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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

iished by him eight appeared in the
Transactions Of the ROYAL Society"
It was he who first discovered and an
alyZed the carbonate OF zinc, and in
his honor, Beedant, the great French
E~1ineralogist, called il Smithsonite.
Berzelius speaks Of MIN as "one OF the
most accomplished -mineralogists in
Europe"
Prof Henry vas the first Secretary or
Manager, n began work in Deem
Der 1s47. He shaped the plan and put
the now famous institute upon a firm
basis OF success His plan submitted
10 the Board Of Regents appointed by
the congress, were confirmed by leading
men Of science in Europe and the United
States:
To increase knowledge" Henry pro-
posed:
l. To stimulate men of talent 10 make
original researches, by offering suitable
Tewards for memoirs containing new
truths.
2. To appropriate annually a portion
of the income for particular researches,
under the direction of suitable persons.
To diff Use knowledge" he proposed:
/. To publish a series Of periodical re-
ports or the progress OF the different
branches p knowledge; and
2. To publish occasionally separate
treatises on subjects Of general inter-
est.
Prof. Henry was forty-seven years
old at the time OF his appointment. He
had been professor of Natural Philoso-
ply in Princeton University. He was
indeed a very able and most efficient
officer, and did more 10 secure the cleo
tric telegraph than Morse did. In France
both were anticipated and as early as
1889 or so. h Institute has accom-
plished a vast deal for the increase Of
knowledge the world over. II distri-
butes its numerous scientific volumes
owe the world. 1t has representatives
by men Of science in every civilized
country. To show the magnitude of its
exchanges we copy the following from
Prof. Marcus Benjamin's p in Self
Culture:
To-day the list of correspondents in
cludes all Of the scientific and learned
institutions of the world, as we'll as
many thousands Of special correspond
ents.
AS the bureau grew, other tasks were
assigned to it, including, in 1867, the
duty placed upon it by r. of ex-
changing fifty copies of all public docu-
ment for similar works published in
foreign countries. From 1852 to
1895 the Smithsonian exchange service
handled 1,459, 44S. packages. and during
recent years the weight of books pass
ing through the Institution has been
more than one hundred tons each year"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
THE sEMIWEEKLY MESSENGER: FRIDAY, JUNE Is. 1889.


manufacturing. Now there are 81,
900, 900 invested.
Let us supplement the above with
some figures as to what some south
ern cotton mills have done. We get
the statement from the Columbia 6.
CD State and the record of profits il
of cotton mills exclusively in that state
now so rapidly advancing in cotton
manufacturing The State said:
"a Greenville dispatch says that In
the last year Piedmont Cotton MILL has
earned $1,000 00, Pelzer $3.50 900, Cliff
ton $780, 900 and Pacolet $4,000, a to-
tai of nearly 81, 600, 900 profits for four
mills. The earnings Of the big mills
around Spartanburg are said to have
ranged from 20 to So per cent. on the
CAPITAL stock"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

According to Dun's Weekly there'is a
cloud in the business heavens. If there
is but one cloud the country is fortu-
nate. The cloud referred to is a rather
strange one it appears. 1t is the aus
of rise in products. Dun says hal the
rise in iron and wheat because scarcity
is feared, but the scarcity, if prolonged
and real, would much impair prosper
ity. In wheat it does not seem to be
real, nor in iron lasting, and mean
while other elements of prosperity con-
tinue potent.
I'm eleven months the excess of mer-
chandiSe pOrt has been $495, 000, 900,
and the bankers estimate that 5000, 0O0,-
600 worth of securities have been re-
turned from Europe, with so few in re-
cent months that the amount remain
ing to be dislodged in probably small.
The scarcity of iron is real in spite Of
the greatest production ever known IN
this or any other country"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
u. N. {. A. summer so,fer.

