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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-14
A Characteristic Welcome

I. Were those cannibal savsges glad
to see the last missionary you sent
them
oh. yes. indeed, They fairly ate
him Nd
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Pastoral.

He met the girl upon the bridge.
And kissed her on the spot
The brock. Il murmured down below;
The girl, she murmured not
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-14
Going Up

what would BE- a good name for
my flying machine,-
Why not call 81. The Cost % Liv-
inE7"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-14

City visiior-Ho~ do you knos this
Tee IL a dog~oodg
suburbani,e-I can tell BY its bark.
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( at 700 p. NJ.
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Round trip. limit thirty days, s149O-
meals and berth In stateroom in
cluded.
Steerage. without subsistence, $500
TICKETS On sale at c. g. o RAN
way Ticket Office.
NIGHT LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT
NEWS AND RichMoEr, VA.
Steamers Brandon and Berkiey
leave Pier "A" $3.50 every evening.
passengers only.
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comae" will leave Pier "a" daily ex
cept Sunday at 8 q. m, going to
Smithfeld and 3 q. u. going to Nor
folk.
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First Johnny-Aw. so you have re-
turned from your months holiday.
Where did you go?
Second Johnny-Aw, / just ran up
20 the north pole.
First JOHNNY had intended going
there, but it's such flag to take your
own grub.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-14
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Tickets 70 all points.
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Wed. and sat ? a m
Norfolk 20 Boston.
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(Scheduie Effective Nov. /, 1s08.)
TPs New and Powerful Iron Palace
Ste, ners NEWPORT NEWS. WASH
ING ION and NORFOLK will leave
daily as follows.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31
ARIZONA CAVE
Rivals the Kentucky Nam
moth Cavern.

Denver. COL, July 28.-That NAM
moth caves, containing caverns
large enough in which to place a
city office building, with natural
stone bridges. surprising in beauty
and grandeur those of Utah and of
Virginia, exist in Northwestern Ari-
IONA, is announced by Prof. Edgar
D. Hewett, director Of the branch
of the School of American Archaeol-
ogy, located at Santa Fe, n. M.
Stories Of the existence Of these
wonderful natural caverns have
been told by Indians OF that section
for centuries, but were thought by
white men to be merely legends of
the aborigines. Prof. Hewett, in
conducting an investigation of the
records concerning Spanish occupa-
ton, and control of the Southwest,
made a trip to Spain year ago,
during which he unearthed written
proof of the claim of the Indians.
Carrying out his determination to
explore the region, Prof. Hewett
organized an expedition, which
started from Gallup, N. NJ, and af-
ter seven days journey by pack
mule the caves were reached. In
dams guided him to the spot and
conducted him through the gigantic
underground passages. Professor
Hewett, who is in Denver, gave pub
licitJ to the story yesterday. He
will make another expedition to tbs
caves next spring. He claims tt
have found many evidences of
race of eff jewellers hitherto IN
recorded
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31
A Young Hero.

In little Claude Quinn, oldest son
of Otis Quinn, deceased, who with
his younger brother was carried to
the Pythian Orphans Home at Lex
ington, some weeks ago, Webster
county is entitled to lay claim to
having produced a hero worthy of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31
Low N BOW
Takes a Trip Up Por d River
In a Small Boat.
July %, 1909.
EDITOR + ENrucKTAN:

EDITOR K ENTUCKGAN:
/ see from Tt esday's Kentuckian
that my first letter escaped the
waste basket, 50 I will venture a few
more lines. | will say that the best
time I ever had wss when following
the wheat threshers in North Chris
tan. The crops are small. ranging
from forty to two hundred bushels
and are threshed by steam and cy-
clone stackers. Farmers who raise
wheat all turn out to help each 9th
er with teams and hands; while his
near neighbor is busy in the hay
field there is nothing thought of his
not helping, as he has no wheat.
saw one crop of one hundred
bushels hauled three miles over a
rough road to be threshed, as the
threshermen said they could not pull
so far from their route.
/ am now in a small boat, going
up Pond River to Kirkman's landing
to a large lumber mill. l see small
creeks emptying into the river, the
one we are now nearing being Horse
creek. One sees as fine corn and
hay fields as are on the Wabash or
Mississippi rivers. Our boatman
tells me that we will soon be at Cow
creek and then to Slim jimmie. Ho'-
low, where, in walking up this mar
row channel, one is reminded of the
mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
This would have been a beautiful
place if nature had never been dis
turbed. In watching the waves
made by our boatman from shore to
shore, nature seems at its hest. So,
am reminded of the poem l learned
in school days.
"Methinks l love all common things,
The common air, the common
flowers,
The dear. kind, common thought
that springs
From hearts that have no other
lover.
No other wealth. no other partner
save love, and will not that
repay,
For al else fortune tears away.
We are now nearing one Of the
largest lumber mills ever saw, the
mills of Maine not excepted with no
tel and feed stables. The lumber
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31

