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company that Is wholly responsible for 6
falling off in its receipts
Declined to Act Hasfily

The Commissioners promised to take the
matter up shortly. This did not altogether
suit the committee. which wanted imme-
diate action. so that the mass meeting to-
night could be apprised of what action the
Commissioners would take.
Commissioner Ross said he was in favor
of giving everyone chance to be heard
before taking summary action and he
thought Mr.. Griswold should have chance
to be heard before anything was done. II
was suggested by the committee that the
Anacostia citizens had not been consulted
when the Commissioners granted the use
of one-horse cars, but Commissioner Ross
answered that two wrongs did not make
a right, and Mr.. Griswold would be heard
before anything was done.
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Mutual Benefit Society Incorporates.

Articles of incorporation were this after
noon filed by the Concordia Circle of the
District of Columbia. The objects of the
society are for mutual assistance in cases
of distress, sickness and death of the MEM
bers and for social purposes in general
Nine officers are provided for the circle,
the incorporators Of which are John En-
ders, John H. Schombert, John H Schuer-
ger, John Schorr. .Wclfgang Ruckearschel,
Gustave Bender, Louis Brandt, Edward
Brown and VIM. L. Elterich.
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DESPERATE FIGHTING.
The Chinese Are Stubbornly Holding
Ground in FOrmOsa.

The Chtne6e Are StubbOFnIy HOIdlng
Ground in FOrmOsa.
YOKOHAMA, July 19.-An official dis
patch received here from the Island of
Formosa says that the Chinese are making
a stubborn defense of that territory. After
the capture of Lung Taupao on June IA, an
attempt was made to effect a junction be-
tween two Japanese battalions at the river
Takukau; but the attempt failed. and a
squadron of japanese cavalry which was
suddenly attacked by superior force Of
Chinese, was cut to pieces. only three
troopers escaping. The junction of thestwo
battalions was effected on July 16.
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Gen. schoaeId stilI at St. Paul.

Lieutenant General Schofeld Is now ad-
m!nistering the affairs of the army from ST.
Paul He arrived there last evening, and
the length of his stay is not stated. Inas-
much as official matters will be sent to him
there by mail. it will certainly be several
days before he resumes his journey east.
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THE FoRTIFICATIoNs BOARD.
Important Action Taken ms to Rife
Range Finders.


Range Finders.
The board of Notifications and ordnance
has been in session in New York for sew
eral days. considering various propositions.
The board took what is regarded here as
important action in adopting three differ
ent range finders and recommending that
one Of each kind be sent to each regiment
of cavalry. Two of these are the Fisk and
Lewis The name Of the other is not known
at the department. The board also recon-
mended the purchase Of the Rafferty, re.
locator, a device which has been tested
and found practicable for locating ships in
harbors. The ship can be located from a
distant point and telephoned to the place
where the battery is located. and the ship
may be fired at even though not in sight
from the battery.
The board also visited Sandy Hook and
inspected the ordnance and works at that
point and observed the tests Of the guns
there.
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Goyernment Receipts.

National bank notes received today fol
redemption $217,926. Government receipts
From internal revenue. 51234S; customs,
SCOT ,915; misc ellaneous, $214,032.
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Fourth-Class Postmaxters.

Thirty-three folrth-class postmasters
were appointed today, twenty-seven of
whom were to I'LL vacancies caused by
deaths or resignaticrs.
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Court-Martial Postponed.

The court-martial trial of Private Thomas
Gill at the Washington barracks, set for
today, has been postponed until August
neSSeS.
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Acting Adjutant General.

Gen. Vincent is acting adjutant general
in the absence Of Gen. Ruggles, who has
gone to the northwest on a tour of inspec-
tion. He will visit the encampment of the
Wisconsin National Guard at Camp Doug
lass.
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$1e proof Of fee paoeins is
N f8e eating gesfereay's
Sfar osnfaines 81 columns
IF advertisements, saAoe up
f 90 separate announce
nseNfs. t8ese aoperfisers
fought paS6afy-nsf merefp
space.
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DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
MiAcellnnY.

