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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-30
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NoTICE-By order

SPECIAL NOTICE-By order of the Eoard
of Directors and in conformity to the
bylaws OF the Guarantee Savings. Loan
and Investment Company, of Washington,
d. c., and the laws OF the State of West
Virginia, notice is hereby given that a
meeting OF the stockholders and members
of the said GUARANTEE SAVINGS, LOAN
AND INVESTMENT COMPANY. OF Wash
ington. d. c.. will be held on THURSDAY.
the STH DAY OF FEBRUARY, between
the hours of a. m and . p. m. at Con-
ner's Hotel, in the town OF Harper's Ferry.
State Of West Virginia.
T. W. SYNNOTT. President.
ALFRED G. WALKER. Secretary.
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COLONEL SEXTON NO BETTER.
Physicians Say That Change Must
Soon Cemc.

Col James A Sexton. who is critically
i'll with pneumonia AT the Garfield Hos
piial. showed no improvement Yesterday
or last night. The patient continues TO
be delirious and has a high fever. He has
taken little nourishment during his illness
and Is extremely weak.
Colonel Sexton has been III for ten
days and his remarkable vitality is mat
ter of wonder to his friends and physi-
clans. One Of his attendants said last
night that he was no better OF worse than
when he was first stricken. change
must come however, in a short time as
no constitution can withstand the strain
Of such continued Illness. What the re-
suit viii be his physicians are not pre-
pared to say.
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GENERAL REYNOLDS SINKING.
The Venerable Patient Exhibits Most
iinrming symptoms.

Gen. Joseph ]. Reynolds is gradually
sinking AT his home No. 1901 Street
northwest The end may come at any
time or may be delayed for days
Some weeks ago General Reynolds suf-
fered stroke OF paralysis, which affected
his entire left side. Last night he had a
very high fever which is considered by his
physicians as very unfavorabIe symptom.
The heart action of the patient is feeble
and his constitution generally is weak
ened. General Reynolds is over Il years
of age.
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Ins,ection of District TROOPS

The Second Regiment. Distr.cG OF CO.
umbia National Guard, will be assembled
at Centre Market Armory tomorrow even
Ing for inspection by the general COM
manding and his staff. The insp ction of
the First Regiment Will take place at the
same place next Monday evening.
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Funeral Monday, January 81, at his residence. at
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FARNER-On sunday, January %, IS19 at D
o'clock a. M, MRS, RoSANSA FARMER.
Funeral from the residence of her daughter
Nrs- C. F. Hodge. on Tuesday. January 81 lSso
Mass at ST. PItrick's Church. 1t
BURGDORF-On Saturday January IS. ls19.
at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va,
AUGUSTUS J. BURGDoRF, only son of Augustus
and Maggie Burgdorf. aged Is years ia29-3t
SAAIPSON-0n January p, 1s9o at 0 p. m
DANIEL W, beloved son Of ". Harry and the
late Ella :. Simpson. aged : years and ) days
Funeral from late residence, 5ssi Twenty-sixth
Street northwest, Monday, January 90, az = p. IN.
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Mr.. John j. Ingalls, Improves.

Former Senator John J. ingalls, who has
been i'll with the grip at the Cairo, was
reported as much improved last night.
Several days ago the patient suffered a re-
lapse and it was thought that he had con-
tracted pneumonia. Mr.. ingalls, physi-
clan stated last night that he was out of
danger and would be about in a week or
so. unless a decided change Tor the wolse
lakes place.
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Office of the

WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
WASHINGTON, D. c., JAN 81. 1899
The annual meeting Of the shareholders
of the Washington Gas Light Company.
for the election of directors to serve duF-
ing the ensuing year. will be held at the
office of the company. As Tenth Street
northwest, MONDAY. February s. 1892
Polls will be open from u o'clock noon to
l o'clock p. M
WILLIAM B. oRME, Secretary.
ta21-fft exS
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-30
DENLY THE DARING
Carbon CHAMPION
\ Little Light Let in Upon
the Scandal.
rs Reror'eI Efforts 10 Discredit
Damaging Testimony.
Significant TrIr.rrm> - The omniIn
Slaughter House story
I utcr ttuth.

