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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15

Manila, March 12.-An investigation
made by the constabulary to clear up
the facts in the killing of Cebu coach
ing party Of four school teacers, shows
that the party was ambushed twelve
miles from Cebu. Two teachers were
shot and killed at the first volley, a
third. who ran, was shot in the back
and a fourth, who was captured, was
shot in the chest while he was praying
for mercy. 1t is suspected that the
fourth man was buried alive, as his
wound was slight and probably would
not have caused death. Dogs dug up
two Of the bodies and devoured the
flesh. 1t is believed that sufficient evil
dence has been secured to convict all
the participants in the crime
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15
Application Made to List # 1ssian
Certificates.

New York, August 12-Application has
been made to the stock exchange to list
2.s10, 100000 roubles four per cent certi-
ficates Of rente Of the imperial Russian
government. The application, it Is
known has the support of J. P. Morgan
& Company who are interested in the
issue. There is little doubt that the
application will be granted.
Other foreign bonds are regularly list
ed in the stock exchange including a re-
cent external loan OF the Mexican gov
ernment and bonds issued for the mu-
inequalities OF Frankfort On Main, Ger
many, and Quebec, Canada.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15
MASTER PRINTERS ASSOCIATION.
Organization Perfected and Officers
Chosen.
Especial to The Messenger.

Especial to The Messenger.)
Greensboro, n. c., August 12.-Large
number of job printers at a meeting
here today perfected organization of
North Carolina Master Printers and
adopted constitution and bylaws, elect
ing the following officers: c. B. Ed
wards. Raleigh, president; Osmond L.
Barringer, Charlotte, first vice presi-
dent: George L. Hackney, Asheville,
second vice president; Joseph J. Stone,
Greensboro. secretary and treasurer;
executive commmittee. II. B. Warner,
Lexington; r. B. clamp, Charlotte; j.
M. Reace, Greensboro; Board of Esti-
mates, r. E. Seeman, Durham; H. A.
Hurrell. Charlotte.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15
Rival Republican Nominees for Cow
eruor.

Little Rock, Ark, August 12.-Harry
H. Meyer, regular republican nominee
for governor has fled petition In the
Pulaski chancery court for an injunc-
ton to prevent Secretary of State
Crockett from certifying the name of
Charles D. Greaves as a republican
nominee for governor. The litigation
grows out OF the nomination of two
state tickets by the opposing republi-
can factions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15
To MY Friends.

I was troubled with my stomach for
several months. Upon being advised
to use Kodol, did so. and words can
not tell the good it has done me. Geo.
w. Fry, Viola, Iowa. Kodol cures all
stomach and bowel troubles, indiges-
tion. dyspepsia. r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15

The best physic-Chamberlaln Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. Easy to take.
Pleasant in effect. For sale by r. r.
Bellamy'S Drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15

Piles Cured without the knife.
Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding
Piles. Your druggist win refund your
money Of PAZO OINTMENT fails TO
cure you. SO cents.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15
ASKS FOR VESSEL
BARCELONA HAS BEEN TkKENBY
The REVOLUTIONISTS
CONSULATES WERE PILLACED

Government StrOngholds Have Been
Taken Prisoners-The Dead Num-
ber 155-An the Houses i'm the
City Were Sacked and the Stores
Were Robbed The American,
Italian and Dutch ConsuIs Have
Asked Their Governments for Pro-
tectiOn-Either the Topeka or Gin
cinnati VIII go to Barcelona.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

