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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Our Flag

The present flag is modelled after
the first United States flag, which was
approved by Washington on that mem
orable day, June 14th, 1777, when shown
the design by Betsy Ross at her home
on Arch street, Philadelphia. Mrs.
Ross showed George Washington, who
had taken her the design for the flag
agreed on by congress, how to clip out
a five pointed star with one clip of her
patriotic scissors. The stars on the
coinage are all six-pointed, the Brit
ish style stars, and, SO tradition says,
Washington drew them for Mrs. Ross;
but she stuck to the five-pointed CAL
lie star, n in that form they have
ever since remained. The resolution of
the ~ontinenta congress creating the
haS read as follows: THAT the flag of
the thirteen United States shall be
thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white, that the union be thirteen stars,
white, in a blue field, representing a
new constellation" When Kentucky
and were admitted as states
In 1871, two new stars were added.
and, in 1885, the stripes were increased
to fifteen. BY 1918, when the number
of states a run up to twenty, the
inartistic effect Of adding to the num-
gress enacted that the flag for the fu-
ture should be thirteen stripes with a
star for each state. Briefly, this is
the history of the flag and its develop
ment. The fact that stars form part
of the heraldic emblaZoning of the
Washington coa of arms does not ap-
pear to have had anything to do with
adoption for the fag.-Cincinnati
Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

Washington, September 3.-The ma
rine hospital service has received a dis
patch from the state health officer at
Taylor, Miss, stating that there were
nine new cases yesterday at Orwood.
With twelve cases heretofore reported
this makes a total of twenty-One at
that point. Surgeon Carter Of the ma
rine hospital service arrived today at
Orwood to take charge n has begun
an investigation.
Jackson, Miss, September 3.-One
case of yellow fever has developed at
Waterford, a small village five miles
east Of Watervalley. The board re-
CARDS the situation as rather serious.
Surgeon Carter of the United States
marine hospital service left Taylor's
station and Orwood today on a special
train. There are now twenty-One cases
at OrwOOd. One death mas occurred.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
PiscatOriai PreVarica tors

A suspicious crowd-three is said to
be a crowd-were seen hanging around
the Orion yesterday They were
sunburned and tough-looking, and
they explained it all by saying
that they had been on a weeks fish
ing expedition at the Rocks,
Southport and out to sea. The
party consisted of Messrs. S. H.. Cot
ton, of Hope Mills, A.. ]. Champion, of
Charlotte, and J. c. Scarborough who
halls from Wilmington, all piscator-
ial prevaricators Of the first water.
Yes, we had great luck" they all
declared in a chorus. During he
week we caught whole boatloads of
fish. Today before we came to town
We caught SO fine trout and so big
~sheephead."
Mr.. Cotton made affidavit on an old
envelope that Mr.. Champion caught a
sheephead weighing Is pounds.
Mr.. Champion declared that Mr..
Scarborough caught a fine fish weigh
ing 20 pounds-"A tautog or something
like that, it was" put in Mr.. Scarbor-
ouSu, WluH d SCI IOuo uoubI "ASthSA
that was the right name or o
Mr.. Scarborough gave Mr.. Cotton
credit for catching a toad fish that
weighed a pound and a half and nat
urally Mr.. Cotton swelled up consid
erably owe his achievement.
If a preacher had not sided up there
is no telling what else they would
have told. While the preacher was
wondering who they were. the fisher
men went off down stairs-to battle
their sunburned faces in ice water.
When The Messenger representa-
tive left them they were all three
Dragging about Mr.. 1. S. Davis, the
we'll known Southport pilot, who
they say is the best man they ever had
to take a boat out to sea and who
knows where forty eleven thousand
fish hang out. It is presumed that
they didn't do a thing to Mr.. Davis.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

