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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
Gods Great Plan,

Written for The Evening Star by o. s, Webster
Today perhaps taste of pleasure,
But ere the is set tomorrow
Death may claim choicest treasure,
Leaving naught but bitter sorrow
So hath been wrought the perfect plan,
For sorrow comes with Gliding force
To mold and make the better man.
And keep him to his proper course.
The sturdy oak, the teLder flower,
The chilling blasts the summer shower
All these tell how by Gods great plan
The better growth is wrought in man.
For tcmpest-tossed Is growth as we'll
As sun-kissed flowers of field or dell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
The Northwest Canada,

Aolfa oNeiil IN Blackwood'e.
Oh, would ye hear, and would We hear
OF the windy. wide Northwest:
Faith. tits a land green the sea-
That rolls far and rolls as free,
With drifts of flowers many there be,
Where the cattle roam and rest.
Oh, could ye see and could We see
The great gold skies clear,
The rivers that race through the pine-shade dark
The mountainous SHOWS that take no mark
Sun-lit and high on the Rockies stark,
So far they seem near.
Then could ye feel. and could ye feel
How fresh is Western night
When the long land -breezes rise and pass
And sigh in the rustltng prairie grass,
" hen the dark blue skies are clear as glass
And the same old stars are bright.
But could ye know. and forever know
The word of the young Northwest!
4 word she breathe to the tree and bold,
A word nliskpovn TO the false and cold,
word that never was spoken sold,
But the one thst knows is blest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
They've Mustered Out the Volunteers,

Theodore Roberts in the Independent
They've mustered out the volunteers,
And hearts beat gayer North and South.
The brown hand calnis the mothers fears
Dear kisses touch the bearded mouth
The house is glad, the fires are bright
The hero tells about the fight.
They've mustered out the volunteers
The captains cried. We're of today"
The pine woods rang with maddened cheers,
The troop ships swung along the bay.
The hero talks guard mounts and ''taps,' -
PonchOs, death and shoulder straps
They We mustered out the volunteers
The busles set the camps astir,
And at the word some fell to tears
And some embraced the messenger.
And now the hero, with two bars
Upon his shoulder, sings the wars
They've mustered ont the volunteers!
The papers shout it. but the mail
Brings no bright word The wet wind veers
And be still guards the muddy trail;
Last orders have not come his way!
Tho all the soft winds sing of peace
He holds the road to Siboney
And waits the final, great release.
The hero, when the candles fail
Hears singing, down a distant trail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
Persistent Advertising,
From the Inland Printer

Az incessant drops Of water
With persistent. tiny blows,
Beat down the rugged mountains
AND dissolve the deepest SHOWS;
As when thread Ia thread is added.
Larger still the fabric grows.
And the most persistent knitter
Wears the longest. warmest hoset
As the dog. by logged gnawing.
Tastes the marrow of the bone,
And repeated mallet-tapping
Brings the statue from the stone:
As the most untiring printer.
N1-h fncessant click. click. click"
Marches largest verbal armies
BY divisions DER his stick;
As letter to letter added
Makes complete the longest page.
And minutes oft recuunted
Tell the sum Of longest age;
As oft-gained bits Of wisdom
Make the store of know ledge great.
And man after man enlisted
Fills the armies Of the state;
As rivulet Joining riYulet
Swells the river DER its banks,
And continued penny savings
Aggregate the wealth Of banks;
So the constant advertiser,
BY law of common sense
Builds his business enterprises
Into volumes most immense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27

very early In the morning is generally
supposed TO be the most common time for
death TO take away the sick Old nurses
VIII tel you that from to o'clock life is
at IT'S lowest ebb, and the dying patient
usually passes into the great beyond be-
tween these hours A famous French phy-
siclan. however. has examined over Is 600
cases OF death, and finds that mora deaths
occur at O'Clock in the afternoon than at
any other time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
The ChiId's Heart.
From the London Speake

rom the London Speaker.
The heart of a child,
Like the heart OF a flower,
Has smile for the sun
And u tear for the shower;
Oh. Innocent hours
With wonder beguiled-
Oh, heart like u flowers
In the heart OF a childi
The heart Of a child,
Like the heart Of u bird,
With rapturts of music
Is flooded and stirred;
Oh. songs without words,
Oh, melodies wild
Oh. heart like birds
In the heart of a child,
The heart Of a child,
Like the heart of the spring,
Is full Of the hope
OF what SUMMER shall bring;
Oh, glory Of things
In a world indebted
Oh. heart like the Springs
In the heart Of a child!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
The Tent.
.(PERSrAS.)

