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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-30

pied. and the hotels contemplate en-
larging before another season. Mr..
Charles st. John will add twenty-five
rooms to his hotel this year. There
Will he several other anneXes, and Il
building boom is on. The completion
of the through line to Jacksonville will
add very much to the number of winter
visitors.
JUDGE BATTLES SUCCESSOR.
Col. Charles A. Cook, of Warren,
has been appointed Judge OF the East
crn Criminal Circuit Court to succeed
the late Judge Dossey Battle, who died
yesterday at his home in Rocky Mount.
Governor Russell yesterday rendered
the appointment TO Colonel Cook, who
arrived in the city on the afternoon
train upon invitation from the Chief
Executive. He has not yet accepted.
MIR. CLAUDIUS DOCKERY TO WED.
ne 4tUffuwtng INVITATION mas been re-
cieved in this city:
"GIr. and Mrs. Granville Seth Ryder
request the honor of your presence at
the marriage of their daughter, Maud
May. to Mr.. Claudius Dockery, Monday,
April the 10th, at IL o'clock noon, in
the Church of the Eternal Hope, West
Eighty-lirst street, between Columbus
and Amsterdam avenues, Ney York"
Immediately after the ceremony, ut
1850 o'clock, break fast Will DE served
to the wedding party, at 100 West
EiGhty-0rst street.
RALEIGH AND CASTOR STOCK
HOLDERS.
The Raleigh and CASTOR stockholders
failed TO meet here yesterday, the meet
ing being postponed for two weeks. At
the appointed hour Secretary John NJ.
Sherwood called the meeting to order,
but there being no quorum present he
declared the meeting adjourned till
April 18th.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-30
RALEIGH AND CASTOR STOCK
lOIlOIER 6
ELIZABETH CITY.
INDUSTRIAL. PERSONAL AND
OTHER NEWS NOTES.
Especial 10 virginian- Pilot.)

Especial to Virginian-Pilot)
Elizabeth City, N. c., March 29.-The
members of the Methodist church have
subscribed $1,000 towards building a
new church in the First Ward. Bids
for site will soon be asked for.
Last night some one tried to break
into Mr.. X. r. Greenleaf's house, or
Main street. but was frightened away
Mr.. j. p. kramer's new brick building
on Poindextcr street is nearing compile
ton. When completed 1t will be g
ornament to that part of the town.
Messrs. Chilcutt IL Bramble have laid
the foundation for the Elizabeth City
Knitting Mills.
The large brick building of NJ. z. T.
Aydlett, on Water street, is expected to
be completed by April LIST. 1t will then
be occupied by Aydlett e. Co. as q
hardware store.
The contract for painting the Elz-
abeth City Knitting Mills has been
awarded to Mr.. Matt Baker.
All members of the Elizabeth City
bar who have been attending court in
Hartford returned home yesterday.
Mr.. T. Chessum is erecting a hand
some dwelling or Cypress street.
Mr.. Y a.. Powers has been awarded
the contract for building the following
houses: For +. NJ. Gricc and james G.
Gregory. two: i. NJ. Grice and j. r.
McCabe. five; L. NJ. Grlce. one: Mrs
c. Il. Pendlcton, one.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-30
WILMINGTON.
HEARING OF RAILROAD TAX
CASE CONTINUED.
(By Telegraph to virginian- Pilot)

(By Telegraph to Virginianp ilot.)
Wilmington, N. c., March 29.-The
hearing of evidence before Standing
Master James i. Shepherd, in the
railroad REIMBURSEMENT cases, was
continued to-day until n date to he
named later. The hearing is tempo
rarily baked by the refusal OF repre-
sentatives of certain private corpora
tons who have been summoned as wit
nesses to produce their books in court
by which the defendant railroad COM
panies hope TO prove that their pro-
pcrties are not assessed at actual value.
Standing Master Shepherd gave no
opinion in the matter. and by agree
ment it goes up to Judge Simonton for
decision. The record was arranged to
this effect.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-30
A LOSS TO
NORTH CAROLINA
Death Of Judge Dorsey Battle, at
Rocky Mount.
HIS SUCCESSOR, NAMED
HIS SUCCESSOR
Guilford County Moving For Better Roads
Carpet Mills to Move From New Jcr-
sey 10 observation-disclosures KIuttz
Loses IL Daughtcr-AIr. Ciaudius Dock
cry to Wed Raleigh and CASTOR Stock
holders "A Good Senson.

