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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-05
ODD FETLEws MEMORIAL DAY.
Installation of Rev ID. Wells, at First Pres.
byterian Church Today.
Especial TO News and Observer


Wilmington, n, c. May 4.--In conform
ity to proclamation. issued recently by
Grand Sire Cable, of the Odd Fellow or
ganization Of the United States Grand
Master Marcus w Jacob, OF Wilmington
has notified all l. o. o. f. lodges in the
State that Tuesday, June 11th, will be
observed as memorial day in respect to
members of the order, who have died
during the year
Mrs s. D. Watt, of Raleigh, arrived
yesterday to visit her daughter, Miss
Daisy 3. Watt. of the Wilmington High
School faculty of teachers.
Rev. d. p. McGeachy, OF Burgaw, and
Rev. r. Nj. Williams, OF Wallace, arrived
today TO assist in the installation tomor-
row OF the Rev J. NJ Wells, Phi D., as
pastor of the Wilmington First Pres
EyTerian church.
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SCORE BY INNINGS.

Summary-Two base hits Atz; three
base hits, Settle; stolen bases, Person,
Kain, Kelly, Hauptman, Meade go, Sher-
man, LeGrande; bases on balls, o. Hook
er / off Person hit by pitched ball
Kelly; struck out, by Hooker 1, by Per-
son 8 passed balls, Cams; wild pitches,
Person Time Of game 80 Umpire,
Stalev
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NORFOLK Is oUTBATTED.
Wilmington Takes Third Game of the Series
by Give TO Three.
Especial 10 News and Observer

Especial 10 News and Observer
Norfolk, Va, May Wilmington out
batted Norfolk today, and won the third
game of the series by the score of 5 to 3.
Norfolk played poor ball throughout and
her five errors were costly, The Caro-
lima team seemed determined to keep the
locals from taking all OF the series and
their hard playing gave them the victory
Voorhees, held the home team we'll in
hand, and the hits they got off him were
we'll distributed. Score: X. H E.
Norfolk. 20 0 0 0 0 Ia 5
Wilmington 20 0 % Il 2 0--5 10 2
Batteries: Dannehower and Nelson;
Voorhees, and Thackera.
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Railroad Receiver Appointed.
-snao,al - News and Observer

(Special to News and Observer
Greensboro n. c.. May 4.-Judge Boyd
appoints C. b. Keesee, Of Martinsyille,
va, receiver of the Mount Airy and East
ern Narrow Guage Railway. The APP
nointmep+ was made upon application of
" w White of WelCh, W. Va.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-05
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

GAMES TO-MORROW
Norfolk at Raleigh.
Richmond at Portsmouth.
Newport News at Wilmington
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AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES.
Cleveland Wins on Moore's Pitching. Orioles
Play Star Game.
CBy the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Detroit. Mich, May 4.-Cleveland took
the lead from the first inning today
and Moore's magnificent pitching kept
the local team from catching them.
The score: X. ii. r..
Detrait ....20O0000 "a
Cleveland 30 0 0 0 3 0 0 Ill 13 4
Batteries: Owen. Cronin and Buelow;
Moore and Woods. Time, 2:15. Umpires.
Sheridan and Manassau. Attendance,
1000
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NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES.
Quakers Rave Jewel in orth Boston Bunches
Bits Effectively

Brooklyn, N. Y, May 4-Orth was
invincible today. holding the Brooklyns
down to four hits.
The score: r. H. L.
Philadelphia 2O0101- l
Brooklyn 40 00220 90 o. c
Batteries: Orth and Jacklitz; Me
James and Mcclure. Time 1:40 Um-
pire, oDay. Attendance 5000.
Boston Mass, May 4Boston won
today by punching hits in the fifth
inning. The felding of Taylor was II
feature. Attendance, $500.
The score: r. II. f.
Boston .O o 0 8 0 0 , x 10
New York 20 0O12 20 o. 10
Batteries: Dineen and Kittredge
Taylor and Bowermar. Time, 1876.
Umpire, Nash.
Pttsburg, Pa, May 4-Menefee pitch
ed great ball and had the home team
guessing a. the way. Attendance,
coo.
The score r. II. T..
Pittsburg 20 .OOOOO2OOO-2 3
Chicago 900 o. 010 3 o. II A
Batteries: Phillippi and O'Connor
Menefee and King. Time. l:4o. Um-
pire, Emsie.
ST. Louis, Mo. May 1.-THE ST. Louis
and Cincinnati National League game
was ended in a tie at 10 in the tenth
inning by fire which destroyed the
grandstand
The score: r. H. e
Cincinnati % oO020 0O1O--4 10 !
ST Louis II 0 3 0 @ 0 0 x-4 S
Batteries: Harper and Ryan; New
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A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF RUIN.
Report of Correspondent Who Left Jackson
VILE While Flames stll Ragged.

