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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

Chicago. June 1.-Wheat. after fuctu-
ating over a range OF lc per pusheA.
closed AT prices substantially unchanged
from yesterday. good seaboard c~learances
and cash business causing the market TO
recover from a decline caused by the Ia
vorable weather. Corn and oats were not
so fortunate. however. losing i.c OF their
previous values. Provisions developed
rmness and closed about i0c higher all
arnunl-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

1T old her I was afraid to kiss her
while we were ON the tandem for fear
We would both fall of"
What did she say?"
"'She said she hoped I didn't call my
self an experienced wheelman."-Ch
cago Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

In spite of the times Hickory goes for
ward. The tax lists for this year show
taxation is greater than last years list
by 80, COO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

Meals.
CONNECTIONS
at Fayetteville with Atlantic Coast Line,
at MaXtOn With Carolina Central Rail-
road, at Sanford witt Seaboard Air Line,
at Greensboro with Southern Railway. at
Walnut Cove with Norfolk and Western
Railway.
J. w. FRY, w. F.. KYLE.
GeDI nag Gen1 Pass Agent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22
POLITICIANS CAN'T BELIEVE
THAT PRITCHARD AND BUTLER
HAVE MADE FRIENDS.

Inquiry for a Confederate From q Federal
Oficer-Illicit DistilIing Moving East
ward-The southern Short Cut.
Women to be Admitted to Trinity Col.
lege-Kicking Against High Charges OF
the Public Printers-A Female Tramp.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

Through bills Of lading and lowest
through rates guaranteed to and from
points In North md South Carolina
Fog Freight or passage Apply to
II. q. SMALLBONE9,
Superintendent
THEO. q. EGER, Trs"r Manager.
WI. P. GLIDE 5eT Genera sn 81 xs a4s
Bow. :.s Green, Nov York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
A PhiIadeIDhia Cat story.

Grace" the office cat in a downtown
preserving establishment, recently gave a
display of intelligence that stamped her as
a remarkable feline, says the Philadelphia
Record. About year ago, when Grace
was but a kitten, she wandered into the
place and was adopted by the typewriter,
Miss Grace Kelley. The glass-encased Of
flee is on the first floor, the rear of which
is used for the storage of jars and boxes,
IN which the products of the place are
packed. About six week ago the interest
ing pet became the mamma of three kit
tens, and it was pretty sight for the oc-
cupants of the Office TO look out and see
the family at play amongst the boxes.
About week ago Miss Kelley missed one
of the Kittens and it was noticed that the
mother acted very strangely for several
days. Since then, from time to time, Miss
Kelley has noticed Grace going to and
from pile of boxes that contain large
jars of peculiar shape used for exporting
preserves. Rat hunting was supposed to
be the cause of so many visits until re-
Gently she was seen taking food to a box
on top of the heap and dropping it down.
Out of curiosity Miss Kelley got one of the
boys to climb to the top, and then the
mystery was explained. In one of the
jars, which are very large and deep, was
the missing kitten. 1t is surmised that
the kitten fell in and could not get out
the mother being unable to assist it on
account of the small opening in the lar
The feeding of the prisoner is explained
but how drinl1ables were obtained is
causing much conjecture.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

There were two local golf players, both
Scotchmen, and they went out to the
links to play a match In the dark, saws
the Chicago Tribune. Each Johnnie had
cut hole in his pocket and had ball
ready to drop down the leg of his trou-
sers just in front of the other ball. Off
they drove, and on they walked, and pres
entity one says to the other:
4 say, Jock, my mon, I'm thinking
you're o'erworking your ba'.'
ma, ma says the second. Mine was
a fine, clean drive, but whaur's yours?"
''Eh, mon, mine was an awful clure''
So they went another fifty yards Then
the first says:
Jock, mon, I'll TAX my davy we're past
your the noo."
'"Then whaurs your ain?''
Eth, mine was an awful clure.''
Another fifty yards brought them to the
putting green.
Eth, Jock, I'm no seeing your ba' on
the green
Maybe ye'd see if it's in the hole
my certes, but there it is! And, Ell,
but it's curious, but there's mine in the
hole beside it! Mon, it's awful curious"
Hes halved, then"
"Hets halved-one each-good play"
They turned up for the next hole SOL
EMMY Then they stood looking at each
other a moment before they drove off.
Say Jock, my mon, dye think it's an
yuse to gang on playing like ths?'
I'm thinking it would just be a halved
match"
'Hets my ain very tocht, Jock'~
"a weel we moo ca it a halved match
and gang home"
I'm thinginh 'twould save a world of
bothsr"
I'm of the same opeeneon myself"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

