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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-18
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the ~ ~-
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Death of n Prominent Business Man

Death of n Prominent Business Man.
Philadelphia, March 13.-WiIliam L.
Elkins. Jr.. died today at his country
home ''Menlo Lodge near Elkins sta
ton. Pa. a few miles from this city.
He was a son Of the millionaire traction
magnate and was himself prominently
Identified with nan interests. He was
about thirty-eight years old. Mr.. Elk
mis- had been i'll inc October and vas
constantly under the care of a physi-
for a cerebro-spinal trouble.
AT the time of his death Mr.. Elkins
president Of the Pennsylvania Iron
Works Company. the Otto Coke and
Chemical Company. the Pittsburg Gas
n Coke Company, the United
Coke and Gas Company. the Hygeia
Hide and Cold Storage Company, the
McKeesport Gas Improvement Compa-
ny and h New England Gas and Coke
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" humor, hence the nsms
which il derived from
20 Greek words meaning 80 -at
~ humor" and ito fow." But VIE tno-
4aG rheumatism arises from a roisnr
'-culating in the blood.
1t will occur to the sensihle rero.
that to cure this disease demsnds +
Use or means that win banish .fI
~Loisonous material from the hlood
10 accomplish this, 1t Ii ONLY necesssr.
10 use Tor q reasonable length of fime
me remedy hat has been curing rheu.
Inatlsn Tor half a century. That remedv
Is Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic. IL nur;fes
he blood; that L. what IL fs for Il
cures because it Ia a foe to all bIood i'm
p%urities, and because IL makes new r;ch
biooc. When the blood La thorourhiv r.
and in its normal condition. rhen-
natism must necessarily disappear. Cet
me genuine. Don't take any substifus~
Ihere is no remedy that IL An mod =.
IL. ttarfers Iron Tonic.
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 10. 1o01
commence using your Iron Tonic
zen PROSTATE from q severe stt.ck -
i,leumatism. After using three hotf,ee
III Traces OF this disease we're comnIeteIv
sEaaieated from my system. and NV gen
crai health was restored.
2 oiood purifier DR.. Harter's Iron
lonle mas no equal, and I most sincerely
ssoEmend It 10 all persons SUFFERING
sso,n indigestion, fatigue, rheumatism.
s.ts the many weakened conditions Of
re system produced by impoverished
s1co0 Marguerite r. Yeaxeu
No. $40 Second Ave.
1880 esaesness - abess eeainsaial b eennine1
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A dispatch from the Pretoria CORE
spondent of The London Standard,
March 5th, says Mr.. Steyn and General
dewet were reported to be comforting
with General Botha in the Utrecht dis
trict of the Transvaal colony. Utrecht
is about lsO miles from Wolve Hook.
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A REPUBLICAN TRUCE
0VE9TURES FOR A COMPROMISE ON
THE CUBAN SUGAR TARIFF.
COMMITTEE OF EACH FACTION

Appointed to Take up the Matter.
The Ways and Means Faction Pro-
poses a Twenty-Per Cent Reduc-
ton for n Limited Time-The On
position Inclined to Accent This IL
Limited to One Year-The Other
Side Wish 1T to Embrace Two
Sugar Crops.
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Bears the The Kind You Haze I..ys s'ssts
S'sa at &1MzzM

4 Town Destroyed by an Earth
quake.
Vienna. March 13.-A dispatch to the
Neue Freie Preese from Constantinopie
today that the town of
Kyankari. northeast OF Angora. in Asia
Minor. was destroyed 10y an earthquake.
March 18th No details of the disaster
had been received. Kyankari had 20
900 inhabitants.
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Hebron, Orange river colony. Tues
day, March lit is reported that Gen
eral de Wet and Vice President Steyn
crossed the main railroad line during
the night of March 9Th, five miles north
of Wolve Hoek, going west.
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|"A few bottles Of Kodol DYSPEPSIA Cure
lev ed my wife of a chronic case OF
stomach trouble" says J.. r Holly,
real estate, insurance and loan agent.
|of Macomb, Ill. Before using Kodol
Cure h cou d not eat with
out intense suffering. You don't have
Ito diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will
anyways digest what o eat r. r.
|Bellamy.
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THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
AGAIN OCCUPIES THE ENTIRE SESSION
OF THE SENATE.
TWO SPEECHES IN ITS FAVOR

