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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
PROPOSALS WANTED FOR SET,
TING STONE CURLING.

Sealed proposals for setting 1900
or more linear feet of 5-inch by 1S.
inch stone curbing will be received al
the Town Clerks Office, Hampton
Va, until 5 o'clock D. m. Thursday
March 2Sth, 1907, at which time the
said proposals will be opened by the
Committee on Streets of the said
town. The Committee reserves the
right to reject any or all bids. For
specifications. &C, apply to
w. Il. WESTWOOD,
Town Clerk
Hampton, Va, March 18th, 1907.
3-20-10t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
The animal trainer paused in hi

The animal trainer paused in his
midnight supper
1T is strange" he said. chow train
Ing increases an animals value.
can buy young lion for 500, train 1t
and sell 1t for $500 aftcrward. Take
the group performed with tonight
three lions, three tigers. two leopards,
four bears and four boarhounds. They
ARE all young adults in the pink Of con-
dition, bat unframed they wouldn't be
worth more than S1,5CO or $4,000 at
the outside. Yet the boss was offered
SG0,0c0 for them last week. The train
Ing sets the price. and no wonder 1t
took four years to train this group OF
mine, and, though there are only six
teen animals i'll it now, no less than
seventy had to be tried and discarded
before wo got together the sixteen we
wanted"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
TWO MARRIAGES TODAY.

Mr. John Nj. Hughes to Claim E.iios
Lillian Budd Raires as His Brioe.
marriage license was issued
Yesterday by Clerk of the Courts IL.
II. Holt to Mr.. John Melvin Hugncs
and Miss Lillian Budd Baines, tho
ceremony to take place in Hampton
today.
Mr. Percy Whitehead Bryant and
Miss Melissa Bell Chillis were also
granted license TO marriage am!
they. too, will be married near
Hampton today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
FUNERAL OF w. H. WOOD.
Wcil-known County Man Paeoed
Away in Richmond.

Mr. William II. Wood, whose i'll.
ness was announced In Sundays
Daily Press, died in the Memorial
hospital, Richmond, at 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. His death was
due to an operation. The BODY was
brought to Hampton mt O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, Rev. w. Il.
kccfo officiating
Nh Wood, who was GO years old,
resided on his farm on Back river
end was well known and esteemed.
He Is survived by his wife. two
daughters and n son.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
WITH MRS. J. NJ. CUMMING.
kccoughtan Literary Society vii
Meet This Afternoon.

Kecoughtan Literary Circle
meet this afternoon with Mrs j.
Nj. Cumming, in South King street,
when study session will be held.
The annual clectionN OF officers,
which was to have takeI place last
week. will occur this Afternoon. II
Is hoped that the members will
send their proxies if they are IN
able TO be present.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
White Sent to Grand Jurv.

Eddie White, n notorious negro
youth, was held for the grand Jury
by Mayor Thornton +. Jones on the
charge OF robbing negro named
Cardwell. White was arrested
recently and committed to jail on
the charge of drunkenness. White
mas baeE prisoner for several
months, Cardwcll charges that
white went through him in the
jail and stole q dollar bill.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Edaar Webb Acuultted.

In the Circuit Court Yesterday
Edgar Webb. colorcd, was acquitted
by Jury on the chargeNof holding
up and robbing Samuel Laneslty. a
small white youth, OF eighty cents.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Mr. Lewis in Richmond.

Mr.. Burdettc a. Lewis, common
wealth's attorney of Elizabeth City
county, spent yesterday in Richmond
on legal business Mr.. @. V. Spratley
one of the young members of the bar
was the acting commemorative attor-
ney during the sessions OF the Circuit
Court yesterday.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
LOST AND FOUND.

FoUND-RoW BOAT ADRIFT
March 18th. owner can have same
by proving property and paying
costs, Inquire of CHARLES
THORNTON, company II. National
Soldiers Home. Hampton, Va:
cost.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Supervisors to Meet.

