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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-06-16
CONFEDERATE REUNION
FourteenthAnnual Convention Opens
at Nashville, Tenn.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

100000 Collected For the Erection OF
the Battle Abbey and Work viii
Start Soon-General S. D. Lee For
Commander-in-chief.
Nashville. Tenn. June l4-Nashvil,e
Is crowded with visitors, veterans ana
DELEGATES to the nth annual reunion
of the United Confederate Veterans
which opened officially today There
are delegates present from as far north
as Montana. The convention was called
10 order in the Tabernacle by General
| O.. w. Gordon. of Memphis. as depart
mcnt commander. and after several
welcoming speeches the acting com
mander-in-chief. Lieutenant General
stephen d Lee delivered his address.
The battle abbey committee submit
ted its report to the convention for its
action The report shows that the
treasurer has in hand nearly SlO6,OOp
i'm cash. I'm addition thereto there is
The gift of the city of Richmond 500
900: subscriptions collectable. $4,000,
balance due from Charles Broadway
Rouss. $4,000. This latter amount is
payable any time. This makes the
total money available for the erection
Of the abbey S20600O The committee
is trying TO raise 100000. but the work
IAN begin any time now with the
money on hand. The exact date for
1eeinning the work. however has not
been decided. The suit against }. W.
Underwood. the report says is still
pending. The difference between Mr..
Underwood and the abbey trustees
arises rs To- the amount due The abbey
.ommittce from ,ho amount collected
by Mr. Underwood Mr.. Underwood
vas removed as chairman TWO years
ago and was succeeded by Dr. j. VIII
liam Jones. of Richmond.
The committee says that more funds
will De raised as soon as possible L.
establish o complete library OF Amcri-
can. and especially southern. history.
which will become a part of the abbey,
md Dr. Jones. superintendent of The
abbey. will make trips through the
south 10 raise money.
The historical committee submitted
report 20 the camp. setting forth the
concentrations OF the committee to
the south on the reforms made i'm his
tories in which the south, it is do
clarod. IS now much more fairly treate .
by authors than formerly
This committee also reported on the
battlefag matter holding that the
battlenag IS square. with cross-lines
from corner to corner The contention
Of many has been that the flag was
Obl0ng instead of square.
The report of the committee on the
treatment of prisoners during the war
shows that in all instances humane
treatment was given federal prisoners.
A large amount of data on this sub
iect has been collected. and it is prob
able that the committee will continue
its investigations another year. when
a final report will be made.
Tomorrow there will be another
business session. and on Thursday the
veterans will have their parade.
It seems to be the general impress
sion that General Lee will be elected
unanimously 20 succeed General John
B. Gordon.
The friends Of Louisville, Baltimore
and New Orleans are already in the
field for the next reunion.
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POLICEMAN CALLED DOWN."
Persists in Interrupting Judge Scott
in the Police Court

Policeman C. F. Ehlers received a calling
down. in the District branch of the Police
Court this morning by Judge Scott because
he persisted Ill asking the court to hear
witness in a case after the matter had been
disposed Of
you are not the prosecuting attorney in
this court, and you will have to be quiet
and take your seat" Judge Scott becoming
exasperated, said to the officer, after hav-
ing previously ordered him several times to
be quiet.
1t came about at the conclusion of the
trial OF John Cronin and John H. Robinson,
the latter eolored man, who were named
as defendants on a joint charge of disor-
Derby conduct. From the witnesses the
court learned that the men had some trou-
BILE on a car " lille passing through Ecking-
ton yesterday afternoon, and that Cronfn
struck the colored man. Judge Scott de-
cided that Cronin was the responsible party
and imposed on him fine Of IS, which was
paid. The charge against the colored man
was dismissed and he was released from
custody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13

r. r. Biggers. prominent farmer near
Charlotte, N. c., was killed Friday after
noon. He was astride a mule, when the
animal was frightened and ran away.
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d. w WILLIAM Il. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star and
Chicago Record Herald.
MANILA, May II 1904.
! have caught an old resident on the fly
mat is, one of the pioneers of what are Of
fciairy called ''our insular possessions" He
is San Francisco merchant, Walter NJ.
Castle Of the firm Of Castle Brothers. Wolff
& Sons of San Francisco, and he was one
Of the first American business men to fol-
low the flag into these parts. He lived in
Manila for a couple of years in the early
days of the occupation and has just re-
turned for visit after an absence of three
years.
1t is perfectly natural that people who
have lived continuously in place are not
so much impressed with the improvements
that have been going as those who re-
turn after long absence, because they are
familiar with them. The changes have
taken place gradually under their observa-
ton. and hence have not attracted any es-
special attention. But everybody VINO has
spent the first year or two after the war in
Manila, before American ideas and methods
were introduced, invariably expresses aston
fshment and qualification when he goes
about and sees what has been done to make
the city habitable.
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Carroll SDrinpsSanitarium

