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The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

say he feels there can be but one outcome-trial by court-martial of either himself or General Miles, provided the latter fails to make a signed statement to the Secretary Of War denying every word he IS alleged to have said.
 To quote high officer with whom 1 talked, the interest in the controversy between the con- general of the army and the com1nissary general is based, first, upon the high standing of the officers involved, and, sec ond, upon the fact that the firms which supplied the army the beef which General Miles has so bit terly criticized supply half the country with meat, General Eagan's friends, therefore, say that the statements credited to General Miles, if correct, are li- belous, not only as against the commissary general, but against the meat firms referred to, and the question becomes a very se- rious one for the whole country.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

General Eagan gave out the following statement to-day in reference to his contemplated ac- tion on statements by General Miles concerning commissary supplies furnished the army:
 General Eagan has referred to General Miles the published article, purporting to be an in- terview with General Miles in regard to the military supplies, asking whether the statements
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
MILITARY COUP
 PLANNED AT PARIS
Fearing the Downfall of the Repub- lie, the Court of Cessation Will
 Decide Against Dreyfus.

LONDON, Dec. 24.-The Paris corre- spondent of the Weekly Sun asserts that he has knowledge of a military coup planned for Wednesday next, but does not give the names of those involved or details of the plot.
 The Sunday Specials correspondent in Paris hints at similar knowledge, adding that the Court of Cessation on Thursday will give judgment against Dreyfus. The Judges the correspondent ayers, yielding to the Governments plan of raison d 'etre which would result in the downfall of the republic
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Continued on Second Page.
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FORTUNES BY ACCIDENT.
How cap.a;:l madc a Million by Carry
im:: One Passenger.

How II Canta;:i s7.,tlc n million by Carry.
i,:: One Passenger.
If there is anything that makes q
poor, toilins nan happy it is to read
about dukes that have made fortunes.
For instance, there WAS a captain of u
vessel plying between English and Aus
traIiar points who made lucky strike
when convicts were taken to New
South Wales.
y "timo expired" man came to the
mariner and begged to Inc taken home.
The former convict had no money, but
he would gladly give his plot OF land
for transportation.
The captain accepted tho terms, and
great is the JOY of his descendants, for
that plot is now occupied by n wharf
and it is valued at 81. 125, 600.
4 Limerick tobacconist believed him.
self to be ruined by n fire that destroyed
his shop. The next day he found tins of
snuff that had been i'll the fire. Curlos-
ity prompted him TO open tho canisters.
He found that tho action of the flames
had materially improved the aroma and
pungoncy OF the snuff. Tho discovery
made him very rich.
The discovery OF the Mount Sheba
mine was purely :; fluke, and its output
of gold is the greatest of any mino Ill
the world except in the klondiko dis
trict.
A bank clerk in London heard that
there was rich deposit of gold at
certain place at the Cape of Good Hope.
He set about forming provisional syn
dicato among his follow clerks, and they
raised about 1900 among themselves.
\ mining engineer was sent out. He
made thorough investigation, but
found no gold He had decided to give
up the search and was ready to lea;e
Tor home when be ran across miner.
"Well, stranger, he said, Il guess
you are or Il hunt for the shiny. Tain t
here. boss.
Have you claim hcre?" asked the
engineer.
YES, and want to make tracks up
the country. That's my claim over by
that camel's hump. You can have it
Tor 500, and here's 4 sample of the
quartz. That claim amt worth its
weight i'll gold, but it's worth every
dollar I ask for it.
Tie engineer examined the specimen
and decided that there was gold i'll it.
He acted quickly.
I'll tell you what I'll do, mate. y he
said I'll give you $50 on the risk OF
losing it.
The bargain was struck and the claim
carefully explored. An abundance of
gold was found in the most unlikely
veins. Today the shares, the face value
Of which is 500, are worth $500, 600
each.-New York World.
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Facts About the Philippines.

The recent statement of Consul
Williams, who represented the
Government at Manila up to the
declaration Of war, presents some
interesting facts in regard to the
Philippine islands. The population
he estimates to be t5,000,000, and
5000, 900 for the island of Luzon, on
which the city OF Manila is situated.
This island is us large as the States OF
OF Massachusetts and New York com
bined. The area of all the islands is
estimated to be 10000 square miles,
or three times the size OF the State OF
Iowa. a remarkable tact is that
the United States does more than
half of the export business of the
Philippines, and that we buy the ma
iority of goods sold to foreign coun-
tries The exports of this country
average 100000 Il month. of The
famous Manila hemp we buy I'll per
cent. The revenues OF the islands
amount to over $13, 900 IA year.
and these can probably be increased
to $50, 1000. 000.-Virginian and Pilot.
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How the Spanish Defeated Napoleon.

