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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08
oTTON

COTTON.
Liverpool. May So D. m.-Cotton.-
Spot, fair demand, prices firm. Amer
lean middling 3 7-16d. The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, of which 500
were for speculation and export and
included $500 bales American; receipts
16, 500 bales, all American. Futures
closed quiet and steady at the ad-
vance.
American middling, low middling
clause: May ) 22-64d sellers; May and
June 5 20-64d sellers; June and July
5 17-64@5 1S-64d sellers; July and Au-
gust 5 15-64d Sellers; August and Sep
TENDER 5 7-64d sellers; September and
October 4 50-64d Sellers; October and
vember and December 4 31-64@4 32-64d
buyers; December and January 4 29-64@
4 3O-64d buyers; January and February
4 27-64@4 2S-64d buyers; February and
March 4 28-64d buyers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston-Quiet at 9 7-16c; net re-
ceipts LIPS bales.
Norfolk-Steady at sNc; net receipts
90 bales.
Baltimore-Nominaf at s%c; net re-
ceipts 2,141 bales.
Boston-Quiet at sac; net receipts
24S bales.
Wilmington-Firm at SIC; net re-
ceipts L bales.
Philadelphia-Steady at 1Oc; net re-
ceipts 1868 bales.
Savannah-Quiet at 9 7-16c; net re-
ceipts 81 bales.
New Orleans-Steady at 9kc; net re-
ceipts 1859 bales.
MobilNNominal al 9 5-16c; net re-
ceipts 2 bales.
Memphis-Quiet at CSC; net receipts
1873 bales.
Augusta-Quiet at csc; net receipts
IS bales.
Charleston-Steady at 9asc; net re-
ceipts 2O6 bales.
Cincinnati-Quiet at CSC; net re-
ceipts los bales.
Louisville-Firm at 91kc.
st. Louis-Quiet at csc; net re-
ceipts 10 bales.
Houston-Quiet at 9sc; net receipts
1872 bales.
VII NV r..RE AARkET
New York. May 5.-Cotton quiet;
middling SIC; gross receipts 1897.
stock So $50.
Total today'and consolidated: Net re-
ceipts 5,93S; exports to the continent
1929; stock 375,976.
Total since September 1st: Net re-
ceipts 6,209. 17S; Exports to Great Bri-
tain 2,O56, 772; TO France 673, 943; TO the
continent 2.435, 1913.
Futures closed quiet. May 9.S, June
9.f, July 9.*, August 9.26. September
S4S, October S-23, November &o4. De-
cember S.04, January sos, February
S.07, March $40.
| Spot cotton closed quiet; middline
uplands 94c; middling gulf roc; sale.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago May 5.-The hading tu-
lures ranged as follows:
Dn~ g-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08

Mr.. Joseph X. Perry, a worthy re-
publican of Sanford, who until recently
was chairman of the republican execu-
tive committee in Moore county, writes
a letter to Chairman Simmons an
nouncing that he will support the
amendment. He writes like an honest
mar who loves mis- state and race. Fs
writes like a man of understanding
and judgment. He says this, but we
give but a small part of his letter:
Il have adhered to the republican
principles of protection and sound
money since my first vote, but it has
come to the parting of the ways with
me. l was elected chairman of the re-
publican executive committee of Moore
county two 6 and held that po-
sition until recently when I resigned it.
Now l pledge myself hat / will sup
port no candidate, state, county or 9TH
erwise, that submits himself to any con-
vention in which the negro a a voice
or vote. / nav decided hat we have
but one party in our state that has a
the alliance between the republican
and populist party of OUR state and the
surrender of political principles are
solely for the sake of office. Don't we
all know that republican and populist
principles are as far apart as the east
is from the west and that when fusion
is brought about, except upon the basis
of principle, it destroys all principle of
both parties to it. / cannot n will
not support any such p~rincipleless
combination"
There is not a candid, intelligent re-
publican in the state who does not
know h a MI. Perry tells the truth
and nothing but the truth. He~rites
with precision and force of conviction,
and gives good advice to honest white
men. He says, and it is spoken like a
nan
These white republicans must either
work in the same rooms with these ne
gro office holders upon terms of prac-
tically equality, Oh they must give up
their jobs. This is what r~epubliGanism
in North Carolina means What white
man with proper self-respect can con-
tinue to support the party that brings
far enough In his negro business. 1t
becomes every white man to rouse
himself n for the sake of his chill
dren to see that We go no further. If
there eve was a time when men, should
rise above party that time is now. .
I am with the democratic party for the
amendment. I wish to see it ratified
and I feel sure 1t will be ratified, but
the friends of the amendment must
be at work, for it's opponents are re-
sorting to every device, both honora-
BILE and dishonorable to secure it's de-
feat and regain control of the state"
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We are gratified to see it mentioned
in the Weldon News that the Southern
Express Company had performed a
graceful asst lion recognizing the faith
full services of Mr.. w. T. Whitfield,
who las been their lent there for the
past 40 years, and has retired him on a
pension for the remainder of his life.
This is a graceful act on the part of
a corporation, n most worthily be-
slowed. In 1865 he was appointed by
the Southern Express Company as
agent, which office he has filled with
u any intermission successfully and
to the entire satisfaction of the COM
pany n shippers ever since"
Mr.. Whitfield is an excellent man,
a most faithful official, and the pen
sioning is fully merited and reflects
much credit upon the company. We
nave known him for forty years, and
we have a high opinion of his char
acter. He is aged 81. May his last days
be his best days.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08

