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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Monument to the Confederate Army
and Navy.

Baltimore, May "A monument to
the confederate army and navy erected
by the Maryland Daughters Of the Con-
federacy was unveiled in this city to-
day, in the presence Of a large CON-
course of people. There was a parade
of confederate veterans. The monu-
ment, which is fourteen feet high, con-
sisting of bronze group representing
glory and valor resting on a PEDESTAL
Of granite, was formally presented to
the city by Captain George w. Booth
on behalf of the Maryland Confederate
Society and accepted by Mayor Hayes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Killed a Man During the Naval Ma
neuVres,

Washington. May 2.-The navy de-
partment is making up the detail of q
court martial which will try William
Anthony, a colored sailor on the Olym-
pia for killing another colored sailor
The court will he headed by Captain
Swineburne, of the Texas and Captain
Lane, of the marine corps will serve
as judge advocate. It will meet at
Norfolk The case is interesting as
being the first murder trial in the navy
for MANY wears
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Long Distance Wireless Telegraph
(By Pacific Cable.1

Honolulu, May 2.-The Pacific cable
board is reported to be conducting ne
gotiations for q series of wirelss tele-
graphy experiments between here and
the Tanning Island cable station Fan
ming Island is the present Southern ter
minus of the British Pacific cable which
will eventually be laid to Australia. 1t
is a bout 100 miles from Honolulu.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Rough Riding Outfit for Roosevelt.

Cheyenne, Wyo., May 2.-Tne citizens
OF Cheyenne will present President
3, with one of the finest rough riding
outfits ever seen in the west. 1t will be
composed of saddle, bride, quirt, spurs
and navajoe blanket and Will cost S400.
Steer roping and rough riding will be a
feature of the celebration at Cheyenne.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Nan and Horse Burned to Death.

Coudersport, Pa, May 2.-The char
red body of Edward Hill was found
today on the road near Oleona, Potter
county. He had evidently met death
in the forest fire which swept the
Kettle Creek territory yesterday. His
horse was also burned to death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
Carolina Defeats GeOrEetOwn

Washington, May 2.-Georgetown was
defeated by the University of North
Carolina through opportune batting,
coupled with Georgetown's errors. The
score was as follows:
Georgetown II 0 o l 01 0 0 Il IL
Un'y y C.....4 x-13 13
Batteries: Georgetown, SeitZ, Fay,
Drill and Apperous; University OF
North Carolina. Green and Noble.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
The Cuban Postal Frauds.

Washington, May 2.-The postmaster
general has turned over to the treas
urer of the Uuited States for safe
keeping the money found in the passes
sion Of c. F. w. Neely at the time Of
his arrest in connection with the Cuban
postal frauds. ,ail4
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-05
The Emperor William. of
Germany. Arrived in
Rome Yesterday
GREAT OVATION

The Kaiser Was Met by the Italian
King and they Kissed Four Times.
tor-He is Popular With the Ita1-
ians and Had to Appear in Re-
spOnse to Warm Greetings-The
Emperor Will Visit Pope Leo at
the Vatican.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
QUEEN ESTHER AND NICHOLAS.

From the Brooklyn Standard Union.
1t was great day for Israel yester-
day and is also today, and the faithful
are rejoicing with exceeding joy, with
feastng and with dancing, for it is the
feast of Purini, held annually In COM
memoration Of an important event in the
history of the Jewish race, when, as the
New England Primer puts it:
Queen Esther comes in royal state
To save the Jews from awful fate.
That was when they were threatened
with determination throughout the king
com of Persia, at the instance of the
baughty Hannah, who worked upon the
king, Ahasuerus, to order the massacre.
because Hannah didn't like the independ-
ence of Mordecai. the Jew.
1t is a curious and notable coincidence
that the feast OF Purim is celebrated this
year at the time when the Russian czar
has proclaimed religious freedom through
out his realm by which the Jews, who
foim no small part of his subjects, are
great gamers. 1t means. among other
things, that those who have had their
homes there and grown up with the
country will not be forced to abandon
them and emigrate in large numbers, as
at one time seemed inevitable. Nicholas
II. will henceforward share with the beau
tiful Queen Esther the gratitude of the
Jewish race
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
the ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABsmA
'Twixt the green sea and the azure
vault set roaring war.
Tempest.
Dlo the Canal.