FOR INVALIDS AND CONvALESCENTS.
Forest Glen. Md. Open all the year. Baths, cleo
tricty parlor. covered verandas hotwater heat,
open fires. Pure spring water piped through the
buildings. Its convenience to Washington especially
recommends 1t. Send for illustrated booklet.
jy6-tf-10 Address @. II. WRIGHT, MD.
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HOTEL JACKSON.

Atlantic City. On thu beach. Virginia and
Steel Pier: central and delightful location; 200
ocean rooms hotel IL reproof built Of brick, stone
and steel. Special rates. American plan; So
$3.50, SIS weekly. Orchestra. Literature mailed.
apl552t,s JOHN CRCSE.
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STONY MAN CAMP,

sKYLAND. PAGE COUNTY. VA.
THE RUSTIC GEN OF THE BLUE RIDGE
The former partons Of the Camp will be glad
to hear that new cottages are being erected this
spring, and increased accommodations afforded.
Those who have not visited Skyland should send
for booklet. The most unique resort In America.
Altitude 4,O2S feet-rnost elevated this side Of the
Rocky mountains. 20 RUSTIC COTTAGES.
RUSTIC DINING HALL AND PAVILION.
WONDERFUL MOUNTAIN SCENERY.
200 WASHINGTON REFERENCES.
ALL THE PLEASURES OF CAMP LIFE WITH
NONE OF ITS INCONVENIENCE.
Modern sanitary sewerage. Acetylene gas.
Address G. FREEMAN POLLOCK, Propt.
mv2S-lHt-21
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THE LOUDOUN-OPEN MAY 10. MODERN CON.
venienees. Address JOHN D. CHAPLIN. Blue
mont, Loudouu Co.. Va. my1-tf
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HOTEL POTOMAC, WYNNE P. O., MD.
Miller's wharf On the Potomac near the Chesa-
peake. Bathing, fishing, sailing and dancing.
Weems Line strs. For terms apply to
JeS-13t"-5 THEO. L. WEST Prop.
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SurmOnt For Sale.

at oakland. Maryland, on summit Of the Ale
ghanies; six hours from Washington on Baltimore
and Ohio railroad: residence tenant: cottage.
stable, ETC.; modernly improved and in perfect
order. with nine acres. Descriptive pamphlet
mailed Address P. o. Box 2S1. Oakland. Nd.
my1S-w,f, m 1879
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BLUE Ridge linn,

sNICKER's GAP, CLARK CO., VA.
Open June IL. Under management.
On the top Of the mountains. Beautiful scenery.
Always cool. Modern house. Excellent table. Only
hours ride from Washington
N. G. & A. McSwEEN. Demonet. Clark Co.. Va.
7-26t
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THE PATIENCE. 80 N.W.-NEWLY FUR
nished rooms: MI: single or en- suite. with bath;
CENTRAL LOCATION; cool. quiet. and rates rea-
sonable. To see them is to like them. Call and In
vestigate. r. P. HALLIDAY. Mgr. my27-26'-5
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Boston THE VemdOrne

COMMONWEALTH AVENUE.
HOTEL. FOR REFINED PEOPLE
Unexcelled by any hotel in the city in location
and appointments. Equally attractive to ladies,
families and transient guests. Near Public LII
brary, Art Museum and prominent churches. Per
fectly quiet; block FROM trolley, and min
utes from Back Bay II. r. Station.
uy7-sm,w26t,14 GREENLEAF & BARNES.
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NEW FIREPROOF
RIO GRANDE.

New York ave. overlooking ocean pier.
Conceded to be Atlantic City's most modern
hotel; elevator; running water In rooms; baths:
cafe; 81 90 per wk. and upward. Booklet. The
proprietor's ocean-going power yacht. Rio Grande,
free 70 guests J. PAUL kiLPATRICK.
fe27-iS6t-i0
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The Labor Question.

