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The evening times., 1900-01-26
VISIONS OF THE DYING.
Newark Stirred by RepOrte
GIimpseS of the Beyond.


GIimpseS of the Beyond.
NEW YORK. Jan. 26.-Friends who at
tended two women in Newark. X. j.. one
OF whom is now de-d. while the other is on
her deathbed. are convinced that they saw
through the veil that divides this world
from the next.
Newark is stirred by reports Of these Wis
ions from beyond. and can give no better
explanation OF them than that offered by
the attendant women who heard the pa
tients describe what they saw and who now
say that approaching death sometimes al
lows a person who is in to see beyond the
pale.
The first case is that OF Miss Matte Oak
ley. eighteen years old. who lived with her
aunt, Mrs. NJ. E. Van Ness. OF 10. 80 Eliza
beth Avenue. The girl was pupil in the
Miller Street High School. She was 10
have been graduated next Thursday. SEe
was an orphan. Her parents died several
years ago.
She fell il three weeks ago. DR. B. H. B.
Sleight Of Lincoln Park attended her
Her aunt Mrs. Van Ness. tells the story
COnViurugly for she Is herself convinced
She was sitting with the girl last Monday
afternoon she says. They prayed together.
She feared that her niece might die at any
moment
For long time the girl lay STILL her
eyes fixed upon the ceiling. as N she looked
through and beyond IL. Then she turned
20 Mrs Van Ness and said she had just
seen a beautiful Vision.
"I stood iu heaven. 90 she said
-Ftn "a IrH 1Fu %
Of UornaI mind.
What have you SEEM Mrs. Van Ness
asked
My father and mother" the girl replied
They spoke to me. Mother told mo 20 be
ID good girl. Father said. Come {" NE. %
Mrs. Van Ness auC the girl sang = hymn
together A little later the girl died. Mrs
Van Ness is confident that her niece was
rational and thar she saw that Of which she
spoke.
The other case is that Of Mrs. Ge0rg, s..
Beatty OF No s. Sussex Avenue She is
siNty-twO years old. She was attacked by
paralysis about-rour months ago. Just be
fcre the first stroke. she says. the mother OF
former Mayor Daniel ". Beatty. Of Wash
ingtou y. J.. her stepson. appeared beside
her bed "robed in pure gold
4 little later she saw Mrs. John Walters
a former friend. who has been dead for halt
"a century Last Sunday night the spirit or
her late husband appeared walking beside
a beautiful river
She called aloud TO him, and then she re-
allied that she was in her room. but the
spirit was beside her. 1t fingered for
moment, she said. and then passed through
the door. although the door was closed
AT this time. h Is said the clock IN for
mer May0r Beattys house. in Washington
stODDpd The hour Of her vision her
friends say. was identical with thar al
which the clock stopped.
Neither of the women mentioned mas
been regarded as superstitiOus. Mrs. Beat
" has been during almost all OF her life
a member of the Methodist Church Ply
sicians say she cannot live more than three
weeks. Neighbors aIi friends believe there
has come 10 her a provision Of approach
ing death
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THE MURDER OF EYRE.
No Motive for the Crime Discovered
by the Police.

by the Police.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 2G.-The houses
in which the Pierce brothers. charged with
the murder of George B. Eyre. live. have
been searched and the detectives found
several bundles. but what these contained
is matter OF conjecture. the supposition be-
ing that parts of the guns belonging to
Eyre were found. Annie Pierce. sister OF
the men under arrest, says that the ring
which James wore was given to him by her
as a Christmas present. She was unable
to account for its disappearance and could
not say where she purchased it
There is as yet no suggestion Of motive
for the killing of Eyre by the Pierce broth
ers. 1t is said that Amos made state
ment to Chief Berry in which he claimed
that the shooting was accidentally done by
James and that in fear they then put the
weight to the body and sunk il. Chief
Berry denies that any statement whatever
has been made 20 him.
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SI.23.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

