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The herald., 1897-10-01

drill and grand ball win be placed on sale
In few days.
Orange Grove Encampment will con.
fer the Golden Rule degree on one can
didate and the Royal Purple degree or
three candidates at their meeting to.
night.
Semi-Trcplco 81 conferred the Third
or Degree Of Truth, on three candidates
Tuesday evening. Intiatory work may
be expected next Tuesday.
Los Angeles IS will have two candi-
dates for the Second. or Covenant, de.
gree next Wednesday.
Canton Los Angeles met for drill on
Wednesday evening.
Good Will 1923 conferred the Second, OF
Covenant, degree last evening. Third
next Thursday.
Hofer 60 had the Third, or Degree OF
Truth, last evening.
The herald., 1897-10-01
UNITED woRKMEN

Los Angeles IS had three candidates
for the Junior Workman degree on
Wednesday evening. The screen work
was used, and the attendance was quite
large.
A new lodge will soon be instituted at
Redondo, with a good membership.
st. Elmo 2SS will confer the Junior
Workman degree on two candidates
next Monday evening.
Orange Grove 312 had one candidate e
for degree work at the meeting Tuesday
night.
University SO4 is progressing. One
candidate was admitted by card last
evening.
The herald., 1897-10-01
ROYAL ARCANUM

Sunset Council 1914 has received an
invitation to attend the banquet given
by Monrovia Council on October 14th.
The Council will confer the degree OF
initiation on eight or TEN candidates at
its next meeting.
The Supreme Regent E. M. Schryver
laid the cornerstone Of the Royal Ar
canuum Temple in Brooklyn, N. Y, on
the 9th inst. Brooklyn has 1900 Royal
Arcanuumites.
Assessment $50 has been laid. and will
become delinquent on October 31st. As
sessment 251 will be due on October 18th
and become delinquent November 18th.
Total membership on August 81. 1874,
ITS; total payments to August 81. $42,-
OBJ, ,9OO.13,
The herald., 1897-10-01
xN1oHTs OF MAccABEEs

Los Angeles tent initiated one cadidate
Wednesday evening. No more Klondike
agitation. The knights adjourned early
to attend the "Deestrict Skule."
The knights Of tent l, Pasadena. as
sisted by the L. o. T. M. of that city,
gave q public entertainment Monday
evening, which was largely attended
There was a good musical and literary
program, followed by dancing and re-
freshments.
The net increase in membership of the
order from January /, 1897 to September
l. 1897, was 13,057.
The "Deestrict Skule." as presented by
the ladies' Of hive at Music hall on
Wednesday evening was pleasing en-
tertainment and largely patronized. The
hive room was found too small and
Music hall was engaged.
The herald., 1897-10-01
IMPROVED ORDER RED MEN

Cocopah Tribe 81 has an adoption this
evening. All Red Men In good stand
ing are cordially invited to witness the
same. The wigwam is in Morvin hall,
Downey block. The chiefs look fine in
their new costumes. Junior Sycamore
Hausen has his part down pat"
The recent thirty-second great sun
session of the Great Council of Califor-
MIA at San Francisco, was one of the
best sessions ever held in the
state. Forty-two tribes were repre-
sented. The reports Of the grand
chiefs showed gain of wampum and
members. Eleven Past Great Sachems,
ten Great Chiefs and 1866 representatives
were present.
The fiftieth great sun session of the
Great Council of the United States has
just been held at Philadelphia. During
a public parade, it is said that about
forty thousand Red Men were in line.
The herald., 1897-10-01

every meeting, Three candidates were
given the degree last Friday night.
Several candidates will also be initiated
degree will be given large class by the
La Fiesta team, Princes of the Orient.
1t Ii expected that the number Of visit
ing princes this evening will be the
largest ever known at session Of the
grand orient in this city A large number
Of business and professional men will
pass through the ordeal and become
princes.
Los Angeles 1 initiated q candidate
Tuesday evening.
The herald., 1897-10-01
ODD FELLOWS

