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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

the various States and by the ma
tionai government I 10 regulate the
oi,crations Of railroads. and added:
"Repeal Of repressive State laws
IA imperative " the, railroad lines
the people need and the railroads
, want to build are to he constructed.
The truth Is, however. that the states
In adopting these laws only followed
the example OF the national govern
ment. Now the national govern
ment should set the reverse example
and inaugurate the modification
wherenpon the Washington Post
very aptly remarks:
What constitutes a 'rcpressive law
Is largely a matter of opinion. A
wolf might regard the roOmiest cage
as a repression Of its liberties. but
the sheep would only look upon 1t
as a measure OF protection. A coyot"
tied to the barnyard fence chafcs Ut
his rope. no matter how long 1t Is.
hut the chickens at roost find cause
itr thankfuiness that II does not
reach the henhousp."
However, Mr. Hartman by neither
State nor natter nal law has either been
confined either in the "roomiest cage"
OF the wolf nor telhered as the coyote
He has gone on picking up railroad
systems here and there until his con
troll of mileage exceeds that OF any
other man in the world:
a significant warning Is sounded
into Mr.. Harriman's ears by the Wall
Street Journal OF April .. which 81
it be needed. will caoke Of further ad-
vice to the national government as
to how to run Its affairs.
The Wall Street paper says:
MFR. Hartman forgets. however.
that if anything ike the efficiency hel
desires were established. the people
of the United States would probably
ne running his railroads as well. The /
mos; vital argument. although not
the best in princnple, which can be
made against public ownership is the
CHASTITY extravaganza Of public depart
ments. Take away this objection
and the other and really more impor-
tant one that people are debilitated
when the State does for them wha,
they can do for themselves. would
prove too abstract to check
The expansion CT official power
This comes pretty near to being
an admission from the headquarters
Of the country's speculative mart
nat the only obstacle to government
lies in the inefiiciency Of
government business methods. Ema.
mating from the sanctum Of recog-
nized organ OF the country's foremost
the expression Is remarka.
bic II not startling.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
HONOR PUPILS.
symes-Eaton Academy Makes Repor
For March.

symes.Eaton Academy Makes Report
For March.
The honor pupils in the Syms
Eaton Academy for the month OF
March are given below:
First grade-kena Ellis. George
Hicks. Nina Katz. Howard Saunders
Melvin May, Carroll Massenburg
Charlotte Merrill. Wesley Moger
Thelma Savage, Emily Semple. Russell
Stuart.
Second grade-Dan Cumming. Linda
Griffith. Willie Hough, Elsie Hope
Jessie Jones. Mable Jones. Martha
Jones, Martin Kenney. Clara Lacrosse
George Martin, Elizabeth Massenburg
Margaret Mckinney. Richard Motley
Bert Richardson Ethel Todd Ethel
Wood. Lawrence WOOD. Virginia
Wooten.
Third grade Sec. Awhile Hunt
Brooke jones, Charles Winston.
Third grade, Sec. B.-Beatrice Bar
ker. Ella Belts, Richard Blankenship
Whitley Diggs. Gladys Harley. Lois
ElullipS, VII SIuid nAuSOuc, UcOi 81
Shields. Eva Turner. Grace Walker
George Wiley.
Fourth grade. Sec. A.-Vincen'
Alexander. Elliott Blankenship. vii
son Batten. Nancy Belts, Eta Game
Carrie Collier. Cary Collier. Ruby
Diggs, John Gibboney, Marion Head
ley, Rose Jones. Grace Norris. Pres
ten Richardson. John Reid. Marion
Sealey. Mildred Struckman. Ruth
Sayre. Gordon Watson. Alberta VII
liams. George Wyatt
Fourth grade. Sec. B.-Cellie Fps
tefn. Elizabeth Junken. Harry kim
berry. Alva Price. A,see Price. Willie
Turnbull.
Fifth grade-Bessie Hill. Dorothy
Junken. Janet Peek, Mary Sims.
Sixth grade. Sect A.-Vira Carr. LII
liam Dyke. Rebecca Goldman. Lucille
Motley.
Sixth grade. Sec B.-Marjorie Pull
ly. Margaret Sims. Julia Turnbull.
| Seventh grade-Ned Blossom. Zens
Crone. Marshall Sinclair. Margaret
Sayre. Leathe Walker.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point
Swept Over Niagara.

