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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

glitch Year Wagon to STAR"
An ideal scholar would be one who
took an interest in his school work.
He should be able to see good joke.
He should not think he was funny
when he was not. nor would he be
always solemn. He should not study
all the time, but he should have one
or two lessons to prepare at home.
He should not sit upu late to learn
them, but should start in time to
have them finished early; the boy or
girl who sits up late at night will not
be healthy and strong, and therefore
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
The Happy Return Claim.

A Washington dispatch TO the New
York Evening Post says: Happy Re
turn is the rather suggestive title O
a claim which has been resurrecteC
from the records of more than a hun,
dred years ago. Congress is asked t.
pay the loss occasioned by the captur,
Of the brig Happy Return by a French
privateer on the 22nd of May, 1897. Thu
capture was made by the Italie Con.
quise, ninety miles from Sombrero
near the island of st. Martin. Thu
brig was thither taken and condemned
as a prize. Simeon Martin owned the
Happy Return; he lived at Seekonk
Mass. Ezekiel Durfey was master Of
the vessel, which sailed from Newport
R. l., in October, 1896, bound for Surf.
nam. But h was compelled by stress
Of weather to run for Demerara, where
she disposed OF her cargo and took or
sugar, rum n tobacco. The losses
occasioned by the mishap on the re.
turn were footed up as follows: Value
Of vessel, 5,261; freight earnings, 81.
900; value Of cargo, Sill $50; total $1S,.
al.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
Brave Men Fall

Victims to stomach. liver and kidne,
trouble as well as women, and all fee
the results in loss of appetite, poisonl
in the blood, backache, nervousness
headache and tired, listless, rundown
feeling. But there's no need to feel Iik,
that. Listen to j. w. Gardner, Idaville
Ind. He says: Electric Bitters ar,
just the thing for a man when he /.
all run down, and don't care whether
he lives or dies. 1t did more to Civ,
me new strength and good appetit,
than anything I could take. / can nov
eat anything and lave a new lease CT
life" Only SO cents, at r. r. BelIamy'.
Drug store. Every bottle guaranteed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
HOME FOLKS.

Raleigh seems to be in earnest for
the construction of a hotel.
I !. =.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Joyner is active. He is not ~disappoint-
ing his friends. There is to be an edu-
cational conference at Greensboro this
week. May it be a wise body and do
good.
!. J. =
There are said to be five representa-
tives in the congress from North Caro-
lima who were born since the war ended
in 1865. Young men have been offer
ed promotion in this state and others.
Vance went to congress about as soon
as he was eligible. Governor Graham
was not more than 80, we think, when
he was elected to the chair Of COVER
nor for the first time. By hunting a
little we could find many examples. In
England where age is no rebuke or i'm
pediment and Did men are more apt to
be at the head of affairs, like Salisbury
now, and the great Gladstone, when the
third time Premier, it sometimes hap
pens that very extraordinary men went
into high office. The Younger Pitt was
Prime Minister before he was twenty
five. and he was a great one.
.. - !.
We learn from Colonel A. NJ. Waddell
tina he received a letter from Mr.. JUS
tee Clark thanking the Confederate
Camp here for its kind resolution.
which was introduced by Mayor Wad-
dell, but disclaiming any merit for what
he did. But he is really very remark
ably meritorious in this matter. We
sincerely hold that it is the greatest
deed in behalf OF North Carolina that
was ever done by any son OF hers, and
done with a splendid industry and on
secration to duty n state pride be-
yond commentator or rivalry.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
TIMELY PICK-UPs.

