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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-30

May %.

way ~.
On Saturday Morning
of this week we start
our Fourth Annual Sale
of Hats and Flowers.
Same phenomenal val
ues as in our previous
sales.
Choice of any Hat or
any bunch of Flowers
for rs cents.
All this seasons goods,
and the price but a fraction
Of their value.
Thousands Of previous
buyers know that this sale
will be the opportunity of
the season for bargains in
these goods.
Ribbons.
Counter full at II lie. a
yard. Another lot at Sc. a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-30
WOmen's House Gowns.

N ew line Of two-piece
Lawn, $500 each; Of Per
Gale, $1.75.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
CASTRO WILL ETUR
a oandons the Idea of Fighting and Will Go to
Caracas.
(By the Associated PreseN

(By the Associated Presso
Washington, July 19.-Minister Bowen.
at Caracas has cabled the State DeDart-
ment as follows:
Ihe President of Venezuela bas
abandoned the idea of attacking the enc
my at Barcelona and is proposing IN re-
turn to Caracas soon"
president Castro went to Barcelona
which was partially invested bv the ROY,
olutlonlsts, about ten DAYS ago 1apdino
from a government Warship and assert
ing that he would clear out tho robo,e
within fifteen days. He had q consid-
cradle force of soldiers with him ara
tne reason for his change of mind in the
absence OF a decisive battle can only be
conJectured here. 1t is known that bo
IS unable to regain Caracas bv land orv
ing TO the presence between himoa1f H.,
.he capital OF evolutionary forces and
ne must return by water as he came
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
DEFEAT OF GENERAL REYES.
The Overturning CT One Of His Boats Contri.
buted to This Result.
(By the Associated Press

Mobile, Ala, July ia private letter
from Bluefields gives details of the re-
pulse OF Reyes and the revolutionists on
july Z. Martial law was declared on the
NTH OF July and there were hurried
movements of government troops on that
and the following day. The citizens
holsted flags for protection, and Jamaica
negroes in great numbers came into town
seeking aid of the British consul. The
town itself was guarded at all points. al
though 1t was known that the Bluff was
10 be the point Of attack. On Saturday
a large barge carrying soldiers arrived
from Kama and was at once ordered TO
Proceed to the Bluff. Reports came that
the war vessel also had landed
troops at the Bluff and an mpressment
VI negroes was made to serve as a home
guard. Inc tight proved to be a small
a1alr, although brisk while it lasted. On
the government side two were brought
in dead and three wounded, with thirty
prisoners, two being officers. There was
great rejoicing when Reyes defeat was
known, but as there was apprehension of
a landing Of revolutionists at another
point, military precautions were con-
Reyes defeat was due chiefly to an &C.
His invasion was made on tho
steamer Pinzon. He landed one partv at
the Bluff in a large boat, but a sec
ond boat overturned in the heavy sea
and the extra ammunition and sunnlies
were lost.
Inc insurgents were afraid to mako =
SECOND attempt to land more troops and |
those who had been put ashore were [
overcome, killed or captured. The Pin
Aon' being short Of coal, put to sea. but |
- expected to return with more men.
me government has obtained a loan of
o o,Ooo $4,000 in American money! from
the merchants of Bluefields. It was in
the nature of a forced loan.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
NOT AN APT COMPARISON.

In his baccalaureate sermon to the
University Of Pennsylvania graduates
the other day the Rev. DR.. Elwood C.
Worcester said: 'The simple are un-
doubtedly the happiest. To find real
felicity we must descend to the animal
kingdom, and there the happiest animal
is the oyster, safely ensconced between
his two shells" The Rochester Union
and Advertiser takes an exception and
says: THE life of an oyster is full Of
sorrows; it is a life of disappointments,
of blasted hopes. of ambitions unfulfill-
ed. Sheridan tells us in The Critic
that
AN oyster may be crossed in love-
Is there anything that more embitters
existence than to be crossed in love?
Shakespeare, in The Merry Wives OF
Windsor has given us this:
Why, then, the world is mine, oyster,
Which l with sword will open.'
Is there any felicity in having ones
dwelling pried open with a sword? But
Ter tells us in 'Dyet's Dry Dinner: 1t is
unreasonable and unWholesome in all
months that have not an r in their name
to eat an OYSTER Does it cOnduce to the
JOY OF living to know that one is regard
ed with suspicion by the world during
a large part of the year? This conscious
oyster and fill his days with gloom. The
clam, though it has it's sorrows, is a
good deal happier than the oyster"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
MYERS UEFEAT DECISIVE
Women Golf Lovers Follow the Play
in Pouring Rain.
JAMES IS WILDLY CHE6ReO At THE END
Society Out in Full Force 10 Witness the Contest.
The Day on The Diamond. Games OF
National, American and
Southern leagu es.
(By the Associated Press.)