Add ALoss to North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. c., Mar. 29.-Guiiford
county is making q rcd-hot fight for
better roads. a movement is on foot
to bond the county in the sum of
$500, coo for this purpose. and If the
election is successful, eight roads into
Greensboro will be macadamized from
the county limits. L understand that
the scheme promises to so through
without any trouble.
JUDGE BATTLE DEAD.
A dispatch from Rocky Mount says:
Judge Dorsey Battle died at his home
here from the effects of an attack OF
la grippe yesterday.
Judge Battle has been very i'll for two
weeks and i'll addition to la grippe ne
suffered great deal with his heart.
He had been steadily gowing worse for
the last several days, so that the end
this morning was not unexpected.
He was buried in Pineview Cemetery
at four o'clock this afternoon.
The Governor will fill the vacancy
by appointment. The district is COM
posed of the following countless:
Mecklenhurg, Robson. New Hanover,
Cumberland, Craven. Nash Wilson,
Edgecombe. Vance, Halifax and War
rem.
THINK OF REMOVING.
A letter from Greensboro says that
the Van de Venter Carpet Mills have
doubled the number OF weaving looms,
and are now preparing to put in spin
dies, so as to spin their own yarns.
The owners are thinking OF moving
their entire plant from New Je cy 10
Greensboro.
CONGRESSMAN KLUTTz BE-
RIcAVED.
y Washington City special says: The
members OF the North Carolina dele
cation heard with regret today OF the
death OF Miss Harry Troy the daughter
of Representative I<luttz. Miss Kiuttz
was operated on for appendicitis in
Baltimore several weeks ago. Miss
Kldttz died last night She will be
byrled in North Carolina.
N a GOOD SEASON.
I The present has been the hest winter
season that Southern Pines has known.
Every available room has been occu-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-30
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HAVE YOU sore Throat. Pimplos. Cop.
GERS In Mouth. Hair Failing? Write
COOK REMEDY CO., 161 MASONIE
TEMPLE. Chicago. ILL.,, for proofs II
cures. Capital $4,000. We solicit tNe
MIST obstinate cases. We have cured tho
worst cases In Is to IS days. 109-paga
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
EDDY AND THE HOBO

Chicago Journal.
Congressman Frank Eddy, of Mime
sofa. rather takes pride in the fact that
he is the shabbiest man in either branch
of the national Legislature. He even
tells a story now and then at his own
expense The other day, he says, he
was walking down the shabby side Of
Pennsylvania avenue when he was &C
costed by a specimen of the genius hobo.
The man was ragged. unkempt, and
haggard. In husky tones he conflded to
Mr. Eddy that he was hungry, and asked
for the price of q meal. The congress-
man locked at the tramp through his
thick glasses, and slowly dug down into
his trousers pockets. Finally he fished
up quarter. and handed it to- him. It's
all I've got" said Mr.. Eddy, in his usual
solemn tones. And to tell the truth, I
don't know just where my next meal is
coming from. But you take it. You look
hungry
. The man started to put the coin into
his pocket, and then he paused. He cast
a comprehensive glance at his benefactor,
and then handed it back to him. 'Here,
pard,'' said he; I'm pretty much on the
bum; but there are worse" There were
tears in the tramps eyes. 81 believe in
doing the square thing. You keep 1t, an
I'll rustic some guy in the next block. :"
Before he could stop him the kind
hearted hobo had forced the quarter into
Eddy's hand and was shutting on in
search of new victim
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
ALGER VS.. MILES

