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The times., 1897-03-19
Steam Engineers Licensed.

Steam engineers were licensed yesterday
as follows: j John c. Wheeler, first class;
William L. Courtney, second class; Will
liam F. Seim. Anton Lerch, Joseph G.
Boyd and Andrew Hall, third class.
The times., 1897-03-19

There were printed and cfrcu-
lated yesterday 1924 copies of
The Times.
The times., 1897-03-19

T>HE new Spring Derbys
are ready and you'll
Il fnd here all the cor
rect shapes. The Knox, Dun
lap, Miller and Stetson
blocks, in same qualities for
which the agencies ask you
a dollar or two more than
our prices. A good, service
able hat here for 81. so, and
-up to 81 for the best grade
made. All fully guaranteed
by Us.
Spring Top Coats, too. A
full line. Plenty of style and
quality in that t an Kersey at
The times., 1897-03-19

There were printed and circu-
lated yesterday 46,274 copies of
The Timese
The times., 1897-03-19

There were printed and circu-
lated yesterday 46,274 copies of
The Times.
The times., 1897-03-19

There were printed ana circu-
lated yesterday 46,254 copies OF
The Times,
The times., 1897-03-19

36-inch MOiTe RUstIing Lining. i'm
eolOrs. Worth 1Oc a yard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
:sT0cK:7

/ am determined to sell my Summer
Goods and make room for Fall stock. Ny
Spring business has been the best / have
ever had, but as the season advanced /
was daily tempted to buy more by low
prices until / have today the handsomest
line of Summer Lawn, Organizes, Schal-
lies, Piques, Silks and Silkalines and White
Goods that it has ever been my good for
tune to show, and rather than carry any
of these goods over, We have cut the
Light and Dark Shallie, pretty fresh
patterns, at 4c per yard.
Shirt Waist Calicoes &c per yard.
Batiste, a beautiful summer Dress
Goods and pretty style. worth &c, for Acc.
Nice Wool Shallies, Summer Patterns,
worth 15c, to close size; finer quality and
wider width, worth 25c, bought of Mr.. r..
NJ. McIntire, at 1Oc.
White Pique, slightly second, a big
drive, at 10c. marked down as a leader,
goods, bought in short lengths, worth zoe,
we sell for 10c.
Double fold Spring Dress Goods, worth
15c and lie, to clear up will sell for 10c.
Fine White Organdie, 30 inches wide, at
15c, 1Sc, 25c and 35c per yard.
India Linen, all grades, for &c, Sc, 1oc.
12c and up to 35c per yard.
Beautiful patterns of Silk and Wool
Shallies, in grand styles, worth Doc, to
move we offer them at 1Sc.
Spring and summer Dress Goods, strict
ly all-wool, sc inches wide, worth 35c,
bought of Mr.. r. NJ. McIntire, now going
at only 25c; soc quality at 35c now; 75c
quality at soc now.
| Black and Blue Nunsveiling, IS inches
wide, all wool. at 1Oc per yard.
Cross Barred Muslin, q inches wide, at
&c per yard; better quality, worth Sc,
now &c.
Fine White Goods in Cross Bar and Pin
| Stripe, worth II and 13c, this week will
| sell you any of it for 10c.
Ladies' White Apron Goods, AZ inches
wide, beautiful borders and nice quality,
| for 10c per yard.
Black Serge, Sc inches wide at 25c; AZ
inches wide at 35c.
| Black Henrietta. nice clean pretty goods,
So inches wide, zoe; strictly all wool DC.
Fine Black Dress Goods from 35c to 81. 35
| per yard, all grades and kinds.
Dress Goods I'VE have got" We have
our stock and Mr.. r. NJ. McIntire's stock.
Our shelves are full, tables, counters and
drawers. We want to sell them. We will
soon need this room for winter goods.
| Selling these goods at these prices is my
loss and likewise your gain. Come and
see us and bring this advertisement and
see that you get what we describe here.
| NOTIONS PRICE LIST.-Needles, % in
a paper, Sharp's Best Goods, 1c. Pins
Black Mourning Pins 22c box. Brass Pins
&c paper. Hair pins lc dozen. Pearl Ini-
tial Scarf Pins sc each. Gold Bangle Pins
sc each. Trilby Heart, German Silver, lOc.
BookkeeperS and Teachers take notice. /
have just closed out a big line of stand
ard NIX at a low price. / have Stan
ford's, Diamonds, Arnold's Writing Inks,
Copying Inks and Writing Fluids. Moore's
Inks in small bottles at &c. Stanford's in
large bottles at sc. Williams Ink in quart
at 23c. Stanford's. Diamonds and Ar
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Why has prosperity been delayed for
eight months after 1t was confidently.
braggingly promised by the nowlers?
The advance agent started last Septsm-
Der. What do the republican tooters
say? Mckinley. Aldrich. Dingley and
company have all Dragged and explain
ed. Mckinley says legislation ny
ton will do the business and make the
wilderness howl with rejoicings and
even blossom like the rose. Mckinley
is a good bragyer. What does leader
in-the-house Dingley, OF Maina, say to
a distressed and anxious country? He
explains now that no one expected
prosperity at once. The tooters
simply lied then when they were prem
Using SO much. Mckinley, Sherman,
the tOOters generally, and their organs,
all promised and swore that prosperity
was coming at once. Dingley is dolo-
rous and in the dumps now. He "fes-
ses up" that there is no prosperity yet.
He says the signs failed some how. 1t
is to come soon, when the octopus tax
is put to work. But Dinyley puts it
off farther-a year or SO in the future.
1t will not be on hand before August or
September 1898, according to DR.. Ding
ley r. P.-which stands for revenue
practitioner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
HAWAII AND JAPAN.