As indicated in The Times several days
ago the conclusion OF the Eagan court
martial is being followed by develop
menrs OF a serious nature These are
more than confTmaiory OF General Miles
charges against the Commissary Depart
mvnt and the embalmed and rotten beef
furnished through It's agency to the Amer
lean soldiers in the field. They may in
yolye some persons in serious difficulty
According 10 statements which are gen.
orally accepted as true. suggestive and
significant kilograms have passed between
representatives Of the meat trust here and
IN the West The following dispatches
were sent from Washington to Chicago
during and just preceding the Eagan trial:
uire me dispatch to show and 10 60 on file IL
dcuarUrHi
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City Brevitfes.

pension OF $ a month has been granted to
Henry g. Sailors, OF Washington. and OF s.
. month to Martha A. Driver, OF Anaeostia
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Secretary AIger Called 10 His son.

Secretary Aiger left Washington for
Boston yesterday to see his son, Capt.
Frederick Alger who is III. Captain AL
ger is a student at Harvard. He injured
his knee at Santiago and a recurrence OF
the trouble was deemed serious enough to
cause the summons of Secretary Aiger to
Boston.
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tuurt-Iuartial of T. hls commenced. with
closed d.ar- al present. My authority here SAYS
viii last weeh. winch. If true. indicates in
Ses,i=auon VIII cover more than actual charges
made
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-30

had ln hours t1lk With Colonel DENLY thi.
morning. Dalys te-tiui"ny annoys HIM greatly
from = legal standpoint. lie has been writing
had plaiu sailing Want, to ascertain sDon !,
possible DIil', character standing ii home IN
Pitt-hUrg.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-10

FOR RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS.
Merrimac House: all modern conven-
fences. 309 N. Alaska St. Butte.
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VIBRATION OF A MONUMENT.
Plumb Line Shows How Much Washing
ton Shaft Moves.

From the Scientific American.
Doubtless the longest plumb line in
existence is that suspended in the
Washington monument, which has
free swing of more than $40 feet. 1t is
of hard drawn copper wire, tnree-siXty-
fourths of an inch in diameter and is
suspended for protection in a galvanized
iron pipe. The wire is located in plane
cutting the center of gravity of the mon
ument, which Is ia feet 101s inches
above the door sill. The plummet was
set June II. 1887, with the top end of
the wire fastened to an adjustable brass
screw in an I-beam about 10 feet from
the west wall.
In the plummet house (Which is rivet-
ed to the vertical protecting pipe), at
the base, is hollow iron pedestal, one
side of which is fitted with door for
access to the interior, where stands
bucket of water, in which the bob" a
25-pound brass spherod, swings. On
top of the pedestal are two telescopes,
one or the north side facing south and
one on the east side facing west. Both
are moved by mcrometer screws with
travel along scales graduated to
inches and twentieths. which, with the
screws give readings to thousandths Of
an inch.
These readings are taken daily, the
maximum DETECTION ever observed be-
ing OLA inch, which by calculation
shows that the top of the monument
moves about three times as far as the
center of gravity.
AS carefully taken data would prove
of great value to engineers who under
take the erection or custody of very tall
shafts, it is proposed to make the read
ing automatic and continuous by means
of a kind of improved pantograph en-
larging 1000 times. These. with the
NC fob ut bo a
the bottom, both inside and out, would
constitute record of great value, show
ing what scientists call the breathing
of this 1120-ton mass of stone.
No less interesting was the location
of the shaft, or what is recorded thereof.
The bench mark, known as the Jefferson
pier, was built on the first meridian
line of the United States in 1898. 1t is
at the intersection of a line drawn north
and south through the center of the
executive mansion and another east and
west through the capitol. No consider
able record exists of the establishment
of these lines, although ii is tradition
that President and Mrs. jefferson were
present at the time, and that Mrs. JET
ferSon gave her thimble to be set in the
top of the wooden monument to receive
the scratched cross. From this monu-
ment, and another located 80 degrees
therefrom, levels were taken, with
which subsequent levels We're compared
to determine whether the monument
settled evenly. All the levels taken
show that the foundation has remained
horizontal. although subject to a grad
ual diminishing settling, which, in the
centennial year, l1I6, was $50 inches.
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Asks Him for an Accounting.

