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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28
For Statutory DAMAGES.

Mrs. John II. lille has brought suit
TO- Sl00. statutory damages against
the Atlantic Postal Telegraph Com
pany.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28
SAYS Force May be Increased.

Collector of Customs ]. e. b. Stuart
Yesterday gave out statement to the
erect that the customs service force
mere may be increased by one man
this winter
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28
Christmas Tree

The Sunday School of ST. paul's
Episcopal church gave its annual
christmas trco last night. An en-
PERTAINING program was carried out
and all tho children received gifts OF
candy and fruits.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28

a word TO the wise is Sufficient.
Waih Lash's Seventeenth Annual
sale hegins Janpary 1. and continues
70 January 81. Bargains galore. Wait.
Al. II, LASH, Washington Ave.
12.2S-3t. ~
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28

Mr. l.. a. McMurran returned yes.
terday from Lexington. Va where he
spent Christmas with his mother. He
was accompanied by Mr.. Louis Epse.
of Lexington, who will spend few
days here.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28

Mr. and Mrs. a. l.. Powell returned
yesterday from Boykins. va, where
they spent Christmas with Mr.. Pow
ellis mother.
Mr. j. Il, r. Hunter will leave today
for Washington. d. c., to spend sew
eral days With relatives.
Or. 70, j, Applcwhite returned yes
terday from n visit to his mother in
Suffolk.
Mr.. Ernest Shaw, of Norfolk is the
guest of his brother. Mr.. Fred Shaw.
Miss Phyllis Edwards and Virginia
Hamilton will leave today fer Rich,
mond to visit friends.
Mrs. ernest Cox has returned from
Richmond, where she spent weel;
with her sister.
Miss Alice Johnson. who has been
undergoing Treatment Mt the Eliza
beth Buxton hospital, Is recuperatIng
rapidly and will be removed to her
homo next week.
Messrs. Foster Hudglns and Harry
Digs are spending the holidays at
their old home In Mathews county.
The Fortnight Euchrc Clul, was de-
ughtfullT entertained last night by
Miss blanche Webb, at Mrs. Thomas
r. Stearns' home on West avenue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28
Powell Trust Co.
25iI Washington Avenue.
on business

DIR. and Mrs, j. f. Alsop. of Pros
pect, Va. are the guests Of Mrs. ~
II. McNeill.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28
TF4EATR HCAE

Thomas Jefferson on his return to the
Acauemy OF Music last night In rim
Van Wrinkle" MIR. Jeffersons work
was very pleasisg and his audience
proved to be an appreciative one.
however, the star was supported by
a rather weak company and as whole
this years production is not I'm to
the standard of former years.
NIP and Tuck" Coming.
me next regular attraction at the
Academy will be nip and Tuck" n
comedy which Is said to abound in
lunsy lines and ridiculous situations.
Harry Weber is heading the compa.
ny appearing In the piece this season.
Nip and Tuck comes to the Acad-
envy New Years Day for two perfor-
mances. There will be n special
matinee for ladies and children at
$3.50 o'clock.
Moving Pictures Today.
AT the Academy of Music this af.
ternoon and evening patrons of the
moving pictures which the MANAGE.
ment Is presenting will have the on
portunity of witnessing what arc
said Ito be two OF the most beautiful
sets of films ever seen in the city.
Both of these films are now 10 New
port News and represent the best
OF the picture makers art. One OF
them, THE Slaye's Love-" is done in
colors, 4
The comedy feature Of the bin Is
offered in "BetEeen Two Fires. This
shows some dxcel!ent comic scenes.
Aside from thfse features, there will
be the Usual program of illustrated
songs. and sebctons by Smidts or
chestra A slecial matinee for the
ladies' and chiblren will be given in
the afternoonS from 2:So to $3.50
o'clock. The Acyening performance
begins at87:s0 hnd lasts continuously
still 1890 o'clfck-
Rudd Hs;lnss psbney.
4 A ", A..FG =. -.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28

Rudd &s;lnss pabney. .
s. A Rndd HIS filed suit against the
Dabney BrokerEge compasy to recover
a claim for SOP rs
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. a. l.. Powell returned
yesterday from Boyliins. Va. where
they spent Christmas with Mr.. Pow
ellis mother.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18
FOR SERVICE TO NEW ORLEANS.
A Bankers Fight Against yellow Fever
Won The Picayune Loving Cup.

