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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
PAY THEM IN MIILET ROAD
STOCK.

Treasurer Lacy says that cash is
getting pretty low in the states strong
box. This being the case how would
it do for the governor to hand out
shares Of the states stock in the Muller
road TO his corps OF attorneys in the
railroad rate case in settlement Of their
bills for fees and expenses? AS they are
confident that all the railroads are to
be made more prosperous by the recent
legislation, no doubt they would pre-
fer to be paid in this stock than in cash
which draw no dividends. AS their
action is to lead to such great increase
in the business Of the railroads there
by enhancing the value Of the shares
they should be glad to receive their
fees in this stock at par value, for
no doubt it will soon be at a premium
if present proceedings are continued a
while longer. Though the stock IS
below par now they should show their
faith in their work Of building up the
railroads by being willing to accept
the shares at face value, in lieu o.
the cash, and wait for the sure-to-
come RI = the market.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
NATIVE VS.. FOREIGN WINES.

Many advocates of temperance clam
that a greater use Of light and pure
wines would reduce the consumption Of
stronger liquors and would work for
the of temperance.
IN this connection much is being
in this country Of domestic in the
place of foreign wines. Those who
know whereof they speak say just
as good wine can be made here as in
France or in Germany. and there can
be no DOUBT that american wines
made at wineries which have a rep
utation to sustain at home are purer
thar most of the imported article.
There are establishments in this
country which make wines containing
nothing but the juice of the grape Or
the berry and pure sugar. These wines
are Palatable and harmless, but they
are rejected by a great many people
simply because they are native Wines
who will have nothing but the i'm
ported article, just because it is i'm
ported. They know Lothing about the
qualities Of either, bat for fashions
sake give the preference to the for
eign products with the mistaken idea
that because imported they must be
better than what is made at home.
If such persons would take the trou-
bic to read the authenticated accounts
Of the authorizations Of Frerch aud
German wines and then woi. / turn
to the a~nalysese Of the home wines
they would be astounded and would
soon Lose their preference for the
former.
The newspapers OF this country have
been commenting freely on this sub
ject Of late and giving facts recently
developed showing the great extent of
| adulteratiOn of the foreign wines
| shipped to his country. The Chicago
Post speaks Of the wide publicity
given the statement that much OF the
J French wines knows no grape" but
IS simply a chemical product. The
Minneapolis Journal said on this sub
ject:
The business of doctoring wines Is
one Of h heaviest and most formida-
BILE in France. No government may
lightly disturb it. Yet the worlds at
tentiOn has now been SO strongly di-
rected to the adulterated and impure
character of many French wines that
n government may be forced, in or
der to save the wine industry. to IN
dertake drastic reforms. It will be ir
somewhat the same case that we were
when public attention was called tC
abuses in the packing industry.
Many startling disclosures as TO the
! ad%ulteration of wines were made dur
ing the strike of the French peasants
! last summer which did no increase
the appetite for French wines.
If our people are to be educated
to a taste for light wines to take tn
place Of more ardent liquors, let i
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

1t won't be long ECw before that
three dollar dinner Is pulled off al
which Mr.. Bryan is to lay down the
law to the democratic party. At that
dinner on Goth he is expected to draw
the line which will separate the sheep
from the goats in the democratic fold.
The party is waiting to receive the
ultimatum from him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
BEIIrTIING TIL COURTS

Is it not strange that here in North
Carolina the supreme court of the
United States should be oelittleI by
men who should be better Conserva-
tors Of the public veal? Here is an
extract taken from the Fayetteville
Observer and endorsed by The News
and Observer:
Our special from Raleigh on Sat
urday suggested The possibility Of n
compromise OF the case az he state
against the Southern railway, by an
agreement on a rate OF q cents per
per mile. That would he splitting the
difference between the old rate of u
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

Ex-Governor James r. Campbell an
nOunce himself as = receptive can
didate' for the senate to succeed SEN
ator Foraker. That means that he
wants the office and will take it #
he can get it. 1t does not look now
as if he or any other opponent Of =
present senator would have a walk
over.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