This terrible calamity often hap
Pens because Il careless DOatman lS-
nOres the rivers warniHS-srow,nS
ripples and faster current--Nature
warnings are kind. That DUN pain or
ache in the lack warns sou the Kid
neys need attention if you would cs-
cape fatal maladies--DrOpSy, Diabetes
or BriSht's disease. Take Electric
Bitters at once and see Backache fly
and all your best feelings return. Al
ter lCEg suffering from weak kid
neys and lame back, one $40 bottle
wholly cure 4 me" writes } Il. Bian-
kenship. OF I'elk, Tenn. Only soc at
All Druggists.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
JAPANESE CRAB A sLuGGARp.


The Norfolk I.edger-Dspatch Is dis
posed to make merry at the expense
or the Hampton crab meat packers
because they have petitioned Con-
rressman Jones. of the First district,
for protection upon their industry.
{ The Norfolk newspaper irreverenuy
Gays:
while the demand goes On for pro-
lection on all things on the earth
and in the skies above. some heed
should be given TO the plea for the
protection Of the things In the waters
under the earth"
Then the Ledger. Dispatch quotes
the protest which declares that the
American crab is being put out OF
business by the Japanese crab which
Is being shipped into this country,
and tina. newspaper proceeds:
'Down with the crab Of the Jap
anese and up with the royal ensign Of
Hampton emblazoned with the festive
crab. Why should fish oil prosper and
the industry Of the crab go sideways?
soft or hard. canned or deviled. the
crab enterprise should not be allowed
TO languish, or be threatened by the
yellow peril" Mr.. Jones must heed
the cali"
Well. the representative In Cen
Eress from the Norfolk district is hot
after higher protection against Jap
anese peanuts. which can not swim
across the Pacific. They must come
In through the tariff door.
japanese crabs can swim and II
they win only traverse the Pacific
round the horn and enter Hampton
Roads they are IN advance assured
CT welcome into hospitable nets
without any payment of duty whatso
ever, regardless Of the Payne bill OIL
any other tariff measure.
shouId these Oriental crastacean.
continue TO disregard their opportuni
ties for free entry. II il nothing bu1
just that they should suffer a penaH!
; for their lack Of enterprise and ener
U Masters Of the side-stroke. le
the japanese crabs prcpel themsei
: YES ever here or no, come at ALL
Members OF the human specie.
from the Sunnower Kingdom Ant
ways to get into this country ant
to enjoy unconstitutional privilege.
ate. arriving. in spite CT the strenu
o0s protests Of the Pacific coasters
Why shouldn't . japanese crab. which
II himself a giobc navigator i. b,
chooses TO be, be compelled to com
seroas Of his own yoiiticn IL he pre-
5eYs as . domlcile an America,
rather than . japanese can.
The dger.Dispatch IL right ~hel
Il shouts. Down with the crab Of IN
! Japanese
He 10 uaalive to his best interest
3 AZ woefully' lacking In migratcr
tnsstocts. which derelictions .:
sieAf and proper that the sew tart,
~ should Dunish.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

Infatuated strikers. Several were in
jnred.
The second riot grew out Of the tile
layers strike. Employees of Dawson
Brothers Tile Flooring Company were
besieged by "A force Of union pick"ts.
J. G. Dawson, the head OF the firm.
with drawn revolver kept the pick.
cts from entering the building until
tn. police arrived.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
LABOR DISTURBANCES
0ccUR ~ CHICAGO
strikiaS street S~sepers and Tile
Lsyers Mske u Uaeomsooab,e
Fer Successors.
(By Asyociased Press,

CHICAGO. III. April 5.-vioicn;
demonstra;icns which required the
prcscncc Of the police to queii. mark.
ed two Of the labor disturbances here
Saturday. The most serious trorbie &C.
CURED In the downtown district xh-n
o force Of striking white wings"
were thrown through windows and
hrnoR handles vcrs welded by the
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
INVESTIGATING ZINC MINES.
Commissioner Named to Examine
Pan Of the Cromwell Estate.