1t Is considered q cheerful sign o!
prosperity to put up the price OF
meats. 1t viii develop more the sacred
feeling OF hunger.
In Africa thirty-nine British soldiers
were killed in an awful railroad acct
dent and forty-five injured 1t &C.
curerd on the Goth Of March.
Last month there were several lynch
ings. This week one is reported from
Georgia, and one threatened IN eastern
North Carolina
Kitchener reports a reverse for Brit
ish dragons. Boer loss heavy. Tina
is always a part of h British report
How many did the British lose?
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10000 miners 60 on a strike in Penn
sylvania-
At Dayton. Tenn. sixteen miner.
were killed by an explosion.
- So 81
AT Cleveland, Ohio. a coachman
killed John Hagesfield, his employer
This follows quickly on the heel OF tn
double murder of a lady and daughte,
in Pennsylvania by a negro butler.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08

about as high freight rates on cotton
as do the English mills"
Il
There Is no doubt OF the great sue
cess of Cecil Rhodes. and that he was
an extraordinary Englishman, and the
most potential agent of Imperialism
that has come to the front in an hun
dred years. He made by his specula-
tons and operations a colossal fortune,
and he brought on the most UPRIGHT
eous war hat England was ever en-
gagged in. and she has not been partic-
ular in this line. Rhodes caused the
far reaching Jamison raid that led be-
yond fair question to the present cruel
a He was long threatened with
assumption. but IL was an evil day
when he sought Africa for his health.
The Atlanta Journ says. and it is in
teresting and probably exact:
The career Of Cecil Rhodes has been
~singularly romantic. Without money
or influential friends in his youth, he
also felt that he was doomed to early
death by consumption, and in desperate
search for health he went to the wilds
Of South Africa, where it was ordain I'd
that he should attract the attention OF
the world and to afford nightly the
destinies of nations. We shall look in
vain for his peer as an upbuilder of
the British empire. if we except only
Lord Give. who welded India to it,"
&c e. -
After much delay and no little ma
~noevring on the part of the selfish ne
gro fellows n republican protection
lists n unprincipled wirepullers, there
is a certainty of reciprocity with Cuba,
which was a cherished wish of the late
President Mckinley. The reduction Of
the tariff is but 20 per cent for that
rich island. but it should be 40 per cent.
say those who are we'll posted. In May
the people will be in charge and the
American troops will depart. 1t is
never too late to mend even in a plain
matter as the proper treatment of Gu
pa Cuba free is so much better and
more honorable to the United States.
than Cuba enslaved. 1t is noticeable
that all revision attempts of the gigan-
tic monster Tariff failed, the democrats
striving to cut down, but the republi-
cans unanimously opposing. That
shows Just where that robber party
stands.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

Southern ports have not only made
much advance latterly. but the cause of
it Is not far to go. New Orleans, Gal
weston. Savannah, Mobile, Newport
News and other ports show great ad-
New York and other northern
ports either show decline or no growth.
The reason why New York declines 10
shipping is to be found in the cost The
Atlanta Journal gives the cost:
Cotton is now shipped direct from
New Orleans to Liverpool for Is cents
a hundred. and it costs just about as
much to ship it to New York. The
transatlantic steamer, which picks up
cotton at New York has to divide its
% cents with the coastwise steamer.
The natural result Is a falling on OF ex-
ports Of cotton via New York and cot
ton mills in our eastern states pay
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
NORTB CAROLINA.

Monroe Enquirer: The voice of thu
commencement orator will soon be
heard in the land. and the school boy
will be told again hat the future lies
before him. Its a kind of way the
future has OF lying.
Mooresville Enterprise: Nlnety-eigh,
per cent. of the citizens of Mooresville
are church going people, and ninety
eight per ent Of her business mer
discount their bills. How is hat fol
an exemplary state of affairs?
Morganton special 20 Asheville Citi-
zen: Near Perry's cross roads,, in the
northern part of Burke county, Satur-
day afternoon, Bill Hayes was killed
by Jesse Bean. Hayes, who was abou1
40 years es age, formerly lived in Hick.
DRY. Bean, who is a man of about the
same g as Hayes, recently moved tc
the neighborhood where the killing oc-
CURED, from Smoky Creek township, ir
this county. Bean and Hayes met al
the blacksmith shop of Wiser Beck, and
both were slightly under the influence
Of liquor. Hayes during theday lost a
silver dollar and accused Bean of TAX.
ing 1t, which he denied. Hayes per.
sisted in the charge, and Bean, becom
ing infurated stabbed Hayes to the
hear with a Misunderstanding poke,
knife with which he had been whiting
and Hayes died a few minutes later.
Durham Herald: Charles o. Copley
was brought here last night from
South Boston, Virginia, and this morn.
ing he will be tried before the mayor
on h charge Of embezzlement. Hi:
bond vas fixed at two hundred and fit,
dollars and he was locked up for tbs
night-While in conversation with Tia,
reporter Mr.. j. w. Terrell also told OF
other lawlessness done in his neighbor.
hood. He said that on Monday after
moor a boy from Durham bursted q
mail o he had in front Of his hous.
! by throwing rocks at IL. The box wa,
placed there for his own use and thu
use OF his friends M neighbors whs
could go there and get their mail aftel
it vas brought out by some n wht
came to town.-But this was not tn,
only lawlessness done. After breaking
the mail box the same boy, said Mr.
Terrell, started to Durham and when
short distance from his home killed q
fine dog belonging to Mr.. Hardy Mark.
ham,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08