ichard Henry Stoddard in the Independent.
When my bier IL horne to the grave,
And its burden is laid In the ground.
Think not that Rumi is there,
Nor cry, like the mourners around.
HE Il gone-An is over-Farewellt''
But go on your ways again,
And, forgetting your own petty loss.
Remember his infinite gain.
For know that this world is a tent.
And life but a dream In the night.
TIL Death plucks the curtains apart
And awakens the sleeper with light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27

The lighthouse at Corunna. Spain is be-
iieved to be the oldest one now in use IL
was erected during the reign Of Tralan, and
rebuilt in 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
The Cow Puncher as He Is,


Such is chapter in the life of a Mexican
Vaquero. His world, from either a social
or professional standpoint is not large.
but what there is of it he fills to its utmost
limitations. He seldom approaches nearer
to civilization than the outbuldings of his
masters hacienda. Six months of pro-
longed siesta in the lonely herders' camp
another six of wild scurrying on the desert
rCund-up-and you have, in brief a sum-
mary or his existence. BY way of diver
sion. his recoliections of the last fandango-
his present Cfgarette-the next seasons
bale. As 10 his virtues-the least said the
better. Sentiment, with him. is thinner,
tnan the tortllia which constitutes his staff
of life. True. he may today manifest an
impuisive devotion for his mistress-tomor-
row he will swear everlasting constancy
10 the senorfta just over the divide: and
he invariably loves his pony more than
either He seldom lives to be old. the
dangers peculiar to his calling are too mani
fold TO admit of any such possibility An
Apache bulletins horse down in the midst
of the mad stampede-the CLEAN of a stilet-
to in the hands of his rival-and a grave
on the desert sands. He Is hopelesslv
peoned,' or in debt. to his patron who
charges him exorbitant prices for the barest
necessities of life in order to offset his pal
try annual stipend But he will defend the
interests of that same patron with his last
breath
Seldom, If ever, through lack of onnor-
tInity, does he go to confession. and vet,
though he as rarely departs this life in his
bare feet. his confidence that a soft berth
Is reserved for him In the hereafter is su-
preme. In short. a friend OF mine once
observed, ITS a terrible scoundrel who
goes TO hell from Mexican COW camp"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
Rounding I'D the Herd.

Long before sunrise on the following
morning all the vaqueros had left the ha-
cienda. riding off in small squads in as
many different directions as there are frac-
tional points to the compass only the fore
men and bosses remaining behind
For months prior TO this the preIiminar-
les Of the final grand rodero or roundup
had been in progress, the range riders for
leagues around gradually working the cat
tie over hill and plain. Converging by de-
grecs upon COrralitos, the common goal
Hence. with all that army of punchers. the
nnai work OF concentration was only the
matter OF few hours and toward noon
great clouds of dust on the surrounding
torizon stgnaled the approach Of the vast
herd. Nearer and nearer like the smoke of
b mighty prairie fire. drew the great dust
wreath. until at length it envelOped the ha-
cienia like a pail.
Al this juncture the various foremen
mounted their horses, and. gathering
about Don Miguel, went through the Next
can ceremony Of pledging ourselves to ex-
'rcise both fOrbearanCe and justice in all
Questions which might arise in the division
OF the cattle For an ail-important object
or the annual roderO Is to get the cattle
men together that all disputes and contro-
NtFsieS over ownerships, brands. &C. may
DE amIcably adjusted Our preliminary
cpurtesles done with, We rode forward
thFouSh the struggling van OF the adyaDc-
ing drove. thence through the dense, surg
ing press beyond. and finally emerging in
ths rear where the sullen following OF tens
Of thousands Of cattle were all but drown
Ell ny the Oarbaric whoops of some 200 gar
rul"dS COW puuchers- Upon nearing the
center of the plain a score or so of those
dnst-cOVered dare-devfls spurred their nom
les forward into the van of the moving
drove. and by dint of crowding squirting
ana waving OF serapes, started the bewild-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
More Delegates Going to the State Con.
ventiOn-Large Mass Meeting sunday
Afternoon

