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IMPRESSIONS OF THE PARIS EX? POSITION. Editor of the Virginian-Pilot: Some persons visiting the Exposition Universelle of 1800 have- essayed to dis? count Its magnificent ensemble by sun? dry comparisons with the World's Fair of 1893. Truly are there times when comparisons are odious, and In this in? stance may be singularly unfair to cither of ihese grand International events, each of which enjoys a unlques ness peculiarly its own. The White City, Bubllme In outline and perfect in detail, pretended to be only an ephe? meral erection, springing forth like an exhalation, howbeVt, revealing the won? drous night of the western hills, the breath and light and grandeur of the western sky. On the contrary, many of tho struc? tures of the present exposition have been seven years in course of erection, and, like the Eiffel tower, have come to stay, to gladden other generations with their enduring sublimity without and respletuU t treasures within. Aflter all the French exposition of 1900 was not conceived in a spirit of rival? ry. An Invitation was not only Issued by the republic of France to her sister republic over the sea, but to ail the na? tions of the earth, to unite In an event that should be a landmark In history, a fitting chronicle to mark the division between the expiring, century and the yet more alluring century to come, and If the complete realization of a given object Is success, then the Paris Ex? position Is a success. The genius of no nation Is better fitted for such an entertainment that that of the French, and no place better fitted than Paris, the omphalos of the world, and capital of civilization. In the midst of such a wilderness of wonders one hardly knows, in the lim? its of a single letter, where 'to begin or end In order to give an adequate Idea. The exhibition may be said'to be formed of two general quadrilaterals of such mammoth proportions as to each span the river Seine; the one containing the grand and petit palaces, the Alexander bridge ami the superb industrial palaces of the Esplanade des Invalides; the other extending from the Palace Trocadcro to the grand series of pavilions bordering the Champ de Mars, onward to the Cha? teau D'Eau, 'the great Salle des Fetes and Military School. Always liking that which Is in a pro? gressive series, I have thought myself fortunate in having first approached the fair from the Place de Trocadero. The palace of this name, built of solid masonry. Is one of the substantial structures referred to, an Imposing cir? cular pile, with two lofty towers and semi-circular wings on either side, the one devoted to antique and Oriental art. the other to ecclesiastical sculp? ture representative of the groat ca? thedrals of France and Belgulm. The palace Is fronted by an entrancing cas? cade, surrounded by colossal groups of sculpture and gardens of roses. Looking from Its elevated balconies toward the Pont D'Jenn. the avenue Trocadero Is lined on either side with the picturesque pavilions of the French colonies, and the smaller Stales of the Orient; the buildings of Madagascar, Algeria, Tunis and the grotesque tem? ples of China and the French Indies being especially conspicuous. Ascending the famous Eiffel tower tho panoramic view of the exposition grounds, and of all Paris, Is bewilder ingly magnificent. Immediately be? neath Is the Jardin de la Tour Eiffel. Stretching beyond to the Chateau D'Eau, with Its sublime porte and frontage of fountains, lies the promen? ade and gardens of the Champ de Mars, lined on either side by the most spaclou.. buildings of ths fair, united nt the farther end of the Grand Hall of Nations. Here upon the right Is the Palace of Forestry, the Palace L'Op tlque and the Palace of Letters, Sciences and Arts, each with its im? posing porte monumentale. Upon the left, touching ihe waters of the Seine, the Palace of Navigation and Com? merce, with its curious models of every known craft since time began, the Palace of Metallurgy and Mines, with its marvelous modern machines, containing with the Palace des Fils, devoted to the grandest display of tis? sues, textiles and vestments the world has ever before seen. Traversing the Seine from the Pont D'Jena to tho Pont des Invalides we have on the left bank a panorama of old Paris, followed by the extensive exhibits of horticulture and arboricul? ture, and on tho right bank the army and navy group, followed by the va? ried and beautiful pavilions of foreign nations, prominent, among which is that of the United States. Hut we have not yet reached tho chef d'aeuve, the crowning glory of the exposition. It was reserved for Mr. Alfred Picard, chief commissioner of the fair for France, and the supreme genius of it all, to associate a group of structures perhaps never