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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-03-01

Situated on deep water in the Basin about 80
feet front and running back about 400 IT, to Com.
promise ST. and belonging to the ANNAPOLIS
CANNING co. This Is q rare opportunity 70
purchase at a reasonable price deep water
wharf property with Br1oE Bu11d1n6
Of present usefulness and of great prospective
value. due to the Governments gradual absorb
ton on the available water frontage.
For full information. price. &c.. inquire OF
J.. BUCHANAN RENRY.
oz4 an For Owner Hotel Maryland.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-03-01
FOR SALE
A Good Chance for Investment.
izkiH0UsEs aid LOTS, III
IN ANNAPOLIS.

rs.-Three LOTS at Murray Hill.
without improvements. Beautiful sites
for dwelling houses.
znd.-LOT on Main street, 3 6o
with good DWELLING HOUSE. rent
ing at $500 per month. Price 500 on
time or $500 cash. Terms easy.
3rd.-LOT on Main street. 43 X 81.
with TWO BRICK HOUSE. yielding
xIs per month rent. Price $1,000 on
time or sI5oo cash. Terms easy. Part
of purchase money may remain on mort
gage.
For further particulars apply to
JAMES NJ. MUNROE.
nz7-tf. Attorney and Trustee.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-03-01
ORDER NISI.
In the matter OF the mortgaged real estate of
LILLIAN PARSONS and JAMES A.
PARSONS.
In the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
No. 2205 Equity.

Ordered this sixth day OF February, 1900.
That the saless Of the property mentioned in
X. Randall, Attorney. be ratified and confirm
ed. unless cause 20 the contrary thereof be
shown ON or before the
SIXTH DAY OF MARCH MKT.
Provided. copy of this order be inserted In
some newspaper published and printed In
Anne rundel County, once in each OF three
successive weeks before the sixth day OF
March next.
The report states the amount of sales to be
~. 3s5 90.
GEO. WELLS, Clerk.
n ' S0f'' GEO. WELLS. Clerk.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-03-01
AN ORDINANCE

To amend Article n of the City Code. title
..Heaith of the City" by adding thereto an
additional section, to follow Section 76, and
TO be designated as Section z6 A."
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1900-03-01

Schedule in Effect November 10. 1899.
Trains arrive at and depart from Annap
oils. via A. w b B. r. R., changing
cars ct Odenton.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03

As far as one can judge from the diplo-
door" prospects are more encouraging than
they have been at any time since the
beginning of 'he Boxer outbreak last
spring All the powers are now agreed
upon the policy defined in the Anglo-Ger-
man agreement The principle of the
open door, is, therefore clearly acknowl-
edged, and all the nations concerned are
distinctly committed to it.
Two questions of Importance remain IN
settled-those of indemnity and military
occupation; but there is nothing in either
that ought TO cause dissension. a major
ity of the Cabinets seem to think that the
best way to dispose of the former would be
for the Ministers at Pekin to agree upon a
lump sum to be demanded of China, leav-
ing its distribution for later discussion. It
is understood that the United States would
favor reference of the division to the in
ternational arbitration tribunal at The
Hague. This would take the question out
OF the conference at Pekin and place il
where it could not lead to pickering or
quarrels. With the matter of indemnity
disposed Of, that Of military occupation,
pending payment by China, will have to be
considered, but, fortunately, it is not a
question likely TO produce friction or dlsa-
greement. Altogether. there is ground for
satisfaction with the International condi-
tions in China.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
DIR. FINLAY's EXPERIMENTS.
Data Supporting His Mosquito-Yel-
low Fever Theory.


HAVANA. Nov DIR Finlay says that
between 1881 and 1898 he inoculated 104
immunes with yellow fever by allow
ing mosquitoes, which had already bitten
a case OF yellow fever. to bite the persons
being experimental with. OF the 104 cases
so treated seventeen had the disease in q
mild, but recognizable form. DR.. Finlay
says he tool; great care to keep all the
cases on which he experimental as much
as possible free from all other sources Of
infection. In some Of the cases the dis
ease developed in tive days, while in others
twenty-four days elapsed before the symp-
toms appeared.
he declares that he believes that mos
quitoes are the only cause Of the disease
He did not pcrsevere with the cases which
did not develop the disease. fearing that
he might give them fatal doses of the
virus but he thinks that he can communi-
cate the disease to any non-immune by
allowing several infected mosquitoes to
bite him.
He considers that II Havana could be
kept absolutely free of yellow fever for
two or three months all the infected mos
quitoes would die and then the only way
the city could again become infected would
be through the importation Of a fresh case
from another place. DIR. Finlay claims
to be the originator Of the mosquito theo-
ry. Attempts are being made to get doc
tors who have much clinical experience
with yellow fever to present papers to the
medical congress. even though they have
no theories to offer.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03