The Hawaii matter is assuming
much Importance and grave conse-
quences may follow the course of the
republican party in the congress. To
carry out their plans, cherished ever
since President Harrison put the an
nexation ball in motion, the party may
precipitate a war that in any event
may be no child's play, and may cost
the people of the United States ten
times the value of Hawaii, without tax
ing a heavy loss of human lives into
fhe count. There seems to be no doubt
that a large majority of the senate ia
VOrs bringing into the American Union
Hawaii, in which the actua number of
Americans is said not to exceed 1,5OO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

while there are 10000 in all OF whites OF
York newspaper says:
There are now 49, 900 Chinese and
Japanese coolies, $50 0 ignorant and
shiftless human beings from the slums
OF Portuguese cities, 40, 0O0leprosy-cursed
native Hawaiians and half-breeds."
It is against the traditions, policy
and interest Of the United States to
abandon the wisdom and caution OF
President Washington's policy and go
into the foreign annexation business.
The Messenger said recently that the
annexation of Hawaii would be the be-
ginning OF other such schemes. The
same New York paper says that an
nexmg Hawaii will open the way for
the annexation OF other remote, USE
troublesome and expensive in time of
peace and indefensible in time OF war
except by an outlay Of none
in ships and forts"
It is believed in Washington that
there is a big job in this pressing
movement OF the Administrator. 1neTe
is Cub lying at our door and it's peo-
pie being butchered and it's towns and
plantations being destroyed, and yet
Mckinley and gang turn their backs
upon the oppressed and starved to get
UP a row with Japan perhaps concern
ing the Hawaiians-the most undesir-
able CROWD that could possibly be in
into the American family.
There is really no good reason why
Hawaii should be annexed. There are
many good and sufficient reasons why
it should not be annexed. In addition
to those cited, as The same New York
paper says, cit will open the way for
new eXtravagancies and dishonesties in
appropriation bills, new and almost
unlimited jobs and steals" 1t cannot
possibly be of any very great additional
advantage as to business, as to rade.
Who desires really to have such a
population added to our own Y, 600, 900?
Is there really any general, popular de-
mand for it? Who was thinking Of it
even, much less desiring it before Nc
kinney and his bad advisers started it?
1t is probably a job from beginning to
end. If it should bring on a war it will
be very unnecessarily done. The last
news looks OminOus. Japan is saucy
and may mean business"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

