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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
THE INCOME TAX QUESTION.
A Sharp Debate Thereon in the Senate.
Senate and House Agree to the Con-
ference on the For~tificatiOns ApprO-
priatiOn Bill.
SENATE.

Washington, May 4.-Quite unexpect-
eddy a brief but sharp debate was pre-
cipitated in the senate today on the
income tax proposition. The resolution
proposing an amendment to the con-
%stitutiOn of the United States relat-
ing to the succession to the presidency
was under discussion. Senator Mills
proposed an amendment in the form of
a new section intended to authorize
congress to lay a tax on incomes in
such form as to meet the requirements
of the decision Of the supreme court.
He was sharply criticised for ~endeavor-
ing to place such a rider on a resolu-
ton which practically all senators ia
vored, but stood his ground and insist
ed upon a vote on his amendment. The
amendment was defeated-32 to 28-all
the republicans voting against the
amendment and all the democrats, ex-
cept senator Caffery, of Louisiana, to-
gether with the populists and silver re-
publicanS, voting in favor of it.
The joint resolution which was
adopted read as follows:
I'm all cases not provided for by ar
ticle second, clause fifth, of the con-
stitution, where there is no. person en-
titled to discharge the duties of the
office of the president, the same shall
devOlve upon the vice president. The
congress may by law provide for the
case where there is no person entitled
to hold the office of president or vice
president, declaring what officer shall
act as president, and such officer shall
act accordingly until the disability
shall be removed or a president shall
be elected"
The conference report on the forti-
fcations appropriation bill was pre-
sentted and agreed to.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, offered
an amendment as a substitute for the
loan and bond sections of the war rev.
enue bill which provided for the is
suance of $500, 900, 900 of the treasury
notes.
Senator Hawley, chairman of the
military affairs committee presented
h report Of the conferees on the bill
~suspending the law relating to the pur-
chase of supplies by the quartermas-
ter's department of the army. The re-
port vent over until tomorrow.
AT . O'Clock the senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The house today. adopted the con-
ference report upon the Qualifications
bill. The remainder of the session was
consumed with the consideration of
the Alaskan land bill and a resolution
for the repeal of I'm act prohibiting the
passage of importauons in bond
through the territory of the United
States into the FREQ zone" of Mexico,
The latter was passed, but the Alaskan
measure went over.
The house at 40 o'clock D. m. ad.
iourned.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06
ALL PAID.