Senator Depew Delivers an ElabOr-
ate speech I'm it's Advocacy-sena-
tor McCumber. of North Dakota,
Advocates 1T as n Representative
of %riculfu Interests-House
Proceedings F~.nIivened by n Sharp
Personal Debat on the Facihcc
Cable Question-Attack on the
Permanen Bureau Bill ~Conferees.
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.HEUhEIlN

7 The ancients supposed that
J rheumatism was caused by
the lowing Of watery
numor, hence the name,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

this state and the others that a hard
working life should so end.
For fifteen years J. L. Hendry has
been superintendent and his wife ma
iron and the place shows competent
and skillful management. Everything
is clean, trim and in good order.
1t is much isolated, and the neigh
bors are few and far between, which
is, much to the good both of the mighe
be neighbors and the inmates, for
where they are in too closely a settled
a neighborhood there is frequent fric-
ton.
Has Model Poor Farm.
Altogether Ramsey county has much
county poorhouSe. Few counties have
as good and none have better. That
the management is economical is
shown by the fact that the per capita
cost per week is net $1.6S. OF this the
county pays two-thirds, and the city
one-third. Beside the electric light
plant there is 4 steam laundry here
so that it is possible to have a con-
slant supply of clean linen and cloth
ing. One noticeable feature is that all
these people have separate beds while
in many county institutions they are
crowded two in a bed.
The life is, and must be a routine
one, in the summer the inmates rise at
$50, breakfast at z, dine at II and have
supper at 6. ANY who wish to do so
may go to bed after this, but all must
be in bed at 9 in the summer and
in the winter, but usually they retire
willingly at o'clock for they have
little to amuse or interest them. Day
after day passes like this until one by
one they go out to return on more.
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tablished in 1855 in that locality known
as Pigs Eye which is now almost en-
t1rely a Bohemian settlement and the
hrst registration Of an inmate is dated
April is, of that year. Then 1T was
moved to the present state fair grounds
In 1876. and from thence to where it
is today, in 1885. The oldest present
inmate came here in 1881 and there
are several who came in 1883. ~
Man Who Wore Corsets.
Among those here in days of yore
was that famous individual whose pc
culiarity furnished newspaper articles
every dull season and who was known
as the man who wore corsets. His
name was Joseph Stalder and he has
been dead now some years. He suf-
fered. it seems, from some spinal COM
plaint which he described himself sim
ply as lame back, but he had had
it since childhood and one day some
woman for whom he was working sug-
gested that he might feel better if he
wore cOrsetS and presenting him with
an old pair He apparently extra cted
such an amount of comfort from them
that from that time on he continued
to wear them furnishing the theme of
many newspaper articles.
The buildings themselves are hand
some large and airy and are of white
brick very substantial and we'll built
but not .elaborately decorated the lawn
in front is pretty and green, being we'll
kept and embe1lished with flowers and
vines and trees: All of these have
been planted since the incumbency Of
the present Superintendent, J. L. Hen
dry, who came here fifteen years ago.
Originally there was not single shade
or other tree for that matter, on the
place. now it is well shaded, cool and
pretty. a
The dornitories, the kitchen, which
is fitted with steam kettles, the dairy
room and the reading room all look
clean and well kept though Of course
of the plainest nature.
On the farm hay and vegetables are
grown and the city hospital gets all
the grass, hay and vegetables used by
them from this institution. There is
also a herd of COWS, some forty-one in
all, of which thirty-one, or two are
milch COWS. Most, of this milk also
goes to the hospital though milk is
of course used in the daily bill of fare
for the inmates in their tea and coffee.
Good and Simple Fare.
Indeed the fare is. good though sim
pie. By law each inmate is allowed
a half pound of meat and they are
given all the vegetables and the bread
and tea they want. Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Saturdays they are served
boiled dinners, Thursdays they get
vegetable stew, Fridays boiled fish and
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rice, and Sundays cold meat or baked
beans. The large oven bakes sixty
eight leaves at a time, each loaf weigh
ing perhaps two and a quarter pounds
They also have chickens and hogs up
on the place and have had better luck
with the latter than most of the other
public Institutions.
Another unique feature of this coun-
ty poorhouse is an electric plant of
their own This adds somewhat to
the expense, but also very largely to
the safety of the inmates as a fire in
an fl-lighted building containing so
