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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
NATURE SPARKS
The Stricken Rose From Grie,.

What fortunate provision of nature
1t Is. That deprives tho rose OF mental
Hunering; for how poignant would DO its
grier to discover. In tho height or rs
blooming glory, that canlter fed nt its
heart, and that Its beauty and fragrance
were doomed forever. Nature always
spares inc suffering; sho is n ver!tablo
store-house of pleasing rewards. for
those who seek her aid In tho ycors
gone by falling hair ana grnyncss nav.
cast gloom over the lives of thousands
OF young women but thanks to the in
Vestigations OF scientists tho true cause
or hair destruction is now known to bo
& germ or parasite that burrows into
the hair folltcles. Newbro's Herpicide
absolutely destroys this germ, thus
permitting the hair to grow as ma
ture intended. Sold by Lending drug
gists: Send 10c. In stamps for snmpie
to Tho He.picide Co.. Detroit Mich
ALIENS DRUG STORE, HANGER G.
GULlCK; SPECIAL AGENTS.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25

WE WILL APPRECIATE PART on
YooR FIRE INSURANCE. WE
RIPRESENT EXCELLENT COM.
raNlES. SOMMERVILLE TRuS1,
co, INC. o.oe'o.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
High School studenta

The High school Literary Society
VIII he reorganized early next mont,
with the largest attendance in its
history. The society meets bi.week.
~ and 1t is expected that a number
OF the friends of the members vii;
attend the first meeting of the ses.
sion An interesting program will h,
rendered by the members.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
NO MORE BACK STAMPING.
Big Postoffices Will Not Mark Time
OF Receiving Mail on Letters.

-, WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept "a
me effect of the experiment conduct.
eu by the postoffice department in
Chicago, New York, Jersey City and
boston. of abandoning the system of
understanding mail matter, in order to
facilitate delivery has been such as to
lead postmastcrs throughout the coun.
Try to flood the department with re.
quests for similar permission. The
IDEA originates with Frank II. Hitch
COCK, the first assistant postmaster
general. Mr.. Hitchcock today issued
an order, effective October 1. SUSPEND.
Ing the regulations with respect To
Understanding in the cities of 81
Louis. Richmond, Va. Providence n.
l., and Albany, N. Y.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
A COSTLY ACCIDENT.
Wreckers Send Government Bill for
Thirty Thousand Dollars.

The wreckcrs who rescued the ma.
val collier Nero. which went aground
on Block Island recently while bound
to Rockland from this port with a
cargo of coal, have sent the navy de-
partment bill for $4,000.
The necessary repairs to the shin
Will cost $4,000 and it Is questioned
by naval officers whether it would
not be economical to sell the vesse,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
Barney Reilly Here.

Mr.. Barney Reilly. advance repre-
sentative of Arthur Dunn in THE Lit
Tie Joker" was in the city yesterday,
arranging for the appearance of lis
star here next Monday night.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25

Herblin, Charles Socst and Harry c
Griffin.
The sale of seats is now omen
Prices. 20, 80, 10 cents and 81.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-25
VISITING Friends Here.

MI. f. Is, Payne. n special detective
ior the Chesapeake & Ohio railway,
stationed at Ashland, Ky, Is visiting
friends here. Mr.. Payne was for sev.
ural years member of the local po.
lico force
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-08-11
A TUCKED NET YOKE.
Very Pretty Jokes and Chemisettes
Are Made Of Net Tucked Long
wise and Crosswise.

One Of the prettiest yokes or chem.
isettes seen this season is made of fine
net, or wash blond as it is sometimes
called. 1t is first tucked lengthwise
OF the net, then tucked crosswise to
form squares. The tucks may be from
one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch
wide. and the squares from one-half
to one and one-half inches across, a.
one prefers.
Some machines will stitch this ma
terial without trouble, while with 9TH
ers 1t Is necessary to lay 1t on thin
paper while stitching, to prevent a
rufied appearance.
When the squares are made no
larger than an inch across, no extra
trimming is required, but when they
are made larger. the spaces seem 30
open that little fancy work is need
cd to relieve them. Nothing is pref
tier for the purpose than a clover leaf
OF tatting In each square. making it
OF cotton or silk to correspond With
the material Of which the waist Is
made. A very small darned-net pat,
tern can be worked In with good ef-
feet. Use linen floss or silk for the
work.
These yokes and chemisettes are fine
for muslin or null waists or can be
used with good effect on thin silk ones
Ohio Farmer.
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The Artistic SALAD.