The Spanish press has been INDUCING
in much glib talk about how eve de-
featod Napoleon" and how eve drove
the French out of Spain" One unac-
quainted with the facts might infer that
the emperor met his Waterloo i'll Spain
at the hands of the Spaniards instead Of
in Belgium at the hands of the English.
1t is true that the popular uprising
in Spain beginning in 1908 was the
inception of the popular revolution
against Napoleon which ultimately
spread all over Europe and led to the
great commanders final overflow.
1t is not true that the Spanish defeat
ed Napoleon or drove him out of Spain.
Napoleon was never driven out of Spain,
and his armies were not driven out un-
til Wellington's fourth successive at
tempt, after five years in the peninsula.
In the first popular revolt a Spanish
army under Castanos besiegcd General
Dupont with 20, 000 men at Baylon,
and finally starved him into surrender.
But punishment for this defiance of the
emperor was sudden and awful. Napo-
leon himself entered Spain in 1865, and
made short work of the English and
Spanish. In four days Marshal Lefevre
dispersed Blako's army and Lannes
overwhelmingly defeated Castanos at
Tudela. On Dec. 2 Napoleon appeared
before Madrid in person, and on the 4th
the city surrendered The emperor
forthwith abolished feudalism and
swept the hoary inquisition out of ex-
istepce. The Spanish patriots were soon
crushed, except for guerrilla bands and
Sir John Moore, before the combined
advance CT Napoleon and Soult fell
back into Portugal and embarked his
troops, losing his Own life i'll the stub
born battle of Coruna. Compelled to
leave Spain by the menacing attitude of
Austria which was preparing itself for
another whipping, Napoleon left Soult
and Victor to preserve order in Spain.
And they did for the most part until
Wellington S victory ut Victoria in 1919
gave him control of the peninsula.
That IS the way the Spanish defeated
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.
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when Dewey Fought.

Manila is about 1G3 degrees west
from Baltimore, but in computing
time it is counted from west to east,
or 1877 degrees east of Baltimore, and
the difference in time is Is hours.
This would make the time of Dewey's
battle here about O'Clock on Sunday
night. Manila is located 1877 degrees
east of Baltimore, and for each 10 de-
grees OF longitude there is q differ
euce of l hour in time. AT our sun
rise, or day break, therefore, the day
will be Is hours old at Manila, So that
an event occurring at a given time by
Baltimore standards Tor Richlnondl,
will occur 13 hours later by those of
Manila The earth revolves on lis
axis once in 81 hours from west to
east. 50 that the farther east is a
country or city, the sooner does it
come into the line of the sun, and as
we say, tie sooner does day break. )"
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ATTHE AQUARIUM.
A Feeding Time Incident of Life In the
Balanced Tanks

SAtiiuccO AhHhs'-
When the decorator crab gets too big
for its she'll, it does what many other
shelltish dot sheds it. emerging WITH
its new she'll already formed, but at
that stage of its growth rliable and not
much thicker than paper. In It's soft
she'll state it is comparatively defense
less. and it keeps out of the way OF other
shellfish if it can. but its new shell
soon hardons, and then it goes about IL
It's accustomed manner
The decorator increases greatly, per-
hans a third III size, almost immediate
" after leaving its old shell, which 1t
scarcely seems possible it could ever
have inhabited, but it gets ont OF the
old shell nevertheless without damag-
ing it and leaving it often disposed IN q
most lifeliie form.
The decorators 1t the aquarium are
fed separately, so that each Will be sure
TO get its portion The food is put down
60 them OH the Zip of 4 little stick,
which is shaken gently over them, and
the food thus detached fails within the
crabs grasp. There is 10 current i'll the
balanced tanks in which the smaller
decorators are, and anything dropped III
tho water drops straight down. The
either day there We're found IN enc OF
these tanks, clingins TO the viva, two
decorators, which were supplied. as
usual. BIZ placing their food il the We
Ter where they wouid be sure TO get 1t.
Being somewhat pressed for time that
day. however, TIE man who fed them
did not wait TO see the crabs actually
eat. He placed their food within reach
and trusted them to do the rest.
But CHANGING in ut this tank on his
return from feeding the small fishes and
things in the other balanced tanks he
saw the two decorators that he had
found on the ulva still there and IL pre-
cisely the same attitudes rs before, and
then he realized that they were not live
crabs, but sheddings. He had been feed
ing empty shells. On taking them out
OF the tank he found inside of one Of
them the fragment of food which he
had dropped for it, which had fallen
into it through the opening between
the upper and the lower part of the
shell which the crab had made in get
ting ont.
1t may be that the two decorators for
merly residing in these shells, but now
secure in some distant part of the tank
with new shells hardening on their
backs, smiled rs they thought OF the
feeding CT their empty shells. 1t IS GER
tain that the man who fed them smiled
as he arranged them for preservation in
the aQuarium's collections. -New York
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Army of FIVE Thousand TO be Sent to
the Philippines.

