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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-04
MARKET.

New York. April Close: Money
on call nominal: no loans. Time loans
firm: co and 80 DAYS BIZ per cent:
six months 3E to 3A per cent. Prime
mercantile paper ga to Az per cent;
sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers bills StS5.90 -
Si85.95 for demand II S4S4.1o To
S4S4.15 for sixty dav bills. Posted
rates 81 sag to $4.S5 and $4.S6h To
$4.H7. Commercial bills $4.S3E To
s4.S424. Bar silver ssh. Mexican
dollars as.
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OF COTTON.

New York. April 1.-Receipts Of
cotton at the ports today 15.167 bales
against 2S.121 last week and 1881
last year. For the week testimatedI
10000 bales against 261.904 last
week and 41.251 last year. Today's
receipts at New Orleans 1921 bales
against 1854 last year. and at Hous-
ton S.9S6 bales. against 1875 last
wear
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There's a man at the door. ma'am."
began the maid. Il told You | was MT
ut home to any more callers" said
Mrs. McBluff, who was entertaining
several society women upon whom shr
desired to make an impression. But"
the maid persisted. this man says ic
amt no caller. he's a bill collector, ali
he won't 90 away."-Phiiadelphia
Press.
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FAVOR SOUTHPORT.
Advantages Of Southport for a
CoaIing Station.
LETTER TO COL. F. h. FRIES
Wilmington Will Aid Her Sister Port in
Getting the Railroad.

Mr.. j. Allen Taylor. president of Will
min"ton Chamber Of Commerce.
Gives Few ReasOns Why Southport
Should be Selected for 2 COaling
Obtained for S15O,OOO Against S2.-
23O.O 900 for Same Depth al Charles
ton.
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| will add that Southport is a tree
port, while compulsory pilotage OF
tains at Charleston and elsewhere.
This is a point SO vital as to spell
success for Southport and failure for
Charleston.
Yours very truly,
J.. A. TAYLOR,
President.
1t is strange indeed that a railroad
has not long since BEEN butt II SOUTH
tort and that excellent harbor taken
advantage Of. AS a coaling station the
place has every advantage over the
potts ~ Norfolk and Charleston. To
establish Il cOaljDg station at Charles
ton it would be necessary 10 build nigh
tfcstles. 1T an enormous cost from
which t. dump tue coal. This Won d
not have 10 be one at Southport, o at
least very little trestle work world
have to BE built, as compared to
Charleston. The bank along the water
front is very high and The channeI is
deeD TO within q short distance of this
bank. This would be a wonderful ad-
vantage and one that Charleston does
lot possess.
There - Il magnificent bay ut South
Tort and one that is large enough TO
accommodate an enormous fleet. The
improving of the harhor would afford a
haven fOr vessels during storms and
when III Southport LarbOr they would
be absolutely protected from the fury
Of storms. With q wild G and drec
channel, and it well marked, steam
ships could easily come in without a
pilot and the largest of the sailing .eS-
sells would never have TO take q pilot.
The fact of Southport being Il free Port
is wonderfully in her favor.
Southport is Il small place and cOnsC-
quently is not in a position to place her
advantages before the world to such al
extent as Charleston. If those inter
csted in The proposed road would in
yestigate the matter thoroughly, they
would see that there is no comparison
between the advantages of the two
ports. Southport has every advantage
and the only one that Charleston has is
in being a town Of Importance and
therefore in a position ~ press her
claim. The size of the town when It
comes down to the real object of lie
proposed road is of small lit p%ortlEce
and this being the case, Southport pos
SeSSeS all the :ldVIntl GcS. 1t is dbl
cult to see why Charleston should haze
been seriously considered.
The business men of " llmington are
going to exert their best efforts to get
Southport made the terminal instead
of Charleston. Should they succeed.
the old and quiet town down by the
sea would at Once assume new life and
the minute a railroad struck the town
the growth would be wonderful. With
q 80 foot hdrbOr. he largest vessels
would come to Southport and it would
EecOme a great shipping point, All this
business would accrue TO the RAJ il: cad
entering the town and the road Cou'd
not help but pay Handsome profits. Not
cniy would this he a Jenefit to the
town of Southport and the railroad,
but all the towns along he line would
be wonderfully benefited in the way
of getting freight at q cheap rate.
Before taking any further steps in
the matter Col. Fries and other ca pi-
talistS Interested should visit South
port and compare her advantages with
those of Charleston.
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Liverpool. April 1.-Cotton: Spot
cotton duu: prices UNCHANGED Ameri-
lean middling AIS. The sales of h
day were 500 bales of which 800 were
for speculation and export. and in
Guided $500 American. Receipts g.
900 bales. including 21.so0 American.
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CLOSING or OTTON

