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The age-herald., 1898-10-20
Customs Only Valuable

Frankfort Ky, October 19.-Sergeant Major Boyd, Third Kentucky, just returned from Porto Rico, says concerning that country that 1t will only be valuable for the customs that Uncle Sam will receive from it. and the only way to make il a paying investment would be to seize upon the plantations of the SpaAiards there and conflscate. The country, he says, is ex- ceedingy fertile, but nearly all of it Is now owned by landlords living in Spain, who will not sell at any price.
The age-herald., 1898-10-20

oil and Gas Stoves at Cost
 Ala. Gas Fixt. & Plmb GO.
The age-herald., 1898-10-20
Forty ConvaIescent

New York, October l9.-Forty convalesc- ents were taken from the transport Michi- gan today to Miss Helen Gould's hospital In East One Hundred and Fifteenth street, or Camp Worth, where they will remain a short time before going to their homes.
The age-herald., 1898-10-20
Protest Aeainst Sale

Victoria, B. C., October 19.-The captains. hunters and others engaged in the sealing business are framing protest to be sent to Ottawa against the proposed sale of the, business on which they rely for their live lihood. as a means of settling the Berina sea question.
The age-herald., 1898-10-20
Piilager Indians Surrender

Walker, Minn.. October 19.-Seven of the pillager Indians wanted by the Cnitel States marshal appeared at the agency this afternoon anASurrcndered without any fur ther trouble.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

Oil Cloth, Carpet Paper. Rugs, Por-
tiers, Shades, Screenes and Poles. We
have quite a nice line Of these goods
and can save o money on all house
hold articles. Good Mating from 12kc
to Csc. Floor Oil Cloth from zoe to
35c-all widths, from Is inches to II
inches. Good Hemp Carpet, 1 yard
wide, nice colors, for 12kc. Good In
grain Carpet. 1 yard wide, from zoe to
25c. Half Wool, 2-ply, beautiful new
patterns, at 80 1-3c per yard. Fine
Woll Carpet, all new styles. from soc
to Csc. Fin Rag Carpet, well made,
for 18c. Fifty pieces fine Brussels
Carpet, nice new patterns, at soc per
yard. Lovely Brussels Star Carpet and
Hall Carpet to match, worth Csc, for
SOC. Nice Stair Carpet at Csc. Best
Carpet Paper. padded, air tight, at 4c.
Rugs, with fringe, from 29c to $500
each. Brusselrs Remnants at 75c each.
Fine all wool. in fringe at loo per yard.
Window Shades, 3x6 feet, with spring
rollers, at 10c. Opaque Linen at Csc;
fine Lace Border Shades at 35c.
We ave a splendid line Of fine
Trunks at bottom prices. from 25c to
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
PLEA FOR WHITE LABORERS.

Nearly a month ago-7th September
the Messenger had a very signif-
cant and most timely editorial that at
tracted much attention among white
folks and niggers. 1t was al urgent
plea for the white toilers-that they
be not Disseminated against but ia
vored-and a suggestion that a league
of house-keepers be formed to employ
competent trained white labor. Since
our editorial resolutions in some Of the
wards we're passed favoring white la
Dor, and very wisely was this done,
as we'll as justly. If negroes mean to
continue to act as if they were enemies
of the white men, let them seek en-
ployment from men Of their W race
or from their political and social
friends among the deserters from the
white race. They have no right to ex-
pect employment from men whose in
terests they antagonize at every point.
They have themselves drawn, and long
ago, the black negro line, and have
made it hazardous, periuous for ne
groes to vote for white candidates. For
thirty years a black man in most COM
munities who supported democrats
has been prosecuted, bounded and
maltreated. The white men, If thor
oughly united as are the blacks, and as
determined as their enemies-the fate
full. destructive combine-would be
able soon to teach most salutary and
impressive object lessons as to labor.
Reward your friends. Turn your back
on your enemies of every color and
condition. Unite for m m safety,
common interests.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

