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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
cceseTs IN ANCIENT oREscs.
A Playwright Says Cycling sk'rts
Were Also Common There.

The discovery has been made In
years ago wore corsets and other ar
ticles OF modern feminine dress. nc
cording 10 the Paris correspondent OF
the New York Times. Nine. PaQnin
and Jules Bois disclosed the fact In
the latter's play. la FMrie," a. line
Coincide Franchise. for which the ia,
nous dressmaker designed the COS
tunes after consulting some Of The
Oldest records. Jules Bots said TO me:
There is really nothing ne" under
the sun. The ordinary conception OF
Greek dress refers only 10 certain pe-
RODS know what am talking
about.
Il have studied the works OF Schiie-
mann on Mycenae and Of Evans and
De Mosso on the prehistoric epochs.
! have made excavations al knossos
and in Crete. have visited museums.
| don't imagine the things write
about. The Grecians of the most AN
cient periods had modern figures. This
is the point | insis, upon. Look at
the statues OF the women. ancient
Greek vases and sculptures and You
will see ribbons. Crinoline. head
dresses. basQues and corsets. The
cycling skirt was the usual mode at
the court Of Agamemmon.
To prove his points N. Bots had pho
tosraphs OF old sculptures and vases.
These are extraordinarily like the
modes OF 1880 From these Nine. Pa.
quin mad" the costumes for the play.
or course. this upsets popular ideas
abou. Greek dress. and probably a mu-
steal play showing Ulysses In pajamas
and Dido in d kimono will be pro-
duced on the boulevard as a result
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
WAS NO PLACE TO llNoER IN.
Farm Hands Isle o. Refuge AIready
HAD . Tenant.

Prof 4. l.. Lowell The new pr"Si-
dent OF Harvard. paused in Que OF his
recent lectures and Smil"d
THAT yovernmen,al difficulty he
said was great-as great ~ IA" dlf.
iiculty OF Lincoln's farm hand
Two farm hands Lincoln used to
say. we're set upon bN hug" hn!
while crossing a rorL\ h,!d one man
aged TO gain u tree The other lou!,
refuge In ! hole thai proved 10 have
all eNi, in the rear.
THE man who had chosen the hole
was no sooner In 81 one eud than he
Was oui AZ The oth-: With II hrliow
the bull made for him Ne turned and
again shot like lightning through the
hole The bull once more Dor" down
upon him. and enCe more he wa IL
and ont OF his hole
This strange pursuit kept up some
ten minutes or more VI inst It my SIT
fled he farm hand nr N thu tree.
Then il angerad him
Hey. he shouted. W DANCED min
compoop. why don't We sta, IN The
hole"
The bull was daShine from one
end of the hole to the other AT great
speed. and the man was bobhing in
and on, desperately. Heheard. however,
bis comrades shout and found time
before his next brief diSapI earunce 20
shout back
'.Danned njncOmuOon NprSelfi
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
New Buildings Accepted BY Council
Committee.
MAY INSTALL KEEPER SHORTLY
AL Paupers Who DO Not Belong 10
hosoital Class to ae Transferred TO
institution As Soon as Plans Are
Carried Out

. The citv's home for the poor. Nv"
neat brick buildings located near '"e
Briartield read in Elizabeth tt\
county. is now completed and read;
for occupation Mr.. Boiling and Doc
tors Hoskins and l.ongan, of the build
ing grounds and lights commute" Oh
the city council visited the premises
Thursday afternoon. inspected the
buildings and formally accepted them
from the contractors. Messrs. Piland
and Davis.
The buildings cost $l,993. re-
markedly small sun according to the
committeeman and others who have
inspected them. The principal struc,
ture a single story brick. contains
twelve fairly large rooms, located SIX
on either side of a wide hall In an
ether building are located .wo rooms
for the keeper, two store rooms ana
a kitchen. intended 10 be used for the
entire establishment.
The almshouse and poor commit
tee proposes to establish a keeper at
the home in the near future. ana
transfer to the place all paupers who
do not actually belong TO the class
which should be in a hospital
The city is still without a plac" for
keeping the latter class. as Elizabeth
CITY county secured an injunction
preventing the erection of hospital
building.
The committee will ask the counci'
to provide horse and vehicl" to
transport paupers TO the hcm". 1t
is also proposed to secure buggy, TO
which the same morse can be hiiched
when DIR. J. W. Ayler. the physician 70
the poor. is called upon to visit the
, home
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
VINTAGE Nicknames.