will bear. By repeal Of the meat duties
there would Don be large importations
Of cattle from Mexico n Cana6a-
While this would not wholly relieve
consumers from the extoruons of the
Trust, it would tend TO lessen the cost
Of meat"
II there were no tariff the reign Of the
trusts could never Ia come or in
small proportions. This ~boycotting OF
well as the system Of rebates now
operating on the railroads for the bene-
fit Of trusts are the three pernicious
agencies by which III Trust is enabled
to maintain its enormous power over
the consuming public and its means of
sustenance."
Tariff. boycott, rebate-tnese are the
deadly sources Of power as we'll as the
instruments Of affection and success
with which the all-powerful trusts now
tyrannize and rob. Says the Record:
The railway rebate is in fragrant
violation OF the Interstate Commerce
law. and 1t is the present duty of the
FEDERAL authorities to prosecute the Of
renders in every case that may be
brought to their attention. Finally, it
will become necessary to deal effectu-
ally with the boycott as well as with
the methods by which the cattle kill
ing m~illionaires of Chicago and Kan
sas City have divided The United States
into convenient domains for the exer-
else of exclusive n supreme SOW
reignty over the supplies and prices of
meats. But begin with the tariff. be-
hind which the Trust has .intrenched
itself with the false pretense hat the
duties on meats are imposed solely to
protect American farmers"
How long shall these things be? How
long shall a comparatively few people
be permitted to lord it over the 75.0O0.-
600 Of people who are not of them or
with them. What is good government?
1t is to guarantee equal justice, to pro-
tect the weak against the strong, to Sc
cure economy in public expenditures,
to restrain evil power aimed at the
people at large, and to bring content
ment, tranquility and safety to all.
The tendency in his country for more
than a quarter of a century has beer
to usurDation of the powers that be-"
to the oppression of the many for the
enrichment of the few, to the baleful
imitation of foreign manners, customs
and habits, to the worship of place and
splendor, to a sordid, gainful materi-
alism excluding the noble virtues and
principles, to excessive snobbery and
flunkeyism. All this argues no good
and gives no assurance of a higher
manlier, juster civilization. Govern
ment has lost it's purity and charm.
the wise, thoughtful paper upon
which we ave Drawn:
There are some few things that h
government may possibly do as well az
private hand; but they are so few
that they are hardly worth mentioning
The chief utility of government is in the
rectraint of the stronger members of
from depressing the weaker
members. Whenever the power of the
government is stretched beyond the
strict Limitations laid down for it in the
law something is lost to
the people-the m "a is thereafter less
and the governmental machine a little
more. |
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Sousa is to get $3.50, 600 for five sea
sons at Atlantic City. When horr
footing is scientific it pays.
= = !.
Cecil Rhodes left 500, 00o. 900, nearly
all of which he gives for the educa.
ton of British youth. He evidently
thought education was to rule in the
future.
- y. Ss
1t is a fact that Fred Funston is the
biggest soldier Of Uncle Sam as
Sampson was his biggest sea cap
tain?
Pension Commissioner Evans has
resigned-a step forced upon him. The
Atlanta Journal says: Almost ever
since Mr.. Evans became pension com
missioner he has been nagged and as
sailed by pension attorneys and a class
OF politicians who pose as special
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
NOW IS THE TIME

