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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
Death Of General Stefnmeez.

The friends Of Mr.. c. NJ. Steinmetz,
Of Rose Hill, Duplin county, deeply
sympathize with him in the death of
his father, General VIM. G. SteinmetZ,
of Buffalo, n. Y, who died on We'd
nesday Of last week. Mr.. Steinmetz
wen there to attend the funeral. The
shock is hard for Mr.. Steinmetz, who
with his mother and brother survive
him.
General Steinmetz at the time Of his
death, had charge of the government
works at Buffalo, Philadelphia and
other posts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

The Raleigh Post quotes from the
Apex News as follows:
1T is reported that in eastern Wake
county a man by the name of Spence
has been preaching sanctifcation, and
in order to carry out his points he an
nounced to his hearers that on Sunday
he would walk on water. Saturday
night he went to a pond and drove
up some posts and laid some planks
along about three inches under the
water. Sunday morning, 10y appoint
ment, a large crowd assembled to see
the wonderful feat. During the night
some mean boys o out one Of the
planks. After spending several min
utes in prayer the sanctiicationist pro-
ceeded to walk. With eyes fixed
heavenward he slowly and deliberately
walked in. Everything vas still, and
such remarks as Gee, whiz! that man
shorely am sanctified!" could be heard
from the lager crowd Of onlookers.
Suddenly when about the middle, of
the pond he came to the missing plank.
ker choog! under went the parson
above his head under water. The
now thoroughly enraged crowd dispers-
ed with very little faith in sanctiica-
ton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
Negro Soldiers

The Charleston News and Courier
says:
1T is not known what proportion of
the insurgent army is colored. but the
indications are that the proportion of
the same element in the volunteer
army of occupation will be small. On
the basis of population, of course, one
third Of the south's quota should be
made up of colored, and it is to be re-
membered that they make good SOL
diers and constitute a large part of
n regular army. There We're nearly
10000 of them in service in the last
war
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

"a word to the wise is sufficient" and
q word from the wise should be suf-
fcient, but you ask, who are the wise?
Those who know. The oft repeated
experience of trustworthy persons may
be taken for knowledge. Mr.. w. M.
Terry says Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy gives better satisfaction than any
other i'm THE market. He has been in
1.-THE drugbusiness at EIkton, KY, for
twelve years; has sold hundreds of bot
ties of this remedy and nearly all other
cough medicines manufactured, which
shows conclusively that Chamberlain's
Is the most satisfactory to the people,
and Is the best. For sale by r. r. Bel
Aamy. --A--4h--
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
PILES. PILES: PILES:

DIR. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
will cure Blind. Bleeding. liberated
and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tu-
mors. allays the itching at once, acts
as a poultice, gives instant relief. DR..
Williams Pile Ointment Is prepared
only for Piles and Itching OF the private
parts. and nothing else. Every 10 is
guaranteed. Sold by druggists. sent by
mail for SOC and $1.00 per box. Will
liams Manufacturing Company, pro-
prietors, Cleveland, O..
Sold by John II. Hardin. iA1i3itk
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
NAVAL STORES.
4 BeIalcd Prize

Key West. Fla. May THE Spanish
fishing smack DO Septembre was brought
in tonight by a prize crew from the Hele-
ma She was taken eight days ago in Yu-
cafan channel by the gunboat. Adverse
weather was encountered. during which
the charts were blown overheard ard the
captors. with their little prize. crulsei
airnlesSly about the waters of the quiz
until yesterday. when the British steamer
Jamaica was encountered and put them
on their course.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
Expedition Sent to Cuba.

Jacksonville. Fla, May "a special
TO The Times Union and Citizen from
Key West. via Tampa, says: The
government tug Leiden left Key West
at l o'clock this afternoon carrying a
Cuban expedition under government
auspices to establish communication
with h Cuban forces in Havana pro-
vince. The expedition is commanded
by Lieutenant Colonel Baldemere
Aoosta.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