charlotte, N. c., June 21.-A special
10 The Observer from AsheyilIe saye
the summer conference OF the So,,.basa
YOUNG Mems Christian Association e.
more largely attended than for sona
years The speakers are men of graat
strength. including Rev. Drs. w w
Moon, A j. Dillingham;, w. r.. Lam
Detn and j. WILDER Chapman. and .Jno.
ana MOI and robert Z. Chapman.
ana robert Z. Spear. The for
eign field Is represented bv caner-
al Secretary Mira, of Tok Ia
pan. The Bible study department il
under the care of U. b. Sherman, of
New York, and A. Chaste, OF Mobile.
me life work conferences are held
sacn on the heights overlook
ing the city and river.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Even the wisest men are scoring Nc
kinley for his subserviency 10 Hanna
and gang in the matter OF civil service
law. Among hos who censure the re-
publican partisan president is the dis
tinguished. heightened, venerable Rev.
DR.. Theodore L. Cuyier. a Presbyterian.
He writes at some length OF the wrong
perpetrated by the topper and party
zealot in the y. Y. Evangelist. We give
a few lines 70 show what a pure. noble
divine thinks O. 4. in his Md way OF
expressing censure:
This backward step may not b. 4
very long one. but il leads right towards
a precipice! The president, under ire
mendous pressure, has yielded a princi-
pie, and the greedy spoils-hun;ers. hav-
ing gained their point. will press him
more persistently than ever 10 make
further concessions:
The president could not have chosen
a worse time to lower the standard as
10 the merit-syStem There is
much said in these days about Chris
tan citizenship" but it seems to me
that n of its clearest duties is 10 AXE
a resolute stand against all attempts 10
lower the standard of pure, honest. in
corruptible government"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

lowing from a northern monthly con
corning his habits Of productions:
He had I singular habit. which made
IL wearisome TO listen TO his ordinary
speech. OF cropping after h most suit
able word. and trying one synonym af-
ter another till he got that which suited
him best Why Is. IL. Mr.. Chairman
that there has gathered. congregated,
come together here, this great number
OF inhabitants. jewellers. that these
roads, avenues routes OF travel, high
ways. converge. meet. come together
here? Is i not because we have here
a sufficient. ample. safe secure. conven-
tent. coTnmodious port, harbor. haven?
OF course, when the speech anne tn b.
printed all the synonyms but the best
one would b. left out"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

The north is greatly concerned over
the low-priced labor in the south. Its
feelings of humanity are deeply moved.
We have no doubt that in the rich
north there are twenty people under
paid and suffering from the pangs of
poverty to one in the south. Here a
man or woman can live if he or she
will work. The Chicago Record is die
cussing cheap labor in the south in
its application to cotton milling. Its
contention is that the south a be no
rival of the great north in cotton mill
ing because of its cheap, defective Ia
Dor. 1t says there is a great lack Of
skilled labor in the south. Whatever
force or fact there may be in it's plea,
one thing is true, cotton mills are
greatly increasing in the south, as was
shown in yesterdays Messenger, and
many Of them realize great profits,
much surprising any in the north
one as high as SO per cent. One fact
10 WOllA q LuAolCU IuCOA CD ILL., ~
The southern mills work, sell, prosper,
and that fact gives the denial to all
who argue against their success. There
is an abundance of cheap labor that is
competent and that makes it profita-
BILE to the mill owners The Houston
Post says to the Point:
1T stands to reason that a section
of country that has been engaged al
most exclusively in manufacturing for
generations should have more skilled
labor in it than n where such indus
tries are comparatively new, but there
is neither reason nor truth in the init
nation that the latter section should
be entirely wanting in this necessary
adjunct to manufacturing.
That the south has an abundance
of competent mill hands for the pres
ent factory supply is evidenced by the
excellent quality Of goods her factories
are putting upon the markets Of the
world and the ready sale she finds for
them"
1t seems that New England and
! Old England have writer's who visit
this country and write unfavorably as
to the south as a cotton milling sec
ton. A Mr.. P. Forester, a Liverpool
banker, has been travelling in the
south and when in Chicago said:
"The southern cotton mills cannot
| hope to compete with the mills of the
north Or those of Lancashire, Eng
land. The south had many natural ad-
vantages, Mr.. Forester said, but its
cheap labor was not one Of them. In
other words, before the south can ex-
| pect to take the cotton mill industry
away from New England it must do
as much for the improvement of labor
efficiency as the states of the north
have done"
This sounds plausible and pleasant
ly doubtless to New England and
north western ears, but how does the
conclusion square with the precise
facts? Our figures given yesterday tell
the lesson. We summarize:
In five months SIT, 600, 900 capital are
added to cotton milling, with LOO, 900
added spindles. In 1880, there were
1851, 600, 900 invested in all kinds of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Danlel Webster was the greatest of
New Englanders in craftsmanship and
MASSIVE oratory. His speeches read we'll,
better than most Of his greatest contem-
porarles- He borrowed largely, and
was Indifferent to Acknowledgement for
the same He spent much time over
some OF his sentences and paragraphs.
which we have long known. There is
not an original expression in his famous
peroration in his reply TO Hayne-v-
cry part was cribbed including Milron's
full high advanced" We clin the fo,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

