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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11
Athletic Contests

Buffalo. n. Y, June THE Erie coun-
ty athletic contests from
June 1st were held in the state audi
forum Of the Pan-Ameicrn exposition
exposition grounds today. Jerry
Pierce, OF the Carlisle Indian school.
won the five mile run in the good
time of 26:38 1-5.
Two hundred n fifty cadets from
the virginia Polytechnic institute. ar
rived at the exposition this afternoon.
A detachment OF marines from the
navy yard arrived at the
grounds today. They will establish a
model camp.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11
salaries OF onicers Not Taxable
.~1o, 70 The Nesseuger.)

Raleigh, n. c., June 7.-Attorney Gen
ersl Gilmer this afternoon gave an
opinion as to the matter of taxation OF
salaries of judges and state ofncers-
He old with Attorney General Batch
elor in the latter's opinion in 1856. that
such salaries are not taxable. and says
a number OF supreme courts have al
firmed that opinion. and it seems to be
acauiesced in by the public as sound
exposition of the law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

The Messengers Raleigh letter of
yesterdays paper gave a statement
made by q person who had made cal
culations as to the cost of the peniten-
tiary. and he is probably accurate or
not far from the mark of expenditures.
He said that eff the money which the
legislature has in the last 80 years ex-
pended on the penitentiary had been
applied to the public debt, it would
have entirely extinguished the latter.
including the 81, 500, 900 mortgage on the
North Carolina railway" A very
large proportion of the convicts have
been negroes. SO they have cost white
tax payers twenty millions of dollars,
possibly more. for crime in thirty-two
years. If a fact most startling. The
whites have nae most huge burdens to
bear since 1865. 1t is no wonder that
they despise heavy taxes and are ready
to damn all men who burden them I'M
necessarily. Is it not wonderful that
they have ever undertaken under the
embarrassing circumstances the educa-
ton Of the negroes? 1t is marvellous
generosity and a noble example of per-
sonal self-sacrifce.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11
FOR OLD AGE

To the old, as to babies, the
even balance of health is more
important than anything else
In the world. The possible
health, in age, is not high and
strong; it is only even.
There is no end, but death,
to the trouble that comes of
its loss.
1t ought to be watched like
a baby's.
Their future is short; but oh
how it turns On comfortl on
whether the wrinkles are
wrinkles of pain or of long Sc
rene enjoyment!
SCOTS emulsion of cod-liver
oil1for very old and very
young in different ways-is
the food to secure this even
condition of health.
Wen send you = little TO Try. Il yoe Eke.
sCoITS BOVINE. 80 PsEd ssees, Ne~ Yost.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

The Weldon News states that there
are lands in Halifax county which are
not listed. One tract worth $500 has
not been listed in thirty years Back
taxes aggregate $1.25. 1t ought to be
sold for IT. The News SAYS:
las we have said before. II all the
taxable property OF Halifax county Is
made to bear its just proportion o. the
public burden there will be no neces-
sity for a county k Halifax to issue
county bonds. The county is rich
enough in taxables to meet all county
and state demands. keep clear of debt
and have a surplus fund in the county
treasury"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

Down in Alabama North Cardinals
able son a distinguished author and
lawyer. Hon. Eannis Taylor, late u.
S. minister to Spain, they wish to make
president OF the state university.
Newspapers favor it. The faculty Of
the Mobile medical college, a part OF
the university. urge it. He is a strong
man wherever ne is put.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

We saw in a weekly exchange an ao-
vertisement from q young fellow. He il
anxious Ito correspond with young
ladies OF suitable age" He Ices say
that his intentions are matrimonial
but he tells that he Is eighteen years
old" and has light complexion" A
course OF severe study would probably
do him more good than much CORE
spondence with young ladies OF a
suitable age" He is rather young yet
ito marry"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

County taxes in sampson have been
increased. This is true Of other coun-
ties. II there Is any thing that
will make a party unpopular and cause
people to long for a change 1t Is high
taxes and particularly higher taxes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