Judge Barham. OF the Corporation
Court. has appointed commissioners
to look into the matter Of selling Ger.
tain zinc mine interests which belong
10 the estate OF the late N. 3. Crom-
we'll The interest in the mine Is said
to have cost Mr.. Cromwell about $25..
600.
When the commissioners have de.
termined how the sale should be con,
Quoted, they will report hack 10 the
court.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

All recen records were broken yes
terday in tina; Hon. c. Snake. Of Okla.
homa was neither killed. wourdad nor
captured.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
PETITION FOR REAEARiNo.
Standard Oh Branch Will Contest
Texas decisions.
re- Associated Plrss.l

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April On
behalf of the Waters-Pierce OH Com
many Hon. John c. Spooner has filed
in the Supreme Court of the United
States a petition for a rehearing Of
the various cases brought BY the
State Of Texas against that company
and which we're recently decided
against 1t. These include the case
involving the appointment of re-
ceiver fer the company and the one
ousting the company from the State
and imposing a fine Of $1.5l9.5O0 fol
violations Of the Texas antitrust
laws.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
A sooMeRAne roa nAaa,EAs.

naiIrcad Masnste Hartman gives
- soyernnent some sound advice
Via be o8evs the Suggestion tina,
- deparsnests .. washinston should
- - upon principles Of economy
- - governed by q fired rule wnsct
9rsld Sovstsii governmental receipts
80 sevessnestsl expenditures.
- he HarTimas iaferviev did no,
- tbsre. Ne feit cosssrained ID
49, . ~ q the ssseapss msae b,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

You need not drt 50 for the Concert.
or go out after the show. or pay ad-
missio!n-it takes place in your own
home, if YOU own an Edison. If you
don't. see Cheyne he sells for cash, or
weekly payments.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

Have YOU an engagement at 800
D. m. April 9Th? The High School
Team desires your presence al Hamp-
ton Park. 4.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
ELIOT HASN'T DECLINED.
Ex-coIIe9e President Vet undete
mined Upon Course.

CAMBRIDGE. MASS. April 5.-"ATl
newspaper reports purporting 20 en-.
araie from me that ! have either sc.
cepted OF declined the post Of am.
bassaaor to Great Britain are equally
unauthorized" said Presidcn. Charles
". Eliot. In an interview today.
:, was r~ported here today that
President Flo: had no, vet formally
declined the pos,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
OLD ENGINEER % DEAD.
Capt. James Mccartney Passes Away
IN Soldiers Home Hosottat.

Capt. James f. Mccartney. % years
olo. one Of the oldest engineers on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
died in the hospital at the National
Soldiers Home yesterday. The body
vas turned over 20 Undertaken Prank
c. Rees. who prepared II for burial.
and shipped u TO Richmond.
Capt. Mccartney is survived by h.s
son snd daughter. Who nov live in
Richmond. He was an engineer
runninA out Of Richmond for thirty
years. but retired from active service
seven years ago.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
WOMEN ADOPT REVOLUTIONS.
Against Billboard Advertising an
Christmas Trees.

SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. April o.
Concluding their annual meeting the
directorate OF the General Federation
of wome9's Clubs. representing two
million club women. ADOPTED
resolutions declaring against board
advertising and against the Christmas
trees. in as much as the use Of
Christmas trees threatens to annihi
late the forests Of cedar trees"
Legislation providing for the re-
planting OF the cedar forests Is pro
posed.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

Before aid after going to the Fire
mems Fair. stop at the Savoy snt
hear Mr. Lindsay sing Sweet Gen
eyieve" and sec the comedy picture
Rival BARRIERS. and Treasure II
land" 1.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

Fast Ball? Hampton High Schoo
at Hampton Park April 9Th. at 3:"'
D. m. Norfolk is always fast. 4.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06

charity" on your prescriptions
CongdOn tills them free. 2-14-1m
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
Soil Peculiarities.

THE first lesson that our people
must learn-one which is taught by
the operations of the soil SURVEYS
that we have a great variety of soil
types 600 different types of soil hav-
ing already been encountered in the
area that has been surveyed, and
each one of these soil types has its
own peculiarities, its own characters
tics and its own peculiar adaptation
to crops, rotation schemes and meth
DDS of soil control This is the great
fundamental fact which our farmers
must understand: The first step in
! agricultural development is the
/, knowledge of the particular soil char
acteristic of the farm.
The idea has prevailed in the past
that through the use of commercial
fertilizers and intelligent control all
soils can be made to produce at will
any crop that it is desired to grow
be possible, but it can not be done at
profit. There are soils that can not
be apated commercially to wheat pro-
duction; there are soils that can not
be adapted commercially to wheat pro-
ture, and there are soils that can not
| be adapted commercially to any of
, our staple crops and should remain as
forest soils. The highest develop
ment of agricultural production viii
result from the adaptation of each
type of soil to particular line of
crops bearing in mind at all times
the market requirements and the
transportation facilities"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
European Comparisons.

