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2 BK WTLMINGOIS MESSKKGEH. TUESDAY. BEOBMBEli ii5, 1906 Cotciru t tiiC l'osf'nliee ot Wlloiing , ; ton, N. O., as Second-Class -Matter, April 13. 1S70. ; : . JACKRON & BELD COMPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ITTIE DAIIi MESSENGER by mail, ae year, $6.0tVlf? months, $3.00: Sagg months, $1.50; ne month, 50 fceala 1 Sdmi-weeKly messen Dfift (two eight page papers), by mail, ttio year $1.00; six months, 50 cents to advance.' WILMINGTON, N C. TUESDAY. .- .DECEMBER 25, 1906 CHRIST3IAS. Christmas! What a world of happi ness and of sadness there is in that word. What different emotions ii awakens in the breasts of thoce who celebrate this greatest of Christian iesuvais. io tne Jitue ones it is a A ll a . . . dav Cif iovouffnsr Tn thnA wtir haw outgrown: childhood, but havs little ones following in their footsteps and in whom all life's pleasures are cen tered, it is a'day of calm enjoyment in me preparation or me surprises anu J. 1 . cue jiappy testivai lor tnem: even though in their memories there are lingering regrets, sad thoughts o little stockings that will not be hung up this time, and dim recollections of the happy times the day brought to them in the years. long ago, which can only return in their efforts to give the same happiness to their innocent ones who still believe in. Santa Chius. To those who have passed beyond the stage even of making preparations for the happiness and pleasure of children it is one of the saddest days of the year; there is the recollection of the happy days of the long past when the happi est part of the Christmas work was in preparing to make others happy, all of whom have passed away or Lave grown beyond dependence of loving parents for their Christmas times and, scattered here and tiieie over the broad face of the Inn 1, have their cares and joys which prevent the old family reunion when all lived together cr ould be gathered under the family roof tree at Christmas tide. Truly it is a day of rejoicing and of sadne??s. With many the joy is mingled v; ith sadness and the sadness withapeaev ful joy. At this happy Christmas time when all the world eems hent on, pleasure1 and rejoicing let I'we wh) .have money to spend remember that there arc many arnoiif! them who have little or ifone wherewith even to liur chase bare necessaries of life, to say nothing of the goad things that all are oupiRsW nave on xats occasion. Help some one who would not other wise be able to do so to have a happy Christmas today and yours will b; all the happier to you. To do so i: is not necessary to spend a large or even smatl amount of. money. Give what you can in money to the poor; it may not he much," but what you can ?paro will help to add to the enjoyment ol the day to some one less blessed than you ,4 in the goods of this world; but this is not all you can, do in the way of making this a brighter and happier day to some other. A .visit to seme sick or afflicted person, a chearfu! greeting and bright salutation to some me you know is depressed and down: hearted, a hearty shake of the hand! to some, other saddened by care and .trouble all . these will help to make happier the day to some who but for, your act might pass it through in Borrow and sadness, seeing no pleas- ure or gladness in it. ' This is a day when no man should live for himself.1 It io Christ's dav when every one . should feel the call to do something .-'-( to help his fellow man. Maxton has established a board of trade. This is an evidence of prog ress' and growth which we are glai o see in our sister city. The finest 50c candy at 25c a lb, ou sale the 22nd to 24th, only these dates, at Piummers. ' . .t AW L ADAGE SAYS iV : "A light parse is a heavy curse? Sickness makes a light purse The LIVER is the seat of jiine tenths of all disease. go to the root of the whole mat ter, thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the actios of the LIVER to normal condition. Give tone to the system end solid flesh to the body. Tc!ce No Substitute. cr-3 n rr (1(1 f R- " J L J vj vj viy Li L THE l3I3fIGRATIOJf QUESTIOX We are glad to note that several of the leading daily papers of the state have taken up the majter of establish ment of a state immigration bureau on the plan of the one that is being to successfully conducted In 6outh Car olina, and are advocating making the port of Wilmington the port of entry for stetuners bringing' immigrants to our state. ' The first venture by the South Car- olina commissioner in the hringin; Gf a shipload of skilled mechatiics and their families to ChaVestQii, whence tiey were distributed, to various points in that state where they were greatly needed has "proven most successful in every way. Nearly all immigrants who came over on the Wittekind are pleas ed with their new homes and are giv ing satisfaction to their employers. Two facts recently announced have opened the way to bringing this class of labor into the state. One is the de cision of Secretary Straus that the im migration law does not prohibit the states from sending agents abroad to induce foreigners to come to this country. That decision was made in the matter of the immigrants brought over in the Wittekind at the solici tation pf State Commissioner Watson, of