The salad of to-day is a rapid evo-
luton from the dictionary definition:
Leaves eaten raw" or "A prepara-
ton Of uncooked herbs usually dressed
with salt, vinegar and oil and eaten
for giving relish to other food" one
reads in an article ON "Salads-Ar-
tistic and Hygienic." in the June De-
lineator. AN up-to-date salad in
cludes many combinations Of vege-
tables or of fruit, sometimes both
vegetables and fruit together. 1t owes
its present honorable position to dis
coveries of its many enticing varieties
and aesthetic possibilities. Used with
the addition of nuts, it becomes a very
important part of the meal, not mere.
ly something to arouse a faded appe-
title. Among the many discoveries of
salad material may be mentioned tips
OF asparagus, uncooked potatoes, both
Irish and sweet. cut in small cubes,
grated carrots and grated beets." All
the possible combinations of thsue n.
gradients are set forth in detail and
In way to tempt the palate. ind
tbsre are. In addition, q variety OF
recipes for vegetables. pastry, etc. 4
chapter on summer hovssksspiu6. N
The Progress Of q Housewife
rounds out the section Of the mara
zine which b devoted to domestic
problems,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-08-11
QUEER WAY OF SMOKING.
The Earth Used by Kafirs y7heu
They Feel the Tobacco
Hunger.

THE Kanir smokes on his stomach. s.
said tobacconist, using the earth
for a pipe.
This benighted savage, when the
tobacco hunger seizes him, selects a
piece of clayey soil about foot square.
and puts curved twig therein 90
that both ends Of the twig stick out
Then he builds fire over the place
and when the fire has sufficiently hard.
ened the clay, he draws out the tvix
and a'channel, a kind Of pipe stem, Is
left.
One end of the channel he holIovs
into a bowl. The es%>r end ia his
mouthpiece. He put eis tobacco IN
the bowl, drops live coal on ton. ana
lying down, falls to.
The Kanir sucks away vigorously
and very black and strong are the
fumes that enter his large mouth. He
will not use an ordinary pipe. He
likes his own way of smoking best.
He Is, suppose the only smoker
whose pipe Is the earth"
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Fut1lity Of Advice.

We invoke dear old experience as
though he were god. fondly imagin-
Ing that an honest impulse demands
that we appeal to him as an arbiter.
But when we have submitted our case
and listened to his verdict, says the
Reader, we express our thanks and go
away and do exactly as we please.
We all carry our troubles to the
friends whose sympathy we know out
weighs their wisdom. We want them
to pat US on the back and tell us
that we are doing exactly right. II
they by any chance are bold enough
to give us an honest judgment based
on real convictions. we depart with
grievance, our confidence shaken.
We lean upon our friends, to be sure;
but we rely upon them more to bail
as out after the forts Of folly have
crashed about our ears and we pine
In the donjon, than on their advice
that might possibly have preserved
US on the right side of the barricade.
.
And | may note here that of all the
Offices that man may undertake, that
Of the frank friend Is the most thank.
less. The frank friend! It is he, my
comrade. who told you yesterday that
you were looking wretchedly Ill. DR.
Experience had warned him. and hs
was. anxious to stop you in your head
long plunge-he felt duty in the
matter. Tomorrow he will drop in
to tell you in gentle terms that your
new poem is-well. he hates to say
ft-but he fears 1t isn't up to your
old mark! The frank friend. you may
remember, was DR.. Experiences a.
vorite pupil.
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PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.
4 "Plain an Pinted" Duty That
Was Not to Be Misun-
derstood.

Deacon Smith and Deacon Jones
were pillars of an Alabama colored
country church. One day while stor-
ing hay In their employers barn, Dea-
CON Jones came upon a hens nest, in
which reposed a dosen large, white
eggs, relates the American Spectator.
Now, whut us gwine do bout dis
hyah?" he demanded.
Err, reckon we mout take 'em up
ter &c big house?" Deacon Smith sue-
gested, without enthusiasm.
Nov, how we know dat hen bIoue
ter Mars Will?" Bro. Jones objected.
mo, sab! Can't take NO chance ON
gibbin' Mars Will some yuther mans
aiggs!"
''Mout leave dem hyah. den," was
the rueful reply.
Nov, lookyere. Bro Smif, Abs
'sprise1 at 20! DON de church teach
us ter be kind ter all critters? And
dom yo' think dat 'cludes hens? Ef we
wuster leave dem aiggs hyah, dat DO
Ill hen woul think day warnr pre-
ciated, an feel bad bout hit. No, sab!
Duh plain an pinted duty am ter take
dem aigs out yonder in dat pine thick
ct whsr nobody won't see dc smoke, an
roast EN-"
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INVESTMENT IN MOTH BALLS
Manner Of Using the Preventive
That Proved to Be Signal
Failure,