1T has been said, however, by some
writer's, that even if the yields are
increasing, the element of danger is
that the larger crops remove larger
amounts of plant food from the soils
and bring nearer the time when the
soils will eventually wear out To
meet this argument it has been nee
essary to extend the Investigations in
to older countries, and the records of
Europe have been searched for in
formation in regard to the past his
tory of these older countries that can
be taken as a safe guide for the fu-
ture of the newer soils of the United
States. These records indicate that
in the middle of the sixteenth CEN
tury, or, roughly speaking, 800 to 400
years ago. the soils of Central and
Northern Europe were producing on
the average about as much wheat per
acre as the soils of the United States
are producing at the present time
These European soils have been occu-
pied for agricultural purposes for at
least 1000 years, during most of
which period the country was more
densely populated than the United
States is at the present time. So far
as records are obtainable, they indi-
cate that as a result of increasing
population and more intensive and
more intelligent methods of soil con-
troll. and in spite of their longer occu-
patton, the average yield per acre has
increased, until in the case of North
ern Europe the soils are now produc-
ing about two or three and one-half
times as much per acre as the newer
soils of the United States are produc-
ing.
I'm addition to this evidence of &C
tual crop yields per acre an exhaust
i've investigation has been made of all
the chemical analyses which have
been made of soils for the last eigh
teen years in certain countries OF
Northern Europe in which crop yields
have been increasing, and likewise
of the soils of the United States, in
Guiding the older soils of the Eastern
States and the newer soils of the
Western States.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
PREFERRED JAIL
TO MARRIAGE
Because Farmer Used Ear Trumpet
Girl Chose Jail to Wed
ding Ring.

Indianapolis, Ind. Dec Confront
ed with the alternative OF going to
prison or marrying man who has to
use an ear trumpet, Miss Florence Al.
den said she would take the prison
sentence rather than ruin her voice
yelling at man the rest of her life.
She was sentenced to the womans
prison for two months and went smii-
ing. The young woman had CORE
sponded with Herman Schroeder, an
Oklahoma farmer, and he appeared
here and wanted the marriage agree
ment carried out. He had sent her
sums of money at various times.
When he arrived here he found that
she had misrepresented herself and
also that she would not marry him.
Schroeder lives near Freedom.
Okla, and he is typical backwoods
farmer in appearance besides. He
carries an ear trumpet and his sight
was defective. He carried his money
in an old sock. He is "a years CID.
Miss Alden said she awoke from her
matrimonial dreams when she saw NJ
! affianced husband. 49, 80
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

Washington, Dec. Gin speaking of
the great question of soil fertility,
which is occupying the minds OF agri-
culturists all over the country and the
attention of the people-as to wheth-
er the American soils are continually
wearing out, as some authorities say
and as the soil experts of the United
States Bureau of Soils contend to the
contrary-Secretary OF Agriculture
James Wilson in his annual report
deals with the subject as follows:
"a great and fundamental problem
which has confronted our people, as
is has the people of the world, is the
question of the permanency of soil
fertility. OF late years particularly.
the idea has prevailed that the soils
of various parts of the United States
are wearing out through loss of min
eral plant food, and that a serious
condition is thus presented for the fu-
fundamental is this problem for the
welfare of our people that directed a
thorough examination to be made of
the whole subject, and an exhaustive
report has been issued, from which
certain conclusions can be given in a
few words.
1T has been found from the rec
ords kept by our own department that,
on the average, crop yields per acre
have shown a decided tendency tc
increase during a period of forty
years, and that there is no evidence
of general decrease over large areas
or in any particular State, as is popu.
larly supposed. This indicates, I'M
doubtedly, that on the average our
people are farming more intelligently
and therefore more successfully, and
that we are, through these more intel.
ligent methods, winning gradually
larger returns from the soil.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
German Ambassador Delivered
An Address Before National
Riuers and Harbors CONGRESS-

