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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-29
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMISSIONER
WILSON.
HEAVY INCREASE IN RECEIPTS OVER THE PRE-
v1or,s FISCAL, YEAR-woRKING OF THE WAR
REVENUE ACT-CHANGBS IN EXIST
ING LAW RECOMMENDED.

ING LAW RECOMMENDED.
Washington Nov. @-Commissioner George W.
Wilson of the Internal Revenue Bureau, In MS re-
port to the Secretary Of the Treasury or the opera
lions OF his office for the fiscal year ended June So
1899 shows that the receipts from all sources az
eregated s273 4s4573 an increase over the preceding
year OF slO26l7 900. and an increase OF S4S0'S over
the estimate Of the Commissioner made one year
ago The receipts from the several sources OF rev.
enue in the last year and the increase or decrease
in each as compared with the year 1898, are given
as follows:
Spirits 500 2ss. 534; increase. Sc 1868
Tobacco S52 403. 20T; increase. SIC 262 $50 49, -. 80.
Fermented liquors S0s.6i455S; increase. So, lBl3I'
Oleomargarine 81 $3.50 els; increase, SG4OSSS.
Filled cheese sls.09s: increase s1.5I9.
Mixed -four, 81 $40: law not In force last year
Special elsewhere enumerated Sf9il,o4l; law
not In force only small part Of last year.
Lesaces and dsributlve shares OF personal property
stamp taxes under Schedule A Of the War Revenue
Act SIS. 6lS.0S1.
Medicinal proprietary articles and preparations required
be stamped under Schedule OF the act So2l0 I3'
Among the collections given above are the follow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-29
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.

The report on the bill has been prepared by
Representative Overstreet, Of Indiana, who In
troduced the original bill Of the Monetary Com
mission in 1898, and has been distributed to
the Republican members OF the House. Mr..
Overstreet frankly admits that the committee
Ibid not consider the general subject of bank
Ing, nor did it seek TO arrange a complete
scheme Of finance, but confined its recommenda-
tons to those subjects OF most pressing de-
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under this system, for the reason that either the
note Is in circulation or II redeemed its equi'a-
lent is in circulation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-29

Second Lieutenant HARRY CRAIG WILLIAMS is az
signed 10 the 18th Infantry, and will proceed to Gov
errors Island. He will be assigned to company oil
the 10Th InfSntry serving In Cuba.
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CHANGE IN NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY
WITHDRAWAL, OF MEssRs ELKINs. wIDENER
AND DoLAN DUE TO OTHER BUsI-
NESS INTERESTS.

NESS INTERESTS.
Philadelphia Nov. 8.-The statement that P. A.
B. Widener. William l.. EIkins and Thomas Dolan.
OF this city, had withdrawn from the Telegraph.
Telephone and Cable Company of America. re-
Gently organized in New-York and incorporated at
Trenton with a capital OF $50, 100000 was confirmed
to-day Thomas Dolan stated that Messrs. Wldener
and Elkins and himself had withdrawn from the
Board OF Directors OF the company. He did not
wish the idea to out that this action showed
being due TO the fact that the continuance OF the
Phlladelphans on the B9ar1 woua corrcr
IL is believed that Messrs. Wldener, Elklns ana
Doan VII retain STOCK @ this Gould c9 be- pobtaned
Mona Of the local interests identified with the
Whitney syndicate would discuss yesterday tho
withdrawal of Messrs. Wdener Ekns and Dolan
from the Telephone. Telegraph and Cable Com
pany Of America An officer OF that company was
quoted Yesterday afternoon. however. as declaring
that the action Of the Philadelphia capitalists
would have no prejudclal effect on the company,
adding:
We have secured options on great many In
dependent telephone companies in the two years
that the plan has been forming, and feel that we
are on a solid basis We think that there Is d
chance for company TO make money by giving
good telephone service, and giving It much cheaper
than IL can be had at present The service may,
Of rates, and 1t Is Idea TO get general service
all over tho country. 50 that we may enlarge 1t to
make the material leuuClloH VI ldleS leGSlDlt.
II was reported yesterday on good authority
that the control OF the Hudson Telephone Com
pany in Jersey City. WHICH was recently said to
have been secured by tie Telephone. Telegraph and
Gable Company of America, had in fact passed TO
the Bell Telephone Company.
NEW TELEPHONE co. FOR NETWORK.
Albany. Nov. 2S-The Independent Telephone
Company. OF NewYork City. with a capital stock
Of 100000, which may be increased to s20ooC0OO.
fled articles OF Incorporation to-day with the Sec
rotary OF State.
Besides operating It's lines I'm New-York City its
route will take I'm MOntauk Point Rouses Point
South Ripley and other places In the State and
States
The directors are Frederick Myers James Rus
sell. c. w. Phillips. Henry Ten Eycll Wendell OF
New-York City; Franklin Noble, Charles Tremaine
and James c. Merwin, OF Brooklyn.
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WALTHAM WATCHES .

