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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

The New Bern Journal has the fol-
lwoing to say regarding the enforce
ment OF the Sunday laws in this city:
The municipal authorities OF
Waynesville have taken the cid off
IN the sunday selling business. and
nave refunded certain fines imposed
Tor violation of the law. Wilmington
1t is said. has the lid good and warm
alid Will DGt it On probably. next Sun
cav. If there is a law to prohibit Sun
cav selling in a town. certainly it
should be enforced. and the law max
ers. who by the way. are sometimes
the cnes who try to buy ON SUNDAY
should be made to suffer along with
those who do the selling.
If there is rigid enforcement of tals
law as regards the sale by druggists of
any other goods but medicines we pre-
dict early repeal of the ordinance. IS
it is the the law nc n can find fault
with the city authorities for enforcing
it; especially when the attention of the
mayor is called by a business man of
the city to it's non-enforcement in tie
past. If it is a bad law the best way
to ecure it's repeal is to enforce it
rigidly and let the people experience
the Inconvenience consequent thereto.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
Burglar Breaks in tho Stuart House.

Burglar Breaks in the Stuart House.
Richmond, Va August IA burg
lar entered the home of II. c. Stuart
member of the state corporation com
mission, at Elk Garden, last night ar
was in the act Of carrying of diamonds
and other jewelry, when Mrs. Stuart
fired on him three times, hitting min
the third time. though he made his
escape leaving the jewels behind him
He fired once at Mrs. Stuart, but miss.
ed her. Bloodhounds have been put
ON his trail. Mr.. Stuart was in Rich
mond attending a session of the com
mission.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
tuesday, August IS, 1905
THAT WILMINGTON CARTOON.

We are disappointed in Brother Har-
ris of the Charlotte Chronicle. We did
not think he would be so hard on VIII
mington az 20 picture her as he did in
The Chronicles cartoon on last Fri
day. He comes down here every sum-
mer and enjoys our hospitality and oCr
cool ocean breezes. He has not long
returned to his home from the most
pleasant of the many summer vaca-
lions ne has taken on u sea shore.
Then to think of his picturing our city
in any such style. Brother Harris,
does not your conscience smite you and
does not the blush come to your check
every time you look at that cartoon
and think how different you found
Wilmington from the way your artist
has personified her?
For the benefit of our readers who
do not see The Chronicle, and especial
1y for those who have been in the habit
of dropping into a drug store on a hot
Sunday and purchasing a cigar and a
cool drink, We will attempt to describe
this ca~ricature, hut we recognize our
inability to do it justice.
The picture IS entitled: BE Good
and You will be Lonesome" Whining
ton is represented by a Puritanical
looking old GUS seated on a rough
wooden bench, with a book i'll his hand
labeled Blue Laws He has a most
woe-begone, sou expression on his
face. One glance from him in his pres
ent mood WOULD turn a barrel of the
best pure-appls sweet cider into first
class vinegar. He has on a broad
brim, srgar-loaf crown hat, a coat of
the style we are led to suppose was
worn by the May lower pilgrims, knee
breeches, very baggy at the knee, ana
between these and his parrot-toed Feet
which are incased in a pair of about
number fifteen "high-low" shoes fast
ened with immense buckles he displays
a pair of shanks the sight of which
would make Madame Sarah Barnhardt
feel proud.
Standing behind wilmington" are
two other figures, "Wrightsville" and
"Morehead City," looking with anus
ed expression at The gentleman with
the book Of Blue Laws" in his hand.
"Wrightsville" has a mug of foaming
beer in his hanl and his companion
has a bottle in his, indicating thereby,
we suppose, that you can get your
booze there, but either have to take il
with you or get it on the sly.
Such is the way our good friend,
The Chronicle, shows up u city to the
outside world.
Never mind, Brother Harris, we will
get even with you yet, if we have to-
wait until you take your next summer
vacation.
If you continue to show this much
spite against our city the editor of this
paper will feel somewhat timid about
holding to that engagement to take
next Thanksgiving dinner with you in |
your new two million dollar hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
Florida Times Union Sunshine.