1.-The labor question, in my opinion, will
right itself without the introduction of
Chinese coolies. l believe the Filipino will
come to realize that upon his Willingness to
labor depends the prosperity of his country.
He receives at the present time one peso
and over per day for unskilled manual
labor 1t is stated, and 1 firmly believe cor
rectlS SO, that 1 peso keeps a Filipino in
food for a week, and 1t is due to this fact
that he does not work until compelled to
do so through sheer necessity. If this be
true, then, by all means, adopt the old
Spanish method. 1t may be the proper So
luton.
"Cut his wages down to 20 cents day,
until he is ready to appreciate the advan-
tages he is enjoying and be willing to help
build up his country by his labor and at
the same time accumulate something for
himself and for those depending upon him.
If, however, all plans fail, and he continues
to refuse to work, we must import the Chi
nese.
by far the most important proposition
for careful consideration is the tariff. I'm
der present conditions 1t is an abso-
Lutte impossibility to discover any glimmer
of light for the Philippine Islands. The
future prosperity depends entirely upon the
policy of our government on the question.
My opinion comedies thoroughly with the
opinion expressed to me by large number
of American and Filipino merchants, name
ly, that If 1t were possible to try the ex-
pertinent of making Manila a free port, the
result would be phenomenal and the latter
city would In very short space of time
rival Hong Kong. which is now and has been
for, many years past the most important
port in the orient 1 do not think / am
exaggerating when 1 state that sea cap
tains give the preference to Hong Kong over
any other in the world. The shipping in
and out of Hong Kong during 1903 amounted
to over 100000 tons. Over 1000 vessels
entered the port and over 10000 vessels
cleared.
Il do not lose sight of the fact that we
must provide the wherewithal to meet the
expenses Of the Philippine government. and
due to this reason 1t may be impracticable
Just at present to make Manila entirely
free port. but let US come as near to 1t as
we can. Singapore Is not an entirely free
port, and it might be well in Manila to en-
ulate the example Of Singapore. Both Hong
Kong and Singapore have expensive govern
ments to support. They are cared for in
the main by internal taxation, and there is
in Hong Kong a rent tax of IA per cent
which works very satisfactorily. The ten
AM understands that once having conclud-
ed arrangements with the owner of the
property. hs must add IA per cent to the
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FOR RENT-TWO THREE-ROOM COTTAGES At
Colonial Beach. Va: one $40 and one $50; partly
furnished: artesian water. Address Mrs J. A.
PIERSON. Colonial Beach. Va. tel1-3ts
NORTH HILL. 60 MILES FROM WASH, VIA
Bluemont; mt. valley and water scenery; BIZ
cycling drives, shaded grounds; spring beds
children taken: fishing, boating, swimming;
daily mails frst-class fare; fresh meats, fowls,
milk, fruits; 81 per week. Open till Nov. Procure
circular. MAURICE OASTLEMAN. Castleman's
Ferry, Clarke Co.. Va. te1O7st
GO TO HOTEL RIvERTON, RIvERTON VA. TO
spend the summer. Good boating bathing bass
fishing. The most beautiful scenery and drives in
the Shenandoah valley. Address T. s. DUNCAN
Riverton, Va, for pamphlets. je10- 26ts, 8
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Hotel Shorehan1,

NVtan End NIrgIUIa hNehue.
Special rates TO- June So S12 Sl6. Capacity.
BOO Open CT all sides; excellent view from each
room. elevator to street: private baths telephone
In rooms. Table and service the best. Booklet.
ap2G-52t-S
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CHANGES IN MANILA
Improvements Brought About
by Americans.
w. M. CASTLES VIEWS
WHAT he OBSERVED AFTER A
FEW YEARS ABSENCE.
Believes That the City Should Have
Freer Trade-The Labor
Question.

BY WILLIAM L. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star and
Chicago Record Herald
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
The Abacus In JaDan.

The Japanese shopkeepers use the
abacus, or soroban, so universally that
the stranger quickly comes to realiz-
ing sense of the absence of all mental
calculation in the empire. In lieu of
paper and pencil any child or adult
will at once take up the soroban when
given Il problem in mathematics and
rattle its beads about as though he
were amusing himself. The principle
of the little instrument is this: Each
of the five beads in the broad lower
division of the board represents one
unit, and each solitary bead in the mar
row upper division represents FIVE
units. Each vertical column is thus
worth ten units. Each vertical column
represents units ten times greater than
those in the column Immediately to the
right of it, exactly as in our own sys-
tenn of notation by means of the Ara
bic numerals. Any sum in arithmetic
can be done on the soroban, even to
the extraction of square and cubic
roots.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
A HEAVY DIET.
What the Pixies In Tipperary Waters
Like Most as Food.

