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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-21
GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT
Will be Held ON Wednesday and
Thursday of the Present Week-An
Entrance Fee of $500 Will be
Charged.

This is the week for the gun club
tournament at the Delgado grounds of
the Wilmington Gun Club and the Of
fetal programme has just been issued.
AS stated before, the tournament will
take place on Wednesday and Thurs
day of the present week and it is ex-
pected that quite a number Of those
who are fond of this sport will be here
from several North Carolina towns
and possibly shooters from some OF the
adjoining states. The programme is as
follows:
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22ND.
Event No. 30 Blue Rocks. $40
added.
Event No. 30 Blue Rocks. 80
added.
Event No. Blue Rocks 800 add
ed.
Event No. 4 20 Blue Rocks, $40
added.
Event No. $50 Blue Rocks. SO
added.
Event No. go Blue Rocks. $40
added.
Event No. 30 Blue Rocks. $40
added.
Event No. so Blue Rocks, s10C
added.
Event No. go Blue Rocks, s1o
added.
Event No. 1O-2O Blue Rocks, SO
added.
THURSDAY AUGUST 23RD.
Event No. 20 Blue Rocks. SO
Event No. go Blue Rocks. So
added.
Event No. go Blue Rocks, $40
Event No. 40 Blue Rocks, SO
added.
Event No. $50 Blue Rocks. SO
added.
Special Event-25 Blue Rocks, five
men, club team shoot.
Event No. go Blue Rocks, $40
added.
Event No. 30 Blue Rocks, $40
added.
Event No. so Blue Rocks, $40
added.
Event No. go Blu Rocks. $40
added.
Event No. 1870 Blue Rocks, $40
added.
RULES TO GOVERN.
The following are the rules laid
down for governing the tournament
and will be observed to the letter:
Purses will be divided according 10
the Percentage System, 80, 25 20, 10
and 10.
American Association rules will ap-
ply.
Targets thrown at two cents each.
A full supply Of factory l~oadedsheus
with standard loads will be for sale
or the grounds.
All paid representatives Of shells,
guns or powder factories will be al
lowed to shoot for target only.
$500 in gold awarded each day TO
the professional making highest aver
age.
All shooters are requested TO enter
for the entire program each day. II
YOU wish to withdraw, the cashier VIII
refund your entrance for the unc)n-
tested events.
Black powder and 10 guage guns
barred.
The blackboard will be the official
score and any correction must be
noted before same is transferred to
the office.
Lunch will be served on the grounds.
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RECEIPTS OF r T

New York, August 1S.-Receipts at
the ports today 6.452 bales, against
3,S03 last week and 1921 last year.
For the week 40, 900 bales, against 30
645 last week, and $4,000 l asst year.
Today's receipts at New Orleans 314
bales, against 1,194 last year, and at
Houston 4.779 bales, against 3.o42 last
yea
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Animation MARKETS

Saturday. August IS
COTTON-NominaL
Receipts of cotton today bales.
Receipts this season TO date
325.251 bales.
Receipts same day last year,
bales.
Receipts last eason TO same date
3Ss.43s bales.
NAVAL STORES.
SPIRITS OF TURPENTISE-
Firm 5s4
ROSIN-Nothing doing.
TAR-Firm $500.
CRUDE TCRPENTINE - Firm
hard. s2.s0; dip. $40: virgin. $40.
RECEIPTS TODAY.
s6\casks spirits ~turpentine.
52s barrels rosin.
80 barrels tar.
13s barrels crude t~urpentine.
RECEIPTS SANE DAY LAST YEAR.
so casks spirits turpentins.
299 barrels rosin.
% barrels tar.
126 barrels crude ~turpent!ne.
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Fail Proved Fatal.

