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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
The Latest Happenings of a Per-
sonaI and General Nature.
IN AND AROUND PORTSMOUTH
Gathered on tho Streets. at the Hotels, in
Counting Rooms and Elsewhere, and
Tut In Abbreviated Form for the Edin-
cation OF Headers of the virgininn-pilot
Tho Movements of reople-snap
Shots at Events in Which the Public is
Interested.

Miss Martha Manning, of Mathews
county, is in the city on visit to
friends.
A negro man went to the police sta
ton Thursday night and told the Off
Ger in charge that he had been PLAYING
poker and that the man he was play
Ing with had stolen half dollar from
him. He was advised to leave before
he WAS arrested.
Norfolk county will be entitled to two
representatives in the next Legislature
at the next session.
The dust was nearly binding at times
yesterday. The street sprinkler could
have been used to an advantage.
The county authorities are looking
for the parties Who stripped a lighter
from the navy yard OF the copper on
her,
The blacksmith helpers of the S. a.
l.. have asked that their wages be in
creased from 121A cents per hour to 10
cents. The matter is under considera-
ton.
The cars on the Portsmouth Street
Railroad did not run for about an hour
yesterday, caused by an accident to
the machinery at the power house
Attention is called 10 ad of New
York Clothing Company for to-day.
Special inducements are offered
East Lynne" will be presented at
the matinee this afternoon.
Treasurer S. w. Lyons, of Norfolk
county, ana MIS-. Lyons have returned
from visit to New York.
A house and lot on avenue ID. Lewis
ton, was sold by John q. Niemeycr at
auction yesterday to W. w. Sylvester.
The property was sold unded n deed OF
trust and mortgage amounting to $40.
Mr.. Silvester's. bid was $780,
Mr. James White. of Raleigh, n. c.,
is in the city on n visit to friends.
The Norfolk County Court viii con-
vene Monday in its December term.
The condition of Mr.. Joseph f. Weav-
err was much worse yesterday.
Attention is called to ad of John A.
Morris in to-day's issue.
Part OF one of the sheds of the old
mill on what is known as Armstrong;
mill was blown down.
a white man was fined $40 in the
Mayors court yesterday for cutting the
curbing that had just been laid in the
fifth ward.
A house is offered for sale cheap. See
adj
Wednesday night the roof of a house
flames could be extinguished.
Mr. jeremiah Butler is critically i'll
at his home, on South street
MIR. Chas. Briden, n guard at the pen
itentlary. arrived here yesterday and
left in the afternoon with Geo. Mann.
He was to have taken Mary Walker.
but owing TO her being too sick TO
move he left her.
Attention is called to advertisement
of H. a. Levy in today's issue.
The ladies' of Central church met last
night ut the parsonage for the purpose
of selecting names for officers for the
Earnest Workers Society Of that
church.
Misses May Robertson and Jane
Davis returned yesterday evening from
Richmond. where they have been visit
ing for the past three weeks. They
nFn Ia xrl71x 4
tentions shown them in the Capital
City.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
a COLoRED BOY DROWNED.

Yesterday morning bugcye from
Mathews county came in and reported
that Colored hoy from that county
named Tom Williams. VIXEN opposite
tie RID Raps, was knocked overheard
by tie boom and was drowned No
trace Of he BODY could be found The
man gave the boy a good name and
said that the accident was unavoida-
ble The boy was about IL years Old.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
HUnIaiAGE sALE NEWS.

The interest in the rummage sale
continues. While many things have
been sold. others continue 10 come in,
and q goodly display remains. All per-
sons who have promised cakes will
please send them in this morning by
10 O'Clock. Maupin's Hall will be open
today from . q. m. 10 10 p. m, and
doubtless many things will be disposed
of.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
A COMING WEDDING.

Cards have been issued for the mar
riagc of Mr.. Childress Buckner Gwyn.
Of the auditors department. Seaboarl
Air Line Railway. 10 Miss Ada Beat
rice, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Floran
Mann, OF st. Augustine, Fla. The cere-
mony will take place at 8 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, December 81 at
the Abbott mansion, St. Augustine.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
t,ome sookcre, Take notice.

