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Volume LVI. No. 61.
Leads all North Carolina Bailies in News and Circulation
TROOPSTOTURN
RUSSIANS' RIGHT
Landing Soldiers atN ew
Chang and Pitsewo
PORT ARTHUR WAITS
It is Claimed that the Fortress Will
Be Able to Resist the Japanese
Assaults Until the Arrival of
the Second Pacific
Squadron.
(By the Associated Press.)
Mukden, Nov. 17.—1 tis reported
that 30.000 Japanese troops have been
landed at New Chwang and 30,000
others at Pitsewo, and that a turning
movement on the Russian right is ex
pected.
AMBUSCADE OF JAPANESE.
(By the Associated Press.)
•St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. —General
Kuropatkin in a dispatch dated No
vember 16, says:
“Yesterdaay evening the Japanese
assumed the offensive against our po
sitions near Sinchinpu. but the at
tacks were repulsed. At about 11
o'clock at night the enemy com
menced a fusilade which lasted an
houi and a half. Our losses were
fourteen men wounded. At dawn the
same day our sharpshooters ambushed
thirty-two dismounted Japanese dra
goons. The sharpshooters attempted
to make prisoners of them, but the
Japanese resisted and were all killed
or wounded except three who were
captured. A company of Japanese
came to the rescue of their comrades, j
but the fire of the sharpshooters kept
them at bay and the sharpshooters j
rejoined their regiment without loss." j
Port Arthur's One Hope.
(By the Associated Press.)
St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. —As a re
sult of the dispatches received from
Lieutenant General Stoessel, the War
Office expresses entire confidence that
Port Arthur will be able to hold out
till the arrival of the Russian second
squadron.
Stoessel Repulses Japanese.
(By the Associated Press.)
St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. —General
Stoessel in his dispatches to Emperor
Nicholas, reports the repulse of a Jap
aanese attack October 26 on the north
front of Fort Arthur. The Russian
losses were 480 killed or wounded. All
the attacks November 3. the daya the
anniversary of the Emperor's acces
sion to the throne was celebrated, were
repulsed.
General Stoessel was slightly wound
ed in the head during one of the latest
assaults on Port Arthur.
The text of General Stoessel’s dis
patches of October 28th is as follows:
SLUG FOUR n
••We have the honor to report to
Your Majesty that the apanese bom
barded very vigorously October 25
our forts and entrenchments north
and northeast. The following day
they also attacked one of the forts
on the north side but our heavy ar
tilleiy and shrapnel fire dispersed their
reserves and the assault was repulsed.
Our losses were one officer and about
seventy men killed and four hundred
wounded.
‘Engineer Captain Sakharoff, form
erly governor of Port Dalny, died Oc
tober 27 of typhoid fever.
"It is difficult to single out individ
uals for special mention among the
heroic defenders."
In a telegram dated October 30.
General Soes.se! says:
"Since my dispatch of October 28ih
the bombardment continues with great
fierceness.”
Under date of November 3rd Gener
al Stoessel telegraphed:
"We greet the Emperor. This day
a solemn one for our country, we are
praying to God and send to our Em
peror felecitations in the shape of
reverberating hurrahs. On bended
1 nee we pray to God to give health to
Your Majesty'and their majesties th
Empress and the Grand Duke
Czarevitch. Our joy is all the greater
because all the assaults, which lasted
nine days, have been repulsed up to
this great day, the anniversary of your
accession to the throne, t’ne same day
that our Japanese enemies celebrate
the anniversary of the birth of their
Mikado and whereupon they had
sworn to take the fortress. God is
with us."
lighting Goes on Nightly
j
(By the Associated Press.)
Chefoo, Nov. -17.—(9:30 p. nt.)
Fighting at Port Arthur has taken
place nightly since the apanese be
gan their general assault on October
26 according to Captain Ronberg. a
pilot, who was a passenger on the
Russian torpedo boat destroyer Ilas
toropny.
The Japanese trenches, the Captain
says, are close to the forts on Rihlung
and Keekwan mountains and to other
forts on ,the northeastern group.
The sharpshooters of both dsies oc
cupying the pits converse with each
other and frequently make individual
truces in order to borrow cigarettes ot
to relieve their cramped limbs.
The Japanese are displaying great
energy in the construction of trenches
and the mounting of guns.