1t strikes us that this is a bad time
for Mr.. Bryan to issue q pronunsia-
mento against for a more
elastic currency in this country. Is
that to be one of the planks of the
democratic platform on which ne
is to stand as presidential can
didate next year? couple that decla-
ration with his other in favor Of
government and state ownership of
railroads and the democrats won't Sc
cure enough presidential electors to
organize a single electoral college.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

If a man wants to sell his cotton
at present prices he has the right to
do so, but he will have nc one to
blanc but himself when he sees his
neighbor who holds his get two or
three cents per pound more for II
two or three months from now.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

Wonder if Mr.. Burton will expect
1t expels poisons. stimulates the in
ternal organs, cleanses the system
and purifes the blood. Such is Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea, the O
effective preventative Of disease. IS
cents, Tea or Tablets. R r. Beliamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

= Those democrats who are trying to
play Nr. Johnson, OF Cleveland,
against Mr.. Bryan are going 70 finl
themselves disappointed in their man.
They are not going to be able to make
g cats paw of him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

Scientists are claiming that bad
boys can be made good by music, says
the Washington Post. We hope the
bad boys won't be expected to make
the music.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

scheme for coast artillery service,
Fort Caswell has been selected as one
of the t~hirty-two forts, out of the sew
enty-eight where modern coast de-
lenses have been installed or are in
process of installation, chosen as main
posts. Among the appropriations
asked for the next fiscal year is II
hundred and nine thousand dollars
for Fort Caswell. This shows that the
war department considers this one of
the important points of coast defense
on the Atlantic seaboard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

The people are waiting with wonder
full patience for the decision of the
state supreme court in the
Wake county case which was
argued w months ago They want to
know why the delay.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

The shoe must be pinching as The
News and observer and the governor
at. last deem it necessary to deny
some of the many rumors that are
adoat about railroad matters.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

In speaking of the Importance of the
south,s cotton crop to the whole coun-
try The Manufacturers Record says:
The whole country. every business
man in 1T, whether he be manufac-
turer. merchant or banker, farmer or
mechanic, and whether his home be
in the far north or far west, will be
indebted to the south for producing
the crop which at this critical stage
is already saving the situation, and
which Will soon turn such a tide Of
Sold or its equivalent to our shores
as to stay the Mysteries and stop the
fear which has been ~paralyzing the
free and easy movement of the bank
ing facilities of the country. While
enriching itself the south will be en-
riching the whole nation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

be pure native vince and not TIC
fancy labeled connections with foreign
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
TERMS OF

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one year. $500: six months, saw:
three months, $50; n month oo
cents.
THE SENI-WEEKLY
GER 1.-TWO 8-page papers), ny mall
one wear, 31.Oo; six months, 80 cents
in advance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

Dancing Proves Fatal.
Many men and women catch colds
at dances which terminate In pneu-
monia and consumption. After expo
sure, IL Foley's Honey and Tar IS
taken it will break up a cold n no
serious results need oe feared. Re
fuse any but the genuine in q yellow
package. Jos. c Shepard n j.
Hicks Bunting Drug CO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

The waves ran mountain high, wrote
the beginner.
That expression is old. objected the
experienced writer. IL was all right
twenty years ago, bur IL won't do to-
Gay.
/ see. Everything is higher noYr
Raleigh Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17


gigantic steel tank with glass panels The novice
is dressed by two experts top of this tank, and
each item in his elaborate outfit of heavy under
clothing, ponderous boots, and leaden weights, tele
phone, and search light is simply explained to him.
Last of all, the huge copper helmet that gives him
diabolical look is screwed on and tap assures
him he is ready to descend. The slow throb of the
air pumps cylinders is the last thing he hears he
vanshes silently into the depths, and the chief
instructor puts him through various evolutions.
giving orders by means of slate and pencil shown
to the pupil through the massive glass panels.
Began as Neophyte
OUCH a neophyte was once Alexander Lambert.
~ the hero of the Spanish steamer Alfonso XII.
sunk off Port Gando in the island of Grand Canary
with nearly half million in chests of gold in her specie
chamber. Such another was Angel Erostarbe. who
went down into the depths and foraged among the
great bars of silver wherewith the steamer Skyro
was 1aden-the unhappy Skyro Cartagena for
London, that approached Cape Finsterre in a fog
struck on the Mexiddo Reef passed over, and went
down nose first into abyss And there were also
Ridyard and Penk, who would have fshed up all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