1t is hard to understand what has in
fluenced Gen. Alger in .reviving- the "em-
balmed beef scandal 1t cannot be anv
desire on his part to vindicate Gen. Eag-
an. for Eagan. like Alger himself, has
passed beyond .yindication. 1T cannot be
to disefedit the existing administration:
for the issues of the Spanish war are set
tied forever, and nothing which may now
be shown can have the; slightest influence
on the current of events.
The record of the canned. beef episode
is complete The country is satisfied tnat
the charges madevby4sen. Miles are sub
stantially sustained. It is not that any
one charges or thinks of charging the
then secretary of war at this late day
with completely IN the frauds: which were
so clearly -snoWn to have existed. In
deed, subsequent events have satisfied all
who concerned themselves in the subject
that the entire episode was an almost in
evitable accompaniment eff the sudden
demand that was made on the country
called into existence on the demand, as it
were, of the moment. -
England 8 experience in the South
African war is merely. a duplicate of ours
in the Spanish war. Contractors will be
contractors. Men viii rob the govern
ment when opportunity offers, and mora
especially if they have no official or pro,
fessional character to sustain Men died
like flies in and around Santiago. In
large measure because Of the peculiar
climatic conditions, but in still greater
measure because Of the character of the
food supply and of the total insufficiency
of the administration of the commissary
departments @e e>~.
For all these things. Gen. Alger was no
doubt holden to too serious a Responsible
ity. His attempt to protect Eagan at
this time is futile. fagan was no mere
scapegoat. He did not know his BUSH
ness, or else he was in collision with the
canned beef contractors who so abused
their privileges that, as will be readily
recalled, their products were thrown over
board by the ton, as being. unfit even in
their original condition. for. human con-
sumption. They were in many cases
treated with chemicals, a so-caHed exper-
mental presewative. which was shown
to be attended with the. most dangerous
consequences to those undertaking to use
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

the provisions subjected to. it's influence.
Gov. Roosevelt has told what the eX-
perience of the members of his and
other regiments was in connection with
this particular ration. Indeed the repu-
tation of that gentleman, and his popu-
larity growing out of the Spanish war,
was due in a large measure to the fact
that he early discarded all such stuff,
and out of his own pocket paid the cost
of providing his men with edible food
The general public can have no inter-
est at this time in any issue which may
be made between Gen. Eagan and Gen.
A1ger or between either of them and
Gen. Miles, as to whether canned beef
was or was rot a legal, specified ration,
and as to whether Gen Miles knew or
did not know this when he issued his
furious Illumination against the canned
beef. Nor is anyone concerned in sus--
tanning Gen. Miles in that OF any other
controversy. He has been treated with
a diseourtesy bordering on contempt by
the existing administration The public
recognizes in him an officer much given
to posing, and to newspaper notoriety;
but he has been good soldier, and he
is the commander of the present Ameri-
can army.
Gen. Alger might as we'll have
engaged himself in consideration
of the question whether Admiral
Cervera ought not to have left his
refuge in the night time rather
than in the day for all the contemporary
interest which he is likely to arouse in
the controversy which he has just re-
newed through the pages of the North
American Review.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
WE SUNDAY GLOBE, OHEY
ST PER YEAR sly MAIL

If you, gentle reader, do not happen
already to be subscriber to th9 St
Paul Sunday GLOBE, you may. by
sending in $LOO. become such for
whole year. 1t is great vaIue-abOut
10000 columns for 100 cents, or at
the rate Of | cent per 100 columns.
And, as to the quality of the matter,
upon that point. the paper you hold in
your hand gives you fair idea There's
no more entertaining. instructive and
altogether better reading published in
newspaper form in the United States
than is to be found in every issue of
the St Paul Sunday GLOBE.
Address: The GLOBE, ST Paul MINI
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
IN THE GRAvEYARD OF CENTtRiEs
To the Nineteenth.


We dig thy grave in the Isle OF the PG5t,
Away from the noises of men.
We lay thee down where the Said and
the Done
Lie low with the Never-again,
We cover thee DER with the glory and
All-earned in the reign of thy years;
Each sod of fame bears the kiss of our
Thy sins bear the moisture of tears.
We mark the spot with the legend or
name
Which tells of thy greatest and best,
10 shine far off to the men on the Shore
That they may be guided and blessed
Then sail we back to the living and life.
And leave thee In peace with the dcad-a
Back where the world at new Centurys
Lays jewels she took from thy head.
A selfish world in her haste may forget,
But men do not leave thee alone;
Their mem ries kneel on the green of thI
grave
TIL Death stretches green on their own.
Rest thee in peace by the. side of the
That lie in the bush of the past
Till Time. worn out, in lettering barQuc
Draws in at the isle and makes fast.
IN. Work in Leslie.s Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
LoRn nEREsEoRn.s Death.