All the railroad steamers belonging
to ihe Russians except the steel
screw transport Amur, have been sunk
by Japanese shells.
* The hospital ship Angara, formerly
a transport, has been sunk in shallow
water. The patients are still on
board the ship and are comfortable.
The News and Observe. .
The Japanese shells directed
against the harbor are fired with re
markably accuracy.
Recently a silk clad Chinaman, who
was seen travelling in a smapan was
watched by the Russians who ob
served that following the discharge
of each shell, he placed a handker
chief to his nose and then into his
lelt pocket, occasionally varying this
movements, apparently thus signall
ing the landing places of the shells.
The shells fell behind obstructions,
which fact prevented the Japanese
obtaining a direct view of their ef
fect.
The Chinaman was hanged.
Japanese Hold All Outer olYts.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 17. —Consul Gen
eral Fowler today cabled the State De
partment from Chefoo that the situa
tion at Port Arthur is extremely criti
cal, the outer forts having fallen into
the possession of the Japanese. He also
states that three Japanese torpedo
boat destroyers are lying outside or
Chefoo 1 arbor and that the Russian
crew of tlte torpedo boat destroyer de
stroyed yesterdaj are transferring
their arms and suplies to a Chinese
cruiser which is posted in front of
the Russian <• nsulate.
How Stoessel V. a- Wounded.
(By the Associated Press.)
St. Petersburg, Nov. 17.—(Friday.)
—2:15 a. m.—Rejoicing over the un
daunted spirit displayed by General
Stoessel in his telegram of cangratu
lation to Emperor Nicholas on the
anniversary of his accession to the
throne, and officially announcing the
failure of General Nogi’s nine day at
tempt to present Port Arthur to the
Mikado as a birthday gift is tempered
by private information that the gal
lant commander of the garrison has
been wounded. General Stoessel was
struck in the head by a splinter from
a sheil while he was personally direct
ing the repulse of a particularly des
(Continued or. Fa"® Five.)
HE SAW THE" DEED
Eye Witness to Killing of
Cassar Young. Seven
Jurors Accepted.
(By the Associated Press)
New York. Nov 17. —With four of
the twelve men who are to decide her
Nan Patterson, the former show girl,
charged with the murder of Caesar
Young, the wealthy horseman, was
continued in the criminal branch of
the Supreme court today.
The greatest care has been used
in the examination of talesmen and
the exhaustive questioning and al
most indiscriminate challengng for
even the slightest cause, indicated
that the panel of 100 talesmen might
be exhausted before the task was fin
ished.
Miss Patterson seemed in very good
spirits when she entered the court
room today, and a orief chat with
her counsel before the trial was re
sumed added to her apparent cheer
fulness. Mr, Levy informed the de
fendant that the morning mail had
brought him a letter which might
have an important bearing on Un
ease. What the letter contained was
not divulged.
The defendant's father, J. Randolph
Patterson, of Washington, was in the
court room early and occupied a seat
near his daughter within the bar en
closure.
John Millin, who was Caesar
Young’s racing partner and who, it is
understood will be one of the princi
pal witnesses for the prosecution, was
made to sit in the renr of the court
room upon request of the prisoner.
Millin had a seat near the bar enclo
sure and had been watching Miss
Patterson closely for some time when
she asked that he be ordered away
from the rail. As Millin passed the
defendant in going to the fear of the
court room she shrank back upon
her father’s shoulder.
An eye-witness to the shooting of
Young was discovered in a most un
usual way today while the trial was
in progress. Archibald J. C. Ander
son, one of the men summoned for
examination as to his qualifications to
serve on the jury, was being ques
tioned by As-.siisiant District Attorney
Rand when he a-tied permission to
speak with Judge Davis, who is pre
siding at the trial. After a whispered
conversation counsel for the prosecu
tion and defense were called to the
bench and a moment later Anderson
was .excuse-.! and joined counsel for
the prisoner within the bar enclo
sure. Daniel J. O’Reilly, one of Miss
Patterson’s attorneys, said that an
eye-witness to the shooting had been
discovered. Information to this ef
fect had been communicated to Jus
tice Davis 5 y Mr. Anderson.
When court adjourned seven jurors
had" been accepted.
EPISCOPAL CONVOCATION.
