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The San Francisco call., 1906-12-19

BLAMED FOR CoLLIsIoN-London. Dec. IS.
The admiralty court today decided that the
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser wilhelm der
Crosse was alone blamable for the collision on
Cherbourg, November 21. between that vessel
and the British steamer orinoeo- The suit
brought by the of the Orinoco for dam
ages will be adjudicated later
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-19
no ExTRADIrE FUGITIVE

SACRAMENTO. Dec. 1s.-A requisi-
tion for the return of Thomas A. Nc
Gauran. wanted in King County, Wash,
on a charge OF forgery. was honoFed
by Governor Pardee today. McGauran
is alleged to have forged a check for
s33s0. collected the money and skipped
to this State. He was apprehended in
Redding.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-19

CLERGYMAN ARREsTED-Murphysb H.,
Dec. is--Rev Milo Gordon Cummings, former
pastor Of the Christian Church here. who Is un-
der two indictments, charging arson and the
other attempted arson to defraud an insurance
company, was arrested I'm Des Moines today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12

Sudden Interest Displayed by Them in the New
York Society That SCorns Meat.

/ clined to be Indifferent to it il other
: creatures. Doctors and d~estists all say
that women can bear twice as much
pain as a man.
But that may not be the reason,
after all, for most people, regardless of
sex, are astonishingly Indifferent to
humanitarian considerations. They
don't seem to realize suffering that
they don't experience. How else can
We explain the presence of Americans
at a Spanish bull6ght the other day,
or the apparent composure of the
young Queen when a horse was torn
in pieces before her eyes? The Queen
perhaps could not help herself, but the
Americans could have stayed away as
the British did.
In the letters of inquiry that / am
getting now humanitarian considera-
tons are seldom cited as a reason for
the interest manifested. People don't
want to be poisoned. That is all. They
don't think of the sufferings of the
poor animals. 1t was this thought
alone that drew me to ve~getarianism.
I was showed up for three Or four days
besides a cattle train on a Western
prairie about twenty-five years ago,
and after seeing the suferings of
those poor creatures I lost all taste for
meat and / have not been able to eat
it since.
But for whatever reason people
come into the vegetarian ranks, VIZ are
glad to see them come, and particularly
glad to see the women, because We new
er shall be able to make much progress
without them."-New York Tribune.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
The Shy Maude Adams.

1t IL "a curious fact that Miss Maude
Adams, who is perhaps the most gener-
ally known and best loved of our &C
t~resses, should be the shyest of them
all in personal intercourse, and the
most difficult to meet.
Her few intimate friends say that
this is because, in order to keep fresh
her vitality for her audiences, she has
to deny herself the more barren fati-
CUES OF society and function. She rests
cOnscientiously between performances,
and gives most of her leisure strength
to e w~eIl-stocked and varied library.
On the few occasions when she does
appear IN company, her vitality n
charm of quaint and Original tempera-
ment are no less marked than when
she is on the stage. Lately n OF the
admirers of her art met her for the
fist time, and asked her whatt the books
were upon which she spent so much OF
her time. She mentioned Emerson n
Plato as the chief of them, and said h
did not care at all for novels. Il sup
pose that what makes me less interest
theatrical feeling which always tells
ed in novels" she explained, " is the
me just what they are tending toward,
and how they are going to turn out.
The she added. as il to seem less Pc
dantic: You don't have that feeling
with Plato!" And by-and-by, in a SIM
liar strain of frankness, she confessed
to a liking for Ouida and The Duchess.
Her freshest condolences were with
regard to Peter Pan. 1t was remarked
that On her first night in the play on
-vIa- ~h0 "a mo down RI tho
footlights and said to that most blase
and difficult audience: Say that you
believe in fairies!" she looked genuine
ly scared for fear or the response
Yes" she answered. But did you
notice that they cried We Go! We do!'
even before I had finished s~peaklng?'
Her particular joys is in the little
boys and girls who have come to love
her because of Peter and the pirates.
Once. when coming out Of the theatre
by the stage door, which is usually the
haunt of the chappies, she heard a bold,
confident voice exclaim: That's Maude
Adams! There she goes!" She turned
about and saw that the speaker was a
little urchin, and that at meeting her
eyes he was abashed and quite cast
down. But. though still turning his
face away, he held out toward her a
single red rose. On another occasion
a youngster wa introduced to her.
It took him some time to be convinced
that this creature with long skirts and
hair done up on her head was in reality
which is to say, on the stage-the
wistful boy in pantaloons who fought
the Pirate Hook and would not for
ANYTHING grow up. When he was I'm
allv convinced, he said to her quite
SPECIFICALLY: 81 didn't say I believed in
fairies. Becuse I don't! And there
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
Mothers Record.

