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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20
LITTLE LIGHT ON THE MYSTERY.
Sad Story Of the Fate of W. W, Young Brought
Out at Inquest
Especial to News and Observer.)

Wilmington n. c., March 19.-Thus
far Coroner c. D. Bell has been unable
to secure any evidence that throws any
light upon the cause of the death of the
young carpenter. w. w. Young, whose
remains were found ina pasture, near
the coast, six miles from Wilmington,
on Tuesday of this week. The death oc-
Cured nearly three years ago, and the
task incident upon an investigation OF
the kind is necessarily a hard one.
Young was last seen on the public road,
opposite the spot where the skeleton was
found.
Two farmers returning in carts from
the city were asked for a ride, but the
man was suffering from locomotatoxia
or was thought to be drunk; therefore,
he was refused the lift" he asked.
Before the cart of the second farmer
passed the man, he fell under the We
hicle and was run over, but was appar-
entity not seriously injured and was left
in the road. That was the last seen of
him alive The remains have been
buried in Bellevue cemetery.
The coroner has yet one or two wit
nesses from whom he expects to get
some light that will clear up the mys-
terry.
Rev. Dr.. NJ. w. Edgerton, OF Knox
Vile, Tenn, arrived this evening in re-
Spouse to an invitation from the pulpit
committee of the First Baptist church.
and will look over the field here with a
view of accepting a call to succeed Rev.
DR. Calvin S. Blackwell as pastor.
The Chamber of Commerce will issue il
May a handsome souvenir booklet ad-
vertising Wilmington industrialIy.
The fertilizer factories in the vicinity
of Wilmington, are running 7day and
night on full time to keep up with or
ders.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

Capt. Tull and his force on the Durham
and Charlotte railroad are encamped at
Sheriff Taylor place on the western
part of town. They arc surveying and
locating the Durham and Charlotte Rail
road. 1t has already been located nearly
to this place and will run by Bynum and
up this side of Haw River to Burlington
and Greensboro. The line is built from
Gulf, in this county, nearly to Starr, in
Montgomery. It is understood as soon
as it is completed to the latter place
the regular force viii be added to the
small one at Gulf and work this way
Chatham Observer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20
Randolph Superior Court.
Special to the News and Observer

Special to the News and observer
Asheboro, y. c.. March 19.-Randolph
county Superior Court began here vest or
day. Judge Thos A. Mcneil presiding.
Solicitor Hammer was not well the first
day. but is all right to-day. Judge Nc
Nein has made a good impression on
the bar and the public generally.
No cases of Importance have been dis
posed of. The homicide case, State
against Williams, will be called to-mor-
row. The solicitor will ask for YER
dict of murder in second degree.
The civil docket will be taken up Fri
day. the first case for trial being league
against the Southern Railway.
Mr.. Solomon Moffitt. one of the oldest
and best citizens of the county. died 4
his home at Moffitt. n. c.. twelve miles
cast of here last night. Mr.. Mofftt has
been feeble for quite while Some
friends and relatives from here attended
the funeral today.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20
COUNTIES SHARE OF
HUNDRED THOUSAND
Extra Money Divided for the
Public Schools.
THIS HAD TO BE SCALED
q Counties Asked Nothing for -Four Months
Schools HniIs Others Went in Too
Peep for the Cash on
Hand.
THIS HAD TO BE SCALED