Bishop Cheshire Preaches and Admin
isters Rite of Confirmation.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Oxford. X. C.. Nov. 17.—The Epis
copal Convocation of the Raleigh dis
trict. is now in session in Oxford. The
serv-mes at St. Stephen’s church Wed
nesday evening were very impressive.
Bishop Cheshire delivered an able ser
mon and administered the rite of con
firmation. The choir rendered beau
tiful music, and wore the robes of a
vested choir for the first time. The
ministers in attendance on convoca
tion are Bishop Cheshire. Bishop Hor
ner, of Asheville; Rev. Dost, of Dur
ham: Rev. J. E. fugle. Rev. R. B.
Owen, of Rocky Mount, and Rev.
George Tolson.
The services are well attended.
Tlx* Opening Day at Hennings.
(By the Associated Press.) *
Hennings, D. ('.. Nov. 17. Ideal
weather, a large crowd representing
every class of Washington society adr.
the defeat of every favorite marked
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1904.
the opening of the fall meet of the
Washington Jockey Club today. R ict
King was the only second choice to
finish.. Mary Glenn, whose odds closed
at 10') to 1 and against whom 200 to
1 and 150 to 1 were freely offered at
the opening, won the first prize. The
Columbia handicap and .the Biaden
burg steeplechase were won by Gascai
and Race King.
POLICE SEEK MARIA JUSTICE.
She is Charged With Forgery and Is
•Wanted in Waynesville.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheville, N. C.. Nov. 17.—-The
Asheville police department has re
ceived a message from Chief Watson,
of Waynesville, requesting the officers
here to look out for and arrest a Mrs.
Maria Justice, wanted in Waynesville
for forgery. Mrs. Justice, who form
erly lived in Asheville, and who is
well known here, is alleged to have
forged a check last Friday on the
Bank of Waynesville for S2OO, and
later succeeded in having it cashed by
a merchant of that place. The check,
it is further said, was not presented
to the bank until yesterday morning,
when it was ascertained that a forg
ery had been committed and payment
was refused.
The Waynesville officers were noti
fied of the affair and search made for
(he woman. It was learned that she
had left Waynesville shortly after re
ceiving the money coming ' towards
Asheville. At Clyde, it is alleged, she
attempted to purchasae a ticket to
Washington, but succeeded in buying
transportation only as far as this city.
Patrolman Bartlett, who knows the
woman, said today that he saw Mrs.
Justice in Asheville early in the week,
j but at that time knew nothing of the
forgery and consequently paid no at
tention to her. It is presumed that
the woman remained here but a few
hours. She was accompnnie by a
small child.
RESCUED OFF CAPE IIENHY.
Eight Sailors and tin* Captain of the
IslelKiro.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York. Nov. 17.—Eight ship
wrecked sailors, the capte .n and cu \v
of the three masted schooner lsleboro.
who weer rescued from their storm
battered. waterlogged craft alter a ter
rible experience in the hurricane which
swept the Atlant.c sen. be am In the
week, were brought here today on the
British steamer Atholl, which arrived
from Yokohama and other far eastern
ports. The rescue was made fi> the
dangerous sees off Cape Henrv, while
the waves were breaking over the help
less craft fore and aft. Once on the
Atholl the men were given food and
warm clothing and they showed little
of the effects of their terrible experi
ence when they arrived here today.
The Tsiesboro sailed from Savannah.
Ga., November 9, bound for New Bed
ford, Mass., with a cargo of yellow
pine. The schooner encountered tht
hurricane on Sunday, the 13th. Her
sails were blown to ribbons. Tin* tre
mendous seas pounded the schoooet
so ’ncessantly that she sprang a leak
and filled rapidly, settling until hei
peeks were awash. All hands sought
safety on the deck of the after house,
from which perilous position they
veer rescued eighteen hours later by
the Atholl.
REFORMATORY for criminals
If l!tt* State Doesn’t Establish One in
Mecklenburg the County
Will.
(Special to Nows and Observer.)
[ Charlotte. X. C., Nov. 17.—A called
meeting of the Board of County Com
\ inissioaers was hold at the county
court house this morning and steps
were taken for the establishment of
| a reformatory for youthful criminals
! in Mecklenburg county, whether the
| State offers to give . i or not.
