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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-25

to Washington as fast a. express
trains can carry him. and upon his ar
rival the young woman viii be turned
over TO his care. Miss Porter In still
I'm the House of Detention. A repre-
sentative of the Virginia Woman's Col
lege was I'm Washington Thursday and
discussed the young woman's case
with Inspector Boardman. who decid-
ed 20 hold Miss Porter until her father
arrives. Inspector Boardman says he
Is certain Miss Porter had not the
slightest idea OF defrauding the firm
on which. II is alleged. she passed a
worthless check for $40.
The young woman says she knew
her father would honor the check as
soon as he received her message. and
had IL not been for the alleged frau
dulent note OF introduction there
would never have been any trouble
about the check transaction.
Miss Porter told the police an in
teresting story OF how she left college
and managed TO elude the officials
Until she boarded the train Monday
night. she says. the time was spent al
a farm house. She went 20 the house
70 make inquiries about the time oi
departure OF the nOrthbound trains
and the suggestion was made that she
remain overnight. That just suited
her. The next morning she kept GU
Of view OF those who were watch
/ ing for her. and boarded the train b.
/ climbing on the rear end Of the Obser
| walton car.
W. f. Porter. father OF the youni
/ woman. was formerly a member OF "a.
| Nebraska State Senate and was Secre
/ tary OF State there some years ago
He telegraphed Inspector BOardmal
TO care for his daughter until b
/ reached here.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-25
HELD FOR PASSING
WORTHLESS CHECK
Young Woman Who Ran Away From
Roanoke College Is Detained Mt
Washington Until Father Arrives.

WASHINGTON, d. G. - Special. -
Miss Catherine Porter, o. Lincoln.
Neb.. who ran away from the Virginia
Womans College ct Roanoke, and who
faces a charge OF passing n worth
less check, will not be prosecuted, &C
cording 10 a statement OF the authori-
ties here. Her father, w. +. Porter a
prominent Nebraskan. In now coming
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-25

James +. Bendernagle. the former
superintendent Of the Sugar Trust.
who has resigned from position that
paid a salary Of $4,000 a year. he
had been IN the employ OF the Sugar
Trust for thirty-dye years and was
I'm complete charge of the Williams
burg U]ant
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

Theories can stand most any test
except an application OF them.
The reason a man dosen't believe
he snores is because his wife makes
so much fuss about 1t.
A man seems TO have an idea he
has coal bills because he is victim
Of persecution by personal enemies.
When girl is angry because q
man wants to kiss her it's a sign she
could be astounded IL he didn't want
to.
The best man In a race is the man
who runs it for the pure fun OF run
ming.
|. A girl, a moon. and garden could
take away a mans sense. even IL he
had any.
One OF the few things a boy learns
thoroughly in college is for his father
to keep on supporting him.
What a woman hates about the
telephone is new her husand can tell
her over it that he has to work late
in the Office without her being able
to see how he looks as il he were
stealing sheep.-New York Press.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

provided in the educational test Of
the proposed amendment. The ex
perlment revealed woful ignorance
on the part OF the members OF Prof
Munroe's class. seniors and juniors
of the university. though 1t hardly
demonstrated any point that might
be raised for or against the amend
! ment.
The dispatches say that not one oil
the twenty -four students was able 70
give correctly the full name OF tbs
President Of the United States. a JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court Of the
United States, the governor OF Rhode
island, a justice OF the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island. and
the mayor OF Providence. Only
eighteen Of the the twenty-four knew
the Presidents full name. while two
only knew his last name. Not one OF
the lot could give the full name OF a
Justice Of the United States Supreme
Court; six had name partly cor
rect. and seven could not even give
the last name of justice.
The young men of Prof. Munroe's
class should be, and doubtless are.
very much ashamed of themselves.
Most boys OF average intelligence in
the public school grammer grades
could tell the full name of the Presi.
dent. and yet two university juniors
or seniors knew only his last name.
On the other hand, there are COM
paratively few men who could answer
all of the questions given II they
were put TO them Unexpectedly. This
does not mean. however. that the
test in the defeated Maryland amend
ment was an unduly severe one. 1t
was not proposed that voter should
be able to answer the question on
hand. The questions were prescribed
in the amendment. and had the
amendment been adopted. any voter
not already registered could easily have
prepared himself before Offering for
registration under the educational
test. And surely any man who could
not manage to memorize half dozen
names and titles could not complain
of the severity of the test.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
SERVICE.

