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DAILY PRESS. NEWPORT NEWS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1007 THE CODE OF HONOR. Bnlln press BROTHERS SCHMELZ It 4 tt Clty and Iau certlfleatet of Deposit for able on demand. Drawlna Interest WAR WITH JAPAN. Tho Brooklyn Eagle In Its Issue of Thursday evening contain a special from Washington, in which th positive assertion is made that the President nd --his cabinet believe that war with Japan is inevitable.

It Is stated that it will not come today or tomorrow, hut sooner or later ti test of will coup on the question of which nation shall control the Pacific and conse BANKERS County Depository.) 50X or wore, ntf otlable and pay- at the rite of FOUR PE CENT.1 1 THAT THE WE KNOW YOUR WANTS THE STRONGEST a fiawSfcSaSWaSaw W. A. POST, President. J. R.

SWINERTON, VIcePres. The First National Back U. S. GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY, CITY DEPOSITORY, CITIZENS' DEPOSITORY. Capital 100,000.00 Stockholders' Liability Surplus and Profits 100,000.00 Other Resources make total over $1,000,000.00 jim 4a utizeos and fflanne IT -Ti E.

QUINCY SMITH, President. A. Vice The Bank The Newport News National Bank CAPITAL, $100,000. U. S.

Government Depositary Transacts a general banking business. Tour per cent interest allowed on savings accounts. CAR SUGAR BEET FEED FOR DAIRYMEN SPOT CASH NO GOODS DELIVERED. r- -7-. WE BUY YOUR SACKS.

EJJnJ1 Choice Timothy Hay, per 100 $1.10 No. 1 Timothy Hay, per 100 1.0 Ship Stuff, sacked, per 10 lbs 1.20. Bran, sacked, per 100 1.15 Vs. water round white bolted meal, sacked 1.11 lluellii It Wat la Franco la the) Tim of Rlchellea. The passion for dueling, which had cost France, It was said, betweeu 7,000 an 8,000 lives during the twenty years of Henry reign, was at its height when bis son came to the The council of Trent In 1545 had solmenly condemned the practice of single combat, Impartially including principals, seconds and spectators In It pennlty of excommunication.

In 1002 an edict of Heury pronounced the "damnable custom of dueling introduced hy the corruption of the century" to be tlie cause of so many piteous accidents, to the extreme regret and displeasure of the king and to the irreparable damage of the state "that we should count ourselves unworthy to hold the scepter If we delayed to repress the enormity of this crime." A whole series of edicts followed the same effect, but It was easier ta make edicts than to enforce them' Degradation, Imprisonment, conflsca-' tion of property, loss of civil rights and death were the penalties attached to. the Infringement of the laws against dueling, and still the practice prevailed. In Richelieu published a milder form of prohibition. The first offense was no longer capital, a third only of the offender's property was to be conflseated, and the judges were permitted to recognize extenuating circumstances. A fan.

inMiiha taldt. I. a tnmA P.outerille thought fit to test the minister's patience in this direction. The Place Itoyale had long teen a favorite! dueling ground, and De Hotiterllle traveled from Brussels to fight his twenty-second duel here. In the heart I of Paris, in deliberate defiance of the king's authority.

The result was not encouraging. Montmorency though be was, the count went with bis second to the scaffold, and the marked decrease from that time In the number of duels may be attributed cither to the moderation used lu framing the law or to the Inexorable resolution with which it was enforced. Macmil-lan's Magazine. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Villains usually get what Is coming to them on the stage.

It t03 often happens that the only flowers mother gets are those strewn on her grave. The man who saves money Is sure of one thing he will never find that he made a serious mistake In doing it There are some people who pray for patience and then get mad because the fire goes out when they prayed so long. Perhaps the next time you do what you shouldn't yon will have reason to regret you didn't quit with the last time. If yon get along with people you do not like, your friends think you have tact and your enemies accuse you of being "smooth." No matter how poor a man's memory Is aboiit other things, he never forgets the time and place where he once found money ou the street Atchison Globe. Jarrlaar Reallem.

popular aovellst described at a dinner In New Tork the difference between realism and romanticism In flc-tlou. "To make my clearer," said the author, "I will take the case of a young matt and a girl sweet-: 'The young man. a romanti- cist, said passionately to his girl, 'Dar- ling, It shall be my life's one purpose to surround you with every comfort and to anticipate and gratify your ev- ery wish. Tlie girl, a realist smiled, faintly as she answered, 'Oh, Jack, how good of you, and all on $9 a week MarrrlHar em Opera Compaar. The late "Aunt" Louisa Eidrldge, meeting a reporter on one of the New Tork papers, learned that Lillian Rus sell was to be married to Slgnor Peru-glut.

