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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04

and eighteen cruisers, five protected,
of 100,6O6 TONS. The United States
will have twenty battleships, nineteen
over 10000 tons, of 24S,294 tons, and
sixteen cruisers, thirteen protected,
of 176,155 tons. Germany will have
nineteen battleships, eighteen over
10000 tons, of 212,4O5 tons, and eleven
cruisers, five protected, of S1,750 tons.
Italy will have fifteen battleships, thir-
teen over 10000 tons. of 1S9. 2O7 tons,
and six cruisers, all protected, Of 3d.
813 tons. Japan will have seven bat
tleships, six over 10000 tons, of 93,501
tons, and six cruisers, all protected, Of
58,776 tons.
1t is evident that England alone is.
as far as battleships are concerned,
superior to the combined Franco-Rus-
sian forces. France shows consider
able progress in strong fleet of
protected cruisers, being only lit
tie behind that of England, while Rus
STA and Germany lay principal stress
on battleships. The United States are
quickly proceeding in both directions,
but will hardly be able to man their
ships as Rapidly as they build them
London Standard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04

People who never really say any.
hing always have the most to say.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04

Though the man of push may be In
the rear you can't keep him there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04

members are expected to renew their
pledges on st. Patrick's day.
Efforts are being made to extend
the field of the leagues operations in
this country. 1t was organized in
County Wexford. 1t has Juvenile d.
vision.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04
An Argument for Pure.Bred sires.

An Argument for Pure-Bred sires.
Cattle that show the colors and quail
flies of the beef breeds, sell better than
those that do not, and this is sufficient
reason for using bull of one of the
beef breeds whenever the object is to
produce beef animals for sale. Buy
ers are of the opinion that pure-bred
beef animals and, also, the grades of
pure-bred sires, produce the best quail
tty Of beef as we'll as the greatest num-
Der of pounds of dressed meat per hum
dred pounds live weight. It is a fact
that animals vary greatly in the per-
centage Of dressed meat they will
yield. Common cattle with bad treat
ment dress from 40 to SO per cent.
while pure-bred and grade cattle with
better treatment dress from IS to IS
per cent. Some few dress 81 to SO
DER cent.-Miss. Sta Bulletin.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04
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The Supply Of swine.

No man can tell even approximate
ly what the present supply Of swine
is. The hog is an animal that multi
plies with such rapidity that his pro-
geny keeps way ahead of the census
taker and even of the statistic max
ers. We can judge of the increase In
the number of swine largely by con-
ditions being favorable or unfavorable
to an increase of the supply. The
short corn crop of last year and the.
short supply of other feeds resulted
In decreasing the numbers of swine
on the farms, as it resulted in send
ing many of them into the markets..
But the conditions of this year ap-
pear to be different. The corn crop.
bids fair to be good one and the
supply of other feed is abundant. 1t
has been easy for swine raisers to
keep the pigs and push them forward
to good size before sending them to
market, which was not the case last
year. Multitudes of farmers are hold
ing their pigs for later date, when,
they shall have reached the size that
will give them the most money. This.
results for the present in a scarcity
of swine and good price. Later we
may expect to see the market much
more fully supplied. Just now the
butchers are declaring that pork is
the most expensive meat on the mar
ket. This condition cannot last. Two
filters of pigs per year for each brood,
SOW makes it possible to enormously
increase the supply of pork whenever
high prices for pork prevail.
Rye Imports Of the United Kingdom.
A United States government report
gives the following regarding the i'm
ports Of rye into the United Kingdom
(England, Scotland, Wales and Ire
lsnd). A bread grain that the United
Kingdom purchases in considerable
quantities is rye. During 1900 the
importation of this cereal amounted
to 2,449,000 bushels and had value
of $1,751,000. The quantities fur
nished from year to year by the sew.
eral countries contributing to the
supply have varied widely, and espe:
United States The two countries
mentioned have alternated as the lead
ing source of Importation. In 1900
Russia furnished slightly larger ship
ments than the United States, the i'm.
ports received from the former coun-
try amounting to $4,000 bushels and
having value of $613,OO0, or IS per
cent of the total, while the United
States contributed 821, 1000 bushels, val
ued at $555,O00, or 80 per cent. After
Russia and the United States, the
only important sources were Canada,
Germany and koumania. In 1900 the
imports from Canada we're recorded
at $4,000 bushels, with value OF
s363,000, or 21 per cent. Germany
supplied in that year 216,000 bushels.
the value amounting to $165,000, or
9.4 per cent. The quantity of rye re-
ceived from Roumania during 1900
was unusually small, amounting to
only $4,000 bushels, with value OF
$4,000, or 2.5 per cent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
TIKI GIFTS OF 1901.