We have nicknames for the v'ntages
which few persons except the wine
drinkers know. Thus the vintage OF
the present year We call Zeppelin. in
honor of the air navigatOrs achieve
ment and because it Is SO high. Rec
ords show that these nicknames were
bestowed on vintases as far back as
1929. when the badwatered wine was
called Baptist"
The sour wine Of 1860 was called
Garibaldi. and in memory Of the CHI
nese war the 1894 wine is still known
as Weihaiwei The vintage OF 1896
promised much and gave little, and was
nfcknamed Lii Hung Chang. and an
other nickname for the same years
wine, Moses. was given because the
wine was taken from the water prnci-
pally.-Mnnchener Neurichten.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
VERY EVIDENTLY HIS FIRST ONE.
Young Man Was Proud Parent. and
Didn't Care Who Knew II.

There was no booth in the corner
drug store The young man at the tele-
phone therefore could be heard by all
the customers who ranged aboat the
soda water fountain. His face besH1ed
as he talked.
"Everything is all right" he was
saying.
"Maamo
"Yes'm. Eleven pounds. Beautiful
boy. Like me- they say.
Mann,
"Yes'm Resting quietly, Would
have sent for you. but thought 1t best
not to. Didn't want TO worry you.
"Ma'am?
"Yes'm. I'll attend to all that.
"Ma'am?
"Yes'm. I'll tell her you're coming
down right away. Beautiful boy.
"Maam?
"Yes'm. Eleven pounds and looks
just like me-"
He rang on and walked proudly out
OF the drug store apparently oblivious
to the smiling countenances OF his
interested listeners ranged around the
soda fountain.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
SHIPPING REPORT
Friday. April 2. 1909.
Arrived.

Steamship Tanagra. ,Brb kehoe'
Savannah-to Chesapeake & ONO
Coal and Coke Company for bunker
coal.
Tug NJ. F.. ScuIly Johnson. Provi-
dence-to Chesapeake & Ohio Coal
and Coke Company for bunker coal.
Barge Helen A. Wyman. Providence
to Chesapeake & Ohio Coal ana
Coke Company for cargo.
Barge F.. S Hampshire. Providence
to Chesapeake & Ohio Goa! ana
Coke Company for cargo.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03

Scotland is rich in ghost lore. There
is. perhaps. hardly a castle or ruin
which has no. some special story cling
ing to it. and the strange part Of the
matter is that many Of the legends are
substantiated BY latter day expert
ences. Dunrobin castle. the Highland
home of the duke Of Sutherland, boasts
Of a haunted room. The specter there
is invisible and denotes Its presence
BY an awe-inspirins laugh. The story
goes that one OF the dukes ancestors
caused the chief OF . rival clan to
be starved to death in his room. Wis
ting him periodically during his SUI
seriugs and laughing at his tor;ures.
Az punishment for this crime the I'M
scrupulous chieftain has to haunt the
room.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
ALARM FROM sHiPvARo.

Fire Amounted to Nothing. But Every.
body Was Scared.
/ An alarm Of fire was turned in from
the shipyard yesterday afternoon
about $50 o'clock and for time
there was considerable excitement in
the city. It developed, however
that the fire. a very small blaze in
the forecastIe OF the schooner Fuller
Palmer. had been extinguished even
before the bells rang. The damage
to the schooner, which is undergoing
repairs at the yard as the result Of
a collision on the coast. amounted 70
only about SIS.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
Mr.. COOK APPOINTED.
Well knokn Local Citizen Made
AGENT for kanawha Dispatch.

Mr.. W. f. Cooke. who for the past
ten wears has been a well known and
popular citizen of this city. has been
appointed soliciting agent for the
Chesapeake & Ohio and kanawha DIS
patch at Norfolk. Announcement OF
the appointment was made yesterday
by Mr.. A. r. Sydnor. general agent
for the Chesapeake & Ohio and Kama
wha Dispatch at Norfolk.
Mr.. Cooke, who has been In the
service of the Chesapeake & Ohio
grain elevator office here. will go &c
Norfolk to assume his new duties
Monday.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
Department Store Burned.
nv Associated Press

