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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-14
Troops Reviewed by the
Governor.
RAPID IMPROVEMENT.
The Regiment Uniformed and Armed.
More Recruft. Enlisted Several Conn
panies Have Full Complemenr-The
Tarboro Company Feasted by Friend.
from Home-The Soldiers Anxious To
Move TO the F~ront-Lit,le Sickness in
Camp.
Especial 70 The Messenger.l


Raleigh. N. c, June 12-More persons
than ever before were at Camp Russell 10
day. In the morning the weather was
extremely hot. but in the afternoon there
was a shower and then delightful temper
allure.
Twenty-Five people came from Tarboro
and brought twenty pigs, which they bar
becued for their Captain JEFF
freys and his lieutenants had as their
guests at dinner all the commissioned Of
fcers OF the regiment and gave them a
fine dinner, thanks TO the liberal kindness
Of their home people. A barrel OF beer
was one OF the concomitants OF the din
ner.
Governor Russell was rendered a re
view. He was present during dress pa
rade. All the regiment was in uniform,
save hats and leggings and cartridge
belts, and all the men had rifles. which
were issued today. There were la re-
cruits in the ranks. These had been
armed and uniformed also. Seventy-two
recruits came from Asheville this morn
ing. They were examined by surgeons
and only six failed to pass.
Colonel Burgwyn escorted Governor
Russell TO the reviewing point. The govern
or was in a carriage and accompanied
- - anu - - W a. Ia n
He witnessed the dress parade. All the
officers were mounted save the surgeons.
The band played better than ever before.
The marching was far and away the best
the regiment has ever done. 1t was in
COMPANY front. 1t was noticeable that
several of the companies had their full
complement of men. recruits who came
in yesterday and today having all been
assigned. The march pass the governor
was in column of companies. Aligments
We're well maintained and salutes were
in most cases excellent. The governor
acknowledged the salutes of battalion
commanders and Of each of the twelve
companies.
At the end of the review the Tarboro
company gave a skirmish drill in fine
style.
Captain Cobb is officer OF the day to-
morrow, Lieutenant McAfee senior officer
of the guard, Lieutenant Cowan junior
officer of the guard.
Among the visitors to the camp today
was DR.. Wertenbaker, of the marine
hospital service, on his way to Whining
ton from Statesville.
The surgeons had a busy day today
examining seventy-two recruits from
ASheville.
There are twenty-three patients in the
hospital; no cases at all serious. There
are ten cases of measles, eight of these
members of the Lumber Bridge company.
Recruits pitched their tents today and
settled down to work.
Members of the regiment are very anx-
ious to leave here and go to the front.
They say they want to see service.
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Affairs In POtO Rico.

ST. Thomas, d. w. June 12.-Mr.
Walter Bett, who is said to have been
a secretary Of Mr.. Crawford, the Brit
iSh consul at San Juan de Porto Rico,
the latter now acting for the United
States, arrived here yesterday. Mr..
Bett, it appears, was accused of COM
~muuicating Information to the United
States authorities concerning the
mines and fortIficationS of San Juan,
and he was, therefore, ordered to
leave Porto Rico. The Spaniar1s
claim this is a fragrant breach of Brit
ish neutrality and dangerous foI Mr..
Crawford. unless it can be proved that
the latter was not the employer of Mr..
Bett ard that the expelled secretary is
rot answerable for his actions to the
British government. Mr.. Bet denies
having supplied the United States au-
70.
T~hirty-one Porto Rican refugees,
mostly wamen, also arrived here. yes
terday.
The say nat two months
of the existing conditions will bring
Porto Rico to the verge OF starvation
The government of the island has es-
tablished a few public kitchens for
the relief Of those who are sufferins
most.
The Spanish torpedo boat destroyer
Terror is now regarded as being use
less, owing to the breakdown Of her
boilers and the lack of means to repair
them. She is still at San uan de Por.
to Rico, with the Alfonso XIII. Isabe
7. Ponce d. Leon. Concha and Coma
chat. At least they were all there
when the refugees left San Juan.
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Quite a merry jest is told on one Of
our jolly Tars aboard the Nantucket.
1t seems that a young lady of this
city sent a box of confectioneries to
James w, but unfortunately James S.
got hold of it. James S. possesses a
sweet tooth, but he has a greater APP
petite for fun. SO he purloined the
dainty card of the fair sender and
substituted another one, also of a young
lady in this city. In this condition
James w. received the box. He was
not acquainted with the name inscrib-
ed on the card inside, but he thought,
''allee Samee," it was very sweet.
Down he sat and penned a note to the
lady, %profusely thanking her and ex-
pressing a desire to meet her in person
should ever he again set foot on terra
firma in this city.
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To FIJI up the Ranks Of b Second
Regimenf-RiAcs and other Aeeou-
trcmenss for In observation-disclosures
Ing Party from First Regiment. -, -