The yea 1901 was made remarkable
by the fact Of gifts. it broke all pre-
vious efforts. The total was ;l07. $50. 900.
Mr.. Carnegie led by s31, 600. 900. Others
gave most generously. Beginning with
1893, with it's s29, 1000. COO. in nine years
the gifts foot up s421. 410, 900. which is
without any approach in any age or any
country on the score OF magnitude. Car
negie's gifts for establishing and de-
veloping libraries reached s13. S13. 000. a
great fortune in itself. This sum was
distributed among 155 rlaces in thirty
three states. Porto Rico. Canada and
British Columbia, the largest individu-
al items being SIS, 600. 00G for branch IL
braries in New York city 81. 000. 900 to
st. Louis for the same purpose. n a
like sum for the endowment of the
Carnegie libraries of Bradford. Du-
quesne. and Homestead. in Pennsylva-
MIA. 1t should also be borne in mind
that it was in 1901 thoL MI. Carnegie
made gifts for library purposes in Eng
land amounting to over $500. 600. Before
Us is a list of these library gifts. and
where distributed and it is indeed a
curiosity to behold. In single file it
would fill a column in The Messenger.
Rockefeller was liberal too with his
great riches. We append his gifts:
Brown University. $3.50. 900. dupli-
eating his gift of 1900: Cornell Univer-
sity, s250.000: Bryn Mawr College, $780,
600 toward a library building. dormitory
and lighting plant: Barnard College.
New York. $500 600: Oberlin (Ohio)
College. $500. 900: for the foundation in
New York city Of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute for Medical Research. 5000. 900:
vassar College. for a new dormitory.
Sic. 900: Des Moines, ;lowa) College.
SIS. 900: Vermont Academy. Bennington.
VT. $4,000: Mercer College. Macon. Ca.
$4,000: Hyde Park Baptist church. Chi
cago. SIS. 900: Carson and Newman Coli
eye. Messy Creek. Tenn. $15.0 900 Way
land Academy. Beaver Dam. Wis. ST.
600: Wellesley College. for a dormitory
and heating plant. sla0. 900. n the
University OF Chicago. $1.250.000. The
educational gifts were conditional on
specified amounts being otherwise
raised during 1901. which nearly all
cses was DONE"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

The following may interest our read
ers. The great dailies now are so num-
erous hat it would not interest perhaps
to know when the most of them began.
But it is not so probably with the order
dailies. The first man to start a cheap
daily was Horatio Davis Sheppard. He
founded in New York The Morning
Post on the 1st of January 1893. 1t was
furnished It 2 cents a copy. 1t was
small, and lasted but two and a half
weeks. The next venture was The New
York Sun. 1t started September 3, 1888.
1t is now a great newspaper but mean
to the south. The New York Herald be-
gan May 6, 1885. 1t is still flourishing
Tht New York Tribune began April 10,
1S41, On September Is, 1851. The New
York Times started. All these are
powers yet. Benjamin Day was the
founder of the Sun. James Gordon Ben
nett of the Herald cit is now owned by
his SOM. the Tribune by Horace Greeley
the Times by Henry J. Raymond, one
of the greatest newspaper men of the
world.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

walker Gives His ODfaaSs
to the Senate Commfttee

Washington. February 7.-Admfrel
John G.. Walker, chairman OF the 18TH
milan canal commission, testified before
the senate committee on inter-oceaaie
canals today:
Admiral Walker spoke at some length
upon the engineering feature Of the two
canals. Senator Harris questioned him
especially with reference to the Difficult
ty Of excavating for the Bohio dam, de-
veloping the fact that it would be nee
essary 20 sink the proposed piers to a
greater depth than had ever been done
for such purpose. The foundation Or
the pier will be Us feet below sea level
Admiral Walker thought that in ordf-
nary weather steam vessels would be
able to make their way through the
Panama canal without being towed. u
towage might be necessary when the
winds are high. He expressed the
opinion that Brito harbor at the Pacific
end OF the Nicaragua route would pos
sess an advantage over the Panama
harbor, in that vessels would be tmme-
diately able to avail themselves In the
forme.. of the trade winds while In Pan
anna bay they would o secure this d
vantage until lowed out to sea-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
GOVERNOR TAFT'S EXPLANATION
OF His Former Testimony on I'M
pine Tariff Question.

