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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Proof Of His Generosity.


The teacher had class in English
literature before her. The subject for
the day was Gray's "Elegy." She had
asked the class to bring in questions
on the life Of Gray. These questions
were to be deposited in a box which
was to be opened before the class and
each question read aloud. If no one
could answer it the one who contrib
uted 1t was to be called on for the an
swer.
The first slip drawn out contained
this:
"Give proof of Gray's generosity"
The teacher thought of what a re-
cluse Gray had been and of how little
interest he had ever shown in his fell
lows, and she wondered how any one
could have received the impression
that he was generous.
Every one looked blank, and no one
ATTEMPTED to answer. The girl who
wrote the question was called on for
her proof" and this is what she said,
"He gave to misery all he had-a tear"
National Monthly.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Letters and Postage Stamps.

Strange IDEAS some people have
about postage" said the clerk who
opens the mail. Eyes. See this letter
here with three one-cent stamps on it
and stamped / cent due? That's a
case in point. The writer Of that let
ter thought that perhaps 1t weighed a
little over an ounce, little more than
would go for 2 cents, and so he put on
a little more postage cent more
which he thought would cover it,when
the fact is that it required an addi-
tional two cent stamp. OF course you
know that letter postage is not frac-
tional, but that 1t goes In multiples Of
two. If letter weighs ever so little
over an ounce it requires an additional
two cent stamp. But not everybody
seems to know this, and so we some
times get letters like this one with a
little more postage for a little more
weight" New York Sun.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Attractive Title.

The difficulty Of using foreign Ian
guage was amusingly illustrated when
a certain mission started work in Chi
ma. They were in some perplexity.
says Rev. Lord Gascoyne-Cecil In
Changing China" as to the title they
should choose for their society. They
wanted to convey to the Chinese that
their denomination claimed especially
to feed the souls of men. They ex-
planned all this to an educated China
man and quoted well known texts.
He Immediately wrote down two char
acters and assured them that they rep
resented what they had said about the
spiritual food that they provided and
would also be very popular with the
Chinese, as indeed it proved. The
moment they opened the door of the
chapel they were besieged by hun
dreds of Chinese of the poorer class.
who, after listening for short time.
went away discontentedly The mis-
sionaries found out afterward that the
title given to them. literally translated.
was ''health giving free restaurant
q most attractive title to the hungry
Chinese!
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Aeropiane REGULATION,

In the very infancy Of navigation it
was found essential that every ship
that sailed the sea should have home
and possess its papers to prove it's
identity and ownership. Those vessels
that could produce no sea letters or
ships papers were treated as pirates
or presumed to be engaged upon no
lawful business. That was the first
stage in the law Of the sea. It stands
to reason and it will involve no hard
ship to insist, even in the infancy Of
aerial navigation, that there must be
some similar registration to that in
use as to vessels. Each aeroplane
must have domicile or home port; its
captain must when he comes to ground
be able if required to produce his pa.
pers. The rowing, homeless aeronaut
who has no credentials must be view
ed as sort Of pirate Of the Skies
London Times.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Japanese Method of Cold Storage.

Japanese Method OF Cold Storage.
On recent visit to the city Of Taxa
ia, on the northwest coast Of Japan, /
had occasion to observe what at first
thought I imagined was haystack,
but on investigation found to be an
immense mound Of snow covered with.
straw mating. The purpose Of this
mound was to keep in cold storage for
consumption in summer fish caught in
the winter time. This Is the only meth
cd of cold storage employed in the ru-
raj districts in the northwest Of ia
pan, where the snowfall is very deep
IN winter, and these stacks are to be
seen in considerable numbers distrib.
uted in different parts Of the country.
Strand Magazine.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
The Boy Scouts Movement.

The boy scout movement has reach
ed the Malay peninsula, and Singa-
pore Is to have a fine organization
under the patronage of the governor
and chief justice. It is good thing
in many ways, aside from the military
training, and bids fair to become one
OF the permanent and most popular
institutions of the peninsula. All
through the British colonies boy scout
organizations are being formed.-Co
sular Reports.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
A Grasshopper Cure.

