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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-12
Circulation Statement.
= centnrr as a CariaaI.

The Capital City of Washington, consid-
ring its age, for it is an hundred years
GID today, will strike the visiting Governor
or other stranger as looking remarkably
bright and spry for a centenariaR- But
although It has borne the alternating bis
tiers and chilblaias fve-score summers
and winters. and has used both tobacco
ana intoxicating liquors, sometimes i'm
moderately, It still appears to be in the
first flush of vigorous and happy youth
Peace is within its gates, and Mckinley
prosperity within its palaces.
In way entirely BETTING the occasion
the various ceremonies OF the day were
planned upon scale of republican dignity
and simplicity The exercises at the White
House this morning we're appropriate and
interesting, especially the informal exam
ination of the plans for amending and en-
larging the Executive Mansion, work
which should have been undertaken and
completed fifty years ago It has long been
a disgrace TO the richest nation on earth
that it has forced its Chief Magistrates for
half century 70 occupy a limited suite OF
apartments in a building mostly used for
that recent Presidents have hardly had a
spare bedroom to offer TO personal guest
The enlargement of the White House viii
not affect the integrity OF appearance Of
the structure as il Is; which is well. be-
cause the White House is today the hand
soonest building in the city
War in the Philippines, and the neees-
sity for garrisoning Porto Rico, Cuba, and
other distant places. just now do not
leave many troops al home 10 participate
in public functions like this one; but the
procession which graced the Avenue on
hour or so ago, made I'D in quality what
ever it may have lacked IN numbers. The
military, naval. and civic features Of the
parade were ali admirable, the local COM
Tnlttee being especially resplendent and
impressive
The ceremonies st the Capitol arc siH
in progress as we go to press, The scene
in the House of Representatives with its
patriotic corations, and the brilliant
company OF statesmen, diplomatists, ju-
rists. soldiers. sailors. and citizens is in
spiriting- Tonight The visiting Governors,
twenty-five in all, viii be rendered a re-
Coption at the Corcoran Art Gallery, and
at the end Of the evening it is to be hoped
that they VIII get Governor Mount of In
diana in a corner, and read TO him a pas
sage in the sacred book of the Constitu-
ton OF which we believe he is now in ig-
noranee- We refer to paragraph 2. of
section >. OF Article ", of the document
IN question which reads:
"a person charged in any State with treason,
felony, other crime who shall fee from justice
and be found in another State shall on demand
of the executive authority OF the state from which
he fed, be delivered up. TO be removed to the
State having jurisdiction OF the crime.
The constitutional provision above quot
ed is maRdatcry-and even more mandate
~ upon Governors than is the duty OF par
ticipatioB IN the endless round of centen-
NAL celebrations which promises to go on
Until time-and Governors and fugitives
from justice--shali be no more.
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PROTESTS IN GALVESTON.
Appropriation of the Orphan.' Fund
Causes Trouble.

Appropriation of the Orphans' Fund
Causes Trouble.
GALVESTON. Texas. Dec. 12.-The Ger
trail Relief Committee has affirmed by res
olution its former action appropriatinE
the Waldorf-Astoria bazaar fund of $50 :
0ee for the orphans Of Galveston TO the
Galveston Orphans Home to the excIu-
sien of the ST, Aary's Orphans Home and
the Coiored Orphans Home. Both of the
last named are conducted under Catholic
auspices. but admit and care fer orphans
of all cTeeds.
This action OF the committee Is Sc
verely criticised by equitable men Of
every shade Of belief. who assert that the
action Of the committee is 3iscriuaiaa-
ton and a stuhfeation of the purpose of
the patrons of the bazaar. who were of
all creeds and gave generously for the
benefit Of the orphans. regardless of
creed, color Or nationality
Bishop Gallahsr when asked his opinion
last night as to the action OF the COM
mittee, stated that the Catholics had en-
tered their protest against awarding this
entire fund TO the Galveston Orphans
Home, which was under Protestant auspi-
ees. This protest had been made not in
raneor or sectarian spirit, but in the
spirit of equity and justice The Calves
ton Orphans Home had been partially
wrecked but none Of its inmates had been
lost, while St Mary's Orphans Home had
been completely destroyed and all its
ninety inmates had persisted in the fearful
hurricane and food
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THE ANTI-vIcE oReAN.
Some OF the Articles in the VIEW
York xiEifaat,,