surpassed for architectural harmony and beauty. Starling from the Place do la Concorde, Itself one of earth's historic spots, we first approach the memorial entrance, a lofty, striking pile, so designed that 40.000 persons may pass through Its portals in one hour. Moving through enthralling gardens of flowers, shrubs, monuments and statuary we suddenly come upon two palaces, the Grand and the Petit, as superb as though sum? moned by the enchanter's wand, built of white marble, each facing the other on the' avenue Nicolas, and bounded by the fine avenues and gardens of La Heine, D'Antln and Des Champs Elysees. The facade of the Grand Pa? lace Is In the Itoman stylo, with sug? gestions of the magnificent Versailles. Both structures are devoted to the line arts. Including tapestries, portraiture, nntlque wood-carving and jewels of the monarchy and empire, and the price loss collections were fascinating be? yond description. Continuing, we stand before the su? perb pillars of the Alexander bridge, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Czar of Russia, and the glory of which completes this unique ensem? ble. It crosses the Seine with a single span, and opens the way to another scene of splendor, the Esplanade des Invalides. Here we have harmoniously grouped the Palace of the Esplanade and the Palace of Diversified Indus? tries, terminating in the distance with the Hotel dos Invalides, with its lofty dome piercing the central sky. Space will not permit even a glnnce nt the endless enhlbits and their taste? ful decorations. About 7,000 of these are alone furnished by the United States, covering 338,987 square feet of space, being a vast excess over any other nation at the fair excepting France. It moreover makes an Ameri? can proud to be an American to. wan? der through the avenues in these clos? ing days of the exposition and witness the large number of cards marked "Medalle D'Or" and "Grand Prix" awarded to our countrymen In every department of the arts and sciences. As was to be expected the special features of the fair are very numer? ous and highly Instructive. The pano? ramic Trans-Siberian tour (in the Rus? sian pavilion),, from Moscow to Pekln; the stcroorama-monvant, Illustrating by moving; pictures a Mediterranean voyage to Algeria; Marchan's panora? ma, finely showing that explorer's tra? vels In equatorial Africa. Then here la the ever wonderful Eiffel tower, a French Ferris wheel, and the novelty of a rotary platform, where you can take a seat and' make the entire cir? cuit of the fair grounds without mov? ing a muscle. The curious, "the picturesque, the un? expected, are everywhere in evidence. Wonderfully grotesque statues of dei? ties in tho temples of Chlno-Indla; an aquarian showing the strange life of European waters; living processions, in costume, of the natives of Egypt and the Soudan, Australia and the South Sea Islands; Swiss cottages clinging to crags In the Alps; a statue of solid gold of our countrywoman. Miss Maude Adams, valued at one million francs;, a pagoda made of Jars of olives; a Moscow chapel in ceremonies; the pic? turesque homes and strange processes of the wine-makers of France; Italy's gorgeous palace and her charming faiences artlstlques; a drawing room set wonderfully sculptured in ivory; Spain's striking Moorish pavilions In embroidered and glided/stone, and va? ried trl-colored tiles, echoes of the old? en Alhambra and the alcazar; the "Ju? bilee," the largest diamond in 'the world, from Jegersfontcin, South Afri? ca, weighing 239 carats. Everywhere the accomplishment of the impossible; a maze of wonders and world-realized dreams. Dreams in marble and bronze! Dreams on can? vass! Dreams in pictured tapestries! Dreams In wood-carving and fanciful Mosaics! Dreams in colored and gild? ed glass! Dreams In lace, tissi/'s and embroiderkii! Dreams in faience, cerc mics and terra cotta! Dreams in gilded furniture and artificial upholstery! Dreams in jewels and precious stones! all In fashions so various as to ex? haust tho imagination. Finally, I.e Grand Lunette, the new glnnt French telescope, whose disk Is seventy feet in diameter, which is now giving us an undreamed of revelation of the heavens, and which Jliay justly be regarded as one of the supreme trlumps of the dying century. In conclusion, 1 failed not to ro-vlsit the exhibition grounds on the night of October 15th to witness 1/v Fete du Viivt. One might easily have Imagined himself In fairyland. The Innumerable lamps of the Champ de. Mars and Jar din do la Tour Eiffel were decorated With tissues representing huge dowers, and which alighted blazed in an end? less variety of charming forms and colors, while the spaces in celebration of the vine districts of France were festooned with illuminated bunches of grapes. The trees on every hand