Blake Hoggatt the most tobacco
chewing negro in these parts, says he
has found new way to exterminate
grasshoppers. Blake says to catch
couple OF the hoppers and pinch them
on the legs until the muscles become
sore. Then turn them loose. They
will hop SO queerly that all the other
grasshoppers will die laughing. The
hard part, Blake says, is to catch the
two original grasshoppers after the
others are all dead and kill them
Leesville (Colo) Light.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Saving tho Pennies.

James A. Patten at a dinner in Chi
cago defended his notable assertion
that specula ton Is the staff Of bust
ness. 'The old fashioned idea Of the
Importance of saving the pennies"
said Mr.. Patten, "has gone out. II
isn't by the saving Of pennies that
such a fortune as Pierpont Morgan's
or George Gould's Is now piled up.
Frugality may be the road to wealth,
but It is not the speedWAEs.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
A Strange Situation.

"Humor Is very funny thing" said
Binks.
ut ought to be-" said the philoso-
pher.
"Oh, l don't mean that way" said
Binks. 81 mean that it is a strange
thing. Now, can't speak French, but
can always understand a French
Joke, and can speak English, but
I'm blest if J. can see an English joke"
Most people are" said the philoso-
pher.
Are what!" said Binks.
'Blest II they can see an English
Joke" said the philosopher. 'It Is q
sign Of an unusually keen vision
Harper's Weekly.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
SUFFRAC|STS END
MEETING IN DISORDER
Fists Shaken and Headgear Dsar-
ranged in Tacoma Convention.


ranged in Tacoma Convention.
Tacoma, Wash.-The session of the
Washington Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton ended in a row in the climax of
which tears were shed, a fist or two
shaken and some headgear got much
off it's balance.
The convention in Tacoma Music
hall resolved itself into a veritable
three-ring circus with Mrs. Emma
Smith DeVoe, president of the state
association, presiding at a meeting of
delegates in the basement, the veneer
able Abigail Scott Duniway, of Port
land, acting as chairman of gather
ing up stairs, and Mrs George B.
Smith, of Seattle, and Mrs. Mary Ark
wright Hutton, of Spokane, harrang-
ing crowd on the steps, Mrs. Smith
In tears, very angry and with her hat
all askew.
At the final meeting Of the delegates
of the National Council of Women
Voters in this city, it was decided to
organize an advisory board, headed
by Governor ]. H. Brady, of Idaho.
Isaac w. Stevens, of Denver, was
named as member of the board,
and other members will be announced
by Governor Brady later.
National headquarters have been To-
Gated in Tacoma to be used until after
the National convention of 1912.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
A BOX OF DYNAMITE.
Il Dropped, but Didn't Explode, Which
Was Lucky For Taft.


Seeing the sights?' the dynamite
man asked the visitor in the canal
zone. well, you'll see one in a min
ute. Just going to lift about 5000
cubic yards off the top Of that hill
back there. Accidents? Well, yes, one
or two. See that ledge there? That's
Bas Odispo. Put twenty-six men into
clear there at one shot and winged
some sixty more
His left hand involuntarily went to
his empty right sleeve, says William
II. Foster in Scribner's, and it was
clear that he had a vivid recollection
Of the disaster.
"Never knew what fired it," he said.
'Some thought it was high tempera-
ture layer of limestone about thirty
feet down. Some said short circuit.
All I know is that she blew about four
hours too soon and twas something
wicked.
"Now, dynamite is very weird stuff"
he continued. ''You don't know just
what it will do, and we have accidents
right along-can't seem to help it. The
more I know about dynamite the more
find don't know.
'"The worst scare ever got, though,
outside of being blown up myself, was
when the president came through here
on an inspection car. Orders had been
given to have all switches spiked, all
loaded holes fired and no more to be
loaded. All powder was to be put back
in the magazines and locked up.
can was fine as frogs hair as far as
Empire, when I happened to look up,
and there was a fool niger sliding
down the cut right in front of the
car with a fifty pound box of dyna-
mite on his head. He didn't even
know where he got it, but anyway he
dropped it.
"Well, sir, expected to see that In
spection car and the high and mighties
and the president Of the United States
just disappear, but they didn't. I've
known dynamite to go off, though,
with less excuse than that had
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19

IHe 0P19n1 51NUIe III IVISU0fts
After q thorough Investigation the
Pail Mall Gazette has come to the
conclusion that the opium habit is
shockingly prevalent among the work
ing classes of London. One phase Of
the evil is the impregnating Of ciga-
rettes with opium, which, the Gazette
asserts, sis rampant, especially among
the mill girls Of Lancashire, who find
1t irresistible as solace and means Of
obtaining temporary relief from the
WEAKNESS and pain attendant on q
life Of TOLL
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
THE MARKETS.
Portland.

