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The Washington times., 1904-09-30
DISEASE SWEEPS
JAPANESE ARMY

LONDON, Sept 2o-A dispatch TO the
Telegraph from Shanghai says that "a
careful estimate of the number OF Jap
anese already ina the Held leaves only
about $1,000 trained troops now IN Japan,
hence the necessity Tor a premature
levy of c0uscTipts and the leugIheulug
of the reseryists' term of service.
1t is rumared that the japanese are
making preparations for the occupation
OF the Island of SaEhalieu during the
autumn for the sake of the coal mines
there.
The most serious problem confronting
the Japanese at present Is the enormous
rayagos OF beri-beri. To is stated that the
losses from this disease exceed the total
casualties i'm the fighting. Every trans
port bound Tor Japan takes hundreds on
sufferers one general has been In
Valided by the disease.
Id b believed that the outbreak is
due 10 the eatlns OF cold flce e9q 75z
for a long time The beslegers or Port
Arthur are suffering the worst. Between
beTi-beri and casualties the EieFenlH Ill
vision has practically ceased 20 exist
one night I'm recent battle MOB OF
Japanese soldiers looted and wrecked
The French Cathedral an "a missionary
station near Lao Vans beueFlns tAdJ
Do was q Russian church
TOKYO. Sept. 30.-Tt is stated In gov
eminent circles that the new rules OF
army by 100000 men. The ordinance
needs the ok post faCto sanction OF the
diet which undoubtedly VIII De TeaOllF
given everybody recoEL Zlug the ne
cessity for it, The attitude OF the pup
lie toward the ordinance furnishes tur-
Their evidence of the nation S realization
that the campaign is to be long and eN-
haustug.
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perieuced veterans are being employed
IN the desperate assaults. Their bravery
and nafrtatic ardor is wonderful. The
Japanese guns now search every point
in Port Arthur and are causing unlver-
sal havoc.
LONDON, Sept. g1.-The Shanghai
correspondent OF the Telegraph gu-les
q Japanese officer as saying that the
killed and wounded at Port Arthur con-
sfderably exceed $1,000. The military au-
thOrit5es are OF the opinion that IL would
Zoe useless 20 throw away more lives In
assauItiug the fortress. and that 10
would be better 60 institute regular
siege.
The Washington times., 1904-09-30
INCREASED COST
OF SEWER PLANT
Supt. McCOmb Hands in
Annual Estimates.
HIGHER WAGES FOR LABOR
Appropriations Asked for Extension Of
Lines Into the Suburban Districts.
Large Sums Required

1t mas been found necessary TO i'm
crease the cost OF several items OF the
sewage disposal system, according 90
the estimates OF ID h. AIccomb- Superlu-
teudeut OF Sewers, Tor the money requlr-
ed % operate his department during tho
fiscal year Isl5-l5J5.
In support of this increase. AIr. Nc
Comb today submitted 10 the District
Commissioners the following figures and
explanations
The cost of labor has risen iu this Io-
caliuy. presumably on account of the
large amount of work In progress
Upon the sewage pumping station
work II has been found necessary 10 Zee
enforce the IOOLiuss Of the sl-p-WaLs
ana of the chimney. on account Of the
character of the earth supporting these
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MAYOR MCCLELLAN
DROPS IN AND OUT
Pays a Four Minute Visit
to Judge Parker.
JUST TIME TO SHAKE HANDS
Sheehan and Rode in Long Conferences
With the Presidential
Nominee.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Mayor George
3. Mcclellan called upon Judge Parker
at the Seville Hotel this morning auc
made it one of the shortest calls in
history, He came at 500 a. m. and went
away at 9:2A Afterward he said:
II called upon Judge ParkeT's invita-
ton TO shake hands and pay my re-
spects. Judge Parker is "a very pleasant
gentleman"
Although the Presidential nominee has
soj0uued I'm the city twice before, to-
days was Mayor Mcclellan first visit.
Conference With Sheehan.
When the mayor arrived william f..
Sheehan was i'm conference with Judge
Parker Evidently matters OF serious
import were discussed for the colfab
lasted more than am hour. AS usual
the executive chairman declined 20 say
more than that "Jhe situation was sat-
isfact0ry."
Judge Parker was mp at 6.39 this morn
ing and out for a walk down Fifth Ave
nue.. lie was accompanied by William
T. Rode. of the State executive con-
mittee. and the two travelled as TAR as
the Washington Arch. Few people rec
0gnized the nominee.
State Affairs Discussed
Mr. Rode breakfasted with Judge
Parker I'm the main dining room of tht
Seville. then was cIosered iu the eighth
floor sUite for half am hour. The site
uation iE the State was thoroughly cam
yassed.
Tt Is announced that Julge Parker vii
return 10 R0semout at 5.a8 o'clock TO-
night bE way of the West Shore rail-
rosd. Mr.. Sheehzu viii follow him t0
morrow TO remain over Sunday.
ON Tuesday the nominee VIII CONT
back 10 the Seville and VIII attend she
Manhattan Club reception
Senator W. A. Clark. of Montana
called at 1890 o'clock. He told Judg
Parker that the prospects for Demo
. cratic victory i'm Montana are very
bright. but added that tl= Mormon VOL.
+ De both Montana and Utah might euauE
the complexion OF the result.
The Senator is going 10 Montana @.
work for the ticket.
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CHEAP ASPHALT BRINGS
IN REAL COMPETITION