The Board of Supervisors of Eliza.
beth City county will meet in regular
session in the courthouse tomorrow
morning, The usual routine business
will be transacted.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Johnson wickham Arrested.

Johnson Wickham, colored, Is n
prisoner in the county jail with the
charges of assaulting his wife. and
carrying concealed weapon registered
against him. He will be tried before
Magistrate r. l.. Gaylord today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
llot Cross Buns for Fridav

Hot Cross Buns for Friday.
Better place your orders in adj
vance. The Hampton Bakery, r. j.
Traylor, proprietor, corner Hope and
Queen streets. 3-24-6t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Case Nollc Pressed.

nollc prose Qui was entered II
the Circuit Court Yesterday in I'll,
case of Walter Gorbin, colored, In
dictated for felony
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Name on Easter EGGS.

Have your name on candy Easter
Eggs-any initials You desire. Bet
ter give your order early. Goods de-
livered. P. N. NICHOLOOPOLOS.
Phone 1872. 3.22.6t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel +. Cock are
expected TO reach home tomorrow
from Florida, where they spent the
winter.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26

FOR RENT--FURNISHE FINE
residence; new and modern in
every particular; best location
large lot; good shade. w. Il. LAW
SON, Bank of Hampton Building.
Phone No. 3. 3-2i-3t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Montreal Baseball Nine How PIfq
Ing on Soldiers Home Diamond.
N. j. k'TfR|DGt IS The MANAGER
Visitors Arc Not Looking for Scrub
Teams and There win be Few Eek,
billion Games During the Weeks
vlsit-ouartcrcd at the Hygcia.

The baseball nine of Mon.
trcal. Canada, arrived ut tho National
Soldiers Home Sunday morning and
VIII spend tho week getting in shape
for the opening OF the Eastern League
on April "a.
M. J. klttridgc, for several years
catcher with the Washington team,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
FOR RENT.

FOR RENr-NICE RESIDENCE ON
Victoria avenue; all modern i'm,
provcmcnts, and in thorough order
Apply to w. e. LAWSON, Bank of
Hampton Building. Phone No. 8,
3-24-3t
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
PERSONAL NOTES.

The Coming and Going of the PEG
pie You Know.
Mr. Frederick C.ihIorris, who has
been visiting his mother in Carey
street. will leave this morning 70,
his home in Nova Scotia.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-26
Now for Ice Cream
Charles Matar & Bro.

Mcllen Street, Phoebus
Will begin delivering cream any
whore on the peninsula from today
The best OH the market
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
SOUTHERN
AGRICULTURE
DISCARD Il o E.
Labor Too Scarce and Too High to
Use Old-Time Methods.

That many have succeeded in max
Ing a crop without using the hoe is a
most important fact. 1t certainly be-
hoover us to learn their method and
to pattern after them as much as pos
sible. If We cannot succeed in dis
carding the hoe altogether, the more
we a dispense with it the better,
since it is the most expensive work
we nave to do in making a crop. The
secret lies in the manner of planting
and in the use of the weeder and har-
row to prevent the young grass get
ting a start and thinning the cotton by
the use of these tools instead OF chop
ping the cotton to a stand. A machine
has been recently invented to burn all
the lint from cottonseed without de-
%stroying it's terminating power. This
will enable US to drop cottonseed as
we do corn. II this is a success, as
they claim, it will work a revolution
in cotton planting. Be this as 1t may,
We are here to learn and to improve
by every suggestion of value. All
wide-awake cotton planters will give
this matter careful consideration and
learn to do without so much hoeing.
Labor is too scarce and too high to
use the old-time methods. Then cot
ton choppers are On the market that
will block the cotton for you. Elk
pertinent along these lines and work
out a method that will be satisfactory
to you. twenty-five years ago Mr..
Tom Boughn, down in Coweta county,
would take a V-shaped harrow with
spiked teeth and run across his cot
ton rows twice and thin it as well as
kill the grass. He would cultivate his
cotton with less than half the hoeing
given by his neighbors. If you will
run the weeder ove your cotton just
as 1t is coming up, and then every
week for two or three weeks, you can
save wonderfully in the cost of Guilt
waiting your cotton and the hoeing nee
essary will be light.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
PROFITS IN BEEkEEPiNG.
OF All the Pursuits 1t Is the Least Ex-
pensive.