South Sarolina. The other was the discovery of a clause in the immigra tion law, which was overlooked by the departments of commerce and labor and of justice, toy the attorney of the Charlotte mill men who were indicted for inducing mill operatives in Eng land to come to this state to accept employment in their factories. Mr C. W. Tillett, one of the attorneys for the defendants, announces that a close inspection of the immigration laws re veals the fact that section six provides that .skilled labor may be imported when labor of a like kind cannot be obtained in this country. The mills to which those operatives were brought had much of their machinery standing idle because they could not secure the desired skilled labor in this country. It is said that because of this discovery the prosecution will be 'dropped. These facts open the way to secure the introduction of a desirable class of immigrants into this state, and the only way to do this is for the leg islature .to establish a bureau of immi gration and let its commissioner pur sue the same course as has that of ficer of our sister state. We must have the immigrants selected in Europe and 'brought by steamer directly to our chief seaport, whence they could De distributed to their future homes in our state. The Durham Herald truthfully says that "North Carolina can put it" down that those who land 'in Charleston will not be allowed to come up this way until South Caro lina gets all she wants; and nobody can be blamed for this". We cannot expect the commissioner of South Carolina or of any other state to exert himself . to secure immigrants for North Carolina when his state is need ing them so badly that he goes to the trouble and expense of a trip to Eu rope to secure them for his state. If we are to get them we will have to do so by our own exertions and at our own. expense. That cannot be denied. After quoting the above from The Herald, the Chronicle , of Charlotte, says that "the only thing for this state to do is to establish an immigra tion 'bureau and send a man to Eu rope after the people. North Carolina must look out for her self. Nobody else is going to do it for her. With an immigration department establish ed it would be an easy thing to sut ure a steamer to hring the immigrants to Wilmington. The thing is to have our own agent to solicit the people we want and land them at our own port" . All of which is as true as Gospel. We need in this state the kind of immigrants who were induced to come 'over to work in the Mecklenburg mills and those who came to Charleston in the Wittekind. We do not think the most rabid advocate of the exploded principles of know-nothingism can deny that this is not only the best but the only way for our people to se cure the kind of immigrants our state desires and needs. Immigration of the right kind is the crying need of our section of the country. If we can once start the tide this way we will be able in a short while 'to do away with the soliciting part of the work and turn our atten tion to the selection, of the class that we want of voluntary skilled and un skilled labor which, will seek homes in our section. WIMINGTON AND CHARIiOTTE I, . Wilmington has gotten Into the ex-tension-of -city-limits same. From the way Charlotte is going about it our seaport city would be justified in dis- ; mussing the question of taking in some . of the West Indies. -Industrial . News. j f Thanks, brother, for the kindly sug- : gestion. The Wilmington people; however, have already given that mat- j ter sei ious thought irad are only walt- ! Ing for the incorporation of Cuba as American territory to make, the island a maritime suburb of their city. They are becoming impatient at the delay and feel that if annexation is delayei'l much, longer ihey will have to - con tent themselves; with Turk's Island, or take in Porto Rico, which is rather too far away to suit their convenience" You may rest? assure! that the. Wil mingtonians are not going to let the people of Charlotts get ahead of them in the (boundary s 1 imits extension con test. The only fear they have is that Charlotte may strain the friendly re lations between the two cities by the ' .desire to re-establish hejr former navy J attempt to attach 'Wilmin ton for a suburb for the purpose of securing a more convenient one than the : first she had. Wilmingtonians. however, would fight that proposition to the bitter end, though, they would not object to closer relations with that city in the way of making her the manufacturing suburb of her seapen. THANKS, BROTHER HARRIS. We feel "mightily holped" up about that big dinner. In the Selwin when the hotel is finished. Negotiations are progressing very, satisfactorily and we are more convinced "than ever that Brother Hariss intends to do the thing up bown whenever that half a million dollar hotel is ready to entertain guests. During the two years more or less that the invitation has been hanging fire because of delay in firm? up the range in the Selwin's culinary department we have not for a single moment doubted the sincerity of Brother Harris or the bona fides of his invitation and have been none the less confident in our ability when the happy time rolls around to do full justice to the occasion. Our appetite has been whetted, and