, Received. Wilmington. n. g. May
1893. OF Messrs Willard 4 Giles As en9
| dred. ninety-one and Ss-iOO dolla r., Il
full satisfaction OF all claims agains : sdl'
compan for loss and damage by 4 IRE Q
April q, 1895. Loss paid In full WI Ohou
discount.
(Signed) ID. ~
Received, Wilmington, N. C. May
. 1898. OF MeSsrs. Willard & Giles. Agenl :
of the Carolina Insurance Co. three hun /
dred. ninety-one and Ss-lO dollars In fu l
satisfaction Of all claims against san
April 81. 1898. Loss paid in full without
Csigned1 D. McEACHERN. !
Received Wilmington. n. c.. May ?.
1895. of Messrs. Willard & Giles, Agents.
of the Philadelphia Underwriters. three
hundred. ninety-one and SS-lO dollars in
full satisfaction OF all claims against said
company for loss and damage by fire OF
April q. 1895. Loss pail in full without
discount.
(Signed.) ID.
Received. wilmington. n. c.. May ..
1898. OF MessTs. Willard & Giles, Agents
of the Sun Mutual Insurance Co. three
hundred, ninety-one and S-lW dollars in
full satisfaction of all claims against
said compan for loss and damage 10y fire
of April p. 1898. Loss paid in fun with
1signed.1 d. McEACHERN.
Received. Wilmington. n. c., May :.
1898. of MesSrs. Willard & Giles Agents
of the Pamlico Insurance Co. three hun
of the Pamlico Insurance and Banking
Co. three hundred. ninety-one and S-l0
dollars. in full satisfaction Of all claims
against said company for loss and dam
age by fire OF April q. 1898. Loss paid In
full without discount.
(Signed.) D..
Received. Wilmington. N. c., April ~,
1898, of Messrs. Willard & Giles. Agents
of the Carolina Insurance Co, two hun
dred. one and 92-l00 dollars In full salts
faction of all claims against said COM
pany for loss and damage by fire of April
q, 1898. Loss paid in full without dis
count.
(Signed.) JOHN II. GORE.
Received, Wilmington. n. c., April 20.
1898. of Messrs. Willard e. Giles. Agent,
of The Niagara Fire Insurance Co, thtr-
ty-three and 66-l0O dollars in fun salts
faction of all claims against said com
pany for loss and damage by fire OF April
u, 1898. Loss paid in fun without dis
count.
(S!gned) JOHN II. GORE.
None but The BEST companies repre-
scented. When insuring why not always
get the BEST?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Generals" are - appear in R new
work by Arthur Temple.
London Literature" praises the last
novel Of Rev. DR.. Hartley Carmichael.
the Scotch Episcopal recta- il Rich
nlond, Va Il Is called The Carstaiis
OF Castle Craig II says Il. Is quite
one Of the best towels that nav been
this: Ali through the book the d-a-
matte, pathetic and the humorous are
well interviewer. without stra;ning she
thread OF the story"
Reviewing that disappointing fail
ure, Spanish john" by William Nc
Lehman, that we read seriaily ii 'Ha--
per-" hat began finely and has ~
extraordinarily excellent character.
n Irish priest. Father O'Rourk=. one
Of the most delightful creations prob
ably in the fctive field OF the last de-
cade, Literature" thus refers d two
other noveists:
1T is not because they are greater
romancists that Walter Scott and Tol-
Stoi stand pre-eminent in this branch
Of fiction, but because by virtue Of
their greater intellectual power, the
sane and equable surety Of their gen.
ius, they never described the furrow
at the expense of the plain. the bush
at the expense OF the forest. the rain
bow at the expense of the cloudy vast
ness wherein i. was but one of a hun
dred accidents Of the inevitable as
lovely and as mysterious"
> =; :.- o. L,-,o-:...- 4 .l,,.
nov reading has usurped so much of
the field. and that 50 much time is
given 10 the novels OF the present
time TO the neglect of the great novels
Of the past. So there are two COM
plants: bad selection and an avoid
ance OF really solid, mind-jmproving,
intellectual works in history, bio
graphy, poetry, theology n science.
1t is a pity, a great loss Of time and
opportunity, 70 read only novels.
The mind needs stronger food. 1t is
only by reading the best books that
you can become we'll informed, and
train your intellect and improve your
literary taste. There are at least a
dozen histories that o cannot afford
to neglect. There are a dozen or
twenty Biographies you should read
because of their interest and excel
lence. The best biographies are as
fascinating reading as belongs to the
whole field of letters. Not to read the
twenty or thirty greatest poets is alb
surdly neglectful. There are probably
a hundred novels that should be read
in order to possess a complete educa-
ton. Do not read them in a year, but
talk ten or twenty years to read them,
and then read some a half dozen
times.
Jane Austen commanded the admira-
ton Of some Of the greatest men of
letters. Sir Henry Taylor, in his "Au-
photography tells hat Lord Tenny-
son spoke of Jane Austen as James
SPEEDING dOes-as next to Shakes
peare. Scott and many other held her
in high repute. She died in 1917, aged
AZ. She is beyond a doubt a novelist
OF very marked gifts. How many of
her novels W you read? Quit the
latter-day novels, so many of which
are false in art and vicious in ten
dency, and turn to the pure and great.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Asheville Citizen: Judge H. G.. ESar.
was in towl today. He returned to Hen
d~ersonviE- zhis afternoon and on Monday
VIII teaye for Washington, there to re-
nam until his case is settled by the
senate. He says he is dis.royins the
cnZrges as they are mad.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-06

