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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-31
SGROFULH HND ITS AWFUL HORRORS
CURED BY
~Johnston's S~arsaparilla
QUART BOTTLES.
A MOST WONDERFUL CURE.

a ri OLD ~ 0Soo Hr AxpeueuCo
Mn. Thankful Orfla Hurd lives in the beautiful village OF Brighton.
Livingston Co, Mich. This venerable and highly respected lady was born IN
the year 1872 the year Of the great war. in Hebron. Washington GO" New
too" ALI her faculties arr excenenty preserved, and possessing q very re-
tentve memory, her mind is full Of interesting "reminiscences OF her early
life, of the early days of the State Of Michigan and the interesting and re
markablepeople she al met and the stirring events Of which she was q Wit
ness. But nothing in her varied and manifold recolectons are more u
veous and worthy Of attention than ar her experiences in the use OF
JOHNSTONS SARSAPARILLA- Mrs. Hurd inherited q tendency and pre-
disposition to scrofula, that terribly destructive blood faint which has cursed
and is cusing the i've OF thousands and marking thousands more q VIC
TINS of the death angel Transmitted from generation t. generation; 1t
pearance in dreadful running sores. in unsighty swenings in neck ot
may be known as catarrh in the head. or developing In the lungs 1t may be-
and often Is, the prime cause u consumption.
Speaking Of her case, Mrs.H urd says: II was troubled for many years
with q bad skin disease. Ny arms and limbs would break out IN . mass OF
sores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very
nnsighty in appearance. Ny body was covered with scrofulous erupdons-
~ eyes werea also greatly innamed and weakened, and they panied me very
much Ny blood was in q very bad condition and my head ached severely
ut frequent intervals, and ] had no appetite I had sores also In my eals. j
was in . miserable condition had tried every remedy that had been recon.
mended, and doctor after doctor had failed. One OF the best physicians in
the state told me ! must Ole OF scrofulous consumption, . internal ahcesses
his famous Sarsaparf1a. I tried q bottle, more a $ an experiment than any.
sr else. as ! had no faith in it. and greatly to my agreeable surprise, !
ii, a4l to grow better. You can be sure I kept on taking It I took q great
mh bottles. But I steadily improved until ! became entirely wen All the
healed up an the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health
and I have never been troubled with scrofula since. OF course q n old Lady
Of SO years sis not q young woman, but I have had remarkably good health
since then, and I firmly believe that JOHNSTONS SARSAPARILA Is the
greatest blood purifier and the best medicine ain the wide world b0h Tor
scTofula and a spring medicine" This remarkably interesting Old lady QUO
not lok to be more than sixty. and she repeated several times, y believe my
life VA saved by J0HNSTONS SARSAPARnLA"
-~R
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NORTHERN PRESBYTERIANS
Adjournment of General Assembly
The Only Incident of Personalities

Philadelphia, May 28.-The 18th
Presbyterian General Assembly was
dissolved at els o'clock tonight by
in session for nearly two weeks, dur
ing which time many matters of the
utmost Importance to the church were
considered. Chief among these was
h question regarding the revision of
h confession of faith. After a dis
cuSSion continuing nearly -four days
this momentouS subject was referred
to a special committee of twenty-One
tionS as to the matter in which the
creed should De revised and present
them to the next general assembly,
which meets in New York.
Today for the first time since the as
Sembly convened the equanimity OF
the commissioners was disturbed by
the introduction of personalities. The
trouble occurred during the discussion
on the Craftsmanship of the revision
committee Rev. DR.. j. d. Moffat
suggested a change in the minutes OF
yesterdays session so the records
would show that a new committee
had been appointed to revise the creed
regardless of the old committee, OF
which Rev. DR.. Charles A. Dickey, OF
this city, vas chairman. His sugges-
ton was adopted and Rev. DR.. James
E. Moffat, of Cumberland, Md, moved
that Moderator Minton be elected
chairman of the committee. This in
censed the friends of DR.. Dickey and
although DR.. Mofat's motion prevail
ed the subject was revived later in the
session by a motion to reconsider. The
matter vas finally adjusted by DR..
Dickey, who advised the assembly
against reconsidering the motion, say
ing he was confident there had been no
attempt to cast any reflection upon
him, but that the commissioners mere
1y desired to honor his successor as
moderator.
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Liverpool, May 29.-i p. m.-Cotton:
Spot, moderate business; prices 1-16d
lower; American middling fair 4 sd;
good middling 4 9-16d; middling 4 IL
I'D; low middling 4hd; good ordinary
SD; ordinary 3%d. The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, Of which 300 were
for speculation and export and includ-
$500 American. Receipts $1,000 bales,
including $1,000 American.
Futures opened quiet and closed
firm. American middling L NJ C: May
4 15-64d buyers; May and June 4 Is
"a sellers; June and July 4 15-64d SELL
ers; July and August 4 15-64d buyers;
August and September 4 10-64Q4 11-64d
buyers; September 4 10-6404 11-64d
buyers; October e o C 3 5s-64d sellers;
October and November 3 5S-64d sellers;
November and December 3 57-64d sell
ers; December and January 8 57-64d
sellers; January and February 3 81
64G3 5s-64d sellers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston quiet at Z 13-16c; net re-
ceipts 3,04S bales.
Norfolk steady at 7zc; net receipts
$40 bales.
Baltimore nominal at SIC.
Boston quiet at SIC; net receipts sos
bales.
wilmington firm at 7zc; net receipts
Al bales.
PhiIadelphia quiet at SIC; net re-
ceipts 127 bales.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