The latest authentic statistics from
which We can estimate the profits in
beekeeping are the census reports
made in the year 1901. According to
these reports, as published in the Year
Book for 1901, the aggregate value of
bees in the United States, June 1,
1900, was S10,1S6,513, and the aggre-
gate value of honey and wax produced
for the year 1900 was $6,664,9 04. This
shows a gross profit of about 65H peg
cent on the investment, a profit not
eXcelled, if equalled, in any other pur-
suit in our country. And this is the
more significant when it is remem-
bered that of all the pursuits ~beekeep-
ing isthe least expensive.
Assuming, which is reasonable. that
Bookkeeping has kept pace with other
pursuits, there is at least 25 per
cent more bees in value than there
were on June l, 1900 Cor seven years
ago., there would now be bees in this
country amounting in value to $12,-
733,141, and the gross annual income
from which would be the sum of
S~S,331,130
In the reports above referred to,
every State in the Union is represent
ed, and. as to profits, it is a notewor-
thy fact that no one State has a very
great advantage owe aonther, and
what advantage is shown seems to be
the resuSt of the mode of keeping the
bees and not because of any climatic
influence. The per cent of profit in
Texas aLI Massachusetts is about the
same, and the same is also true with
reference to Wisconsin and Alabama.
To beekeepers it is encouraging to
know that their little pets are not re-
spectors of climate or sections of our
country. Whether north or south of
Mason and Dixon's line, or on the
chilly shoras of northern lakes, or
basking in the eternal sunshine of the
South, they roll in golden treasure
without stint for the human family.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

so cents; the fve-franc piece n dol
lar. The French silver represented
about 60 per cent. of the silver circu-
lation.
German silver thalers worth 60
cents went at one dollar. Everything
above SO cents was one dollar and
everything above Is cents was so
cents. A French bank in San Fran
cisco vas said to have got rich ship
ping French coin in exchange for gold
dust. United States coin was scarcer
until the mint vas established. In
the fall of 1856 the banks refused to
take any foreign coins except at a
heavy discount. The result was that
in a few months all foreign coin disap-
peared.' 1t proved a bonanza for the
saloon people. They would give a
drink for a franc, while the banks
gave only 1914 cents. The saloon peo-
pie gathered them and the rupees in
at old prices and sold to the banks for
bullion and made a good thing.
But for a few years we suffered
badly for silver change. Even until
1856 gold dust circulated to consid-
cradle extent in mining districts. But
the scales were always used.
There was no paper money until D.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

when necessary and smooth out knotty
problems in the fairest n posi-
Bile. After things have been satisfac-
torify adjusted. have a chapter in some
Interesting book known as the Sun
day book" and never used on any other
day.
To induce Bible reading, let each
child spell his name with verses from
this holy book, making acrostics and
memorizing those especial verses.
Illuminating favorite texts with a box
Of water colors is another Sunday
pleasure.
A eve failing source of amusement
for young children is a good-sized
Noah's ark. Tell the story of the flood
and give a little history of the ami
mails, their homes and habits. Then
at the end pair the animals and put
them away ip the ark.
1t is the exceptional child who does
not enjoy music, and the earlier the
singing habit is cultivated the better.
Teach the good old hymns which will
never be forgotten. The melodies
learned on Sunday afternoon will echo
through the busiest day and soothe the
darkest hour in the years to ONE
So few parents stop to think that it
is in the earliest years that the mem
cries are being made which will be
most vivid in the Laser days of their
cnildren's lives.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
FOR THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Easy to Make Day the Children VIII
Look Forward To

