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Forty words inserted under this head
one week for rs cents, cash ia advance,
The times., 1900-12-24
THE WAR REVENUE TAXES.
Senate Amendments Not Likely to BE
Framed During Recess.

Contrary to general opinion the FL
nance Committee of the Senate has not
yet begun the consideration of the War
Revenue Reduction bill, recently passed
by the House of Representatives. 1t is
not likely moreover that anything will
be accomplished during the holiday re-
cess toward framing the amendments
that are TO be recommended by the COM
mittee.
Senator Aldrich. Chairman of the COM
mittee, and Senator Allison have under
taken the task of going over the various
statements of the financial condition of
the Treasury and estimates of probable
surplus in the future. with the hope Of
learning approximately at least to what
limit Congress can safely go in reducing
the war taxes. When this has been ascer-
tanned the work of revising the House
bill will begin, and will be pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible. No
hearing will be given, and It has already
been decided that no information with
regard to committee recommendations
snail be given out until the bill in its
entirety is ready to be reported to the
Senate
1t is the aim of the members of the
Finance Committee TO present a measure
framed on scientific principles, and not a
Dill patched Up to meet the desires CT
various interests to be affected by it.
The plan of the committee is to have
bill that will remove the burdens that
bear most heavily upon these least able
TO support them and to collect the neces-
sary revenue from those who are able to
pay it. With this object in view taxes
that are paid by individuals, like the tax
On telegraph messages and express re-
ceipts wlil be removed altogether, and
those Ike the stamp tax on bank checks
retained, with horizontal reduction in
such taxes as are paid indirectly. The
beer tax is likely to be left as agreed
to by the House, at least there will be no
reduction recommended by the Senate
over the House rates. II any change is
recommended it is apt to be an increase.
Until Senators Aldrich and Allison have
reported to the committee the result os
their work to ascertain the probable sur
Plus, the aggregate amount OF reduction
VIII not be decided upon. 1t is well
known that the committee fsyors the
plan of taking off now all the taxes that
can be safely removed within the next
four years, so that there need be no
more tariff or tax legislation during the
life Of the Mckinley Administration.
Whether the amount of reduction is to
be s40,000,000, as provided by the House
bill, or S3O,oO0000, as recommended by the
President and Secretary Gage, or a great
er or less amount than those. no member
OF the committee knows. Soon after Con-
gress reconyenes, however, the work of
revising the House bill Will be taken up
in earnest.
The times., 1900-12-24
RoBBERIEs WORRY THE POLICE.
Major Sylvester Says His Present
Force Is Too Small.

Major Sylvester is much exercised at
the inadequate force at his disposal, with
which to deal with the criminal classes.
and patrol the city. The recent increase
in robberies has brought this matter
forcibly to his attention, and he reiterates
a suggestion made in his last annual re-
port. urging an immediate adition to the
local force. Both the Board of Trade and
the Business Mems Association, says the
Police Chief, will support the contention
for additional men, and Congress Will be
asked to act promptly on the pending
measure.
Now that New York. Chicago, and other
large cities, resulting from a moral cru
sade. are driving criminals from their
confines, the need of protection for per-
sons and property in Washington is do,i-
bly, felt, said Major Sylvester Thieves
are on the move; they come here, plan
and execute a robbery. and then leave
the city before any clew to their identity
or the disposition of the booty is secured
Under the present state of affairs, we can
only work and try to keep down crime
generally in the District for with the
present force it Is impossible to properly
patrol city of this size. There should
be post men always on duty about the
various departments especially in the
Northwest section about the State De-
partment, the Winder Building, where
tragedy was enacted Saturday. and other
like localities, but with the present force
this is now impossible However we
have brought these facts before Congress,
and relief may be forthcoming at the
present session.
The times., 1900-12-24
THOUGHT TO BE INSANE.
A Man with "A Claim Arrested Mt the
White Vousc.