But there are lots of money in the
land. Even so. The millionaires and
less rich men have it in stacks. The
poorer classes are as usual with empty
pockets, and with nothing to buy with.
In localities-the none centres-there
is congestion, and hundreds of millions
are lying idle as "a painted boat on a
painted ocean, With so much idle
money why such doll times and so great
scarcity of money in the land general
ly? Why are so many hundreds of
thousands of people idle and clamoring
for bread? Wanamaker says hundreds
ask him daily for work that they may
find bread. h Salt Lake Tribune. we
hav for some years observed, discus
ses financial and other questions with
real ability and insight. 1t is replying
to what The Louisville Courier-JOurnal
recently said about the great supply of
money and it's explanation of causes
We make room for this part:
THE prices are governed in this
country by the law of supply and de-
mand and the volume of standard
money in this country and the world.
We have seen them fall so per cent.
Sll1Ct the NOlulllc VI lIdt lllOIlCN mas
been reduced 80 per cent. it is a natu-
raj law and absolutely inviOlable, but
our gold bug friends dare not admit
the fact, because were they to do so
the whole false structure of finance
which they hav upreared would come
tumbling down about their heads. Last
year the amount of wheat consumed
per capita-including sick people and
toothless babies-fell off ninety pounds,
q h,,cho1 an6 q half Does The Courier
Journal charge that to overproduction,
or to a want of capacity OF the part
of the people to buy? Again when it
explains that there is an abundance of
none to be borrowed at low rates,
if people only have the security to give,
can it explain why their securities have
gone to pieces. Is it not because the
property has fallen so per cent. in value
and is still falling, and becomes money,
measured by commodities, makes more
money when locked in the vaults of a
bank, than when invested in property"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

DR.. K~ingsbury is still demanding a
one yourself, Doctor?-New Bern Jour-
nal.
He cannot. One by him would in
deed be one for himself. There are
many reasons why he should not I'M
dertake the great task. 1t is too impor-
tant, he has not the proper qualifica-
tions, has not the time. a not the
philosophical grasp, the historic style
not the dull, commonplace, prevailing
style of contemporary writer's is refer
Illuminating and is not without imag-
NATIVE glow and power and pictorial
effects. 1t would require a great deal
of anxious care, years of patient toll,
vas research, a long study of all the
documents entering into the causes, the
progress of the war. and the direful
results. 1t would demand the utmost
calmness, the highest sense Of RESPONSE
bility, the profoundest love of truth
and candor and fairness. Who is equal
to these things? Not a living Ameri-
an, as We sincerely believe. Hon.
James Brice or Mr.. Lecky, two great
English historians, might write the i'm
partial, just, luminous, satisfying his
tory of the great war. To do the work.
fttingly, nobly, j~udicially will tax the
powers of the greatest masters in the
domain of history.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

noii's in half pint bottles at 20c: pint
bottles at 35c: quart bottles at Soc. Just
u little more than half regular price.
Fine Ruled Writing Paper. - sheets TO
the pound. for 10c. 80 fine Envelopes for
zoe. go Square Envelopes in Xxx paper
at 25c; 80 Spare Envelopes in xxx paper
at &C.
Falcon Pens at &c dozen. or 25c gross.
Fine Lead Pencils. slightly damaged. az
Sc dozen. Splendid Bookkcepers' Pencils at
sc each.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Down and Tai
cum Powders. Talcum Powder at l0c per
box: Pink and White Swans Down.
box. c. i. Bailey's best Cologne and
Hoyt and Forests Flower from &c to 25c
per bottle.
f. SPREADS.-Marseilles Quilts. COL
ored Borders, goods that | picked up in
auction and were sold at sc, cost me CSC.
] want TO close up at soc: strictly Summer
Goods, and want the room. Union Quilts,
in Blue Red and White. I'm l0-i sizes, mt
15c: better Quilts. larger and the best
nice patterns and heavier weight. thatI
make splendid presents, both pretty AM
serviceable. from $3.50 to 800 each.
HOSIERY;-In Children's l~ong-lcgged.
pair. Child,s seamless. double heel and
knee, fast Black at l0c per pair. vhild's fine
Hermsdorf dyed, Of the very best comb
yarn make from 1sc to 25c per pair. Little
and 20c. Ladies' Tan. Black and Bal
briggan Hose from 10c to 35c. Ladies'
very me Dix BdlDrlSRd1 1fllSn ItOSt,
worth. s1.00. to close for soc: too fine goods
for our trade. Fat Ladies' Hose in Black.
very best goods, absolutely fast Black.
extra large leg, at 25c per pair.
CLOTHING. CLOTHING.-Men's Crash
Suits in nice, good styles at $3.50; better
style, all Linen, made for service. at S2S1.
A nice line of Gentlemen's Black Goods.
Nice Clay Worsteds. in light weights, to
close at a price. Strictly All-Wool Suits.
worth 800, will sell for $500. My $50
line nicely made / will sell for 800: in
finer goods and better styles. heavier
| weights, $500. 5000 and $3.50. In strictly
All-Wool Suits and nice patterns. would
be cheap at 500. | will sell you for $i.2J.
too light for winter wear, ! want tie
room and money for them, ] VIII sell for
800.
SHIRT wAIsTS-AIl styles. from i0c To
S1.25 each.
Remember our Millinery Department.
We are headquarters for cheap goods IN
this line. Lawn Baby Caps from 10c Up
Duck Tam O'Shanters and Yacht Car
from 15c to &c. =
We would tell you more, but we haven't
got the room. Our space in the paper IL
crowded with prices, just like our shelves.
tables and counters In our store are piled
up with cheap goods. We want your
trade. We have already got a big share of
1t and we appreciate that, but We stl.i
want more. We buy our goods low. We
pay cash for them. We sell them low for
cash in return. Remember the present
that we also offer you, and II you haven't
got o card, ask for one. You viii find Us
always busy and ready TO walt or you at
1l2 North Front street, opposite The
orion Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
HOME FOLKS.