What kind Of county boards operated
under the ~radical-pop rule? Was it
better and fafrer than democratic rule2
How were the appointments really
made under the fusion arrangement
Were the appointments made in JUS
fusion gang and the democrats? Not a
bit of it. 1t was closely partisan
throughout. The fellows who are lying
about it now and abusing the demo-
Gratis know how unfair and unreascne-
BILE was their own action. The Pitts
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

THE DAILY MESSENGER by mail,
oas year. 800; six months. $3.50; three
uonths, SITS; one month. 80 cents.
TIE SEM1-WEEKLY MESSENGER
-Stvo 9 page papers). by mail. one year,
n 70. six months, so cents, in advance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08

She's rollin 'on-this great old world
Sure, in the kind Gods sight,
With all her rainbows red unfurled-
She's rollin' on in light
She's rollin' on to meet Gods day,
Where His great love has marked the
way.
Frank l.. Stanton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08
RED SPRINGS It
Correspondence Of The Messen

Correspondence OF The Messenger.)
Red Springs. N. c.. May 5.
Yesterday was a gala day in Red
Springs The day was observed by the
seminary and the exercises by the
seniors, juniors. sophmores and fresh
men were all appropriate, interesting.
and won much applause.
Rev. J. D. Moore, pastor of the
Baptist church. delivered the welcome
address.
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HOME FOLKS.

1t is not surprising to learn that
Governor Russell is not in harmony
with the little fellows who are running
aud running the machine. He sees that
opposing the amendment is suicidal.
We once were moved to say that
Pritchard had more brains than Rus
sell. But that was a mistake, and we
quickly saw it. Butler has more brains
and perhaps Adams and another fell
low thrown in. The white folks are go
ing to knock the dust off the plotters
before August ends.
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RUSSELL AND HIS PARTY.

Its Continual snub OF the Governor.
His Contempt for Its Leaders-The
Inducements offered Adams for Ac-
ceptfng the Nomination-The Com
promise OF the Railway Tax Case.
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DUN & cos. TRADE REVIEW,

The State of Business Free from Any
Signs of Threatened Disaster%Some
Reaction from the Abnormal Excite
ment and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES n
Our Exports.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08

Difficulties give way to diligence"
and disease germs and blood humors
disappear when Hoods Sarsaparilla is
faithfully taken.
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@1LA1 49,
NAVAL STORES
SPIRITS TURPENT7NE. Nothing
doing.
ROSIN.-Nothing doing.
TAR-Firm at s1.35.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-ouiet at
s1.s5 and 1890.
Prices same day last ysaE-SpiriIs
turpentine 40ixc and 4oc; rosin Soc
and sLG0: tar s1.15: crude turpentine
si.35 and $40.
Receipts today-11 casks spirits tur-
pentine, 50 barrels rosin, 90 barrels
tar. % barrels crude ~turpentine.
Receipts same day last years
casks spirits ~turpentine. S92 barrels
rosin. 81 barrels tar, Al barrels crude
t~urpentine.'
SALT.-l2a's. &c: 1905. 74c: 2oo's. Viz
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS.-North Carolina. fancy.
20 to 75c; prime 90 10 Csc; Virginia %
to Coo; Spanish 90c.
RICF.-Nothing doing.
CORN.-53 to SIC
CORN MEAL.-49hc.
COW PEAS.-90c.
y. G. RACON.- Hams, = 20 Jac.
shoulders, Z TO 7ac; sides. S 10 size.
TURKEYS.-(Live) s TO size.
CHICKENS.-Slow: spring 10 TO lSc;
hens. % to Csc; ROSTERS, 10 TO zoe.
EGGS.-Firm at lie.
SHINGLES-Per 1000 five inch hearts
and saps. s1.50Q3.10: six inch. s2.50g
$3.50.
TIMBER:-
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


