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which VIII be- devoted to some graduate
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FIRE AT ROCKY MOUNT.
Large Pnrt of the Town Was Swept
Away.

Away.
Raleigh, N. c., March "A large
part of Rocky Mount, N. c., was swept
away by fire to-day, the loss being
estimated at over $s5,OO0.
The fire started in the Opera House
in the Masonic building This was
destroyed, together with the postofiice.
The bank building, the telephone Office
and five store buildings also burned.
The bank and Masonic buildings
Were modern structures.
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sIaned New Treaty.

washington. March 2--Secretary Hay
and Senior Quesada. the Cuban minis
ter. to-day signed a new treaty confirm
Ing Cuba'E title 70 the Isle Of Pines.
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1000. No important engagement is ex-
pected south of the Yalu river. which,
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WHERE RUSSIAN RIVER
Jnps Are concentrating.

it is believed. the Russians will make
their main line of defense.
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JAPANESE REPORT
ON RUSSIAN ACTS.

Continued from First Page.
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face. 1t was weird scene and Mr.. Rith-
by felt he would consider it picturesque
If he was msre spectator. But he Lrew
that one false step of the mule and the
hoofs that came thuEderirg behind
would snuff his life out. Still the wild
impulses that inspired the others soon
took possession of him and he whoopsd
as ferociously as the rest. Take your
feet out of the stirrups," yelled some one
who rode near him. He did so. After
wards he was to be thankful for the
advice.
The trail led downhill again over
ground strewn with rocks and bowl
ders. In obedience to the laws of grayita-
tion these where loossne by the horses
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Nearly every visitor to New York sees
the long yellow wall pierced with win
dOwS that bounds the beautiful
churchyard of Trinity to the north
ward. 1t is the Oldest of the great Of
fee buildings of the city and has stood
for over half a century. The plot is
25S feet deep and only 40 feet wide on
Broadway. widening trifle in the
rear. Upon this little plot of land, the
size of good strawberry bed,
S., 000,0 900 building is to be erected. 1t
will not be by many the first to cost
that sum. But an interesting posi-
bility is presented that the new struc-
ture may be monumental indeed. Just
to the north of it is a narrow lane
called Thames Street-one of those in
teresting survivals whose very names
are forgotten by the public. If the
owners of the plot could get permits
sion to arcade this street or give the
city an equal strip of land further
south in exchange they would erect
building covering their present mar
row block and the one adjoining at
cost of $40, 000. 900 and to the height of
80 stories.
There are legal obstacles. Thames
street was once the farm lane of
placid Dutch farmer, who generously
allowed his fellow citizens for all time
to make use of it. 1t IS a public street
only by usage. The heirs of the farmer
cannot reclaim it; it is doubtful if the
city can grant it. And so an interest
ing architectural monument Is likely
not to follow.
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when he made one
If the happiest RESPONSES imaginable,
catching his auditors, who included the
leaders of congress and other prominent
men, with the aptness and thorough good
feeling of his remarks. He had been in
the United States less than a week and he
had hardly freed himself of his sea legs.
He knew nothing about American habits
and traditions except what he had read
In the somewhat uncongenial atmos-
phere of Persia, India and Madrid. Yet
he showed an appreciation of AIMS rican
ways that some foreign representatives
spend years in Washington without ac-
quiripg 1t is little of puzzle to the
new ambassador that so many Amer
leans seem to have the faculty of public
speech. In his own country it is not near
ty so frequently found as here, and the
readiness and aptnsss of the average
Yankee on his feet are a source of con-
tinual amaZement to him. Probably
sfter he has been here awhile and has
made a few after dinner speeches in his
own tactful vein he will be less al loss
to account for the universally of
talent which he has possessed uncon-
sciously all these years. Sir Mortimer is
assured already Of great popularity in
Washington. and from present prospects
he viii occupy worthily the place left
vacant by the demise of Pauncefote and
Herb TT, two of the most attractive per-
sonalities who have ever graced the
Wa: hington diplomatic colony.