Here's a thought for mothers.
It is n that is too frequently over
looked.
We all like to hear the quaint saving
of little children.
They are especially charming when
they are the thoughts of u own chill
dren.
The members of the family van to
remember everything the darling saws
that is worth repeating.
All mothers, nurses and older sisters.
anyone who has the care of the little
ones, ought to treasure their original
remarks.
The best plan is to have a book al
ways handy, in which to chronicle
the wise or witty observations that are
too good to lose"
In reviewing old times after the chill
dren are grown, such a book would be
a great delight to the mother: and also
to the babies who have grown up"
Such a book would be a treasure
without price should the pratting little
lips, from which came the sayings
there chronicled, be stilled forever.
Psychologists, too, would find a book
or that kind a great aid in showing
the workings Of the childish mind. and
the advance in thought development.
No mother will ever regret it If she
follows Captain Cuttle's advice: When
found make a note of it," On hearing
the bright sayings Of her little ones.
While these sayings should not be
forgotten, on the other hand-to add a
word Of caution-they should not be re-
peated lad nauseam" 10 the unofend-
ing stranger who perhaps takes no in
te-est either in children In general or
in your child in particular Neither
should they be repeated before the lit
tie one with whom they originated, IN
til he gets the impression that he Is
"snnart-"-Exchange.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
Where Women Rule.

There is in India, according to the
traveller who comes over the sea, a
wondrous country where woman doml-
mates everything. It is the land Of
Nairs, situated along the coast Of the
Indian Ocean between Cape Comorin
and Mangalore. In this tribe, which
is one of the most exclusive and high
eest< caste nations of all India, maternity
counts for everything and paternity
practically nothing. The mother is the
head of the family and the recognized
ruler. These Nair women are proud
and strong. They scOrn wounds and
weakness. Ethnologists say that ply
sically they are the nearest to perfec-
ton of any race in all the world--grace-
full, handsome. agile, chivalrous and
brave.
Girls are desired by all families.
They can choose their husbands and
the chosen one ONE to live with the
mother-in-law, to become a part of
her family and obey her rule. With
the Mars, the freedom of the women
begins with marriage. Until a girl is
married, she is nothing; but upon mar
riage, which frequently occurs at the
age of twelve, she at once attains COM
plete liberty, but she remains a married
oma and is permitted to do as she
pleases.
This rule of the mother and the prac-
tical ignoring of the father extends
from palace to hovel. 1t is the worlds
last survival of a system asserted to
have been once the general law of the
world-the recognition Of the mother
as the real creator of the races and the
rightful ruler. Brothers obey unques-
tiOnably their elder sisters u respect
their younger sisters. Some are not
obliged to remain under the roofs of
their mother, but are permitted to set
up establishments of their own, taking
with them one of their sisters, who by
that act. becomes the ruler of the new
household. If the son marries, the wife
owes obedience to her sister-in-laW. Ii
domestic strife arises, the husband
must stand by his sister, and his wife,
in her turn, will give up her husband
or sacrifice him in any way for her own
brother. Conjugal life is a light thing,
out brothers and sisters remain stead
fast to each other.
A party from the Central Counties
Woman's Suffrage Association has SAIL
ed from England to investigate n re-
port to their organization on this Na1r
system. For some time it will conduct
it's investigations and then return to
Britain, possibly to advocate a modih-
cation of existing conditions in Eng
land.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12

