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"a Belleville, ILL.,, man recently added
$4,000 to his tax returns because his
"consceince commanded IT,
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SEVERAL YOUNG MEN CAN GET
nice, rooms with board. use OF bath.
& Apply at 225 26th street. 1O-1-3t*
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WANTED-PLACE WITH PRIVATE
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dress "A, Daily Press Office. 1t*
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WANTED-AT ONCE. 4 CoLoRED
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erce. apply to Capital Dry Goods
House, 2610 Washington Avenue.
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So, ooo. TO LOAN AT s PER CENT FOR
term OF five years or more, on, WASH
ington avenue real estate, Newport
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dress Box 10, Newport News, Va
9-27-6t
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rooms. suitable for light housekeep-
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ty-second street. 9-oC-lw
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WANTED-TO RENT TYPEWRITER.
Address =. G. W.. Daily Press Office.
9-3O-3t
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w A n r E D-FIFoTEEN BOARDERS
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Is the name Of that beautiful Residence
Plateau overlooking Hampton Roads,
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We are selling THREE lots there FOR
the the same price that you pay for
one lot above Dry Dock, or in the heart
OF city. m. -
Our carriage is always at the door
ana we take pleasure in showing any
one the beauties of ~
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IT you want a Macintosh coat for
| rainy weather, we have them in all
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Suburban Real Estate

Is good investment, in more than one
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or inspection. We would like to explain
TO You how you can own your own
nome and have big yard for very lit
tie more than you are paying in rent.
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WANTED BUY OR SELL ALL
kinds of furniture and household
goods. Repairing and upholstering
at short notice. A. Rybner 226 25th
street. 4-30-6mo.
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FOR RENT-NIsELY FURNISHED
rooms at S004 West avenue. lo-1-3t*
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j. E. B. STUART & co.
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FOR RENT-DESIRABLE OFFICES
suitable for Doctor. Dentist or Law
z yer. Apply to Mrs. John Whey, at
NJ. w. Tenants Photograph Studio,
$500 Washington avenue. s-5.tf
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Patented and unpatented inventions
bought and SOLD. Lucas & Co., st.
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WANTED-FOR CASH, OLD POST
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graphs. Send for buying list, r. S.
Cook, Box 3O2, Hampton, We. 5-S-tf.
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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED ONE
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seinng from cents up. Bilisoly &
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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED a
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Try them. Bilisoly & BilisoIy $3.50
Washington avenue.
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FOR RENT E.l,;

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With or without board. Suitable for
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OCTOBER 4, 1899, AT
IL O'CLOCK M.
The times., 1899-06-29
Pension Commissioner Evans.
lFrom the New Orleans Times.Dsmocrat.l }

NTioh tHS NS" Nit'1itS ihih1s- -Seiii"tfat-l
The Commissioner has shown himself possessed
Of a wonderful nose for. fraud: and the great
number of fraudulent claimants for pensions
whom he has detected and turned down are
bright feather in his cap. Saving that the Com
missioner has turned down large number Of
fraudulent claimants for pensions. Is equivalent
to saying that he has trodden heavily on the toes
Of the shark attorneys, who not only puslI but
in the majority OF instances originate. claims
which they know to be bogus and based solpiy
on fraud Every decision that the Commissioner
gives against the legality Of a claim *. As our
readers viii see, distinct slap in the face 10 the
attorney who presented it; it is. in fact. an inti
nation to the attorney that the Commissioner re-
CARDS him as seeking To get money for his client
and himself by fraudulent practices.
Nav more Commissioner Evans has not only
in many cases prevented the shark attorneys from
robbing the Treasury; he has in not a few in
stances also successfully interposcd to prevent the
same gentry from robbing their clients, the pen
sion claimants.
The times., 1899-06-29
To Train DinInrnnts

