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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
FALSE MIRRORS.
hnny Varieties Are Nude For Special
nusincsa Purposes.

hnny Varieties Are Nude For special
nusincsn Purposes.
at Is not enough to make true mir
rors," the dealer said. ar that were
oil. ours would be indeed simple bust
ness.
"Dressmakers and milllncrs require
mirrors Of all sorts. They need, for ex.
ample. a mirror that makes one look
taller and thinner When they dress
fat. short patron in one of their new
hats or suits they lead her to this mir
ror, and she is so surprised and pleased
with the change for the better In her
looks that straight off she buys.
For masseurs make mirror that.
like retonclled photograph, hidei
blemishes, wrinkles. scars. The mas,
seur takes the wrinkied face of somi
rich old woman. stcams 1t. thupps r.
pinchcs it and smarks 1t for an hour
and then holds up to II the mirror that
gives a blurred. blemish hiding ret1ec.
ton. The woman thinks her wrinkles
are gone and is happy till she gety
home to her own true mirror.
Altogether I make some twenty yn.
rieties Of false mirrors. Statesmen and
saleswonien in millinery and dressmak.
Ing establishments can double and
quadruple their business IL they are
quick and deft in their selection OF tho
mirror that fiatters each patron best!y
.-I'hilaialnhia Ruliatin
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1907.
CHILD LABOR AT HOME.

nhere Is no doubt but that the
great majority of the. people OF
Newport News would be pleased /.
the ordinance Introduced into the
common council which calls for the
complete adjustment OF the prac-
tice Of little girls selling papers
which unfortunately prevails to alarge
extent In this city became law. There
Is no room for argument on this
question. Ms oil the good points arc
claim has been mGdo that in one
or two Instances that the few pen
nics made by the child are needed
at home, but there is seldom piece
OF really beneficial legislation en-
acted or any really good reform
movement contaminated that some
body Is not injured to some extent
but on THE other hand the good
that Is accomplished so far out.
strips the injury that the latter
cannot be considered.
None will question that the little
girl OF ten or twelve years of age
who Is on the public streets for two
or three hours each day selling
papers Is Having ingraincd into her
n lesson that will be followed
through life. That this lesson is n
bad one nobody can question. BY
necessity she is thrown into contact
with the harsher. to speak mildly.
side OF life. Thoughts are being
implanted into her brain that should
not be there. 1t Is an absolute GER
tainty that 1t is going to make a
coarser woman of her. II nothing
else. Then there is the health,
question. Again the argument Is
on use side of tho ordinance, for
who will question for single sec.
ond the statement that that a child's
Stealth Is injured by the exposure
that a little girl selling newspapers
is exposed to.
1t Is to be hoped that one of the
results Of tho agitation against hav-
Ing girls sell papers on the streets
VIII be the formation of humane
society in Newport News. an organi-
cation that is greatly needed in this
city. In many cities in the North
OF smaller population t,san Newport
News they have humane societies
{ that are welding an unlimited In.
fluence for the good Of children and
animals, for these organizations arc
also very active in their lahors to
better the condition Of beasts as
we'll. These organizations are SEE
sustaining practically because to
them belong certain percentages of
the fines collected where there are
convictions in case of inhuinin
treatment of child or beast. 1t GER
tainly would do no harm Tor some
81 The leading citizens to inquire
i carefully into the question of having
u Humane society. The Dai'v Press
realizes that these are days when
the people al Newport News are
ibesieged on all sides by various in.
terests, but a humane society does
not necessarily mean subscription
list and so the people need not
have any fear OH that score.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
Regular as the SUM-

is an expression rs old as the race
NO doubt the rising and setting of the
sun Is the most regular performance
IN the universe, unless 1t is the ac.
ton OF the liver and bowels when
regulated with DR.. Kings New Life
fiiis Guaranteed By the Ideal Phar.
macy. 25c.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

To indulge in little slang, Je-
rome could not make the monkey :.
OF Delmas that he did of Gleason
The Frisco man yesterday at his first
real trial of strength against the
District Attorney was all to the
good.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
THE JAPANESE IN HAWAI-.

