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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

IN what you want done can be done.
~ can do 1t. Let CHEYNE make
1T large picture. Don't give 1t to \
fz1nger-sn agent at your door. II.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Mrs. George w. Rowe has sent out
invitations TO a reception TO be given
in her residence In Melrose avenue
on November q, in compliment to
Miss Sue Lee.
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Hampton 1slhedsl Chuletss Have
P'esps!lsd During. Past Year.
|sIEvlags gB1stI Foo IIIT YEAR
While Rev. George w. Wray VIII
Likely be Returned to the First
Methodist Church II 10 Generally
Thought Rev. M. cutnriei, and C..
W. Ray viii Go Elsewhere.

When the reports from the various
churches are called for at the ses-
sion Of th> Virginia Methodist cen
ference in Norfolk, the Hampton min
listers will tell the conference that
the past year was most successful
one In Methodist circles here. In
fact. 1t has been . long Tina since the
local ministers carried such bright
aud encouraging words from Hamp-
ton to the conference. s..
Rev. George W. Wray. the pastor OF
the First Methodist church, win in
form the conference that his congre-
cation has not only INST its pastors
salary. but has succeeded in raising
a large sum for mission work. Mr..
Wray's will show that the year just
closing has been the best the church
here has had In seyera! years. both
in membership and the matter Of
raising money. The congregation has
elected Messrs. ]. W.. Rowe, Clifford
Massepberg. Warren Hall, w. H. Guy.
w. P. Hall, George H. Wilson, c. ,.
Burgess, s. l.. Addison. c. NJ. Sang.
ster and J. r. Rowe as members of
tie board Of stewards for the coming
yesT. A resolution was unanimously
adopt a asking the conference to,
send Mr.. Wray hack here next year
Central Church In Good shape.
Although Rev. John +. CushrieIbl
does not expect to be returned 10
Central Methodist church. Re will
prcsen: splendid report O: the work
accomplished in his congregation last
year. Besides meeting all the de-
mands for church purposes the con
rregation paid about si.5e0 on its
church debt. Stewards chosen for
me coming year are: Messrs. J. ID.
Miller. g. II. Richardson. III. Clay,
Topping. Philip Davis. Alexander
Weston. ID. W. Moser, Ashtcn Bull
FAINT and Jefferson Rowe The mems
class. under the direction Of Mr.. MIL,
Ter. has done much good work and
Is rapidly building MP.
Gss ttsmpeoo Church.
From Rev. Charles w. Ray the con-
fcrerce viii hear Of the work Of the
East Hampton and Fox Hin churches
las, year. Both Of the congregations
have reason for congratulations. In
East Hampton the pastors salary was
rsore than paid and large cou,rita-,
ton made TO missions. For East
Hampton the stewards chossn are
Messrs. Floyd Dizgs. James Mitchell
and G. r. Moger and Capt. Ackerly.
In rox Hin the stewards selected
were: Mcssrs. Elijah walbscc. Adolf
phus Guy. Simon Elliott ard Y. X.
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Take yopr prescriptions to HULLS
Cut Rate Drug Store. 11-4-u
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

After a visit to friends at Fort
Monroe. Miss Florence Stewart has
returned to her home in Washington
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Buys Hides. Tal,ow. Grease and
Bones Best market prices! Dead
animals removed On short notice.
free Of charge. c. X. scHOFIELD.
Between Hampton and Riverview.
on Shell Rosd). Address. r. 2. D.. -,
Elisabeth City CO, Va Bed Prone
Sal. ...........
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Gsss s1ss~Vson Church.