We have n few bargains to offer be-
tween now and Xmas in Park View.
BOARD REAL ESTATE CO., Rooms
201-2o3, PA High street,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
R.fora YourrauaI

North or West. call upon the under
signed for lowest rates to oil points
via Baltimore and Ohio railroad (Royai
Blue Line). Bay Line. Washington
steamers and Chesapeake Line: finest
fastest and safest trains in the world
ARTHUR C. LEWIS,
s. p. A Baltimore 6 Ohio r. R
(Under Atlantic Hotel.)
fel7-eod-tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
NAVAL ORDERS

Lieutenant Commander w. D. Rose
Is granted extension Of sick leave for
four months.
Cadet ]. E. Mathews is detached
from the Washington yard and ordered
to duty on the Tecumseh
The following transfers are ordered
on the Asiatic station:
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15

caiied meeting Of the City School
Board was TO hnVc been held last Night
ior lie transaction OF general business,
but for lack OF II Qlorum it failed.
'haiinan Williams. Messrs. Howell
and Proctor. Superintendent Ashton
and Mr.. Culpepper. clerk to the board,
We're the only members of the body
vino responded TO The call.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
AnnESrrn I1nR \ nINf.

ored, who is wanted in Narsenond
county on a charge of stealing ring.
The woman was taken into custody at
Ter place Of service in Park View she
viii he held for officers from Nanse-
mond
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
pNATH OE MRS. i @ n1rnnrN

II " N No. J. z. I5U X IFTIN,
Mrs, Elantica Burden. wife of Mr..
Jonn {. Burden, died Of typhoid fever
at O'Clock yesterday morning at the
home of her husband. No 1928 Green
street. She was % years OF age The
body will be sent today to the former
home of the deceased in King William
county for intcrment.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15
HARD KNOCKS,

We are going to hit them hard-We
mean our comprehension price and quail
ity of shoes this season, Are you salts
buying? Whether you are or not our
line of Shoes appeal to you. We submit
doubt in our mnds about the h1t
of orr Shoes. Won't be in yours either
after you see them. 1t would pay you
have been paying So. We will save you
just 81.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15

DOR SALE TO A QUICK BUYER
4 cheap--house and lot 3I4 Green street
sewer connection. Bath room, tub etc
S. w. WEAVER, Druggist. del5-3t
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-15

EoR CHILDREN-wE WILL BUY
y whiskey flask, old newspapers. old
Rubbers. square quart bottles, until
Christmas. PORTSMOUTH JUNK
STORE, $40 County street. deli-3t
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05

eat societies Aid assessment lodges,
These silent but powerful associations
of men support the sick and the needy,
look after the widow and the orphan,
and in thousands of cases have pre-
vented the lapse of men and women in
to pauperism. They have supplanted
charity and its work in a multitude Of
homes, and given men the confidence
that should they become i'll they will
be supported, and should they die their
Is a beautiful, a grand work thesa
lodges are doing, and if the world was
better to live in for poor people in 1899
than itwasin 1893. 1t was largely because
secret societies have, more than any
other agency, helped to make 1t so.
Life insurance was at one time only
a luxury for the wealthy; to-day it has
become a boon to the poor through the
work of assessment lodges. The fra
ternal insurance associations, now 106
in number, are responsible for 2,600, 900
policies; yet the fraternal orders are
gathering vast reserves which are MAX
ing them permanent business institu-
tions. When every man in the United
States belongs ITO one or two benefit
lodges and to at least one fraternal Or
der, then the question of pauperism will
no longer menace the nation, and phi
lanthropists can turn their attention in
to other channels.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
JUDGES Who Are Fair.

The Denver News predicts that if an
appeal to the supreme court Of the ter
ritory is made in the Elephant Ruttu
dam case the decision of Judge Parker
will be sustained, because it is eminent
ly fair with regard to the facts of the
navigability of the Rio Grande, and the
usefulness for that purpose of the wa
ters which occasionally flow in New
Mexico.
The News but renders tribute to the
worthy Judge when it adds:
Judge w. F. Parker has conducted
the Elephant Butte dam case with
great fairness and ability, and has
shown his judicial independence by de-
Gliding against the government. 1t has
been represented to the News thai
threats We're made by the government,
counsel during the trial, that if he die
not decide I'M favor of the government
he would be removed. Whether this be
true or not, the fact remains that the
government always has a tremendous
pull on all territorial judges. Judge
Parker has had the nerve and upright.
ness to decide the facts as they were
presented to him, and deserves credi,
accordingly for having done his duty
as a Judge"
The Judges OF New Mexico at pres.
emit certainly are not under the inf1u.
ence of the federal government in an,
way that would cause them to wavel
from strict Justice.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
New York and New Mexico.

