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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-21

'lat Section Old Point Express. and Bee
ton Ocean View Local. sssssa
Local freight leaves Norfolk II 20 q. ma
Freight received until fifteen minutes
before leaving tina. igts$
.20c, So vs.
Fare Cor the round trip to Old Point
from any part OF Norfolk. 60c. Old Point
tors .SS..5s'5ls
Locni trains leave ocean View for Nor
folk at $780, 1880. 2:3o. $3.50. 4:So. 6:so ana
$50 D. IN. a&
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An Endless Chain

our laundry work you can CLEAN from
patrons whom we have always given en-
incnt satisfaction to. Our laundry work
is uneHcelled for its exquisite color and
artistic finish.
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The evening times., 1899-05-29
The south African situation.

The British government has assured the
Uitlanders of the Transvaal that their pc
tition, for a redress of their grievances
against the Boer republic, is receiving Sc
rious consideration. The government hopes
that. at the impending conference at
Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free
State. between President Kruger and Sir
Alfred Milner, the former will arrange
scheme which will remove many of the
causes of complaint and that affirmative
action on the part of Great Britain may
not be necessary.
This. of course, is the usual diplomatic
way of notifying the Boer authorities that,
IL they longer refuse justice and equity TO
:he British residents of their country, who
represent two-thirds OF its invested wealth
and pay nearly that proportion Of its rev.
enues. the suzerain power will feel COM
PEELED to adjust the matter on its own ac-
count There are reasons for believing
that Lord Salisbury has been both active
and successful in removing any danger OF
European interference with British action
in South Africa. in the event that 1t should
become necessary to discipline the trucu-
lent and oppressive Beers. and reduce them
70 q condition Of much less independence
than they nov enjoy. 1t is generally un-
The evening times., 1899-05-29
PECULIAR SURGICAL WORK.
Nerves and Muscles of a Patients
Neck Laid Yare.

Cleveland. Ohio. May 29.-An interest
ing surgical operation. which has attracted
much attention. has just been performed
at the Cleveland General Hospital by Dr.
George W. Grille.
Edward Kiotz. young man abb came
here from the Amish settlement near Mil
larsburg. is the patient. When child
three years old Klotz was burned severely
about the face and neck. Little attention
was paid to his injuries and the raw sur
face of the chin and chest were allowed 10
come in contact with each other
The wound was bound with bandage
and when the wrappings were taken OF 1t
was found that the chin and breast had
grown together. The chin being pul.e1
down in that manner. caused kiotzs
mouth to remain open all the ;ine and for
eighteen years it has remained that way.
The skin was taken of the young mans
breast neck and chin at the hospital ann
the flesh was laid bare. The blood vessels.
nerves. and muscles OF the neck were eN-
posed and the chin was cut away from the
chest. The operation was a success put
the patient will not be able to close MS
mouth entirely. as the jawbone mas be-
come defOrmed.
The evening times., 1899-05-29
MEMORIAL HoNoRs IN BOSTON
The Few Confederate Graves Will
Not Be Overlooked.

Boston May 29.-There are about half
dozen graves of Confederate soldiers IN
Boston cemeteries and on Memorial Day
they will be decorated by the camp OF fif-
teen Confederate veterans in this city. \
bronzed iron marker will be placed on each
southern soldiers grave. The marker is
square with two bars crossing each other
in the form of an ~. and containing the
thirteen stars of the original thirteen
States. 1t will be an enlarged duplicate of
the Confederate badge and a copy of the
design of the Confedc-ate battle flag. There
is a grave in Concord Cemetery of Con-
federate officer and the G. A. r. pest there
will be asked by the Confederate camp of
Boston to decorate it In the forenoon of
Memorial Day, the Ccnfederates will join
in the services in st. Johns Episcopal
Church in Charlestown. by invitation Of
the G. A. r. Post 1i9.
The commander of the Confederate camp
is Carlos G. Munroe, who is a Tennesseean
by birth, but enlisted in the First Nir-
einia, known as the Black Horse Cavalry.
at Richmond. He served throughout the
Confederate struggle. The idea OF a camp
CT Confederate veterans in Boston suggest
ed itself to Mr.. Munroe after the funeral of
John Buck, a Southrn soldier. who died in
this city last January and was buried un-
der the auspices of the G. A. R. Post 113.
He was encouraged by G. A. r. men in
the work of organizing the camp and as
result has got together about half the Con-
federate veterans in this neighborhood.
The evening times., 1899-05-29
AN UNcoNvENr1oNAL sERMoN.
Toledo's Mayor Tells why Churches
Are Not Attended.

