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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Many Interesting Items Direct From
the State Capital.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. n. c.. September Is.

Raleigh. N. c., September 10.
Governor Aycock returned today
from Seven Springs. Mrs. Aycock win
remain there some days.
A charter is granted by the state to
the Elkin Veneer and Manufacturing
Company, which will make veneers and
articles from fine woods.
The state today was notified of the
voluntary dissolution Of the charter OF
the Elizabeth City Knitting mills.
n increase in a acreage from
this county eastward will be very great
next year. Yesterday there were 200
farmers here with obacco and as many
with cotton. The contra { in profits
mae a great show in favor of tobacco.
One man sold what is known as a one
horse crop Of tobacco for $3.50. The cot
ton growers went to the tobacco ware
house and saw the braks and were
simply astonished. All the tobacco
growers have plenty of corn. Tobacco
1t appears. is to become the money crop.
in this section.
State Treasurer Lacy has returned
from New York.
Principal John E. Ray, of the State
school for the blind here. now says there
will not be less h $50 pupils pres-
'ent on the opening day, this being 100
more than last year at the opening.
Insurance Commissioner Young will
devote most of XXI week to the work
of investigating an incendiary fire.
It was n comment today OF a man
from another county who was here:
II never saw the people so careless
about politics. 1 don't know why this
Is SO, but they appear to have last In
terest"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
4 Dogs stomach Holds a $40 Bill.

The stomach of a dog is a peculiar
thing to see on the desk of all official
of the United States treasury, but that
was the object which E. E. Schreiner
recently spread put before him.
Mr.. Schreiner is chief of the division
of redemption of the treasury and a
become accustomed to receiving money
under peculiar conditions. Even he,
however, admitted the originality of the
case in question.
Dear SIR ran the letter which ac-
companied the stomach, Il send under
separate cover stomach of my Dog Fritz.
/ was playing with him today, holding
q $40 bill up for him to jump at, when
he suddenly leaped higher than I had
anticipated, grabbed h bin between his
teeth and ran under the house, where
he chewed the money up and swallowed
it.
II thought more of the SO than I
did OF Fritz-he was always chasing
c~hickens-so I shot him and cut out his
stomach. Please see IL you cont paste
the bill together and redeem It"
The unique feature Of this case"
said Mr.. Schreiner. "is hat we found
the bill, slightly chewed up, but suffi-
GENTLY whole to identify and redeem.
The man has received e checl for $50
by this Observation-Disclosures dispatch to
Baltimore Sun
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Volumes, at times, of woman's happi-
ness or misery. The dull, sunken eye,
with its dark circles almost surely speaks
of womanly ill-health, and its attendant
suffering. With the dull eye goes usu-
ally the sa1low, sunken cheek, the drawn
mouth, the shrunken form-the whole
glory of woman's beauty marred by the
effects of disease.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
the diseases which undermine the health
and mar the beauty of women. 1t estab-
fishes regularity, dries weakening drains,
heals inflammation and liberation, and
cures female weakness.
Sick women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce by letter free, and so obtain the
advice of specialist upon their disease.
All correspondence Is strictly private
and sacred1y confidential. Address DR..
R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y.
uwith pleasure I send a few lines to let YOU
know that / feel much better than for eight
years before taking your medicine, " writes Mrs.
Pierce Geise, of s7z West Phila. Street, York, Pa.
Twill recommend DR.. Pierce's medicine to every
person who may inquire as to what 1t has done
for me. I was troubled with female weakness.
and began to think ] would never be well. If I
had continued the treatment prescribed by my
doctor I don't know what would have become of
me. When your treatment was commenced my
weight was I6 pounds, at present 1t Is 40.
Have healthy color and my friends say I look
we'll. NV best thanks to you and my best
wishes, too, for what you have done for me"
uFavorite Prescription" makes weak
women strong, sick women well. Accept
no substitute for the medicine which
works wonders for weak women. :,
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse
the clogged system from accumulated
impurities.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