New Orleans, August 1S.-Mrs. Isa-
bel Smith Van Benthuysen aged s.
years, member of an old and promi-
nent family of New Orleans. slipped or
the stairway OF her home this after
noon and sustained internal injuries
from which she died almost immedi-
ately. She leaves two daughters, Mrs.
McCrea, of Norfolk, Va, n Mrs.
Ross Malford of this city.
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august ~
1519-Pedros Aris establishes his
seat Of government at PAN
anna.
1S12-American naval victory off
the coast of Massachusetts,;
British ship Guerrero surrsu-
ders to Captain Isaac Hull, Of
the frigate Constitution.
1814-British feet in the Chesa-
peake Bay begins attack On
Washington; General Ross
lands 5000 British soldiers at
Benedict, Md.
1S46-Commodore Stockton block
AIDES Mexican ports on the
Pacific.
August 90
1619-Dutch war ship lands twenty
African negroes at James
own Va; the first African
slaves in the American colo
MES.
1620-Pilgrims sail a second time in
the Mayfiower and Speedwell;
urseaworthiness of the Speed
well compels them to return
to Plymouth.
169i-William Penn reinstated in
his. province, which had been
annexed to New York.
1793-General Wayne defeats the
Miami Indians at the Maui
NEE Rapids, in Ohio.
1841-Battles Of COntreras and
Ch~urubusco, near Mexico
City.
1861-General George B.. Mcclellan
assumes command of the
Army Of the Potomac.
18G5-President Johnson restores
the writ of habeas corpus in
all the states.
18S6-Sevcn anarchists sentenced to
death in Chicago for murders
committed during riots.
18S8-The Senate ratifies the treaty
with China forbidding Chi
nese immigration for twen-
ty years.
August 21-
1684-La Sale sent from France to
establish a colony at the
mouth of the Mississippi.
entrance to river missed;
st. Loui settled and hen
abandOned.)
1721-The New England Courant
first issued at Boston.
111O-New York royalists erect an
equestrian statute of George
III in Bowling Green.
l775-Continental army arrives at
Fort T~icOnderOga.
18S1-Nat Turner's negro insurrec-
ton breaks out in Virginia.
1847-Mexicans propose an armis-
tice, with a view to ending
the war.
1856-The Charter Oak, at Hartford
Conn, blown down.
1858-LincOln and Douglas hold the
first Of their series of joint
debates.
1S63-UniOn forces lombard Char
lesion, S. c..
August o.
1563-Sir John Hawkins, the slave
merchant, relieves the need
Of the suffering colony at Port
Royal, S. c..
1S14-The people of Nantucket, off
the Massachusetts coast, de-
clare themselves neutral in
the war between the United
States and England, but under
the protection of England.
1851--The yacht America wins the
Cup of All Nations in the
international regatta at
CoWes, England.
1894 State convention in MissiS-
sippi declares null the ordi-
nance of secession, and petit
tons for the pardon of Jeffer-
son Davis.
1S70-President Grant prOclaims
the neutrality Of the United
States in the Franco-Prussian
war.
August 23-
1500-BobadiEa arrives in Haiti:
he accuses Columbus of in
justice, severity, and venality,
and has the great navigator
sent in chains to Spain.
1630-The first court Of assistance
is held at Charlestown, Mass;
among other things 1t DEGREES
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THE \ MARKET.

New York. August 1s.-Money on
cali nominal: no loans Time loans
very firm; sixty days s per cent; six
month s: prime mercantile paper 5L
TO s per cent. Sterling exchange steady
at S4.s4.15 for demand and si.sl.S5
for sixty day bills. Posted rates s4.s2A
tn SASSY. Commercial bills s4sl.
to s4.SaL Bar silver ssA Mexican
dollars 81. Government bonds steady.
Railroad bonds arm.
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; straights 1920 to s3.75;
bakers $3.50 to $3.50: No. 8 spring
wheat 50 TO 70; No. 2 red 691k to 20;
No. > corn 40: No. 2 yellow 5OA; No.
l flax seed s1.OS; No. l nuTthwestern
$1.12; short ribs sides Ooose) $3.50
to $3.50; mess pork per barrel $500;
lard, per 100 pounds 1856; short clear
sides (bUxed $9.12 to 1928: whiskey
basis of high wines S1.29.
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CLOSING OF mTTON.

New York, August 1s.0Cotton:
Spot closed quiet; middling uplands
1910; middling gulf 1895: sales none.
Futures steady Prices ranged as fol-
lows
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Miss Bessie Russ went to Rocky
Mount yesterday for a short visit.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-21

April and May SO to Sill: May and
June 5.1I to STA.
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CHICAGO GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Chicago. August 1S.-Thea leading
futures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Close
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27

rents of thought, who wish to bap-
tie war ships with water instead of
wine, and who try to cure their
weakness of nerves by secret alco-
holism, They have invented Chris
tion Science, and they shrek at
Roosevelt because he has given them
"a lesson or two which they well de-
served because they have forgotten.
in spite of their boasted culture, the
axiom of Euripides, o woman, the
best ornament of women is
silence"
The writer says that the American
woman prefers intellectual pursuits
to Irritation. and reads more than
the ordinary American man, al
though this feminine intellectualism
lis not elevating the standard of
American literature Thus:
We must allow that the Ameri-
can woman is intelligent and devotes
to the Metaphysical or Browning
club the hours Partisan spends
with a lover. There are more let
tered women than lettered men in
America. This, however, results in
lowering the tone of American liter
ature and art, the code of morality
is thus strangely distorted, the cur
rent of public opinion made to run
with grotesque uncertainty, and life
in general becomes filled with the
.oddest Inconsistencies. - Transla-
tion made for the Literary Digest.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27
The Apple and Its Relatives.