"A State street druggist, telling of the
quaint characters whom he encounters
In his business. recently said: Late
one afternoon one of the 'ould sod
ambled up to the counter. HOY yez
onything good to kill moths? he asked,
relates the Chicago Record Herald.
"'Ycs, said I. we have moth balls.
che best reemdy known
"'Give me tin cints' worth, thin,
says be.
Il made up the package, handed il to
him. and he ambled out again. had
forgotten all about my customer until
about four o'clock the next afternoon.
when / was forcibly reminded of the
transaction of the day before. After
! had waited on my customers in their
turn walked over to another coun-
ter and was there confronted with my
moth-ball investor Without giving
me time to make An inquiry, he said:
Are yez the young mon that sold
me thin things yistiddyY showing me
the remains Of about half q dozen of
the white balls.
Il answered In the Affirmative, and
also inquired what the trouble was.
"'Av all the con games I've run up
against In me tonne, this bates thin
ALL he said. To think of onyone run
ming decent downtown store selling
the lo;kes of thin things to kill moths
with. or onything else, for the matter
of that They might be all right for
playing noar5les, but for KILN moths,
niver. may got be as young as yez
are, young mon, but I'm just as Study,
and want to tell you wan thing. II
yez can show me the man or woman
that can throw wan of thin balls
quick enough to kill q moth I'll not
only ate iviry wan of thin yez have
IN stock. but I'll say nothing about
The picture the ould woman and meself
broke in the foine little game yes
would have US play"
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This appears to be no time for q
conservative operator to plunge In the
Lit'ry Market. Manlpulators are still
In control, and continue to upset es-
tablished laws. A reaction is bound
to come, and until then your Uncle
Jasper would advise going slow.
The past week was disastrous for
several crops. Poetry was generally
lifeless, only three sales being 10
ported-the direct result of the bull
speculation in Exposure. A large
number of poetry operators were forced
to the wall and compelled to borrow
largely to meet their weekly obliga-
lions. Short Stories were firm, and
the offerings were large, but the quail
ity was poor. There was quite little
furry in Garden Truck, as was inev-
table at this season, but Nature Com
mon showed few actual clearanSes
Messrs. LONE. Seton and Burroughs
unloaded few consignments.
The continued brisk movement in
exposures has deprecated nearly all
the gilt-edged stocks. the operators of
which are impatiently waiting for the
sag. Only one stock seems unaffected
BY the fluctuations Of the markst-Esot
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-08-11
HOUSE FURNISHING.
Neutral Tints Safest for Floor and
Walls-Woodwork Should Harmon
ize-No Pretentious Pictures.

The floor and walls Of a room are
Its most conspicuous features, 80
should be neither brilliant nor
"patchy." Neutral tints are the safest
to select for carpets, and the smaller
the figure the better. Even in cheap
papers, soft, delicate colors may be
obtained, which will not offend the
eyes or quarrel with pictures hung
against them. The gray and dull red
building papers are better wall cover.
ings than are gaudy, pronounced pat.
terms in ordinary paper.
Woodwork should harmonic with
the walls. Granting should be avoid
ed and white paint not used by those
who cannot affard to have it given the
attention necessary to keep it spot
less. II black paint be selected (and
In some color schemes 1t adds much to
the effect) 1t should have a dull fin-
ish, and it requires brass hardware to
relieve its scmberness. A dull oil.
finished stain is usually satisfactory.
Good pictures give unfailing pleas
ure, but their selection requires taste
and Judgment. Tho half-tone ILLUS
trations found in our magazines serve
q better purpose than pretentious pic
lures of poor workmanship; and SIM
pie passepartout bindings than lily.
constructed frames.
Furniture should be simple, in har-
mony with the style of the house and
the coloring Of the room in which 1t IL
to be placed.-Prairie Farmer.
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THE DOCTORS WIFE
Agrees with Him About Food.