Canton Orion, Patriarchs Militant,
entertained a large number of visitors
last Friday evening, and after routine
business all Joined in drill
The Grand Ercampment committee
held an important session last Saturday
evening. A number of reports were re-
ceived and acted upon, and the general
arrangements for the Grand Encamp-
menf in this city, which opens on Oc-
tober Is, were found to be in most fa-
vorable condition. The committee has
sent special Invitations to all local en-
campments and lodges in Southern Cali
fornia to visit Los Angeles during En-
campment week. Tickets for the prize
The herald., 1897-10-01
wooDMEN OF THE WORLD

La Fiesta Camp 63, Woodmen of the
World, had good business meeting on
Monday night. Next Monday evening
1t Is expected that the degree team will
have work ON several candidates.
La Fiesta Camp is preparing for fine
social and dance at their hall on. the
evening of October 18th. There will be
a good musical and. literary program,
followed by a dance.
A local Grove Of the Woodmen Circle
the ladies' auxiliary of the order, will
be instituted in this city during October
Mrs. Helen M. Southwick, State Organ
izer, will institute the new Grove.
The herald., 1897-10-01
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR

The Grand Secretary, S. B. Carlton, of
San Francisco, who is editor Of the SEN
tinel and Town Talk, of that city, was
In Los Angeles on Wednesday on his
way home from the meeting of the Su-
preme Lodge at Indianapolis. Brother
Carlton reports a harmonious ard. profit
able session Of the Supreme Lodge, and
great interest in the order throughout
the United States. Supreme Protector
L. B. Lockhard of Bradford, Pa, was
elected for the fourth time, and Supreme
Secretary c. w. Harvey was elected for
fifth term.
The herald., 1897-10-01

at Mcdonald hall. 127 North Main
street, on Wednesday evening. October
9Th. Each one is expected to bring q
cup and saucer. A musical and literary
program will be given. All Grand Army
people and friends are cordially invited
to attend. Refreshments will be
served.
The herald., 1897-10-01

!. progressive business woman. She II
! middle-aged person Of modest. retiring
manners. with pleasant, kindly face
and an unusually sweet voice. She has
passionately loved flowers ever since the
days when she was wee tot Of girl
Mrs Shepard always wears flower
somewhere about her costume.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The herald., 1897-10-01

You will make money buying Pacific
Consolidated mining stock. s. H. Ellis, 21s
Stimson block. Is
The herald., 1897-10-01
LADIES OF THE q. A. r.

Columbia Circle "a, Ladies of the G.
A. r., will give cup and saucer social
The herald., 1897-10-01

All prices of wall paper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom, 324 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-10-01

Clara-They say kisses are intoxicat-
ing.
Jack-Let's get drunk. = Chicago
News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

and regard the two classes. This has
been The Posts proposition, based on
intimate knowledge and experience Of
the situation, and it pleased us. there
fore, to see it confirmed, the other day.
by so distinguished and so represen-
tative a sourherner as Hon. G. G.. Vest,
the eloquent Missouri senator. Mr.. Vest
in the purse OF a speech, had occasion
to refer t. o. B.. K. Bruce, once SEN
ator from Mississippi. and to the col
ored people generally who had at that
time been victimized by the greed OF
Others and their own credulity. He
said:
How was it in regard to the Freed
mans bank building? Mr.. Bruce was
then a senator from Mississippi a COL
ored man, and the orly one in the sem
ate "a gentleman, ar honor TO his race.
a man who / am proud to cali my
friend. / was associated with him. our
committee rooms were contiguous. and
l know him we'll. He appealed to me
and to other southern senators to a
the assets of the OLD Freedman's bank.
all that were left 20 thai poor, Cypress
ed colored race, whom I know as we'll
as any man living. and pay them $3.50
900, all that the poor, ignorant deposit
0rs would ever get. Why. Mr.. Presi-
dent, who could have resisted that ap-
peal. I would have paid. I confess.
more h the property was worth un-
der the circumstances that surrounded
that case, but it was the best purchase
that this government ever made"
This is the way a southern senate
felt toward the col1red people and thus
he spoke of one of their most distin-
guished representatives. 1t is a typical
SO would have felt and spoken
such southerners as Edward Cary Wal
thall, NJ. c. Butler. Wade Hampton. L.
Q. c. Lamar. John W. Daniel, or aoy
either Of hat class bad he been cali d
upon to discuss that or a similar CUES
ton in t a United States senate at
any time. So would speak ard feel any
gentleman of the highest
class. The negroes best friend is the
aristocrat.- Wa. hington Post. |
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
SOUTHERN JOTTINGS.