hTe MOI AttchuG0s
Toledo, May ga week ago clergymen
of this city discussed the question, why
do not people attend church," Mayor
Jones has taken it upon himself to answer
the question. He says:
I've read of Jesus that the common
people heard him gladly. l believe that
they are just as glad to hear the message
of love and sympathy that he breaches to-
day as they were when he was on earth.
The message OF Jesus was almost wholly
social, having to dc with the ocnditicri
OF life that he found people II. With the
thing technically called IeLeiGn' IN his
day as ours, Jesus had little to do and
he evidently did not interest himself in It,
He said very little about anything that
would be construed as a reference to some
place beyond the Skies. He had much to
say about living aeTc OH this Garth and the
common people head him gladly because
he pointed them to tr.Ia ideals of life that
would make this earth a heaven and he
taught the beautiful Law OF love simply
and yet forcibly.
The man who breaches that the carry
ing out OF these principles of brotherhood
is absolute essential to a Christian life to-
day will net be without hearers. but he is
pretty sure to be without a place in first
class puiplts because much or the preac1-
ing OF today has little or nothing to do
with real life: because it does not nelp q
man working for 81 a day to understand
the mysterious philosophy that makes it
right for his brother employer to make 4
profit Of from two TO ter times that amount
OF his labor and because religion has been
separate from real life as something hav-
ing to do with the next world, while men
are chiefly concerned about this world.
These are the reasons mainly why people
don't go to church"
The evening times., 1899-05-29
CANADIANS AND MIRACLES.
Examples of the Wide Faith In su-
ycrnuturnl InterpOsittOn.

Quebec. May ga firm belief in mira
cles is not confined to those Canadians ~Lo
flock in summer by thousands 10 the shrine
of La Bonne Ste. Anne de Beaupre. below
Quebec. Two remarkable instances Of this
fac, are now presented II this province.
For some time past the channel OF the
St. Lawrence between quebec and Montreal
has been the scene OF many accidents To
vessels. In some cases the casualties
were due TO carelessnsss or the part OF
the pilots. Others were caused BY acct
dent. such as the breaking OF the
steering gear. or by error, as in the
case of TWO large vessels meeting IN
a narrow and dangerous part OF the chan-
nei Some were undoubtedly due 10 the
shallowress of the wafer in parts oil the
channel and some TO its changeabie char-
acter La Bonne Ste Anne, who is the
special protectress OF Poman Sathohc
mariners. having failed of late to protect
the shipping of the St. Lawrence from
danger. the members of the French-Cana-
dian association of pilots, who have charge
of nearly all the large steamships between
Quebec and Montreal are invoking other
miraculous aid.
Close to the riverside in Montreal is the
old church of Notre Dame de Bcnsecours
(Our Lady of Good Help. founded By SIS
Ter M2TgupTtlS III iov'' oH1 hSiS
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for certain
number CT masses in favor CT the safety
CT vessels piioted by members OF the as
sociation In addition two large lamps
have been presented TO the church by the
pilots. and they are 10 be hung in front
of the altar and kept burning throughout
the season of navigation.
In some Of the parishes. of the counties
Of RcuyiIle and VANDERBILT. also in this
province. the orchards have been attacked
by myriads of caterpillars, which threaten
their destruction, despite all the ordinary
methods Of fighting them. Miraculous in
terposition is in this case, too. the remedy
proposed, and solemn masses with process
sions around the infected districts have
been duly arranged for.
It sometimes happens that when miracu-
lous interposition is sought and is not OBJ
tanned the officiating clergy are held re-
sporsible for the failure by the more ig-
norant of their petitioners. When religious
professions, similar to those being ar
ranged for the determination OF cater
pillars we're unsuccessfully tried in par
ish not far from Quebec as protection
against the ravages of the Colorado beetle.
a resident of the place remarked that their
priest was splendid in preventing the
spread of fires but no good at all for po-
tato bugs
The evening times., 1899-05-29
The Dreyfus Memorial.