NEW YORK. Sept decomposition
among asphalt paving concerns has
driven the price iu Brooklyn down 90
90 cents ca square yard. In June the
price bid was $3.50. Specifications were
TeadE-rfized. and q real competition fol-
lowed
The Crawford Company Is the lowest
bidder
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CAN'T IMPORT MATCHES
INTO VENEZUELAN PORTS

ius the importation Of matches iuJu th1t
country and bias granted a monopoly OF
the industry TO local company
Matthias Brewer. the Tm-gl States
consul an lea Guaira. reported Che mattel.
m0I0Uly go the State Department 5a
disTaLcH received this morning.
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AUCTION SALES.

THOMAS BOWLING & co. az E ST.
uw.-By authority Of Congress We wiIl
sell ar public auction 10 pay storage
charges, etc. Cu WEDNESDAY, &C
TOBER 9. 1904. at I'D a. H., goods and
chartels stored i'm the name of II J..
Haven, assignee and Maggie Brown.
se2f 90 ocl .8a-5
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Cost Of Electric Work.

Several items. such as electric plant
-Iulee sates. ana screen nolsts. were
originally estimated Tor upon the basis
of like installations ou other sewerage
works. but the detailed plans for electric
plant and contracts made after compeu-
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL EOTICE-Special meeting OF
the J0uueyman BlasLerers OF Local IS,
AlOEDAA u JCIDBE-1t . -55t- '.39 p "a
Business or importance. ~ orgsE OF
the President. i. McCORMICk
se3J-3r
SPECIAL NOTICE-AIr. CLINTON Il.
STAHL is no longer connected with
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a Gil 9TH ST. NV III you have any KIND
OF business 10 dispose or we can ma you
a customer If genuine. Maryland ana
Virginia farms specially. Good sa-
loom wanted. q O TOWER j. w
BAUCK1IAN, u. ~. BAL Ch4lAN. LE
THE CORCORAN SCHOOL OF ART
VIII reopen TO students Tor the session
Isl4-Ig15 as follows. Day classes Non
day. October 8. Night classes, Monday
October ~ Water color class TUESDAY
November j. T. c. ME-5SEH. FEIn-
cIpaL se3I--I
SPECIAL NOTICE. have sold 10 W.
r. Sargent my stock OF groceries. pro-
visions and fixtures In store ll55 lZI-s
ST NV. with good Hill OF the business
formerly conducted by me at that place
AN persons holding bills against me
VIII please present them AZ ldl1 . - LlF-
j. Q. love.
THE COMMISSIONER or PEIAH1IA-
CE VIII hold am examination Tor regis
traG0u MONDAY. OCTOBER lJ, 1914. >
A a. al National College OF Pharmacy.
Candidates must have their appLlca-
riuns. together with the Zee uled VITA
-f-a s-rrararv before october g. 1874
HENRY A. JOHNSTON, Phar, d. see
rotary 12z1 New Jersey ave, NV se-5-5t
SPECIAL NOTICE-The annual meet
fnz OF the stockholders OF the Counecu-
cut Avenue Highlands Company VIII Es
held at NOON at company once &C
TO8ER j. 1893 FOR election OF directors
and other business. GEO T. hOb1N-
son. Secretary se-e-lL
TpE. CORC0RAE GALLERY OF ART
/ ain rarren 10 the public Ou week days
/ an SATURDAY. OCTOBER J. 1894.
/ sez--4t f. b. MCGUIRE, Director.
/ SPECIAL. EOTICE-8Iessrs. EUGENE
+ EUGENE d. and CHARLES FRAN CTS
I CARUSL Attorneys and Counselors at
T law have removed their law Onces
+ trrrn the Columbian Building 20 the sec
/ rnf door o. the Van Doren Building, 1881
( r. Street northwest sel-51L
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II. r. Special train standard coaches
and paTIoT cars from washington. 3
O. ia. October 3 Route Fla FHIIau#l-
pEia and picturesque LeHI-u Valley
returning Last excursion of the sea-
sou-
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tiou for screen hoists and sluice gates
involve the expenditure Of larger
amounts for these items than was
originally contemplated
Labor fuel and other supplies for
maintenance and repairs to boilers. ma
chiuery and sewage pumping station
5000.
Ii is expected that the sewage
pumping machinery viii be I'm opeIauoI
about the end of the calendar year
1893. and the above amount is 10 pro-
vide for operating expenses during tine
Hast half of tEe fiscal year, lE5-l.y3-
Sewer appropriations are requested as
For Arizona sewer system. $1,000 es-
1901 5000. appropriation, 1892, SIS. 50Hr
total $4,000, amount required TO com
The amount requested will complete
The upper trunk section between Iuu-
law Road and TeuIeytoWH.
This sewer is required 10 serve the
larger portion OF TruleyIJWu and Arms
leigh Park also EalTEleW Heights. Iun-
law Heights and Wesley Heights
Ivy CITY trunk sewer S55,9I'- no ap-
preparation heretofore made Tor iGi7
E sewer. This sewer IS required Tor me
service Of Ivy City and the uOrtneIly
portion of the subdivision Of Trinidad.
West of Rock Creek.
Interaepring sewer along west side of
/ Rock Greek. between p Street ana Mii-
1 tary Road. z2ss 100
This sewer is .equired as an outlet
I for sewers iu the territory between Wis
! c0usiu Avenue and Rock Creek from ID
city line 10 Broad Branch. and ina the
/ territory between piney Erauch Road
/ BrlgltWood Avenue ana Rock Greek
/ north ut the ETIgHtWOOa Reservoir. Iu-
/ Guiding ErIEafWuJd.
/ Sewer in valley of Broad Branch. be-
/ tween Rock Greek and Soapstoue
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sI.zs TO Baltimore and Return SI.z5
Saturday and Sunday. via FeunsylEaHia
Railroad Limited 20 last train suudaE
Limited
The Washington times., 1904-09-30