1t is pleasant to know that the faith
full and noble widow Of the late revered
and efficient Rev. DR.. Calvin H. Wiley,
the founder of the common school sys-
tenn and greatest of all the s~uperinten-
dents. has presented to the Raleigh
public schools an oil portrait of him.
He richly merits a monument.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

The Messenger keeps it's eye OH the
university of North Carolina and is
ever ready to note progress. 1t had
thirty-five teachers in it's faculty for
year just closed. Next scholastic year
it will have forty-three. 1t had 527
regular students. With summer school
it had 69S. There are 1876 regulars from
North Carolina, and the president says
hat his is ian evidence that the uni
versity is striving to do it's whole duty
for the state" He also says that the
trustees have made wise investments
of the funds entrusted to them by va
rious donors. and these past two years
have seen improvements here to the
amount of s12O. 0OO." 1t will be noted
with pleasure by many that higher ed
ucation in the department of football
has been diligently prosecuted. Wheth-
er or no there IS a professor in this i'm
portant school we are not exactly in
formed. Schools of medicine and phar-
macy have been incorporated.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

The Messenger congratulates Fay
etteville and the editor and owner of
the Daily Observer. Major E. J. Hale.
upon its enlargement. This shows sub
stantial progress. 1t has a column ad-
ded, making now a neat six column
daily. The length Of columns makes it
nearly a seven column paper. 1t says
that expressed in inches. the increase
is from 800 inches of total space in Sat-
urday's issue to 437 in today's-that is,
that we have ever seen any wavering
whatever in h democracy Of this
steady paper. You can know where to
find it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11
HOME FOLKS.

The new board in charge of the A. &
NJ. college mean to be progressive.
Free scholarships numbering 12O are
authorized. 1t is spending money and
is drawing upon the income of 1902, to
the extent Of some $50, 900. Salaries of
two or three professors have been
raised to $500. We think that sur
passes any salaries at the University
of North Carolina. What Professor
Irby stated explains why there was
such a small proportion of agricultural
students at this state agricultural"
college. He said that the college trus-
tees had paid little or no attention to
the agricultural work"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

Do not forget that North Carolina
will make an exhibit at Charleston.
The board Of agriculture has already
appropriated 5000 in cash for the state
exhibit at the exposition of the natur-
al and manufactured products of North
Carolina. Will that answer? Would
more money make a better show? Oh
for a Carnegie. the man of gifts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-11

safest? There is no guild of letters to
decide. People will not discriminate.
Mr.. Hunt writes:
Drop your DoyIeS and your Barries,
then; your Mary Johnstons and your
Winston Churchills; aye, and e
your Hardys n your Kiplings for a
while. We will assume that you know
your Shakespeare but do you know
Chaucer, with his fine humanity and
his glowing joy Of life? Do you know
Spenser. concentrated essence of all
the romance of the world? Do you
know Milton and his stately harmonies?
Dc you know those marvellous gifts Of
the spacious times of great Eliza
beth"-what a modern critic has called
the greatest part of the greatest lit
erature in the history of the world?
Above all. do you know your Bible
that eternal and unparalleled treasure
house. legend, history, epic and lyric
poetry, drama. folklore, fiction, ora
tory. philosophy and pream?"
We know of an old man in this town
who is in the seventies? What is his
mental aliment? Upon what great
books does he feed? He reads the
Bible several times a day. He pursues
a course OF historic reading every
day save sunday. He is sure to reap
some great poet during each week day.
He reads regularly the best productions
Of more nan twenty leading British
reviews magazines and literary weekly
journals. He has in old age gone over
Gibbon, Phutarch. Macaulay. Greene's
flour volumes), Schil1er's Thirty
Years War;" Professor Fishers excel
lent rs'Universal History" and mino
works. He a read Shakespeare every
three years. Tennyson every three
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
A WoMAN's DARING FEAT.
over Niagara Falls in a Barrel and
Lives to Tell II.

