical disability, would have been
commonplace and influence limited
Medical Talk.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
An Anecdote of Greelsx.

Greeley's humanitarian was not al
ways proof against the irritations of
life. In his not infrequent Outbursts
of wrath he was very likely to consign
people who veXed him to region
which, according to his creed, had no
existence.
A story told on him in those days
seemed to show that his creed did not
entirely satisfy him, for one day when
he was trying, in spite of numberless
Interruptions, to write Tribune lead
err he became aware that some one
was standing behind his chair. Turn.
ing around suddenly, he saw mission
airy we'll known in the city slums, the
Rev. Mr.. Pease, and asked in his high
est, shrillest, most complaining fall
setto, "Well, what do you want?'
Mr.. PeNse, a kindly, gentle, apologize
man, said deprecatingly, "Well, Mr.,
Mr.. Greeley, 1 have come for little
help. We are still trying to save souls
in the Five Points"
"Oh!' said Mr.. Greeley, Ego along!
go along! In my opinion, there amt
half so many men damned as there
ought to acknowledgements of An.
drew d. White, Copyright, 1895, by
Century Company.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
AS a LAWYER Would Say It,

Legal verbiage has ever been a
stumbling block to the average lay
man, but probably he never realized
how much space the lawyer takes to
make the simplest remark. IF l were
to give you an orange" said Judge
Foote, of Topeka, q would simply
say, I give you the orange But
should the transaction be entrusted to
lawyer to put into writing he would
adopt this form: 4 hereby, give,
grant and convey to you all my inter,
est, right, title and advantage OF and
in said orange, together with its rind
skin, juice and pits; and all rights and
advantage therein, with full power to
bite, suck. or otherwise eat the same
or give away with or without the
rind, skin, juice, pulp or pits; any,
thing hereinbefore, or in any othet
deed or deeds, instrument of any ma
ture- or kind whatsoever to- the con
trAry Notwithstanding"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
The Modern Jester.

"A certain class of insane persons
are remarkable for their wit and apt
retorts," said DR.. George L. Winston,
the criminologlst. "The court fools
whom monarchs and great mobiles used
to employ were all of this insane class.
1t would be possible now, If the court
fool fashion were to be revived again,
to get from our asylums excellent jest
ers.
II have in mind a young man in a
Boston retreat who would make a good
jester for any monarch. This young
man keeps his companions continually
amused. The first time saw him he
sat on the floor swearing bitterly.
"'Tut, tut said l. Don't swear
"'Why not? said he.
"'Because,' said I, you won't go to
heaven if you DO
ooh said the young man disdain-
fully, I'm not going to try to go to
heaven. There's more trying now
than'll get in Philadelphia Bulletin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
Mems Wear for the Country.

Panama hats are in as coed form as
ever for the country, and the fact that
they have been dropped by 1.-The great
untubbed' has merely served to give
them an added flip toward exclusive
ness. OF course, no man in his senses
would wear a Panama in town.
Next to the Panama for the country
come the rough straw sailor hat for
the city. This will have a black or
dark blue ribbon. Fancy ribbons on
straw hats. unless they are in the
wearers club or varsity Colors and
thus symbolic something definite, are
not to be recommended. Frankly, they
look a Bit silly.
With the flannel shirt for knock
about many launderable cotton ties
will appear, and in these no pins are
worn. The fold collar is the only
form that is proper for morning,
lounging and "the open"
Low cut russell shoes were never APP
propriate for town wear, but belong
in the country with the felt hat and
Norfolk jacket-Haberdash
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
A thoughtful Act.

The fiction Of the friend who is COM
ing to occupy the seat in the railway
train that one has really secured as
an extra sent for ones self sometimes
works and sometimes doesn't. A pas
senger, hurrying along the platform
just before the train started, flung him
self upon a seat that was already &C.
cupled with Gladstone bag. "That
seat is taken" said morose old gen.
tleman; "my friend has kept 1t with his
bag" "All right" said the willy pas
senger affably, "I'll occupy it until he
comes" OF course the friend never
came, and just as the train was moving
out of the station the willy passenger
seized the bag and threw it out of the
window. "What are you doing, slrT'
shouted the old gentleman, furlously.
Anything the matter| inquired the
other. You don't want your friend
to lose his bag, do you%-London
Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06

From the report of the Metropolitan
Police 1t appears that 1925 persons
were arrested during 1904 for begging
in the streets of London, and of these
1889 were convicted and sentenced to
imprisonment of from one week to
three months.
1t is calculated that 1000 people make
living in London by begging, and
that their average income amounts to
thirty shllllngs about $3.50 a week,
or over $1,5OO,OOO year.
Many of the persons arrested were
found In possession of sums of money,
and even of bank books showing de-
posts aggregating hundreds of pounds.
The police profess to be unable TO
check the evil, because the beggars
migrate from one quarter of the met
ropolis to another after each convic.
tion.-New York World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
A sydney Smith Joke.

