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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-14
VIII. Smith q Co.
Successors 10
Vim. B. Sharp q Coz
Fourth and M8Fkeg Sta

Black and COIOFed
Dress Goods.
These two departments
offer you the newest and
best in stylish Spring dress
fabrics. We have the most
perfectly lighted depart
ments you will find any
where. This quantity Of
pure daylight means a
great deal to you-you can
match shades and sec the
color effects exactly-you
can see just how good a
quality you are getting.
Upon careful comparison
you will find that our dress
goods are the best quality
for the least money you
will see.
Stvle -beaufv- litv--and
prices are right, assortments arc
extensive.
In the always popular Black
Dress Goods we are showing q
large limo of the famous PRIEST
ly's English Ncaves. 50c to
Si75 a yard Have You seen
the Shadow Crispines S1.25
yard. The Unspotable 1aneta.
Sl00 and S1.25 Couriald's
fine Crepes. much used for trim
mings. Sl00 to $500 a yard.
Black Panamas. 81 90 and 81 25
Tamise Cloths. silk warp or wool
warp. S125 and Sl.00. A big
line Of Neilings and Batistes at
right prices, SOC TO 81 % yard
Novelty Noiles, 81 80 and sl75
yard
Such a run as we are having in
our extensive Oolorsd Dress
Goods on Grey panamas al
Sl.0O a yard We are glad TO
say that we have just received
FIVE new styles Of this Best
Panama in the wanted Grey
checks. plaids and plain colors.
Broadcloths for spring travelling
suits are good; for tailor-made
costumes nothing is better Our
50-ineh Sl.00 cloth Is Of high
quality. durable weave. beanti-
fnl mstre and iineness; Si.0a
yard, III grey, Alice blue. reseda,
navy. garnet, green, red, tan and
black. Sl.00 d yard
Batistes III soft diaphanous
weaves Of great beauty Shades
are perfect and our special cloth
is the pretticst YOU will see for
Csc a yard. Other grades better
than most stores offer, al SOC and
75c.
l1oliennc 10 navy blue and
cream and light blue Is a wonder
full value at 75c a yard, "A inches
wide At SlO0 we have a mag
ni6contly lustrous weave IN
cream, reseda, grey, tabac and
blue.
First door.
A Saving on
Long Cloth
means a saving on fine,
dainty underclothes, for it
is the material many
women use who make
their underclothes at home.
$3.50 long cloth. 12-yard piece,
S1.0s; this brings II down 20 qc
yard, which is little, il any
more than muslin.
White goods, first aoor.
A TWO-pieCe Bargain
in stylish all wool panama
checks dress goods
thirty-seven inches wide.
One grey and white check with
III over-plaid Of black; one grey and
white and green; both beauties
for every day dresses or chill
dren's wear SOC usually; these
two 60 to-day for 2sc.
Dress goods, hyst floor.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-14
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Associated Press Dispatch by special Wires
New York. Mar 1.-THE stock market opened
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10


lem? ! do not think So You would
not think so If you could spend day
at the island and see the sturdy yeo-
men, the gingery Magyar Haiduks, the
swarthy Italians, who come hither In
foods, Especially If you could sit
for days in the courts of special In
quiry, where doubtful cases are de-
tanned, where mothers and children
meet after years apart. and where
scenes are daily enacted that call for
tears of Joy and sympathy.
Here is case. Marcelllna Justin
ianO, Of the Abruzzi, Is detained. She
is an Italian woman Of As, but with
her early Whitened hair she looks
nearer co. She has the fine features
Of the statue OF a Roman matron. But
she may become a public charge.
After days delay at government cost
she is called before the august court.
The government employees, men of ex-
perlence, Grand Army veterans most.
ly, who sit as judges question her
/ Meanwhile q messenger has slipped
out quietly and returns by a side door,
ushering In a good-looking young Ital-
ian, dressed In American fashion, OBJ
Viously prosperous. He walks straight
to the bar without seeing the old wom-
an. But the Joy that transforms her
mobile features into smile struggling
through tears is not lost on the judges
They know what 1t means, Young
Justiniano says yes, he sent for his
mother. he paid for her ticket he can
provide for her How much does he
earn? Fo' dors a day. Has he q
bank book? He shows one. The ques-
tionlng Is ended. He turns in his
confusion. sees his mother for the
first time. Together they 90 away,
hand in hand. You ought to see that
and a hundred scenes like It every
dayl
! Immigrants swapping us? They
are not so numerous In proportion to
our number now az they were 90 years
/ ago; not nearly They ought to be
able to read and write? OF course they
ought But more OF them can than
so years ago TW0-thirds Of all the
white people who immigrated 70
America in l4s2 up to 1850 could do
neither. And very much suspect that
some Of our distant relatives may
have been among the unlettered ma
iority
OWEN LANdDoN
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
THE SEVEN BIBLES.
Their Names and What They Are
Nearly All Of Them Based on
the Scriptures.