The Colombian congress will soon
be convened, when it will doubtless
ratify the treaty, and then the politi-
cal spade work of the canal will be
begun Where the French spades left
off the American spades will begin,
and the throwing of dirt will become
the chief spectacle and delight of the
commercial world. The Nicaragua
route was preferred by the south, but
that bright hope has gone glimmering,
and all must, or rather should, accept
the Panama route, now that congress
and all others in authority have ac-
cepted it. The time for agitation and
regrets is passed, and we are about
to witness the actually digging stage
of the canal. The work will be pushed
with yigor, and when we remember
that nearly half of the forty-six miles
covered by the canal is complete, we
may feel confident that not many
years will elapse before the two
Americas are cut in two.
The gulf states will be largely bene-
flied by the canal, even when it is
built further off. at Panama. Perhaps
the benefits that will flow from Pan
anna will be as great as those that
were so promising on the Nicaragua
line. In either case traffic will seek
gulf ports-traffic that has heretofore
been carried on east-and-west lines to
Atlantic ports, and the incoming traf-
fic for the heart of the country win
follow like lines. The orth-and-south
lines will soon equal in Importance
and tonnage the east-and-west lines,
and this of itself will be a great rev
olution The south and the great west
will be the chief beneficiaries, and it
was these sections that finally crowd
ed through the canal bill. The east
was always lukewarm, and it was the
northeast that compelled the govern
ment to substitute Panama for Mica
ragua. The substitution will not help
the northeast. Traffic will be started
from it's source toward the canal, and
the gulf ports will be benefited first
and most, and these benefits will grad
ually be extended to all the southern
and western country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
seIectInn Stale school Books.

The will of the Legislature IN the
state text book bill is plain, namely,
uniformity throughout the state, SO
that a family moving from one town
to another or from city to country,
or vice versa, may not be compelled
to buy sets of new school books. This
was the plain intent and will of the
legislature and If the commission per
mits any other construction to be law
yered into the bill it will simply cross
the intent and viii of the legislature.
The Rich amendment that has been
referred to the attorney general reads
as follows:
Provided further. that for cities and
towns having a population of five thou
sand or more, said commission may select
and designate such books and such
branches of study as the conditions ex-
isting in such cities and towns may re-
quire."
To say that this provision is capable
of two constructions is to impeach the
English language and the good sense
of the legislature. Language could
not more plainly express the will of
the legislature, and no patent-back-ae-
ton construction is needed in this
case. No reference is needed to any
official.
The commission should have the
courage of its convictions and of its
knowledge of the English language
and of the intent of the legislature.
The reference of the provision to the
attorney general was uncalled for, sim
ply because the words of the provision
do not admit of any doubt whatever.
The provision permits the commission
in its discretion to select extra books
for city schools, and If it does not see
fit to select such books then the city
schools must be content with the
books allotted to the rest of the state.
Any other construction is forced and
the Juggling in of city teachers to Sc
lect as many sets as there are cities
is unwarranted and contrary to the
plain intent of the entire bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
A NICKEL IN AN EGG.
Frankfort, Ind. Telegram to the Indian
apolis Sentinel.

Frankfort, Ind, Telegram to the Indian
apolis Sentinel.
Mrs. Fred Kennedy, a young matron,
had queer experience with an egg a few
evenings ago. She was making a cake,
and when she broke one of the eggs into
a dish the contents went into the recep-
tacle with a peculiar ''plunk." She inves-
tigated and found nickle that had been
In the egg
Mrs. Kennedy examined the shell and
found the secret of the phenomenon. The
shell on one side was cracked open just
the width of the coin 1t was evident
that the coin had dropped into a basket
of eggs and had struck this particular
one. making a clean break in the shell.
The Skin" of the egg had brought the
edges of the fracture together again,
and the properties of the white of the
egg had sealed II.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
New Census Director.