DOG OWNERS. DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS.
Join the Association. Subscription
papers at drug stores and other prominent
places Membership zee, so cents. Mem
bers Of the Executive Committee and Off
GERS Of the Association will receive sub
SCTipJiOns-
BURRIDGE WILSON. 209 9th s. e.
GEO. A. HILL, Naval Observatory,
DR. CECIL FRENCH. us 18th n ".
Executive Committee.
T. EDW. CLARK. President. Delaware
Avenue and G. northeast.
JOSEPH AUERBACH. First Vice Presi-
dent 6c3 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest
MRS. HORACE p SPRINGER. Second
Vice President. 130 Eighth northwest
J B. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary. 51j
Eleventh northwest
WILLIAM WAGNER, Treasurer, 9O1 1-2
Pennsylvania Avenue southeast
ja23-3t, en-
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OFFICE OF THE WASHINGTON GAS
LIGHT COMPANY. Washington, d. c..
January 19, 190O.-The annual meeting OF
the shareholders OF the. WASHINGTON
GAS LIGHT COMPANY for the election OF
directors and for such other business as
may properly come before said meeting
will be held at the Office of the company.
All TENTH STREET n. W. MONDAY.
FEBRUARY 3, 1900. at u O'CLOCK
NOON. The polls will be open from y
O'Clock noon to i o'clock p. M WILLIAM
B. ORME. Secretary.
ja19-l5t. .eXsu
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OFFICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND
Potomac Telephone COmpSny-A diyi-
dend OF 81 per share will be payable on
the 29th day OF January. 1900. to the stock
holders of record at the close Of business
on the 18th Of January. 1900. at the Office
of the treasurer Of the company, 6Ig Four
teenth Street northwest. Washington. d. L.
The transfer books viii be closed from
the 20th day Of January to the 29th OF
January. inclusive
JEREMIAH n. WILSON. President.
CHARLES c. BEEBE. Treasurer
Washington, d. c., January Is 1900
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HARRY MILLER INJURED.
The California Cattle King Thrown
From n Carriage.

SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 26.-Harry Miller.
California's cattle king was seriously in
jured yesterday by being thrown from his
carriage at GgroF, Cal. He sustained a
severe confusion and was later brought by
a special traia to his home in this city.
His physicians fear that brain fever will
set in. '''-
Miller is seventy years old but remarks-
bly, rugged, as he has spent most of his
life in the open air on his cattle ranches.
He is the richest cattle man on the coast.
his fortune being. estimated at $1,000 900
1t was once his boast that he could ride
from Bakersfield. in the lower end OF San
Joaquin Valley. to San Francisco without
getting off his own land, as he had con-
tinuous strip Of ranches.
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Specials in HOusefurnishingS.

SIop buckets. with cover. family
size; neatly japaEEeJ iu assorted
COlO-s, regular &c value, fov-.----l5c
Wash Tubs. made OF clear cedar. and
In three sizes-iarge. 52c, medium,
sfc. small OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1890. oSc
Wash Boards. the January. ziac-
covered, regular lsc kind for --.-l2g
Wash Boilers. galvanized iron
large size regular 81 kind. ior----59c
Clothes Pins hard wood. worth
Sc dozen. Tor ......................1 1c
Ironing Boards. made of clear wood.
4 - feet long, regular 5sc kind
Tor ---------.-----. .-------.------- oSc
Horseshoe Lye. Toe size and
strength. for------.------ --.-.-.--------5 81
Coal Hods. 15-inch size. japanned.
worth -uc. for ---.....-..-- -...-...... 12c
Bread Raisers. 10, IA. and L
Tea Pots. 2-quart size. made or
Galvanized Tea Kettles. 2-quart
size. Special--------- -.------- 19c
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DIED.

MILBOURNE-On Thursday, January 25 1900.
ISABELLE P. MELBOURNE, widow Of the late
Faycttc T. Mlbourne.
Funeral services at residence Of her daughter.
yll Elm Street northwest, Saturday, January 81
Funeral private. 1t
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There is not beer TO equal Heurich's Ma srzen.
Senate. or Lager. which is an indisputabe fact
These beers are breved from the very hest of
malt and hops purchassble and combined with
the facilities for storage make Heurich's the best
health beverage in the United States Phone
G2t. Arlington Bottling Co. for a casc.
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An Original Mind.

Mamma d0n't see where you get your red
hair; YOU don't get il HON your papa and you
certainly don't get it !rem me.
Little Doro,hy-Well, mamma, can't start
somethngg,
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stops the Cough


LAXATIVE Bromo-Q -Quininc Tablets cure a cold in
ono day. No Cure, No Pay. Price g5e.
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si-25 60 baltimore and Return via
II. a. q.
saturday and sunday. January p and Is
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sim Hats. with silk bands and bind
inEs-
The soft Hats are Fedoras and Golf
shapes in latest shades and effects.
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pie Hats. QA' to $3.50.