One hundred thousand dollars extr;
for the public schools of North Caro-
lima
This was nearly the amount sent OF
in warrants on the State Treasurer yes
torday.
The money sent was the second one
hundred thousand voted for the public
schools by the General Assembly, and
was = pay the teachers for the schoo
terms ending in June of this year
Eah county did not get what it asked
for, as the sum total of the requests
Amounted to $141 1895, making it nee
essay to scale all applications This
wa; done by the State Board of Eduea-
ito and the warrants were yesterday
set to the various county trcasurers.
.etters were also sent to each county
sperintendent advising these Of the
alount sent, and asking that a report
made of the amount apportioned TO
atih district These reports will be
alter published by each County Board of
Education.
In closing his letter to the County Su-
perintendents the State Superintendent
says:
THE money apportioned is unsable oaly
by the districts named in your original
application to which it is apportioned
and only for the purpose of paying teach
ers and the current expenses of conduct
ing the school in that district If thg
schools have closed in any Of these dis
tricts this money should be held to the
credit of those districts, and used only
for lengthening the school terms in those
districts when the schools reopen. would
not advise reopening the schools for q
short term. l think it wiser in most cases
to wait until the opening of the schools
for the next school year"
The sum total of the warrants sent out
yesterday amounts to $99,749.93 and the
balance of the fund will be used in de-
fraying necessary expenses or for some
counties not yet asking for aid.
No aid was asked for in twenty three
counties. these being Buncombe, Chowan
Davie, Durham Edgecombe Forsyth, Gull
ford. Halifax, Lenoir, Martin Mecklen-
burg, Nash, New Hanover, Pamlico, Pas
quotank. Pitt. Rowan. Swain, Vance
Wake, Washington. Wayne. and Wilson
1t is thought that of these Nash ant
Pamlco may ask for aid but all tho
others run their schools for four months
or more without extra help.
The scaling of figures in the amount:
sent out was necessarily varied according
TO the needs. Here are the amounts
asked by some of the counties, and il
the table which follows is given the
amounts apportioned:
Rutherford asked for $S,146.43; Cleve
land, Sc, 152.19; Cumberland $5,054.9S
Wilkes, S4,924.13: Cabarrus. $4,1S5; Ashe
1851, Caswell, $S,477.22; Harnett 49,
$40. "A; Chatham, s3,122.5O; Moore, 81
$500 Allegheny, $2,9S7S6; Watauga
S2,931.2t; Alexander, $2,30052.
After scaling down all the applications
the following was decided on as beins
equitable for each county, the blanks in
dicating the counties from which came
no requests for aid:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20
CARVER WILL PROVE AN ALIBI.
So He Declares, Saying He Knows Nothing Of
the Shooting of Macarthur.
(Specail to News and Observer

Fayetteville, n. c., March 19.-EX-S Sen
ator Warren Carver, charged with shoot
ing Andrew Macarthur colored, in Rock
fish township, will have preliminary
hearing on April, the Sth. Having given
himself up as reported in yesterday s
News and Observer, he was released on
500 justified bond. 1t is not believed
that Macarthur will die and Mr.. Carver
denies all knowledge of the shooting and
says he can establish an alibi. He says
he has been away on business trip
planned before the shooting occurred.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

We much regret that Chatham has lost
so useful a citizen as Mr.. Thos w. Sc
groves, who has moved to Sanford. The
clerk of the court will appoint a county
commissioner in place of Mr.. Scgroves.-
Chatham Record.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20
THE OLD CAMPER
on. L. WHITE.

has for forty-five years had one article
in his supply-Borden's Eagle Brand Con
densed Milk. 1t gives to soldiers, sailors,
hunters campers and miners, a daily com
fort, like the old home" Delicious in
coffee, tea and chocolate
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

We are pleased to learn that the iron
mine at Ore Hill, at which work was
abandoned several years ago, may soon
be re-opened and operations be resumed.
Recently some Investigations there have
been quite ouraging.-Chatham Rec
ord.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

Hives are a terrible torment to the lit
tie folks, and to some older ones. Doan S
Ointment never fails. Instant relief, per
mancnt cure. At any drug store, 90
cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

"a dose in time saves lives" DR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; natures
remedy for coughs, colds, pulmonary di
seases of every sort
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

81 owe my whole life to Burdock Blood
Bitters. Scrofulous sores covered my
body. 1 seemed beyond cure. Il. B. b.
has made me a perfectly well woman -
Mrs Chas Hutton, Berville, Mich.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-20

A household necessity-Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil. eHals burns, cuts, wounds
of any sort; cures sore throat, Group,
catarrh asthma; never fails.
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
SURGERY IN GERMANY AND AMERICA