Another evidence of increasing saw
agpry is the readiness of an armed ne
gro to shoot an unarmed man, and
that too when he in no way was in
voaved. The policeman declined to
arrest the black fellow with the shoot
Ing-iron. The law against carrying
concealed weapons" is disregarded by
perhaps nine-tenths of the negroes in
Wilmington. 1t would be a good
thing if the white men would wear
their revolvers in belts on the out
side, in open day, and carry their re-
guiving rifles and No. 10, buck-shot
guns in their hands daily. If they
would all don the red shirts as the de-
1ermined South Carolinians did some
twenty years ago, or more, when they
rescued their oppressed state forever
from barbaric p%iundering and Cypress
.{Ju. it would be a frank, ready way of
expressing a purpose. 1t brought
peace in South Carolina. The men of
the red shirts rode to all the voting
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

Harper Brothers have published a
finely executed and faithful likeness
of Miss Winnie Davis, whose early
death all Southland mourns. 1t is the
only one thai is good, and it is wholly
unlike the pictures that have been pub
lished in the newspapers. 1t is a very
sweet, gentle, open. lovable face, not
beautiful, but wonderfully attractive.
We suppose it can be bought for 10
cents at Yates. We are reminded in
writing this of the late most touching
scene at Richmond, Va, when all that
was mortal of the daughter of the
Confederacy'' was laid in the grave.
The simplicity and solemnity of the
services at St. Paul's church, where
her father and mother worshipped for
nearly four years, the long funeral
procession, the burial-all touched the
hearts of the southern people and
awakened sympathy in the north.
The Richmond Central Presbyterian
says in it's last issue:
"a long procession of confederate
veterans, and of the delegations from
Citations of ladies, through a great
throng of silent and sympathetic peo-
pie, wendell it's way from st. Paul's
church to the section in Hollywood
where Mr.. Davis is buried. AS the
sun was setting, DR.. Carmichael COM
mitted the body to the ground, and
the choir of the Centenary church sang
a farewell anthem. By her strength
of character, her literary work, and
her modest and gracious demeanor,
Miss Davis had won the respect of all
sections of the country. With her
mother she has for years made her
home in a northern city. In a New
England town her body was borne to
the railway train by veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic. She has
helped to heal the separation of the
sections and not to magnify it, and
her memory will abide in all the
land"
What a shock it was when it was
printed that a young woman, daugh-
ter of a Virginian General, had set up
claims that she was the successor to
the sweet, noble maiden gone to her
final rest, as if there could yer be in
all the ages but one Daughter of the
~Confederacy." The venerable Rev.
DR.. Moses ]. Hoge participated in the
funeral services:
DR.. Hoge, standing erect, read with
distinct voice the verses of the burial
service. 1t was his first appearance
in Richmond since his late sickness
and absence from the city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
FIGHTING YELLOW FEVER
Energetic Measures Taken by the Ma
rtne Hospital Service

Washington, October 3.-The marine
hospital officials say there is nothing
official to bear out the rumors III the
yellow fever condition at New Orleans
is considerably worse than has been
reported. These rumors have reached
the bureau here, and have caused some
uneasiness. but there has been MOTH
ing confirmatory of them. The surgeon
generals latest bulletin shows twelve
cases and two deaths up to date.
The surgeon general has supplement-
ed the local corps of physicians with
an unusually large humber of federal
surgeons. At present the marine hos
pital staff at New Orleans consists of
Surgeon Carter, Past Assistant Sur
geons Wasden, Magruder and Stone;
Assistant Surgeons Lumsden and
Clark, and the official regularly attach
ed to the marine hospital at that port.
Not far from New Orleans, at Frank
lin, Surgeon Kalloch and two hospital
stewards are at work. Assistant Sur
geon Lavender is at Baton Rouge. and
Assistant Surgeon Cummings at Jack
son. By this disposition of a large
staff of federal surgeons, the authori-
ties here feel hat everything possible
is being done to cope with the disease.
a Assistant Surgeon Cobb, with
four assistants, trained in yellow fe-
yer work, has been given charge of the
district comprising Taylors, Orwood
and Oxford. DR.. Stimson is at Fulton,
KY, in charge of train inspection SER
vice in Mississippi and western Tennes-
see. He has twenty-five men under
him. At Chattanooga Assistant ur-
geon Oakley. with a corps of sanitary
inspectors, is in charge of the train
nSnnntjnn fhroyob nartharp 4 Ia ha m q
and entering Chattanooga. DR.. Porter
is at Atlanta.
The surgeon general received a re-
port today from Harriston, Miss. stat
ing that yellow fever of a mild type
had appeared there.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
WHAT NORTH:CAROLINA EDITORS
ARE SAYING.