spurs ripping it to shreds ana their boot
heels. long and sharp. digging into the
earth; It was give and take. the blows
arousing growing fury. They drew
closer together and then closed in
wrestlers grip. but the tricks of the
wrestler were unk9own to them. They
earth and each other as fortune favored.
Bill thought of his spurred heels and
tried to rip the puncher's legs-Sandy
took an opportunity to twist Bll's ear
until the spurs were forgotten. The men
were strong, but there came a time wnen
neither could deliver effective blow.
and they lay apart, gasping for breath.
AT last Bill arose, and, stepping to
where Sandy lay, spoke to him: ANY
mans fool to lose his head over
woman like you've done. but if he's will
ing to fight as you've fought can afford
to apologize for putting names onto the
girl They smiled at each other from
battered faces. mounted their horses and
rode away together
The puncner did not tell Kitty of this
fight with Seymour for a long time;
of the moral struggle in connection with
the contemplated cattle stealing. He
loved the girl with an elevating and novel
passion, and one day he confessed it to
himself.
But shucks she wouldn't have me!'
he exclaimed, thinking OF his past record
and the girls contrasted purity. IA
of-a-gun like me amt fit for her-she's
worth a good mans gettin'. But l can be
decent Teller with her If l make up my
mind to it. an III malSa e try at ropln
that girl in
That Sandy wo->s ..sk her to marry
him Kitty had fct come time been quite
sure. She had seen the love that grew
in tn" heart O. the unsuspecting punch
er, and knew that it was genuine and
purifying. She was not totally ignorant
of his record-everybody knew it-but she
large possibility for good in him
She had determined to accept Sandy
whenever he gained the courage to de-
clare himself. Afterward she said that
Sandy did not speak dozen words in
the hour from the time he came to the
Weaver home until he began the pro-
posal. They Were sitting in the shadow
of the house when Sandy. clearing his
throat and doing his utmost to appear
calm began:
Miss Kitty. you know. I reckon, that
l got into d little trouble with a punch
er the other day." Kitty shook her
head. An We had a fight about-about
YOU
About me! Oh. Sandy. what was it?"
Her tone was encouraging.
You know. Kitty Sandy forced him
self to 60 on that ] was sort of think
din kept me out of sort of hole
once-an' the wrong Teller rubbed asin
me then"
'Yes?" Kitty questioned eagerly.
Yes. it was like this here: You know
how / feel about you, you know how the
musician / was about to do a mighty
low thing-it helped me You'v. helped
me all the time, since that time. An you
know-you know--I-love you. Miss Kitty.
an Kitty, won't you have me-" Sandy
sat helplessly down into a chair, the
sweat starting from his face, afraid to
look at her.
Kitty was girl of rare sense. She sat
down beside him. took his hand affec-
John Nj. oskison in New York Even
ing Post
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

America reached and peopled from
Alaska to Fuegia during the Stone Ages
by at least two streams of migration-one
from Northwest Europe, the other from
Northeast ASia-mainly by land cOnnec-
lions which have since disappeared.
writes A. II. keane in The International
Monthly for March. Owing to this sub
Sidence, which convert ed the new world
into an clinical well as a geographical
island. and also for other reasons else
where fully specified, all serious mgra-
tory movement from the old world ceased
absolutely after the general settlement:
and the "Amerinds.' as they are now fire.
quently called, We're thus left to continue
their normal racial and cultural develop
ment in their new homes. unaffected by
foreign influence of any kind till the ar
rival of the Norsemen and the Spaniards.
Hence what they have in common with
the peoples of the Eastern Hemisphere is
just what they brought away with them
during the migration period, and that
amounts to very little-the forms of the
stone implements found amongst ali
primitive races; perhaps the fire drill,
with the associated cup ma rlSingS: the
germs of articulate speech; the family
group inherited from the higher anthro-
poids; few crude religious ideas leading
in the direction of Shamanism: possibly
some early symbols. such as the cross and
swastika, and the rude beginnings of the
simpler arts. But even much of this may
very well have been evolved on the spot;
and when We recall the common psychic
nature of man, it seem a work of SUI
pererosation' to run up and down the
world in quest of motives and inspira-
tons to explain simply growths which
may spring up spontaneously in any soil.
All the rest. all the higher arts. all the
monuments, from the Ohio mounds and
the ''caSas graudes OF the Arizona
puebloS to the Mexican and Central
American pyramids temples. and palaces
the Peruvian huaCaS, aqueducts. and
highways, the stupendous monoliths of
Tiahuanaco. the advanced social institu-
nOliIipal a inns nj
calendric systems, pictorial and perhaps
phonetic scripts, must be credited unre-
servedly to the natives themselves In
other words, American culture properly
so-called was locally evolved, and owed
absolutely nothing to eNtraneous in
fiuenCeS
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12
Never Hit Him.

