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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
Imn,laratlon for Novembe-.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Dec. "a
The Immigration statement for the
month of November, made public by
Il. p. Sargent, Commissioner General
OF Immigration and Naturalization
shows surpi Using increase in the in
ward passenger movement. The to.
tai number of immirran,s from all
countries landed in the United States
for the month of November was ill.,
476, rs compared with 94,62i for tho
esnond'ng month last wear and
6l,374 for November, 1905. This Is an
increase OF, 81 per cent. over 1905 and
"a per cent. over 1908.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
MoURNgR WANTED UNION RIDE
His Objection to Nonunion Driver De-
layed Funef al An Hour.

His Objection to Nonunion Driver De-
layed Funer al An Hour.
SCRANTON, PA, Dec. 24.-Thc
tcamsters' strike. which began week
ago, was the occasion of an unusual
Incident at funeral In West Scran.
ton today.
One of the mourhers. on learning
that the carriage which he hired was
driven by II nonunion man, refused to
ride in Ii. Thsreupon the president
OF the Liveymen's and Undertakers'
Association ordered all the other car
rIages back to their respective sta
bles. While the carriages were being
emptled fliends persuaded the man
who would not ride behind a nonnn-
ion driver to change his determine
tics, and after about an hours delay
the funeral proceeded to the church.
After today's incident the Employ
ers' Association gave out statement
that If any person at funeral OBJ
jects to any driver all the carriages
ordered for the funeral will be order
ed back 10 the liveries.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
HOLIDAY 70 BE OBSERVED
ALONG THE WATERFRONT
shipping ofticels VIII Close and Work
On Coal Docks VIII 30 Sus-
49, handed.

Today Will be generally observed
as holiday along tho waterfront
Tho custom house and practically all
OF tho shipping offices will be closed
and work ON tho coal dock. Will be
suspended until tonight However,
work VIII not he suspended Mt pier
9. as tho Merchants & Miners and
Old Dominion steamers will be han
died during the day az usual and tho
Officers OF those companies Will be
opened n part OF the day.
The approach OF the holiday was
evident In shipping circles yesterday,
there ieing very little activity along
( The waterfront Many OF the work
men were off yesterday afternoon and
more than half OF the customs force
I wns given a, half holiday.
work Will he resumed Thursday
mcrning and there will be a. rush
during the remainder of the month.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
Out for Christmas.

Harry Doherty and James Monroe.
who arc employed at the shipyard
as riveters and who for twb months
have been held In the city jhil as wit.
nesses In the case against Dan Water
man. wee released from jail yester-
day morning after statement had
been secured from them for use IN
case of another trial Of Waterman
The mon had been in JILL for nearly
two months, bolng unable to give any
security for their appearance In couIt.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
How to Save
Money.
GET a BANK FRoM TINE
Powell
Trust Co.
1T COSTS you NOTHING
IT COSTS you NOTHING

Sometimes when you feel like
spending money foollshly, just say:
to your wife or husband or some one:
I'll forogo this pleasure and will put
the cost of 1t In Our savings bank"
You will be surprised to see how
soon you can build up n good bank
account. For instance, you start to
Norfolk to buy two dollars worth of
goods and the boat leaves you. Re.
turn home and put soc In bank for
boat fare; zoe In many instances for
lunch; zoe for time lost and zoe for
difference In the price of the articles
to be bought, as in most cases they
are cheaper here. We mention this
one instance. There are hundreds OF
other ways You can save money and
be glad of it. Call and get Savings
Bank ut once.
POWELL Trust Co.
27l1 Washington Avenue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
FUNERAL OF Mr.. CALDWELL.
Services viii be Conducted Tomor.

Services Will be Conducted Tomor-
row by Rev. j. w. Porter, D. D.
Funeral services over tho remains
of the late Mr. w T.. Caldwell will BE-
conducted at the residence. 32t Fifty
first street. by Rev. ]. w. Porter. d.
u. The body will IL inferred at
Greenlawn cemetery.
The pallbearers will bo as follows:
Active, II. II. Holmes. ]. L. B. Stu
art. II b. Patterson, j. NJ. Curtis. j.
a. Willett ID. G. Smith. D. S. Jones,
j. r. Harrison. s. p. Marston and f..
|. Ford
The quartet of the Newport News
Baptist choir will sling.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
MADE BLIND BY GRIP.
Hope Felt That Norfolk Boys Sight
sh May Be Restored.