Raleigh, ~. c.. June I.-At camp
Russell today the surgeons examined
100 recruits for h %
Of whom came from Charlotte. Tween
ty-fve were rejected. The others were
divided among the various
OF the regiment after first filling Cap
tain Durham's company from Gastonia-
Twenty were placed in Captain "
company from G~reenville. nine in Cap
tain G-ay's from Greensboro, four in
Captain Jones from Lenotr and the
Others were scattered as they chose,
after all the seventy five men had been
mustered In by Captain Gresham.
Furty-sIx more recruits came in today
and are as yet not examined. Tonight
many arrive from Asheville. Several
companies besides Durham's are now
nearly full.
This afternoon the Ladies' Soldiers
Aid Society sent for distribution
ariaJng the recruits nine dozen pairs
Of socks. nine dozen each OF under
shirts and " and nine dozen
shirts. Ouartermaster Davis distribut-
ed the~ for the association and said
they came just at the right time.
Captain Bells from Ruth
erfordton was the first one b. get re-
crufts. Two or three days < he got
Drums and ffes have been issued 10
the companies.
Rifles Will n issued tomorrow. A
car load Of them-forty-six cases, "a
containing twenty@arrivel today.
They are calibre 40 Springfield rifles
with new sights.
New blanket bags Gas knapsaCks are
termed). haversacks and Cantcens are
issued. Campaign hats VIII probably
be issued tomorrow.
The troops are all delighted with tho
style and quality OF the shoes ISSUED
and also with the underclothinE Your
correspondent examined carefully the
entire outfit and found IL excellent in
quality and make.
There was a battalion drill and re-
view and dress parade this afternoon,
followed 10y inspection Of quarters by
Colonel Rurgwyn.
Surgeon StoCkard SAYS there are to-
night only ten men in the hospital and
he says all the cases are trivial.
Recruits are making themselves quite
at nome and are being rapidly asSlm-
Hated. The regiment is getting down
70 a working basis. The Improvement
in ten days is very great. by the end
of next week it's transformation viii bc
perfectly complete.
Captain Bell is officer OF he day to-
morrow.
A recruiting party of the FIRST regi-
ment arrived her from J~acksonvll" this
afternoon. 1t is composed Of Lituten-
ant Christian, of Durham. and Ser
geants HurtOn, OF GoldshorO. who Is
acting as assistant surgeon: Oldham, OF
Durham. Coates, OF Reidsville, and
Bunch OF Raleigh, these all being from
the third battalion Uf the regiment.
They say the camp at Jacksonville Is an
ideal one and that the men are delight
ed with it. They anticipate no trouble
in quickly securing recruits. 1ney
want l15 men TO complete their battal-
ion to 450.
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RumOrs of Capture of Santiago.

Cape Haytien, Hayti, Jun II, Ills a.
m.-There is no direct news from Cuba
this morning. although the rumor is again
current that Santiago de Cuba has fallen
1915 p. m.-Information has been re-
ceived here, by way of Port au Prince,
that a large force of Americans anded
yesterday on the shores Of Guantanamo
bay, near La Caimanera, and it is un
derstood the cable terminus at that point
is in the possession of the Americans
and that every effort will be made at
once to reopen communication with New
York via Cape Haytien. A force of cable
repairers may be sent from Cape Haytien
as soon as a steamer can be sent here
to take them over.
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Something to Know.

