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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
MR.. TAFT UPHOLDS
BALL|NGER IDEAS
CONTINUED from Fourth Pagel.

means OF interstate transportation
and traffic How far. If properly I'M
proved. they would relieve the rail-
roads or supple ment them in respect
to the bulkier and cheaper commodi-
ties l.; matter of conjecture. No
enterprise ought to be undertaken the
cost of which is not definitely ascer-
tpined and the benefit and advantage
of which are not known and assured
by competent engineers and other au-
thority. When. however, a project or
a definite character for the improve
veloped so that the plans have been
drawn. the cost definitely estimated.
and the traffic which will be accom-
modated Is reasonably probable |
think it Is the duty of congress 10
undertake the project and make pro-
vision therefor in the proper appro-
priation bill.
One of the projects which answers
the description I haze given Is that
of introducing dams into the OHIO
river from Pittsburg to Cairo. so as
to maintain at all seasons of the year,
by slack water, a depth of 3 feet. up
wards OF seven of these dams nave
ALREADY been constructed and six are
under constructions. while the total
required is fiftv-four The remaining
cost is known to be S63.000.00o.
1t seems 10 me that in the de-
velopment of our inland waterways
IL would be wise to begin with ehS
particular project and carry 1t through
as rapidly as may be. | assume from
reliable information that ii can he
construed economically in twelve
years.
What has been said of the Ohio
rivt~ is true in less complete way
of the improvement of the upper Miss
issippi from ST. Paul to st. Lauis 10
a constant depth of six feet. and OF
the Missouri from Kansas City TO 81.
Louis in a constant depth of six ieet
and from st. Louis to Cairo OF depth
of eight feet. Thse projects have
been pronounced practical by conf
petent boards of army engineers. their
cost has been estimated. and there Is
cuisines which will follow the I'M
provement.
Il recommend. therefore. that the
present congress, in the river and mar
Dor bill. make a provision Tor con-
tinuiHg contracts to complete these
improve ments.
As these improvements are being
made, and the traffic encouraged by
them shov itself of sufficient import
ance. the improvement CT the Missis-
sippi beyond Cairo down to the Gulf.
which is now going on with the main
terace of a depth of nine feet every
where. NAV be changed TO another
and greater depth IL the necessity for
il shall appear to arise out Of the
traffic which can be delivered on the
river at Cairo.
For reasons which il is not neces-
sary here TO state. congress has seen
TT to order an investigation into me
interior department; and the forest
service OF the agricultural depart
ment. The results OF that investiga-
ton are not needed 10 determine the
value OF. and the necessity for. the
new legislation which I have recon-
mended in tespec- 10 the public iands
and in respect 20 reclamation. ! cara
ssfiv urge that the measures recon-
mended be taken up and disposed OF
promptly. without awaiting the inves-
tirafion which has been determined
upoa.
rr4Nlsr rrr..ao
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
NORFOLK MAN ACQUITTED.
Tried on Charge CT Killing Barnes
hartxook 10 Found Not Guilty.

NORFOLK, VA. Jan. 14.-E. f,
Hartzook. formerly Ct Richmond. Va,
was today. after two trials. acquitted
OF the killing OF W. F. Barnes in
Berkeley Hartzook claimed that with
broken shohlde- he was repeatedly
attacked ~ Barnes. after seeking in
effectually 10 avoid him and that he
CIT BaTnes in self-defense.
The state sought to show that even
though Barnes pursued Hartzook the
latter was not justified In using a
knife when Barnes only fought with
his arst.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
AUTHORIZES INVssTIeArIoE.
Bill Instrvcss Secretary % Agriculture
20 Look Into High Prices
M asa,rfafcf rr-ran

WASHINGTON. u. c. Jan. IL
General authority Cor the secretary OF
agriculture 70 Investigate and rerort
10 the country on the cost Of iooo
supplies constitutes the only iegisia-
uon In the agricultural appropriation
bin Which was reported 20 the house
today BY the committee on sericnl-
tsr. II carries = total Of sis.fi7lSs.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
HELP WANTED-MALE.