Judge-What did you hit this man
with. anyway?
Prisoner didn't hit him wit ANY,
thing, yer honor.
Judge-But look at him. He's in a
horrible condition. Surely, you didn't
do that with your fists?
Prisoner-No, yer honor. I ketched
i'm by the heels an bumped i'm against
brick wall a few times. But I didn't
hit i'm wit anything wanst.-Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

There is growing tendency to give
books as wedding presents" says The
head of the book department OF a big de-
partment store. "A few years ago such
a thing almost unheard of, and the
jewellers, picture dealers, glassware shops
and the like got all the best of it. But
we have a great many demands for
handsomely bound sets of the works of
standard authors, such Dickens,
Thackeray. Scott, Irving, Cooper-in fact,
all the authors whose books come in uni
form Styl"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

Tomdi>-I .Ioposeu TO Miss Gotrox
last night by telephone, and she re-
fused me.
Hojax-Serves you right. You might
have known that you couldn't ring q
girl up properly in that manner
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

She-Do you think it possible for a
man to serve two masters?
He-Not unless he's a Mormon.-Chi-
cago News.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

One woman never really knows an
other woman until their children quar-
rel
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

There are now ahout $50 monkeys ON
the Rock of Gibraltar-the only wild
monkeys in Europe.
Truth prevails in the end but lie
always leads in the stretch
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12
ES.

what care l for caste or creed?
1t Is the deed. IL IL the deed:
What for class what for clan?
1t is the man. it Ia the man.
Heirs of love, and Joy. and woe,
Who is high. and who is low
Mountain, valley, sky and sea
Are for all humanity.
What care l for robe or stole?
1t is the soul, 1t is the soul;
What for crown. what for crest?
1t is the heart within the breast:
II is the faith. It is the hope
1t Is the struggle up the slope,
II is the brain and eye to see
One God and one humanity"
Robert Loveman. in Ainslee's.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
MONEY IN LETTER BOXES.
People Who Try to Pay Postage In
Thnt Way.

People Who Try to Pay Postage In
Thnt Way.
Here are two pennies Just turned in
to the superintendent of delivery by
one of the carriers" remarked an off,
cial of the Washington city postoff1ce a
few days ago. 'rTbe amount of cash
gathered up by the collectors Of mail
is really surprising. Hardly q day
passes without certain percentage Of
the coin of the realm finding its way
to my desk through the medium of the
street letter boxes.
at is hard to believe, but hundreds
of persons every day in the year drop
unstamped letters IN the box with pen
MES to accompany them to cover the
postage They think the money will
do just as well as stamps. But they
are mistaken. All such unstamped let
ters, If there is no identifying mark OBJ
the envelope, ultimately land In the
dead letter Office.
ut often happens" added the postal
official, that coins placed in envelopes
for transmission work their way
through the paper. In nine cases out
of ten, even when the money so lost
is no more than a dime, this Office is
notified of the occurrence by the loser,
who requests that he be reimbursed" !"
Washington Star.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
Man Eating wild Men.

In the celebrated 'Travai1es" Of Ed
ward Webb 15aOl are dozens of stories
that would make Munchausen turn
green with envy. One of the most cele-
brated pf these is his story OF the wild
men Of Prester John, which is as fol
laws:
@',In the court Of Rrester Iohn there is
a wilde man and another in the high
efeets bf Constantinople whose allow.
ance is every day quarter of raw
mutton, and when any man dyeth for
some notorious offence then they are
allowed every day quarter Of mans
flesh. These wilde men are chained
fast to a post every day, the one in
Prester Iohn's courtd, the other in the
high street Of Constantnople, each Of
them having a mantell about their
shoulders. and all over their bodyes
they have wonderful long haire. They
are chained by the neck lest they
speedily deyour all that cometh within
their reach" =
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
Domesticated Ferns.

