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blood, owed their country solely to us. '' We do not understand in what sense our Revolutionary fOrefathers can be said to have owed their country to the Britishers, of whom they chose to as- sert their independence. What help did the settlers in New England and in Virginia, or for that matter. in any of the American colonies, receive from the mother country?
 American manufactures were stuffed and American commerce was paralyzed by acts of Parliament and by regula- tions of the British board of trade. The colonies had the slave trade forced upon them against their will. As for the al- legged help given by England to the col onies against the French, by far the most efficient work in the way of self defence was performed by the colonists. The coIonists took Loulsburg and helped to take Havana, both of which places were ultimately retroceded to promote the interests of the mother country or Of the Hanoverian dynasty. Yet, even at this late day, the Saturday Review has the assurance to assert that our Revolutionary forefathers owed their country solely to the Britishers. It may be, after all, as the Saturday Review maintains. that MT. Choate merely intended to perpetrate joke; but, if so. it was sly one, well calcu- lated to puncture shame and to uncover the real sentiment with which Ameri- cans are regarded by a good many Englishmen. We imagine that a good many years are likely to elapse before the statues mentioned are interchanged. -Harper's Weekly.
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TELEPHo NE 1s17-4.

fortable living have come to be an old
 story in the city.
 But in the smaller towns, where the trolley is new and closer connection with the larger and buster centers of life has but recently come, the changes are just now working and 1t is interest ing to observe their outward phases. Ride out over any line through sec ton where, a couple of years ago, there were old, unpainted houses and tumble-down fences. and you will see a sprucing up in the way of new paint and new buildings and general tidiness that is astonishing. And all the little old towns that were formerly sleeping in the summer sun seem to have been galvanized Into new life. The cross roads Store has been Wiped out, but wherever the town was large enough to have taken firm root as community 1t has taken on new life. The boys can live at home and work in the city, in stead of deserting the village to live in a city boarding house, and the folks" find way of making money off their poultry and garden truck that was formerly impossible. They love to spend the money in brightening up the old home, trimming the hedges and lawns, and making it look as if some body lived there.
 No human prejudice ever disappeared so quickly as has that of the merchant of the smaller town who imagined that the trolley was going to take away his business. He is now clamoring for all the trolley lines he can fet. ndianapo- lis Journal.
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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Continued from Sixth Page)

Chatfield. secretary and treasurer of the George M. Grant company. Mir. Chatfield has purchased a residence elsewhere.
 Harry Ellsworth, of Branford, is i'll with typhoid fever.
 Rev. D. F. Talmadge, assistant pastor of Center church, Hartford, has been chosen by the special committee of the Connecticut Sunday School association as general secretary to succeed George $. Deming, of this city.
 Mrs. Ferris, of Branford Point, has returned from delightful trip to Irv- ington- Hudson. Mrs. Ferris az companied Miss Northrop, who is one of Miss Helen Gould's teachers, and enjoy ed a drive through the Rockefeller and Gould estates.
 Mir. and Mrs. Robert Spencer and Charles Pardee and family, of this city, are at B. D. Spencers in Essex for a few weeks.
 Miss Inez Smith and Miss Jeanette Booth, who have been visiting Mrs. Harriet Palmer in Branford, left for their respective homes in Hartford and Ansonia yesterday.
 4ss 41s DAShA4ioOiL 4Ic10 IGluI1ltu Haddam.
 Dr. and Mrs. Albert Sharpe, of Phil adelphia, are guests of the week at the doctors old home on Rogers street, Branford.
 Mrs. Mathews, of this city, is a guest of Mrs. Frederick Woodward, of East Hartford. Mrs. Hulda V. Bowe has returned to her home in Branford from weeks vacation in the country.
 Miss Ethel Morgan, of Cheshire, is visiting friends in Waterbury for few days.
 Miss Mary Bowman, of this city, is the guest of the Misses Brosnan, of Meriden.
 Mrs. Charles A. Harrison and Miss Blanche Harrison will return next Sat urday to Wallingford from North Bran ford, where they have been spending the summer.
 A. L. Whitney and his family have returned to Cheshire from the Berkshire Hills, where they spent a vacation of two weeks. @ s~g,'
 Miss Bertha Rice, who has been vis- iting her uncle, W. B. Rice, in Cheshire, during the past month, has returned to
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ABOLISH WEST POINT.