bung with flaming fruits. Chinese colored lanterns filled Ihe intervals between, while the Chateau D'Eau and the foun? tains of the Water Palace and the Eif? fel tower were intensely aflame with electric lights. Upon this scene of surpassing gaye ty and beauty soon gathered the world's folk, witnesses from nil earth's varied clinics. In all their varied cos? tumes. Cossacks of tho Don; soldiers of the Imperial guards of Germany; Arabs of the Saharas; Egyptians from the Nile; picturesque natives of the Sou ib Seas moved In procession, or jostled in crowds, with the dignified gentlemen of Franco, fair women, charmingly gowned, priests, monks and nuns, the dainty ladles of the boule? vards of Paris, pretty Swiss peasants, helmeted and betasslod cuirassiers anil gayly uniformed otllecrs, soldiers and navies from every branch of tho French service, by land or sea. Then, on 'the day following, we had the vintage festival; an occasion hon? ored by the Kings of Belgium and Greece, with their suites, while tho avenues of the Champ da Mars were literally Hack with people. The pro? cession of vintners formed at the Wa? ter Palace, and at 2 o'clock slanted for? ward, headed by twenty county con? stables, with a band of drummers and trumpeters, attired In Greek and Ro? man costumes. Next came In historic state Silemus and Bacchus, 'th? divini? ties of the grape, surrounded by seduc? tive naochantes, who threw bunches of luscious grapes to the spectators from vine-encircled baskets. The floats were beautiful to behold, that of Bacchus especially so. with decorations of vinos and grapes, his majesty beln< attended by four fann3 and twenty priests of Dionys'.us. Tha floats representative of foreign wine? were nearly all national In de-ign. that of Germany, for example, bearing a striking Imltaition of an old vlne-ciad castle on the Rhine. .T. H. VENIER?VOLDO. Tho NIcGoverivGans Fleiht (By Telegraph to Virginian-Pilot.) Milwaukee, WIs., Dec. 12.?"All I can say is that I will do my best and the best man will win," said Terry Mc Govern today, regarding hi3 fight with Joe Gans in Chicago tomorrow night. "I don't want to say anything that I might not be able to make good. I am in tho best of condition as you all know here, and there can be no mis? giving on that score. I will do my best and the best man will win." McGovern did a lot of work today but feels very well. Will Arrest Prizoflghtors (By Telegraph to Virginian-Pilot.) Chicago. III., Dec. 12.? Warrants will be served at the ringside in Tattersal'.s tomorrow evening on principals and promoters of the McGovern-Gans fight. Captain Hayes, of the Thirty-fifth street police station, says Terry Mc? Govern und Joe Gans will be arrested charged with a disturbance of the peace. Louis M. Housman, the club match ma ker. and Sam Harris, manager of McGovern, will be arrested on the charge of engaging in carrying on a boxing exhibition. Gans let up in his work this evening, being a pound below weight. He, liko McGovern, does not know how he will fight, but says he will gauge his work by Terry's. Ho figures, however, that Terry will come at him as is Iiis cus? tom and will be prepared to meet him at his own game. Betting on the re? sult is heavy. The big betters want Terry's end at evens, or they will bet 1 to 2 that Terry scores a knockout. Ticket speculators got their work in early, and those who were unable to secure tickets at the various resorts, where they were placed on sale, fell prey to the scalpers at advanced prices. BITS OF HUMOR. Bronson?I see the soal barons raised their men's wages 10 cents, and then raised the price of coal 50 cents. (Trigger?That shows how unselfish they are. Just think what an awfdl temptation it must have been to raise the wages 20 cents, so that they could be justified in demanding $1 more for their coal! G. T. E. For mourning the newest short velis are of course, plain net, edged with an Inch-wide band of dull silk ribbon, and above this are one or two rows of narrower ribbon. ? FATE OF AN ISLAND. The Destruction of Galveston Re? calls a Former Tragedy. Tour Ilnndrod of the liest Kuown Teople of the South Sent From Merry-making to Death by a Great Wave Fron? the Quit of Mexico. (St. Louis Globe-Dornocrat.) The terrible cyclone that destroyed Galveston Island Is not the llrst ca? lamity of the kind that has occurred In the Mexican Gulf. It vividly recalls an Incident that will ever live In mem? ory. Over forty years ago there was a similar calamity in the destruction of Last Island, off the Louisiana coast, by a cyclone. September 12, 1S56. Last Island was a long, low streak of green, bound around the edge with a line of Intensely white sand. Seen in those days from the Louisiana main? land, (fifteen miles away, the lower end of the Parish of Lafourche,) and pnrt of the Parish