The Ohio River and Charleston Rail-
road Leased by the South Caroline &
Georgia ROad-The Road to be Com
tfnued Into the Coal and Iron Re-
gfOns.
The Columbia, S. c., State of yester-
day says:
AS first told in the State, neotia-
tons for the lease of the Ohio River
and Charleston road, formerly the
Three C's" to the South Carolina and
Georgia have been in progress for the
past several months. 1t is o an
nounced that the deal was closed yes
terday and that the Blacksburg offices
would be abolished and the business
of the two roads transacted from the
Charleston end of the line.
The change, it is thought, will ben
eft Columbia by bringing into this
town regular passenger and freight
trains over the Ohio River and Char
lesion, as formerly, and according to
the Manufacturers Record arrange
ments are being made to complete a
railroad system from eastern Tennes-
see to Charleston in which the Ohio
River and Charleston will form an i'm
portant link. The Record says:
According to the report, the South
Atlantic & Ohio roalroad, which was
recently purchased by the Clydes, Of
New York, will form the connecting
link with the Louisville and Nashville
system at Klondyke junction. At
Bristol connection with the Bristol,
Elizabethon & North Carolina rail-
way, owned by the Pennsylvania Steel
Co., will be made which takes the new
road to Elizabethtown. At that point
connection is made with the East Ten
nessee and Western North Carolina
railway, marrow gauge, running from
Johnston iCty, Tenn, to Cranberry, N.
c. This will be converted into a
broad gauge road, and connection
with the Three C's" railroad will be
made at Johnson iCty. The Three C's
now the Ohio River & Charleston rail-
way, is completed within fifty miles
of Charleston. The distance will be
built at once, thus completing the
through line from the coal, coke and
timber and ore regions of east Ten
nessee and southwest Virginia to the
SeaShOre.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
The British Capture KhartOum

London, September "a report,
which lacks confirmation, is current
here this evening that the Anglo-Egy-
ptian forces have captured Khartoum.
1t is stated that the loss of the Anglo
Egyptian army is two thousand men,
while that of the Dervishes is placed
at eight thousand.
IL p. m. Up to a late hour this ev-
ening no confirmation of the report of
the capture of Khartoum had been re-
ceived at the foreign Office of the war
Office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Decision Against the Pacific.

Washington, September 1.-The in
ter-state commission by a
decision today in the matter of the
passenger rate disturbances of the Ca
madam Pacific railroad, involving the
propriety of differential passenger
rates between eastern points and the
Pacific coast, held that the Canadian
Pacific is not entitled to the differen-
tial contended for. The case is one of
the most important hat has been be-
fore h commission for a long time,
the American railroad ines and the
Canadian Pacific having been engaged
six months or more in a war in passen-
ger tariff between the east and west.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Hong Kong Weekly Press

The Messenger has received another
copy of the Hong Kong Weekly
Press" a paper published at Hong
Kong, China, from it's friend Mr.. w. b.
Walker, who is in business in the far
away Flowery Kingdom.
This issue of the paper is exceeding
ly interesting and contains many arti-
cles about the Spanish-American war,
especially regarding the Philippines.
o f%course, the paper is now over a
month old, as it too quite a long time
for it to reach this country.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

A great democratic gathering was
held on the 31st OF August at Rocking
ham. 1t is said 5000 people were pres
ent- Opened with prayer. Colonel r.
T. Bennett made the speech and was
very loudly cheered. An in
the News and Observer says: Rich
mond Is stirred as never before. The
county candidates spoke. Hundreds
of former republicans and populists
were present. many Of them leading in
the applause.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Washington Messenger: Our distin-

Washington Messenger: Our distin-
guished townsman, Hon. John A.
Small, was nominated at Edenton yes
terday for congressman of the First
district on the first ballot. No man in
the district is more popular, and GER
tainly no man would fill the position
with more ability. Mr.. Small is a
Beaufort county boy by birth, a law
yer by profession and enjoys a large
and lucrative practice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
Miss Winnie Davis No Better.

Narraanset Pier, R. L., September
3.-The condition of Miss Whine Davis
daughter of Jefferson Davis, who has
been seriously i'll here for some time,
was not improved today. Miss Davis
passed a very uncomfortable night, and
did not rest much. The intense heat
is exhausting her strength. The Their
mometer today registered SO in the
shade.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

For the negro, white supremacy
means more than to white men. To
them is means protection Of property
person and liberties; good government
honestly administered and the contin-
ued elevation of their race in morals,
character and usefulness. The negro
who votes the white mans ticket. is
the negro who knows his friends
Kings Greenville Weekly.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

An Alabama community turned u
the other day and hanged in efgy a
parson who resigned from the army
when his regiment vas ordered to
Cuba AS a rule, the Alabama people
don't stop at the efigy business. They
are inclined to the real thing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