Il is doubtful whether President
Taft viii give his opi1ion TO the meth
obs employed by the collector OF the
port OF New York to obtain the con-
victioa OF importers charged with de-
frauding the Government Of revenue
Four Customs House employees were
suspected Of taking brides from q
merchant aud conRiving At tde under.
valuation of the articles which he TN.
ported. They we're promised immuni.
~ from prosecution for testifying IN
court against the merchant. their evi
dence including a confession Of Their
own dishonesty. and grating. But Col.
lecior Loeb not only obtained immu
nifty for them from prosecution. bui
he also promised 20 retain them II
the service OF the Government u 1,
not surprising that the Federal judy
before whom these meo admitted theii
corrupt practice expressed amaze
mcnt that they should be Nept IN ta'
employ meut e the government II
not only Siscredits the government.
sad the Judge. but u Il unjus
10 honest mcubcrs o. che service q
act IN the company Of men who hav'
confessed hat they committed crime
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
THE RETURN.

When Johnnie went away to school
He rigldly conformed TO rule.
At first he joined college frat.
Apd lost an arm and leg in that.
And then he made the Delta Phis,
Who gouged out one OF Johnnie S
eyes.
A rush that launched the college
year
Deprived him OF a useful ear.
lie was so good. and glad to please,
That Johnnie made the team with
ease.
He left hand at Cleveland. o.
A kneeoap at st. Louis, Mo.
His sternum cracked at Baltimore
Inferred his nose at Portland, Ore;
At every contest, win or yield.
He left q portion on the field.
thus gradually he was bereft
Till little OF the boy was left.
We got his baggage home my rail-
The rest of Johnnie came by mall
Buffalo News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

In the discharge Of public duty
These words OF reDuKe irom an able
and conscientious judge VIII be ap-
proved unqualinedly by the pubic.
Grafters may get into service OF the
Government In the guise OF honest
men AS soon as they are caugh
grating they ought to be discharged
summarily from the Governments en-
ployment and prosecuted for their Of
lenses. II is degrading of the service
to refrain them en- the payro'ls. II
is an outrage and humiliation TO hon
est employees TO compel them to work
side by side with confessed bribe-
takers. Mr.. Loeb has established a
denoralizing and indefensible preced-
ent. unwarranted either In morals or
law. Instead of rewarding grafters
the Government OF the United States
ought to send them to jail; instead
OF putting them on Its payroll, the
Government ought TO spare no efforts
TO put them In stripes. The honest
and faithful men In the employment OF
the Government would be JUSTIFIED IN
protesting to the President against Mr..
Loeb's action in this matter. II Is
not only an affront to honest men,
but il IS incentive to grating and
should be discountenanced sternly and
speedily by the observation-disclosures
Sun
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
PATHoNlZE THE LOCAL FOOT
GALL GAME,

With no counter gridiron attraction
In Norfolk TO take people away from
home. the Washington 4 Lee North
Carolina football game here next Sat.
urday should have a record break.
ing crowd In attendance. The teams
are evenly matched and close. warm
ly contested match is looked for by
the knowing ones.
The game on the Casino will be
played for the benefit OF the fund kept
by the Merchants Association to
maintain the public squares which so
greatly improve the appearance OF the
city. The cause is good one, to
which any citizen should be willing to
contribute. particularly when he can
see a first-class football game by do
ing so.
Unfortunately even an Indifferent
attraction away afrom home too often
will draw people away from something
local. Some people who would pro-
test loudly against paying q dollar for
a seat to see a football game on the
Casino. will take the trouble to 60 TO
Norfolk. stand up on crowded street
cars going and coming from the
grounds on the Norfolk side and
cheerfully give a dollar for standing
room at a game no better than the
one played at home 1t would be a
good thing II such people were captur-
ed and kept across the Roads.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
JAPAN IN MANcHuRiA.
Mikado Suspicious that China is Play
ina a Double Game.


