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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
NEWPORT NEWS. VA. TUESDAY, MARCH 8. 1902

holders. that State rates Tor STATE
business must stanl. or course no
one belives this who has given the
slightest attention 10 the question.
That precise question was before. and
was decided by. Justir" hrcwGS. and
affirmed BY the Supreme Cour, IN
the Nebraska case OF SmNth VS.. Ames.
The only question Is as to Missouri
rates less expenses properly Charged
acainst the same. And 'f this bal
ance does not leave sufficient TO paw
a reasonable return. III" law is in
valid. And II the railroad system OF
any company Is earning more than
a reasonable return by reason of IN
,erstate rates. which affect the pe2rl"
MANY times more tnan local rates.
ard II such Interstate rates ar" TOO
hjph Congress either acting alone
or through a commission. must make
the corrections.
Should Earn Six Per Cent.
The Supreme Court during the
present year in the case OF City or
New York VS.. Consolidated Gas Gem
many of New York. decided that SIN
ser cent. was fair aud right 10 be
gwen to the owners upon the tru"
valuation. Ny opinion is that while
a gas plant Is in some respects jim
ferent from railroad. that q rail
road property. properly bui!@ and
prapcrlv managed should over and
above expenses. make return or @N
pen cent. GER annnm. And consider
ing all the evidence, the evidenc"
fairly shows that all of these road'
were properly and economically built
and are being properly and economic
allv managed. aud that after paying
the expenses for maintenance ana
operation, that there is less than six
per cent. of returns. and not m"r"
than three per cent. upon any o. th'm
and as to some CT them a deficit TAX
ing the property as above stated WIN
in the state OF Missouri at its fair
valuation. And this is so without
reference to bonds. because In n"
case do the bends bear six per cent.
interest But taking the bonds INTO
consideration. there is still n9t 10
exceed three yer cent. returns, anu
many cases deficit after consider
ing all debts and credits, upon the
true valuation for the State busine*s'
There is no evidence Nat sny Of the
existing bonds were improperly Is,
sued either as to amounts or yates
C.. interest. In FIXING the value the
Court has considered the evidence
of witnesses as to the stocks an:
bends oltetanding. land the state
Board for taxing purposes has vaiuei
these properties. or course tho>'
and bcndsfndings are not shrdiuhrd
findings are no; binding nor concin
sive. but they are persuasive. bu'
indie pendently of stocks and bonds
and independently Of what the Stale
Board has valued these properties
for taxing purposes, the evidence
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
BUREAU CHIEF SxPLAINs.
Chief Of Weather Service Tells About
Inaugural, Blizzard.
m AxSnciated PreS8O
(By Associated creSa

WASHINGTON. d. c.. March y
Jus, how it happened that there was
such a blizzard in Washington On
March 4th. and in the face OF his ad-
vices to Mr.. Taft on the night of the
3rd that the weather would be ciea''
was explained to the President to-
day by Willis l.. Moore chief Of the
United States weather bureau.
Professor Moore admitted he mad
waited for several days with some
1imidity before attempting to pay
his RESPECTS" TO Mr.. TaF.
Mr.. Moore had an explanation
which he brought TO a climax Wita
all sorts Of proof that no such high
and lows" ever before produced such
a snow storm.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
POWDER EXPLOSION.
One Man Killed, Several Injured II
the Dupont Works.
fn,, AaSocIatod pre4s1
(Bv Associated Pres

WILMINGTON. DEL. March B.
One man was killed and severa'
others slightly injured today In AZ
explosion which destroyed two mills
In The Hagley yard Of the Dupont
Powder Company. near here.
The dead man is George Whitman,
aged 80 years. an employe.
The accident was caused by the
explosion of an experimental barrel
The country was shaken for miles
around.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
WIN Not Cut wages.
IN. s.sn,.ntrfl P-cSS

NEW yC..K. March S-Harch VI
Schwah yrcsidcnt W III" Bcthl"hcm
stool Compan said today hat 81
though II Is tho bcl!cf th~t The Siccl
prices would work lower before q
thorough adiusi mont Of conditions
was reached. the Bethlehem Steel
COMPANY did not propose TO cut
wages os SIS vprkmpn
Eventually conditions would show
an Improvement. he believed. -
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
DOUBLE SLAYER CAUGHT.
NEGRO in cus;ody who Killed T~'
With One Bullet.
nv Associated Press.