A joke goes great way in the coun'
try. l have known one to last pretty
well for seven years.
remember making Joke after a
meeting of the clergy, in Yorkshire,
where there was Rev. Mr.. Buckle
who never spoke when gave his
health. said he was buckle without
tongue.
Most persons within hearing laughed,
but my next neighbor sat unmoved
and sunk in thought
At last, a quarter of an hour after
we had all done, he suddenly nudged
me, exclaiming: II see now what you
meant, Mr. Smith; you meant a joke"
EYES," l said, "sir, believe did"
Upon which he began laughing so
heartily that thought he would choke,
and was obliged to pat him on the
back.-G. w. E. Russell's Sydney
Smith"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
The Matter with Smith.

A man in Chicago has 800 cents
which he can't spend, can't sell, can't
melt up, can't give away, and which
he can't even keep, At least If he does
any of these things he is breaking the
law, and he hasn't figured out the
answer yet. He is proprietor of num-
Der of penny-in-the-slot machines, and
the 500 pennies are the mutilated coin
that the machines have accepted in
six months without his consent. He
can't sell them for junk copper because
uIey are Dad money, lie can't pass them
off as pennies for the reason that they
are bad pennies and that might cause
him to pass some time in jail, and if
he keeps them he Is liable for carrying
bad money. This was the opinion of
the United States District Attorney,
and the Assistant United States At
torney- General, who was in Chicago
looking after the Beef Trust, tried his
hand at the puzzle without better re-
suits. Technically, the owner Of the
pennies, one Smith, violates the law
whatever he does with Thanksgiving
field Republican.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
THe WAYslpE well.

He stopped ath the wayside well,
Where the water was cool and deep;
There were feathery ferns 'twixt the messy
stones,
And gray was the old well.sweep.
He left his carriage alone;
Nor could coachman or footman tell
Why the master stopped in the dusty road
To drink at the waysde well.
He swayed with his gloved hands
The well-sweep, crealiing and slow,
While from seam and scar in the bucket
side
The water spOshed back below.
He lifted it to the curb,
And bent to the buckets brim;
No burrows of time or care had marked
The face that looked back at him.
He saw but farmers boy,
As he stopped DER the brim to drink,
And muddy and tanned was the laughing
face
That met his over the brink.
The eyes were sunny and clear,
And the brow undimmed by care,
While from under the rim of the old straw
hat
Strayed curls of chestnut hair.
He turned away with a sigh;
Nor could footman or coachman tell
Why the master stopped, in his ride that
day,
To drink by The wayside well.
Walter Learned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06

ness, faintness, lassitude, excitability,
irritability, nervousness, sleepless-
ness, melancholy, 'all-gone and
"waut-to- be-left-alone" feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remem-
Der there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles
No other female medicine in the
world has received such widespread
and unqualified endorsement. No other
medicine has such a record of cures OF
female troubles.
The needless suffering of women from
diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible
to see. The money which they pay to
doctors who do not help them is an
enormous waste. The pain is cured
and the money is saved by Lydia E.
Pinlham's Vegetable Compound. Ex-
perienee has proved this.
It is well for women who are i'll to
write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass
In her great experience, which covers
many years, she mas probably had to
deal with dozens of cases Just like
yours. Her advice is free and conf
Dental
pound Succeeds Where others Fail.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
Tame Quail.

w. G, Brown, Of Urbana, spent day
or two in town last week, and had quite
an interesting story to tell, During
the recent snowy weather, Doc, who
has a reputation as an expert hunter
and trapper, caught thirty-hve quails
in cornstalk traps, and, while the av-
erage man would have Toasted on
quail on toast, not so with Doc. He
prepared cage and kept them at his
house during the severe weather, feast
ing them on grain until they grew
plump and fat, and somewhat tame.
The nice weather coming on, Doc lib
Grated his pets, and he says they are
quite gentle, with all his range to run
on. Mr.. Brown appreciates his flock,
and will protect them from the raw
ages of the gunner. When they are
let run a few seasons Doc expects to
have plenty Of quail on toast.-Hermit.
age CNIo.) Index.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
THE sTAGs GERMAN.
The Teutonic Comedian Rapidly Giving
Place to Other Dialects,

The TeutonIc Comedian Rapidly Giving
Place to Other Dialects,
Harris Morris, who was considered
the original German dialect comedian,
was only fifty years old when he died,
but he lived long enough to outllve the
vogue Of that stage character. As a
funmaker the stage German has lasted
less than generation. lie first Np-
peared in 1872. He had his greatest
popularity about the time that the leu.
tonic migration reached flood tide and
began rapidly to recede. The old Ger
mania with its farces of Germnn-Amer-
lean life is no more, and the type per-
sists only ms survival in serious plays
like The Music Master"
The German dialect comedian with
his shoe brush mustache, his red vest,
his pneumatic abdomen and his unman-
ageable yodel embodles view Of the
Teutonic character that goes back to
American Revolutionary times. He Is
an amiable Hesslan. If there ever were
thick headed, stupidity ioculgr Germans
they disappeared from view about the
time OF German uni6catiOn; just q, year
Nfterward they reappeared in this coun-
try as comedy type that lbeled Teu-
tonic intelligence ms much as the stage
Irishman libeled Celtic beauty.
We are destined to so through these
various exotic brands Of humor in
turn; the stage Hebrew has already
taken his place beside the Irlshman
and the German, and some day we may
find the stage IraIran just as FUNNY 49,
his predecessors. But it will mark an
advance from colonial and transit
tlonal period when farcical humor is
evoked, as George AIDE evokes it, by
depicting native, rather than trans
planted, types.-New York Mail.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
An OriainaI CHARGE.