A young surgeon who went TO Germany four
years ago to complete his studies in pathology re-
Gently returned TO this country He makes this
Interesting comment on national differences in the
profession:
It's science over there: here it's the business OF
healing. Here one gets the elementary things in
college. learns more in hospital and in general
practice and turns the knowledge into money
The average American practitioner would be out OF
place over there. With them it's study study
study from the time they receive their degree
until they die
At the hospitals meeting places they talk
nothing but shop. l have known a group of Ger
man doctors to leave their dinner half eaten TO
visit under discussion. They are the worst
possible practitioners, for they interested only
in technique / knew a man who went TO a Ger
man physician with pain IN rs leg That doctor
spent hour each day for five days studying IT,
and after that time he knew all .here was To know
country we would have treated IL and thought no
about II except 10 congrat the patient in
a few days on getting we'll Tnsy don't care for
the patient. lie is only specimen l heard a
one patient would die so that he might learn some
fact from the autopsy.
They call American surgeons copyists. Wher-
ever the charge is true. IL is merely that Amer
study. But undoubtedly they doing a great
work. One man. it Is reckoued, has added thirty
thousand years to human life by his discoveries.
There is commercial end for them 10 gain. So
that their work. their science. must be their only
aim
The difference aptly illustrates the general diff
Il between our practical ways and the ways
OF German learning.-(W 5rld's Work.
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30

and at forkng place there is high shell
mound, and about it's foot a modest extent OF land
that rises always well above tidewater. Here in
the old days was Laitte's chief distributing point.
BY dozen routes contraband could be brought
from the Gulf to of the cypress shaded passes
that led hther And from here to the portages
leading into New-Orleans the way safe to
follow and easy to guard. Here the palace
royal of the buccaneer chief, Here it that
Lawyer Grymes. invited to Barataria to receive
his fee of $4,000 for the defence Of the younger
Laftte, was wined and dined by the most polished
gentlemen Of the world 1t back through the
same bayou by which came that he went with
his gold, in a splendid yawl. 1t at plantations
whose charred ruins have that he met
hospitable planters, and played sinful games that
left him to arrive in New-Oreans penniless and in
debt
From here to the Gulf of Mexico extended the
rule of Laftte. The shell heaps were his stations
The higher land settled by his followers. The
bayous his routes of travel and places OF
hiding. When piracy ceased with the battle of
Chalmete, his people improved the plantations that
existed, and made new ones on every bit OF land
that high enough for tillng. The old civiliza-
ton was continued new basis only little
more in touch with Louisiana laws and far less
in touch with Louisiana people than in the days
Of the freebooter.
1T is thirty-fve miles by the most direct bayou
route from this point Cirands Terre. the Gulf
Coast. Yet the whole persists the personality
of Jean LATTE. 1t is a strange thing, this immor-
tality of strong characters. One who has visited
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30

New-York. Had great run. Turning away people
every night That the most magnificent stage
setting that There dozens of
scenes one finer than the rest"-but even the Aus
tralian longer interested
The party sat on the balcony Of the chalet hotel,
looking out the lake. To the right and TO the
left. great mountains sheer thousands OF feet
with forests ciingfng to their lower side and
their tops patched with At the other end of
the lake stood out Mount Victoria. a mass Of white
except where the cliffs too steep to give the
snow a foothold. The base Of the glacier
dirty black 1t easy to forget that the lake
there, for the water absolutely unruffled.
and reflected the surrounding heights so accurately
that the images seemed a reality.
Here It's August" said Miss New-York, and
the snow and ice come right down TO the foot Of
the mountainsi The color IS pure as If the
snow had just fallen. Isn't It wonderful
THE foot OF that glacier isn't very pure and
white. It looks like West-st. two days after a
heavy snowstorn. when the Tammany street clean
ing commissioner hasn't got in his work. But
say, isn't there lot Of ice there, It's clear as
crystal and hard steel. II we had that in New
York say. wouldn't do thing TO the Ice Trust!
Ia like be short about 1000 shares OF the com
and preferred then. MY. wouldn't ice cream.
go down TO ive cents plate all over the East
Side The Free Ice Fund would go clean out of
business" These comments of the broker seemed
TO interest the Australian Apparently he was
studying the genus New Yorker. But the rest of
the group chafed a little.
The lake looks just the color OF the water with
bluing in it that washerwomen use in rinsing
clothes" went on the young man. amiably unc0n-
scious of the disapproval Of his UP to date com
ments.
That's due TO the silt from the glacier" ex-
plained the visitor from the Antipodes.
''I'll bet it isn't good for drinking as Croton
any way asserted the broker, confidently
What I can't understand about glaciers said
the New-York girl, is how they can advance end
yet retreat at the same time. The Candian Pacific
guide book says that the great glacier at Glacier
flows at the rate Of six seven inches a day in
the centre, yet IT is going backward about thirty
five feet year. How it do both?'
Maybe it is playing both ends against the mid
die suggested the Of puts and calls face
tiously. Did you see Weber & FieIdss skit'-
You thinking OF two entirely different mo-
tions" said the Chicago professor. breaking in en-
the theatrical reniniscence IN the first place
the glacier whole flows at the rate OF six or
seven inches day. II is the forefoot that is re-
treating up the valley. II is Just like Niagara
Falls. The water rushes forward at a great rate
vet the falls themselves-taat is the cliff over
which the water nows-are moving slowly back
wa I'd as the rock wears away"
What is the difference between bergschrund
and serac, professor" asked the young woman.
rs that a conundrum? 90 gayy inquired the New
Yorker That reminds me OF a good one heard
Keiths Why is a -
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
FRENCH WOMEN COMING TO THE FRONT
ALREADY TWO HAZE BEEN ADMITTED TO THE BAR
AS LAWYERS.
As LAWYERS.