New York. May 29.-Money on call
steady at 2k@31a per cent; last loan
8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
4@4k per cent; sterling exchange firm
with actual business in bankers bills
at. 4.SSA@4.SS$ for demand and at
4.S5@4.S5h for sixty days: posted rates
4.S5k and 4.S9; commercial bills 4.S4A@-
4.S4A; silver certificates nominally 60;
bar silver soy; Mexican dollars As;
government bonds steady; state bonds
inactive: railroad bonds irregular.
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When you want the best for the least money. come to headquarters
M. F. a & Co.,
FAYETTEVII.LE M. 9.

Savannah quiet at Z 1-16c; net receipts
ceipts 439 bales.
New Orleans quiet at &c: net re-
ceipts 500 bales.
Mobile nominal at use; net receipts
l bale.
Memphis quiet at 7Sc; net receipts
16 bales.
Augusta quiet at Sc; net receipts ISL
bales.
Charleston firm at nc; net receipts
s bales.
Cincinnati quiet at 7%c; net receipts
657 bales.
Louisville firm at I 11-16c.
ST. Louis quiet at Z 11-16c; net re-
ceipts 1873 bales.
Houston quiet at Z 1S-16c: net receipts
1858 bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET
New York-Cotton quiet at SIC; net
receipts 504 bales; gross 5.Oo3 bales;
sales 80 bales; stock 129. 456 bales.
Total today-Net receipts 10131 bales;
exports to continent $50 bales; stock
472, Sal bales.
Consolidated Met receipts 1924
bales; exports t o Great Britain 1888
bales: to France All bales; to continent
10,112 bales.
Total since September Met receipts
7,o11, 1874 bales; exports to Great Britain
$500, S79 bales; to continent 2,305,329
bales.
Futures closed steady. May 7.13; June
7.76; July 7.S1; August 7.SS; September
7.OS; October 1903; November 7.01: De-
cember 1902; January 7.04; February
7.O5.
Spot closed quiet: middling uplands
SIC; middling gulf size; sales 80 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET.
Chicago, May 29.-The leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
Omen. High. Low. Clos.
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour quiet; No. 8 spring wheat 69G-
72Ac; No. 2 red 74@75c; corn No. 2 AGO
42%c; No. 2 yellow 42@42Bc; oats No 2
30@SOkc; No. 2 white 30Ac; No. 3 white
28A @291hc; rye No. 2 521sc; mess pork
per barrel $14. 65@14.70 lard per 100 lbs.
IS. 2O@S. 22h; short ribs sides Qoose)
81. S568.O5; dry sailed shoulders (box-
ed ca @7c; short clear sides Cboxed)
sS.12h6S.25; whiskey. basis Of high
wines, $1.27.
New York, May 29.-FLOUR quiet
and barely steady.
WHEAT-Spot easy; No. 2 red s2asc;
options had a strong. active forenoon
with the close easy at sc advance on
closed S1Mc; July closed 79kc; Sep
TENDER closed 76zc.
CORN-Spot steady; No. 2 soc. OPP
ton market was stronger. closing arm
at &c to nc net advance. May closed
soc; July closed 1880; September clos
ed 1850.
OATS-Spot quiet; No. 2 33c. OPP
tons. slow and about steady. following
the other markets.
LARD-Firm; western steamed $40:
reirned firm; continent $3.50 South
American 1925; compound 6AQ6sc-
EGGS-Firm; state n Pennsylvania
1910.
POTATOES-Steady: Jerseys 50cQ-
s1.25; New York $1.25@1.75; Havana
$3G5; Jersey sweets s1.5092.
PEANUTS-Steady: fancy handpick-
ed AZ 65c; other domestic 4kG4Ac.
CABBAGEoQuiet; state $1241s per
ton.
SUGAR-Raw steady but quiet; fair
refining 3Zc; centrifugal So test 4 9-32d;
refined quiet.
COTTON SEED OIL-Quiet but
steadier and held at a slight advance.
Prime crude barrels nominal; prime
summer yellow 35hc: OF summer yell
low 34d34hc; prime white 37k03Sc:
prime winter yellow 3Sc; prime meal
$24.
NAVAL STORES.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
&c.; receipts 1.65S casks: sales LEO
casks; exports III casks. Resin firri
and unchanged; receipts 4,O95 barrels;
sales 227S barrels; exports 2.3o6 barrels.
Charleston7Spirits ~turpentine firm
at BIC; rosin firm, unchanged.
New York-Rosin dull: strained COM
mon to good s1-52h. Turpentine dull
at 35hG3sc.
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The Veterans to Attend the Bazaar