A Bankers Fight Against yellow Fever
Won the Picayune Loving Cup.
Hon. Charles Janvier, selected by the
Progressive union as the citizen who
performed for his city the greatest SER
vice during the yea 1905, Monday night
received from the hands of the Rev.
Dr.. Beverly L. Warner. his friend and
co-Worker in the yellow fever cam
paign of 1905, the reward for that year
in the shape of the Picayune loving cup
for 1908. Brooke's Winter Garden, in
Baronne street. was the scene of the
ceremony attending the presentation,
and hundreds of the bankers friends
We're on hand to witness the award.
In his short address Or. Warner en-
phasized the remarkable Significance in
the idea behind the decisions OF the
Progressive union committees which
have been selected during the last sew
eral years to choose citizens worthy of
ups. Everyone who has received n
cup during the last five years had been
picked from among those citizens ident-
fled with the school or health affairs
of the city. The first had been given
to Frank /. Howard. whose name is
borne by two of The finest OF the long
list of splendid public schools i'm New
orleans. The second had been awarded
10 Isidore Newman, and his work in
connection with the Introduction Of the
manual training school had been re-
sponsible, while the third had gone to
Miss Sophie ID. Wright, whose identi-
fcation with a noble night school sys-
tenn was well established throughout
this territory. Or. Warner then showed
how he fourth cup had been awarded
to DR.. a. w. DelsoalGes, whose work
for the Senses hospital had merited the
award.
Turning to Mr.. Janvier, DR.. Warner
then said: 1T is therefore your dis
tinguished honor, Mr.. Janvier, to re
ceive the fifth loving cup with no
break in the idea behind it's ~bestowal.
1t is true that Institutions, fine and
beautiful, stand for the names of those
other fou | have mentioned, but YOU
have something in connection with the
u which, though not an institute.
ranks with Institutes, and with the
foremost institutions. 1t is that nurs-
ing force of Institutes. the inspiration
of living forces, the furtherance of the
idea which in the long run produces
the results"
Here DR.. Warner made reference to
the fever campaign in 1906. The field
of that year had been starred with gen.
erals and crowded with heroes, both
men and women. But one had stood
foremost. an dthat one had beer chosen
by the Progressive union as the man
entitled to the Picayune loving cup for
that year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18
December IL. She carried a heavy pas

December 10. She carried a heavy pas
senger list of tourists and health seek
ers, including persons of international
Importance.
The Prinzessin was ON her outward
trip to West ndian ports and was leav-
ing kingston when the calamity oc-
CURED.
The night was dark, but the weather
was not thick. There was a quiet sea,
but n freshening Wind was blowing i'm
shore.
Captain Bruinswig had made the trip
four times, and thought he knew tha
coast so thoroughly that he could dis
pense with the services of Il pilot.
1t was this error of judgment that led
to his tragic end.
The a N had passed down Kings
ton harbor and had rounded the great
sand spit of Port Royal in safety. Cap
tain BruinSWig was on the bridge ana
WAS in charge OF the ship. a danger
cus ledge of rocks lies outside Port
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18

Royal, on which stands a warming
lighthouse.
How the captain could have mistaken
his course is inconceivable, but he did.
and with a terrific crash he piled the
Prinzessin Victoria Luise on the rocks
just under this very lighthouse.
With the impact of his ealne on
the rocks went out Captain Bruins
wigs use for life.
He had said that this vas to be his
last trip on the Prinzessin, and he init
mated that on his return to New York
the directors of the Hamburg-American
line We're to give him command of the
big transatlantic liner, the Bluecher,
running between New York and Ham
burg. His new command meant an add
vance in honor and pay The wreck
of the Prinzessin meant loss of honor
and the certainty of disgrace.
When the Prinzessin struck, Captain
BruinsWig was seen to grip the bridge
railing and TO straighten himself up
for what he knew would surely follow.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18

With a grinding shock that reused
III h sleeping passengers into sudden
terror, h great tourist steame Prin-
zessin Victoria Luise Went ashore on
the coral ledge of Plumb Point. off
Port Royal, Jamaica.
With a ~reassuring word To the pas
sengers, who came tumbling on to the
deck, Captain ~Bruinswig. the commando
er, stepped heavily down the bridge
ladder. Went into his cabin and blew
out his brains.
1t was the unique and most pitifullv
useless tragedy of the wreck, for the
MISUNDERSTANDING of them from New
4ork-were all landed here today.
h Prinzessin Victoria Luise, de-
signed as a cruising yacht and used by
the Hamburg-American line for winter
pleasure trips on the West lndian
route left New York on Wednesday,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18
Atonished.

