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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05
SPARKS.

At Little Rock, three large seed
houses and n of the meal houses Of
the Consumers Oil Company's mill,
owned by Chicago capitalists, are
burned. The loss is $50, 900 with $40, 900
insurance.
In refusing to enjoin the, merging Of
the Wagner companies the
supreme court of Illinois held that
sleeping car companies are but agents
of the railroads acting under contract
as other employees of the road.
Former Congressman Ben Glover, a
Farmers Alliance leader, committed
suicide at his home near Dauglas, Kas.
by shooting himself. Dependency re-
sulting from sickness and business re-
verses was the cause.
At Eustis, Fla, the building owned
and occupied by the Hill Printing
Company, publishers of The Eustis
Lake Region, vas totally destroyed by
fire Saturday morning.
Montgomery, Ala, enjoyed the first
snow storm of the season Saturday af-
ternoon and night. The thermometer
has been down to % and 80 degrees for
several mornings.
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AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Interesting Progra mme Rendered sun-
day Night in Honor Of Dying OF tt
Old and Dawn of the New Year and
Century.

. At the First Baptist church Sunday
night after a sermon by DIT. Blackwell
in which he gave the elements OF heart
and home happiness. the majority Il
the people remained and enjoyed q f-w
hours OF real Christian ~sociabslity. IN
which the pastor and people met and
greeted strangers and formed new ac-
duaintances. Ever an anon a selec.
choir during the evening rendered in
splendid style the following programme
of music:
Sole"Consecration," by Mrs. Jannee
Calder. OF Richmond. Va
Soloe"one Day Nearer Home by
Mr.. A. s. Holden.
An4hem-"Calm on the Listertng
Ear OF Night by Mr.. c. a. Coopes.
Mr.. W. L williford. Mrs James Cal
der. Mrs. E. G. Woody. Mr.. f.. g..
Woody. Mr.. A. S. Holden.
Treo-"Praise Thee" by Mrs. Calder.
Mrs. Woody. Mr.. Holder.
Duet-"Oh Morning Land" by Mr-
Calder and Mr.. Cooper.
Quartette-"Saviour When Night TN
wells the Sky" by Mrs Calder. Mis-
Woody. Mr.. Cooper and Mr.. Holden.
America" by the whole congrega-
tion.
DR.. Blackwell proposed as the send-
ment Of the sermon and the service the
following:
What will the New Tear bring thesg
Crowned desires?
Hopes unfulfllment2 Grief's
Ravening fires?
Riches or Love or Laurels?
What'er TO thy lot be sent,
God grant the New Year'l bring thee
Peace and a heart content"
Ms congregation then received she
formal henediCtiOn. but quite q cDflDa-
ny OF young people remained 10 con-
verse and sing hymns until the mid
night hour. when the bell solemnly
tolled for the dying year and centuf y.
IL then greeted, with Jubilant strokes,
1900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05
CAPE FEAR CAMP. L. c. V.
Regular Janua ry Meeting Held I'm W.
L. 1. Armory Last Night.

The regular monthly meeting OF Cape
Fear Camp, No. 254 u. C. V. was held
at Wilmington Light Infantry armory
asst night, Commander James l. Nets
in the chair. Routine business of no
special public interest engaged the at
tention of the veterans during the
greater portion of the meeting.
The cemetery committee asked for
further time. Their duty IL will be re-
membered is to investigate and report
as to the title of the amp TO a square
in Oakdale cemetery.
The committee on observance OF Cen
eral Lees birthday reported progress
The commander reported that he had
ordered twenty badges which would be
in charge of Secretary Major II. F.
Hamme and any member desiring q
badge could get one on the payment Of
fifty cents.
Several communications were read
and ordered on file.
Commander Nets appointed w. O..
MacRae, B. F. Hall, E. s. Martin and
w. j. Woodward a committee 10 aid
in the building Of a monument to the
women Of the confederacy.
On motion of Colonel A. M. Waddefl
the commander was requested to ap-
point a committed of three to see
Professor Blair and find out what his
tories were now used in the public
schools. Comrades A. NJ. Waddell, II.
s. Martin and JDo. Il. Marshall were
named as the committee.
On motion of Comrade w. L. De-
Rosset Comrades F. w. Kerchner. r..
F. Hamme and l.. S. Belden were an
pointed a committee to review tie
membership of this camp and report en-
the same at the annual meeting I'm
April.
The treasurer made his monthly re-
port which was ordered on file.
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THE PERMANENT ADVERTISER