from a special correspondent who left
Jacksonville early in the evening and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-05

Emotion is the music of the soul and
hysteria is it's rag-time
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Philadelphia Pa. May 4.-Baltimore
defeated the home team today by ber-
ter all around playing. Attendance,
9,032.
The score. r. ii. -.
Baltimore ...14O30201 Oil IA .
Philadelphia / 40 0 0 0 2--7 II ?
Batteries McGinnity and Robinson.
Piatt and Powers. Time. 1:40. Um
pire Haskell.
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Milwaukee, Wis, May 4-Dowling
outpitched Katoll this afternoon, but
the miserable support given him in the
first two innings lost the game fer the
home team
The score: r. H r.
Milwaukee ..003 o 90 0 0-3 u 3
Chicago 4 O. 2 0 0Ol 2 oil 10 ?
Batteries: Bowling and Connor; Ka
toll and Sullivan. Umpire, Connolly.
Time, . hours. Attendance, 1900.
Washington, May 4.-Boston won to-
days game by superior batting. hits
being timely and well punched.
The score: r. II. r,
Washington % 0O1001o o.
Boston .1 0 3 3 0 2 0 0-10 Is
Batteries: Mercer Patten and Clark;
Young and Criger. Time, LAO. Um-
pire Cantillion. Attendance, $500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

The lady doth protest too much. Mr.
Bryan's latest announcement concerning
the next presidential race is. when read be-
tween the lines. a distinct if somewhat dip
lomatic notice that he is to be reckoned
with by his party at that time. He is not
just now speaking for himself. He is los
ing no sleep on his own individual account.
But his platform is as dear to him as ever
and he will fight for that while life lasts
Mr.. Bryan comes out none too soon with
this deliverance. lie sees. as everybody
else does. the movement within the party
for his overthrow. 1t is gathering force.
and il is even now formidable. With Mr..
Cleveland, Mr.. HILL Mr. German, Mr. Nc
Lean, Mr.. Watterson. and several other
men of almost equal prominence, Outspoken
for a return to what they denominate
true democratic principles ''-which. trans
lated into plain United States, means re-
pu6ia ton of the principles enunciated and
supported in 1886 and 1900-Mr. Bryan has
good reason To be watchful The enemy ls
at the gates. and the battle virtually is on
The engagement has opened all the earlier
for the disclosures made at Kansas city
last year. The anti-Bryan men are now
convinced that if they had been sufficiently
alert for a few months before the last ma
tional convention. or even little more
alert and stout hearted after the convention
assembled. they would have won. Mr. Hill
held the key to the situation. and had he
been properly supported would have Sc
cured a modification of the Chicago plat
form on the money question SUFFICIENT 10
diminish the eastern opposition to the
ticket But his plan was frustrated by
Richard Croker, who. with no understand
ing of the money question and as little real
Into rod nyl
in administering punishment to Mr.. Hill
as an Individual. Mr.. Hill therefore was
denied a place on the platform committee,
where he could have eNerted marked III
fiuence, and the Bryan program was ADOPT
ed bv the narrow ma jority OF one.
Taking their cue from that circumstance.
the anti-Bryanites are early in the field
now. and busy as bees. But suppose they
win Suppose they appear at the next Ia
tinual convention in the majority. and write
a platform in accordance with their own
views. putting a candidate to stand on IL
who is in as sharp contrast with MI Bryan
as the new platform is with the old VIII
Mr.. Bryan In such circumstances boit-
Doesn't he threaten much i'll this an
EourcemenG? And if he does bolt, Will not
the race be given practically to the reprib-
Ifcans with the interest centering in the
contest between the Bryanites and anil
Brvaniles for second place? Mr. Bryan IS
a democrat only to the extent that MS
platform is democratic. Remove the part!
tag from that and you remove II from MN.
Ard remove 1t from him and an independ-
ert candidate for the presidency calling
himself a democrat. and claiming To repre-
sent the only genuine democracy. with the
name blown in the bottle, is produced at
once AS a matter Of fact. Mr.. Bryan Was
never in his life before more OF presiden-
tiai quantity than he is this very day
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the President and his chief law officer. 1t
has always been difficult to sympathize
with this view There is no more intimate
relationship between the Attorney General
and the Chief Executive than between the
latter and his Secretary of the Interior
Both are consulted probably with equal
frequency. Yet the Secretary of the In
terror is located almost mile away from
the Executive Mansion. The reason for
physical proximity is weakened in these
days of telephones and rapid transit. In
the ideal plan of locating the public build
ings the two great centers of governmental
energy. the White House and the Capitol.
more than a mile separated. would be
linked together by a series of executive de-
partmental offices along Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. The convenience of the legislator is
to be consulted. By the proposed scheme
of utilizing the land lying between the
Mall and the avenue the comfort and time
OF all would be most surely conserved.
Thus the argument in favor of waiting
until Congress gives authority for the pur-
chase of land south of the avenue for the
Department of Justice buildings grows in
strength as the whole case is viewed The
issue in this matter should be between a
separate department building. thus located,
anu combined palace or justice. accommO-
dating the law officers of the government
and the courts. situated east of the Capt.
tol. balancing the library. This latter prop
osition Is In high favor at the Capitol, al
though there is reported to be some oh
lection to it on the Part of the executive
officials. who do not care to have the de-
partment removed 50 far from the White
House. All these considerations ought to
weigh heavily i'll the discussion Of the case
now The new Attorney General will find
as he studies the matter that there is far
more at stake than the mere providing Of
a modern office building for his department
without further DELAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