The Columbian University has inaugural
ed an innovation in educational work
which promises to be of vast and far
reaching value to the nation Its School
of Comparative Jurisprudence and Di
plomacy, which begins its second year in
October. supplies want long felt in our
educational system.
Americans acquainted with the finer
points of their country's history are aware
that in nearly every important interna-
tional dispute involving questions of great
concern cur diplomacy has been inadequate
10 the task of swerving the balance of ad-
able Instances which appeal to minds even
only ordinarily well informed are the Clay
ton Bulwer Treaty and the Paris Treaty
The harmful results of the bunglesome
and unframed methods OF our diplomacy
in the first instance are now keenly felt
by every American with sense enough TO
realize the necessity of our control of an
Isthmian canal connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific. In the basty and unscientific set
tlement of the late war with Spain our
representatives at Paris bungled their
work SO frightfully that the yeriest tyro in
the arts of diplomacy can easily discern
the mistakes made. Had these represent
atives been properly instructed-in other
words, had they been properly equipped
for the great task set before them-they
would not have left the loophoIes in the
final convention with Spain through which
the crafty and alert advisers of the Kaiser
swiftly swooped down upon the Caroline
Islands If Judge Day and the other un-
trained custodians of American interests
who instructed our delegates sent TO Paris
had been more expert at the game of di-
plomacy full advantage would have been
secured TO this country In the settlement
OF the war, and the United States would
have divided with Great Britain and Japan
alone control of the vast commerce OF the
North Pacific Solely for the lack of the
necessary skin. and training on our part
powerful rival has been allowed TO get a
valuable fo0thold in the territory from
which to contest with US, inch by inch. the
ground of greatest promise for the expan-
sion OF our trade and commerce. More
than that Germany has, in the Caroline
group, Pacific possession which may be
The times., 1899-06-29
The KAISER Friedrich to he Returned
to Her Builders

New York., June 2S.-The steamship
Kaiser Friedrich will not return to this
country under the North German Lloyd
flag. She is to be returned at once to her
builders for the reason that she did not
make the required number of knots per
hour on her trip. Passengers who had ell
gagged berths on her for the July IS sail
ing from New York were notified today
that the Prinz Regent Luitpold would re-
place her, and that they can have accom-
modations reserved on her or on the Trave,
sailing July %.
been sold for her July trip eastward and
there had been some booking for her Au-
gust trip. In addition to this she was en-
gagged full for her next proposed sailing
from the other side. and most of the
berths for her proposed sailing from the
other side in September had been taken.
AS the Kaiser Friedrich carried more than
500 first and secOnd-class passengers this
means that several thousand person who
had planned to travel on her will be dis
appointed. 1t was said at the company 5
office today that the withdrawal of the
ship at this time was a great surprise and
had caused a tremendous amount of bother
1t was the work OF the home office and had
been done without notice in advance to
the agents here. who simply got a cable
despatch informing them of what had been
done, and giving no reason other than
the one already made public that the
conditions of the contract for the new boat
had not been fulfilled.
The times., 1899-06-29

whether the music killed them or merely
gave them a paralytic shock From MEM
ories of the average town band and the
daily hand organ most people will think
that the story is not surprising.
Possibly the music cure may be extend
ed to othsy insect plaques. openair con-
certs are sIfshally attended by large num-
bers of mosquitoes and other winged
pests, but no one has ever attempted to
evolve a programme which would destroy
this undesirable audience. Perhaps the
proper sort of music would. 1t may be
that a iudicious selection of melodies
played upon the banjo would charm the
ants out of the sugar barrel and the cock
reaches out of the water pipes, and cause
a migration of spiders from the cellars.
The average kitchen maid has neither the
ability nor the inclination to sing, but
perhaps. if she had, there might be an
other orphean legend.
But. after all, perhaps this is one of the
discoveries which should not be pushed
tco far. 1t is conceivable that some forms
of the music cure might be worse than
mosquitoes, or the melanolestes picipes.
If one were condemned to hear Pied
Piper of Sunny Italy grind out unjustly
popular songs under his windows all day
long to drive away the flies he might be
moved to take out, the screens and invite
the insects to come in and have dinner.
The times., 1899-06-29
-
JAPAN AND MILITARIsM.
ViscOunt Miura and Count Okuma
Against Great Armnments.

Vancouver, B. c., June 2S.-The assem-
bling of the Peace Conference at The
Hague has led Viscount Miura the fire.
eating Japanese general, to join hands
with Count okuma in crusade against the
extension of the army and navy and the
increase of taxes.
The Viscount thinks that Japan is under
no necessity OF being prepared for military
action, and recently said that China has
neither power nor intention to fight us.
The Siberian Railway being unfit for rapid
transportation Of troops, Russia ought not
to be a cause of disquietude on our part,
while no European power would be able
to send an army of 10000 or $4,000 to the
Far East.
1T is not necessary that Japan would
take the Far Eastern fleets OF European
powers as the standard of her navy. In a
war in which this country may be involved,
decisive battles will be fought on land in
the last resort, and naval defeat, there
fore, is not of serious consequence. Neither
is this country in need of standing army,
Seeing that the European powers are not
able to send large military forces, there
will be ample time after the breaking off
of diplomatic relations TO make the requi-
site preparation for repelling foreign in
yasion.''
This action of Viscount Miura's has Gre
ated sensation in Japan.
The times., 1899-06-29
Destroying a Pest.