SPARTANBURG. =. C.. Apr,l g
Fire at iiartsville early today d.
stioycd property valued al Si"o,"""
with $1I.NH0 Insurance. The lars"
department store of \ \ Cocker a
Company was burned to the ground.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03

Brilliant Prejees OrsWShs 70 Nsusht
In the year 1884 william Patterson,
founder Of the Bank OF Scotland. con
ceived the grand project Of planting
on the Isthmus Of Darien . British
colony which. In his own words
should secure for Great Britain the
keys Of the universe. enabling their
possessors to give laws TO both oceans
and to become the arbiters OF the CON
merciai world" This colony vas sctu
ally founded At . place still known
% Puerto Escoces. but IFS people
we're subsequently forced By the Span
isrds TO evscuste sad return to. Scot
Issd.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
MADE QUICK TRIP.
Schooner Frentenac Came From 6os
ton and Returned in Nine Days.

When the four masted schooner
Frontenac arrived at Boston from this
port last Thursday, she completed
one CT the fastest round trips ever
made BY sailing vessel between the
ports. She made the trip from Bos
ton to this port. loaded a cargo OF
coal and returned to Boston in the
total time Of nine days.
The vessel loaded a cargo OF 2."3
tons of coal here, consigned from the
Maryland Coal and Coke Company
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
RIOT AMONG NEGROES
CAUSED FOUR DEATHS
The Trouble Occurred on Thursday
Night at Small North Caro-
lima Town.

NORFOLK. VA. April "A special
from Elizabeth City reports a rio'
last night among the negroes at Col
umbia, y. c., and that tour were kill
ed. Peter Perry. one of the dead, was
brought to Elizabeth Ctv. his home
for burial. James Bryant was ar
rested at the same place charged with
being one Of the participants.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03

"Oh. mamma" said little Lola. I've
got a awful pain. Won't you please
Civ, me SON. =. ,ha: medicine With
sugar In it, Quick. mamma. before the
pain goes away.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
Calendar for Today.
Stopped For Coal.

The British steamship Tanagra'
Captain Kehoe. stopped here yester-
day for bunker coal from the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Coal and Coke Com
many. She is en- route from Savan-
nah for Bremen with "A cargo Of cot
ton
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
Old and New.

The penny-or twocenf-post BE-
tween England and america IS . new
and n the same tir - very old thing
II is over 200 yearJ old. II existed In
1893
in those days shipmaste!s crossing
the Atlantic either way were very
glad to carry letters and messages. A
week or two before their ships sailed
they would hang up bags In coffee
houses. and all letters dropped into
these. bags we're carried over seas
and faithfully delivered nj the rate
OF . penny. or two cents, apiece.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
Sailed.

Steamship Tanagra tBr'. Hence.
Bremen
Schooner George f. klinck. THOMAS.
New Bedford.
Barge Carrie Clark. Providence.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
THE NEW "NIUTUAL.' p,

. i754
The Mutual Improvement associations
OF the Church have been, and still are
great educational factors among the
young Latter-day Saints. The splendid
showing both In attendance and en-
thusiasm made by the young people.
at their annual conference which closed
Sunday indicates that the mutlial's
usefulness Is not lessened In the least.
IN the past, these organizations haze
devoted their attention mainly to study
ing the principles OF the Gospel; but
since the Priesthood quorums have
been more thoroughly organized and
courses of study have been prepared
for a systematic study OF the Gospel
1t becomes necessary, to avoid a dupli-
cation Of studies. for the Y. M. M. l.
Associations to branch out into some
what new field and emphasize line
Of activity to which they are especially
fitted-tlat OF social life.
Attention Is called to the address is
sued by the General SUPPLEMENTARY
and endorsed by the M. l. A. con Yen ton
last Saturday. 1t ably points out the
conditions which have made the new
movement advisable, and recommends
that the authorities in the stakes
wards, and missions of the Church lend
their support to the Mutual Improve
nent associations in their endeayors to
carry out the requirements Of tha!t
enlarged program.
The movement is a good thing, ana
ought to be hailed with delight by all.
mi Will mean much for the young.
gyrnnasi,lms, athletics, contests, more
activity in civil and social affairs a
glance al the nature OF the committee
recommended to be appointed VIII give
a good idea or the enlarged field Of
activity opening TO the young; ana q
when the new order Is fully WORKING
there will be no need of our young pen-S
pie connecting themselves with queiss'--il
itionable clubs and organizations IN or
dor 10 get an nll7round DEVELOPMENT
Let #us all help the cause along.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
DEsEREr EVENING NEWS MONDAY JUNE 1905