AT the time of one of the late presiden-
tial campaigns. when even children caught
the infection of politics, Hattie, between
and years old, accompanied her mother
upon visit to some friends in Michigan,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Upon the
hrst evening in the strange house, when
Hattie's hour for going to sleep came, she
was so excited it was difficult for her to
compose herself. At last her mother said
Hattie, dear, 1 am anxious that you get
quiet and go to sleep because I want to
go downstairs and join in the evening
prayers"
Who's doin' to pway?" asked Hattie.
why, Uncle William, of course, dear"
Uncle William pway?" said the baby
with wide-eyed establishment, and, spring
ing up in bed in the vigor of her surprise:
wy, fawt he was a demokwat?"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
Cotton Goods Depression.

The cut which has been made i'm the
wages of textile operatives in FAN River
and the talk of reducing the wages of the
same kind of operatives in other New
England towns calls attention strongly to
the depression in the cotton goods mar
ket. That this depression exists in this
country there is no doubt, and there is
evidence in our export statistics to show
that it exists in foreign markets
For instance, during the month of Oc-
tober, 1896, we exported to Canada $685.
479 yards of cotton goods Last October
we exported only 597, 49S yards The value
of our exports of cotton goods to all coun-
tries for October. 1896, was 81 1881, $50, and
for last October it was 81, 1875, 1885, a falling
off of nearly 100000 in a single month. In
fact, there has been falling off in our
cotton goods exports ever since the Ding
ley tariff went into force. No doubt,
as far as Canada is concerned our loss
of exports, to some extent, is due to that
country's retallatory tariff. But, while it
is quite easy to explain the decline of
our exports of cotton goods to Canada, it
is not easy to explain why we have lost
customers for our cotton goods in other
countries
The Springfield Republican, which dis
cusses this subject, thinks that if the de-
mand for cotton goods exists anywhere,
the southern mills ought to be able TO
supply It, even if the northern mills could
not, because the southern mills can pro-
duce cotton goods at less cost than they
can be produced In England or elsewhere.
The Republican says: This matter of the
export trade becomes all the more mex
plcable when we. consider the superior adj
vantages for manufacturing enjoyed ny
the south, as set forth in the Arkwright
Club report. Wages are 40 per cent. low
or than in the New England mills, and
we are told that the labor is quite as ef-
fcient, even though worked longer hours
Cheap coal and proximity to the raw ma
terial add to the south's advantage. Lam
cashire itself cannot exhibit such labor
advantage against Fan River, and yet
our foreign market for cotton goods Is
now actually and materially shrinking. ."
AS a matter of fact, except in few
cases, the southern mills are engaged in
producing the coarser grades of goods. 1t
is well understood, therefore, why they
could not supply fully the export demand,
assuming that it exists; and. besides their
products, being cheaper would be absorbed
by the home market. as long as the nome
demand lasted, before being exported.
Probably the truth is that the home,
as well as the foreign, consumption is less
than normal. If such is the case, under
consumption, as well as over production,
must be assigned as an important reason
| for the low price of cotton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
A Pair of Them.

