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competitors and they thereby force
other big shippers ard big railroads
who would like ~ d decentiy into
similar acts Of w Cr:s and injustice
undcr penalty of beng eft behind in
he ace for sitcess. Government
supervision is needed quite as much
in the interest Of the big shipper and
Of the railroad mar who wants to do
right as in the interest # the small
shipper and the consumer.
Experience has shown that the
present laws are defective and need
amendment. The effort to prohibit
all restraint Of competition. whether
reasonable or unreasonable, is unwise
What NC need is to have some admins
forbid combination that i hurtfuI to
the pubic ana TO prevent favOritism
to one individual at the expense of
another. In other words. We want
an administrative body with the power
to secure fair ard just treatment as
among al shippers who use the rail
roads-and all shippers have d right
to Use them.
seq . judgment the most imp0r-
tant J.jtg - do is to give to this
administrative BODY power TO make
its findings effective, and this an be
done only by giving it power. when
complaint is made Of a given rate
AZ being unjust or unreasonable, if
1t finds the complaint proper, then
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-04-05

PROPOSALS FOR STEAMBOAT
Service. Chief Quartermaster's Office
Atlanta. Ga. March 81, 1907. Sealed
proposals will be received by the Quar-
termaster, Fort Caswell, n. c., until IL
A. M. April 90, 1907. for steamboat
serVices between that post and Will
mington, n c., during the fiscal year
commencing July 1. 1907. Full par
ticulars furnished on application to
this office, or to the Quartermaster,
Fort CaswelI, N. c. j. w. Pope. Colo
mel and chief Quartermaster.
mar 81. %, 29. 90, apr %, %
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WILL GO TO JAMESTOWN.
Busy Day Has Been Planned for the
President.

Washington, April president
Roosevelt will be accompanied by Mrs.
Roosevelt, their two younger sons.
Archie and Quentin, and possibly by
Miss Ethel on their trip to the James
town exposition for which they will
leave Washington on the afternoon Of
April 2s. According to the presidents
understanding, the trip will be made On
the yacht Mayflower, which will sa
the Presidents headquarters from the
the time he leaves until he returns.
Exposition Day April Goth will be a
busy one for Mr.. Roosevelt. Various
functions including his speech will
occupy the time from II o'clock IN
the morning until 4 o'clock in the af-
teTnoon,
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NOTHING TO SAY
To the Country on the Rail-
road Question
THE PRESIDENT IS FIRM
Ne Stands By His Former Utter
eranCes on the Subject

Hi, letter Declining 10 Deliver an
Address Before the Illinois Mana
faC4,ncrs' CIub-NIany Invitations
10 A4aI1c Speeches and to Write
Letters on the Railroad Question.
His gormcr Uucranccs Show no
intcption TO DO Anything TO Injurc
5saHway Sccuritic-Itis Raleigh
Speed, Quoted TO Show His Pres
ont Attitude on Government Own
cr,7lip and ControI-Oppooc7 the
FORMER While Advocating the
seifCg.
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PROPOSALS FOR STEAMBOAT
Service. Chief Quartermaster's OfiCc
Atlanta. Ga. March %. 1907. Scalcl
proposals will be received by the Quar-
termastcr. Fort Fremont. :. {. until IL
A. M. April 90. 1907 for steamboat
services at that post during the fiscal
year ending June so. 1908. Full par
ticulars furnHhcd on application TO
this office, or To the QuartcrmastcT,
Fort Fremont. : G. J. w. Pope Colo
mel and Chief OuartcrmaStcr.
mar %. 2S, %. 80, apr p, %
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Suffered day and night the torment
OF itching piles. Nothing helped me un-
til [ used Doan's Ointment. It cured
me permanenty."-Hon. john r. Gar
rett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.
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If Speaker Justice dOes call the roll
at the next state convention Of the
democratic senators who voted against
his section Of the trust bill, We wonder
Raleigh Times.
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NEW COUNTY ROAD
Its Route Subject Of Long
Consideration
BY THE COMMISSIONERS
REGULAR MpnthIy Meeting Held
Yesterday Afternoon

Commissioners Were in Session Four
HOurs-MOrc Than Fifty Citizens
Present. Arguing in Favor OF One
or the Other Routes That lave
Bccn Proposed for Tie Federal
Point Road-\o Action was Taken
New Road to GrccnviIIc to be
Opened Up.
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Harsh physics react, weaken the
bowels, cause chronic constipation.
Doan. 8 Requests operates easily. tone
the stomach. cure constipation. 25
cents. Ask your druggist for them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-04-05
M IN The BLOOD
Coming of Warm Weather Forces Them Out,
Causing Itching,> Burning Skin Eruptions.