IT is IA years since the native
monarchy in the Hawaiian islan1s
was overthrown. Grover Cleveland
came to the presidency few
months later, and treaty of annexa,
ton, which President Harris had
ssat 70 Congress, was withdrawn,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

There is nothing surprising TIA.
the negro non-commissioned officers
are swearing under oath that the
white people shot-up Brownsville.
Believing their testimony is another
question.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

The Associated Press dispatches
tell of more land frauds being un-
earthed. There seems to be no lin
1t to tho land grabbing in the West
anu the thought naturally arises
what have tire Interior Department
officials for the past few years have
been doing?
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

When You feel triHe disgruntled
ABOUT the weather Newport News is
having, Just stop and remember how
much worse IL is in tile North.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

between difficulty In floating big
ioahs and several state and federal
Investigations, the Great Northern
railway, is surely having strenuous
time OF It,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

II was a mean man who has dug
up the fact that Depew's birthday
is ON April 80.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
WITH THE PARAeRApHERs

The Hearst papers protest tina,
they don't want war with Japan-and
then proceed to manufacture a few
more reasons why there should be
war.-Buffalo Express.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

Count Boni threatens to commit
suicide II the Countess does not make
him n more generous allowance. But
the Count is VIGOROUSLY not man
OF his word SO we have small hopes
of relief.-Minneapolls Tribune.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

10 become Il successful actress. nc.
cording to Mrs. Kendall. woman
must have the temper of an angel,
the figure of Greek statue, the face
of goddess, and the skin OF rhlno
ceros." Not to mention the nerve OF
the press agent.-Washingt Herald
February will have to work nights
II 1t expects in its twenty.eight DAYS
to make up the average of cold, for
the winter.-Chicago News.
Tillman says he was Joking. So
does Swettenham. 1t will be safer
hereafter for them to smile when
they joke Nashville, American.
Mr.. Carnegie gave a lake to Prince.
ton. Now he has given a swimming
tank to Yale. II his aqueous gifts
continue to diminish in the same pro-
portion. Harvard may expect a new
water cooler presently.-New York
Evening Post.
1.-THE Morals of Salome" is the tit
lie of Sunday paper article. Then
she had some?-Clexeland Leader.
congressman from Kansas wants
to have the weather bureau abolish.
ed. But the congressman comes from
a state where every farmer thinks
he's weatherwise.-Cl Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Prof, Starr. of the University OF
Chicago. says the dress suit is a joke.
Perhaps he never had to pay for ono.
Grand Rapids Herald
II is only when Uncle SANS war
ships enter harbor on a mission of
charity that they may safely be. or
dercd out-Houston Post.
Some of the English newspapers
insist on regarding Swettenham as a
martyr. The really serious aspect of
this affair will not become apparent
to some British minds until Punch
has taken ii p.-Washington Star.
Anyway, If il wasn't for rillman.
the Congressional Record would not
have a paying eli, Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

February will have to work nights
II 1t expects in its twenty.eight days
to make up the average of cold, for
the winter.-Chicago News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07

Tillman says he was joking. So
does s"ettenham. 1t will be safer
hereafter for them to smile when
they Nashville, American.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-07
G. e. Thacker. Editor and Publisher.
L, %. Push. -. Advertising Manager

3hs Dan,. Press ia delivered by csrrisrs any.
whore in the city limits for 10 cents a week.
Any Irregularities in delivery should be imme-
dietely reported to tho once OF publication.
Orders for delivery OF the Daily Press TO either
residence or places OF business may be mado by
postal card or telephone
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
CHARGES GRAFT
IN MONTANA

BILLINGS, Mont, July 26.-
That she has been arrested and
thrown in Jail here because she
discovered and exposed white men
who robbed the Indians, is the
charge made by Mrs. Helen Pierce
Gray, who was arrested on a
charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses and locked up in
default of $1,5G0 bail. The charge
against her is founded on her ac-
cepting $3.50 from Indians of the
Grow reservation for services she
did not perform
In reply Mrs. Gray says she re-
cefved the money for expenses OF
a trip to Washington to acquaint
Roosevelt and other officials with
graft she discovered in Montana
Her charges implicate state sena-
tor, federal officers and number
of stock raisers. She accuses them
of robbing the Crow Indians out OF
$1,600,000 by fraud when the reser-
walton was opened. She claims the
sale contract Of the Indian land was
forged and altered in such fashion
that the Indians lost their property
and the pay they expected to get
for it.
Mrs. Gray claims to represent a
New York magazine and news
paper syndicate. She promises to
make it warm for certain officials,
claiming to have evidence to sub
stantiate her statements.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
WAROENROASTS
NEW LAW

