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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-23

Last evening at 5:25 o'clock, Judge
Oliver Pendleton Meares passed quietly
away at his home on South Third street
after an illness extending over several
months. The end was not unexpected,
but nevertheless it came as a great
shock to his family and friends. Death
was due to heart disease. His condi-
ton had been critical for ONE time
past and on Tuesday he grew much
worse and it was realized that the n
was near Those who were near and
dear to him were notified, and Mrs.
II. B. Short, of Lake Waccamaw. his
daughter, came to the city on a special
train. Her husband was in the north,
but he will be here today. Mrs. Baltzer,
of Savannah, another daughter who
has a very sick child and it is hardly
probable that she will be here. Mr..
o. 2. Meares, Jr., is expected this morn
ing from his home in Georgia
The funeral will take place this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock from Sa. James
Episcopal church and interment will be
in Oakdale cemetery.
Oliver pendleton Meares was born
in the city Of Wilmington, New Han
over county, of this state, OF Febru-
airy oath, 1928. He was the sixth sen
of William Belvidere Meares and
Catharine G.. Davis. His father was
distinguished in his day as a lawyer,
planter and statesman, and in a
sketch Of him, published in THE
Eminent and Representative Men Of
the Ca%rolinas," the author says:
"He was gifted to an extraordinary
degree with moral courage, frankness
and honesty of purpose, was bold in
the expression Of his opinions and
looked with contempt upon those
seekers of public hOnOrs who were
mere followers in the wake Of public
opinion His intellectual characteris-
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The Importance Of the Massachusetts,
Supreme courts decision affirming the
constitutionality Of that States law,
enacted in 1901, under which the selling
agent of the tobacco trust was con-
victed Of selling goods to jobbers in
Brockton and Bridgewater on specially
Favorable terms, on condition that they
would buy exclusively OF the trust, is
becoming apparent. The defendant
(who was prosecuted at the June ses-
sion Of the Superior court in Plymouth
county in 1905) was shown to represent
the Continental Tobacco company, in
corporated with capital stock Of $75,-
| 100000, which at the time of the sales
for which the defendant Is indicted had
absorbed more than twelve establish
ments used for the manufacture and
sale of plug tobacco and owned by as
many proprietors. Prior to its incor-
poration there was free and open COM
petition In the plug tobacco market in
Massachusetts. 1t so consolidated and
restricted the trade that in January,
1904, 1t produced about ninety-hve per
cent. Of the plug tobacco and about
eighty per cent. of the cut plug to-
bacco in Massachusetts. Conditions
were about the same in all parts of
the State There were about two hun
bred and ten jobbers in Massachusetts,
and practically all stopped buying of
independent manufacturers when the
trust offered discounts and rebates
amounting to ten per cent, provided
no other producer of tobacco was dealt
with.
The chairman Of the litigation COM
mittee" Of the organization represent
ing the tobacco manufacturers outside
the trust, writing from Virginia to con-
Egratulate Mr.. French, who as District
Attorney for the southeastern district
of Massachusetts prepared and pushed
through the case to its complete tri-
unph, remarks: I'm all the litigation
against the tobacco trust this is the
first legal relief that we have had in
any part of the Union, and while the
United States government has spent a
mint of money prosecuting trusts there
has been no such effective action
against any of them as that gained as
a result of your work in this case. !"
Good for Massachusetts, and Mr.,
French.
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mantle and ohivalrous associations,
the birthplace Of the lovable and ma
e-bnowing bard, Robert Burns, and
the poet Sir Walter Scott, the pictur-
esQue and beautiful capital of ancient
Scotland edinburgh Europes Hon-
day City," together with the Giants
Causeway, the grandest and most
sublime work Of nature, as a prelude
to the pleasures which a trip to Europe
by the Anchor Line route embraces,
besides being within easy reach of the
eloquent Barney Castle, Bells of Shan
DON and unrivalled Lakes of Killarney,
the neVerfailing attractions of Ireland.
That such trip is, not the exclusive
privilege Of the rich but a delightful
and practical expedient for persons Of
moderate incomes is demonstrated by
the Anchor Line, which affords the
means at the minimum expense. The
new twin-screw steamships OF that
line have at bound given the line adj
ditional prominence which, together
with the excellent service and solicit
tude for the comfort and welfare OF all
classes of passengers, have made for
| it following peculiarly its own. An
entertaining book of tours can be had
free by addressing the general agents,
| Henderson Brothers, II and 10 Broad
way, New York.
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ed fixed limit, they have said they
would allow charitable requests to ac-
cumulate within reasonable periods.
The liberal Interpretation of this rule
for the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
is we'll remembered.
The old principle of primogeniture
went down with US because the condi-
tons which had In measure justified
1t passed away. Where the land-own-
er was the chief in war, some real sea-
son existed for keeping his property
consolidated, to provide resources for
geeral defense. The restrictions thrown
about the disposal of property by will
were doubtless evolved In the interest
of certainty, rather than because the
statute makers wanted to render it
difficult to dispose of property other
than by the conventional methods Of
legal distribution.
Certain existing practices are thus
working although without that inten-
ton, to check the largest accumulation.
law to go SO long as natural causes are
Beyond this ID undesirable to as the
still operative on the three generations
from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves"
theory. The Aston fotune has long been
IN process of successive subdivision.
| Generally the number of children in
any family will keep pace with the
rapidity Of accumulation.
OF course, the Presidents suggestion
was merely case Of thinking aloud"
on his part and no one can be more
fully aware than he Of the trendous OBJ
struction, constitutional and legal, that
are fortunately In the way Of putting
such an idea into operation. An inheri-
litance tax drives people of wealth into
making gifts in their lifetime.
The president has noted this under
the New York State law, and so he in
cludes such gifts as OF course would be
necessary to bring his plan out equi-
tably. But when the arm Of the law
steps In to prescribe the terms under
which man may present a house to
his daughter, we shall have gone a
long distance on the down grade road
that leads to the socialistic state.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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A WHEAT THEORY.
French