William Henry TrescOt, for many years
connected with the state department in
Washington and a leading American
diplomatist, died at Pendleton, S. c.,
today. At the opening of the wal he
vas acting secretary of state of the
United States under. President Buch-
anan.. He resigned this and came
south, during the war, but since the
war was charged with numerous i'm
pOrtant missions for the government.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Montgomery, Ala. May 4.-The pop
ulist state convention proceedings we're
smooth and harmonious today. A full
state ticket was nominated. headed by
G. b. Deans, Of Shelby. for governor.
supreme court ticket was named.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
Gladstone Steadily Declining

London, May 5.-The Daily Chronicle
"a this morning: Mr.. Gladstone's
strength steadily declines, though
there is no prospect of an immediate
end. He is confined to his room. Now
and then his mind reverts to critical
periods in his career and to the legisla-
ton which cost him the most anxiety,
but the main thing that fills his
thought is religion, and he speaks of
death as his CALL"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH
COTTON.

Liverpool. May A. p. m-Cotton.-
Spot. moderate demand. prices lower;
American middling fair 3 l5-l6d: good
middling 3 ll-l6d; American mfddiing
5 l7-S2d: low middling 3 l3-22d: good ordi-
nary 3'4d; ordinary 3 Lied. The sales OF
the day were 500 bales, OF which so
were for speculation and export and in
Guided $50 American; receipts 100 bales
all American. Futures opened quiet with
"A fair demand and closed quiet and
steady.
American middliug low middltng clause.
May 3 29-tid buyers; May and June
3 29-64d buyers: june and July 3 2o-G+d
buyers; July and August 3 3o-S+Q3 3l-64d
sellers: August and September 3 SOFIA
3 &l-64d sellers: September and October
3 29-64H 3 30-64d sellers; October and No
vember 3 2S-G4d3 29-s4d sellers: November
and December 3 27-6iH3 3s-64d buyers;
December and January ; 27-64a3 Std
sellers; February and March , 2s-6d buy
ers.
New York. May A-Cotton. holiday; re-
ceipts none; stock 19o. 92l.
Total today: Net receipts 5.053. exports
TO Great Britain IL. 43S; stock 6+5, i91.
Consolidated: Net receipts 10. +2; cN-
ports TO Great Britain 1887; TO the con-
tinent 81. 600.
Total since September lst: Net receipts
S.216. 1893: exports TO Great Britain 3.l50, SO;
80. '' ~
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Easy at ) 1l-l6c: net receipts
j04.
Norfolk-Duil at csc: net receipts 5l5.
Baltlmore-Nomina1 at 6 5-l6c; net re-
ceipts IFS; gross receipts AIS.
Roston-Quiet at q slice; net receipts
III; gross receipts 2,i2S.
Wilmington-Firm at 57sc: net receipts
2e
neutrality-suspicious. at 6 9-l6c; net re-
ceipts 293.
Savannah-Quiet at 5 1l-1Sc; net re-
ceipts / .2l9.
New Orleans-Quiet at Il-lGc: net re-
ceipts 1877.
Moble-Nominal at SAC: net receipts 10.
Memphis-Steady at 57sc; net receipts
COL; gross receipts l,l25.
AuEusta-Steady at &c: net receipts y.
Observation-Disclosures; net receipts 4.
Cincinnati-Steady at &C; net receipts
21q.
Louisville-Steady at c..
St. Louis-Quiet at SIC: net receipts
113: gross receipts 1879.
H~ouston-Easy at ) ll-lGc: net receipts
220.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
Chicago. May 4.-The leading futures
were as follows.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
rheumatism Cured.

My wife has used Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for rheumatism with great
relief, and I can recommend it as a
splendid IMMINENT for rheumatism and
other household use for which we have
found it valuable.-W. J. Cuyler, Red
Creek Herald. For sale by r. r. Bel
ta1ny.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
Negro Soldiers Sent to Tortugas