The appropriation for carrying on the military academy at West Point during the year 1903 was s34S,S14, and the only reason for continuing this great ex- pense is a popular belief that the na- tion should, with great care, in times of peace prepare certain number of young men for war. It is an antiquated idea, conceived by men in older and less strenuous times. The up-to-date sol dier can be, and is. made with less trou- ble and no expense to the government. Why waste the time of these young men as we'll as the governments money. At West Point the sole object of the in- structors is to teach young men :, to choose when, where and how the on- coming battle shall be fought. A south-
 ern politician who gained a political ap- pointment in the Confederate army,
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THE TRoLLEY,s APPROPRIATION.

No great war or political change ever worked nearly so great a revolution for the betterment of a people and the quickening of their ways of life as is now being wrought throughout the middle west by the trolley systems that are spinning their webs in every direc- ton. Within the cities the change is already old, and we have forgotten how things were when we formerly depend- ed on the mule cars for such little transportation as we had within the city. Such thing as pleasure riding on the street cars was then unknown. and the pleasures of the parks were available to those alone that could af- ford horses and carriages. Moreover, the quickening of life that came with rapid transit and the general broaden ing out to larger areas and more com
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A FAMOUS cHocrAw cHIEF. E, ,

The Mississippi Department of Ar fchives and History has received a yalu
 able contribution to the gallery of DOT. traits of distinguished historical per. sonages of the state. It is an elaborate
 oil painting of Greenwood Lefiore the Choctaw chieftain. The painting was
 done by a granddaughter of the old
 chief. Miss Florence Ray. Lefiore was 1 the last of the great chiefs of his tribe who ruled the tribe of ChoctaWs before they migrated to the western reserva- tions. Lefiore was the son of Louis Lo Fleur, a French Canadian, who came to the Mississippi territory in the early days, and settled and married an Indi-
 an maiden, daughter of the then chief of the Choctaws. He was born in 1900. As soon as he was old enough Le- Efore's father sent him to Nashville to school, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. He returned to
 Mississippi in 1917. At the age of twen- ty-four he was chosen chief of his tribe.
 One of his most important acts as csief
 was his advocacy of the celebrated treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek. Tn re- turn for his valuable service in peacea-
 ply adjusting the differences between the Indian tribes and the government Lefore was granted several large tracts of land by treaty with the government. These lands were located in what is now Leffore, county, which takes its name from the old chief. As one time he rep resented Carroll county in the legisla- ture of the state.
 He decided not to follow his tribes in their migration from Mississippi, and settled down on his lands in Leflore county, where he built a most elegant home, nine miles from the present town of Greenwood, Malrnaison, an historic old landmark that is pointed out with pride by the citizens of that community to this day. ..# # Greenwood Leflore is one of the most picturesque and interesting characters in the history of Mississippi. One of the heirlooms of his family is magnificent sword that was presented to him by the president of the United States when he was made chief of the Choctaws. It was Leflore who had a clash with An drew Jackson then president of the United States. He was protesting against the acts of some Indian agent in Mississippi. After a lengthy going over of the matter, Old Hickory said: T, Andrew Jackson, President of the Uni- ted States, say that the agent is an hon. est man." To which Leflore replied:
 And I, Greenwood Leflore, chief of the Choctaws, say he is a thief. ."-New Or leans Picayune
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her home in this city after a pleasant stay.
 Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Thayer and son Albert. of Oxford. have gone to Smiths Point, Milford, where they have rented a cottage and will spend two or three weeks.
 A petition has been forwarded to the Connecticut Humane society asking that medal be presented to William R. Bannister. of Meriden. for his heroic act in saving Lucius Merrick from drown ing off Summer Island in July. The paper was signed by large number of Indian Neck residents.
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SEVERAL BUILDING PERMITS.