Niagara Falls, Oct. 26.-Mrs. Tay-
lor. a widow. went over the horseshoe
falls of the Niagara in a barrel this
afternoon, and lives to tell the stoly
of her experience.
7 A barrel with o woman inside OF IL
was set adrift on the river toward the
Canadian side. The barrel remained
upright in passing over the falls. It
l re appeared in the lower river and was
swept over to the Canadian side where
it was secured and the woman was
taken from the barrel.
The rescuing party had to saw off
a portion of the barrel and remove
the hoops in order TO eXtricate the
woman, as she was practically help
less.
She suffered much and was some
what bruised. She was conscious, sac
says, when she passed the brink but
became unconscious in the fall She
declares she wouldn't repeat the ct
tempt for q million dollars.
Mrs Taylor appears to be a super
ior woman in many ways She is q
graduate OF Albany university and
HAS taught dancing to the aristocracy
Of Washington Chicago. San Antonio
and Austin, Texas.
= When the boatman left me-" said
she. 'and | knew that was alone. /
closed my eyes and prayed TO God that
he would spare my life on the trip. |
could feel the barrel knock against
the rocks, and oh, when the waters
came in from all sides. the tossing and
Nlmbling was so awful that it was as
if nature was being annihilated. Witt.
my dying breath | would caution cy-
erybody not to try to go over the
falls"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

and RATS of logs, the biggest of cattle
and fattest of hogs; we've the sweet
est of wives and the loveiest of
maids, statesmen, warriors of the high
est grades. but in all this world of
trouble and toll there is nothing as
great as Texas oil.-Goliad Guard.
What a joy to gaze at the derricks
high, limbed sharp and bold 'gainst
the azure sky, while the oil, with a
gush. a bubble and seethe, fills with
its odor the air you breathe. With each
rush and gush and boil and spurt, with
every whizz and each whirr and squirt.
the wealth OF the State is mounting
high and we're Tapped in dreams of a
by and by of a sweet content,
set free from toll. all soothed to rest
by the gush Of oil.-Houston Post.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
a Bashful Man.

A young man in Missouri called to
spend the evening with his girl. A
storm came up. the girls father asked
him to remain over night He was a
very bashful young man and the next
morning when he was invited to a
seat at the table. he very reluctant
ly accepted He was very nervous and
agtated. He sat opposite the mirror
and discovered he had forgotten to
comb his hair Then he dropped his
fork on the floor and as he stopped to
pick il up he upset the coffee. Matters
went from bad to worse until finally
the young man quit eating and put
his hands under the table. The loose
end OF the table cloth was lying in
his lap and when he touched II he
turned pale. He thought II was his
shirt. and that in his nervous excite
ment while dressing he had forgotten
to put the garment inside his trou-
sers. That accounted for the smiles
and his embarrassment. There was
no time to lose. He hurriedly stuffed
the supposed shirt inside his trousers.
Two minutes later when the family
arose from the table there was a
crash. The dishes lay in broken mass
on the floor The young man pulled
three feet OF the table cloth out OF
his pants and fed through the door
He is now hiding and the girl is on
the lookout for less bashful lover
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

zone day last winter lady came to
my drug store and asked for a brand
of cough medicine that | lid not have
in stock" says Mr. C. Z. Grandin,
the popular druggist of Ontario. NY.
She was disappointed and wanted to
know what cough preparation ! could
recommend | said to her that | could
eely recommend Chamberlain 'sCough
Remedy and that she could take bot
tie of the remedy and after giving II
fair trial If she did not find it worth
the money to bring back the bottle
and | would refund the price paid. In
the course of a day or two the lady
came ok in company with a friend
in need of cough medicine and advised
her to buy a bottle of Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy. | consider that a very
good recommendation for the RENE
dy. IL is for sale by City Drug Store
and +. j. Ramsey.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
ADA.