The County Commissioners will first
call upon the State to establish the
reformatory in this county, and if
the authorities do not deem it wise to
undertake the step tit the present
time the commissioners will proceed
with the work themselves.
The commissioners today went
about the matter in a most business
like manner and also appointed a
full board of directors for the reform
atory as follows: \\ r . (’. Dowd. H.
W. Harris, D. A. Tompkins, J. M.
Davis and F. V. Huey.
11. J. PIC KELSIMEII FIXED
Three Hundred Dollars, the Amount
Imposed for Illicit Distilling.
(Special to News and Observer )
Asheville, N. (\, Nov. 17. R. J.
Fickelsinrer, a prominent social and
business man .of Brevard, who vas
convict -d in the United States court
heei Saturday on a charge of iliicit
distilling, was called up today and sen
tenced b yJudge Boyd to pay a fine of
impr sc.uinent R was ordered, is to he
suspended upon the payment of the
to e and costs in the ease.
The conviction of Mr. Pickelsirrer
and the remarks of Judge Boyd last
Saturday when* His Honor intimated
that he might send the defendant to
jail instead of imposing a fine created
something of a stir among the friends
and acquaintances of the convicted
man, and excited greater interest than
ordinarily attached to the conviction
of moonshiners.
SIRS MAYBRK K EMPHATIC’.
she Will Make no Public Appearance
Either on the Stage or Ijeclnre
Platform.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York. Nov. 17.—The Associated
Press has received the following com
munication :
"Brooklyn, November 17.
"To the Associated Press:
“Will you kindly do me the great
favor most emphatically to contradict
any and all statements to the effect
that I intend to make a public ap
pearance either on the stage or the
lecture platform. Permit me to add
that in no instance has there been the
slightest ground for such a report.
“Yours truly,
(Signed.)
"FLORENCE E. MAYBRICK.”
STRONG CULL IB
THE WORK IH M
More Men are Needed in
the Ministry.
SERMON BY DR. MOORE
This Powerful Effort Stands Out Above
Every Event of the Day. The
Synod Consider Reports. En
tertained at the Conserv
atory of Music.
By J. 11. HENDEULITE.
Durham, N. C\, Nov. 17.—From the
time that “a widow of one of the sons
of the prophets cried unto Elisha,
the Man of God” the appeal of the
widow and orphan has been as the
voice of God to His people. "A Fath
er of the fatherless and a judge of
the widow is God," and so in a pe
culiar sense the orphans are His chil
dren and therefore the sacred wards
of the church. Dr. J. Rumple, presi
dent of the Hoard of Regents of the
Barium Springs Orphanage, in pre
senting his annual report of (hat in
stitution. called attention to the fact
that when the Synod met last in Dur
ham, thirteen years ago, just after
submitting his report to that body,
he received a message informing him
that the orphanage had burned to the
| ground. Now it has an equipment in
j buildings, etc., valued at $50,000. The
i receipts for the pas: year were $13,-
| hoO. 166 children were cared for and
1 there was not a single death or se
! rioUs Illness. God's blessing is upon
such work.
The Synod expects to take stren
uous rmasurys to place the orphan
age on a somew hat more assured and
stable footing.- and by securing the
support ii’fi. uiaj inmates as far
as possible, vernier the income more
certain.
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It has been said that the Presby
j terian church has the words. "Chfis
tion Education,” engraved h’gh up
on its gates in letters of light. Yester
day mornings session was largely given
to that subject. Dr. Shearer read his
usual fine r port, and Dr. Henry Louis
Smith, president of Davidson College,
made a stirring and luminous a,*
dress on the work and the needs of
that institution. Dr. Smith is always
needing something for Davidson, and
he usually gets it sooner or later:
as is well shown by tin* constant and
very marked progress of his institu
tion in material equipment. He is
! building up an uncommonly fine
school at Davidson which, view it as
you will, morally, intellectually, ma
terially. is an honor t<' the church
and to the State. Davidson gives an
impress and a tone to a boy’s char
acter that are rare and invaluable
and may be easily described in the
splendid life-records of her alumni.
Dr. J. R. Bridges, president of the
College for Women at Charlotte, and
Dr. Vardell, of Red Springs Seminary,
arc- also to be seen at the Synod. The
I name of the last institution has been
j changed, we believe, to the Southern
j College and Conservatory, or some
! thing of the sort, but it is just as
fine a school as ever, if not better
than ever, spite of the change. Dr.