Washington, June 21.-Director of the
Census Merriam has arranged for ex-
aminations for appointments to the
census bureau to be held at Cincin-
natl, Chicago. St. Paul, st. Louis. Oma-
ha, New Orleans and Atlanta in Sen
TENDER. The majority of clerks viii
not be appointed until July. OF next
year. Governor Merriam estimated
h coming census will show a
population of about ", 500, 900. taking in
to account, among other things. the
falling off Of immigration in recent
years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23

IN members OF the Delaware legisla-
sare nave accepted the invitation OF
mayor Johnson to visit Norfolk. Va.
the first week in August.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS
OF TRANSVAAL GRIEVANCES

LONDON, March 20.-During the course
Of the discussion of the vote on account
in the House Of Commons to-day the Sec
rotary of State for the Colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, replied to various colonial
questions raised.
Turning to the Transvaal Chamberlain
said that not one of President Kruger s
promises to remedy grievances had been
fulfilled.
Chamberlain asserted that If President
Kruger would give the Johannesburgers a
real municipality with control of their
own educational system and civil politics,
as he could do without the slightest de-
rogation to the interests and dignity Of
the Transvaal, he would remove nine out
of ten Uitlanders' grievances.
Great Britain, Chamberlain then
pointed out, could only intervene in the
event of a breach of the London conven-
ton. or If the comfy of nations was not
observed. AS the paramount power in
South Africa Great Britain could make
friendly suggestions, but he Chamber
lain) did not believe for moment that
they would be successful now and there
fore it would be undignifed to make
them.
Chamberlain concluded with saying:
LAS long as the present conditions con-
tinue they constitute a real danger. We
are watching the situation most care
fully; but thus far there has been moth
ing to justify an ultimatum and, failing
compliance. war, which seems TO have
been suggested by a previous speaker.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21

NEW YORK, March 20-Upon the
arrival Of the interested parties in the
Standard Oil Company hearing at the
Hoffman House it was decided to take
no testimony to-day. 1t was agreed 10
have a hearing in the case of the State
of Ohio VS.. the Buckeye Pipe Company
a branch of the Standard OIL Company
Messrs. Elliott and Kline, counsel for
the Standard Oil Company, sent a letter
to Attorney General Monnett of Ohio
to-day, demanding that he make public
the name of the man who offered him
a bribe of s4OO, 900 to discontinue his
fight.
With reference to the letter written
him by Elliott and Kline, Attorney Gen
eral Monnett said he would reply to it
after he had consulted with the Su-
preme Court of Ohio.
A hearing in the case. of the State Of
Ohio against the Buckeye Pipe Line Com
pany was begun this afternoon in the Of
fee of Commissioner c. Edgar Mills. The
hearing was held that the Attorney Cen
eraI might take dispositions in the pro-
ceedings brought in Ohio to annul the
charter of the Buckeye company for vio-
lation of the antitrust laws of Ohio. The
claims of the prosecution are that the
Standard Oil Trust still exists and that
despite the law the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company is still member or 1t. The
Buckeye Pipe Line Company was organ
lied for the transportation of crude oil.
Its headquarters are at Lima, ONO, and
its capital stock is $4,000, 0OO H. h. Rog-
ers is the president.
At the proceedings to-day NJ +. Elliott
and Virgil P. Kline represented the com
pany. Attorney General Monnett APP
peared for the State of Ohio. w. L. Flagg
acted as his assistant.
AS preliminary MeSSrS. Elliott and
Kline agreed to admit copy of the testi-
mony given in October last by John d.
Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company
case, provided the Ohio court should de-
eide that such evidence was competent.
Counsel objected, however, holding that
such testimony was not competent
George Rice was the first witness called.
Flagg asked him if he ever owned certi-
ficate of the Standard Oil Trust and he
answered yes.
The witness identified as his property
two certificates, one a certificate of the
Standard Oil Trust and the other a GER
tificate of assignment of legal title, both
original certificates.
Have you ever owned a trust certifi-
cate of the kind called a certificate of
equitable interest, which you handed into
certificate known an assignment of le-
gal title?' continued Flagg.
Rice said he could not reply unless
given an opportunity to explain, and
Flagg asked. Did you ever hand in to
the trust a certificate for which you re-
ceived stock of a constituent company"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
DROWNED NEAR sUIsUN.