New York. April Spot Cotton
dull: middling SIS: middling gulf
sac: sales none Futures closed
steady. April $50: May TAT: June
80; July 7.61: August 7.e3: Septem-
Der 7.GT: October III: November
ia: December TT: January $50.
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WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Saturday. April l.
C0TToN--Nothing Doing.
Receipts OF cotton today-2ss bales.
Receipts Of the season TO date
304.i4S bales.
Receipts same day hz, year-2l
Gales.
Receipts last season TO same date
S2..4l2 bales.
IA STOKES
SPIRITS OF TURPENTISE-
Nothing doing.
R0SIN-ss.so bid.
TAR-Firm at S1.10.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Frm: hard
$3.50 To 1910.
RECEIPTS TO-DAY.
> casks spirits ~turDentine-
122 barrels rosin.
40 barrels tar.
40 barrels crude turDentine.
RECEIPTS SAME DAY LAST YEAR.
3 casks SPIRITS ~turpentine.
29S barrels rosin.
as barrels tar.
% barrels crude ~turpcntine.
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COUNTRY

PEANUTS-North. Carolina Prime
90 to 81. 90; Virginia prime so to 80.
BEESWAX-25 to 2712.
CORN-63@65.
CORN MEAL-5612G60.
EEGS-Dulf Is to Ice.
TURKEYS-Live IA; dressed Il to g.
CHICKENS-Hens % to 80; spring 10
to %.
SWEET POTATOES-6O@75.
BEEF to 3k cents.
n. C. BACON--Hams (old) 15c; hams
{new) u to 121ac; shoulders 9 tc 10:
sides 9.
sri .ES-Per 1000: 6-1nch saps
1890: 5-inch hearts $500: 6-inch saps
40. 6-Inch hearts S+.e0
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TO-DAY.
RECEIPTS SAME DAY LAST YEAR
p..oDTCE.

SALT-Prices car load lots-i0o BIS
c. F. CSC: 2G0 Ibis C. f. 19c; 200 lbs
F. F. csc. Less than car load lots-l0o
lbs {. F.. 4Sc, burlaps; 45c burlaps n
cotton sacks; 200 lbs C F. in cotton
sacks, sec; 200 lbs F. z. s1.05.
DRY SALTED SIDES-7h 10 "a.
NCTTEE-21 to 39c.
COFFEE-9h 10 lie.
FLOUR-Straights S5.i5; second pat
rnts 1913; full patents $780,.
MOLASSES-S. House IA: New Or.
.ans Brights % to %; Porto Rico 80.
aba q
SUGAR-Granulated s6.10: w. c. Y.
No. 5 $3.50; No. ! $50; No. s $3.50;
No. II, $40.
LARD-(Tierce Basis) Pure SIS cents;
compound Ga cents.
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Flour easy; No. . spring wheat Si-0s
to liz. No. 3 s1.e0 to s1.10: No. 2
red s1.12A to s1-14A: No. ? corr 4s1:
No. > yellow 47A: No. . oats 2ss: NJ.
2 white 32L:-No. 3 white 29s TO 3te.
No. . rye 7SE; mess pork per barrel
s1c.e3 to si2.7o: lard. Ter 100 pounds
S7.S7 To $500: short ribs sides. UooseI
Se.S7h To 500: snort clear sides
lbosedD 1915 to S6.S7k: whiskey.
basis of high wines 1923.
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MANY ENGINES BOUGHT

Great Purchase by the Atlantic Coast
Line-How the Sixty-six Locono-
tivas will be Distributed ON the
Lines-Nore Passenger Coaches 10
lie Delivered Sonn.
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STOCKS AND BONDS.