T.. d. Hargis, Of Marshall county.
Kentucky, is dead, aged So years. He
was a magistrate for sixty years, and
had married 1900 couples.
Colonel William Preston Johnson has
resumed his duties as president OF Tu-
lane University, New Orleans, after
spending six months in Europe.
According to the tax returns there Is
n county in kentucky in which the
people own only twelve diamonds.
They have 1875 dogs, however. SO they
aren't so miserably poor after all
New ork Mail and Express.
A few months ago a mt OF
wealthy citizens Of Nashville. Tenn,
subscribed a fund TO provide a bronze
statue OF Commodore Cornelius VAN
derbilt. to be placed on the Parthenon
on the centennial exposition grounds.
to remain there until after the close OF
he fair. and hen 10 be presented to
the Vanderbilt university. which was
founded by the munifcence Of Mr..
Vanderbilt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
STATISTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL,

The present king Of Greece, George
I, came to the throne in 1863, at the age
of II.
Fair human hair is worth about 35
shillings a pound in London
No part Of Greece is forty miles from
the sea nor ten from the hills.
In Pennsylvania, Michigan. Wisconsin
and Florida the subject OF capital re-
moval is under discussion.
Counting all classes OF reserves Ger
many can in twenty-four hours raise
al army Of 1000, 900 disciplined men.
About 70,0 900 Of the inhabitants speak
the Greek language only, and all but
10000 profess the Christian religion.
The standing army Of Greece consists
Of 16, 2S0 infantry. 1920 cavalry, 3,842 ar
tillery, 1850 engineers n 3,f00 officers.
The present boundary limits Of Greece
were determined by an arrangement
by Great Britain, France, Russia, n
Turkey, July q, 1892.
Among this years French conscripts
there was a youth Of IS years who
weighed 80 pounds. He proved SO
frisky that he was accepted.
One Of the leading Canadian news
papers, The Toronto Mail and Empire.
speaks of the sale Of 100. 900 tons Of
American steel rails in England.
The people Of Connecticut are to be
appealed to for 81, 500 to purchase nine
ty acres in Pomfret, in which is situat-
I'd the famous Wolf Den Of General
Israel Putnam.
Canada's agitation in favor OF clos
er relations with this country is stead
lily increasing, but it consists Of about
10 per cent. Of action and 80 per cent.
of talk.-New York Mail and Express.
More than 5000 900 persons in the
famine-stricken districts Of India are
now subsisting on public and private
charity, and this number will probably
be increased to 5000. 900 before the be-
ginning Of June.
The Imperial university OF Toxic has
undertaken the greatest task Of pre-
pairing an exhaustive history OF Japan.
and a committee of sixteen scholars Is
now at work classifying h volumi-
nous materials.
The frst steel vessel ever construct
ed on the Sound a taken her place
in the waters. It may seem hike a
small matter out It is the beginning OF
what will certainly become n OF the
great industries OF Seattle.-SsAttle
Post-Intelligencer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
PEOPLE ALI ABOUT.