A leading :epublican newspaper of
the north dee lares that the coal trust
much higher. for if it does the market
will be openel to English coal. If the
price goes much higher importers can
bring in forei N coal, and after paying
the customs .!uties on it place it on
our markets at lower rates than the
domestic Goa. Still we are told that
the consumers dc not pay the tariff
on imported articles or those of home
production on which the producers add
the tariff charges.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
CAME SEaa Being SHOT.
Youax Man I'm seldsbore Got lat.
the Wrong House and R~5eu-Re-
suit OF Wake County Ceurt.

tCoi r~esrondence of The Me >seaserD
Goidsooro. y. c. September i.
A young man from Duplin county
came TO the city yesterday and went TO
the home OF a relative last nigh, where
he had been accustomed to stopping
while here and found a man and his
wife occupying the bed in the room
which he usually occupied when he
came to the city. The lady awoke and
found n TRANCE in the room and BE-
gan TO pull at her husband After
pulling OF one sleeve OF his night
shirt she succeeded in getting her hus-
band awake. He reached for his pistol
under his pillow and was cooking the
trigger when the intruder cried out:
Don't shoot: V made q mistake"
The husband marched the young man
out OF the house on the street. where
the frightened gentleman from the
country was permitted to explain thar
his relatives lived in the same house
some time ago and that he carried 4
the house and go TO he room which he
always occupied. The explanation was
satisfactory and both sides ~apologized.
Rev. F. ". Farriss. who has been
spending some time at Seven Springs,
has returned TO the city and VIII occu-
py MS pulpit IN the TesDyteAiaA huaeh
tomorrow.
Captain d. j. Broadhurst returned TO
he city today from the mountains.
where he had been spending some time.
Mrs Broadhurst stopped over In
Greensboro to visit her son Edgar.
During the session OF superior court
here this week only two persons were
sentenced TO the penitentiary. ]. c. Bur-
russ, a white man. was sentenced To
ten years in the state prison for steal
ing a COW. He had just returned from
serving a sentence OF two a in the
|p~enitentiary when he committed the
deed for which he Is going now to spend
a decade. Tom Hamilton, a negro. was
sentenced TO one year In the pentten-
Itiary for stealing cotton seed. and when
he has finished that sentence he Is 10
be returned TO the county and serve
twelve months on the county roads.
Three negro boys, who stole a womans
rocket book. while she was walking
along the street. were turned loose be-
cause of their age. Judge Undertake
that they be given a severe
hic order was carried out
in a manner that left a lasting impress
sion on the boys. Court adjourned yes
|terday afternoon. after completing the
civil docket. The next term meets In
November, whe the negro, Fred WICK.
will be tried for criminal assault. which
is a capital offense.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

In 1899 Stephen Fells, of Baltimore,
died leaving to the city a tract Of
1000 acres of land. The will provided
that the city should have the use Of
the land for n hundred years and a,
the end of that time it should go to
his descendants. The land Al the time
of Fells' death a. of little value, but
it is estimated &c be now worth several
million dollars. 1t is what is known
as Fells' Point and is in the midst of
the shipping section of the city. Oc-
tober l, 1904. has been designated by
the city as the time for heirs of Fells
to establish their claims.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Some years ago I was one Of a party
that intended making a long bicycle
trip" says r. L. Taylor. OF New Al
.bany. Bradford County. Pa. 81 was
taken suddenly with diarrhoea, and was
about to give VI the trip. when Editor
Ward, Of the LaceyvI1le Messenger.
that I take 4 dose CT Cham
.berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. / purchased q bcttle and
TOOK two doses, n before starting and
one on h route. I made the trip sue
|cessfully and eve felt any Ill effect
Again last summer I was almost COM
|pletely run down with an attack Of dys-
|entery. / bought a bottle Of this same
remedy and this time one dose cured
Sold by R.. R. Belfamy's Drug
Store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
Women and Jewels.