The best and most reliable timekeepers
made in this country or in any other.
The "Peyeeed american Wtcb, illustrated book of it,
lyssting information about pacbss ao be sent UPON ,quest
Ameria u WaAbam Ntateb Co., WaHban. Mass.
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ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

Washington. Nov. %.-The following Army anc
Navy orders have been issued:
ARMY.
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his vigilance. To ask the consent OF the
officer of the day or the connivance of the
guard was to invite them to court arrest
and trial on their own account. He
couldn't do that even to oblige a Brother
Delt. II only Ned Craven were officer
OF the guard something might be
done-he was a college man, too,
and though not a "Delt." but rather
OF a rival set, he would under
stand and possibly help. Guard mount was
held toward dusk and that was four hours
away, at least. The prisoners note and tone
were urgent. An idea occurred to Billy:
What IL he could get Gordon to let him Ego
on" this very evening 1t wasn't his tour.
He had marched off, only two days before,
as he well remembered. for Canker had
"roughed' him UP and down about that lit
tie error in copying the list OF prisoners from
the report of tho previous day. Moreover,
he had counted on going to town right after
retreat" dining at the Palace, an extrava-
gance not to be thought of at other times, so
as to be on hand when the Primes and Amy
Lawrence came down to dinner. He had
planned 1t all-even to the amount Of sur
prise he was to exhibit when he should dis
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ice In 81 as a private In a city company
that was militia to the tip OF its pike
tailed coats, but he had forgotten it, II
want these young idlers 20 understand dis
tinctly. by George, that the FIRST prisoner
that gets away from this post takes some
body's commission with him D'you hear
that, Mr.. Gray7" And Canker turned and
glared at the bright blue eyes as though
he would like to blast their clear fires with
the breath Of disapprobation. Has that
young fellow, Morton. been put in irons
yeti" he suddenly asked, whirling on Cor
don again.
Think not, sir. Supplies limited. ON
cer-of-the-day reported half an hour ago
every set was in use. Sent over TO division
quartermaster and he answered that we had
a dozen more'n we we're entitled to now,
Wanted to know II we meant to iron the
whole regiment"
THE hell he didi' ragged Canker. "rll set
tie that In short order. My horse there,
orderlyl I'll be back by 4, Mr.. Gordon.
Fix that detail to suit yourself" And SO
saying the irascible colonel flung himself
, out OF the tent and into his saddle.
You young IDIOT" sail Gordon, whirling
on Billy the moment the coast was clear.
"You cam within an ace OF running the
whole thing. Never ask Canker for anything
unless it's what you wish to be rid OF. Tell
Brooke you're for guard. and he's to go to
town instead"
Hopping mad" as he himself afterward
expressed 1t, Colonel Canker had ridden over
to have 1t OUT with the quartermaster who
had ventured to comment on his methods,
but the sight Of the commanding general.
standing alone at the entrance to his private
tent, his pale face grayer than ever and a
world Of trouble in his eyes, compelled Can
ker to stop short. Two or three orderlies
| were on the run. we aides-de-camp, Mr..
Garrison and a comrade. were searching
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the troops now breaking into column Of
twos and slowly climbing the stage. who
would want to go with that blessed old
undertaken p" Goodbye-bon voyage.
Geordie!" she cried, blowing a kiss to tho
lieutenant at the head OF the second troop,
a youth who blushed and looked confused
at the attention thereby centered upon him,
and who would fain have shaken his fist
rather than have waved the one u%noccupied
hand in perfunctory reply. when I go I'll
choose a ship with a band and broad decks,
not any such cramped old canal boat as
the Portland
"oh! I thought perhaps your husband"
began the lady obviously, but with a signif-
cant glance at the silent faces about her.
who? Frank Garrison? Heavensi I
haven't known what 1t was to have a hus-
band-since that poor dear boy went on stan
duty promptly nswered the diminutive
center OF attraction. a merry peal Of laughter
ringing under the dingy archway of the
long. long roof. why. the Portland has