George Weber, who says he has claim
against the Government, was arrested
yesterday in the White House Grounds by
Sergeant Goss and locked up at the First
precinct station on suspicion of being in
sane. Weber came here to see the Presi-
dent and says he forty-five years old and
a soldier.
Weber first appeared about the White
House during the early afternoon, and
told one of the ushers that he wanted
to see Mr. Mckinley. He was informed
that the President was very busy. and,
after further questioning. departed, but
soon returned to the executive grounds.
AS he was lettering about the main en-
trance to the White House Sergeant Goss
came along and questioned him. Weber
told the policeman that he must see
the President. He unfolded cautiously a
scheme for obtaining SO, 0G0. 900 from the
Government, which sum, Weber claims.
is due the Brazilian Government. When
further questioned respecting his plan,
Weber was unable to give exact particu-
lars. and Sergeant Goss arrested him.
The prisoner was taken to the First pre-
cinct station and is held to await an ex-
animation into his mental condition this
morning.
The times., 1900-12-24
CAPTURED AFTER A CHASE.
a Merchant Finds an Unexpected
Visitor in His store.

Edward Bellam. proprietor of a grocery
at 4S7 Seventh Street southwest. found
Samuel sondheimer in his store at an
early hour yesterday morning and lad
him locked up at the Fourth precinct
station. Sondheimer had obtained an en-
trance to the place by breaking the glass
to the show window, and submitted to
arrest only after long chase.
The noise of smashing glass awakened
Mr.. Bellam about O'Clock and he hur-
riedly dressed and went into the store.
over which ne has sleeping quarters. As
he entered through a rear door he saw
man crouching behind counter, and
at once made jump toward the intruder.
Sendheimer saw Bellam just as ne was
seen by the latter, and started for the
show window through which he had en-
tered. Bellam seized the intruder. but
Sondheimer broke away and leaped
through window into the street, closely
followed by Bellam. But few persons
were on the street, yet several gave chase
to Sondheimer and finally came up with
him. With others Bellam held Sond-
heimer until a policeman came up and
took Sondheimer to the Fourth precinct
station
The times., 1900-12-24

though ten years afterward, at Sydney,
Australia, man serving as American
Consul in the port, to the writer's knowl-
edge. replied to an enquiry of Treasury
bureau, sent through the Secretary of
State. in manner beftting an agent of
Lloyd's. He fairly secuted the idea of
American ships offering for coal carriage
to San Francisco. When British shipping
abounded such thing was presumptuous.
But there is a better case of spurious
Consul than the foregoing that came out
in answer to the enquiry above referred
to. which related to insurance discrimina-
tions to the injury of American vessels in
different ports of the world. Consul Jones
OF Cardiff, Wales, seemed anxious to have
it believed that the British people did not
practice patriotism in business, but he
did not bear this denial in mind when he
gave a list of British flag preferences.
with American ships ranking third, for
reasons which are fairly on the surface, ="
as he alleged.
THE latest report from Consul Jones,
of Cardiff was Tin 1892 that he had re-
nounced his American. returned to his
British. allegiance. and was n candidate
for Parliament. With SO much 'respecta-
bility' as he had he may have risen to be
an agent of Lloyd's. How is it that for
eign adventurers find ready access to our
consular service?''
The concluding statement is as follows;
Needless to say, the few ships which
we had remaining in the trade could get
no more employment in it. On July IA,
1892, the writer noted the following facts:
In POI days not a single American ship
with grain or flour had sailed from San
Francisco to Europe. while in the same
time rs foreign ships ga British), with
full cargoes, had gone their way exulting.
But one American bark sailed from Port
land or Tacoma ir the grain trade in 240
days, while 81 foreign ships ga British)
cleared in the same time. So the British
ban did its work. and the demand for our
cbi tn md
The times., 1900-12-24
STOLE A CHRISTMAS DINNER.
\ Thief Breaks n Window and Sc.
cures Turkeys and Chickens.

The show window at the grocery store
of J. W. Nash, Fourth and Streets
southeast, was smashed yesterday by an
unknown man and several turkeys and
chickens were taken by the thief. who
made his escape The affair caused much
excitement in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the store, and the thief was
chased some distance by citizens.
The man was seen lettering about the
store during the early morning. but no
attention was paid to him until he picked
up a stone from the street and threw
it into the show window of the grocery.
Through the opening he quickly possessed
himself of turkey and couple OF chick
ems and started on the run down Fourth
Street, chased by a dozen citizens, who
called Justify for the police. The fugi-
tive distanced his pursuers and was lost
in an alley several blocks from the
grOcery
The times., 1900-12-24
AUTOS FOR POSTAL USE.
No Proposals From Companies for
Carrying the Mails.