Many people are studying many
things nowadays, and their discoveries
and theories are interesting. For in
stance, DIR. w. N. Shaw, director CO the
British meteorological Office thinks he
has discovered periodicity in the yield
of wheat in eastern England. His con-
illusions are the result Of researches be-
gun some time ago as to the relation
between the weather and the growth
and yield of cereal crops. One Of the
earliest results pointed eonclusively to
an intimate relation between the rain
fall of the autumn months and the
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wheat harvest of the following year.
Working entirely upon a meteoroIogi-
cal basis, DR.. Shaw computed that in
the eastern counties of England the
yield Of wheat in 1905 would amount to
S1.9 bushels per acre. The return of
the Board Of Agriculture issued at the
end Of the season showed that the actu-
al yield was 800 bushels. Since then
DR.. Shaw has found distinct evidence
Of a perlodicity in the yield of wheat in
the eastern counties Of England. Deal
ling with the facts for the twenty-one
years 1886 to 1905, in the middle of the
period there was one year, 1895, with a
deficient yield, followed by another
year, 1896, with an abundant harvest, a
mean of the two corresponding very
closely with the average for the whole
twenty-one years. Taking this central
two-year period as his standpoint, and
! comparing corresponding seasons on
either side of it, he found that a def
cheney in one year was compensated for
by an excess in the other. Thus, ii
1898, distant by two from 1895, there
was deficiency, while in 1898, distant
by two from 1896, there was an excess,
similar compensatory result being
shown by the years 1891 and 1900, and,
in fact, throughout the entire series of
years, A result even more remarkable
was an apparent pertodicity of eleven
years in the yield of wheat, not always
as regards actual bulk, but certainly in
relation to the average. Thus, in 1885
and eleven years later, in 1896, the yield
was above the averagei in 1886 and 1897
| It was deficient; in 1887 and 1898, and
again in 1883 and 1899. it was abundant,
and so on, without single exception
Throughout the whole twenty~Cne years
dealt with in the discussion.
/ Spectators in wheat in this country
can now study the situation here. Per-
haps they can find periodlcity enough
to help them lose their money. or, al
least, help explain its loss.
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4 ou1cK cHAreE NEEDED.