Glenview Golf Course. Ills, July 10
Louis B. James, of Glenview, nineteen
year-old, today won for his own the
highest golfing honors that can come to
an amateur in the United States by de-
feating Edwin NJ. Byers, of the Allie
gheny Golf Club. of Pittsburg, in the
finals of the annual championship tourna-
.ment- His victory was decisive, as shown
both by the medal scores and the hole
play. He finished four up and two to
play, with a spectacular putt of at least
ten yards over the uneven, water-soaked
surface of the seventh green, and even
before he had fshed his bail out Of the
cup he was grabbed by his wildly cheer
ing club mates and hoisted on their
shoulders. James medal score was:
Morning, out 45, in 80; afternoon, out A,
in 81, for seven holes. Byers' was:
Morning, out 43, in 43; afternoon, out A,
in 80. for seven holes.
The young champion won his laurels
on the greens. Both drove beautifully
all day. James shots were so true as
to excite enthusiastic comment from
Willie Smith, Leslie and other Wes-
tern professionals who learned the game
amid the sand dunes of Scotland. Time
and again he laid long approach pitches
dead for the hole, and only once or
twice during the long. trying contest
did he fail to negotiate his puts.
Tall and slender, with the fragile
limbs Of an over-grown boy, he used
every ounce Of his weight to the best
in his drives and brasseys and
seldom failed to cover 200 yards from
the tee.
Byers lost the game on the greens.
At Yale and in the East. the young
Pittsburger gained the reputation OF be-
ing unreliable in his short game. un-
at times and woefully lacking
In accuracy at others. Today was his
OH day. Three times he had short puts
TO win the hole, and twice. had he
putted down from short distances. the
hole would have been halved. In every
Instance he failed. He trimmed the cup
our times, but in the delicate plav on
he greens Byers was found wanting.
PROBABLY a golf championship was
never decided under such unfayorabIe
Part of the morning play
vas during a rain storm that was al
most a deluge. The play was entirely
yer the first nine holes of the eighteen
curses, several of the green's of the
nine being entirely under water.
The gallery that followed the two con-
estants probably was the largest that
yer witnessed a golf game in this coun-
ry. Undeterred by the storm. society
urned out IN full force, and fully six
cen hundred golf lovers, a third of
mem women, trudged through the driy-
lg rains behind the players.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
The Seaboard Not In It
(By the Associated Press !

Va, July 19.-President
John Shelton Williams, of the Seaboard
AIT Line, when asked today about the
published stories that purchases of Cbes-
apeake and Ohio and Norfolk and Wes-
tern stock had been made by John w
Gates and others in the interest of the
oeaDoard. answered promptly and en-
phatically that there was not the slight
est foundation for the story. He said
tnat he was not intimate enough with
the Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk
and Western situations to express any
opinion as to the movement in their stock
out ne knew that the Seaboard had no
with it in any way.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
BROKE HER SHAFT
The BefgenIand is lowed
Into Halifax.
Three Days She Lay at the Mercy Of Wind and
Wave. Then the Scholar Came to
Her Aid.
(By the Associated Press.l

