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Chs.p Rates to Cleveland.


The passenger department OF th'
Rock Island railway announces the lo~
est rates 10 Cleveland on account OF III.
G. A. r. encampm n, September 7 to II
that have been accorded the old soldier.
since 1887. The rate is less than ons
fare for the round trip. Tickets will ts
on sale from stations west OF the Mis-
souri, river Sep;ember7 10 10 inclusive
and will be good TO return up to and IN
cluting Sc p'ember IS. but the rc,ur-
limit may be extended un.i! October
oy teposltirg the tickets ~i.h ioint agen'
before September IS and paying fee O.
50 cents.
The trip to Cleveland will be enc o'
much pleasure and erj,ymenL The ex
uemely low rate made BY the Rock Is
land will make i, possible for larg,
Numbers of the old soldiers and their
friends to 90 at very snail expense
From Cleveland there will be cheap rate.
IN ,fIec, enabling hose who desire to
visi, the Pan-Amcrican exp sision anc
this trip TO Buffalo Can be NJ d. either
by Fail or boat.
Cleveland is making spe :ial CT ut L
take the bes, care possible Of the ve,er
ans as well as v.si,crs and afford them
every opportunity for pleasant and en-
joyablr time while in the city. The new
soldiers monument, located in the pub
lie .quare, will be completed. The elec
uc lighting effects OF this monument. il
is said, will eclipse anything Of lis kind
heretofore attempted in this country.
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Send Me Their Names,

Thousands Of Eastern people illtake
advantage OF the cheap rates to Colo
rado which the Burlington Route will
otfsr during June, July. August ane
September.
They are the lowest ever made.
II you have any friends who are talk
ing OF coming to Colorado. send me thei'
names and viii have our representative
look them up-furnish advertising mat
te,-rescrye berths for ,hem-see tha
they have quick ard comfortable trip
Hotel Keepers! This is your oppor'
tuni,y. Whenever you receive An en-
quiry abou, your resort, send it to me
l will take pains TO see that the writel
spends the summer in Colorado.
G.. W. VALLERY. General Agent
Burlington Route,
Denver, Colo.
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Of the queens Jubilee in 1887 he, with
Lord Mount Stephen, gave a million
dollars for the building and endow-
ment OF the Royal Victoria hospital
its maintenance. To McGall univers-
~, n Canadian institution of which
Lord Strathcona is chancellor. he has
given many thousands of dollars, and
he has given further proof OF his in
,ercs, In higher education by erect.
ing and endowipg the Royal Victoria
college for women. He has been a
most generous patron of art and he
has endowed Canadian scholarship
in the Royal college of music in Lon
don. His heart and his purse have
ever been open 10 the poor, and his
private bcnefnctions have been many
and unstinted. But the act of splen-
did munificence that has given him
an enduring place in tie hearts of
his countrymcn was that patriotic
deed by which he again testified his
loyalty to his queen and her empire.
This act was the rnising OF the regi-
ment of the Strathcona horse and
sending to the support of the queen
mothers arms in South Africa a com
pany which he saw was needed to
meet the Beers on their own ground.
When the Strathcora horse visited
England on their return from the war
the snowy-haired old man was the
hero Of the day.
He is known as Cannda's Grand
Old Man." and as such he will be
given royal welcome when he faces
the mighty audience that will be
sure to meet him in Boston on the
occasion of his address at the Y. N,
c. A. jubilee meeting in June.
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DAVID R. FRANCIS.
Noted Missous$ Politician Elected
President of the Great 81. Louis
Exposition of 1903.

Former Gov. David r. Francis, who
has just been elected president Of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition Of
1903, was one of the earliest pro-
moters of that great enterprise. Mr.
Francis, like so many politically-dis
tinguished men of Missouri, is a
Kentuckian. He has just begun his
fifty-second year. At l6 he came to
St. Louis, was graduated from Wash
ington university in 1870, and, en-
tering commercial life, he became
president Of the Merchants exchange
in 1883. He was delegate to tho
democratic convention of 1854, and
In 1855 he was elected mayor of st.
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With . Grievance.