lahorer and in her postofhce system she pays
her male and female employees at exactly the
same rate. The policy has the happiest results
The adequate recognition of individual effort
necessarily tends to an increased sense of re-
sponsibility and seIf-respect, and these two
qualities are the backbone of a country. In
France this inequality is carried to point
which brings its retribution. 1t is n0tO-
rious that in Paris there is scarcely a single
working woman to be found who is honestly
wholly self-supporting. The other night an Eng
hshman was accosted near the opera by a
young girl and he asked her why she did not get
some honest work. She replied: It work eleven
hours a day for 20 sous (cents) Could you live
on that?"
There is one other point in the French won-
ans lot in which she is less privileged than her
sisters in almost every other part of the world
Inadequate as her earnings are she is always
liable to be despoiled of them by her male rela-
tives. From her cradle to her grave she is in a
condition of pupilage. From the absolute control
of her father she passes, in marriage, to that of
her husband. and in the disposal of her own
fortune and the bringing up of her own chill
dren the French civil code gives her no voice
II she be a worker. her husband has the right
to draw her salary. and squander it at his pleas
ure' the law Of community ofSgoods' giving
her no redress. Her more Fortunate sister in
England has since 1870 possessed the sole right
to her own earnings. and the act Of 1888 assured
TO her the disposal of her own fortune In
nearly all the States of the United States the
same privileges have for years past existed. and
IN Italy and Russia women hold their property
independently of their husbands
1t Is, however, inevitable that the enlightened
government of France will before long put an
end to these anomalies. A great deal lies in
the hands of the women themselves Both df-
rectly and indirectly. they have great influence
on public opinion, and the high degree of intel
lectual cultivation now attainable by them viii
show them in what direction their best interests
and duty lie. All women are essentially con-
serVatIve, and their influence would be ALWAYS
on the side of law and order. Their instincts
are toward the permanence Of the race the per-
Inanence of the home sand permanence Of the
anections, so that their increased liberty of ac-
t1on could never become danger to either the
happiness of the home or the welfare of the
community. MoleTe showed true insight into
the matter when he said: "Je cOnseus au'une
femme ait des clartes tout" CT would have
women enlightened on all pofntsO. The greatest
evil is ignorance. and national education is the
sureSt weapon Of reform r
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30

Laggan. Alberta. Aug. 25.-"Isn't Lake Louise an
absolutely perfect gem, and isn't it in absolutely
perfect setting?" Thus the young woman from
New-York. She had pretty we'll used up her stock
of superlatives in her trip through the Canadian
Rockies but Lake Louise found her enthusiasm
as keen if she had just started.
Talking of settings. did you The Darling
of the Gods? ." The question asked by an
other New-Yorker, a young man whose life had
hitherto been bounded by Wa-st. and Fifty-ninth-
St. and whose ideas could with difficulty be got
beyond those precincts.
The young thought the question inap-
propriate to the verge of sacriege, she paid no
attention to it. An Australian came to the rescue
What is The Darling of the Gods? A lake or
q peak? Is it in Canada? I never heard Of il?
NO; it's play given last season by Belasco in
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
IN THE REGION OF GLACIERS
THE REMARKS OF THE NEW-YORK BROKER DID
NOT SEEN APPROPRT4TE TO SURROUNDINGS.