.WALLA WALLA, July 26.-War-
den Kincaid, of the penitentiary, is
caustic in criticism of the new in
determinate sentence law and the
recently created board of pardons.
He styles the law / of the most
foolish ever enacted. and says:
Seven convicts have been pa
rolled. Three of these were worthy
the leniency, but as to the others
l doubt il there is judge or prose-
cutting attorney in the state who
would have given them favorable
consideration.
Il cannot see how political
board in Olympia is competent to
Judge whether a man is worthy of
parole or pardon. Take for ex-
ample some of the 'yegg men and
professional craftsmen whom we
have confined here Almost in
variably they live up to the prison
rules and their prison records are
clean. Yet do they deserve a par
don or parole? They come in here,
say on 6-year sentence and ex-
pect by good behavior to have it
reduced to years, and when they
get out they Immediately return to
their criminal life.
1.-The pardon board is destructive
to the merit system installed here,
which has given highly satisfactory
results"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
A GRAVE AND A Wreath FOR AMERICAN HERO
WHO DIED TO SAVE HALF A HUNDRED COMRADES

BOSTON,, July 26.-Diligent
search has failed to disclose the
slightest trace Of friends or rela-
tives of George Miller, the 18year-
old hero of the battleship Georgia.
The unclaimed body of the
American seaman has been laid to
rest in the little cemetery attached
to the naval hospital at Chelsea.
A wreath of wild roses is his
only monument.
What shall be the lasting monu.
ment of this real American hero?
Will it be of granite or will it re
the memory andt example of his ex-
allied deed?
And who among us. shall write
his epitaph, we who know that he
gave his life to save half hundred
comrades who escaped; we who
know that instead of looking to
himself he pushed a powder
charge into the breech of an 8-inch
gun and thus placed it out of
harms way Had it become ignited
there would have been terrific ex-
plosion, the powder being confined
and every man in the turret would
have been a corpse in a second.
Comrades are telling the story
over and over with wet eyes that
when Miller performed this feat
the turret was swept by a perfect
hell of fire and gases from the bag
of powder accidentally ignited.
Men were struggling to climb lad
der that promised safety, and
others were dropping to the floor
to escape the blasts of fire and
suffocating fumes. True to the
highest ideals of courage Miller
held to his post. His was the self
sacrifice of the man behind the
gun"
When he had showed the clarge
clear into the gun barrel out OF
harms way, he himself stood in
the midst of swirling mass or
fire. Life had fled when his body
fell to the floor of the turret.
Captain McCrea. of the Georgia.
has paid tribute to the heroism OF
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Target practice tests for expert
riflemen will begin next week at
Fort Wright. Highest percentages
in the sharpshooter class qualities
for the expert rating.
The Woman's club will meet this
evening at the residence of Mrs.
H. J. Emery, E903 Baldwin, to plan
a financial campaign for the new
club building.
The chamber of commerce eX-
poets to move into it's new quar-
tiers in the Hutton building August
l. The entire second floor has been
leased by the chamber.
Sister Mary Antoinette went to
Wallace today after making an Of
fetal visit to Sacred Heart hospital.
She is superior general in charge
of the sisters of charity in the
Northwest.
w. Gould, a railroad laborer, re-
ported to the police this morning
that he shared his bed with false
friend last night in the Cleveland
house. This morning false friend,
$3.50 in cash and a check Tor
$44.75 were missing.
Alonzo Warner, who is held in
jail pending the arrival of an Of
ficer from International Falls,
Mimi, will return without extradi-
ton papers. 1t is claimed he stole
timber off a tract on which he had
been working. He says someone
else must have gone onto the tract
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rosAcco COST HIM LIFE.