The appearance of the sun this morning
was a grateful sight to the storm-bound
people Of this vicinity. Everybody had oc-
casion to rejoice. The base ball cranks felt
their interest in the national sport, which
had been water-lOgged. reyivlng. The chill
dren greeted the smiling orb a guide to
the parks and fields. The grown-ups were
happy because they could resume their
shopping and golIing. Seldom has the sun
hidden. Few seasons within modern men,
DRY have rivaled this for continuity of sod
den skies But the trees have been given a
good start by the steady soaking and two
or three days of warmth will work won
derS in the appearance of the city. This is
best. Next Tuesday. April 80 is the day
chosen by general consent of those who
have given thought to the natter as the
appropriate date for the Inauguration Of
the President. it being the anniversary of
the induction of Washington into Office the
first time. The capital city next Tuesday
Will probably be a garden of beauty. An
inauguration crowd at such q season would
have far more reason to be glad for coming
than in March, when the city is yet drear
in the garb of winter. the trees naked, the
parks only duly green and the flower beds
still covered with the winter dressing Why
should not all the spring glory Of vegeta-
ton be added to the artificial decoration OF
the capital at inauguration time?
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took Porto Rico, wanted an outlet for COM
inerce in the east and took the Philippines.
He charges this country with entering
China for selfish motives and then sneak
ing away and betraying the allies for the
benefit Of the cutthroat Chinese. Finally,
in fine frenzy of contempt, this excitable
French editor declares that the Americans
arc a very mean people, but that despite
all their industry and success they will
never be able to buy the esteem of the
civilized world. "Autorite is a sample OF
the least responsible and least representa-
tive French journals. 1t does not stand
today for the French people any more than
John Most's firebrand sheet used to stand
for the Americans. This spasm of spleen
on its part Is strikingly reminiscent of
some of the vaporings of the Spanish press
before and during the war of 1898. when
the American people We're daily derided as
nation of shOpkeepers, cartooned as pigs
and lampooned as the most sordid COM
munity on the face of the globe. There
must have been a material advance in
American prestige abroad to draw forth
this fresh evidence of intense jealousy.
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Excuses I'm China.