Jewels, candy, flowers, man-that 10
the order Of a woman's preferences.
Jewels form a magnet Of mighty power
to the average woman. Even that
greatest Of all jewels, health, Is often
ruined In the strenuous efforts to make
II a woman will risk her health to get
a coveted gem, hen let her fortify
herself against the insiduous conse-
ouences OF coughs, colds and bronchial
affections by the regular use Of DR..
Boschee's German Syrup. It will
promptly rrest consumption In its ear
ly stages and heal the affected lungs
and bronchial tubes and drive the dread
disease lrom the system. 1t IL not q
cure-all, but II Ii a certain cure for
coughs, colds and all bronchial troubles.
You can get this reliable remedy at r.
r. Bellamy. Get Green's Special Al
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

We suppose Senator Teller of Col
orado. can o be classed a democrat
as that party in his state has indorsed
him. If he is not a democrat he has
nc party at al. He withdrew from
the republicans to join n silver party.
The latter is no longer in existence,
and its near neighbor, the populist is
almost as completely defunct. So the
senator would have been homeless po-
litically if the democrats had not taken
him in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
A Thousand Tongues

could not EXPRESS b rapture Of An
ME E. Springer. Of 1125 Howard St.
Philadelphia, pa, when she found that
DR.. Kings Ne" Discovery for Con-
sumption had completely cured her or
! hacking cough that for many years
had made life a burden. All other
remedies md doctors could give her no
help. bu' n avs OF this Royal Cure
1T sooI "ar,oved the pain in my chest
md I cav now sleep soundly. some
thing / can scarcely. remember doing
before. ! feel like sounding its praises
through the universe" So Win
every c7@ who tries DR.. Kings New
Discover" For any trouble Of the
Throat. Chest or Lungs. Price SIC and
t1.00. TITO, BOTTLES free at r. r.. Bel
'amy's 5rnr store: every bottle guar
anteed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
Will Cure Stomach Ache i'm Five
III

This is just what Painkiller will do;
try it. Have a bottle in the house for
instant use, as it will save you hours
of suffering. Watch out that the dealer
does not sell you an imitation, as the
great reputation of Painkiller perry
Dayis'), has induced many people to
try to make something to sell, said to
be "just as good as h genuine"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
Water Cure for Chronic Constipation

Take two cups Of hot water half an
hour before each meal and just before
going to bed. also a drink OF water, hot
or cold. about two hours after each
meal Take lots of outdoor exercise
walk, ride, drive. Make a regular habit
stipation may be cured without the use
or any medicine. When a purgative is
eQuired take something mild and gentle
like Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets For sale by X. r. Bellamy's
drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

The Washington City authorities
have solved the problem as to the high
price of anthracite coal by the discov-
cry that a mixture Of soft soal 4
coke will burn very we'll in furnaces
made to consume hard coal. They
find it burns we'll and very little
smoke is given out.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

The beef trust men tell us the high
price of meats is caused by the in
creased price of cattle on the hoof; but
they do not explain how it effects only
their sales in this country and allows
them to ship meat to Europe and sell
it cheaper there than on the home
markets.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Some Pennsylvania people want a
woman punished for practicing witch
craft. Her chief offense is swindling
them out of $500 under the p~retense
that she could tell them where a pot
containing $50, 900 in money was buried.
These people deserve as much SYM
pathy as do those fellows who are
taken in by green goods swindlers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
Did an Animal Escape from the
show.