New York Is retrenchdng by cutting
the salaries Of the public school teach
ers. and many schools are closed for
hack OF funds. Still New Workers. in
many instances think New Mexico,
which 10 Straining every point to i'm
prove her schools and educate all the
children OF the territory. is unworthy
ito be a state alongside of n which
permits the school funds to be wasted
AFTER they are provided, and allows the
spolace force and the camp followers of
~ Taanmany organization to thrive
upon pickings from the public treasury.
New Mexico is yet too poor ito raise so
1nsGe Z school fund as the city of mil
Snonnlres, but certainly her people do
mot steal such funds as the taxpayers
a. provide. Such small dishonesty and
corruption as has arisen In public af-
g1a1rU - the territory at times has been
nsaou4led In appearance by the general
sa4ala6k die honestly inclined masses Of
- rspple nave shown. New York City
.s1nA1N3ctans cheat the people out OF more
|overy ysar than has been wrongly ta-
M " eli the counties Of this territory
III the 1Ast nifty years.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
The l%nsurgent Plaque.

The next fighting in the Philippines
is expected at Cavite. Since Cavite Is
within cannon shot of Manila, and since
it has been telegraphed a hundred times
that the Filipino forces are scattered.
1t seems discouraging that at this late
hour a press dispatch that
THE next big battle will be fought at
implies. 1t seems to Americans at home
a sign Of bungling management that
the American forces are capturing
again and again at the loss of some
life the places which have already been
reported as captured several times. But
1t must be remembered that the Filipi-
nos have not been carrying on warfare
in a regular set fashion. General Otis
has been encountering much the same
sort of difficulty that General Campos
met in Cuba. His successor, General
Weyler, made progress only by devas-
tating the country and massing the
population under his r~econcentrado or
der.
In lNttiblt 0u IlC iuluN q q
1t very easy for the Fllipinos to scatter
and reform again, and SO it has hap
pened that sometimes their forces have
been concentrated in large bodies, while
at other times they have been dispersed
in small ~detachments. The principal
object of the campaign against the FIJI
ipinos has been to capture their arms.
exhaust their ammunition and to dis
courage them. 1t is true that they have
lost their towns, abandoned them and
them possessed them again. The Amer
leans were not after the towns, but aft
er the Filipinos. Nothing would have
been gained by placing American gar
risons in small, unhealthy places with
out Notifications, which can be re-occu-
pied as often as the campaign requires
Manila is of more Importance by far
than all the rest of the towns in Luzon
put together. Operations have been
carried on in provinces where the pop
ulation was hostile, like in Cavite, the
hotbed of the insurrection. Although
it may be easy to sweep across such
a province, apparently driving out all
armed opponents, the nimble enemies
reappear again, just as the disturbed
grasshoppers in "a bayfield, instantly
close in behind the moving machines.
General Otis, like Campos and Weyler
in Cuba, cabled home several times:
The insurrection is broken" only to
find insurgents the next hour fighting
him on his very doorstep. The Unite
States has in the Philippines the same
kind of a task that Spain had in Cuba
and to-day blames Spain less harshly
for its methods than it did two years
ago. 1t is NOT in the nature of the
American people to be cruel, but the
same mistake should not be made with
the Fflipinos that the country made
with the Apaches, of being too lenient
and tardy in furnishing hostiles.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05

The senate recently asked the state
department for information concerning
the reported sale of the Galapagos is
lands to Great Britain, and vas in
formed that if such a deal had been
made nothing was known Of it. The
cause for the inquiry was a fear that
the islands might be used as a strong
hold by a naval power to dominate an
entrance to the proposed isthmian ca
nal. They are as far from the west side
OF the isthmus as the Bermudas are
from New York, and nobody is afraid
the latter city is in danger from the
Berunudas. The Galapagos are famous
only for torrid climate and tremendous
turtles, and Great Britain is welcome
to them unless they have military i'm
p~ortance, in which case she would hard
" insist upon securing them If Uncle
Sam, whom Great Britain now loves,
said nay, nay.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05