The blood and skin are so closely connededth that whatever Affects the one has cores
pounding fleet OF the other When thu blood is pure and healthy the skin will be soft,
unhealthy humor the effect is show by rashes, erpdons,. bols ad pmpes or other ds6g.
urng and annoying skin disease
The skin is provided with countless pores and glands which act as a drainage
hse little ubs There are other glands that pour out on the skin an oily
to keep it soft and phad> oherwieh would become hard and dry from constant
to wind and sun When the blood becomes filed with humors and acids hse are
thrown off through the pores and glands, burning and irritating The skin and drying u the
natural oils so thatw We have note only Acne, Eczema, Salt Rheum, etc, put such dry scly
skin eruptons as letter, Psoriasis and kindred troubles
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Accidents will happen but the best
regulated families keep DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil for such emergencies. It
1t subdues the pain and heals the
hurts.
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S. s. S. DROVE THE HUMoR OUT.

Gentlemen: Some two years ago I suffered q great deal.
caused on account of . humor in the blood small rash or
pimples broke out over my body and kept getting worse
day by day for over a year. Seeing 8. S. 9. advertised in
the paper and having also heard 1t had cured several poo
pie in this city, concluded to try it. After using the med
icine I was entirely cured, and am very glad to commend
it. 1920 Clay St, Paducah. Ky. EDW. w. LONG.
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A healthy nan is a king in his own
right; an unhealthy man is an un-
happy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters
builds up sound health-keeps you
vefI.
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These humors find their way into the
blood through a disordered or deranged con
dition of the system. There is a certain
amount of waste or refuse matter collected
in the body every day. This is useless in
nourishing or keeping the system in health,
and nature intends that it shall find an out
let through the channels of bodily waste.
As long as these members perform their
duties properly the blood remains pure and
free from infection; but when from any
cause they become dull and sluggish, this
refuse matter is left to sour and be taken
into the blood in the form of humors and
poisons. The skin is a perfect index to the
ease, Or pimples, rashes, eruptions, blotches,
deep in the blood a humor has taken root, and
to the fine, delicate tissues of the skin, it is pc
The skin is not only affected by the hu
from without, such as Poison Oak and Ivy, \
acids, ETC., enter through the open pores and
the blood that thew are ever present. or retu
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FOUND A CURE FOR POISON OAK.

Gentlemen: After having tried Tor SIX years 20 Ind
cure for Poison Oak, from which I was a great sufferer.
was told by a friend to try s. S. s. 1t entirely cured m
and gave me excellent health. There IS no remedy for
bad condition Of the blood like S. g. g. and you have Il
S. S. S. a positive cure for Poison Oak.
Danville, Ky. j. r. "lSEMA
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only paIIIalIVI dHu SOOIHIuS.
thorough cleansing of the blood IS the
only cure for humors in the blood. 5. ). s., a
gentle acting, safe blood purifier, made entirely
of vegetable ingredients from natures forests
and fields, is the proper treatment. ). 5. 5.
goes down into the circulation and neutrailzes
the acids and humors, thoroughly cleansing
and purifying the blood, and curing skin diseases
ord aHactiorS of every kind. It supplies to the
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blood the fresh, nutntve qualities necessaryt to sustain the skin ad all other parts o
body, md rds the blood of any and all posons. S. S S cures Eczema, letter, Acne, P
ass Salt Rheum, Poison Oak and Ivy, Netle Rash and all troubles OF the skin. SIP
hook OF skin diseases and any medical advice desired furnished by our physicians wit
lcharee to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY AHAHTAsG
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-10
Where De Soto Wintered.

