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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-15
THE MUNICIPAL LUNCH ROOM,
Good Results Noted In Foreign Cities
from Furnishing Free Meals.

Robert Hunter. In the Reader
In Berlin the giving of free breakfasts
has brought the "happiest results" Chill
dren who start from a poverty-strcken
home in the morning without a sufficient,
and often without any. meal to sustain
them. cannot be expected to give their
minds to their studies in the same degree
as the children whose bodies are well cared
for. A considerable falling or was conse-
quently noticed In the attendance of the ILL.,
fed and weaker children-the very ones who
could least afford to neglect the studies re-
CURED to fit them to earn their daily bread
In after life-until the system was adopted
by the municipal authorities of distributing
food free during the so-called breakfast
hour to these poor waifs' In Christiania
Norway. the principals Of the schools re-
port that ''the free board has had good
effect upon the children. as they take more
interest in the work and are more wide
awake and lively: their appearance also
shows better health and more strength"
The report comes from Hayre that the free
meals there have been found to encourage
school attendance as well as to benefit the
children physically. mentally. and morally.
The people OF Brussels conceive 1t to be
their duty to have every school child medi-
cally examined once every ten days. Its
eyes. teeth, ears and general physical con-
dftion are Overhauled. II 1t looks weak
and puny they give II doses Of .cod-liver oil
or some suitable tonic. At midday II gets q
square meal and the greatest care
II taken to see that no child goes ill-shod.
tll-clad Or tll-fed.'s * IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-15
French and English Warships.

Certainly our battleships lose something
by comparison when floating alongside such
warshfps as the Duncan. They ride too
light In the water. and justify the exclama-
ton Of the English sea wolves: What q
fine targett" But. as for the French crews.
they have won the esteem Of our nav
friends. who. in naval matters. are the best
Judges. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-15
Consoling to the Bad-Tempered.

From the British Journal OF Nursing
A man who is always genial is. as a
matter of common experience. untitled for
any position requiring judgment and tact.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
PLEASING CRITICISM OF
PLEASANT LETTER.

On Sunday we gave u readers a
very interesting letter-a most enjoy
able one we thought-from a Tar Heel
who had for the first time laid eyes
on the city of Glasgow. Elsewhere in
tcday's issue we publish a letter from
o Wilmington gentleman pleasing
criticism of the other. 1t will be seen
at once by all who read the latter that
the city of Glasgow and all about II
which struck our first correspondent
with wonder and seemed s different
to him from anything seen in this
country are vivid, old-time and sweet
recoIlections to the other, who thor
oughly understands and appreciates
the pleasure experienced by the one
who visits Glasgow for the first time.
Both letters make pleasant reading for
those who have grown tired of the
daily accounts of murders, fatal dc-
cidents, political Screenings and pecu-
lations that fill the columns of the
daily papers of the present time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
4 MURDER NEs-ou
Negro Found Dead-Bciieycd Step
Children Murdered Him-Dragsed
OH BY Horse.

Coroner E. Rose Dorset was sum-
moned TO Cleveland yesterday morning
TO investigate a death whose strange
ness resembles very much murder.
Tuesday VIII McKathen, colored, 6is-
appeared from mis- home. Nothing was
thought of IL until he failed yesterday
morning TO return. His wife inquired
OF neighbors but learned nothing Of
him until she staked her COW for graz
Ing. There she found the dead nus
band about m hundred yards from her
house An examination showed .wo
bullet holes, at least, they looked that
way.
The negro's children lit is supposed
from his age that they are only step
~children,) are believed to know some
thing Of it, Horse tracks are visible
at b house and at the thicket. No
kathen's shirt is torn off and there is
a path from the house which looks
like some was dragged over the earth
1t is supposed the horse was hitched 10
the feet of the man and he was p..ll-
ed away. At the time of his death
Mckathen's wife was at Cleveland and
knew nothing of 1t. The dead man was
about 80 years of age.
DR.. Dorset is at Cleveland now uui
what conclusion he has reached w.-n
regard to the affair, has not yet beer
made public.-SaIISbury Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
OLE Messengfr.
TIE IRONY OF A