The appointment of s. Newton Dex-
ter North to the dictatorship of the
census bureau came as surprise, for
his name had not been publicly men
toned in that connection. Neyerthe-
less the appointment is highly COM
mended. Mr.. North is a statistician
and an editor, rather than a politi-
clan. He has long been an authority
in statistical work, particularly that
relating to the tariff.
His father was a professor Of Greek
in Central New York college, and
the son entered newspaper work as
soon as he was graduated, serving on
or owning the Utica Herald, and later
the Albany Express. He left news.
paper work, in which he won an en-
viable reputation, to become the Sec
rotary of the National Wool Manufac-
turers' association, an office he is still
filling. At times he has left the wool
manufacturers to do census work for
the government, or special work for
the republican party. He collected the
newspaper statistics of the census of
1880, and in 1885 he supervised the
New York state census. In 1890 he
prepared the wool statistics for the
census report of that year, and he
wrote the tariff schedules Of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill, and later the sched-
ues of the Dingley bill. President Nc
Kinley made him member of the in
dustrial commission of 1898, and in
1900 he took charge of the division of
manufacturers of the twelfth census.
He became Director Merriam's right
hand man, but last month he resigned
his place in the census office to re-
sumo his old-time duties in the Wool
Growers association.
Such a man is well qualified for the
duties of the dictatorship of the GEN.
sus, and such man can be trusted
to carry forward the work of counting
the cotton bales at the gins instead of
estimating them where perhaps they
never existed. The south is welded
to actual counts instead of estimates
by alleged experts, and the oftener
those counts are made the better. d.
rector Merriam has not favored week
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20

mingham yesterday. He had not been
here for a number OF years and he was
greatly interested in noting the growth
of the city. Mr.. Hamer was accompanied
to Birmingham by John Humphreys of
Atlanta, the Pennsylvania southern
representative.
R. W. Newman of New oYrk is at the
Hillman.
D. Lanfrey Of New York is at the Nor
ris.
G. H. Showers Of San Antonio. is at the
Hillman
e. Lesser left for Hot Springs Ark.
last night. Mr.. Lesser has just recovered
from a spell of malarial fever. 1t was the
first fever he had had in twenty years.
J. B. Rylanee of New York. who has
been visiting in Dadeville. was in Bir-
mingham last night on his way to Sc
vance.
Judge J. w. Headlngton of Portland.
Ind. is visiting his daughter, Mrs. j. h
Roll, 2022 First avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
MORGAN ON
ART AND ART DUTIES

three. He explained that he understood
Mr.. Morgan to be an art collector. and
ventured to present the vases for his APP
prevail The astute millionaire exhibited
no visible interest in the vases. but took
them up to his room and made COMPARE
son. They were identical with the FIRST
three. He casually asked the price on re
turning to the office of the hotel. ind
was told that he might have the two at
$1,000 each. He bought the vases.
When he saw the art connoisseur again
the latter made the chance remark
that he understood there were five vases
in the set. He counselied Mr.. Morgan to
spare no pains to find the missing three
vases Then you will have such a set
as cannot be duplicated in the world
he enthusiastically declared.
II did not tell him that I had already
made the valuable find" continued Mr..
Morgan, but the affection of the man
for the vases and his interest In the col
lection made it too good to keep. invit-
ed him to dinner shortly after, and in the
center of the table had placed the five
vases. When he took his seat and noticed
them he gave a start He arose and ex-
amined each one of the vases, and was
so affected that he could not eat. His
rejoicings nearly threw him into a fit Of
apoplexy.'
There is no doubt that Mr. Morgan has
made an impression on the minds of tho
treasury officials regarding his art coll
lection. He was undoubtedly satisfied that
he had begun at the proper source to shed
light on how his collection should be clas-
sified when 1t lands in this country and
he left the treasury after the recital q
the story seemingly well pleased.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
DR.. ANDs MRS. cUYLER.

