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THE SEAGULL IN HIS HOME.
A Far Different Bird ON the Atlantic
from What He II Near
Land.

One ean no more get correct line
on the seagull when he observes him
from or near the land, than he can
on the foreigner when he encounters
him in his tourist tweeds, away from
home. The gull of the Hudson, or the
Central Park reservoir, or the upper
bay, is an expatriate. He is out~of
his element. He is a stranger who
brings in shore whiffs of wild life
that lies somewhere beneath the hori-
zon, somewhere where the trade
winds scatter the spray in the track
of the liners like dust on the open
road. He is stranger, and, say
what you will, strangers are unpopu-
lar. Men do not like what they do
not understand, says the New York
Mail and Express.
To get on good terms with the gull
one must see him in his own home.
One must have been in fight about
his ship day after day, where the
waves chase each other, out of sight
of land. In his native habitat the
gull loses his corsair aspect and his
repellent tourist manners. He takes
on homely domes tic ways and one
sees him as he is---a friend of the sea
and of those who go down to the sea
in ships. There is point in the vari-
GUS familiar names which the sailors
bestow on him and his kindred. He
is simply a barnyard fowl, although
his barnyard is the ocean itself. One
may regard him just as he would a
pet rooster of uncertain years, pro-
tected by his popularity and his
toughness from the AK of the market
man.
That is the gill-a cheerful
plebeian friend of mankind with a
broad stout wing, fondness for q
buffet with the wind and wave and
that indiscriminate appetite and that
'ancient and fish-like odor," which it
is expected were no strangers to the
vikings and other rude heroes of the
deep since then. He does not fear
human society. He courts it and
when you call on him at his home in
the Atlantic and press him for song
he will not refuse you. 1t is no great
feat as musical performance, and
unlike most bad singers the bird has
the grace to sing softly, but it is con-
fidently volunteered. There is
shrill grating quality in it like door
creaking in a half gale at the other
end of long corridor.
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EoOl Z oUNoENs.

X
~ N, Hsft m 1tinnie-Belle
SKRoWss q joke, an we won't telN
No; - don't cause we don't know
Why We rot to laughin SO:
But W rot to laughin 90.
We 1T KEEP a-laughin'.
Y Wind VIZ BLOWN in the trees
"A, WuS only ist US three ;i3f.
plAyin' there; an ever one
KAtehed each other, like We DONE
Squintln' up there at the sun
Like We wux a-laughin.
tI0thin: funny anyway;
Butt laughed, and SO did they
An we all three laughed. an mem
Squirt, our eyes an laugh again:
Ner We didn't list p'ten-
4 We WIZ shore-'nough langhin'.
We list laugh an laugh. tel Bert
Say he can't quit an IL hurt.
Men I howl, an Minnie-Belle
She tear up the grass spell
An list stop her yeers an yell.
Like she'd die a-laughin'.
Never SIGH fool-youngens yit!
Nothin' funny-not a bit!-
But we laugh 80, tel we whoop'
Purt' -nigh like we have the Group
All SO hoarse we'd wheeze an whoop
An list choke a-laughin'.
flames Whitcomb Riley. in Century.
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until illness came upon me three years
ago. first noticed it by being irreg-
ular and having very painful and
scanty menstruation gradually my
general health failed ; l could not en-
JOY my meals; became languid and
nervous, with gripping pains frequently
in the groins.
81 advised with our family phys
ician who prescribed without any inn
provement. One day he said - Try
Lydia Pinkllam's Remedies. /
did, thank God the next month was
better, and it gradually built me up
until in four months was cured. This
is nearly year ago and l have not
had pain or ache since. "-BoNN1E
DELANo, 324s Indiana Ave, Chicago,
Ill.-s6o00 fo.fefs u above testimonial is not
genuine.
Trustworthy proof is abundant that
Lydia e. PinAham's Vegetable
Compound saves thousands Of
young women from dangers resulting
from organic irreg7larity, suppression
or retention of the tnenses, ovarian or
womb troubles. Refuse substitutes.
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a cUR1o in MONEY.
Dig Blll from Dfllville That Crcatsa
sensatien IN . Coart-
"A R0Ona e a5 Z. tf5