- YOUNG MEN To
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and sample lesson EMPIRE
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK. Jal. 1f.-Money on
call. easic. sizs4 per cent: ruling
rate. az closing bid and offered at
ga Tim cans. soft and dull. Sixty
days. 4 Ter cent. and ninety dave aud
six nonfhs fLa4lk-
Close. Tsime mercantile paper. "a
to ; pc. cent: sterling exchange
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
Baltimore Grain Market.

BALTIMORE. ND. Jan. IA
wHEAT-qliet: spot contract. 127%
southern on grade. l2OAa127%.
CORN-quiet: spot. 701a.
OATS-firm: Ne. . white. 53h; No
2 mixed. 81 i@a52.
RYE-flrm; No. western domestic
SASS.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO. ILLS, Jan. 14.-G ain
prices slumped sharply here today ow-
ing &c liberal realizing sales brought
out by prospects of an increased
movement from the country. Prices
at the close were almost at the bot
tom. final quotations showing a net
loss of y TO rs. Corn Was down
is tolls. and oats. II to a. Pro-
visions followed grain and closed
weak.
Articles Omen UiSh Iou Close
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

steady, with actual business In bank
ers bills at 4.s4s4.s4.iO for sixty day
bills. and at 4.S7.35 for demand Com
mercial bills. 4.s3ha4.s+ Bar silver,
521z. Mexican dollars, A..
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

THE AUGUSTA, HAMPTON, CAN
with slight changes, arrange sever
al fine furnished private apart
ments. Steam heat, bath. lights,
gas. With or without board.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
Stock Sellers Not Optimistic as
to Government Activities.
MARKET is DEPRESSED
Conjecture is Set to Work to Fsthom
the More Superficial Influences
Held as Responsible for Liquidation
and Passing Without Giving Relief.
Cry Associated PressJ

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE resump-
lion OF liquidation In the stock mar
ket today set conjecture 10 WORK ior
GONE deeper cause TO explain ii thal
the mre superficial influences whlch
have been giyn responsibility ana
which are passing away without re-
liesing the market from depression
yeste rday's action of the stock ex-
change governors was considered 10
have definitely disposed of the hocs
Island episode and the securities o'
that company today were sustaining
forces for prices, so far as they eN-
cscised an influence.
The liquidation was quashed Win
Knowing precipitation today and de-
cilnes OF | to 3 points had become
general By the middle Of the after
noon. In the Hartman Pacifics, ST.
Paul. and a few others. II was even
greater. The breaking through oil
prices to lower levels than had been
touched on previous reactions. was
the signal for the uncovering OF fresh
stop loss orders and for bringing ne"
burdens on the market Washington
prophets were said to he a principa
movement for the throwing over oil
stocks. The widespread activities oil
The government in the field OF cor
poration regulation and the prospect
of early decisions by the Supreme
Court which. il was feared. might pre-
sent even graver conditions, were
made the staple of argument by the
sellers OF stocks.
Indications for the tremendous IN
iiux of bonds from the interior purn-
iehed by the preliminary estimates
of the weeks currency movement
were a matter for apprehension IN
The prevailing speculative mood as
Offering suggestion OF a lull In com
mercial and trade activity. The stock
market showed no Tallying power.
lowest prices OF the day being reach
ed In the last hour. with an even
greater outpouring of stocks. Inc
Hartman issues, St Paul United
States Steel. Great Northern and
Northern Pacific were especially weak
and apparently without support.
The close was very feverish. win
practically no recovery from the low.
<FsBonds were irregular. Total sales,
par value, Si.700.00o. United States
,onds were irregular.
Total sales for the day We're l,sSs,-
$40 shares. including: Amalgamated
Copper, $1,000; Sugar, 500: Atchison,
SO. 900; Atlantic Coast Line. 700;
Che sapeake & Ohio. 2i.iG0: Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul. $500; Louis
vile & Nashville, 5000; Norfolk 4
Western. 1900; Pennsylvania, 40 200;
Reading, 20i.400: Sloss Sheffield, 500;
Soughern Pacific. 1880; Southern
Railway. 500: pfd., 1890: Union Pa
tilc, 1880: United States Steel. 5S9,-
400; Virginia Carolina Chemical.
$500.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
WANTED.