of St. Mary's (the garden of Louisiana) It seemed but a slender bit of green floating upon the bosom of the summer sea. As you draw nearer the land displayed Its charms. The island proper was about seven miles wide by about twenty-five long. The soil was very rich and highly cul? tivated. Propinquity brought out as In a delicate photograph all Its lines of radiant beauty. Of forest so deep and dense in the far south, there was none. Put a few enormous live-oak trees had grown upon the Island, and In their weird light of the seml-tropio moon covered from crown to lowest bough with a long, gray moss of the latitude, they seem like great giants wrapped in their funeral robes, waving their arms aloft as they fled from n coming dies Irne. Beyond these there were no forest trees, as I have said. The Island ! was but one long sand spit (only a. few feet above Ihe highest tide level of the sea) covered with ever living green. Put It was a very Eden of flowers. Tho fallen leaves of the live-oak for centuries had created In their decay a bed of rich alluvium, which artificial means had greatly Increased. The ever warm air from the further south seas had given to the shrub growth an extraordinary richness of verdure. The ornnge and lemon trees of the olive, the oleander which in Louisiana is a tree only thirty feet high) all of the tribe of Japonicas, and the scented summer hundreds of others unknown here, made the Island coruscant with bril? liant colored blooms. It seemed that all that was rich and lovely and beautl ful In the vegetation of the semi tropics here found Its most congenial home. IN THE EVENING. In the evening when the sun went down and the warm south wind drew in from the sea, the air would be heavy with sweet, but unfamiliar, ilower odors. You would be enveloped in a very caress of perfume, direct from the heart of the great white Per? sian Jessamine. Ah. the dreary, happy life If that wonderful Isle In the days of long ago! True It was a watering place, with a most splendid surf bathing on the side next the open sea. Hut it had none of the garntshness of seacoast places of later days. It could have never been like Long Branch or Cape May. To gamblers and games of the half-world Last Island was as dif? ficult as Paradise. It was impossible to to pass the Argus eyes of the doyen who watched the gangway of the boat as the passengers came on board for the enchanted Isle, as for Adam to return to Eden when It was guarded by the angel with the flaming sword. The men who gathered there wore not strangers to each other, for In Louisi? ana then everybody who was anybody knew of his social equal. If he was not a personal acquaintance, no matter In what region he lived. So here was a spot, not very much known to the outer wr 'd. where could gather, when summer <.ays became long and the dog star raged, the great cotton planting magnates of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, or the rich, courtly Creole sugar growers from the Bayou Lafourche country or the Cole d'Or or the Mississippi river, and their con? geners, the American sugar planters from the Feliclanas and wealthy, aris? tocratic Rapides. ONCE A YEAR. Once a year the very cream of the countryside gentry from the States I I have named, with a sprinkling of wealthy "city men," merchants and factors from New Orleans, a few bankers, popular clergymen from the rich city parishes?who enjoyed good living and believed St. Paul was right when he exhorted Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake?all these people, with their wives and daughters, would congivgnte at Last Island and eat of the dlvlnest combi? nations of the French cuisine, produced by cordons, bleus. drink?sparingly generally?of the good, red wines of France?for your old-time planter, es? pecially If he was of ereole blood, never abused "God's good things"? take daily plunges In the warm surf, and thus decorously enjoy a month of dolce far niente. Never were men more courtly. Never were women lovelier. It was the very paradise of gentle, graceful, courteous attention to beautiful women. Here Cupid was enshrined, for who could resist the witchery of the perfumed summer night or the dark-eyed Creole women? Ah, how often was that sweet old story told there?that old story, but ever new?which Adam first whispered in Eden! And, sometimes, but not often, the scene varied. The men were young then, and tne blood of youth ever runs hot. A quick word on the promenade, a Jealous look at the ball and early next morning on the sands there would bo seen the flash and gleam of the long, slender, trl-colored dueling sword on the broad, hard white beach, or a pair of dueling pistols?a part of every gentleman's personal be? longings?would be taken from their mahogany case. A few passes with the steel, and a man