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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07
Opening and Closing OF The Mails.

CPChibt. AbN1 NlOSlbS rs INC - ais.
Northern malls, week days close ~ 7 50
and II ID s. m. and ] Is, so, Is 90 and
10 p. III. Open ut s CO r. H., ID 90 Ii.
and 10 .. N. On Sundays Northern mails
close at il Ia r. N. and : 20 p IN.
Southern msils via Charlottesville, close
at 90 and 10 90 a. m. and 2 Is and
8 10 p. M Opoa at s co 3. II. and 2 30
and 4:30 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
10 20 q. m. and 8 13 and s 10 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close 1T 80 q. m.
and AS p. m. Open at i p. m.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close as
8 40 a. m. and 90 p %. Open at 90 3. M.
and 8 30 p. N.
Chesapeake and Ohio nails close at 10
p. M and 8 10 p. N. Open at 8 OG a. m. and
80 pm.
Washington mails close ct 50 and II 45
q. No., and is, = 90 Is so and 8 10 p. m.
Opon at 8 90 g. m, - 90 m. and 90 and
Office Hoar-0pen at 8 90 a. IN. Close at
sunday Hours-opsn at 900 a. m. Close
st 80 q. N.
Carriers Observation-Disclosures made on
inside routes-6 80 and 10 90 a. m. and
8 90 and 80 p. n. Full routes 80 a. m.
and 30 p. IN. Sunday collection 5 90 D.,
m. Carriers window open Sunday 90 a. 10.
and close 80 a. Il.
Deliveries made 3 90 a. m, 1 90 p. ~, and
40 p. ID.
All mail should be in office ten minutes
before hour indicated Ior closing
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AIsxassaris 6sBette.
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT 1892
MINED ON sATCHEiS.


-Four gold watches, several gold
chains aud Il number of Diamond rings,
al valued st about 81, 900, disappeared
with oily smoothness, together with q
satchel that had been carried by NJ.
F ley jeaeIer, in New York ON Tuet day
He went to station of the New Yolk
Central Railroad to board u BostoL-
bound traia, Carrying his satchei with
him. Wien be entered the station he
placed his salchoi upon sest next 10
d similar looklGg satchai, and went 10
he ticket Office TO purchase ticket.
When he returned to get his satchel b.
discovered that it had disapp eared, bus
the other sntchel wss still on the seat
F,ey reported his ioss 20 Policeman
Neil Maher, Of the eaut Ooe HnD
dred aud Twenry-6fth street 20
lice station, who soon aft rwerd
saw man come ioto side
door in the station with ?
sa.chel in his haod, similar to thst De
scr d by Foley as toe one he had los Z.
Maher acc s;ed the man snd aske'
him here be co. the sstchel. Why
said the man, ~ got it home. II e
mine" What is in i,?n asked the pc
hcemap MY tools end lurch," re
Piled the man ri show yop. Why!
lis locked. Mice has no lock" Msher
xplGined the uatiou to the man and
ne went 10 the east One Hundred auo
Twenty fab street police station
where lie met Foley coming cut. Fole>
recogn'z d his property and grabbed
it ou5 Of tbs strangers and. BJtt
30 C els we're opened by Sergeant De-
l-ney One contained about $1,000
VIZ OF 'welry snd the other some
l,sin;er's tools aud brushes and Lunch
e CD msn described his property, aud
DO vent away satisfied after their
Sc ches had beeu restored to them by
D iauty.
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& GOOD RUBBER

supply. such as we are showing in our com.
pcto snd superior line IF everything in rub
5cr goods for both medicinal and toilet pur
poses, you seldom see. Atomizers, Syringes,
Water Bags. &c, in all sizes and styles OF the
best manufacture ard in the attest up to date
improved designs, that axe durable and eff
cient for intended purposes,
E. S. LEADBEATER & SONS,
Established 1892 FsirfaX street
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N. B. Same schedule Sundays, commencing
at 30 q. m.
POTOMAC RIVER NGS-STEAM-
ER WAKEFIELD leaves Washington Mon
days at 90 a. NJ, and Alexandria at s 90
a. ~, for landings as far as Nomini and on
Wednesdays and Saturdays at Same hours for
st. Clements Bay and Leonardtown.
c. w. RIDLEY, General Manager.
JOHN B. PADGETT, Agent
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MEETINGS..