many old people would be terribly ia
tai in it's results and this does away
with the carrying of lamps and candles
OF all these old people only two are
actually bedridden, all the others man
age to get about a little, and to get
out on the warm days to sit in the sun
and get the air.
At one side of the building is a walk
for the women and a recreation ground
and on the other side there is walk
for the men, and a nice little arbor COW
cred with vines where they can sit
in the shade and talk. But this
they do not do much of, and except in
few cases, most of them sit in silence,
broken only at intervals with some
chance remark. A few, a very few,
read, probably most of these old men
have not sufficiently good eyesight to
making reading anything but laborious
and also few of them were much given
to reading before coming here and
do not take to it readily now. One old
man sits and reads a German paper
occasionally and apparently enjoys it.
Take Care of One Another.
1t is amusing too to see some of
them take care of the others, and one
old man giving another hair cut fol-
lowed by a shave with nothing sharp
er than the scissors is funny partic-
ularly the patience with which the
man who is having his toilet attended
to sits and twists and turns under the
none too gentle manipulation of the
amateur barber. Formerly there was
an old barber, resident here, and he
attended to the wants of the inmates
but now he is gone and each one must
do the best he can or get friend to
help. So the next candidate who ap-
plies for admission may expect a warm
welcome if he chances to be an artist
in the hair line.
The women too, sit dull, and apa-
thetic, practically life for them~has
ended and this is the twilight, the lit
tie pause before the end. Some of
them have lived hard lives and seen
gay though vicious days and a few
are simply unfortunate and helpless,
both to be pitied, one for the lack of
moral stamina that brought them to
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up my Record and finally draw the
Meal Ticket
What do you care?" asked Sep.
I wouldn't wear out a whole kit Of
Tools trying to break into a Refriger-
ator.''
"Ah, Septimus, you do not under
stand" said the disconsolate Cousin.
1T is the Boy who starts in Life on
Hay-Rack and opens his first Cold
Bottle at the age of thirtyfive who
wants to take his whole Tribe into the
Camp of the Elite and swap Visiting
Cards with the Vans. Social Recogni-
ton has high Rating because there
are only a few Shares on the Market
and not because it pays Dividends"
1T seems to me that a Slick Man
who can beat almost any kind of a
Money Game ought to learn in time
how to handle Combine that's in the
hands of few Elderly Ladies'" said
Sep.
I'm afraid that Man with a tall
grass Training will make Breaks all
his Life replied Bill. He's always
doing what he wants to do, instead of
playing Follow your Leader. started
to play Golf this year, not knowing
that it was a Dead Card with the 400.
As for riding a Wheel, they take a
! Shot at any one who does that The
Panama Hat is scratched because 1t IS
worn by the Common Sort who have to
engage in Thought during the Heated
Season. Rule No. l of the Smart Set
is to chop any Diversion that has
caught on with the Working Classes.
AS soon as So will pay for a Motor
Car and One Years Subscription, all
the real Blue Fish will give their Ma
chimes to the Servants and fall to the
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They don't know it, but we are"
The Alliance cuts very few Lemons
out around Peavey's Junction" replied
Sep. Our Idee of the Alliance is to
stay Friendly with them as long as
they buy our Beef Cattle and Grain"
Not at ALL said Bill. Our present
Policy is to skin them until they are
overcome with Admiration and invite
US to Dinner. You may not know it,
Sep, but New York is the Home of the
expensive Meal-Ticket. For instance
Why have 1 whips sawed the Market
all these years and boned like a Turk
and worn my nerves to blithering
FRAGILE in this unending Wrassle for
the Almighty? 1t is because I wish to
endow Presbyterian College or es-
tablish Ping-Pong Parlors for plain
Working Girls? Not on your Breakfast
Food! Right across the Street from
us there resides large Lady who has
original Knickerbocker Corpuscles
moving up and down in her System.
She has Blue Blood and lots of it. we
are slathering our Currency and giving
her the Office every day or two in the
Hope that some Day she will ask us to
come ever and eat on her. When that
gladstone Moment arrives, it's SO to
Shot that We'll all die of JOY"
What seems to be your handicap?"
asked Sep. you were Invited to all
the Parties when you lived at Peayex,s
Junction"
~ one who comes in from the
| Cookie Burr District with a Bundle is
known as Newvo Reash," replied Bill.
Il don't know what it means, never
having studied the Dead Languages,
| but it's about the game as a Slob. In
other words, IL you make your own
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
By George AIDE.


