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The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

Minister to China and who has spent
nearly twenty years of his life in the
Far East, addressed the Unitarian
Club tonight on The Foreign Powers
in China and Japan. With Special
Reference to the War" Seward said
his sympathies were with Japan.
Japan" said he, ''is really fight
ing for all Asia against the peril of
European encroachments."
He secuted the yellow peril idea.
Asia he said, has more need TO
fear Europe than Europe TO fear
Asia. To round out her Eastern ter
ritory Russia needs Manchuria and
Korea. She has now plunged into a
war. with Japan, instead of agreeing to
make no invasion of China's territory.
England is not desirous of acquiring
more territory; she is the natural ally
and friend of China and Japan. Eng
land, like America, is desirous Of
maintaining the integrity of China.
THE alliance of France and Rus
sia is chiefly sentimental. France Is
not colonizing power, and. so far
as sustaining the integrity Of China is
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
COMMAND
Spirit of the Brown Troops Undaunted by Hardships
Encountered in the Rigorous Climate

March 24ed drrgtE Epe to y
TgahsS 1ourIon ondgt ThsomGd wit ~ ms b %
Hnanin tbenIheda apmtaw tay ytnae1e from mEp
any ~ ~gt last th o P rh % naval Mar
% BgdM 81 ghe
Korean troops are d @ tkf
rive tt Km fd1 11n 1pa aqmr n dhdh hf
Confetti Ko ommann ndssa soldiers ere q
so fng dnl between 10 n 7 b. correspondent
~ he Japanese
stables bull thuegh f to tenee@rr Tgea dfyh is
nHep da4piso oKra,t tBo@hha thnhn yoooom
Jap dt % g Figg M
Seoul latter ~m lent mS p al IN
defeat doh heIasK KnH Hprtdmg gPmgangV arh troop
and ad dnnnyo taahyh yae have army o spirit
to NAL VI
they
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etwn
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
Ten Thousand ReVO-
lutiOniStS Sur
rounded.
Sultan Will Hurry Heavy Re-
Inducements to Shakir
PaSha,
MOSlem Commander Offers Peace Terms
to the InSurgent Army Now
in His Power.

SALONICA, Macedonia, March %
Twelve battalions of Turkish troops,
commanded by shakir Pasha, have sur
rounded 10000 Albanians at Babatepe
Shakir Pasha has asked for reinforce
ments. Ten additional battalions Will
be sent to him. Pending their arrival
Shakir Pasha is negotiating with the
Albanians.
LONDON, March 23-The announce
ment from Salonica on March 8 that
the Albanian revolt had been SUD-
pressed was, ii appears, somewhat pre-
mature. 1t originated from Turkish
sources. where it was believed that the
acceptance of the offer of the exemp-
ton from the cattle tax at Ipk, Alba
MIA, would satisfy the Albanians. New
evidences of a determined revolution
ary movement were reported from
Mitrovitza on March and March 9.
and it was announced at Constantinople
that the Albanians had increased their
demands, refusing to recognize the re-
form scheme of the powers and de-
manding the withdrawal of the new
taxes, the abolition of the new civil
tribunals, exemption from military SER
vice outside of their own provinces and
the pardon of Hassan Bey, the revolu-
zionist, who was exiled in 1903
Since then Shakir Pasha. with a large
force, has been parleying with the rev.
olutionists, under instructions from the
Porte, which is desirous of settling the
Albanian movement so as to avoid
complications while negotiating with
Bulgaria and in face of the continued
troubles in Macedonia The dilatory
tactics Of Shakir Pasha are reported to
havet temboldened the Albanian revolu-
tionists, who, according TO information
contained in the dispatches, have been
massing at various points, and it would
appear from the Salonica dispatch re-
ceived to-day, which was the first re-
port Of any considerable Assem- bling of
the insurrectionists, that Shakir Pasha
| is continuing the negotiations looking
TO settlement, and that the dispatch
Of reinforcements may be intended as
demonstration in force, with the OBJ
ject of securing a final acceptance of
his terms.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
Hays SurrenderS
Himself to the
Sheriff.
Notifies Officer by Tele-
phone That He Is in
Riverside.
Prisoner Pleads Not Guilty to Four
Charges Of Embezzlement He Is
Charged With in Warrant