under review, hitch the g'ri bune opens
with the assertion that the AE rs Se"s.8
fired a series OF questions at p
The Tribune is particularly sore be be-
cause Ne referred to the expenditure
of the loan OF 1905, and tries TO MAKE s'e
1t appear that II WAS the Morris adj adj
lnitistration that broke the pledges
made. Nothing shows with greater pl ia1 n-
ness the straits in which the tribune
finds itself In 1905 the City author
lied a loan of $3.50 900 for the improve
nent of the water works system, of
which s3h0,D00 we're to be spent on the
Cottonwood conduit, 100000 on deNel-a
opment at Utah Lake; 100000 on the
distribution system. etc. Then tnefe
was change Of administration. And
the new administration reported that
S443,000 had been spent or, the CONDUIT
which the engineer estimated at 1851, uoo,
and which had been contracted for
about $4,000. The sum Of 500, 600 was
asked for to improve the water dis
tributing system, but the new admin
istration claimed that they spent So -
600 on that item alone. And SO all the
way through the list. The Tribune
says 1t insisted that the pledges made
TO the taxpayers should be faithfully
lived up to- This ii admits, was
not done.ng Very good. The Anleri-
can administration, notwithstanding
the insistent Sexhortntions of the organ,
did not, by the Tribune own admission,
live up to the 5pledges made by its pre-
decessor. Why. then, rail at the
News for saying the same thing?
The Tribune coming back, after It's
long ramble. to the main issue. says;
ii. is not a question Of what tile
American party official have done i'll
this matterSat all. For, the incorpnrsl-
ton under which the rcd-light district"
was established. Was issued by the
State. \. &. Il tS
Indeed2 So il lis not a question OF
what e.. American party officials have
done? Possibly they, like THE Sultan
and the Car, are above all repsonsi-
5biltty. The State never gave Its sane
tion to the establishment of a. stock
ade fol. unlawful use, 1T was not
asked to do so. and never did lf the
whole truth were known, ii would in all
probability appear that the Infamous
enterprise was started after consulta-
ton with City officials andsl promise Of
safety. BE! that MS II may, n so-called
American Chief or police recommend
ed a sstockade, and another Amer
team" officia1 sanctioned The rlan. The
American police has done nothing
to close the cribs. And the "Ancri-
can organ stands committed to a poll
icy OF establishing saloons and brothels
as potent anti" Mormon agencies of
liberty From these facts the Trib-
that have no bearing upon the subject.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

Editor News n AZ
The question: is being asked, Does
Utah need u state Capitol and g morn ~
Ing paper quotes a man who, lti say
is opposed, though otherwise OF sound
mind, as saying: 81 am not going 70
help Bill Spry build a monument 70 tfe
honor of Governor SprS.
IN all of our, naners there have pce cen
many excellent reasons given Why We
should have a. State Capitol, and there mere
are SO many more which could be given.
one is embodied in the statement SAID
TO have been made by Mr.. Hartman I,
that in avery few years Salt Lake. VII
be the largest city between the MIS- " :.
souri, river and san francisco. SAT- ~
Lake City. and County will need al. t1e
rooms in the City and County buildins,
and8the state will be obi god to move
out. AS it Is nov, the state has to-
rent rooms in other buildings Tor Y q
number Of its boards. It's paying a
yearly rent at the present time g as fol- FOL.
lows
Rent Salt Lake County build Z 40 n
Rent len { Salt Lake city FOR use q. z
Legislature =. so. -. oVo'oo
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
HUMBLE GENIUS.
New York Worls

New York World.
Some OF the well-known earmarks of
genius are discernible ir%the dollar-a-
day French workman who out Of old
cans and bottles and umbrella ribs has
fashioned an improved system of wire
less telegraphy Twas from a
made his model of a condensing engine,
and Herschel with aStiny home made
telescope discovered the ring and satel-
lites of Saturn. The great workman Is
careless of his tools.
If Naudin's invention meets the tests
to which it is to be subjected with a
view to its adoption in the French ma
great Inventors from humble life--with
the barber who invented the spinnins-
jenny, the colliery engineman who gave
the world the locomotive, with the IN
yentor Of the sewing machine. the air
brake, the electric light and a hundred
other Indispensable devices OF civili l-
ton.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
MAP OF $4,000 900 STARS.
From the I.ondon Mail.