David Holt in Mobile Register
trim over tho Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas city railroad is really worth
,ba time il takes. and will not prove
a1toaather monotonous. though relieved
by no striking scenery and little mat
is of peculiar historic interest. Pontotoe
is the only really ancient point between
Middleton, Tenn, and the city llmlls OF
Mobile. and it was made famous by Her
nando de Soto, who spent the winter
there. while as Private John Alien says,
he was looking for Tupelo. This was
shortly after he discovered the Missls-
sinni river also before he became the
namesale of Senator II. de S. Money
Of mississippi De Soto had fight with
tbe sChickasaw Indians near Pontotoc-
a fact which is proved by much indis-
nutable and reliable Indian legend and
further supported by the finding OF spear
points and other barbaric relics OF the
de Soto-Pizarro type OF clviilzatioh.
The winter of 1904 was the time of
no visit of fernando de Soto to the
rod lands of the Pontotoc ridge. So,
many of the Oldest inhabitants have en-
tlrelv forgotten the incident though the
site of the Spanish Adventures VIM
fer camp is still shown to those who
care to visit it and pay the liveryman'
charges The distance from the town OF
Pontotoc IS about six miles and held
of dried corn stalks marks the spot at
this season 1t will soon be planted In
q peach orchard. as will be the rest
of the Poptotoc ridge and much of the
land round about.
When the liberia peach comes into
bearing al Pontotoc in 19oS~whlch In
teresting event should take place about
the time cotton is laid by"-it will take
5000 persons to harvest the fruit crop
barring early, frosts Not less than 100.
600 trees are expected to bring forth
fruit at that season. and nearly all Ell
herta peaches and red June plums.
The fruit grown on that red clay soil
which has perfect drainage. by reason OF
an 1S-foot sub-stratum of sand. is OF
peculiarly bright color, and has flavor
which will give it a demand far sur
passing that of any California fruit.
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BITE OF A GILA MONSTER
Is Fatally Poisonous and Results In a
Terrible Death.

From the Scientific American.
In recent issue of the Scientific
American an article appeared written
by d. Allen Wiley, describing and illus
trating the ella monster. The state
ment was made in the article that
scientists had questioned whether it's
bite was fatally poisonous, as had been
supposed. Mr.. w. c. Barnes of Las
Vegas, N. M, claims to know of two
cases, in one of which death resulted.
Mr. Barnes writes as follows:
THE first man was in Tombstone,
Ariz. The ella was tied by the leg in
a saloon as curio, and a drunken
gambler named Brown was teasing it.
He carelessly stuck his first two fin
gers into its mouth, which Immediately
closed down on them, and could not be
released until the reptiles head was
cut off and the jaws cut apart. Brown
suffered horrible agony for almost two
days, and in spite of all efforts he died.
1.-THE second case was in the fall of
1889. Walter Vail started from the
Empire ranch, near Benson, AriZ., 70
ride into town on horseback, some flf-
teen miles. A short distance from the
ranch monster was sluggishly drag
ging its way across the road. Thinking
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-10
JAPs IN CALIFORNIA.
Why the Whites Object So Strongly to
the Little Brown Men.