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tide. Ex-Congress-
man Worthington was made a repre-
sentative from Nevada near the close
of the civil war and he arrived in Wash
ington just in time to take part in the
proceedings necessary to the adoption
of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to secure which Nevada was made
a state. Afterwards he represented the,
United States in Uruguay and the Ar
gentine Republic. He was selected to
serve as a pallbearer for Abraham Lin
coin during the brief time of his service
in the houss. He is to-day the sole sur
yivor of those who bore the body of the
martyred president to his grave. There
8 little left for the old man now. He is
poverty stricken and Ill and yet he con-
tinues to hold the regard of those men,
oers of congress who remember what he
wa: and who help him to exc out scanty
existence by giving odd jobs about the
capitol In all his misfortune this veneer
,ble derelict has kept up his good
,pirits and has not lost the power to en-
certain. He has seen many interesting
cen and scenes and he knows how to
ell about them. In his earlier days he
vas said to be strikingly handsome and
extremely popular. That may be easilv
imagined by one who sees him now. for
ae has the fading memory of such things
n his face.
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ments and small houses in the outer
wards. AS interesting boom" OF
this sort as can be seen in the far west
is the development of Brownsville"
queer locality in Brooklyn. miles
away from the bridge and from every
line of rapid transit. Here a popula-
ton of 10000 has gathered within
very few years, augmented of recent
months by throngs of East Side Jews
from the heart of the slum district OF
New York. displaced by the clearing
OF ground for new bridges and parks,
and crowded out by new corners faAs
coming into the city from Ellis Island.
Nine-tenths of the lots and houses in
Brownsville are owned by Hebrews.
some of them poor tailors who barely
earn living in the sweatshops and
who thus feed fat their greed for land,
in other countries denied them. A
curious result follows. Lots in
Brownsville are selling for 800 front
foot. when land apparently more de-
sirable nearer the elevated lines, but
in non-Hebrew quarters, may be had
for a small fraction of the price-for
Brooklyn is a blessed haven of cheap
space for homes.
The new bridge across the East
river. so recently opened, is. with its
four trolley tracks. two bicycle tracks.
two railroad tracks. two foOtways and
two wagon roads, not much more than
connection between the old Jewry
on the East side of Manhattan ana
this great new ghetto in the outskirts
of Brooklyn.
Building in this quarter is excess
sively lively. In other parts of the
outer wards it almost passes belief,
the magical way in which cabbage
fields are being transformed into long
streets lined with low-browed homes.
The Making of n Metropolis.
Now that Brownsville is well estab-
lished, considerable proportion of re-
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foXhunt of the Usage Hills.
The comparisons are Lawrence E.
Rithby's, and he ought to know Mr..
Rithby-who is railroad engineer
with offices in the St James building,
New York city-had the fortune to ex-
perience the kid-gloved eastern sport,
and what he terms the misfortune 10
risk his neck in the untamed Missouri
affair. And when he witnessed the
risks taken in a nocturnal run with
the hounds in the Usage Hills he con-
cluded that human life was about the
cheapest thing in the market there.
At about 35 miles westward from
Eldon, Mo-. you find yourself in the
heart Of the Usage Hills. Eidon is
mentioned because that is the railroad
iumping-off place. From there a team
If tough Missouri mules will run you
o the hills in about tour hours.
The Usage Hills lie about the main
valley Of the Usage river, and in this
'egion until 1850 dwelt the Osages,
loblest of redmen. Here, says the
egend. the Great Spirit tired of his
abor of leveling off the earth and
'ested amidst the chaos at his feet.
And so, scanned, rugged, broken and
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that was in him. He expressed an
anxiety to experience those joys, but
regretted he had no mount. 1t was
then Col. Bill Hart said he would Elk
him up all right" He little knew
how prophetic was the promise.
One night the colonel. accompanied
by galaxy Of judges. professors.
colonies and few majors came to in
vite Mr.. Rithby to a foxhunt, at the
same time kindly providing him with
a mount. The mount was a gigantic
mule. which at a little distance he OBJ
served silhouetted against the sky
like q statue of heroic size. He was
roman-nosed and saggy in the back.
with q plentiness OF leg and scarcity
of tail. but guaranteed to easily carry
1S5 pounds.