Permission has been granted A. NJ. Shear
to erect a gospel tent on the lot at the
northeast corn .r Of 9th and Fl streets
southwest.
Private George Stamler Of the police
force has been fined SO for neglect of duty.
John McKeon has been appointed an ad-
ditioral private on the metropolitan police
force.
Want an Omcer to Supervise.
The Commissioners have requested the
Secretary of the Navy to permit an officer
of the bureau Of steam engineering Of the
Navy Department to supervise the ten
days duty trial of the 100000 gallons
pumping plant furnished the District by
the Nordberg Manufacturing Company.
To Examine the Chicago System.
Tho Commissioners have decided to ex-
anime the merits of the Anderson garbage
furnace, now in operation at Chicago, be-
fore deciding to approve a system for dis
posing of the garbage Of the city under the
rev contract. Health Officer Woodward
will leave for Chicago in about two weeks
1t requires about two weeks for the COM
pany to get the furnace in working order.
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The commissioner general of immigra-
tion has received telegram from Immi-
grafton Commissioner Bethel at Tampa
Fla, stating that the Plant Steamship
Company had refused to return to Cuba the
cigar makers brought over by that company
and recently ordered deported as contract
laborers. The grounds of the refusal are
not known here, but the officials say that
no valid excuse can be given, as the war;
rants for the arrest and deportation of the
Cubans were issued by the court before
" hich they were tried. The case has been
laid before the Plant companys officials at
New York, and it is expected that they will
see the uselessness Of further opposition to
the orders of the court.
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Travers' Crime.

The crime for which Travers today paid
the extreme penalty of the law was the
murder of his mistress, Lena Gross. the
18th of last November. For several months
previous to that time he and the young
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Wales Dotted His Hat.

Captain James Oliver Of the clipper
Louisiana, which arrived here yesterday,
tells this story: "When the Louisiana
was lying at Dublin, the Prince Of Wales
was the guest Of the lord mayor Of the
Irish capital. The mayor suggested to
Wales that it would be interesting for
him to visit the Louisiana and see just
what an old time American clipper ship
looked like Captain Oliver was notified
that the prince would like to come
aboard. The captains S son, hearing Of
this, declared that he would compel the
prince to tip his hat to him. This the
prince never does, by the way When
the party came aboard, the boy appeared
on deck waving the American flag. The
prince, noticing the national colors,
raised his hat, and the others in the
party followed suit, to the great delight
of the captains son, who, in this way,
made good his boast. "-Philadelphia
Record.
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THE MASTERS.
The Sale of High Priced Pictures Not So
Great Last Year as I'm 1903.

The Sale of High Priced Pictures Not So
Great Last Year as I'm 1903.
The official record OF last years pic
ture sales shows that tho season at
Christie's London rooms was a dull one.
Only 20 pictures were sold for 81, 900
and upward compared with 26 in 1893.
There was much talk about the sale Of
Reynolds Lady Betty Define, F" which
was supposed to have brought 500, 500,
but it appears that the picture was real
ly bought in. Lord Carlingford sold Sir
Joshua's famous picture of 1.-THE La
dies Waldegrave' for $40, 900 privately.
The Dutch pictures realized the best
prices in 1898, but in 1894 the earlier
British masters took the first place.
The highest price of the year, $50, 600,
was paid for Raphael. Next came a
Constable for $3l, 900 A Gainsborough
landscape sold for $l8, 900, which had
cost $3,935 in 1870, and a Reynolds,
bought in 1876 for $4, 915, now realized
$23,2OO Modern works declined in
many cases. A Rossetti sold for So, So
which cost 81, ,315 in 1892, A Faed fell
from $4,000 in 1888 to So, ,41O. Two
works by Leighton, which realized
$1,000 and $2,S35 in 1892. sold for
81, $50 each
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RICE: FIVE CENTS.
An Armless Ninrod.

An armless Nimrod is the wonder Of
the people and the envy Of all the sports
men of Bucks county. He is John
Simon of Zion Hill, and his prowess is
something marvellous. Simon's arms
were ground off above the elbows in
machinery few years ago, but his love
of hunting spurred his ingenuity, and
he overcame his seemingly insurmount-
able obstacle. He straps his single bar
rel breechloading hammerless gun to his
right arm, and when he sights game he
swings the piece over the stump Of his
left arm, takes quick aim and fires, gfelnl gen
orally with telling effect. His modesb
loading is as unique as his shooting. He
carries the shells in his hat, and when
he wants one bows low, drops his hat
on the ground, pulls out the empty
shell with bis teeth and in a similar
manner loads, then pushing his head
into his hat to recover his head.
Despite his at!iction, Simon has done
some of the best shooting in Bucks coun-
ty the past year, his record standing: 16
opossums. :, phcasants, 5 dozen black
birds, 81 rabbits and II quail -Phila-
delphia Record.
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ABRUPT CONAN DOYLE.
The English Nove1ist's Queer Antics In q
Massachusetts Town.