Do1iS OF the Articles IN the New
York yiEtEaat.'
NEW YORK, Der 12-The New York
yigilant," published by the City Vigilance
League and the Parkhurst Society. came
cut yesterday. It is devoted to an anti
Tammauy campaign. There is an article,
presumably by Frank Moss, on The IN
| dergreund Tunnel and the Pipe Caller
les part Of which deals with the subject
Of telephone subways
The New York Telephone Company, the
writer says, pays nothing for the valuable
/ franchise Of carrying wires under the
streets. Testimony taken before the Ma
yet Committee tending 70 show that the
telephone company and the subway com
psny we're one concern is reproduced, and
the article relates that il was not until
after the enquiry had begun that Darwin
R. James, OF the Peoples Telephone Com
Pany. Was able to get q permit to use the
subway from Commissioner Kearney-
AfteFWard il appeared that or the day
before this permit was issued the Knick-
erBocker Telephone Company. controlled
by MI Whitney and his associates" got
permit 10 the same effect The writer
asks of BIZ. James and his associates:
Is II not q fact that as soon as you
were IN position to do business you found
yourselves confronted not only with the
old telephone company. but with new com
panies tat least on new paper)z Did not
interested persons endeayor to secure
control of your company? Did not you
beat them OF for time? Did you not
finally realize that il was losing battle2
Have you not recently surrendered your
Pee pies Telephone Company to one Of its
newly formed rivals and mas not the op-
position # the New York Telephone Com
Pany's expensive monopoly thus been en-
tirely Destroyer L is no wonder
that the term commercial in politics is
popularity accepted as expressing the rea-
son for degenerate civic government when
commeFcialism means 10 the merchant
and TIE powerful business men all, and
nothing better than working for the peck
ct all the time even If it be necessary TO
make alliances with corrupt politicians
and to injure and disgraes American in
stitutions.''
The "vIgiIant" informs the Tammany
Committee of Five that they should con
vince the people OF this fact by making
short and decisive work OF Senator Sui
liyanEs places. It's closing advice to the
Croker purifiers is: Don't c0nane your
efforts to hustling few friendIess women
OF ATleE Street. Go for big game"
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as any OF their brethren IN China, and
though some effort is made TO convert
them to Christianity. it has met VITA but
BILE plan would be 30 send people who
are anxious to work among the Chinese
into the Chinese quarters of New York.
Chicago, and San Francisco, and if they
cannot succeed in converting these. 1t
is rather Illogical to suppose that they
will ever convert the whole Of China,
There are four hundred millions Of peo-
pie in China, most of them densely igno-
rant and prejudieed against foreigners
Our own population numbers only seven
ty-six millions, and out of this only q
very small fraction can be spared for
Chinese mission work The Chinese who
come to this country ray be supposed to
have no violent prejudice against 1t There
are enough of them to engage the Whole
energy OF three times as many mission
aries as are employed in all of the Chin
csc mission stations put together. Work
among them. II carried on properly, might
90 away with the opium dens which are
running Americans and Chinese alike. and
with a good many other abuses current in
the siu1ns of large cities. Since enc mis-
sionary can only save certain number
of souls in any circumstances, il seems
as il it would be the way of common sense
to put him where those souls worid he
most useful. and if every Chinese coolle
in this country were a Christian. there
would eertainis be an awakening through
out the province of Canton. from which
most Of them come, and to which they
will evtntralIv return.
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Chinese MISSIONS.