Washington, d. c., Dec. 9.-The fol-
lowing summary of the address of
Count Won Hermstorff, the German
Ambassador delivered before the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
yesterday, will convey an intelligent
idea of what the count said to the
congress-:
The Ambassadors address was
largely an exhaustive resume of the
development and maintenance of in
land waterways of the German en-
pire under the direction of the minis
ter of public works. The count told
the Congress that he could not at
tempt to draw any lessons for the
United States, because of the wide
variance of conditions existing in the
two nations. g..
Count Won Bernstorff sketched the
building of the early canals by the
Prussian princes and took up his sub
ject at the middle of the past cen
fury when the railways of the empire
began to snow a considerable devel-
opment and the waterways seemed to
lose some of their Importance But
eventually the condition turned and
in the seventh decade of the last CEN
fury, the railways, in spite of their
advantages, were unable to meet all
the demands upon them, especially
for lowering their tariffs for the
transportation of goods carried in
great masses, and the interest for
water communication was revived.
| About that time, 1875, the total
length of the navigable waterways OF
the empire was estimated at little
more than 10000 kilometers, or in
round figures about 5000 miles. Then
during the years from 1875 and 1906
the greater part of the waterways
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

banks firm, changes in the course
were made unnecessary. When steam
boats began to use the waterways, it
became necessary to protect the
banks by strong dykes of stone and
cement The bridges are generally of
fixed construction at such a height
and they do not hinder traffic. The
bulk of the traffic is concentrated in
great number of harbors specially
built-partly by the state, corpora
lions or private owners.
1T is interesting to point to the
fact" declared the count, that the
number of vessels for inland naviga-
ton exceeded the seagoing German
vessels six-fold and that their net ton
mage is one and one-half times great
er and amounts to one-third of the
net tonnage of all the British seago.
1902"
Comparing the effect of the devel.
opment of the inland waterways on
the traffic of the railways the count
said Notwithstanding the constant in.
crease of the railways, the short wa.
terways have had a traffic equal to
nearly one-third of the aggregate OF
that of the railways. The transport
by water being cheaper than by rail
the further improvement of German
inland waterways promises to be use
full to the German industrial life.
when one considers that the rail
ways, in spite of the active inland
navigation, have attained a favorable
development and that thy are the
| most profitable in Prussia where in
land navigation is best developed, Il
| Is evident that a harmonious cooper
alton of waterways and railways i.
also profitable to the latter"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09

were reorganized and the German riv-
ers were systematically improved.
The greatest streams were so much
deepened by correcting were SO much
water levels that at mean water ca
pacious ships were allowed safe pas
sage and that even at low water, nav
igation was still profitable. All i'm
provements aimed at creating water
ways which would assure the pas
sage east Of Berlin of vessels of 400
tons capacity and west of Berlin of
vessels of at least 900 tons, though
not at low water times. Where a
suitable correction was not possible,
the rivers were converted into use as
canals and provided with locks of
larger dimensions. Those canals then
in use were replaced by more efficint
ones and several new canals were
built where there had been none.
"The length of German inland wat
Si ways uuliH6 Iuc last 20 years mas
only been about 300 kilometers 600
miles, said Count Won Bernstorff,
but the improvement has not been
in length, but in efficiency. OF the
total 10000 kilometers which are of
actual Importance for inland naviga-
ton, the length has remained nearly
unchanged"
The count then proceeded to tell of
the capacity of the waterways. While
ships of more than 1000 tons may
travel upon the Rhine, the Oberland
Canal Of East Prussia can only bear
| barges of so tons.
In the work of correction of the
greater streams, several general
schemes were settled. Stages and
parallel works narrowed the channel
and in consequence a greater depth OF
| water was obtained. By making the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-09
What Investigation Shows.

THE results of these analyses, pub
lished side by side, show no signifi.
cant difference in chemical compost.
ton between the older soils of Europe
and the newer soils of the Unitrd
States. Microscopical examinations of
the soils fail to show that the longer
occupation of the soils of Europe has
changed noticeably the meteorological
character of the soils. II is reason.
able to infer from the work that has
been done that within historic times
the occupation of the soils for agricul
tural purposes has failed to noticeab!y