The report Of the special committee
appointed to investigate the Chicago
meat business, and the message of the
President based on the report, are not
cheering reading, except as they may
Indicate that a nuch-needed reform is
about to be made. The ''muck-rakers'
who have been so busy lately don t
seem to have overdone the raking in
this Chicago business. The situation is
certainly sickening, and demands inn
mediate and thorough change. What
can be done? The President says more
law is needed. He wants immediate
action by congress in the direction Of
providing a drastic and thoroughgoing
inspection by the Federal government
of all stock yards and packing houses
and Of their products, so far as the lat
ter enter into interstate or foreign COM
merce. OF course there should be such
action, and there probably will be. In
addition to inspection that inspects the
meat men need to make haste to try to
give the people more confidence in their
products. This they must do, even If
it does cost them much. 1t will cost
them more not to do it. They must
carry on their business in proper places
in a proper way. They viii be amaz-
ingly stupid if they fail to grasp the
situation now
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interest rate, just as the big wheat
farm lowers the price Of -four, and the
prevailing of interest is the largest
single factor in determining house rent
and most of the other charges upon
the life Of the poor. They are obviously
benefited by tendecies which make
capital plentiful, even if they do not
have a large share of it themselves.
Neither English literature nor the En-
glish common law shows any aprehen-
siyeness over the big fortune in itself.
Charles Dickens, who was fairly re-
preventative Of the humanitarian
thought of his time. pictures his rich
men, where their character is good,
like the Cheeryble Brothers, as highly
desirable in the community.
Certain of the common law operate
toward the limitation Of fortunes, al
though that was not the motive in
their growth. The well known principle
which stated in rough popular form,
prevents tying up" property for long
er than one life in being, and twenty
one years thereafter, incidentally tends
to prevent trusteeships for the purpose
Of accumulation. It's object was not
that, but simply 10 obviate the incon-
venience of having property inalienable.
The contest in England between the
lawyers who wanted property, parti-
eularly real estate, freely transferred
and the landed gentry who preferred
by tying it up, to keep it in their fami-
lies, produced the rule, rather than any
desire to prevent accumulation.
The courts have made a conspicuous
exception In tying up property for long
err periods In favor Of charities, In this
state. while they have never establish
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Going Fishing.

If you're waking in the morning, call
me early mother dear,
For Peanuts Fink and Spider Brown
and BricktoD will be here,
And we know where the fishes swim,
and where the shade is cool
And where's dandy diving place be-
side the swimming pool.
I've brung the kindling in, mother, you
wanted me to chop;
I've filled the woodbox till the wood is
splitting DER the top;
I've curried all the horses as my ia
tier bade me do:
I've MIXED the COWS and stopped the
pigs and fed che chickens, too.
i've weeded out the onion bed and
banked the celery,
And I've transplanted cabbage plants
and propped the apple tree.
And I have sailed all the sheep and
fixed the chicken coop
And run all the errands, mother, till
felt my spirits droop.
So If you're waking early. call me early
mother, dear.
For I know where the graylings play
and where the pools are clear,
And I've dug all the worms ] want and
cut an alder pole,
And corlxs will bob tomorrow morn in
that old fishing hole.
II. M. Lewis in Houston Post.
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YoUNG.