Although the Postoffice Department
took pains in its latest advertisement for
proposals for carrying the mails through
cities, between postofiices and railway
stations, to incorporate a special invita-
tion to automobile and locomobile COM
panies to compete, not a bid Of this sort
has come in. The default is explained by
the experts ON the ground that a large
wagon loaded with full mail-pouches is a
very heavy vet icle, and that the mechani-
cal motor needed to impel one must be
proportionately heavy, combining to make
a tremendous weight with rather indif-
ferent apparatus to control the momen-
tum 1t is liable to acquire.
An electric battery Of the size necessary
to move such mass is said to cost $500.
and to have so short life that it would
probably have to be charged three times Il
year. if not oftener, even in city where
the distance travelled daily is as small as
in Washington. This would mean an ex
penditure with each change of enough
money to buy good pair of draught
horses. and no. contractor could afford, at
the prevailing rates of compensation, to
change two horses so often as that.
Horses have to be fed and stabbed, 1t is
true, AID they do sometimes fall i'll and re-
quire medicine and surgery. But the re-
charging of batteries, tine Incidental re-
pairs. and the liability 10 costly accidents
are all to be included in estimating the
possible expenses Of a motor service.
The times., 1900-12-24
TRIED TO END HER LIFE.
Grace Snyder Drinks m Ounce of
CarbO1ic Acid.

Grace Snyder. a sixteen-year- ar-old girl.
who lives with her mother at 1889 Sixth
Street northwest, tried to kill herself last
night at her home by drinking an ounce
of carbolic acid. She was removed to the
Homeopathic Hospital and was early this
morning expected to recover.
1t is said that 'she was resolved to end
her life because of a quarrel she had with
her sweetheart. She was with him last
night. it is said, and it is thought that
the two had quarrel When she re-
turned to. her room she at once went to
the second floor and at the head of the
stairs she drank the contents of vial
which contained about an ounce of car
bolic acid. She then entered her room
and fell on the floor
Her screams iof agony attracted the at
tention of a barber named Georges, who
rooms in the house. He ran upstairs and
entering the room discovered the girl ly-
ing on the floor. He lifted her to the bed
and then running outside informed Police
liceman Siebert, of the Second precinct
station, of the trouble. Siebert summoned
the ambulance and the girl was taken to
the hospital and there received treatment.
The times., 1900-12-24
DIED.

DICE-On Saturday. December %. 1900. at T:3G
p M. at his late residence, 4Sl Seventh Street
southeast. GEORGE D. DICE.
Funeral on December % at 2:30 p. NJ. Friends
and relatives invited.
1t Gone, but not forgotten
SOLAN-On Saturday. December %. 1900. WILL
LIAM f. SOLAN. beloved husband OF Jennie B.
Solan, nee Flowman, at ! a. m, OF typhoid pneu-
monia aged thirty years.
Funeral from his late residence. 40 New jersey
Avenue northwest, Monday December 81. at 0
O'Clock; from thence 10 St Aloysius Church.
where requiem mass will be said for the reposc
of his soul. Friends Invited 1t
CURLEY-On Saturday morning. December %,
1900. ANNIE v. beloved wife Of Albert Curley.
after a long and painful illness, which she bore
with Christian forttude.
FuLeral from her late residence, Gli Tenth
Street southwest at 10 O'Clock A. Interment
at Bethlehem Cemetery. Alexandria Va. Friends
and relatives invited to attend.
Weep not, husband weep not. children:
All your weeping IS vain,
Though | leave thee hCSed in sorrow,
We shall meet in JOY again.
Do not mourn because | leave thee;
God has called me home TO dwell
Kiss my husband, kiss my children,
And forever fare thee well.
tle23-2t
The times., 1900-12-24
ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX.
Alexander Morgan, Coiorcd. Found
Suffering From rhe Disease.

Suffering From the Disease.
Alexander Morgan, colored, aged nine
teen years, who came here yesterday
from Clarksburg. w. Va, en- route to his
home at Farmville, Va, was found to be
suffering with the smallpox at the Penn
sylvania depot by Detective Tyser. Nor
after examination by DR.. Walsh of the
Health Office.
Morgan was lettering about the Sixth
Street station shortly after 3 o'clock yes
terfay afternoon and his actions attract
ed the suspicious of the detective, who
questioned him closely. The disease was
disclosed by marks on the face. and the
negro admitted that he was Just recov-
ering from the smallpox. Detective Tyser
fee for a physician. DR.. Walsh went TO
the depot and upon examining him.
found Morgan's pulse very high.
wagon was secured and the negro
sent out to the pest house for treat
ment. lie stated that he had been
working on a railroad tunnel near
Clarksburg Cor several months.
All of the colored men who came here
Saturday from New Martinsburg with
Walker Lee were permitted to continue
on the way to their homes in Virginia
yesterday after they bad been disinfect-
ed by the Health Office employees. Walker
Lee is still detained at the smallpox hos
pitaL
The times., 1900-12-24
A coLoRED GIRL ASSAULTED.
Seized, Dragged Into an Alley, and
Brutally Treated.