DR.. Doyle, the story runs, was engag-
cd to lecture in Morristown under the
auspices Of St. Bartholomew's school,
and the 20 boys of the school were in a
CULVER ct excitement at the prospect Of
seeing and meeting the creator Of Sher-
lock Holmes. The head master, the
Rev. F. E. Edwards, with the most
hospitablo intentions, invited DR.. Doyle
to dinner before the lecture, inviting
also at the same time rIr. and Mrs.
Frank Stockton, great friends Of the
clergyman. DR.. Doyle declined the i'll
yitation, to the great regret indeed OF
the host, the two guests and four or five
boys that had been specially favored by
being asked to meet the big author At
the dinner hour, however, to tho sur
prise of Mr.. Edwards. he received q
telephone message from DR.. Doylo at
the station, announcing: "I'm here.
What shall do?'
"Why, we didn t expect you, but do
come right over. We just sat down to
dinner. ("
Swinging along, the Englishman soon
appeared, but despite diplomatic coax
ing could not be prevailed upon to enter
the dining room. He wouldn't, he said,
meet any one. No! .. L..
Although assured that only Mr.. and
Wf:s. Stockton and four boys were pres
ent, that the dinner was very informal,
he still remained obdurate.
Cant | eat my dinner alone?" lie
asked bluntly.
So he ate his dinner alone devouring
several plates of roast beef and frequent
relays Of vegetables with lightning ra.
pidity. Unknown to any one in the
house, the brawny Englishman soon flee
and was next seen in the lecture hall Of
tho school, A largo audience was pres
ent, and every courtesy was extended to
aim.
After tho lecture, with insulting
haste Dr.. Doyle pocketed the $500 fec
and hastened to tho train. The only
person, in fact, that met the distinguish
ed British author was Mr.. Stockton
and as the author of "Rudder Grange
| introduced the lecturer the lattc1
couldn' t very we'll avoid meeting him
But the 25 boys were sadly disappointed
at not shaking hands with the hero O
their imaginings. The whole proceed
ing Of the talented author was, in fact
SO foreign to what has been reported O.
him by men and papers that Morris
towns Four Hundred are WONDERING
whether DR.. Doyle could possibly hav'
thought the town a jay place, and tina
he therefore dreaded meeting buooli
enthusiasts. Boston Beacon.
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PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE.
The Surprising Dilemma of an Illinoi
Congressman's Constituent.

The Surprising Dilemma of an Illinois
Congressman's Constituent.
All Illinois congressman is now 60
ing about the corridors of the capitol
wondering what is going to happen to
one Of his constituents. Last spring he
was requested by the said constituent to
exercise in his behalf one of the func-
tions Of stateslnan-to wit, to send
him some garden seed from the depart,
ment Of agriculture. The member has
tened to comply, and a contingent OF
seed was at once dispatched to the Hi
nois man. They went, Of course, in a
government envelope or envelopes by
mail, with the usual legend. "s3o0 pen
atty for private use. y
In due course the congressman, tc
show his interest in the welfare Of his
constituent, wrote to him asking if the
seed had been received aud it they had
grown all right. The constituent replied
that they had been planted and had
come up finely, ''but, - said he in his
letter, what shall do with the stuff
I have raised? notice there is a penal.
ty Of $500 for private use, so l don't
like to take any chances. .<...
This was construction put upon il
which the congressman had not before
thought of, and the more he thought OF
it the moro he wondered what would
happen to that constituent in Illinois,
and he is still wondering. Washing
| ton Letter,
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Mr.. PAGES SOFT SNAP.
That's What Senator Allen Thinks 1t Is
Though Brother Senators Dissent.