The Veterans to Attend the Bazaar
The confederate Veterans will attend
the bazaar of the Wilmington Light
Infantry tonight at the armory. In
Nets, Colonel F: w. Kerchner, vice
commander, requests that as many Of
the camp attend in their Confederate
gray coats, as possible. He hopes
every member of the camp will be
present "in view of the many court
sizes shown the veterans by the Light
Infantry, for allowing the camp the
use of their armory and kindnesses
shown them or many OcccaSiOnS-tO
show their appreciation and also to aid
by their presence the efforts of the
young soldiers to have a home of their
own
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Chicago. May 2e.-Higher cables. con-
tinued drought I'm the spring wheat
districts with reports Of damage by
Hessian fly. caused an active wheat
market today. Reports were received
late I'm the session Of rains In the north
west, and the gains were more than
wiped put. July closed &c lower. July
corn &C higher, July oats unchanged
and provisions unchanged to sc higher.
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A Steamer Posted as Missing

London, May 29.-The Norwegian
steamer Nor, Captain Moxem, from
Tampa, March 4th via Norfolk, March
18th, for Stettin, has been posted at
Lloyd's as missing. Nothing has been
heard of her since she sailed. The Nor
was of 1857 ton net register.
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Declares Against Secret societies

Des Moines, Iowa, May 2s--By a vote
Of 80 to So the general assembly Of the
United Presbyterian church today
adopted b report Of h judiciary
committee upon the change Of b
creed with regard to Article XIV. This
is interpreted to mean that the admis-
sion OF secret societies to the church Is
forbidden: and. according to some Of
the delegates. ft expells those belonging
to the church which are now members
Of secret orders.
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The governors of the New York stock
exchange have listed the S100, 600, 900
first lien convertible 4 per cent. gold
coupon bonds of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company.
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At a meeting Of the directors of the
Waycross Air Line It was decided to
extend b line from Fitzgerald to Cor
dele at once. A surveying corps will
be put In the neld without delay.
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WILMINGTON MARKETS


~
Receipts same day last year. bales.
This seasons receipts to date-25s.-
saa hales.
Receipts to same day last year-z7s.-
SIC bales
The quotations quoted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
COTTON Firm
Oroiuo1y .. - .. >. - .. . - f-le
Good ordinary. Ills
Low middhng-. - : i. -. Ills
Middfng =. !. : q. : IA
Good i-1s
Same day last year-Nothing doing.
NAVAL STORES
SPIRITS TURPENTINE - Quiet:
machine barrels 32c; country barrels
31hc.
ROSIN-Nothing doing.
TAR-Quiet at s1.25.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Steady hard
$1.10; soft $40.
Prices same day last year-Spirits
~turpentine 4s1zc and 4Sc; rosin $1-05
and $1.10; tar $1.40; crude turpentine
hard s1.s5; soft $3.50.
Receipts today-47 casks of spirits
t~urpentine, 261 barrels of rosin, % bar
rels Of tar, Sc barrels Of crude turpen-
tine.
Receipts same day last4 year-164
NoShS 800 u
Of rosin, so barrels of tar, 119 barrels
Of crude t~urpentine.
PRODUCE
SALT-100's Sic; 125's, SIC; 1908,
SIC; zoos, soc: zoos r. F.. :1.25; In less
than car load lots.
DRY SALTED SIDES-sc.
BUTTER-24 to 2ec.
COFFEE-9 to 11hc.
FLOUR-straights 800; End patents
$4.25; full $4.75.
MOLASSES-S. House. i5c; New Or
leans Brights % to Csc; Porto pics
30 Il 35c; Cuba. % to Bic.
SUGAR-(New York prices, freight
to be added) g%ranulated $40; W.X.C..
No. 5 400: No. 9 $3.50: No. II $3.50.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina. fancy.
Is to soc; prime IS to zoe: Virginia 40 to
Coo; Spanish 80 to SOC.
CORN-65 t o 67hc.
CORN MEAI-621k to 67kc.
N. G. BACON-HaJls 12c: shoulders
&c; sides 10 to lie.
CHICKENS-Steady: hens 25 to 30c:
ROSTERS 20 to Csc.
EGGS-Dull at lac.
SEINGLES-Per LOCO, 8 inch ~ae-.
$1.60; 5 inch hearts, s2.25: s inch saps
$3.50; 6 Inch hearts $3.50.
TIMBER
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Smallpox Is reported TO be epidemic
groes.
Evening star., 1901-05-04