Issues make themselves. 1t is so in
his campaign. 1t is noticeable that
the re-pOp-IicanS have attempted by
lying n distortion to conceal the
main issue; whatever the bushwhack-
erS may be doing, there has been no
open denial of the shameful condition
brought about in eastern North Caro-
lima by a few years fusion misrule.
The negro is in the saddle. Even the
gall Of the fusion politician is o
great enough to deny it. Hence the
confusion in his councils and his des-
perate but futile attempts to show that
he has been following democratic pre-
cedent.-Raleigh News and Observer.
RusSelIs black pets continue on in
their hellish work in North Carolina
and yet in the fac of these awful
crimes perpetrated upon our women
we have white men all over the state
joining hands and fusing with negroes
for the sake of office. while other sane
continue in power negro rule in our
ton II cal the bargain by voting tn
beloved commonwealth; all, yes all, on
account Of prejudice, and anything to
beat the democrats" We beg, we
plead, We beseech all such to stop and
think, pull prejudice from your heart
and help US save the air women of
North Carolina from the assaults of
brutes. Oh, have you not got the man
hood to vote to protect your own fam
lily and that of your neighbors? We
earnestly pray thai you have, and will
turn your back on the demagogues
that have already bargained you off
to the negro party.-Oxford Ledger.
Every day hat passes makes it more
certain that there is burt one issue
which can command the attention of
the white voters of North Carolina his
n that is Decent Government
by White Men" Every day that
passes makes it more certain that the
white men are sufficiently united Upon
this all-important issue to completely
rout and confound those who have
brought about the present unbearable
situation. The uprising has already
begun and every day that passes in
creases its volume. The time is ripe
for the whites, too, to draw the color
line and white men all owe the state,
irrespective of other political opinions,
are fiocking under that standard.
White republicans, even, are helping to
swell the of the vast army
that is organizing to overthrow an ad-
ministration that is not content with
placing negroes over whites where they
are in the majority, but give them con-
troll by special gerrymandering where
there is a white NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
News
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
For Sale by r. r.
MATING, CARPETS.
p. P. r.

$50. In packing Trunks Tent Cow
cred Tray and Bonnet Box, from $1.00
to $12.O 90. Very fine Canvass Trunks,
well made, from $40 to $500. All kinds
Of Club Bags, Hand Satchels, Tsp-
scopes, from Csc up to $2.9S.
We have left a few Mosquito Cano-
pies. ready for you. to close at $1.2s
each.
A very fine line OF Rocking Chairs
to sell and give away, and the newest
line of Dress Goods ever shown on he
market of this city.
We sell Mems and Boys Clothing.
We have our new Fall and Winter
stock now on hand and will sell you q
fine suit Of clothes from $f.?S TO $500.
We have a beautiful line OF Clay
Worsted Suits from $500 to $3.50.
Bring your card and get it punched
with every cash purchase and get one
of our valuable presents free. A fine
Chair, a nice Table, a good Book Case.
a beautiful writing desk. a lovely Hall
Hat Rack, a good Sewing Machine. or
any valuable presents.
Come to the largest and best store
in the city at Wilmington's Big Racket
Store, opposite the orion Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
HOME FOLKS.

The reader of Sundays Messenger
doubtless saw the account of rowdy-
ism of negroes in the First Ward on
Saturday, the first day Of registration.
The Russell "savages" were thick and
ready for "a rucus.' The greedy ig-
uoramuses came near causing a riot
In their efforts to force the registration
Ter. The mayor should preserve order
at the registration places if he has to
appoint 500 extra policemen. The
savages" propose evidently to have
1T all their own way-if they can.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
Menry George Declines

New York. October 3.-Henry George
has declined the nomination for GOV
ernor on the ticket placed in the field
by the Chicago platform democrats
and the committee, having authority
TO fill vacancies, nominated Henry NJ.
Mcdonald, of the county OF New York,
for the place,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