Advertising is an art; that everybody
knows and never so much an art as
in these days when so much an ant
full work is done in writing advertise
mentS as in writing editorials, says
the Indianapolis News. But advertis-
ing is also a science. A high authority
says: advertising should be planned
on h presumption that it is going TO
be permanent" That is a scientific
statement. 1t means that advertising
should be systematic, and not sp cradle;
that it is a distinct feature n depart
ment, and should be So administered.
Announcements now and then cannot
bring a train Of steady benefits. They
may do for squirt sales, but when the
sales run their course they are forget
ten
On the other hand, like the continu-
Gus dropping that wears away the stone
systematic advertising in an artistic
way, day after day, year in and year
out, becomes part Of the reading matter
of the great newspaper. You never
miss the water until the we'll runs dry"
Newspaper readers do not know, per-
haps, how much entertainment and
benefit they get from the advertising
columns until they uhink about it.
Then they realize that all these mer-
chants who, day after day, talk to them
through the columns are
their friends and pleasant acquain-
tances, and they act ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tiona Advertiser.
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INDIANS AND THE ECLIPSE

1 was out at Pine Ridge agency the
night of the total eclipse. 1 had re-
membered reading that there was to
be an eclipse, but had forgotten he
date, when my attention was drawn
to the state of alarm exhibited by
some young bucks who had discovered
that there was something wrong with
the moon. There was a short spell Ct
iItence interest, hen close examina-
ton followed by consultation, when
they quickly scattered, each going in a
different direction In about two min
utes the entire ndian population was
out, and with awe-Stricken, upturned
faces were trying to fathom the mys
terry, or perhaps escape from something
they did not understand. They talked
and squinted about ten minutes The
squaws then broke out into waning and
singing, and the bucks broke for the
officers barracks, then back to the
cabins, then out ON the plain, then back
to the streets again. To say that pan
demonium reigned would hardly ex-
press it. The officials at first did not
understand what the tumult was about
n it was some time before the Indians
could be made to understand that it
was one Of natures phenomena and
that nothing unusual was going to hap
pen. 1t will be a long day before I for
get the sight OF natures children in a
panic.-C. G. Condee in h Chicago
News.
Des Moins. Iowa, December 10.
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A Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture of An
lie e. Springer, of 1125 Howard street,
Philadelphia, Pa. when h found that
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption had completely cured her Of
hacking cough that for many years
had made life q burden All other
remedies and doctors could give her no
help, but she says of this Royal Cure:
1T soon removed the pain in my chest
am / can now sleep soundly, some
thing l can scarcely remember doing
before. / feel like sounding its praises
throughout the Universe" So will ev-
cry one who tries DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for any trouble of the Throat.
Chest or Lungs. Price SOC and S1.0O-
Trial bottles free at r. r. Bellamys
drug store. Every bottle guaranteed.
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CHARGED WITH SWINDLING.

New York, December 3O.-Charles W.
Slater. aged % years, Of Slatersville,
Va, who claims to be associated with
ex-United States Senator Call. of Flor
ida, in railroad building in Florida. and
S milar enterprises in China. was today
arraigned in police our on the COM
plant of William H. H. Young, cashier
of the Murray Hill hotel, who alleges
that Slater in March and April. 1898,
through the Introduction of the cashier
of the Grand Union hotel, got him 10
cas two sight drafts amounting 10
81, 100. These drafts were drawn upon
Robert 7. Slater, Of Washington, D.
who the defendant claimed to be his
The drafts were not honored.
The defendant alleges that he deposited
with Mr.. Young, $1,000 worth of bonds
as security. but these, Young says,
have no value. Slater was held for ex-
animation
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FIRE RECORD FOR PAST YEAR.
Interesting Report of Wilmington's
Paid Fire Department.