It's a wise thermometer that knows
its own mercury nowadays.
Life may be short, but the summer
boarder is often painfully SC.
Those "chaste bathing SUITS" advo-
Gated by the mayor of Atlantic City,
will never be chased about much by
the men, anyhow.
The theatrical season will soon open
when the hamfatter will once more
tie up to the railroad tie.
Few men can stand prosperity
none, perhaps, can understand adver-
sity.
Women are said TO have fewer op-
portunities than men. Perhaps that is
why they 81 seldom throw them away.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

After a hearty meal a dose of Kodol
dyspepsia Cure will prevent an attack
>of Indigestion. Kodol is a thorough
9igestant and a guaranteed cure for
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Gas on the
Stomach, Weak Heart, Sour Risings,
Fad Breath and all Stomach troubles.
Sold by r. r. Bellamy,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
500 Men Arrested in a Pool Room
Raid

New York. August 12.-What is
said to be the biggest poo, room raid
eve made in this city took place today
when the uclice broke into an unper
f:ocr Of a factory building in Marion
street and arrested five hundred men.
Five men who were charged with run
mig The place were held and the rest
permitted to go after their names had
been taken in accordance with the
PROVISIONS CT the Bowling Law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
LIVELY TINES IN ELIZABETH
i

Wilmington used to have the repu-
tation Of being able to get mp more
rows and squabbIes, political and 9th
erwise, than any other place in the
state: but it seems that Elizabeth City
has taken the lead in this respect.
Things have been lively down there for
ONE while and still continue to be so.
The latest sensation is the assault
on the city editor Of The Tar Heel by
a a named Moore and his son. The
elder Moore is the engineer of the
Crystal Ice and Coal Company of that
city. The Tar Heel stated on the al
legged authority of Mr.. Moore that the
ice company was allowing liquor to be
landed at its wharf. Elizabeth City is
a dry town. Moore denied this, and
there was a sharp newspaper contro-
versy which vas followed by the
MOores double-teaming On the city edi-
tor and using him up pretty badly.
There is also a row among the board
of aldermen. The Postal Telegraph
Company offered to establish a free
messenger call system for it's patrons in
the city. The city fathers hearing of
this Immediately put a tax of one hun
dred and fifty dollars on such enter
prise. Those who opposed this tax say
it was imposed in the interest of the
telephone comuany known as the Eliz-
abeth City and Norfolk Telegraph
Company. One Of the aldermen who
voted for the tax is secretary and treas
urer of the telephone company. The
Postal Company says it will not put
IN b system if it has to pay the tax
to do SO. The business men are up in
arms over the action of the aldermen.
and their protests are so strong and so
emphatically expressed that the tax
ordnance will most probably be re-
pealed at the mex meeting.
While these two events are causing
excitement in the city another occur
red which has stirred the ire Of some
OF the people. This was the turning
Off of the power by the electric light
and power company from the Caro-
lima Publishing Company, which pub
fishes The Economist and The Tar
Heel, because, as the of the
former said to the manager of the lat
ter: Your concern has knitted us ev-
cry chance it got and we must have
our pound of flesh" The power COM
pany and the water company are the
same. The "knifing'' complained of
consisted of severe criticisms relative
to the water furnished by the COM
pany.
We bet on the newspapers and the
business men winning in their respec-
tive fights.
1T is a pretty come off when the
business men of a city have to be de-
pr1ved of the convenience of a free
telegraph messenger call service be-
cause such might interfere with the
business of a private corporation, or
that q newspaper cannot criticise the
lmperfectiOns of the city's water sys-
ten without having it's power cut off
just as it is going to press and with
out sufficient notice to procure other
power. We hope the publishing COM
pany will not squeal, but will continue
to critieise that light, power and water
company every time it deserves criti-
ciSm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