the gold and silver
freight of the Hamilla
Mitchell, lost on the
Leuconna Rock near
Shanghai, were it not
for the white sailed
fleet of pirates that
bore down upon them.
Oh, there is romance
here, 1 promise you-
the romance of trade
the romance of SEEM
ingly prosaic places! |
have before me as [
write a letter headed:
THE MARINE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
20 Old Broad Street,
London, E. c.
re The Alfonso XII.
DEAR SIR.-Our code tele-
gram this morning reads
as follows:
Lambert has got both
scuttles open, and got into
the magazine. The boxes
of gold are there"
Which will be very graft
flying to you as it is to us.
Yours faithfully,
(Signedl
HENRY G. R. VAUGHAN.
Who says that Rom
ance is dead? A chaos
of wild rocks, this Point
Gando, dashed with the
Atlantic swell that
booms and thunders
and throws up slow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

spend their lives deVlSlng
submarine electric lamps.
apparatus for working in
noxious and irrespirable
gas, diving bells. electric
air pumps, rock drilling
machines for subaqueous
work, submarine explod-
ing machines, and a hun
dred other contrivances
for winning treasure from
the memorable sea.
They employ physi-
clans of world wide repu-
tation to select their
divers, and there are
special schools for their
training. No ordinary
man, the diver-a fellow
of infinite resource, of
more daring than the
dime novel writer could
conceive, familiar alike
with the vagaries of
sharks and blasting gel
atine, ever mindful of his
tortuous way as he steps
airily (heavily weighted
though he be) in the ruin
Gus chambers of some
forgotten wreck that lies
fathoms deep and haunt
ed only by queer inquis-
tive fish that scurry
hither and thither as the
strange looking human
monster turns on his
search light in eager
quest of the precious.
The school for divers is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

long sought CneSIS OF SOlQ
coin. Many of them were
worm eaten and burst.
1 stopped and in trium-
plant delight ran my
thick gloved fist through
piles of the gittering
coins. I had been too
long below. The blood
appeared to be rushing
to my head, and l had
barely strength to fasten
a rope round three of
the boxes leach con-
tanned fifty thousand
dollars in coin) and re-
trace my steps with as
much speed as my spent
strength permitted.
1t was then we sent
the cipher cable home.
l rested for a week.
then descended again to
the treasure chamber
and sent up more chests
of gold. They told me
no other man but /
could stand the pressure.
and 1 doubt if even I
could ever 60 below
again. My own share of
the treasure salvage
amounted to sixty thou
sand dollars. "
The silver bars of the
Skyro. the hundreds of
thousands of Mexican
dollars on the Hamilla
Mitchell, the gold and
silver of the Carnatic,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

great 1 thought would never reach the Alfonso.
pe Tps depths the ner a
way through wilderness of barnacle incrusted iron
and rotting timbers, searching always for the
chamber.
Il had been down twenty minutes when I felt all
was over. l signaled to be hauled up, took rest
on shore for some hours, and made another attempt
l was beaten again. Each visit lowered my vitality,
but gave one point about the topography
of the wreck. 1 conferred frequently with Captain
Stevens of the salvage steamer Arabian whose hull
I could floating above the translucent
swell
That fateful May day! Now or not at all
thought. l knew my way through every rotting
hall and corridor of the PROSTATE monster, and
often think that the fish that haunted her
strange ways knew me- Trailing my life lines and
air tubes behind me- passed swiftly down through
the decks. my knife in one hand and crowbar in
the other.
Il had long singled out mysterious door, and
now, knowing every instant precious, drove my
bar at it, and with faint gurgle it gave way,
sending small fishes scurrying and revealing the
1o,,<r @,1,, C <,o1I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
Romance of Deep Sea Diving
Of Those Engaged IN Recove,1mg Buried
From Wrecked VesseLs at the Bottom Of the Sea
Bv w. G. FITZGERALD ns white fo ms

