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The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

1t has been announced that the en-
tire output Of binding twine manu-
factured by the Kansas State Peniten-
tiary will be sold direct to the farm
ers Of the state instead OF through the
implement dealers, who bid for it, but
were believed to be interested in the
trust.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Captain Cobb seems to be q man Q3
prominence in your county" II should
hay 50; he has been defeated for every
public Office we have"
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Jones-I must be getting old. SMITH
Legs getting stiff or eyes getting bad7
Jones-No; but I'm beginning to like to
read statistics.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Clarence-Did my proposal surprise you,
.'larissa? ClariSsa-Indeed 1t did, Clar>
snce; honestly, didn't expect to get II
without limiting for it,
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Primley's California Fruit Gum contAtlS
the most delicious qualities Of western
fruits.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Plso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken sf -
. cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave,
NJ, Minneapolis. Mimi, Jan. q, 1900
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Dave, lend me a dollar" "I can't do
It, Billy; but | can lend you that QollAS
you already owe me another week.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Apple scab fungus on the twigs in
winter has the appearance OF q green
ish mildew.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

Carter's lax Il Used EIclusivsly
oy the schools of New York Boston and many
ether places, and they won't use any other.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-15

The charm Of beauty 10 beautiful hair. Secure y
with PARKKR's HAIR BALsAH.
HIsDKRcoRHs, the best cure for corns. l5cts
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
A NEW USE FOR THE FLAG.

American manufacturers have used
the Stars and Stripes to adorn the
labels of sundry hams. fiours, beers,
WHISTLES, pills. soaps. and powders;
but it seems that its usefulness as an
advertising device has not been by any
means exhausted, for the Mckinley
Hanna government of the Philippines
have employed it to purpose hitherto
undreamed of. According to Mr. VIII
liam l.. Johnson, who went to the
Philippines as the representative of
the New Voice, n Chicago newspaper.
Il new use for it has been found in
the distant islands. whose inhabitants
we are presently civiizing and Chris
tiani2ing as fast as we can get in
range OF them. The Springfield Re-
publican says:
What will especially surprise many
people in the United States is that this
business (of female prostitution in
Manila) has been taken under the of
fetal recognition and supervision of
the United States Army authorities
after the manner Of certain European
Continental cities. IT is. according to
Mr.. johnson. the New Voices special
commissioner to the Philippines. con
Quoted under the supervision of reg
uar department of the military gov
eminent. the Department of Munich
pal Inspection 1.-TWO whole streets
are entirely taken up With houses of
ill-rcpute.' writes Mr. Johnson. AT
night these two streets are filled with
drunken soldiers. riotinG. yelling
Americans and half-nakcd women. In
this settlement there is scarcely IL
house OF prostitution which is not de-
coratcd with American flags, inside
and out Some of them have Ameri-
can flags painted clear across the front
Of their establishments. All have
glaring signs of American beers either
inside or out 'T'he flag-who will
haul it down?"'
Commenting on this the Baltimore
sun says:
81, may he added that Mr.. Johnson
publishes photographs of two OF these
houses, both decorated with the Amer
lean flag. He also publishes in fac
snlilc tomitting .she names) the mcdi-
cal certificates issued to the women.
The houses, he states, are conducted
on the ARMY canteen" plan and
placed under guards to prevent the
wrctchcd female inmates from cscap-
ing. Respectable families in Manila
have been compelled TO leave their
homes and move elsewhere on account
of the bad neighborhood of these Gov
eminent stews." sHs
Was not Mr.. Mckinley mistaken or
did he not modestly stop short of the
full truth when he declared In his let
ter of acceptance that "the flag floats
over these Islands as the emblem of
our rightful sovereignty" Surely. or
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

else Sovereignty" Will. like liberty"
that photographers have omitted from
our dictionaries.
Mr.. Johnson throws light upon a
matter that has not hitherto been en-
tirely clear--the need for so many sol
diers in the Philippines when the re
bellion" has been officially STAN -,ed
out months ago. A number it seems
are required to act as guards for the
bagnios of Manila and to repress with
fixed bayonets any promptings toward
reform that the inmates may feel.
AS a proprietor of brothels Uncle
Sam is made to cut unique figure
before the assembled Christian world.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
IN KENTUCKY.
.Louisville Courier-JournalD

