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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-15
Spot Gotten closed quiet; middl'ng uplands
Oh middhng gulf ga; sales 200 bales.
LIVE RPOOL.

LIvERPs OIL. March IA P. M.-Spot cotton,
moderate usIness; prices l-S2 lower. mid
uing far > T-32d; good middling l5-l6d; mid
ding l3-l6o; low middling 23-3,d; good ordi-
nary Is go, ordinary 23-32d.
The sat. of the Gay were 5000 bales, of which
IOOP were 10. speculation and export, and inclu1-
Ell 8 90 American. Receipts 1900 bales, N
GLIDING 1850 American.
futures opened easier and closed steady.
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RALEIGH STOCK MARKET.
Corrected daily by Grimes & Vass.)

Bid. Asked.
North Carolina 6's, 1919...-- 1861
North Carolina AS, 1919 $3.50. 1861 1861
Virginia new 3's, 1882 ........ 96& 97A
Virginia Centuries, 1891 49,. 97A 973s
Southern Railway SIS, 1894 ..121
Seaboard Railway As. 1850 =. SAX IS
Western n. C. R. r. 6's, 1914. .121
Ca, Car. & Northern SIS, 1929 III 111h
Carolina Central Railway As. 961a 96A
Ca, So. & Fla. z. r., 1916. .115
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RALEIGH SPOT COTTON MARKET.
Raleigh, n. c., March 1.-THE cotton
market has shown no changes for some
time, and since it's first increase to ga
cents this figure has been the top-notch
r.rIce.
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NEW YORK.

Nxw YORK. March i4.-Cotton futures opened
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

During recent years literature has
been abundant in the attempt to prove
that the clover could not have been
the ancient shamrock of the Irish, but
that it must have been the Oxalis ace
tosella The main argument has been
that the clover was an introduction
from the continent of Europe and
could not have been in Ireland at the
time.
A correspondent of the London
Gardeners Chronicle, w. G. s., goes
over the whole literature of the sub
iect. He shows that it Was not until
1880, when ]. e. Bicheno, former
secretary of the Linnaean society,
started . doubt on the subject in
paper read before that society. w. G.
S. quotes from publications, with their
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

years ago. gives clear statement OF
the undertaking. 1t is proposed to erect
statue of John Greenleaf Whittier in
Amesbury, Miss, his home for over
fifty years. in which the greater part
of his life work was done. 1t is planned
to do this by voluntary contributions
from those to whom Mr.. Writers
memory is dear. either as a reformer
or as poet. The memorial will be
from a design made by some sculptor
of established and wide reputation and
will cost not less than $4,000"
Mr.. Stedman then gives a list of the
advisory board members, which in
cludes Senator George F. Hoar, Rev.
Lyman Abbott. Secetrary John Hay.
Ambassador George Meyer. Booker T.
Washington and Charles l.. Hutchin
son of Chicago. Continuing. he says:
ITO start the subscriptions the Whit
tier Home association led off with an
appropriation of $500 from its own
modest funds. Mrs. Pickard, niece of
Whittier and the wife of his biograph
er, gave $500
Other contributions. of varying
amounts. have been obtained. Booker
T. Washington has forwarded $5O.26
from the teachers and pupils of the
Tuskegee Institute, and remittances
are promised from the Hawthorne Col
ored Institute of Richmond, Va, and
from the Hampton school. On the oc-
casion of the recent celebration of
Whittiers ninety-fourth birthday Rob
ert T Davis of Fall River, Mass. sent
a contribution of $500 toward the
statue fund In all, from the local eff
fort. over $4,000 has been obtained in
these first eight months-a good work
for a handful of women in a country
town.
THE time has now come for extend
ing the work so braVely begun in
Amesbury. | wish to lay all the facts
before our admirers of Whittier, so
many of whom arr to be found among
your readers. We have willingly con-
tributed to the memorials of Shelley,
Tennyson and other English writer's
to whom American homage and graft
tude have been due. | trust that there
may be still greater number of those
who will feel an impulse to lay offer
ings. with something far more deeply
lnterfused' at the shrine of the most
beloved, the most consecrate. and In
some respects the most national Of
the poets of our own country in her
morning time of song
A proud man never shows his pride
so much as when he is civil.-Grevifle.
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Germany seems to take the lead in
novelties of charitable nature. In
the town of Haschmann prizes are Of
fercd yearly for the men who will
marry the ugliest, most crippled. and
the women over forty who have been
fitted at least twice. The money was
left by big fnancier, and he, realiZ-
ing that beauty is an attraction haSd
to overcome. made provision in his
will that out of the income of the
fund not less than $50 shall go to the
usliest girl in any year and the cripple
shall receive $50. The four women
over forty who have been Tilted by
lover receive, when the funds will
permit $50 each. but the trustee can
vary this amount and at his discretion
offer a larger prize to someone who
Will marry an unusually ugly girl or
one TO whom nature has been special
ly uIkind.
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Alfred Belt. who is frequently cred
tied with being the richest man in
the world. is altogether unlike Cecil
Rhodes. the man with whom he was
so long associated in south African
affairs He is highly polished, cour-
teous reticent. well-balanced man of
the world, whose London home has
been furnished with scrupulous eye
to the avoidance of display. He spends
a great deal of his time on horseback.
and is regarded as one of the best
dressed men in London, abhorring a
wrinkle as much as Cecil Rhodes de-
tested fine clothes. Nearly all the
clerks in his employ are university
men and several are members of the
aristocracy. Mr.. Belt was born in
Hamburg ferty-nine years ago of an
old and prosperous Hebrew family.
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WRITER OF FAMOUS
WESTERN STORIES DEAD