people are so pious on Sundays that they
won't allow the street cars to run during
church time
AS to schools, l will have to make a spe-
ciai letter to describe the new-fangied ideas
of instruction. There are night schools and
day schools, industrial schools and tech
meal colleges, and an Australasian institu-
tion known as Schools of Art
Steamships and Trade.
The big steamers You see here show that
Europe appreciates the size of Australia
and the value of Australian trade There
are dozen big companies which have lines
of steamships from Australia to Europe.
The North German Lloyd has four steam
ers of 1O500 tons each which sail from
Bremen and Southampton via the Medter-
ranean and Suez canal to Melbourne and
Sydney. The P. and o. sends big ships
every two weeks from London to Sydney.
and the Messageries, the great steamship
company of France, has a similar service.
Then there is the Orient line the British
India line, the White Star the Shaw and
Seville and other large companies. There
are ships which come around the Cape of
Good Hope, sailing from Cape Town to
Melbourne, distance Of G, 400 miles and
thence on to New Zealand, and thence TO
London Via the Strait of Magellan There
Is line Of new steamers from SYDNEY to
San Francisco and another the Canadian
Pacific, which connects the continent wifi
Vancouver, calling at Honolulu on the wav.
The cost first class from Sydney to San
Evening star., 1901-05-04
Too Truthful.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
There is little girl in Detroit whose pas
sion for the truth under all circumstances
embarrassed her father very much the
other day. Not long ago he lost a high
salaried place in a business house because
Of its absorption by trust, and in the
evening denounced all persons connected
with trusts as thieves and robbers. But
the trust found that it needed him, and he
was soon holding his old place, in addition
to a good block of stock 1t was noticed
that the little girl was deeply impressed
with the incident, and looked at her father
doubtingly when he was home. One even-
ing there was company at the house and
the host became involved in a heated po-
litical debate with a peppery guest. The
former made a statement which the latter
fatty denied.
'.Why. my dear man." laughed the host
'.you don't mean to call me a liar?"
mo, he don't" declared the little one.
as she sprang in front Of the visitor and
glared at him with flaming eyes, "and I
Won't have it. My papa is a robber and a
thief, but he is no liar!'
The explanation was soon secured from
the child, and the hilarity following the
expose was the joy of the evening.
Evening star., 1901-05-04

tain and Ireland, fifteen times the size of
France and only one-fifth smaller than all
Europe. With New Zealand and the other
English islands it occupies two-fifths of the
British dominions.
1t Is SO far away from everywhere else
that you have to make special trip to get
to it. The shortest distance to England is
$500 miles from South America and / 800
Even New Zealand which looks so close
New York to Omaha. and 1t takes from
one to the other.
The continent itself Is longer from east
to west than from New York to Salt Lake
and wider from north to south than from
New York TO Chicago. The Gulf of Car
pentaria at the north is about 500 miles
long and 800 miles wide, and the great Aus
tralian Blight at the south Is much wider
Inc country has at one side great coral
reeI thousand miles long, walling off an
ocean waterway between 1t and the coast
1t has deserts like Sahara, so dry that
your finger nails become as brittle as glass
SO dry that screws come out of the boxes
and that the lead is loose In your pencils
II Is land of big things, as well as queer
tnlngS- 1t has trees almost IL not quite
as large as those of California. One was
recently felled near Melbourne which was
over 400 feet high and which at 800 feet
from the ground was six feet In diameter
Australia has lilies which grow to the
height OF three-story house. 1t has trees
Evening star., 1901-05-04

THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY: a Magazine Of
Contemporary Thought. Vol. 1, JanIaryJun
1900; Vol II. July-Decenlber, 1900. New York
and Burlington
Evening star., 1901-05-04
Francisco is 600. and to london about

Francisco is $500, and to London about
$500.
AS to travel over the country there are
railroads connecting the principal cities OF
eastern Australia, and In time / suppose
Adelaide and Perth will be Joined, although
the distance Is SO great and the country
between is so poor. that it will not be
soon. AT present there are about fifteen
thousand miles of railroad in the various
colonies. Each colony has built its own
roads, and each has It's own gauge, SO that
there is a transfer of cars on going from
one to the other. Part of the business of
the new confederation will be to standard
ize these railroads and to reorganiZe them
into one harmonious system.
The Parliament Buildings.
If you will make an imaginary visit with
me to the Victorian parliament we shall
get some idea of how the commonwealth
parliament will look when 1t has it's first
sitting Each of the Australian colonies
has it's own parliament which until now
has made laws of all kinds and regulated
everything. These parliaments will be
continued as state legislatures, and the
commonwealth parliament will devote IT
self to intercolonial affairs. Just now
Evening star., 1901-05-04
that grow grass and other trees that bulge
out like giant bottles

that grow grass and other trees that bulge
out like giant bottles.
A Continent of Gold and Silver.
Australia Is a rich continent. So rich
that no one knows how rich it is. 1t is now
one Of the great gold producers of the world.
1t produced more last year than the United
States, and the surface has not been
scratched. The greater part of the country
has never been prospected. Vast areas
have never been explored, and new mines
are being discovered every day. Later on
l shall give letter about Mount Morgan,
in Queensland, the richest gold mine of the
world, and shall tell of my visit to Balla-
rat. where nuggets of gold big as foot
balls were found. Here in Victoria was
the first gold excitement, and today 500, 900
ounces and more of gold are still annually
produced. Gold is found all over the coun-
try-in the mountains, on the farms and in
the sands of the deserts. Western Austria
liza is so dry that camels have to be used
to carry the gold out, and from there
come most of the gold exports of today.
Australia has vast quantities of iron and
tin. 1t has stream tin; that is. tin in the
shape of sands which are so fine that you
can hold them up and they will run
Evening star., 1901-05-04

through YOUR fingers Just like the dust of
the desert, save that every grain Is pure
tin. 1t has copper mines and coal mines, les
It's silver mines have produced Sl6oOoo,ooO
worth of that metal and 1t has also dla-
monds, rubies emeralds, opals and pearls.
The Farms and F1ocks.
More important than the minerals how
ever Is the pastoral and agricultural
wealth of the continent. Much of the des-
ert can be irrigated, and in addition there
are vast tracts of well-watered lands. Some
of the biggest sheep farms of the world
are within a short railroad ride of Mel
bourne, Sydney and Brisbane. l have traV-
eled over country where thousand acres
are a garden patch, and know several men
who own hundreds of thousands OF sheep.
met one man who owns million, ana
among his stock he has single sheep worth
5000 a head. Australia exports annually
over 600 GEO, 900 pounds of wool, and 1t pro-
duces some of the best wool of the world.
1t has about a hundred million sheep. The
pastoral industry is the great industry,
and the ariStOCrat is the squatter.
OF late the people have taken to da1ry1ns:
They now have as fine creameries ana
cheese factories as any part of the world.
They ship butter from Melbourne to the
Philippines and they hope some time to
suppy the trade of east Asia.
The new Australia has many rich men.
The big cities have as many millionaires
in proportion as cities of like size in the
| nItSu states, 1ntTS are IOfly DlS Ddl!hS,
with many branches. There are savings
hanks everywhere. There are only about
100000 people on the continent, but 1,O0O-
900 of them have money in the savings
banks. their deposits aggregating more
than $50 100000. There are as fine build
ings here in Melbourne as in any American
town of 100000 people Sydney is a mag
nificent city. and Adelaide and Brisbane are
well laid out and beautifully built
One Thousand Newspapers.
The new commonwealth is an intelligent
commonwealth. Australia has more than
1,OOO newspapers. 1t has magazines and
periodicals in every city and town. In
Melbourne alone there are $50 newspapers,
magazines and journals. One of these, the
Melbourne Age, prints more than 100000
papers every morning, All of the neWspa-
pers have big Saturday editions, great
blanket sheets OF twenty-four pages. which
are mailed throughout the states and which
sell for u cents a copy.
All the big cities have public libra ries.
There are churches of all kinds, and the