Atlanta Ca. May 4-The department
OF the gulf today ordered two companies
of the Twenty-ifth infantry (the negro
regimenU from Key West to Dry Tortu-
gas. Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas Is
being improved and strengthened and the
infantry - sent there TO garrison the
most
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Don't loaf in front of a bank Just
because there is money in it,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
In fair demand and firm: No. 2 yellow
corn. 34H3tI4c; No. 2 spring wheat, $l.10.
No. 3 spring wheat, S.V7M1.17: No. 2 red,
$l2lknl.3o: No. 2 corn. 33@4c: No. = oats,
30lzc; No. 2 white. 32iz033c. No. 3 white.
3lkG32Ac; mess pork, per Dbl. 81. ion
lie; lard. per 100 HIS. &.g1n5s5; short
ribs sides, loose. 5.+0nj.75; dry sailed
shoulders. boxed. Si7jn5U: short clear
sides. boxed, S6.Con6.50: whiskey. d!st!l-
lers' finished goods, per gallon. 2L20.
NAVAL STORES.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
PC: sales 1890: receipts l.45i. Rozin firm:
sales 2,sS2; receipts 2. s9s. Quote: a Is e ID
f s1.10; r sL15; G N.Z: II S.45; VI $50.
~ s1.65: w @ NO: w w $3.50.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES market quiet:
quotations omitted. Rosin steady and
unchanged: sales none.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
GRAIN ANT PROVISION.

Chicago. May 4.-The leading futures
were as follows:
Open. High. Low. Clos.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

some Of his own sure boys, to teach those
dons how to run, but it had to be did! The
scrimmage had to be short, for all hands
were due back at the home table this
blessed Thanksgiving day, and, the ball
set rolling, it was hustled along fast. We
are thankful that the world knows how
prompt we can act for right against op-
preston, how sure we are of our mettle,
and maybe before many more Thanksgiv-
ing days-if things don't go little more
civilized in the far East-there's a Tur-
keys head We'll have to chop off before
we can sit down to our plum pudding
table quite easy and satisfied.
Your Uncle Sam is especially grateful
for the pretty girls that remain in the
country. This international matrimonial
market business has been giving the lords
and dukes and earls a chance to rob us
right and left. We must put q stop to
this, boys! The table don't look right
with SO many pretty faces gone. We need
all the beauty and smiles and winsomeness
we can find, and If those titled foreigners
must have live, bouncing American girl,
let them come over here and be American
lied and naturalized, and sit down at the
table and learn our ways,
We have had some glorious shows the
last year-fower shows, county fairs, q
big Western exposition. We have had
conventions, and the chance to view in
public the men and women Of the epoch,
with an extra gathering to press down
good measure. We have had baseball and
tennis and golf, and yacht races and row
ing. And in them all American muscle
and American brains have topped the bar
gain and capped the climax! Let us give
thanks for all these amusements and
pleasures, thanks for our blessings, thanks
for our hopes,
And a special hurrah for our farmers.
amid all this joy Of health and vigor!
Think of the bountiful reward for the la
Dor of the husbandman! We have been
preserved as a nation, and our glory shines
afar before all peoples. We have well
coined the oppressed, we have given q
shelter to the homeless. We have aided
suffering, and borne the Stars and Stripes
where they were needed the most.
Once more, children, all togetherl wav-
ing an encouraging flag over to Hawaii
and Cuba and the Philippines, cheer for
them, cheer for America, yourselves and
Uncle Sam:
Ny country, it's Of thee,
Sweet land Of liberty,
OF thee l sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land Of the pilgrims pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

Margaret Hudson was not touched by the
words. Her faith had lost its Olivet and
her love its Galilee.
when He gives me my hearts desire" "
she said stubbornly. when He sends my
boy, my Jim, back to me, I will believe
that His promises are true. l can't trust
Him any more until He does"
She did not tarry at the close Of the ser
vice for her usual greeting of old friends,
but stole out alone and hurried toward her
lonely home, the homeliness and desolation
of which were never so hard to bear as
now.
If He'd hear my prayer and send Jim
back to me 1t would be So" she said.
Jim! Her hearts desire! Where was
he at that moment?
God only knowsw his mother said be-
tween her broken sobs as she went slowly
along over the country road, the bright
sunlight Of glorious November day lend
ing radiance to the brown leaves still re-
naming on the trees. 1t had been twenty
years since she had seen Jim. He was
then a handsome, headetrong boy of IS,
and the only child that had come to her.
She had lavished upon him the warmest,
tenderest affections Of her life, and yet she
never knew just why Jim had run away
from home in his 18th year and she had
never seen him nor heard from him since
that day.
She knew that he had gone "out West"
and she was too poor to follow him, had
she known where he was.
There had been vague and unfounded
rumors that he had got into trouble" but
proof Of this was lacking, and her neigh
bors had long ago ceased to speak Of Jim
to Margaret Hudson. But not for one
day nor for one hour had she ceased to
think Of him-her hearts desire.
Twenty years of unanswered prayer had
ended In this spirit Of depression and re-
bellion, and there was no love nor graft
tude in Margaret Hudson's heart that
Thanksgiving morning.
Presently she came to the bars in a
fence by the roadside through which she
must pass on her homeward way. She
leaned heavily on the bars, and then drop
ped slowly to her knees with her head
resting on one gaunt arm stretched out
upon one of the bars. Her lips moved
slowly In praper:
"Oh, God" she said, II have been 90
sinful. 30 wicked. Forgive me and let the
desire Of heart be for perfect trust In Thee
no matter what Thy will may be concern
Ing me. Make this my hearts desire"
There was O smile on her brown and
wrinkled old face when abe roso to her
feet and went on her homeward way. All
trace OF rebellion had fed from her face,
and her eyes shone through a mist OF
tears.
She pushed open the gate before her tiny
| brown house and when old Hero, the dog,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