The list of the delegates who will go
from this city Thursday to the state
convention of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association at Durham was con-
siderably increased yesterday. In addi-
ton to those mentioned Sunday Colo
mel Roger Moore, Rev. Mr.. Thomas and
Nh. E. A. Nelson will 60. It is also
very likely that Professor John j. Blair
will attend.
Secretary Caldwell, of the ~associa-
ton, wishes us to say that the attend
ants to the convention from this city
are not confined to the members of
the association, but hat all Christian
young men are invited and urged to
go to the convention.
The mass meeting al the association
Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev.
A d. Mcclure, pastor of ST. Andrews
Presbyterian church, was attended by
about three hundred men and women.
Rev. Mr.. Mcclure delivered a very
powerful n interesting sermon on
prayer
The mems gymnasium class last
night was again largely attended and
~excitingly enjoyed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
The Nicaragua Canal Compromise

Washington, March 3.-The confer
ees on the river and harbor bill today
agreed and signed a report. ena
Frye made the following statement as
to the result of the conference:
I'm the matter Of the Nicaragua
canal, the conferees provided a sub
stitute for the senate amendment
giving full authority to the president to
investigate all Isthmian canal routes,
especially the Nicaragua and Panama
routes. He is to have all the engineers
and other employees he ma need for
his n is flowed to appoint
the engineers either from the army or
civil life. He is then to report his con-
illusions to the next congress-. For this
purpose We appropriate $1,000, 000."
The items concerning New York
harbor, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the
Southwest pass, and the Mississippi
river, Hudson river and nearly all the
important national projects as distin-
guished from those of a purely local
character, were agreed to practically
as inserted in the senate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Mr.. D. H. Harnly, editor Of the
Fruit and Truck Growers Journal, of
this city, left here Sunday night for
Chicago, where he will be married on
the 18th instant to Miss Nellie Slagle.
The wedding will take place at the res
idence of the brides parents the Rev.
and Mrs. P. Slagle. The Rev. Mr.. Slagle
is a prominent minister of the Metho-
dist conference of Central Illinois.
Nh. Harnly first met his fiancee ten
years ago during their first years at
tendance at the Wesleyan University,
at Bloomington, III. He expects to re-
turn to Wilmington with his bride on
the 25th instant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

The wilmfnSson Post nice Equipped
with an Electric Machine for Cancel.
ling stamps and Possmarking letter.
Ii il n Only One I'm North Carolina

Postmaster w H. Chadbourn, who
loses no opportunity TO increase the ef-
ficiency OF the p~ostoflce service in this
city, has succeeded in having the Of
fee supplied with the Barr-Fyke auto
matte cancelling and stamping machine
Mr.. Fyke. one OF the inventors OF the
machine, arrived here Saturday and
yesterday installed the machine and put
it into operation. He instructed the
clerks how to operate it. and kindly
demonstrated the machine TO a Messen-
ger representative.
The machine occupies a floor space
or about two by three feet and stands
about four feet in height. Il Is oper-
ated by an electric motor OF an am
phere and a half power which is a
part of the machine and is attached to
the lower part OF IL.
The machine runs with wonderful ra-
pidity and does its work with marvel
despatch and accuracy. The operator
simply stacks the letters upon a small
stand TO the right OF the machine
and shoves them against a circular belt
which rotates very rapidly and carries
the letters one at a time underneath
1he dies which cancel the stamp and
post mark the envelopes. The letters
pass Oab IA NAN III aAC
cally stacked by the machine on anoth-
er stand. Some idea may be had of the
speed Of the machine when IL is stated
that it will stamp and cancel 400 letters
a n Machines are also made 10
cancel 500 letters a minute.
The stamp for the postmark utilizes
hard metal type which is a patent OF
Mr.. Fyke and which will make an inn
preston on any hard as well as soft
substance without injury to the type
for a large number of impressions.
This machine is one of the greatest
labor saving inventions OF the age, and
is only put in postoffices of the first
class, the postoffice at Wilmington
having recently attained that al
Wilmington is the only city in North
Carolina that has n of these ma
chimes.
Mr.. Fyke came here from Parkers-
burg, w. Va, where he put in a ma.
chine, and he leaves today for Charles
ton to install one in the postofice
there. AT the p~ostoffice in Washington
there is a machine that stamps and
cancels at the rate 500 per minute.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
KIPLING
His Littl. Sfx-Year-OId Daughler, Jos.
ephIne, Dies of the Same Disease
From Which the Author suffers