On the recommendation of the
Sweedish-Norwegian council, King
Oscar has notified the car of his ac-
ceptance of the invitation to send del
egates to the peace conference.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington, y. c., September g
Receipts of cotton today-45 bales.
Receipts same day last year-732
bales.
This seasons receipts to date-125
bales.
Receipts to same date last year-s9e
bales.
The quotations posted at 4 o'clock
today at the exchange:
Cotton dull.
Ordinary ........... .....~.... /? Isis
Good ordinary ........-....... As
Low middling ............... 4 1915
ailo1ling -..'.. .-" %
Good middling ................. 5is
same day last year. &c.
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine firm; machine
barrels 27&c; country barrels 27hc.
Rosin firm at s1.o5 and s1.10.
Tar firm at SIPS.
Crude turpentine firm; hard sII0.
soft sl.eo.
Prices same day last year-Spl-its
~turpentine, 27ac and 26Ac; rosin. $l.l5
and sl.aO; tar. sl.10; crude turpcntine
$40. $3.50 and $3.50.
Receipts today-So casks spirits tur-
pentine. 2S5 barrels rosin. los barrels
tar. ~ barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts for safne day last year-l4s
casks spirits turpentine, 500 barrels
rosin. l22 barrels tar, 30 barrels crude
turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-65c.
Rice-None offering as yet.
Corn-53 to Sc.
Corn meal-50lsc.
Cow Peas-90c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams. 10 TO
lie: shoulders. 6H 10 &c. sides. s 10
Shc.
Chickens-Firm; spring 10 10 lSc;
hens. is to CSC; ROSTERS, Is 10 &C.
E~ggs-Steady at 12hc.
Shingles-Per 1000 five inch. hearts
and saps, S1.50G2.l0; six inch. $2.50G
$50.
Timber at $500 to $500 per 1000 feet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

had 80 death in August.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06

New York-Turpentine steady a. 20
TO BOZ. Rosin steady, strained con
mon to good at sl.3O.
Charleston-Turpentine market firm
al 2otz; sales none. Rosin firm and IN
changed; sales none.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm
at &c; sales Az; receipts 1870. Rosin
nrm and unchanged: no sales.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
ANOTHER EXPLANATION DUE.

When our neighbor described the re-
ception, in Fillmore, of a speaker who
was actually in Bountiful, $50 miles
distant, there was a discrepancy similar
to those it found in Mr.. Fishers fig
ures.
1t made an explanation, of course, for
the same fertile mind that gets up a
story can generally be depended upon
to supply a plausible sequel.
The plea was that the tale was "a
hours old. and the blame was placed
upon the telegraph company.
Then it told about a railroad meet
ing in New York, and said that "E.
H. Hartman had been elected presi-
dent of the Oregon Short Line. to sue
coed Samuel Carr"
1t was another Tribune special. -
just as the frost" story from Fillmore
purDorted TO be.
AS matter of fact, w. D. Cornish
was elected president of the Short
Lire.
Probably the telegraph company is
again to blame. We await our neigh
boris explanation of this fake, conf
dent that it will be as plausible and in
genious as its excuses are for the 9TH
ers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
GOLD REPUBLICAN ASPIRANTS.

That Arthur Brown has been figuring
on the United States senatorship in the
event of a Republican majority in the
next legislature, is no carefully con-
cealed secret.
Mr.. Brown has had enough vindica-
ton this year to satisfy an ordinary
man, but he wants it complete, and,
considering the treatment he received
two years ago. none can blame him.
Hon. John Henry Smith has a pole
for the persimmon, too, but the fight
that his party organ is making on Mr..
Roberts is understood to include him
potentially as we'll.
The latest candidate for the senate
is one who will probably receive the
hearty support of the organ, as it is
not partial to either of the other two.
He is an appOintee of the Hanna ad-
ministration; therefore, the logical
choice of the organ which is apparent
ly anxious TO prove its penitence and
demonstrate how thoroughly and
cheerfully it endorses and applauds"
Mckinley, his policies and appointees.
This latest senatorial aspirant is
Postmaster Arthur L. Thomas of this
city, who believes in silver, reciprocity
and Mark Hanna, and to whose efforts
the reunion of Utah Republicans is
due, to a considerable extent Also he
is the close friend of the organs pub
lisher-no small consideration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
WHAT is PLATTS GAME9