Washington. February THE senate
committee on Philippines continued it's
consideration OF the question OF the
revenue OF the Philippines islands. Gov
ernor Taft still being on the stand
He began his statement with an expla-
nation Of that portion of his testimony
of yesterday to the effect that senu-
ment was the main reason for asking
a substantial reduction Of the rates Of
the Dingley law SO far as they apply
to the Philippines. saying he feared
that the statement might be misunder-
stood. He was sure tie political effect
Of such reduction would be good but
that there would be any immediate
substantial effect he did not think
would be true.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
THE GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.

Next Wednesday and Thursday the
state good roads convention meets at
Raleigh. AS the Messenger has twice
insisted upon this is a gathering OF
much Importance to the people OF
North Carolina. 1t will be we'll attend
ed from all we a learn. A letter from
Professor J. A. Holmes, dated Chapel
Hill 4th February. states that prominent
business men n farmers from prac-
tically all of the counties have express
ed their intention of attending and taxi
ing part in the proceedings. A number
of short addresses will be delivered be-
fore the convention by road building
experts from this and other states and
by a number Of prominent citizens who
are friends and promoters Of this great
will see not only the work Of road build
ing as carried on by the elaborate out
fit Of machinery accompanying the
Southern Good Roads train, but also
the grading and matchmaking work
which has been for some years in pro-
gress under the Wake county author
ilies.' All of which may prove instruc-
tive and interesting. The work before
North Carolinians is to properly organ
lie and to push this great and needed
work to completion as soon as Il a be
done. Road improvement is the thing
needful and the cry goes up let every
North Carolinian do his duty here. The
Messenger is glad that years ago it
urged in editorial after editorial the
great duty and necessity of building
better country roads. It Illustrated its
Importance. and many editorials may
be seen in its files urging just what
many newspapers M public spirited
men have been doing for a few years
past Let lone weary in well doing
Keep up the excitement Keep the ball
Of Good Roads in motion, and let all the
counties awaken to the vast Importance
involved in constructing for each coun-
ty the leading roads to the court house
towns and elsewhere when possible.
Industrial development is much invoiv-
I'D in this urgent question of building
better. firmer, more substantial roads.
Every county, every township In
every county should have delegates at
Raleigh. They can see and learn mach.
They a better understand the charac-
ter n value of the work proposed
to build solid permanent roads all over
North Carolina The discussions viii
inform n entertain the delegates.
Professor Holmes. competent authority,
says "the entire meeting win be in
structive and interesting. and the re-
suits of this coming together Of the be-
levers in good roads win be a great
benefit to the cause throughout the en-.
! tire state" 1t is Co be hoped that New
/ Hanover and all Of the adjoining coun.
ties viii be well represented BE sur
to be there and take up your burden II
this behalf and help to press "a Ia vic
tory.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

= W .
/ began with a bottle the first woek In
March and it certainly did me & great
deal of good. / was 20 well satisfied
that / purchased another bottle n fol-
lowed the directions, N can say that IL
has cured me."-Henry Distin.
A large peg cent of those who arc
afflicted with this epidemic, instead OF
getting Well as they ought to, will have
chronic catarrh as the result. This u
almost invariably the case unless Pc
runa is taken IS soon az possible after
the grip begins.
Every one who has observed the effect
of Tsruna during the last three epidem-
ics II Ia grippe positively knows that
ills remedy will cure il permanently.
The fact is, however, that q great mhl-
titt,Ge of people will not take Peruna,
and a foundation for chronic catarra
viii be laid.
Even in cases where chronic catarrh
has affected the lungs, and the early
stages of catarrhal consumption have
been developed, Peruna can be relied
upon as a prompt and lasting cure. La
grippe and catarrh are at present the
two great enemies Of life in the laad.
Peruha is q cure foY either.
If you do not derive prompt b sass-
factory results from he use Of L ma,
write at once TO DR.. Hartman, CIVIL. .
full statement OF your case and he VIA
be pleased 10 give You his valuable ad-
vice gratis. e
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, CoiuInbas, q.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
NOTES As TO RELIGION.