The lover of ferns will find 1t an
easy matter to domesticate many of
the most attractive varieties If he or
she will be content to take young
plants. They should be removed from
their native haunts with good
amount of soil adhering to their roots.
Give them, II possible, shady place
to grow in, and make the soil as light
as that in which they originally grew.
1t is well worth while to get wagon
load or two of soil from the woods for
the especial use of these plants, In
lifting them wrap each in a deep bas=
ket, applying enough water to saturate
the soil clinging to the roots. Do not
plant them in the border until after
sundown. II the next day is sunny,
shade them well and shower them fire.
quently. In some instances most of
the old fronds will die of, but if care
is taken in lifting and planting and
the necessary amount Of shade and wa.
ter is given few Of the leaves will be
lost.-Eben 2. Rexford in Ljppincott's
Magazine,
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
A WINNING TRICK.
he Lost All His Bets and Made
Money by Doing So.

money by Doing So.
The captain Of one rather old and
slow steamer of years ago, finding that
he would have to be a long time in
China before he received full cargo
of tea and would have probably to re-
turn In ballast, began. to every ones
astonishment, to say that, owing to the
repairs that had been done to his en-
gines, he hoped to make racing pas
sage back to England. Then, still more
to the astonishment Of the captains of
the fast steamers and the world at
large, he commenced to back himself to
make the fastest passage home.
in such very considerable sums Of
money did he wager that people began
to think there was something in it, and
the merchants sent their tea almost en-
t1rely to his ship, arguing that as the
captain stood to lose $500 the repairs to
his steamers engines had probably put
him in a position to bet almost on
cei,.iinty.
OF course the steamer, whose great
est speed was eight knots an hour, ar
rived in England weeks after the 9th
ers. and the captain lost $780, but in
stead of having to lie in China waiting
his chance Of cargo coming in from the
interior, a probable delay Of weeks, he
had cleared in few days after his
bets became known to the public with
a full ship, thus recouping to his own
ers, who Of course paid his betting loss
es, considerable number of thousands
of pounds -Blackwood's Maya
zine
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
The Life of c,rcu. People.

Circus people are pretty clannish.
From generation to generation they
are circus people, and the generations
do not perish from off the face of the
earth nearly so fast as the insurance
companies seem to think. There are
plenty Of good performers that will
never see sixty again and some that
are seventy-five years old and still as
supple as you could wish for a man
fifty years younger. More than in any
other branch of the amusement busi-
ness is the family life kept up, for ev-
cry woman who travels with a circus
must have a natural protector with
her. If it isn't father or brother, 1t
must be husband, and as circuses
don't carry people around with them
just for the pleasure Of their company
the women marry in the profession and
bring up their children to it. The little
boy you see riding around so gayly on
his daddy's head has to learn his les
sons here just the same as If he went
to school.-Woman's Home Companion.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
WINTER IN JAPAN.

The Natives Make Little Effort te
Combat the Trying Conditions.
The Japanese winter is most tryinl
on account of its continual dampness,
but the Japanese are content to remain
cold. They make almost no effort to
overcome it. The old "bushido' (chiv.
alrous) idea of the "samurat'' (knights)
was that it was effeminate to feel cold,
and such is their severe training that
they do not really feel it as we do. The
wearing of some extra "kimonos" and
the use Of "hibachi'' or brazier in
which are few tiny sticks of lighted
charcoal are the only concessions to
winter weather. With the "hibachi'
they never pretend to heat more than
their finger tips, which they hold over
the Goals. 1t is used when the house is
entirely open.
The houses, as every one knows, are
built of thin, light wood, and the slid
ing panels which serve for doors and
windows have paper panes. They are
as apt to be open as closed during the
day. The coolies wear thin blue cotton
clothes and are always padding
through the mud. The storekeepers sit
out in their open booths, and the wom-
en- go bareheaded about the streets. In
the houses of the rich the still cold be-
hind the closed panels is often more
intense than that outside in the sun
shine, where the air is stirring.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
When the sun VIII Fail.

The total Of the suns heat Is equal
to that which would be required to
keep up 476,000 millions of millions
of millions of horsepower, or about 49,
600 horsepower for every square yard,
and yet the modern dynamical theory
of heat shows that the suns mass
must fall in or contract thirty-f1ve
meters per annum to keep up that tre-
mendous energy.
AT this rate of contraction the solar
radius will be .O1 per cent less in 1000
years from now than it is today. Ac-
cording to these deductions, a time
must come when the temperature must
fall. This being the case, it is incon-
ceivable that the sun will continue to
emit heat sufficient to sustain animal
life for more than 100000 years
longer.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
Two Gifts to the Orchestra.