The death of Francis Bret Harte,
which occurred in England recently,
has removed one of the most forcible
and distinctive writer's of the West
His stories immortalized the western
mining camp and reflected the atmos-
phere OF those days, half a century
ago, when California was the Mecca OF
the gold seekers. Quaint. humorous
and refreshing, his writings will long
hold unique and exalted place in
English literature.
Mr.. Harte was born in Albany, N.
Y. in 1889. and was the son OF an edu-
Gator, who died leaving the family
with little means. In 1854 young
Harte went to California with his
mother and in Sonora tried his hand at
the fathers profession Of teaching. He
did not succeed in this and became a
compositor in the Office of a mining
camp paper, beginning his literary ca
reer by composing his first articles in
type while working at the case. In
1857 we find him compositor in the
Office of the Golden Era, San Fran
cisco. The experience of his frontier
life had been impressive and his lit
erary talents soon pat to profitable
use the vivid scenes of the previous
three years. Clever sketches, contrib
uted at first anonymously. attract
ed the attention of the editor, and
Harte was invited to join the corps of
writers.
In July. 1868. the publication of The
Overland Monthly, with Mr.. Harte as
its organizer and editor, was begun.
The second Issue contained The Luck
of Roaring Camp" story of mining
life. which marked the beginning OF
Harte's brighter and more artistic
work. The next number contained
The Outcasts of Poker Flat" real
istic story, considered by many his
best production. 1t established his
reputation, and was followed in quick
succession by other well-knoWn prod
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PASTOR CHARGED WITH HEREsY
Methodist Divine Avows Belief In Doe
trine KefncarnatiOn.