SI.z5 Baltimore and Return, B. & 0.
r. r. Saturday and Sunday. All trains
b9Il ways. both days except ROYAL
Limited. Hourly Service" Saturday.
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SPECIAL EOTICE-Special meeting OF
the Jouruevman pIasJerers of Local IS,
MONDAY. OCTOBER g 1904 1880 +. ii.
Business of Importance. BY order OF
the President. T. MCCORMICK
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THE CORC0RAE GALLERY OF ART
win reopen 20 the public on week days
On SATURDAY. OCTOBER J. 1924.
zag--4r T. B. MCGUIRE Director.
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SPECIAL NOTICE-1Ir CLINTON II.
STAHL is no longer connected with
The Washington Times in any capacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
KING COTTON POWER OF
 CONFEDERATE STATES

prime necessity for the manufacturing world outside and utterly valueless in the southern states. The government was almost the only buyer, others finding it almost impossible to get 1t to market. ITO get cotton through the blockading squadron called for daring and skill. but there seemed to have been no lack of either. For a long time this traffic went on almost without capture, and the con- federate government not only deposited in places of safety large quantities of com modity in general demand throughout the world but also had the satisfaction of seeing it's property advance rapidly in value as the war went on. Cotton was consigned to Fraser. Trenholm and com pany. and the consgnments for the army, navy and diplomatic departments were carefully kept separate.
 The eonfederacy thus possessed re- sources which, If developed properly. should have secured it ample credit for an indefinite period. The difficulty of shipping cotton to Europe was more ap- parent than real, swift vessels being avail able to run the blockade" maintained by the federals at southern ports. During the first two years" Major Huse reports,
 the captures were so infrequent that, it may be safely stated, never before was government so well supplied with arms. munitions clothing, and medicines with so ilttiS AhpltA dS WdS pdlu Dy the con- federacy. The shipment from England to the islands in ordinary tramp steamers the landing and the storage there and the running of the blockade cost money; but all that was needed came from cot ton practically given to the confederate government by its owners"
 An evil turn of affairs began in the later stages of the war, when contracts with the government began to appear 'These contracts, made in Richmond were a sort of partnership affair &by which the contractor, usually an English company, shared equally the freighting capacity of each bocade runner. This partnership cut down the confederacy's income and resulted in serious injury to the confederacys cause. Only portion of the army cotton was turned into army supplies. The contractors, English and confederate, got the rest. There was tco much money in cotton in the latter years of the war for the management of the confederacys export policy to remain un- scathed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18