i''S N~oui iSi -JOuTI1l.)
The organs of assassination toom
With alternate threats and accuse tons
They seek by the calculating arts of
the cold and mercenary harlot to work
up simulated hystera of passion.
They are madly in love with Civil Lib
crty. They overflow with bogus excite
ment. They fairly burst their buttons
with the zeal of the campaign barrel
and with the peculiar brand of cant
which they think best adapted TO the
deception of the credulous. All the
while. the RenubliCans are cooked and
prmed to drive the Democrats away
from the polls in the remoter regions
of the Eleventh District and to, pour
into Louisville Immediately before and
during the day of election money
enough to make good their claim to the
majority they have already proclaimed
Less than $1,000 in the mountains and
10000 in Louisville is To constitute the
basis Of their cry of fraud: and they
are taking time by the forelock i'm
charging upon the Democrats exactly
what they are doing themselves. In
other words. the Democrats have
neither money. nor orsaniza ton: the
Republicans have plenty of both: yet,
forsooth. it is the Republicans who are
in danger OF being cheated.
There will be no partisan militia. or
Calling Guns here the day of election.
Nor VIII a partisan Governor be on the
ground to direct the movements of law
less men.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY.
baltimore SUM-

Baltimore SUM-
The Republican party is in truth en-
gagged in satirizing and burlesquing it's
own history, hooking It's own tradi-
lions and turning the portraits of It's
own greatest statesmen TO the wall.
what could be more ludicrous, IL it
were not at the same time so lament
aple, as to see the party of Lincoln,
VINO said that mo man is fit to govern
another man without that other mans
consent now proclaiming from all it's
platforms the doctrine that the con-
sent or the governed is not necessary
the exact words used by Secretary
Root in his speech delivered the other
night at Canton in the presence of Nc
kinney himself! Is it not sight cal
culated to provoke peals of sardonic
laughter to see the party of Charles
Sumner. who declared that the idea of
putting price on the people of San
domingo and buying them without
tnelr assent TO the sale was too mon
strous to be thought of. now asserting.
10 use the precise words of MIR. Nc
l\inley. that 'iour title is good" to the
f1liplnos-ten millions of them cat 81
u head unpicked." as Tom Reed ex-
pressed iO-becausc "our Peace Com
missioners believed they were receiy-
ing good title when they concluded
the treaty?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

The necessity for amending the fran
chises of the Southern Bell and .ne
American Telephone Companies is not
contingent only on the Southern States
Company remaining in the local field
III the Southern States Company is
driven out, or retires voluntarily. the
necessity for established maximum
and minimum rates in the BcIl fran
chises will be all the greater. The prop
osition to amend these franchises by
putting in them fixed rates is, there
fore. not primarily in the interest of the
Southern States Company though it's
to insist on this-but of the public
which is threatened with a Bell Tele
phone Monopoly, ana eXorbitant rates.
Whether the Southern States Com
pany is Il competitor in good faith of
the Bell Company, or whether it is con-
troled by Bell Influences, it is equally
necessary that the two Bell Companies
enjoying city franchises should he sub
jccted to the same restrictions as the
states Company. If the States Company
is a bona fide connection It has a right
to ask that the Bell Company be not
favored by the City Councils. If 1t is
not bona iidc competitor. then the
public interest demands that the Bell
Company be restrained from eXtor;ion-
ate charges. The experience of the
States Company in this city has shown
that SIS and SIS are reasonable maxi
mum rates. and that telephone service
can be furnished profitably nj those fig
ures. If the States Company were out
of the field, therefore. these rates would
suggest themselves as fair and eduita-
BILE to the Bell Company and the public.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
CURED AS SOUND
AS A DOLLAR.
Emaeiiaatteedd, Pale aid Badly
Run Down by Catarrh!
lie Is ENTIRELY WELL NOW