MTOTICE-The annual meeting OF the
- tockholders of the UNION BUILDING
COMPANY for the elect on Of The board OF
directors aud for such other business - may
h, proper. will be held 81 the ofiice of the
cor pany. No. 1913 south Poysl street, Alex
Xudri2 Va, on MONDAY, September is
1889, ut 1870 O'Clock p. NJ.
MYRON NJ PARKER. Pre- sidunt
Il. SCOTT TOWERS, Secretary.
aug31 1sw3w
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F. +. Turner. Crcmpton No. was cuiod Of
)ic- by pcWitt's Witcb II, 70. Sa've after snf
feiiog seventeen years and trying Over 'w, IL
~ remedies PHYSICIANS and surgeons ell
dose it. Beware of dangerous counteiiei.s
Edgar Wsrfeld. r.. corn". EiuS and PIT
strteu
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07

WAKEFIELD & HALLS CORN AND
w BUNION PLASTER will speedily re.
move all COINS and Bunous, aud relieve all
soreness OF the parts affected. Prize DC For
sale only by WAKEFIELD & HALL.
Tor. Prince and Fairfax sts
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AGNOLOs hAOMu-CGLEGT Try this
unrivalod romody tor Haadscher Neuralgia
60 ',i..oIusss 10 cents
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So WASHINGTON 10 THE SEAsHORE
AND RETURN S..

Atlantic CITY, Cape Msy. Ocean City and
Sea Isle City. Iickes via Pennsylvania
rairosd on sale for all trains Fridays aud
and Saturdays, good to return to the follow
ing Tuesday. Atlantic City tickets good via
Delaware bridge. avoiding transfer through
Philsdelphis. List day OF sale SeptcmbeI 8.
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STEAIERS.
NJASH r4TON STEAMBOAT COM-
w PAEg IIMITEO.
Found "trip, IS Cents.
IN effect on aud after MONDAY. September
49, 1898
Leave Washington Leave Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07

WIN. 8. MOORE,
MachiniSt, Iron and Brass Founder,
EHIPshITH AND BLACKSMITH.
tOLD DOhEION HoBKs)
sOUTH UNION STREET, ALEXANDRIA
Viii furnish and repair all kinds of Machine.
~, Iron snd Brass Castings, Wrought and
Cast Iron Fences, Mill Work, Ship and Black.
nnithing, Edge Tools, Mill Picks, Facing Ham.
merz ard all kinds Of Mill Work made and re-.
pailed at tho shorTest notice and st reasonable
prices.
"a The highest market price paid for Old
Wrought aid CAST Iron. Brasa snd Copper.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07

~ REAT DEDUCTION IN FIGURED
VI LAWNS.
---124c avis to close ont at 10c; Dc do at
Sc, and SC DO. AT Ole; remnants 2!c Percale
at &c; remnants iuc Percae in neat designs
at Toe; remnants extra India Linen at sc {;
fine line Checked India Linen, Striped Mus
lin, &c; Madras, Percaies. &c, Fl waists ::
iull line Summer Underwear at lowest prices;
Neglige Shirts, with and without collars silk
Fronts, &c, at all prices q fu! line .; Eosi.
cry, Neckwcar, &c.
/. c. SLAYMAKER,
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MACHINERY.

7 & q. AITCHESOE,
Practical MachiniStS and Engineers
And Builders Of
MARINE AND STATIONARY ENGINES
Blackxmithing and Steam Fitting. En-.
gineeru' and MachiniSta' Supplies, and all sorts
Of mill work and that connected with bricks
work promptly executed. Repairing prompt.
y done. J. & b. AITCHESON,
my10 116 King st., Alexandria, Va.
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TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.

TYOME TELEPHONE COMPANY,
ALEXANDRIA, VA,
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QUALITY TELLs.-A care.a.5 me,
4 stock Of Nuts, Candies RS
Grapes, &C., for sale by ~ u1LgUR%
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COAL AND WOOD.

BY ELEvATINg THE QUALITY
of our coal we lower the price in economy OF
consumption. Consumers will find that it is
cheaper to use our high grade Lee Coal, that
hss been screened and freed from slate and
stone. than that of an inferior grade. 1t gives
more heat, less ashes and burns longer than
any other COAL aud our prices are as low as
any. Coal and Wood under cover.
J. 7. ZIMMERMAN,
Foot Of Queen street Alexandria, Va.
Telephone II,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07

!. C. SLAYMAKER.
429 King street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
Are Our Warships to Have Second
Glass Armor?