Some one who has been oct liz East
Wilmington reports a mystery In that
|bailiwick. It Is reported b n an animal
cage is abandoned In the woods, and
has been sunk IN the ground to the
door, which has been left open or q
level with the ground, while a piece of
canvass is spread e the top of the
The Norris & Rowe show exhibited
last week at Eleventh and Chestnut
streets and some believe that an ami
NAL has escaped into the woods, and the
IL left there for IL TO enter. III the
animal should come across the cage.
Others believe that somebody was bold
to steal a cage from the show
people and hide 1t In the woods
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Mr.. Babcock, chairman of the re-
publican campaign committee, has said
the tariff on certain American made
articles should be abolished as it sim
ply enabled the trusts to charge ex-
orbitant prices in the home market.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

McDufie's Turpentine & Mutton Suet
Lung Plaster is a certain cure Ior
vhooping cough. easy n comfortaDle
works while you sleep. Is cents at r.
r. Bellamy's-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Republicans tell us this is no time
for tariff revision. Will the proper
time ever come so long as that party
stays in power?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

Work will soon begin on Mr.. Payne
Whitney'S new New York residence on
Fifth avenue. 1. is to cost $195 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16

chills and Fever is a bottle of Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic 1t Is simply iron
and quinine In a tasteless form. No
cure-no pay. Price 5oc-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30
SAN JUAN, APRIL 30
No Naval Station.

There is very good ground for be
lievine the truth of the cable printed IN
YESTERDAYS News, which stated that the
Senate had refused to appropriate a
sufficient sum for the building OF a
Naval Station at San Juan.
The actions of the naval authorities
tended in every way to indicate that
there was no intention, after certain
physical data and facts had been ascer-
tanned, of placing the naval station at
this port.
Public officials, both insular and mu-
nicipa1, can find no fault with themsel-
yes for the failure to obtain the station
for this city. Everything in reason
was done, but it simply could not be
had as. the department at Washington
was apparently against it, and no doubt
ably assisted by an official of the Navy,
stationed here who made an o pen boast
of it that he would 60 all he could to
prejudice Congress against San Juan.
1t is no WOO late for anything to be
done which would call for reconsider
alton by the National authorities. It
has been decided beyond doubt, and had
been long before the receipt of yester-
days cable that San Juan was not to
have the naval station.
While San Juan suffers because of
the failure to obtain what would no
doubt nave been great boon for the
city, it is to be supposed that the Fede-
raj government will be Denehtted by
building the station at st. Thomas At
the same time it is to BE- trusted that
the Naval officials will not SO much
ignore San Juan in the future, as not to
know the size Of vessels which may
enter this harbor, as was clearly shown
by the Sampson bombardment.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30
Aid 100 Ll|e h[ GID0|ly.
Tariff Concessions Now Of
Little Value.

The outlook for practical results from
the Cuban reciprocity legislation is not
nearly so cheerful as the outlook for
the legislation itself. AS a matter of
principle, of course, there is but one
thing for the United States Congress to
do--go ahead and pass some kind of a
bill, whether it effects any good or not.
But that the opportunity for performing
at once an act of justice and of grace
has passed is obvious from letter
received in this city from a very trns-
tEorthy and experienced student of
Cuban affairs who has been making a
tour of the island, visiting the sugar
area extensively and a part of the
tobacco district. In the course of his
travels he has talked confd entially with
many planters, merchants, and bankers.
and he says
"The story is the same everywhere
Impending disaster the probable pfeci-
| pltatlon of commercial crisis within
the next two months, whether conces-
sions are made or not. There are
varying degrees Of apprehension. Some
predict an utter smash and general
bankruptcy; others do not go so far as
that. bat all are gloomy and Of feeble
hope. I hear very little of politics; that
seems to be minor issue, to which
slight attention is paid outside of the
Office holding and Office seeking classes
/ have nowhere found any visible sign
of distress in anything that the ordi-
nary tourist sees or is likely to hear.
The Cuban does not wear his bank &C.
count on his sleeve for the benefit Of
strangers: one must get into his private
Office, and make sure of his confidence
"The outlook is emphatical1y gloomy
Concessions now will make very little
difference. Even the sugar-producers
who are able to hold their products foi
any advantage that might come are
selling because they are satisfied that
the ncession will not cover the cost ot
carrying until it is made. The accepted
cost of cansgrowing for sale to the cen
trail mills is $3.50 per ton of cane Set
tlemeuts for last month were made a
1880. That touches upward of IS ,oo(
small and larger growers"
This sort of thing doubtless make:
pleasant reading flor Mr.. Oxnard ant
his following in Congress
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30
The Need of a Chief
of Staff.