The annual report OF WIlmIngton's
paid fire department has been prepared
by Mr.. Charles Schnibben, chief OF the
department, and will be submitted 10
the board of aldermen on next Mon
day night.
The report shows that fire ed
in 40 buildings, the total valuation Of
which was s1O4,476, the damage to the
buildings being s12, 1850 .32, insurance
$3.50, 049. The value of contents was
500, 243, damage s12, s97. Sc, protected by
s67, 2SO. The total damage to property
during the year was S24, 947.9S. Alto
gether there were LAG alarms.
The report estimates the value Of tee
property Of the department at $50, 80
buildings and grounds $12. 500, and ap-
paratus, etc, $19,650.
There are thirty-two men employed
in the department., who in the Ian
guage of Chief Schnibben, are with a
very few exceptions, efficient and al
ways ready, never complaining, polite.
sober and neat in appearance.
The following compose the depart
ment:
P. n. Flick, II. L. Kidd, Franklin
Green, w. P. Monroe, j. Wanamaker,
@. T. Williamson, James L. White, II.
Maultsby, r. NJ. Cain, James Weinberg,
b. r.. Russell, John n. Mohr. j. r.
Hardee, Sameul Renfrow, Rand Bon
ham, J. H. Edwards, Robt. King. inc.
King. w. A. Canady, j. B. Jackson.
.Jno. King, Clarence Montgomery, W.
f. Harker, T. H. Chilean. Amos Reed.
l.. Freimuth, Charles Smith, E. o. Al
len, w. II. Hancammon, J.. Bland. b.
f. Swami.
The chief recommends to the board
that additional hydrants be placed in
the northern, eastern and southern sec
tons of the city; also the purchase OF
LOCO feet of new hose and the equip
ment of a fire boat for the riveT front
He refers with evident qualification Ia
the movement now on foot 10 re-wire
the alarm system and add other i'm
provements to the equipment Of the de-
partment.
Honorable mention is made of eff
cient work of Mr.. j. T. Yates as su-
p~erintendent Of the alarm system. APP
probation is also expressed for coop
Grafton OF Mayor Waddell, Alderman
J. Allen Taylor and MT. w. T. Rob
ertson and Mr.. j. III. Sweeney, Of the
Wilmington Water Works Company
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05
A REVOLUTION IN BANKING.

The action of the National City bank,
of New York, in increasing its capital
stock from one to ten million dollars
promises to work a complete revolution
in the business of banking. Bankers all
over the country are watching the ex-
pertinent, and it is already settled that
if it succeeds a large number of other
n will follow along the same
course. The preliminary plans seems to
commend themselves strongly to bank
ers and financiers in general, and the
complete success of the innovation is
freely predicted.
At present the National City bank is
the largest in New York, its line of de-
posits amounting to considerably over
500, 000, 900. To secure these it holds its
capital stock, undivided profits n
stockholders habilitq. amounting to
about 81. 900. 600 in the aggregate. Under
the new plan and increased capitali-
cation, the security afforded uhe depos-
itors will amoun to SIS, 000, 600, so that
the innovation will create no alarm
among the depositors. Yet, with its
asst wealth, the City bank finds itself
az more of a disadvantage than many
of it's smaller competitors. Under the
national banking laws, a national bank
is prohibited from loaning more than
one-tenth of its capital stock to n
one person, firm, or corporation. Since
banks must make their money by lend
ing the trust funds they hold, it is OBJ
yioUs that, being limited to single loans
Of 500, 900, the City bank must suffer
many h~ardships in keeping its 500, 600, =
900 out at interest. 1t is to reduce this
obstacle tina: it is proposed TO increase
the capital stock ten times, thus giving
tine bank a chance TO make large loans
TO single individuals. The benefits will
be many, but chief among them, so
far as the bank ! I)ncerned, will be
the decreased expeEs~ Of placing loans
which is bound to follow where one
borrower will serve the purpose of ten,
as at present.-Bahtimore American.
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Record OF Cotton and Naval stores

RECORD OF COTTON ana Naval stores
The footings Of Colonel John L. Can't
well. secretary of the Produce Ex-
change, completed yesterday show tina
for the calendar year ending yesterday.
the receipts of cotton and naval stores
at the port Of Wilmington have been
as follows:
Cotton, 231,370 bales: spirits q, 24s
casks; rosin, $50, 40 barrels: tar, 1851
barrels; crude ~turpentine, 11.5s6 bar
rels.
For the yea the exports have bees
as follows:
Cotton-Foreign. 226.792 bales; do
nestle 14,093 bales. Total 240.s 85 bales.
Spirits Observation-Disclosures Is. sos
casks; foreign, S07 casks. Total %, s11
casks.
Rosin-Domestic, s.274 barrels; for
eign, ia, 70f barrels. Total, 132. 975 Der
rels.
Tar-Domestic, 6 1850 barrels; for
eign, 1855 barrels. Total. s2.515 bar
rels.
Crude Turpentine-Domestic, .6le
barrels; foreign, LIS barrels. Total. H.
7S5 barrels.
The exports o. lumber for the year
have been Is follows: Domestic, H.
$50. $50 feet; foreign, SSH. sss feet Total
q, PAS. 328 feet.
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Pointed aragraphs.