The elaborate memorial OF go quarto
pages, presented on behalf OF Madame
Dreyfus TO the Court of Cessation today.
asserts that the innocence of the convicted
officer has been proven, and that the real
traitor was Esterhazy. The public on both
sides Of the ocean have become convinced
of Dreyfus' innocence, and the published
revelations of the INSCRIPTIONS action of
Du Patty de Clam and Henry. in saving
Esterhazy at the expense Of the character
and personal liberty of Dreyfus. are cred
tied generally as establishing the guilt OF
the former. The proceedings before the
full court will occupy this week, and the
verdict of the tribunal will probably not
be given before the middle of the following
week.
Interest in this affair far transcends that
of any ordinary case before court of mill
tary justice. Fair play was so obviously
not accorded to the accused, and the other
officers of the army seemed so disposed to
make common cause against Dreyfus on
personal and racial grounds, that the en-
lightened portion of the world has followed
the proceedings with an intelligent SYM
1t is sincerely hoped that the movement of
Madame Dreyfus for a retrial will be sue
cessful and that the real revealer OF
French army secrets may be so clearly es-
tablished that there can be no cavil. The
honor of the French army and nation Is
involved. not in maintaining the sentence.
but in overthrowing it. Only by doing
justice to the imprisoned officer can the
French government establish its self-re-
spect, now so generally held to be seriously
impaired. The people Of France. who are
undergoing a change OF opinion, owe II to
themselves to insist upon new trial for
Dreyfus. Whatever excuse may have
availed in the past there is none that VIII
avail now in the face of the revelations
made within a short time which seer1 TO
demonstrate beyond the shadow OF a doubt
the entire innocence of Captain Dreyfus OF
the fearful charges made against his fair
name
The evening times., 1899-05-29
BOLD CAPTAIN MARKS.
skipper Who Denes Two NntiOni
Tells His story.

Montreal, May ga reporter has sue
ceeded in doing what the police and Off
cials of two nations have failed 20 do:
that is. board the famous Helvetia. at
Valley Field, and talk with the redouotab,e
Captain Marks
Marks for some time has successfully
defed the combined forces of Great Brit
ain ard the United States who have vainly
tried to wrest from him the possession of
the schooner. The latter was owned by
the Atlantic Transportation Company
which failed. When the receiver tried To
get control of the Helvetia Captain Marks
said he would not give up the vessel until
the $500 due him was paid. Moreover. he
let il be known that anyone who attempted
to board the ship would be riddied with
shot. He issued a broad challenge 10 the
whole of the Canadian police. and it has
not yet been taken up.
Moreover, the whole population of Valley
Field is with the captain. He has been
placed upon a pedestal by the people of
Valley Field. and they revere him as a
husband and a father who is conteDiing
against great odds for his just dues.
Captain Marks affirms that the whole
thing is an attempt of millionaires 10 bluff
him out of his salary. He denies that he
is defying authority and insists that the
rebellion is on the other side.
II is the impression here that the cap
tain can be forced 20 surrender only after
a severe fight.
The evening times., 1899-05-29
The Castelar, Obseauies.

Some reference having been made in the
official circular respecting the funeral OF
Castelar,, the relatives of the illustrious
deceased decline to accept 4 payment of
expenses for the same by the nation. They
show a becoming spirit in this matter not
desiring to have their kinsman's remains
inferred as those OF less distinguished pau
psrs are. Not even in an approximate sense
was he a pauper. There will doubtless be
an agreement reached creditable alike to
the government, the family. and the peo-
pie Of Spain.
With the single exception of Marshal
Prim, that country has not produced in
the present century man equal in ability
or force of character to Emilio CASTELAR,.
whose remains lay in state all day yester-
day at Madrid. Even Prim, author of the
revolution which dethroned Isabella and
introduced the new regime, was distinctly
his inferior in several important respects.
Perhaps there has been no such orator
among so-called Latin peoples since Mira
beau as the man who sprang into interna-
tional prominence by a single public
speech in his early youth. His writings,
too. have established his claim to a place
in the first file of the foremost rank of
European achievement in culture.
The evening times., 1899-05-29