What an awful murder that was at
Lexington. Mrs. Springs is shot to
death in her own bed by a white our
glar. If he is caught the slow-pacing
law will hardly be waited upon by the
rouse n determined population.
That is one of the most Internal house.
breaking records ever made in North
Carolina. 1t reads like the burglaries
in the great north where they do
abound. We sincerely wish that the
bloody villain may be run down and
caDtured.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

plumber, upon every consideration con-
nected with the honor supposed to sub
sist W influences like that of Mr..
hanna and the campaign creditors.
The Haitian mission always has been
a republican plum for the colored voter.
and why ould not il be continued as
SUCH"
Pray why should an educated white
man be sent to a negro country? There
is surely an eternal fitness in send
ing a negro TO a black republic.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

North Carolina needs a work of less
pretentiOn n demanding less skill and
ability. There ought to be a history of
North Carolina in the great war and
the dark, damning days of reconstruct
ton. There are living North Carroll
mans who could prepare an acceptable
work of the kind. The state deserves
a fair, full account of what it did and
suffered for the south in behalf of sec
Ond independence. Who will under
future.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Ayers Pills promote the natural mo-
ton of the bowels, without which there
car be no regular, healthy operations.
For the cure of biliousness, indigestion,
sick headache, constipation, jaundice,
and liver complaint, these pills have no
equal. Every dose effective.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Totten said boastingly of his prognos-
tications concerning h Greco-Turk-
ish war, that 1.-The two crucial days of
the conflict will be June 22nd and Sep
TENDER 23rd." He is way behind time.
The critical days came weeks ago
and Greece has been reduced in size,
in prestige, in fame. in money.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Lest we be misunderstood as to DR..
Abbott and the whale" we state that
in the James version the word occurs,
but not in the original. The Holy Spir-
it did not so write it. DR.. A. poses as
a scholar and he knows or ought to
know that the original word is not
whale" and more than the original Of
Easter" is Easter, which it is not.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Not many business houses in these
United States can boast Of fifty years
standing. The business of DR.. J. c..
Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass, whose in
comparable Sarsaparilla is known and
used everywhere, has passed it's half
centennial and was never SO vigorous
as at present.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

Talking Of washing the soiled polit-
zeal integuments that rinsing process in
the senate on Tuesday on the part of
republican senators was very inviting
and suggestive. Foraker did his work
we'll and he pounded the dirty buds
of topper Allison very effectively. Such
displays are refreshing as ocean breez-
es and give one a higher admiration of
senatorial honor and truStWOrthineSS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

If Tom Watson is vain enough to
hin he can defeat bimetallism in 1900
by his desertion he is certainly counting
sweep him and his republican-annex
out Of the track like trash is swept by
a November storm. Tom would be wise
to get in out Of the rain or he will get
wet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

That forgotten man" is a lively fig
ure now. He is paraded in political
and literary speeches and threatens to
become as threadbare as the Wander
ing Jew" or the Last Man"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
SHARPS mi FLATS.