Now is the time for some woman TO
start a nice, clean, dainty vegetarian
restaurant, says Charles Alexander
Montgomery, secretary of the New Veg
etarian Society. In fact, he thinks
there would be room for a good many
such restaurants, for no one really en-
joys meat in these days, mol is likely
to do so for some time to come, and
there are a large number of people
who would gladly live on a vegetable
diet If they could.
The present interest in vegetarian
ism is so great that the v~egetarians
intend to take advantage of it to Or
ganize a national society. Mr.. Mont
gomery is simply swamped with re-
quests for literature, cooK books, adj
dresses of vegetarian restaurants etc,
and is much encouraged by the interest
displayed by women.
ut is strange" he said to a Tribune
reporter yesterday, that the majority
of vegeta-ians are men. OF course we
have a good man women in ranks,
president of the New York society;
Mrs. John B. Henderson, of Wash
Mrs. Sarah Walrath Lyons and
Mrs. Content A. johnson, of New York.
They are among our most ardent work
ers. But, as a rule, women don't take
to vegetarianism. I don't understand it
One expects the humanitarian side
OF it to appeal to them, but it does not,
ordinarily. The only explanation / can
think of is that they can bear pain SO
s~toically themselves that they are In
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
J7D@+'s flew Woman Move
ment.

From Japan the word that a
movement toward woman's suffrage
has'@een started in the FIowery King
dCDl. The ome Of Jaran, it g said,
ar n !@ss ambitious tban IL. ms
bad md 6rO4h-rs and are cOnse suent-
l. TT discouraged in the least @ecause
tn gT@sz * slow Il = - uphill
fgl.- t~.'n. h1t - -. to win
in the s9i ia = acts in
tie Ola japanese law at forbade
woman to act upon the stage. All fe-
male parts were, until a short time ago.
played by male actors, but now many
women may earn their living by their
histriOnic talent.
The Empress is responsible for most
Of the growth of the movement. She
is doing everything in her power to
improve the condition of women in her
dominion. 1t was through her that the
old Japanese law in regard to the stage
was repealed.
Since Japan began to show an am
bitiUn to become a civilized power,
school attendance has been made COM
pulsOry for children Of both sexes I'M
til their fourteenth year. But higher
educational institutions remained clos
ed TO women The University Of Toxic
has also opened certain portions of
study to The government en-
plOys a number of women In the pos
tai and telegraph service.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
OF Interest to Women,
Waman's Great Dilemma.

Frequently a girls environment linn
its her to an acquaintanceship that en-
tirely precludes her from marriage Of
a nature that would be anything out
intellectual thraldom and mental SUI
fering. II may be that slight reading
Or a single glimpse into a different life
from what she has known has engen-
dered in her hopes and ambitions that
are utterly impossible for her TO rea-
lie through marriage. What is more
pitiable than a woman held by an in
competent and inferior husband to a
domestic existence distasteful TO her?
It is far better for her to become an
ambitious wage-earner than a dIssatiS-
fed wife.
The problem a girl must frequently
work out is not hypothetical; it is COM
mon. Given the daughter of a day labor
CT, who through our admirable public
school system, has been able to secure
a high school education. She gradu-
ates. She is at once confronted by two
prospects. She can turn to her faith
er's home, necessarily poor, to serve
as a domestic until she marries some
man of her fathers position or a very
little better. 1t is not difficult to ana
I'VE her mental sacrifices. Again she
may 90 into the working world and put
her education to some value. Carry
this situation up the social ladder as
far as you please, it remains the same
until reach families where the wo-
men nave such intellectual and social
enjoyment as satisfies their cravings.
In such families, we doubt if it is ever
possible to find a woman deliberately
going into the world to earn her own
living. She may take up some work
to occupy her mind, but in no sense
does she do it to gain a livelihood.
There may, Of course, be rare excep-
tons, but these cases are sporadic and
in NO way affect economic conditions.
But there is no reason for alarm, be-
cause the dilemma that %cOnfronts the
woman OF today forces her away form
home and home life. Our great World
machinery is self, adjusting. There is
a we'll established sequence or conse-
uuences between sociological causes and
economic results. II q womans place
is undeniably in the home and nowhere
else, then, sooner or later, she Will n
her way there. Her invasion OF mans
province will but force man to make
her place at home. if she is to stay
there, what it should be. II conditions
are to be ideal once place they must be
in another.
It is presuming considerably upon
the fitness of things to assert that Wo-
man should, to her extreme sacrlnce,
give up her ambitions as a W~age-earner
and allow herself to become a poorly
cared-for wife because it is her duty.
In these days, when oma is intelE
,ectually kept under the magnlfy1ng
glass and subjected to the critics sur
gical knife, we near a great deal about
her duties, divinely imposing, in most
cases. It causes us to wonder If duty
is entirely confined to m and has
nothing whatever to do with the mas
culine portion of the worlds inhabF
tants,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12