CUMBERLAND, Md, July 26.-
Ames Perrin, aged more than ~
years, was killed at Mount Salvage
Junction by a B. & o. passenger
train. The father and the boy had
been in Buchanan's store. They
had left on their way home, when
it occurred to Mr.. Perrin that he
had forgotten his tobacco. The boy
volunteered to go back for the to-
bacco, while the father awaited his
return. When the boy reached the
place he had left his father he
found his mangled form lying along
the tracks. Death was instanta-
neOuS.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
SPOKANE DELEGATES

The mayor this morning made
the following appointments to the
irrigation congress which will be
held In Sacramento, Cal, Septem-
Der 2-7:
Gyms Happy. J. NJ. Geraghty, H.
J. Nicely, W. T. Clark, X. ID. Hutch
inson. G, M. Speck, Albert Allen,
William Malloy, David Brown.
Most OF those appointed are much
Interested In irrigation. Some hold
irrlgating lands around Spokane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
LIFE IN THE BARNS
Rv John Dathan andor


During my first night in the car
barn l gathere lot of information.
The first thing l noticed was that
the men appeared to be divided
into factions. Members of the
factions did not mingle, but as
sembled in opposite ends of the
barn and occasionally made sneer-
ing remarks about the other crowd.
singled out BLACK Bill" my
motorman, and asked him what it
was all about.
Those buns in the other
crowd" said Bill, are real, cheap,
despised 'scabs.' They get two
and half bucks day and are
signed up for a year.
"My friends here are profession.
al strikebreakers. We entered the
employ of the company first and
signed 80 and 60 day contracts for
$3.50 day.
eve don't want anything to do
with those cheap skates When it
took a little nerve to run car
they stayed home. But after our
nerve cowed the mobs they came
sneaking in the back door. If a
crowd should mob one oftheir cars
they would show the white feather
and become union men right away.
Because of the presence of these
'scabs' us professional strikebreak-
ers have to either sign up for $3.50
a day when our original contracts
run out or give up our profession"
A couple of boxing contests &C.
cured that evening between pro-
fessional "strikebreakers. A place
was cleared in the main driveway
for the fighters. 1t was a curious
sight. Two men, barred to their
waists, rushed each other viciously
in an attempt to secure a knock
out, while the audience, clinging to
rafters and crowded about the
lighted space. cheered itself hoarse
When the professional strike
breakers" ended their entertain
ment one of the other faction ap-
preached and asked for the use of
the boxing gloves.
GO on" replied one of the pro
fessionals," whose SCARED face
made him look as if he had been
through thousand hard fights,
these gloves weren't intended for
buns"
The low-waged men did not seem
to care about starting trouble with
the professionals" and | do not
blame them, for they were as hard
faced and desperate crowd of
men as | ever saw assembled.
AS general rule, however, lie
in the barns is rather monotonous
existence, according to the testi-
breakers. The average dinner con-
sist of boiled beef. potatoes. bread
and butter, pudding and some kind
of stewed fruit, and there is plenty
of everything The beds are white
cots, much the same as those used
in army barracks
But the whole thing is rough
and ready and heart-breaking to
the average working man used to
the sweet comforts of home. The
arrangement reminds one of the
army, only the soldier has more
pleasure, finer sanitary conditions
and more privileges than these
rike-breakers. 1t was the sani-
tary conditions with which l par
ticularly found fault, they neither
being conducive to health nor ap-
petite.
(See tomorrow nights paper for
the next inStaiiment,)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26

after he left, and predicts he will
clear himself when he is given an
opportunity to explain.
Miss Jessie M. Jaquish and Carl
j. Carlson were united in marriage
last evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. L. c. Jaquish, S1321
Maple. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. e. l.. House. The
groom is the business partner of
his father in law
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
COMBINE cINcHEs FARMERS