The last Tot OF
sample Hats that
we contracted has
Just been deliv-
cred right in the
nick OF Jimy 20
give you men who
want a fresh
looking one q lift
ill spring.
The Derbys are
ia Black and
Brown. shaped on
Dunlap and Young
Nidwiuter Blocks.
and genuine wine
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OF American porcelain One most i'm
pOrtanr point in their favor is the fact
thai should You break piece IL can
be replaced any time.
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Toilet Sets s SOS


AT fhe very low
C=r as maze every
one of these sets is
worth $50.
There's choice OF
four patterns
b-ur green. and
neutral tints IN
Ce-Slazed and OF
q very Eue grade
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Broken Lots of Mems
Best Underwear.
Al 2QC-

CameIs Hair Derby Ribbed. and
Natural Wool Underwear. that has
been selling at soc a garment Some
Shirts. some Drawers; some Shirts and
Drawers to match. But. remember.
scattering sizes.
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At 4Sc.

Underwear worth up To $50 a gar
ment. Cashmere. Natural Wool Dur
ham Ribbed. Fleece Lined. CameI'S
Hair. etc. Not all sizes. but all down
right genuine values.
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Fancy YeSts-the Last Go

We put them aII-rbe Fancy Woo.
and the SILK Wool. the Siugle-Breast-
ga and the Double Breasted into one
lot n0w-eEgepunE only the -VestC-
ros and offer YOU the choice-but for
tomorrow 0uly-Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-22

