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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18
Mr.. Helm in he Fsihsrlsnd.


Editor Gszette:-Sinoe I en- writing
! may as well give YOU little &C
count OF my travels.
/ first went 70 Michigan near the
lake. and the trip through the
mountains was something grand. I,
IS 4 pity that one cannot larry 70
take better view Of the glorious
scenery. but trains and time keep
rolling. 50 I had 10 satisfy myself
| had the experience Michigan TO
60 through another Spring. All
flowers and trees that had bloomed
IN Virginia were just beginning there.
We had cut and put away our CO
yer there the blossoms had not
even started. And 50 through the
whole line o. agricultural and wild
flora and plants. 7 had one ex-
PeuenCe there that was vain
able. I had often heard the west
err settlers speak o. cottonwood.
which they compared with. and even
called our poplar. There I learned
and saw that cottonwood IS nothing
less ~an our German linden tee.
that grows iu1ur.ousiy and wild a.
through the woods there.
I lef5 there after a SIX weeks say
for New York. passed Lake Enc
and was carried through the grape
v.ae plantations OF Ohio. Ara.n
through mountains along the grand
and beautiful Hudson. into the
Grand Central depot. New York.
from where the subway brought ne
70 City Hal and loot Of Brooktyu
bridge.
I secured my ticket. and OF July
Il took passage on the Hamburg
Atlantic liner Pennsylvania. This IS
one OF the larger but not the isrEes,
nor fastest boats Of that company.
Il IS 500 feet Ions. has eight or more
decks four above water line and
is fitted ike a f.rst-c,ass hotei. The
weather was ts.r. save some rainy
ard cloudy days al first. au6 ,he
boat E.i6ed through the sea with
hardly : noticeable uemor CT mo
oo1. So sea Sickness was little IL ap-
pearsnce. Concerts and dance on
and under deck shortened the time
Besides. there were card games.
chess. etc. IL the smoking rooms.
and shovelboard. and SUCH socia.
games IS change your neighbors.
etc. kept Young snd old IN good
spirits.
We stopped al Dover. Engiand.to
e. or and take or a number Of pas
We landed At Cuxhaver
or the 2o,h Al 2.50p N. We ha6
to 80 through the custom house.
where tire examination OF our bag
gage took Up q 10, OF time. 4
SPECIAL rrsin then 10 Hamburg. where
We arrived Al s O'Clock. I took the
-rain next morning for ny presea,
home A. nay mother s. who IS a. Ole
.sGy OF g years. and whom I ha6
Tot seen Tor more than thirty years.
The country here IS not standing
suA- L has moved. and somewhere
even has EFF America IL the wake.
I thlnk me railway system here away
ahead OF our railroads. Il IS safe-
and more comfortable. besides OF
lower fare tor the poor people. As
there are four classes. II machinery
OF many kinds We are srl ahead.
while electricity IS here IN more or
.ess use. as with Is. Agriculture
mere has been. and stu IS unsur-
passed BY any country. Such heavy
feds Of grain. sugar beet. potatoes.
etc. you cannot find in the United
States.
The city Of Ststtin. which used 10
be 2 fortress. bur has been thrown
open and mas grown rapidly. IS q city
Of monumental buildings. every
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18

Leather souvenir cards al cost as
long IS they last.
Stones Drug Store.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18

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sunday Services-Sunday School.........
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Rev. Daniel T Merritt. Pastor.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18

EON SALE-A ric. iar- .t - acres.
= Highly uprc we'd lar -e frame house.
good barn and rut buildings. halls
miir irou city. Crop AND stock viI Pc
sold uith farm 30 Wanted Ercrvthirc
about ;a-m hr~,-clas> Address ~.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18
for r Kernochan, TRUSTEE,

F0R SALE Fine Gasoiiue Range.
+ Capacity for : Co 10 people, large
ovru and in perfect condition Nin
BE sola cheap 20 avoid moving. AIRS. A
o. BACON. civ.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18

LS6AL ADVERTISING.
PA incA each tusSruon 5Oo. With -
,.cs ant discount When inserted m0rs
taan one riDe.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-18