SUISUN, March 2D-Giulio Braghetta,
The lessee Of Joyce Island. was drowned
on Thursday while crossing to the main
land 70 visit his wife and children at Fair
field. 1t was thought at the island that
he was still visiting at Fairfield. while at
the latter place it was believed his coming
had been delayed by the storm; conse-
quently his relatives had no intimation Of
the tragedy until this afternoon when his
nephew, Victor Tolo, came to Suisun and
learned that Braghetta had not been seen
here. Search was instituted and Brag-
hetta's capsiZed boat was found at Long
Beach. Il is probable that he was caught
by the gale while crossing on Thursday
and the craft capsized. Search for the
body has been unavailing.
Braghetta was one of the most promi-
nent Swiss residents of this vicinity He
was SO years of age For the past five
years he had conducted a stock raising
business on Joyce Island in partnership
with ex-Sheriff B. F. Rush, who owns the
island. The deceased was member OF
the Odd Fellow and knights of Pythias
lodges.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
CHARRED BODIES
ARE REMOVED
Remains of Two Wind
sor Victims Recovered.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, March 20.-A large
force of men worked in the ruins of the
Windsor Hotel tonight. Part Of the
rear walls and chimney on the Forty
seventh-street side was still standing
at a late hour. Smoke was issuing from
the chimney, which extends TO the base
ment, showing that fire still smolders
in that part of the ruins. The workmen
excavated slowly and with great care.
The debris was thrown from the space
occupied by the hotel to the sidewalk
Crowds pressed as close to the ruins as
they were allowed by the police.
At midnight 800 labOrers who had
been digging in the ruins were relieved
by another gang of 800. No other body
has been found since 8 o'clock in the
morning, when the workmen came
across the remains Of two charred
bodies.
The men worked all day on three
sides of the old hotel, Fifth avenue,
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets.
From the three sides on which the
workmen are engaged the ruins had at
midnight been gone over for ABOUT
twenty-five feet from the building line
The first body taken out to-day was
from the Forty-sixth-s street side: the
second from the Fifth-avenue side
close by what had been the main en-
trance They were merely fragments of
bodies Neither has feet nor arms.
These fragments were taken to the
Morgue, where they we're ticketed as
bodies Il" and -" and placed in the
section especially set aside for the fire
victims These two bring the total
number of bodies so far recovered up
to twelve Besides these there are at
least six persons who were seen TO
Jump from the roof and windows While
the hotel was burning, and of whose
bodies no trace has yet been found.
From time to time to-day articles OF
more or less value were found and
turned over to the police. They in
Guided jewelry, watches, clocks, canes,
articles of clothing, letters, keys.
photographs, field and opera glasses,
siIverware and toilet articles. neck
lace was found on the Forty-si
street side near where the baths were.
It was set with diamonds and opals
and estimated to be worth about S1o,-
000
According to the lists of missing
property prepared by the police 1t be-
longed to Mrs. James r. Stokes, who is
missing One of Thomas P. Ochiltree's
trunks was found, the contents quite
uninjured.
Several of the persons hitherto re-
ported as missing were found to be safe
to-day. The present list of missing
numbers forty-four. This, however
takes into account but few of the 200
servants of the house. Although at
night the ruins are perfectly lit by cleo
tricity and oil lamps, the men work
under disadvantage as compared with
the day men, and proceed more slowly
At midnight the contractors thought
that many bodies would be discovered
by tomorrow. by which time a suffi
Gent space will have been cleared away
to allow a larger number of men to
work to advantage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
LOANED WHEN WEALTHY,
NOW SAVED FROM WANT