The bureau of labor statistics an
nual report shows that North Carolina
has 207 tobacco factories; 81 furniture
factories; 126 tanneries; 80 roller -four
ing mills; and 323 saw mills.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

precincts carrying their rifles and
guns At some places they numbered
1 200 strong and all ON horse back.
It is coming to that in North Carolina
before 1900, If things do not mend.
North Carolina is the only state Of
the forty-six in the American Union
that is negro-ridden. And yet there
are nearly two white men in North
Carolina to n negro. How long shall
this shame remain? Will the white
men continue to wear the yoke of de-
graduation and shame? Let them an
swer at the polls in November.
Davidson college is doing well this
year. At last accounts 125 bona fde
regular students had been enrolled,
(not counting boys outside) land more
certain to come. Davidson is a good
UNCONVENTIONAL college doing faithful
work for North Carolina, and the
south. It has among it's recent mat
REGULATES Mr.. Yonan, of Persia, and
two sons of Rev. DR.. DuBose of the
China Mission.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07

The Ship monument fund has
reached $1,000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15
ANOTHER GILLETT STORY.
The News aper Reports Say the Kansas
Fugitive Has Lett chihuahua and IL
Heading for the south.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec lO.-A Jour-
nal special from chihuahua, Mex, says;
Grant G. Gilett, the absconding cattle king
of Kansas, who Is wanted for forgery and half
dozen other charges, has spent most of the
time for the past ten days on the ranch of j M
Fisher, Q miles south of Durango. Fisher is a
former Kansan and we'll known to Gillett
There is little trouble in tracing his move
ments, He made himself conspicuous by the
lavish expenditure of money. Troxel, the law
yer, was with him nearly all Of the time, but
stayed in Durango when Gillett went on TO
Fishers
1t has just been ascertaned that G, A. Shaef-
fer "a Kansas CITY cattleman who was on Gil
let's trail, has succeeded in tying up the money
which Glllett had deposited in Torreon and had
also obtained possession Of the trunks of the
fugitive, which had been left in Durango.
Troxel had become alarmed at something and
had sent word to Gillett to join him at once and
the two have again disappeared from sight 1t
is thought that they have gone to Mazatan, on
the Pacific coast where they will be able to
get vessel for South America 1t is also pos
sible that they have gone to the City of Mexico
on their way to Vera Cruz, or that they have
made their way to Tampico
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15
A F0rerunner of the Most
Fatal Disease.

Though its offensive features
are sometimes almost unbearable,
few people are aware of the danger
of which Catarrh is the forerun-
ner. Catarrh invariably leads to
Consumption. Growing worse and
worse each winter, those who rely
upon the usual treatment of
sprays, washes and inhaling mix
lures find that it is imnossible to
check the disease with these local
applications which only reach the
surface. The offensive discharge
increases all the while, causing u
feeling of personal defllement, and
gets deeper and deeper until it is
only a question OF u short time
until the lungs are affected.
The Importance of the proper
treatment can therefore be readily
appreciated. But no good what
ever can be expected from local
applications, as such treatment
never did cure Catarrh, and never
will.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15
CHICAGO CITIZENS AROUSED.
Iirn nf All Parties UD In Arms Against
Franchise Extensions Mayor Har-
rI.On with Them.

Chicago, Dec. 10. democrats, re.
publicans and citizens, irrespective OF
party, assembled in mass meetings in
various wards of the city and declared
themselves unalterably opposed to any
street railway legislation under the
Allen law. Prominent speakers were
in attendance at all of the meetings.
The ward machinery Of the democratic
party took up the cause, just as the
republican party had few days pre-
vious Chicago has never witnessed
snch u spectacle before, and it is
doubtful II any other city has. Mayor
Harrison called for volunteers to help
him win the fight against the 5O-year
franchise ordinance on the PROPOSE
ton: mo franchise extension ordi-
nance of any kind until the Allen law
is repealed"
Mayor Harrison put the brakes on
some hotheaded citizens who talked
ropes" by telling them that in the
first place there would be no necessity
for any overt acts, because the gang
could not muster enough votes to pass
the ordinance over his veto, and, in
the second place, that all talk Of mob
law, vigilance committees and escorts
to aldermen were out OF place and
dangerous. He said he was heartily
opposed to demonstrations which
could be construed as lawless.
A score of men started out distribut'
ing white badges, on which were
printed gibbet from which dangled
moose. The words printed on the
badge were "anti-50-year steal" Be.
fore the theater crowds had reached
home these badges were all over the
city. One of the men distributing the
ribbons said over 300, 900 have been
printed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.