Halifax, n. S., July 19.-The Ameri-
can steamer Belgenland, from PhiIadel-
ph1a for Queenstown and Liverpool was
brought to this port today in tow Of the
Harrison Line steamer Scholar. The
Belgenland broke her shaft on july 9 in
latitude 40.57 north, longitude 5l..01
west. Three days later in response to
signals of distress she was picked IN by
the Scholar which was on her wav from
Galveston to Liverpool.
The Belgenland has on board 129 first
class and "A second class passengers and
all We're reported we'll. The accident
caused little excitement.
Among the passengers was a party of
Art Students League member from Buff
falo, n. Y, bound on a three-months trip
to Europe and a Cook excursion.
Captain Hill, of the Belgenland said
that he sailed from PHILADELPHIA July
;. With favorable weather a good trip
was in prospect and on the morning of
July 9 the vessel was in latitude 4O.5 81.
longitude 51.07, near the Western Is
lands. Then the shaft broke. The rrac-
ture was in the intermediate section.
Examination showed that the vessels
hull had suffered no damage. The en-
gineers made repairs by placing shut
bands on the shaft and the machinery
was started. In half an hour the bands
broke and the steamer was again help
less. Further efforts to make repairs
were Hruitless ard for the next four DAYS
the steamer drifted, while constant
watch was maintained for a vessel. Dur
ing this trying period, the officers saw.
the passengers behaved in an admirable
manner.
No rough weather was encountered.
Twice a distant craft was seen and
signals were made but apparently they
were not seen as no help came.
On Sunday, July IS, at 2 a. m, a light
was sighted and four rockets were sent |
They were seen and soon the Scholar !
was steaming alongside.
The Scholars captain decided to aban- |
don his voyage and tow the disabled
to Halifax. At FIVE O'Clock Sun
day morning lines were IN position and
the steamers started back.
The weather continued fine and save
heavy seas encountered south OF
Sable Island, the passage was mado with
out mishap.
OF the passengers on the Belgenland,
ninety OF the first class will proceed to
at the first opportunity and
forty will proceed to their homes.
The Scholar will proceed at once for
her destination after coaling.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
The Greatest Poet.

10 the Editor: Your corresponden
read with great interest and unfeiened
delight the admirable address of DR.
van Dyke at Trinity College, and pub
llshed In your columns. Only this state
ment could re dissent from. that "the
tnree greatest poets of the past century
were wordsworth, Browning and Ten
nyson. Lord Macaulay, whom Arch
deacon Farrar pronounced "the wiseat
man that ever lived" said that Lord
Byron was the most celebrated English
man OF the Nineteenth century," This
ueclaratlon was made in the hey-day of
W%elilngton's glory, the most noted of all
dreat Br1taln's warriors. The onlv nos
slole rival In renown in the latter mart
OF the century, is Gladstone.
NO otner poet ever received such ec1at
uurlng lie. The multitude, variety and
excellence OF his productions astonisbed
All pupllshers and readers of poetry. and
placed his name in the enith OF all the
literary stars OF his time, and from that
oay TIL this no star Of such splendor
mas appeared above the horizon.
Wnlle we deplore the immoral tinge
OF much of this gifted bard. still we
would accord him the place his pen;u.
deserves, as we would that OF Caesar ~
1t is a strange paradox to saw
byron was immoral and then to saw that
MS poems On Biblical subjects were nm
surpassed. Who has equalled Senne-
Byron touched no theme he did NOT
auorn' whether sacred or profane
sonnet or satire he gave II .
touch Of immortality.
mat any one could have achieved so
huch at the age of SO is one of the
wonders not to say miracles of history
IN view OF these facts we scarcely be-
leVe that the utterance of the scholarly
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
The Friars' Lands

(By the Associate
Washington, July l9.->. 3.
the negotiations at Rome 0.
likely event that at the I...
Vatican officials should a..
cipal proposition advance.
Taft, it is believed here f... .
be necessary for the AH"-..
referred to in CaTdIua.
notes, TO go forward TO
capacity of an appraiser .
properties.
Monsignor B~rodericE. lF..
tary to MonsignoT Sbar".'.. .
War Department today ai
ference with Secretary l,...
The outcome at Rome. .
nection with NJ BrOd'r..a
to the belief that NJ. -..
all, to be Archbishop " -...
rate it is understood tina.
tinue his journey 10 tn" i.
if he does not fill tho pos.
may stih be named o.
gate.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
To Choose a Site.

Especial to News and Observerl
Elizabeth City, N. c., July 19.-Con-
gressman John H. Small and Hon. T. G
SKINNER Will be here Wednesday. July
-ord' ana the chamber of and
al interested citizens are requested to
meet them at the court house on that
n'sht 1or the purpose Of discussing the
important question of selecting a site for
the government building. The hui1d;no
is to cost $12O, OOG.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
Three dwellings, Burned.
(By the Associated Press.)