Portland.
Wheat-Track prices: Club, sc:
bluestem, S5c; red Russian, soc.
Barley-Feed, $24; brewing, SGT.
Oats-No. White, $29 per ton.
Hay-Timothy. Willamette Valley
$4,000 per ton; Eastern Oregon.
$21@22; alfalfa, $14.
Butter-Creamery, 35c; ranch. a4c
Eggs-Ranch. candled, SEC.
Hops-1s1o crop. 1sc; 1909. 14c.
Wool-Eastern Oregon 13m17c IN
Valley, 17@19c lb.
Mohair-Choice, 30@31c.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19

Americas Biggest Warship Launched.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with the
traditional bottle Of champagne, the
eattleship Arkansas, the largest war
ship ever constructed in this country,
was launched from the yards of the
New York Shipbuilding Company at
Camden, N. J.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
Seattle.

Seattle.
Wheat-Bluestem. S5c; Club, sec:
red Russian, soc.
Barley-S23 per ton.
Oats-$29 per ton.
Hay-Timothy. s26 per ton; alfalfa.
SO per ton.
Observation-Disclosures creamery, S5c:
ranch, 22c.
Eggs-seleeted. local, SIC.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-01-19
SnoWbound PASSENGERS Rescued

SnoWbound Passengers Rescued.
Spokane, Wash.-After being held
prisoners for four days tn a snow.
bound Great Northern train near
Fielding, Mont, 40 passengers were
rescued All gave assurance that
they had suffered no Inconvenience.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
FACES SUIT FOR MONEY
SPENT ON HIS chill DREN.
Wife Paid $4,000 Out of Her
Own Estate.

Louis De Brauer. of IA Plum street,
TODAY faces a suit for 1900 which his
wife. Mrs. Alice De Brauer. of New
York, will institute to the
money she has spent on their three
children. That Mrs. De Brauer has
the right to institute the suit was the
decision handed down yesterday by
the appellate division, sustaining the
decision of Justice Whitney in the SUI
prene Court.
Mrs. DeBrauer, in her petition -
Justice Whitney, stated that she had
been maintaining the children since
1904. and the money she expended, With
interest. amounted to $4,000. AS this
IA the first case of its kind much
interest was taken in the proceedings
by the lawyers in New York city. The
through her counsel, Thomas
r. Doyle, explained how the money was
spent on the three children, and OF
her husbands refusal to reimburse her,
She contended it was her W personal
estate, the legacy of a ~grandaunt,
which she spent on the childrer and
her husband should pay her that
mount. Her contention was sustained
and she will at once proceed with the
suit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
MAYOR GAYNOR's
DAUGHTER PHONES
EL0PEMENT NEWS
Weds Son of DR.. w. Seward
Webb at Whining
ton, Del.

NEW YORK, May ao.-Mayor Gaynor
was greatly surprised. though no! ,lls-
pleased. at the %elopement last night OF
his oldest daughter Gertrude with
William Seward Webb, jr.. son r,t II.
Seward Webb.
Members of both families said To-Day
that the marriage, so far as person
alities were concerned. was altogether
pleasing to all concerned. The attain
known and approved.
Wanted Son to walt.
Mr.. vebb's father. In talking the
matter over with his son. had sug-
sested that lie ought to wait until he
was Is years old before he assumed
i1agn,uch as the young mar hic only
anticipated his by a year it was the
opinion OF everybody concerned that
DIR. Webb would be as much pleased ms
are all the ether relatives of both rar-
ties.
fnns G'atelv after the The
patty returned to New York and wcie
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Pu-
liter. at II East S~eventy-third 4treet.
Mrs. Pulitzer is the sister of yours Mr.,
Webb.
AS soon as the bride had received the
congratulations of her new relatives
she called 81 James. L. l., on the :eis-
phone inc told her father of hec n.r-
riage. While iC information val made
public as to Inc mayors views it was
gathered chat he took the even with
the same calm and humorous ohilost-
ply as he 6i6 the marriage Of Mrs.
Vingut last June.
Mr.. Webb. jr., was graduated from
Yale in 1909. He is employed ~ the
banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
Central Road Adds New Feature
to Newark's "MiIliOn-
aires Special