With the reasscmbling OF Congress tho
matter OF providing armor for tho three
battleships and six armored cruisers
already authorized by law, will come ND
promptly. 1t Is n question that demands
Immediate settlement. The construction
OF the three vessels known as battle
ships OF the new Maine class has
already begun, but no armor has been
provided for them. The beginning of
the construction OF the six cruisers is
delayed because OF the sinister restric-
ton in the act authorizing them, that they
shall not be contracted oruntiI their armor
can be secured for $500 ton. In his annual
report Rear Admiral CHARLES ONEILu
Chief Of the Naval Bureau of Ordnance, has
made plain that even what is now second
rate armor cannot be secured for less than
$40o ton, and the only armor suitable for
our ships Is that hardened by what is
known as the Krupp process.
In 1897 the war on the armormakers of
this country became most relentless in Con-
gress and the price to be paid for armor
was restricted to not more than $500 ton,
while the manufacturers refused to supply
1t at less than S4OO. Those who aimed this
blow at most important and one of the new
est OF American industries took no heed of
the courage 1t required for manufacturers
only decade ago to invest millions Of dollars
in the enterprise of armormaling, and of
the fact that sufficient profit should be-
allowed to establish these plants thoroughly
and to recoup their owners to n reason-
able extent for what Is known as tho first
cost. The plants We're semi-natonal insti-
buttons, At for nothing else than armor-
making, and their establishment, for no
other than national purposes, did not cost
the Government one cent directly.
The American armor plants, even in their
early efforts, surpassed the world in the
quality of manufacture. Their nickel steel
armor was the best Of the kind produced
The war with Spain caused Congress to
relent In part in It's hostility to this indus
try, and in June, 1898. one year and nine
months after the contracts for five battle
ships had been given out, armor of the
nickel steel variety was ordered for the
ships then building and not yet delivered
Some OF that armor Is being made at
the present time. 1t has caused delay in
the delivery Of the shipS But SRen this Ii
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
Heroes in the Hold-"The Man with tn,
Shovel

To THE EprToR OF THE suN-Sir: have read re-
Gently think in THE suS. but perhaps elsewhere)
q plen for proper recognition of the man with the
shoy ell. OF tho men who work below the water line
on our naval fighting machines. the men who pile
coal into the furnaces leneath tho boilers whose
duty ia tosome. mclean monotonous and body
destroying. but "a vitality necessary of performance
that Of any man on the ship. / endorse the plea
and hope 10 see something done to better their
don to better recognize their worth. to better
ward their labor and TO make their future worth
living for
These worthy toilcrs these men with the shovel
have heen alluded to As he mon behind the boilers
Unless the giant naval sighting machines. boilers
are reversed in position to any have seen
these arc the before tho boilers" Be that as
1t may these servtors down amid the darkness.
the coal dust and scorching heat should be raised to
the fresh air sunlight and recognition due to them
~ brave, patient and enduring human beings.
By the way. did the coal beavers, tho stokers. the
dirt and dust begrimed heroes OF the boilerroom
Of the Olympia have place in the magnificent
pageant of September In this oitv1 II not. some
body blundered. ED. P. ACHERhAN.
BAookI.YH, Oct. 20.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
Robert LOUIS Stevenson on Kipli.r.
From Scri5nSr'S AdodEiro,

VAILIMA. ApiA. Samoa, Dec. 20. $780,
MI DEAR HHNRY JAMES: Kipling 10 by
far tho most promising young man who has
appeared since--ahem-I appeared. He AmaLes me
by his preoocity and various endowment But he
alarms me by his copousnesa and haste. He should
shield his nre with both hands and draw up all his
strength and sweetness in one ball" (Draw all his
strength and all His SweetneHS up into one BALI
cannot remember Marvel's wordSJ 30 the critics
have been saying TO me; but was never capable of
and surely never guilty of.Suoh q debauch of
production At this rate his works will soon NIL
the hAbtable globe; and surely he was armed
for better conflicts than these suocinct sketches
and flying leaves OF verssf
look on. admire. rejoice for myself; but In
kind of ambition all have for tongue aud lit
erAture am wounded. II had this mans fertility
and courage. 1t seems to me could hoAve pyr-
amid
Well we begin to be the old toGies now; Andi was
high time something to take our places Certainly
KplinG has the gifts; the fairy Eodmothers all
tpsy 81 hts christening; what will he do with
them? Yours AheouonAtely,
r. T..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29