would lie prone as his blood reddenned the sand, run through the body, or the sharp crack of the dueling pistol and a limp, white faced body, forever still, would be si? lently carried back to the hotel. But this was npt often. It wns the gentle, ! kindly, hTlrmles courteous life of the I master of tho monks of The!ma, whose sole Injunction was "Fay qui youl dras." A CHARMING SEASON. The'seoson of 1S5G at Last Island was one of the most charming ever known since the fpmous watering place had been established. Never did brave men and charming women congregate at this charming rendezvous to greater numbers or In a fuller, finer spirit of happiness and hopeful expectation. The season was at Its height. Not only was tho hotel proper filled, but the dozen or so cottages generally known as tho "bachetors" quarters"?were all occupied by as high-bred, as gallant and gay a company of gentlemen a8 t.\e entire South could show. It was agreed that a greater number of representa? tive Louisiana, Alabama and Missis? sippi men and women had never been gathered together at any Southern wa? tering place before. Tho season had been fortunate In other respects. Thus far none of those morning rendezvous upon the sands, which have been men? tioned before, had occurred. The cool, white beach had not known the flash of the colichniurde or the crack of the deadly duelling pistol that season. Tho Southern women particularly hated these things, but what could they do? Thus far they bad escaped any of ihese horrors, and. for that, gentle hearts full of kindly happiness and good will to all the world, thank God. APPROACHING DOOM. The morning of September 10. 1S56. was one of almost unearthly loveliness. Tho sea was sometimes us smooth as translucent glass, now n.s green as an emerald, then supphiro-hucd. Its sur? face was covered wfcth a falntish, mis? ty haze. Its loveliness was supernal. Tho fishing boats In sight seemed like great white sea birds trailing their wings as they basked in the morning sunbeams. They were softened in the I semi-mist delicately vaporized to an r-thereal beauty. Toward the main? land the forest visible seemed gray and veiled In diaphanous, nebulous vapor. But it was early then and the sun had scarcely bad time to drivo away the ghostly gray fog [blended with that of tho sea] from the grea.1 Lnfouche marshes lying along the nearest shore. As the sun rose higher the sea mist vanished. But stich a day :is H was! Tho thermometrlc measurement of September in Louisiana Is not greatly different in Its altitude of heat from | that of New York or Washington. This day, however, there was such a down? pour of solar warmth that the Island was almost burning. Gentle puffs of wind blow and rippled the sea water and turned It Into opalescent green. But the cooling sea breezes reviving and refreshing all living things, did not come. Tho day waa uncomfortable. Men wandered about listlessly. Poli? tics?It was the great Knuw-Nothlng year, yet talked of in Louisiunu po? litical annnls?even censed to charm. In tho air there was a stillness as though Nature was watching and waiting in silence, baleful, mysterious, ominous. The sunset that evening af? frighted the timid souls, it went down in the west, and the sky red us vermeil, an angry sun, ami left the Occident blazing across the waves as though a world was In flumes. All that night the Dago fisherman (a curious, super? stitious class, half Spanish-Italian and half Creole, taking to the waves like sea gulls) heard out at sea strange sounds, moans as though some super? natural being was in awful agony. The morning of the 11th was like that of the previous day. Toward night there came up a terrible thunder storm. Tho thunder was unlike that of the northern dash of storm as u llrecracker Is to tho crack and roar of a G-lnch gun. The dweller on the mainland and the Teche and Lafour che planters had never before seen such lightning. It flashed from the zenith to the eastern and western horizon In great broad green, purple and flamed-covered hands of electric blaze a degree In width. And after each awful crash, that almost rent the ear drums, there would be a dis? tinctly sulphurous tinge perceptible In the air. Toward the morning of the 12th the thunder and lightning ceased but the rain continued, and the wind grew stronger from the southwest. The sailboats of the frightened fishermen could be seen in the early morning light flying before the wind for secure landings In the safe streams and wa? ters of cbenlere c?mlnada. THE LAST BALL. There was to be at the principal ho? tel that evening the grand ball of tho season, for it was to be the last. Tho band of the French Opera House was thert* from New Orleans, then un oqualed for its music In America. There were no wind instruments ex? cept the cornet. There