Charlotte Observer: There was a big
mass meeting Of negFoes at Monroe Sat
ur1dy fr2m al over the county for the
purpose of appoint ng delegates to the
various conventions, and at the same
time to choke off the regular o~rganiza-
ton, which has 3een in control of the
whites. They passed resolutions telling
whaa they viii DO IL their delegates are
not recognized They wound up with a
Dig whoop of endorsement of Russell.
Mckinley ard the war. r. is due them 10
say that the most intelligent negroes OF
the county we're the leaders OF the con-
vention.-About three years ago some
one entered Squire 7. T. YoungbIood's
!. stables. at his home in Mecklerbrrg
county and poisoned three of mis- horses
all OF them dying. Suspicion pointed Ia
certain parties, but nothing could be
| proved. Thursday night the sem piece
of villainy was repeated. Poison was pu,
in the feed trough. One horse died, and
, the other came near dying,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
We Work For Them.

Now it is rumored that not only
will an English syndicate obtain posses
sion OF many of the largest breweries of
Cleveland and Sandusky, but some of
the plants i'll Cincinnati and Chicago
will be secured by the combine. The
Otis Steel company, the Walker COM
pany and a number of other manufac-
turing concerns Of this city are now
owned by British capitalists, and thus
Cleveland wealth producers play no
small part in creating dividends and
providing sumptuously for the ''best''
people of old England. The Angle
American alliance is no dream. Some
workingmen believe it is already an &C
complished fact.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Rapid City Black Hisb South Dakota, Friday, Augustl9, 1898.

Of the Sugar trust, began with but 7slen-
der capital earned by their own exer-
tions. Their success and the form in
which they have embodied it make
repetition Of their achievement impossi-
bic. Enormous capital scarcely sufices
now to do what they did without CAPT
tai. Not even the village butcher can
live II the Armours say nay, nor the
grocer trade proitably in sugar or coffee
except by permission of the trusts.
The man with $500 looking about
him for a chance to invest it in a bust
ness enterprise and work with it, in
~creasing it by his own skill and indus
try, finds every avenue closed by mo-
nopoly or held by aggregations of capt.
tai too great for him to attack. So he
clings to his %clerkship, invests his saw
ings where they will bring him the
magnificent income Of $l5 a year and
is called upon to exult in the great pros
perity Of which his investment is the ir-
REPUTABLE evidence.
No people in the world have so eager
~ taken up the bonds Of their govern
ment as the French peasantry. But in
Fr>nce the peasant remains a peasant
into ,''e third and fourth generation,
herds cabins scarce fit for swine, goes
Ill clad, itarate and unread and re
joices If IN afford q dinner of meat
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Greenbacks and Bonds.

The greenback costs the people moth
ing except the printing of the bills.
They do not circulate without being
borrowed, and they pay their face value
of government obligation in the very
act of being paid out. The issue and use
Of g~reenbacks reduce the debts of the
country. The issue and use Of bonds
and bank notes increase the debts Of
the country in a twofold degree: l. By
the sale of interest bearing bonds. Q.
By the loaning Of the bank notes on in
terest bearing paper before the bank
notes can enter the circulation.
These facts show why the ancient
policy Of this country is now to be re-
versed. 1t is done ig the interest Of a
bondholding plutocraty and against the
interests Of the people.-John Davis.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
J per cent on the capital invested.