Quotations on local securities fur
nished by Hugh MaeKiae & Co..
Stocks.
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Chicago. April 1.-The leddins
futures ranged as follows:
Open High Low Close.
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trip pleasant as well as valuable
to you.
| will add that Southport is a tree
port, while compulsory pilotage OF
tains al Charleston and elsewhere.
This is a point 20 vital as to spell
success for Southport and failure for
Charleston.
Yours very truly,
J. A. TAYLOR,
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
PITH AND POINT.

Don't run to the doctor too often.
The average mistake will give you
less trouble if you come right out and
admit it.
Some people waste lot of the pres
ent in thinking what they would do if
they could live their lives over
Good luck and merit always travel
together in one team and bad luck and
worthlessness always in another.
When mother goes to visit her
daughter she takes no party dresses,
but you bet she takes her kitchen
aprons.
If woman's voice is sweet depends
largely upon whether she is calling us
to dinner or to get out of bed in the
morning.
When a woman reads of a horse
"champing restively on it's bit'' she
doesn't know exactly what it means,
but she feels that she often does it,
Atchison Globe.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
MATCHING THE LINNETs.
'dd Pastime and Business In the
Slums of Lnndon.

Siums of London.
In the little, swarming streets off
Whltechapel road, down through Shore
hitch and Bethnal Green, linnet singing
Is the pastime of thousands and the
business of scores of men who will bet
themselves to StandStill over the
tweet voiced rivalries of two wee
brown birds Gagged on the wall of some
public house whose reputation makes
responsibility timorous of intrusion.
The hard faced least ender," whose
chief joy is a bloody Limited round
GO in the prize ring of a resort in
Nhltechapel, may be seen next night
IN the back room of another pub" sit
ting in breathless silence and behind
locked doors, with a hundred of his
kind, while his linnet sings a match
for pleasant song" and a stake of 10
shillings a side.
When the referee says "Noww the
watch is started, but this does not
mean that the birds are vet engaged
IN any rivalry. They sit on their little
perches in silence, and the crowd sits
in silence watching them. Presently
one of the rivals pipes up his opening
lay. This is called the lead off" The
first note of a song is called the "chuc-
kle." Perhaps the bird which makes
the lead off, may stop with this
'chuckle" and not finish his song. The
stimulus is enough to start the other
bird, however. and he in turn makes
Ills "chuckle" and then without a
break performs the whole of his roper
toire of ten pleasant songs"
The sulky bird is frenzied at this su-
periority and to make up for lost time
sings as if its heart would break. Both
scorers are busy now "chalking the
scores as fast as their pencils can fly.
To the unframed ear the torrent of pip
ing notes is hopelessly intermingled,
and even when one bird is singing
alone it is impossible to tell where one
song ends and another begins.
This sweet piping absorbs the atten-
ton of the audience, while just beyond
the closed door a horde of blOated men
and slatternly women are drinking
themselves more sodden, with bias
phemous and vulgar merriment.
The birds are all of purity and senti-
ment and sweetness that can be found
in this east end pub" and they sing
as gladly as if green fields were their
virOnment.-Outing.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
A FORM OF COVERED MILK PAIL.

which is loose, fits inside of the first
one. When the pail is to be used a few
layers of clean cheesecloth are placed
across the opening of the lower funnel
and the loose funnel is pushed in to
hold the cheeseclOth in position. The
whole apparatus is simple in structure
and can be easily cleaned.
The amount of dirt in the milk from
the covered pail was only 81 per cent
of that in the open pail while the
amount of dirt in the strained milk
was 53.4 per cent of that in the milk
not strained. In other words, the cover
excluded G3 per cent, while the strain
er removed less than Al per cent.
BY the use of the covered pail an av-
erage of 20 per cent of the total num-
Der of bacteria and IL per cent of the
acid producing bacteria were excluded
from the fresh milk. By straining the
milk as soon as drawn into the Ordi-
nary open pail an average of but II
per cent of the total number of bacte-
ria and II per cent of the acid produc-
ing species were removed.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
Items In Maine Farming.