Much depends upon how Sunday is
observed whether a child looks forward
with pleasure or dread to the seventh
day. 1t should be such a dear, happy
time that the little oaes welcome it's
advent with delight.
In the first place, after the usual
duties are attended to and church serv-
ices over, there should be an hour in
the afternoon-more, if the time can
be given-that belongs to the children
alone. 1t may lean giving up a nap, a
walk, or a call, but do it faithfully
Then use a part of this time for hold
ing a little court of appeals" ncour
age each child to tell all the troubles
and grievances of the week, condoIe
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

A minute passed and another, until
Mickey could stand the strain no long
er. He reached down and lifted the
flrecracker from beneath the chair.
As he held it up in the moonlight
to examine it, a mosquito lit upon his
fathers nose and the old gentleman
awoke. Grabbing the firecracker from
his sons hand he arose and holding it
aloft, he said:
Boys, there will be no explosion
tonight. I'm sorry to %disappoint you.
| was Altered that Mickey might do
some harrum wild that big cracker, so
whin he wasn't lookin' this afternoon l
took the powder out of it and filled
it wild clay. So, you see that the show
is over, and ye may as we'll go home
and go to bed. There1l be no more
explosions only what l give Mickey
wild a single afore l turn in. Good
night to We all. Come around some
other night whin there is somethin'
doin'."
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
FIRST MONEY in CALIFORNIA.
Queer Early Coinage-D. o. Mills Is
sued First Paper Money.

Coins in California till the fall of
1856 were a queer kettle of fish. More
than 60 per cent. of the silver and at
least 25 per cent. of the gold was for
eign.
Most of the other gold coins were
private coins. Motif & Co. got a per-
nit from the government to coin gold.
Their coinage was confined to ten and
20 cents and were stamped "Mofft &
Co."
We had all kinds of doubloons and
similM South and Central Ameri-
can coins. Of the smaller gold coins
the French 20-franc piece led all the
others.
The English guinea was fairly rep
Resented. But it passed for only it's
face value, while the other gold passed
for more. The 20-franc piece, value
$3.75, went at four dollars.
There was a still greater discrep-
ancy in the silver coins. A one-franc
piece went for Is cents, and the East
India rupee. value As cents, went for
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

Mushroom Hat for General Wear.
sailor order, except that the brim of
this new model is not even all around,
but is quite short in front and rather
wider at the left side than on the
right, the brim thus being quite broad
across the front, bat shorter from
front to back. This shape has a wide,
rather low crown and presents very
few difficulties to the home mfliner,
as the trimming is very simple. Most
of the model hats in this shape were
in rough straw, either in black, natural
straw color or the darker burnt" or
onion" shades, and were generally
smoothly faced to within a half inch
or so of the edge with taffeta silk.
Few realize how last sea-
sons hats can be brought up to date
by being %reblocked and reshaped.
Very often expensive straw hats be-
come very limp and shapeless after
being subjected to a few weeks wear
and are then discarded as quite use
less. However, if SEN to an estab-
lishment where such work is done,
these discarded hats can be stiffened
and reshaped to look like new at an
expenditure of rs cents or a dollar.
AS the majority of the new hats
show a short brim in front, some of
these made-over shapes are simply
turned h%ind-part before, as it were,
and the short-back sailor of a season
or so ago is now reblocked to show
the dropping or mushroom brim, with
the wide part across the back and the
short brim in front.
The illustration shows one of these
mushroom hats, this model heing
rather small and designed for street
wear. 1t was in onion" color, Which
is a yellowish shade of light brown.
The inside of the brim showed an
inch-wide band facing of black MORE.
The crown also being folded about
with black MORE ribbon, which
crossed in the back and was slipped
through Sits in the straw tying in a
bow i've the hair. Two large gilt
ball hat pins were thrust through the
black ribbon in front, and on each
side was placed a large white coque
feather plume backed by a black wing.
Such a hat would be smart-looking
with almost any kind of a street gown
or suit, and would be much more dup
able for general wear than a flower
trimmed hat.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
LINGERIE HAT is POPULAR.
Will Be Largely Used This Summer
for Dressy Wear.