II understand you whipped my boy
this morning. the angry father said,
striding into the schoolroom after the
children had been dismissed.
"Yes, sir. l did," the terrified
teacher answered. But did not whip
him severely"
That's what I'm kicking about" he
rejoined. You didn't hurt him at all.
Now, look here. sir. I'm one of the
largest taxpayers in this school dis
trict, and my boy is entitled to as good
whipping as you give any other boy
Understand that! If you slight him
again you'll hear from me in way
you won't like. Good afternoon, sir!
Chicago Tribune.
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HGNORED IN CANADA,
Lord Snatheona Who Was Made 4
Baron BY Victoria.
consiAsred by Many the Most Disti1.
gaished Citizen of british Amer
iea-His unexcelled Record
~ aPhilaathropist,

One Of the distinguished visitors
who will be in attendance at the
great Y. NJ. c. A. jubilee in Boston
in June, and who will give ono Of the
addresses, is Lord Strathcona, high
commissioner for Canada, and one OF
the most eminent men in that coun-
try. A man of large wealth and gen.
erous heart, his benefactions have
been so many and they have given
evidence of such broadness Of spirit
that he has been likened to the
American George Peabody. Lord
Strathconn was born in Scotland in
the year 1920. and before he became
Lord Strathcona he was plain Don
aid Smith. He went TO Canada when
he was mere boy, and he was Is
when he became q junior clerk in the
Office OF the Hudson Bay company.
To the active outdoor life and the
honest toll that wer, his daily por-
ton during many years OF his service
in the Hudson Bay company he at
tributes the physical vigor and men,
tai nlertness that are his at the age
of 81. Step by step he rose in the
service and in the esteem Of the great
Hudson Bay company until he became
one Of its most important factors.
He has been a member OF the
house OF commons. and he did not re-
tire from political life until his
seventy-fifth year, when he was ap-
pointed high commissioner for Can
ada. His services to his native and
to his adopted country had been so
valuable that in 1856 the queen con-
ferred upon Donald Smith the order
of knighthood, and in the next year
he was still further honored by her
majesty, who made him Baron Strath-
coma and Mount Rayol, Of Glencoe in
Argyll, and Of Montreal in Canada.
OF Lord Strathcona's philanthropy
It may be said that on one occasion
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Old Man saved HI. Money.

An old negro died suddenly in
Richmond, Va, recently. 1t was
thought he was in poverty little short
Of what might be termed nbjeci. He
had for years been suhsisting in the
barest way on an income derived from
picking the feathers off fowls for
market. For picking chicken he
would receive two cents; for duck
or turkey, five cents. After the negro
was dead the people with whom he
lived went through his possessions to
learn the value OF his property.
There were found in his old trunk
$500 in money and certificates Of bank
deposits aggregating $1,000. The ne
gro left fortune of 1900 in money,
and as far as is known all of it was
made by picking feathers from fowls
for the table of the white man.
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both Indignant.

"See here!" cried the irate politician,
"you called me q trickster and job
ber in your paper"
Yes" replied the editor, II discov-
cred that misprint just this moment.
have sent for the guilty compositor
to>come here and explain"
"Oh, come off. You can't shift the
blame on him."
What! Why, you idiot, don't you
suppose know what wrote? 1made
it "a trickster and robber,' and !
wrote 1t plain."-Philadelphia Press.
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GRAND CONFEDERATION.
Burning of the Baku OIL Renneriss
in Russia Said to he Biggest
Blase on RecorA,

The great fire at the oil refineries
has only recently been cxtinguished,
ranks as one Of the biggest confia-
grations of the kind on record. Its
origin was mystery, but within an
hour of the outbreak the magazines
of the Caspian g. Black Sea company,
containing an immense quantity of
petroleum. amounting to 100000
poodr, were involved. Ten people, un-
able to escape the fiery torrent, per-
ished. and over 140 were terribly
burned. For several days it was quite
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Kicnic, Dancs sud Moonlight Exenrsion
Wednesday. July 3rH, is the day.
Mon. Alto park the place. The ladies
Of the Episcopal church will hold pic.
mic at the park and run moonlight ex
cursion that night. Mont Alto park and
teturn 81. Ward and return 81 50, includ'
ing dancing at Mont Alto.
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Prssidsnt Of the Louisiana Purchase EI-
position OF 1859

Louis, defeating his republican oppo-
nent, who four years previously had
received a majority of 14,5oo votes.
The new mayor became so strong
politically that he was given the
nomination for governor in lsss. and
few candidates for that post have
had more united and enthusiastic
following. In the closing days OF the
last Cleveland administration Mr..
Francis was appointed secretary OF
the interior, and served in that po-
sition until the inauguration OF Pres
ident Mckinley the first time. When
the democratic party split on the
silver issue in 1896 he took sides
with the sound money faction, AID
has remained that kind of democrat
ever since. He is already mentioned
as q presidential possibility for 1904.
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The Power Of Song.