h Christian religion has some times
much impressed an educated Brahmin-
The disciples and repr esentatives of
Christianity have not always made
good impressions by their Of
life when they have come in close con-
tact with heather in many lands. But
In Hindustan n learned Brahmin.
who was a lawyer. was much interest
ed. and a lin an eloquent speech In
the English language. My brethren. 1t
were madness to shut our ewes to the
fact that Christianity-that religion
that has marched from Bethlehem In
Judea and has since dominated the
Western world-has come to India 1t
is not a transient episode: 1t is a mighty
conquering spiritual power. and has
come to stay and repeat its victories.
We must face this new religion and
deal with it honestly and frankly. as
who would not wish to. in the presence
Of its founder. the peerless Christ? ?"
There r writer's. scholars. even
preachers now, and IN this country of
ours. who do not see half as much "a
that scolarly man Of the Orient. who
do not comprehend So much of the mys-
teries and glories Of the great founder.
the peerless Christ" as this Brahmin
orator saw. comprehended and taught.
He could be the expounder and teacher
Of such a decadent set
- !. -
While there is a great deal of inf
deity scepticism, humhuggcry. decep-
tion and negation now in the world, ii
can be said with truth that the pres
ent is incomparably better than it was
in the eighteenth century. The stu
lent of English and European histories
n the reader of the authors of those
times we'll understands how very low
ran the current Of religious belief. fidel-
ity to God and a pure lie. immortality,
corruption in high and low places. sins
Of all kinds and hues were rampant
and terrific. The ministry was vicious
immoral. debased to GveryS great ex-
tent. We are simply reminded of his
which we lave again and again read
o by a recent paper in the London
Fortnightly Review, one Of the foremost
English publications. 1t is writing
France and England was o so very
much better off:
religion in the eighteenth century
was at a far greater discount in Franc.
than 1T is at present, when there is {
strong and in a sense. almost fanatica
church party, including people of ever!
class. and. what is more remarkable
a multitude of men, some of whom ar.
amous in science. art and letters.
What we understand by the tern
society," was essentially free-thinking
the churches were empty. ven in Lent
! and in scores of parishes in and nea'
Paris. betweel the year 1779 and 1889
Holy Communion had isot beer admin.
istered. . . l remember some years
ago being allowed to read a very ini-
portant private correspondence. dctec
from 1160 to the end of the century,
which was formerly In the possession
OF the late Comtesse de Labaume. Ii
included letters from nearly every great
parsonage OF the period. What struck
me most about them was the sneerins
manner in which religion and morality
were Spoken Of"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

Governor Taft's opinion of the Phil
said is regarded as quite enough to JUS
tify the demand of Senator Hoar for a
committee of special inquiry into af-
fairs of the distant part Of the world
5000 miles away from American shores.
He makes admissions that are not
pleasant. The New York Evening Post
saws that "he has to admit that some
of the ugliest stories about ~barbarities
practised by American troops are true.
There have been he stated, cases of
unnecessary killing (polite official
phrase for murder), some cases of whip
ping and Of the use of the water cure
that is, torture. 1T is a har race be-
tween the British and the Americans as
to which country has the less and
which has shown the greatest brutality.
The Evening Post ~ And If the
Mortified army officers who have pri-
vately told Senator Hoar and others or
the cruelties and atrocities committed
in the Philippines in the American
name-if they could go before the SEN
ate committee and state what they
know, we do not doubt that we should
get tales more greusome in their par
~ticulars, tina ANYTHING known to Gov
ernor Taft"
:. !. i.
The kings and emperors in the bloody
past Jared rather badly. The most Of
whom were a cruel, vengeful, barbaric
set, and many paid the penalty for their
crimes against humanity. They were
Of the Caesars and connections stated
that of the ~ifty-seven Caesars by birth
who came into the world during the
century and a hall beginning with the
birth of the Dictator's daughter julia
and ending with the death of Nero,
thirty-fve were murdered. /. E., more
than two out of three of the imperial
race came to a violent end, while Of fl
tv-two persons related to the family by
marriage or adoption, thirty me- a vic
He also points out that there was q
constant progressiyeness in the imper-
ial ~criminality, from the great Julius.
whose rue was unstained by any do
nestle murders. up to Nero, who durir g
a reign Of eighteen a maintained a
rate Of one a year, and stopped there
only for lack Of proper subjects"
This we get from The New York Sat-
urday Review. When the world can gel
rid Of the last king Of emperor or depot
and the people really rule 1t will be q
better world to live IN 1t is to be hoped.
But latter-day monarchs r a great
improvement upon the historic mop
sters.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