Copy ior acvertisernSDcs mast be N
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1On tor Tx cci ucuS Wcvk-
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

pissed by milkdealers and owners OF
cows whose milk is below par, when
early in the spring the goats in the
country freshen almost all at the same
time The laborer's wife can now
save her few pennies that she carried
all winter to the dealers in cows
milk and even lay away some coin
that now comes in from the sale of
extra milk to the neighbors. Goats
are kept in little boxstalls, and where
many are kept they are tied along
the walls of a horse or COW barn, tied
with little collars and chains. If /
lived in the city to-day and had to
have milk for a baby [ would keep
goat or two, but not as a nuisance
to my neighbors, but in a sweet clean
stalls and wouldn'e worry about
milkman. In southern Germany in
the Dutchy of Baden such goats can
be bought for from So to S. of Amer
lean money. Freight across the At
lantic $40 each They are of all
colors from white to chamois, horned
and mulleys and | hope that some
day our American people will ap-
preciate their modest demands and
Connecticut.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
MICH GOAT OR POOR MANS
COW.

In spite of the prejudice against
them. mich goats seem to be gain
ing ground This is shown bv the
tact that reports from such widely
separated states as Connecticut. Ne
braska and California as published in
the Rural New Yorker, all agree in
praIs1ng them They have place
in Florida agriculture. but our people
are very slow to see it.
Recent questions about milch goats
nave called out comment from readers
Here are few testimonials for this
useful animal:
see some one enquiring of the
Hope Farm man about milch goats.
If | know anything at all. it is about
goats. In my native land (Switz-
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

cumulated a competence which he
lives to enjoy.
That letter he sent home, telling of
the hundred and fifty dollars he had
loaned his mother kept among her
choicest treasures to the end of her
days. Almost all parents, especially
the mother, are intensely interested in
the success of their children, and an
evidence of success and thrift is to
them a veritable treasure. They have
watched the little fellows grow up and
hoped that they would turn out to be
good wage earners and win their way
in the world, and when they see their
hopes realized they feel that they
have not lived in vain, and they are
more than proud of the little boys
for to them they always will be little
boys. | want to advise every young
man who is starting for himself this
spring in any line of work to try
his utmost to get a hundred dollars
safely invested and drawing interest
next fall Begin to save when you
begin to earn, and you will soon have
money earning you as much as you
can earn yourself. Then you have
doubled your earning capacity, and
you will begin to understand how
money makes money, and how fast
you are becoming a factor in the bus
mess world. Make money-getting
your main object, and keep in mind
that the only sure and safe way to
get it is to earn it by giving full value
for it. One can well afford to give
more than full value for it to win a
reputation for steadiness, faithfulness
and reliability, then you will get full
value for these excellent traits, for
they are valuable assets in the labor
market When you go onto the labor
market don't go looking for soft jobs
first work offered, even if it is not
what you would like, and keep your
go of a job until you have another
safely attached. A young fellow who
started out without a dollar secured
his first job in a city he was passing
through on his way to a fine farming
section. The job was digging trench
eyes open for better But never let
es for sewer tile, where he worked
among the toughest of 1aborers He
needed money to buy food and he
had to take hold of the first work
that offered. He had helped put in
drain tile on the farm. and knew how
to work at this. He soon attracted
the attention of the boss, who called
him out and gave him top work that
required considerable care and thor /
oughness. He did this so well that !
he was given charge of small gang
of men. He was thorough in every
thing he did and advanced rapidly to |
a salary of firteen hundred dollars a |
year. But the green fields, flower
scented breezes and peace and quiet of |
the farm never for moment lost |
their attractiveness to him. and just |
as soon as he had earned enough to |
buy a little farm he went back to
them
When you go out to work. boys.
either in the neighborhood or a long
way from home, give the most faith
ful service you are capable of Don't
shirk. dodge, play off nor watch the
clock. Aim to make your employer
say of you what 7 heard a man say
of his hand the other day: "Best and
most faithful hand I ever had. and
| have hired him another wear at an
advance of five dollars a month"
Build up a demand for yourself
hats the way to win
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28
REPEATING HOTG y N s