derstood that Germany, which formerly
was very much in the way. has been bought
of with concessions in Asia. and that
France and Russia have been otherwise
placated. So. il President Kruger were
now to act as defantly as he did about the
time of the Jameson raid. it Is probable
that he would find himself alone and help
less. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that.
II crowded TO the wall. he and his hardy
rifiemen would put up a fight, and, some
time or other. that fight is promised by
conditions that do not seem completely
remediable by any other means. Ever since
the affair at Rorkes Drift. the Beers have
entertained a contempt for British arms,
and it may take a severe lesson to disa-
buse their rather dense minds of the idea
that they are match for any military
force The Queen can send after them.
The evening times., 1899-05-29
SHIPS RACE TO SINGAPORE.
A Contest Between the Sikh and the
Indr.ni.

New York, May 29.-The British steam
ship Indrani. bound for Singapore. cast cn
her lines from the South Central pier, At
lantic Basin. yesterday morning. at the
same time that the sikh. rival steam
ship. bound also for Singapore, backed
out from an adjoining pier. The two
crews exchanged bantering words. for
they knew that a wager OF s1.oGo had been
made by the captains as 10 which vessel
would reach Singapore first. The distance
is 1920 miles.
CAPTAIN Trotter. master of the 1ndrani.
eyed exultantly a great heap piled forward
and concealed with tarpaulins- He leaned
over the rail and held converse with the
worthy skipper of the Sikh
Got you dead to rights this time. Raw
lev" Trotter exclaimed. That's extra
coal" pointing to the canvas covered heap
Enough to fetch Suez without stopping
Might as well give up your thousand nov"
oh. / don't know" quoth Captain Raw
ley. We've got some extra coal On board
ourselves-'bout a hundred ton or So
leastwise. ell We can carry
As the two ships went speeding down
the bay ii came out from longshoremeu
and stevedores that each of the virtuous
mariners had been laying in extra coal o
nights. and as neither knew the other was
running in a coal deck, SO 10 speak, the
making of the bet was easy.
The vessels left their piers at 10 o'c.ock.
and were neck and neck" as they passed
Quarantine. At Sandy Hook the observer
reported that the Sikh had cleared the bar
at 1920 and the Indrani thirty minutes
later. The Sikh is the smaller vessel,
measuring 1..s7 tons. The IHdrani regis
tiers 1926 tons.
Just before the Sikh sailed eight China
men. who had been smugglsd across the
Canadian border in a dry goods box, but
who had been apprehended in Elmira- were
put on board the vessel for deportation
The Cinnamon were handcuffed in pairs.
The evening times., 1899-05-29
AGU1NALDo's FLYING HORSE.
The Filipino. Boast That Otis Can
Never Catch Him.

New York May 29-The bark Still
Water. of St john n. b.. which is dis
charging hemp at the foot of Forty second
Street. South Brooklyn. was the last ves-
sci TO be cleared from Iloilo by the Philip
pine government General Miller arrived
at I!oiio in the transport Newport just as
Captain Thurber, Of the Still Water.
sailed General Miller told him TO sail
away, as everything was all right
Captain Thurber is a collector of curl
osities. In Iloilo he met a native soldier
with a snake sword. double-edged and
curying. The Filipino agreed to sell the
sword for $40 in Spanish money, which
the skipper paid. Captain Thurber showed
the blade at the British consulate.
Next day Captain Thurber was arrested
and commanded to produce the weapon
The charge against him was buying up
the arms OF the Filipinos for the American
Army.
You can't do anything to me because
I'm British subject" was Captain Thur
ber's def, uttered through an interpreter
You must give up that sword.
Not until l get my money back" in
sisted the skipper.
After long wrangle squad Of soldiers
went away and by and by came back with
SO. which was given up to Captain Thur
Der, while ne SURRENDERED the s"oiu'
The trouble started with the fellow
who sold the sword" says Captain Thur
ber He thought he could get his blade
back and keep the money. The anair
got 10 the ears of his superiors and he
himself was arrested. l heard they took
him out and shot him for selling his arms
in time of war
Ten Spanish merchants. professional
men, bank cashiers and planters. spent
several days aboard the Still Water be-
fore the arrival of General Miller Tne
Standards were afraid of their lives.
"A Filipino is ignorant. chiidishly
simple continued the Still Waters mas
ter. MY Filipino crew believe that Ag-
uinsldo rides a horse with wings Los
Americanos never catch Aguinaido' ne
fly away they say. Aguinaldo also wears
a magic belt which nothing in the way OF
bullets or steel invented by man can
Denetrate"
The evening times., 1899-05-29
Russian "Busfnes..v
CFrom the Kansas City Star }