The seven Bibles Of the world are
the Koran OF the Mohammedans, the
rri-Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Ed
das Of the Scandinavians, the Five
Kings Of the Chinese, the Three vedas
of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and
the Scriptures of the Christians.
The Koran 10 the most recent OF
these, dating about the seventh con-
fury after Christ. II is a compound Of
quotations from the Old and New
Testaments, the Talmud AMI the Cos
pei Of st. Barnabas.
The Pitikes of the Buddhists con-
tain certain sublime morals and pure
aspirations, and their author lived
and died in the sixth century before
Christ. There is nothing of excellence
In these sacred books not found in the
Bible.
The sacred writings Of the Chinese
are called the Five Kings, the word
king meaning web Of cloth. They
contain the best sayings OF the best
sages on the duties of life. These say
lngs cannot be traced back farther
than eleven hundred years before
Christ.
The Three Vedas are the most
ancient books of the Hindoos, and
they are believed not to date beyond
LOO years before Christ The Zen
davasta of the Persians is the greatest
Of the sacred books next to our Bible.
loroaster whose sayings It contains,
was born in the twelfth century be-
fore Christ. Moses lived and wrote
the Pentateuch 1900 years before
Christ, therefore that portion of our
Bible is at least 300 years older than
other sacred writings.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
How to Make and Spin Your Own Top

With nice weather outdoors, all the
boys will want to play tops" so here
is something about them that will be
sure to interest you, and at the same
time help you to make one for your
self, as the boys in France often do.
OF course, you viii learn by yourself
TO spin the ordinary top, but, strange
as, it may seem, this is done in a some
what different manner by English and
American boys, In England the boys
hold the top as in illustration 1; in this
country 1t is held as in figure 2. But
the result is the same when the top is
thrown to the ground.
For a whip-top, an eel-skin makes
the best whip, ss 1t is soft and clings
to the top, making It spin better.
Spring-tops have almost passed out
Of vogue; they have cap or handle
at the upper end, which is held in the
hand while the top is turned round and
round This winds up spring in the
handle, and when the top is placed
on the ground the spring sets it to
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

the pencil that is above the top, slip
the lath hole over the pencil, bring the
string up through the hole, and then,
holding the top with the lath, pull the
string with the other hand. This will
set the top to spinning, and you then
lift OF the handle.
You can paint the top all in QUE col
or or in stripes, and on the lid you can
paint design. This gives a pretty
effect when the top spins. To vary the
effect, cut out disks of cardboard, with
a hole in the middle, so that they may
easily be slipped over the pencil. II
you cut the disks out in various ways,
one or more colors on the top can be
covered and exposed in different de-
signs. If the disks are moved slightly
while the top is spinning, they vary
the colors exposed and give an ever
changing appearance to the top In
stead of cardboard, stlf paper or leath-
err may be used for the disks.
Rings of paper of different colorE
may be dropped on the top while 1t Is
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
Cutting Glass.

Did you ever see anybody cut a
pane Of glass with pair of scissors?
Perhaps you think 1t can't be done;
but 1t can. Suppose you try it. Get
large pair Of scissors, or shears, and
hold them and the glass entirely under
water while you cut; the water dead
ems the vibrations caused by the action
Of the scissors, and the result will be
straight cut across the pane. Il is
essential that you should keep the
scissors and the glass submerged
while the cutting is going on.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

English eight years ago. but that he
was elected a member OF the best de-
batting club in Columbia university, Il
popular in sports and is treated BY
all the other boys precisely az one Of
themselves. They do not even overdc
It, which happens to negro students
sometimes among the white students
in Harvard.
A wonderful young man, in truth
He studied English in zululand, NOT
enough TO talk we'll. Now his native
town has trolley cars and electric lights
His father, though an important chief,
had, Of course, in these days OF Eng
lish rule, a small income, but he sent
Seine to Columbia to learn the ways
of a republic The plan was that ht
should go thence to Oxford to study
English law. But both father and
mother are now dead. Mr.. Seine has
had to earn money. He has cooked
on a yacht. He will be an automobile
chauffeur this summer. He delivers
lectures, does any honest work. He Is
in part assisted by Zulu in Indiana
who helps along for patriotism. An
other Zulu has studied white mans
medicine by means Of similar priva
tlons and sacrifices. Others are study
ing tailoring and like useful arts. to
be Of value to their people when they
return. They all return.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