New York, May 5.-Money on call
easy at 2 per cent; prime mercantile
paper at 3h@41s per cent; sterling ex-
change steady with actual business in
bankers bills at SASSY for demand and
at $4.S4A for sixty days; posted rates
at s4.S5k and s4.S9k; commercial bills
at s4.S3A @4.S4A: silver certificates at
60A @60A; bar silver at 60A; Mexican
dollars at 47h; state bonds active; rail-
road bonds steady; government bonds
Steadv.
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Cash quotations were as follows
Flour dull. Winter patents, $3.eO63. 20.
straights, s2-9563.40: clears, 50. 70as. %.
spring specials. s3.70d3-So; patents.
s3.1oq3.75; straights. $2.6003.Oo; bakers
S2.O0G2-45; No.. 2 yellow corn. -. No
8 spring wheat, 60G65kc; No. ? rad
OG71c; No. 2 corn, 39k G3Sxc: No ,
oats. 23Aq24c; No. 2 white. 2sn N9ac-
3 white. z5A Q2Shc; mess pork ner
Dbl. s10.s0G11.S5; lard, per Io0 he
s6.t0gs.S2k; short ribs sides. loose
se-soas.so; dry salted shoulders. boxed
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Wilmington Markets.

Wilmington, n. c., May ).
Receipts Of cotton today-12 bales.
Receipts same day last year,
bale. 1900
This seasons receipts to date-215.7ss
Dalrs-
Receipts 20 sam date last year
2SS, $50 bales.
~ auota;iO-s posted at q o'cioce
today at the exchange:
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
STICK TO THE COW.

The increased value of the beef ami
NAL is tempting hundreds of farmers
to get rid of their diaries. This is a
mistake There is no animal which
can take the place of the COW on the
farm. Be it big or little, a poor or a
fertile one, level or billy, located east
or west, owned or rented, it Is always
and ever true that the COW is the one
sure cornerstone Of any and every type
of successful agriculture in this coun-
try. Cows mean calves and pigs.
cream checks, an ever improving fertil-
ity of soil, good living in the farm
home. Working with her copartner,
the Poland-China hog, she raises the
interest money, pays off the farm mort
gage, -educates the boys and girls puts
a piano in. the home and sends the old
folks dhson a trip in the fall Four
things hiented tremendously consti-
tute the essential elements of Ameri-
can agricultural prosperity, the COW,
the. hen, the hog and the ear of corn.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
PERFUME AND DISEASE.
Nature Practical, Not Poetical, In
Scattering Sweet Blossoms,

Nature Practical, Not Poetical, In
Scattering Sweet Blossoms.
A French physician has decided that
perfumes prevent people from taking
certain diseases. During an epidemic
his attention was attracted to the fact
that persons who constantly used per-
fumes escaped taking the disease. But
he found that the more delicate per-
fumes, like violet, lavender, altar Of
rose, were more efficacious than musk
and strong. rank essences.
Beccaria, the famous Italian botan-
list, long ago advised city officials to
plant trees and shrubs with odorifer.
Gus blossoms or fragrant leaves along
the highways, courts and parks of
cities, because these strong odors pro-
duce ozone, and thereby purify the air
and make the city more healthful to
human beings confined to city streets
or narrow, sunless courts and alleys.
Indeed nature teaches us some of her
delicate mysteries and farreaching
processes when she plants tuberoses.
reus and other shrubs and blossoms
with such rich and oft well nigh over
powering odors in tropic lands to neu-
tralize the danger of fevers and mala-
ria arising from dense vegetation or
damp, unwhOlesome marshes and riv-
erS.
Who Of us can resist the charm to
the senses Of great masses of white
and purple lilacs with countless bees
murmuring round the fragrant spikes
of blossOms-the pure, delightful per,
fume not too strong in the open air
under the radiant sun of May? And
lilacs are so vigorous, are easily grown
on any soil and very long lived. Only
an expert could tell how old some lilacs
on a great-grandfather' old place are,
with the gnarled trunks and vigorous
masses of green and blossoms In May
Boston Transcript.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20