The Seashore Commuters Club yes
terday inspected their new club car,
recently built by the Central railroad
of New Jersey, for the express purpose
of this new club. 1t is the most COM
pletely arranged conveyance Of trans
p~ortation that has been installed upon
any railroad in the Eastern states, be-
ing patterned after the Pullman car
order, with seating capacity for sixty
members, this being the club's member
ship, containing eighteen tables and
sixty movable chairs. the entire in
terror being furnished in maroon and
gold. and the exterior bearing the name
of the club.
Every member was presented with a
m%embershiJ card and button. and pro-
visions were made for the celebration
of the installation of the car into serv-
ice by a festive celebration, TO take
place at Achtel- S~tetter's in the begin
ming of June.
The membership of the club consists
of the following;
Oscar Merz, Milton Lowy, James
| Owen, Gus Steinhardt, Emil Schneider,
| DR.. Hopkins, William It. Hoffman, Au-
gust F. M~eiselbach, Edward Wilson.
| DIR. Kraemcr, II. b. Good. r. w. Sulli-
van, Nathaniel King, Philip Lowy,
David MacIntire, Walter Isetts, Benja-
min Lissner, Ernest Strempel. James
Fish, George w. ragle, Edward
Birkholz. Nathan Goldsmith. Christian
J Feigenspan, William Schwartz, William
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
SHORE COMMUTERS
CT UB INSPECTS ITS CAR

Greatl1ead. Frank Stanley, C. E. Henry
Stengei, A. Rothschild, George Stickel.
Albert s. Koenig, Edwin Koenig, Isaac
Conn, Louis S~chlesinger. Matthias
.Stratton, Emanuel Schloss, Abe Feist.
Wildrick Lentz, Charles Mccall. Fred
scheuer, Hugh Gilligan. Frank Book,
William II. Barkhorn, August Birken-
meyer, Louis Lippman, Julius 3.
Finger. James J. Mcclure, William
Sommer, David Goldsmith, Harry
Lowy, Louis Finger. Meyer Krasner,
f. a. Runyon, Simon Hahn, Mortimer
Lowry.
The car will be attached to the sea
shore special, leaving Central railroad
depot at Broad street every day at
4:SO p. m, and return from the shore
in the morning, leaving Point Pleasant
at Z a. IN. A picked crew of railroad
men has always manned this train, and
elaborate provisions for the comfort OF
the ''Millionaires' Special have been
made.
The officers of the incorporated club
are: President, DR.. Charles f. Krae.
mer, of the Board OF Works: vice-presi.
dent, Louis Sch~lesinger; secretary and
TT George w. Jagle. playground.
commissioner; committee on rules
Matthias Stratton (ire commissioner
Ernest Strempel.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
WILL CONSIDER
POL|CEMEN'S AND
F|REMEN'S FARES

the Public Utility Board placed before
the court for review the letter OF
Thomas N. McCarter, president of the
company. to the Public Utility Board,
and the formal order of the board
adopted May 5.
TINT letter stated that it had been
the practise of the company TO carry
school children and teachers il some
localities at reduced rates. but tho
practise had been discontinued after
advice that it was illegal under the
new public utility laY.
Public Service Arguments.
The order of the board directed the
company to resume the special rate, OF,
in other words, to suspend the in
creased rate, pending a hearing and
final determination of the question
raised. Following the prom ulgation OF
this order the Public Service Railway
Company Begun this suit to set The
order aside. The reasons assigned for
setting the order aside are that the
new law makes compliance with the
order Illegal; that the discontinuance
OF the special rate is not an increase,
but the abolition OF q discriminatory
rate in compliance with the new
statute and the board had no authority
to issue the order; also, that the order
Is contrary both TO the State consti-
tuition and the Federal constitution.
It is claimed that the der comes
within article tour, section seven. para
graph three of the State constitution,
which provides that the Legislature
shall not pass any law impairing exist
ing contracts. 1t is held that it is
against article one, section Ten, para
graph one of the Federal constitution
because this section has similar pro
vision.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
PRESBYTERIANS TO HOLD
"IMMlGRATION' MEET.