The President is commander in chief
of the army Of the United States. 1t
is desirable that his chief immediate
military subordinate, to whom he natur,
ally looks for advice as to purely mil
i!ary matters, shall not be merely a
man in whose judgment he has confid-
ence, but. with whom he and the
secretary Of war can be in all respects
on the best possible terms. Under the
present system general commanding
the army may be in every way distas-
teful to his two civilian superiors the
President and the secretary of war
but he has a firm tenure of his position
until it becomes possible to retire him
and appoint a succ cessor The successor
may be unable to work harmoni ously
with ,rne other President and secretary,
who aill .c.ve to depend on another
military adviser. Therefore, there
sho1ld be instead of a commanding
G sneral who is a fixture, chief OF
staff, whom the President may relieve
from duty whenever he shall deem it
expedient to do so. As Gen. Schoheld
says-he has himself been general COM
manding the arlny-"the personal re-
lations between the President, the sec
retary of war and the commanding
general are mere important than any
law"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30
From New York sun April Is.
San Juan Wants Room.

San Iuan Porto Rico is walled
town on little island which the Ga
zetter neglects or scorns to name. The
town must have more room to grow in.
It can't get it at present. The land
beyond the wall is Government terri
tory, part of the more than 100000 acres
|of public lands in Porto Rico. AS yet
title to these lands cannot be given. It
has not been determined neither the
title to them was vested in the United
States by the peace treaty or whether
it belongs to the insu1ar Government.
A subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Insular Affairs has the mat.
ter under advisement. The Attorney
General has given the opinion that the
public lands were granted to the United
States by Spain but that neither the
Secretary of the Interior nor any other
Government officer has Jurisdiction over
them. Mr.. w. H. Elliott, Commission.
er of the Interior for Porto Rico, testi
fed before the Committee on ms liar
Affairs last week that in 1871 the Span.
ish Government at Madrid made over
to Porto Rico is jurisdiction over all
| p 4blic lands in Porto Rico save military
and naval reservations and public build
lings. Mr.. Elliott's assertion was con.
6rmed b. Mr.. Federico Degetan, Com.
missioner, who said he believed that
/ the Attorney General had confused the
Spanish Government in Porto Rico with
the Spanish Government at Madrid.
A speedy settlement of the question
of title is desirable, and to the Porte
Rieans important. Mr.. Crumpacke1
of the subcommittee thinks that Con
gress should pass bill vesting in the
insular Government the title to all the
public lands in the islands. Such would
seem to be the most convenient anc
just arrangement.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30

There had been no other whatever to
halt. He insisted that the had
begun on that nj ght, and when he was
asked whether any effort had been
made to ascertain if former friendly
relations could not be resumed he
repi d that such effort would have been
impossi Die after the beginning of the
conflict, he said that he had no positive
personal kno s1edge of the casualties on
the night of the 4th, but that on the
next morning he had ordered an ad.
vance of the American forces.
s.With the result" remarked Senate :
Patterson, that 5000 Filipinos were
killed or wounded
Fortunately with the result" the
witness responded, 'that great victory
was son by the American army"
The hearing then adjourned until to-
morrow.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-04-30

countries and the rush Of Americans
with their capital and enterprises to
Cuba will resemble an Oklahoma open
INCL The tremendous natural resources
of Cuba are waiting only for free
market in the United States to develop
into industries of marvellous richness
and profit. In the contest for their
control and characterization the Amer
ican developer will be the most vel
come and the most irresistible power in
the island
The end will be a swift process OF
Americanization that will inc gitably fit
Cuba to become a welcome and val
liable state of the American republic
and her people will be the first to make
the offer for incorporation, with us. We
do not want Cuba as a starveling terri
tory, but as a full-blown, well-fed
radiant sister, fitted to shine in ou1
galaxy of states