"Tound a what?" exclaimed the re.
corder recently. at police matinee
when an officer began to tell how the
prisoner, George McPharr, . Dark
town citizen, found 500 greenback
bill which belonged to Bill Curry.
where is that billy"
The bill with big "C' in one corner
and 500 mark in the other was passed
over to the recorder.
Scan I have a squirt at that?" the
court clerk asked.
"Would like to sec it myself" re.
marked the fat policeman.
II am going to suspend court
five minutes" announced Recorder
Broyles, ito let everybody have peep
at the curio."
Silently the 500 bill was passed
around.
Don't let it pass that newspaper re.
porter" called out the recorder. ut
may give him fit, but he should not
let the opportunity of a lifetime go
by"
snow, George" the recorder said to
the finder, ".he officer says you found
that fortune and knew it belonged TO
Bill Curry, and instead of giving it to
the owner you tried to get it changed"
II nebber knowed perzactly whit
hit WINS, ledge Briles," explained the
prisoner. ~ nebber seed sech ez dat
in mer bawn life berfore."
ut was Bills bill and probably came
from Billville," the recorder said.
''Such an act is liable to bill you for the
chain gang. There's many man who
has been rolled into the pen upon such
billow. But am going to let you go
this time, because believe you didn't
really know what the thing was.'''
"Jest glib Bill de ole ting, ledge
Briles," exclaimed George, IAN de mex
time finds de lax OBJ dat Use gwine ter
let hit lay dar."
"That's all right" said the recorder.
according to the Atlanta Constitution.
"The billow won't toss you up this
time, for we all owe Bill our thanks for
having look at the financial curios-
ity."
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Mixed H,story.

q strange mixture Of the history OF George
Washington the other day. A visitor called
during the absence Of his parents, and 70
entertain the children and instill a lesson Of
manly honor and patriotism told them the
famous stories Of the liberty bell and the
cherry tree. The scion of the soldier was
much interested, but the details got badly
twisted in his head When his father re-
turned home he was told Of the fine story
the visitor had told about the Father of his
Country. Washington must have been I.
wonderful man, said the boy. He smashed
the liberty bell win his little Ratchet knd
his father whipped him with a cherry tree
for telling lie" 1t took paterfamilias some
time to straighten things out.-Washington
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Modern Advertising Methods.


"There seems to be only one way to
boom this book of mine," said the
young author, thoughtfully. 81
think had better die before it comes
out"
"All right" said the publisher.
So the author was dead for adver-
Using purposes, and the book made
hit and sold out two editions be-
fore anybody knew much about tho
author.
Then there was a wake in the Office
of the publisher.
"You will have to be interviewed
on this book" said the publisher.
"How can I?' said the author,
wrathfully. "Hang it, I'm dead."-
Washington Times.
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F.,tA ana works.

One day last week a Berkeley stu.
dent in one of Prof. L. Dupont Syle'a
classes came into the recitation room
so late that the English teacher made
4 mild remonstrance at the extreme
hardness of the young imam.
professor" replied the young fell
low in excusing himself, "my watch
was slow. I shall have no faith in il
after this"
"My dear fellow" said Style, "what
you need is not faith, but works.
San Francisco Wave.
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No cat In Rates.

Clinton Zimmerman has just re-
turned from visit to Ohio, and ON
his journey out there he went into y
little railway station to have dinner.
At the end of his order he said:
"Bring me demi-tasse, also.'
The waiter stared. "What's that?'
he asked.
"A small cup of coffee" Mr.. Zim.
norman exclaimed. "a small cup Of
black coffee-see that it's good cof-
fee, please-demi-tasse means halt .
cup"
Jaw, g'wan," said the waiter. 81
amt a-goin' to bring you no half
cup. We don't sell nothin' less than
ave cents here."-N. Y. Times.
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SOME THINGS YOU CAN'T DO.
Seemingly Simple Feats That One
Finds 1t Impossible to Ac.
cOmDllah