The foxhunting time in the Usage
Hills coinciding with reynard's bust
ness hours, there was little difficulty
in finding a fresh trail. Then the fun
and incidentally the fatalities began.
One of the hounds nosing along
through the brush gave the peculiar
yelp which means 1--WE got him. in
dog. An answering howl from all the
other dogs. a whoop from the humans.
q blast from the horn. and they were
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sest IN inc oouh'ry Chesapeake and the
game and vegetables of the eastern
shore The biggest of the markets is the
Center market, which occupies two oi
the most sitely squares in the center Of
the city not far from the Pennsylvania
railroad station and which pays the Dis
trict of Columbia a yearly rental of ST.
600 for the plot under 99-year lease.
That is about as profitable proposition
as anybody could ask for. A rental
of $4,000 for those particular squares
would not be an unreasonable price, but
the District has to grin and bear 1t. At
the time the Center market was es-
tablish 1t was rally something of an
achievement for the District to lease the
land at all. so that perhaps robody after
all has been seriously wronged. An in
teresting feature of the markets here. rot
only the Center marFet. but the others.
is the great number Of typical southern
darkies who have stands on tbs streets
adjoining These sable vendors have oc-
cupied their stands, coming In from the
country early in the morning year In and
year out, until they have proscriptive
right and nobody would ever think OF
ousting them. They form picturesque
body which makes 1t well worth the
while Of northern visitor to stroll about
the markets along about daybreak. be-
fore the business OF the streets has be.
gun to rush. II is about the only sur.
vivai we have Of the old southern GUS
toms and ways For Washington 10
rapidly becoming a northern town in all
Its habits.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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q record in, new
C o n S t ruction in
this city. The
new year starts
slowly, as every
year is bound to
do, coming to us
in blizzard and
9 n Ow SkurrieS.
But the reckless
pace bids fair to
be resumed with
the spring.
Most interest
ing of many prof.
ects Is the re-
placing of the
Trinity building
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made about this slaughter of the inno-
adopted of having the foundlings cared
for by two societies, one Catholic, the
other Protestant, which receive the
babies. christen them and put them
out, where possible, as adopted chill
dren of childless families.
Every other child is turned over to
each society. Baby No. 1 is Catholic,
No. is a Protestant, and SO on. No
foundlings are ever turned over to be
brought up as Hebrews, because there
is as yet no Hebrew society 10 care
for them. If a little Hebrew baby
does turn up in the pitiful grist CT
poverty and want, 1t is baptised at
once and becomes "krisht" And hap
py to tell, only IL per cent. of ;iia
babies now die in their first year, in
stead of 80, in spite OF their want Of
suitable nourishment when found.
The founding used to be in the bad
old days, which can never come bac,l
In quite all their horror, whate-ar
happens, treated as rather a joke. A
baby would be brought in by a STAT
wart policeman. Found In a hallway
on Essex street" would be the report.
"All right. Call him John Hall
way"
A baby girl found In the gutter was
actually christened by the jocular
police as Jane Gutter" another res
cued from an ash barrel Wayne Bar
relI." Perhaps the names killed many
of the unfortunate 80 DER cent
s OWEN SLANGDON-
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from public life he will be missed more
generally than any other man now in
the senate, for his are the qualities which
always attract attention and when he is
in business the rest of the senate are
kept busy guessing. He is one of the most
delightful men in public life In CONVEX
sation he is fascinating. Anec6ote, wit
ticisms and literary illusions fall from
his lips in a continuous stream. Scores
of vastly entertaining volumes might be
compiled by one who would follow the
Massachusetts, senator about and take
down his daily gossippings. A part Of
his memories he has compiled himself
in the random autobiography which has
just been published, but they are only
fraction of the interesting things he
could tell. Curiously enough, Senator
Hoar has never been quite on the i'm
side" of national politics, great as is his
prestige in the senate. HeshaS never
been one OF the managing men of con-
gress, but has rather bsen regarded as
sage. He likes to talk of himself as an
old man, yet his mind Is as clear and Wig
orous as it ever was and age has only
ripened and enriched it. He Is as quick
in repartee as any man in the senate and
he does not fear anybody in debate. That
hs may live long to enjoy his honors and
has prestige is the wish even of those
who lose patience with him at times
Passing of the Executive Session.