o. any chain IL IN tho strength Of tn
links Every one OF you has read with
delight Klpllne's wonderful Jungle
Books. DO you not remember the
Law OF the Jungleg" \
Perhaps you win look It up, not
that am comparing you for a minute
10 the wolves and bears and wild
creatures OF the jungle. But there are
few days in my life when do not see
in home life, in town life. and wher-
ever else people live In communities,
that Kipling put great truth into
the stanga am about to quote:
Now this is the law OF the Jungle
as old and as true as the sky;
And the wolf that shall keep 1t may
prosper, but the wolf that shall
break It must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree.
trunk the law runneth forward
and back
For the strength Of the pack IL the
wolf, and the strength Of the
wolf is the pack"
/ think l will make a parody OF this
for you, with apologies to Mr.. Kip.
ling:
NoWpthis is the law Of the school.
room--as old and as true as the
sun;
And the students who keep It sha-
prosper, for the tasks Of their
days viii be done.
The law runneth onward forever, as
swiftly the happy years pass,
The strength of the class is the girl
aud the strength of the girl 10
the class.
Schools set their stamp on their pu.
pills so that one may almost tell at .
glance by certain slight characteristics
or certain more definite ones, from
which school girl has been gradual
ed. Just as every great college In the
land puts Its own hallmark on its
graduates, the preparatory school
stamps its pupils for all time,
Girls in the formative period OF thelI
lives come beneath the moulding hand
and the vitallzing influence Of teach.
er's personality. Insensibly, they fake
on something they would never have
had but for her. Years ago. in New
York city, there was principal who
presided over what was known as the
Twelfth street grammar school To
this day Miss Wadleigh's pupils bear
something Of her strong and beautiful
character in their faces and lives
Mount Holyoke college win carry for
all time the impression made by is
great founder, Mary Lyon. In 8
southern city there is famous school
where young women have for years
been trained to great usefulness. Mary
Baldwin is no longer on earth, but tbs
Mary Baldwin school will be hers for
generations.
These are the thoughts that come 10
me as look on a class photograph.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

would evangelize the Bowery.
The cry used to be in that quarter
that the Catholic churches we're driv-
lng out the Protestant ones. That is
no longer the case. The old Catholic
cathedral in Mott street Is stranded
near the heather Chinee, and in Null
berry bend itself a picturesque little
chapel, one Of the quaintest in the city,
though conducted by Italian priests,
Is being crowded out by Chinese. This
little church was the center Of the
pistol battles that. ragged between rival
tongues before the Chinese imperial
commissioner and Judge Foster drew
up a treaty of peace between the fac
tlons. Just across the street are two
Joss houses Buddhist temples, strange
In lacquer and gold, hidden away in
tall tenement houses
The fighting quarter OF the town,
and OF course II was the mixture Of
succeeding races that made the Bow.
cry so pugnacious, has gone far up.
town, In such blocks as "HelPs Kitch-
en-" three miles above city hall fight
is still a daily occurrence. And the
ugliest Of Rli race feuds are those upon
the edge of the new colored settle.
ments. Not Thompson street, famed
as the seat of the "Pokah club" but
an occasional ''black and tan" block
, sandWiched away among other tene.
ments, where respectable colored peo-
pie are forced to pay exorbitant rent.
ais and herd with the meanest OF their
kind because In other quarters there
Is mo room. Race feuds as fierce
as that in Springfield. o.. are among
the ever present possibilities Of New
York Southern men in New York
predict them.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

but IT is a different justice. The young
man will make 1t his work to harmon.
lie the systems So the Zulu gradu.
ate of an American medical college is
trying to save what Is good in the old
fetch system of mediclne-and there
is much good In 1t, as Miss Kingsley
insisted, and other black belt explor-
ers-and combine 1t with the white
mans medicine.
No student in the 5000 at Columbia
foresaw in early years his life-work
and has pursued it with a more UNI
fiinching resolution than the Zulu.
That does not make the difference l
spoke of. other colored men have
done wonders in scholarship, which
Mr.. Seine has not. The point is that
his white associates have with respect
to him no race instinct of repugnance.
They eat with him and live their daily
lives with him without a thought of
thinking. So they would with a
dark, thin-lipped Moor. So they
would, and so New York women do,
with quite dark Hlndoos The race
feeling is not color, or not wholly that.
What is it? Is 1t the lingering faint
of slavery? II so, it is rather hard
luck. l have never heard that any
slave coast negro held out eager hands
for his chains. Not his the fault. IA
it?
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