tended victims do not need TO be frighten-
them with a poor stock of independent
American manhood may be. They have
only TO do their duty at the polls and
appeal to the law against political intimi-
dation. Section 5507 Of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States reads as follows:
.rery person who prevents, hinders, controls,
or intimidates another from exercising or in ex-
ercising the night Of suffrage. to whom that right
Is guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment to
the Constitution Of the United States. by means
of bribery threats of depriving such person Of
emplnymen; or occupation. of ejecting ouch
perscn from rented house. lands, or other pop
city. or by threats of refusing 10 renew leases
OF contracts for labor. or by threats of violence
to himself or family, shall be punished pro
vided in the preceding section
The law provides a penalty of fine of
not less than five hundred dollars, or i'm
prisonment for not less than one month
nor more than enc year, or both fine and
Imprisonment.
Laboring people and all employees
Throughout the country should have their
attention called to this statute. If they
are made to understand their rights and
have the courage to defend and enforce
them, the proba bility is that within the
next month there will be q fine and in
structive aggregation of trust bulldozers
behind the bars. The situation has mar
rowed down to 4 distinct and single strug-
gle between the common people and the
trusts and monopolies. Let the former
beware lest in losing the fight they make
ii the last
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03

To the Editor of The Times:
Would it be possible for one man 10 determine
the coming Presidential election?
.. Could a popular minority elect a President?
J. How are electors elected? Does each
represent certain portion of State. or do
they all represent the State at large?
!. Does the entire electoral vote Of State 20
one way, may fraction Of it go the other2
~ Yes. If Mr.. Mckinley had 223 cleo
toral votes and Mr.. Bryan 221, with Della
ware in doubt, and it finally developed
that Delaware's official vote was BRYAN.
1855; Mckinley, 1885,. Mr.. BRYAN
would get the three votes of that State
and be elected. (2) 1t has already done
so twice. Mr.. Tilden. in 1876. had $50 .gS5
more votes than Hayes. In 1888 Mr..
Cleveland received 9S.O11 more votes than
General Harrison. go Each State is en-
titled TO as many electors as it has Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress. 1t
is for the State Legislature to determine
how they shall be chosen, but the laws are
uniform now in ali the States and the
electors are appointed by popular vote.
Each voter votes for as many electors as
his State has electoral votes. (4l Under
existing laws the entire electoral vote of
each ore of the fortyfye States goes TO
the candidate who receives the popular
majority or as matter of fact. plurality.
South Carolina used to choose her elect
ors through her Legislature. and in 1892
Michigan allotted one to each Congress
sioral district and permitted only two to
be elected at large. But the laws are the
same now throughout the Union. Intend
ing voters who are not properly informed
as TO these important matters should
study the Twelfth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
A Will Street Poll.