The President is having some difhcultY
in satisfying some Of his republican friends
I'm the Senate A day or two ago Senator
Chandler of New Hampshire delivered
himself of a long letter, which appeared
in the Washington Post, to the effect that
the republican party would practically dig
its own grave If it gave encouragement to
any plan for reforming the currency what
Senator Chandler says does not, of course,
alarm the real leaders of the republican
party because they regard him as man
who is constantly saying or doing some
thing to call attention to himself, his idea
being that he is about the greatest states
man and the most adroit politician The
country has ever produced. What he
says, therefore doesn't cause his party
to halt and ask whether or not it is maxi
ing a mistake.
But the young Colorado senator, Mr..
Wocott can get the ear of the President
and Of his party when he wants it, and
the complaint he is making, namely, that
he is being made the laughing stock of
Europe by the efforts of the Secretary of
the Treasury to more firmly fix the cur
rency of the country on gold basis, Is
receiving some attention. AS is well
known, Senator Wolcott Is a member of
the commission whose purpose is to bring
about international bimetallism. He and
the other commissioners spent the greater
part Of last summer in Europe, talking
bimetallism with government officials and
dnanciers. They accomplished nothing,
and came back with nothing of impor-
lance to report. Still, Senator Wolcott
doesn't like to have it appear that the
government is trying to more firmly es-
tablish the gold standard while he is
member of a commission to convert the
governments of Europe TO bimetallism.
He says the action of the secretary puts
him in a ridiculous position, and he would
like it if the President would call down.
the secretary.
1t is to be hoped that what is said in
the dispatches to be Senator Wolcotts
attitude in this matter is not true, be-
cause if it Is the country is bound to re-
gard him as a much smaller man intel
lectually than it has believed him to lie.
The idea that the Secretary of the Treas
ury is not to recommend a plan for re-
forming the currency which is not in
keeping with the views which the sena-
tors commission favors, is 50 supremacy
ridiculous that the average cross roads
politician will wonder if the Colorado SEN
ator hasn't lost his mind.
There isn't financier in the country,
probably who doesn't know that there is
no chance whatever for International BIZ
metallism, and that If there were re-
form of the currency in accordance with
Secretary Cages plan wouldn't be in its
way. Therefore, if Senator Wolcott should
resign from the international bimetallic
commission, there would be no tears shed
and no sorrow expressed. The demagogic
Chandler and the touchy Wolcott may,
however, give the President an unpleas-
ant quarter of an hour now and then.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
Neproes Making n Mistake.

The colored people of this city are not
particularly anxious that one of their race
shall be appointed collector of customs or
postmaster, but under the leadership of
few negro agtators, who are anxious to
make themselves conspicuous and who like
to stir up race feeling when an opportunity
to do so presents itself, they are making
great hullabaloo over the resolutions of
the trade bodies protesting against the
appointment of a negro to the office of col
lector of customs or to that of postmaster.
These resolutions contain nothing often
sive to the colored people and are not in
tended to be offensive in any respect.
They simply state facts. There are strong
reasons why a colored man should not
be appointed to either of the foregoing
offices-reasons which the colored people
understand as well as the white people
do. The colored people know that a col
ored man in so prominent a public posi-
ton as that of collector of customs would
affects injuriously the interests of the city.
Why should anything which can be avoid
ed be permitted to interfere with the city's
prosperity? The colored people should be
willing to make sacrifices for the city's
welfare, because their comfort and happi-
ness depend to great extent upon the
ability of the city to afford them the means
of earning a living.
The negro politicians an ready to con-
tend doubtless that the appointment of
men of their race to public offices doesn't
retard the prosperity of a community in
which the offices are situated. AS a mat
ter of fact the south has never received
any considerable share of European immi-
grants because they won't go where the
negroes are, and it is only since it has
become certain that the negroes are not to
play any important part in politics in any
southern state that emigrants from the
west have begun TO come south. 1t is alb
solutely certain that negro collector of
customs or negro postmaster would be
hurtful to this city.
Booker T. Washington, one of the ablest
of the negro leaders and about the best
adviser the negroes have among their own
race, tells his colored brethren to let poll
tics alone and devote themselves to in
creasing their skill as workmen and to
the Improvement of their material condi-
ton. AS they accumulate property they
will become better citizens. They will not
then go to the polls because they are paid
to go, but because it is to their interest
to have good men in Office and good gov
ernment The colored people are making
a mistake in the course they are pursu-
ing in the matter of the Board of Trade
and Cotton Exchange resolutions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
A Bold, Bad Bug.