While returning home from the house
of friend last night Theresa Mills.
colored, seventeen years of age. was as
saulted near First and X Streets south
east by five negroes, who made their
escape and are unknown. The girl was
dragged into Grinders Alley, near by,
and there assaulted, afterward being re-
leased.
The story told by the girl is that she
had been visiting a friend in Southwest
Washington and was returning home
along K Street when the negroes jumped
out from behind house upon her. She
was dragged some distance into the alley
and brutally treated. When released she
went in search of her sister, and together
they found Policeman Bean, of the Fifth
precinct station, to whom they reported
the affair. Later the girl accompanied the
policeman to identify, il possible, her as
saiiants, but no arrest had been made
at a late hour. The girl lives with her
mother, Bessie Mills. at S39 Second Street
southeast
The times., 1900-12-24

'The cost of operating gun for five
hundred shots, not including labor, is
$3.50
IAN agricultural paper announces that
vast defensive alliance has been formed
in the French Alps, including the grape
growers Of five departments. for the pur-
pose of buying cannon and powder for war
against the hail next summer The grape
growers everywhere believe in the can
non.
In 1899 1000 cannon were engaged in
cloud shooting in Italy. Last year the
number had swelled to 15.OG0 The Italian
Government goes SO far in recognizing the
efficacy of the cannon as to furnish pow
der to grape growers at cents per pound
1.-THE director of the Agricultural So
cieties of the Southeast OF France says
in his report that we cannot conclude
that in all cases the use of cannon will
afford complete protection, but 1t is un-
deniable that the results obtained are
most interesting and give yeritable hopes
for the future
Before the present improved destroy
ers were in use vine growers shot powder
from a sheet iron case fixed in a strong
box in the trunk of tree. In some parts
of France they rang. and still ring,
church bells, believing that the vibrations
in the atmosphere affected the elements"
The times., 1900-12-24
IN MEMORY OF DR.. STRICKEN.
Appropriate Services Held at the
HamIinc VI. f.. Church.

The remains of the late Rev w r.
Stricken, formerly pastor of Hamline NJ
E. Church, who died recently in Phoenix,
Ariz., are expected to arrive in the city
this afternoon on the 4:50 train over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad A delega-
tion of members of Hamlne Church will
be at the depot to meet the train.
The services at Hamline Church yester-
day in memory of DR.. Stricken were of an
impression nature. All special music was
omitted from the service. The sermon was
delivered by the Rev. J. w Steele. Ever
green and holly, a conspicuous feature in
the decoration Of other churches, were
dispensed with at Hamline, and In their
place were hung solemn emblems of
mourning a tribute to the memory of the
deceased
The times., 1900-12-24
A $4,000 PIPE FOR a PRESENT.
Il Took One Man 10000 Hours TO
Make II.

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-The most valuable
pipe in the world, exhibited at the World S
Fair and valued at $4,000, has been pre-
sented to Edmund A. Vogelgesang by his
brother Otto. to whom it was left by the
Rev. Father Adolph Ebel.
From childhood lover of art, Father
Ebel worked eighteen years in making
this wonderful pipe. He had studied ar
chtecture and sculpture while in college
in Rome and carved several statues and an
altar. He undertook this wonderful piece
of work while travelling about the country
in missionary work. as a means OF occu-
pying his spare time. Before the pipe was
completed with all its decorative figures
of angels, saints, men and animals ara
besque designs and gold trimmings, more
than 10000 hours were devoted to the task
When Father Ebel escaped with his life
from a bad railroad wreck the pipe alone
of all his baggage was saved.
The times., 1900-12-24
CANNON AGAINST HAIL.
French Grape Raisers Saving Their
Fruit From Injury.