Tt may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, by
giving tone to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates h Liver
and Kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves the appetite,
aids digestion, and is pronounced by
those who ave tried it as the very best
blood purifier n nerve tonic. Try it.
Sold for SOC or s1.W per bottle at r. r..
Bellamy's drug stere.
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You need Cod Liver Gil, you say but
think o can't take it? Try Nor
rhuvin" a perfected wine Of Cod
Liver OIL" You get all the virtue of
the Oil, without the disagreeable eff
fects. Sold by j. c. Shepard, ]. H.
Hardin and II. L. Fentress.
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Cause of the Alarm At Norfolk.

Newport News, Va, June 1.-THE Ger
man steamship Constantia, whose APP
p~earance of the capes last night caused
the sensational rumors as to Spanish
warships lurking in that vicinity, arrived
here today. The C~onstantia is bound
from New Orleans to Hamburg and came
20 this port for coal.
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In E1RAL
Cuba has not been found to be very rich.
But little gold and silver have been dis
covered. Iron mines a few miles east Of
Santiago were worked on a large scale
until the present insurrection began. In
1880 the output from the Santiago mines
was $50, 600 tons which constituted about
o%ne-fourth of the total importation of iron
ore of the United States during that
wear. Some deposits of asphaltum, cop
per and manganese have been found and
9workcd to a limited extent.
There are about LOCO miles of railways
in Cupa, located mainly in the western
portion connecting Havana with the
neighboring towns. There are nearly 5,VU
miles of telegraph lines and nearly LOU
miles of cable which, until recently cut
connected the cities of south CUBA with
the adjacent islands. In 1894 the tonnage
of Havana and the eight other principal
ports amounted to about 3,50O,0U tons,
carried by 1900 vessels.
Cuba is rich in good harbors, among
the best being those at Havana and Ma
tanzas on the north, Cie2fuegos and San
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"Cne Minute Cough Cure Is the best
preparation / have ever o Or used
and I can't say too much in its praise"
L. NJ. Kennon, Merchant, Odell, Ga.
For sale by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-14

Scrofula, disease, salt rheum' dys-
pepsfa and other diseases due to impure
blood are cured by Hoods Sarsapariua.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17
COMMON MERCIES.
ordinary blessings Which Form Pa ri
of Our Daily Life Should Be Ac-
knowledged with Thanksgiving.

They should prompt us to Thanks
giving just because they are common.
Food, nourishing and diversified; raj
ment, comfortable and appropriate,
even if not always in the latest FASH
ion; shelter, safe and comfortable;
all the material necessaries of life, not
to mention its luxuries; pleasant COM
partnerships, tried and trusty friend
ships, opportunities for study, culture
ard recreation; business usefulness
and success; spiritual advantages of
many kinds-these, or most of them,
are common to the large majority of
men and women, young or old, especial
~ IN this land of ours. Is not this fact
something for which to thank God?
when we receive great mercies, spe-
cial tokens of divine goodness, graft
tude is spontaneous, impulsive, out
spoken. 1t is natural. The absence of
1t causes comment. Yet such favors,
although they may suggest the divine
care and love more strikingly than our
ordinary blessings, are no more zeal,
are hardly more conspicuous proofs
thereof. AS We look back over child
hood and youth it is not the memory
CT this or that occasional and special
gift or other proof of regard which
sWells afresh within our hearts the
tide Of reverence and love for our
parents. 1t is the recollection of their
unvarying affection, their unfaltering
care, their scrupulousness in order
ing the little, common matters of
everyday life for our highest benefit.
So it ought to be when we study the
dealings of our Heavenly Father with
us. While we thank Him heartily for
the exceptional favors which He has
bestowed, let the ordinary blessings,
which have come to seem SO much mat
tiers of course, yet which are so vital
to our welfare, be acknowledged with
gratitude no less earnest and frank.
To appreciate them at their true
value, reflect what our lives would be-
come without them. Consider the diff
ference between ourselves and others
who do not possess them in the same
degree, if at all. No unusually vivid
imagination is required, nor any pro-
longed or severe mental effort. It is
Gods common mercies to us, after all,
which constitutes what we might call
the atmosphere of our lives. Their
presence increases our happiness indie
scribably. Let God be thanked for
them, therefore, more devoutly than
ever.-Congregation
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eyes. that he had feared might never
know him more this side Of the gates