The closing days of Presidential cam
paign are as full of polls as the North
Pole is full of white bears. A few Of these
expressions of opinion may mean some
thing That taken by the Democratic State
Committee of Ohio among the German
American voters of the State certainly did;
but. in a general way. they do not amount
to much.
In this connection we are interested to
observe that some of our trust contempt
raries are highly elated over the result OF
what they call an informal poll' of the
New York Stock Exchange. Why anybody
should go TO the trouble of asking the peo-
pie who compose its membership how they
intend to vote next Tuesday is beyond
our comprehension. For instance, it may
he presumed that poll of the Republic
can National Committee would show that
all of its members are for Mckinley and
the trusts, except that Marcus A. Hanna
would be listed as believing that there
is not trus; in the United States" The
committee is quite as much open to ques-
ton on the subject as the Stock Exchange
could be
1t is an institution in which seat costs
forty thousand dollars. Ii is club of less
than { thousand professional gamblers,
whose c. IF business II is to assist pluto
cratic { ust magnates IN juggling and
thimble- :cging the stocks they control
for the Gelusion and robbery of outside
investors and small-fry generally. II is
the clearing house for the chief public
robbers of the day and for their friends
in Washington who are allowed ticker
privileges without having TO put up mar
gins when legislation important to the
trusts is pending in Congress. The men Of
the Stock Exchange belong to the trusts as
completely as Hanna's reputation 70,
coarse and offensive conduct on the stump
belongs to him. Wherefore, We decline to
be either surprised or troubled on being
told that the wonderful informal poll OF
the Stock Exchange in New York showed
that one member was non-committal, two
were for Bryan. and five hundred and eight
for Trust Mckinley" We should like 10
see a poll of the Rockefeller, Havemeyer.
Morgan. Carnegie Duke. Flint, Gates,
Hanna. and a few more families Of that
kind. it would probably prove as favora-
bic TO tho trust candidate as the one in
Wall Street.
Perhaps more political instruction and
light might be derived from poll in a
factory where there are 4 thousand men
at work who are not yet necessarily slaves
Of the trusts like the glded but manacled
Stock Exchange brokers'. There it would |
doubtless be found that the figures wers
reversed. The superintendent would be |
'or Mckinley. his assistant possibly nom /
and the remainder for Mr.. Bry
IN and against the trusts. Much the same !
;tate of things would be found in the aver
.ge intelligent and prosperous farming
though, in that case, there
would be examples OF people who vote the
Republican ticket because their fathers
lid. But Hanna and his coadiutors are
,adiy addicted 10 the polling habit, and
t is vice not easily cured. Perhaps
hey will be good enough to find out and
ell us how the magnates Of the Anthra-
lite Coal Trust intend to vote next Tues
law,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
JuyeniIc Rocks I'm the Past.

When contemplating the mass of juvenile
literature which lies heaped upon the
book counters of the modern shop, one finds
it difficult 10 realize that this type of books
was unknown two generations ago, and
that in the early years of the century there
were practically no books for children. A
perusa: Of some Of the tales formerly con-
sidered At for the juvenile mind is inter-
esting and rather instructive.
There was kind Of Sunday school book
in great favor some fifty years ago with
which We are all familiar by hearsay. A
story which is TO be found in specimen Of
this type of literature printed in Phila-
delphia in 1857, is fairly good index to
the attitude toward children which many
good people thought it right TO assume at
that time. The hero of the tale is small
boy between four and five years of age,
and We are told that he invariably went to
Sunday school and listened TO his teacher
with much attention. His pastor, who tells
the story, remarks that had he known him
to be especially interested in sacred things
he would have taken pains TO give him
special instruction. In course Of time the
boy grew i'll and died; and before his death
he insisted that a clergyman should be
sent for TO pray with him. The prayers of
his parents would not do he could not feel
safe without the prayers of a clergyman
and seemed to be in much distress Of mind.
The fact that the child was only five years
old should be Kept in view. This story is
intended as religious reading for the young,
and the hero OF it is supposed to be an ex-
ample to other children.
The change in public sentiment since the
publication of This little work is consid-
cradle. The average parent OF today, SO
far from wishing his own children to emu
late the example of this small saint. VIII
emphat!cally declare that the poor little
chap must have been frightened by the I'M
wise and morbid teachings of fanaticism.
The intention Of the writer Enthusiastically
is to indicate that the child would have
been eternally lost if he had not, at that
tender age, experienced a change of heart.
Public sentiment of today does not admit
the possibility OF baby CT four or five
years being condemned TO everlasting tor
ture
1t is rather unpleasant TO reiiec; on the
probable effect which such books as this,
and the teachings which they inculcated, I
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
One RcpubIIcnn,. conclusions.