Washington. February THE recent
favorable report by the enate COM
mittee on foreign relations Of b
treaty for the cession CT the islands OF
the Danish West Indies was accompan-
led by a written statement made d
that committee to the senate This re-
port shows that during the year 1900 the
islands exported to re United States
sugar. molasses, and distilled spirits
amounting TO $3.50. SIS. and that during
the same period the expectations from
the United Statea amounted to tez4yb1A
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
A. SPANISH COUNT CURED OF LA GRIPPE.

NEARLY everybody is having Ia
IN grippe again. Il resembles sone-
u what in the beginning . severe
cold. A chill or cold spell Is followed by
aching bones, sore throat heaoache,
cough, and general weakness. Its eourss
may be quite slight or severe, but u
either case It nearly always leaves enc
in 9 miserable condition.
Unless Pcruna Is taken it win Be
weeks or months before o person re-
gains his usual health. II he victim -
fortunate enough to begin the use or
Peruna Of the commencement or he
attack the course OF the grip Ia much
shortened, and the system IL left IN .
natural state.
Peonle who have Had In grippe, bat
are still suffering from the afser-effeets,
should no. neglect TO take Peruna, ss 1t
will promptly restore them to health
Henry Dis:in, the inventor and maker
of all tho band Instrumental OF The Henry
Distin Manufacturing Co., writes the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11
Southern Base Ball League.

Chattanooga, Tenn. February Tt
is especially agreed that the Southern
League base ball season will open On
April oath. 1t is officially stated that
a meeting of the directors or the
Southern League will be held in At
lanta about March 10th to make anal
arrangements for the opening or the
season.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

B. F. Keith. the champion gum
chewer of the lower Cape Fear. has
been appointed collector OF the port OF
Wilmington. He is one Of h political
job lots that belonged to DR.. Motifs
silver party In 1S96s-Mount Olive Adj
vertiser.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

The German government stin main
tatns that England took h initiative
in efforts TO secure European Joint ac-
fore the beginning Of the Spanish val.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

following II
l44l South Ninth
street, PhiiaSel-
phia, Pc:
hSi n bad at
tack OF Is grippe
last December
which lasted
o than three
m o n { h s, n
whic b left me
With catarrh, and
OF my
(. lends advised
-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-26
TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS IN
THE DISTRICT COURTS

Equity Court No Justice Hagner-
2. 81. alaller VS.. American Savings Bank
receivers ordered 10 restore money 10 T
J. sandergnew. % 673. Mcmahon VS.. Ne
Mahon; N. Prescott Gattey assigned 10
defend the cause.
Equity Court No. Justice Bradley
13.257 IN re DOrothes Renpp: reference
Of committees accounts 10 auditor.
Circuit Court No. Chief Justice Bling
ham-Anderson VS.. Metropolitan Railway
Company and Washington and Great Falls
Electric Railway Company; damages. YER
diet for defendants.
Circuit Court, No. 2-Justice CIa-
baugh-Frisby vs.. Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, damages s. 900; on trial.
Criminal Court No. Justice Ander-
son-HeZekiah Coates murder, on trial
Probate Caurt-Justice BarBard-Uter-
mehle VIII case on trial Estate Of Rob
ert F. Schultz; win and signature fully
proved. Estate OF Benjamin j. Grant,
final accounting OF guardian approved
Estate Of MILFORD F. Robbins; assign
ment Of household goods to wife. Estate
Of Sidney A Fitch; final accounting o.
executors approved. Estate Of Elizabeth
Schoyer; oath Of surety, bond completed
bond approved and letters issued Estate
OF Daniel ReardOn; viii proved
Law suits hled-45.301 Paul Garrett
trading under name OF Garrett q Co. VS..
George n Lehman. judgment Of Charles
s. Bundy. J. p. $50. $500. The Old Town
Bank Of Baltimore, a corporation. vs..
Harry McNulty; notes S4-S45.