From the Denver Evening Post.
I am sitting by the river,
Eloise,
Where The waters dance and culver
In the breeze,
And the little birds are winging
Overhead and sweetly singing
Till their melody is ringing
Through the trees
Here together we sat cumming,
Eloise.
While we listened to the humming
OF the bees,
And you said when made money
AS the little bees made honey
1 would be your solid sonny
o! you tease!
AS we sat beneath the willows,
Eloise.
Bosoms heaving as the pillows
OF the seas,
o. how fond the recollection
That by prudent circumspection
/ was winning your affection
By degrees.
All at once a scream went flying
Through the trees.
Seemed to shatter cen the signing
OF the breeze.
And the voice which erstwhile charmed me
Now with plying ring alarmed me,
Till the very blood that warmed me
Seemed to freeze
What a chill of fear came yer me,
Eloise,
AS you threw yourself before me
on your knees,
And you said a bug that harm meant
Was between your back and garment.
And you begged the dreadful Varmint
1 would seize!
But my modesty was riven,
Eloise,
And my bushes ran up seven
Ty degrees,
And you called me craven coward,
Epithets upon me showered
And alone left me embowered
Meath the trees.
So again I here am sitting,
Elose,
And the same old birds are fitting
Through the trees;
In the same old way they're winging.
And the same old songs they're singing.
And the same old musics ringing
on the breeze.
But I've grown whole lot older.
If you please,
And I've certainly grown holder,
BY degrees,
And If now 1 had occasion
l would stop that bugs invasion
Without any hesitation.
Eloise.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

One hears nothing these days about the
great populistic scheme to build railroad
from the great lakes to the Gulf. The
plan has petered out. But Coy. Leedy of
Kansas is the father of a worthy success
sor to it. He proposes that a canal shall
be constructed to connect Lake Michigan
and the Gulf of Mexico. 1t would require
the expenditure of only the triiing sum
of $3.50, 100000, which the governor could
arrange to raise easily enough. The canal
would not only be used for transportation
purposes, but would irrigate vast areas
that are now arid, and make an Eden of
plains that would otherwise remain fruit
less. When Leedy gets this canal built
he will probably submit scheme for a
railroad from Topeka to Mars by way of
the moon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
Tennxson in Arknnsns.

The editor of an Arkansas newspaper
recently received an original matter from a
new contributor Tennyson's famous stan
zas, from In Memoriam,V Ring Out
Wild Bells to the Wild Sky" etc. and was
about 60 adorn his Christmas edition with
them when his subordinate said:
These verses We're stolen from Tenny-
son. l know them by heart. The fellow
who sent them in is a fraud"
L suspected as much" replied the edit
or and III show him up. In the mean
time sit right down and write a letter to
Tennyson, and tell him they are stealing
his poems in Arkansas
Il don't know his present address" re-
Piled the subordinate, in deep disgust.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

An interesting discussion of polite de.
pertinent is under way at Springfield, III.
James Mingle, who is condemned to die
on the gallows. is very anxious to do ii in
proper form, and insists upon being hang
ed in full dress. The sheriff, who is some
thing Of an expert himself. declares that
iull dress would not be in keeping with
The eternal fitness Of things, since the exc
cution is TO occur in the forenoon. Mingle
comes back at the sheriff with the fact
mat leading chicagoan once breakfasted
~ fun dress with the Infanta Eulale. thus
eSlaoisnng what he considers a good
precedent for swallow-tan coats in the
forenoon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