But his audience was listening to something
weightier. From across the lake came a mighty
IAN avalanche. by Jove!'"' exclaimed the pro-
fessor. What pity it fell behind the shoulder
of the mountain. It big fellow, too"
Have you seen 'Siegfried' at the opera?' 1t
That avalanche reminds me of it. Talking about
aValanches and things that Kansas cyclone in The
Wizard of Oz' was simply great. 1 saw the thing
four times. The costumes out of sight. And
the Scarecrow and the Tin Soldier-you ought to
have seen then They would have kept you laugh
ing for a week.
Here another avalanche came to the rescue and
kept the young silent for few moments.
4 guest at the hotel came along little later
with mess of trout which he had just taken from
Lake Louise.
ner," he said.
Talking about good things to eat" came from
the w-Yorker, 'I haven't struck anything
this trip mat would make forget the live
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30

broled Holsters in New-York- Those trout at
BanH weren't bad but give me planked shad the
way they cook it at Blanks chophouse- With
mug of musty ale''-
Its a wonder you could ever tear yourself away
from Broadway long enough TO come cut hers" !"
suggested the learned man from Chicago.
The market was so bad thought I'd save money
BY clearing out of the Street for q few months
DO you remember Dave Warfeid in The Auc-
honeer? He's great friend Of mine. You know.
in the first act
This time the avalanche fell in plain sight crash
ing down twenty-five hundred feet with noise
like thunder close at hand.
Bet there was noise like that on the floor
when Talbot ]. Taylor & Co. failed murmured
Mr.. Broker to himself After ALL there is nothing
like having sympathetic audience
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
II PIRATE KINGDOM.
Noe an Ruins, but Full of RQcy
Memories.

The student of American history knows that
among the defenders of New-Orleans in 1914 was
Jean Laftte the pirate, with hundreds OF
his men, who from their settlement on the
islands and cheniers about Baratarta Bay he knows
that when the city had been saved these men were
granted full pardon and that many returned to
civilized life, says Beonidas Hubbard Jr, in The
Atlantic Monthly. But the fate of the Barbarian
settlement-that was left the students guess
SO completely the region forgotten that the
average New Orleans citizen to-day has little or no
idea of the route to be pursued in reaching it.
Inquiries at hotel and steamer Offices gave me very
little help when. day in April, I went to and
fro about the Crescent City. asking a way 10 reach
the country OF the pirates. At last bethought NY
self of the French Market whittier go the shrimp
Ash and turtles from Barataria. There. among dark
haired HungaTians and fat faced French rnadames
I learned the name Of little steamer which plieg
back and forth in the Barataria trade.
''The boat would leave in two days said the
kindly old gray haired captain and would arrive
at Grand Pass between Grande Terre and Grande
Isle, on the second day out
THE vessel lay at the head OF Harvey's Canal
one of the little channels by which iuggers make
their way to the swamps and bayOus and back again
to the river. The engine gave forth a pun-pun
-puff-pufr. and we started southwestward from
the city. The reed covered marsh gave way to
dense cypress swamp, cypress whose limbs were
draped with long festoons OF gray Spanish moss
Turtles scurried from every fallen log. Water
snakes swan lazily along the shore Huge gar
fish jumped like trout, splashing the water in our
front. The huts Of moss gatherers. with their
adornment of stupid wondering black faces passed
Then issued upon almost currentless stream
OF bracksh water-a stream half wide as the
Hudson Albany This the Bayou OF Little
Barataria
Now approaching the country OF the
pirates The bayou branches and branches again,
New-York tribune., 1903-08-30
so MUCH GREEK.
,s WashIngton Post.

From The Washington Post .t., A
During these days % postofnee inVSs, SSsssssi-ls
story is told Of a postmaster down ~ 80 uerls
young man from New-YOrk went 60 one % Se-,vs ana
places In the old state TO visit q iei-ii- -Ssra
having occasion TO write secured a POS 'rivsts on
You had better not write anytnih ~ ~ Sohbsr
that card" remarked his sister ne vs@,
who is postmaster here reads every ca -5,,., ard
But the young man writing 70 a t.r S.. - hs
they had been studying shorthand tost...4 1ashes
put his message in pot hooks curves az tss oaice
ard mailed ia BE had not got far from t,,,,effae
the old cOhhler rushed aftet -, FSu -
Here. YOU, Here. you! SAINT Fea0 ""
written this cardT