drowned.
A letter from his mother, who in
order to be near her children is
making her home at Lexington, says
he is the hero Of the hour and be-
sides being applauded for his bra
very is the recipient of many pres
ents including money, as tokens of
appreciation for the manliness of
character displayed on the occasion.
Green River News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31

a Carnegie medal.
Some days ago, little girl fell in
to a deep pool Of water, and doing
so injured her head in such man
ner that she would ia all probability
have drowned but for the prompt
assistance rendered by Claude, who
is only eight years old.
When she fell into the water,
which was four or five feet deep, he
plunged into it like man ard sue
ceeded in pulling her out before she
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-31

wagons have s wheels to give them
strength and are drawn by sixteen
mules with a S2-horse-power trac-
ton engine.
1t is now mail time aud must eat
my dinner and start on foot to re-
turn to my place of business in the
city of Hopkinsville.
TOWN BOY,
Evening star., 1909-06-27

once married tbs all safe. Very like you'll not
have to offer the penny after all
You d best see Mrs. White tomorrow, then"
said Peter
IN see her this very night" answered the
Wise Woman. In tcklish matters of this
kind an hour may make all the difference for
good evil. Tonight III tell her that the
house IS hers on condition that her brother
Nathan don't come from Ireland this side o
Christmas; and she'll bless your name and do
her best to keep him away altogether. In fact,
| wouldn't be surprised if she succeeded, and it
might even happen that when he comes to
know OF the marriage and hears that It's over
and done, he'll give up the thought of coming
at all, and you II get out of it with credit and a
whole skin"
:. Peter thanked her lot; and she was as good
as her word and went to Widow White that
very same evening.
SHE didn't put it to Sarah quite like she'd
promised; but she explained that Mr..
Hacker quite a reasonable man in some
WAYS even where females were concerned. and
that he had undertaken to let Sarah keep her
house SO long as she and Mr. French should live
Which OF course was all that Mrs. White
her Johnny cared about.
Hacker naturally thinks that your brother
is still living, explained Charity. And mind
you take mighty good not to tell him
tisn't So The longer he supposes that Nathan
is alive, the better for us all. And what YOU We
got to say presently be this: that so as you
told Nathan twas all right about the cottage
he changed his mind about coming to Post
bridge for the present"
. Twill be lie" said Mrs. White
Twill be a white lie however, answered
Charity; "and twill help good many people
out of hobble and do harm to none, SO | adj
wise you to tell it,
A ND Sarah did tell it-with wonderful far
reaching results. I'm sure; for it meant
that she had her cottage for life; and that she
had Johnny French for life also: and it meant
that Mary married Peter Hacker afore the next
Christmas and went honevmooning to London
town for month with the man; and it meant
that, unbeknownst each to t'others, Sarah and
Evening star., 1909-06-27
The Wise Woman of Walna
Continue bpmpa ?
Continued from page 2