Hickory that has been struck by Light
ming several times. 1t appears that
one morning about 200 years ago a
Ship was ready to set Sail for t, New
World. A large number of Foreigners
who figured that they couldn't be any
worse off, even among the Indians, had
booked Passage. One of our Ancestors
had made arrangements to sail on that
Boat. The Night before the Departure
he dropped into the Tavern to say
Goodbye. He became all diked up
and oversight himself When he ar
roved at the Dock he saw the Ship,
loaded down with First Families pull
ing out of the Harbor. That one Jag
is what put our whole Family to the
Bad. I figure that If he had not
missed that Boat, I would be sitting
under an Awning at Newport at this
very Minute, with some one tanning
me. The grand Mistake our Folks
made was to come in with the Bunch.
Any one living anywhere on the Other
Side at present is strictly in Ii and
those who came over in time to quail
fly for the Colonial Societies are now
regarded as it.
AZ can't see it in that Light at ALL"
said Sep. II have been reading Rid
paths History of the United States and
it says we are all Free and Equal"
81 don't believe 1t circulates in Our
Set, said Bill. "It might If some one
in London would get out a De Luxe
Edition"
"Bil," said Sep. II think you've got
the whole Works down pat. It's too
bad that you can't guess the Combi-
nation"
MORAL: The Betwixt and Between
Families know what genuine Grief Is.
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this is the fact. Such cases meet a
worse fate, they either die or go mad
and it is in the potter's field and the
asylum that they are found. 1t is the
man who drinks steadily but not
enough to kill himself, and whose in
tellectual powers are of a low order
so that he does little worrying or think
ing that usually comes to end his days
in the poorhouse where he often gets
better living than he knew before. The
man whom evil fortune overtakes, who
thinks, dies or becomes insane, he sell
dom or never lasts long enough to come
here.
And contrary to all precedent in the
way of lessons taught it is not here
that the high roller ends his misspent
days, for him the grave yawns or the
madhouse opens its gloomy doors.
Some Pathetic Cases.
And yet in this very house there
are, and have been some pathetic cas-
es, and a few who have seen better
days in their youth, for these are all
old people too feeble to work. One,
perhaps the most sad, is a poor old
blind carpenter. He was a hard work.
ing and industrious man but assesses
formed on the optic nerve and alone
in the world this is his only home now.
Neat, tidy, and respectable looking it
is a hard fate for one whose former
days were spent in labor. Relatives
he has in the East but he is too SEN
sitive and too proud to communicate
with those who it may be might not
be willing to welcome a relative, old
and blind and helpless.
Once, also, this building harbored a
man who was nearly elected to the
mayors chair in this very city of st.
Paul.
His nomination, it is said, and indeed
his almost election were in reality a
joke, but not to him, and with him it
was a proud memory for many years.
Like many other defeated candidates
he cherished the comfortable theory
that he had been really elected but
was counted out by determined and
INSCRIPTIONS opponents.
But he too ended his days in the
asylum, hopelessly insane. Another
curious and well known character is a
man known to many in St Paul as
Honest John" At one time he had
a saloon on Jackson street and later
was employed about the Allemania
bank, but his wife and all his rela-
tives died and he too has found a ref
uge here. But he has not lost all his
possessions for through it all he has
managed to retain a fine lot in Oak
land cemetery in which his wife is
buried. Long ago he bought this lot
when lots were cheap and money with
him plentiful and though he has been
offered pretty good price for it the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
Copyright 1902, by
Robert Howard Russell,