"Now, darling. will you grant mo
one favor before l go?"
Yes. George, 1 will" she said.
dropping her eyelashes and getting
hor lips in shape. What IL the IA
vor l can grant you"
"Only little song at the piano,
love. l am afraid there is dog out
side waiting for me, and l want to
scare him away."-Tit-Bits.
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rlocks of Fantasies.

Hicks-Yes; wilkins is a mind read
er. You know Ililarum, the crazy
man? Well, the other day he was
crazier than usual, and then got
drunk, to boot. And we set Wilkins
to work reading his mind.
Wicks-Mpst have been interesting.
Misunderstanding? wilkins said it
was just like reading Sunday paper.
-puck
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n. Comfort. of Home.

Church-Have you q cosy corner in
your house?
Gotham-Oh, yes; my wife has ar
ranged two of them.
"You must enjoy them after hard
days work"
Enjoy nothingl The cat has one
and my wife's dog occupies the
othsr!"-Yonkers Statesman.
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Fortune for Seven Dollars.

A seven-dollar investment netted
Peter Greenhalgh over $4,000. He is
resident Of Venango, Pa, and he there
bought an old safe at auction for seven
dollars. In the safe he found gold coin
and paper money to the value of ,25o.
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INVESTIGATE THIS,
Knight Templ.r Trip to Louisvilis.

Knight Templar Trip to LouisvIlIs.
Two hundred Knights Templar will
attend the grand encampment at Louis
vile in August.
They will leave Denver at 2:2o p. m.
Friday. August 23rd. on special train
via the Burlington route to St. Louis.
thence 10 Louisville over the b. & 0. S.
w. railroad.
Stop overs will be made at ST. Joseph
two hours). Kansas City (eight hours)
and St. Louis (tv elve hours)
In all three cities the men from the
mountains will show the natives how to
do it,"
Louisville will be reached at 1880 a. m.
Monday, August ,6;h.
Accommodations have been secured
at 3I7 Broadway. Entertainment head
quarters will be at the Gault house.
Louisville's swellest hotel. where the
hospitality OF the Colorado Sir Knights
will be dispensed with lavish hand.
The round trip rate which is open TO
the public from Denver to Louisville,
will be $34.5o.
Correspondingly reduced rates will be
in effect from all other points in Colo
RADIO. Sleeping Car rate from Denver to
Louisville, 81.
An effort Is being made to secure ie.
duced rates from Louisville to Buffalo
This will enable persons who attend the
encampment to visit the great Pan.
American exposition before they re
turn home.
Ber,hs on the Knights Templar special
should be reserved at once. This can
be done at any ticket Office in Colorado
or by communicating with G. w.
Vailery. general agent Burlington Route
Denver, Colorado.
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spsad Your suud.ys In Denver.

To enable you TO spend the entire
Sunday in Denver. the Colorado &
Southern has put in very attractive Sun.
day rates and has arranged to hold tain
No. q. scheduled 10 leave Denver a,
i:,o p. m. until 7 p. m. en- Sunday.
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A Ccrn,.n CITY In China.

Three years ago the city of Using
Tan, the German Chinese port, was a
poor fishing port. 1t is now city
Of electric lights, telephones, water
works, hotels and government houses.
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Her Are.

"How old are you, Frau Pleichin-
ger?"
"Has Frau Won wiesinser given her
age, your honorf"
Certainly"
every well-then put me down as
two years younger than she!"-Der
Iloh. :: -
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Alabama Constitutional Convention

Montgomery, Ala, July 9.-The evils
of local legislation was the matter up
for discussion today before the consti-
tutional convention. The report of the
committee on local legislation was read
and prohibitory suggestions as follows
were passed:
Granting a divorce; relieving any
minor of the disabilities of homage;
changing the name of any corporation.
association or individual; providing for
the adoption of legitimizing of any
child; Incorporating any town, city or
village; granting a charter to any cor
poration, association or individual: es-
t%ablishing rules of descent or distribu-
ton; regulating time within which
civil or criminal action may be taken;
exempting any person, corporation,
county. township, municipality or asso-
citation from the operation of any zen
eral law.
Mr.. Cunningham moved to amend
the report by excepting the sale of
liquor. He feared that this might in
terfere with the power of a eommuni-
ty to get a ~dispensary or prohibition.
This caused a strong debate, and was
finally adopted.
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STATE PRESS.