SE.w YORK March s-J"s~'
Clarke a negro who with or" bull;
slew two mon ~ hncsviIlc. Ia. Just
,~roSs tho rIycr from New Orleans.
two wears ago. has been arrested -
JcnninzS. Ia.
CIark's victims were whi'" NAN
named Richar,'s, who ws< the objrc'
~ the ucgro's attack. and a negro
youth who was s'anding near Rich
ardsop. and into whom the riflc bullet
went after passing through R'charf'
sons body.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
CONNECTICUT SAILS.
Admiral sperry's Flagship. Leaves
Hampton Roads for New York.
NBy Associated Presso

EDN NSNtIN 'd0|U fNN'''F
NORFOLK. Va March S. - inc
United states baft1"ship Connecticut.
flagship Of Admiral Sperry's world
girdi:ng feet. weighed anchor today
for the first tin" since the battle.
SHES arrived in Hampton Roads.
February %. and s'iled for New YORK
The remaining battleships consis''
ing OF the Louisiana. Wisconsin Gecr-
gja. Illinois and Kentucky. are eN'
s,cctcd to get ave- at once for their
Ncmc stations
The Kcniuckv which u sas hrSf
Announced would 20 10 Phi'nde!Phia'
will IL Is said. com" r, Norfolk.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
Straus to japan

WASHINGTON, d. c.. March s.
While the information is unoficial. 1t
Is understood to be definitely settled
that former Secretary Strans. Of tn"
department OF commerce and labor.
will be appointed ambassador TO
Japan
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09

,con,inucd o. Ts'rd rsseJ
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-09
THE WEATHER.

Rain Tuesday and wsdnes-
day: cooler Wednesday, In.
ereasins east to southeast winds.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Flowers Of the states.

There is a lively discussion in Wiz.
ginia Over the adoption Of a state
flower. The daisy has been suggested,
and it is both affirmed AID denied that
this flower was first brought south
by the northern soldiers during the
civil war.
The g%oldenrod IL already the chosen
flower of Alabama, Kentucky, Mary
land and Nebraska. Arkansas and
Michigan have adopted the apple bios.
som. Louisiana and Mississippi the
magnolia, Washington and West Vir-
Elnia rhododendronn Iowa and North
Dakota the wild rose. California has
the poppy, Colorado the columbine.
Connecticut the mountain laurel, Della.
ware the peach blossom. Idaho the
syringa. Indiana chooses corn, Kan.
sas the sun1ower, Maine the pine
cone, Minnesota the moccasin, Mon
tana bitter root, New York the rose,
Ohio the red carnation, Oklahoma the
mistletoe, Oregon the grape, Rhode
Island the violet. South Dakota
basque" Texas the blue bonnet, Utah
the Sage lily. Vermont red clover, Ten
nessee the daisy.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
The Fate Of Explorers.

In a recently published autobiog.
eaphy of the late Henry M. Stanley
the famous African explorer dwells
with much bitterness on the unkind
and even cruel reception given him
by distinguished men of science on
his return from the Dark Continent.
What was my reward?" he asks, and
continues: "Resolute devotion to a
certain ideal of duty, formed after
much self-exhortation to uprightness
Of conduct and righteous dealing with
my fellow-creatures, had terminated
In my being proclaimed to all the
world first as a forgery and then as
q buccaneer, adventurer, a fraud and
an impostor. It seemed to reverse
all order and sequence, to reverse all
| had been taught to expect" Stan
ley was a sensitive man for all his
seeming hardness, and the attitude OF
men like Sir Henry Rawlinson, Fran
els Cation and other prominent men
IN the Royal Geographical society, an
attitude frankly contemptuous, stung
MIN to the quick. Stanley in the story
Of his life recurs again and again to
The hostility he encountered from
men of science. He lived to estab.
fish all his claims and to become
nonored In the scientific world.-Mex.
a Herald.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Diving Extraordinary.