What the Pixies In Tipperary Waters
Like Most as Food.
There is professional fisherman of
my aequaiptance in Tipperary who
kills many pike during the winter
months, for which he finds ready sale
in the town. He told me of one GUS
toner of his who was in the habit Of
so beating him down in price that he
felt justified in resorting to somewhat
questionable means to increase the
weight of his fish. In the manner of
the winner of the stakes in the cele-
brated jumping Frog sporting event,
he would introduce some weighty sub
stance into their interior, stones, bits
of iron railing, etc.
Once he went so far as to stuff two
old handless fatirons he had picked
from refuse heap down the gullet of
one before taking 1t to his customer.
who, having weighed 1t carefully and,
after much haggling, paid him a frac-
ton less per pound for 1t than he might
have perhaps obtained elsewhere. Meet
ing him next day, he was instantly
aware there was trouble in the wind
by the opening remark, What do pike
feed on, Paddy?' "Och and indade,
your honor, but there's mighty little
that comes amiss to thin lads" he an
swered. Frogs and fish, sticks and
shtones they like well, but they would
give their two eyes for fatirons."e
English Country Gentleman.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
The Value of a sunny Soul.

The world is too full of sadness and
sorrow, misery and sickness. 1t needs
more sunshine. 1t needs cheerful lives
which radiate gladness. 1t needs en-
couragers who will lift and not bear
down, who will encourage, not discour-
age
Who can estimate the value of sun
ny soul who scatters gladness and good
cheer wherever he goes instead of
gloom and sadness? Everybody is at
tracted to these cheerful faces and
sunny lives and repelled by the gloomy
the morose and the sad. We envy peo-
pie who radiate cheer wherever they
go and fling out gladness from every
pore. Money, houses and lands look
contemplate beside such disposition.
The ability to radiate sunshine is a
greater power than beauty or than
mere mental accomplishments. Sue
cess
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
A WONDERFUL FACTORY.
The Sleep1ess and Busy Workmen of
the Human Body.

Andrew Wilson, the English scien-
tist, says the human body is a work
shop. 'The manufacturers are the
cells which form the essential parts
of every gland. Indeed cells appear be-
fore us as the veritable workmen Of
the whole body, ranging from nerve
cells, which rule US, to the cells that
build up and produce our bones. Now,
in the glands of the body these work
men, each a microscopic unit of proto-
plasm or living matter, discharge the
function Of making from the blood
whatever product gland may offer as
its contribution to life's processes. The
cells which compose our liver are bile
makers in addition to their performing
certain other curious works represent
ing the liver's duties. Other cells in the
glands of our eyes manufacture our
tears. Others again secrete the gastric
juice by which the food is acted upon
in the stomach. A fourth set of cells
produces pancreatic juice in the sweet
bread, and a fifth set supplies the ,sa-
Iva
''Tears, saliva and bile and so forth
are all employed directly through their
being poured outward on the food or
into various organs. Even the oil that
lubricates our joints represents Sc
cretion which is perpetually being pro
duced and insinuated between the sur
faces that move one upon the other.
When. however, we come to consider
internal secretions' very different
state of matters falls to be noted.
Here we meet with substances that
are not poured outwardly, but inward
ly. The work of internal secretion is
performed by certain glands. The thy
roil gland in the neck is one of them
This is GLAND which grows very
large in g0itcr or Derbyshire neck an
ai!mont of hard water districts. If the
secretion of this gland is not duly add
cd to the blood disease of very dis
tinct type appears, and it is cured
when the physician administers to the
patient the thyroid gland substance of
the sheep.
Even lle SWeclDFetu llSSll' IHOuSH
it docs make a definite fluid of use in
digestion. seems also to supply some
thing necessary to the blood, for we
find that diabetes is always of more
serious type where the sweetbread is
involved. Such discoveries bring us to
the very linit of present day research
into living functions. Their most graft
fyinw feature in addition to their
throwing LIGHT on life's workings is
that which i.lAces in tie hands of the
physician knoH-Iedge beth of the cause
of Giseasc and of its cure
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
OFFICE OF THE TAX COLLECTOR,