That's What Senator Allen Thinks 1t Is,
Though Brother Senators Dissent.
The crusade of Senator Allen, begun
the other day, against the privileges
granted to lone Page, - who keeps q
restaurant il the national capitol, will
no doubt be appreciated along the shores
Of the Platte, howevet it may be on the
left bank Of the Potomac.
The Nebraska senator says that Mr.
Page occupies, free Of rent, seven or
eight of the best rooms in the splendid
building, four being devoted to the dis
pensing of food to hungry senators; that
the government, through the senate's
contingent fund, pays for every stove
and range in the kitchen and every 9TH
er article of kitchen furniture 1t pays
for every pound Of fuel used in Mr..
Pages cooking, for all his lights, and
even for all the ice, the latter alone to
the tune of about $500 month. Last
year, as Mr.. Allen is Informed, the ice
bill was over $3, 900, and the govern
ment also paid for washing Mr.. Pages
rooms and cleaning his carpets In look
ing over the bills fer 1892 Mr.. Allen
found purchase OH one day of l70
yards of administer carpet and l06 yards
of other carpet for the restaurant at
So so per yard put down, making $3.50
for that item alone. A few years ago
the kitchen was remodeled and fixed up,
and the bill was $1l, 200, paid by tho
government In addition to the annual
interest on that sum. represented in the
permanent fixtures, the government
pays, it appears, fully $700 month"
for what is consumed in the form Of ice,
fuel lights and SO on. or about SIS, 600
q year
AS to tho prices which Mr.. Page was
ablo to fix, with such concessions the
Populist senator had little to say:
II have no fault whatever to find with
his prices, although SEQ beofsteak costs
dollar and some odd cents there, while
the same quality of steak in my section
Of the country can be bought and cooked
for 25 or 80 CENTS 1t goes up 81 with
trutfles. do not know what truffles are,
but an ordinary porterhouse beefsteal
with truifies costs 81.
OF course Mr.. Aliens resolution O:
inquiry on this subject did not NEE
with general approval Mr.. Hale, pre-
missing that Mr.. Page was citizen O
Maine, said that Mr. Allen had found {
mares nest; that, instead of being ;
mine of wealth, the restaurant yielded
so little profit, with it's restricted patron
age, that it had always been hard to ge
a good man to conduct it. Mr.. Hawle.
and Mr.. Manderson took about the sam
view of the affair, and altogether tn
chief practical use Of Mr. Aliens re
searches may come hereafter in Ne
braska when he tells there the story Q
the ice, the administer and the truff1es
New York Sun.
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SENSITIVE MODELS.

Publication of 'Trilby" Causes Some to
Resign From tho Profession.
Women models have always been a
little sensitive about their profession,
says writer in tho Boston Herald, and
since "Trilby" has been the favorite
topic Of studio gossip some of the best
of them have felt that sensitiveness i'll
crease and have declined to pose for the
nude. Child models who have been in
the profession since before they could
walk have been forbidden to enter stu
dios, while women who have supported
their families by posing have refused to
mount the model stand
Miss Arabella Gold, who is known as
q famous figure model to the best New
York artists, has recently sent in a pub
lie resignation from the profession.
She wrote to one Of the leading New
York papers requesting that it publish
the fact that she would never again
pose for the figure. Miss Gold S resig-
nation is a decided loss to the artists.
She is said to have one Of the most ex-
quisitely formed figures i'll the world.
Of late she has been posing for num-
Der of Saronys S living pictures. In one Of
the most celebrated Of these she repre-
sents all almost perfect facsimile of the
famous painting, Psyche.
Many models whose forms have here
tofore been prominent features in the
portrait exhibitions declare that they,
too, will renounce the business entirely.
It is not that they object to posing nude,
they claim, but the notoriety which en-
barrasses their profession has become
intolerable since tho publication.
The majority Of models interviewed
have not read the book, but claim that
Trilby, whoever she was, has seriously
degraded the profession. Some spoke o1
her as a New York model guilty o.
some despicable crime Others believed
her to be reformer.
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OVERRUN WITH MICE.
a Most Remarkable State of Affairs In th'
Province of kharlxon, Russia.