WANTED-WHITE WOMAN. GEN
cral hCusework Stay nights. $
E" Care Press office. Is
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

WANTED-YOU TO KNOW THAT
we have several nice $1,000 and
$1,000 dwellings in different sec
tions of the city for sale on easy
terms. See quick. NELMS & CO.
Inc. 25l7 Washington avenue. IL.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-FURNISHED FRONT
room: also table boarders wanted.
Call los Twenty seventh St lS-
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

DR.. r. LEE ROBINSON. DENTIST.
y. w. Cor. Washington avenue and
Twenty eighth street. ~.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

DEAD ANIMALS REMOVED FREE
of charge by c. II. SCHOFlELD,
phone GAL, hampton, Va.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

WANT-GENTLEMAN WITH $4,000
to $4,000 as silent or active partner
in first-class mercantile business;
annual profit s5S.400. Write
MERCANTILE, this paper. 16.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

THE NEWPORT NEWS BOTTLINsi
Company wisl.e their customers
to know that they now have Clti-
zen phone No. SO. Not shown in
phone book ~.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15
SPECIAL NOTICES.

NOTICE-CHANGE OF PHONES.
,Call Southern Bell Nc. 999 when in
need OF building material or other
business. Net in phone book. x. f.
RICHARDSON. Saunders, Mgr. 81
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

wANTED-TO BUY. SELL OR EN-
change. furniture and stoves c. W.
LEWIS, 2502 Huntington ave.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-15

YOUR TAILOR
doesn't suit you, try T. P. KEAT-
ING. He will fit and please you
2eI Twenty-fifth street. 12-24-ti
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
New Road Will Develop Land,
Dairy Meeting Arranged.

The authorities of the College of
Agriculture of the University have
called a meeting for May 16 in the
Agricultural building of all parties
interested in the possible develop
ment of the dairy industry in the vi
cinity Of Baton Rouge. Letters have
been sent out to the Railroads ask
ing them to send representatives au-
thorized to do what they can to fos-
ter the Inauguration of dairy enter
prises, and the purchasers and dis
tributors of milk products in New
Orleans have also been asked to send
representatives, and individual let
ters have been sent out to consid-
erable number Of people who have
manifested some interest in the
work.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
ROOSEVELT MADE A Ph. ID.
That Title Conferred Upon Him By
King Frederick's University.

Christiania, Norway.-King Fred
erick's University conferred upon
Theodore Roosevelt the degree Of
Doctor of Philosophy. 1t was the
third time in a century that the de-
gree had been given a foreigner.
The dean of the faculty of history
and philosophy made an address, in
which he said Mr.. Roosevelt had al
ready left the earth and was resid-
ing on Olympus with Jupiter and
Apollo, and that it was scarcely kind
to drag him down among the NOR
tails. He likened Colonel Roosevelt to
a rushing human engine, difficult to
follow and work. He said Mr.. Roose-
velt was a man who had learned to
use the capacities and powers which
in most men lie dormant.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
PITHY SAYINGS.

But tie things you try to keep dark
will come to light sooner or later.
If man looks at his watch while
you are telling story cut it short.
1t is hard to get the best of some
men for the simple reason that they
haven't any.
The, decay Of poetry may be due
to the fact that so much of it is rot
ten.
1t takes lot of courage to enable
a woman to admit that she is growing
old.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
Location of Depot Changed.

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway desires to change
the location of the depot which it.
was ordered by the Railroad Com
mission to build at Vidalia the new
location to be just inside the levee
and directly opposite the present de-
pot. This seems to meet with the APP
proval of citizens. Surveyors of the
road are there planning the location
of the tracks, switches and the pro-
posed new ramp.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
PEARLs OF THOUGHT.