There are many physical feats ap-
parently exceedingly simple that the
ordinary person finds it difficult or
impossible to perform. For instance.
man cannot rise from a chair with
out bending forward or putting his
feet under the chair or outside of it..
Many man will back himself to
give another start of so yards in
q race of 100, provided the man hav-
ing the start hops all the way. But
no runner, however swift, can give
that amount of start to an ordinary
man, says the Chicago Chronicle. For
the first five yards they go at prac-
tically the same pace.
Therefore the runner, to go 95
yards while the chopper" goes As,
would have to run more than twice
as fast, and it would be weak man
who could not hop As yards at pace
equal to 20 seconds for 100 yards,
and that would mean that the rum
ncr, in order to win, would have to
beat all previous records.
If man boasts that his penknife
is particularly sharp ask him to cut
with one stroke of the blade one OF
those yellow ribbons, mostly silk,
which are around bundles of cigars.
In 500 cases out of 1000 the knife
is not sharp enough to do this. 1t
will cut through all the ribbon ex.
cept the last strand, and that will
pull out long, and the more he tries
to cut it the longer it will pull.
No one except blind man can
stand without support of any kind
for five minutes at stretch, if he
is thoroughly hlindfolded, without
moving his feet. If he does not move
his feet he is pretty sure to topple
over in about a minute.
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Honely Counsel.

Never forget that what is good for
one person may not be good for an
other. And always use as goodly .
share of common sense in the de.
cision of any question concerning
your health as you would in any OF
the other problems of your life
Ladies' Home Journal.
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a.ieti.x Her s..pieien..

'My DEAR" said the suspicious
wife, "this sealskin sack you gave
me for Christmas has the odor of
gasoline"
Every likely" answered the crafty
husband. "But you know Santa
Claus is using an automobile now"
Nevertheless she had her doubts
about It, fearing that he had pur-
chased the garment secondhand Of .
o1eaner.-Baltimore American.
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Then He went.

Borem III p. MIA great many
things go without saying, Miss CUT
ting.
Nuss Cutting (suppressing a yawn)
Yes; but they are less tiresome
than things that say without going.
Chicago Daily News
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Realistic.

Grimes-What do you think of Lands
mans marine novel?
Hurley-It is the most perfect thing I ever
got hold of. It actually is surcharged with
the sea. was sick before had read three
pages of it.-Boston Transcript.
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Landseekers Excursion.

to Virginia, North and South Carolina
Good farm and stock lands cheap. No tor
nadoes or heavy winters. For pamphlet.
and excursion rates address w. =. Conklyn
n. w. p. Agt. G. & O.. Ry., 234 Clark St..
Chicago a -
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abandonment Calendar Of the Season.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
way Co. has issued beautiful Calendar
in six sheets l2xl4 inches, each sheet hav
ing ten color picture of a popular actress
reproductions of water colors by Leon
Moran. The original paintings are owned
by and the Calendars are issued under the
Railway Company's copyright: A limited
edition will be sold at 25 cents per calendar
Of six sheets. Will be mailed on receipt of
price.-F. A. Miller, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA.

Cuba is free. The flag first raised
by Cespedes in 1868 at the beginning
of the bloody ten years war now
waves in peace and triumph over the
palace in Havana. The American flag
has been lowered. Governor q .ncra!
Wood and the other officials of TIE
American government are aboard ship
returning home. We have reached tbs
close Of the drama which opened with
the blowing up of the Maine in the
harbor of Havana On February 10, 1885.
That for which the Cubans have fought
so long and so desperately; for which
our country has spent so much of treas
ure and blood has been accomplished,
and the Cubans are now masters of
themselves, a free and independent peo-
pie. The flag of the independent nation
of Cuba has been saluted by the United
States and representatives OF European
governments. Cuba now constitutes a
separate and distinct government. Will
she continue to do so?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
THE PiLOTAGE QUESTION.