ST. Petersburg Has SnsaIi Hopes for
Peace.
ST. Petersburg, August 12.-Dis-
patches from Portsmouth make it clear
that unless there is a very substan-
tial abatement Of the demands of The
japanese plenipotentiaries, which Is
unlikely, the peace conference will
come to a sudden conclusion. The two
nations are 80 wide apart that all hops
of agreement has been practically
abandoned herr. 1t is probable tina.
the next session viii end in q final al.
journment and that M. Witte may sal
for Europe very shortly.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

Senate Baily cannot get over that
New York speech of DIR. Alderman's
Well, there are a good many others III
the same way of thinking about that
speech as Senator Bailey.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

Our congratulations to the city OF
Greensboro on the results of her cen.
u just completed. 1t gives her a pop
ulation of twenIy-one thousand, not
counting the factory villages. This
we suppose, includes the suburbs and
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

The question among the people on
the sound is: What had you rather
have, martins or mosquitoes?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

Footpad-"Your money Or your life!'
CitiZen-"See here! I'm a Tammany
Hall leader, and" FOOtpad-"Oh,
/ don't car how yer got it'll take
it"-Puck.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

There seems ID be quite a demand
now for the islands in the Cape Fear
river below the city. What's up?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15

Captain Moore, of the schooner
Charles C. Lister, arrived yesterday
from I~achin~t0n - G.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-15
Miraculous escape

LIE Suer (Minn.) Car. st. Paul Phones.
Press.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21
BOUNDING THE COUNTRY.
Habit Which Seems to Lay Hold Up
on Political Orators and
Spellbinders.

Have you ever noticed how often on
pubiic speakers bound this country .
asked an observer of things in general. il
the New Orleans Times Democrat. CIV,
years ago l went to a large mass meet
ing, at which there were several stand,
arranged so that the orators, so-cal.ed
could address the assembled crowds.
took a place before one of the platforms
and after awhile a well known politician
heavy in avoirdupois and dignity. was in.
PRODUCED and launched into his speech
winch began along the old lines:
AS l look out upon this multitude OF
the good citizens of this city, l feel sure
that on the second Tuesday in Novem.
Der they will declare in no uncertain man
ner, etc. You know how the rest goes.
He had not been speaking long before
l heard the words fall: From the stormy
shores of the Atlantic to the calm slopes
OF the Pacific, from the gulf on the south.
tins great movement will sweep all be-
more OF his platitudes, but made my way
over to the second stand, and here an
other modern Cicero was telling the con-
script fathers how to vote, how to save
the city, how to keep the patriots in Of
nee. The Ell is going FORTH" said he.
from the blue waters Of Lake Superior
to where the ripping waves of the
guilt wash the fair shores of Louisiana
From the strands of the Carolinas to the
suniIt helds OF California, the people are
etc.
Il pushed through the crowd and went
coward the third platform, but even from
sPeliblnder crying out in a fog-horn voice:
From Tampa bay to Puget sound, from
put l pulled my hat over my ears and
rushed for my car"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21

mat are given in settlement of
all sorts of claims and bills. In
mediate cash is never paid for any
bill against the government. The war
rants are drawn and must be signed by
the secretary OF the treasury person.
ally or by his assistants. Not long ago
5000 of these warrants were signed in
4 day, having been issued in behalf
of individual Indians in the west for
Insignificant sums.
The treasurer Of the United States
has also to sign all these warrants and
it is a big task. Treasurer Treat who
came into Office on July 1 has learned
to attach his name to these valuable
pieces of paper very rapidly. He asked
for a number of different fountain pens
when he took Office and after testing
each specimen finally settled on the
0ne that suited him. He uses this pen
and is not put to the necessity of dip
ping the point in ink every time he
writes his name. His predecessor, Mr..
Roberts, an old gentleman of 80 years
Of age, used a regular pen and staff
and much time was lost in reaching
for the maxwell at almost every sigma
ture. Mr.. Treat is bent on saving time.
Last year there was disbursed $751;
4f1,G11, besides much over 500, 000, 600
on account of the post Office depart
ment n not a cent of it was paid eX-
cept by warrant upon the treasury Of
the United States. Warrants are
drawn for the most trifiing amounts
and eX-President Cleveland has framed
as a curious memento of his admins
tration a warrant for one cent which
had to be issued to correct a mistake
made in the payment of his salary.
This is the smallest warrent ever is
sued and one for $4,000, 900, drawn in
payment for the Panama canal last
year, is the largest.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21
SHORT AND SHARP.