United States senators who still respect
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hoofs raced with them to the bottom.
Sometimes when the swiftly moving
bowIoerS STRUCK a horses hind less, the
animal assumed a sitting posture winch
it maintained until Level GROUND Was
reacne0. tor the most part they tobos-
ganeo that hill. AT the bottom was
snane fence around clearing. 1nis they
crashed through. Jumping is lot q
necessity in an Usage Hill hunter. The
ability 10 oooge stumps, trees anu bowl
GERS going at lull sp;ed is. L he clearing
was stuoQed with stumps, but the mule
never srazed one. Going at gallOp he
swerveo and ooGgso in manner that
was amazing. Yet more amazing was
the way Mr.. Rithby kept his seat.
Across the clearing was another
snake fence. This, of course, would be
hunter. There was a good approach and
a chance for horse TO rise 10 it. But
the advantage OF good approach only
allowed a greater impetus TO the mules
butt" He went through that fence, not
over it. Main strength rather than
agility counts in an Usage Hill hunter.
They climbed another hill straignter
than the first Another clatter along a
ridge. Another descent of a hill that
this time was terraced like great stair.
The chase led towards the river and MIR.
Rithby could descern it edged with great
sycamores in the bottoms below. There
was thunderous crash through a skirt
ing fringe of willows and dogs, horses
and mules were fioundering through the
ooZy mud of bay GU when the paving
and kicking hunters deluged their
riders with a slimy shower. Then drip
ping with mud, mules and hosss clam
bered up the slippery clay bank like
cats. The louder and more prolonged
baying of the dogs in front told that the
fox was near hts finish. Then the
whoops of the hunters urged the
frenzied dogs to the final pittiless effort.
They were racing along strip of bot
tom near the river. 1t was thickly tim
bsred and the ground was strewn with
fallen trunks. With his roman nose
stretched out in a horizontal line the
mule lodged stumps and trees and took
fallen trunks in his stride without re-
Taxing his speed. To avoid a pile Of
drift he swerved and ran underneath a
dogwood tree from which a thick branch
grew straight out. 1t caught the ILL
fated engineer at the neck and stopped
him abruptly while the mule preserved
the uneven tenor of his way. For q mo-
ment Mr.. Rithby renamed suspended by
the chin Ike an enthusiastic gymnast
and then dropped in q heap to the damp
leaves below.
Then he concluded that the human
organism is wonderfully held together
or the jolting of fox hunt as 1t obtains
in the Usage Hills would shake 1t to
pieces. And 1t struck him as wonderful
how even the rawhide physique of Mis-
souri, mountaneer can stand the reps IT,
ton of the fiendish battering of a three
hours nocturnal run with his dogs
through the brush and timber of his
bowlder-strewn and precipitous hills
IF oRYAN.
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stichlers for form, like Spooner and
Platt. If Senator Edmunds were still in
tbs, senate it is safe to say that these Nio-
lations of the spirit of the executive Ses-
sion rule would be cut off abruptly, Tor
Edmunds never heSitated to call BROTH
err senator Gown wnen things seemed 10
b.. Going contrary to established preced-
ents. Just now there is nobody in the sem
ate with quite Edmund's sublime in0lf-
ference to The feelings OF his neishbor, so
the viplatCrS- of tradition so merrlly on
ard will continue 70 CO so until 1t NAV
be that the executive session Will have
become a thing of memory. This &C.
ye!opm mt is alter all only natural out
come Of the newspaper enterprise Whlcn
for years has made the executive session
something of farce. Not within recent
memory has an executive session been
held about which the newspaper men
did not learn sooner or later and tbs pro-
ceedings have been regularly published
as a matter of course. There are some
senator's naturally who think it just as
WILL that what they say should be form
ally reported ard officially disseminated
since the substance of 1t Is sure to get
into the newspapers. If the executive
session ware to be abolished altogether
it would save good many white lies on
the part of senators. There never yet
was secret session the proceedings OF
which it was not to the personal inter-
est of some senator to make public.