San Francisco. May 1T is be.
lieved here that the expedition to re-
lieve Commodore Dewey will leave
the city next Saturday. The de
partment has been ordered to pre-.
pare both the Australia and the City
of Pekin to receive troops ana as
the two ships can only carry about
:. 500 men, other vessels will be char.
tered. The cruiser Charleston has
a crew Of 2S7 men aud could accom-
MEDIATE the marine and regulars that
the government intends sending
TO the front.
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OFFICIAL SPANISH REPORT.
Governor. General August SAYS The
Losses on His Side Numbered G1S.

Madrid, May San official dispatch
from General August, Governor
General of the Philippines, sent by
way of the Island of Labuan. says:
1.-THE enemy seized Cavite and the
arsenal owing to the destruction of
the Spanish squadron, and establish
ed close blockade. 1t is said that,
at the request Of the consuls, the
enemy will not lombard Manila for
the present, provided do not open
fire upon the enemy's squadron, which
is out of range Of our guns. There
fore, cannot fire until they come
nearer.
"a thousand sailors arrived here
yesterday evening from cur Destroy
ed squadron, the losses Of which
number six hundred and eighteen"
A conference of the authorities has
been held. at which itewas decided TO
send influential emissaries TO
the Philippine provinces to raise
the spirit of the people especially
those provided with arms, and to try
to induce them to abandon the in
surrection.
An official. dispatch received in
Ill ny wa vi li)utili, on ~
and a British colony six miles from
the coast Of Borneo, says the Span.
iards have captured the Island Of
Panay, one of the Philippine group,
which is said to have been the head
quarters of the Instruction. Panay,
it is alleged, was defended by four
thousand insurgents, and it is said
that 172 of them were killed on the
spot, while 500 others are reported to
have been killed while retreating.
The Spanish official dispatch states
that only two Spanish officers and 70
soldiers were wounded. According
to the Spanish officials, the Spanish
military operations at Panay are
looked upon az being most import
ant for the pacification of the Is
lands.'
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Lau.lcd by English Press.

London, May 3.-The comment Oh
5I,a battle ut Manila as the details
come il, Is flatiering to Admiral Dew
ey and The American Navy,
Tie Times says; The destruction
ol tie Spanish fleet was complete, as
c,i:,;iIstl. rs any achieveinenr record
ed in naval annals, Admiral Dewey
s:iowing himself worthy alike of the
cre... traditions Of t.4e United States
:.mrA. and OF his XII ship with the
race that produced Nuison.n
The Standard remarks: Admiral
Dewey has evidently taken us his
model dispatch writing that laconic
British sailor of famous memory, who
reported decisive naval victory
thus: Engaged enemy yesterday
Captured ships as per margin"
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Greatest Monument to Mans nandiwo-k.
''The greatest structure ever raised
by the hand Of man, writes William
George Jordan of 1.-The Greatest Things
IN the World" in The Ladies Home
Journal, sis the great pyramid Of
Cheops, founded 1900 years ago and
measuring TAG feet square Oh the base
and 449 feet high. 1t took 20 years in
construction, 100, 900 men working for
three months, and being then relieved,
were succeeded by an equally large
CORPS. The massive stones were brought
from Arabia, 700 miles away. The cost
If the work is estimated at S145, o0o,-
D00."
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TRIALS OF A PUBLIC MAN.
1t Takes Time to Get Used to the Ways
&c Nn,rsnannr Cnrrcsnnndants