New York, March 6.-Josephine Kip
ling, the 6 year old daughter Of Rud-
yard Kipling, and the Oldest of his
three children, died shortly after 6
o'clock this morning from pneumonia.
The child's death took place at the
home of Miss Julio de Forest in his
city. Miss de Forest is a friend of the
Kiplings and Josephine had been taken
to her home SO that she could be nursed
apart from the father. The girl became
i'll the day after Mr.. Kipling took to his
bed. The doctors discovered that the
disease was the same as that which
had brought her father to death's door.
She had a, the attention and all the
skill employed to save the life of her
father. DR.. COnland, the Kipling fam
lily physician, came down from Brattle-
boro, VT, and with DR.. Janeway sue
ceeded in Warding off the evil effects
of the disease until today.
Elsie, the 3 year old daughter of the
author, who is sick in an out-of-the-
way apartment in the hotel is doing
nicely, according to the report of Mr..
Doubleday.
In all probability the body of little
Josephine will be taken to the Kipling
1O1AO Wv AZ
definite arrangements nave yet been
made 1t vas decided not to inform the
author of his child's death for several
days.
1t was said at the hotel this morning
that Mrs. Kipling has not been allowed
in her room for nearly a
week, Notwithstanding the general un-
derstanding that she has been at his
bedside daily.
The following bulletin was issued at
2:30 o'clock, p. M:
the last twenty-four hours. Now that
respiration is almost complete, he has
some discomfort from the more free
management of the lungs due to the
greater rubbing of the infiamed pleura.
This is a very common accompaniment
to pneumonia. The next bulletin will
not be issued until Wednesday,.
"E. G.. JANEWAY,
THEODORE DUNHAM."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
Confession of a Ffend

Emporia, Kas., March 6.-John Gill
bert, in his cell in the county Jail, to-
day confessed to numbering his wife
and four small children near Enter
prise, Kans., on last Tuesday. Gilbert,
for whom a reward had been offered,
was arrested here yesterday.
Gilbert said he was badly in debt and
had been trying to leave Enterprise
for a long time. He could not take his
family, he said, and offered his wife
a divorce. She kept nagging me about
the children" said Gilbert, land throw
ing them up to me. 1 told my wife if
she would give me ten dollars I'd leave
and never bother her any more. Dur
ing the night I got up and went out
into the yard. Coming back, 1 picked
up the hammer and hit the baby in the
head. My wife ran out into the road
n was going over to the neighbors.
L ran after her and caught her. She
said shed come back if ] would behave
and thought I would go. But, when
we got in, the baby was thrashing
about on the bed and when L saw it /
could not hold myself. but hit my wife
on the head and pounded her till she
could not move, and then took the chill
dren."
When asked why he did it, Gilbert
said: 81 don know; it seemed like
just could not help it after seeing the
baby there on the bed"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Much Regret az Its Defeat-A Fight In
she Capitoi-Publie Printing Contract
signed