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m o S t interesting
phase. And Wash.
ington enjoys the
reputation of hav.
ing the finest an6
best markets in the
world. The rich
truck ( arm g OF
Maryland and Wiz.
ginia near by al
ford a never ex.
hausted supply Of
the finest of edibles
and the capitol il
within easy dis.
lance of the oys
ter beds of the
M onI fha
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covered by heavy forest, it endures to
this day.
Nobody seems to know how or why
or by whom nocturnal foxhunting was
made principal, or rather the prin-
cipal, sport there. If you know the salt
ticks and patiently lie in their vicinity
for day or two your ravenous appe-
tite will be appeased with taste of
venison. You can catch up with the
wild turkeys any day in the season,
and coon and 'possum await you at
all times. But why the Usage Hill
folk almost altogether ignore these
objects of sport and take savage de-
light in blindly chasing a worthless,
unedible and malodorous varmint like
a fox through the painless brush Of
their flinty hills at night is unaccount-
able.
Mr.. Rithby had never tasted the
joys of the nocturnal foxhunt, but the
description excited the love OF sport
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OF. Not slowly at first with gradually
increasing speed, but like an arrow
from bow into the night and the un-
known
Rithby knew it was down hill because he
gravitated towards the mules head.
Then a rush uphill a little less wildly,
ofcourse. Afterthat, a Gemoniacalch charge
along bare ridge where the shod hoofs
knocked my Rad sparks from the flint sur
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OF ! q c e 8 tn9t
makes New York.
= Under the old
h ! d e GUS charity
system of Tam
many Hall, only
three years ago,
the neglected and
deserted babies of
the city ere
treated as paupers
and shipped regard
less Of their state
of health to Han
d ALI 3 j S land,
W h ere literally
nine out of ten OF
them died. A
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&QO mas Set MS
brothsT senators
Tondering ] u S t
what he is likely
20 do next. The
senior Massachu-
sets senator 10 q
law unto himself.
he has been such
for 20 years and
such he must con-
tinue to the end. At
heart he IL the most
rigid of party men.
In fact partisan
ship for many years
was regarded as
~arhopo hiS most
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stopping on Lana wo.th S14. 100000 an
"aNA'' ineh acre. That is an
old story now; no land in that Alad-
din's nook of New YORK has been sold
for years, nor is any for sale or likely
to be, unless Uncle Sam should con-
clude to change the site of his SUBJ
treasury and assay Office. If he should
he could easily get twice the price
paid years ago for nearby space
Then the operations for the Flatiron
building revealed the possibilities of
land on Madison Square Between
$1O.000,000 and $4,000 900 per acre
were paid for the various plots united
In this structure. And then the mad
dest speculation was let loose by the
announcement that the Pennsylvania
railroad was to build a great uptown
station on the line of Thirty-fourth
street, with tunnels to Long Island
and New Jersey.
A hasty scramble to get on" en-
sued. In the rush single parcel on
the best Broadway corner was sold
for $3.50 foot. This was not a crazy
price. 1t earns i've per cent. upon
$500 foot Yet even at the price paid
the dingy, battered old shop which is
now being replaced by modern
structure brought s15,246,00O ger acre
though, of course, the'whole plot
was but small part of an acre One
dollar bought in this famous transfer
q bit of land one inch long and little
less than half an inch wide.
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daily nowadays by
t b e indifference
shown by some of
their associates to
the sacredness Of
the executive ses-
sion. The. careless
way in which Sen
ators Hoar, Morgan
and Daniel have
ventured to discuss
the Panama treaty
and other diplo-
m a t c ques tions
while the doors OF
the senate are ops n
to the public has
startled some of the
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an asset TO those
who. supply her
supposed needs. is
shown in tn e
prices attained for
land in the new
shopping center,
about the corner
Of Thirty-fourth
street and Broad
way.
Years ago we
thought it a great
record when land
at the corner of
Wall and Broad
streets sold for
-