From Harper's Weekly.
a Chicago business man who last wear
made a trip to the Philippines brought
back with him a Filipino youth, whose
mental alertness had made quite an i'm
preston upon him. The oriental was in
stalled in the Chicago mans office as a
clerk, and he did very well, notwithstand-
ing the fact that he was a tritie shaky as
to his English.
One day the C%hicagon handed the Fill
pino a bill for some goods purchased by a
customer a long time previously. LAS this
gentleman seems to have no intention of
settling this account" said the business
man, Il want you to typewrite a letter to
MN. stating that an immediate adjust
ment of the Indebtedness will soon be ex-
pected."
IN a few moments the Filipino laid be-
fore his employer the following effort:
MY Dear Sir-This is to advise YOU that
If you do not instanter send us the money
you owe US, we shall be compelled to take
measures that will cause you the utmost
astonishment."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18

the morning" he asked Inusingly-"the
Inst morning-you and l got up from
the straw in tile stables over at Jerome
Park-the stables they let us sleep in -
And Went down i'll the dawn TO coost
on the rails and spy ON the speed trials
OF old IleVelFs horSes2 p"
"ENaetly.| said Joe. ana We looked at
each other II laughed. we III rags
gosh, how chilly it was that morning,
Do YOU remember what we talked
about"
NO" said 1, though I did
Il was proposing to turn 8. crooked
trick-and YOU wouldn't have il. You
persuaded me to keep straight Matt.
I've never forgotten it. You kept me
straightforward me what a damn fool
a man was to load himself down with
g petty larceny eeord You made a
man OF me, Matt. And then those good
looks of yours caught the eye of that
bookmaser's girl, and she gave you a
job at writing shetland YOU worked
me in with YOU"
SO long ago it seemed. yet near and
real, too, as l sat there. conscious of
every sound n motion, even OF the
fantastic shapes taken by our upcurl-
ing smoke. How far l was from the
rail bird of those happy go lucky
years, when a meal meant quite as
much to me as does a million now
how far from all that. yet how near.
too. For was l not still facing life
with the same careless courage, for.
getting each day in the eager excite
ment of each day with its new deal?
We went on in our "reminiscences for a
While; then as Joe had a little work
10 90. L dr1fted out into the house, took
a bite of supper with young Melville,
a !ittie go at the tiger, and toward
hVe IN the clear June morning emerged
n h broad day of the streets. with
Jne DrGGl01lS hl1n6la IN ar NV n wa n ~
a frye hundred dollar bill in my waist
coat pocket.
Give my win to me in a single bill"
l said to the banker, land blow your
self off with the change"
Joe walked down the street with me
for companionship and a little air
before turning in, he said. out 1
imagine a desire to keep his eye on
his treasure a while longer had some
thlng to do with his taking thai early
morning stroll. We passed several of
nose forlorn figures hat hurry through
me slowly awakening streets to bed or
10 work. Finally there came by an
Did woman-a scrubwoman. / guess on
ler way home from cleaning some Of
ICE building. Beside her was a thin
little boy. hopping along on a crutch.
stopped them.
Hold u YOUR hand" said I to the
10y. and he DIG. laid the five hundred
rs tight over that" said /, land don't
'pen them till you get home. Then
ell your mother to do what she likes
Win it And We left them gaping
utter us. speechless before this fairy
tory come true.
You must be looking for hard luck
day said Joe. who understood this
transaction where another might have
hought it q snowy and not very wise
harity. They'll stop in at he church
no pray fer you, and burn a candle"
iced it,"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18
Brain Food.
From EXCHANGE.