In our article yesterday mornlnS
headed "A Step Forward" the quota
ton from the Charlotte News that
ships coming in to load coal cargoss
or for bunker supply will not find it
necessary to pay compulsory pilotasc
fees. a matter that has always oper-
ated against Wilmington as a port OF
entry. 1t is a long step forward" may
be misleading to- persons not familiar
with the true state of facts. A citizen
we'll acquainted with the pilotage mat
tiers of the river tells us hat there -
compulsory pilotage at all ports on tn :
Atlantic coast except those of Maine;
that the Wilmington pilotage fees are
not on an average higher than thos
of other southern ports; that vessels
seeking bunker coal can now enter at
Southport and go out with paying
only half pilotage fees. this concession
being made to aid in the building up
of a coaling station at that port; but
if the vessel wishes to proceed to Viii
mington for the purpose of coalinS,
full pilotage each way is charged.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN ISSUES.

The Buffalo News, a republican paper
says:
The Buffalo News, a republican paper
are getting into trouble the more earn
est they become in their quest. They
have failed to find one in the White
The report that President Roose-
welt had decided hat Admiral Dewey
and General Miles should not receive a
decoration from the French government
has been promptly denied md what the
anti-expansionists of all degrees
thought to be a splendid campaign is
sue has disappeared from view"
The News need not lie awake of nights
worrying itself yer the supposed ina
bilitv of the democratic party to find
campaign issues.
The party will have no trouble in
finding issues: in fact it will not have
to hunt at all for them as they are be-
ing furnished ready made by the News
own party. The democrats now have
three important issues which of them
selves will make a sufficiently broad
platform were no others to be had-the
Philippine question, tariff reform and
trusts. They can build a platform out
Of these three planks that will be broad
enough and strong enough to hold a
majority of the voters of the country
The course OF the republicans in con
gress on the discussion of the Philippine
bill is daily strengthening the demo-
cratic position on that question. We
do not want many issues. A clean cut,
decisive declaration on these three will
-:-z - t0r~-
the people that, with no mistake in
the choice of a standard bearer. we can
safely count on a democratic majority
in congress and a democrat as success
sor To President Roosevelt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23

Alfonso XIII reached his majority on
the 17th-his 10Th birthday and became
king of Spain. No throne in Europe
has been drenched in so much blood or
built upon so many deaths. both in
battle and by secret assassination. in
the latter extending even to h murder
of the heir at the instigation of the
jealous father on the throne.
From the war between the French
empire and Germany in the last CEN
fury, which cost so many lives and
ended so d~isastrously to France, back
several hundred years, the succession
to the Spanish throne has been a dis
turbing element and the cause OF wars
among the powers of Europe. The long
war OF the Spanish succession was over
the question whether the throne should
be filled by a Bourbon Of France or a
Hapsburg of Austria.
From that time down there have been
many uprisings, revolts and revolu-
tons in the interest of aspirants to the
throne. The Carlists have stirred up
strife about the throne for over seven
ty-five years-ever since Isabella. the
grandmother of the present king as
cended the throne under a repeal Of the
salique law, which took h succession
from Don Carlos, the male heir.
Young Alfonso, though a king and
upon the throne of what was once a
mighty nation, is to be pitied. He
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23

The federal supreme court having
overruIed the circuit court of appeals
which decided that the federal court
had no jurisdiction in a case brought
TO test the election law of Tennessee
the case will now go back to be tried
on it's merits.
Horrible disasters and revolving
crimes are following closely upon each
other. The latest of the latter and one
of the most horrible is hat which &C.
Cured near St. Augustine, Fla, early
yesterday morning. Five murders and
the suicide of the murderer are the
result of passion run to madness in a
young man because of refusal Of mar
riage by a girl.
- = -
Mental condition incapacitating
from proper appreciation of his re-
sponsibilities" does not have any effect
on our new secretary of the navy when
it ONES to reviewing the findings by a
court-martial of grossly improper con-
duct of an officer of the marine corps.
+ ! +
The administration of the water
cure occasionally upon some Filipinos
by American troops was mild conduct
compared with Munchausen accounts
Of cruelties and indecent conduct of
American officers and soldiers dished
up to the senate committee by Cor
poral Richard O'Brien yesterday.
OBrien is either crazy or he is an idiot
to think any one would believe the
statements he made
\ +
This is the day for hauling down the
American flag from over the public
buildings in Havana. As a matter of
courtesy TO President-elect Palma, the
Cuban flag vas hoisted beside the
stars and stripes the other day
neither one above the other; but today
the former will float alone to notify
the world that Cuba is free. The
next time the American flag is hoisted
in Cuba it will go up to- stay.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
TWO CELEBRA ATOMS OF MAY 10Th