To the Editor Of The Times:
| voted in 1864 foI Lincoln, in 1865 for General
Grant, and have supported every Republican can.
didate since. The reason why | cannot support
Mckinley and Roosevelt this time is because |
am opposed to carrying ON war in the Philip
pine Islands without the sanction OF the American
Congress, which body alone has power to declare
war according TO the Constitution. There have
been three sessions " Congress since the war WAS
commenced.
II this Administration was buncoed out of
s2O01J0lO that is no reason why should
butcher and kill thousands of men who fought
Spain $50 years fop liberty, and bankruptcd her
We have not subdcd ivy islands vet, and there
are several hundred more. So far it has cost us
s225. COO coo and VT have lost thousands OF men
killed and wounded The country would like
10 know how many soldiers have committed sui
eide and how man, have been Brought here to
De placed in the government insane asylum. All
this is kept in the dark
Mr. Hanna SAYS our fag is there and cannot
be taken down When old England scooped up
200 square miles Of Alaska our Tag came down.
If we ever do subdue the Philippine Islands we
will have several hundred small Colonies good
field for several hundred oticoholdcrs. We do
not have to own country to trade with 1t, or
we would be going for England, France. and
Germany ] THINK IL IS about Time 10 cal i
halt
The following are ry conclusions to the
ot,tcouc oi the. election: The new House OF Rep
r,,,piatiyes Will he Democratic by from seven
teen 10 thirtr-fve majority No President has
ever been reelected who didn't stand by his
friends. The rank and file in the Republican
pat.v have been turned down by Mr. Mckinley,
and he will lose lis own stste Of ohio.
go" So EB. II.
W,sbinrtou Nov. /.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03

Senator Beyeridge, who has the markings
Of a superior article of Burcherd in him,
is quoted as saying: Il am full of fear
that Bryan will sweep the country next
Tuesday. l have had this feeling for sew
eral days, and many Of our people have
told me that they had the same feeling"
Foolish, confessing Beveridge! What a
time he will have with Hanna. when that
individual gets him within cursing dis
lance, He doubly discounts Scott. Be-
sides which, he is guilty of the sin consid-
cred unpardoTablc in the trust organza-
tion-that of telling the truth about the
situation. All the bead, foam, and sparkle
are gone from this particular Beveridge.
He is as down on Republican luck as
Hanna is himself
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03

Popes proverbial admoniton in regard
to hobnobbing with vice, which, first abb
horred, eventually becomes creature fit
for loving embrace. is aptly illustrated in
the metamorphosis of Mr.. Hanna's capdi-
date for the Presidency. The first view
of Imperialism caused the pious Father
of Protection" to shudder and calculate,
Criminal aggression" But, accustomed
to the sight of the Filipino corpse. in a
fgurative sense, and hardened to viewing
the incoming freight of the funereal trans
port. with It's burden Of soldiers dead, SOL
diers mad, and soldiers invaded, he shook
off his squeamishness and. inspired by the
appetite for power and Office. murmured
Benevolent assimilation" The whirligig
of the Republican Kaleidoscope brings many
changes.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
Cirt Clation Statement.
The Court of Last Resort.

In three days from now the American
people will decide whether they will have
in future plutocratic empire, based
upon bribery, corruption. and the bayo-
net, or will force return TO the freedom
and equality planned by the Fathers CT
the Republic.
1t is not without reason that the Demo-
cratic national and State committees, and
the President OF the League Of Democratic
Clubs are warning all who love our once
wholly free American institutions to be
on the alert against fraud and intimida-
tion on election day. Hanna, Roosevelt.
and all other political agents for the
trusts thoroughly well know that on
fair ballot and an honest count their
ticket is beaten out of sight. 1t is need
less to say that the Republican campaign
managers are frightened and desperate,
or that they will hesitate at any step, no
matter how disgraeeful or criminal, to
carry or to steal the election. 1t is
highly desirable, therefore, that the whole
strength of the party of liberty and the
Constitution should be at the voting
places everywhere, and with a stern de-
termination to prevent repetition OF the
outrages upon the suffrage which were
perpetrated in 1876, and again in 1896.
AS We haze repeatedly urged upon the
honest voters of the country, the power
TO decide elections is still in the hands of
the masses. Four years hence it might
not be. BY that time. should enough per-
sons sell themselves to the trusts to re-
seat Trust Mckinley" on the throne, the
free ballot may have become thing of
the past and the polls in all nominally
Democratic States dominated by troops or
deputy marshals. AS Senator Hawley, the
Republican Chairman of the Senate Mill
tary Committee said, in a speech 10 the
Connecticut Legislature last year: IF a
single company of Federal bluecoats
marches around the corner with their
steady and solemn step, the mob Il. e.,
the peoplel disperses, because it is known
they are men who shoot when ordered to.
1t is simply a business with them,"
On the same occasion, this Senatorial
trust henchman explained the true in
wardness of the movement 10 create
huge standing army. 1T was a wise
thing" he said, for the merchants of
Chicago to give a fine tract of land to
the National Government, who fortified it.
and it is now called Fort Sheridan .
We shall need large army to stand back |
of municipal authority
We shall have that large army, and the |
merchants, or the trusts, of all our great |
cities will give the imperial Government |
fine tracts of land to be covered with |
Notifications comma nding the streets. If |
the American masses so will it by lend
ing themselves TO the election of Trust |
Mckinley" The only question is: Will !
they do it? They are not compelled to;
but that may be never again truthfully
said of them. They should soberly ard
seriously remember that this may be their
last chance
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
Prosperity and Its Causes.