Mr. Gorley says:
sPRiNG AND SUMMER by GA
/ WAS SO PALE THAT MY COM
PLEXION WAS JUST THE COLOR Or
WHITE WAX and ANYONE COULD
TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT ME
THAT WAS \ VERY SICK MAN At
that time ] was employed as travelling
salesman and T consulted many physi-
clans in the various cities ] visited
MORE THAN y DOZEN DOCTORS in
DanVillc Lynchhurg, Staunton; Cumher-
land Md. and Norfolk. TRIED THEIR
SKILL ON MY CASE But ONLY
WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE. |
PAID OUT OVER y HUNDRED DOL
OARS IN FEES but WITHOUT BENE-
FIT They did moi seem To know what
allied me or what to do To remedy my
trouble If had been staying in Nor
folk / would nave consulted DIR. FlREN
at once. hut being on tho road | tried
others and did not go TO him until
HAD GIVEN Up ALI. HOPE OF GET
;rINC; RELIEF ELSEWHERE. UN-
DER DIR FlRE.Y'S TREATMENT |
REGAIN TO IMPROVE AT ONCE AND
pROGRESSED STEADILY UNTIL.
NOW after a couple of months treat
mcnt | FEEL. AS WELL. AS | EVER
DID IN MY LIFE. have known DIR
FIREY ten years and know that he Is
a skillful physician and conscientious
gentleman, whom II gives me pleasure to
recommend to those needing his services
y. l.. GORLt..
40 Clay Avenue. Brambleton-now
employed ut the Navy Yard.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
MIR. HILLS TIMELY wARNIiSG
Ralcigh News and Observer.)

tlNHlclSu NUNS stlitl NJUScINtlsJ
Senator Hill sounded tho keynote
that is appreciated by every thought
full man in the South in the Kansas
City convention when he declared that
Republican success this year would
mean the taking away of the South S
Just part in national affairs. 1t means
he said. reduction of Congressional
representation and a reduction in the
electoral college. The New York Tele-
gram. referring TO Bryan and his speech
in New York. says:
'Ee represents more than has APP
peared up to this time a note of
warning was sounded on Saturday
night by Mr.. Hill which may not be
disregarded. Not to elect Mr.. Bryan
this year means the placing of all cleo
ton machinery throughout this coun-
try in the hands of the Republican
party 1t means the -DemocratiZing
of the South and the giving away of all
Democratic chances of success for de-
cades to come"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC
VOTE.
Says the Richmond Dispatch:


According to Washington special
to the New York Herald. it is on the
cards of the Republican majority in
the present House to punish the South
for being solidly Democratic, and
through the South cause the Demo-
cratic party in the country at large to
suffer.
First. it is proposed that in reap
portioning the representatives in Con-
gress among the several States. in ac-
cordance with the new census, the
basis shall be raised to a figure that
will work to the disadvantage of the
South. and. consequently, the national
Democratic party"
1t need not excite any special won
der that this should be so. 1t Is not
harder for the Ethiop to change his
skin than for the Republican party to
have done with fraud and shameless
devices in its attempts to maintain it
self in power
For more than a year Republicans
have made no secret of their purpose
to reduce the South's representation in
Congress. They have threatened it in
the press and on the stump and on the
floor of Congress. Hon. John S. Wise,
in his speech here, limited at 1t and at
Federal control of elections. This year
more than in any campaign for a dozen
years the Republicans have appealed
to sectionalism. In their mouths the
people of the South are menace to
the Union and are even traitors be-
cause they disapprove of Cacsarism in
Porto Rico and Neroism in the Philip
pines. Citizens of the North who share
their views are "copperheads." In
short. the Republican party has shown
it is still possessed of much of the
vicious hatred of 1868, with none of its
earlier devotion to principle.
This should carry n warning to the
people of the Second and Ninth and
Tenth Congressional Districts in this
State. There cannot be any South
batting with a Democratic House.
whatever happens. and yet in at least
two of these districts personal fights
on the Democratic nominees are being
made by men protesting to be Demo-
Gratis. while u large mass OF Demo
cratic voters seem to think that their
votes will not be needed.
1t is time to make an end of this
nonsense. of whatever sort. The Vir-
Pilot months ago warned the
Democrats of this district of the neces-
sity for electing their nominee by a
majority that would not permit of
question before partisan elections
committee. Subsequent events have
justified it in that warning. If the Re
publiCans get the House by n narrow |
majority, they have deliberate pur- |
pose to unscat three Democratic Con- |
greSsmen from this State, unless they |
are elected by majorities too decided to |
afford even a preteXt for contest. And |
this unseating of Democratic members
is to be Il prelude to partisan legisa
ton intended to entrench the Repubi-
can party in power and to rob the South |
Of part of it's representation in Con-
gress. If Democrats are unwilling to
stand for this program of fraud and
force they should bestir themselves TO
get out Il full vote for every Demo
cratic Congressional nominee. and this
necessity is nowhere greater than in
this district
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
BRYAN THE CONSERVATIVE.
IN Y Journal