popular rights at seventy-three and lived four years longer. cervantes. dying at sixty-nine, had finished his immortal 'Don Quixote but one year before. Thomas Hobbes, who wrote his "Levia- than" at sixty-three, lived to be ninety one. Izaac walton's Angler was pub lished when he was sixty, and other lit- erary work helped to fill the remaining thirty years of his long life Edmund Wal Ter lived to be eighty-three, and Isaac Newton to be eighty-five.
 John Home, the Scotch tragedian. who in the estimation of a youthful fellow countryman,s had vanquished "Wullie Shakespeare, died at eighty-six; Horace Walpole at eighty; Isaac Disraell at eighty-two Jerome Bentham at eighty five and Wordsworth at eighty Of those dying in our own days Carlyle was eighty-six. Ruskin eighty-one. and Brown ing seventy-seven.
 Tennyson, whose age was eighty-three. was tuneful to the end. and in Crossing the Bar" left behind him a swan song of rare beauty. Victor Hugo lived to the same age, and to witness his apctheosis In the France that had exiled him.
 Herbert Spencer died last year at eighty-three, almost with pen in hand. George Macdonald at eighty, Goldwin Smith at eighty-one, George Meridith at seventy-hve. and Tolstoi at seventy-four, are still living instances of literary vigor. and Ibsen. whose years equal Tolstoi's. despite his reported feebleness, may not have penned his last sentence.
 The American group of splendid. though far from savage. old men may fittingly conclude the list. Washington Irving lived to be seventy-six and wrote his Life of Washington in his last years. concluding volume of his history appear ing when he was eighty-two. William Cullen Bryant was eighty-four. and Walt Whitman seyenty-three Of the famous New England group, Emerson died at seventy-nine. Longfellow at seventy-five. Holmes at eighty-six, Whittier at eighty five, and Lowell at seventy-two Flaw thorne, dying at sixty. was by comparison cut down in his youth. Still with us are Edward Everett Hale, at Se. Thomas Wentworth Higgnson at S1, and Ed mund Clarence Stedman at n.
 Not all these veterans lived a serene and joyous old age. Yet of very many of them it might well have been said by their contemporaries. as Dr. Holmes said of Whittier in me of the poems they delighted to fire back and forth at each other in their declining years:
 What story Is this of the year of his
 birth? Let him live to hundred. we want hin,
 es-+h q tsN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
A People With Tails,

From the London Chronicle.
 A German traveller claims to have dis covered in the forests of Borneo a people who still wear the tail of our primitive ancestors. He does not writo from hear say; he has seen the tail. It belonged to a child about six years old. sprung from the tribe of Poenans. As nobody could speak the Poenan tongue the youngster could not be questioned, but there was his tail, sure enough not very long, but flex- ible, hairless and about the thickness of ones little finger The Poenanr are re- ported to be very simple. honest folks with child like system of barter. They deposit in public places the goods they wish to excange, and a few days later they find there the equivalents they Ge- sire. Nobody dreams of stealing. This is almost as marvellous as the vestige of the ancestral tail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
Frcm the Baltimore Sun.