A new way OF destroying caterpilIars has
been discovered by an inhabitant OF the
CatslNill Mountains. and there is no know
ing whether the method may not become
general. II is reported that the maple
and apple trees in that region have suf-
tered severely from a plague of caterpil-
lars, and that by chance it was discovered
that they are susceptible TO music A wom-
an happened TO blow a horn under a maple
tree one day, and Immediately a shower
OF the fuzzy pests fell all around
and over her. She decamped, but
paused at little distance and
again blew the horn More caterpjI-
lars dropped 1t appeared that they were
attracted by the noise. She told her story.
and an Italian with hand organ, a i'd
dIer, and the town brass band turned cut
and went around playing the worms of
the trees. II seemed not to make any dif-
ference what tune was played; the results
were the same In course of time all the
caterpillars were swept up and destroyed,
and the town breathed once more.
The effect of the music was not fatal,
but seemed TO be literally stunning OF
course, When the worms were once dis
lodged IL was easy enough to get rid OF
them, and 1t made no particular difference
The times., 1899-06-29

utilized to stupendous advantage as a
point d'appui in the dread event of harsher
conflict than trade competition.
These two instances-the Clayton Bull
wer Treaty and the Paris Treaty-alone
serve to show the pressing need of men
specially fitted to consider and wisely de-
termine international and diplomatic
questions. The work along this line in
augurated with such encouraging promise
of success by the Columbian University
here at the National Capital, through its
School of Comparative Jurisprudence and
Diplomacy is. therefore. to be commended
by all Americans possessed of proper
understanding OF our relations to the world
and of our duty as a nation calmly and
resolutely facing a destiny higher and
nobler than any ever heretofore attained
by any other.
The times., 1899-06-29
MIR. aUAY's VISIT TO FLORIDA.
The Senator Going South to Mnnipu-
late Pennsylvania Politics.


Senator Quay, accompanied by few per-
scnal and political friends, left yesterday
from Harrisburg Pa. for an outing of
three or four weeks at his country place
near st. Lucie. Fla. The Senator goes
South ostensibly for health and recreation,
but It Is highly probable that he will re-
tarn in ample time to confer with his
lieutenants and to shape the nominations
in the coming State convention. With his
habitual reticence he refused yesterday to
state his choice for the important SUI
preme Court judgeship. nor is it certain
that he will. arrive at any definite con-
clusicn until he has benefited by the re-
freshing invigerating atmosphere and en-
virorment Hof st. Lucie.
st. Lucie. Fla, is the Mecca to which
Senator Quay is in the habit of turning
his face and his footsteps whenever doubt,
hesitation. or difficulty confronts him in
Pennsylvania politics. 1t was in st. Lucie
that the memorable Delamater nomination
was determined upon by the Senator and
his friends. and it was from the same ter
ritorially distant but politically strategic
point that the resourceful Senator met and
watched the Wanamaker and anti-Quay
campaigns of the last six years. 1t is a
small village st. Lucie. but large enough
to accommodate the senior Senator from
Pennsylvania and such intimate friends
of his as Senator Penross. former Speaker
Boyer Lieutenant Governor Lyon. and
other leaders of ample influence in Penn
sylvania politics.
During the Senator's absence the dele
gates to the coming State convention will
be elected, and by the time he returns
everything will be in readiness for the
selecting of the judiciary nominee. 1t is
thought by some that Judge Pennypacker,
of Philadelphia. may be chosen in spite of
the fact that that city already has two
representatives, Judges Fell and Mitchell,
en- the Supreme Court bench. II, however,
political expediency necessitates a choice
from another section of the State. Judge
Archibald, of Scranton, may be selected.
1t is well known fact that Senator Quay.
for obvious reasons. is not in love with a
certain element of his party in Philadel-
phia, and it is not improbable that he will
seize this opportunity to punish his op-
ponents in certain quarters by nominating
for the Supreme judgeship a candidate Sc
leeted from a section of the State less hos
tile to his interests than the Quaker City.
The Senator is, however. a resourceful pol
itician, and understands as few others do
the wisdom of conciiiation. "He gains
doubly who makes foes friends" is one of
his principles of political conduct. 1t will.
therefore, be no surprise to those who
know him intimately If Senator Quay nom
mates for the Supreme Court judgeship one
Of his nominal enemies, with the evident
purpose of softening certain asperities and
of silencing certain critics hitherto hostile
to his purposes.
The times., 1899-06-29
Rnisc the Standards.