LOS ANGELES, March 2o.-The $1,000
which is soon to come into the possession
of w H. Williams and the heirs of II. B.
Treat through the lucky strike of B. H.
Smith, a miner OF Boulder, Colo, to whom
they loaned the money fifteen years ago.
will be in the nature of a windfall, as they
are at present in need of money, if not
nearly destitute. w. H. Williams, who
lives with his mother, is at present under
quarantine, his son and daughter having
been attacked by smallpox. The son died
a little more than two weeks ago and the
daughter is at present confined at the
pesthouse. Williams is milkman, but
when it was found that his son had
smallpox and his family was quarantined
he had to abandon his milk route.
Mr.. Williams partner and nephew, a
son of H. B. Treat was absent from home
at the time the quarantine was declared
He endeavored to continue serving the
purchasers of milk, but through the pres
ence of the dread disease in the family
lost the greater part of his trade and the
business had to be abandoned.
good many years ago Treat and Will
liams, while in Atchison, Kans., loaned
Smith $1,000 to use in hunting gold in the
mountains. Smith spent the money with
out striking anything, but he kept on
prospecting and at last struck it rich"
He is now wealthy, and wrote that he
desired to pay the money back, with suit
able interest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
PRESIDENT RESTS
ON JEKYLL ISLAND

BRUNSWICK, Ga, March 20.-Presi-
dent Mckinley rests tonight on Jekyll
Island the beautiful winter club home Of
a number of Eastern miIlionaires, on ST.
Simons Sound, ten miles up the coast from
Brunswick. With him are Mrs. McKin-
ley, Vice President and Mrs. Hobart and
ex-Secretary of the Interior Cornelius \.
Bliss, whom the President promised to
visit last year. In another cottage is
Speaker Thomas B. Reed. All persons in
any way concerned in their presence at
Jekyll assert positively and unreservedly
that the visit of the two rival political
leaders at the same time is a mere coin
cidence. Whether any Improvement of
their strained personal or political rela-
lions will be one of the accidents of their
inevitable meeting on the island no one
will predict. The Speaker probably will
leave Jekyn tomorrow afternoon or
Wednesday, and the Presidential party
on Wednesday forenoon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
CANNED BEEF THE
CAUSE OF SICKNESS
AMONG SOLDIERS
Much Refrigerated Meat Was
Also Condemned, Say Witt
neSSeS Before the Court.

that beef accepted. I told him thought
poor beef came TO our camp inyariabIy =,
but he said ii was not poor peer, SIMPLY
discolored on the outside, and by cutting
away the discolored part the inside would
be found perfectly good. l was IN Cen
eral Woods headquarters an hour later
and saw him there waiting for an inter
view with General Shafter ! ala not
learn whether he succeeded In getJlhg
that beef accepted or not, put L uhQeI-
stood from outside parties thal lHey
threw overheard several tons OF II ana
accepted the balance. re- -
did the canned roast Dee1 nave upon tI-e
the beef nauseated a great many Of
the men: I am satisfied that II caused
diarThea also. 49, e NO c
best to discontinue the use OF that meat
mo sir; we made the best or IL
You regard this canned roast oee 80 S4
wholesome or unwholesome as an army
raton?'
''Unwholesome." ,to-
DR. William G. Willard, surgeon major
IF the First Illinois Volunteers, testlhed
that in Cuba the health OF his commanq
was good up TO July o. Then tbs SICK
call began TO increase very r al e " a 2ni
. dav In his judgment this sickness
Was due TO combination of circum-
stances. Of which the condition of canned
cost beef was one He had no occasion
to believe that any OF the peer had DeeIl
treated with chemicals. Canned roast
beef. SO-CalleG. was never q III IdlAOIl, II
his opfnfon, and ii was especially unfit
for men in the condition of the troops
coming back from Cuba.
Replying TO a question from Major Lee
DR. Willard said: From what ! have
heard of its preparation and from its APP
pearance 1 should say it was boiled beef
[ had one case of scurvy-a man who had
been eating bareback, SOW belly and
canned roast beef regularly for thirty
three days. He was a member Of the Sew
enth Infantry"
oliver A. Gibson, .quartermaster and
acting commissaTy Of the First Illinois
DT,. Willard. As a ration for a soldier it
ferior and would place the meat in the
third grade The labels he saw were Ar;
a Kansas City firm whose name he did
not recollect. He also saw the Prairie
State Packing COmpany's brand. which
in his opinion, was the worst of all and
should be placed in a grade lower than
the others
A number of witnesses who had beer
summoned were on hand at 2 o'clock, but
/ none were examined, the court holding
no session in the afternoon.