RIVERSIDE, March 23.-H. T.
Hays, politician, and former cashier
Of the Orange Growers National Bank
of Riverside, is no longer a fugitive
from justice This afternoon by tele-
phone he notified Sheriff Coburn of
Riverside County of his presence in
Riverside and at $50 o'clock this even
ing he quietly submitted to arrest at
the Country Club in this city.
The warrant on which Hays was
taken into custody charges felony en-
bezzlement. There are four charges
as follows: Embezzlement on October
3, 1903, of $4,000; embezzlement on Oc-
tober 9, 1902, of $4,000; embezzlement on
October 8, 1902, of $4,000 and embezzle-
ment on August 4, 1903, of s5000 The
prisoner is charged with having, on
each of the mentioned dates, raised
the banks total checks for the day and
abstracted in cash sufficient to balance
the populations.
Hays expressed a desire for an i'm
mediate hearing and tonight he was
taken before Judge Noyes of the Su-
perior Court and arraigned. He plead
ed not guilty. NJ. ]. Twogood, who sue
NCCONa do GdcHlGI VI lIS HOIdnEG
Growers National Bank. was placed on
the stand by the prosecution and tes-
titled in support of the four counts.
The defendant was offered the stand,
but declined to give testimony in his
own defense at this time.
Judge Noyes said that the evidence
appearing to justify the presumption of
guilt. he would hold Hays in the sum
of $4,000 on each count, or $4,000 bail
in total, and intimated that proper bond
in the sum of $4,000 would be accepted
for Hays freedom.
At 4 o'clock this morning Hays an
peared at the Country Club and knocked
for admission. He was drenched with
rain and spattered with mud from head
to foot. He told the attendant that he
had been to Elsinore on a hunting trip
He called for the daily papers, and af-
ter glancing through them said that
this was the first he knew that a search
was being made for him by officers of
the law and that he would Immediately
surrender. Hays then went to bed
and upon awakening later in the day
caused telephone message to be sent
to Sheriff Coburn announcing his will
ingness to submit to arrest.
Judge Noyes' courtroom was crowded
tonight, when Hays was arraigned
Political. social and business friends
ofthe defendant were there in force,
and the dramatic feature of the scene
was that practically all of the court
officers, from bench to bailiff, were per-
sonal friends of the accused.
RIVERSIDE, March 2S-The affairs
of the Orange Growers National Bank
were taken in charge this morning by
National Bank Examiner ]. w. Wiz
son, who was appointed receiver by
the Comptroller of Currency. He inti-
mated that no statement would be
given out until a thorough examina-
tion Of all books can be made. The
directors state positively that the bank
is perfectly solvent. Hays defalca-
| tions have already been made up by
the stockholders, and are said to have
amounted to about 800 900
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

LONDON, March 24.-The Times this
morning prominently publishes an
opinion of correspondent that Japan
will land her main army at New
chwang and that she also probably will
seize Haicheng (fifteen miles eastward
and on the railroad), as an additional
base, and, without seriously attacking
either Port Arthur or Vladivostok. the
war will be fought out on the plains Of
Central Manchuria. 1t is almost GER
tain, in the correspondents opinion.
that the war will be long one. and
that at the worst Japan will retain a
way to retreat overland in Korea. If
she secures Newchwang, he says, her
prestige will be established and he
adds that the waterways of Southern
Manchuria will be of inestimable value
in somewhat counterbalancing the
weakness of Japan in her cavalry.
The Daily Nails Chefu correspond
ent comments upon report United
states Consul Fowler at Chefu has re-
ceived of native anti-tax riots az
Chengangchow, where the Germans
were massacred in 1898, as giving Ger
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
GRIFFITH'S LAWYERS ARE
SUING FOR THEIR FEES
ed Refuses 10 Pay Attor-
news $4,000.

Los ANGELES, March 23.-Suit was
brought against Griffith j. Griffith to-
day for $4,000 attorneys fees, alleged
TO be due the lawyers who engaged to
defend him against the charge of
shooting his wife, of which he now
stands convicted. The plaintiffs are
former Judges j.. d. Works and
Charles Silent. Griffith declares he
engaged the lawyers to defend him
for $4,000 and viii fight their claim sor
$4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

! many a pretext to safeguard her inter
ests IN the province of Shantung.
PARIS. March 24.-The Journal
prints dispatch from st. Petersburg
which says that the Emperor has de-
cided to create twenty-eight new in
fantry regiments. The same corre-
spondent says that Don Caime de
Bourbon, a son of Don Carlos. the
Pretender to the Spanish throne, has
left for Hardin.
a dispatch from Shanghai states that
the japanese forces in Northwestern
Korea are being decimated by disease.
due to the change of climate and the
rigorous weather. The camp hospitals
are crowded with pneumonia patients
and the death rate is large.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

concerned. France may be said to be
a negative quantity. Germany is an
ambitious nation, whose people are
scattering over the face Of the world.
Her Government has not been idle and
she has seized a port Of great value
on the coast OF China, just back OF
Shanshi- This port is near the great
est iron and coal deposits in the world.
This is Germany's objective point and
she will at no far distant day take up
this territory. only a hundred miles
from the sea. With Germany in pos
session of these lands and Russia in
possession of Manchuria the rest OF
China would prove an easy victim"
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
odd Fellows to Celebrate