We in Kennebec are having a water
famine. The ground shut up without
the usual rains, and farmers are put to
great trouble for water for their stock.
The ground is we'll covered with snow
in northwestern Kennebec, but the
sleighing is poor and the shedding is
hard, yet numbering is going on and
cOrdwOod is bringing a good price. 1t
is almost impossible to get choppers,
and when we get them they ask 81 20 a
cord for piling up hard wood.
Hay is very plentiful and stock is
wintering well. Cows are low in price,
though good Jerseys that have just
come in sell readily. Apples do not
sell at all, so far as 1 know. Butter
brings a good price and winter dairy
ing is common about here.
The cows are about all Jerseys, and
many are using a Holstein bull. but the
cross doesn't seem to take we'll with
the dairymen in general. We get a
much larger yearling and far better
looking but when they come to give
milk they are not in it with the Jer-
seys. think it will be a long time be-
fore the Jerseys are driven out by the
HOlsteinS. We want a better looking
animal than the creamery Jersey, but
we want the jersey cream. and that
seems to be the ruling consideration
with dairymen.-Maine Cor. American
CultivatOr
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
SECRETS OF THE HAND.
Things That Are Revealed to the
Touch of the Blind.

Things That Are Revealed to the
Touch of the Blind.
The handshake Of some people makes
you think of accident and sudden
death. Contrast this i'll boding hand
with the quick, skillful, quiet hand of
a nurse whom I remember with af-
fection because she took the best care
of my teacher. l have clasped the
hands of some rich people that spin
not and toll not and yet are not beau
tiful. Beneath their soft, smooth
roundness what a chaos of undevelop-
ed character!
All this is my private science of
palmistry, and when 1 tell your for
tune it is by no mysterious intuition
or gypsy witchcraft, but by natural,
explicable recognition of the embossed
character in your hand. Not only is
the hand as easy to recognize as the
face, but it reveals it's secrets more
openly and unconsciously. People con-
troll their cOuntenances, but the hand
is under no such restraint 1t relaxes
and becomes listless when the spirit
is low and detected, the muscles tight
en- when the mind is excited or the
heart glad, and permanent qualities
stand written on it all the time.
AS there are many beauties of the
face. so the beauties of the hand are
many. Touch has it's ecstasies. The
hands of people of strong individuality
and sensitiveness are wonderfully mo-
bile. In a glance of their finger tips
they express many shades of thought.
Now and again | touch a fine, grace
full, supple wristed hand which spells
with the same beauty and distinction
that you must see in the handwriting
Of some highly cultivated people. 1
wish you could see how prettily little
children spell in my hand. They are
wild flowers Of humanity and their
finger motions wild flowers of speech
Helen Keller in Century.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
ENGLISH GOLD LEAF.
che Reason Its Manufacturers P.cl-
1t In Bibles

che Reason lts manufacturers PaCIr
1t In Bibles.
"James," said the English gold MANN
facturer, 1--WE are hout of Bibles. Go
downtown and buy six Dozen"
lanes in due course returned with
the Bibles in a handcart. They were
taken from him by three men. their
covers were torn off, and the pages
were trimmed with sharp knives down
TO certain small size. Then these
little reduced papers We're sewed TO-
gether into multitude of small books
The small books were distributed
among the hands, and in them the
firms output of gold leaf was packed
between every two Biblical leaves a
leaf of gold.
at seems irreverent, not to say sacri-
legious, l know" said the head of the
firm, but we Railways do so. We have
done so for generations. Gold leaf is
Railways put on the market in little
books made of Bibles.
"Why? I'll tell you why. Gold leaf
must be packed between printed in
stead of plain pages, for the reason that
it would slip out of plain pages. which
are too smooth for it, whereas the in
dentatiOns made by the types on the
printed pages are just sufficient to hold
the leaf in place firmly. That's whv
printed pages are used.
I'VE choose among all printed pages
Bible ones, for the reason that the
Bible is the best printed book a-going.
The type is more evenly set, and the
printing is finer than in any other
work, and we need the best typesetting
and printing in our business. you know.
for any rOughness or unevenness is apt
to tear the gold leaf.
That's why all English gold leaf is
packed in Bibles. It's a necessary
thing to do. but all the same I've of
ten wondered that the churches ave
never gotten after us gold leaf manu-.
facturers for our hirreYerence."-Lo
don Chronicle.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
The Governnr,a Wife.