Hook-"Did you ever enjoy a good
old~fashioned clambake?" Nye-"No. '
Hook-"You ought to take one in"
Nye-"I have-several. but never
enjoyed one philadelphia Record.
eyes; she saved every love letter that
he told her to burn"
That's bad.
No. Jim is pretty smart. The letters
he told her to burn were the harmless
ones. Cleveland Plaindealer.
Miss Ascum-Do you think the cut of
my skirt pretty?
Miss Knox--O! yes.
Miss Ascum-Do you really?
Miss Knox-Yes; I had two like that
when they were in style.-Philadelphia
Press,
'Why did you break your engage
ment with Miss Fluphie?'
"She couldn't cook. -
'fWhy, you knew that long ago"
Eyes, but she told me the other day
that she intended to learn, "--Cleve-
land Leader,
American Girl Cat Windsor Castle)-
"Porter, is there any chance to get a
glimpse of Queen Alexandra r Gentle.
man at the Gate-"I am not the porter.
am the Prince Of Wales" American
Girl-"How lucky I am! Is your moth
err fn?''-New York Weekly.
Mayme-"Poor Archie! He doesn't
know whether it's Esmeralda McGinnis
or her younger sister that he wants
to marry"
Maybelle-"He needn't worry about
that any longer. Mrs. McGinnis has de-
otded that it's Esmeralda he wants.
Chicago Tribune.
Redd-"How does your new automo.
bile work."
Greene--"Well, J broke record TO-
day"
t"Indeed?"
Eyes, I was under 1t for three hours
and eighteen minutes trying to get the
blame thing to go!"-Yonkers States
men.
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COULDN'T SOARE NM.

London Truth tells the truth Of
course, and so its account Of the way a
wide-awake United States citizen dealt
with some English ghosts may be be-
lieved. 1t says that an imperturbable
American bought property in Eng
land. The house had accumulated his
toricaI associations during many gener~
ations, and was more especially cele-
ibrated for its ghosts. For two or three
months the American owner, his fam
lily and guests, were much annoyed by
apparitions and unnatural noises, and,
indeed, the matter became so trouble
some, particularly as no servant could
be induced to remain, that he determin-
ed to obtain control over the spirit
tenants. BY what means he eontrived
to obtain that control is unknown, but
he has SO completely tanned the ghosts
that they only now "Inaterialtze" TO
amuse his guests. On a wet afternoon
they are occasionally ordered to APP
pear In the drawing room, and even to
dance, and their PRESENCE is often re-
quired in the nursery when the chill
dren are tired Of playing with their Or
binary toys,
Why not? It takes more than ghosts
to scare United States folks. They
aren't even afraid of the meat trust.
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ALL ABOARD FOR EURopE,

Think Of I'll The British Isles spread
out before you In the form of the
tlhree-leaved clover, Scotland repre-
senting the top leaf, and England and
Ireland corresponding to the lower
leaves on@either side. Such is the
mind s-eye picture which fancy draws
for those who seek recreation novel;
ties, and with just such a picture is
summer reckoning you away to other
climes. Scotland Is noted for the
abundance Of historic features which
its territory encompasses. Here will
be found the venerable and majestic
cathedrals around which Scotia's tradi-
tions linger. the famous catsles Of ro-
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Anecdotes Of Professor Lombroso, the
italian scientist, are given by his
daughter in the Nuova Antologia. The
professor Is now seventy years old, but
extremely wilful, and although he asks
the advice of his family in everything,
always acts contrary to 1t. When asked
to put on evening clothes he often in
stead dons a lounge suit. His indif-
ference to money is proverbial. When
he goes out he puts bank notes in the
same pocket with his handkerchief, 50
that when he draws out the latter the
bank notes are lost. Now, however, aft
err frequently finding himself without
money while travelling, the professor
fills all his pockets with bank notes,
thus hoping never to be entirely with
out funds, even If the contents of one
pocket should be lost.
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ADVERTISING RATES

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other
suuaii advertisements. One Cent WORD
eacn insertion. Five Cents WORD foF
FUN weak.
Display advertisements per inchs one
insertion. sL2o each subsequent inser'
tIon. 40 centss one week. gs.s0; ore
month. $40: one ysar. $50
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BIG FORTUNE NOT DANGEROUS