From the Chicago Record.
Report has it that Princess ElVire
case against her father, Don Carlos, will
be brought before the Lucca tribunal to-
ward the end of March Lately this de-
termined young princess has rather cues
toned her fathers heavy expenditure
and his means for defraying the same,
feeling convinced that the funds he used
were part of her income. She entered suit
at the tribunal, claiming immediate de-
livery of her share of her mothers estate,
which is at present invested at Vienna.
Don Carlos readily admits the charge, but
asserts his right to use the money, while
the Archduchess Blanche considers that
her sister is entitled to only one-fifth of
the funds.
In addition to this, Princess Elvire de-
mands from her father complete state
ment of all accounts during his term of
guardianship Though Don Carlos again
acknowledges her right to make the ex-
animation, he says in this case, where the
guardian is the father, there is no neces-
sity for doing so, and steadily refuses to
provide the required figures. 1t is general
~ believed that a large portion of the
Princess Elvires estate has been eaten
I'D by her fathers prodigalities, and that
the approachng trial will reveal secret
transactions of more or less scandalous
nature.
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We ARE BADLY BEATEN
The Battle of Diplomacy as
Fought Out in China.
THE CUNNING ORIENTAL
European Diplomats Have Cut the
Ground From Under Our Feet in
the East-Cannot Cope
With Them.

New York, April "a dispatch to the
Herald from its London correspond
ent, Poultney Bigelow, says: Matters
are now moving with great rapidity in
the Far East and the facts published
in the Blue Book show but too clearly
that in the battle of diplomacy we have
been badly beaten, at least for the mo-
ment The late American minister, Mr..
Denby and his successor, Mr.. Conger,
can hardly be blamed for doing little,
because it is a field in which trained
men are required, and most ably train
ed of white men are none too well
equipped for coping with the cunning
of Chinaman. Sir Claude Macdonald
has proved himself a master diplomat
list, and we Americans have profited
much by his efforts on behalf Of Amer
lean interests.
No doubt these interests would have
Jared much better had we withdrawn
all our consular forces from China and
intrusted our commercial interests
wholly to the English foreign Office on
the understanding that all concessions
should be shared equally by English
and Americans. For this service we
could have afforded to pay England at
least half the cost of maintaining her
excellent official administration in the
far east.
To-day, although California is near
er to China than Bremen, Havre. Ge-
noa or Liverpool. the net result of our
diplomacy in China is in effect that
while Great Britain has secured rail-
way concessions aggregating $500
miles, American citizens have had con-
siderable difficulty in acquiring such
to the extent of 800. Germany France
and Russia have all outdistanced us,
and if we are not very careful it may
be that even the small concession We
nominally possess will prove mythical.
Germany, by one word at Pekin, was
able to nullify concession for the
North of China. Who knows if the
one between the Yangtse river and
Hong Kong may not be equally spoiled
by the discovery that some portion of
the projected line disturbs the hinter-
land of sphere of influence yet to De
acquired by Italy or Austria? What
am here indicating has been already
limited at in the newspapers, but never
before has it received so much official
authority as is conferred upon it by the
blue seal of Lord Salisbury.
1t is well to have the Philippines be-
cause those islands are close to China.
But it would be a poor reward for the
lives lost in the swamps about Manila
if we should wake up from our dream
of conquest to find that while battling
for a commercial base others had setz-
ed for themselves all the advantages
with which such base had been asso-
ciated
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SUPERSTITIONS.
Seventh Son of Seventh Son Christened
stDOCtor"