Methodist Divine Avows Belief In Doe
trine of Reincarnation.
Rev. Columbus Bradford, who must
answer charge of heresy for his ad-
vocacy of the doctrine of the reincar-
nation of souls. is well known in Chi
cago, where from lS96 to 1900 he was
pastor of st. Paul's Evangelical church
at Longwood. Until his recent dismis-
sal he was pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Granville, H.,
and was remarked for his very liberal
opinions in religious doctrine. Dr.
Bradford finds grounds for his belief
in reincarnation in the passage, "1e
must be born again The human
race, he says is in process of rising
from animalhood to angelhood. He
thinks that the soul is born again and
again into new bodies and this action
continues until all possibilities of hu-
man development are exhausted
These views and their elaboration Dr.
Bradford has incorporated into book
which has shocked the religious SEN
sibilities of the Southern Illinois con-
ference. The case will be prosecuted
by Rev. Or. j. W. Van Cleve of East
st. Louis, and an adverse decision is
regarded as almost certain, owing to
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uctions The Heather Chinee' ap-
peared in September, $50.
Harte received the appointment OF
professor of literature in the Cniver-
sity of California in 1870. but in the
spring of 1871 resigned that chair and
his editorship and settled in New York
He became a regular contributor to
the Atlantic Monthly. and lectured on
The Argqpauts of 40 in various cit
les.
In 1878 Mr.. Harte was appointed
United States consul at Crefeld. Ger
many. and was transferred in 1880 to
Glasgow. Scotland, where he continued
as consul until the advent of the new
administration in 1885 He had since
resided in England, engaged in liter
airy pursuits. Beside the books men
toned he wrote many other works.
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Ambassador Choate. while returning
from a college boat race, was APP
preached by fresh young student who
introduced himself as the son of one OF
Mr. Choate's old friends. The youth
was smoking a pipe, and constantly
blew great clouds of smoke into MIR.
Choate's face. Observing that the M
bassador was looking rather steadily
at his pipe. the student said proudly:
"A birthday present
All" replied the lawyer, without ia
king his eyes from the loud-smelling
bowl. Il should never have thought
YOU were so ld.'-Schoolmaster
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of the birthday of the poet of free
dom, religious liberty, patriotism and
the virtue of the American home.
LAS one who revered the pure, fer
vent bard and seer, and had taken part
in the simple rites accorded to his re-
mains, l was requested by the statue
committee to become a member of the
advisory board. ! accepted the honor
and duty after an assurance that the
purpose of the committee was to Sc
cure a memorial gratifying to the Sc
verest taste, work excellent in por-
traiture and design.
The adopted plan of the Whittier
Home Association, as issued eight
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painting which probably was discern
BILE as late as 100 years ago The
painting represented frightful mon
ster as large as a calf, which had
horns like a, deer. the face of man,
a body covered with scales and a tail
like that of "a fish. The work was
crudely executed in colors which have
long since been oblfterated by the
weather.
The earliest writer who is known TO
have mentioned the historic rock is
De AWHILE. who described it in a jour
nal written in 1852.
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Bright days in April cause crowds to
draw around the show-windows of the
sporting shops They stand rapt before
reels. flies, rods. puttees, hip-boots,
guns. decoys. golf-sticks, rackets ana
yacht hardware. They have "smelt
vs,od-smoke at twilight" slept with
Starlight on their faces, and now their
hearts are troubled with the old spring
fret 1t is not merely the red gods
making medicine again" The fret
comes over men who have no desire to
go out and kill something"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

on her calling cards. is one of the four
ehters of the fourth Earl of Ross
Iyn. These sisters a few years ago
created furore in British society by
their ffawless beauty. Lady Millicent.
the present Duchess of Sutherland,
marrSed the present Duke of Suther-
land in 1854. She is to-day one of the
most stately and beautiful matrons in
all England.
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take his peri1ous trip in the hope of
surprising him and thus putting Swe-
den in the lead The newspapers, he
adds had good deal to do with the
execution of the wild scheme by urg-
ing on the balloonist. Another writer
states that financial complications re-
sulting from the preparations for the
trip compelled Andree to attempt it.
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dates. going back hundreds of years.
showing clearly that the shamrock
was clover and nothing else but
clover. Indeed the correspondent
shows that in very early Christian
times. long before ST. Patrick's birth.
the clover leaf was used as an emblem
of the Trinity.-Meehan's Monthly.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

The Russian Artic explorer, DR..
Alexander Won Bunge, declares in a
recent magazine article that Andree
was a victim of international rivalry,
the success of the Norwegian hansen
having led him impetuously to under
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FAMOUS INDIAN ROCK NO MORE
Beacon on the, Missouri for Centuries
NIL for kail d.

Destroyed to Make Way for railroad.
A force of men cleaning the way tor
the roadbed of "a railroad blasted away
the other day the most historic rock
on the Missouri fKiYer. The rock stood
for centuries on a bluff just above he
old town of Marion, Mo, where the
new railroad crosses Mouiteau creek
It was in the form of a pyramid, eighty
feet high. One side resembled very
much the head of lion. while the
other was a well defined likeness of a
man.
There is tradition among the old
people of this neighborhood that this
rock was once worshipped by the In
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-03

Some years ago an Englishman Wis.,
tied Washington and met statesman
belonging to the minority party, who
gave a most startling account of the
corruption existing in the government
and the terrible struggle he had had
against it. do you mean to say, SIR"
asked the stranger. seriously, that
you are the only honest man in the
American government Well" re-
piled the statesman, stroking his beard
meditatively, Il wouldn't go so far a.
that. There may be fur or FIVE more
somewhere"
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Pope Leo's Kindly Thought.