Existing Practices Working Against
the Largest Accommodations.
The nulti-millionaire in modern So
ciety shapes the control Of an i'm
mense property; he cannot himself in
sure any large part of It, The big
fortune seeking investment lowers the
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-05

Father" asked the small boy, what
Is a misanthrope?" "a misanthrope,
my son, is one who goes through the
world looking upon other men wits dis
trust and as creatures who have no
other object except to make his life a
burden" I know, answered the small
boy. you mean q street car conduc-
tor,p-Washington Star
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DELIVERED BIZ CARRIERS IN THE
CITY, u CENTS A WEEK. so CENTS
a MONTH. SO FOR SIX MoNTHR 50
a YEAR. THE sAzGE TERMS RY
MA1rA sINuLE COPIES. > cEHfS
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The Chicago Inter-Ocean pertinently
cago or other stock yards and packing
houses should be as clean and whole
some as they can be made goes with
out saying. Perhaps they are; perhaps
they are not. We do not know. But If
things are not, what are the present
United States inspectors there for?
And why have we inspection laws? The
whole question is merely one of the
present government inspectors doing
their duty intelligently. It is no ques-
tion Of fireworks. Meiodrama has moth
ing 10 do with meat inspection. Neither
has novel writing"
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Rembrandt's tercentenary, which &C.
ours on July Is, is to be celebrated at
Amsterdam by series Of historical pa
geants. At Leyden, the painters birth
place, a statue will be erected and re-
productions Of his masterpieces will be
distributed free in every part of Hol-
land.
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The Bulgarian government has de-
cided to start motor omnibus SER
vice for connecting outlying towns and
villages with the railroads. For this
scheme, they are inclined to favor pri-
waite enterprise. AS there are no motor
manufactures in the country the cars
will have to be procured from abroad.
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On Sable Island, off the coast Of Nova
Scotia, troops Of wild horses are to be
found. The original stock is believed
to have landed from Spanish wreck
early in the sixteenth century. Twen-
ty-five years ago 1t was estimated that
these horses numbered six hundred, but
at present there are scarcely two hum
bred. Sable Island Is an accumulation
Of loose sand, forming pair Of ridges,
united at the two ends and inclosing a
shallow lake. There are tracts Of grass
In places, as well as pools Of fresh wa
ter.
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Some Of the undertakers in England
have combination hearse and coach
with a strong but ordinary type Of
four-wheeled running gear. The front
part Of the vehicle is hearse and the
rear is a carriage with seats along the
side, providing accommodation for
about eight persons, a glass partition
dividing the l1earse in which the cof-
I'm Is placed from the carriage. This
combination f1earse and carriage, with
one pair of horses and one driver, can
be rented at a low figure, and provides
an economical funeral.
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Chinese women are being emancipat-
ed. Schools for the daughters of man
darins have been opened, and some
Chinese girls are even attending
courses at the University Of Toxic.
Periodicals for women are issued in
some Of the larger cities, and book
tirely to a plea that girls should be
allowed to select their own husbands.
The empress encourages this move
anefit. She has endowed q school for
the families Of high officials, and has
given orders that the practice OF foot
binding must be given up.
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THD OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
LHsRED IN CONNECTICUT ---.
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THp WEEKLY JOURNAL
asved Thursdays. One DeiiaF a xesA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-02

Messrs. Hunter and PARROT are wor-
thy representatives. The members Of
the state committee intend. 1t Ia pre-
sumed, To retain their residence II,
Iowa. They have had sample In Car
roll county of the plan outlined by the
willy Mr.. Hunter and his lieutenant
Mr. Parrott The republicans OF this
state will never endure Salinger-
korte program a the state convention.
The fight is over and won by the
progressives. II Is time that Hunter
Parrott, ct Id omne genus were called
off and relegated to some position
where they will cease to he an eyesore
to decent republicans and n JOY to dem
ocrats The delegates will hold the
next convention. not Hunter, Parrott
or any others of the employees of either
side of this political controversy.