were thriving institutions all through
the tough days Of the Bowery, when
that was the most "hghtingest' quar-
ter Of the city. Then the Bowery was
native American with the Irish next
in numbers. OF late the Jews have
ruled there, the Bowery is a trade
street and fighting is no longer fash
ionable. The two churches languished
and we're sold and torn down to make
room for synagogues. Beneath the
Willets street church they found hui
man bones buried three deep. These
we're victims Of the cholera epidemic
of 1882, when every road leading out
of the city was crowded with OK carts
bearing people away, and there were
not strong people enough left in town
TO care for the sick and bury the
dead in the usual order.
But Methodists are not the give-up
kind. They did not propose to aban-
don the Bowery. They have accord
ingly bought the Germania Assembly
rooms-the name suggests memories
of the middle period Of the Bowery,
when for a few years the Germans
owned the street-paying $265,OOO for
the land, and they are to put 100000
more into building and equipment to
do missionary, club and settlement
work such as Dr. Ralnsford is doing
in st. Georges church. Being the Bow.
cry, the work will be many-tongued.
There will be a Hungarian pastor; the
Hungarian quarter is just to the north.
There will be an Italian one; the
Italian quarter is just to the west.
There will be one speaking Yiddish
and one speaking Russian; the Jewish
quarter is all about and particularly
to the east. the Russian quarter a few
blocks northeast There is already a
Chinese mission which will be incor-
porated; the Chinese quarter is south
west
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

Are ColOred Disks Tor Use on Hurnming
spinning, ana then the cap is removed.
AS they get out of order easily, It is
natural that they should not be much
used.
Humming tops are made hollow.
with hole In one side. As the top
spins the afr rushing past this open
space makes the air within the top VI
brate, causing humming sound II Is
one Of these that you can make very
easily.
Get an ordinary cylindrical tin box
IA baking powder or spice box win
do-and make hole exactly in the
middle Of the I'D and OF the bottom.
Now push lead pencil through both
holes. letting 1t project about half an
inch below the bottom. The harder the
lead "a the pencil the better, and the
point should - graduated long way
up the wood part Of the pencil, as
shown IN figure 3.
Now lift the lid Of the box slightly.
and with a pair Of scissors cut a slip
OF tin out OF the box about two inches
long and one-eighth Of an inch wide.
Replace the lid and the top is COM
plste. The lid must at tightly; II It
does not. glue t.
TO spin the top, you make a handle
out Of 4 small lath three Or four Inches
long, with hole ia one end large
enough to admit the pencil freely.
wiad the string around ne para q
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
VERY CONVENIENT.

fancy must then be glued on the back
OF the board with pieces left on either
side Of sufiicient length to fold over
and tie across the pad; on these the
pockets are sewn The little loops are
attached on either side Of the board
where indicated ia the sketch. and the
one is for holding a pen, the other
"a pencil Monograms may be worked
on the front Of the pockets. and II
they are edged with cord or bound
with ribbon they VIM look well. The
plotting paper on the pad & fixed BY
merely slipping the corners under the
leather. The words, Envelopes, post
cards, paper and atamps may be
worked IN silk IN ornamental letter
ing. I
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
A usEEuL MRITINo-cAsE.
This Receptacle Has Advantages Over
the Ordinary BIotting-Pad in
Keeping Stationery Clean.

The chief feature Of this writing
case Is that attached on either side
are two roomy pockets to hold enye
lopes, post cards, paper and stamps;
they are made to fold over and inclose
the case when It Is not IN use, and
this is an advantage over an ordinary
plotting pad, and keeps the stationery
and blotting paper free from dust
For the board holding the plotting pa
per piece of stout cardboard or mill.
board may be used, and each corner
is covered with leather and glued Arm
ly to the back. A piece Of dark green
art serge or any other material we
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
THE SCHOOLGIRLS.
THE HAUNTING PERSONALITY
OF THE GLASS.