To the Editor of The Times:
If Mckinley should win the battle On
Tuesday. it will be because of the per-
sistent use his party has made of the spe-
cious prosperity cry. to which the I'M
thinking give ear, with ready acceptance
of the claim so brazenly set UP that it is
all due to Republican management. With
that class present comfortable conditions
readily exclude all consideration of the
growing power OF the trusts, and, more
alarming still, the adoption of the new
governmental policy of acquiring distant
possessions. with their millions of sub
jects, and the necessary abandonment of
the Monroe Doctrine with it's exclusion of
foreign powers from interference in any
way with the American Republics.
1t is the minimizing multitude who have
not noted that in our history the tides of
prosperity have come and gone without SO
much regard to the party at present in
power: that. accordingly, the returning
tide. after period of depression, had al
ready given signs of setting in ere the
present Administration was installed
More important still. that the present ac-
tivity in all the productive industries and
in commerce is a direct result OF the war
which has been going on for two years,
with its extraordinary demand for sup
plies of every sort. and for the means of
transportation on land and sea, and that
when the war shall have come to an end
there will surely be lessening Of that
activity.
II Mckinley should win. therefore.
which may God forbid, it will be because
half n million voters. more or less, hay
ing closed their eyes to the dangers to
the very life of the Republic, which inure
in the Mckinley foreign policy, and. stalk
ing everything on mess Of pottage, are
at once wrong in their conclusions as to
the real causes of the present conditions
and false to their country's future and
welfare OBSERVER
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-03
CONSIGNED AS HAY.
Canadian Charged With Smuggling
Chinese Into This Country.

NEW YORK. Nov. Wv. NJ. Grafton, a
French Canadian, who asserts that his
home is in Molone. n. Y, was held for
trial in $1,000 bail today by United States
Commissioner Shields, charged with hav-
ing illegally brought Cinnamon into the
country. The Cinnamon, five of them, all
told. are held as prisoners at Albany.
Night Waterman Murphy, who patrols
the New York Central yards at Rensselaer,,
just across the Hudson from Albany. dis
covered the Cinnamon a short time after
midnight on Wednesday. He was coming
up the yard, filed with box cars. when he
saw the door Of one car standing little
ajar. AS Murphy came near a head popped
out. 1t was that of a Chinaman and
badly scared, half-starved Chinaman at
that.
Bling water gasped the yellow refu-
gee. Murphy brought the water. Then
the Chinaman said there were four more
OF his fellow-countrymen inside the car
and that they were thirsty too, and Muir
ply made two more trips for water. Final
ly the first Chinaman, who had been liz this
country some years ago, told the story of
the party. They had paid an agent in
Montreal to bring them to New York City
and they had been packed for the trip in
a car of hay. There they had been banged
around in the dark for hours without food
or water until their leader finally decided
that they must be in this city. So he
opened the door and saw Murphy
Murphy quickly realized that plot ex-
listed to import Mongolians and locked the
starving Cinnamon in the car again. The
car was consigned from William Grafton,
Bangor, Franklin County, y. Y, to VIII
liam Grafton, Manhattan Station. New
York City. Grafton was arrested here
while waiting anxiously the arrival of his
ear Of hay He protested his innocence,
but was locked up in default of bail.