Professor w. i. Poteat ivere a
lecture in the Baptist church last Sum
day evening. To say that dt was one of
the o scholarly and interesting ever
delivered here would not be expressing
1t too strong. He was greeted by q
large audience and all went away de-
lighted with the service.-Roxboro Cou-
rier.
Mr.. Bryan in a recent speech said:
II am fighting on, not so much to win.
for / would rather die fighting for right
than win fighting for something else"
Could all our politicians fight on an
equally high plane where right not DOW
er was the end to be accomplished how
o would all corruption in politics be
eliminated.-Lumberton Robesonian.
For weeks certain papers have kept
UP a constant reiteration of abuse of
the democratic press and those demo-
cratic leaders who stand true to the
principles enunciated by the lawfully
constituted conventions of he demo-
cratic party. They are maligned as
little fellows" "perverters of truth
strangers Of intellectual life," "oppo-
nents of political liberty" and like enc
mics to good government. They are
honest men-progressive, sincere and
truly representative of and
liberty. They will not be silent when
they are traduced, whether by religious
or 1rrellg1ouS papers. or both in a COM
Dlnatlon in the interest of republicaniz-
ing the state.-Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
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London, July 1O.-"Contrary to the
opinion expressed in Vienna says a
Berlin dispatch to The Daily Elk
press "it is held that there is no posi-
bility of a general European trade
combination against the United States.
Germany's trade relations with the
United States being too extensive to
permit her TO assume an attitude of
hostility"
st. Petersburg, July lot is semi
officially denied here that the visit to
ST. Petersburg of Count Won Buelow.
the German Imperial chancellor, If
made, has anything to do with anti
American commercial negotiations.
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Intense Heat Continues In Kansas
Nebraska

Lincoln. Neb., July s.-Today has
been n Of intense. heat all over the
eastern half Of Nebraska, the average
temperature being I01. In Lincoln the
maximum was 103. A hot south wind
Is cooking the corn, and a continuation
OF many days viii seriously damage 1t.
Topeka, Kas., July s.-The hot wealth
er continues with no immediate pros
pect Of relief. Corn is fast shriveling
up, the oats crop is worse than a fail
ure, and hay Is scarcer than for years.
In western Kansas the conditions are
better than in the eastern part. this be-
ingd directly opposite to the usual state
OF Affairs. Some of the central farmers
are shipping their stock 20 western
kansas, SO as to take advantage Of the
superior hay crop.
1t Is estimated that Kansas will suffer
crop losses from the protracted heat
spell Of SO, 200, 900.
Some Of today's temperatures were
Topeka 103, Salina 102, Abilene 107,
Usage City 103, Lawrence 100. Fort Scotl
1oS, Sedan log. Hays City and Manhat-
tan 1OS.
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Serious Strike Disturbances Feared

Reading, Pa, July 9.-The Reading
railway shop hands executive commit
tee met here today when the strike sit
uation was considered. The committee
claims that as the company broke faith
with the agreement reached between
President aer and Chairman Beschor
they now stand where they were before
that agreement was made and the on
test is again on the original list of
gievances. Chairman Beschor said to-
day that the men have decided to stand
out for their list of grievances as pre-
sented to the company as though the
agreement with M. Baer had never
been made and that the latter will no
longer figure in the contest.
1t was asserted by a man of some
acquaintance with acting President
Welch that the company, having ex-
hausted it's efforts at Cancellation, would
now try to run the shops with new
hands. This it is believed, will lead to
trouble and it is predicted that if the
company introduces new men at the
shops tomorrow serious disturbance
will ensue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-12