Every European power that has ac-
quired Chinese territory has answered
the question Of Secretary Hay as to
what they proposed to do toward re-
epecting the rights which China prom
Used to this government in all territory
that might be coded, or in which other
powers might secure privileges. The
answer Of all Is that the United States
Will be on an equal footing in COM
merce and benefits her citizens may de.
sire. This ready respect of the Ameri.
can nation is inspired by a desire te
avoid any disposition Of this country
to claim a share Of China in order te
extend trade into the empire. The Eu.
ropean powers also desire some privi.
leges in the Philippines, which they
might be denied if they attempted tt
close the door to China upon American
ships.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
Fraud in Foods.

The question Of pure food is a vita!
one. Experiments have disclosed that
much of the prepared food served on
American tables is not pure food, but
poor food. Some of the authorizations
are not harmful, but others are. More
Vermont maple sugar is made every
year in Davenport, Ia, from cheap
yellow sugar favored with vegetable
extracts than can be produced from all
the maple trees in Vermont. "Currant
jelly" is manufactured from apple cores
and parings, glucose, sugar and vege-
table acids. Pure olive oil' is geller-
ally only cotton-seed oil. Coffee" con-
sists Of molasses and -four nodded into
berries. Pickles, tea leaves and canned
vegetables are colored with copper
salts. Condensed milk is made Of the
poorest kind of SKINNED milk. Fifteen
year-old whisky Is made in fifteen min
utes. Communion wine is a weak solu-
ton of salycilic acid favored with grape
juice. Spices are not spices, n sar-
dimes are not sardines. But these are
comparatively IldlAihlCoo
1t is the preserving fluids used by
butchers, by milkmen by dairymen,
and in fruit canneries that are harmful
to health. OF sixty-three samples of
fruit jelly officially examined, forty
three were adulterated; of forty-nine
samples of jams and marmalade, forty
six were spurious; eleven out Of forty
five samples of coffee were mixed with
roasted peas, chicory, wheat and other
foreign substances. Sausages and oys-
ters We're found preserved with boric
acid, meats with salycilic acid, milk
! and butter with fornnald ehyde, which
| is also useo to embalm bodies, These
| are only a few of he results of ex-
| periments made by the department of
/ agriculture at Washington. Is it a
wonder that foreign governments fight
| shy of American products? A nation
| al pure food law has become a neces
sity, as it became in Germany.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
ANOTHER LEASE BILL.
How the Senator FROM Washington Would
Dispose of Grazing Land.

Senator Foster of Washington has in
PRODUCED a bill to provide for leasing
the public grazing lands, and produce
revenue for agricultural development.
The bill is as follows:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of America in congress assembled, that
such of the vacant public lands west
of the ninety-ninth meridian of longi-
tude west from Greenwich, as in the
ture are more valuable for grazing than
for other uses, shall be subject to lease
for grazing purposes.
Sec. 2. That the secretary of agricul-
ture will furnish to the secretary of the
interior from time to time lists of the
lands hat are to be leased under the
provisions of this act, designating in
such lists the lands that are to be in
cluded in each separate lease, and the
minimum rental per acre for the area
to be included in each lease; and upon
the receipt Of such lists the secretary
Of the interior will instruct the com
missioner Of the general land office to
proceed to lease such lands in accord
ance with the provisions of this act.
Sec. 3. That after lands shall Fave
been leased under the provisions of this
act they shall not be open for filing or
entry under n of the land laws Of the
United States while such lease exists,
excepting as mineral lands; and when
ever leased lands are entered as min
eral lands under the land laws OF the
United States, they will be Cancelled
from the lease and proper adjustment.
made of the rental by the secretary Of
the interior.
Sec. 4. That the money derived from
rentals shall be covered into the treas
ury of the United States, and one-half
the gross amount collected in each state
shall be paid to the treasurer of that
state, to be used for irrigation and 9TH
err agricultural development in such
way as it's legislature may direct.
Sec. s. That the rate of rental in no
case Shall be less than l CEN per acre
per annum, the amount Of annual rent-
al in any one lease shall not be less
than $40, and no lease shall be made
for a longer period than ten years:
Provided, that n lease may be H.
newed for one or more periods not ex-
ceeding ten years, upon the approval
of the secretary of agriculture, and at
such rate of rental as he may desig-
nate.
Sec. 6. That all leases made under
this act shall be for the smallest area
compatible with the best utilization Of
the land for grazing purposes.
Sec. Z. That after lands have been
leased under the provisions OF this act
1t shall be unlawful for any except
the lessee to enter upon such lands for
the purpose Of grazing stock thereon.
and such entry shall be deemed "a mis-
demeanor, punishable by a fine not ex
ceeding $500, or imprisonment for a Pc
Rod not exceeding six months, or both;
and the fines collected shall be paid in
to the public school fund of the county
in which the lands where the offense
was committed are situated.
Sec. s. That leases shall be made only
to citizens of the United States who are
residents Of the state in which the land
IL located, or to corporations organized
under the laws of that state.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05
Increase Of Money In This Country.