dia silk. The bottom is covered with
large wadded sachet Of the silk, which
Is made to fit it exactly.
There are several small pockets
around the sides of the hamper used
for holding gold pins, necklaces and
safety pins Another wadded sachct
of the silk is fitted and tackled to the
inside of the cover and is also provided
with pockets. These will be found use
full for lace bibs, caps. silk socks, en-
broidered sacks and other dainty be-
longings.
Willow bassinets are frequently used
by mothers until the child is or )
months old, when it is put into the reg
ular crib. These bassinets are smaller,
can be trimmed very fancifully and are
quite an ornament to the baby'S be-
longings. Usually they are set on
standard with an upright from which
to hang the lace net drapery that
serves for ornament and protection
from draft or flies. Sometimes the bas-
ket only is used. and as this is light it
can be easily moved about from one
room to another and placed on a bed
or chairs, as desired
A dainty little strap for the carriage
is made of two shades of satin ribbon
each 21a inches wide and long enough
to stretch across the carriage These
are to have an INTERVENING of two
thicknesses of sheet waddlng sprinkled
with sachet powder and must then be
neatly buttonholed stitched together
around the edge, one of the ribbons
having been previously embroidered
with the baby's name. The strap is
then finished at either end with two
full rosettes, and two narrow ribbons
firmly attached serve to tie it to the
carriage.
A pretty slip for baby's carriage
, pillow is made from two sheer linen
| handkerchiefs of good size. They
should he hcmStitched and one of them
embroidered in some fancifu way
with sprigs or vines above the hem. In
the center of this the baby's name can
be worked. Sew the second handker-
chief to this on three sides by over
scanning finely and edge the four sides
with hemstitched rutle of linen lawn.
Fasten the FELLOWSHIP over the pillow
by tying it together on the open side
with white baby ribbon.
For n homemade baby basket pur-
chase a woven straw basket of the or
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
LEARNING TO SWIM.
Some Hints In an Art Which Every.
body Should Acquire,

OOuy SnOuIu Acquire.
Learning to swim should be part of
every woman's education. 1t is a point
so far that has been too much neglect
ed, according to a writer in The La
dies World, who gives the following
hints:
If one can wear life preserver while
learning, much nervous apprehension
Is avoided. The knowledge that one
cannot possibly sink is a great aid to
the timid pupil. Another good way is
to have an assistant or director who
sits in boat or on the end Of spring
board or raft holding pole, the other
end being attached by line to a stout,
broad belt around the chest. Where
one has neither life preserver nor
friend at the end of pole the next
best thing is to learn the motions of
the stroke and practice, keeping in
shallow water, so that when tired the
feet can be regained while resting.
First, the hands are put together,
palms downward, under the chin, and
they are shot outward, cutting the wa
ter like wedge. At the same time the
feet are kicked forcibly outward as far
apart as possible, the heels then drawn
sharply together until they touch. The
amount of propelling power depends on
the vigor of the kick outward and the
force with which the heels are drawn
together. AS the body loses momentum
the hands are separated, turned palms
outward and swept back with strong
motion. describing a half circle. ST.
multaneouSly the knees are drawn up
under the body preparatory for another
stroke.
While learning it is almost imposs-
BILE to keep the face entirely out of the
water until the habit is formed of hold
ing the head upward and backward,
the chin elevated. If the lungs are
well filled before beginning the stroke,
strokes are made. when the air may be
expelled and the lungs again filled be-
fore renewing the eXertion.
The best way to practice after hav-
ing learned the motions is to go into
the water every day twice if possible,
not staying in too long at time, where
there is a smooth, sandy shore Wade
out to where the water is waist deep
and swim lengthwise of the shore or
when n little more confidence has been
gained wade out to where the water
nearly reaches the neck, turn around
and try to swim ashore.
Never under any circumstances while
learning attempt to swim out from the
shore, for a stroke or two sometimes
will bring ore where it is impossible to
touch bottom
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
Jimmy MIchne1,s Now Iden.