| am so much in love with this
wonderful apple tree, that | believe
no one can have any rights in an
orchard who is not gentleman
perhaps | should say something of a
poet. 4 rude boor or a needless lout
Will make a botch of it at some
point. The owner must have a thor
ough sympathy with his trees. He
must comprehend the wishes and the
bias of each tree. There is no rea-
son why an apple tree should not
be consulted as to its tastes, just as
much as calf or Il pig. The most
distressing sight anywhere about
country is a neglected orchard, gone
to suckers and dead wood. The own
er of noble apple orchard may
stand under his trees, in sight of
his strawberry garden, and with
amazement consider what forces ma
ture has put forth to create out of a
'oiHiuph otONh IL ullS dS ldi dpdi
and yet as beautiful and delicious as
these two; for the strawberry and
the apples, as well as the black
berry and the raspberry and all the
rosaceae family have come from
some common ancestor. Nor do we
know the end of this magnificent
evolution. The future has startling
novelties in store for us. But here
after we may not count on so much
of fruit progress coming about by
accident as by human volition. The
art OF crossing varieties is now fully
under the hand and brain of man
Burbank is n leader, but he is a
leader only. There are fifty men in
the United States today who are
fairly his rivals, while in other
branches of the family, like the
plum and the cherry and the pear,
there are still more brainy creators.
The fact that the apple tree is
large and needs sunshine and space
does not debar It from small country
places. There are some varieties
that nature has created specially for
dooryards. But better yet is to Sc
lect a few of what we call dwarfed
varieties, and which never grow to
exceed the size OF good Mayduke
cherry tree. IL is possible, In this
way, with a suburban lot, to have
succession OF homegrown apples
throughout the year. Select the
Gutenberg, the summer Rose, the
Porter, the Mcintosh, the Wagner,
and you will have already enough.
Add to the list as many as you like
after consulting a good nurseryman'
catalogue. But at all events try TO
make place for at least one apple
tree. II has In II such poetry and
such homefulness as belongs TO no
other tree with which am acquaint-
ed.-E. p. Powell I'm The lndepend-
ent.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27
Saved His Life.

j. w. Davenport. Wingo. KY,
writes. June IA. 1902: 81 want to
|'eh you l believe Ballard's Snow
-'hlment saved my life. / was un-
re- the treatment of two doctors,
-hd they told me one of my lungs
S entirely gone. and the other
0@aly affected. ! also had a lump
VI my side. I don't think that ]
ou'a have lived over two months
singer was induced by a friend
- Try Ballard's Snow Liniment. The
e application gave me great re-
'ei; two so cent bottles cured me
@"end and weIl.
y Is wonderful medicine and ]
amend II TO suffering humanity.
H0n by ID. J. Fry's drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27
Alterations of American Women

AffectatiOns of American Women
The Nuova Antologia OF Rome
prints an article from the pen oil
Amy Bernardy, professor Of Italian
at Smith college in Northampton,
Mass, in which she makes reference
to the alleged affectations OF Ameri-
can women in the following terms:
"The great pity is that in America
there are women of certain type
far too common, who boast that they
are much more cultivated than the
men, and impose upon others, be-
cause they have acquired a certain
vague and superficial knowledge on
a thousand subjects, so that they APP
near To be of marvellous versatility
when in fact they are scarcely edn-
Gated. The English have invented
a graphic phrase which | wish to
use in this connection, to master the
trick American women OF this sort
have mastered the trick OF appear
ing cultured. They are past masters
in the art of making the gilded brick
appear to be a cube OF gold so as
10 cheat others into the idea that
the gold is genuine, like their dia-
monds. IL they have any. They pose
as intellectuals, and their supreme
is 20 emaneipate them
selves from the superiority OF the
other sex, a superiority whose exist
ence they deny. Thus America mas
a form of feminism. or rather agyno-
craey, which is really formidable
Its influence spreads from the fash-
ions to religion. from literature 10
social rules. from public opinion IN
some matters to public action ID
others. IL is the woman who ini'l-
ate everything. who accomplish
everything. who direct certain cur
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-27
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sometimes your meals will reveal
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DR.. KUN
Wonderful CHINESE DOCTOR