A Composite Photograph Of School
girls Has a Distinct Personality
Contact with Other Girls Rubs
Away Ones Angles-Members of
Same Glass Gradually Acquire
Characteristics in Common-The
Misfortune Of Being Taught at
Home-The Personal Unit in the
CLASSROOM = Great Colleges Put
Their Own Hall-Marks on Their
Graduates.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

10 cure chappsd hands alwaye eAre-
fnily dry the hands after washing
neYet allow tae moisture to evap.
ofate; this u q cause OF the trou.
hle. Before going 70 bed rub hands
well with boFaclc ointment. tasellne,
cold cream or glycerin Those who
cannot afford oedicaments VIII and B
bit o. mutton fat (nneookedj very
eflacti4e Draw on az old pair Of
gloves after Rnointing
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

Water taken with meals should be
slipped as well as taken sparingly.
Ice water should be taken as seldom
IS possible; Aever would Be . better
rule. And the habit, Of putting
ehipped Ice a tho drinking water d
10 Be- avoided. q one never knows
what may Be taken into tho stomach
through CHS medium. TbB better way
Is to Ill bottles with water and allow
them 20 stand beside Ice 70 chill
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
The stalwart American.

The men of this country have a per-
feet right to be called "stalwart,p If
stature can give It to them, The aver
age stature Of an American is Ave feet
1O1s inches; OF an Englishman, five
feet nine inches; and OF Frenchman,
five feet, four inches. The differences
is due partly to climate, and partly to
habits of life.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

spinning, giving a still different van,
ETY. to the designs. Another way is e.
make q disk with rows Of little holes
IN it. the central hole being larga
enough, Of course. to slip over the
handle. As the top spins, touch tins
disk and it will gyrate, ana the holes
win look like delicate lace patterns
changing with every touch.
On another disk with holes n Il, like
the above, glue a few bright steel but
tons, and the effect will be stIll pref.
tier
You viii have more pleasure out Of
this homemade top than out OF doz-
en- bought ones, for With little ipges
nuity In making tho disks YOU can have
q dozen tops IN one.
A flying top described by the Chlca-
go Inter Ocean is made by shaping .
stick OF wood something like that 10
the illustration. Three Yanes, With
oblique surfaces, are fastened to It and
the string Is wound around the stick
1T Is then put Ia an improYised stand
IN which Il can move freely ana enc
end Of the string a passed through 9
hole Ii the side Of the stand When
the string d pulled the wooden stick
ravoives, causing the vanes 10 turn
also, and whom they are turning at sui
icient speed the top rises high IN TIE
air as the Yhnes act on the all Jus.
like propeller of 2 ship on the waller,
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
Zulu and English Law.

He Zulus had law
courts Of their
own, and these
still do ru d g
justice as courts
Of original iuris'
diction. But when
cases are appealed
to the higher Eng.
lIsh tribunal the
natives get mixed
in their legal
principles. B o t b
systems do justice,
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
A Million Immigrants.

He immigrant rec
ord will be beaten
this year. T h e
record is more
than a million. It
was set last year.
The number will
rise to a million
and a quarter in
1906. Over 1000
came in one day
to Ellis island,
though they could
not all be handled
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

And then It's very curious
Why, day and night and all,
She sits and stares before her,
And to sleep she'll never fall
Unless I take her In my arms,
Or lay her on her bed,
with her toes so high she's nearly
Standing straight upon her headi
think I'll call the doctor
Like my mamma does for me-
I'm getting very anxious,
And I'd like for him to see
II he hasn't got some medicine
To- make my dolly grow
AS strong and plump and hearty
AS her mother is, you know.
Mary E DeBernarde, in Kansas CitJ
Star
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

Almond oil ......ss..s.s..4 ounces
waite wax 1890 "a ounces
Orange lover water "A ounces
Helt The wax n double boiler, add
the Oh slowly. When al are heated.
remove from, the Ute. stir until partly
cool ana then beat n tho orange acNs
s. water neat uupi cold
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10
IN THE METROPOLIS
THE METHoDIsTs HAVE NOT
ABANDONED THE BowERY.
LINoUIsTs NEEDED THERE.
The Zulu at Columbia University
A Wonderful Young Mantle
Immigrant Of To-Day and
Yesterday.

Ew YORK. The
Methodist church
in New York has
entered upon an
interesting enter
prise. II has In
vaded the Bowery.
Not for the first
time, of course.
The denomination
had in Forsythe
and Wille I 8
streets fine old
churches which
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-05-10

ofurte5y prince q the blood royal Of
wRzlike racer There is the fact
No, only that he has won Columbia's
coveted George William Curtis ora
tory medal which Is remarkable
ensueh Tor bay who could sneak 20