The honesty Of lots Of men has never
been tested.
It's q wise man who says nothing at
the right time.
A great deal Of silvery laughter is
filtered through a m%outhful of gold
:eeth.
The young man who thinks he knows
It all is just on the brink Of acquiring
ONE knowledge.
The genuine kind of charity is that
which opens the purse and keeps the
mouth shut about 1t.
This would be a pleasant old world
% get along in if men would pay their
debts as cheerfully as they pay their
grudges.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21

railroad train. The president himself
holds a card Of membership in the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen,
and while he has not had any practi-
cal experience, in shoveiing coal on a
big steamer, under the tutelage cot
Frank Sergeant, the chief Of the emf
grafton bureau, he could no doubt, in
an emergency. keep UP g. good fire and
make the requisite steam.
On the righthand side of the locomo-
tive cab on which the president could
engage to fire under the rules of the
order, Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Edwin c. Madden could take his
seat, and with his hand on the throt-
tie, drive an engine with the best en-
Sineers of the country. Mr.. Madden
served his apprenticeship and ran a
locomotive for a number of years be-
fore he went into the public service
and he has not forgotten his trade.
At the capital is another employee,
Dave Moore, in charge of the docu-
ment room Of the house, who Is an all
round r~ailroader and while he sat in
engine cab for many years, he
would be able to don a conductors uni
form and run the train according to
railroad rules. Representative "Thad"
Mahon, of Pennsylvania, was in his
an expert baggage "smasher' and
he could hold up his end on a proyis-
Ional government train. Consul Gen.
eral Wynne, now in London, and for
merly postmaster general, is an expert
-elegrapher and in n pinch he might |
ict as train dispatcher, while the nee
,ssary brakemen and fagmen could
,asily be obtained from men Of expert |
'nce in those positions who are now
lrawing salaries from Uncle Sam.
The president has a great liking for
abroad men and he never comes in
rom one of his trips that he does not
% to the engine and shake hands with
engineer and fireman. 1t was
through Frank Sergeant that Mr..
roosevelt was made an honorary mem
er of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
iremen.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21

full square. To the northeast a ire
mendous excavation, a square in ex-
tent, shows where the foundations for
the new senate Office building are soon
to be laid. To the north of this the
whole face of the city has been changed
and the magnificent Union railroad sta
ton is beginning to take shape and an
idea can now be formed of the extent
and beauty of this structure. The engi-
neers of the district estimate that with
in two years this splendid white gran
lite building will be completed and the
finest terminal depot in the world will
d its beauty to the national capital.
This new building will be within a
few feet as long as the capitol itself
h fine white granite that is being
used IN the exterior walls will harmon
lze with the government buildings and
already the surrounding squares haze
been filled in until the first story of
the new station appears practically on
a level with the capitol. Right under
capitol hill, between the national libra
ry and the capitol building, runs a rail-
road tunnel that will connect all south
ern roads with the new station. This
TUNE just touches the basement of
the new house Office building and
switches Will be laid from it into the
very cellar of these offices, SO that
supplies, coal, paper, books and other
material can be unloaded right in the
building itself.
There has been more advancement in
public buildings in Washington in the
last ten years than the capital city had
seen for a generation. Within the next
nVe years a still greater change will
be SHOWN. 1t is possible that the next
congress will authorize the erection of
a temple of justice.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21
Firemen