our earnest ie sire for early completion of the Sel win increased, however, . by the re ceipt of the following special dispatch received yesterday afternoon. Charlotte December 24. The Messenger, Wilmington, N. C. Iveep your appetite whetted. That dinner is coming: along". Mt-rry Christ mas WADE H. HARRIS. Brother Harris, we will be there." By the way, we would like to know what you mean hy advising 113- to "keep our appetite whetted". Have we got to keep whetting it all the time from now-until that dinner m the uncompleted Selwin is announced? Has that remark anything to do with the fact that Charlotte is a dry town and Wilmington a mighty wet one, and for that reason would you like us to bring along a few "whetsones" when we come to partake of that dinner? "Any way and any how," a merry Christmas to you and to all the. Chronicle-force. The Industrial News says that "some evil-minded persons are accus ing the prohibitionists of raising the price of eggs" just at this time when the "nog" is the favorite way of many. tooth pros and antis of celebrating the joyous occasion. We can't "believe . it, for the "morally stunted" are no more anxious for the cheap price of eggs just at this season than are many of the other persuasion. We wonder how the taxpayers of the county of Craven relish the idea of having to pay the big bill of costs in the suit to annul the lease of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad. The commissioners made the county a party plaintiff to the suit, which was lost and now it is said the county will have to pay . the costs . Looks like a case of monkey, cat and hot chestnuts. FOOD COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The Miamesota Dairy and Food Com mission's analysis shows that Kenne dy's Laxative Honey and Tar and Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar contained opiates and croton oil. Opiates are poisons and croton oil is a violent poisonous purgative. Refuse to accept any but Foley's Homey and Tar; in a yellow package. Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates or dangerous drugs and is the best cough and cold cure. Jos. C. Shepard, J. "Hicks Bmit ing Drug O. Genuine Carter3 Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Sec Facsimile Wrapper Below. Texy sauOl ud as easy -to take as cvgazi. . r FCH UEADACUE ron Dizziness ron ciucu::rss. FOH TCHFI3 UYO. - F03 ccnsnPAnorf. fcs cJLUtrj zsm. FC3 r:2C0PLEXlC3 Mm t O'fiStilPnroly CARTELS I f ivEn PILLS. J I CURE SICK HEADACHE. I WE IMSURAMCE! FOR FTRE INSURANCE IN SOMES OF THE liEADLXG COMPANIES DICKINSON & DAVIS. They represent seven of tb Treading Fire Insurance Companies, and one iXCLDENT and HEALTH INSUR ANCE COMPANY, and they wfll bo pleased to talk with you about any kind of Insurance. DICKINSON & DAVIS, Phone 1177. 120 Princes Sirs t something out of your wages each week or month ''you shortly accumulate a neat sum which increases yur confidence in your self and inspires you with higher ideals. . It is the means by which you may become a wealthy man. We U encourage the small depositor and solicit his business. Four per cent interest paid n de posits. Carolina Savings and Trust Cop Atlantic Baak Building, Cor, Front and Princest Streets. the time when you must think of those Christmas presents. It's only two more weeks. Why not give a beautiful portable lamp to the older folks and electric novelties to the little ones? We have them in all styles. We also hive a competent force of electricians who are wiring other people's houses. We'd like to have them wire yours too. It is less trou ble than matches and oil. It is just as cheap in the long run too. we have tried it and we know. Mm Chinese Steam Laundry tliat Z am sow at above location, fuiiy, nreoared to take care of. all orders LPcra artesian trell trater osea in mjl BAZi TiTirZ, Phone orders receive prompt atten Umxu TTork called for and delivered, Electri PXtONE 1153. WISH.EVEKTOOPYB a 4 R3ERRY CHRISTMAS. Proprietors, THE LITTLE STORE. Tie Me S3.50-S4.00 Made of Patent Colt, Vici, Gnu Metal. Box Coif and Calf. All Shapes: anl Catalogue .sent on request. RKGAL SHOE TIL1T PROVES WTTTTYTYTrrTTTTTTTTTTgTTTTTTTgTTrTTTTTTTTZTTTTTTXTXl .I THE AM K I Suggestions for 1 Christmas Presents A nice set of Quilt, Shopping Bags, Ladies' and Gents1 Umbrellas, Feather Boas, Brush and Comb Sets, Military Brushes, Kid Gloves, and the greatest Variety and ihe best selection " kerchiefs in the city. Balance of stock of :; DolL to be sold put i C. H. FORE & CO. $ ihe Murehison Wilmington, Illltllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllltll WE WISS EVERY ONE H .- H M M I 1-4 SIZBS A. SNR1ER, Agent. WILMINGTON, X. O. Furs, a Down or Wool i rh;iri at half price. National -Back North Carolina. A MERRY CHRISTI3AS STEER THIS WAY for your BEEF, PORK, JjAMU, 1HJT- TOX, VEAI, and POUIrKY. and yea : .will get the FTCfEST MEATS KLXiKl. The tastyr juicy, appetizing khwl that makes you tt5int more alter the first lielpingr. r ' C Only tlAe best led cattle are killed for onr trade, and ernr customers may al-" wajs rely upou tl ic ery best qnallt of meat, cleanly and properly dressed,, aud In every wny fit for the best tables.. RHODES & rricrrr sirrzz? uccnznr. JM: ; ' : PROYBS"
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