Philadelphia, March 19.-"Bless her, she
doesn't look as If she has been married
fifty years. does she?'
The Rev. DIR. Theodore L. Cuyler
beamed affectionately on his wife as he
said this. The well-known Brooklyn pas
tor, for thirty years head of the Lafayette
Avenue church, formerly the largest Pres
byterian congregation in the United
States, arrived at the Hotel Walton with
his wife tonight on their golden wedding
honeymoon" as he termed 1t. sf
Isn't she youthful loolking?" he asked.
There isn't a white hair on her head.
She doesn't look like the wife of a man
81 years old. whose hair is as white an
snow"
did you ever hear how we first met?
In 1858 was pastor of the Third Presby-
terrain church of Trenton. One day Bishop
Potter of New York. who was then a
young boy in Philadelphia, brought Miss
Annie Mathiot of Ohio and her cousin.
Miss Jacobs, of Philadelphia, to Trenton.
Bishop Potter married Miss Jacobs and
the other young woman became my wife"
To-day we stood on the spot where Mrs
Cuyler and 1 first met. We saw the old
house where we lived after we were mar
ried and visited the church which
founded and where l preached for SO
many years.
mot deacon, elder or trustee Of the
old church is living today. found my
self among another generation. 1t YVES
like the return of Rip Van Wrinkle.
Il have preached consecutively for ff-
ty-six years without missing one Sunday
on account of Illness"
DR.. and Mrs. Cuyler are accompanied
on this, their second honeymoon, by
Theodore Cuyler, Jr., their son, Ledyard
CuyI,r, their grandson Mrs. w s.
Cheesman of Auburn, N. Y. their daugh-
ter; Mrs. Proal. Mrs. Cuyler's sister. and
her daughter Miss Proai.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
WRITING FROM THE PEN
OF GREAT ST. PATRICK

take him on board. After a voyage Of
three days they reached land, probably
in Gaul. where for twenty-eight days
he wandered through desert. After
ward we find him at home with his peo-
pie in Britannis Il. e., In the Roman
province of -iritain), and his parents
and friends beseeching him, he says.
not to expose himself to fresh dam
gers, but to remain with them hence
FORTH
But an angel came in the guise of a
man from Ireland. and showed him let
ter which called upon him to leave his
native land and kindred and go to Ire
land to preach the gospel, a command
which he Immediately obeyed. Unfor-
tunately, he tells US nothing of his train
ing. or his ordination, or his sojourn in
Gaul, or of st. German, with whom he
studied, according to Faces hymn
OF the location of Bannauen Taberniae
or of Nemthur, the alternative name of
the saints birthplace given In the Hymn
Of Fiacc, we are in considerable doubt.
Many places have commended for the hon
or, but authorities are now fairly well
agreed that 1t was at Old Fitzpatrick, near
Dumbarton, Scotland.
The second Latin piece assigned to the
saint are the 'Epistles to Coroticus."
These have been preserved for us in man.
uscripts of the tenth or eleventh century.
In style and language they closely re-
semble the Confession" whole phrases
being actually identical in both. Coroticus,
semi Christian king of Dumbarton Cali
Claude, along with some Scots, 1. e..
Irish, and Southern Picts who had fallen
away from Christianity, raided the east
ern shores of Ireland and carried off sew
eral OF st. Patrick's converts, leaving
the white garments of the neophytes
stained with blood, and hurrying into
captivity numbers upon whose foreheads
the holy oil of confirmation was still glis-
tening."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
Our House of Lords.

Election by cliques and pull" and
campaign subscriptions, if not open
corruption is beginning to tell in our
House of Lords. There are today
twenty-six millionaires in it-twenty-
six out of ninety-or nearly one-third
of all Here are the names and
wealth of some of them: Nelson w.
Aldrich, $4,000, 900; Russell A. Alger,
500 900 900; Levi Ankeny, $4,000, 900;
Thomas R. Bard, $2,0OO,QO0; William
A. Clark, $15,OOO,000; Chauncey M. De-
pew, $4,000 900; John f. Dryden, So,
100000; Stephen B. Elkins, $20,O00,-
900; Marcus A. Hanna, $10,000,000;
John Kean, $4,000, 900; Thomas
Kearns, $5,O00,000; Redfield Proctor,
$4,000, 900; Mathew s. Quay, $780,
600; Nathan B. Scott, $4,O00,O00;
George P. Wetmore. $2O,oOO,oOo.
Every one of this number is re-
publican except one, and they are able
to shape and dictate all laws relating
10 the trusts and the tariff, and it goes
without the saying that they in every
case incline to the interests of their
class and against the interests of the
mass OF the people.
This change in the composition and
character of the senate is inevitable
unless direct election by popular vote
can be extended to every part of the
country and fully established. This is
the only hope against class rule in this
country. The senate itself will oppose
q constitutional amendment, and it
follows, therefore, that the remedy is
confined to selection in primaries of
United States senator's, the legisla-
lures being morally pledged to carry
out the will of the people. Many states
are adopting the primary plan, and
more will do so, and perhaps in the
course Of ten years the millionaires
will decline in number in the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
anItnnnIal Week.