NORFOLK, VA, Dec. 24.--Alton
BERNARD. son of Mrs. E. l.. Bernard.
who WAS found to be blind following
IN attack of grip, will, in the opinion
ios Dr.sF s, Hope, regain his sight.
The lad had a severe attack of the
disease, and the family was stricken
With horror Friday night last when
ne asked that the light in the room
be lighted 1t was then that 1t was
found that he was blind Specialists
nave been called In the remarkable
case. 1t is admitted to be one of tho
5strangest cases ever reported in Ports
mouth or Norfolk.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
NEW 14lNcH GUNS ORDERED.
First of New Type for Coast Defense
to be Built at Watervliet.

TROY, N. ". Dec. 24.-Orders have
been received at Water, let Arsenal
for two o. the now type of l4-inch
coast defense guns. The work will
begin In January. Tho guns will lie
the first of this type ever made IL,
this country.
The 14-inch weapon is about forty
feet long and weighs about fifty tons.
IT throws heavier projecti,o than
the 12-inch gun to .greater dis
lance. The 14-inch tube will in time
supplant the Pinch rifle on the sea
coast
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
cHRIsrMAs DINNER FoR pooR.
Salvation Army "Pot" Pays for To.
DAVIS Feast.

days Feast.
A Christmas dinner for the poor of
the city will be given lw the Saliva
tion Army at the army headquarters
on Twenty-thiid street today For
many DAYS the members OF the Army
have heen keeping the pot boiling
along Washington avenue and a hand
some sum for the dinner has been
raised by this means.
2 The. tables will be spread In the
main hall OF the headquarters and the
Army Is making preparations for feed
ing large number nj people. There
VIII be many good things to eat and
Ito one VIII be turned away hungry.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
Three shopiifters,

John Hardy, Eddie Harris and AL
IBERIA Curtis. three negroes charged
with ahopliftlng at Woolworths Five
ri'en'Cent store. were arrested
Yesterday evening by Ofilcers Shell
Ton Phillips and Chewing at the
corner OF Washington avenue and
twenty nth street. They will b..
given q hearing In the police court to
oisow morning.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
Used Mustard Bottle.

Lee Stone. of No. 7f9 Twenty-fourth
stree, was arrested by Oficer Shell
ton yesterday evening, charged with
fassaulting Mary Branch with a mus
tard bottle, infiicting a serious wound
Both parties are colored.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
arownson RESIGNS; No Reason Given.

WASHINGTON. Dec "a President
Roosevelt today accepted the resigna-
tion OF Read Admiral Willard II
Brownson, as chief OF the bureau of
navigation to take effect Immediate
ly. Captain Cameron MGR Winslow
has lsen appointed to succeed him.
No reason for the resignation Is Civ
en- at the White House
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-25
Coal For LIauana

Tho British steamship Teviotdalc
sailed yesterday for Havana. Cuba.
will. q cargo Of 5.Osl tons OF co..i.
valued at S1i,73490.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-23
More Details About
the New Anesthetic

CONSCL F. w. MAHIN. in a report from
" Nottingham, briefly describes a new
anesthetic called ''stovaine" which
when injected into the spinal column pre-
vented pain, but did not produce uncon-
sciousness. He states that a London pub
LEGATION now gives additional details, as fol-
| lows:
1T produces paralysis of the body below
the point of injection and removes all sem
saton from the limbs. that 1t has been
found possible to amputate a mans leg
while the patient retained consciousness
and could. had he been allowed to do So
have even witnessed the operation The
patient could feel no pain, and after the
operation and when sensation returned ex-
perienced nothing but the sense of bruis-
ing, which is one of the sequeis of grave
operations.
For some time experiments with 'sto-
vaine' We're confined to hospital cases but
We believe We are correct in saying that
over a hundred cases have now been treat
ed in private practice. The anesthetic is.
2 of course. of the greatest use in minor op-
erations and in those where. owing to the
patient S age or heart weakness, the admin
istration of chloroform would be danger
Gus. It has been used in several gyneco-
logical cases. and there is no evidence that
any danger attends its use or that, given
proper administration. any prejudicial fac
tors accompany or follow its use.
1T is. however, a drug of great potency
and demands the most skilled adminfstra-
ton that for a time. at any rate, its
application will be restricted to skilled op-
orators. The curious name of the anes-
thetic. 'stovaine.' is due to its discoverer,
NJ. Fourneau. NJ. Fourneau was anxious
to perpetuate his. own name in connection
with 1t. but as the anesthetic was of the
nature of cocaine and no compound re-
sembling that could be contrived out OF
'Fourneau.' he translated the name into
its English equivalent OF stove and added
fine necessary terminate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-23