Issued to Property Owners by Fire
 Marshal Gladwin Yesterday.
 Fire Marshal Gladwin issued the fol- lowing building permits to property owners yesterday and work on the new structures will be commenced at once:
 Albert Swenson, for a one family frame house at 157S State street. It is to be two stories high and to cost $1, 400. To J. F. Gilbert, for a one family frame house at 276 Norton street. to cost $2,600.
 A one family frame house to George A. Bainburg. to be built on Whalley avenue and to cost S1.S00.
 ! To William H. Pierce, for a two-farni- ly frame house on Thompson street, to cost s, ,50G. ss
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03

Mrs. PattyDo you really think pr. Duckman Is a skillfui physician?
 Mrs. Giblin (the patient)I don't know so much about that. But he has such auieting way with him. When I said I hoped shouldn't be buried alive he said he'd look out for that. Wasn't that thoughtful of him ?--Boston Tran script. >=s f,3
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03

Some little Johnny bears freely pasty undecooked and wheatgot starchy food than they could digest
 One had appendicitis and the other bowel trouble. They learned late that pas sarch and half cooked cereals added white bread and other starch food makes starch than ton we known to physicians and very common complaint
 the food not changed serious bowel complaints and all often appendicitis follows directly aeabe irritation and disease caused by undigested starch.
 These facts caused the invention of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22
SENATOR SIMMONS TO SPEAK.
He Viii, Discuss the Race Problem
Before the North Carolina Society
i'm New York Tonight-Other Raj
eigh News.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, N. c., May 10.
The graduating exercises of the Bap-
fist Female University were held this
morning n Rev. DR., Junius w. Mil
lard, pastor Of the Eutah Baptist
church, of Baltimore, delivered the adj
dress. There were eight full gradu-
ates, two special graduates and five
received certificates. The board of
trustees elects Miss Jessie L. Jones. a
hid of the university, to the chair OF
the English language to succeed Mrs.
Stone, resigned.
Mr.. P. NJ. Pearsall has gone to
Georgia to settle up the estate of his
brother. the late solicitor, Matthew
Pearsall. who was killed in a collision
near GOldfield two weeks ago.
Sheriff Nolan, of Haywood, today
brought a white boy, Sam Keith. to the
p%enitentiary to serve five years for
killing his father. Old man Keith was
abusing his wife when Sam interferred.
boy killed him.
Senator F. NJ. Simmons has left for
New York, where he Will tomorrow
night deliver an address before the
North Carolina Society of New York
city on The Race Problems
\ naval recruiting station has been
opened heSe. The officers in charge
Will go to Wilmington May 18th to 30th.
Charlotte June 1st to 9Th.
The Edenton Street Methodist sun
day-school will ~icnic at Chapel Hid
tomorrow.
Mrs. S. NJ. Finger. wife OF the late
superintendent of public instruction.
died yesterday.
Governor AycOck has returned from
Oxford and Will speak at Leesville.
this county. Friday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22
GOLDSBORO JOTTINGS.
Twenty-Five Left GOIdSbOro to At
tend the Confederate Reunion at
New OrIeanS-Dry Weather Injury
ing the Tobacco Pro~pects-Pleas-
ant Springs Party.
Especial 10 The N1essenger.)

Goldsboro, y. c., May 18th ticket
office in this city sold p tickets to peo-
pie who were going to attend the reu-
MON of Confederate veterans at New
Orleans.
The continuous dry weather is seri-
ously interfering with setting out to-
bacco plants and those which had been
set out are suffering sol ciderably for
lack Of rain.
The Raleigh baseball team, colored.
arrived in the city this afternoon to
play the Goldsboro team which has been
defeating everything it has run up
against. The Wilmington can is
scheduled TO play three games here next
week.
The death Of Mrs. Flora Norris. SO
years Of age, occurred at the home Of
her son-in-law, Mr.. E. ". Denning,
near Greenleaf on Saturday night. The
interment was made yesterday after
noon at the family burrying ground.
Quite a party left here this morning
for Seven Springs to spend several
days. In the party was Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Macdonald, Mrs. H. E. King, Mrs.
E. ]. A. Smith. Mrs. c.. E. Stanley.
Mrs. W. E. Jenkins. Mrs. c. W. Grain
ger and Miss Rachael H. Borden.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22
Municipal Corruption.