Tho man who thinks with his
heart always gets the worst of 1t
when he stacks up against the man
who thinks with his head.
When 1t comes to minding their
own business men have women beat
On to q frazZle.
There is only one thing that girl
would rather be than pretty, and
that's pretticr.
By the time q man feels that he
can afford to marry he generally
doesn't want to.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
THINGs WoRTH QUOTING.

THINGS WORTH QUOTING.
No man should play practical jokes
unless he is a good loser.
A trickster is merely person who
gets the better Of us.
Pompadours are responsible for
many a high brow.
Even real estate men occasionally
build castles In the air.
cause the wife spends more money
with the milliner than she does with
the butcher.
The man who really knows himself
is never q s-re.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
Ends Life With Shot.

Michael Tobias, senior member of
the mercantile firm of nj. & j. To-
bias, Of Donaldsonville, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
Fight temple with a 3S-calibre Smith
& Wesson revolver. Business worries
and mental depression occasioned by
the state Of his health are the only
reasons assigned as the cause OF the
tragedy.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
CYNICAL REFLECTIONS.

Most of a mans friends are of the
long distance variety.
Our idea of foolish woman is one
who is AFRAID of mouse and isn't
afraid of a man.
The man who doesn't count the
cost is apt to feel cheap soonor or
Probably there is nothing quite SO
unsatisfactory as the good judgment
a man might have used but didn't.
When a fnancier begins by chic
reforming his conscience the rest is
dead easy.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14

Fire at Loring, destroyed the
planning mill of the Bowman-Hicks
Lumber Company, together with
zoo, 900 feet of lumber and six cars
and sheds in which other lumber was
stored.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14

J. A. Budd, wholesale liquor deal
er at Opelousas, who sells to con-
sumers in quantities of not less than
five gallons is being prosecuted on
the charge of violating the prohibi
tiOn law
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
sss,sss,ssxs.jszr As
Contracts Charbon by
Drop of Blood.

" Norman Drake, a young
II man living south of Jennings
r. became infected with charbon
d while taking the hide from a
# cow that had Just died from
NJ the disease. In the course of
s the operation drop of blood
a struck him in the eye. Lit
aS tie attention was paid to it at
~ the time, but on the follow
W Ing day 1t became extremely
~ painful. A physician was
~ called, and the young man
" was found to be in a serious
NJ condition. and heroic treat
sS ment with caustics was ne
aS cessary to save the eye.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
Killed Wife Six Years Ago.

Wesley Rocks, a negro, who killed
MS wife six years ago, was arrested
in Donaldsonville and was brought
to Houma and locked up in the par
tsh Jail.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14

The Louisiana Press Convention
adjourned at .Opelousas last week, af-
ter electing officers. Resolutions were
adopted favoring legislative appro-
priations for tuberculosis hospitals
and monument in the Vicksburg
Park.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14

The Louisiana Press Convention
adopted resolutions tnat constltu-
tional amendment be submitted oy
the legislature providing for spe-
cial tax throughout the state In ala
Of the Panama Canal Exposition IN
New Orleans.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
Two Hurt when scaffold Falls.

A scaffold at the electric light
plant at Plaquemine, broke precipi-
tating several negro workmen to the
ground. Two sustained serious in
In ripS
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
Medical Student Placed in ia

e. G. Bates, well-dressed and in
telligent-looking man, wearing a
Van Dyke beard, was placed in the
Parish jail at Am!te City, on
charge of attempted criminal assault
on Ruth East, 14-year-old daugh-
ter of the restaurant keeper for the
Day. Lumber Company, not far from
Kentwood. Bates denies the charge.
He says he is a medical student and
is travelling around selling surgical
instruments to doctors.
Death of Woman known Tor cures.
Mrs. Eurasie Racca greatly prais-
ed throughout the Attakapas for the
wonderful cures she effected, even
after science had lost hope, died at
Broussard and was buried in Young
Vile. Her cures were through
knowledge of the virtue of herbs and
roots, transmitted to her by her
father, who had learned the secrets
from the Indians Of old.
The St. Tammany Parish Bar AS
ISOLATION, in session at Covington,
opposed the bill proposed by the New
Orleans Bar Association, looking to
the Supreme Court from
rendering judgment on the facts in
cases appealed.
The Louisiana Railroad Commits
sion heard the request of the Baton
Rouge Board of Trade for lower
rates between certain points on the
Southern, and the petition
NJ the New Orleans Board OF Trade
for lower rates between certain points
on the Santa Fe.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-05-14
's1-ass.ssessss-ssS,a-ssss