Noah was the original weather prog
nosticator.
The older a mar grows the less he
thinks he knows.
Grown people tire of their toys just
like children do.
When a man has a boil he is apt to
keep his wife in hot water.
AN eaIt--J APP IL a woman that
other women never gossip about.
Said the cleaver to the beef: ""Tis
but meat that L should cut you"
Anybody can fire off a gun, but it
takes practice to hit the target.
A confidence man refers to a SiX-foot
jay as t specimen of h Tong green"
Some people are never so happy as
when they have bad news to tell.
When men have more money than
they need they think they need more
than they have.
down a house-and he was killed in the
fail.
Woman, dramatically speaking, is
not a part of speech; she's simply the
whole Grafton.
A man of is usually one
who has ingenious methods of contra
ting liabilities.
His satanical majesty catches some
men by lending them dignity and some
by lending them dollars.
Diamonds of the first water are abso-
lutely pure-but when it nm to milk
Of the first water that's different.
1t doesn't matter how loose the en-
gagement ring may be, the diamond
never slips around out of sight on a
girls finger.
The man who is always complaining
about his hard luck is usually too lazy
to stir himself in time to keep trouble
from troubling him--Charlotte News.
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RUN ON A SAVINGS BANK.

Lynn, Mass, December 30.-A run on
the Lynn Five Cent savings bank be-
gan today because of rumors that the
bank is involved in the failure of the
Globe national bank, of Boston. This
five cent savings bank held eighty
eight shares of the Globe stock. he
surplus Of the bank is 81, 900. 900. About
$4,000 was withdrawn during the day
and about $14, 600 was deposited. Judge
Hartman said that in several instances
.depositors who had withdrawn their
money, almost Immediately ~re-deposit-
it. The banks ~solvency was not in
tie least shaken by today's demon
against it, as it has a guar
anty fund of s193, 900 and with that
alone could stand many demands like
n made upon it's treasury today.
The officials of the bank anticipate no
trouble.
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Theosophy and Muzzled Dogs.

Major James Albert Clark addressed
the T-heosophical Society last night. at
the Metzerobt Building. the subject be-
ing, Kindness TO Animals IN the Light
Of Theosopny." The lecturer stated
that the recent discussion ce.atIye 10
he uzzling Of dogs suggested the
theme, and the aim of the argument
throughout was an attempt to snow
that the teacheings OF the ancient Sages
fails into line with the conclusions VI
modern psychology and not with ths
inherited opinions from the Midda
Ages II is now quite clearly establish
ed, he said, by the e-nunc1ations iTon
n chair of psychology "a the study
of mind in animals, usually caAed cum
araty psychology, and the study OF
mind in the lower races Of mankind,
called erhic psychology. prove sclenti-
hca4ly that the higher ANIMALS nave ali
the kinds of consciousness man has,
though not in general so highly devel-
oped- III short, the difference Is not In
KIND ~ y @eeree. AID pathological
psychology has a. clearly proven IA.
dogs nIu.I rum a gamu, Of iseases as
do men, save those which arise as pro-
ducts of a higher complexity Of organ
ism
A sensitive dog, the speaker said,
may exhibit ymptoms which defy ac-
curate diagnosis, but il Is as manifestly
unfair and unethical TO muZZle all the
dogs for that reason as il was for the
religious Puritan teacher of a genera
ton ago to whip all the boys in school
because he could not detect which boy
was guilty.
The ancient teaching believed in by
most Theosophists is that "Agl breath
ing nature is, was, or prepares to be-
come man." the apex of the animal
kingdom.
Older tha Darwin or Lamark by
thousands of centuries, the speaker
pointed out, is the stanZa in the Sans
crit, AN element becomes a mineral; q
mineral a stonE; a stune a plant; q
plant an animal; an animal man; a
man a god" Evolution in its details
from this ancient source is elaborated
on a scale little heeded by moderns,
who think everything worth thinking
about began with Aristotle, who was
Plato's pupil. PGato himself Travelled
east for years to gain knowledge. and
men to this day will continue to travel
east to gain even one lost word"
The societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, he said, have made
a deep study of the brotherhood of ma
ture, so ~flippantQy classified under the
name of animal kingdom, and they have
achieved greater results than have the
efforts of many to prevent cruelty to
Observation-Disclosures Post.
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LAST OF A FAMILY OF GIANTS.