mans cow / have seen mich goats
| that would put some of your crack
| Jerseys to shame for quantity of milk.
| remember that grandmother had
two goats whose udders would drag
on the ground and give from six to
eight quarts of milk for 10 months
of the year. | would rather have a
piece of grandmother goat cheese on
my bread than the choicest butter.
Our goats there would average from
800 to 400 pounds and would make
quite morsel of meat when butch
cred. They will eat almost anything
from a dishrag to the fresh and choice
leaves of the maple. I sincerely be
lieve that flock of those animals
from the Alps of Switzerland or Tyrol
would both be a profit to the i'm
porter and a blessing to the inhabi-
tants of the rural districts of America.
Salem. Neb.-1 notice in Hope
Farm Notes woman asks about
goats. A neighbor of mine on a
steep mountain ranch kept quite a
flock for years, the main dependence
of a large and growing family for
milk. butter and meat. The butter
was good, though very white, the meat
of the youn" "oats almost like ven
ison: their food easily obtained from
brush and weeds They were common
goats, not Angoras. the latter not
being so good for milk One good
goat will more than supply one adult
with milk When | was a child in
Carson City, Nevada. neighbor liv-
ing in the same house with us, Ga
double one) had two goats which
more than supplied their family of
four persons, two adults and two
children. and they sold milk to us
also. A flock of goats ran wild in
the streets there. and the kids made
fine playmates for us children.
California.
If it were not for that most useful
of all domestic animals, most poor
families of European countries would
be without milk and less healthy than
they are at present. Cows and oOats
and all domestic animals are as
rule. and mostly from necessity, kept
in stables from the day they are born
until they have lost their usefulness
and wander to the butcher shop or
factory. ! have seen such
animals with feet grown
out of such a shape that they looked
like crescent; goats that when they
were led through the village streets
their feet ratified as they walked along.
Goats there are stable fed the year
around: the youngest members of the
families go off every morning with
Sickles and large square canvas to
gather nutritious grasses from the
roadsides. and in late summer they
cut and dry it to be saved for win
ter supply. All vegetable refuse. such
as potato parings mixed with little
ground feed, mixed wet. is about the
general ration of these goats In the
winter cabbage leaves, turnips. man
gels. malt grain. etc. and as to the
Iuantity of milk. we'll | have Jersey
leiferS give far less when fresh milk
ne. We must take in consideration
he large size of these animals in
to the ones one sees here
n the poorer parts of our cities |
hose L would not give stable room
The goat in EurODe is the most des-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02

Without any effort on its own
part Spokane seems to have been
Jared out of the grip of the ice
trust by competition the Diamond
holdup, which was so success sfully
worked last year, can not now
control.
This year one small company
managed to pry itself loose from
absolute dependence on the Dia-
mond combine for wholesale ice by
securing supplies from outside.
Notwithstanding the additional cost
of freight this concern was able to
cut the rate to rs cents per 100
pounds.
The Diamond combine had de-
creed a price of l cent per pound.
AS 1t had controlled the entire sup
ply for the city last year, the same
deal was arranged for this season.
Independent dealers could con-
form or quite business. The custo-
mer could pay the price or do with.
out ice.
And the languishino sick, whose
lives In warm weather often depend
on cooling drinks and applications
-'they were also included In the
local Ice combines careful caleula-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
A STUDY OF
HARRY THAW

of the will, gave him $4,000 q
year.
From that instant Thaw began
his prodigal expenditures, and his
income has been mere speck OF
the amount of money he has scat.
tered over Europe and America
along with his many bushels of
wild oats. He has drawn heavily
upon his family,
The old passion of self-gratifica-
ton caused him, against his moth.
er's will, to continue his career
with the beautiful Evelyn Nesbit.
He said she was the prettiest girl
In the world. His mother, a woman
of keen religious scruples, but ever
fond and indulgent parent, went
down into her own purse and Of
fered the actress $250,000 If she
would desert her son. The girl re-
fused, and Thaw declined to heed
any of the entreaties of his mother.
He had his own way in Paris
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
PUTS ON
10 EXTRAS
WALLER WILL TRY TO A6ATe
FOURTH OF JULY RACKET
THAT HAS ALREADY BROKEN
LOOSE. y