1.-TWO men in Buffalo," says a state
official, recently had a heated argu-
ment over the question whether the
wife of a governor of a state had an
official title. One man contended that
she should be addressed as Mrs. Gov
ernor So-and-so.' while the other stout
ly insisted that she was simply Mrs.
Blank, wife of Governor Blank Final
ly they agreed to submit the question
to the first man they should meet. He
proved to be an Irishman. The case
was put before him, and he was asked
for a decision.
"'Nayther Of yez is right said the
Irishman after a moments reflection.
The wife of a governor is a govern
ess.' '"-Collier's Weekly.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
BLOOD WILL TELL.

1t takes lots of vitality, nervous force and
strength to win a race. Blood must be
pure and good.
Without good red blood man has a
weak heart and poor nerves. Thinness of
the blood, or anemia, is common in men
and young women, and all those who work
indoors, who do not get enough good OK
ygen in their lungs, consequently have too
many white blood corpuscles.
Keep the nerves nourished, the heart
strong, the head cool, the stomach vigorous,
the liver active with a tonic which has
stood the test of time and has a wide repu-
tation, such as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery.
Tonics consisting of large portions of
alcohol, iron or cod liver oil, do not bring
the desired changes IN the blood because
they do not enter the system and are not
absorbed into the blood, with the excep-
ton of the alcohol, which shrivels up the
red blood corpuscles when it does come in
contact with them. Therefore do not allow
the dealer to insult your intelligence by
telling you he has something better than
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
The cost of mailing only. sThe Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser" 1908 large
pages, is sent free on receipt CT twenty-one
one-cent stamps, for the paper covered
book, or thirty one stamps for the cloth
bound volume. Address DR.. r. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
For constipation, the true, scientific cure
is DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Mild,
harmless yet sure. No other pill can COM
pare with them.
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
WHOLESOME MILK
comparative Condition of Mill Dr.
In open and In Covered PoiIs

parative Condition of Milk Drawn
L" open and In Covered Pals.
!" bulletin of the Connecticut
olOrrS station w. A. Stocking, Jr., re-
ports the results of comparative stud-
les OF the sanitary condition of milk
uraWn In open and covered pals. Two
pans were used in these experiments
One was regular open pail; the other
was pail with a cover of special de-
sign An Illustration of the latter is
mere given. 1t is an ordinary milk pail
with closely fitting cover. which has
an opening near one side. into which is
soldered funnel four inches in diam
eter having wire gauze of fine mesh
soluefed across the bottom. This finn
nel extends slightly above and below
tne cover and slopes somewhat toward
the side of the pail. Another funnel
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
Emmy Stories.

"Ha, hap said the jovial man as he
slapped an acquaintance on the back.
''I'm glad to see you. have one of
the funniest stories on record, and
you are just in time"
4 don't care for it." was the can
did reply. You see there is often a
pathetic side even to humor. have
just been out with my architect, and
he showed me three Of the funniest
stories / ever saw. If 1 hadn't been
paying for them I'd have laughed my
self silly"
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
Prnnrietnrx Right.

Little Edith had spent an afternoon
busily searching with nimble fingers
through the soft fur Of her pet kitten.
says Lippincott's Magazine. When she
was through she came to report to her
mother.
"Oh. mamma" she cried. Il found a
little flea on kitty, and caught it!'
What did you do with it?' asked her
mother.
why, put it back on kitty again.
Of course. 1t was her flea"
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
eyes. Tint Meant "No..

Harry-What did Kate say when you
proposed to her? Frank-She said yes
Harry-Then she is really going to mar
ry you? Frank-Oh, dear, no! What
put that into your head? The quesuon
l asked was, do you prefer to remain
single rather than accept meT
Smyrna times., 1905-02-08
Both sides of 1t.

Giles-So you've got a place In tnaI
banking house? 1 suppose it was De-
cause you knew the president? Har-
ris-Partly that and partly because ne
didn't know me.-Exchange.