Italy is nothing If not artistic, so
even in their swimming contests art
finds a place, in addition to the ordi-
nary acrobatic feats and the tests Of
endurance.
In Rome during a series Of aquatic
sports on the Tiber couples and
groups in fantastic costumes would
appear on the banks and plunge into
the river in all sorts of attitudes, but
the n thing that was most admired
and %applauded was the flying Mer.
curry.
One of the members OF the Roman
Swimming club had apparently Dor
rowed all the attributes Of this mes.
senger of the gods, his winged hat
and sandals and the caducens, and
when, carefully posed, he jumped into
the Tiber, 1t seemed. the spectators
said, as If it were really the Mer.
curry of Giovanni da Bologna, who had
come up to participate in the water
sports Of modern Italy.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Treasure Trove on Bathing Beaches.

iFeaSuTe irove on Banning 6eacneS.
Fishing for gold is the latest pas
time INDUCED in by Inhabitants of the
most fashionable bathing resorts on
the Baltic and North sea coasts of Ger
many. Since the flood of prosperity
that has overwhelmed Germany dur
ing the last decade, hundreds of splen-
did watering places have sprung up
like mushrooms on the shallow Ger
man water edge, which are frequented
by the wealthiest and most fashion
able clientele. Men and women who
go bathing take but little. care of their
belongings, and the number of
watches, bracelets, rings, earrings and
other ornaments that are lost in the
small tents, where bathing from the
seashore is in vogue, is enormous. The
objects lost are speedily buried by
sand and when the visitors have gone
the gold fishermen come to look for
lost treasures. During the autumn the
tides wash the sand away, leaving all
heavy gold objects exposed. Many
of these gold seekers earn more in a
single day than they did for months
during the summer, and the dealers
who buy the treasure trove from the
fishermen do a big trade.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
ALL CLASSES ITS DEvoTEEs
"Bridge" as a Topic of Conversation
Seems to Be Without a
Rival.

Some amusing anecdotes are told
by Arthur Loring Bruce, in his book,
.'The Bridge Fiend." Two hundred
years ago Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu wrote to q friend: II am bored
to death. 1 hear nothing but the eter-
nal question: What's trumps?' and
Who's to play?'," What would Lady
Mary say now? To illustrate the
widespread infection Mr.. Bruce re-
lates the following anecdotes: A Chi
cago woman went into a dry goods
shop and was vainly trying to secure
the attention of two glorious beings
In black princess costumes, sur
mounted by gigantic and plentifully
marceled pompadours. Their voices
were as sharp as the proverbial tack.
Their heads were as close together as
their p~ompadours would permit and
their conversation was evidently fer
vid and engrossing. After the lady
had waited patiently for some minutes
for the discussion to cease, SO that
she might modestly inquire as to the
price of Copenhagen blue amazon
plumes, she was surprised to overhear
the following pregnant remark: mo,
deary, positively you are wrong; from
king, jack, ten, you always want to
lead the jack"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
POPULATION OF THE EARTH
Human Race Shows Enormous Growth
Since Days Of Constant War
fare and PestiIence.

The population of the known earth
at the death of the Roman emperor
Augustus, about the time of the com.
mencement of the Christian era, was
estimated by Bodia, an Italian stats
tician, at $1,000 900. The Romans
knew nothing Of Asia beyond the In.
dus river and nothing Of Africa save
the Mediterranean states. But the hui
man race in early times was engaged
in constant warfare, and it is record.
ed that the temple of Janus, which
could only be closed when Rome was
at peace, was shut at the time of the
birth Of Christ. But not only was the
population of the earth decimated by
incessant wars, It was devastated by
terrible epidemics of disease which
swept over every country, SO that in
1892, at the time Of the discovery Of
America by Columbus, the population
of Europe was placed at 10000, 900. To
day Europe has ten times that mum
Der, or 100000, 900 people, with about
100 to each square mile.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Antiquity Of Cotton Fabrics.

1t would be difficult to say where
exactly, and at what date the manu-.
facture of cotton fabrics began. In
comparatively modern times it has
become an industry of Importance in
Europe, but it has flourished in the
east from a period too remote to ad-
nit Of calculation. The Egyptians
certainly used both cotton and linen
materials, for fragments Of such stuff
have been preserved among the other
relics of their ancient civilization;
and there is much reason to believe
that the elaborate draperies of the
Assyrians were cottons or muslins
finely woven of delicate texture. In
China, too, and India the same kinds
Of. materials have been the common
wear of the people from time i'm
memorial; in fact, everywhere
throughout the east cotton fabrics
were produced and used long before
the primitive Europeans had begun
to develop any of the graces of civili-
cation, or indeed, had ceased to be
anything but skin-clad savages.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
OBITUARY