Take ycur prcscr.ptious to Huil's
Cot Rate Drug store. 114SG
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Junken
are in Washington at the bedside OF
the formers mother. who is i'll with
paralysis.
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Matters Personal

Miss Margaret Woods has returned
from Annapolis. where she attended
ball. Mrs. Woods will return TO Old
Point Tomorrow.
Miss H. Clay Marrow. who recently
underwent painful operation in the
Elizabeth Buxton hospital, has recoy.
cred sufficiently to b. ON.
Cant. Frank W. Darling has re-
turned from a visit to his private
oyster grounds in Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Junken
are in Washington at the bedside or
the formers mother. who is i'll with
paralysis.
Miss Lady May Hot, who recently
was operated upon in the Dixie hos
pital, is convalescent.
After a visit to friends at Fort
Monroe. Miss Florence Stewart has
returned to her home in Washington
Mrs. George W. Rowe has sent out
invitations TO a reception 70 be given
In her residence In Melrose avenue.
on November q. in compliment TO
Miss Sue Lee.
Misses Bessie Le, and Mary Wits
Booker are visiting Miss Mildred
Kensctt In Norfolk. where they went
to attend the Dan!"lEensett we'd
ding which took place in that city
yesterday evening.
City Attorney and Mrs. William e..
l.. Taliaferro left yesterday for Nor
folk. where they will attend the mar
rage Of DIR. Taliaferro and Miss Ser
pen today.
Mr.. James M. Cumming returned
yesterday from a visit Of several days
In Gloucester county.
Secretary r. Walter Lynch. of the
Young Mems CHRISTIAN Association.
has received q message stating that
Mrs. Lynch sailed On last Saturday
from England for South Africa. II
will require twenty-five days more
before Mrs. Lynch arrives at her
home.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Miss Lady May Hot, who recently
was operated upon in the Dixie hos
pital, Is conyalescent.
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Capt. Frank W. Darling has re-
turned from a visit to his private
oyster grounds in Maryland.
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DIG PHOSPHATE DEAL.
Formed With Large Capital
Acquires Much Land.
(Bv Assocjated PreSS.o -


COLUMBIA, TENN, Nov. 10. =
Probably the largest deal In the phos-
phate industry OF Amcrica vas closed
here to-day with the organization OF
the FrancoAwerican Consolidatea
Phosphate Company. with capital
OF s7.5ce. oae and the purchase By the
comoany Of 1857 acres Of phosphate
lands IN Maury. Hickman snd Perry
The company has been
chartered under the laws yof Arizona
but the charter will be fled In France
In Baltimore and in Nashville.
Sseins Things SSusrssy.
80 I've that you may look every maa
sqvareiy IN the face Y0a Win Sc
many hideous things. hut T. there b
one o. two fair you win De wholly
reqsitcd. 1Neb.D journal
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Miss II. Clay Marrow. who recently
underwent a painful operation In the
Elizabeth Buxton hospital, has recoy'
cred sufficiently to b. OF. -
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Miss Margaret Woods has returned
from Annapolis where she attended a
ball. Mrs. Woods will return to Old
Point tomorrow.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

Mr.. James M. Cumming returned
yesterday from a visit Of several days
in Gloucester county.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-11

City Attorney and Mrs. William e.
l.. Taliaferro left yesterday for Nor,
folk, where they will attend the mar
rage Of DIR. Taliaferro and Miss Ser
pen today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-07

~ VERY day the policeman meets
- with strange characters-some of
high degree. some of low degree.
while the old offender is always
with him. OF all the prisoners
who get into the tentacles of the police
octopus. there are only few dumb
driven. hopeless chronics who do not try
TO bluff the police in some shape. With
the majority Of them the favorite and
favored expression used to awe the po-
uceman is:
You don't know who am
A gray-haired police sergeant who has
had a varied experience talks interesting
ly on the subject:
Even the most hardened offender
sometimes imagines for a time that we
don't know him and makes the mistake
Of trying to work us that way. and some
times 1t is some man of high social stand
ing who has just had such hard wind-up
to a little career of merrymaking."
Doesn't it occasionally happen that the
one arrested is some one whose connec-
tions the police would not like to offend?"
asked the man who was not wise in the
matter of police doines.
Pull Is No Good.
mot In Washington snapped back
the sergeant. Elm a place like New York,
where was for twelve years before 1
went on the force here. it was very or
binary thing for the police to be raked
over the Goals for not using discrimina-
ton enough in arresting friends of some
Of the petty ward bosses. but even there
In recent years the practice has been
nearly wiped out. This city has. however.
one class that can say with some mean
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to be surrounded by dense cloud OF va
pors and to be much nearer EXTINCTION
than the others. Antares also varies AZ
brightness Two thousand years ago u
was fainter than the star A OF LIBRA
but now ii is very much brighter botH
Antares and Regulus have fainter suns
revolving about them, while the great
Spica swings around an invisible co1ipah-
ION with a velocity SO enormous tha'
in only four days it completely traVefses
It's orbit, which is six millions OF mics
across.
1t is probable that the star Arclufu9
is one of the six greatest of all the stars
in the sky Notwithstanding its bright
ness il is SO far away from us that II
is not displaced in position In the siieht-
est measurable degree, as We chahse
our position 1856 100000 of miles In our
annual journey around the sun. eouio
we be placed midway between Arcturus
and our sun we would receive thousands
Of times more light and heat from the
star than from our sun, and TINS. not
withstanding that the stars radlat1on
is smothered by a dense blanket OF me
tallic vapors In spite OF its immense
distance, the star is drifting Slowly ia
a southwestward direction over the 1acs
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The Ready Chauffeur.