1t Takes Time to Get Used to the Ways
Of Newspaper Correspondents.
a new member of the senate was
complaining TO an old member of some
of the difficulties he was encountering.
For one thing" he said, these news
paper fellows don't always get things
straight. 1 don't mean to accuse them
OF carelessness or of Intentional misrep-
resentation, but now and then some re-
markable stories are printed about me
at home"
You'll get used to that" replied
the veteran. "That won't hurt. That's
part of Your apprenticeship. I've been
all along there. Let me tell you of a
little experience of mine. Soon after l
first came here picked up paper from
my state and saw it asserted i'll a letter
from Washington that my colleague
and myself had met and arranged u
slate, and thatall the patronage for the
state would be distributed according to
that arrangement.
'sThere was no warrant for the state
menu, anu L lUtlc III ull4eS lOi eHC SOA :
RESPONDENT He came TO see me and
proved to be a bright aud most agreea-
Bile young man. asked him for his au-
thority, and be pleasantly refused to
give it, but said that he had every faith
in his informant. To that l replied that
ali would ask, then, would be the
privilege OF denying the story-of put
ting my statement against the other.
He said that was only fair and that he
would attend to the matter.
"When the correction appeared, it
read something like this: Your CORE
spondent's story about the deal between
Senator - and his colleague, By
which the patronage of the state is to
be divided between them, has raised
quite stir here There is no question
as to its absolute truth. But Senator
=, who evidently has been ratified
by the publication, now solemnly as
sures your correspondent that he had
nothing whatever to do with the deal. ;
After that 1 went slow on corrections. ="
Bangor Wing and Courier.
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President Mckinley sent q message
to Congress Monday recommending
that a vote of thanks be given to
Acting Rear Admiral Dewey and tile
officers and men of his fleet for the
victory at Manila Both houses of
Congress responded promptly with
the passage of joint resolution.
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One Of the Gates Conc.

There is a joke up at Amherst college
that IL is easy for the boys to get in or
cut Of college because there are Coates
at each end, President Gates and Jan
itor Gates, WHO have been il charge Of
the building ever since 1860 The joke
is now broken, as PRESIDENT Gates AID
his family have gone to Europe On q
long leave of absence.
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Dewey Promoted.

Washington, May o. President
Mckinley sent a message TO Congress
this AFTERNOON complimenting Com
modore Dewey, recommending vote
of thanks, and appointing him a rear
Admiral.
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Berlin, May emperor William
saws of the Manila naval battle:
;.There is evidently something be
sides smartness and commercialism
in Yankee blood. The fellows at
Cavite have fought like veterans
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Great Bargains
IN =
,JEElUEERY
ALL
j. ADEA-s Elm.
Cnancocs, Va.
PracticaI Matchmaker { JeweIer.

I carry a large and select line
of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Silverware of all
kinds-prices reduced very low.
Special attention paid to repair
work on fine Watches, Clocks,
Spectacles and Jewelry at bed
rock prices. All work guaran-
teed to be frst-class. Highest
prices paid for old gold and sill.
yer.
Will be at Accomac G. H.,
every court-day for repairing.
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Capt. Howard.