The Irony of Fate. We hear this
expression used often-many times by
persons who could not give a correct
definition of the term. We do not
pretend to say that we could do so--ln
fact we admit that we cannot. We
think we can give az instance, though,
that will illustrate its meaning. y
Ioor devil of a negro who has no visi-
bic means Of support and who has not
sufficient instinct, not to say sense, to
rob a hen roost were he to find him.
self standing under one heavily loaded
on a dark night and the owner a mile
away, and who does a days
steady work from one years end to
another and who might be successfully
prosecuted any day in the year under
the vagrancy law, Ome into posses
sion of fifteen dollars and is immedi-
ately suspected, because he suddenly
exhibits visible means Of support, as
the law requires Of every man, and is
yanked up and clapped in jail. Some
folks on the shady side of the vagrancy
law are anxious to know where is the
dividing line between the Migrants M
pecuniOsity and the wealth which
brings suspicion. We have not been
able to give a definite answer on this
point to the several anxious ones who
have inquired of us.
Another Illustration of the irony Of
fate. \ railway depot gate keeper has
positive instructions to allow no n to
pass through his gate without showing
his ticket. If a friend or the gate
keeper should happen to come along
and, while the said gatekeeper was
looking another way, to slip through
without showing his ticket, that gate
keeper would be hauled up for neg
lect Of duty did some railway official
happen to see the performance. But
let some representative Of a certain
newspaper come along and fatty refuse
to show his mileage book and be refus-
ed admittance and then make complaint
the gatekeeper is suspended because
he had not used some discretion" in
carrying out his positive instructions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
Roosevelt Hears of Goats.

Washington. June ZO.-Ino PreS1-
dent has received from a New Hamp-
shire farmer the following letter:
'Mr. President: | regret to call
your attention to the Angora Goat De-
partment of the Bureau Of Agriculture.
1t has spread broadcast a document
commencing Angoras to the farmers of
the country. This contains three spe-
cious landscapes. Before coating
shows d dense jungle suggesting the
average New Hampshire pasture. "One
year after coating shows the same
land producing a valuable crop of bean
poles. Two years after coating shows
a lawn suitable for golf links. The
appetite Of Angoras is described in a
way that led me to hope they might
even effect a saving in blasting pow
der, the chief source Of expense i'll
farming hereabouts.
Il produced a flock at considerable
cost. The result of the first interview
of any dog and the buck caused me
to name the latter Togo. His views on
the subject of race suicide | think
would receive your approval. h
does, on the other hand, neglect their
kids, on til taoishrd etaoihrdl taOdluoi
kids so shamelessly that l fear they
belong to a female goat club.
Il inclOsed the flock with a fence
highly recommended to me by the
American Steel and Wire Company. |
now suspect that this company may
be a trust, and should be investigated.
The fence was no barrier to the goats.
Il make no complaint that they ate
q valuable rose garden belonging to 4
neighbor, but their conduct in my W
vegetable garden entities me to relief.
When pursued their rapidity Of move
ment might suggest ideas to the Penn
%sylvania Railroad Company in connec-
ton with it's Chicago-New York serv-
ice. If interested, you o obtain the
flock on easy terms.
81 leave the matter, Mr.. President,
to your sense justice"
The letter has been referred to the
Department of Agriculture.-New
York Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30

There have been rumors OF late OF
changes on. the supreme court and in
the cabinet. 1t has been said that
Chief Justice Fuller would retire from
the former and that Secretary of War
Taft would be designated to succee,
him. These two gentlemen, though.
have bottled this piece of political COS
sip most e~ffectuaily, and with very few
words. Mr.. Fuller heads off the ru
MOI of his intended resignation with
the remark that no chief justice Ia:
ever resigned and he does not see why
he should set a precedent" Mr.. Tafe's
denial of the rumor as to himself is in
as terse and positive terms. He say
he has heard at various times that he is
to become chief justice, but nevel
from an authoritative source If MIR
Fuller does not intend to retire from
the bench and the appointive power ha:
told Mr.. Taft that he is to be ap.
pointed in the others place there Cal
hardly be any truth in the rumors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
WHALES CUT IN TWO BY STEAM
ERS. a.