Gle Sam will no sooner get out his memo
randum book to sum up his causes for
gratitude than December shoots out
"Merry Christmasv and the whole string
of celebrations seems to break loose. 1t
Is, indeed, fast age, my children a fast
age. Why, time was when it took three
whole days to make feast; one to prepare
for it, one to get over it, and one to enjoy
It lesurely. We rested from Christmas
to Washington's birthday and then had
nothing to do but get ready for the Fourth.
Then, Thanksgiving found US with long
Ing for turkey, and the holly season sharp
ened our Gppetites with its savory odor
Of plum pudding.
But, bless you, my children, those good
old days are past and gone, along with
last years fashions. We rush and hurry
from one festival to another and fill up
the spaces with flag days, and arbor days,
and memorial days, and worlds fairs, and
soldiers monuments, until your Uncle
Sam is on a dash from one end of the
country to the other, trying to fulfill his
state and national engagements. And
whenever he hopes to snatch an hours
rest, bless you! some invitation arrives,
and he has to scamper off to lay corner
stone, or crown an arch, or fire salute or
respond to toast, until his very last suit
Is in imminent danger Of losing its buttons
and fraying at the seams
But to return to our turkey and the list
In the memorandum book THANKSGIVING
is here, and the earth is rejoicing! The
peace jubilee Is over, things fixed for COM
fort, and calmness and happiness, and the
football player Is now monarch of the day.
During his temporary sovereignty, let
Uncle Sam recount the blessings of the
year that has run its course through ways
OF peril and hardship, but, withal, of
blessings.
Your Uncle Sam is grateful that the
war is over, and Cuba can sit down at
the November table with Thanksgiving
all her own. Spain must not complain of
her Cooked gooseF' Time Is when your
Uncle Sam, getting riled, acts quicker'n a
wink. 1t took some vessels, some guns,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

ton scattered throughout this quiet lit
tie country church that Thanksgiving
morning. And the beauty Of the words
and the promise contained in them touch
ed the hearts of many
wait patiently upon the Lord and he
shall give thee thy hearts DESIRE" repeat
ed the choir.
''It is not trueV'
The words were not spoken, but they
were in the thought and heart Of one old
woman sitting far back near the door. She
sat alone, for she was alone in the world.
Those who had once peopled the old pew
with her-father, mother, husband, broth
ers and sisters, and the child OF her love
and care, all were gone. The quiet peace
ful beauty of that Thanksgiving morning
and the spiritual atmosphere OF the church
had quite failed to appeal to old Margaret
Hudson Never had she felt In more
rebellious mood. 1t would have dazed
and panied the white-haired old elder In
the pulpit had he known the thoughts that
were uppermost in the mind Of the small,
dark, keen-eyed little old woman whose
head gave little defiant toss when he
rose and said:
"Let us bow our heads in prayer
Margaret Hudson did not bow her head,
and her heart did not respond to the sim
pie, fervent prayer Of Elder Norris.
whats the use?" she was saying an
grily to herself. Haven't been bowlng
my head and my knees in prayer for years
and years-in one prayer for one thing, for
my hearts desire, and has 1t been granted
to me2 No, 1t hasn't! have waited
patiently on the Lord and He has not Civ
en- me the desire Of my heart. don't be-
lieve that He ever will give It to me. I've
lost faith and hope. l can't help II. My
hearts desire has been denied me so long
and the promise has not come true for me.
can't believe that II is true"
There were educated, polished and bril-
liant ministers in beautiful city churches
who preached with less simple and tender
beauty than that old elder prqa ched that
morning about the Joy OF gratitude and
prsise-givins for the blessings of God, but
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