is there man of wealth who does
not look forward to the recollection OF
Mr.. Mckinley With secret misgivings?
What Will follow? What business man
Will he safe when the trusts have un-
bridlcd sway and the fact is establish
cd that the candidate with the largest
campaign fund at his disposal can
elect himself President? What will
become of the old-fashioncd American
respect for public morality and con-
stitutional methods which Mr. .ryan
is trying 10 revive? What spiit of
vengeance will be awakened in the
breasts of the cheated masses?
And when the day of reckoning
comes. Will men of wealth turn TO
Mr.. Hanna--who secured his seat in
the Senate by 'bribery--for protection
against unrcasoning public passion ?
VIII men like Mr.. Hanna be able to
exert any influence against the tide of
radicalism that must follow another
term of Mckinley?
NO. The most powerful friend of the
legitimate business man and the legi-
innate capitalist is the conservative
Democratic leader. whose highest am
bition is to save the country from a
period OF disastersby bringing the ma
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
BELL COMPANY BRANCHES.

The Southern Bell Telephone Com
part and parcel of the old American
Bell Telephone Company, of New York,
that has everywhere attempted To
throttle competition. and that has al
ways plagued the public with eXtor
tionate rates wherever it has been able
TO secure Il Monopoly. 4 few years
ago the American Bell Telephone Com
pany was reorgnnized under the name
and style of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company. The follow
ing are its branches as complied from
the official records:
American Telephone and Telegraph,
Bell Telephone, of Buffalo; Bell Tele-
phone. of Missouri: Bell Telephone. of
Philadelphia; Delaware and Atlantic
Telephone and Telegraph. Central Dis
trict and Printing Telegraph Company,
of Pittsburg; Central Pennsylvania
Telephone and Supply, Central Union
Telephone (Ind., etc.: Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone, Chicago Telephone
City and Suburban Telegraph Associa-
Lion lEincinnatD Colorado Telephone,
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph.
Ohio Valley Telephone, Duluth Tcle-
Telephone, Iowa Telephone. Missouri
and Kansas Telephone. New England
Telephone and Telegraph. South Mas
sachusetts Telephone. Nebraska Tele-
phone. New York Telephone (Ncw York
city,; New York and New Jersey Tcle-
phone, Westminster Telephone. New
York and Pennsylvania Telephone and
Telegraph, Pacific Telephone and Tcle-
graph, Sunset Telephone and Tclc-
graph, Oregon Telephone and Tclc-
graph, Inland Telephone and Tcle-
graph Washington; Pennsylvania
Telephone. Rocky Mountain He'll Tclc-
phone. Southern BeU Telephone and T,ic-
graph. Western Electric manufactur-
ing): Bell Telephone of Canada. Cen
trail New York Telephone and Tclc-
graph. East Tennessee Telephone EN-
pire State Telephone and Telegraph
Erie Telegraph and Telephone. Cicvc-
land Telephone, Northwestern Tclc
graph Exchange. Southwestern Tclc-
graph and Telephone. Michigan Tclc-
phone. Wisconsin Telephone. Frccrcrt
Telephone Exchange, Miami Telephone
Exchange. Northern New York Tclc-
phone, Plymouth On. H) and Compton
Troy Telephone and Telegraph. South
ern New England Telephone Provi-
dcnce Telephone. Formed in 1874. re-
formed in 1880. Massachusetts. Boston;
common stock. SEA, SS6300: bonds, $40,
100000.
Doubtless everywhere that this com
pany is operating--and it seems 10 be
operating pretty nearly everywhere it
maintains stoutly that the particular
alias it uses in any given place is its
real name.
The Virginian-Pilot notes among tho
alias under which this Telephone Trust
operates is the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Company. which was
openly charged by the whole press of
Baltimore City with having corrupted
the Maryland Legislature last spring
in furtherance of Job" in Baltimore,
and which was the occasion OF the
famous letter of Representative Hof-
facker. In which he informed his broth
err that plenty of "budel" was floating
around.
But. OF course, in the plenitude of It's
piety. the Southern Bell Company
knows nothing Of this! 81.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