London, April 10.-London is so big, and
so old and so naughty that it rarely con-
descends to call the attention of the rest
of the world to any important improve
ments that il is about to make, 50 1t
often gets credit for being slower than
II really is.
Yet in some directions it he's taken steps
toward public ownership that would make
the most progressive of American cities
gasp. And to-day it Is in various stages
of improvements, municipal and national
that will cost more. all told. than the en-
tire Boer war.
In the course of a few weeks the first
electric street car to run in London will
make the journey from Westminster
Bridge to footing, and from that time
electricity will supersede Che horse on the
line between those classic localities. This
Is only preliminary to a project on the
part of the city of London-which owns
this line-to making the same change on
all the sixty-eight miles of "tram-lines,"
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tional Lincoln Monument Association, Of
which Richard j. Ogiesby OF Illinois was
president. It's projectors fondly hoped
and believed that they had builded wisely.
permanently. and for all time, yet before
the monument had stood thirty years II
was seen that It must be taken down and
rebuilt. Fair and stable 10 the outward
View. It has met with the inevitable fate
of house standing on an inadequate
foundation. The surface OF the shale
rock underneath does not lie on a hort
zontal plane. but inclines to the east with
a dip OF one or two inches. Worse yer.
ahs excavation for the outer walls were
not excayated 20 bed rock, and they.
there. settled unequally. This resulted IN
great gaT- in the masonry. crumbiing
walls ana distortion OF arches that threat
ened tho dissolution Of the historic pile.
IL was therefore decided 20 rebuild. and
The Illinois Legislature has appropriated
$4,000 fof fhaf purpose
col. 3. r. culver, who won n national
reputation from hia work on The nonu-
menif erected 10 the Union dead on
southern bnuloneids. is nov razinR The
monument fo fhe FTOund. lie viii place
s1e pew foundations On The pHmeyal rock.
teguge fgfeytf from abe shifting VI clay
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ephone communication that will be the
property of the city, and entirely under
Its management. This system will cost
100000 and its completion will mean
a revolution Of telephone charges and
rentals in London and, incidentally. the
smashing of a big and IA Their insolent
trust
Within the last few months Populations
from America have visited the IsOnd n
parish that has not only invented and III
stalled plant that makes common house
garbage light It's streets and shops. heIts
It's public baths and Libraries ana supply
hot water for It's wash houses but has
also taken long stride toward solving The
housing problem.
II may DE pointed out. furthermore that
electric trains Will be- running underground
In London before New York has much
more than made a beginning on her pro
posed rapid transit tunnel IN many
ways this Oh town Is now coming rapidly
90 the front.
London's Tram ways CITY Property.
The function Of me Bfreot car in London
~ mainly Hs "a moi ans Of transport alton
Jpf zoe working man who's nuflnee~ H ia
VIC ciiy, bui WHO lives ln the Suburb.
AAs.i VI tAe cars run nCm ile faclOgy eea-
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under a list Of responsibilities that II is
tiresome 10 think Of, but each of them an
instance OF the British governments sue
cess as zhopkeeper For selling
stamps, registering letters and the sort
of thing that one expects TO find a post
Office doing, is no more its only business
than it is of the old farmer up in the
Adirondacks, who is postmaster, grocer,
toy merchant and undertaken, all rolled
into one.
The system of government savings
banks which is one of the greatest Of
he things that the postoffice has TO at
tend to, isn't, Of course, a municipal ser
vice, but II Is another instance of civil
servants carrying on a business that is
usually run by private companies, and it
Is connected with the list Of London i'm
prOvements, for the department. is soon
to remove into a five-acre building in
West Kensington, where 1t will have ell
bow room for its 5000 clerks and which
viii be the largest bank in the world.
The postoff1ce transacts the actual re-
ceiving of money through It's 1900 little
branch postofices, scattered all through
the kingdom. not, as a rule, big well
lighted rooms like the sub-stations in
American cities, but consisting of a coun-
ter and a wire netting with two or three
girls behind It, at the dark end of gro
Gerry store, more likely than not Yet
in these unpromising crannies, one of
them i'm every two or three London blocks
one can do any kind Of regular postofice
business, send a telegram to Hudders-
field, or a cable message to New York
hire a messenger boy (at a fee, which Is
the merest trihe), get his life insured, or
purchase an annuity, and deposit money
or withdraw it, to say nothing of buying
government stocks without even a let
ter of introduction
Schools of Domestic Economy.
One especially entertaining feature of
paternalism as manifested in London is
to be found in the schools Of domestic
economy" established by the London
County Council, in which girls are taught
cookery, housewlfery, laundry work and
home nursing. OF course large percent
age of these girls are in training for
household service, but the chief aim of
this branch Of the London County
Councils work to educate the wives
and mothers of the future These
are schools where instead of read
in, wriun' and 'rithmetic, the girls
study lamp cleaning. metal pol
ishing, boot backing, dressing of wounds,
how to hygenicaly wash and dress a
baby. prepare its food and how to keep
the proper sort of milk bottle clean.
one of the departments is fitted out as
a typical workman's home Four girls
stay here to dinner, draw up menu,
STIMULATING that the food mustn't cost be-
You'd cents a head; go out with the bas-
ket and do the marketing, cook the food
and, better yet, use up what was left from
the day before. After dinner the children
wash up and make the kitchen tidy They
clean the floors light the fires scrub and
dust the rooms, clean boots and knives,
polish furniture. In the same way
mythical fathers dinner is gotten up in
round dish that workman could carry
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which was engraved: Abraham Lincoln,
Sixteenth President United States. Born
Feb. u, 1900. Died April 10, 1855" The cas-
ket holding the body Of Mrs Lincoln was
placed beside that of the President
The steady, sure. grasp OF the derrick
assisted human hands to lift and carry
the sacred burdens 10 their resting place
I'm the temporary vault. Again the great
derrick swung round and brought into
place the massive stones designed TO coy
or the bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs Lincoln.
These were quickly ard securely cement
ed. Then the lighter caskeis OF the sons.
Thomas. Eddie and Willie, ana the grand