julius Kahn, in the Independent
But the japanese coolie who comes to
California, for the most part, is not an
unsklled laborer. He is a cobbler. tailor.
gardener cook, waiter or one or other
of a dozen classes of workman, as the
case maye be. He can, and does, live just
as cheaply as the Chinaman. handful
of rice. a little dried FISH, and a cup of
tea make a square meal for him. And we
feel convinced that IL he be allowed TO
come TO these shores In undiminished
numbers he will ultimately drive out all
Caucasian competition In every occupa-
ton which he enters, just as the Chi
nese coolie did a quarter of a century
ago. He has already driven the cherry
orehardist out of the productive Vaca
valley. about sixty miles north of San
Francisco. But 1t is in the latter city
that he Is the greatest menace. To speak
specifically, let us take the case of
eobbler. lie has learned his trade In his
own country. He has scarcely set foot
In that city. when he rents a dngy little
room in close proximity to a white shoe
maker who has been established in that
location for many years. Then the little
brown man puts up his sign and an
nounces his scale of prices. A perusal of
the latter shows that he asks about one
half the amount charged by his white
neighbor for similar work Gradually his
business increases, while that of his
white neighbor diminishes The white
man, with a white mans habits of living,
trying to bring up his little family de-
Gently and honestly. trying, IL you please,
to give his children the benefit of a
good education, finds that he has been
brought face to face with an alien COM
petitor whose material wants are few, and
who can subsist ON fare ON which eau
casian would starve. He tries to stand it
for n lift1q while bnt Ia fer
| when he sees the blanched faces of his
little ones, when he begins to realize that
he cannot provide for them as has been
his wont, the iron enters his soul. He be-
gins to understand that this unequal COM
petition means that he must come down
to the Japanese's standard of living. or
he must quit the neighborhood in WHICH
he has been established these many years,
to begin anew the struggle for existence
in some other section which the little
brown man has not as yet invaded.
/ have not overdrawn the picture. 1t
has its counterpart in practically every
street in San Francisco 1t is such con-
ditions that ultimately lead to bloodshed
and race riot We want, by all means,
to avoid anything of that kind. We are
peaceable law-abidding citizens, but we
want the Japanese coolie kept out OF our
state Nor do we think we are unrea-
sonable in our demand II similar con-
ditions confronted the citizens of Massa-
chusetts we feel confident that they, too,
would feel as we do. The Japanese in
his native land is a great fisherman.
Suppose 10000 of these Japanese fisher
man should settle near Gloucester and
embark in the codfishing industry Would
the Gloucester fishermen stand 1t with
| euuanimity or would they, like their
brethren in California, raise their voices
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whx Is the Ocean Salt?

From the New York Press.
God made the ocean salt to save the
land from putrefaction. The winds blow
everything offensive and pestilential Gas
far as we allow them to do the work of
boards of health out to sea, where all
humors are absorbed by the hungry wa
tiers. Salt is a purifying agent. The ocean
is a great manufacturer, 1t converts
everything foul into matchmaking ozone
and hands it back to us without charge.
No government label is necessary. Stand
on the prov of ship for three hours a
day, deep-breathing like an athlete, and
your lungs will be cleaned of everything
poisonous. Your blood will leap through
veins and arteries. Your heart will be
obliged to thump with renewed force. The
tide is the ocaen's tongue. 1t comes in
twice a day to lick up the foul things of
the earth and convey them to the ocaen' s
stomach, where they are digested. sailed
down, cured and rendered pure again.
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in indignant protest? And so with every
other community and every other class of
worlSingmen.
Since the disastrous conhagratlon of
last April the situation has been inten-
shed by the manner in which many
white tenants were practically evicted
from their homes by japanese. The lat
ter elected to establish themselves in
one of the most desirable residence Sc
tions of San Francisco. They would
offer the landlords of property twice and
thrice the amounts that were being paid
by white tenants, and after the latter
had been dispossessed, would open Japan
csc boarding houses with swarms of &C.
eupants in these desirable residences
When the white man saw that he was
being ousted to make way for the Orien-
tai 1t did not serve to establish a more
cordial relationship between the races.
One must also bear in mind that at this
time, by reason of the confiagration
houses for rent were exceedingly scarce,
and many of the families thus dispos-
sessed had to seek homes on the other
side of the Bay of San Francisco.
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the designation, "The Wizard of Menlo
park" When Hayes was President of
the United States and Wheeler was wee
President the latter had little to do with
affairs of state and was often reporter
as being on a fishing trip in Northern
New York headline spoke OF nm as
"rhe Lone Fisherman of Malone and
The designation of the Lone Fisherman
clung TO him with considerable persist
ence. -
When Jerry simpson Of Kansas was
6alIre in Washington as a member OIL
Congress a headline writer called MIN
"'rhe Sockless Socrates of Medlclne
Lodge" and the appellatlon, wholly or IN
part, stuck. .
If II were worth while lot of Instances
could be recalled of the readiness of mead
line writers while working under the
stress of the moment One night there
came bv wire the announcement oil the
death Of an ossiiied man who had toured
the world with circuses. The busy copy
editor headed it "He Died Hard.
headline to be remembered Tor It's
striking combination OF pathos ana matter
of fact was printed over parasr,apl
telling of the burial at sea OF NIUE
Russian child of Immigrant parents from
the incoming steamship. The snip S log
to1d in nautical terms the place Where
,the body was east into the water ana the
hee difne read; Latitude and Longitude
n a Little Fellows Grave
A small daily in New England uis-
nensed with the services OF headllhe VIII
ers. when the copy came in from the
teiegrapher it was given out to the COM
positors and they made the heads, usually
setting them up in the composing SUCK
and Following along with the text one
night the wire briefly told OF the aeatn
IN buffalo of Willard Fillmore
The compositor set up head for II anu
in the morning the paper announce ne
YrnttedI states under the fullface lower
case caption: Man Dead
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to take it in for friend, he got down
and killed it-or at least he thought he
killed it. To carry it easily, he tied 1t
on his saddle behind him, using his
saddle strings for the purpose. As he
loped along he thought to assure him
self it hadn't dropped off by reaching
around behind him with his right hand
and feeling for the monster.
1T was there, and not nearly as dead
as he thought. His first finger went
into the reptiles mouth clear to the
knuckle, and instantly those jaws with
the long, sharp, dagger-like teeth,
closed on Wallis finger With his left
hand he managed to get his knife out
and cut the saddle strings, and then
had to dissect the head and jaws to get
his finger from their grip.
Vail then spurred his horse into
Benson and found an engine in the
yards. A hasty exchange of kilograms
with the division superintendent and
Tucson took place and in a few mo-
ments he was on the engine and racing
over the road for Tucson, where an
eminent surgeon resided at that time.
Vail lay at Deaths door for two months
and that finger today is useless and
shriveled up from the effect of the
bite"
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Silent Worker Of Wonders.