attack move to my disengaged side and
make away as rapidly as possible while I
engage the enemy was the megaphoned
message of the doughty commander of
the little gunboat, Lieut.. Aaron Ward now
captain, and commanding the Pennsylvania
in the Asiatic squadron The confidence
and spunk manifested in the message was
inspiring to the masses of troops that lined
the rails>of the transport, and they cheered
their little escort to the echo.
Shortly after the start was made a
strange vessel was encountered, apparently
bound for Key West and showing no colors.
"Show your colors.'' the Wasp signaled.
There was no response, and speeding ahead
the little terrier sent solid shot whstling
past the bows of the mysterious vessel.
Through the glasses there could be seen
scramble of figures on the deck of the
stranger AMI the Norwegian flag climbed
aloft to her masthead, whereupon she was
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ing the applicants in the cabin Of the Wasp
where the enlistment papers were drawn
up and the recruit then given thorough
medical examination by DR.. Rennie. The
Wasp's commander and executive officer
are among the picked men in the service.
and were chosen for the work of recruit
ing principally because of their fine ap-
pearance and long service. Boatswain
Croghan has seen sixteen years service,
much of it active, and Boatswain Clancy
besides serving in the war with Spain was
in the Boxer troubles in China and can
show several medals for conspicuous
bravery.
With such men as these in command and
forty of the niftiest tars that ever touched
MARINE spike a crew., the good
little Wasp brought her message to those
inlanders, showed them what life aboard
one of Uncle Sans war vessels is like,
instilled in many young landsman's heart
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in E0nOnD AU75e5y DG7na MADE A DFD

orders for different parts of the mysterious
gowns worn by the Ancient Order of Druids
and Archdruids and preparations for the
strange ceremonial are now in full swing.
TX
But really this Druid pageant is a very
solemn business after all. On the day ap-
pointed for the opening festival a couple
of hundred elderly gentlemen wearing
stove-pipe hats and long gray boards
both put on for the occasion-march sol:
EMMY around the-sacred Enclosure, chanting
strange songs. This is done to propitate
the Druidcal deities, who are not supposed
to have an ear for music.
To make the occasion still more i'm
pressive, it must be mentioned that the
pageant is scheduled to begin exactly at
sunrise, Greenwich mean time. They have
to be rather particular about the astronom-
iCal time, because in England. where fogs
prevail, it is very difficult to tell just when
sunrise takes place. For that matter, even
high noon is often question of doubt. and
this is why Greenwich has become a ma
tional institution.
The reason the Druds are such sticklers
for clock work is because Stonehenge is
said to have been originally temple to the
sun. Probably in those early days the po-
sition of the earth in the heavens gave
England a larger slice of solar radiance
than at present and the high priests could
obtain fairly good notion of the time
by looking at the stones.
Druids of these times adhering to their
ancient rites. begin their solemn festival
just the is supposed to be rising,
whether they can see it or not. After
chanting their weird music in ancient Celtic
lingo a number of Druidical hornblowers
perform Wagnerian symphonies on ancient
horns supposed to belong to animals of the
stone age, but which on close examination
curiously resemble the horns of the COM
mon or garden goat. But, as Sam Weller
would say, Goats is in when antidiuvians
is out" and so in lieu of the twisted cornu-
cOpia OF the megatherium they must come
down to the next best thing. The Druids
are not altogether to blame for this There
certainly are caves in England dating
back to the stone age period in which
curiously shaped horns of extinct animals
have been found. An expert on stone age
horns. however, is of opinion that they are
not very adaptable for musical instruments,
for being usually filled with petrified mat
ter they are more or less difficult to blow.
When the blast of horns has made the
early dawn prick up it's ears, as it were,
Druids get down to business. Each Druid.
temporarily tucking in his long flowing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-23