Minister ConSer and DR.. Ament, a promi-
nent missionary. have returned home to-
gether. and arc quoted i'll reply to accusa-
tons about looting in China by the mis-
sionaries. Both deny the charges absolute
ly, and Dr. Ament enters into details eX-
planning the situation after the Boxers had
been driven off and the missionaries found
themselves. with only the most meager re-
sources. obliged - provide for large num-
Der of native converts who. like them
selves, had lost all in the outbreak. Pre-
sumably, when these two distinguished men
are little rested from their long journey
they will be at pains to clear UP many
matters relating to the Boxer movement
and it's consequences about which the peO-
pie of this country have been but poorly
informed. or else most recklessly misin-
formed
1t is a subject which will well bear reopen
ing For not only American missionaries
but American soldiers have been attacked,
and between them the American name, we
have been asked to believe has been sadly
furnished liz China. The missionaries, as
these stories have had it, laid their hands
on everything of value within reach, while
the soldiers. losing all sense of human re-
sponsibilty. Joined their comrades of other
nationaities in an orgy of lust such as re-
called the cruelest days of old Rome.
Thousands and thousands of Chinese
women and girls'-not score or so acting
under the panic of fcar-destroyed them
selves. We are told, to escape impending
shame at the hands of the conQuerors.
These stories. indeed, in their entirety,
have been the most severe Indictment ever
drawn against men of American birth
But the indictment was overdrawn. 1t
went too far IL offended probability. The
situation, as everybody knew, had been
exceptional and men had acted in haste
and under great excitement. A missionary
here and there might have erred. A sol
der here and there might have disgraced
himself and his uniform But to attack
the cloth OF the church and the cloth of
the country i'll such wholesale fashion was
to defeat in large measure the object
that the slandercrs had In view. But the
facts. whatever they are should be pro-
duced. and We may wei accept such state
ments as Mr.. Cong"r and DR.. Ament may
| make as entitled to credit. Both are men
| of high standing. and both We're In position
| to know what was going on around them.
| And yet it will require time to overtake
! and dispose of these stories. Their sensa-
| tionalism alone was calculated to insure
! them a wide circulation. and of course they
J travelled rapidly. The lie in old times had
| tn. advantage only of seven-league boots.
/ IN these times it may girdle the earth
I and often does, in q few hours. Seven
! league boots We're some pumpkins before
| the telegraph wires We're strung and the
/ ca bles laid but they are slow coaches to-
/ DAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

Elsewhere today appears a summary OF an
article which has just appeared in print from
the pen Of Juan Gualberto Gomez OF the Gu
ban constitutional convention. outlining the
reasons why the Cubans cannot accept the
Platt amendment. The chief stress, outside
If tho generalitics about independence. is
Laid upon what is claimed TO be the self
contradictory nature of that declarat ton.
IL is pointed out that the first paragraph
of the Platt amendment declares that Cuba
shall not ALLEVIATE any territory, for any
purpose to any foreign power. while the
seventh paragraph demands lands for coal
ing stations for the United States. GOmezs
argument is that. inasmuch as. according
to his dictunl, the Supreme Court of the
United States has declared Cuba TO be for
eign territory, the United States falls un-
der the prohibition against the alienation
of land and cannot receive territory from
Cuba. This quibble OF terms is unworthy
the occasion. 1t is obvious that if the
United States is in position to dictate any
terms whatever TO Cuba regarding her flu
ture governmental responsibility, 1t may
with absolute propriety and legality ex-
clude Itself in certain particulars from the
broad category Of foreign powers and
stand To receive any discriminating treat
ment which circumstances, and policy may
suggest. The article is interesting at this
particular juuctJre. when the whole broad
question OF Cuban relationship is under in
innate discussion in this city, especially in
thu light thrown upon the American pur-
pos" and policy by Senator Platts compre-
hDrSiye statement of the meaning Of the
aTne ndment bearing his name, which is
published today along with the Gomez ar
SUTa-nt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

Virtually Ih@ only substantial reason ad-
Nguc"d for the location of the Department
oil Justice buiIdN upon the site now await
ing the workers. was that the government
already owned the ground when the enter
prise was first suggested. This proved an
tion toward the demolition of the old
structure. and To the extent that it was
successful to prevent q further tempting of
fate by continued occupation of d building
liable TO collapse. it was justifiable. But
the emergency has passed. The crumbling
shell has been removed, the department is
safely housed, with comparative comfort
IN temporary quarters. as good as many
now afforded To other important branches
of the government. and there is no reason
for haste. The governments ownership of
the lot opposite tn. treasury need be no
bar to the selection of another site larger
and more judiciously located. This ground
Can be easily sold at a large profit.
Occasionally when this subject has been
preached in the past it has been urged
that the Department of Justice should be
located as near to the White House as
possible. This sentiment has served to
some extent to justify the retention of the
site now chosen. The special reason for
the proximity of these two branches of
the government was alleged to be the
peculiarly intimate relationship between
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
A Sad Superiority,