son Of the President, young Abraham
Lincoln who died ia England, while his
father WAS minister 10 Great Britain.
were taken from the crypts and placed Ia
the upf or chamber Of the vault over this
two b Ocks % stone weighing not less
than four tons we're placed.
When another anniversary Of the trae.
eey ~ April l5. 1915 shall occur, the Lin
coin monument viii have been rebuilt.
The Efatuary Will b. replaced ana once
more the majestic bronze figure u the
President Will look IN benediction from its
tfr ~ b.RHf up1n ~ mIfifu1es who
shall come ~ lhe tomb ~ pllgrms visit
shrine E1Warg b. johnson.
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easily in handkerchief. The greater part
of this instruction is absolutely free.
Transforming Sium.
Thus If the aim of this system be
achieved, the management OF the home
of the artisan Ct the future VII be vastly
different from that of the working man
of to-day. Unless other plans of the city
of London are also frutless the home it.
self will be quite much in contrast The
endless building of factories on ground
that formerly was devoted to homes for
the working classes, and the acquisition
of acres upon acres of such dwellings by
syndcates who straightway doubled or
triped the rentals, have made the housing
problem in London more and more acute
The County Council first attacked 1t by
converting a Whitochaoel slum into a
pleasant locking and smelling neighbor-
hood at a cost of 100000. Sloreditch, the
progressive, promptly followed the coun-
ellis lead, spending quarter Of a mil
lion. and now every district in the city
has it's housing scheme either on the
stocks. or well under way, arranging for
the housing of 5000 people at cost OF
s. 800 00l came before it and We're APP
proved
Next the city will blossom out as
propi ietor of a line of steamboats, ana a
series of wharves al along the Thames.
The steamer service on that much sung
stream has been wretched for years. 1t
was only maintained for a certain period
in the summer anyway. and was OF no
use to the class that it might benefit most
the working men who live in the sub
ufbs. The company that owns the boats
put the blame on the people VINO own the
piers. saying that tn r tolls were so high
that the lines could be run with profit
only during the months when all Lon
don Is on the water The per people re-
Joined that the wharves wore out so fast
mat they Couldn't be ke.t in repair for
less than The present tolls, ana so the
CITY has almost decided 10 buy 10 boats
wharves and all. repair the one and regu-
late the other. running the boats here
sfrer' all season long. providing special
rates for artisans and generally reforming
the system 1t is understood that the pur-
cbase Will be made soon, although all the
particulars have not been made public
Marshall Lord.
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tiers TO the railway stations. There are
three separate systems, one from the
north another from the south. and mi
nor one from the west. The city OF Lon
don is actual owner of the largest of these ,
OF the second it is both owner and mana
ger
The city acquired this line little less
than a year ago. AT that time the service
was bad, the employees of the road had to
work seven days in the week. and Urovid
their own uniforms. The fare was one
penny or two American cents. The city
recognized the service, supplied the en-
ployes with uniforms free, raiscl TIER
wages, gave them one day rest In the we X
and reduced the fare from one penny to
half-penny in spite of these expenditures,
however, the Highways Committee will be
able to report to the London City Council
a surplus over all expenses of $40 600. 1t
is upon this line that electricity IS to lie
substituted for the less effective horse.
1t is the intention of the city govern
ment TO do in the case OF the telephones
just what was done in the case Of the
trans" In going about their task the
London postoffice becomes the confessed
rival of the National Telephone Com
pany, which has coupled high rates with
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body of President Lincoln rests, is con-
fronted by piles of debris, mountains of
sand, carloads of brick, heaps of scat
folding and other evidences of destruction
and reconstruction. The soft green lawn
Of a year ago is a yawning mortar bed.
Two black hosting engines are operating
the towering derricks which swoop down
with unerring precision upon the squat
remains of what was once a stately and
Imposing memorial, and bear stone after
stone to the ignominous level of the rub
bish pile
The work Of erecting a structure to
mark the spot where Lincoln was laid
10 rest was begun in 1869 and completed
in 1871, under the direction of the Ma
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as they are called which the city not only
owns but manages, a change which il is
estimated will cost in the neghborhood
of S5o00000. ParNament's consent to this
transaction will be asked by the London
County Council in the course of the pres
ent session, and as soon 1t is obtained
for there is no doubt that it viii be-the
work will be undertaken at once.
1t seems rather surprising that such
O really remarkable change should have
received as yet SO little attention, but
the war is partly responsible for this.
Moreover 1t is only natural that the pub
lie should have lost sight of other munich
pal enterprises in the excitement which
has been stirred up by the sudden deter
mination Of the postoffice to tear up over
four hundred miles of London streets and
lay therein an underground system of tel
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THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.
SITE NOW MARKED BY DEsOLATION
AND CONFUSION.

why the Memorial of the Martyred
President Had to BE Taken Down.
Wise Decision Not to Change the
Design-Impressive scenes When
the GrOupe of Statuary Were Re-
moved.
Copyright, 1900, by Edward S. Johnson.)
Chicago, April 2l.-The thousands who
have visited the national Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfield, III, would be amaz-
ed at the scene of desolation which IDS
site presents to-day.
The visitor ascending the stone steps
and reaching the crest of the beautiful
hill in Oak Ridge Cemetery, where the
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poor service for a good many years
occupying the fed alone and oblivious
alike to newspaper criticism and reports
of parliamentary committees. 1t is a
feature of the government Of London that
whenever any big combine gees into bus
mess here it gets permission from the
London County Council to do so for a
clearly stated term of years, at the end
Of which the city has the right to pur-
chase. In the case Of the national com
bine, that date is not until 1871, and until
short time ago, the authorities had con
tented themselves with gnashing their
teeth and with thinking that a time would
came.
But one fine day the energetic a. W.
Hanbury, Joint secretary of the treasury,
made an outspoken speech in parliament
on the subject of telephones. and the i'm