1t is said that when M. Nisard, the
French ambassador, was received in
solemn audience by the pope recently,
the beautiful clo~k presented by the
kaiser was covered with a veil, the
Vatican fearing that the sight of it
might call to the mind of the ambassa-
dor CAe haul of clocks made by the
Prussiaps at Paris in 1870.
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F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, the sculp-
tor has just completed bronze group,
called Spirit of the Confederacy," for
the Confederate Soldiers Home and
Cemetery at Higginsville, Mo. The
group is thirteen and one-half feet
high and represents a dying soldier
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r,k,, Funeral Desieus

"A wealthy Warsaw landowner sleeps
each night in a room draped with
black, decorated with skeletons, and
having in the middle of the floor ca
tafalque. on which is a metal comm.
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reclining in the arms of Fame, Who
holds aloft the crown she will place on
his head. 1t also suggests the splen-
who. by her Spartan spirit, nerved her
sons to the last measure of self-sac--
rificing devotion.
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Chicago. which will be the recipient OF
regent of Bavaria, will receive an nom
or at once unusual and suggestive.
The banner not only will express the
good will of the prince for his former
subjects now in the United States
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dams who came each year to hold cele-
brations. They called it God Mont
tor" from which the creek and coun-
ty have acquired their names
For centuries the rock stood there
a beacon and guide for all kinds OF
river craft. How old it was no one
can tell. 1t was observed by the first
French explorers when the came up
the river in 1705 and a hundred years
later Lewis and Clark saw and wrote
descriptions Of it.
The rock originally bore queer
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but will symbolic the intellectual ties
binding Bavarians abroad to the
fatherland.
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GIFT OF PRINCE IS sYmBol,cAL

Luitpold's Banner for Chicago Bava-
rians Signifies Intellectual Tles
The Bavarian-American society of
a banner from Prince Luitpold the
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WILL ATTEND THE CORONATION

York Society Leaders.
As the wife of the special ambassa-
dor of the United States to the corona
ton of Edward VII, Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid will be an honored guest of the
English nation. Leaders of New York
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BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS

wife of Duke of Sutherland Makes
New Social Custom.
The Duchess of Sutherland. who
has made a new social custom by leav-
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= To Honor Whittier, q
Association of Poet
Home in NevxE Gland ~
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Especial Lottery

DMUND l. A. w RI N Z e
:: ;; : !:
- STEDMAN of New York.
banker and poet, has made
a public appeal for sub
scriptions necessary to
vi complete the fund which is
~ being raised to pay for the
erection of memorial to
John Greenleaf Whittier. This
memorial will probably take the
form 'of statue and is to stand in
front of the Friends meeting house
in Amesbury. where the old poet was
x lifelong worshiper.
The work for the memorial" said
Mr.. Stedman, was initiated by the
ladies of the Whittier Home aSsocia-
ton of Amesbury. 1t is to their de-
votion that we owe the preservation
of the Whittier house. the pious care
with which it is maintained and shown
to the constant line of pilgrims, and
the celebrations of the anniversaries
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A proud man never shows his pride
so much as when he is civil.-Greviile-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-13
An Elegant Reception.
fSpecial nispatch to Thc Times.l

Especial Dispatch to The Tfmes.)
WINCHESTER, VA. July PA bril-
liant reception was rendered a large
number of the best society people of
Winchester last night at the residence
of ex-Solicitor-G General Holmes Conrad
by his daughters in honor of Mrs. W. w.
Gordon. of Savannah, Ga, and her sis
ter. Miss Mamie Scriven, of New York
city, who are spending the summer in
this city with the Misses Sherrard on
Amherst Street.
The Conrad mansion. which is one of
the handsomest and finest equipped IN
the Valley, was brilliantly lighted and
rnagnificently decorated with plants and
flowers An elegant supper was served,
and during the evening the young ladies
present served ices to the gentlemen and
the older guests.
The receiving party were Mrs. w. w.
Gordon. of Savannah. Ga: Miss Mamie
Scriven. OF New York: Miss Mary Small,
of York, Pa: Mrs Henry Battle. of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Henry Fl. Little. OF
Norfolk. Va; the Misses Hunter. OF
Alexandria: Mrs. Dr. Campbell. Of At
lanta, Ga. and the Misses Conrad.
Mrs Gordon and Miss Scriven, In
whose honor the reception was given.
are granddaughter of the late Admiral
Buchanan. of the Confederate States
navy. who was in command of the Con-
federate ram Tennessee at the hard
fought battle of Mobile Bay
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-13