eyes. that he had feared might never
know him more this side Of the gates
of pearl.
1ou'ye been good 10 me in every
thing but one, Godfrey; you won't re-
fuse me now?" she said.
Ae understood, for he bent over he
Suddenly, and for an instant his
cheek lay against her own.
my wife, my wife," he cried, with
solemn emphasis. "your life shall be
different one, please God, from this
day forward and theirs, too" he add
ed, reverently.. 49, g ....,
They hunted the place over for old
Ephraim Tracy few minutes, after.
wards, but 1t was his wife who found
him, back of the big barn, sitting on
bench. The gray head was bowed
between the wrinkled hands. and he
was weeping unrestrainedly.
She went up to him and touched his
arm.
"Come, father" she said, gently.
The old man lifted his head, striving
in vain tc still the trembling of his
quivering lips.
I'm cryin'. Mandy" he answered,
brokeniy, land I can't help it. Only
to think; it'sThanksgiving day, Lizzie's
gettin' we'll, and-he-called meta
ther-Mandy."
His wife nodded with tear-wet, smil.
ing eyes, and hand in hand they turned
and went into Elizabeth's house.-Su-
san Hubbard Martin, in Ladies' World,
New York.
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TRAVELS OF COINS.
Some Old Pieces Could Tell Remark
able Stories of Their Wan
derinEs.

IF an old coin could only talk what
strange adventures it might TELL" re-
marked Canal street druggist, twirl-
ing silver piece he had just received
from a customer. "Now, this half dol
lar was coined in 1913, the year the
great gold craze began in California,
and I should say by its looks that it
has been in pretty constant circula-
ton ever since. Think what volume
of trade that represents. If it pur-
chased its face value only once day,
which is certainly a modest estimate,
it. has done we'll on to $4,000 worth
of business in the half century il has
been going the rounds. That's quite
a record, isn't it? And I dare say that
curious things have happened to it in
its journeyings. It has been borrowed
and stolen and lost and lent; it has
been boarded by misers and squan-
dered by prodigals, and who knows
low often it has been the last coin
in the pocket of suicide? 1t must
have lain on gaming tables and rat
tied in church boxes and held down the
eyelids of the dead. There is 40 tell
ing in what far countries it has tray
eled, and what fantastic foreign things
it may have bought. Inever finger one
of these old coins without a certain
sense of awe and an inclination to
stop, no matter how busy may be,
and do little day dreaming over it's
history"
GAIL that reminds. me-" said a gen.
tleman who had listened to the drug
gist's homily, ''of queer experiment.
made years ago. I was specializing
one day on the possible wanderings of
coins, and just to test the matter I
had a small steel punch made with my
Initials cut in the end. BY bringing it
down sharply on coin could leave
the letters indented on the surface.
Well, for a long time-over year.
in fact--I stamped every scrap of hard
money got hold of-nickels, pennies
and all. suppose at the very lowest
estimate turned adrift 400 or 500 sep
arats pieces wearing my sign manual,
meanwhile keeping my eyes open for
the return Of any of the wanderers.
It was ill 1881 or 1882 that began work
with the die, and in all these interven-
ing years I have never yet received
coin bearing my stamp. Looking for
the initials has become such a habit
with me that do it instinctively al
most every time I receive any change.
Several years ago I was a cashier in
good-sized retail house here, and
handled great many fractional coins.
Hundreds of them had been marked,
but none had my particular stamp.
This certainly shows how widely
money becomes scattered. A young
friend Of mine tried the same expert
ment, and after a consid cradle lapse
OF time found one OF his coins in some
change given him in a store in New
York. He had ring put in the piece
and wears it on his watch chain,"-
n. @. Times-Democrat.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE

lad to let my French lessons co.
Why was that?" .'They were simply
running my golf accent. - Chicago
Record.
She-.Now, dear, we must begin to
economic. He-"All right. Begin
by making the bread lighter. on
kers Statesman.
DO you really think there can be
jealousy without love?"4 ibid you
ever know Il married woman who was
not jealous ?"-Indianapolis Journal.
Jorkins-''What are you thinking so
lard about?' Perkins-"I am trying
to decide which man derives the
most real enjoyment from, laziness or
conceit." Flown Topics.
Wife-"John, is it true that you in
vited our cooks soldier lover to my
birthday dinner?'' Husband-"Cer-
tainly. did not want him to get the
best morsels of every dish" File
gende Blaetter.
Mamma" said Dot, do all the
rivers empty into the sea?'' "Most of
them, my dear" 'Then why doesn't
the sea run over; is it because there
are lots of sponges in it?''-Philadel-
phia North American
The Leading Question.-"Dat poet
Valkin Meeler has arranged all de de-
tails for hees funeral pyre." Funeral
pyre? Vot vos dot?' "He will hat him
self set on FIRE ven he ees det." '"sVot
insurance does he carry" -Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
He-"Carrie! I saw you flirting
with Tom Sweetser last evening. y
She-'Well, it was all for your sake. :"
He-"For my sake? How do you make
that out?" She-"You wanted me to
learn to love you, and was just prac-
ticing on Tom."-Boston Transcript.
BriGe-"I'm so afraid people will
find out that we're just married that
I've made Will promise to treat me in
public just as if he had no thought
for anyone but himself" Matron-"I
adopted that plan when I was married
and my husband never got over it,
Nt-Bits.
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A Doubtful Reformation.

II feel like man who had escaped
from bondage" exclaimed the com
muter, who had slid deity past the
bundles he bad piled on the car seat,
without upsetting one of them. II feel
like {, man who had had an aching
tooth pulled or who had had an unex-
pected legacy just as note came due. -
whats the matter?" inquired the
neighbor. -.' 81: ~ IT, r..
'1've conquered my besetting weak
ness"
Il didn't know you had any"
Eyes. 1t was superstition. I'd wor-
~ about whether saw the new moon
over my left shoulder, and if saw q
horse shoe I'd drop everything I was
carrying in order to pick it up. I'd
get my feet wet and catch cold hunt
ing four-leat clovers, and turn pale II
I forgot myself so far as to trim my
finger nails en- Friday
"And yon gave them all up?" asst 3.
eyes, SIR ~
"Well, there's no doubt you are bet.
ter off," :.
II should say so. Why, I've noticed
the difference already. I was ALSO.
lutely compelled to call halt. mo
ticed that every time paid attention
to these superstitions had bad lucl. :
Washington Star.
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pushed back the lovely hair from the

pushed back the lovely hair from the
white forehead.
You'd be tier 60 upstairs, Lizzie, .
he said, tenderly.
They put her to bed shortly after
that. but before morning sharp pains
set IL and adoctor was hurriedly sent
for.
AS the fever rose she grew light
headed and babbled on about father,
Jud, and Andy. too. She thought she
was at home again, living again her
simple, humble life ...s
'What is it, doctor?" her husband
whispered, a great fear Juggling at his
heart.
inflammation of the lungs" the
doctor had answered briefly.
So, in that luxurious room, the strug-
BILE began, the life and death angel
closing in combat. Godfrey Dilling-
ham in the terribly trying days that
followed, bending over that slight, be-
loved form, realized for the first time
what his sin had been; the misery he
mus have caused his wife, the pride
that had blinded him to all parental
claims. With old Martin Chuzzlewit,
he could but exclaim: "Self-self-
self" And now she would die and
leave him.
He walked to the wind1Ws and looked
across the bare and frozen fields.
"And they have loved her, too," he
murmured. ooh, Eliza beth, my wife
only live, and I will make it up thou
sand times"
He would send for them now, he
whispered. AS if in answer to his
thought, the kindly physician raised
his eyes.
'Better telegraph for her parents ~
he said. "She will reach the crisis be.
fore twenty-four hours, and she may
not pass it."
Ephraim Tracy was in the back yard
divesting his plump turkey of feathers
when the telegram came. Jud stood
gathering up the feathers for a buster.
"A:n't it fat, Juddie % said the old
man gleefully, land won't our Lizzie
like it?"