Once there was a long-headed
Schemer who picked up his Assets and
moved East. By breaking into every
Good Thing that came along and nail
ing each Opportunity to get a standing
with the Gentlemen who owns the Uni
verse, he was enabled to stack up
something like a Million.
1t looked big to his Relations who
lived out West, but in New York he
was cheap Piker. His Steam Yacht
had only one Funnel and there were
only seven Bath Rooms in his House.
In fact, he was a good deal of Skate
any way you looked at him.
The Second-Rater had a Cousin
named Sep who lived in one of our
Middle States. In his own Bailiwick
this Sep was very galus Proposition.
He owned General Store and a Stock
Farm and had Rubber Tires on his
Buggy and wore Gloves when driving.
After the Corn had been laid by and
the Oats thrashed, Sep had little time
for Romancing around over the Coun-
try. He bought paper muslin Buster.
had Lunch put up and bought an Ex-
cursion Ticket to Morgansville.
The struggling Millionaire said he
was glad to see Sep. He did not shout
1T through Megaphone or hang out
any Bulletins. He simply said that he
was glad to see Sep and he should have
been, for Seppy had slept two nights in
the Day Coach and had just bought a
sack of Bananas.
bill, it seems to me that you look
kind Of peaked" said Sep, as he sank
into a Leather Chair and tackled Ba-
mana No. s.
"Ah, yes, have neen under q grea,
e~dih, replied the unhappy Soul
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

Ramsey county has much to be
proud of in it's poorhouse; few coun-
ties have as substantial or well equip
ped buildings. 1t is situated out on the
road to White Bear lake and surround
ed by pretty grounds and farm of
one hundred and twenty acres, it is
a real attractive looking spot.
So much that is pathetic has been
written about this last refuge of pow
erty and old age that the visitor goes
to the place with a feeling of depres-
sion, but there is in actual fact less
ground for such a sentiment than
might be supposed. AS in all such
places there are undoubtedly sad
enough incidents and pathetic life his
tories, true tales of those who have
known better days, but it is surprising
to find how seldom, how very seldom,
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fact that his wife lies there makes
him hold it despite every offer.
To return again to the politician
who, always, it should be stated, in
sisted upon being called judge, be-
cause he had been an attorney, and at
one time had perhaps been justice
of the peace, he was an interesting
enough character as he had come to
the state long before the days Of the
railways, and had gone all over the
country by stage coach, travelling back
and forth from Winnipeg to st. Paul
many times.
Sixty-Eisht Inmates.
There are now at the farm some
sixty EIGHT inmates, nine only of whom
are women. This is a very frequent
proportion of the sexes found in these
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for him and he was not pauper even
then for his brother insisted upon pay
ing for the board.
1t is, a1as! the white man. and the
Christian brother who let's his kindred
finger in the poorhouse at public ex-
pense when they have get beyond use
fulness, and particularly, If they are
not agreeable eor are troublesome - r
e Moved Three Times. s.s4ea NJ
Three times has the county poor
house moved its site. 1t was first es-
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places and the usual reason given by
those who are interested in such mat
tiers is that an old woman will gener-
ally make herself useful to the last
day unless she is positively bedridden.
She will help to wash the dishes or
do a little knitting or sewing or per-
haps take care of the. baby or even
perhaps simply take charge Of the
house while the rest of the family
are from home, SO that there is nearly
always some one who is willing to give
her a home in return for the little
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
Change of Time of Fargo and Sioux City
Trains, Great Northern Railway.

Effective Sunday. July 9th. Great
Northern local train for Fargo and Min
nesota points leaves St. Paul $500 a. m.
daily, except Sunday, instead of Sis a.
m.
Train for Sioux City, Sioux Falls and
intermediate points leaves St. Paul $40
a. m. daily, except Sunday. instead Of
$40 a. m.
Information at city ticket Office 332
Robert street, corner Fourth, St. Paul.
MINI
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

Air Ship. Any one with an old-fash-
toned laundering for Baseball and
Family Rigs and Drug Store Sody
Water and all such Prairie Luxuries
has about one Chance in a Million.
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Money you're an Awful Thing, but If
anyone slips it to you and you've never
done anthing with it except count it
and sprinkle a little Florida Wafer ON
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
AAA@ sumpahet csep

You see, just when we got that South
African Business all Strengthened out
and were ready for the Coronation.
then came the Operation and it upset
us dreadfully"
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Can't Admit His Low Taste.
What is your opinion of rag-time mt
sic?"
well" answered Mr.. Cumrox. conf
dentially. IT like it. But I'm too refined
to own up to the fact. "-Washingto Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
Why

Stay at home because you cannot afford
to go to the seashore, when Mackinac
island is within the reach of all? Round
trip. SIS So via the 500 Line. Ticket
Office, 119 South Third street.