Chief of Police Waller this morn.
ing made the statement that an
effort would be made to keep fire.
works off Riverside and Sprague
avenues, as nearly as possible. And
anyone caught firing off firecrack,
ers or bombs near the hospitals Of
the city would be dealt with. Z.
"Of course" said the chief, tho
United States army could not make
the kids keep from having their
celebrations. 1t is a good thing and
l would be the last one to discour,
age it, but you know, it is working
hardship on sick, and perhaps
dying, persons who might be at the
hospitals. With regard to this we
will do what we can to regulate il
To-day 1 am putting on 10 spec
cial policemen to guard against
fires and accidents on the Fourth
and with the present force and the
additional men l hope to b able
to cope with the situation"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
By Marlen e. Pew.
Scripps News Association.)

NEW YORK, July 2.-For the
first time in his wild, passion-grati
flying, willful life, Harry Thaw, the
wrecked bon vivant of the Great
White Way, cannot have his de
sires.
This Is a strange sensation fol
him. He sits in his narrow Tombs
cell. sobered by stone walls.
Big Billy, the keeper, tells ThaW
to "get up and put yer clothes on.
He sends him to bed at night. The
poor fool of boy who, until this
time, has never known what 1t Is
to obey, complies without a word
When Harry Thaw, as a child
wanted plaything and his nurse
md some member of his family OBJ
iected. he would fight for 1t. He
would cry and demand and his
)eevishness would not disappear
until his demands were satisfied.
When he became a boy in knick
erbockers he ruled his household
and his family, and had within easy
reach anything that money could
buy,
At college he regarded no rules
or regulations. Every wild adven
ture that suggested itself to his
mind he Immediately entered upon
He was passionate in his likes and
dislikes. With an athletic body he
forced his way whittier his will di
rected. He would fight anyone who
opposed him.
1t was this deep seated character
istic of willfuness in him S,at
caused his father to inert clause
in his will providing that Harry
should have but $500 a year in
come from the vast Thaw fortune
until he had reached the age of 30
Young Thaw caused n towering
scene of rage and resentment when
this clause became known to him
Like the baby Harry, who had cried
when his mother told him to go to
bed at night, he ragged until his
doting parent finally. as executriN
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
WANT BIDS
ON BONDS

WASHINGTON, July 2-The sec
retaE of the treasury has issued
circulars calling for bids on $40.
600 loo canal bonds. The bids will
be received July 20 and bear date
of August Z. They draw interest
at per cent and will be issued in
denominations of $4,000 and $100.-
600 for both coupon and registered
series.
This makes it a popular loan
redeemable in gold at the pleasure
Of the government after 10 years
from issue.
The bonds are free from tax and
available to national banks as Sc
curity for circulation on the same
terms as existing per cent con.
soils, and as security for deposits
in national banks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q . . Q . .

The bridge investigation commit
tee went into session this afternoon
after adjourning without taking up
any business Saturday afternoon.
Henry NJ. Richards, president of
the Washington Water Power com
pany; d. l.. Huntington, general
manager, and Allan Gill, consulting
engineer of the city, will be eX-
amined before the session is over.
The board of public works noti-
fled the committee that the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
SUSPECTS
ARRESTED

The police are of the opinion that
they now have in the tolls the two
professional yegg men and despera-
does who were responsible for the
three safe blowings and one holdup
of last week, in the persons of
George O'Connor, alias Phillips.
age 81, and James Riley, alias
Mills, age %. who were arrested
last night by Detectives Alec Mac
donald and Bill Weir at the Abb
saloon, E24 Main avenue.
Both are old offenders. particular
y O'Connor. and their pictures
adorn the local police gallery of
rogues.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
NO DANCES
ON SUNDAY
THE CHIEF OF POLICE SAYS
THAT PROCLAMATION OF SAB.
BATH TO WALTZ TIME MUST
STOP.