From the 2Otn of May. 1902, this an
niversary will assume greater i'm
p~ortance. For years it has been OBJ
served in this state as commemorative
of the laying of the cornerstone OF
American independence-the founda-
ton stone of our great republic of the
present day. From this time OIL it will
also be observed as the anniversary
of the placing of the capstone of an
other republic. With us it COM
memorates the initial step in throw
ing off British supremacy; with the
Cubans this day will eve remind
them of the attainment Of the Iona
desired and fercely commended for
freedom from the Spanish yoke.
A singular coincidence connected the
celebration of 'his day in the two re-
publics yesterday. While the Cubans
in Havana Were raising for the first
time their national flag over free
Cuba, in the city of Charlotte a part
of the days programme in celebration
of the American anniversary was the
unwilling Of a monument to the mem
DRY of one of her citizens, the gallant
Lieutenant Shipp, who sacrificed mis-
life upon the battlefield in h cause
of Cuban liberty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23

started life with a name that caused
fear and apprehension to a large
proportion of his future sub
jects. A people of superstitions, the
Spanish ave a horror OF the number
Thirteen. When the young prince was
born h grandees of Spain and the min
listers Of state opposed vehemently, for
this reason, the name Of Alfonso, which
his mother wished TO give him, because
he would ascend the throne as the 18th
of that name, but his mother would not
give way, being determined that he
should bear the name of his G father
This descendant Of the Austrian house
Of Hapsburg. which still clings to the
doctrine of the divine right Of kings,
and of the naughty Bourbons of France,
has been educated and fostered for
ruling over a nation fast decaying, and
in 3 day when democratic principles
are sweeping over continental Europe
a nation in which the royal family and
the aristocracy about the throne try
to keep up the appearance at least OF
former days. His minority witnessed
the humiliation of his people in the loss
of the last foot of that vast and rich
territory in the New World which had
made Spain at one time the richest ma
ton of Europe. He has lived through
his youth without enjoying any of the
pleasures of that period of life. His
whole life has been devoted to the
preparation for becoming king of Spain
at an early age. He has had no youth.
He has been reared with this one idea.
He ascends the throne at the g of 10
years, we'll educated, but with a deli
cate, overstrained system and of a ner-
vous temperament, a matured a a
tranger to any of the joyousness of
youth.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
ENGLANDsS REFUSAL To AID THE
MARTINIQUE SUFFERERS.

The coldness Of the British heart as
well as the strength OF British devo-
ton to precedent is disclosed by The
governments refusal to vote funds for
the relief OF the Martinique sufferers.
When an opposition leader in pariia-
ment inquired IL the government did
not propose to assist in the relief the
spokesman Of the ministry replied that
as Martinique is a French possession
It would not be legal for h British
parliament TO contribute to the succor
Of its stricken inhabitants The GOV
eminent. he explained, might make a
loan Of such supplies as would be &C
csptable TO the French authorities but
could do nothing more 1t was the
irony Of fate that Z day or so later the
British island OF st. Vincent should
suffer from the eruption OF the volcano
Soufriere, several thousands OF British
subjects being killed and others LETT
Observation-Disclosures State
What a contrast was this to the &C
ton of the American congress, VIVA.
& poor excuse for not rendering aid in
this time of great distress. The gov
rnment leader in the house OF com
mons said it would not be legal. The
British parliament is hedged in by m
organic law, no constitution defining
it's powers except the will of the pso-
pie and long usage. Had the British
parliament desired to aid the sufferers
of Martinique there would have beer
much less law against giving such aid
than there was in the case OF the
American congress