Special Correspondence.
Ada, ]. r.. Oct. 24-Tke weather
is cool and dry. cotton is coming IN
rapidly; the gin men and oil mill men
are very busy.
Our Touring mill will soon be ready
for business, the machinery IS being
placed.
The First National bank building is
about completed and it is magnih
cent structure.
Our schools are progressing nicely.
Attorney Pattons house was do
stroyed by fire yesterday. The loss
was complete, there was no assurance
There are twenty new buildings in
course Of construction here at the
present time.
Joe Biles' new residence is almost
completed. Joe will have a neat LONE
S. K. Tolbert has conn leted and
moved into his residence He moved
here from Center
Commissioner Dennee is holdine
court at Ron this week
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
Came Near DvJnu.

For three days and nights | suf-
fered agony untold from an attack Of
cholera morbus brought on by eating
cucumbers," says NJ. Il. Lowther. clerk
of the district court. Centerville, la.
Il thought | should surely die, and
tried dozen different medicines but
all to no purpose. sent for bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses re-
lieved me entirely" This remedy is for
sale by City Drug Store and F. j.
Ramsey
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
This Oil is Close to Gas.

Oh. the oil, the mineral oil, what
a sight to see it bubble and boil! II
comes from the earth with a roar and
a rush, and the gushlngest maid can't
equal it's gush. It turns our wheels,
it drives. our car. 1t helps the world
in peace or war. We have oceans of oil,
an infinity of gas, millions of acres of
waving grass; we have sugar and rice
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
ALMA.
,ecial Corresnondence.

Special Correspondence.
Alma. |. r.. oct. 26.-Farmers are
nearly done gathering crops in this
part of the country.
\ singing school has just closed at
this place.
H. and T. Moore of Alma have been
called to the bedside OF their sister
who is very in in Wise county, Texas
The health of the community is
good.
Alma graded school will begin It's
session Nov. 4 at this place with Prof
J. O. Galloway as teacher.
Mr.. Mccarthy and family are visit
ing relatives in Texas this week
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

Chas. r. Wessmar, Evanston, ILL.,,
writes; My boy 2la years old had a
severe cold which refused TO yield to
any treatment until we tried Foley's
Honey and Tar. He was completely
cured before using one bottle" Take
none but Foleys Bonner & Bonner.
After exposure or when you feel a
cold coming on, take a dose of Foley's
Honey and Tar. II never fails to stop
a cold If taken in time. Bonner & Bon.
nor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

London Is to have an electric rail
way which will make the run TO
Brighton, forty-seven miles, in thirty
minutes. The engineer-in-chief, accord
ing to the London Express, says:
There are no Americans in this I'M
dertaking"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

II is better to permit trust to meet
trust than it is to turn the people OF
a whole state over to one octopus.
Admiral Schley has made another
loop in which he has gone all around
the enemy
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

"You never can tell what a woman will DO
next"
81 can"
"Weli WHAT"
"Taik."
That's it-A woman will talk and tell her
friends Of the wonderful cures made by John
ston's Sarsaparilla aud the proprietorG have to
thank thousands Of good noble women in this
country for having made Johnston's SARSAPA-
RII.I.A Quart bottlesl famous"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

when child | burned my foot
frightiully,' writes W. N. Ends, of
Jonesville, Va, which caused horri-
BILE leg sores tor 80 years, but Buck.
lens Arnica Salve wholly cured me
after everything else failed Infalli
BILE for Burns, Scalds. Cuts. Sores.
Bruises and Piles. Sold by w. b.
Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

The News says. the characteristic
thrift of the Dutch is conspicuously
revealed in the discovery that the
stock in the South African Cold Stor-
age company of New York. which has
been largely instrumental in keeplng
the British army in South Africa sup
piled with meat, is largely owned by
Hollanders and Beers. Thus while Paul
landers and Beers. Thus. while Paul
Kruger is wandering about seeking
some intervening power to end the war
some of his countrymen and some
if his chief sympathizers in Europe are
supplying the sinews OF war TO the
enemy. In turn. Great Britain may,
through these purchases, be contribut-
ing to the staying qualities of the
Beers. II the South African war has
assumed the form of an endless chain,
OF few but powerful links there is no
telling when it may end.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