Colorado Spring. Colo. May 19.-The
grand jury which has been in session
investigating city and county affairs
has presented a large number Of in
dictmentS and a repOrt sensational in
its denunciation of the police depart
ment, which it accuses of being not
only corrupt but inefficient and the
protector of criminals generally. The
report urges that another grand jury
be Immediately called as there have
brought to light important matters con-
nected with the public funds and Of
fees demand action. 1t intimates gen
eral corruption in local public offices.
Indictments We're returned against
Chief Of Police Vincent King. n De-,
tictive Joel Atkins, charging them
with secreting witnesses.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22
W Oman Charged With Murder.

Memphis, Tenn. May 19.-The hear
ing in the case Of Mrs. Lizzie McCor-
Of Memphis. charged with having
sent a bottle of poisoned whiskey to
Mrs. Kate Noble. in Cincinnati, which
was set for this afternoon, has been
postponed until Thursday at the re-
quest Of the Woman's counsel.
j. E. Decker has sworn out q war
charging Mrs. Mccormick with
murder. He says he has no KNOWLEDGE
of the facts in the case other than
newspaper accounts and that he was
prompted to his action solely by a
desire to see Mrs. Mccormick stand
trial here and in order that she might
not be taken to Cincinnati, for that
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22

We have received from the Neale
Publishing house of Washington City,
a copy Of "A Memoir Of Robert NJ. T.
Hunter" by his daughter. Martha T.
Hunter, with an address on his life by
Colonel L. @. Washington. The book
is what its title indicates-a sketch Of
the life of this noble Virginian who, no
eager secessionist, resigned his seat in
the United States ena to cast his
lot wIch his native state when the
breach between the sections came. The
book is really a beautiful tribute to
his memory from a loving daughter.
The same house also issues a very
prettily written story by Mary VI.
North entitled "A Prairie Wagon be
ing the life sketch of a young woman
of Kansas in the days of the settlement
Of that section by immigrants from
"the states"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22
CURE SICK
Forty Thousand Dollar Fire.

Roanoke, Va, May ia special to
The Times from Wytheville, Va, says
the town of Maxmeadows, situated or
the Main line of the Norfolk and Yves
tern railway in Wythe county, nifty
miles west of Roanoke suffered greatly
by fire this afternoon When IA buildings
in q stable and was cause by some one
smoking. The heaviest losses are Hes
.ser'S drug store with stock; the resi-
dence of Mrs. Bridgers; the H. ]. Shat
fer store building, the Odd Fellows hal
and the office building of the Maxmead
ows Land Company. n total los
will reach $40, 900 or $50, 900 and is par
tiallv covered by insurance
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The National Alliance.

Boston. Mass, May 19.-The National
Alliance met today in connection with
the American Unitarian conference
now being held here. The retirement
of Miss Flora l. Close, treasurer for
eighteen years, was announced.
Two chapelS were built during the
year, making four now in charge OF
the Unitarian women. These fOur are
at Shelton Neck and White Oak, N c.
Fanville. Ga. and Bristol, Fla. The
report of Mrs. Rbert H. Davis, of New
York, the corresponding secretary.
showed a total Of 81 branches.
At the annual business meeting of The
American Unitarian association, Rev
Samuel A. Elliott was reelected pres
ident and Rev. Charles E. st. JOhT
secretary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22

Frank Leslie's for June contains the
tents: The Deep Sea Sailor" ".Atkin-
son No. J." a story; The Gymkahana
at Milkvllle," a story; "On a Cholera
Ship" Our Farmer Presidents
Links in a CHAIN" a story: The Ad-
ventures in SPAIN" Barney McCrack-
en-" a ballad: Denis Dent" a novel.
Chapters XI.-XIII; "Dogged Chase
a story; Wake Robin" verse; ITO
Youngsters Bend "The Parasite
Use A-Coming," verse; "Marginalla,''
Men. Women and Books
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FRIDAY. NAY 22. 1908.
THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS.