Tact has always been considered the
peculiar attribute of With a
woman's tact" is one of the stock
phrases of the novelist. But a writer
in one of the American magazines-and
his view is upheld by an English mag
azine which quotes him-upsets this
tradition by declaring that men are
more often tactful than women. Men
it is submitted, are swift to know when
to speak and when not to speak-when
it s wise to withhold even a look-and
that is why a mediocre man will sue
coed when even a clever woman will
fail; why men are greater In diplomacy,
in all things that require fnesse. Still
it is a question men really succeed bet
ter in diplomacy. What about the wo-
man who is the power behind the
throne?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
Business Women Defended.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox. in enc Of her
articles says she hopes for the ,time
when the vage-sarning woman shall
be no more. But is not likely thar she
hopes or expects the world tn 20 back
to the time Of Jane Austin's or Fredri-
ka Bremer's novels. when q woman.
who for any reason was without father
or husband, was expected TO take re-
fuge in the home OF her nearest nal
relative, even though the relationship
was no nearer than "a fo~rty-second
cousin" whether her coming was glad
~ welcomed or accepted as one Of the
inevitable ills Of life.
Mr.. Quarrie should have lived in
those days Of long ago when the I'M
married woman who had reached the
age OF twenty-five was doomed 70 go
about in gray gown, car, and sad, sweet
smile, and TO anticipate no further Joy
in life than the mending of brother
Johns socks or assisting in the care
of his babies. He certainly cannot be
blamed for his evident distress Of
mind for he must feel entirely out Of
harmony with his surroundings when
he sees the great army o. business.
working and professional women, Of
all ages, faiths and compilations, who
have dared to invade so many domains
once sacred to the lords of creation.
Il may be conceded that there are
many instances where women and girls
not actually dependent On their own
exertions for a livelihood. have entered
the ranks of the employed and perhaps
displaced workers Of both sexes who
were Obliged to support themselves by
their own labor, or, at best, force
them to work for an insufficient COM
~pensation. But, on the other hand
there are many, many, cases where the
woman stenographer, clerk, physician
or ever factory girls is the sole support
of an entire family Of dependent ones.
What disposal does Mr.. Ouarrie pro-
pose to make of this large class OF
working women? Is it possible that he
stands ready to supply a host Of able
and efficient men who in the generosity
Of their great unselish natures are
ready and willing to assume the care
and support of these needy ones?
Our troubled friend seems to take it
for granted that all women have living
fathers or brothers. Also it would al
most seem that he assumes that each
and every wonan is born with a hus-
hand, Or if this is not actually the case,
must necessarily hasten 10 acquire or
have a husband thrust upon her. And
If this were true, has be never known
Of a man who either could not or
would not provide for the support of
his female relatives?
Probably he would commend the ex-
ample Of a woman who was found last
winter by the authorities of an Ohio
city in a condition of ramentable des-
titution, replied when asked why she
did not try to obtain some employment,
that she was married; that it was her
husbands place to support the family
and if he did not work she certainly
should not.
Noble woman! If her sisters would
uphold their principles thus firmly,
u%ndaunted even by the prospects Of
death by starvation, our land might
doubtless be true Utopica.-Medical
Tale.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12
No Limitations
For a Woman