The present Chinese troubles are likely
TO have a considerable influence ever the
future history of missions in Oriental re-
gions. The nobility and devotion to duty
of the men ard women who met martyr
dom at the hands of the Chinese is not
questioned. Many OF these missionaries
might have escaped death had they been
willing to leave their Chinese converts
without me protection which they fancied
their presence might be. They believed,
and rightly, that the lives of these hap
less Chinese Christians would not be
worth a straw IL left to the mercy OF their
infurieted anti Christian neighbo=s, for
the indignation OF the native against the
man Of his own blood who has turned
against him is invariably greater than his
anger with the foreigner.
But the fact remains that all this con-
scientious devotion. while it Is not exactly
wasted-for character must always count
for something-would seem to have been
better employed in some less dangerous
and difficult place. When the mission sta
lions in China were established the gen
eral belief Of the orthodox English ana
American churches WAS that without such
agency millions upon millions CT human
beings would every year be hurled into an
eternity of endless pain There was ab-
soIutely no hope, according to the old
fashioned theology, fer the heather who
knew ret Christianity. Gradually. how
ever. this idea was modified. and 1t was
said that q man could not be condemned.
by just Ged. for a fault CT which he
was unconscious. and which that same
God had ordained that he should commit.
Still the missions we're kept up, though
the theory of future probation steadily
grew in favor Not more than fifteen years
ago the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions rejected the services Of an able and
devoted clergyman who desired to 20 as a
missionary TO Japan, and gave as the
grounds of his rejection the fact that he
did net believe in the absolute eonder.na-
ton Of the people whom he would have
sought to save And, indeed. there is
certain Inconsistency in foreign missions
if the oId-time theory is given up. If. as
some of the orthodox now believe. man
has some chance fe- salvation If he has
never heard OF Christ, but 70 chance
whatever If nc has heard tbs Gospel and
does not become Christian. it seems to
an unpTejudicsd person as II the heather
Lad the better prospect
However this may be. the fact remains
that therAa are many thousands OF Chin
csc IN this country. who are Just as thor
ough heather, L that term is to be used,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-12
AN OIL MILL BURNED.
A Backet Brigade Saves Mach Prog
erty at weldon, \. c.

A Backet Brigade Saves Much Prop
erty at weldon, n. c.
SUFFOLK, Va, Dec. 12.-Tae weldon
Oil Mill, at Weldon, n. c., whose principal
owner is ex-senator Don Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, vas burned down Monday
night The cottonseed storage warehouse,
the corn and -four mill. new cotton gin
and an electric light plant, all near By
and operated by the same concern were
saved only by hard work on the part OF
the fire fighters and the fortunate direc-
ton of the wind
The blaze started in private stables at1-
joining the plant, which we're consumed,
together with a Thoroughbred mare, Mar
guerite, raised by ex-senator Cameron.
and for which Major J. W. Wilson, presi-
dent of the company, said he had refused
81 SEQ. The burned plant contained ex-
pensive machinery, some of which had
been in the building only a few days The
associated industries are idle, the forces
being demoraIized by the fire The loss is
about SIS. 099, with about s. 600 insurance,
though there are discrepancies in the es-
Inmates.
President Wilson says that the loss ag-
gregates SIS, goo. The only theory sug-
gested is that tramps started the blaze ac-
ctdentally-
Weldon has no organized fire depart
ment, but a bucket brigade was formed
from the Roanoke River to the top of the
buildings adjoining the Ere. Five hundred
horsepower TO operate the several plants
is gotten from a forty-fTe foot waterwan.
which is said TO be the third highest in the
United States. So grateful was Major Viii
sea for the assistance OF citizens in re-
stfaiaing the fire that be hired q travel
ing theatrical company, which Iass night
gave a free performance to all who cared
to visit the Weldon Opera House.
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N THE FEDERAL COURT.
Trial OF Numerous PosfOnice Offend
ers at Raleigh.

ers at Raleigh.
RALEIGH, N @, Dec I2--This will be
a lively week In the Federal Court here
for the trial of postoface offenders George
O. Day, negro. VIII be tried for stealing
letters containing money. He was a clerk
il a postofiee. ". y. Crowder. white,
viii be tried for intereepting and destroy
ing letters which came to a young woman
through the mails. He secured the letters
from the postofice without her authority
or consent. CroBder is q kinsman Of the
young woman.
Ed Jackson and Jim Jackson are to be
tried for the robbery o. the postofiee at
GiIling, Vance county. in June of last
year. Fcur postoflce inspectors are now
here as witnesses-Jere ConnaIly, F. N
Davis, E A Mess, and D. c. Owings They
say there is q great deal OF posto1flce rob
berry going on In this State particularly
in the western part Mr. Mess saws IN
the latter section there IS a robbery at
least once in fortnight Perhaps two
thirds OF them are the work Of profess
SIGNALS who travel in organized gangs.
Practically all the safebiowers are proses-
sionais.
At CoRnellys Springs there are a post
Office and six stores ard All these have
been robbed, the safes bs1ng blown in each
case
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AN ITALIAN PRIEST DUPED.
Robbed OF $4,000 by Men Supposed
to he Americana