being purchased and converted into a trim,
business-like gunboat by the government
just prior to the outbreak of hostllties
with Spain. She cost the government about
100000. and was fitted with all the mod
ern naval appliances. With a length Of
$50 feet, beam of % feet and draft of about
u feet, she is a sturdy and seaworthy little
craft, capable of sustaining a speed of six
teen knots. Her draft and the height of
her military masts prevented her from as
cending the Mississippi above Cairo dis
appointment.to many towns that had been
expecting visit from the pretty white and
chrome vessel
Throughout her cruise she was kept in
spick and span condition. and her crew
took special pride in their personal appear
ance. keeping their white duck suits i'm
maculately clean and in every way endeav-
oring to present the most pleasant side
of their service to the observation of the
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PRocE2JIoH Or DRylDJ

Society, an authority on such matters that
the stones were placed in their present
position by the great magician, Merlin.
There is a legend to the effect that Merlin
had dispute with an Irish king, and a
wager was made by Merlin that lie could
transport the huge stones through the air
| from Ireland to England in the twinkling
of an eye. The dialogue between the Irish
| king and Merlin was something on this
order:
| Merlin Cooking at the Druid temple in
| Neutrality-suspicious. tomorrow morning 1
could make this entire temple-Druds and
all-disappear from this spot"
The Irish king Quoting the motto on top
OF his roltop desk in Dublin CASTLE said
| DO it now"
This is the first recorded instance of the
use of this classic phrase.
Before the king could say Jack Robin
| SON. the stones began to fly. landing in
England almost simultaneously. To the
| kings further establishment. he saw in the
place where the temple had been vgor-
Gus crop of four-leaf clovers, fresh and
very green.
For this feat he offered to make Merlin
cined.
So much for the ancient, sacred legend
And now for the facts, as published by
| the Selbourne Society's secretary in order
| to account for the presence of these stones
at Stonehenge.
Another theory, which, however lacks
the internal evidence of truth our first
narrative possesses, is that the stones were
put up by the people who belonged to the
lost kingdom of Atlantis.
When the kingdom got lost the people
of the Atlantis thought the best thing to
do to follow the idea so skillfully
worked out in the Little Bo Peep affair.
They deemed it best to leave it severely
alone in the hope that it would eventually
come home, and even bring its tale behind
it. But it never turned up and, after
waiting up for it all night, the people
decided to erect these great stones to mark
the spot where it went down.
Sir Norman Lockyer, the famous as
tronomer, accounts for the Stonehenge
stones by the statement that these ruins
are the remains of what was once a great
sun temple. He is of opinion that the
stones were erected about the year 1850 B.
c. He arrives at this date from arithme-
teal calculations which are too compl
Gated to interest the general reader. How
ever the figures on Sir Normans showing,
appeared to be very convincing, although
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THE GUNBoAT WASP.

the first call of the sea, and then slipped
down the river the way she had come with
the best wishes Of the river folk and the
Signatures of goodly batch of embryonic
gunners' mates safely slowed away in her
commanders sea chest. She ran into New
Orleans for coal and few minor repairs
and then eastward along the gulf coast,
putting in at a few ports and laying over
for more coal at Key West.
1t was late in March when the Wasp
bade goodbye to Cairo after it had been
found that the river was running too high
to allow her to pass under the Cairo bridge
on her return if she went up to Paducah.
In easy stages she worked around to Key
West, and week or two ago made the
nerthward swing through the Keys and
turned her nose toward Hatteras. Several
Florida ports were entered. stop OF sew
eral days being taken in Jacksonville
where number of recruits were added to
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Ingenious Office Boy.