Vardell savs so.
The addresses by Dr. Moment, of
Raleigh, and Dr. Wells, of the First
church, Wilmington, yesterday,
were perhaps the star features of the
Synod. Dr. Moment spoke on the
“Christian Sabbath," and he was at
| his best. For those who have heard
j him that is enough to say.
] Dr. Morton in his report on the
-Sabbath ahd quoted the saying of a
distinguished statesman that Sabbath
desecration by any people is no less
than "political insanity"; and also <>f
a European political economist to the
effect that with her attitude toward
the Sabbath "France will go to ruin.”
j After remarking on the universal
recognition of the Sabbath, even to
be found according to the eminent
authority Sayre, among the ancient
Babylonians, and showing the neces
sity of Sabbath observance to personal
and national welfare, Df. Moment
proceeded n a most graphic and pow -
erful way to set forth the actual re
sults of its desecration or non-ob
servance. There was no mere phras
ing or fancy word pictures in his ad
dress. It was a photograph, taken
from life, the* personal observations
of a traveller of wide experience who
had eyes to sec. and the power to
express in a most vivid and con
vincing manner the national folly and
suicide of setting at naught a holy
and beneficent enactment of the Al
mighty.
First he spoke of France. Sunday
j is there the great market day; the
j political day. when speeches are made
i and elections held; the national holi
i day, devoted to frivolty, self-indul
j gence and pleasure seeking.
Today France is the most drunken
I nation 'in the civilized world. Her
j literature is the most immoral and de
bauched. French books intended to
be sold in England and America are
specially written and adapted. The
literature current in France itself
could not pass through our mails. Ex
cept to some extent among the peas
antry, that unhappy land knows noth
ing of a home or of domestic ties in
their true sense. Politically she is
a conglomeration, neither a true re
! public nor a monarchy, and an
! English writer has even declared that
in twenty years she will have disap
! peared from the horizon of national
life.
Then the speaker referred to Ger
many. iho house of the Reformation,
who exemplifies most strongly the
"Continental Sabbath.” Spiritually she
is dead.
Berlin has fewer churches than any
city in Europe, for its size, and on
the Sabbath these are practically
empty. This is true of the other
cities.
Germany is the hot-bed of theologi
cal skepticism, and has poisened the
theology of England and America, just
as France has poisoned fiction. The
masses of the German people are
hopelessly materialistic and unspirit
ual.
Dr. Moment next adverted to Italy.
Earliest of European States to be
come Christian, Italy has always re
mained Christian in name, despite the
changes and revolutions of history.
She boasts the title of the “Apostolic
Nation.’’ Yet twenty of her thirty
millions of inhabitants, two-thirds of
the populatoin, do not know what the
Sabbath is. Laws to protect the Sab
bath and regulate its observance, have
been opposed by every kind of offi
cial from the Pope down. Saints’
Days are elevated above the Sabbath
by ecclesiastics, because all religious
services are free on Sunday but must
be paid for on the other “Holy days."
The poverty and Illiteracy, the moral
and political weakness, of Italy are
proverbial.
In his eloquent address Dr. Moment
then referred to Scotland. In pro
portion to size, etc., this little country
leads the world in industries, intel
lectual development and morality.
She has the purest homes and strong
est domestic ties. Her people are the
most enlightened in scripture truth
and most loyal to the Word of God.
In the great work of workl-evangeli
zation and m such moral and civiliz
ing movements, Scotland is the lead
ei of tiie Twentieth Century. And
Scotland is the best and most loyal
Sabbath keeper in the world.
The great problem of America is to
blend her heterogenous population in
to one strong homegeneous nation.
No nation can stand erect that ne
glects the Sabbath.
It was a grand address that thrilled I
the audience. Indeed,, one enthusias-1
tic hearer was heard to exclaim as he j
emerged from the church: “Once j
more I am glad I'm a Scotchman!”
Dr. Wells' address on the Heme j
was very fine. He is a deep student j
and forceful speaker, and spoke with
great beaut) and eloquence of the|
importance of the home life on!
church and State. It is a divine in
stitution: God "setteth the solitary
in families.” The clear teaching of
history is, that the family has always
preceded church and State. First
the family, thc-n the clan, the tribe,
the nation, it is the origin ol' family
end State, the source from which
they flow; and it is the fountain-head
that must feed both church and State.