snow white fountains of spray and
spume For many months adven-
turers disappeared into the sea here.
only to send up fevered messages
on their life lines. Hauled up, the
unhappy men were found semicon-
scious, bleeding from ears, nose, and
mouth. The awful water pressure
of tens of thousands of pounds had
all but crushed the life out of them;
often with the tempting little chests
of gold under their very legs-chests
eaten by the teredo worm, until the
thousands of shining gold coins
poured forth and paved the ooze
and slime of the sea floor.
rugged and bearded giant, willing
to stake his great bony frame and
big daring heart upon one throw for
fortune He came with special
pumps and steel stayed dress, with
weird crinoline of steel hoops to
relieve the awful pressure on his
lungs and stomach. He was dressed
in a boat in the open sea, and
slowly disappeared with a battery
of pneumatic augers, hammers. and
rock drills, few sticks of dynamite.
and all else that could be devised.
He told me the story himself as
he sat at home enjoying his little
fortune, for he succeeded where
others failed and injured them
selves for life. 1.-The depth was SO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

sought by the few who need them For think! An
ingly out of REACH like the old British ship Lu
tine thirty-two gun frigate laden with bullion and
specie worth ten million dollars. She sank one dark
October night in the shifting sands of the Zuyder
Zee and for years the local fishermen used their old
nets to enrich themselves, hauling up stray bars of
shining gold 1t is the bell from the treasure ship
Lutine that is now toled when wreck is announced
in the world famous Lloyds in London.
In the waters of Torres Straits lie big, ugly
shells in which roll pearls of irdescent sheen worth
two hundred and fifty dollars grain-pink pearls
and black; baroque monsters, like the famous
Southern Cross, worth fifty thousand dollars; and
pearls of great price like the perfect heart Of six
hundred and seventy two grains which brought at
auction two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Can you wonder men brave the terrors of water
tentacles of deadly swapping sharks, of pirates in
China seas-when treasures like these lie beneath
their eghty-pound leaden soled boots, which tread
so lightly over the hills and valleys of the floor?
In all the world there perhaps two or three
engineering firms in whose service scientific experts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
Stirring
Treasure

.HE sea, at least, never fails
us in romance, laughs at
our floating palaces,
and keeps her mysteries
foro,rar A 1rnnSt since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

ana keeps ner mysteries
forever. Almost since
the dawn of time we have striven
to wrest her treasures from her
her pearls and coral and amber and
the gold and silver that her great
waves have whelmed. What stories
are here of success and failure, of
strange, weird sights unknown on
earth, of mysterious fates and few
erish triumphsl
But in diving, as in all other
things, the old order changes, giving
place to new. The naked divers of
olden time, with oiled bodies and
sponge plugged nostrils, are gone,
and their place taken by strange
looking monsters with glittering
helmets of copper and crystal, fitted
with telephones and electric search
lights-powerful men, with suits OF
rubber stayed with steel to keep off
the terrific pressure of water at
great depths.
Think of lightweight and a half
pounds on every square inch of
Shrinking human tissue, as the diver
works in shimmerings dark green
abyss two hundred and five feet in
the depths of the sea! AS the Great
Frederick sought his giant recruits
the world over, so are born divers
sought by the few who need them.
= L E 81 4.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
HOUSE ON RECORD
REPRESENTATIVE SIMS WANTS EN- D0RsEMENT OF ROOSEVELT.
Says If He 0verstepped His Author fty In Brownsville Incident, He should Be Impeached By Con.
 gressfonal Order.