Last Thursday at $50 p. M,
Mrs. Jas. Elsbury answered the
call of the grim reaper following
an attack of paralysis.
Miss Levine Leadbeater was
born at Leeds, Canada, Septem-
Der 18th 1845, where she lived
until 1860 at which time she came
to the. United States, and located
at Kilburn City. Wis. In 1864
she moved to Chatfeld, MINI.
and later to Eyota, Mimi, where,
on August 18, 1865, she married
Jas. S. Elsbury. They made
their home there until the spring
of 1881, when they came to Hope,
locating on a farm one mile north
of town, at which place she was
residing at the time of her death.
She was a member of the Uni
ted Brethren Church of Eyota,
Mimi, which she joined in 1870.
Besides her husband she is
survived by four of her six
daughters: Mrs. J. A. Warner, of
Fargo, Mrs. G.. A.. Luce, Mrs. E.
H. Thurlow and Mrs. J. B. War
ner, all of Hope.
The funeral services were held
in the Congregational Church
Sunday afternoon at 2,30 O'Clock
and interment was made at the
Hope cemetery.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
WAS ALTOGETHER TOO KIND
MothsrIy Old. Elephant Who Meant
Well, Not Unlike Some Human
Beings.

Once upon a time, and not 80 very
long ago, either, there lived a lady
elephant, which was n of the most
motherly elephants you ever heard Of.
Now this elephant, like most other
elephants, was very fond of having
a look round, and she often walked
about the place where she lived just
to see how things were going on.
Well, one day she visited a poul-
try yard-I suppose the man who
owned the poultry had gone away
somewhere, and she began to poke
about among the hen coops to discover
what she could. Most unfortunately,
however, while the elephant was so
engaged, she happened, to put her
hind foot right down upon one Of the
hens.
OF course, when~the elephant lifted
up her foot the hen was quite dead
and as fiat as a pancake.
The motherly old elephant, as soon
as she saw what she had done, was
very, very unhappy indeed.
She cried: ooh, dear me, what ever
shall I do now? To think that ], my
self a mother, should have done this
terrible thing!" But the good old
elephant considered for q while and
then she said: "The poor hen was
about to sit upon her eggs. AS I have
killed her. I will sit upon them my
SELF"
And the dear, good old elephant did
SO! Wasn't that kind Of her? But /
am truly afraid that the shells of those
eggs must have cracked a little when
the lady elephant sat upon them
Philadelphia Record.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Women Good Harvest Hands.

Women Good Harvest Hands.
Many hundreds of ome assisted
In gathering the harvest around Be-
atrice, Neb. They were lured to the
fields by the offer of board and SO a
day. A farmer went into Beatrice
looking for farm hands. Loungers in
the town refused to work, and the
farmer had to face the possibility of
losing part of his crop. He went into
a restaurant, and when waiting to be
served was struck with the idea of
bidding for the mattresses as harvest.
ers. He offered them So a day and
every waitress threw aside her apron
and went to the farm. They did such
efficient work that others farmers
sought women, and they drew school
teachers, stenographers and college
girls as well.-New York Press.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
Economies and n. e,no;,x

"sS sshsty a.
To regard the family as wholly or
as fundamentally an economic fact,
as though it were a commercial ar
rangement or a piece of property to
be bought or battered, is to enter
the high road to domestic instability
and disruption. Back of all the
economic considerations which have
consolidated the family lie the nor,
NAL and permanent instincts of
human love. The family is an ethi.
cal fact not the less than an eco
nomic fact. 1t is the object of the
sweetest sacrifices and the happiest
self-forgetfulness. The family is the
primer in the moral education of the
race, and the issue which the present
crisis in the history of the family
represents is precisely the issue be.
tween the economic and the moral
aspect Of the family. Shall domestic
life be regarded as a trade, or shall
1t be regarded as an ideal?-Prof. F.
G. Peabody, in "The Approach to the
Social Question"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
JUSTICE FOR POOR
SPLENDID DEED TO CREDIT or
NEW YORK LAWYER.
Man Of Emlnence at the Bar Devoted
His Time and Money to Defense
OF Unfortunate, Friend.
less Woman.