One of the most interesting cam
paigns in any state this year is that in
New York. The Republican candidate
is Colonel Roosevelt, of rough rider
fame. He is well known in Empire
state politics, having achieved his
greatest notoriety as a police commits
sioner Of New York City. lie is withal
a rather picturesque person.
When he came back from Cuba he
was taken up by the hero worshipers
of his party and put forward as the
most desirable and available candidate
for governor the party could pick up.
Tom Plat, the Republican boss of New
York, discerned the trend of things
and made the popular candidate his
candidate. If Roosevelt was necessary
to him he was still more necessary to
Roosevelt.
Well; Roosevelt became the guberna-
torial candidate of his party, and when
he was put in harness he quietly sub
mitted to have the Plat collar placed
upon his neck.
Now there comes a story from New
York that Plat is not only anxious
that Roosevelt shall be elected, and
that if he should be defeated Platt will
shed no tears unless they be those of
joy. And why would he not? He would
not. as the story goes, because he is
not anxious that Colonel Roosevelt
shall develop into a formidable presi-
Dental candidate. 1t is recognized that
if he were elected governor and made
a good record at Albany he might be-
come ambitious to make a record in
the White House. OF course Plat has
no such ambition, but it is generally
conceded that Mckinley is anxious to
succeed himself as president. Natur-
ally he is DESTROYS of having no strong
rivals for the nomination. Hence Platt
is not particularly anxious to see
Roosevelt elected. And then Roosevelt
is in no sense the kind of a man Plat
would pick for governor had he been
free to make his own selection. In Sc
lecting Roosevelt, he merely Joined in
the chorus, not leading it in any way.
OF course no one thinks for mo-
ment that Platt would scruple to be-
tray Roosevelt; the only question is,
Would it be to Platt's advantage?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30

bury, vas called out of the fort by a
MashoHa. who said that there was some
big game on the plain below the hill on
which the fort stands. Accompanied
by Trooper Carr, he at once proceeded
down the hill with a rife. thinking
they might have a chance of a shot at
some Of the larger species of buck, but
on arrival on the plain, great was their
surprise when they were suddenly
charged at a laundering pace by a
large male rhinoceros. The animal made
straight for them, and there was no
possible chance of getting out or its
way, the spot where they stood being
entirely denuded of cover of any sort.
Corporal Johnson dropping on one knee,
cooily took aim at the rapidly-ap-
preaching beast, and fired, the bullet
Gas IL afterwards proved entering the
left lung. This shot brought the ami
NAL crashing down, and a few more
shots at closer quarters quickly dis
patched him. The rifle used was the
regulation Lee-Metford, which ac-
counts for the bullet passing so easily
through the pachyderrnatous skin. A
bullet subsequently fired from Mar
tini-Henry rifle Ito see whether that
would have the same effect at dis
tance of about 100 yards, completely
1attened out against the skin, leaving
only slight indentatiOn. The rhl-
noceros was particularly large one of
its kind, and measured Is feet from tip
of nose to the tip of its short, stumpy
tail The heart weighed u pounds, and
the head, after the flesh had been
taken off it (shulD, scaled Y pounds.
The total weight of the animal is esti-
mated by competent judges at about
a ton and a quarter e. 500 pOunds).
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
TWO YEARS HENCE.

In his speech at the theatre. Mr.. Rob-
erts summed up the issue in this cam
Daign, when he said:
There is no need of discussing the
economic phase of this question, for the
voters OF Utah have already arrived at
a conclusion concerning the necessity
for bimetallism. or monetary reform.
Therefore, the only question is viii the
Democratic party or the Republican
party put into effect that system for
which We have already expressed our
preferences.
The people of this state. as of the
west generally. have ample knowledge
OF the silver question, so far as its
economic bearings go, to determine
whether or not they want the free and
independent coinage of silver, or
whether they are in favor of main
tairing the existing gold standard.
They want free coinage: that is. nine
tenths of them do.
The question then, is. which party
win enact such laws on the financial
question as the people of Utah favor?
1t is not necessary to review the var
ious attempts at silver legislation since
the Republican party demonetized sill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
HANNA'S SILVER PLANK.