One Of the most unpleasant places in
this world to live in just at present, &C
cording to Russian papers, is the prov
ince of Kharl1ov, in the land Of the
czar. The country is now overrun with
mice-millions of mice The cats have
become SO accustomed to the sight of
the little animals that they no longer
catch them or even play with them.
They are said to be q greater pest than
the rabbits were in Australia few
years ago. Provisions for the table, can
dies, soap, books, shoes-everything
in fact, is eaten up by the animal in
the nighttime. The furniture even is
not spared. Sleep for many of the poor
inhabitants has become almost impossi-
BILE. All Of them virtually have been
obliged to place their beds in the mid,
die Of the rooms. Some Of them even
have been forced to sleep with their feet
in basins Of water, the Russians of that
district believing that mice will net
touch person so sleeping. If these
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"A Pathetic Tragedy.

At the performance of the pantomime
"Dick Wilmington at a London thea
ter on Wednesday evening the leading
actress, Kitty Tirrell, had just spoken
few lines, ending with, ellis road to
fortune he'll pave DER my corse, when
she fell in faint, was carried out and
died i'll her dressing room a few min
utes later. Her husband, Harry Ewins,
who played the clown as King Rat, had
to appear during the rest of the per-
formance as if nothing had happened.
What makes the pathetic tragedy more
than Of local interest is the fact that
the doctors testified at the inquest that
the woman's death was undoubtedly
caused by tight lacirg. The pressure
was SO great that her heart stopped
beating. London Correspondent.
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The Price of q Peerage.

The statement that ''it is the inten-
tion of Lord Rosebery to create no moro
peers" may be taken at a very low val
uation. In the first place, if he had
formed any such intention, he would
hardly be likely to make it public, be-
cause, in the second place, any such an
nouncement would have disastrous
effect upon the party war chest. It is
rather brutal perhaps to talk about the
"price of peerage, but it is fact
that nearly every peer created in recent
times for political services has contribut-
ed at least el0, 900 to the funds of his
party. y.-London Figaro.
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- = :
Electrical MOONLIGHT.

Tho handling of balloons has become
part of tho regular training of the Ger
man soldier, and a captive balloon, kept
always in readiness for military work,
is now familiar feature of German
camp. A new arrangement Of the eleo-
trio light is now being tried From tho
captive balloon is suspended an electric
arc lamp of some 5000 candle power.
AS soon as night begins to fall the cur
rent carried by all insulated wire, is
turned Oh, and the light is reflected
downward. In this way a large open
space is illuminated without lamp
posts, and tho ovolutions of a body OF
troops can take place without impedi-
1nent by night,-Berlin Letter.
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Jail Preferred to Mothcr-in-law.

Thirty husbands were languishing in
the Raymond Street Jail in Brooklyn
last week charged with failure to sup
port or provide for their wives. 1t turn
cd out, upon inquiry, that most of these
unfeeing men liked their wives we'll
enough, but could not stand their moth
ers-in-law, and when they had the op-
portunity of going home, if they would
agree to face the reception awaiting
them there, they shook their heads reso-
lutely and said, "Let us remain here in
peace. New York Dispatch.
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A New Mode of Dueling.

Gil Bias, lively organ published in
Paris, gives description Of a duel in
India between two English officers,
whose names are given, which it is pos
sible will be the first news that those
gentlemen receive Of the encounter. 1t
appears that they caused venomous
serpent to be shut up in dark room.
An hour later the two adversaries 81
multaneously entered the room by differ
ent doors. Ten minutes afterward one
of them was bitten and died within a
short time. AS for the other, whose hair
had turned completely white, he is to
be court martialed. London Tit-Bits.
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A Matchless Engine.

At Jonkoping, in Sweden, is the
home of the tandstickors, which have
almost superseded all the other match
manufactures in Europe. Here is an
enormous engine which daily produces
1000, 900 boxes of Swedish matches.
This wonderful machine receives the
raw material-namely, blocks of wood,
at one end, and after awhile gives up at
the other the matches neatly arranged
in their boxes, ready to be dispatched
to the uttermost parts Of the world. --
London Letter.
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Last of the Valkyrie.

The case of great Caesar dead and
turned to clay stopping hole to keep
the wind away is paralleled by the ulti-
mate destination of the i'll fated Val
kyrie. The materials of Lord Dunraven's s
boat, which, as all will remember, was
sold for mere song after she was dug
up from the bottom Of the Clyde, are
now fulfilling their destiny as compo-
nent parts of 'switchback" on Glas-
Cow fair ground Glasgow Letter