Cali Sunday dancing positively
must cease in Spokane"
The above is ukase issued to the
police force this morning by Chief
of Police Waller.
And he means 1t, as his following
statement shows:
Nobody but lot OF hoodlums
will commit sacrilege and defame
the Lords day by dancing. wish
to say now that will not allow
dancing on the Sabbath and will
place under arrest anyone who al
lows it."
Last night there was dancing at
Mantle park and Natatorium park
John Connors. proprietor Of the
pavilion at Mantle park was mott.
fed by Detective Tom Herndon
that dancing must cease, and the
Natatorlum park people will be
notified today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02

when he gave his famous $4,000
beauty dinner" to stage women of
the French city after his friends
had warned that he would do HIM
self an injury by such an escapade.
He finally married the Nesbit girl
against the advice of even the
most conservative of his friends.
Harry Thaw had his own sweet
way again and finally when, amid
the popping of champagne corks in
fashionable Martins, on Fifth ave-
nue., he looked across to an adjoin-
ing table occupied by White and
said. THAT fat, healthy scoundrel,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
SAYS HOGS
HAD DIED
EMPLOYE OF CITY MARKET
MAKES CHARGES OF SELLING
BAD MEAT, AND AN lNVESTi-
CATION Is ON.

A packing house scandal is
on in Spokane, according to the
complaint of Louis Rensch, former
ly in the employ Of the City Market
Packing company, who this mora.
ing went before City Prosecutor
Edge and Food Commissioners
Adams and charged the packing
company with dressing six hogs
that had died in their pens from
some unknown ailment.
Food Commissioner Adams will
Immediately commence an investi
cation of the charges brought by
Rensch and this afternoon said that
II the charges could be proven true
he would have the local packers
punished to the full extent of the
law,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
BOB ERlLEY
HAS RELAPSE

Bob Briley. the city detective
whotwas recently released from St.
Lukes hospital after recovering
from severe case of blood poison
ing IN his right hand as the result
of striking Mat Matson, a burglar,
while trying to arrest him, has
taken turn for the worse, and
last night DR.. @, P. Thomas was
called upon to lance the hand
again to relieve the pain.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02


The diamond people have more
ice stored than Spokane will use
this summer. At the very BEGIN
hihS oil the warm season they have
closed one of their plants in this
city, and the Diamond is Offering
its ice today at the reduced rate
TO meet competition.
A recent most important factor
In the local situation is the opening
of the Inland Brewing company's
plant to supply Independent deal.
ers. 1t is likely that prices NAV
drop still farther, in fact an ice war
Is imminent.
The Diamond trust has forfeited
any right to consideration from the
pubic, but IT must dispose of the
stock accumulated for the summer
holdup and club out further com.
petition if possible, to live.
Repeatedly The Press has called
attention to the organized ice rob.
berry In operation here, but the
authorities could never discover
any method of remedying condi-
tons.
Possibly recent convictions of ice
pirates In the east may be influence
ing the local situation. although It
Is safe to assert that the system
would have prevailed right here in
spokane all summer had not inter
est been awakened to the extent Of
arousing an effort at competition.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02

are excayating for Henry James
the contractor, and found there
was an entire family of skeletons,
two elders and three smaller ones.
They We're the remains of white
persons as nearly as can be learned
and were probably buried years be-
fore Spokane had assumed metro
politan airs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02

had donated free for the use of the
city the services of G. T. Forsyth,
its head bridge engineer and ex-
pert, who arrived from Portland at
ll:45 O'Clock this morning.
Mr.. Forsyth refused to pass an
opinion on the cause of the collapse
OF the Howard street bridge today,
and said that as soon as the investi.
cation committee had formally ac-
cepted the tender of his services he
would at once commence an inspec-
ton of all Spokane bridges.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
DAUGHTER Is
SOLE DEVlSEE

The last will and testament of
John Knuth was filed with tho
county clerk this morning. He
gave all his property to his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Louis D. Goetz, wife of
Jacob Goetb, Dutch Jake" Mr..
Knuth owned several pieces of
property near Spagle. He was
quite wealthy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-07-02
RESC|NDS
DECISION

DENVER, July 1.-THE state SUI
preme court this morning reversed
itself and decided that district
judge couldn't supersede a district
attorney, nor sheriff, and had no
right to order an investigation by
special officers In alleged election
frauds. The action was brought by
the Denver Tramway Gas q Eec-
iris company, a corporation which
won Its franchises on election. 1t
was alleged this election was fraud
ulent.