As the home, so shall there be' hence,
,ff: vast importance, supreme a hove
all else. The great standard-bearers
arc passing—Dabney, Huge. Painter.
Girardeau, Peck, and others. Who
shall take their places?
The supreme problem of church
and State must be to protect and t'os
l< r the home; to preserve the seed
corn.
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A very large congregation gathered
to hear Dr. W. VV. Moore today,
crowding the church to us fuilest ca
pacity. ’there is no more eloquent
preacher ard no more admired and
beloved man in the South than tne
Civs dent of the Union Theological
Seminar).
Dr. Moore’s text was: Acts 26:19:
“i was not disobedient to the heaven
ly vision." Vhe first part of the su
perb discourse was a delineation of
the life and character of Saul of Tar
ms, his fitness by birth, gifts, educa
tion and character for his great work.
'1 iie second half was a presentation ot
the present decline in candidates for
the ministry end reasons for it; a
treatment t f the stab.* of things that
was most powerful. Such a sermon
must be heard to appreciate its great
beauty and power. Every sentence
was a pearl of truth in a golden set
ting. The first thought was the con
gruity that exists between a man and
his work, in the calling of God.
Special men for spec.ai service, and
obvious fitting ter a great task. A
hod-carrier from the brick yards of
Goshen might have been chosen as Is
rael's deliverer from Egypt and to be
her great law giver and leader. But
Moses is chosen instead, fitted by his
training and education at the Court of
the Pharaohs. So the massive and
sturdy Luther, dauntless and iron-will
ed is chosen, rather than the gentle
and ret.ring scholar, Melanctnon, for
the reformation of the 16th Century.
Andrew Lang, prince of debutantes, has
been making sport of John Knox. If
there been only such men as
Lang in the hour ot Scotland’s need
there would never have been a refor
mation in Scotland. In time of flood
the granite-cliff is needed and not the
graceful beauty of the willow-wand.
Scotland’s need called for the power ot
the thunderbolt, something stronger
winged than the butterfly.
"Where the ages call, the heroes
come." So Saul of Tarsus was raised
up, a special force equal to and ready
lor a special task.
Paul's ;eal qualification for nis
work was not to be found, however,
n early environment, training and the
like, but in his unwavering fidelity to
his convictions of duty. When his
trend was convinced, his will at once
surrendered. In the Eighteenth
Century. Lord Littleton, an English
skeptic. was converted by a
candid study of the conversion of
Saul of Tarsus. He wrote a book
upon this event as the unanswerable
evidence of Christianity. • Dr. Samuel
Johnson, greatest of all bookmen,
said of his work: "Infidelity has never
been able to frame a specious answer
to it." once converted, Paul follows
blindly to Damascus, ready to wait
for further revelations and lurtner
duties. Obedience is the organ of
spiritual knowledge. Coleredge, when
asked for a sufficient evidence of the
gospel in one word, snappily replied:
"Try it." For unfruitful and unhap
py lives try the divine prescription of
immediate and unquestioning obed
ience to the heavenly vision.
Paul’s obedience was shown by his
manner of responding to the call to the
ministry. Multitudes are t ailed to the
ministry who do not answer. An in
telligent fanner does not plant a l ar
ger crop than he can reap. If the
harvest is greater than the, reapers,
then some laborers are not in' the fieid.
If there are ten openings to every one
servant, then where are the nine?
Are they not disobedient to the heav
enly vision. Ten years ago there wore
120 students for the ministry out ol
each million of population. Today
there are but 114. Ten years ago the
proportion studying law was 61 >r
every million, and in medicine 196.
Today the proportion in law is 163 and
in medicine 327. In 1903 there was a
decrease in this country in candidates
for tiie ministry from the vear befor
of 252. In the same time the lav;
gained 642 and medicine 1,435. TJn
doubtedl.v it the greatest and most
threatening sign of the times. It
strikes at the very root of the church’s
life.
What has caused the decline?
Many answer* have been given:
1. The ‘ dreaded “dead line. ’ A
minister's usefulness cut short when
he reaches the age of fifty years. Yet
that does not fully answer the ques
tion.