In the death of Lord Beresford the
British nation loses a great sailor and
a patriotic man. No doubt his death
will do little to arouse public feeling in
England at this time owing to the alb
sorption of the British people in the.
cares of the war now prevailing in South
Africa. Among the American people his
loss will be mourned as that of a man
of intense conviction, who was animated
by the laudable wish to draw together
the two great branches of the English
speaking race in the closest alliance, in
war as we'll as in peace.
The contributions which Lord Beres-
ford made III the periodical publications
of the time as to the true relative posi-
tons of En- Gland and the United States
in the Orient, and the addresses which
he delivered on the same subject from
the public platform, all went to prove
the intensity of his convictions on the
subject of the needed cooperation OF
England and the United States in COM,
mon world policy.
To the labors of Lord Beresford was it
ment became specifically committed 10
the policy of the open door. When
what was, known as the -'sphere Of in
fuence' agreement was. reached by the
interested nations, Lord Beresford was
engaged in his propaganda for the open.
door in the United States. And wheth-:
er warranted by the facts or net, the
agreement, coming as it did, was &C
copied by the friends of Beresford and,
doubtless by the admiral himslf, as be-
ing i'll some sense a reputation of his
doctrines.
There may be no connection Between
this circumstance and his subsequent
subsistence. But it is the fact that he
practically disappeared from the public
stage after his return to England, and,
indeed the regrettable report of his
death is the first circumstance since then
to call his personality to the attention
of the American people.
Admiral Beresford came of a fighting,
as well as of a diplomatic, family. The
Beresfords have played prominent part
for several generations in the affairs of
the British empire, especially in eonnec-
ton with British ascendancy in Ireland.
It's members always showed the courage
of their position, and of their convictions,
if they had any. in anomalous situations
they were made to occupy toward the
bulk of their countrymen. The man
himself was more than worthy of the
traditions of his family, and, so far as
circumstances admitted, of the traditions
of the British navy. His death will be
a subject of regret not only to the Brit
ish public, and to all Americans who
knew him personally, but to all men who
were familiar with his laudable efforts
to adjust the great problem of China in
the way which he believed would be most
consonant with the honor and interest
of the American and the English peo-
pies.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
PERTINENT OR, PARTLY so.

The discovery of $3.50 in coarse gold
in the crop of British Columbia wild
goose is only another evidence of the
industry of the newspaper fakirs Of
Vancouver.
The Swedish army is to be provid ed
with snowshoes. Some of the American
troops are said to have skates fire.
quently.
Tt is reported that the Grand Duke OF
Oldenburg is i'll from overwerk. What
the duke did for a living is not stated.
The National Guard association wants
to abolish red tape. What vandaIs these
Filipino heroes are, to be sure.
Secretary Ayers criticisms of Gen.
Miles will carry great weight-with Gen.
AIger The Spanish war and
Montauk Point are almost too fresh in
the public mind for the comparative
services of the two to be misjudged.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

"Writ Sarcastic"

The Argonaut
During last Thanksgiving week a poul-
tryman of the Northwest sent several
barrels of fat, dressed turkeys to Ger
tain commission msrchant. who is an ex-
tremely CLOSE buyer" and never fails
when ne receives a consignment to claim
All allowance for something alleged to
have spoiled on the way Heretofore he
had dealt exclusively in live fowls, and
probably the correspondence clerk got
things mixed. At any rate the shipper
was astonished to receive a letter by
return nail, running about as follows:
Dear Sir: We regret to advise you
that four of the turkeys in your corsign-
ment OF November reached here dead.
Please make deduction for same, and
return correct amount. Yours truly
The poultryman communed with him
self and replied thus: ..-9-
Dear Sir: 1 am sorry to say l find
it impossible to make concession request
Ell. l have established a rule requiring
all customers who desire live dressed tUr-
keys to notify us IL advance, 50 We ean
send them in heated cars. Turkeys with
out feathers and insides are liable to
catch cold If shipped in the ordinary man.
rer. The mortality among dressed tur-
kys was very large this year. Yours
mOurnfullV."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
SUNDAY GLOaE CHANCES.