The continued story from above the
Harlem River Of Republican energy and
confidence gives promise that after election
day is over the inhabitants OF the Empire
State will have renewed cause to be proud Of
II. New York is not to falter in support Of
Governor ROOSEVELT when Tammany Hall
mas finally fastened grip OF absolute control
upon the opposing party, nor is 1t to stink
from behind the National Administration
and our gallant army in the Philippines
when BRYANs shouts for Silver and Sur
render are echoed by AGUINALDo's distant
appeals for Democratic success.
Kentucky, Ohio and Nebraska are blazing
with patriotic determination that next week
shall not see an ARuinaldo victory, or set
back to the unparalleled industrial fortune
that has grown up with the Mckinley ADJ
ninstraton. New York belongs in that
good company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29

A few weeks ago Lord SALISBURY pre-
dicted that within the next eighteen
months the English people would know
more about the geography of the Per-
sian Gulf than they did now about that
OF the English Channel About three
weeks later a four-line telegram in the
London Times announced that "the
population OF Basra are preparing to
solicit British assistance against the OPP
pressive administration under which they
suffer. II this is withheld, they will appeal
to Russia" Aud since then there has como
a report that Persian mobs are piIaging
the houses Of Russian subjects In Persia and
that unless the Persian authorities afford
them adequate protection, it may become
necessary for Russian troops to be sent
into the Persian territory for the protection
OF Russian subjects and their property.
Persian Mollahs, moreover are said to be
preaching q war against intidels.
This is an old story not unfamiliar to
readers of Oriental history. The same thing
occurred In Bulgaria in 1876 and Midhat
Pacha, then ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, arrested tho
ovcr-zealous Molahs and sent them across
the frontier into Roumania. The Bulga-
ran maBSdcTeS lOllOWeu, ana all inc WOtlu
knows what followed them
The opportunity presented to Russia to
make way for her Central Asian trade
down to the sea through Persia has
already been pointed out in THE Sun, and
the Indications are that Lord SALIsBURY's
prediction is likely to be realized. Why
tho inhabitants of Basra, the Bassorah OF
the arabian Nights" nc the mouth Of the
Euphrates, shouldbe suddenly awakened 10
the oppressiveness Of their government,
which they have borne for SO many centuries,
requires explanation, as also som" informn-
ton as to how they became aware Of their
oppressed condition. Attacks by Mussul-
man mobs on Christians can always hc in
cited without any very great trouble, for
fanaticism and cupidity rule the former
wherever the two religions exist side by
even more fanatical than the Turk, and his
avidity for plumber when the opportunity
offers Is unequalled.
Unless reports, therefore, are deceptive,
the materials for important incidents in
| connection with the now well-knOwn desire
| OF Russia to secure an outlet on the Persian
| coast for her trade seem to exist on all Sides
The season Is favorable for military opera
tons by northern troops. By all accounts
| the forces necessary for the occasion are
ready. And England is burdened with a
war in Africa.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29

inferior to armor made by process
recently discovered. To provide our ships
with arInor of nickel steel rather than
with that made by the Krupp process
would be as much Of a step backward as 1t
would have been four years ago to displace
our nickel steel armor with the old COM
pound variety, layer OF steel and one OF
iron, to which England chung for 80 many
years to her disadvantage. With thickness
and weight reduced almost third, krupp
armor gives better defence. 1t Is easy to
imagine how its greater llghtness per-
mits the enlargement OF guns and coal
bunkers.
With the great advance in the price OF
iron, with all our blast furnaces rushed to
the utmost capacity and their future
activity engaged for months ahead, 1t is
improbable that we could get even nickel
steel urmor for 500 Il ton. What the
price of the Krupp process armor will be
only the future can reveal, but to place
armor OF any lower grade on our warshps
would mean a parsimony little short OF
criminal. The short-sighted policy Of re-
fusing to make contracts for armor at
moderate prices, even less than year ago,
bt'OlltS al ullOSb hOW
that the price of iron is soaring far beyond
the dreams Of the producers year ago.
The immediate production Of the Krupp
process armor for our new hgh-pow-
cred wGrships is therefore a national
need of the utmost urgency. 1t is a mat
ter involving interests far more i'm
portant than merely securing the best
protection for nine ships 1t involves the
support of great mechanical agencies
necessary to our national welfare. 1t in
wolves the question OF continued American
supremacy in an industry OF vast impor-
tanco and, inasmuch as the interests Of our
Navy are concerned, appeals peculiarly to
American patriotic sentiment. In re-
motor way it concerns our national expan-
sion In trade, territory and influence among
the nations. If we would revive our mer-
chant marine, wo must have warships to
protect their colors.
Our forthcoming warships Of high grade
should not only have the best armor that
can be obtained. but they should have
American-made armor. The country can
no more permit the character Of it's armor-
making plants and their product to become
impaired than 1t can permit the coast de-
fences to decay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29