From Harper's Weekly.
A New York business man was telling
some friends not long ago of the disad-
vantages of having two telephones in his
business office.
"a new office boy entered upon the dis
charge of his duties last week. said the
merchant, among which duties is that of
answering the telephone calls. The very
first call resulte, in his coming to me with
the statement:
You're wanted at the phone by lady,
sir
(which one? I asked, thinking of the
two phones
"'Well, SIR said the boy, after an en-
barrassed pause, IL think it's your wife,
sir Z"
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thousands of curious land folk that
scrambled up the gangway at each port
visited. In the places where Sunday stop
overs were made frequently as many as
1000 persons inspected the ship during
the day. AS additional feature the
crew organized base ball team and en-
gagged in friendly contests with organiza-
tons representing the towns visited. Here
the landsmen often achieved revenge for
the ''joshing' they had rendered them
selves subject to through their land lub-
ber' mistakes, by dealing mercilessiy with
the sea-legged Jackies at the great Ameri-
can game.
Chief Boatswain Croghan, former
Washington boy by the way. has as brother
officers on the cruise Passed Assistant Sur
geon w. H. Rennie and Boatswain j.
Clancy, executive officer. Boatswain Crog-
han oficiated recruiting officer, rA"aiv-
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The Usual Envelope"
le Kansas city Star

From the Kansas city Star.
A Kansas editor mentioned that he some
times received a letter with W in it,
after the paper has contained painstaking
wedding notice or obituary. We some
times receive envelopes on such occasions
ourselves" says the Herington Sun. They
usually contain note saying: Enclosed
find . cents postage, for which send US
four copies which has the notice of our
daughters wedding. We are sorry you
made such a mistake as to say the bride
was dressed in pink chiffon ii. WASH t
chiffon at all. it was tulle. Yours respect
fully. ato' >"
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frt sh pageants every day. Verify,
there's q new pageant born every day.
Duumow. Stratford. and even footing, have
had their innings at pageant production,
and now another county is heard from.
This time it is to be at Stonehenge-that
queer cluster of huge stones which some
one has called the Sphinx of the British
Isles" 1t is not mentioned just which
stone OF the cluster is the sphinx, but
doubtless they are all sphnXes III their own
peculiar way.
The Stonehenge pageant is to be tie
queerest one of all the odd revivals re-
Gently started in England. Real Druids-
with a big "D'-will participate in the
ceremonies. and the minds of the specta-
tors can go way back to the interesting
period-1COo b. C. These were the times
when Druids held sway over the British
Isles. and it was at this early date that
the famous cluster of gigantic monoliths
IS supposed to have been put up at Stone
herge. which, in those days. was not even
a railway station
The Stonehenge of today has a wire fence
around it. This is prosaic, but true This
galvanized fact is likely 10 trip up the
poetic fancy as it roams carelessly through
the historic Druidical ruins, but the pres
ent owner of the property-Sir Edmund An
truhus. a baroret in his own right-evi-
IDENTITY does not believe in permitting even
a wireless fancy 10 roam over his domain.
Direct descendants OF the original Druids
have to pay - cents a head to get into
the Enclosure. despite the fact that Baron
Antrebus has been elected an honorary
Druid himself This brilliant diplomatic
move on the part Of the Druids in electing
the baron zone Of US" has failed to have
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ej7onEHEnaE DKgD 'ElRLE D0Ef Back: % 10000

sitions close by the outer edge of what was
supposed to be the doorway of the ancient
Druid temple. This doorway consists of
two huge stones capped by a third mono
lith These stones. by the way. are sup
posed to represent the supremest skill of
human engineering, not even excepting the
Pyramids. Some enthusiasts on ancient
Druidsm whose knowledge of modern me-
chanics seems somewhat limited, maintain
that the Stonehenge clusters exhibit prowess
compared to which the 150-ton cranes at
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beard, dons a garment that resembles a
cross between walters apron and a
Roman tOga.
1t appears that ancient Druids had very
pronounced color schemes. These robes
are all the colors of the rainbow. with
none of it's harmonies. Blue, green, black,
yellow, red, pink. purple, vermilion, and
even snuff color. vie with each other in
giving the human eye the time of its life.
Lining themselves up in two rows to the
number of about go, they take their po-