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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-11

which they were given than such cry might
mean ordinarily.
There was rushing forward 10 grasp Mr..
Hughes's hand. and he had hard work getting
away. He went direct 10 Convention Hall
MR.. HUGHEs's SPEECH.
Mr. Hughes said. in part. at both places to-
night, as follows:
stand before you, fellow citizens, without any
pledges, except 10 do my duty according 10 my
conscience. ] did not seek the nomination ana
j under no political obligations 10 any one
IN regard TO it. There IS no person or corpora
ton to which in any manner owe anything,
and ] am free 10 serve and If you elect me L
intend to serve the people Of this state.
II has been suggested, and have seen a great
ceal In the public prints, in regard 10 the con-
ditions OF our Departments. / suppose a number
OF you know even II my opponent does not
know. what the legal powers of the Governor
partment appointed by the advice ana consent
OF the Senate; under the law relating 10 public
officers he is removable. not by the Governor
but by the Senate upon the reQuisition OF the
Governor. Now, / have heard great deal ana
] have said a great deal-I haven't Information
in any official or responsible way. but IL am
elected ] propose 10 have an examination or my
own. / have done something along that line;
think ] know how 10 do H. And IL you know
I find out in responsible manner. after have
taken the oath OF Office. what the facts are, 1
shall deal with fl justly and feariessly AND
what I have said in regard 10 that is my attl-
tuoe in regard TO the other matters arecting the
departments.
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INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

The Republicans Of The Bronx will open the cam
paign this evening with mass meeting a. the
North Side Republican Club. l42d street and Third
avenue. Frank Moss, James L. Wells, Pratt A
Brown and s. II. Mldenburg will speak. Richard
w Lawrence. president Of the club, will preside.
The rally indicates that The Bronx Republicans
earnest IN their support of Mr.. Hughes.
J. Van Vechten Olcott. candidate for reelection
10 Congress from the 18Th District on the Repub-
ucan ticket will address meeting OF the Public
Stores employees this afternoon at o'clock. at
Greenwich Hall, HIcsoa and Greenwich streets.
A. he last session OF Congress Mr.. Olcott intro
dueed ard worked for the passage OF bill inprov-
ing the condition Of these employees. regulating
their hours Of service and rate OF pay
Washington. Oct. IN.-Henry W. Taft, of New
York. was the earliest caller at the White House
to-day.
II am not q politician" said he. but believe
Hughes will carry New York by a tremendous ma
tority. I not accept the stories that Hearst Is
strong among the farmers upstate. II he has any
unusual strength upstate 1t is among the same
elements In the cities TO which he appeals In New
York"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-11
NAGLE-oOWAN FIGHT IN COURT.

The fight between Percival 2. Magic and John r
Cowan, which began at the primaries on Septem-
Der IS, was continued yesterday before Justice
Leventritt IN the Supreme Court. where argument
was heard 10 compel the Board OF Elections to issue
a certificate OF election showing that the plaintiff
Wallace 6. Fraser. and John +. CoWan were duly
elected members OF the General COMMITTEES OF Tam
many Hall The Cowan faction was sustained at
the convention at Buffalo. According the returns
which were delivered 20 the Board OF Elections
Maggie got the largest number Of votes
Counsel argued for nearly two hours. and then
the justice took the papers and reserved decision
Roger Foster, counsel for Cowan, ia his argument
said that he had sixty adayits TO show that Magic
the day Of the primaries went through the cleo
tons districts In the 30th Assembly District fol-
lowed by some thirty odd thugs" and beat the
election officers who We're not favorable to him
The majority OF the returns he said. were made
by impronptu election officers
Maurice Cntermyer on behalf OF Maggie who an
peared IN court with his left arm In a sling de-
MED all OF the accusations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-11
FAG4NITES LEAVE HALL.
Verb0l Conflict TN Hudson County
Committee Meeting.

The Republican Committee Of Hudson County. ",
j., had a warm meeting last night. when nominal
tons for the Assembly and for county officers were
to be made The nrst step toward a clash of tho
Faganites and the regulars was taken by James W.
Mccarthy. the New Idea president OF tho Jersey
City Board Of Aldermen, who offered a resolution
indorstng Governor Stokes for United States Senator
Soma confusion ensued. and the matter was re-
ferred 10 The committee resolutions.
When the committee brought In It's report, how
ever. IL included reference TO Governor Stokes
The Faganites were much dispieassd at this, and
a move 60 indorse Senator Dryden prscpitated a
verba. hght which became a hubbub and ended In
the withdrawal OF the Pagan followers.
The regulars remained, and at an early hour thts
morning still at IT. The slate included Clar-
Walker for County Supervisor, David j. Allen
for Surrogate, and Assemblymen James z wooley
Robert Scott and Philip DIPPED for the Assembly.