WALLA WALLA, July 26.-In
addition to the prospect of having
to pay the highest wages ever
heard of to harvest hands, the
wheat farmers are now confronted
with a warehouse combine increase
in storage prices of from so to rs
cents a ton. All the warehouses
are in the combine except the
farmers cooperative company, and
the farmers will build more stor-
age houses on this plan rather than
pay the exhorbitant increase.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26

ception that she is the wife of Capt.
Jack Bonivita, noted lion-tamer.
So much does the duchess-princess-
comptesse know about high class
dogs, and so great is her ability in
rearing them. that J. Pierpont Nor
gan. who once paid $4,000 for a
Scotch collie. has backed her to the
extent of $4,000 in establishing
breeding kennels.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26

NEW YORK, July 26.-Despite
the fact that the great Klaw & Err
LANCER theatrical syndicate I'M
officially denies that its 100000
900 merger at home and abroad
will have any further effect than
to bring about a beneficial recipro-
city in the presentation of vaude-
vile, the Independents, con-
Bpicuously headed by David Belas-
co, make no effort to conceal their
belief that the monster syndicate
intends to choke the last vestige of
life out of any and all competition.
1t is pointed out that the trust
now controls nearly all the large
theaters of this country, and that
the public must simply swallow
what the trust offers or 60 with
out theatrical amusement. There
are loud screams OF protest over
the sitting of Fart for arts sake"
but only sweet peace and tranquil
fly reign in the airy offices of the
syndicate.
Everybody is now anxiously
awaiting the return of Levy Mayer
from urope, where, in behalf of
Klaw & Erlanger, he has been put
ting the finishing touches to the
deal which is proposed to make the
New York managers complete mas
tiers of the theatrical world.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26

Miller. His formal statement says
that but for the act of this youth
not a man in the turret would have
been left alive, whatever other
damage might have been done.
THAT man." he says, gave his
life for others" The captain adds:
IF the president wants heroism
let him look up this brave man who
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 26.-
Discouraged and desperate because
she could not make ends meet on
her husbands wages as laborer,
over which he found fault with her,
Mrs. Anna Lowe. in the presence
of her little daughter, poured oil
over herself and set it afire. She
was burned to death.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
TOM KEENE RETURNS

Tom Keene, formerly advertising
manager of the Wonder depart
ment store, returned from Nome,
Alaska, yesterday, where he has
been conducting store for the
past year.
Mr. Keene will again assume the
advertising managership of the
Wonder store
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
MAY MOVE BIG MILL

COLFAX, July 26.-It is rumor-
ed that the big Potlatch lumber
mill, of the biggest in the world,
is to be torn down and moved away
from here. The mill has been
closed down after a seasons run
in which nearly 100000 feet of
timber was cut.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
WATER WALKER KILLS SELF.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July &c.
w. Oldrieve, of Cincinnati, who
walked the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers wearing cedar boat shoes"
from the Queen City to New Or
leans last winter, committed suicide
by drinking several ounces of chic
reform,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
DUCHESS, J. p. MORGAN, DOGS
Financier Backs Noblewoman
Who Breeds CANNES

NEW YOR.A, July 25.-This is
the Duchess d'Avaray, Princess de
Montyglon, Comptesse de Mercy
Argentau. That's all, with the ex-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
LIGHT LuNcHEoNs ron HOT
DAYS

There are many summertime
biscuit and waters baked by the
National Biscuit Co. Among the
most popular of these dainties are
Social Tea Biscuit. They are so
appropriate for many different oc-
casions that a few packages in the
house prepares you to serve a light
notice. $50
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26

SAN FRANCISCO, July 90
Secretary Straus sailed for Hawaii
last night, accompanied by Cover
nor Carter. Alice Longworth was
included in the party. She took
Nick along.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
RUSSIAN OFFICER KILLED

TIFLIS. July 26.--Colonel Do
browoisky. commander of the Two
Hundred and First infantry, was
shot and killed by soldier Of his
own regiment today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-26
MANITO MOVING PICTURES

Free moving pictures every even
ing at cool Mantle park. Take the
whole family for picnic and en-
joy the lawns, flowers, zoo and pic
ture show. -27
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BY ABRAHAM L ERLANGER

Our firm is thoroughly organized all Europe.
will difficult theatrical business
all world has business in the
United
Vaudeville all striking will be
handle
a theatrical
ness