To understand the position OF Japan
IN Manchuria. ii is necessary to keep
steadily in mind the comparative
heiplessness of China. The Fakumen
Railway controversy was a pretty ques
ton by itself. but ii involved serious
economic and political considerations
or Japan. In the first place. China
bound herself in secret protocol 10 the
Picking agreement OF 1905. mot to
construct. prior TO the recovery tby
China) of the (South Mauchurial
railway, any line in the neighborhood
and parallel to that railway. OF any
branch line which might be detrimen-
tai to the interest OF the South Man
Churian Railway" The latter road Is
the only tangible asset that remains
10 Japan as the result OF her victory
over Russia She is naturally jealous
Of anything calculated to prove ad-
verse to its interests, and the pro-
:ected Fskumen Railway would
merely have been the beginning OF
trouble.
The Chinese officials. with char
acterist.c craftincss. sought to make
the dispute an entering wedge for
he disruption OF the Anglo-JspaneSe
alliance. With ample surplus revenue
from the Imperial Railway OF North
China available for the construction
Of the more dihcult Picking Kalgsn
Line. IL was considered necessary in
building the little so-mile extension
to reverse the policy OF the country
and resort to a foreign loan placed in
Great Britain. with consequent plsc-
ing Of the contract for construction
with q British company. The Japan
csc had good ground for the suspicion
that the Fskumcn scheme was de-
iiberatcly intended to prejudice their
relation with their Western ally. and
they had the frank avovsl 81 the
Chinese authorities that II was their
intention 10 prolons the railway north
ward 10 Tsitsihar and thence on 10
Aigan on the siberian frontier. whnc
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

the economic effect OF such a COM
petition upon the South Manchurian
Railway would be undeniabIy serious.
the political and stragicsl conse-
Guences which its construction would
involve for Japan would be more Sc
rious still In the present helpless
condition Of China. there Is no possible
guarantee that such a road should
not pass under the control OF a hostile
power-nO security that foreign capt
tai would not be advanced for q with
the deliberate purpose Of menacing
the security Of JaPan.-New York
Journal Of Commerce.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

4 woman Is known BY the company
she has sometimes.
Ten to one MS your own fault Il
luck Is against you.
Much so-cslied originality Is merely
undetecied imitation.
Hes a mean man who VII snore
in church and keep others awake.
" man Is both bad and Sorth-
less there isn't much hope for him
Chicago News
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
entered at the Newport News va
postosice "a Second Class matter.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Z. 1909
cARELEssNEss AND IGNORANCE
ON PART or NorERs.

In. xcusable carelessness as wen as
surprising ignorance on the part Oh
large number of voters is shown 'h
,,,o report of the official canvass OF
the vote in Tuesdays general eiec-
ton which was given out YESTERDAY
hv the beard of election commission
ers The official count makes NO
,a,erialAchanges In the results as an
pounced in this Paper wednesday,
morning but the commissioners re-
iccted few ballots that we're count
ed by the judges.
II would seem that any man quail
fed To sote In Virginia today wouiu
know how TO scratch name from
ballot. But quite number OF the
voters in Tuesdays election scratch
cd the names Of several candidates
for different offices with large crosses.
instead of drawing a line through
eacn name. iuis, Oh So"iSe, S
their ballots worthless.
In the race for secretary OF the
commonwealth. POI people voted for
ID. Q. Eggleston. the Democratic nomI-
nee who died two weeks before the
election. Even the fact that an cleo
ton was to be held had not been
more widely advertised than the news
of Mr.. Eggleston's death and the Sc
lection Of Col. b. o. James by the
state Democratic committee 10 nil
the vacancy on the ticket. Every
body who read newspapers during the
two weeks preceding the election or
even talked with someone else who
read the papers must have learned
that Mr.. Eggleston was dead and that
the name Of the new Democratic can
didate was 10 BE written or stamped
on the ballot. Yet more than two
hundred threw away their ballots as
far as this Office was concerned by
scratching all of the names except
that Of the dead man.
]. c. Wallace, who took the place
of the repudiated candidate for con-
stable on the Democratic ticket. mad
his name prominently before the
public during the closing days Of the
campaign. The newspapers printed
his name, correctly and with the
initials. time and again. and there
were Democratic workers at the polls
ready and willing to refresh the men,
CRY Of any one who might have rot-
gotten the initials or the exact SPELL
inE OF The name. In viex Of these
facts It IS hard to explain Why voters
should have written Wallace" j. J.
Wallace j. c. Walls or ~
Naiicc" in the blank space Below
the name Of candidates for constable
u is mortifying TO admit that 10
many OF our voters were ether ig-
ncrant or careless. especially a. most
Of the ballots showing evidence Of
having been ignOrsntiy OF careIessiy
scratched apparently we're cast by
Democrats.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
Chesapeake & Ohio ny,
OLD DOMINION LINE