in the quest OF the Presidency. In his
roaminRs over the country he utters a
farrago OF balderdash, as II everything
were good bait for votes. The real, faithful
Organizes themselves must be panied and
ecandallzed or puzzled by their hero's reck-
less mixture OF issues. In 1890 new
Democracy was founded. Col BRYAN
seemed to be planning still another one for
1900, with death to expansion, militarism
and the Octopus for its platform and the
Chicago platform sunk into mere adden-
dunn and annex. The crime of 1898 seems
to be supplantlng the crime of 1873 in the
Colonels intellectuals and sentimcntals.
There is no pleasure in saying these
things about the Colonel, who Is good
fellow in private life and has an amusing
chatter in public life But his own speech
bewrayeth him. He was good deal of a
demagogue in 1895. He is u good deal
more OF n demagogue, more INSCRIPTIONS,
more careless Of the truth, more concern
trated upon the immediate effect OF untcn-
able arguments upon what ho conceives TO
be the ignorance or prejudice of his audi
ences, than he was in 1896. He Is degen-
Grating. Perhaps some consciousness of
the absurdity OF his campaign against the
cameras has made him especially aversc to
militarism," but his other absurditcs and
Emergencies from the exact truth must be
set down to the fury Of his longing for
offices.
In prosperous Nebraska, still thrilling
with pride in her soldiers and looking for
ward to the great commercial and agrlcul-
tural boom that expansion will bring to all
the West, the ordinary and the extraordi-
nary arguments of the Colonel will not have
much effect. What he should say is: "lIere,
l am a Nebraskan. Vote for me so that I
may have a chance to be President and the
State may be honored thereby" If he car
ries his State next month"; it will not be
because he is Nebraskan, but because
Nebraska accepts his wild and scattering
thnorieg
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
A Revolutionary Upheaval.

We print to-day further selections from
the many letters on subjects OF religion
which come to us by every post SO great
and general interest in the momentous
questions discussed indicates an awaken
ing OF tho public mind which will be notable
in religious history. In our whole expert
ence we have never received so vast a
volume Of correspondence on any other
subicct--no, not a 1.-THE OF the amount.
Moreover, instead OF diminishing 1t Is in
creaslng daily, so that If we published all
tho letters we should have little room left
for anything else. Accordingly, we are
compelled to select for printing only
those which are generally representative
of the tone and opinion OF many.
These letters come from every part OF the
Union, and, as a rule they afford evidence OF
literary ability and capacity for thought
and reflection Of high order. BY the side
OF them tho contents OF the average pro-
OCCASIONALLY religious newspaper seem in
sipid and pcrfunctory, il not insincere.
Taken together, they make the present
religious discussion in The Sun the most
notable expression of honest and anxious
and discriminating Judgment and feeling
on this supreme subject which has
ever been published in Il newspaper So
profound has been the learning and so acute
the reasoning in the letters on immortal
ity specifically that we have received
numerous requests for their republication
In a book as tho best and most suggestive
discussion of the subject attainable.
No one can have read those hundreds and
thousands OF letters, all dealing with phases
OF the Same great theme. and all written
solely to give clear expression to ideas,
thoughts and feelings honestly entertained.
in order to gain or contribute something
toward the settlement of that awful Ques-
tion-without being impressed profoundly
by the evidence they afford that we are
In the midst of religious revolution in
this country altogether unprecedented.