business " | can't work for naught and since
It's the whole of your future life that depends
upon it, suppose you II be generous. If sue
ceed, | shall look to you for thirty pound, Peter
Hacker; if | fail, III AK for nothing. STILL | do
believe | may be able to get you out of this;
though twill call for oceans of trouble"
He tried to haggle; but she'd none of that,
wouldn't bate her offer by shilling. So he
came to it.
Thirty pound must have the day you
marry Mary" she said And now tell me all
you know about this rash, savage man, Nathan
Coaker. The more | understand, the better
chance shall have of keeping him off your
throat"
With that Peter explained how t'other fellow
was the brother OF Mrs Sarah White and he
went on to say that Sarah was one of his ten
ants; but he didn't mention the row about
Sarah cottage
it look clear daylight. MY gracious!"
she said Why, you see how the
crash be comingl 'Tis terrible poor lookout
for you every way. Sarahs writ to him, of
course. to say you won't let her have the cot
tage your father faithfully promised to her hus-
band, and Coaker's coming over with threaten
ings and slaughters about that job. And then,
as if that weren't enough, he'l find what a
he's got to pluck with you on his own account
about Mary"
THE more comes out the more it looks as if
he'd better be kept away" said Mr. Hacker
And the easier it looks to do it, added
Charity You keep out of it. The next step
IS for me. I'll see Sarah and tell her that you We
changed your mind about the cottage-to call
it cottage. for tbs no better than pigs lew
house You'll give it her of course,-for her
life and the life of that old man French. as she
wants to marry. That's the first step"
why should ~
What fool you are, Why for two reasons.
/ should think. First because your father
promised her husband; and secondly, because
tits half the way to keeping Nathan Coaker in
Ireland. If she lets him know you be going
to do the rightful thing. he'll have no more
quarrel with you, since he don't know about
you and Mary. Then, what you We got to do is to
hurry the match with her; and when you m
Evening star., 1909-06-27
LOVES LITTLE TRAGEDY

DAUGHTER" said Stoxanbons, an anxious
II tone coming into his voice, as he led his
only child to seat tell me, was not young
Seekem here last night!
He was, father. Why do you ask!
Words passed between your"
Yes, father. A mere spat hardly quarrel.
Why do you ask Has anything happened?'
Am | to understand, daughter, that he
broached the question of marriage?"
The expression of alarm the girls face
deepened Yes, he proposed she answered
quickly "Oh, father. has anything happened?
For mercy'ss, sake, don't keep me in suspense !
If he has"
"Wha. reply made you, daughter to this
The girl moaned. mo, father, did not.
did not feel that | could in justice to him. But
why torture thus? Has his body been
The parents face hardened. "Tell mel he
persisted. Did you give him any encourage
ment2"
oh l don't know, don't knowr' MUIR
INJURED the girl, distressed Has he drowned
himself"
You refused him. absolutely and posi-
tively2'
The girl shuddered. Heaven help me" she
said % did! He threatened to end it all. but
| didn't believe he would. And SO this is the
result! OH isn't it awful"
1T is assented the father. 81 suspected
that you had finally dismissed him when the
news of what he had done came to me to-day"
Father" murmured the unhappy girl,
shall | be held to account for this awful
thing?'
Il think not You weren't obliged to marry
him just because he asked you
But tell me, father, what has happened.
Tell mel have strength to bear it.
He has gone to work" said the old man. as
he turned away.
Evening star., 1909-06-27

negI1pee SHIRTS, and WHY
boy hats favored by the bankers While
practising they called each other Claudy and
Percy and played off rank amateurs.
The deluded countrymen, who thought their
actions were genuine and that they were really
a couple of overgrown sissies, nearly laughed
themselves to death at the antics these fellows
were pulling off
The two semiprofesstonalS the farmers had
hired for the occasion were hardly above the
amateur class, and their only experience in
baseball had been picked up while playing at
county fairs, or serving in some village league.
When they saw kittredge and Hutchinson in
practice and were told that they were to be the
opposing battery, they simply screamed with
merriment
All this time the shrewd bankers were getting
their money down on the result of the coming
game, and the farmers were falling over one
another in their endeavors to place their com.
Never was there much excitement IN that
particular section of Illinois happened on
that auspicious Sunday; and never were two
men kidded to the limit were Hutchinson
and kittredge.
The Farmers Waterloo
A FTER all the money in sight had been
covered by the bankers, the game began
with kittredge and Hutchinson taking their
places. When they walked out on the field they
were Jeered to the echo, and they kept up their
sissy actions until the game was about to start.
Then the famous Chicago battery got down to
business, and when big Hutchinson, with
cannonball speed, shot over the plate, it
fast that the batter didn't get a
sight of it.
kittredge, just to show how backstop
should work, received the ball in one hand,
without even making an effort, and the man at
the bat, who was known as heavy hitter, and
had stepped up with derisive grin on his face.
seemed like one petrifed as ball after ball shot
past with lightning-like velocity He was
finally called out on strikes. without having
made the feeblest attempt to swing his bat.
His comrades all met similar fate.
Then kittredge led off for his side and
banged the ball out of the lot for home run.
Big Hutchinson stepped up and caught on
the end of the bat. and the ball went so far
that he resting on the bench before the
center fielder got his hand on it.
Thus it went during the entire game
Not even scratch hit was made against
Hutchinson. and if farmer would by some
chance get on first base, kittredge would throw
him out as he going down to second. At
the bat kittredge and Hutchinson would
smash the ball out of the lot every time they
stepped up. The final score was twenty-five
to nothing.
Ever afterward the simple utterance of the
word baseball" was sufficient to raise riot
in the little village of Dawson
Evening star., 1909-06-27
By Revere Rodgers