Tarboro, N. c., July Sire DESTROY
ed three dwellings, the property of ]. j..
Barnhill, valued at s., 200. They were
insured for $3.50. The fire started in
the house occupied by A. NJ. and Silas
Smith, in a wardrobe. The flames soon
spread to the other dwellings, occupied
by VIM Moore and Fletcher HUNT.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
Reunion Of Veterans.
Especial to News on

Especial to News and Observer.)
hihcointon' n. c. July 19.-At Lin
cointon yesterday the Confederate vat
Grams mad a reunion. A very largo orov,d
was IN attendance and everyone had =
very enjoyable time. An evco,,oa
ner was served IN Piedmont Seminary
ahu music was furnished by the ladies
dno ny d oand. Several speeches were
MADE and were much enjoyed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
SELL form,
Many Farmers Make j.
secood lie He-a


III
oh the corner ot .
yesterday III
many months. rh=
itaI tobacco q. t.
ana eVerNho3g
e~oHlih'ttl"t
IKE 4 Narghog#
especially II
are IN q position q.
The song of the
the spirited cNuca
the most Animate.
industrial music.
Early YESTERDAY
ers from the sa-t.
county began I-.r..
cd with tho earl.
and gold-produc.r-
OF the popular C.
Rouse.
by II O'Clock
had their tobacco u-..
spread u on th,
news OF The toH....
YER the city. ana
merchants. banker.
gathered to witnss. ..
industrial era for r..
Rice. Raleighh's n..
nounced the b|ecInnlr.
in a moment there .
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
Hilary A. Herbert Has Typhoid.
(BV the ASSOciatad prooc

tBy the. Associated Prcss.)
Washington, July 19.-Hilary A. Her
bert, Secretary Of the Navy under Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration, is lying
very ill with typhoid fever in a hospital
in this city.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22
To Dust the C0r-e..
(RY the AHSO-L.L--

(By n SSCela''
Cleveland, Ohio, July
General Sheets began "."
ceedings IN the Circul.
to Gust the Cleveland '.
demanding that the ma..
show by what right
Judge Caldwell, OF .-
granted an order rest...-
from granting furfa...
special privileges uni.
and decided.
Attorney General
inasmuch as the Feter.
pal government has
constitutional BY t."
court, the city council Dr.
Mr.. ID. H. Young LEFT t
for Virginia Beach.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22

divine is the consensus Of opinion
OF critics and men OF letters. Milton
and Shakespeare are the only men in all
English literature that deserve a high
er place. W. H.. TOWNSEND.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22

Need Of q Reliable Critic-Hamlin Gar
land Lecturing About Himself
The American ChurchilTs Great
Historical Series Which Shall Teach
Us PatriOtism-Poe and Doyle Write
Alike-Novcls of Observation-Disclosures
Point in Literature.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-22

Mr.. ID. H. Young l.tt }
for Virginia Beach.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-20
BILOXI NEWS.

Biloxi, Dec. 19.-The Meridian
Presbytery has met in the city, with
quorum present, and accepted the
resignation of Rev. w. G. Lindsay as
pastor of the Biloxi church. The res
ignation is to take effect February 10,
1903. Rev. Mr.. Stevens Of Moss
Point was granted permission to ask
letter of dismissal during vacation,
as he will leave his present charge.
Dr. Lindsay was granted letter Of
dismissal to the Swansea Presbytery,
and Rev. ". G. West of Ocean
Springs appointed to preach the SER
mon the first Sabbath after the 18th
of February, 1908, and declare the
pulpit of the Biloxi church vacant.
The most representative meeting
since the question has been up was
that held last evening to discuss the
action of the oyster commission as to
the disputed territory at the reefs.
Considerable discussion was had,
and the final decision made that the
matter be left in the hands of the
governor until such time as he should
signify that he had exhausted all in
strumentalities in his power to effect
an aimicable adjustment of the
differences. An effort will be made
to have the board of supervisors buy
the line claimed by Mississippi.
which is alleged to be eighteen miles
from shore line.
There is a prospect of warm fight
over the whiskey problem at Nc
Henry, prosperous town in this
county, and on the Gulf and Ship
Island railroad. All last year there
was trouble of this character going
on over there, and at the recent cleo
tion wet council was elected and
the fight has been renewed Repre-
sentative citizens from the town have
been here two or three days arranging
with counsel to prevent the establish
ing of saloons in the town. The two
sides are pretty evenly divided.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-20
CANDIDATES
FOR GOVERNOR
Are Being Bombarded
With Letters
AS TO THEIR POSITION
On the Question of Statutory Pro-
hibition Proposed.
BUT SILENCE IS GOLDEN TO SOME
And None Seem to Be in a Hurry to
Give Their Views.
Special to the Daily Progress.