Frem the Baltimore Sun.
 The Sun is indebted to MT J. S. Rogers, 11s Barristers Hall, Boston, for a copy of very. readable and important contribu- tion to the financial history of the con federate states of America by Caleb Huse, major and purchasing agent for the confederacy in Europe during the civil war. Hitherto there has been very little definitely known of the means em7 ployed to procure abroad arms and sup plies required for the confederate army and navy. Major Huse's pamphlet is accordingly of special value showing as it does How supplies were obtained in Europe and how paid for" There are added personal "reminiscences and bits of unpublished history which contribute to make the publication exceedinly enter taining and indispensable to every histori- cal library. Caleb Huse, native of Massachusetts and a graduate of West Point, was at the beginning of the civil war detailed as commandant of cadets at the University of Alabama. Residence in the south enlisted his sympathies with that section, so that when in April, 1861 Secretary Mallory offered him active service in the purchase abroad of arms and military supplies he readily accepted a majors commission and after an inter- view with President Davis left Mont gomery for New York. On the way rot little difficulty was encountered in avoiding arrest. as feeling it. the north was at fever heat by reason Of Bearre- gard's capture of Fort Sumter.
 In New York after running risks of hanging from lamp post. MT. Huse got $500 in gold from Trenholm Bros, and proceeded to Canada, whence he took ship for London. via Portland, Maine.
 In London the agent of the confeder- acy had no money to pay for anythlng with The new nation had yet no in- come and no credit. Nevertheless Major Huse went ahead and contracted for the entire output of the London Armory com pany. It was a tremendous bluff. Agents of the United States went about their task of shutting the confederacy out of fhe market in the wrong way and got nothing until much later At Vienna, pne hundred thousand rifles of the latest pattern, ten batteries of six pieces each, with harness complete, and a quantity of ammunition was bought from the Aus trian government and shipped to Bermu-- na MT. Motley 'got onto" the contract and offered to buy the consignment for the United States but was too late. Arms and supplies were forthcoming from ev- try quarter as soon as it was seen mat The confederacy, through it's bankers, Fraser, Trenholm and company. of Liver pool, paid it's bills promptly, being in large funds from the sale of cotton, bought from the planters TOT export
 Just here Major Huse makes his most Interesting statement in showing that Turing the first years of the war the con federacy through it's monopoly of the worlds cotton supply. had an ample in- come for purchases abroad. The confed- trate government bought directly from The cotton planters and exported on it's own account Tn cotton 1t possessed a latent purchasing power" says Major Huse "such as probably no other gov rnment in history ever had. " It was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18

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 For Ten Next Nearest Esti- value. $50 50 ss each. Ss AA'0 ''a coke or wood;
 For Ten Next Nearest Estimate. Mrsn hoasn. Grand & Espids ballbearins; sectional glass; three book sections: value sao each
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 For Four Next Nearest Easf- nlates-Four Edwin guitars; solid rosewood. inlaid value. $30 each
 For Twenty Next Nearest Esti- elaborate cabinet twenty-tve inch horn: value, $30 each
 For Four Next Nearest Esti- noates-Four 5. S. Stewart ban3os; eleven value. S5o each. "e"u.
 For Ten Next Nearest Estimates -Ten Grand Rapids baIlbearing sectional value, $27. 70 each.
 For Ten Next Nearest Estimates Ten Kalasnazeo steel ranges; shelf and reservoir; value. $27. 50 each.
 For Three Next Nearest Ertf- mates-Three gentlemen's watches; seven 1eweled; twenty year case: value, s27 50 each
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
TRIUMPHANT OLD AGE.

premier for the fourth time at eighty three. and held the office for two years. Bismarck was seventy-fve when the Ger man Emperor forced him from the chan cellorshp. Metternich also was driven from power at seventy-hve, and Crispi assumed the premiership of Italy at the same age. Talleyrand, dying at eighty four, had under successive French rulers been a power all his life Pope Leo XIII, as every one remembers, had shown no signs of intellectual oecrepitude when he died of old age last year at niuety-three.
 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, after retiring from active life, were fruit full in counsel until death carried them off on the same day at the respective ages of ninety-one and eighty-three. John Quincy Adams was a power in the house of representatives when stricken at eishty-one, Henry Clay at seventy-fve, was still in the land.
 In other walks of life there stand out among musicians Handel the original Grand Old. Man.. who played the organ at performance Of his Messiah eight days before his death at seventy-four, and Verdi, who, reaching the age of eighty-seven,, was prolific almost to the last, and among painters the great Titan, who welded his brush after he had passed his ninety-eighth birthday
 With some writers the idea of old age seems inseparably connected. Who thinks of Samuel Johnson. for instance, save as the ancient autocrat of Grub street; of Walter Savage Landor but as a bluff old lion, or of Samuel Rogers except as the nonagenarian given of breakfasts Goethe's name evokes the spectacle of the dying veteran with his cry for more light; Voltaire's that of his triumphal progress through Paris with face shriv- eled to ncthing," in the year of his death Swift's that of the mad old man expir- ing, "a driveller and a show"
 One even associates the idea of age with some who were not really old-as with Montaigne, who died at ffty-nine. or Thomas Fuller. who was only fifty-three.
 For all deaths love of a shining mark many an eminent author has reached a ripe old age. and often literary activity has lasted to the end. to the enrichment of posterity Chaucer. who died at seven ty-seven did not write the Canterbury Tales" till he was sixty-three. That stout old Scotchman, George Buchanan. wrote his 'De Jnre ,egnf'' in deferse nf