CFrOm the st. Paul Pioneer Press.)
It is almost inexpicable how people can toler-
ate the assumption by pretenders of calings for
which they have had preparation, especially
when upon preparation and competency So much
depends in the domains Of law and medicine
We seldom hire carpenter or a blacksmith or a
gardener unless satisfactory evidence is
produced OF his having served an apprentice
ship The apprenticeship in most mechanical
callings lasts from four TO seven years Before
entering upon that period of tutelage the youth
has in many cases received as much schooling as
the average matTiculate at medical or law
school Yet the latter, in such an adj
vanced state Minnesota, is let loose after three
years, to complete his education at the expense
of his clients patients; and in other States he
need never have the inside OF a school even
while with more or less cheerfulness we concede
his right to demand compensation for his
professional services from ten to twenty times
as much as we pay the educated and qualified
mechanic
The times., 1899-06-29
ApoIogizins for .Irer
From the Philadelphia North Ama-;o,r

VIUrI rIIe THIIaueIpHla Nofth American.)
The earnestness of the nationwide hostility 70
Mr. Alger Is due. in great part, TO the people 5
want of personal knowledge OF the man. To
know Mr.. Alger is TO forgive him. lie means
no harm. but he is so constituted mentally that
what seems mbecile and bungling to other men
appears to him the perfection of efficient man
agement, What he does is ever done in the best
possible way. He is one of those happy persons
who can never be Convinced that he is capable of
making mistake, Of falling short in ability to
respond TO any demand that may be made upon
his powers Results have no effect upon his mind
His trouble is congenital-nature gave Mr. Alger
the kind of head Mr. Algcr has. Manifestly, he il
no more TO blame for that than he would be for
a club foot Therefore. it is both rmphilosophicaI
and unjust to be angry with Mr.. Alger And il is
equally unreasonable TO ask him 10 expand his
intellect 10 the extent of seeing himself or his
performances, either Secretary or Senatorial
candidate. others them. To ask that is
equivalent to inviting iron dog to grow, and
then being indignant with it for not complying
The times., 1899-06-29
Playing n Double Game.

IT IUll INT TIIIIduVII''IIa IstVVI0l-T
Secretary Alger. with his accustomed Ingenious
ness and simplicity. pleads that ANY man can
aspire TO the United States Senate and he does
not see why he should be made an exception.
But others see that he should not have the ad-
vantage Of the patronage and influence of the
War Department in his aspirations for the SEN
ate Is it not enough for Secretary Algcr that he
has the support of Governor Pingree. who does
not conceal his hostility to President Mckinley?
In his aspirations for the Senate the Secretary OF
War endcavors ''to run two tables playing on
one the Administration and on the other the Pin
gree opponents of the Administration in Michigan
for all they are worth.
The times., 1899-06-29

The officials of the State Department ex-
press surprise over the report from Lon
don that Sir Julian would not return to
the United States as British Ambassador.
When Sir Julian left Washington in April
to participate in the Peace Conference at
The Hague as the head of the British DEL
egation he had every reason to believe that
he would return to his post. There were
several matters of a diplomatic nature in
which he was particularly interested and
he said that he desired to arrange these
before retiring from this capital Sir
Julian is already past the retiring age of
the British diplomatic service. When he
reached the age limit of service he was
continued on commission which will ey-
pire in April next, when, it is expected. he
will retire permanently. 1t is believed in
official quarters here that he will be per
mitted to close his diplomatic career as
Ambassador in Washington.
The times., 1899-06-29
MIR. McKinIey's Kind Tolerance.
Hrnm the philndelnhin TimesN

HTom the Philadelphia Times.)
President less kind-hearted than Mckinley
would never have permitted the Alger stumbling
block to have grown to such huge proportions.
Alger should have been dismissed from the Cabi-
net or generously invited to resign long ago. He
has brought more scandals upon the Administra-
tion by army abuses, affecting not oay the health
and lives of many soldiers. but demoralizing the
Army to large extent by the attempt to man
ufacture unmerited heroes, and to degrade honest
heroism, than have come from the whole range
of mere political discussion; and the recent COIN
plication that Alger has precipitated in Michigan
politics is simply the logical result OF the rresi
dents tolerance OF Algerism.
The times., 1899-06-29
Misery Love, Compnnv.

(From the st. Louis GlobeDemOcrat.)
Germany has trouble the Samoan issue. and
on several issues of domestic politics. France has
its Dreyfus tangle and a few kindred scandals
England is bothered over the Boer problem, one
of her big parties apparently desiring war, while
the other is split up on the question. Spain 5
politics, OF course. will be unsettled for a year
to come, and possibly for many years, on account
Of the loss OF her territory in the American war
The United States is not the only great nation
which has delicate political problems on hand.
The times., 1899-06-29

There is an alarming rumor afloat to the
effect that the Navy Department intends
to make Sampson its representative for the
purpose of receiving Admiral Dewey on
the latter's approach to the shores of
America. If the story has a grain of
truth in it Mr. Mckinley and Mr. Long
will certainly hear from the country on
the subject. Admiral Dewey has done
nothing TO justify his being insulted by the
Administration, upon which he has shed
most of what glory it can claim.