A trained nurse says: "In the prac-
tice of my profession l have found so
many points in favor of Grape Nuts
food that unhesitatingly recommend
1t to all my patients.
1t Is delicate and pleasing to the
palate ian essential in food for the
sick) and can be adapted to all ages,
being softened with milk or cream
for babies or the aged when deficiency
OF teeth renders mastication fmpos-
sible. For fever patients or those on
liquid diet find Grape-Nuts and al
bumen water very nourishing and re-
freshing. This recipe is my own idea
and Is made as follows: Soak a tea
spoonful of Grape-Nuts In q glass of
water for an hour, strain and serve
with the beaten white of an egg and
spoonful of fruit juice or fiavoring.
This affords a great deal Of nourish-
ment that even the weakest stomach
can assimflate without any distress.
my husband is physician and he
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders
1t many times for his patients.
Personally regard a dish of
Grape-Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit
as the ideal breakfast for anyone
well or sick" Name given by Postum
Co, Battle Greek, Mich.
In any case Of stomach trouble,
nervous prostration or brain flag, q
10 days trial Of Grape-Nuts will work
wonders toward nourishing and re-
building. and in this way ending the
trouble. There's reason" and trial
proves.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book THE Road to Wellyilla"
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san Francisco reports. saws .

San Francisco reports" says q con,
temporary, that number of persons
who suffered from various ailments
previously to the earthquake and fire
in that city find themselves complete
ly cured. One paralytic. who for Is
years had been crippled by his dis.
ease. is now entirely cured and nu.
merous other recoveries have been re.
corded" Nor should It be forgotten
that among the ailments cured by the
earthquake Is celibacy. There is evi.
dence Of many well authenticated in.
stances of San Franciscans earth.
quaked into matrimmy.
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Running to 0ccultism.

Running to 0ccultism.
A skeptical age; we do not believe
IN much Of anything-unless, indeed,
II bears the trademark of science.
The intellectual fashion is all for ma
terialism. For the rest there is only
an easy incredulity. And yet, says
Everybody's Magazine-the paradox
Is curious-never was the world so
ghost-ridden. Never has 1t turned so
wistfully to the occult Never has it
listened with an expectation so pain
ful, at that closed door behind which
mysterious silences stretch away-the
door OF the tomb. I dare say 1t Is
natural enough. Always in epochs of
unbelief, when the conservative forms
OF faith are weakened, there Is an i'm.
mense growth of vague supernatural
Ism. 1t was In the cynical eighteenth
century, when voltaire had sneered re-
fgion out Of fashion, that sorcerers,
fortune tellers, magicians-all the
Mesmers and Cagliostros-ruled the
world. Our new century, quite as
skeptical, is equally in love with the
marvellous. Only the fashion in wiz
ards has changed. The modern ma
gician comes from the laboratory. He
speaks in the name of science, for
there 10 science Of the immaterial-
science Of witchcraft-a science
which has its professors and learned
societies, its journals and magazines
The very ghosts that haunt the So
cieties for psychical research have
taken on a scientific air; they walk
no more in windy corridors, clankine
spectral chains; In a practical, mod
ern way they exhibit themselves to
scientific congresses. World over,
psychic phenomena are being studied
by trained scientists. Dismissing the
cries. they give themselves to the OBJ
servation Of scientifically established
facts. Their labors range from the |
study of hysteria, Of hypnosis and the
transmission of psychic forces, to the
time-old mysteries of enchantment |
and apparitions.
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IA Matter Of rime.n

(Guide to authors of perishable man.
uscript, to whom time is precious.
From the manuscript record Of lady
writer.)
THE Century" returns manuscripts
by the same postman that delivers
them.
The courteous editor of Every
body's" usually wires: Am returning
manuscript by special delivery. Ac-
cept our regrets"
"McClure's" sends word: Col. Mo
Clure Is in China. Have forwarded
your contribution to him."
The Atlantic Monthly" is extremely
prompt, and allows authors 76 cents
an hour on all manuscripts kept over
"a hours.
The Rams Horn" took nearly thres
months to decide on serial SEN. to
1t, and then tossed 1t back
"The Ladies' World" sends word:
VIII be down in a minute"
What tc Eat" chcws a contribution
80 times before swallowing 1t. Il is
SOW but sure.
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Justice Whitehouse tod 0newspaper
man at Augusta recently that in 1900
or more divorce cases he has never
had club woman appear before him
for divorce. THE kind of women
who belong to clubs he said, ARE not
the kind Of women who have domes-
tic difficulties to settle in court"
And yet, il we are not mistaken. at
the last meeting Of the National Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs in Califor.
mia arrangements were made to pub
lish pamphlet giving women direc-
tions for obtaining a divorce.
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The doctors vertically threaten to
leave us with nothing on earth fit to
eat or drink. The latest raid on the
works Of the Almighty is by Buffalo
doctor, who proclaisns that the straw.
berry. that most toothsome and deli
cious Of all the little fruits, is breed.
er of insanity, which, he says, in.
creases largely during the strawberry
season. Well, there are worse kinds
of insanity. so bring on the strawber.
ries.
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EFFORT TO SAVE iELEPHANTs.