NEW YORK, Dec. I2-Aeeording 10 a
story Just received from Italy q couple Of
clever rascais, said to be americans,
played a col 9dence game lately on an
Italian priest by which they pro6ted to the
extent Of $50. 900. They have not been
caught. The Rev. Father Crosse, 3 mem
Der Of the Society OF Jesus, who is the su~
perior OF the Jesuit Institute at Turin,
was the victim
Two handsomely dressed men, apparent
| " Americans or Erglishmen, called upon
him about a fortnight ago and told him
that they we're the trustees Of rich or
phaned boy whose father had been killed
in the TTansvaal. They told the priest
they wished to place the boy under his
care and have him educated in the insti-
tute. At the same time they said they
were custodials OF e40, 600 which belonged
to their ward and this money they desired
to leave in the priests charge.
Father Crosse consented to take the boy
under his care and also agreed to accept
the custody Of the funds as suggested The
two strangers displayed several bundles
Of bank notes, apparently genuine, which
they placed in compartments In the safe
which Father Crosse aecomnoda tingIy
opened for them. The pair then left the
house, stating that they we're going 20
Milan. where they had left their young
Win 4lf0. sew
eral days passed. but neither Of the men
returned.
Father Crosse then having become sus-
picious went to his safe He found that
notes aggregating $4,000, al the funds
of the institution, we're gone, and that
the bundles OF so-ealled bank notes left
by the two strangers contained nothing
but waste paper The men. under the
very eyes of the priest, had extracted the
institutions money from the safe while
placing their own couaterfeits in the
compartments.
The police of the principal cities IN Eu-
rope and this country have been notified
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TO WELCOME NEW CENTURY.
BaTFimoFe's City Hail Bell to Ring
After Years Of silence.

Ual11mOFess City Hail Bell to Ring
After Years Of Silence.
BALTIMORE, Dec 12-Lord Baltimore,
the ponderous and melodious-toned bell
in the City Hall tower, has been mute for
several years. When silent FIRE alarms
were substituted for those rung cut ca
bells all over the city, Lord BaItiHaoress
usefulness was considered gone to q GER
tain extent. It continued to ring out the
hours for some time, but owing tS con-
tinued trouble with tbs striking appara-
tus, was finally allowed to remain silent
Superintendent Holman is having the
City Hail clock system thoroughly over
hauled AMI part OF 5is plan is to reiaRe-
nate Lord Baltimore. The big bell VIII
hereafter strike the hours and Mr. He'll
man thinks the most appropriate time to
start the BELLS Geep-thrcascd notes again
viii be the moment when She new cen
fury dawns. Prof. James Mellon, finger
of the ST. Vincent Church chimes, has
been esked to lead his aid, ana il is ex-
pected that arst IN the loud acclaim to
the twentieth century one second after
midnight on January I will be the once
familiar but long silent voice OF Lord
Baltimore.
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The Progress of MedicnI sciene.

In celebrating centennial it is always
interesting to note the progress which has
been made since the event celebrated took
place; and the condition of the world in
1900 is certainly a considerable improve
ment upon that in which it was in 1900.
Edward Egg1eston, who has already won
reputation as novelist OF the Middle
West, has recently been studying what
may be called the private history of past
generations. n other words, he has been
investigating the customs, ideas, and su-
perstitions current among the common
people Ia the american colonies during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The description which he gives OF the Sci
eree OF medicine as 1t existed in colonial
times is certainly rather startling. Even
as late as hundred years ago dense fg-
norance of some of the fundamental theo-
ries of modern medicine prevailed Few
people realized that the common-sense
ideas of the physician of today are of such
recent origin.
The idea Of the old-tine physician was
that the human body was composed of
four elem ants-eartr, air, fire, and water
and that it contained four huurors cor
responding with these elements, namely,
bile or ehoIer. blood. melancholy or black
bile. and phIegm- It is easy to recognize
in these terms the origin OF familiar mod
ern words. Disease. 1t was supposed. was
caused by the wrong mixture or distTibu-
ton Of the four hunors. ana a writer in
1863 estimated the possible combinations
Of them st eighty thousand Certain ram
eGies we're supposed 10 act in enc way or
another on these fluids. and bleeding.
which vas such a favorite remedy with
eighteenth century doctors. was resorted
to with the idea that the huTnor Of which
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-12
NEW GUNS FOR 1dE NAVY.
Fo<ty Powerful Pieces Ordered ut
The Navy Yard Foundry.