Not very long ago when one OF the
little principaIities of southeastern
Europe published an edict that Jews
should not practice law or some sucn
discrimination was mad against the
Jew our state department imme-
diateIy became very indignant and
called upon the powers of Europe to
follow it's lead in demanding that the
poor dOwn-trOdden Hebrew should be
treated with more consideration Sec
rotary of State Hay based his protest
on the ground that the action OF the
Roumanian government was calculated
to infiict upon the United States an I'M
desirable class of immigrants. Mr..
HAY was applauded from n end of
the country to the other for the bold
stand he had taken in behalf of the
oppressed Hebrews of this principality.
The scene shifts from this-yOu may
a tenth rate power, to the empire Of
Russia, where the persecution takes
the form of wholesale murder, torture
and d~espOiling of the people IF this
same nation of Gods chosen people,
Verified accounts Of the most horrible
cruelties against the Jews in the Rus
sian province of Bessarabia by the So
called Christian inhabitants come to US
What does our valiant foreign minis
ter do in behalf of these poor oppressed
people? He sits in his hair in his
private office of the state department
nn1 nc resolution flor 1-acn1rItin0 0nC
petition upon petition from religion;
and other humane bodies in this coun-
try asking that he interfere in behalf
of these poor jews come to him, he
tries to devise a plan by which he can
notify Russia. without giving her cause
Of o~ffense. that there are people in the
United States who think she should
make some effort to suppress the pop
ular uprising and massacre of the Jew
in her province of Bessarabia.
If Secretary Hay was acting for hui
manity's sake and not from policy
when he asked the European powers tC
follow his lead against the little prin,
cipality, why can he not take some
steps to ameliorate the condition of the
Jews Of Bessarabia who are suffering
a thousand fold more than the Rouman.
ian Jews. He is afraid of giving of
Tense to Russia. We are just now en-,
gagged on a very delicate affair with the
Russians regarding our trade relation.
with the Chinese in the province Ot
Manchuria. If we make Russia angry
by dn~termeddling in an effort to save
a few thousand Jews from being mas.
sacred in one of her provinces she
may not be willing to grant us the
Commercial concession We are seeking
III Manchuria. In other words, it is
American against the lives
OF thousands of fellow beings. Oul
government prefers to preserve the
former to attempt to save the latter
at risk of its loss.
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We learn from The Daily News, of
Wilson, that the citizens of that town
nave begun raising a fund for the pur-
pose of employing a detective to work
up the case of the murder of Percy
Jones. The Wilson people are greatly
incensed that such a foul crime should
nave been committed in their town
and rightly wish to have it's good name
indicated by the just punishment Of
the guilty ones.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22

number of cotton mills in North Caro-
lima and South Carolina had hereto
fore given options to him for the pur-
pose of a merger of their interests. but
In the opinion of himself and the gen.
tlemen associated with him. represent
ing the mills. a sufficient underwriting
Of the bonds had not been obtained to
carry out the merger according To the
terms of the contracts with the mills;
that most of the options had been re-
turned to the mills and that each mill
was now at liberty TO take any action
Il ma think proper
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The Strike NcGotiatiOnS.

Mobile, Ala, May 19.-The strike rep
resentatives and the officials of the Mo
bile and Ohia road refuse absolutely t,
say a word about the result of today!
conference. a meeting of the striker
was held this afternoon to which news
paper reporters were invited but at tn,
last moment reporters were excluded
from the meeting. 1t is inferred tina
negotiations to end the strike have
made progress.
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The Cotton Mill Merger,

Raleigh, y. c., May ia special
from Winston-Salemn says tina Mr..
Henry E. Fries, promoter of the south
ern cotton mill merger, says that he is
in no way connected with the Southern
Textile Company, organized under the
OF New Jersey, which as he
learned was expecting to take over a
number Of mills in Alabama, Mississippi
pi and Georgia He stated that a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-22

Roosevelt Will not be the only cam
didate because his party is unani-
mously for him. There is a strong
element against him, but it does not
think itself strong enough to defeat
him in the convention. 1t does not
follow that it will not be glad to knife
him later in the year.-Winston Senti-
mel.
And if the democrats will nominate
the right kind of a man and put him
on a sensible platform he can be elect
ed beyOn9 q doubt.