"Isn't she clever?" quoth Mrs, Ei drldge. "Why, she first married a lead er of the orchestra, then a composer of comic operas, and now she will wed a tenor. Bless my heart! If she keeps on. she'll have an entire operatic outfit it her own." Rahr'a Proarreaa. "How is Bllklns baby boy getting along?" i 'Fine.

I was up there yesterday and was surprised to lesrn that he Is be ginning to talk." "Does be pronounce his words 'plain- iyr "Not very. They souud like a railroad brakeman calling out stations." Milwaukee Sentinel. HrTe. Laay Larry Say, lady, I'm dat hungry I don't know w'at to do. I ain't had notbin Mrs.

Goodart Walk around to the kitchen, poor man, and you shall be fed. La sy Larry--Aw, say, dat's a purty long walk, lady. Couldn't yer hand It out, here jist as well? Catholld Standard and Times. IrrmdlaM. Fan I wasn't expecting to be called on to anything, -yon know, and when the president of the club asked me to make a few remarks I Just went all to pieces.

Nan You remember 1 told yon those buttons on thebnek of yonr waist wouldn't stand the slightest strain, don't you? Chicago Tribune. l.faaa4 Papla. About 94 per cent of otherwise normal people use the right hand In preference to the left; 6 per cent are left-banded, and It is a cnrlona fact that one-third of the 6 cent are (Ore.) Journal. Cracked Corn, per 100 lbs No. 2 Mixed Corn, sacked, per bushel 6 No.

2 White Oats, sacked, per bushel .45 Ho: I White Clipped Oats, sacked, per bushel I. .47 Dunlop's Superlative Flour, per bbl 4.00 Dnnlop's Superlative Flour, 1-lCth Sacks 4.00 Choice White Mich. Potatoes, per sack 1.45 Choice Mich. II. P.

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wiuiiHt uasmwi it ARTHUR LEE, Asst. Cashier." For the People Of the People By the People POWELL, President. WM, H. KELLOO, Cashier. us, I I vv- N.PORT NEWS.

A or Lease of the City Dakar Vaughon BANKERS and BROKERS, 20 Broad Street, New York City. Stocks and BU rrof. G. F. HEEL, 527 fl hf Hall frlT4 Plajeaaa.

SijanH AtaW, flitafc A mwi rmliMa.fltif roaita'l) Hrvai nertlfttaj, 1 ManhofNl, 'emee, TrJfe 1 4 telopapewli 4t Khrmmkm OrajajaasWrhtail'a Pin was IMata IrtitMw, ltrM 40 Tmr' praefleal 4t kmHnt atar Urmimr. WaiaJ fwr HmI(. UHa atl, aiHlfrwy quently the admlnlstraMo.iV policy is to shape matters to meet the crisis when It arrives. The Eagle Is an ultra conservative newspaper and Is known for Its reliable news service, but in this Instance, It would seem from al! evidences In hand that its Washington man has been misinformed. Perhaps there may to a war the yellow race sonto day, but as affair are mow being conducted by both nations, there is no danger of any blood being shed In the present generation.

That the Japs are ambitious Is true, and likewise it Is BRife to believe that the result of the wars with China and Russia have given them an exaggerated: idea of their fighting power, but they are also a nation of common sense people and know fully well that war with pagan China or thor oughly disorganized Russia, would not be the same as a combat with the United States. They have had some of tholr foralnest men in both tho army and navy In this country studying the methods of conducting our fighting forces and they are fully aware that we would be In better shape to meet them than any other foe with which they have combattod. This knowledge will make jtheni ponder long and deeply on the question of finding a pretext for cngagelng this country In war. However, there Is reason to believe that Japan wants supreme control of the Paclflo and it would not be at all surprising If some day she would make a fight for it. but that will not happen just at present.