Jackson. Dec. 20. 1.-The candidates
for governor in Mississippi, actual
and prospective, are being bombarded
with letters from all parts of the
state inquiring about their positions
on the question of statutory prohnlbl-
tion, which has been injected into
the campaign. Some of the candi-
dates, it is learned, are neglecting to
answer these communications, prefer
ing to wait an see from what direc-
tion the wind. is going to blow, and
whether the issue is going to assume
the prominence that is expected. A
majority of the inquiries are from
the leaders of the prohibition cause,
which indicates that they are get
ting in readiness for the blacklisting
of all aspiriants for Office who do not
support their cause.
The work is already being carried
into the counties by the prohibition
lists. A call has been issued for a
prohibition mass convention to assem-
BILE at Quitman in Clarke county on
the End of February, for the purpose
of selecting delegates and offering sug-
gestions to the state convention
which will assemble in Jackson on
the 18th of February. Similar con-
ventions will be held in other conn
ties in the state during the early part
of February.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-20

year. 1t is pointed out by these visi-
tors that the people are insisting that
men for public position should be per-
sons who have not made failures in
private life, for, they argue. that a
man who cannot transact his own
business successfully, or has none to
transact, is an unsafe public agent, and
they realize that is just what a public
official is. Because man is needy,
or is a good fellow, is no reason, it
is now come TO be pretty generally
said, why he should be pensioned on
the public. 1t is learned that the
rule of getting substantial, reliable
and successful men is to be not only
applied to state and county officers,
but of the members of the legislature
as we'll A gentleman said this after
noon in discussing this matter, the
legislative timber was being carefully
scrutinized in his section; that the
people had come TO the conclusion
that in the matter of legislation,
method was better than mouth. He
said that the people who spoke the
most in public assemblies, like the
people who talked the most in commu-
mites, usually accomplished the least.
-Picayune's Mississippi Bureau.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-20
Becomes More COmpli-
Gated and Suspicios
THAT THE EUROPEAN POWERS
Have Hidden Motive for the Part
They Are Taking
THE ALLIES HOPE TO COMPEL
This Country to Assume the Obi
CATION of the Claims.

Baltimore, Dec. i9.-The Balfi-
more Sun has the following special
from Washington:
A grave suspicion has been excited
in Washington that the real purpose
of Germany and Great Britain in GO
ing Immediately TO such extremes in
dealing with Venezuela is to compel
the United States either to assume
obligation for the claims made
against Venezuela or TO abrogate the
Monroe doctrine.
OF course this suspicion is not
avowed BY officials of the administra-
tion. They do not wish to commit
the indiscretion of publicly avowing
the impression made by the course of
the powers.
1t is manifest that the joint action
of the several powers was not nec-
assnry 10 overwhelm the little South
American wealkling with which they
have to deal, and that a course which
Premier Balfour has described as es-
sentially creating q condition of war
was not necessary as an initial pro-
ceeding in the display of force for the
purpose of coercion. The declaration
of Mr.. Balfour that war exists, and,
therefore the blockade of Venezuelan
ports is not a peaceful blockade" 10
obviously III response to the position
taken by this government, that a
peaceful blockade" could not inter-
| fere with commerce under the Ameri-
can flag. In response to an intima-
| tion that the United States does not
expect any interference with it's COM
merce under peaceful blockade"
Mr.. Baltour has apparently taken ec-
casion to announce that such interfer-
ence is possible by announcing before
hand that this is a blockade Of war.
Information from Berlin is to the
effect that an identical view Of the
case is taken by Germany.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-20
The Queen and Crescent Route,

On account of the holidays. has au-
thorized the low rate of one and one
third fares for the round trip from and
to all points on its line. also to all points
south of the Potomac and Ohio and east
of the Mississippi rivers. selling tickets
December 90, "a, 25. 80 and 81. 1902 and
January /. 1903, with limit of January
3, 1908.
The superb service in effect over the
Queen q Crescent Route, affording
quick time, and trains of the most ap-
proved modern pattern, composed OF
Pullmanis latest design of sleeping cars,
parlor cars, and dining cars, gives the
public an opportunity to make its
holiday trip in a degree of comfort
never before realized. Two daily
trains in each direction.
Write or call on any Agent of the
| system to obtain full and complete in.
formation in reference to rates and
schedules.