The cynic sat and viewed the play,
His face was all unmoved;
And yet his silence seemed to say,
He sternly disapproyed
In vain the repartee would flow,
He sighed with darkening brow,
Twas funny twenty years ago.
1t isn't funny now.
And mademoiselIe, with gauzy skirt,
She makes the chappies stare;
But l to by-gone years revert.
That self-same girl was there
When l sat in the foremost row.
And she, l will allow
Was pretty, twenty years ago.
She isn't pretty now.
NO matter where I journey T
Must hear the same Old chaf,
And still l pause and wonder why
Men ever deign to laugh
How things have changed they do no
know.
This plodding world, VOW.
Was merry, twenty years ago.
1t isn't merry now
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Eft Tu, SixtO!
From the New York Tribune.

From thu. New York Tribune.
Truly, liberty is betrayed in the house of
it's friends! The disheartening announce
ment is made-from Springfield. Mass, too
Of all places!-that Senior Sixto Lopez Is
going home to the Philippines, to Join
Aguinaldo In accepting American sover-
eighty and in working for universal ac-
ceptance thereof by his countrymen. Sure
ly, il freedom shreked when Kosciusko
fell she must have thrown at least thirt cen
consecutive and tumultuous fits when that
i'll news was heard. Sixto Lopez recreant
to the sacred cause of Tagal headchopping!
Why, he has been supposed to be carrying
the very palladium of liberty about in his
trousers pocket Delgado might Yield and
Aguinaldo himself bow the knee to the in
vader. but Sixto Lopez would remain faith
full among the faithless, and from the ex-
posed and perilous outposts of Springfield
and the Back Bay would continue to hurl
documentary defiance at the foes of free
DOM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
A DixgrncefuI Spectacle.
From the Buffalo News.

The story of the public whipping OF two
women in Suffolk. Va. Is a disgrace to the
name of the state. and makes the term
southern chivalry' one of ironical con-
tempt. The women were not accused of
some brutal crime, but simply of dsorderly
conduct. But even If their crime had been
a revolving one, such brutal punishment
as twenty lashes with the whip Is shame
on the community. Any town can keep
itself decent If 1t will without appeals to
such disgusting displays of force, and
woman whipping will do more to brutalize
the youth Of the place than almost any
kind of punishment that could be admin
iStered.
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A French Frenzy.

Some indignant American in Paris has
taken sufficient offense at an outburst of
Paul de Cassagnac- in his unauthoritative
journal "Autorite" to have a specimen of
this bilious Gauls Iucubrations cabied to
America. The extracts are sufficiently
amusing to pay for the cable tolls. Paul
de Cassagnac is well-known offender in
his hatred of the United States, but he has
seldom gone to such point as this before
He declares that the, Americans needed
sugar and took Cuba, needed coffee and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

Tom l.. Johnson proposed reforms have
plungy il him into some abstruse mathe-
mates. The TAX payers are inquiring
whether the proposed cheapenirg of public
services is going TO effect enough economy
TO compensate FOR the increase In taxation.
NJ. Johnson himself seems TO feel that
these problems will give him sufficient oc-
cuFation for some time to come without
his doing much figuring on his personal re-
latioEship to any future election returns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Pursuing u Dangerous Course.

If Count Tolstoi has really been exiled by
the Car of Russia. the decree is probably
the result Of the bad advice Of narrow
minded minister, and II Nicholas lives to be
an old man he will realize that 1t were bet
ter to follow the prOmptings of his own
better nature in liberal and more con-
ciIiatory course. He can scarcely afford
to make q martyr Of such q man as Tolstoi.
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49,

The president and cashier of Vancouver
bank killed themselves after a shortage in
the banks funds was discovered. This at
least relieved depositors of any further ex-
penses for trial and incarceration which. as
taxpayers, they would have been obliged to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

OF course there is no denying that such
a person as Paul Revere existed. But
the relentless iconoclast has come forward
with the insinuation- that what he did In
the revolution did not amount to much