49, 40 -
OF the Prudential Insurance company
he is supposed to be thoroughly con
Versart with the good and evil in the
present insurance system and the
study he has given the question ought
to enable him to prepare a good bill.
Mr.. Dryden is a distinguished look
Ing gentleman and seems to fit in his
surroundings in the senate chamber.
He is tall and slender, faultlessly
dressed and of digniied, courteous de-
meanor. He stepped at one bound from
private life into the highest legislative
body in the world. He can make q
good speech, his language is well cho-
sen, pure and direct. In speaking of
his election to the senate a few DAYS
ago, ne reiterated a statement he made
at the time, that he did not owe his
political preferment to his wealth. al
though he is one Of the wealthiest. men
now in the senate.
MI. Dryden holds q diploma from
Yale college, but he never graduated
there. He prepared himself for the
college course by teaching and studied
at Yale for two years, but was COM
PEELED to leave in his junior year. Long
afterwards, when he was well I'D in
the %fifties, the faculty at Yale restored
his name to the rolls, just as though
he had finished his senior year. and
conferred upon him the degree of mas
ter of arts.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21
CONCERNING

Women without hats are not to be
admitted hereafter to Canterbury
cathedral In England.
Pope Plus x. has sent the papal bene-
diction to the members Of st. Liborius
church choir, st. Louis, in recognition OF
their consistent and sustained observ-
arce Of the regulations regarding church
music.
As a memorial to the late Jay Cooke,
one OF the founders and rector's warden
OF st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church
OF Ashbourne, Pa, a memorial hall will
be built there. The plans for the build
Ing, which will cost Sis, 900, have been
accepted. The funds will be provided by
MIR. Cookies children.
twenty-five years ago, says a religious
worker, the ruling idea Of the church
was that children should be seer and
not heard. The result was that few were
seen and none heard. The growth Of
young peoples societies in the churches
in the last quarter-century mean that
the truth is realized that the young are
the most efficient builders Of the King
dom OF Heaven on earth.
DR.. Adolf Fritzen, bishop Of Stras-
burg, has again issued an edict forbid
ding priests within his diocese to use
bicycles. He is sharply criticised there
Tor by the newspapers, which call at
.%tentfon to the-fact that bicycling ceased
long ago to be a mere SECULAR sport, and
that priests often find the wheel most
useful, especially those who have to
visit members of their congregation In !
remote country places.
Notwithstanding the French people are
the separation Of church and
'tate, the Roman Catholics Of France
have given more to the worldwide
propagation Of their faith than all other
combined. Out of a total of
3, 352,O17.N given for that cause last
rear France contributed SOL, OO8. Ga,
While American Roman Catholics gave
'nly $156,e42.s2. about one-eighteenth
IS much as was given to missions by the
Methodist Episcopal church alone.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-10-21

while others have been almost obliter-
ated. 1t is proposed to mark them in
some way, so that the visitor to Wash
ingtOn and the student of civil war his
tory may be able to trace this line of
earthworks that were thrown up in
defense of the capital during the civil
war.
A drive around the line of old forti-
hcations forms n of the most impress
slve features of the city. They extend
in a continuous circle of forts and
earthworks, 81 miles in circumference.
from Alexandria on the Virginia side
OF the Potomac to Fort Greble nearly
opposite that city on the Maryland
banks. The necessity for these fortif-
cations was seen early in the war. The
nrst erected were on the Virginia side,
running from Alexandria up to Airing.
ton Heights and the Potomac. Then
they were extended on around the CITY
as the confederate forces at various
tlmes threatened the capture Of the ma.
tional capital. They were effective in
repulsing the dashes made by Early. |
Mosby and others. In the couptrv
round about, in both Maryland and
virginia, stories are still told of Mos.
oy' that daring Virginia cavalryman.
his dashes toward the capital,
mere is no doubt but that at manv
during the war Mosby's men
we're often in sight of the dome of the
:apitol. 1t might be mentioned that
Joi. Mosby is now a trusted and useful
agent Of the interior depart.
nent, a good republican and a great
ldmirer Of Roosevelt.