Kansas City, Mo-. Dec. l0.-A deep
and far reaching subject that will be
up for discussion before the eighteenth
convention OF the American Federation
Of Labor, which opens in this city
Monday, will be the employment Of
women. Labor people recognize in
the increased employment of women
and girls in nearly all branches Of la
Dor the reason for corresponding re.
duction in wages as we'll as the search
ty Of work for men.
H. D. Call, secretary and treasurer
Of the Butchers Workmen's union of
Syracuse, N. Y. who is here. has made
extended investigation into the en-
ployment Of women in factories, pack
lighthouses and large manufacturing
establishments and he has some point.
ed deductions to make from his OBJ
servation. He said:
believe that the wholesale employment Of
girls and women Is doing more 10 hurt the
cause Of working people than mel rly anything
else To say nothing OF the socio ogica side Of
this evil-and II is an evil-the employment
OF women " slowly and surely bringing labor
down to poor level Fifteen years ago no one
ever heard OF woman working In a packing
house.
Not long ago in an eastern city was called
upon to investigate o packing-h0use where
large number OF girls were employed found
girls ranging from 10 to % years old working
about half knee deep In of II and slush clean
ing the paunches OF animals. want to ask
any decent man in the world VIII It he thinks OF
such surroundings and environments us the
schooling place for girls that are t be wives
and mothers? What Is to be expected OF Il
generation whose mothers live in such enyi-
ronments?
Take the factories many Of them are just as
bad The average wages OF ,...:tory girls Is q
little over IA week They can't live on that
and 1t doesn't take prophet to foretell The re-
suit The head Of one large factory which en-
ploys hundreds Of girls made this excuse to
me: He said many OF the girls could work for
small wages because they lived with their pa
rents who were able to help them proved to
him that half Of his givls were solely depend-
ent upon the wages that he paid tn m 1provad
to him that they could not live on the wages
and asked him how he thought they manage to
exist told him that u gave responsibility
lay at his door and he admitted that he en-
ployed girls simply because they worked
cheaper than men.
Now the home Is the bulwarH OF this free
l., fat, ,tnJ a
home. 1t is In the nature of Things that women
should depend Oh man. But when Shels forced
to take his employment from him he cannot
make u home he cannot take a wife. 50 the
result Is poverty, celibacy and degradation
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15

Muscogee, |. T., Dec. lO.-The en-.
rollment of the Chickasaw nation was
completed by the Dawes commission.
These are the figures which the report
will show: Chickasaws by blood and
intermarriage, 4,925; Choctaws by
blood and intermarriage, l,769; Chick
asaws admitted by the courts, 6SS;
Choctaws admitted by the courts, L.
$50; total Chickasaws and Choctaws by
blood and intermarriage, S,7is; Chick.
asaw freedmen, 1895; Choctaw freed
men, 1853; total enrolment in Chicks.
saw nation, Is, 400.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15
BUYS HISTORIC GROUND.
Government Secures Deeds to 100 Acres on
Lookout Point, the Highest Place In
the hicka manga Region.

Washington, Dec. lO-The govern
ment, through the Chickamauga park
commission, has secured the deeds tC
1850 acres on Lookout point, the highest
point in the Chicka manga region, and
overlooking seven states and all
the battle6elds adjacent to the
park. During the siege Of Chicka
manga this point was an i'm
portant confederate position oc.
cupied by a battery. The park
commissioners will at once replace the
battery in the position it occupied dur
ing the war and will erect historical
tablets at important points 1t will
be left to the several states whose
troops were engaged at this point to
erect monuments and memorial tab
let's
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-12-15

He was receiving a dispatch from
Albany. in which the sender was MOI
over.careful in the matter OF spae'
inc his letters. Lawton took the ad'
dress. Are as follows: "Dr. A. Wing, room
car agent, Central Depot, New YORK.
The dispatch came back with the
marginal report that there was nc
such person at the address named
The operator at Albany was called
nm. and explanations followed, in con
sequence Of which the address wa'
changed to Drawing room caragent