The hanging of the negro by a mob
at Urbana, Ohio, is still engaging some
of the time of the "a The
more the affair is ventilated the more
hideous appear the details. 1t is a fact
that some Of the best citizens"-nOt
rowdies and the unwashed and the me
elected man." but the highly respecta-
BILE and educated. either participated
directly or like Paul consenting, and
standing by, held the clothes Of those
who stoned the victim. Many women
took a hand in crying for the negro's
blood. 1t was indeed a wild craZe-a
terrible excitement, quite rivalling any
thing that ever occurred outside of
Texas. The mayor was in sympathy
with the laWlessness. An account says,
within a week or two after the event
and in GOODNESS of temper:
when the doomed creature was
brought out everybody that could get
near him began to kick him, to beat
him with clubs, and even to stick him
with knives. 1t is likely that he was
totally insensible long before he reach
ed the tree to which he was dragged to
be hung. After being lowered to the
ground, he was allowed to lie uncof-
fined upon the public square for six
hours, and was then carted off to the
potter's field"
And all this in McKinley's own state,
and in the midst of a rich settlement
of the highest in the Ohio standard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

More distressed, disappointed, befooled
negro emigrants to Liberia have re-
dark and dolorous. Negroes will read
of what happened, and the next thing
will be another foolish colony for the
lane of fevers and poverty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

What in the world could have in
duced Senator Morgan to vote against
Pettigrew's antitrust resolution. We
once believed in Roger Mills but he
fooled US and we dropped our conf
dence behind. If Morgan is built that
way" we shall cease to confide i'll him.
Can any living American politician be
trusted? Who is he?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

though many are gra and few are
bald. Halls Hair Remover restores the
natural color, n thickers the growth
1f the hair
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
SNAPS.

The goldbugs are determined to drive
President Andrews out OF Brown uni
versity because OF his bimetallic views.
He wants both metals for money.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

The Chicago News regards the Illi-
nOis republican legislature as "a car
nival of corruption" Very likely and
yet it will not be unlike sundry other
bodies hat make bad laws.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

California senators oppose the an
nexation of Hawaii, n declare that
the Pacific slope is against it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29
H SCOTTISH CHIEF
S1.OO A YEAR.

Is published at Maxton. n. c., the rail-
road centre of Robson county, which Is
the largest county in the state, and has
the largest capitalization Of any agricul-
tural county-over $160 per capita The
SCOTTISH CHIEF publishes a wide
range of local news. besides state and
national notes Of interest, n pays es-
pecial attention to items and notes Of in
terest to people of Scottish descent. A
VALUABLE ADVERTISING MEDIUM.
The Job Work Department turns out
neat Job Work at competitive prices.
Persons looking for valuable farm lands
in this fertile section should write the
editor. J. KIRKLAND HILL.
my q Maxton. n. G.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-29

The Messenger is always the friend
of the "colored man and brother" 1t
has good wishes and kind feelings for
the negro who is deserving, who bears
himself we'll, is no brawler, but a good
citizen. 1t has said hat where there is
are a thousand outside who have no
right to be there by law-that where
there is one rapist and brute there are
10, 600 who are free from such cruel
crimes. We refer to the ''colored
brother now because Of a recent event
in New Jersey-Cleveland's own state.
a negro a schoolmaster, was appoint
ed by Mckinley to the negro republic
of Haiti. This has provoked great op-
position in the north and evoked many
protests from THE best business ele-
Whatever the plea, the fact
remains that northern whites protest
loudly against an educated negro being
sent as minister to a negro republic.
The Washington Times takes this view,
and it is the proper one we SUPPOSE:
From any republican standpoint, the
movement is an outrage upon the col
ored people of the country. who regu-
larly have supported republican plat
forms and policies ID their own detri-
ment, as we'll as to the subyersion of
national interests and decent govern
ment generally. AS coparceners in the
universal game of grab, the colored
element is entitled "a its share Of the
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-23
Rough on Girls.

DR.. S S. Cryor of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church does not be
lieve in women wearing bloomers
and riding wheel, and last night
in the course Of his sermon he made
the following remark: 81 never come
so near believing in the Darwinian
theory AZ when | seq a nondescript
trouser-wearing, man aping member
of the middle sex commonly called
woman astride bicycle, nose to
handlebars and that wonderful
hump that reminds one of the
vanished Grecian bend. 1t only re-
quires tail to complete the likeness
to a monkeys. Il. Call.
Our "hiking" girls should invite
the reverend "hairpiu" who is credit
ed with throwing the above bouquets
at the San Francisco girls to visit
Honolulu and inspect their graceful
riding aud admire their divided
skirts, A meeting for the special
benefit Of the gentleman could be
arranged at the Cyclomere Park,
The only monkey" present would
be Dr. S. S. Cryor.