Fishermen Held for Violating Law.
Five men in the employ of the
Louisiana Oyster and Fish Company,
of Berwick, were arrested on Lake
Verrett for fishing buffalo in the
Parish of Assumption contrary to a
police jury ordinance of that parish.
These people have permits from the
Fish and Game Commission to fish
for buffalo in the waters of the state
and have paid therefor and have fur
ther complied with all the state
laws. The police jury of Assump-
ton, claims that they are exempt
from state laws and that the fish of
that parish are their exclusive prop
erty, and prohibit the catching of
them for commercial purposes. This
is the second arrest in that parish
of this company's men.
New Road Will Develop Land.
Alfred Hebert and other citizens
are promulgating a plan to build
new road to St. Martinville reducing
the distance from Lafayette-twen-
ty miles-to about half, or ten miles.
1t is proposed to extend the road
through Colonel Breaux's Oakburne
plantation, and cross the Vermilion
River at the Forks, thence follow
the streams to Babin's Bridge, and
thence in an almost direct line to
st. Martinville. The proposed route
will open up tracts of fine timber
land, and also render possible the
development of about 10000 acres of
fa lapd
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
15be Jeffersontan

silk hat, on the proposition that Walkers 1i5-
eralaty as going to add interest to has paper,
increase ITS circulation, and advance the pop
uz1rity Of him, the said I. q. W.
Men and brethren! Write few lines to
The New Era, Decatur, Ga. Make that one
column a ziae a0ire. Shoao them that stand
for Gospel Missions, as all Christians Died for
eighteen hundred gears after Christ.
ShoeO them hoa0 the foreign missionaries
haze departed from the Pauline model
ShOa0 them hoa0 a0e are 6rj6iaag the heather
to call themselves "cooverts".
At the South Georgia Conference, not long
ago, the brethren gravely discussed the ques-
ton :-"How can we increase the circulation
of The Wesleyan Christian Advocate?"
Strange to say no one suggested the three
ways of doing it. Yet they are obvious
enough
G) The paper should be run according to
law. People would then respect it more as
they soa0 1t respect itself.
(2) A more up-to-date policy Should be
adopted. A paper which arrogantly and OBJ
stinately insists that there is only one side to
a question, and that there's nothing to be said
excepting on that one side, cannot make its
oa0m Irving, nor haze 01oy considerable ci1cu-
Z0ti0n.
90 DR.. Lovett is three or four hundred
years behind the spirit of the times. He
should give and take a rest. IF really live
Methodist had hold Of The Advocate-Dr.
Lee, or DR.. Bradley, or DIR. Wilkinson-the
Conference wouldn't have to debate circula-
ton again.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
One Sensible Editor Sets Some
Others a Good EXAMPLE

Brother l. G. Walker, of the DeKalb Neqo
Era, (who modestly disclaims the credit of
helping me put Rev. W. H. Smith, DID, in
the hole, and who says that The Presbyterian
was my able assistant in that matter,) has
shown the DR.. Lovetts, the Bell and Ora
hams and the DR.. Converses hoao to increase
the circulation Of their papers.
He has announced that my friends can
have column, each qOeek, TO defend moy po-
sitiom on Foreign Missions. Bully for
Brother ]. G. Walker.
If / we're a betting man, I'd stake my
magnificent palace" against DR.. Lovett's
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03

Is the name of a religious magazine pub
lshed at Graymont, Georgia. It is most
excellent publication, and has been in exist
ence sixteen years.
The price is 81 per year, and it is worth
every cent of the money. But until the 31st
of March, it will receive so cents in full pay
ment of years subscription.
I hope that thousands of people will jump
at the offer.