A shrinking woman in the shadow
OF the electric chair, or certainly of a
prison cell, with q little girl clinging
to her. was a spectacle in the New
York criminal court that fixed the at
tention Of the city and, in a way, OF
the nation. 1t was a character in the
old story of a husbands infamy and a
Wife's sorrow, of a tragedy in which
the woman was strengthened by des.
peration and sent to his death the
brute who assailed her and stood
forth with blood upon her hands. al.
though not in any real sense a muir.
derer.
Here vas one of the cases that
often are railroaded through the
courts. Only a woman of lowly sta,
ton. without q string of friends or In.
duence, without gilt-edged or. indeed.
any other kind Of counsel, she seemed
fated to go to death, or at any rate
to immurement in a cell and her child
to be left to the buffeting of hard for.
tune. But in New York, so careless
OF the individual in its competition for
life and position; In New York, where
poverty abounds and suffering is reck.
oned In grand totals; in the great
American metropolis vas set the ex.
ample of giving the fullest justice to
the poor. Instead of the court assign.
ing for the woman's defense some fail
ure or legal incompetent, with a pit
lance of a fee, to do the perfunctory
work of making a defense, one of the
leading lawyers Of the city was given
the case, with . fee Of $500. With as
much ability as he would have dis
played In the defense of a million
dollar client-perhaps with even more
iheart-he built up the woman's plea
until It was made a bulwark of secur.
ity about the frail life.
Then the jury al given the case.
For ten minutes it remained. out. To
deliberate upon her guilt or limo
cence? By no means, but to raise a
purse Of $500 with which to send her
out from the hall of stern determina-
tons into the sunshine and solace that
$500 would bring a woman seeking to
take up again the thread of a broken
life and make that life count for the
good of her child. The big lawyer, for
whom 1t meant a personal cost of
$1,000 to prepare the case, has the
use Of his fee already planned. He
will give 1t to the woman who is debt
tor to him for her liberty. Well might
the foreman Of the Jury thank him in
behalf Of the client for his fine spirit
and remark that If there were more
lawyers of his sanding to take a sim
liar purse there would be fewer in
nocent persons in prison. This in
stance should be an incentive to other
courts and lawyers. The adequate de-
tense of the unprotected is the noblest
service the courts or the lawyers can
render.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
OF PAGAN IRELAND.
The Property Rights Of Wives Were
Recognized Before the Advent
OF st. Patrick.

The pagan Irish were fierce and
proud, but at the same time remark
ably just and pure. Those who wish.
to verify this statement have only to
look up the old Brehon laws. the leg
islative code that obtained in Erin
long before and long after the advent
of st. Patrick.
These laws with very few sexcep-
lions were found good enough to gov
ern the land after the reception of
Christianity. st. Patrick saw moth
ing to change in them, except the re-
ligious features bearing on the old
Druidic worship. For the rest, he left
them as he found them, and they CON
t1nued to be the legal guide of the
Irish nation even down to the seven
teenth century.
Among their most noteworthy fea.
lures are their sense of justice and
fair play and their eminehtly high re
gard for the domestic relationship
rights of women, the mutual protec.
ton of husband and wife, the recipro-
cal duties of parents and children,
etc. By way of proof or illustration,
we give a passage from the Senchus
Nor:
I'm the connection of equal prop.
erty . If with equal land and
cattle and household stun, and. If
their marriage be equally free and
lawful. the wife in this case is called.
the wife of equal rank. The contract
made by either party is not a lawful
contract without the consent of the
other, except in cases of contracts
tending equally to the welfare of both.
4. Each of the two parties has
the power to give rejection and feast
according to their respective dignity"
In case of separation ample pro-
vision was always made for the wife's
future. If, for instance, her portion
at the time of marriage was equal to
that of her husband she was entitled
to half of the property which they
held at the time of separation. If the
whole property belonged originally to
the husband she received one-third at
the separation. If it was all her own
before marriage she took two-thirds.
Ecclesiastical Review.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30

A ~
One of the men in the legisla-
tive halls at Washington who will
experience no difficulty at the
coming primaries for re-nomina-
ton, is Congressman L. B. Han
ma, Of Fargo. Upright, honest
and capable, the people of North
Dakota, recognizing his moral
worth, will at some time in the
future be anxious to tender him
their highest gift if he care to ac-
cept. At present he is but the
rough diamond whose brilliancy
when once brought out the ad-
miration of all. -Petersburg Rec
ord.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-30
eottomIess Roswell Lake.

Bottomless lakes are a tradition, as
the greatest depths of water, salt or
fresh, have some kind Of a ground for
nation under them. Roswell lake, in
New Mexico, is SO small that a stone
can easily be hurled over it, yet 1t has
q depth of over 800 feet. The water
looks a deep green, but it is so clear
that objects dropped into it can be
seen for yards and yards as they go
deeper into the water. It is supposed
that this lake and others in the same
chain tap the s~ubterranean waters of
the Pecos valley, the plains waters
having in the course Of time dissolved
the gypsum until the deepest bed
rock has been reached.