NTHESE new taximeter cabs are Q
wonderful thing" said Henry E.
Dixey. the actor. They cost more than
in London. In London they only cost Is
cents a mile. Nevertheless. let US all pa
tronize them. and then Washington, like
the other great cities OF the world. will
eventually come to have reasonable cab
service.
But we must use the cabs, II We would
bring on the service.
Mr.. DiXey smiled.
Il saw a we'll dressed man approach
the chauffeur OF a taximeter cab the
other day and say:
Can YOU tell me the shortest way TO
the ball grounds?
Right inside my cab, sir was the
ready answer.
And the we'll dressed man, ! was glad
to see took that short route
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ing You don't know who / am. class
| that no other city in the country has. and
| that is the diplomatic corps. but they are
we'll behaved lot as a general rule. ex-
| cept when one of them develops the
| speed mania.
| II think the two most amusing cases
| in which the police were really mistaken
in not knowing who they were came to
| my attention when I was serving A
trick at desk duty in a precinct couple
of months ago.
| About 1 o'clock in the morning. dur
| ing the recent meet at Benning one of
specimen of humanity 1T was ever my
| fortune to see, and ! have had occasion
| to see quite few. He was nothing but
a bundle OF rags, and pretty droopy
bundle at that. He had accumulated
quite a large-sized bottle of the red
| liquor a. we'll during the evening. so I
had hard time getting anything out
| of him.
Big Bunch in His Clothes.
1.-The officer charged him with being a
'vag,' but when they began to search
him they found such a big bunch of
| money in his clothes that we all began
to think we had landed something big.
We locked him up over night. and every
| one on the force Immediately was on the
lookout for some one who had been re-
| complaints came in, however, and in the
morning. after he had been revived with
a couple of buckets of cold water. had
him up before me to hear his story.
He came up with such a pitiful air
about him that I was almost tempted to
feel sorry for him. thing that one in
my business soon gets over. but l lost
all sense of pity when he started that
old one of YOU don't know who l am
told him that nothing of that kind
went in this part of the country. and
then he came with wait till / tell you
about it, and he said it in such a tone
that I had to take another look at him
He wasn't such bad-lookinE fellow
now that he had Strengthened up. He
had the look of a person who was able
to do something. and by the way he
talked 1t would seem as If he had had
some education. And then. after little
hesitation. he gave me this story. and
must confess that it sounded pretty
fishy at the time he was telling it.
HE told me- after a few false starts,
what his name was and that he was the
nephew of a man who is known from
one end of the country to the other for
his wealth and the amount of money he
gives away every year for charity. This
was bad beginning. I thought, for he
might have toned it down some so as to
make his tale more plausible. but he
kept right on in the same strain, and
as l was beginning to be interested in
| what he would say next, l listened on.
College Graduate Yarn.
"He had been at college. he said. 1t
was a prominent one. too, in one of the
New England states. and had been hav-
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You can't do anything for me? Well
| Ill be-
And it's a much meeker man who
| hangs up the receiver than the one who
took 1t down. He turns sheepishly to
the sergeant and asks in very humble
| voice: How much collateral do I have
| to leave?
Ten dollars says the man behind
the desk And the prisoner. after pro-
! ducing, leaves the station muttering
| things that sound very much like In
gratitude and why, take him out hunt
| ing every year with me- and several other
| things on the same order
| 1T seems as IL people would try. to
think up something original instead OF
the same old thing" said the sergeant.
''but / guess that II any one would start
to give me q new one l would be so sur
prised that I would be tempted to let
him of"
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KEEPING A CANOE ON EVEN KEEL