that put year Of a child's education
at less than $50. Fifteen put it at over
S25 and seven at over $50
Richmonds city appropriation fo..
schools. s125.2S9. is much less than half
Of that of Dayton, o. of about the same
population. and 10 per cent. less taxable
values.
The Richmond schools from city and
State together. get $751; 31. Look at the
corresponding figures for other cities OF
about the same population: Bridgeport
2,96l; Camden, s227,i76; Wilmington,
Del. s25S.O05; Reading. s29,6oS; Hartford
Si52,56i; Seattle, $3.50, 0iS: Dayton, $3.50. 500;
Grand Rapids. s3Ol 100: Portland. Ore.
s227. 1885,: Cambridge. Mass, ssi2.690; Al
bany, S2SS.2S3; Lowell. s3SSl SS2-all OF them
cities of less tnan hundred thousand
population
And in the neglect of her schools
Richmond cannot claim poverty, for her
total city revenues compare very favor
ably with those of the cities just men
toned.
The movement of Mr.. Crenshay prom
Uses to open up the full discussion and
consideration of the subject in way
that cannot but do good.
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SYNOPSIS OF THE
FIRST WST.ALMENT

DR.. Mortimer called upon Sherlock
Holmes to obtain his aid in solving inc
mystery surrounding the death OIL on
Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was
q genial English country gentleman VIZ
had amassed a fortune in South Afrlca'
and had returned to Baskerville han
with the means of putting my
the home of his ancestors y mere "'7
tradition in the family thaL 1ii'
eryi,les were followed by a 1a'e ~ ''''
shane Of a supernatural hound -i"'is
or tho family had met with vloiehl anu
,,,. deaths. The hound first
made his appearance in the Gays
NJ the great rebellion, when HUGO
baskerville had been pursued pS 'no
hr,,.e and killed in consequences OIL MS
,,,-;-c stolen a. peasant maiden from hef
hnna Sir Charles's death was as riSss'e-
ric;Is as that of any OF ms dlceS'ol :
lie had been found dead at the eho OIL
lane dividing his park fro mine moor
lands where the hound was, accor"'hs
N tho tradition, wont to roam. mere
i rign If violence on his person.
i,,,. HE face was so contorted that IN.
Mortimer. his friend. and family phs-
stefan. at first hardly recoenizeo me
features as those of Sir Charles The
a..,.a and title went to the next oil
lin q NEPHEW of Sir Charles supposed 70
be living in Canada. Dr. Mortimer re
lates these as the public facts to sher-
lock Holmes. and the great detectVe mas
asked for the private ones, Which me
Doctor now proceeds to relate
Continuation Of Chapter II.
.1n doing So" said DR.. Mortimer. who
had begun to show signs of some emo
.;,,, ..I am telling that which have not
co,;f;ded to anyone My motive FOR with
holding it from the icoroners inquiry is
mat a man of science sfrinks from piac-
ing himself in the public position OF
.een:ine to endorse popular supersu-
zion had the further motive that
baskerville Hall, as the paper say ;.
would certainly remain uhtehahteo ~
ANYTHING were done to incense ITS al
ready rather grim reputation FOR poih
these reasons I thought that was JUST
since no practical good could result from
ii, but with you there is no reason why
/ should not be perfectly frank
he moor is very sparsely Inhabited
ard those who live near each other are
thrown very much together For ms
reason / saw good deal of Sir tharles
baskerville. With the exception OF MI
Jraukland, Of Latter Hall. and Mr. sta
rIeton. the naturalist. there are no other
men of education within many mics.
Sir Charles was retiring man, bu1
The chance of his illness brought US To-
,~ether and a community of interests III
science kept us so. He had brought back
much scientific information from South
ATri, a, and many charming evening we
have spent together discussing the com
7arative anatomy of the Bushman and
he Hottentot.
within the last few months it be
.anc increasingly plain TO me that Sir
Charles nervous system was strained 10