From April until April II viii be sell
denial week in the ranks Of the Salvation
army throughout the United States The
money raised by the army during that
time is usually devoted to the support OF
the national body. but Captain Widsery
of Atlanta, who directs the southern
work. has kindly consented to allow the
birmingham corps to apply the money II
collects toward lifting the debt when
rests on the local organization.
A supreme effort will be made by En-
sign +. Vreedenburg and his eo-workers
to lift the debt during that time.
1t is debt that the army was under
when the present officers took charge OF
the army here. aud 1t has been decreased
considerably during the past three
months
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
GROVER CLEVELAND.

From the New York World.
1t did not require the news of Mr.. Cleve-
lands projected tour of the west to keep
alive or to stimulate public interest in
the possibility of his nomination by the
democrats for the presidency. On Feb
ruary i the World gave a number of
reasons for thinking that las issues and
events are now shaping it is premature
and illogical to reckon Mr.. Cleveland out
of the race
The reasons for thinking so are even
stronger now than they were then, tor
there have been many proofs of his re-
viving popularity. while the objections
to his nomination have gained nothing
in force. The main objections are;
/. The traditional hostility to a third
term.
O. The enemies he has made" par
ticularly in the west.
g. His age-he is Sc years old today.
4. His boiling Bryan in 1896.
The thrd-term objection is not strict
ly relev mt. The popular feeling, which
was shared and respected by our earlier
Presidents, was against a consecutive
third term-a continuing grant of power
to the same President, the same party
and the same office-holding class. 1t was
thought that this incumbency and the
power it carried would give to the Presi-
dent an unfair advantage and approx
mate our republican executive too close
ly to the kingly rule which the colonies
had thrown off. But now there will have
been an interval of eight years, with two
other Presidents of the opposite party
intervening, and with the republicans in
control of all the Federal Offices If this
does not remove altogether the popular
objection to a third presidential term 1t
surely will diminish It to an 'irreduci-
BILE minimum
The World does not say that Mr.. Cleve-
land can be elected. We do not say he
is a saint or the greatest statesman alive.
We certainly wish he could wipe from his
record the bond syndicate chapter and
the shocking page of the Venezuelan mes
sage. We do not withdraw single word
of criticism or condemnation of those
acts, though the words were severe-some
of them perhaps a little too severe. We
do not say that year hence the nominal
tion of some other democrat may rot
seem more polite. But we do say that
at this time the currents of political
movement seem to be converging in the
direction of Grover Cleveland and IL
tariff reduction as a means of curbins
the trusts-'to say nothing of the abso-
lutte necessity of a good .old-fashioned
insstence upon tariff reform for its own
sake and what 1t would do for the peo-
ple" as Mr.. Cleveland said in a recent
interview-is to be made the leading issue,
he is the logical candidate and the strong
est candidate Of his party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Either man gets spring fever or he
makes fool of himself planting spring
garden.
When a woman suddenly resolves to
walk a lot for exercise, it is sign she has
a new suit or hat.
The man who hasn't the sense to tell a
pretty woman that she is doesn't deserve
ever to see a pretty woman.
Two anniversaries that man always
observes with solemnty are his wedding
day and the day his rich uncle dieu with
out leaving him anything.
When a man is worried about his BUSH
ness his wife is sure it would improve
If their minister preached a sermon about
the good and faithful servant.