A little more snow would have made
the Christmas holiday week an ideal
one In the matter Of weather.
It will be Senator; Towne until about
Feb 1, in any event. The legislature will
net.vote for senator before: Jan %, and
if there. is az contest the election may
not take place fortsom time.
.g-%Is-o+-
Ira D. Sanlsey sthe evangelical singer,
is. home fromI EaPape. He will soon be-
gin tour ofc thei; cities of the country
Ito gather singers pto begin revival OF
the old fashioneds kind. He says sing
ers must feeia religious music in their
hearts or they. :cannot rouse devotional
feeling in etaers.ssEts plan is to eulti-
vate the American voice in the interest
Of ChrisdantyG NJ
~, pI--o-
Christmas s4as5 celebrated this year,
among the Utah sMormons. Joseph Smith
and Brigham ~ oang, both declared that
Christmas Day was not accurately
known, and they Would not celebrate on
an unknown day.
Dr.. Sargent, director of Harvard uni
versity gymnasium. has invented new
gymnastic apparatus, The machine is
a whole gymnasium. in itself. It con-
sists Of a pair of levers connected by
four adjustable rods. with a sliding seat
and sliding foot. rest, which are in
turn connected by a power applying rod
Ito a crank Or gear or sproeHet wheel.
The machine can be adapted to the pro-
pulsieR of trieEcles a. boat, a scull,
canoe or a simple gymnastio machine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
Age of HustIing Progress.

New York Herald.
: The egs is progressive, productive ma
terialtstic 1t aims not at the ideal, but at
the practical, not at the highest develop
ment of the few, but at the highest hap
piness of the greatest number. Its OBJ
ject is the welfare of the average man,
and It naturally desires that he will get
the benefit of its exertfons before he dies
Therefore the age gets a move on and
breaches the gospel of hustle" The re-
suit is beneficial to the average man-to
the greatest number.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
THAT Full Dinner Pail.
Philadelnhia Times.

7 NIIdutIpIIId IIIIIoo.
Prosperity not appear to be quite
so widely diffused among the mill hands
as they were led to expect before the
election. So many mills are shutting
down just now as to leave something
to be. explained. Of course we shall be
told of temporary trade conditions that
necesitate this action. But, then, We
were told last fall that it was not trade
conditions. but Mckinley, that made
prosperity, and that if we reelected him
we should have good wages for at least
four years more. The full dinner pail, it
would seem, was for campaign uses
only.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
MYSTERIOUS SHOT
THAT Fatally Wounds an Engineer
on Duty in His Cab.


Tennyson Cky.) Special New York World,
For twenty miles Engineer Mat HenseI-
man, of the Louisville, Evansville Il ST.
Louis railroad, sat in his cab gripping
MS lever with gaping bullet hole
through his left lung. AS the train pull
ed into Tennyson H8nselman raised his
arm TO pull the lever. Immed .ately be
began to cough up blood, and in a few.
moments pitched forward UNCONSCIOUS
Untll the hemOrrhage Hanselman had
telt no pain other than sharp twitching
IN the left side How he, received his
wound Is mystery. At Gerryyille, thir-
~ miles, from here, he got off his engine
to take orders. There was nothing the
matter with him then
The fireman declares that he heard no
report of gun. and that HanSelman
never knew when the bullet struck him.
The ball entered the breast between tho
seventh and eighth ribs and cours ell
downward into the stomach. There is no
broken glass in the cab, nothing to show
where the ball entered HanseIman will
Gle. He is not known to have had any
enemies.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
Root Spoke the Truth.

washington Times.
We congratulate Secretary Root upon
his honest and manly defense of the army
canteen. 1t takes courage in these times
for a public man to stand out openly
against the efforts of fanaticism and
hysteria to demoralize the army. When
Mr. Root says that these misguided
people" who are endeavoring to secure
the establishment of Illicit whisky dives
on the outskirts of army posts, ARE doing
Satins work he speaks no more than
the truth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

of life, or avoid the theological he'll after
death? Is religion to lift life. or to es-
cape the pains Of death? 1t should be
{ proposition so plain that he VINO runs
can read, that if this world is managed
Alright, the next viii take care of itself.
Such facts asethes' above are enough to
, startle the most skepticaI to the truth