Major Mckinley says he is going Ia
be president of the whole" This Is
good news; but then-his predecessors
sail that. too.-Houston Post.
A woman who is a prominent mem.
Der Of the Paris aristocracy spends
5000 on flowers every winter. and q
French banker pays his norist $500 q
month. d.
Miss Grace Fairweather il the cham
pion woman billiard player Of thu
world. She IS a native OF Newcast.e.
England. and is not yet q years Of
age.
Consul General Lee Is right lonesome
in one respect. and that is in coming
out Of the Cleveland administration
with marker credit to mself.-Rich-
mond Dispatch.
The Rev. DR.. j. r. T. ~Ingraham. rec
tor Of Grace church. st. Louis. w1ll next
Sunday complete the fftteth year OF
his service in the Episcopal ministry.
He was born in Portland. Me.
Mrs. Daniel Howard. IL JeTcrSon-
vile. Ind. had her home connected by
Telephone with the Presbyterian
church. t~ing at times prevented by
illness from attending service.
Why do rs goldites newer use argu-
ments in ~propaCating their theories Of
oppression? Because they have none.
and are forced to keep silent. or indulge
in vituperation and abusc.-Nationai
Waterman.
Hill is out hut with Hale. HaNvley.
Hanna, Heitfeldt. Hoar. Hansbrougn.
HarriSS Of Tennessee. and Harris of
Kansas. II cannot be said the senate
is dropping its HIS 10 an alarming
Observation-Disclosures Post.
Frau Amalie Friedrich Matcrna. thu
great Wagner singer. whose career on
the stage has recently come to a close.
has determined TO devote herself here
after TO training pupils for the oper-
attic stage, and especially for Wagne-
rian roles.
There must he no delay In enacting
the new Dingley bin into law. The in
duStrial interests OF the country de-
mand a prompt settlement Of the ques-
ton, and the lawmakers az Washing
ION cannot ignore that mandate.-Cin-
cinati CONGRATULATIONS
For inoculating the Russian empress
and her son Paul against smallpox In
ll6S Baron Dimsdale received $50. geo as
a fee, $4,000 for expenses and an an
nuity OF g, 500. while, in addition 90
all this. he was granted the title OF
baron. This was just thirty years be-
fore discovery of vaccination.
for which parliament granted him
$3.50. 900 altogether.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
POINTED

Little Greece is brave, but the owe
could no do her a greater injury than
to turn Turkey loose upon her. The
Turks are terrible fighters and out
number the Greeks three or four to
one.-HOustOn Post.
Between more loans and more reve-
nue." says President Mckinley, there
ought to be only n opinion" There
is only one opinion that counts for
anything. and that is the same as the
president's.-New York Tribune.
The last barrier of prejudice against
woman's rights has been stormed and
carried by the new woman of Nevada.
and petticOatS will have equal rights
with trousers at the coming Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mfll.-Chattanooga News.
He makes it clear that he under
stands the gravity Of the situation, and
he emphasizes a gratifying determina-
ton TO proceed at once with the APP
%plication of such remedial legislation
as will restore order out of the COM
mercial and industrial chaos that has
reigned during the past few years.
Atlanta Constitution.
The ends of justice We're subserved
when an ex-alderman of st. Paul was
sent to Jail for refusing to expose the
individual who had paid him $1,000 for
his vote on a question Affecting the
water works. The man who offers and
pays a bride is as guilty as the mar
who accepts it.-Kansas City Star.
"The Church Standard" (Episcopa)
admits that there is some truth in the
charge Of s~ectarian superciliousness
often brought against the Episcopal
Church.. There is" is says. "a good
deal Of offensive conceit in the way in
which we talk about the tsects' and
the denominations. New York TH-
bune.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
POINTED

The Boston Globe says that Mr.
Bryan has lost more OF his magnetism
as a speaker, judging from the way in
which his addl esses have been received
urinS his present tour"
Why did Senator Chandler show In
his great speech that the single gold
standard would destroy the republican
party and ruin the country? Because
he recognized the fact that self-prcs-
ervatiOr is the first law Of nature
National Waterman.
Gould your ancestor have landed In
America if he had had to face the re-
Quiremerts Of the Lodge immigration
law" asks The Springfield Republic
can. That depends upon to whom the
question is addressed.-Boston Tran
script.
The New York Reform Club is pre-
pairing to give a dinner to Mr.. Cleve-
land. The Reform Club Is in a hurry u
start in on 1900.-Washington Post.
The United States senate has left
urdone many things it ought to have
done, but it has had the re.iring ad-
ministration sized Up to a nicely lor
some time past.-Houston Post.
1t is-not thought that J.. Pierpont
Morgan will lose his position as finan-
cier in waiting to the government un-
der the incoming administration
Washington Pos
In vetoing the immigration bill Pres
ident Cleveland has mad himself per-
soma non grata with a large rumber
or his former admirers.-Baltimore
Herald.
Things have changed since New
York'S senator was referred 70 as Me-
too Platt." Anyone who can command
more than an hour of the president
elects time must be something better
than the tail Of a kite.-Baltimore Her.
aid.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
~
Gone Home to Fight.