Matthew Howard, aged "a, the last
member Of the famous Howard family,
died this afternoon at his home near
Paris. He "a a bachelor, and left a
large estate. He was the last of nine
children, each of whom was owe six
feet in height. The father was six feet
four and weighed 200 pounds; the
mother was six feet and one-half and
weighed 2S5 pounds. The height of the
parents and nine children aggregated
seventy feet and one-half inch, and
their aggregate weight was 2,29S
pounds. The four women aggregated
twenty-four feet seven and one-half
inches, and aggregated in weight 760
pounds. The seven men aggregated
forty-five feet five inches in height
and 1,53S pounds in weight. The
mother had twelve brothers, each over
six feet in height. The height and
weight of this family was probably
without a parallel in the world.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
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The Harbor Masters Report.

The report OF Captain Edgar W.
ifams, as harbor master. for 1883. was
flied with Colonel John L. Cantwen, SEC
rotary Of the produce exchange yester-
day afternoon. II shows a total of 2zs
American and foreign vessels having a
total tonnage Of 1885 having dis
charged and taken ID cargos at this
port during the yea The REPORT IN
detail Is as follows:
American vesseis-5s steamships with
1855 tons: l bark, 34s tons; z.brier
s39 Is barges, 1854 Of
1e3 vessels with l2o, 4S2 tons.
Foreign vesse.s-27 steamships. 4g.0sa
tons; p barks. l4.101 tons; Ibr!g. ga
tons; 10 s~chooners, 1880 tons-totaz. q
vessels with s2.47s tons. Grand Total
ZZs vessels wilma onnage of 1sa. sea.
The repor for December Was AIN
nled yesterday. It shows q yessefe
with 2o.sA tons They were az GLOW
American vessels steamships. 1zx
tons; 2 brigs. s3s tons: 3 banks 174a
tons; Z schooners. 1907 tonsEtotaa n
vessel with s.s29 tom
Foreign yessels-7 steamshipz n ,ne
tons; l bark go tons-totai 8 ve.eis
with 10. I2s tonnage. Grand total n ~
sells with 20. 352 tons.
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THE CASE.

washington. December s0.-Repre-
sentative Tayler. of Ohio, chairman Of
the special committee investigating the
Roberts case. says that the a viii
not come up for action in the house be-
fore the middle Of January. The argu-
ments wifi begin January 4th. When
they are finished the committee vii
form its conclusion Then the report
must be written. As II will be exhaus-
tive the greatest ar MI oe reauir-
Cd in Ms preparation and Mr.. Tay .er
does not think the case wifi reach the
house before the middse of The month
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Wagner Palace Car Company Expires

New York, December 0.-The Wag-
ner Palace Car Company today ceased
to exist as an individual organization.
The formal and official transfer of the
Wagner Company, under the terms Of
its merger agreement with the Pull
nan Company. was effected this after
o at the offices of the Wagner Com
pany in this city, $50, 900. 600 of stock
of the Wagner Company being trans
ferred to the Pullman interests and an
equal amount of Pullman stock being
transferred to the Wagner people on
even terms.
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onncer with Boer Troops

Washington. December 30.-President
Kruger has granted a request OF this
government, made through United
States Consul Hollis at Pretoria, to al
low an American army officer TO ccom
pany o troops as an observer and the
war department. viii hurry 10 the cen
of hostflities a suitable man as soon as
selected. France. Germany and Per-
haps other nations have officers in that
capacity there now.
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Beers Import No War Munitions.

Hamburg, December 30.-The Hand
ersblatt publishes reports of interviews
with DR.. Leyds, in the course Of which
the Transvaal representative denies
the statements that munitions of war
are being imported into the T~ransvaaI
through Delagoa bay. and says these
reports are spread as a pretext for the
British occupation.
DR.. further says that the Beers
are now able to manufacture their own
war munitions.
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Many q Lover.

Has turned with disgust from an
otherwise lovable girl with an offensive
breath. Kar's Clover Root Tea puri-
hes the breath by IT'S action on the
oowels. etc, as nothing else will. Sold
for on absolute guarantee. Price
% cents and 90 cents. Sold by all Drug
giste.
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sick ada

Inc curse Of overworked womankin6
are Quickly and surely cured by KARI
Cfover Root Tea the great blood mr..
ner and tissue builder. Money refnnd
ed II not satisfactory. Price q enr,~.
% % cents. Sold by all DruegIst~