Although hats Of fine braids and
straws will be much worn by small
girls from five to twelve years, the
lingerie hat of fine embroidery will be
seer to a marked extent this summer
for dressy wear, especially so when
the accompanying frock is of fine en-
broidery, either blind or eyelet.
Some of the lingerie hats are made so
that the covering may be removed
from the wire frame with little diff
Guilty and Numbered, while others
must go to the cleaners when soiled,
as they are not made to be taken
apart. Flowers and ribbons are used
as trimmings, more often flowers.
These in wreaths of small rose bios
SONS, buttercups and other blossoms
encircling the full mushroom crown
and sometimes hanging off the back
brim several inches. The brims are
medium in width and usually finished
with at least twoinch-wide, or wider,
frils of lace or embroidery, or the hat
material with a narrow lace edging.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

In Europe guinea fowls sell for good
prices. 1t is said on good authority
hat a poultry raiser neal Leipsis has
for years made a specially OF these
birds and has sold the product for an
average price OF Use each. The same
writer says that in Paris birds are
sold in summer for soc and in winter
for Coo each, while the eggs bring
twice as much as hens eggs. In the
United States the price of guinea
fowls varies greatly with the season,
the locality and the individual mar
ket, but has in general advanced n
siderably during recent years. Where
as a pair formerly sold in New York
at soc to soc they now bring soc to
$1.25 or more.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28
Touches of Black.

Touches of black are frequently in
troduced upon spring gowns, regard
less OF the materials used, and few
trimmings are as effective or in as
universal good taste. In fact, velvet
ribbon in very dark colors are to be
among the ultra smart decorations of
spring and summer, but when the
colors are used they usually match
the gowns that they adorn, the diff
ference being one Of shade. Gowns
of chiffon cloth trimmed with coarse
embroidery sometimes have the lat
ter outlined with little ~traceries OF
black chine ribbon. This is true of a
model in white, with a vandyke
flounce of coarse embroidery.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-06-28

Big Fire
Cracker
The explosion that wound up the
Fourth of July Celebration
on Cooney Island.

Two mammoth firecrackers stood in
the window of Casey's grocery. They
were II inches long and proportion
ately thick.
For a month before the Fourth of
July these gigantic educators of en-
thusiasm had stood il the window like
British soldiers on dress parade, while
a predatory spider hung a filmy ham
mock between them and calmly killed
his buZZing victims over two powder
mines.
The f~irecrackers we're the admira-
ton and the envy of all the boys in
Cooney Island. 1t was seldom that a
youthful nose was not 1attened against
the window pane in ardent covetous-
ness.
But the price demanded by Casey
for the t~hunderers was prohibitive, so
far as the boys were concerned, and
there "a not n of them patriotic or
courageous enough to invest 25 cents
in a single ecstatic explosion.
Said Mickey Finn timidly one even
ing when he had been sent by his
mother to get a quarter of a pound of
tea and half a pound of pork:
Mr.. Casey, l suppose now, that
whin wan O. thin big fellows whit off
1t would blow the stars out of the
sky" his mind filled with blissful
thoughts of mighty explosions.
Casey stopped measuring out a half
pint of New Orleans molasses, raised
a monitor finger, and replied:
"Micky, my boy, I'd be afeerd to tell
you what would happen if l stood wan
O. thin big fellows out on the side
walk and touched the stem wild the
lighted end of a five cen ciga-ar. The
noise would be terrible, terrible, my
son. 'Twould make your head ring
like an anvil, and you would see
sparks like fireRies.
Would it blow the house down."
asked the boy in an awed whisper. 3,
NO l don't think it would" said
Casey. 1T might shake the chimly
down and break all the glass lin the