In good condition she is sweet and lovable,
and sings Lies song on a joyful harmonious
string. Out Of order or unstrung. there is
discordance and u~nhappiness. Just as there
is one keynote to all music so there is one key
note to health. A woman might as we'll try
to fly without wings as to feel we'll and look
we'll while the organs that make her a woman
a-e weak or diseased. She must be healthy
inside or she can't be healthy outside. There
are thousands Of women suffering silently all
over the country. Mistaken modesty urges
their silence. While there is nothing more
admirable than a modest woman, health is
81 me first importance. Every other con-
s!dsration should give way before il. Brad
te!d's Female Regulator is 4 medicine for
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White Oak Items

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
White Oak, n. c., July 10.
The hot weather of the last few weeks
was broken yesterday by a delightful
shower of rain which was greatly enjoy
ed by everybody and the farmers espe-
cially.
Rev. w. s. Ballard, of ClarktOn, N c.,
preached at White Oaks, Saturday and
Sunday. His sermon Sunday was quite
an impressive one his subject being
Spring Time of Life"
Mr.. Hal H. Register is home from
Florida where he ha been for the last
two years. He is convalescing from a
serious attack of chills and fever. He
says there is nothing like the health of
the "Old North State.
Fish frys are getting to be very
popular in this section at present as the
third one in July will be held at Suggs'
mill tomorrow.
Miss Loudie Miller, a charming young
lady of Leesburg, Florida, and one of
the Peninsula states popular teachers,
is visiting Mrs. @. W. Register, of this
Mace
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NORTH

Duplin Journal: The Southern Ex-
press Company has notified it's agents
not to deliver packages of liquor, wine
nor beer along the w. and w. Railroad
in Duplin county. We are glad to see
the company SO prompt in it's efforts to
carry out the law.
Gastonia News: The burglar struck
Bessemer Tuesday night. They entered
the p~ostoffice there by pressing the door
until the bolt gave way. This gave
them entrance to the lobby. They I'M
locked the doo that lead into the pri-
vate room of the office. They took all
the mail from the general delivery and
a small quantity of stamps and postage
due stamps. They failed to find any
money unless they found some in the
letters stolen.
Greensboro Record: Since the an
nouncement was made that there is to
be an automobile line run from Green's
boro to Winston, some of the enterpris-
ing citizens of Greensboro have been
working on a scheme tina would eclipse
anything yet suggested. They propose
to erect large Ferris wheel fans on
every corner in the city and furnish
wind on hot days during the summer
months to those who are willing to pay
for same. An thermometer is to be plac-
ed on each fan to measure the velocity
of the breezes.-While trying to escape
this morning Frank Moffitt, a negro
from Orange county, who was serving
a f~Our-years sentence on the public
roads of Giulford county was shot and
camp a few miles from town. Moffitt
was a thick heavy set black negro about
40 years old and was known as a des-
perate character.
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Christian Endeavor Meeting

Cincinnati, July 9.-The fourth day OF
the conference Of the Christian Endeav-
or Society was q light one. so far as the
programme was concerned, but the En-
deavorers.. in their determination TO
miss nothing were out en- masse In at
tendance at the two big meetings to-
day AT the last moment the three big
music hall rallies were consolidated in
TO two meetings which were held in Au-
ditoriums Endeavor and Williston. Five
OF the prominent speakers are absent
owing to illness. These are Rev. Will
bur Chapman, Rev. George d. Purves
and Rev. Charles c. Hall, Of New York;
Rev. John Henry Barrows, Of Oberlin.
Ohio, and Rev. F. w. Gunsaulus, OF
Chicago.
After h usual two quiet hour meet
ings in the morning which open every
days programme, the big auditoriums
were thrown open for a discussion of
I Twentieth Century Chuch."
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Probably Given Knockout Drops

A we'll dressed young man, who is ev-
identity a stranger, as he is not known
to the police, was probably robbed last
night and left in the secluded quarter
at Twelfth and Orange streets. three
squares asst of the Wilmington Sea-
coas railroad depot. Sub-policeman H.
P. Merritt found him and he was SO
dead drunk hat he had to telephone
for the black maria to take him to the
city hall.
The young man had evidently been
decoyed to the place and robbed OIL was
carried out there after having been
robbed. Both his pantaloon's pockets
were turned wrongside out and his hat
and shoes were gone. The man was too
drunk to give his name eve after he
had been taken to the hall. He was
locked up and probably he will be sober
enough this morning to give his name
and tell what happened to him.