. a III u L WV IL C1A L.
Capt. Howard.
Tuesdays and Fridays for Cri.ficld,
Tangier Island, Finney's, Guam
cock, Shelltown, Pitts Wharf, Ce-
dar Hall, Rehoboth, Powell's, POGO
inoke City, Mattaponi. and Snow
Hill. Observation-Disclosures and
Thursdays, leave Snow Hill, u Il. III,
Mattaponi $50, Pocomoke City 5,
Powells $50, Rehobo1h 8, Cedar
Hall $50, Pitts wharf 10, Shelltown,
1915, Onancock 800 p. H., Finney's
3, Tangier Island 4:30, Crisfield 6.
STEAMER EASTERN SHORE.
Capt. II. H. Raynor.
Wednesdays and Sundays for Girls
field, Barborton, Evans, Boggs,
Cedar View, Nandua, Concord,
Reads, Davis. Shields ard Rue's
RETURNING leaves Rue's
Tuesdays and Fridays s, Shields
$40. Davis 1000, Reads 1920, Con-
cord II, Nandua 1870, Cedar View
1915, Boggs 2:45, Evans 3, Harbor-
ton 3:15, Crisfield 4.
STEAMER TANGIER.
Mondays and Thursdays for Fords.
Crisfield, Fnney's, Onancock,
Hunting Creek and Messongo. RE
TURNING-leaveW Wednesdays and
Saturdays, Messongo 6, Hunting
Creek, $ 30, Onancock, $3.50, Fin
ney's, 3, Crisfield, 6, Ford's 7;3O.
All Steamers leave Cristield for Balti
more on arrival of last down train.
Freight and passengers received
for all points on the n. Y, 'hila. and
Norfolk. Wicomico and Pocomoke r.
r. daily, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia Railroads.
Positively no freight received after
4:3O p Ill. and must be prepaid to all
points, except on the n. Y.
Phila. and Norfolk Railroad.
Willard Thompson, T. Murdoch,
Gen'l. Manager. Gen'l Pass. Ag't.
j. Sawyer Wilson, Jr.,
Gen'l. Freight Agent.
III f. Baltimore st.
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ScHrDuLr OF TIE
Baltimore, Chesapeake T. Atlantic
Railway Company,

Until further notice, will run their
steamers as follows. weather per
mitting,) leaving South st. Wharf ar
500 o'clock p. III.
STEAMER POCOMOKE.
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DEWEY LANDS AT cAv1Ta.

Washington, May IA second dis
patch from Commodore Dewey an
nounces that he has taken the forti-
fication and landed marines at Ca
wife. He holds 25G wounded Span
iards as prisoners. Manila is at his
mercy. BE needs nothing at present.
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"f'' stops for passengers on signal
to conductor. SDaily, except Sunday
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TILE oEEIC1AL REPORT.
nEwEy CIR TuE cARLF

DEWEY CUT THE CABLE.
Washington, May 7.-Commodore
Dewey reports that he cut the cable
himself. He has insufficient troops
to occunV Manila
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CHAPTER XXI.

Two days later Lampkin received a
note from Hendricks 1t ran as follows:
Be at your Office tonight at o'clock.
HENDRIcKs
When the detective came. the doctor
was busy examining under powerful
microscope some consumption germs
which had that afternoon been sent him
by distinguished physician.
Busy, i see," was Hendricks greet
ing as he sat down i'll an easy chair and
dropped his slouched hat on the floor.
How are you? Through in a min
ute," responded the doctor. 81 want to
get at the nature of this batch of germs
Conway sent me this afternoon. I know
little about such things, but he always
wants me to sanction his conclusions. "
What sort are they?" asked Hen
bricks absentmindedly.
81. Lampkin laughed, with his eye to
the microscope. 4'r2 ,
do you expect me to waste valuable
lung power explaining things to you
when your mind is a thousand miles
away? GO tol What luck at Benton 's?'',
Not much" answered Hendricks.
I'm stranded. Would you believe, old
man, that night before last, after we
got back from East Orange, went
home, went to bed, failed to sleep, got
up, walked to Central park and back
and then went out to Benton's?"
II shouldn't have been surprised il
You had taken your passage to Europe
ON half inflated life preserver. But,
really, did you go back ont there?"
That's what did. You see, was
satisfied Montcastle's yarn was straight,
and all at once ii seemed to dawn on
me that had absolutely nothing to
work on except the bullet which had
lodged so lightly in the wall Of the
summer house."
But Allen put III DR.. Lampkin,
removing one Of the glass slides from
ms inieroscope and selecting smother.
II thought aB le'fat ia Ina,B
No" Hendricks broke In ; "I haven I
. blasted bit of evidence against him.
The fact that he bad quarreled with old
Benton when Benton was rowing with
every soul around him wouldn't count
ior anything. So. you see. IL was the
bullet or nothing. Anyway it kept me
from sleeping. ! crept into the grounds
at the side gate and by the light of q
dark lantern carefully examined the
wood in which the ball had lodged,
hoping that some idea would pop into
my Uranium, as it often does"
You usually have ideas to spare, ~
remarked Lampkin. adjusting the green
shade over his eyes and looking again
into his microscope. "Have you heard
how Allen is getting ony' lfst
II don't know much about him" re-
piled Hendricks. "Kola IL looking aft
er him. He has been about Benton's nj