Seasons change. We can't
change them. We can't pre-
vent the coming of cold and
damp airs.
But we can prevent the sore
threats, the coughs, colds and
lung troubles by taking SCOTS
Emulsion. Nothing does more
TO make the tender throat
tough. Nothing gives such
strength to weak lungs.
Don't take risks-when it's
easy to be safe. Now is the
season for taking SCOTS
Emulsion In season.
Vel send you a little to Try, If YOU Like.
SCOTT s. BOVINE. 4oo Pearl ssrees. New York.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
ELECTION SPECULATION IN WASH
INGTON.

Inc democrats are talking OF De1ne
successful in the approaching elections
of the yea and hope 20 secure the next
u S. house. But the north is re.
publican overwhelmingly, and it is e1-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lie overcome.
At any rate the republicans are conf
dent of success or are Dragging in ad-
vance. The leaders say they must hold
h house; and they are resolved to
yield no ground. They talk of making
accomplished through reapportionment
and change of opinion in the inter-
mountain section. The talk in republi-
can circles is n of confidence and not
despair. The democrats have been
swamped by money and trickery and
general ~rascality. The Washington
Post. republican, "
Democratic activity for the forth
coming congressional campaign is caus-
ing h house republicans to look to
their laurels.
-Four years ago the democrats all but
carried the house. A week before the
time for election Chairman Babcock
and his ~lieutenants in their private con-
ferenceS conceded that the situation
was desperate, and mad 10 confidence
that the battle could be won. So care
fully had their campaign been waged,
they knew exactly where the weak
sports were. They went to work with a
will and strengthened them. Sinews of
war were abundant for them, but the
democrats had next to nothing"
There will be abundance of money
this year with the republican ballot de-
bauchers. They believe in a pure bal
lot" in theory only, but in elections
they prostitute themselves, buy up
votes like they buy sheep and corrupt
the ballot. They have won many an
election by such vicious, corrupting
means. 1t is believed that republicans
will gain members in New York and
Pennsylvania by the new r%eapportion-
ment lone by republican legislatures.
The Post points to Chicago and it
shows what a mean unfair gerrymand-
thwarting their will. 1t avs:
mo state furnishes a better example
Of republican advantage from reappor-
tlOHIHenC man llllrOlS. Inc present
delegation from that state is evenly d.
~vided-eleven republicans n eleven
democrats. Under the a~plortionment
by the last legislature it will be impos-
sible for the democrats to elect more
han one or two members outside of
Chicago. There is bound to be a repub-
lican gain of three or four in this dele
cation, unless there Is q political revo-
luton in Illinois when the vote is
taken"
The democrats will make a vigorous
W and some gains in states will
be made If they lose elsewhere. The
democrats in Washington are planning
and will work hard TO overcome. The
next house will have $50 members in
stead Of the present number 357. The
Post says that they will have a branch
headquarters at Chicago. but will give
the most Of their attention to New
York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland. They should slight 10 Sec
ton. The west should be eagerly look
ed after. A vote lost or gained Is i'm
portant where ever it occurs
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
Volcanic FruptiOns

Are grand, but Skin Erupti0ns rob
life of Joy. Blu 1klen's Arnica Salve,
cures them; Csc Old, Running and Fee
.er Solrs, Ulcers, Boils, Felons Corns,
Warts, Cuts. Bruises, Burns Scalds,
Chapped Hands, ChilGblairs. Best
Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains
and Aches. Only Is cts. a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by r. r Bellamy,
druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
Working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little t,hne
that ever was made is DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. Every Pill is a sugar-coated
globule of health. that changes weak
ness into strength, listlesspess ITO en-
ergy, brain-fag into mental polyer
They're wonderful in buil ling up the
health. Only Csc per 20 Sold by r.
r. Bellamy. Druggis-.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-08
rowder Min Exple.ion