There has been a gain of $500, 000,-
900 in the amount of money in circu-
lation in the United States in the past
two years of restored protection and
prosperity. The harvest has been plen-
tiful. What would it have been had
Bryan been elected I'M 1896 and free sill
yer and free trade doctrines prevailed?
If December showed up as we'll as No
vember in the financial figures 1t
brought the total of money in circula-
ton in the United States past the two
billion dollar line. On November l the
total money in circulation was 81, 1868,
ZIG, 14S, and on December 1, 81, 1886, $50, 1854,
an increase Of s22, PA, s16 in the month.
A gain of even two-thirds this amount
in the past month would bring the
total money in circulation In the Unit
ed States past the two billion dollar lipe
for the first time in history.
The steady and rapid growth in the
circulation of money in the United
States, both gold and total of all kinds
of money, Is Indicated in a compilation
made by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics, showing the amount of gold and
total money in circulation In the United
States at annual periods during the
past twenty years. 1t shows an in
rease i'm that length Of time from
s13s, GAL, 410 of gold and gold certificates
to SITS, 1856, 1903, and of total circulation
from 1916, 2e6, 721 to 81, 1856. $50. 1854. July 1,
1896, the total money in circulation in
the United States was 81, 500, 725, 200, and
on December /, 1899, ST. 1926, $50. 1854. an In
crease during three and a half years OF
SAG, 205, 764, or BIZ per cent; while the
gold coin and certificates increased
from s4ss, 449, 242 to SITS, 1855, 1903, an in
crease of s27s, 939, O61, or Sc per cent.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-05

Proposals for building materials, labor,
etc.-U. s. Indian School Service. Santa
Fe, N. M, Dec. %, 1S99.-Sealed propo-
sails endorsed proposals for Building
Materials, etc. las the case may be, and
addressed to the undersigned at Santa
Fe, N. NJ, will be received at this school
until 2 o'clock p. m. of Monday, January
Is, 1900, for furnishing and delivering
about 1900 feet of lumber, besides
doors, windows, nails, tin roofing, etc.
a full list and description of which can
be obtained at the school: also such
stone, brick, sand, lime and labor as
may be required to construct founda-
tions, walls, ETC., of an addition to a dor.
mitory at the above school in strict ac-
cordance with plans, specifications and
instructions to bidders, which may be
examined at the offices of the Citizen, OF
Albuquerque, N. NJ, the New Mexican
of Santa Fe, N. NJ, and at the school
Bidders will state specifically the price
of each article to be offered under con-
tract. All materials will be subject to
rigid inspection. The right is reserved
to reject all bids or any part of any bio
If deemed for the best interests of the
service. Certified checks-Each bic
must be accompanied by a certified check
or draft upon some United States depo
STORY or solvent national bank, made
payable to the order of the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, for at least five pei
cent of the amount of the proposal
which check or draft will be forfeited tt
the United States in case any bidder OF
bidders receiving an award shall fail tt
promptly execute a contract with goot
and sufficient sureties, otherwise to bt
returned to the bidder. Bids accom-
panied ny cash -. irou of< y certified
check will not he considered. For any
further information apply to A. H. Viets
Supt.