In few days astronomers from all
parts of the world will meet in Paris
for the International Congress OF the
Map Of the sky under the presidency
OF NJ. Baillaud, director of the Paris
observatory. This map Of the heavens
will be the most colossal and also the
most delcatean difficult task ever at
tempted by human genius in the realm
of astronomy. Seventeen important
obserratories besides tho Paris one
have for the past twenty-five years
been at work in their respective spheres
on this stupendous taskthose Of
Greenwich, Rome, Catania. Helingsfors,
Potsdam, Oxford. Bordeaux, Toulouse,
Algiers, San Fernando tSpain). Tacu-a
baya tMexicoy, Santiago Chilli, Cor
doba (Argentina). Perth CAustralia),
Cape Town, sydney and Melbourne
twenty-five thousand and fiftS-fours
negatives are necessary. So far 2, 200 OF
them have been engraved on copper.
The map when completed, and the
catalogue will give the exact position,
measurements and size OF 100000 stars
down to the eleventh magnitude and of
5O,0O0,ooo stars down to the fourteenth
magnitude.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

Emperor william wants great
navy as an assurance of peace. All
the advocates of such navies make tho
same plea. But is the assurance of
peace any more than If they had small
ones? Even in the matter of great ma
5vies things that are equal to each 9th
er are equaisto the same thing.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
VOTE FOR THE CAPITOL.
By Hon. John G. Cutler.


Rent Insurance Commissioner. $40. 90
Rent State Engineer ........;.,. 1,0S0.Oo
Kent Attorney General $1,000 540. W
Rent Board Equalization ..... $4,000
Rent Board Health ..'.......... 600 90
$50 sioncrs n. 1890. 900 90
Rent Board horticulture 500. 90
a alton 49, ............ 500 90
Rent Board Veterinary. 100. 90
Rent. Board Art Institute .....3.. 100. 90
$1,000. 90
Add to this the rent of the Armory,
81, $50. 90. which could be saved IL an
armory was built on the State Capitol
grounds, and we have a total of $14,-
G4U.0O. which the State is now paying
in rent,
< If we are to be influenced by the man
who is against building n State Capitol
because it would be helping to build n
monument to tho Governor. we never
would have one, because all the enemies
of future governors would say the same
thing. 2jj si H
81 II am in favor or the small tax and
shall vote Eyes" tomorrow.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

The mysterious airship that was
nightly seen sailing over Imperical VAL
ley turned out to be simply an image.
That is the kind Of mysterious airshipss
that Englishmen have seen lying
across the north seas
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

Having conquered the air the aer-s
sonants may next undertake to loose
tho bands Of Orion or to bind the
sweet Influences or the Pleiades.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

France has been medalinE in the ar
fairs Of San Francisco, Her action is
not resented but is Appreciated by the
whole American people. S
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

81 Great Britain's answer TO the Kali
ser's telegram to the German Navy.
league will be, the laying down Of four four
moro Dreadnoughts. The telegram to,
Kruger was as nothing to IT..
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

SO opposed to running. and racing
arc some of the city fathers that they,
have stopped water running in the
drinking fountains
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

e The tariff debates make 1t plain that
some statesmen think that party pros
misses should be carried out on a
shutter.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
JUST FOR FUN
Sleeping Aloud.

Annie, where's papa?
Hes upstairs, asleep?
Where you upstairs, dear"
No, ma
L. heard him doing it. He's sleeping
out louds'-1llustrated Bits.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

As an exponent OF the Iowa idea ~
would be pretty hard to beat Senator
Deliver And it seems to be a pretty
good idea.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

join in making the Capitol building q
reality.
For these, and many other reasons
we hope the citizens tomorrow will by
their vote authorize the special tax
asked for as a financial foundation OF
a magnificent state building.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

No one ever hears Of the WOLF at
the door in the summer time probably
because then the door is generally open.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

Does the world owe the poet q sliy--
ing? asks the Literary Digest Not
that the world knows of.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
Who Got 1t?

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.
But it didn't matter, because Bridget
was cooking for the policeman on the
beat. any way - Fiarpefts Balaf.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07
No Room for Doubt.

Il understand the Dukes search was
fruitful.
Yes, he found a peach. Smart Set
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-07

Hope is no substitute for hard work.