Il have called" said the agent of the
automatic housecleaning apparatus, ito
try to Interest you in our method
OF cleaning house. We have a machine
here that will do all your work.
Will your machine wash the outside
Of the upstairs windows?" exclaimed
the woman.
mo; but
will it wash. stretch and iron the
curtains; take them down and put them
up AGAIN."
will it paper the little room in the
hall and clean the wallpaper in the
bathroom"
NO; but we are prepared"
"W1ll it prevent my husband from
walking over a clean floor with his
dirty feet?'
NO, madam; but"
will it take down the parlor stove
and put up the ice chest?"
O.; but we are Prepared"
will it wash the winter bed clothes,
put camphor in my furs, make my
daughter help with the dishes; keep my
husband from g%rumbling about the cold
meals; persuade him to do the garden
ing; keep the dog out of the parlor:
prevent callers from coming into tea
paint the kitchen floor; gild the gas
fixtures and picture frames; hang new
portieres; carry the ashes opt of the
cellar and find time to make new dress
es for three girls and summer night
shirts for my husband?"
mo, madam; of course, our machine
has limitations"
Limitations! Of course, it has.
Every machine has; but man expects a
woman to have none. Limitations, in
deed, # I had any limitations it
wouldn't - long before this house
would 81 e ruin. It will be a long
time hofCcz rou Ten'H make a'machine
to Il = *o1"an's place Or do half the
W |-.~@ a-."-Detroit FreePress.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12

were a whole lot of us who didn't say
so, either!" The incident she tells with
most archness and charm, however, is
OF a child who saw Mr.. Charles Froh-
man cross the stage. LOOK! That ID
one of the pirates!" this child whisper
er.-Saturday Evening Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-12

Mrs. Brown says her baby can say an
sorts Of things" But / trust she
teaches il not to do so."-Puek.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-06
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Tha.
Contain Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mocuous surfaces, such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. ]. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and
is taken internally, acting directly up
on the blood and mocuous surfaces of
the system In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine 1t
is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimon-
ials free.
Sold by druggists. Price 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-06
TO HAVE NOR EROLLING STOCK.
.. G. L. Railroad Will Expend Six Mil.
lions for New Equipment.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The board of
directors of the Delaware & Lacka-
wanna railroad has authorized an ex-
penditure of s6,O00,O0O for equipment
and additional rolling stock and the
orders for the work have been given
out Much of the work will be done
at the company's Scranton shops. The
order includes 24OO box cars, 200 stock
cars, 100 carriage cars and four milk
cars. About three hundred men will
be added to the present SHOP force of
700. The American Locomotive COM
pany is to build so engines to be deliv-
cred during next April and May. To
the Barney & Smith Co., Of Dayton,
O., has been given an order for 500
steel gondOlas, 500 steel hopper cars,
10 milk cars, 10 express cars, and two
vestibuled coaches. The American
Car & Foundry company is to build IS
coaches for suburban service and
three combination cars.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-06
The Churches

, = . . . = o . q
The pastor of the Park Street Bap-
fist church desires those who expect
to attend the evening services to make
a special effort to be on time The
illustrated sermons that he is giving
attract so many that the seating ca
pacity is taxed, and it is not easy to
accommodate you if late, without Great
ing a disturbance. 1t is desired that
these evening illustrated services shall
not only be entertaining but profitable
so that no one who comes can be
anything but the better for the coming
Everyone is invited and all that can
be done will be done to make you COM
Portable
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-06
At st, Petersburu.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 6.-Tomor-
row is Christmas, but the usual holt
day spirit which is manifested for
many days before the day of the eel
ebration, is absent this year. The ter
rible scenes enacted in many parts of
the empire have put a damper upon
the festive mood of the people and it
is expected that tomorrow's celebra-
ton will be even more quiet than last
year, when it was subdued owing to
the critical war situation. The i'm
perial family will probably spend the
holidays at Tsarskoe Selo. There will
be a Christmas tree for the children,
but no elaborate celebration Of the day
as in former years.