Travellers from Africa are urging the
governments of Europe to take steps
to preserve the elephants in their re-
spective colonies and spheres of influ-
ence. In India the government con-
trolls the forests and the laws are strict.
When elephants are .dangeroup. per-
mits ere issued for hunting the "vaga-
bonds" or bad elephants, and whsn
they arc killed all permits are revoked.
In Siam all elephants belong to the
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REMEMBERED HIS BUCKET.
White Mans Defense Of an Abused
Indian Meets with Crate
ful Recognition.

In the winter of 1855 and the sprina
Of 1856 Seattle and other new settle
ments near Puget sound were engaged
in war with the Indians of that vicin-
ity under Leschi, a Nesqually chief,
says the author of Pioneer Reminis-
cences Of Puget Sound" Lsschi's fight
was against the authorities. who were
trying to deprive his people OF theiI
valley farms and force them to live
on a cramped and sterile reservation
In the mountains. They had manv
friends among the whites, whom, how.
ever bitter the war grew, they wers
careful not to injure.
One day in February A. J. Baldwin,
Of Olympia. was passing along trail
near Yelm Prairie, when he was con-
fronted by four armed Indians On
horseback. They at once covered him
with their rifles, but one of them
spoke sharply to the others, and the
rifles were lowered.
Jack Baldwin," the Indian DE-
handed.
Eyes, that's my nama," said Mr..
Baldwin.
You out to fight Indian?"
mo. am carrying an express 10
Yelm for pay"
You remember BUCKET of water At
Olympia?"
1t suddenly flashed upon Mr.. Bald.
wins mind that he knew this indian.
During the year before the fellow had
been filling a bucket from a flow.
ing spring In Olympia when brute
of white man came along, insolently
removed the Indians bucket, threw
1t into 4 mud-hole near by, and put his
own under the spout.
Mr.. Baldwin, who had witnessed the
AFFAIR, at once interfered and pitched
the rufiian into the mud-hole after the
Indians bucket. The incident had put
him into the good books of that In
dian. and 50 had saved his life.
60 on" the red man said to him.
We dom. kill you." And go he did
unharmed. without more ado.
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The Best Advertised Books.

NO. 101.
Would have done credit to the pen
Of Dumas"
THE JUNGLE.
"Tolstoy, lola, Gorky-these are the
men with whom compare you"
The greatest novel written in Amer.
lea in 80 years."
NEDRA.
"As good as Charles Reade's Foul
Play"
DOUBLE TROUBLE.
Sends the blood bounding through
ones veins at an exhilarating speed
FLASHLIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE.
doubleday, Page edition.)
Do not confuse with Harper's pi-
rated edition (Harper's is selling like
hotcakes on this adv.).
THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
Decidedly the American novel of
the year" mo. 6 on list of greatest
Of the year,.
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crown, and are never killed. Every
five years there is q government in
spection OF them, all white elephants
are sent to the prince royal. and the
domestic stock Is increased BY careful
selection from the general herd. The
elephant there 10 Appreciated a. q Ia
norer and = domestic servant. but IN
Africa Thousands are killed every year
Tor their ivory, which II whittier, hard
er and more esteemed than that Of the
Asiattc elephant
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Preferred. This closed higher thar
the previous week.

Executive Mansion. April 3.-To the
Doorkeeper: The following have been
placed upon the Exposure List Mrs
-Minor-Morris them on sight:
David Graham Phillips.
John Henry Lewis.
Ray Stannard Baker.
lincoln Steffens.
Theodore Roosevelt.
On inquiry at the White House az
to why Poultney Bigelow was not
included in this list, reply was made
that he had dropped through a mud
hole in the Panama canal, and was
thought at this time to be somewhere
in China. and not likely to return fol-
the present