However, it is just as well for the United States to continue to build battleships and 4 improve her fortifications. A CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE. A great deal can happen between now and the time when the Democratic National convention will meet, ibut in the ordinary course of affairs, it would seem a if Senator Rayner in his speech In the Senate on Unursday sounded a keynote for ithe coming Democratic presidential campaign. The issue of the revision of tariff is still alive, but all of the other contention of the Democratic party for the past twelve lears are dead and way beyond resurrection. It is absolutely essential that a ringing issue be found and it would neeni as If Senator Rayner had Bounded It.

He said: "I believe that If the Democratic party would take up as its battle cry the reserv ed rights of the States ana the Inviolate Constitutional Mlstlnctto of the. legislative, the Judicial and the executive departments, we could rally around tho doctrine the Intelligent suffrages of our countrymen." The Constitution; there is the issue. Whether It be ou the Infringement of the rights of states or any other question, the peoplo, whether they bo of the North or South, do not want to see It violated. It Is the one human and sacred document of the American people, and there isr no question whatever but that the revulsion to having one man override it whenever he sees tit, is growing stronger and strong er. Until the davs of the hi stick nobody ever that the national government consisted of separated legislative, executive and judicial departments and the people are becoming more thoroughly aroused over tho Inroads that are being made in this fundemental priuciple.

The time has come when the going over the ConniltiHlon rough1 shod should cease and It for the Democratic party to place llitf ban on ail further attempts to establish a dictorlal government. The Portsmouth Star has changed hands and is now controlled by a stock company with Allmand McKoy Griggs st the head. Mr. Griggs know8 the Portsmouth Held and as he is capable in' every manner to conduct a newspaper there no reason why tho Star should not bhine brighter than ever. Another man with nerve has been found and the Martha Washington hotel In New Vorlt will bo continued as a "purely female institution as heretofore, notwithstanding reports to the contrary.

It will probably bn he' same old story, that Adamless liotols do not appeal to the average woman. Tlie bitterness displayed by Dr. Simpson's wire ami mother-in-law is having an efftet contrary to what wast expected by the prosecution. Judjro and jury aro oridcutJy PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING (Except Monday) DAILY PRESS BUILDING, 211 Twenty-fifth Street, by the DAILY PRESS COMPANY. C.

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THE FULTON CENTENARY. It is root entirely to the credit of the people of the State of New York, and In fact of the whole nation that the memory and achlev-uifirt of one of America" greatest Inventors should be 'formally 'celebrated In foreign country. Considering the extensive formation and increasing practice of the centenary habit among us and our manifest fondness for expositions of every wvt and kind. It seems more than passing strange that we have left It to France to commemorate 'the centenary of Robert Fulton's successful application of steam to Nevertheless, It Is a fact that this year, 1907. marks the close of a century since FultOit demonstrated the success of a destined to revolutionize navigation, and that It t8 In the city or Bordeaux that fitting ceremonial observance la to be made, not along the Hudson, thu scene of his first conceded triumph.

The International Maritime tion to be held from May to September of this year, while It especially honors the genius of am American citizen, will recall the fact Hint It was In France that he conducted big first serious experiments In steam navigation, in 1803, Napoleon, the First wrote to one of his Ministers that "Citizen Fulton's proposition may change (the face of the earth." The Inventor was at that time experimenting upon the river Loire, with a submarine boat which he called a torpedo. The First Consul, with that prophetic vision which was not the least anions his wonderful gifts foresaw, though dimly, the almost illimitable possibilities which- lay In the development of Fulton's Ideas; and he appointed a committee from the Academy of Sciences to Investigate the value of Fulton's claims. Those wise men replied: "Sire, we have effectually found a motive power In steam, but of a nature so feeblo that a child's toy; could hardly be put In niotlon by it." Had these scientists of a hundred years ago then grasped tho significance of Uio strange things Kot before them, they would have been the first and last, among their 9und, to give Instant and timely recognition to utruggllug genius, nut they saw, In the crude steam engine of the young stranger', only a pin tiling, a curious but useless toy. And so, Fulton turned 'hi face to JCngland, whose government Invited him to submit his Invention to a voleiMi commission of British scientists. The result was the same; and Fulton shortly returned to America to neach a tardy success with the "building' and operation of.