they Immediately showed an inclina-
uon to learn the game thoroughly, and
many OF them are now among the lead
ing English exponents ofiit.
One thing in connection with the
game the public have not tackled, and
that Is the score card. Most of the
spectators refuse to trouble about it..
They Ike the excitement and fun, and
the little incricacies of THE score card
are Ignored for the time.
The game in England cd cbmmences a
month later than 1t does ini the United
states, but ends about the same time.
While 1t is on the sporting press. as
wen as the ordinary daily land weekly
papers, take an interest ia 1t, In the
most important matches devoting near.
ly half a column to 1t, which Ywben it is
taken into consideration thht cycling,
rowing. tennis. hockey, etc., have to be
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

attorneys who have eSessed tleh
willingness to dsfendlbim. Frau
James is also helping his tphew toH q
tain his freedom. 4Mk
Jesse James, the elder, wa mX,.'.k
In 1874 to Miss Zerelda IiAns.
cousin. The present JesSe JAn ~
the fruit of this union. WheAR n
Ford cut short the career II his
Mrs. James, with her son Jess tslH
then a boy Of Z, and dauaiter r w
ed to Kansas City, where the M ~
had formerly been n school ten nj
Young Jesse attended school UNIV hik
was 10, when he accepted posltl1 NJ
Armour's packing house In ka
City. He remained there until NJ
months ago, when he establisnec N
cigar stand in the county court nosf
His reputation was always gooo W
he met "Jack" Kennedy man WIN
believed to have been implicated
half a dozen train robberies aroup
Kansas City and is now under llu''
ment for murder.
Young Jesse never knew that ne W.
the son of Jesse James, the outla"' ~
til after the latter was shot Oy p
Ford at st. Joseph, Mo-, in lsSlC
used to listen to his father reaains
of the papers everything he couu =.
about the James boys and pes' A
deeply interested in the deeds Ol =
gang. 1t would not be strange lusn' sr 4
the young man were founo gun rS
having had~a hand in the train
berry.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18

came bounding forward with noisy greet
ing she patted him kindly and said cheer
lily:
Good old dog! Glad to see me, aren't
you, old felloww
She looked up to see tall, broad7shoul-
dered, brown-bearded man coming rapidly
down the path toward her with outstretch-
ed arms and twinkling brown eyes.
"Motherr' he said
"Why, Jim~
And they walked up the path with their
arms around each other.
And later Margaret Hudson went softly
about her tidy, sunny dining room setting
her tables for dinner and singing softly,
"Wait patiently upon the Lord and He
shall give thee thy hearts desires"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18
No Occasion 10 Take Bath. ;.

A foreigner who was>brought Ds,S s,Ss
a San Francisco magistrate the w, ~,
day was found to be so uncleaul, ,,u,
the police were ordered to give aspc n
bath. "vat! Go in de vaterY ne a,S. ~
"Yes, you must take batn' ,pS sJ' oueI
it. How long is 1t since you uS Wonder
The foreigner shrugged his suOr O,od B
and replied: 81 never was arre'
fore"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-11-18
IN HIS FATHERS FOOTSTEPS
Young James May Be FOLLOWING IN,
Track of the Famous Outlow


Track of the Famous OUTLAW.
The curse of heredity seems 70 h.
stamped upon Jesse James, son Of I'M
notorious outlaw who terrorized M
West for many years, and nephew Of
Frank James, the pal Of the elder Jesse
in most of his crimes. The younger
Jesse James was recently arrested h
Kansas City for alleged participate
in the hold-up and robbery of Mis-
souri, Pacific express train, on the nlgh.
Of September "a, just outside the ciy
limits. Young James, who has bone,
pretty good reputation, protests bis l
nocence and there are any number aI