On one occasion. when Won Bulow
had to conduct an orchestral concert
at which piece written by an aristo-
cratic amateur was to be performed,
the composer requested permission to
direct q rehearsal and on obtaining it
opened parcel containing seventy
pencils, which he handed to the mem
bers of the band, asking them to mark
his intentions in their, parts, as he
would give them by word of mouth.
Hans Won Bulow noted this matter Of
detail and left the hall. Presently he
returned, also with parcel, and on re-
suming his place at the desk gravely
handed out seventy pieces of india rub
Der, with which the players were to
erase the directions which the compos-
er had given them.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
A VALUABLE TYPEWRITER.
improvements Make 1t Worth Much
More Than Its Original Cost.

improvements Make 1t Worth Much
More Than Its Original Cost.
A New York bachelor author who
writes on machine wrote a note re-
Gently to a spinster authoress who still
works by hand and incidentally called
her attention to the fact that If she
wished him to do so he would secure
a machine for her at So per month,
guaranteed to write poetry, able arti-
cles, fiction, etc. A day or so later he
received reply written in a beautiful
ly clear, round hand to this effect:
My Dear Mr.. -: This is my type
writing machine. Isn't it nice? It is call
ed the Blank typewriter. 1t is sound,
kind, in good repair warranted to travel
well in single harness, and If you do not
say it is the incest machine you ever
knew 1 shall refuse to believe that you
were born when knighthood was in flower
1t is warranted. like yours to write able
articles, poetry and fiction with equal
facility, but, unlike yours, 1t is not for
sale at IS a month. Its original cost was
large, and 1 have put 30 many improve
ments on 1t since that cannot dispose of
1t save at a considerable advance and
even then should be unwilling to part
with 1t except to q responsible person
warranted to treat 1t with care.
At present the author is striving
strenuously to become a millionaire so
that he may secure the services Of
this inimitable typewriter.-Detroit
Free Press.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
YARNS FROM ERIN.
The Absurdities That Are Born
Irish Simplicity.

The Absurdities That Are Born of
Irish Simplicity.
Here are few samples Of the alb
surdities arising out of the extreme
simplicity of some Irish folk:
A young man came to confess to an
Irish priest in London whose expert
ences of the humors of his fellow coun-
trymen would fill book. "Well, my
man." said the priest, "and how do you
earn your hving?" "I'm an acrowbat,
your reverence" The priest was non
plused. 'T'll show ye what 1 mean in
a brace Of shakes" said the penitent,
and in moment was turning himself
inside out in the most approved aero
batic fashion In and out of the pews.
An old woman who had followed him
to confession looked on horriied.
when it comes to my turn, father"
she gasped, "for the love of God don't
put penance on me like that. It 'ud
be the death of meP'
l think it was the same good father
who, observing the regular attendance
at Lent mission had done nothing to
reform one Of his parishioners, told him
so and asked him the reason Of 1t.
"Ah, father" he replied, 81 can man.
age the faith right enough, but the NOR
ais bate me-
On another occasion this priest was
called upon to marry man of whom
he knew nothing to girl of his congre-
CATION On investigation he found the
would be bridegroom's knowledge of
the Catholic faith very limited.
Have you ever been baptizedY he
asked. 'Well, father, can't trust me
memory to that" "Are your parents
living?" The mother Is" Lets have
her address" This was given and a
telegram dispatched to the old lady on
the spot, reply paid. The answer came
in due course, "Vaceinated, but not
baptized. "A Kerry Man in London
Spectator.
Amador ledger., 1902-06-13
They Use Morphine.

Snakes of many poisonous varieties
can be handled without danger if the
handling is done pr operly," says q deal
er in animals. "Most people imagine
that snake charmers handle only nom
poisonous snakes, or snakes with the
poison sacs removed, but such is not
always the case. 1 have seen snake
charmers fearlessly handle reptiles of
the deadliest variety without apparent
danger to themselves, the snakes In
fact making no attempt to bite. A
snake does not bite unless angered,
and snake charmers are careful in
their handling to soothe the animal in
stead of alarming it. They generally
begin their manipulation by stroking
and avoid all sudden movement in
handling the snake. Most snake charm
ers 1 have come in contact with were
morphine fiends, and by the absorption
of this poison they were impervious
to the poison of any but the most
deadly variety of snakes"