2. There are so many theological
doubts and difficulties today. But ae
a matter of fact, f here are fewer
doubts today about the great verities
than twenty or even ten years ago.
3. The spirit of commercialism and
vorldiness that prevails today. Par
ents choose worldly preferment foi
their children. This is partly true, but
not a sufficient answer.
4. Neither is the decay in family
religion the whole answer, tho’ ap
proaching the truth.
5. As to the alleged decline in re
ligion among college students being
the explanation, there is no such'
decline. One hundred years ago only I
ten per cent of college students were
Christians. Today fifey per cent, are
consistent church-members.
The regl and sufficient explanation
is to be found In the failure of the
pastors, from the pulpit and by per
sonal contact to lay the claims of the
ministry upon the hearts and con
science of the youth of the church
They have not made the heavenly viz
ier. clear and to this extent have
themselves failed in obedience to it.
The Day’s Proceed ngs in Detail.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Durham, N. C., November 17.—The
principal feature of today’s session of
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
ERIPPRO BY GAS;
Four Men Found Lying in
a Heap Beneath Open
Trap Door.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Nov. 17.—Four men
were asphyxiated by gas at Dover, N.
J., to-day, at the plant of the Dover
Rockaway and Port Oram Gas Com
pany. They constituted the entire
working force of the place and were
discovered by George E. Bunnell, a
former employe, who on visiting the
plant found it apparently deserted
with engines running under a full
head of steam and scarcely any water
in the boilers. After shutting down
the engines and attending to the boil
ers, Bunnell went through the works
land found the four men beneath an
I open trap door in the meter room,
with the space under the fioor fillet:
with gas from a broken valve in the
drop pipe.
| T’ne men were William Buiwer. 17
j years old, employed as a fireman;
Elias Chamberlain, the engineer; Osto
Fidschumu, painter, and a man known
only as Gustave also a painter.
The men lay together in a heap
jand Bunnell noticing that the man on
j top was alive, entered the trap to
! rescue him, hut became so weakened
by the gas that he could not lift the
body to the floor, four feet above;
and was barely able to get out him
self. He staggered outside, but was
unable to attract any one's attention,
and it was some time before he re
covered sufficients to ’phone for as
sistance. When help finally arrived
and the gas was turned off so the
men could he taken out, ail four were
| dead. r
From their positions It is thought
that Bulmer went through the trap
first to fix the btoken valve and was
overcome by the gas. and that in an
effort to rescue. Chamberlain. Fids
chuma and Gustave followed and lost
j their lives.
1 DEADLY PANAMA RUNS HIM.
Frank J. Heoker Re ffgns as Member
of the Canal Commission.
< By the Associated Frees.)
Washington, Nov. 17. rank . Decker
has resigned as a member of the Pan
ama Canal Commission.
ivlr. Heoker in his letter of resigna
tion says the climate of the canal zone
is so unfavorable to his health that
continued residence there would he at
the risk of a physical breakdown.
President Roosevelt accepted the resig
nation in a complimentary letter.
| There has been some speculation re
garding the successor of Colonel Heck
ler and several names have been sug
{ gested .among them Senator Cockrell,
I of Missouri, and Judge Charles E. Ma
| goon, who Is now attorney for the com
mission.
President Roosevelt lias not g yen
consideration to the question of a
strike and the appointment may not
be made immediately.
Blazing Schooner Scuttled.
(By tiie Associated Press.)
New London, Coi-.n., Nov. 17. -The
schooner Greenleaf Johnson arrived
here today with her cargo on fire and
was scuttled.
The schooner is owned by E. H.
Weaver, of New Haven, and was load
ed with garbage tankage at Barren Is
land, N. Y.. for South Carolina. Her
cargo is owned by Heller, Hirseh &
Company, of New Yoik, and was in
sured.
The I C’Mls’ Rudder Gone.
(By the Associated Press. 1
Philadelphia, Nov. 17.--The Assa
teague Life Saving Station reports
that the schooner Leads from Ten
nants Harbor for Philadelphia, has ar
rived at Assateague, Va., with rudder
gone. _____
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HE IS JE SNAG
Hitch in the Ang!o-Rus
sian Convention Easy
to Remedy(?)
'By the Associated Press.)