Um Cleremont Through years of discouragement, of doubt, ho kept patiently on his way, nudorterrcd by I lie skepticism of the wlao men; until at last he had forced the to admit his discovery anil application of that motive force, which -was an Napoleon said "to iiun:" the face und history of tlio' REDUCTION On Alt 5UIT5. OVERCOATS and TROUSERS Goes Merrily on. Come here and set yours. Substantial reductions on Under we a Shoes, Hats and "other fixins." 271 5 Washington Ave. Bell Phono 256; Citizens' 6.

US thinking it Is a case of persecution, instead of prosecution. The statement that there are children In this country at work sounds startling, but then it must be remembered that a large number are office boys, who, of cource, do not work. Carter has aspired to higher things, but ho Is willing to be mayor of Chicago again. His ambitions must have been fearfully squelched. A new turbine steamship namei Harvard haa been launched.

There will be something doing when she meets the Yale out on the billows I wi WITH THE PARAQRAPHERS The author of the article on to treat Senator Tillman" has gone to a great deal, of unnecessary troa ble. "Have one on mo" has the same effect on Mr. Tillman as it has on the rest of us. Washington Post. Influential leaders down in Rhode Island predict that the senatorial deadlock Will be broken about next Tuesday, but they don't explain to the public how they fix the date.

The explanation would probably be a great deal more interesting than the prortlctlon. Boston Globe. President Roosevelt might solemnly resolve to overcome his reticence on many Riibjects. -Chicago News. Because there are so few women at the Thaw trial, the sex will feel that its morbid appetite hasn't been satisfied.

Pitsburg Sun. Kither the Republican Legislature of New Jersey will smash Drydenlsm or Drydenlsm will smash the Republican party of New Jersey. New York Press. Considering what happened to Mr. Wallace, Mr.

Shonts Is the bravest man who ever skated through the Roosevelt Administration. Rochester Herald. "The Kaiser has established a precedent by putting his Cabiuet officers on the stump," Buys the Boston Oiobe. Established? Tut. tut.

He has followed one. Kansas City Journal. The railroads have failed to show any originality In the uao or the block system. In past ages the block was extensively employed in keeping the population down. Cleveland Leader.

Speaking of the Irony of fate, the prize donated to the Indiana University by Colonel Bryan has just been won r-y a Filipino student in an effort opposing the government ownership of railroads. Omaha Bee. Jamestown Is fussing around to find tho stone on which John Smith laid his head, mat's the use? There are plenty of Smiths loft. New York American. A representative accuses the speaker of "holding up a bill because of mysterlons Influences." Uncle Joe must feel that the hunt Is get ting "near" when members venture to sneak so plainly without aoologles to the chair.

Florida Times-Union. High Price for Tobacco. RICHMOND. Feb. Cue hundred and twenty five ounds of sun-cured wrapper from the plantation of W.

H. Parrish. of Louisa county, brought JM a hundred on, the floor or Shelbourne's wa rehouse morning, the It. Iley. noids Tobacco Company belnp tlie Is the record-breaking prlco for this year.

gTtll iiy JUST ACROSS THE BRIDGE. For Sale In all Parts tip OLD DOMOM IM GO. Hotel Warwick Building. COAL AMD WOOD Sold by the Jowport Hows Distilled Ico Co. Is R-iisranteed to give entire satisfaction; all coal kept under sheds, and always screened.

FRED. W. SAN FORD, General Thirty-fifth 8treet and C. A O. Railway.

Bell Phone 98. Cltlxens Phone, 808. NOTICE: Hampton Roads Traction Com- pany stopped operating its car In the i city Pmlts of Newport News at mid nleht, December 15, and will hereafter only operate its cars to the city limits at Twentieth street nd Chostnnt nue. W. W.

S. BTTTLKR, Conural manager.