Daily Service
~ FOR NEW YORK
&@SAEa From "ompany's Wharf
AkN Norfolk, foot OF Church
street every week da'
= at 700 p. M.
FARE-First-class,o one way, $500
Round trip. limit thirty days. $14.00-
meals and berth In stateroom in
cluded.
Steerage. without subsistence. $500
TICKETS On sale at c. g. D Raih
way Ticket Office.
NIGHT LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT
NEWS AND RicHMoEr, VA.
Steamers Brandon and Berkley
leave Pier "A" $3.50 every evenine
passengers only.
VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COM.
PANY, James River Day Line 70,
Richmond and all James River land
lpgs. Steamer Pocahontas leaves
Newport News, Tuesdays. Thursdays
and Saturdays as S:l5 a. N. Leave
Newport News Monday, Wednesda.
and Friday at p. M, for Norfolk ana
Old Point.
Steamer Hampton will leave Pier
"A" daily except Sunday at 800 .. m.
going to Norfolk. and at 4:30 p
m going to Smitbfeld. Steamer "Ac-
comac" will leave Pier "A" daily en-
cept Sunday at Q a. m, going %
Smithfield and .. M, going to Nor
folk.
All business between New Y0rf
and Newport News transacted ut pis'
No. 6
All business between Newpors
News, Norfolk, Smithheld and locas
points transacted al Pier "a" loot o.
Twenty dfth at. w. n. LANOON
Agent
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
BROWN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
AND the VOTING TEST.

The professor % history at Brown
University. evidently interested IN
the recent contest over the proposed
smendment to The constitution o.
Maryland. Experimental With men,
tcrs Of his class 70 mi how many
Of them could answer the questions
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
Young Girls Are Victims

of headache. a. well as older wom-
On. but all get quick relief and prompt
cure from DR.. Kings New Life pills,
the worlds best remedy for sick snc
nervous hcadsches. They make pure
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

One would suppose that Great Brit
ain would be ashamed to openly pro
test against Chins's efforts to sup
press the opium trafic
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

No doubt those Brown University
men would have made a better show
ing IL the question had related tc
baseball or football records.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

In this country presiding judges
do not make brutal attacks upon pris-
oners at the bar.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07

The wonder is that no friend o
the family has given away the As;o
divorce secrets.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-07
STEAMSHIP LINES.

Passenger ana Freight
Newport News to Baltimore
Daily Except Tues. and Thurs. S ?. N.
Fare $500 Ore Way, $500 Roono
Trip-ineIUding Ststeroom Berth
Tickets to al points.
Newport News TO Boston every Mon
Wed. and sat. noon
Norfolk to Boston.
Every sun. Tues. and Fri D. m
Norfolk 10 Providcncs.
Every Mon. sThur. ana Sat s p. m
sFrcieht only.
For tict<.s and further informatioc.
Apply 20 r. 3. BRAGG. Agent.
Newport News. "
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The Norfolk & Washing
f0n Sfaamh0at Co.