only one stateroom in it big enough for a.
bandbox. and of course the general has I'd
have that, and there isn't q deck where,
one couple could turn q slow waltz. No.
indeed! walt for the next f%otilla, when our
fellows go, bands and all. Then We'll see."
But surely. Mrs. Garrison, we are told
the War department has positively for
hidden officers wives from going on the,
transports" again began her interrogation,
a wistful look in her tired eyes. II know,
I'd give anything to Join Mr.. Dutton."
THE War department has to take orders
quite as often as 1t gives them, Mrs. Dutton.
The thing Is to know how to be of the order
giving side. Oh, joy!" she suddenly cried.
Here are the Primes and Amy Lawreuce-
then the regiments must be coming! And
there's Stanley Armstrong;"
Ito be Continued.)
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campaign hat down over his Eyes TO shut
ont the glare Of the westering sun. But
I've got-a new wrinkle"
Some bid for Friday? That's your tour,
isn't it?" And Brooke began counting on
his fingers. walt till | look at my note
book. Friday why, that's the night OF the
Burton's card party-thought YOU didn't
know them"
II don't" said Gray, glad enough to e.
cape the other question. And you hate
card parties, YOU know you do. IT'S a go, Is
It? I'll see Gordon at once" And of he
won't, leaving Brooke to wonder why he
should be 80 bent on the arrangement.
But Gordon proved an unexpected foe to
the plan. Cant be done, Billy" said he,
sententiously. "Canker watches those de-
tails like a hawk. He hasn't forgotten you
only came off two days ago, and IL l were
TO mount you tonight he'd mount me-wtth
both feet"
Think there's any use In asking him %
queried the boy, tossing a backward glance
toward Canker's tent.
mot unless you're suffering for another
snub. That man loves to say no as much
as any girl 1 ever asked, and he doesn't do
1t to be coaxed, either. Best leave 1t alone,
Billy"
And then the unexpected happened. Into
the tent with quick, impetuous step, came
the commanding officer himself, and some-
thing had occurred to stir that gentleman
to the core. His eyes were swapping and his
head was high.
| "Mr. Gordon" said he, here's more OF
this pilfering business, and now they're be-
ginning to find out that 1t isn't all In my
camp by a damned sight. i want that letter
copied at once" Then with a glance at
Gray, who had whipped off his cap and was
standing in respectful attitude, he changed
his tone from his querulous, half treble OF
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complaint. Whats this you'd best leave
alone?" he suddenly demanded. "There are
a dozen things you'd best leave alone, and
a dozen you would do we'll to cultivate and
study. When I was-however, I never was a
lieutenant except in war time, when they
amounted to something. I got my profess
sional knowledge in front of the enemy
not at any ahmed charity school. You're
here to ask some new indulgence, l
suppose. Want to stay in town
over night and fritter, away your
money and the time the government pays
for. No. sir; you amt have my consent.
You will be back in camp at IL o'clock, and
stop and report your return to the officer OF
the guard, 30 that I may know the hour
you come in. Who's the officer Of the guard
tonight. Mr.. Gordon"
"Mr. Brooke, sir"
"Mr. Brooke! Why, I thought l told you
he was to take those prisoners In tow to-
morrow? He has to testify before that court
in the case Of Sergeant Kelly and 1t saves
my sending another officer and having two
OF our rieutenants away from drill and
hanging around the Bohemian club. Detail
somebody else!"
"All right, SIR" answered Gordon, I'M
perturbably. make any odds, sir, who is
detailed 2"
SduheT udu turned 10 MS ueSk anu WAS
tossing over the papers with nervous hand.
Gray impulsively stepped forward, his eyes
kindling with hope. 1t was on the tip OF
his tongue to launch into a proffer of his
own services for the detail, but Gordon
hastily warned him back with a sweep Of the
hand and a portentuous scowl.
mo. Ones as bad as the other. Next
thing I know SOM Of 'em will be letting
prisoners escape right under my nose, max
ing us the laughing stock Of these damned
militia volunteers" (Canker entered serv-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-17
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Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-17