SANTA CRUZ, March 23.-The Odd
Fellows of this county. including tba
lodges at Boulder Greek, Sequel. Wat
sonville and Santa Cruz, are prepar-
ing for a grand celebration on Odd
Fellows day, April 26. to be held al
Capitola. There is to be an exhibition
drill by the companies of the Patri-
archs Militant.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
Mandiur Not Yet Dismantled.

SHANGHAI. March 2s.-The Rus
SLAMS continue to evade the carrying
out of the agreement TO dismantle the
gunboat Mandjur. A Japanese cruiser
remains at Woosung. ten miles from
Shanghai, at the mouth OF the Woo
sung River.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
FORMER MINISTER
TO CHINA HOPES
JAPAN WILL WIN

NEW YORK. March %. = George
F. Seward, formerly United States
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
TIE wEATHEE.

Forecast made at San Fran-
cisco fer thirty hours ending
midnight. March "a;
San Francisco and vicinity
Cloudy Thursday; probably
showers; fresh southwest wind.
A. G. McADIE,
District Forecaster.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

Additional War News on Page >.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24

Continued on Page 3. Column 3.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
rzz 4zEATERs.

Alcaza--"ParaiSa
Ca1iforn4a--'Erik OF Sweden"
Central--"Ths King OF Dctec-
ttveS.-
Columbia -" "Earries's Honey
moon"
Chutes-VaudevilIe.
Fischer's-"The Rounders.1
Grand Opsra-Eouse-"Ma Of
Magdala."
Orpheun-Vaudevil1e. Gatinee
To-Day.
Tivoli-''hGr. Pickwtck."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Weak
Hearts

Are due to indigestion. N~inety-nIne Of every
one hundred people who have hexrt trouble
can remember when IT was simple Indige.-
ton. II Is a scientific fact that all cases Of
heart disease. not organic. are not only
naceable TO. but are the direct result Of tndi-
gestion. All food taken into the stomach
which fails Of perfect digestion ferments and
swells the stomach. putting II UP against the
heart. This interferes with the action Of
the heart. and In the course of time that
delicate but vital organ becomes diseased.
Mr.. D. Kauble. Of Nevada. o.. says: Ihad stomach
trouble and was In q bad state a. ] had heart trouble
with IL. took Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure for about -four
months and IL cured me-
Kodol Dizests What You Eat
and relieves the stomach Of all nervous
strain and the heart Of all pressure.
Bottles only. 500 Size holdine az times The ttzl
sire. which sells for Soc.
Prepared By z. O. osWiTT q CO.. CHICAGO.
Sold by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Ancient and Modern Advice About
How to Acquire Wealth.

The ancient stages " sure road to
wealth" was b temperate in all
things, be economical always" Mod
ern life, with its rush methods" in
business requires that keep healthy
be added to the Did adage.
Every body knows how to be tenn
perate and most people how to be
economical, but few know how to
keep perfectly healthy. ~Over-eating,
Irregular habits, neglect, ETC., derange
the stomch. liver, and bowels, causing
indigestion, torpid liver constipation,
etc.
Rydales Tablets are natures best
ally when such conditions exist. The
Stomach Tablets will digest your food,
strengthen your digestive organs and
cure you indigestion.
The Liver Tablets will arouse your
liver, stimulate your bowels and estab-
lish a regular, healthy, habit. Ryds'es
Tablets insure good health. r. r.
Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
HAVE ARRANGED CONFERENCE.
North Carolina Delegation in on
gress to Meet Congressman Burton
in Regard to Cape Fear Improve
mentS.

Mr.. II. W. Malloy. chairman of the
harbor. shipping and COM
mittee of the chamber of commerce,
received a telegram from Congress-
man G. B. Patterson last night saying
that the North Carolina delegation
had arranged to have a conference
Wednesday with Congressman Burton
In regard to the appropriation to con
tinue the improvements Of the Cape
Fear river.
The harbor committee of the Chant
Der of Commerce me- several days ago
in regard to the appropriation for r
of the improvements OF
the Cape Fear and it was decided at
that meeting to invite Congressman
Burton to come here and see the ne
cessity of the appropriation.
The result of the conference will be
DE watched with considerable interest
by all of the citizens of Wilmington
for the matter under consideration
means much to this city
Congressman Patterson stated that
he would wire the result OF the cen
erenc
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Coast Line Awards Con-
tract for 200 Flat
Cars
COST $4,000
Contract Awarded to Ensign Car
Works, of Huntington, w. Va
Cars to be Built of Structural Steel
Five Bidders-Representatives of
Different Car Works Here Last
Week.