ATLANTI1 CITY, May eo.-The pop
ular Sunday afternoon meeting, May
Il. at the General Assembly OF the
Presbyterian Church this year in this
city, will take the form of an inn
migration mass-meeting in recogni-
ton of the wild 1read interest in the
immigration question and the rapidly
increasing of the Presbyterian
Church in this new home mission iield.
The meeting will be held on the steel
Pier at 8 o'clock. A comprehensive
program has been arranged by the
department of immigration of the
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.
Senator Dillingham;, of Vermont,
chairman of the Federal Immigration
Commission which has just made its
report, after an exhaustive inquiry ex-
tending over three years, will make
the main address, William S. Bennett,
a member of the Immigration Com
mission and of the Board of Home
Missions, will preside.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
Beer Badly Shaken, but
Not a Drop Is Spilled

tracks when the trolley car struck the
rear whee of his truck. The wagon
was loaded with kegs filled with beer,
and although the shock was no gentle
one, the beer kegs remained firm when
the wagon keeled at an angle of forty
nve degrees. The driver asserted the
car was a block away when he started
to cross the tracks and the motorman
must have lost control of the car. The
motormaD. &c. j. Ruane, insisted the
driver started across the tracks when
the a was almost at Wilsey street.
An argument " unloading the truck
TO clear the track took twenty minutes
while the east-bound traffic remained
stalled.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
JERSEY LUMBER
ASSN NOT TRUST,
SAYS SECRETARY
Continued from First Page.)

principle of it is TO protect the invested
capital of the retail lumber merchant,
to eliminate unfair practises, to Dol:
after credits and to do away Win
abuses in the trade.
"The association considers that II s
justified in refusing to have busite -
dealings with a small class of men eIi-
gagged In the wholesale branch, vino
have no sense of business honor aid
who will take an order from a de1tsr
for material to supply some contract
job and then, having loaded up the
dealer, will go out and secure a second
order from the contractor himself, Jew
ing the dealer to dispose of the ma
terial at such time as he may and at
whatever price he can ecure No
business man i'll any line of busiaecs
cares to have any intercourse or deal
ing with that class of operators.
And that's Just the situation. We
issue Information in regard to these IN
fair practises-publish names. The
lumber retailers won't buy from a
man when they know he's done such a
thing-although we don't expressly for
bid them to do it. But to call this con
spiracy in restraint of trade is ridicu-
lous. Mr.. Wickersham is chasing rain
bowsi
There has never been in twenty
five years any attempt at price-making
or any attempt to prevent my person
from going into the lumber bu=iness by
the association. Every man conducts
his business along lines which he deems
hest for himself. without regard for
his competitors. Eut the one point they
all agree upon is that they do not and
will not trade with wholesalers and
manufacturers who become their conf
petitors.
And all of the Retail Lumbermen's
Association in all parts of the Unite ed
States are organized along similar
lines N for the same purpose. Suca
q thing as "A combination to control
prices or to control products is alb o.
lutely unknown in the manufacture,
distribution or sale of lumber!
"If such "a condition does exist 1t
would not be among the retailers. bat
ii would be among the largest hold srs
of cumberland In the South and in the
West"
zone class is exempt from this rul-
ing in regard to our not buying from
those who become our competitors s.
The New Jersey association has al
ways recognized the wisdom of con-
tributing to the building up of the com
inunity and they lave never placed a
restriction which would prevent whole
salers and manufacturers from supply
ing manufacturing concerns Who
manufacture for sale sash, blinds.
doors. moulding. house trimmings.
desks. furniture. pianos. organs. trunks
and boxes. or any other line of manu-
facture where wood or lumber enters
into the actual product,