In pace following the bicycle rider
has taught much to rapid transit
theorists. 1t is natural that this should
be so. The sailor and the cyclist are
of the two classes to whom the wind
is of first consequence. Since the ride
of Charlie Murphy behind a locomo-
tive that made pace for him for mile
in 81 40 seconds the attention of the
railway world has been engaged in the
subject of reducing aerial resistance.
The problem fraught with so much
consequence began with a bicycle, and
1t may be that it will he solved at that
end
Jimmy Michael, of diminutiye stat
ure, was first to suggest an cover
hang" machine for pacing purposes.
Such q muticycle, built so that the
rear rider sits directly over the rear
axle, was found to make a great diff
ference in the pacing. Next to the
"overhang" Michael concluded that it
would be 4 good thing if he could get
closer to his PAGERS and more under
the lee:" This idea was expressed
practically recently when Jimmy
Michael came out for training at Man
haitian Beach on a bicycle having a
% inch wheel behind and one of "a
inches in front. Four inches less in di-
ameter meant that he could get four
Inches nearer to his pace, and also it
meant that he would be two inches
nearer the ground in front over the
handle bars and need not stoop so low.
Jimmy always "sat up in style that
bred enthusiasm.
His idea of lowering the front wheel
Is one step that is worthy of imitation
Trucksters did it many years ago when
they learned that 1t was better to carry
the load in the rear. In the game of
bicycle pacing, though, it looks as if
Jimmy and those who initiate him
might make the one mistake of getting
too far below the wind shield offered
by the pacing riders in their efforts to
get closer to it. What the man behind
pace needs is the partial vacuum caus-
ed by the moving body in front. On a
bicycle track the man who gets closest
and stays there is best. but the man
who gets Closest must also be lowest.
and he is apt in trying to get close and
low to put himself in the range Of n
draft from underneath. This is a propo-
sition that suggests a possibility of
pacing machines being better if built
so as to be lower behind than they
now are
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
Correct Riding Dre,. For Summer

The correct riding dress for summer,
according to Vogue, is habit of light
weight cloth with a coat large enough
to be worn over shirt for on warm
days the jacket is not worn; a shirt OF
white cheviot or pique, stock and tie Of
plque or cheviot, either a butterfly or
Ascot tie, usually the latter; dogskin
riding gloves, straw sailor hat, narrow
leather belt, slender, straight riding
crop, riding boots or shoes and CATERS,
which are cooler; equestrienne tights
or riding trousers. Some women also
wear spur on the heel of the right
boot.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
Household odds ana Ends.

The very newest wrinkle" in sand
witches is to have one slice of white
and one slice of brown bread laid to-
gether They should be cut long and
narrow, about an Inch and a half wide
by four long.
The French method-and an excel
lent one-of making gravy with roast
meats is to haste the roast repeatedly
with butter. The resultant rich juices
are neither thickened nor strained.
Wooden garments may be put away
in cedar chests. boxes lined with tar
paper, cotton, linen or stout paper
bags or be securely wrapped up in
fresh newspapers, but too great en-
phasis cannot be laid upon the neces-
sity Of having them absolutely free
from infestation before putting away.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20

embroideries. The petticoat in general
takes on new importance this season,
and its celebrations require almost as
much thought as do those of the gowns
which half reveal, half conceal, its
beauties
OF the designs shown one, very sim
pie for silk. is cut in rounded tabs over
an accordion killed frill. A second is
composed entirely of killed silk frills,
while third has several bias frills
around the hem, increasing In number
toward the back. In the last two pat
terms extremes meet One is the sim
plest possible for print or wash fab
RIGS. and the other gives the height
of elaboration, being composed of the
finest lawn edged with a deep lace
flounce, the latter put on beneath a
band of exquisite hand embroidery In
vandykes
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
A CARRIAGE PILLOW.

binary size needed. Line with pale
pink or blue silkolene at II cents pei
yard. making at least four pockets
with one pincushion. The lining and
pockets may be made as fancifully as
one desires of china silk, satin or lber-
ty silk embroidered and lace trimmed,
but inexpensive silkolene makes a very
serviceable and pretty lining, and if
the pincushion and pockets are trim
med with n little frill of the same it
gives very dainty finish, says The
Household, in which the foregoing
items of baby's belongings are illus
trated and described.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
REUNITED.

Let uS begin. dear love, where we left OF;
Tie up the broken threads OF that old dream
And go on happy as before and seem
Lovers again, though all the world may scoH.
Let us forget the cold. malicious fate
Who made our loving hearts her idle toys
And once more revel in the sweet old Joys
OF happy love. Nay, it is not too latei
Forget the deep plowed burrows in my browI
Forget the silver cleaning in my hair;
Look only in my eyesl Oh, darling, there
The old love shone no longer then than nowl
Tie up the broken threads and let US 90,
Like reunited lovers, hand in hand
Back and yet onward to the sunny land
OF our To Be, which was our Long Ago.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.