for the fundamental law is to keep your
weight below the water line.
In the handling of a canoe common
sense and care should be used. for canoes
are very much like other small boats, and
will resent rocking and other tomfool.
cry by capsiZing.
How to Embark.
When embarking place the foot square.
ly but lightly in the center of the canoe
then. resting a hand on each gunwale
lower yourself down until you are on your
knees in the bottom. The stern man. OF
steerer. should embark first and get set
tied before his partner gets in.
When two paddle in the same canoe i,
is called tandem In this case the
heavier man takes the STERN SO as tc
raise the bow little, provided. OF
course. that he understands the art OF
steering. The bow man must kneel In
front of the first thwart and never at
tempt to guide the canoe unless requested
to do so by the stern man.
Both men in position. the canoe properly
balanced SO that she is slightly deeper in
the water at the stern than at the bow,
and you are ready to start on your voy-
age. When two are padding they should
try to keep in stroke, as nothing looks
worse than uneven or ragged work,
and. apart from appearances, it interfercs
with the steering.
Steering With Paddle.
1t is impossible to give full instructions
as to the use of the single paddle in steer
ing. There are so many little twists and
movements that the eye can hardly de-
tect. but which influence the direction OF
the canoe, that they can only be picked
up by practice and experience.
In the stern stroke the blade should
enter the water almost perpendicularly
and be brought back with steady pull
so that it leaves the water behind the
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stern. If you are padding on the right.
hand side Of your canoe and wish to turn
her to the left the paddle must enter the
water a foot or two away from the side
and then sweep inward. making curve
stroke that finishes behind the stern.
The modification of these movements Is
what keeps a canoe on straight course
even when there is only one man in her
The bow mans stroke is always a straight
one-that is. he should never sweep from
or to the canoe unless told to do so by the
steerer. In shooting rapids and in tight
places the bow man often had to do con-
siderable guiding. but only when the
members of>the crew know one another s
style and are used to working together.
Best Position Amidship.
The best position when alone is "amid-
Ship" or in the middle of the canoe. This
keeps the entire keel in the water. II a
man has no weight forward and kneels in
the stern he raises her bow clear OF the
water, and the slightest head wind will
make steering very difficult. If it does not
spin the canoe around like top.
The rules of canoeing are:
Learn to swim.
Don't have seats built across the gun
wales
Don't sit up on the thwarts.
Don't go into rough water until you un-
derstand the canoe.
Never overload.
Always have a life preserver with you
when there is woman aboard.
Never change places with another. II
1t must be done, paddle ashore and
change there.
Don't skylark.
Keep your head under all conditions
Think and act quickly.
Don't wear boiled shirt, top hat nor
creases in your trousers.
If the above instructions are adhered
to the canoeist. even the most mex
perienced, is safe.
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Another Food Fad.