were flutes and similar sweet sound producers. the others were strings. The hall room was distant from the main hotel perhaps twenty yards, and was reached by a covered way, elevated to the level of both buildings. It was built very near the sea and set upon brick pillars six feet above the surface of the earth. The hotel was constructed in the same fashion so that the breezes could blow tinder both edifices .and produce bet? ter ventilation. Broad, wide piazzas surrounded the ball room on three sides upon which doors opened so that after each dance one mis'..I take a turn In promenading on the gallery and enjoy the coolness of the fresh night breeze from the sea. The piazzas were about 100 feet long by SO wide. Around the hall room were two rows of chairs, and the usual dressing rooms were in the rear. The musicians occupied a high dais that extended across the end of the ball room. Tho buildings were lighted with gas. So much in the wny of description. Toward noon of tho 12th the sun shone out for an hour, but it was a dull, orango-huod orb. sur? rounded by a yellow misty haze that changed constantly. As night came, on the sky was covered with a cloud of the deepest blackness. There was a re? newal of the vivid sheet lightning, but no thunder. The sea was in such agi? tation as the oldest present had never before seen. Great, brlliant lights burst from the waves as they were rolled In by the tremendous southwest wind. Deep phosphorescent fires, in? candescent In serpentine forms, were seen rising from the waves like shadowy monsters. And most terrible of all, there was distinctly audible at intervals in the blackness and gloom nn unearthly moan from the depths of the sea. The women became seriously frightened, and the men renlized that nature was In one of her most unusual and marvelous moods. Still, no one an? ticipated any real danger. There had been great storms before. This was but the beginning of the equinoctial blow. The ball room was lighted. There was nothing else to do hut go to tho dance. Women clothed themselves for the evening's hall, aided by deft-handei maids, but with hearts ill at case. Other thoughts than those of conquests were filling their souls with dread of what might come. But they would go: perhaps the gay dresses, the brillant lights, the soft, sweet dance music might drive away the "ague ft-nrs that oppressed their souls. A DESTRUCTIVE WAVE. At 10 o'clock tho dance was at Its height. Outside the storm was raging. The Intense blackness of darkness was Cures ?11 Throat and I.ung Affections. COUGH SYRUP: fck Get the genuine. Refi^?uhstltutea. A; SURE/ Salvation OU euros Rheumatism, is&asct*. BERKLEY NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENTS A MARRIAGE. Miss Lucy Scott the Bride of Mr. Harry Keeling. Tho Town Council Orders Advertisement For Bids For ?40,000 Improvement Hands The Stonier Hiimptou Iton'ds Disabled Yesterday llrlef -Mention, Quito a charming event yesterday afternoon was the wedding of Miss j Lucy Browning Scott and Harry W. j Keeling, which took place at St. Paul's Episcopal church at 6 o'clock. The ; church was beautifully decorated with evergreens, palms and other potted ; plunts. The rostrum and chancel rail i were a bower of beauty. An arch-wny of ivy encircled the ros- ' truin at the foot of the aisle, under which were pronounced the words that made the contracting parties man and wite. Rev. Robert Gatewood, rector of the church, assisted by Rev. C. B. Bryan, of St. John's Episcopal church, Hamp? ton, performed tho ceremony. The bi ide, prev eded by the ushers and her matronj Mrs. W. S. Grlnnlds, entered on the arm of her father. Mr. It. B. Scott, und were met at the altar by the groom and his best man, Mr. Percy A. Smith. The bride whs attired in n beautiful brown tnilor-i ude gown, with hat and gloves to correspond, and carried white bride's roses. The matron was costumed in a hand? some purple broadcloth, with black hat and black gloves, and carried pink brldematd's roses. The bridegroom, his best man and the ushers wore cut? away coats and white ties. \ The ushers were Messrs. George D. Parker, Jr., J. P. Morgan, Arthur Lancaster. Prank McCoy, Claud White and Dr. J. A. Proctor. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Keeling received the congratulations and best wishes of their most Inti? mate friends and left Immediately for a Northern tour of several days. Miss Scott Is the popular and charm? ing daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Scott, her father an ex-mayor of Berkley. She Is a teacher of the Berk? ley graded schools. In which position she has been for seven years. Mr. Keeling is a sou of Mayor and Mrs. M. C. Keeling, and is bookkeeper for a well-known firm In Norfolk. The bride was tho recipient of a largo number of handsome, costly and useful gifts. On their return Mr. and Mrs. Keel? ing will reside at Chestnut and Wash? ington streets. TOWN COUNCIL MEETING. At a called meeting of the Town Council, heltl last night, with Messrs. ?Whetstone, chairman; Robertson, Hal lie. Shafer, Jacocks, Williams, Bland and Sunder present, a resolution of the finance committee to advertise for bids for the purchase of $40 000 C per cent, thirty-year general town Improvement bonds was unanimously adopted. Tho reorder was instructed to ad? vertise for bids February 1st 1501. About $JS.O.lO or $30,000 will be used In constructing a gravitation sewerage in the town, beginning at tho Chestnut street ferry dock and extending It to Sixth or Eighth streets. The remainder will be expended In continuing the street improvements now in progress. The upper portion of the town, where t! 0 proposed soweraee will stop, will be sewered out of another Issue of bonds which will be attempted as soon as the State Legislature meets. The issue authorized last night roaches the limit llxed by the Legislature. THE HAMPTON ROADS DISABLED. The Old Dominion steamer Hampton Roads, while coming into tho harbor yesterday afternoon, struck a sunken iog or some oilier obstacle and broke one of the flanges of her propeller. As a result she was hauled on Colonna's Southern Branch marine railway. Cap? tain Stiff, of Suffolk, was in oharre of the steamer at tho time of the ncci ctont. The stockholders of the O. D. S. S. Co. have tho Ocraeoke in use mak? ing their annual inspection and are on the North Carolina sounds. The Hamp? ton Roads will be launched this morn? ing and will go out thlB afternoon. TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH. The Sunday school chapel on Second street of the Memorial M. E. Church will be dedicated this morning at 7:30 o'clock. The program, as formerly published, will be carried out. The Berkley Cotillion Club gave an? other delightful hop at Pythian Hall last evening. It was In every parti? cular a very enjoyable affair and did credit to the committee of arrange? ments. At a meeting of the Board of Super? visors, held Tuesday. Dr. L. L. Sawyer, of Great Bridge, was elected physician to the county almshouse in place of Dr. W. K. Wood, who has filled the i ->sition for several years. Dr. Clarence Conant will give his lec? ture on "James Russell Lowell" before Uie young ladles of the Ryland Insti? tute this evening at 7:30 o'clock. The friends of the school are Invited. Mr. A. S. Faiillo is considered dan? gerously 111 nt his residence, on Berk lev avenue and Fourth street. Dr. J. A. Speight, of Hertford, N, C was In town yesterday. Mr. Fred Holland, of Tlilery. N. C, was In town vesterdny. The W, C. T. I*, will meet at the residence of Mrs. Collis, next door to the Methodist church, at 3 o'clock. At full attendance Is requested. BERKLEY ADVTS._ Tost- MILK ACCOUNT, BOOK. ON J Foindojcter avenue, between J. A, McCloudd'a Store and the Street Railway crossing. Reward If returned to C. P. ROGERS dell-3t BANK OF BERKLEY.?COUNTRT trad* a specialty. Convenient hours. Interest on deposits. fell-tf I70H RENT.-ONE VERT COMFORT* 1 able south room, suitable for office or bfdronm, with privilege of bath room. Apply at WALLACE'S PHARMACY, corner Berkley avenue and Chestnut street. Berkley, Va. d?7-lw "FOR SALE CHEAP. 2 Nice. Forlor Suits, almost new: X handsome Tufted Leather Couch: 1 Large I No. IS Knngo. 6 holes, all modern im i provements; 2 Carpets: 1 six-foot Show * Case: 1 Wend Stove. All these things In I good condition. Call early. This ad will onlv appear In the paper onec. Apply to MUS. M. E. PET HE RR RIDGE. It Berkley, Va. F YOU WANT A PURE MARY LAND RYE WHISKEY. Apple Bran /. Com Whiskey eight years old. all proof, or n nice meal In a quiet and clean house, at low prices. Call nt the GREEN HOUSE, Liberty, between 12 and 13th streets. T. V. CARTER, dell-lw.. Proprietor. Drug Store Opened A fresh stock of Drugs.Toilet Articles,To bncco, etc., .lust received from Northern market. The store Is in charge of Mr, W. Agnew. s full registered pharma? cist. Prescriptions tilled day and night. Nothing but Medicines sold on Sunday. C. M. FLOYD, succedlng Dr. J. B. Floyd, at the same stand. t>5 Chestnut St. de9-lw THE~ Berkley Coal & Ice Co. ?DEALERS IN HARD AND SOFT COAL OF ALL KINDS. Our Coal delivered from shelter In rainy or snowy weather. Pocahontaa Stenn? Coal. The best water In the threa c!:ics for steamboats nnd dredge.;. Office and wharves No. 1 Chestnut street. Phones till and 12tt5. THE BERKLEY COAL AND ICE CO., de6-lm EDW, J. CANNON, Prop. Berkley Steam Laundry Note Our Winter FLEXIBLE FINISH NOT TOO STIFF. AND NO MORE BROKEN BUTTON HOLES. ,'Berkley Crystal Clear Water Makes White Linen." J. R. WILLIAMS, Funeral Director and Embalmar 67 CHESTNUT STREET. Office 1217 TELEPHONE