Replying to q Young Author" Mark
Twain once wrote: Yes: Agass.z does
authors to eat fish, because
the phosphorus in it makes brains. So
far you are correct. Blu l cannot help you
to a decision about the amount you reed
to eat-at least. not with certainty. If the
specimen composition you sent is about
your fair usual average, l should Judge
that a couple of whales would be all Won
would want for the present. Not the larg-
es. kind, but simply good. m~idling-s.zed
%nales."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18

american oysters are sent as far a.
Shanghai.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18

y can't take that big bundle along
with me. Joe" said L. Besides, it amt
safe. Put it in the bank and send me
a ctancl,ln
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
HENEY, THE FIGHTER.

Every Oregonian will be proudcr
of Francis ]. Heney, the land fraud
prosecutor, after having read the ex-
cellent review of his life and public
services by Lincoln Steffens, in the
August number of the American
Magazine.
Steffens begins with Heney as a
boy, south of Market street." ring
leader of the street fighting gang of
the Bay City, and brings him down to
date, the fearless, persistent, capable
and irreproachable prosecutor OF
fraud in public lands in Oregon and in
public office in San Francisco.
This review of the life Of this useful
upright citizen is inspiring and should
be extensively read.
1t was thought that official crook
edness in oregon was so safely in
trenched behind political influence
that it would be impossible to dis
lodge it. Vain hope!
This mild-eyed, soft-voiced attorney
fresh from Arizona, knew how to pro-
ceed and had the nerve to proceed
and dislodged the criminals and the
record is now a part of the history OF
Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
COST OF RUNNING NEWSPAPERS.

Very few persons, comparatively,
have any adequate idea of the i'm
mense cost of producing a modern
daily newspaper, particularly In the
large cities OF the country. Some au-
thentic figures on the subject have
recently been made public and will
doubtless occasion surprise to the
uniformed.
The composition" (printers' week.
ly payroll), for instance, on the Bal
timore American is $4,000; on the
Boston Globe, $4,000; on the Globe
Democrat, $4,000; on the New York
Herald, $4,000, and other papers in
proportion.
Bills for special kilograms are an
other big item of expense. On the
Chicago Herald few years ago they
ran to $4,000 per month; st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, $4,000; San Fran
cisco Examiner, $4,000; Boston Herald,
$4,000, and st. Louis Republic, s4,-
600.
Then there is the white paper bill,
which is greater than the others com
bined. On the New York World 1t Is
said to run 100000 per year, and on
the New York American about the
same: on the Chicago News about
$3.50 900 and on the Boston Globe and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.

Did you tackle the trouble that came
your way,
With a resolute heart and cheer
full?
or hide your face from the light of
day,
with craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a troubles a ton or a troubles
an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make 1t;
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt
that counts,
But only how did you take II.
You are beaten to earth? Well, well
what's that?
Come up with smiling face;
It's nothing against you to fall down
flat
But to lie there-that's disgrace!
The harder you're thrown, why, the
higher you bounce;
Be proud of your blackened eye;
1t isn't the fact that you're licked thai
counts,
It's how did you fight and why.
And though you be done to the death
what then?
II you battled the best you could.
II you played your part in the worlt
of men,
Why. the critic will call 1t good.
Death comes with a crawl or come
with a pounce,
And whether he's slow or spry,
1t isn't the fact that you're dead tina
coupts,
But only, how did you die.
Edmund Vance Cook.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
"BEHoLD, 1 COME QUICKLY"

High up on precipice overlooking
the scene of terrible wreck on the
Southern Pacific in California, some-
body was written in great white letters
on the brow of the rocks, the words
from holy writ: Behold, 1 come
quickly" Several years ago a large
number of people perished in the
twinkllng of an eye in a railroad &C.
-cident there.
On the bleak rocks of the Mendo-
cino coast this thought has been
brought home in another terrible dis
aster in the sinking of the Columbia.
Capricious, indeed, is the uncertain
fate on whose shoulders the human
species ride. Today at high noon SO
men are killed in railroad accident.
Tomorrow at midnight thrice that
number go to the bottom of the sea
in a palacious steamer. And every
second in the day human life gives
up the ghost here and there in its
myriad of abiding places.
But no matter in what form Il
comes, that is a sunny philosophy
which says: 81 am not afraid to trus
myself with that power which pu
me here"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23

During the past two weeks the o.
r. & N. company has had perhaps so
cars of material tied up in this city
for want of men to unload them. 1t
has been impossible to secure men to
work at unloading ties and track ma
terials at any price. This is an illus
tration of the many strange causes
which enter into the car shortage OF
the country. The company needed Its
cars and tried every way to release
them for service, but could not do So
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
THE DEsPICABLE "sPOTTER."