St. Petersburg. Nov. 17. —At the For
eign Office the* Associated Press learns
there is absolutely no cause for the
alarmist reports regarding the hitch
in the Anglo-Russian convention which
it is confidently expected will be re
moved and a full agreement reached
within a few days. The reports that
Ambassador Bekendorff will be recall-,
ed is ridiculed. The situatibn is ex
plained as follows:
“Russia provisionally accepted the
text of the convention in English as
submitted by Great Britain but when
it was translated exception was taken
to the phraseology, particularly to the
! portion referring to the determination
1 of the question of blame. Russia con
tending that the context did not clearly
i raise the question of Any blame which
i might attach to the other side. Ex
j ception was also taken to the language
! relating to the- firing upon the fisher
men which as worded left the im-
I pression that the Russian ships know
' inglv fired upon them. Consequent
ly. Russia prepared an entirely new
text in French which was submitted
but was rejected by. Great Britain.
Then after some exchanges in which
French assistance was acknowledged
an arrangement was reached that
each side submit new texts from which
no difficulty is anticipated in reach
ing a final conclusion. One of the
points agreed to is a preamble where
in the procedure is described but more
important is a proposition for a sup
plementary article which will lay down
i the procedure for this con% T ention and
I for any inquiry of a kindred nature
. the necessity for which may arise in
the suit between the two countries.
The convention therefore promises to
' mark an important step in the rela
tions between the two countries crea
ting through The Hague convention a
sort of permanent arrangement for re
solving similar misunderstandings in
the future.
EC HOES OF THE STORM.
Story of the “Driftwood’’ —Drowned
by Washing Away of Fishing
Lodge at .Khmakut.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Elizabeth City. N. C., Nov. 17.—Cap
tain Stowe, of the schooner Mary
Gal lard arrived in the city this morn
ing and related the circumstances sur
| rounding the wreck of the house boat
“Driftwood,” of Washington, D. C.,
which was wrecked Sunday in Pamlico
Sound. The house was blown off the
boat, and she was driven on the reef :
by the hurricane that swept over tin*
sound, and the crew was supposed to
have been drowned. A large tug boat
! was near, and seeing that the house
boat was in distress, put out to her
and found the captain and his wife
still aboard. They were taken off
and carried to the shore. An effort
| was then made to float the boat, but
| this could not be done at that time.
Later Captain Stowe and his crew
I arrived and with the assistance they
received from the life saving station,
succeeded in hailing the water out of
the boat and floating her off the bar
on, which site was stuck.
Nothing can he learned definitely of
the “Roberta,” which was reported
lost and her crew drowned Sunday.
Captain Stowe came all the way up
but says he did not see the yacht. Two
men were drowned by the washing
away of a fishing lodge on the beach
| at Kinnakeet, five miles north of Hat
j teras, in Sunday’s storm. Communi
i cation by the seacoast wires, which
I were prostrated in the gale, has been
! partially restored. hut information
j secured is meagre. The names of the
j men drowned were not obtainable.
TAJ T OFF FOR PAN AMA.
lo Pro-cut a Message of Amity to Pres
ident Amador.
i
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 17. —-Secretary
Taft left here today for New Orleans
cn his way to Panama, wnere he goes
as the special representative of Presi
dent .Roosevelt to present a message
of amity and good will to President
amador. The Secretary will sail Mon
day from Pensacola, Fia., on the cruis
er Columbia. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Taft, .Sonor Obaldia, the Panama
minister. Rear Admiral J. G. Walker,
“resident of the Panama Canal Com -
miss on; Judge Charles G. Mugoon law
officer of the canal commission; N. \Y.
Cromwell, attorney for the canal com
pany. and others.
A CRIMSON CRASH
Grand TrunkTrainWrecks
Street Car at Grade
Crossing.
(By the Associated Press.)
Toronto, Out., Nov. 17.—A Queen
street car was demolished by a Grand
Trunk train at a grade crossing to
night. It is reported that nine per
sons were killed.
A later report from the wreck says
only two passengers died, hut several
others cap not live.
Deputy Sheriff Needham Man gum
was here yesterday. Mr. Mangutn
mays that the Wake Forest College
students are impatiently awaiting the
Rlchmond-Wake Forest debate here
, Thanksgiving night.