The Atlantic Coast Line has Just
awarded a contrast for 200 coal cars
to the American Car and Foundry
Company, better known as the Ensign
Works. of Huntington, w. Va. The
cars. are to be fiat bottom, drop gon-
dolas. and are to be built of structural
steel. They will cost something over
$40. 900, a little over 500 each. The
cars are to be of $4,000 pounds capaci-
ty, but capable of carrying 10000
pounds excess.
The Coas Line builds a large num-
Der Of cars each year at their "
shops but they do not build a car Of
specially for handling coal. The mat
ter of awarding this contract has been
undo consideration for some time
and representatives of several of the
large a works from different sections
of the country were here about ore
month g as well as last week.
The bidders for h contract were
n American Car and f'Oundry ON
pany. Standard steel Car Company,
Pressed Steel Car Company, United
States steel Company and the Ba!ti-
more Car Works. Representatives of
the above named car works were here
last week in regard to securing
the contract. They left for their
homes on Saturday. The cars are to
built as quickly as possible.
The Coast Line is making many i'm
prOVements and q large sum will be
spent during the present year OF
equipment and improvements of other
kinds The officials have only recently
decided to appropriate the sum OF
$4,000 per year for pensions for their
employees h have reached a certain
age.
The Coast Line officials endeavor
in every way to keep their road suD-
piled with the very best equipment
and the awarding of a contract for
steel cars, instead OF the ordinary
wooden car is in line with the other
improvements Of the system.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Better Than Gold.

Il was troubled for several years
with chronic indigestion and nervous
debility" writes F. J. Green, Of Ian
caster, N. H. No remedy helped
me until I began using Electric Bit
tiers, which did me more good than
all the medicines I ever used. They
have also kept my wife in excellent
health for years. She says Electric
Bitters are just splendid for female
troubles; h a they are a grand tonic
and invigorator for weak, run down
women. No other medicine can take
its place in our family" Try them.
Only so cts. Satisfaction guaranteed
by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05

is my duty to investigate. / shall not
send up a washerwoman."
Then there will be no washing
done"
ION the contrary, there will be. I
shall do it myself"
"You-you will wash?"
81 will wash. Sooner than let an
outsider know that you have driven a
h%eartbroken girl to her grave l will do
the washing, and do it we'll. 1 can take
a day from the office as we'll as not,
and I want to get an insight into this
housework."
Ten minutes later Mr.. BOwser had
changed his clothes and was ready for
business. He ordered Mrs. Bowser to
remain away from the kitchen, and his
first move was to draw n of the laun-
dry tubs full of hot water and cram
all the clothes into it. In a dim way he
had heard of washing compounds, and
after a brief hunt he got hold Of 4 box.
1t was labeled Baking Powder" plain
enough, but it looked like washing soda
to him, and in it went to make the
clothes wash easier.
In a dim way he had also heard Of
bluing. He had no doubt hat it ought
to go in on top of the baking powder
and that it ought to be used in liberal
quantities, and he went ahead. When
hannels and cottons and soap and blu.
iny and baking powder had been well
stirred up together Mr.. Bowser got out
the washboard, and his rub-a-dub-dub
was heard in the sitting room above.
Nothing hard about this" he unused
as he gave a sheet three or fou rubs
and then Topped it over into another
tub to be rinsed later on. ANY WON
an who would be all day doing this
wash would simply loaf half her time
away"
At that moment Mrs. Bowser looked
in on him, and after one sight of the
clothes in the tub she exclaimed:
Good gracious. but you are going &c
dye everything blue! l knew the
clothes would be spoiled if you fooled
with them. and now
And now. Madam Bowser." he in
terruptci. "you retire and leave me
! alone. / 2In doing ;cis washing. and
am financially responsible for all dam
! ages. Wien l am through | will ash
for ynrr criticism"
"prt yot.Tr rrt in baking powder
| Instead OF washing soda" she said q,
(: Size caught sicEf of the empty box.
-es. I guess ! did" he slowly re
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
DIED AT SCHOOL.
Remains OF j.. Willard Maultsby Car
ried From Durham to WhitevilIe
Yesterday.