These are hard times for poor old China. Rus
s;a asks Il concession to build railroad on Chi
nese soil. China declines to grant the concession,
and is diplomatically informed that Russia lis
unable to accept the refusal" In other words.
Russia declines to abide by the declination, and
will send engineers at once to survey the line
from the Russian Manchurian Railway line TO
Pckin. On the completion of the road Russia will
probabiy feel impeied to consider as a joke the
refusal Of the Chinese Government to grant depot
grounds and terminal facilities, and will occupy
such premises as seem suitable. There seems, in
deed, reason to suppose, taking this railroad
business as u precedent, why Russia should not.
in good time treat refusal to surrender Pekn
and the Chinese Empire into the hands of the
Gar as something too prcposterous to be thought
of for a moment snd proceed at once to the
cupation People who fond of talking about
imperialism should observe how Russia does. 1t
reminds one of Talleyrand's definition Of .'busi-
ness'' Business said the great French states
man. "is the accumulation Of the property OF
others
The evening times., 1899-05-29
MADE AN EPISCOPAL PRIEST.
DIR. Shields, Formerly of Princeton,
Gives Up PresbyteFianism.

DIR. Shields, Formerly of Princeton,
Gives Up Presbyterianism.
Hemstead. L. l., May 29.-Dr. Charles
Woodruff Shields. formerly a professor at
Princeton University, and who was one Of
the most widely known Presbyterian cler-
gymen in the country. was ordained yes
terday morning as an Episcopalian priest
by Bishop Littlejohn, of the Long Island
Episcopal diocese. The services were held
in the Cathedral of the Incarnation. AT
Garden City. Four other candidates for
the priesthood and six candidates for dea-
conship were also ordained. Holy Com
munion followed the ordination services.
DIR. Shields. while at Princeton Univer-
sity in 1897. withdrew from the Presbyte-
rian Church because OF criticism following
his signing petition to give liquor IL
cense to the Princeton Inn. Former Presi-
dent Cleveland championed his action in
the license matter.
Dr. Shields treatise on "Philosophia u
TINA" which was published in 1861, Great
ed a sensation at the time and caused MS
orthodoxy to be questioned. His views, IL
is said, won for him the professorship OF
the Harmony Of Science and Revealed
Religion as Princeton, the first OF its kind
given by an American college. He was at
one time moderator of the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Shields has always been an advocate
OF the restoration of the Presbyterian
prayer book which was used in 1861 for
the optional use Of the clergymen and con-
gregation who desired a liturgy. 1t is said
that he looks forward to the organic union
of the Presbyterian, Congregational and
Episcopal principles of the New Testament
Church in one organization known as the
American Catholic Church.
The priests ordained yesterday besides
Prof Shields, were: The Rev II. l.. Gil
bert. of St. AIMS Episcopal Church, and
the Rev Mr. Sattig. Of All Saints Church.
Brooklyn; the Rev. J. C. Elliott, OF St
Johns Church. Jersey City; the Rev. w.
W. Shaw, of ST. Michael's Church, New
York city. The deao0ns ordained were:
The Rev r. P. Kreitler aud the Rev. Percy
Often, of Brooklyn: the Rev. David NJ
Steele the Rev. A. NJ. Judd, and the Rev
David Quinby, OF New York city, and the
Rev. William A. Thompson. of Middletown,
Conn.