through desks and boxes, their faces grave
and concerned. The regimental commander
was off his horse in a second. Anything
amiss, generate" he asked, with soldierly
salute.
The general turned slowly toward him.
Can our men sell letters" he said, "as well
as food and forage? Do people buy such
things? A most important package has been
stolen from my tent"
CHAPTER vi.
The great t~horoughfare Of that wonderful
city, seated on more than her seven hills,
and ruling the western world, was thronged
from curb to curb. Gay with bunting and
streamers, the tall buildings Of the rival
newspapers and the long facades of hotels
and business blocks were gayer still with the
life and color and enthusiasm that crowded
every window. Street trafic was blocked.
Cable cars Changed vainly and the police
strove valiantly. 1t was a day given up to
but one duty and one purpose, that OF giving
Godspeed to the soldiery ordered for service
in the distant Philippines, and, though they
hailed from almost every section Of the
Union except the Pacific slope, as though
they were her own children, with all the
hope and faith and pride and patriotism,
with all the blessings and comforts with
which she had loaded the foremost ships that
sailed, yet happily without the tears that
flowed when her own gallant regiment was
among the first to lead the way, San
Francisco turned out en- masse to
cheer the men from far beyond the
Sierras and the Rockies, and to see then
proudly through the Golden Gate. Early In
the day the gums OF a famous light battery
had been trundled, decked like some rose
covered chariot at the summer festival OF
flowers, through the winding lanes of eager
forms and faces, the cannoneers almost
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-29
Gaye Baby the Wrong Name.

A young girl had an amusing expe.
rience at q baptism the other afternoon.
She was occupying the exalted posi-
ton of sponsor for a little grl baby
and never having served in such a
proud capacity before, she was slightly
nervous and perplexed.
"What is your name ?" demanded
the clergyman performing the eere-
mony.
"Mary, sir" she replied at once,
and "Mary' was accordingly written
in a tiny book and the minister passed
on to the next applicant for baptism.
The worried sponsor listened eagerly
to what was demanded of her next
neighbor, and to her horror she found
that the question was not at all in
tended to learn the name of the spon-
sor. but was solely concerned with the
name of the infant. The agitated
godmother hurriedly approached the
clergyman, interrupting the ceremony
to exclaim:
80, sir, Mary isn't the baby's name
1t ali. It's mine. I thought you
wanted mine. The baby's name is
Rebecca Elizabeth.
And amid the irrepressible laughter
of all assembled the baby was rechris-
tened Rebecea Elizabeth.
I should never have dared to- face
its mo her, the sponsor said later,
'sbut T think the baby would have for
| piyen the mistake and blessed me for
Il. Chicago Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-29
A Long Time After MackereI,