Mr.. j. Willard Maultsby, the 1t
year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. D.
Eaultsby. Of Whiteville, died at Dur.
ham on Sunday last. from pneumonia.
The remains were carried from Dur
ham to W~hiteville yesterday. Prof.
]. F. BivinS, principal Of the Trinity
High School. and two of the school
mates of the deceased young man.
accompanied the remains to White
Vile.
Young Maultsby was a student Of
Trinity High School. Durham. 1t was
just n month yesterday since he
returned to school from his home,
where he spent the Christmas holi-
days. He was taken with pneumonia
last Monday. Mr.. and Mrs. Maultsby
were notified of their sons illness
n went at once to his bedside and
were with him when the end came
The funeral will take place in
Whiteville today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
BOWSer VS.. Washing
He Takes Hold Of Matters at Home For a Day md Shows
Mrs. B. That He Knows a Thing or
Two About Housework

piled, but IL was an experiment and
will turn out all right. Get along, now
and don't bother me. l want 10 make
a record with this washing"
He had been left alone five minutes
and had rubbed out another sheet aud
begun on n towel when he happened
to think about starch. He knew that
starch came in somewhere. but whether
in the beginning or the end he could
not remember. The only way was to
take chances, and he got down the
pound paper and poured half its con-
tents into the tub.
There was a pasty but not unpleasant
feeling to the water as he continued
to souse and rub and flop. and, accord
ing TO his best belief, he had hit the
nail on the head. IL Mrs. Bowser had
let him alone he would have finished
the wash in an hour, as he had dis
covered that about four rubs and q
flop were enough for even q sheet or
tablecloth, but ten minutes after her
first call she was back again to say:
You must have been putting Dat
meal liz the water. Everything there
VIII be ruined before you get through.
My stars, but you have used bluing
enough for forty w~ashingsr'
Woman, will you let me alone?" he
shouted in reply as he held up a pill
lowcase by one end. when l don't
know how to do a family washing you
can apply to the courts to have a
guardian appointed for me. OF course
/ put starch in the water. You don't
suppose 1 am fool enough to sprinkle
it over the back yard, do you?"
But you are washing flannels with
the other things".
"Of course / am, and l know what
I'm about. Don't you dare to disturb
me again or I'll chuck the whole wash
ing down the cellar stairSr'
At the end of another half hour Mr..
Bowser had finished. He hadn't been
quite an hour and a half doing what
a washerwoman would want at least
six hours to DO. He rinsed h e clothes
through the second tub and then swish
ed them around in the third and put
them through the wringer. All at n c
he noticed the stove boiler, and for a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05

moment his heart beat unanimously.
The idea flashed across him that 1t was
somehow connected with washing, but
after a bit his face cleared and be got
his breath again. What the boiler was
used for, as he suddenly remembered,
was to heat water to thaw out
frozen pipes in the winter. Mr.. Bowser
was no halfway man. Having done
the washing, lie started to hang out
the clothes. Bareheaded and with his
shirt sleeves rolled up. be had hung
Gus started UP
That sheet was the most wonderful
sight eyer seen pinned to d clothesline.
1t was blue and white. blue and gray.
blue and several other colors, and ev-
cry woman on the block had her head
out Of n back window to loo at it and
cheer and clap her hands. Boys yelled
and climbed up On the fence. and dogs
howled and cats fed as from a pesti-
lence. Mr.. Bowser held a clothespin
between his teeth and a towel in his
hand for five minutes. and then the
applause was toO much for him. de
seized the. basket Of clothes and walked
into the kitchen just as Mrs. Bowser
appeared.
Madam. perhaps you can tell me
what this means" he holly demanded
'Hurrah for the red, white and
blue.." yelled three oil four boys in
chorus from the alley fence.
"It means" said Mrs. Bowser as she
struggled with her emotion. sit means
that you'v-you've"-
"Tve WHAT"
you've made a l~aughingstock OF
yourself. l told you not to wash and
that you knew nothing about it. but
you would
II would persist. Yes. madam. ]
persisted. and i washed, and we have
never had such a washing done since
we were married, and-and'-
And Mr.. Bowscr lifted up the bas
ket Of damp clothes-baking powder
clothes-and emptied the contents or
the floor with q .'har" and then stalkeC
of upstairs with the feelings OF a mar
who hadn't been given a fair show Il
see what he would do in the iaundr,
line. and as he sat and chewed the bit
ter cud he could not stop his ears to thu
song from the back yard. the song tina
kept saying:
II he only knew how very blue.
He never wocld wash no more.
N. QUAD.