The number Is seems to be the only
odd number which is considered I'M
lucky; usually odd numbers are looked
upon as bringing good fortune. Hence,
when setting eggs to be Matched an odd
number other than IS, is placed; and
when taking pills some people will not
swallow an even number! most Pc
cular superstition connected with num-
hers. is the belief that the seventh son
of the seventh son, in direct line, is an
infallible doctor-some even believing
that he can cure by the touch. When
such a child is born he is christened
Doctor, and thus you may find collier
or mechanic of the name of Doctor
Jones'" or Doctor Smith," with no pre-
tentions, of course, to being learned.
Another popular superstition is the
widespread belief that Friday is an
unlucky day-a belief which may be
traced, perhaps, to the tradition that
Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden
fruit on Friday, and died on Friday:
For some people this is evidence enough
and, accordingly, they will not begin a
journey on that day, or go into a new
house, or even cut their nails, as the
following rhyme shows:
If you cut your nails on Monday, you
cut them for news;
If you cut them on Tuesday, pair of
new shoes;
If you cut them on wednesday, you cut
them for health;
If on Thursday you cut them you do so
for wealth;
If you cut them on Friday, you cut
them for woe;
Cut them the next day and a journey
you'll go;
If you cut them on Sunday, you cut
them for evil;
For all the next week you'll be ruled by
the devil.
as we'll as Friday, is unfavorable for
cutting ones nails. To be born on sun
day, however, is very fortunate thing
a person so favored is considered safe
from drowning and hanging. No doubt
most people have heard, too. of the be-
lief that if knife and fork, when done
with, be placed crosswise on the plate,
great misfortunes will overtake the
people present; and we all know of the
superstition that a knife cuts friend
ship--that if one of two friends gives a
knife as present to the other their
friendship will soon be broken. Sailors
also have their superstitions. They will
not whistle on board ship, holding that
to whistle IS to enrage the Evil One,
who, in revenge, will stir up the wind
and the waves. Neither will they pare
their nails on board ship; and when
they see a cat licking itself rather more
than usual, they believe that a storm
is approaching. Some people object to
others handing them salt, believing the
superstition that person to whom salt
is handed will be shortly overtaken by
some great calamity. and hence the
saying, Help to salt, help to SORROW
Ar91SV
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Tabaco 100 manufactures classify in three
classes, first and second are those that
work with Vuelta Abajo leaf, and third
those that use for his production the leaf
of the Province of Habana.
'Tn the first elias is the older, or by the
less one of the first is the universally
known by Flor de Tahacos de Partagas
e. Ca"
1.-The Flor de Tabacos de Partagas is
without doubt one of the Factories Of first
elias and of the most universal credit and
we affirm that no other has this credit
with more merits, by the goodness intelli-
gency and care empoyed in the prepare
ton and perfectionment of his produce
TONS
As an advertiser extolling his wares the
writer of the article does not begrudge
his productions the highest praise. For in
stance:
From this great factory going out the
first especial vitoias, that appear in the
tables of the Kings & Emperors and that
have been selled at agold dollar a piece.
"In this great Factory, that give work
to about 1000 workingmem were the place
wheremect the more principal and select
of the art, so that. that it is very difficult
to found to day in the Manufacturers,
one that by the years from 1850 to 1870. do
not has bens clerk or laborer Of him.
The writer finally winds UP in a blaze
of glory in praise of his partner, one Mr..
Gonzales, who intelligently know he
business"
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English Used by Paper in Havana.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The new citizens of the United State,
down in Havana are losing little time IN
their frantic efforts to master the English
language. Their struggles are wonderful
and excruciating and the manner in which
they iuggle with words would put an
acrobat or prestidigitateur to blush.
AS an illustration of their awful efforts
the following paragraphs. taken from a
tobacco journal published in Havana and
printed in both Spanish and English
classifying the factories and descriptive
of the exceptional merits of a certain
brand of cigars, are herewith quoted:
"Actualyter ar in Havana and her
niehbor cities, as der the Register of the
Secretary of the Union of Fabricantes OF
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DIR. TALMAGE ON EASTER.
Timely Thoughts on the Significance of
Flowers.