A Missouri paper says that a new
Judge arose to charge the jury and
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the jury, charging
a jury is new business to me, as
this is my first case. You have heard
all the evidence as we'll as myself.
You have heard what the learned
counsel have said. If you believe
what the counsel for the plaintiff has
told you, your verdict would be for
plaintiff; but if, on the other hand
you believe what the defendants
counsel has told you, then you will
find a verdict for the defendant; but
If you are like me, and don't believe
what either Of them said. then I'll be
III / know what you'll do. Consta-
BILE, take charge of the jury"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
Here's Your crustIess Bread.

"Crustless bread for sandwiches" is
sign displayed in a city bakery that
undertakes to cater to the fashion
able trade. In the window are a
number of dainty loaves without the
least semblance of a crust.
In many restaurants" said the
manager, the crust is cut from sand
wiches before they are served. This is
particularly true Of the better class
cafes, where sandwiches are served
from a buffet. The proportion Of GUS
toners who eat the crust of bread is
very small. The crust cut from
loaves in making sandwiches forms
considerable waste, and the propri-
etors asked the bakers to do some
thing about it. But the successful
crustless loaf is of recent discovery,
and New Workers had to wait for
baker IN Jersey City to work out the
process. He is getting rich out of
it."-New York Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
The NEWSPAPER NArloN.i
In English Speaking America There's
Publication For Every $500 Persons.

In Rnglish Speaking America There's u
Publication For Every 34OO Persons.
The number of periodical publica-
tons Of all classes in the United States
Is computed by Ayers Newspaper An
nual for 1905 at 22,312. Canada has
l10S
Nearly OOOOO,OOO persons in English
speaking America have, therefore, one
periodical for every 3400 individuals.
Scholarly Germany, which publishes
more books than we do, has but one
periodical for 1900 persons. All Europe,
the centre Of the worlds historic Gull
ture, has for nearly 400,000,000 persons
fewer such publications that the United
States alone.
The character and the geography of
this great press output are interesting
The newspaper press, from the tiny
country weekly to the great daily, and
the popular magazines are most IA
miliar. Our scholars magazines and
reviews, published usually in cOnnec-
ton with universities and discussing
every phase of learning, far surpass
those of England and Germany in num-
Der and Importance. 1t is in part be-
cause of this fact, usually so little APP
preciated, that Professor Munsterberg,
in his work upon 1.-THE Americans"
prophesies that it will not be long be-
fore Europe will experience a surprise
because of American advance in the
intellectual sphere similar to that
caused by our rapid commercial devel-
Opment.
New York State has nearly one-tenth
of the publications of the country. The
New England States have One-seven-
teenth, less than their proportionate
share for one-thirteenth of the popula-
ton. The Western States have con-
slderably more than half of the publ
cations of all classes from the daily up
to the weekly, but less than half of the
magazines. Thirteen Southern States
have One-fourth more weeklies, but
one-fourth fewer dailles than New
York and New England.
Hawaii has one periodical for every
1000 inhabitants, Porto Rico one for
every 10000, the Philippines one for
every 100000. The home Territories
have one for every 1920, or about twice
the proportion for the whole country.
Oklahoma alone has ten times as many,
papers as the Philippines for a popula-
tion which was at the census period
less than one-twentieth as great.-New
York World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06

There is more Catarrh In this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
peincurable. For a great MANY years doctors
pronounced 1t a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t in
durable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market. 1t is taken internally In doses
from 10 drops to n teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case 1t fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address Il. ]. CHENEY &
Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constellation
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
Aenlnsl natO noduolIon..

Atlanta, Cattle recent proposition
of j. Pope Brown, Chairman of the
Georgia Railroad Commission, to re-
duce the passenger rate in Georgia
from three to two cents per mile was
protested against by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of
Railway Conductors and unions of the
backsmiths, machinists and telegraph
ers, boilermakers. railway train men,
carpenters and joiners, clerks and car
men. These organizations employed an
attorney especially to represent them,
who urged that such a reduction would
work against the prosperity of the
State and lead to Il reduction in the
number of railroad employees as well
as Of their wages. The Travellers Pro-
tective Association also protested that
a reduction as proposed would result in
fewer trains ana poorer service.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-05-06
COMFORTING News.

It takes a good deal to upset the
New Englander's equanimity. A New
Hampshire farmer was driving past a
country house and witnessed the
tragedy of child falling into well.
Instead Of rushing, appalled,, to the
scene, he observed that plenty Of help
was at hand and logged stolidly on.
About mile below lived an aunt Of
the little girl whom the accident had
befallen.
"How-do, Mis- Faith" he drawled to
the woman Smelling PEGS by the kitch-
en- door. II jus seen your sisters
little gal fall down the cistern, guess
she's drowned" Then having delivered
his news, he drove on.--Lippincotts
Magazine.