Not l%nfrequently the press dispatches
give accounts of persons who had lain
down on railroad tracks and gone to-
sleep being killed by passing trains. Il
is something new, though, to read OF
the destruction of life through sleeping
in the track of an ocean steamer. A
news item of this kind was reported
in New York the other day on the ar
rival of a fast transatlantic steam
ship. The Philadelphia, m reaching
port, reported that on her westward
passage she, while speeding at twenty|
miles In hour, encountered a sleeping
whale right in her track which she
cut in two. Following is an accour,
of how the thing happened:
The lookout forward saw the slow
heave Of a glistening body about a.
ships length away and a bit on the
starbOard bow.
The steamer which was running at
a 2e-knct speed. with her sharp, knife
gracefully through the water. The
lookout yelled to keep off.
but before he could lean over
the bridge rail for a look ahead
there was a slight tremor through
the rushing liner as the sharp bow
struck. There was a bit Of a furry
about the bow and then the two
halves of a 30-foot whale went wash
ing past. clouding the water with
blood and blubber.
The same newspaper article says this
is the second account brought to New
York in the last fortnight of a sleeping
whale being cut in two by a vessel at
sea. 1t says:
About two weeks ago the skipper
CT a down! easter told how he was
coming up the coast with a Spanking
b1eeze- behind him when the bow of
his vessel cut a sleeping whale IN
two; how the water was dyed Grim
son with the life blood Of the levia-
than n how 500 after the demise
CT the noHste the water was black
With sharks intent on getting a meal
off the deceased king Of the deep.
A school Of whales was recently
sighted south of Virginia Beach head
ing norrh.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30
MARION RULER A BACK NM
Der.

Those h~ide-bound republicans who,
are engineering the scheme for the es-
tablishment of "The Industrial News, /
in Greensboro are beginning to side
step the idea of having Marion Butter
for the editor of their paper. They are
beginning to see that the plan woat
work. IL the rumors that he would be,
at the head of this reform republican
paper were started in order TO feel the
public pulse the way they have been
received by the people of the state has,
been sufficient notice to the promoters
of the enterprise that the plan would
not work. We do not believe there is
a citizen of this state whose stock
stands so low with the public as Ma
rion Buffers. He has no party follow
ing and can never again build up any.
No one, democrat, republican Or popu-
list, has any confidence in his political
integrity. He has tricked every pacty
with which he has affiliated. To put
him at the head of a socalled reform
political paper in this state would at
once insure the complete failure of the
movement and the utter defeat of the
promoters thereof. There is not a re-
publican of mediocre standing in the
state who would not receive better sup
port from his party and greater con-
sideration from the democrats. Ii
there is a movement in this state TO
%reorganfze the republican party and
establish it ON a sound basis the st
way of those opposed to such move
ment to secure IS defeat would be %
have Marion Butler placed at the nea.
of that movement or given a promin at
part in launching it. He is surely a
dead cock in the pit in his state and One
which has been dead too long during
this hot weather for any attempt at re-
suscitation. There is no embalm:ng
fluid or other preservative process
known that would preserve his carcass
to the extent that it could be exhibited
to decent, self-respecting people as an
example of ~rejuvenated re~publlcanism
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30

Sub Editor-'Here's another letter
from that guy who signs himself 'toS
Populi.'" Editor-"What's he goi to
say, now?" Sub Editor-''He writes 20
inquire if we will kindly inform lin
what 'vox populi' means.'-Judge.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30

,eo,, +be The Kind You Have Always Bought
ss &WMzMZM

Some idea of the magnitude of the
Japanese army may be gained from
the statement that the yellow" fell
lows are operating along a front Of
nearly four hundred miles in width
Charlotte News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30

Bears the The Kind You Have kiWays Bought
ss &MZZM

1t is said that Togo gets but three
thousand dollars a year. Well, from
the standpoint of service to his coun-
try it can't be said that he does not
earn his salary.-Raleigh Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-30

'Tisn't safe to be a day without DR.,
Thomas's Eclectric Oil in the house
Never can tell what moment an acct
dent is going to happen.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.


Chicago, May 4.-CATTI Ere,
ceipts 1000. Steady; good to prime
steers, s5.GOQG.75; poor to medium
s4.40@4.50; stockers and feeders.
$27595.0O; cows, S275a5.25; heifers.
$250Q5.50; Gamers, $150@2.4O: bulls
$2.75m4.50; calves, s300dG.Oo.
HOGS-Receipts, 1900; 10 cents
higher, mixed, and butchers 5000
5.57R; good to choice heavy, $3.50
$50; rough heavy, 5000 so; light,
$5,2505.50; bulk, S5.35m5.50.
SfIEEP-Receipts. 10000. Sheen
and lambs steady good to choice weth-
ers shorn, $i400500; fair to choice
mixed shorn, $3.50@425; western
sheep shorn, $400@5.oO native lambs
shorn, s4.00@G.0O; western lambs
$5.7507.20.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
At st. Louis.