The Bell Company had the monu-
mental cheek and colossal gall to claim
the power and right to use the streets
of Richmond without the permission of
the city government, and in defiance of
it: and 1t found a facile United States
Judge (Goff) who aided and abetted
and attempted to uphold that private
corporation in it's outrageous claim;
but the United States Supreme Court
turned down Bell and Golf, and their
claim.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

ton back to its former safe methods
and policies.
Compare him with Mr.. Mckinley and
the set or men who surround and con-
troll the present weak Administration.
and then say which of the two can
didates for President is likely to i'm
peril the honest wealth of the United
States.
The truth is that Bryan has taken
up the burden where Lincoln laid it
down.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

Thus far no citizen of Norfolk has
been found who would say he was not
in favor of putting the same restric-
tons as 10 rates upon the two Bell tel
ephone companies as are embodied in
the franchise of the Southern States
Company. If any citizen is not in fa-
vor of the above-named proposition,
the columns of the Virginian are
open TO him.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

What has become of that meeting of
the Southern States Telephone Com
pany officials which, about month
ago, was to he held in a couple of
weeks to determine what the States
Company would do with reference to
rites?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

The Telephone Committee will meet
again Saturday at ) p. IN. Whether it
will be Undertaking seance or not.
remains To be seen. Up TO this date,
nothing. has materialized.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

Why not deed over all the streets to
the Bell companies and their attorneys,
and Citizens and all others pay them
an annual rental fee for the use of our
own streets as public highways?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

Our article in yesterdays issue rela-
tive to Staunton's telephone system
will be good reading for those who
wish to learn
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

The mountain in labor produced &
mole hill. Wonder il this viii have
any modern application?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

What effrontcry some people have to
think the Bell Company is bound by its
franchises or anything else. The earth
is Its" and the fuliness thereof.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

ADVERTISING RATES. Advertise
ments inserted at the rate of 10 cents a
square. first Insertion. each subsequent
insertion 40 cents. 80 cents when in
serted Every Other Day. Contractors
are not allowed to exceed their space
or advertise other than their legitimate
business, except by paying especially for
the same.
Reading Notices. invariably 90 cents per
limo first insertion. Each subsequent in
scrtion is cents.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

The Telephone Committee has moth
ing to say. Sometimes silence speaks
louder than words.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

In order to avoid delays. on account of
personal absence. letters and all commu-
nications for THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
should not be addressed to any Individual
connected with the Office. but simply to
THE NIRGlNIAN AND PILOT PUB
FISHING COMPANY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

The Bell Company is UP against the
REAL THING at Staunton
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

No employee of the Virginian- Pilot
Publishing Company is authorized to con-
tract any obligations in the name of the
company or TO make purchases In the
name of the same. except upon orders
signed by the RRESI DENT OF THE
COMPANY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02

Rooms 3 and No. is7i Main street. over
"'The Hub" Specialties-CAT and
all diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat
Chest and Stomach.
Hours . a. m.. to 1890 p. M; p. M to
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p. m. Tuesday night. Thursday night and
Saturday night. ':4S p. III. to sis p. IN.
CONSULTATION ALWAYS FREE
Medicines furnished Terms moderate
Eyes examined for glasses FREQ o.
chRrGe,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-02
THREE CENTS PER COPY.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

subscribers by carriers in Norfolk and vi
cinity, Portsmouth. Berkeley. Suffolk.
West Norfolk. Newport News. for 10
cents per week. payable to the carrier.
BY mail, to any place in the United
States, postage free:
The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-09
prrd. and mead. =, w.,.

You would hardly believe that moles.
clumsy and almost blind. become per-
feet demons when they quarrel. No
one knows what they quarrel about.
but il they once start fighting one has
to die. They will keep on in the pres
ence OF any number Of spectators, hang
ing on TO one another like bulldogs and
burying their enormously strong jaws
and teeth in one another's flesh. Hedge
hogs, another type OF the quiet, molten
sive-looking animal, not only fight, but
always % the death, and when one is
killed the other generally devours him.
Hares. on the other hand, are prorerb-
tally the most timid of creatures. vet
they can fight. A fight between two
hares is a ludicrous sight, as they skip
and jump over one another. But blow
from the hind legs OF hare is no joke
to his opponent. Among birds robins
are the most pugnacious. More than
one case could be quoted of two robins
so frantically set on killing one another
as to have allowed themselves to be
picked up in the hands of looker-on
and there have laid with beak and claws
deeply buried in one another's plnmage.