McGraw Brouthers Delehanty,
Keller Thompson, Rusie, McAleer Anson, and
Cy Young were before the public, the Chicago
club had battery composed OF Malachi k1tt-
redge and Bill Hutchinson, which was thought
to be the greatest on earth. Aside from their
gilt-edge work while occupying their positions,
they were splendid batters.
At this period there was in Chicago club
composed of wealthy young bankers and stock
brokers, who had country house near the
thriving village of Dawson. about seventy-five
miles from Illinois metropolis. Here every
Sunday these business men would put in their
time playing baseball and engaging in other
athletic sports. To vary the monotonv, they
would organize team among themselves and
play the countrymen game of ball for what
ever amount of money the Others could produce.
The farmers little the best when 1t
came to baseball; for they had plenty of time
to keep themselves in practice, while the bus-
ness men were handicapped in this respect.
The more games the farmers would take
from them, the more they would guy the
bankers and brokers. And incidentally their
saving accounts became larger as the season adj
vanced; for the bankers were game bettors, and
the rustic gentlemen, finding what easy marks
they had to contend with, would wager all the
money they could get their hands ON at each
contest. Their friends also would come in on
the betting And so the Sunday games were
eagerly looked forward to by the thrifty agri-
culturists who lived anywhere within radius of
twenty-five miles of Dawson.
Things went along in this manner during an
entire summer and the farmers made far more
money in betting against their rich opponents
than they could in attending to their crops.
The Turning of the Worm
FINALLY ,one afternoon several of the young
bankers put their heads together and formu-
lated plan whereby they would teach the
farmers lesson that they would never forget.
The plan was to hire the great Chicago battery,
kittredge and Hutchinson, and have them go
down into the country and pose as bona fide
business men and members of the club. These
ball players, for a consideration agreed to the
proposition, and the fateful Sunday came in the
latter part of September, when the farmers had
their crops all disposed of and each had bank
roll of huge dimensions.
This to be the last game of the year, and
for this reason the countrvmen determined to
get all the money down on such dead sure
contest they possibly could. In order to
make their victory doubly certain, the foxy
agriculturists had paid twenty-five dollars for
semiprofessiona battery.
When the fatefu Sunday came, the village
green packed to its capacity by the farm
ing gentry; and the Chicago men brought down
a whole trainload of their friends, who were
told of the frame-up.
Kittredge and Hutchinson entered into the
Evening star., 1909-06-27

Mary and Peter gived my mistress the money
they promised her. So Charity Badge came out
of the maze with flying colors, you might say,
not to mention fifty golden pounds, all made
out of her own head.
And many such like things she did, though
not often did they fetch such dollop of money
all to once.
Evening star., 1909-06-27
A HAZARDOUS UNDERTAKING

We've accident insurance COS.
Which pay for lots of harms
That come to mortals,-broken toes
And broken legs and arms,-
But won't it make the money go
When clever Cupid starts
An accident insurance co.
To pay for broken hearts3
-Nf1on Waterman
Evening star., 1909-06-27
TWO WILLY BOYS AT BASEBALL

sport with spirit, both attired in
the loose flannel trousers, white
negligee shirts, and Willy
Evening star., 1909-06-27

IN the middle go 's.when such
l baseball giants as Jennings,
McGraW BroutherS. DelehantY.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-03
BILL" EDWARDS FINDS FRAUD.
Unesrths scanaaI iH the New York
street Cleaning Department.