FoFfy Powerful Pieces Ordered ut
The Navy Yard Foundry.
Forty guns, representing the highest de-
velopmeRt Of naval ordnance, and mora
powerful than any OF their ealibre in the
fleets Of the world, have been ordered
built at the Washington Gun Factory for
ships now under construction and for those
for which contracts are shortly to Be
awarded These pieces are the NEST eifec-
tive guns employed In the largest battle
ships ahSst, and are regarded as having
greater penetrating force and capable Of
higher velocity than any ordnance Of SINH
lar weight and calibre mounted or building
The gun Is z new naval weapon, and de-
signed By the Naval Ordnance Bureau. So
remarkable have been the trials Of the
test gun that naval experts DO not heSi-
tate oproclaim Il one Of the finest Tif1ed
guns ever built. and so marked has been
tho result attained in high velocities and
pfessures that the navy nag adopted Che
typs for future ms tallatiOn On ell ships
where tho largest guns are used. and viii
mount 1t on every battleship, armored
cruiser. and monitor.
It VIII require forty OF these. including
two guns each for the foar monitors OF the
Arkansas class. the others being required
for the three sister battleships. Maine
Ohio. and Missouri. ana for those recently
designed, but not yet under construction.
When 1t is realized that the new gun
has far greater penetrating power than the
big I3-inch guns which we're placed on the
early battleships. its superiority over the
older piece may be seen. Thirteea-inch
guns haze been discarded for battleships
by ordnance experts as Unnecessary when
q gun Of 12-inch cslbre can now be built,
having equal striking force and OF consId-
eTabiy less weight
The new gun has recently developed We
ioeites OF 1854 feet per second. as com
pared to less than 2.0oe feet per second
fer the older gun. Pressures OF tweatg
tons have also been secured. as compared
to something less dian fifteen tons for the
old type. ----..
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THE SULLIVAN ESTATE.
English Composer Left the Bulk oi
$3.50 goo 20 q Nephew.

SxSo,DoD 70 8 AepE eyz-
LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE estate of the
late Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, ag-
gregates about $250.0ee. The bulk Of this
Is left TO his nephew, D. H Sullivan. The
composer made small requests to his two
ether nephews and to Mrs. Stephens, a
niece. who resides at Los Angeles. Cal,
md beqaesthed IS. GOO to his housekeeper
and valet. respectively.
The deceased also left number OF me-
mentcs from his silver and china to per-
solal friends. men and women. among
them being Mrs. Beach Grant, mother OF
Lady Essex; Mrs. Ronalds, Mrs D'oyiy
Carte. and Mrs. Crutchley. and also left
number of his original scores to musical
institutions ard friends, Mrs. Renalds get
ting the score OF The Lest Chord The
deceased left his portrait to the nation
The VIII contains many surprises. It
was thought that the estate of the late
composer would be worth 100000. It had
been reported, also, that Mrs. RonaIds.
Ene was associated with Sir Arthur in
most of his later work. would receive
s25e, 900 in cash. It was also said that
handsome SUMS had been bequeatked to
musical endowmentg and scholarships II
was Mrs. RenaldS who brought abcat the
reconciliation Of Sir Arthur and Mr.. Gil
bert in 1890. She invited them to her
house, and in spite of the notorious curt
ness OF Gilbert. induced them TO shake
bands.
Mrs. Ronalds also reconci1ed Mr.. Gilbert
and D'0yly Carte, whose wife is a beRe-
tciary OF the viii. Mrs. Ronalds was Miss
Mary Frances Carter. OF Boston. She was
married November s. 1883, to Pierce Lor-
Hard Ronalds. member of a welI-kneTn
New York family
The profits OF tie Gilbert-SuIliyan operas
were divided between Gilbert and D'Oyly
Carte, who produced the plays. Carte
alone cleared s45e. 600 from them He is
now seriously i'll His wife alone, how
eyer. benefits from the will