CALL nestdence.lK? broken by the constant broad flashes of lightning and phosphorescent blaze of the sea. A terrible wind blew, with j torrents of slanting rain that was as : warm as newly drawn blood. The band I was playing one of Gottschalk'a sweet est dreamy waltzes (he was a Loulsl- | anlan, yon know). "Creole Eyes," when a girl screamed. Her white satin hot? line had been wetted by water coming j up through the door: Terror then be- j set all. A rush was made for the hotel, I but the covered way was gone. It had been carried off by a great wave I of the raging sea! .Mothers had left their little children asleep in the other houses. How should they get to Ihem? It was utterly impossible unless one had wings, to pass through the tossing, boiling flood of maddened sea that rolled between. Of the horror* that followed no living tongue could ever tell. Hut about midnight a stranre sea moan that beoatr.'' a roar grew nearer and louder, until it was like 10,000 thundering Niagaras, it wns a tidal wave, 1,000 miles long. 10 miles wide and 10 'cot hieb! And as it rolled resist? less, hotel, ball room, all?all was swal? lowed up in the mnv, of the pitiless sea. Men. women and little ones were parted never again to meei until that final dny, "when the sea shall give up its dead!'' AX AWFUL. THAtlEDT. Such a tragedy had never been known before in the nation's history. Nothing was left of the lovely Isle but a few broken brick pillars to mark where life and beauty had died so aw? ful n death. For weeks patrol boats along the mainland shore found noth? ing but 'lead bodies. In one- Instance the corpse of a lady In the last putres ceni stages was identified by nearly $50,000 worth of diamonds she had worn Muit fa sful night. Think of the ghastlltu'ss of it. The only two survi? vors wore a strong, powerful neyresj, who blindly caught on to a door that was floating by and was carried Into the to (inland, and the other was n tiny girl baby, not more than IS months old. She had been placed upon a bil? liard table which floated, and there she was found on the Lafourche shore forty-eight hours after the storm. Nearly every household hi southern Louisiana was In mourning, for 490 ndults were lost. How helpless we are when Old Nature looses her awful mystic force and turns upon man! Declines Proslrlent's Offer. Washington, Dec. 12.?Hon. Joseph Manley. of Maine, has declined the President's proffer of the office of com? missioner of internal revenue. GREAT BICYCLE RACE. PROGRESS OF THE PURSUIT OP PRIZES. (By Telegraph to Vlrnlnlan-PlloLl New York. Dec. 12.?With over 1.400 miles clicked off in their pursuit of prlr.es in the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, which ends on Saturday, eight teams were still rep? resented on the track at midnight to? night, or the beginning of the fourth day of the contest. The men have not been able to keep up the hurricane pace Jumped Into at the outset, but they have struggled to do as much as their strained and tired bodies would allow them. For the first two days they kept ahead of the record, but now they are far behind, the 1.-?04 miles and 1 lap reeled off by the leaders being 12 miles and 7 laps behind the record for 1899. Elkes and McFarland and Pierce and McEachern are now In the lead, each team having 1.404 miles and one lap to its credit. One lap back came Slmar and Gougoltz. Two laps back of this team are Turvllle and Glmm. Walter and Stinson and Babcock and Aaron son. Six laps from the leaders are Fisher and Frederick and Kaser and Reyser. During the past 24 hours there were occasional fruitless attempts made by the different men to gain a lap on their opponents. To prevent the loss of a lap Fisher performed per? haps the hardest task of the race In tho afternoon. He got a puncture Just as the other riders were preparing for a spurt. The other men noticed Fisher's misfortune and tried to take advantage of It. Fisher pedalled along with the bunch, however, in spite of the soften? ing tiro and kept up the pumping on his crippled machine for a full mile, at the end of which time Frederick re? lieved him. When Fisher dismounted his tire was perfectly flat. ONE O'CLOCK SCORE. Elkes and McFarland. 1,420.5; Fierce and McEachern, 1,420.5; Slmar and Gougoltz, 1.420.4; Turvllle and Glmm, 1,420.2; Waller and Stinson. 1,420.2; Fisher and Frederick, 1,420; Kascr and Reyser, l,41t,8. THE STOMACH OF MAN Is subject to a dozen stich common but painful affec? tions as ::ramps, cholera morbus, arid dys? entery, that, by neglect, may bo mode chronic and dangeraus. The best, han? diest, surest, and quickest remedy Is PAIN-KILLER, a meddcire whloh haa be*n tried for more than a half of a e?n~ tury ajid never failed to give relief. Avc.d substitutes trero Is but one Paln-KUler, Perry Davis". Prioo 25c. and Wo,