L.emoves everything in sight; so do
drastic mineral pills, but both are
mighty dangerous. ron't dynamite the
delicate machinery OF your body with
calomel. croton oil or aloes pills. when
Dr. Kings New Life Pills. which arr
gentle az q ummer breeze. do the work
perfectly. Cures Headache. Constipa-
tion- Only sc ct R R Bellamyfs drug
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
Born and Died the same Day

Born and died on the same day.
is true of the following conspicuous
men: Shakespeare was born April %,
1864, and died April %, 1916. Raphael
Segio d'UrDino, the great artist was
born on Good Friday, 1883. and died
on Good Friday, 1920, aged thirty sew
en-. Good Friday is a movable feast.
so the day of the month may not have
been the same. Sir Thomas Browne,
author of "Religio Medici," was born
Oct. 10, 1905, and died Oct. 10. 1852.
Timothy Swan, composer, was born
July %. 1853, and died July %. 1912.
st. John of God, one of the most emf
nent of Portuguese saints. was born
March 8, 1895, and died March g. 1870.
John Sobieski, king of Poland, who de,
livered Vienna from the Turks. was
born June II, 1929, and died June II,
1896.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
Urban LongevIty,

That the country is the place to ac-
guire and preserve health is a theory
that has been exploded by the United
States census statistics. We have here,
tofore been advised to go to the hills
and wales, the field and woodland, the
lake and river, where there is an unin-
terrupted prospect and the air of heav-
en- has a free sweep, but now this adj
vice must be changed and the pent up
cities recommended for health, if the
census authorities are right
According to the official figures the
city has a decided advantage over the
rural districts in the matter of human
longevity. The average age reached in
the cities is 49, years and in the coun-
try 81. There the urban has an adj
vantage of IL years over the suburban.
The advantage of pure air in the coun-
try is apparently more than offset by
sanitary and food advantages in the
city.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
A GtTrapRdY.W

A Missouri paper gives an account
Of an amusing little tragedy" which
it claims occurred in its town. man
and his wife were riding home on a
street car. He was reading his paper,
when another lady got on. The car
was crowded, and without glancing up
he arose and gave her his seat, receiv-
ing a gracious smile in payment. The
mans wife Immediately got up. gave
the bellrope a hard jerk and invited
her husband to get off. When he
looked around to learn the cause of her
anger, he discovered that the woman
to whom he had given his seat was his
first wife, whom he had divorced two
years before. They walked the rest
of the way home, and he is still ex-
planning.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
A HoanitahIe Henthen.

1t was high noon and Monday.
Worse yet, it was the thirteenth day
of the month. A knock YVES heard at
the kitchen door OF me Burns man.
sion. The Chinese servant opened the
door. A tramp of long and varied ex-
perience accosted him:
1--WE been travelling and have played
in mighty hard luck" observed the
tramp. II lost all of my money, and
now I'm hungry-very, very hungry.
Can't you please give me little bite
Of something to eat?"
The Chinaman comprehended the sit
uation at once. A benevolent, placid
smile spread itself over his entire
countenance.
You likee f1ishY' he asked of the
tramp.
eyes, l like fish first rate. That will
do as well as anything"
"Come Fliday," said the hospita BILE
heathen.-New York Times.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
The Dinner Table.

The woman from New England buys
a "tablespread," while her sister from
the south buys a 'tablecloth." The
woman from Nova Scotia orders the
servant to ''lay the table," while with
most of us natives of the United States
the command is to 'set the table" In
the country the hostess says to her
guests, 'Sit BY" when it is time to
eat; in town it is please sit down.
in the city among the swells there is
no further invitation than the an
nouncement of the servant that Din
ner is served. "-EXchange.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-12
Chinese Chop Houses.

AS the cooks and walters agreed
on a scale of wages below the scale
of wages of other towns in Montana,
but still too high to compete with
Chinese help, we ask the people of
Kalispell and vicinity respectfully to
patronize only such houses as agree
to employ union help,
We wish also to call the attention
of all union men to the fact that the
fine established for patronizing Chi
nese restaurants or other unfair res,
taurants will be strictly enforced
after this date.
-Kalispell Trades and Labor AS
sembly