Washington, Jan. 26--Representative Sims, of Tennessee. wants the House to get squarely on record in favor of the President for his action in dismissing three companies of the 18th Infantry from the military service of the Unit ed States
 < He said today in the lower branch Of Congress that by unanimous vote of the Tennessee Legislature. the Presi- dents course was endorsed, and he had. therefore introduced q joint rso1ution commenting the President inxIls post ton. He said the resolution had been. referred tc the sMilitary Affairs Com mittee which he believed would act upon the resolution.
 If it should not, he would ask that the committee be discharged. and he would bring the whole matter before the House for discussion.
 Tn another body of Congress" Mir, Sims asserted, "an ambiguous resolu- tion has been passed which challenged the propriety, if not the authority of the President to take the action he did In the debates his constitutional au- thority had been challenged.
 If the President had exceeded his constitutional authority" said Mir SimsA t'he was subject to impeachment and such proceedings must be commenced in the House of Representatives. In VleW or the resolution passed by tl 0 Senate, neither admitting or denying the Presidents authority. but simply providing for an investigation of the facts, MT. Sims thought 1t proper that the House should express itself.
 It was not his purpose, Mir. Sims as- serted, to discuss the punishment of the discharged soldiers: that question should not be considered in connection with the matter. '"The action of tho President was not taken" asserted MT. Sims, "as a matter of punishment, but as a matter of discipline" He sad he had not patience with the statement that ten guilty should escape rather than one innocent man should suffer unjustly.
 Suppose" he continued, ''that these three companies of soldiers had gone into Mexico and come in contact with dangerous or infectious disease and 1t was impossible to know who had come into contact with the disease, does any, body say that 1t would not be right to quarantine all those soldiers, who went into Mexico. until such period of tirue had elapsed as would show who was not infected. Of course those who had not come in contact with the disease would suffer an inconvenience, but it would be an inconvenience that would be benefit to the people at large"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
TOO MANY SPONSORS
GIRLS ARE CROwDNG OLD vET-
 BRAINS OUT.
Gen. Lee Issues Order Asking Conn., manders to Stop Wholesale Ap- pOtmtment of Young Women
 to Attend Reunions.

New Orleans, Jan. 26.-Two impor- tant orders to Confederate Veterans, issued by Stephen D. Lee, General U. c. ". were made public here tonight.
 Speaking of the appointing of spon- sors and maids of honor by the Uni ted Confederate Veterans, General Lee says:
 Tt cannot be denied that what was intended as an honor to the descen- dants of the glorious women of the Confederacy has grown to such a de- gree that the Confederate soldiers have in a manner been forced into second place"
 He announces that this matter will be brought to the attention of the Richmond reunion this year and that pending action by the veterans at this convention he will abstain from appointing a chief sponsor and maid of honor for the Richmond reunion.
 Tt Is absolutely necessary" he continued, that the expenses of the reI nion cities be reduced and he (the generaD wishes 1t distinctly under stood that the outiav for entertain ment C. all sponsors and maids of honor must be borne by those who make the appointments"
 The second order at nounces the date of the seventeenth ar nuGi reunion for June 1, and next
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
GRlDIR0N DINNER
GENERALIZATION WAS MAJoH
 MOTIF OF ENTERTAINMENT.
In Presence of Distinguished COmpnuy V of Guests. an Empire Was Created in WashinGtOD-OccasIO
 keenly Enjoyed.

Washington. Jan. 2G.--Centralization was the Major motif in the entertain ment furnished tonight h. that famous association of Washingto nnewsnaper correspondents The Gridiron Club. at their annual winter dinner given at the New Willard under especially bril- liant auspices,
 The new President of the club. Sam uel C. Blythe of The New York World. directed the entertainment.
 In the presence of the President of the United States and the Vice-P PresI- dent and representatives from the CO., ordinante branches of the Government. n host of literary and newspaper men. before statesmen and many of the cap tains of industry, an empire was erect cd with all the splendOr attendant thereon. The scene was laid in Wash ington and the time 1917, ten years hence
 The linEly power was surrounded with all the officers of State. with cour- tiers and pages. a herald and numer- ous court to complete the gorgeous picture and tho fun these men of the C4ridiron Club got out of the "skit" 10 say nothing of the enjoyment of tho guests. showed how keenly th" assem- blaze appreciated the satire.