St. Louis, May 4--CATTLE-Re.
ceipts, 1000, including, 1900 Texans
10 higher. Native shipping and ex.
port steers S50G.35; dressed beef and
butchers steers, s4,o0a5.9o: steers
under 1000 pounds, $4,000 5.45; stock.
ers and feeders, $4.750490, cows and
heifers. s2.5o@5.25; Gamers, $9.oo@
2.25; bulls s2.25@4.50, calves, s3.0om
$50; Texas and Indian steers. $4,000
5.25; cows and heifers, s200a1400.
Z HOGS Receipts, $500; 5 cents
higher Pigs and lights, s36505.25;
butchers and best heavy s5.o505.4o.
SHEEP Receipts, 2,o00 steady
Native muttons, $3.50@5.25; lambs,
s5.00G5.50; culls and bucks, 1895 q
l.Oo; stockers, $2.5o@3.oo; Texans,
So .00@5.00.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
WHEAT MARKET
SHOWED WEAKNESS
FAVORABLE PROGRESS OF FALL
SoWN CROP THE CAUSE
CORN PIT ALSO ExPERIENc.
ED A DULL DAY-oATS FIRM.

Chicago, May 4.-Fresh confirma-
ton Of favorable progress being made
by the fan sown crop caused weakness
in the wheat market here today. At
the close July was off A@as cents.
Corn is down bGh. Oats are prac.
tically unchanged. Provisions are 2Ik
to 10 cents up.
The wheat market opened weak, in.
itial quotations on July being off 4 to
% at SSA to S3$s cents. One innn,
ence at the start was a decline in The
price of wheat at Liverpool. The
main reason for the weak tone was
the report by a Chicago crop expert
claiming thar winter wheat is in ex.
celleht condition According to this
authority the condition of wheat on
May l was 81 Lilo and the total acre
age was 30,851,O0O bushels compared
with 2S,551,000 bushels a year ago.
On a decline July sold off to S2&
cents. Later in the session some re.
coYery was made on buying by prom.
lnent long, but the close was weak
with July at S3A@ss cents. Clear.
anees Of wheat and flour were equal
TO 1880 bushels. Primary receipts
were 10000 bushels compared with
$4,000 a year ago. Minneapolis, Du-
luth and Chicago reported receipts OF
lG1 cars against l73 last week and 10
q year ago.
Weakness prevailed in the corn pit
throughout the greater part of the
session. The volume OF business was
small.
July opened unchanged to * lower
at 4G# @46M, and sold between 4G5s
cents and AN cents and closed at
465s a. Local receipts were "a cars
with one Of contract grade.
Covering by shorts and buying BY
cash houses caused a firm tone in the
oats market.
July opened unchanged at shade
higher at 2S# G29 cents and sold be
tween 2S& cents and 298 and closed
at 2S7s @29 cents. Receipts, CT cars.
Provisions firm on active demand
from the packers. Smaller receipts Of
live hogs We're responsible for much
of the buying. Arrivals at the stock
yards today were the smallest in many
months.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
HEAVY SELLING
STOCK MARKET
VERY FEEBLE DEMAND PRESENT.
ED TsELF-NoRTHWEs STERN
RAILROADS STILL HOLD TO
FRONT AS INFLUENCES.

New York. May 4.--Liquidatlon was
renewed on a very large scale in to-
Toys stock market and very feeble
demand presented Itself 10 absorb the
large offerings. As to the sources of
this liquidation and he motive for it,
indications were not SO clear and the
elements of mystery weere made the
most of in active conjectures of stock
market operators accord ng to the
habit of that class. It was a fair infer
ance that the liquidation was of con
centrated character and represented
the closing out of some large and inn
portant accepted by lew individuals.
Presumably also Of the power and re-
sources in the financial world
Confidence in the general situation
IS still professed II a large degree,
but renewed weakness in stocks today
Is of an influence in causing some
sensation of possible developments in
the general situation still to be reveal
ed. There is disposition to look be-
yond the normally dull period of sum
mer months to probable developments
n the fall and the condition of the
money market for that period offers
some ground for doubts of resources
to be available. Blu: the northwest
ern railroad situation seems TO be
available-still the most important
fac'or in I'll stock market, as 1t has
been ever since the nIteenpont break
in Northern Securities stock the day
the Supreme court ordered the dsso-
luton Of the company, which was date
OF the beginning for the present de-
cline in stocks
The dread increases that Northern
Pacific is TO be the bone of conten
ton again and that failure to compro
| mise on its controi will prec pitate
hostilities and reprsals. The largest
selling and heaviest decline were
amongst stocks that would be involved
in conflict growing out of the ques
ton of Northern Pacific control and
railroad polio es concerned in It, Loss.
IS in these stocks and in a number of
others, including a considerable list
Of industfials, ran to three points
or upwards while losses up to that
figure were quite general throughout
the list.
A late recovery OF one to two points
was entirely lost In this fifteen m n
utes when prices generally dropped tc
low level Of the day and closed only
slightly above with week undertone
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05