(ScheduIe Effective Nov. 1, 1s0s.)
TIE New and Powerful Iron Palace
Ste: ners NEWPORT NEWS, WASH
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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21

ing March would undoubtedly yield a
fair crop. Those who plant early
potatoes will be certain of crop
without irrigation, providing system
of thorough cultivation is followed.
A telephone line to connect with the
Bell company's main line is being
agitated. Three miles of wire would
bring the service to Medbury and the
company will be ask to put in long
distance phone at the station.
Several new settlers will arrive dur
ing the next ten days to begin the
work of clearing their land.
The stock of goods will be moved
into the new store building at the
station in few days. 1t will make
a more convenient point for all, II
connection with the postoffice.
Geo. Candall. John Ladd, j. T.
Hughes and Henry Krauth paid
visit to Mountain Home Tuesday.
w. 7. Smith was over Tuesda,
from Browns Flat, six miles dow
the river from here.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21

Hon. E. c. Helrfich is still in Boise
doing good service for the cause of
Elmore.
Mrs. Samuel Blackwell of Cold
Springs Creek has been very sick but
is now recovering.
A number of Mountain Home young
folks went out to Lockman's ranch
Monday night and had and enjoyable
dance.
Adm Hall reports a number of
deaths among cattle on Bennett creek
caused by scarcity of wtaer and feed
during the recent cold snap.
Sheriff Kinney last Tuesday horse
whipped Picotte, editor of the HALEY
Times. The Times man is ac-
customed to such little side-shows.
julius Faulhaber is sly fellow.
Instead of going direct to New York,
as he gave out here, he stopped ovel
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21
N1EDBUR Y
/ 1Anart00nY0f News and Notes of Progress
- - - -. - from Regular Correspondent

All the creeks on Medbury fat
have been roaring torrents the past
week. The water comes from the
plateau above the rimrocks, very
little moisture being drained from the
valley for the reason that the sandy
porous soil absorbs and retains nearly
all the rain that falls.
The Idaho meadow larks, after
spending the summer on the uplands,
come down to Medbury valley to en-
joy our winter climate. Numbers of
the birds may be seen here.
A January week without frost
how many sections of Idaho can match
it.
Snake river is rising rapidly, an
uncommon occurrence in January.
The recent heavy rains are the cause.
The past week has been one of al
most constant downpour of wetness,
and the rainfall record so far this year
has seldom been equalled here, it is
said. The ground has received mois-
ture enough to warrant the sowing OF
much grain, which if gotten in dur
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21

that "uhiyeristy of the people" at
Scranton we now cango far and wide
over the whole face of the earth and
tell the man who has never tasted the
best things of life that Opportunity
Is knocking at your door," we can
tell him now there are thigh salaried
positions without pull " we can
send out broadcast pictures of mana
gers desk with the inscription
Wanted man to sit at this desk -
we can proclaim from the housetops
that ''the trained man WINS we can
encourage the beginner on the ladder
of ambition by talking to him about
the cheer of the man who wins. :"
All this can be done today and by
it the ambitious millions whom the
public school system has turned out
upon the world without vocational
training. can be stirred up to achieve
better things for themselves. for their
families and for their country-for
every new application of brains in
creases the productivity of land, mine,
manufactures or commerce.
If we could tear the veil from the
future, is it not beyond Rainsaying
that up from the vast student body of
the /. c. S.-the cream of the
worlds ambition-we would see
sprining the great ones Of the gener-
alton to come-the Lincolns, the Edi-
sons, the Roeblings the giants of the
next age of the world of industry.
The 1. c. S. will always form ar
integral part of gigantic all-com-
pretending, an American system OF
industrial training.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-21
Twenty Years Ago e os s'"s.. ''1 "". '"s

at Shoshone, and on the 18th was mar
ried to Miss G. V. Montgomery of
Denver, Colorado. After visiting
friends in Denver the happy couple
will go east to reside permanently.
Success to you and yours, my boye
The Elmore bill was to have been
reported back to the house by the
committee yesterday afternoon, but
we receive no news up to the hour OF
going to press.
DR.. Smith was called to Glenns
Ferry one night last week to see a
sick person. On the cars going uI
there he fell into conversation with q
schoolmarm just from Boston as
she represented herself to be, spent
the time on the trip remarkably pleas
ant-and lost a handsome diamond
breastpin. Moral-Beware of fe.
male picnic excursionists.