There is always a man for every
job. no matter how low the job or
how small Its emoluments.
But of all the jobs created by the
commercialism of this age, that of the
railroad "spotter" or spy, seems to be
the lowest and vilest.
The "spotter" works with men for
months, makes their acquaintance,
gains their confidence, worms into
their friendship, learns their secrets,
If they have any, and then turns
traitor.
His treachery is far more despica-
BILE than any crime he may be in
search Of. He is lower wretch than
the lowest thief in the railroad serv'
ice, because he betrays confidence
sells a friendship for miserable
salary.
It may be true that there is nc
other way in which to reach certain
petty crimes in the service of bis
corporations. But if corporations al
ways set a good example and did no'
follow questionable tactics in theil
dealings with the public, would the,
not. more fully prevent the crimes
which they seek to discourage by us'
of the snake-like "spotter?"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
MEMORY OF sLEEPwALKERs.

The memory of sleepwalkers is oc-
casionally prodigious under the lnflu-
ence of the dominating impulse that
moves them.
There Is an instance of poor and
illiterate basketmaker, who was un-
able to read or write, yet in state
of sleep he would preach fluent SER
mons, which we're afterward recog-
nized as having formed portions Of
discourses he was accustomed to hear
in the parish church as a child more
than 40 years before.
Quite as strange case Of "uncon-
scious memory is referred to by DR..
Abercrombie. A girl given to Sleep
walking was in the habit Of imitat-
ing the violin with her lips, giving the
preliminary tuning and scraping and
flourishing with the utmost fidelity.
1t puzzled the physician good deal
until he ascertained that when child
she lived in a room adjoining fiddler,
who often performed on his violin In
her hearing.-Pearson' Weekly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
WHAT MARY SAID.

Judge Brewer cites striking ex-
ample of the sort of spoke which the
trickster can insert in the wheels of
justice.
A witness testified in a certain case
that a person named Mary was pres
ent when a particular conversation
took place. and the question was
asked: What did Mary say?" This
was objected to, and after some dis
cussion the judge ruled out the ques-
ton. An exception to this decision
was Immediately taken, and on appeal
the higher court reversed the verdict
and ordered a new trial on the ground
that the question should have been
answered.
At the second trial the same in
quiry was propounded and ELECTED the
information that Mary said nothing
-Putnam's Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
THE WHITE BELL-MARE.

Across the plains l see them sweep,
Against the ebblng light.
The pace they keep they still will
keep
At silent noon of night;
A fleet foot rules the caravan,
And sets the pace for beast and man!
The bell-mare takes the dusty road,
No rowel pricks her side;
She knows no rein, she owns no goad,
Save in her mettled pride.
scourge,
Sc well they feel her vanward urge!
For her, is neither lash not check,
She keeps the pace she will!
A single bell about her neck,
Sounds sweet, when all is still
When all is still, and night is deep:
And they that ride, ride half asleep!
She sets the pace-that leader fleet
The rest-they but pursue.
They have their fate from her swift
feet.
Yet fate o'errules her, too;
For tits the pace-the pace-the pace
Controls her fleet and snowy grace!
They vanish on the glimmering plain
Beneath the western verge.
And all our life is like that train,
That heeds vanward urge;
We deem we travel as we will
But tits the pace controls us still!
Edith NJ. Thomas, in the Angus
Everybody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-23
UNCLE SAM GETTING TOO RICH

A surplus of $4,000, 900 is unwieldy
and If the treasury's. receipts continue
to grow as they grew last year, sound
national policy will dictate reduc-
ton of taxes. The fact that imports
are increasing even more rapidly than
exports and the further fact that a
larger share of import duties is col
lected on materials needed for man
ufacturing. suggest the conclusion that
the Dingley schedules have done their
work in certain lines and need revls-
ion. The balance of taxation on i'm
ports could be shifted so as to read
just burdens and encourage trade.
We do not want to collect taxes just
for the sake of piling up money in
the treasury, and the nations inces-
SAINT growth and rapid changes in the
conditions of its trade and industry
make 1t desirable to overhaul our
tariff and internal tax systems at
suitable intervals.-New York Tri-
| bune.