The attention of Republican stump
speakers is respectfully called to the
fact that Alma Eldredge's organ, his
mouthpiece, his pledge-maker. or, to
be more explicit, the Salt Lake Tribune,
on the Goth of June, 1896, said:
The utter Reputation of silver by
the Republican convention. the plant
ing of this country, so far as that con-
vention could. on a gold platform, and,
so far as possible, establishing perma-
nently a gold basis, was a divergence
of the party from all it has ever pro-
fessed, and we do not see how any
western delegate could have remained
near the convention after that"
The indications are that the organ
has entirely recovered its vision 1t
sees how western Republicans can en-
dorse the party of gold 1t sees its way
clear, at last, to support for congress
a Mckinley Republican, who still de-
tends that silver-repudiating gold
basis" platform.
But the absurd contention of Ell
dredge and others, that the ST. Louis
platform is a silver declaration is set at
rest by the foregoing excerpt from the
Republican organ of the date given.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
is ROBERTS AN ASIATIC?

The Tribune, the organ Of the Re
publican party, the hacker of Alma
Fldredge and the defender and en-
dorser of McKinley's policies, declares
tnat Hon. 3. H Roberts has been
trained in Asiatic methods from his
youth. If this be so, then B. II. Rob
erts will be Asiatic in his thoughts and
feelings, in all his ways, public or pri-
vate. for as the twig is bent the tree
is inclined.
The Tribune says B. H. Roberts has
been trained in Asiatic methods from
his youth If this be so, then in his
manhood B. II. Roberts will be an Ash
attic. viii adopt Asiatic methods, will
advocate Asiatic ways; for from his
youth he has been trained to Asiatic
methods, says the Tribune.
II a man trained in American meth
eds from his youth becomes an Amer
lean. as he surely does. then a man
trained in Asiatic methods from his
youth as certainly becomes an Asiatic.
Perhaps the very best description of
the result of training youth in the Ash
attic method is Macaulay's of the Ben
galee. He says:
He lives in a constant vaDour bath.
His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs
delicate, his movements languid. Dur
ing many ages he has been trampled
upon by men of holder and more hardy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Commencing tomorrow. Monday, Oct.
81, The Herald will publish a series Of
articles upon educational topics, writ
ten by the leading educators of the
state. While these papers, in the range
of subjects treated, will cover a wide
scope, they viii all be prepared with
especial reference to Utah conditions
and local needs. The Herald believes
that the eminence of the contributors,
their ability to handle the subjects cho-
sen and their practical style of treat
ment, will make the series of great in
terest and value, not only TO the teach
ers and educators of the state, but to
parents and all others interested in the
cause of education.
The first article of the series, TO be
published tomorrow, is written by
President ]. NJ Tanner of the State
Agricultural college, and the subject is
Technical Training" Those to follow
will include:
Progress of Education in Southern
Utah. by Professor Milton Bennion,
principal of the southern Utah normal
school;
1.-The Function of the High School"
by Professor A. o. Clark, principal Of
Salt Lake High school;
Mathematics" by President W. ].
Kerr of the Brigham Young College,
Logan;
The Proper Sphere of a State" by
President J. T. Kingsbury of the Uni
Versity of Utah;
THE Growth of the Public Schools
n Utah." by State Superintendent John
3. Park;
''Fads and Necessities in Education
by Professor J. F. Millspaugh, superin-
tendent of Salt Lake City schools;
Normal School Standards by Pro-
fessor w. NJ. Stewart, principal Of State
Normal school.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
NO JOKING MATTER.

A Republican contemporary is re-
sDonsible for the statement that "a
great many Gentiles have expressed a
determination 10 vote for Mr.. Fos-
ter"
The contemporary has evidently been
made the victim of another practical
joke.
Anti-Bryan men may vote for Foster
because the Populist candidate has de-
nounced the great silver champion as
"a patriot for pay, a colonel fora con-
sideration," a coward, a mercenary and
"a cheap politician" but no friend of
free coinage will do so.
One very prominent gold man, who is
naturally anti-Bryan and anti-Roberts,
remarked the other day that he would
vote for Foster, were it not that he re-
garded the ballot as too sacred to
joke with
He will probably vote for Eldredge,
as all goldites should.