One of the marvels produced by
modern inventive genius, which has
been known as such by name for some
time, but about which much popular
misconceptlon exists, is the steam tur-
bine engine. Stories of its extraordin-
airy performances occasionally appear
in print, but an adequate description
Ineligible to the untechnical majority
of people is something that is bound
to attract the eye and the interest of
readers generally. Such an article APP
pears in the February Technical World
Magazine. Think of an engine running
continuously for five years without a
single stop for single moment for re-
pairs or adjustment. 1t seems an i'm
possible thing, yet that record is held
by the steam turbine, and that is but
one of many records it holds. Without
vibration, noiseless, powerful to a de-
gree that almost suggests the super
natural yet occupying less space than
its far less able predecessors; weigh
ing less by seven-eighths, using almost
no oil and giving a third more eff
cheney for every pound OF coal con-
sumed in steam making for 1t, 1T is an
engine justly called a marvel from our
present point of view. The author of
The Technical Worlds fine article,
Charles Frederick Carter, has de-
scribed the construction and workings
of this Tiny master of vast engines"
as he names it, in such language that
any one and every one may under
stand And the tale is so full of as
founding things that it reads like some
creation of Jules Verne or Rider Hag-
gard, except that every statement is
we'll authenticated and is a record
only of the actual. It's worth any
body's reading. Incidentally it may be
noted here that this article and its
method of handling illustrate perfectly
the admirable aim of the Technical
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World Magazine, which is to put rec
ord of the scientific progress of the
world in understandable form before
all readers who want to know" but
who have not the time or the technical
education to read and study intelligent
ly the purely technical publications.
And the turbine engine story is only
one of a number of excellent articles
in this number, to read which is to be
thrilled with wonder and delightful in
terest, not to mention the information
gained "unawares."
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Cutting.

From the Record Herald
Mabel--It is bad luck to break mir
rore'
Kittie-"Yes: f." "y-~".''~ s"ba don't
look into it"
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Attractive SOS. are illustrated. Cea
&c Gawk make your Illustrations,
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