Especial to the Messeuger.)
Raleigh, N. c., March 6.-There is
much regret at the defeat Of the textile
school bill in the senate it is said to be
impossible to get it through.
One of the incidents Of the day was
a fight in the rotunda of the capitol
this afternoon neal the door of the
lower house, between Representative
CASTOR Powell, of Wake, and Robert
Fl. Jones, who was last Saturday elect
ed a member of the board o. agricul-
ture. Fists and sticks were used and
both were hit in the face and head.
The public printing contract was this
afternoon signed by the Capital Print
ing Company.
Senator Davis, of Brunswick and
New Hanover, voted against the water
works for the university.
The board of education for New Han
over elected by the legislature is:
Donald MacRae, P. B. Manning, ". A.
Johnson: for Mecklenburg. J. G. Baird,
Walter D. S. Pharr, S. S. Herrin.
While bills were being ratified this
afternoon Mr.. Clarkson discovered that
the speaker was signing a bill to abol-
ish the office Of tax collector in Meek
lenburg, while the bill had hahM tabled
and was so stamped. &Nwas at once
withdrawn and destroyed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Mr.. o. F. Davis writing to the Ever
EFT (Pa-) Republican, Of February oath,
pays this well deserved compliment to
the management of the Atlantic Coast
Line:
II wish to say for the benefit Of
travellers going south or north, that in
my opinion there is no better route
than the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Their train service is strictly first
class, and for quick time on through
trains they are equal to any in exist
ence. If you are delayed by a snow
blockade or any fault of theirs, you are
taken care Of by them until they can
take you to our destination. At least
such is the case with quite a number
or us who were on our way south and
got caught in a snow drift in the out
skirts of Richmond, Virginia. on Feb
ruary b. They sent closed cabs to take
Us to the best hotel in the town with
instructions TO stay there at their ex-
pense until they could take US on
through. Don't think / am trying 20
boost this railroad for personal inter-
est, for / am not. / am saying what
Is justly due them for their kindness
TO travellers over the Atlantic Coast
Line. / always believe in giving a good
word of praise where it is so justly de-
served as it is in this case"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

Richmond, Va, March 6.-The flood
in the James river at this point has
continued to rise until the water has
crossed Main street at Seventeenth,
preventing the running of cars on the
Main street line at a second point, the
line having already been broker by
the freshet at a point between the city
proper and Fulton. The wharves at
Rockets are submerged and many
stores and dwellings in the lower part
of the city are flooded, more or less,
but little real damage is being done,
as merchants and househOlders had
ample warning and ave moved their
goods and chattles to places of safety
There is some fear that the city gas
supply will be cut off by reason of the
possible flooding Of the lower gas
works. The water is now believed tc
be at about it's highest point.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
Spafn,s Greafest Need

Mr.. r. P. Olivia, Of Barcelona, Spain,
spends his winters in Aiken, S. G. Weak
nerves a caused severe pains in the
Bitters, Americas greatest Blood and
Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him.
He says this grand medicine is what
country needs. All America knows
that tI cures liver and kidney trouble,
purifies the blood. tones up the stom-
ach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim,
vigor and new life into every muscle,
nerve and organ Of the body. If weak,
tired or ailing you need it. Every bot
tie guaranteed, only so cents. Sold by
II. r. Bellamy. druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10
40 LEAVE US
Captain Cratghfn Ordered Away and
Major Lucas Named as His Successor

NudloI AuCdS AL MuIS SuCScbSox
Captain William E. Craighill, United
States corps of engineers, has been
ordered away from his post of duty
here and transferred to Richmond, Va,
where. he will act as assistant to the
engineer commissioner of the District
Of Columbia. In his place at his sta
ton is to be Major Eugene w. Van c.
Lucas, captain corps of engineers,
United States army, who is well known
in his city n who was stationed here
once before. He is a young man of
marked ability, and is dear to Will
mington, having married one of her
fair daughters.
Major Lucas arrived yesterday from
South Carolina, where he has been on
army duty, and expect to relieve Cap
tain Craighill of al duties and funds
in his charge about the end of the pres
ent week. The two officers yesterday
afternoon went down the river on the
tug Eastern to look at the work now
in progress at Fort Caswell.
Captain Craighill will leave for his
new field of labor some time next
week. He has been on duty here for
two years and the people of this city
will always remember him with a feel
ing of pleasure. This two years duty
was marked with efficient and faith
full service, especially the good work
accomplished by him on our harbor
improvement and Notifications.