"Not Sam Wheelock of Vestal who
disappeared fifteen years ago."
''The same"
''Well, I'm Iiggeredk"
$50 was he, so look out for your
self"
The man Just down from Bingham
ton enjoyed the look of amazement on
his old chum's face. Then he added.
Eyes, old Sam has come back with
that mackerel. You remember it was
fully fifteen years ago that his wife
sent him out for a mackerel. As he
was forty years old, she thought she
could trust him that far. He failed
to return and could not be found.
"Mrs. Wheelock in time went into
mourning and later got a divorce and
married again. Her second husband
died three years after.
"Well, ten days ago a gray-haired
and wrinkled man unceremoniously
opened the door of her home, hung
his hat upon the rack and put a pack
age upon the table. She didn't recog-
nize him, and the children were about
to drive him away, when he explained
that he was Sam Wheelock. He said
that the past up to two weeks ago,
was almost a blank to him. He re-
members being in England and Aus
tralia. and knows that he sold wash
ing machines in Manchester. He
didn't know under what name he had
been sailing nor how he has made a
living, Until told he didn't know
whether he had been away a year or
twenty years. He had saved some
one which was welcome news, any
way.
looming from Liverpool to Mon
treal in a cattle boat, it suddenly
flashed upon him who he was and
where he used to live. He hurried to
reach his old home, and in Elmira an
Erie railroad man told him that his
former wife and children were still
living. Riding in the railroad car
something told him to carry home that
mackerel.
"After being convinced that Wheel.
ock's story was true, he got shelter.
There has since been a complete re-
conciliation. New York Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-04-29
MARVELLOUS CIVIC INDUSTRY
Shoreditch in London Makes Proftabl
ISp nf @fyaot Eup

shoreditch in London Makes Profitable
Use of Street sweepings.
In a letter from London a wear apc
last summer, writes William f. Curtis,
L described a novel enterprise which
q beer entered upon by the Shore
ditch parish of London to supplv cleo.
trlclty for lighting the streets, dwell.
lngs n public buildings by
using the street sweepings for
fuel. Up 70 that date the parish had
paid about $4,000 per year for cart
ing the refuse to a barge on the river
Thames and towing it to a dumping
place IN the sea, and about $40. O4l
annually for gas to light the streets
n parish buildings. About 800, 900,
or SIG, 900 more than these annual
charges, which was met by taxing the
people, was Invested in an electric
plant, which has since beenrun twenty
four honrs for six days in the week,
andtwelve hours on Sunday, furnishing
electrical power for small manufac-
tories during the day and for illAni.
mating purposes at night. The street
sweepings have furnished almost all
the fuel necessity, The cost of coal
IN addition vas Oily s432. The total
expenditures for the first year were
$4,000 for wag$, stores, supplies,
insurance, repailf and other purposes.
The interest, sin ling fund, rents and
the ordinary allegiance for the darre-
citation of the property "as $40, 300,
M n b =, , +,+oI 80 GOO 1-- IL, ,o..
receipts for the sale Of light and
power including a credit equal to the
average charge for street lighting by
gas were $45, 1O5, thus leaving a net
profit Of $l5, $50 for the ben lit OF the
parish treasury, which will be used in
charging the plant.
Arrangements are now being made
to use the escaping steam to heat the
water of the public bath, instead OF
allowing it to go to waste.
Furnaces have been added for burn
ing the garbage collected from the
dwellings which could not be used
for fuel, and this extra expense. which
was, however. comparatively tritlng,
was more than offset by saving the
cost OF hauling the garbage TO the
barges.
The experiment has been so sue
cessful that other London parishes
are p~lannin g to adopt the samemethod,
and it is confidently predicted that in
q few years the entire city will be
lighted by electricity furnished by the
sweepings from its streets. London
is paved with wooden blocks aud small
boys are employed with brooms and
dustpans at frequent intervals from
daylight till dark to keep them clean.
The pans are dumped in large sheet
iron receptacles, which are emptied
twice a day into carts. In Shoreditch
parish each dwelling is supplied by
the vestry with two sheetiron buckets,
one for kitchen Stops and the other
for paper, dust and other combustlble
waste from the household. The buck
cts are emptied once a day into garb-
age carts. Hitherto a small tax has
been collected for this service, bat
hereafter it will be performed free OF
cost.