IN New Yorks Mexican colony they were
! praising at recent dinner Pedro Al
varado of Parral. who had just given
100000 to the poor.
He was poor himself" said broker.
THAT is why he is now kind to the poor.
4 splendid fellow. Whenever l go back
to Mexico ! look him up.
'.Alvarado likes TO tell the quaint ex-
periences Of his days of poverty.
in Mexico City he once pointed to q
bakery and said 10 me:
You see that bakery? Well. as I
looked for work one morning early. saw
a tramp on hands and knees at the graf
ing above the ovens.
"A policeman appeared. He tapped
with his stick the seat Of the tramp
trousers.
Here. YOU move on he said stern
ly.
That's inhuman. mister whined the
tramp. I'm just inhalin my breakfast :
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are like mosquitoes, insignificant slngly.
but deadly in swarms. Both are to be
avoided in Spanish-American ports They
have no feelings. and prey on Gringos
When you squash one. a dozen run or ny
around the corner in his, or its. place. 1t
used to be the prize fever port of the
west coast and the mold was SO strong
in the hotel that the walls stuck to It.
In the wet season the Inhabitants bathed
whenever they went out. which was sell
dom. Now 1t has been renovated. paved
and purified by the municipal engineers.
force of young men who are constantly
kicking for more pay and live too close
to the metropolis to be healthy. Every
odor can be found there but the odor of
sanctity. The people are not particular
in religion and tastes-everything goes
from champagne to bay rum. They have
few, If any, morals.
Working the Government.
The chief occupation on the zone is
working the government; the Pana-
mans also are grafters in their quiet,
modest way. Every time you see an opu-
lent, oily one you can bet he Is a vice
president or deputy official vaccinator.
Some of the wise ones run sample rooms
just to keep down the postal money order
receipts. This wholesome check on an
especially insidious form of indirect taxa
ton is very profitable, and the field is
large BY the way. it's funny how when
you first land, every time you see man
take drink you dog his footsteps for an
hour in the morbid hope of seeing him de-
velop a raging fever or go into a convul-
sion. You've been told so much about
the unique and special terrors of the
demon rum in these ATTITUDES that a beer
sign looks like a kull-and-cross-b bones.
The inhabitants of the two big towns
have comparatively few of the ancient
customs You can walk down pictur-
esaue, balconied streets by the hour and
not see a single love-lorn lover tinkling a
mandolin beneath a solitary window. Also
these sly, dark eyes peeping through lacy
mantillas are a hoax. Anything in that
line you see in the sti~~.s are short.
SQUAT and snub-nosed In spirit of reck-
less adventure the muckrake author be-
came introduced to some beauteous senior
itas of ancient lineage and blood of pur-
est indigo He conversed unintelllgibly in
bad French and worse Spanish and was
much thrilled. They had ravishing eyes
and a duenna, and seemed quite de
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also had the reputation for being the
most careless man in the matter of dress
on the stage SO you see we weren't so
much to blame, after all. in mistaking
him for vag 1t is only occasionally,
though. that such mistakes are made.
Most of the times we are right.
THE majority of cases of those who
think that they are somebody. and are
therefore exempt from arrest at this
time of year. are the automobile people
who are taken up for exceeding the speed
limit Naturally. a person who is able
to afford an automobile is one of sup
posed responsibility, and it is quite likely
that they know the people they claim to
know and are the ones they claim to be.
However. it is all the same to us-they
have broken the law and so must leave
their collateral or else spend the night
in the cell. And most Of those who have
been there before know the futility of
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~v1HY is canoeing considered a dan
W.

~v7HY is canoeing considered Gan
NJ gerous sport2
w There are several reasons. but the
first and most important is that the canoe
list fails to keep the greater portion OF his
bodys weight below the sea line. Manu-
facturers of canoes have. to large meas
ure. discarded practical lines In building.
and have catered to the comfort and ap-
pearance ideas rather than to the most
approved methods. The consequence Is
that the canoeist Is handicapped in these
waters. and the freak caneseat in the gun
vale makes of his frail and top-heaVy
bark veritable shuttlecock.
The hest canoeists in America are the
Canadians. and their canoes are very prac-
ticaI though rather uncomfortable OF
course they are graceful and. when prop
erlv and efficiently manned, can make the
hest kind of time over the rivers OF that
country of wide and deep streams.
Practice Makes Perfect.
canoesists are not born. They need
wears and wears of practice before they
can feel safe under all circumstances. A
clear head, sharp eye and steady nerve
are necessary, and it is always found that
those who begin exercising these faculties
in youth have decided advantage over
persons who try to develop them later III
life. Canadian children learn to paddie
almost as soon as they learn to walk,
and this is the reason of their perfection
in the art. ..
When you purchase canoe see 10 II
that YOU do not get man droWner.
The market is flooded with canoes OF va
rious designs
The most prominent feature about many
of them is their apparent unseaWorthlness'
their greatest fault caneseat built across
the gunwales at bow ana stern'
seats are contrary to all rules of boating,