It is dou btful IL there Is now more
than a single Gretan In the city of New
York. A month ago there was a dozen
or more, but they have all sailed for
Greece 10 take part in the struggle for
liberty. The one exception will sail
within the next few days, and In all
America, Greece and Crete com btned.
there is no patriot more ardent than he.
His name is Michael Orfanos, and he
has just arrived from San Francisco
on his way TO the scene of the war.
He Is a tall, fine looking, gray-haired
man about 90 a old. Orfanus Is a
veteran OF the last revolution, when he
held the rank of captain.
Never has his hatred for the Turk
been 50 strong as II Is now. for within
the last few days he has learned that
his wife. his father and his mother, his
five brothers and tour sisters have all
c foully murdered by the MussulA
mans In CreNs~ According to New York
Greeks who TsHe large experience OF
the ways OF n Turk, such occurrences
are not unusual even in times OF peace.
II there ever be such in Crete. The
Turks view h Christian Cretans with
fear n jealousy. The Cretans are.
as a general rule. vastly superior 10
the average Turk physically and MEN,
tally.
The dearest wish Of the Cretans and
Greeks alike Is to be united under h
government of Greece. burt they would
ike TO bring o this contamination
by the power Of the sword. When Cap
tain Orfanos rea In the papers that
the troubles would probably be set
tied by the owe without a fight. he
wept al the idea OF being disappointed
OF his righteous revenge.-New York
Sun. Ae-.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

or appreciated either south OF north
The cotton mills in the CarolinaS n
Georgia and the iron works of Ala
bama have been kept profitably busy
at nearly all times and small establish
ments of an industrial character wher-
ever located in the southern states
have reported plenty of orders. The
fact is the best possible evidence that
the south today offers the best field
for the investment of manufacturing
capitol of any section in h United
States. The demand for manufactured
articles is Of our large, and, other
things being equal, the preference in
purchases will be given to the home
product. 1t is not true that home in
dustries are not patronized when quail
ty and price are equal to those of the
imported article. Manufacturers in the
home field cannOt hope to push an in
ferior article upon the people ait a
cost equal to that of a better article
which can be had elsewhere. Patriot
ism in trade is not wholly unSelfish.
BUT where home industries challenge
comparison with others they succeed
and have been uniformly profitable in
the south. The fact that our cotton
mills are kept busy while others are
closing is a demonstration of the ad-
vantages of being neal the raw ma
terial. The south ought to manufac-
ture all it's own cotton goods. 1t ought
to pack it's own meat, can it's own
fruits, make its own tour and meal,
work up it's own timber, manufacture
its furniture, buckets, boxes, paper
in short, turn all its own raw material
into a shape ready for use.-Houston
Post.
The blacks have been prosecuted in
the sourh-during h untoward strug-
gle Of MISUNDERSTANDING not by their
former masters. They know this them
selves and nothing will ever weaker
the ties that bind together In kindness
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-11
Rslndesr For Alaata.

In northern and central Alaska there
are at q moderate estimate 400, 900
square miles unadapted to agriculture
and cattle grazing, but covered with
tundra, long, fbrOus white moss (Cla,
donia rangiferina), which is the natural
food Of the reindeer. This area would
be capable of supporting 8, 900, 900 head
Of deer and would make u useless, bar
rem waste conducive to the wealth and
prosperity of the United States. The only
way to utilize this tundra moss and con-
vert it into food and clothing for men is
by its transformation into deer meat
and furs. Besides the fact that reindeer
meat is considered a great delicacy and
that Russia exports it frozen in carloads
to Germany and that the Norwegian Pre-,
serving company uses large quantities
of it for canning, the skins when tanned
are soft and of a beautiful yellow color
and have a ready sale with the manu-
facturers of military pantalOons, gloves
bookbindings and furniture covers. The
hair also is in demand for filling life
saving apparatus (buoys, etc }, as j.
possesses u wonderful degree of buoy
ancy, while the best existing glue l.
made from reindeer horns. The Church
at Home and Abroad.
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A Petition to be Signed.

We have at this office a monster petit
tiOn recommending the postal savings
bank act to be introduced and acted on
by the next Congress. We invite citi-
zens of Reno County to call and sign
the petition.
All countries that have experimental
with postal savings banks find it a
measure of relief for financial difficult
ties and convenience in facilitating
exchanges par excellent.
Don't forget this when you come to
town, it will take but few minutes Of
your time to visit the office, and the
Importance of such measure should
interest everybody.