The average mans idea of being
wicked is to put up his money to see
a show in which a girl with a loose
robe and a gold paper band on her
forehead is advertised as an Oriental
Queen"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

Lewis Ockerman, Goshen, Ind. DE
Wits Little Early Risers never bend
me double like other pills. but 40 their
work thoroughly and make me feel
like a boy" Certain, thorough, gentle.
City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

pllsh any such result. Ihe advan-
tage gained by a long course of
these drugs is only temporary and
short-lived.
No wonder, then, the blood
poison victim grows respondent
and abandons hope when, after tax
ing mercury and potash long and
regularly, and having followed to
the letter his physicians instruc-
tons, he sees the old disease return
ing, bringing many new and strange
symptoms, and, in spite of medical
Skill and in defiance of all human
efforts, the body is soon covered
with mass of pustular sores and
copper-colored spots. The mem
Branes of the mouth, tongue and
throat thicken and ulcerate, glands
~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

When suffering from racking colds.
take a dose of Foley's Honey and Tar.
The soreness will be relieved and a
warm grateful feeling and healing of
the parts affected will be experienced.
Bonner & Bonner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

Texas is promised baseball league
for next summer We needed fans
last summer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
DEAFNESS CURED,
or no pay. c.H.ROwAN. Milwaukee. WI,

1t sometimes takes a hundred men
to turn one crank.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27
CONTAGIOUS
BLOOD POISON

o
minerals III p soesn nderupion M rhapsfo =
rea live
again the horrible effects the the added
o
the ando bakn blood
equally
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-27

The shooting stars are now fallins
at Waco instead of Houston.
The Conservative, 1901-07-18
Che Conservative.

Iuohol w Sou, lol I'LL SeuSIdUlOuS.
Thus prematurely died and was buried
the courageous young Kentuckian. He
had enlisted for long and adventurous
service which was expected to lead him
along many mighty rivers, among many
wild and strange tribes, and over un-
known mountains, until his eyes should
finally rest upon that great and distant
ocean which washed the western shores
of the unexplored continent. Although
he perished in the earlier stage of the
enterprise this lonely burial, which cut
off his hopes and his career, has pre-
served his name and memory among
mankind above that of his comrades
who continued the struggle to the end,
and who returned to receive the rewards
voted by an appreciative congress.
Lewis and Clark.
President Jefferson had in the winter
of 1923 conceived the plan of an ex-
ploring expedition up the Missouri and
across the mountains to the Pacific with
the view of scientific investigation and
of opening trade with the Indians and
also of finding feasible route for the
limited commerce of that day across the
continent. He hoped also to divert the
fur trade of the northwest into the
hands of Americans. He obtained an
appropriation from congress of So 500,
with which he proceeded to organize
company under the leadership of Capts
Meriwether Lewis, his private secre-
tary, and William Clark The details
of that expedition are interesting, but
are already so we'll known that there is
no occasion to repeat them in this ad-
dress. Its success was only accomp-
lished by the exercise of all the virtues
known to the life of the frontiersman.
1t required valor, perseverance, mutual
trust, self-confidence, vigilance, knowl-
edge of the instincts and characteristics
of the savage, inventive resource, en-
durance, continuous toll and unlimited
courage. The explorers left their camp
opposite the mouth of the Missouri on
May ID, 1904, and sixteen days from
their departure saw the last cabin of the
white man, about 100 miles from the
mouth of the river 1t was ninety seven
years ago this day that they bade fare
we'll to these huts of semi. civilization.
Thenceforward for many, many weary
months, upward, along the endless
windings and shifting sand bars of that
treacherous river, and through the
gorges and over the trackless ridges of
confused mountains, and down the un-
known streams rushing to the Pacific
ocean, abandoning their old boats and
building new, in peril of starvation, in
peril Of drowning, in peril of wild