John c. Covert, United States Consul at
Lyons, France, has made an interesting
report to the State Department regarding
the use of cannon in France to prevent
the destruction of grapes by hailstorms.
Mr.. Covert describes his visit to the
towns of Denice and Bois d,oinget to see
how the grape. owners vanquished their
most dreaded enemy-the hail.
Consul Covert says: Two long cannons
were displayed in each place. almost iden-
tical in shape, but different in the manner
OF firing Each gun is of the shape of an
inverted cone, the opening at the mouth
being Is 1-2 inches wide 1t is planted
upon tripod three feet high The gun
itself is six feet six inches high above
the tripod. 1t Is made of thin boiler iron.
AT its base is forged breech, which holds
a forged iron block.
In the centre of this block is an aper-
ture six inches long, about the size of a
large dynamite cartridge, in which is
placed metallic cartridge containing
eighty grammes OF blasting powder,
wadded with cork and tamped like an
ordinary miners blast. It is discharged
by needle on lever attached to the
base of the forged iron holder
The detonation is very loud As soon
49, tNS 10 Pulltu Idlue Is visible
at the mouth Of the gun, followed imme-
diately by a wreath of smoke. A shriIl,
whistling sound Immediately follows the
firing Of the cannon and is heard for four
teen seconds. AT distance this whistling
is much louder than near the gun. | am
told that it travels at speed of $50 me-
tres per second-4,620 metres in fourteen
seconds, which is nearly two and a half
miles. During the firing few drops of
rain fell
Il interviewed from twenty to thirty
large wine growers who used the cannon
last summer. They were all emphatic in
their belief in the efficacy of fighting hail
with gunpowder. They said that If the
weather were hot and they saw the clouds
forming they prepared for charge II
the clouds were moving rapidly their direc-
tion was changed or the movement was
stopped by the firing. They were torn
asunder and broken into shreds. and a CO.
pious fall of rain soon followed.
I'm localities where great losses from
hail have been incurred every summer the
cannon were used last summer and no hail
fell. Two or three miles distant, where no
cannon was fired, the hail was very de-
structive. One cannot protects nearly
seventyfve acres of land
The expense of equipping q shooting
t.
The times., 1900-12-24

What is the use Of worrying about Christmas
presents2 order case OF Iiuerichs Macrzcn sen
ate or Lager to be delivered to your house or
your friends house. present of this kind il
always acceptable, AID great benefit will be
derived from the pure qualities Of Heurch's bccrs
Phore o34, Arlington Bottling Co, for a case.
The times., 1900-12-24
Ocean Steamship Movements.

NEW YORK. Dec. 23,-Arrived; Nubia.
Stettin: Washington. Hamburg. Arrived
out: Friederich Der Crosse, from New
York. at Southampton.
The times., 1900-12-24

Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and too
hearty eating. is relieved at once by taking one
OF Carter's Little Liver Pills Immediately after
dinner Don't forget this.
The times., 1900-12-24

A Christmas dinner without Teurich's beer Is
not complete. Order a case OF Maerzen. Senate.
or Lager by phoning C3i Arlington Bottling Co.
The times., 1900-12-24

Stops the Cough
and Works on the Cold.
laxative BTomo Quinine Tablets cure a cold
in one day No Cure. No Pay. Price. 25 cents.
The times., 1900-12-24
KIDNEY
TROUBLE

mer's Swamp Root. the great kidney remedy.
At druggists in fftycent and dollar sizes Saru-
how to fnd out il you have kidney trouble.
Address DR.. Kiliner Co.. Biughamton. n. 7,
The times., 1900-12-24

| THE NORTHERN LIBERTY MARKET.
Fifth and X Streets northwest, will be
open the 24th instant. from a. m. to IL
T. m, and closed Christmas Day.
de2I % 2iq-11
The times., 1900-12-24

OFFICE OF THE MUTUAL FIRE INsUR-
ANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA Washington. November 8,
1900.-Policy holders are notified that the
managers have ordered paid the members
return of savings in proportion to
the value OF each policy at the close of
1888. Renewals for 1901 must be paid the
company at the same time at the rate OF
l per cent on the premium notes, and
POLICIES MUST BE PRESENTED that
payments may be entered thereon Poll
cies expire On the last Monday in Decem-
Der (31st)- Please attend early and avoid
the crowd w. A. H. CHURCH, President
L. PIERCE BoTELER, Secretary.
nos, ,th, ,mo16t
The times., 1900-12-24
No Doctors

Wanted when Warmers Safe Cure Is used fo
Liver or Kidney disease. Directions on Label
Sold by all Druggists