New York. Feb. big BIZ Edwards.
the ex-footbaH star, who was recently
made commissioner Of the street cleaning
department. unsarthed q day OF two ego
a giant system OF fraud IN the snow re-
movaI bureau. His investigations show
that al the very least the frauds viii
amount 10 s40.oo0 Employees of DAILY &
Mclean. contractors who have ths Job
OF removing the snow from the greater
part OF Manhattan. are involved. as vel
as a number Of loading and dump fore
men OF the street cleaning department.
The investigator which Commissioner
Edwards began a. once resulted tonight
in roundup Of men from the contract
ing firm and the street cleaning DEPART
ment. Timothy Dempsey. a foreman OF
the department. was placed under arrest
and fifteen other msn. some OF them
fOremen Of the department and some en-
pIoyes OF DAILY & Mclean, were sum
moned 20 the district attorneys once
to make statements concerning the al
legged frauds
The Washington herald., 1909-02-03

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 2-Seventeen
men dead, five white ard twelve ceIored.
and two dangerously injured, IS the re
suit OF an explosion in slope No 2 Of the
coal mines Of the Birmingham Coal and
Iron Company, at Short Creek eighteen
miles vest Of Birmingham. shortly be
fore noon to-day.
The explosion was caused BY a windy
shot" one Of the miners having placed a
defective pole IN preparing to shoot down
the coal. as IS the custom in this district.
Fortunately, the explosion Travelled only
In one section OF the mine. or the catas-
trophs would have been much greater
ons hundred men were at work in the
mine az the time OF the explosion. So
fierce was the explosion that the flames
shot out Of the mouth Of the shaft. kill
Ing C. E Harmon, the outside foreman.
who happened to be al the place at the
tine. and J P salter. the check weigh
man, VINO was at work on the tipple.
As sHon as the news spread around the
camp that an explosion had taken place.
there gathered AZ the mouth OF the mine
men, women. and children. The distress
that was shown was heartrending. Pres
emily. when men began crawling out OF
the mines, and IL became known that the
men who were working there at the time
Of the accident were not dead. as IS usu-
ally the case. there was much relief
RescufnE Parties Formed.
The men who escaped injury and those
who were not in the mines at all formed
reseuing parties. and the work OF re-
entering the mines was begun az once.
The bodies Of the victims were all brought
out within two hours after the accident.
and while some of them had been blow
q hundred yards and more. they we're all
recognized and identified
The white men were WI Harrington.
2. Schoeller. J. Jackson. q. E. Harmon
and J P salter. All were men Of fani-
les and vel connected.
Chief Mine Inspector Edwin Flynn and
Assistant HIllhouse arrived on the scene
late IN the afternoon and at once began
an investigation.
The Birmingham Coal and Iron Com
pany IS headed by H. NJ Atkinson. OF
Atlanta, Ga, as president
The Washington herald., 1909-02-03
ILLINOIS DEADLOCK HOLDS
On Latest Ballot Hopkins Still Lacks
Thirty Votes.
Opponents IA Fight for Senatorsbip
Say They Have Not shown
Full Strength.

Springfield, IL, Feb. 2-Three addi-
tionsI ballots to-day. making a total OF ..
failed to develop any signs OF a break IN
the Senatorial deadlock. Albert J. Hop
kins reached "A votes to-day. This was as
far as he could climb IN his efforts TO raj
ly the needed conventional majority of los
votes.
The Hopkins stalwsrts are putting Up a
determined fight 10 hold their forces.
They say they ara satisfied with the
showing made to-day. The ants come
back with the declaration that no attempt
was made 10 tear down the Hopkins
breastworks to-day
On the twenty-ffth joint ballot. the last
taken to-day. the Hopkins vote dropped
10 73