WHEAT-Receipts. 10000. Spot.
easy, No 2 red, 903s nominal elevator.
and 92ss nominal / o. b. afloat; No. l
Northern, $685. f. O. b. aioat. No. 1
hard SO 3.f, O. b. ahoat Options low
er May. 9S%; July, 937s July. $685.
Septembei S3ss
CoRN-Receipts. 1900; exports
1920. Spot, easy No 2. sc, elevator
and 5212 I. o. b. aaoat; No. ? yellow
53A No white, So Options lower
May 521A.
OATs-Receipts, $1,000. Spot firm,
mixed; No. 2, 26 to 30 pounds. S51b n
30; natural white, 80 to y pounds.
S51a QSCl2 clipped white, Sc to l0
pounds, 351A as.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
Provision Market.

COFFEE-spot, Rio, steady, No. !
invoice, cents. Mild firm. Cordova
10m13
SUGAR-Raw, firm, fair refining, A.;
centrifugal, SO test, 49, molasses
sugar 3a4 i; refined, steady.
COFFEE-Futures opened steady at
an advance Of 5 points on good buying
by importers and bull, interests Clos
"a steady at net advance of 5m10
points. Sales, G0,25O bags
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Money Quotations.

New York, NAV Money on call
Arm 2ism3 per cent closing bid 21k;
offered at "a. Time money steady
f, sixty days 3h ninety days and SIX
months az. Closed prime mercan.
tile paper 3A Mlh per cent. Sterling
change firm with actual business IN
bankers bills at s4SGiOG14SG15 for
demand and at sf,si.s5Mis4GO for
sixty days. Posted rates. $i.S5ts and
A.S7h Bar silver, 5Gss.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
LOCAL GRAIN MARKET.

Cash prices in the Cairo market
were as follows.
No. red winter wheat, 90.
No. 3 red winter wheat, 90.
No. 2 white corn, so.
No 2 mixed corn, so.
No. Q white corn, 80.
No 3 mixed corn, 40.
No. 2 white oats. 32M.
No. 2 mixed oats. 30is.
No. 3 white oats. 81.
No, 3 mixed oats, 80.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
MInneapoIIs Cereals.

Minneapolis. May 4.--WHEAT-
May, 9s%1%; July, 9iA; September,
sos. No. hard, $l.03ss No. north.
crn, $1o1M; No 2 northern, o75s.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
THE CASH MARKET.

St Louis, May 1.-The following
spot prices ruled here today for vari
Gus grains mentioned:
No. 2 red winter wheat $1.01m102.
No. 3 red winter wheat, 94h@L01.
No. 2 white corn, 50A.
No. mixed corn, 494@50
No. 3 white corn So
No. mixed corn, $4,000.
No. 2 white oats, 331a.
No. mixed oats, 31m1s.
No. white oats. 32h@33
No. 3 mixed oats, 3Oh G131.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
Liverpool Quotations.

Liverpool, May 4.--WHEAT-Spot,
dnll Futures, quiet, May, Gs Gh d;
July. Gs G%d; September. Gs AID.
CORN-Spot steady; American
mixed, new, As 2sid; American mixed,
old, none. Futures quiet. May Is
2Ssd; July A. Esd
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
Grains and Provisions.

Chicago, May 4.-The following was
the range of the leading futures on
the Board of Trade today:
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Estate Of Harry Grcar, deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed exe-
cutor Of the Last will and testament OF Harry
Nrear, late OF the county OF Alexan-
der, and state OF Illinois, deceased,
hereby gives notice that she viii appear before
the county court OF Alexander county, ut
the court house, in Cairo, at the June term, a.
VI. ls'o, 81 saa couf. on ,he nrst Monday 10
claims against, said estate are notinen and
requested 10 attend Tor the purpose Of having
the same nuiuatcd. All persons indebted 10 Raiu
estate are requested W make Immediate pay.
xieht % The undsreiEnsd.
Dated this 18th day " Arrli. A. ~ 1895.
s.s 1 'l MY XXI 1A " &W tJ1x1u 0nnxn Exs0nkrix
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
Reported by the Cassidy Commission
Company, 409Ia Ohio Street.
srocKs.

New York, May 4-The following
was the range Of prices on the New
York Stock exchange today:
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-05
Liverpool Markets.

Wheat z lower; z higher x low
e:.
Corn, a lower; u higher; a low
ei.