OF THE COUNTY OF AMADoR,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
~ taxpayers of Amador county, that 1, T. K,
| NORMAN Tax Collector of Amador county,
did on the 10th day of October. 1904 receive
from the County Auditor of Amador county the
original assessment books for the year 1904,
containing a list of the persons assessed for
real and personal property. and the amount of
State and County taxes due thereon for said
year.
That said taxes are now due and payable to
me at my office in the court house, in the town
of jackson, county of Amador, State of Cali
fornia.
That the taxes on all personal property Sc
cured by real property, and one-half of the
taxes on all real property were due and payable
| on the second Monday in October 1904, and will
be delinquent on the last Monday in November
next thereafter, at O'Clock p. m and that un-
less paid prior thereto. fifteen per cent will be
added TO the amount thereof and if said one
half be not paid before the last Monday in
April next at O'Clock p. M, an additional five
per cent will be added thereto.
That the remaining one-half of the taxes on
all real property will be payable on and after
the first Monday in January next. and will be
delinquent on the last Monday in April next
thereafter at 6 O'Clock p. m, and that unless
paid prior thereto, five per cent will be added
to the amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid at the time the
first installment, as herein provided, is due
and payable.
First installment. one-half real estate and all
personal property, uue OclODer lUtn lJU4
First installment, one half real estate and all
personal property, delinquent November 27th,
1904, at 6 O'Clock p. m.
Second installment, one half real estate. due
January 2nd 1905
Second installment, one-half real estate, de-
linquent April oath, 1905, at o'clock p m.
All the taxes may be paid in full at the time
the first installment is due.
Taxes not paid according to law will be de
linquent and Is per cent and per cent and
other costs will be added thereto.
Positively no checks received for the pay
ment of taxes.
T. X. NORMAN,
oc14 Tax Collector of Amador County.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
FRENCH MAY QUEENS.
4 Pretty Custom Which is Stin In
Vogue In Some Villages.

4 Pretty Custom Which is stira In
Vogue In Some Villages.
Aa ancient custom which still OBJ.
tains in many villages in the south of
France is a pretty variation Of the
choosing of the May queen with which
we are so familiar. The mayor and
six of his political officers choose from
among the village maidens the most
beautiful girl AS soon as the choice
is made known the queen, dressed in
white, even to a long white veil and
a wreath of white roses, assemblies
with her parents and all the villagers
in front of the mayors house. Here
he and six friends, dressed in frock
coats and top hats, form in procession,
the mayor and queen leading, and
march to the church, where there is q
short ceremony.
or's house, where a favored few are
entertained at luncheon. When he
proposes her health he enumerates her
virtues, kisses her on both cheeks and
hands her an envelope which contains
the prize, 5000 in money. But the cere-
mony does not end here. They form in
procession, the band leading this time,
and in sort of follow my leader''
game walk through the village, up
lanes and over hills for three hours.
That evening a ball is given at the inn,
where the queen dances first with the
mayor and his six friends and after
ward with the lads of the village, and
so the celebration ends. The queens
white veil, with the veil and wreath,
are carefully folded away and are
brought out again only when she be-
comes a bride.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
why Japs Admire the Carp.

The carp, which plays so prominent
a part in Japanese decorations, is also
the principal dish at high class jap
anese dinner. 1t is deemed to be the
dish above all others upon which young
men who desire martial career
should be fed, as it's eaters are sup
posed to imbibe the courage of the fish.
1t is the bravest of all the Japanese
fish and the only one that can swim up
a waterfall. Yet when finally caught
it will lie perfectly still while waiting
to be killed. These qualities of BRAY
cry. strength and resignation are much
desired by Japanese young men, and
happy is the family on whose table the
carp appears at frequent int"rvals.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-25
He Liked to Preach.

A Scotch minister tells of an old
fashicny,. Brother of TIE church who
insisted on preaching two long ser
mons every Sunday, This feature in
his character he exhibited in the winter
months to very trying extent. Dur
ing the rest of the year there were two
services, at II and 2 o'clock, separated
by an interval of an hour or more, but
when the days were short, as many of
his congregation came from considera-
BILE distances, 1t was desirable that
they should be able to reach their
homes before it was dark. But it was
not only desirable, but imperative, that
they should have two sermons. This
was accomplished by having only one
meeting, beginning at II o'clock, and
doing away with the interval. There
were then two sermons separated by
the singing of short psalm.