Fourteen times in the bible is the lily
mentioned; only twice the rcee. Caesar
had his throne on the hills. The lily had
her throne in the valley. In the great
est sermon that was ever preached
there was only one flower, and that a
lily. The Bedford dreamer, John Bun
yam, entered the house of the Interpre-
ter and was shown a clusters of flow
ers, and wss told to consider the ILL
les" l take the lily as typical of all
flowers, and Easter garlanded with all
the opuience Of floral beauty seems to
address us, saying, Consider the lilies.
consider the azaleas. consider the fuch-
sias, consider the oleanders.
The flowers are the angels of the
grass, Martin Luther always had a
flower on his desk for inspiration.
Through the cracks of the prison floor
a flower grew up to cheer Picciola.
Mungo Park, the great traveller and eX-
plorer, sank down in the desert to die
but seeing a flower near by, he got up
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-10
IN BILLINGS.
Unabated Enthusiasm in the Work of the
Woman's Club.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Billings, April 6.-The enthusiasm of the
ladies in the work of the Woman's club
continues undated. The club has men,
bership of 60, and nearly all were present
at the general monthly meeting held Mon
day afternoon at the residence of Mrs j.
]. Mccormick The vice president, Mrs.
Matheson, presided, and the programme
was in charge of the mothers department.
An interesting review of the work done
by this department was given by Mrs
Stebbns. The subject has been child
study, and the excellent papers read at
the meeting attested the efficient work
that is being done by this department. An
interesting paper on 1.-The Good Work
Club was presented by Mrs. HEREFORD.
DR.. Harriet Foxton Clarks paper on
"Heredty'' was an able one and was enthu-
slastically received. Mrs. Frizelle made an
earnest plea for pure air in our homes,
our schools and places of public gather
ing in her excellent paper on "Ventila-
tion." Mrs. Railsback read finished pa
per on "Froebel," the philosopher. PHI
lanthropist and educational reformer,
who through his work has transformed
the child life of the world. Mrs. Frees
paper on Temperance Around the
World" and Miss Pitchers on What Is
q Child were both interesting and in
Struct1Ve. Inc reading OIL papers was IN
terspersed with some very fine musical
selections. Mrs. Free and Miss Talbot
rendered an instrumental duet and Miss
Talbot played piano solo, both of which
were exceptionally good. Mrs. Barstow
sang with great taste Thine Eyes So
Blue and Tender" and Miss Denham
sang very sweetly that pathetic old Scot
fish song I'm Wearing Ava. "
The literary department of the club met
on Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. John Rixon, when there was a good
attendance and marked degree of inter-
est. Some interesting papers and talks
were given and these were followed by a
general discussion of the subjects. The
club will now take up the study of Roman
history
very pleasant drive whist party was
given on Wednesday evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. B. Elliot at their hospitable horne
on Thirtieth street. At the close of a series
of spirited games refreshments were
served. Those present were: Drs An
drew and Harriet Clark, Mr.. and Mrs.
Holmes. Judge and Mrs. Goss, Mrs Bur-
ton, Mrs A. c. Tompkins, Misses Frazer,
Ogilve, Jane and Minnie Panton, Anna
and Winifred Rixon Evans Hood, Ed
wards and Beatrix Matheson, Messrs.
Macgregor, Fred Rixon. Thomas Chapple,
Charles Chapple and William Morse.