Col. Charles Page Bryan of Illinois has
not yet been confirmed as minister to
China, and there is some doubt that he will
be confirmed. Nevertheless, he took the
oath of office as minister to China at the
state department in Washington nearly a
month ago, and has been on the pay rolls
of the government at s, 900 per month ever
since. Col Bryan is a member of the Hi
nois legislature. which will convene next
week. There is some speculation in Chi
cago as to whether he will go to SPRING
field and draw the IS per diem from the
state as long as he can.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

There is probably a good deal of truth
in what Mr.. G. w. smalley says with re-
gard to growing prejudice in Europe
against the United States. Years ago it
was set down as tenet of American
doctrine that we should not interfere in
the affairs OF foreign countries, and
should not permiSoreign interference in
our affairs. OF late, however, we have
been dabbling into foreign affairs vRh
do not, or should not, concern us. The
Samoa business, the Hawaii business, our
Armenian resolutions and other Incidents
have all been noted by the Europeans, and
will have effect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

Gen. Weyler is a good deal more active
In Spain than he was in Cuba; but he is
only making himself ridiculous. His
grievance against the United States prob
ably is that the newspapers Of this coun-
try have roasted him so persistently ever
since he landed in Cuba TO succeed Marti-
nez Campos. In order to get even with
the newspapers he wishes to foment war
between Spain and the United States
Spain, however, has a good deal more com
mon sense than Weyler has
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

1t is understood that Secretary Sher-
man will ask congress to materially in
crease the salaries Of American ambassa-
doris and ministers, and to expend some
S'OOooO in providing better buildings for
residences and offices for our representa-
tives abroad. This is a rather poor time
TO ask congress for such increases in the
expense account, when the Dlngley bill is
causing a deficiency of millions of dol
lars every month.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

Fall River, Mass, and other eastern cot
ton manufacturing cities are now daily
advertising to the world that the south
mill investments. The south will not re-
joice at the misfortunes of any section of
the country, still it has no objections to
being SO extensively, persistently and
strikingly advertised.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Observation-Disclosures Lodge No. 10, F.
and A M; Stockholders Augusta and Sa-
vannah Railroad
special Notices-To Patrons, E. & w.
Laundry; Any Old Thing for a Christmas
Present Is Not What You Want. Fred
Myers Jr.; Whitman's Pinafore Mixture,
Pure Candy, A NJ. & c. w. West; Ship
Notice, Georgia Export and Import Com
pany; Notice of Closing, Estate s. w.
Branch; Damaged Perfumes, at 40 Per
Cent. Discount, at Livingston's Pharmacy.
Amusements-"A Stranger in New
York" at the Theater Christmas Matinee
and Night
Auction Sales-Positive Sale Friday, by
j. Mclaughlin & Son.
Orphans Fund Sale-The Metropolitan
Clothing Company.
An Xmastlde Xordium-Byck Bros.
Steamship chedules-American Line;
Red Star Line.
Gold Dust Washing Powder-N. K. Fair
banks Company.
Medical-McElree's Wine of Cardui; Gu
ticdra Remedies; Hoods Sarsaparilla; Erie
Medical Company; Ayers Hair Vgor;
Castoria; Worlds Dispensary Prepara-
tons.
Cheap Column Advertisements-TIel
Wanted Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23
The Pension scandal.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.).

Is it surprising that the pension scan
DIAL has become a stencil in the nostrils of
every honest citizen? Does not every hon
est pensioner appreciate the fact that I'M
less there shall be a thorough revision of
our whole pension system. there must be
serious danger of a sweeping revolution
against pensions that may strike far be-
Yond the lines of iustico?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-23

Notwithstanding a number of members
of congress and a small army of newspa-
per correspondents have already visited
Cuba to "see for themselves" the condi-
ton of affairs there, still other congress-
men are going over for the same purpose.
Congressman King of Utah proposes to
head party to visit the island and Sc
cure reliable" information for congress.