8 per cent on the capital invested.
Every year shows a great addition to
the number Of passengers carried. Dur
ing the last 10 months the total number
was LOG, S44, 4S7, which is almost dou-
BILE the number carried the first year of
municipal working.
The new competition of underground
railways and subways in Glasgow has
had no effect in arresting the develop
ment Of the tramways, which show an
increased revenue almost every week
throughout the whole year.
The report shows the increasing popu-
larity of the halfpenny q cent? fares.
Over IS per cent of the tickets issued
are for halfpenny fares, and the average
price obtained is only about 8 farthings
ak cents).
The, corporation is carrying out very
important extensions, running it's lines
into suburbs. 1t is also pushing forward
with its electric equipment of the
Springburn and Mitchell street route.
Arrangements are also being made to
equip another line, and the cars are
now being built in corporation work
shops. London Chronicle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
What is the Matter?
Especial Correspondence

The writer attended service at one
OF Rapid City's leading churches a few
Sundays ago. A small congregation
turned U and the many empty seats
We're eloquent, to me at least, in stat
ing that something vas wrong. Some
thing is wrong or those seats would
have been filed with people. What is
it? Is religion failing into disrepute?
No. Isn't it's influence of the right
kind? Yes. Don't people in general
agree that Christ's life is the one great
example to follow? Are there not suf-
hcient people in Rapid City to fiji ev-
cry n of its churches?: Yes, ana to
overlooking. Then what is the. mat
ter: Those empty seats mean some
thing!
Some months ago | sat in that same
church. The minister was the sup
posed follower of the Gallilean, the
lowly NaZerine. He was supposed to
BE- charitable and broad in his views,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH.
a. Situation That Is Stupid and Absurd
Prolonged by Bribery and Corruntion.
once q we

a Situation That Is Stupid and Absurd
Prolonged by Bribery and Corruption.
The Sun very properly applauds "The
Fidelity of Our Postal Service, point
ing out that though the number of let
ters handled by the United States post
Office "approximates 5000, 900, 600, the
complaints OF erroneous, belated or i'm
perfect delivery, o. Of nondelivery
amount in a year to only about 80, 600,
or one complaint in 100, 600 of the let
tiers posted"
This and more of equally 1attering
import The Sun prints as evidence of
the great success with which the gov
eminent machinery may be applied to
the business of transmitting and deliv-
ering letters and parcels of a certain
class.
Why not parcels of all classes? What
is there i'll the express business-except
Senator Platt-to make impossible or
unwise it's assumption by the govern
ment? The extortionate prices exacted
by the express companies do not imply
or secure better service than the govern
ment gives for a trife. The express par
Gel sent to Chicago at a cost Of 45 cents
is neither more certain nor more speedy
in reaching it's destination than tho
penny post card. Indeed, everybody
knows that time and again the express
companies, being puzzled by all incom-
plete or incorrect address, mail a post
card to that address, with the usual re-
suit Of finding the person sought. They
use the cheap postal facilities to make
effective their expensive but Indifferent
express system.
What is true of the express business
is equally true Of the telegraphs. High
charges and slipshod service are the
characteristics of the telegraph business
unde the much Wanted system of Gin
dividual enterprise" For a special 10
cent stamp the government will send
out an intelligent man to deliver your
letter. For thrice as much the telegraph
companies intrust your dispatch to a
careless urchin and not ever guarantee
to deliver the same message you send
unless you pay extra to have it repeated
to you.
Nothing but corruption and bribery
has delayed SO long the incorporation Of
a telegraph and parcels post system in
our postoffice department. There is no
use mincing words. Bribery and cor
ruption, employed by monopolistic cor
porations for their own protection, have
prolonged a situation which is stupid
and absurd. New York Journal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
MUNICIPAL WAYS.
How Glasgow Has Fine Street Cal Service
and Low Rates of Fare.

and Low Rates of Fare.
The fourth annual report of the Glas-
gov tramways department., which Gov
ers the IL months ending May 81 last,
shows the continued progress Of this IA
nous municipal enterprise. The gross
profits have increased to e1OO, 53S
($502, 500. To appreciate fully the
profitable character Of the Glasgow
municipal tramwaysi it should be remem-
bered that the policy Of the department.
is not to accumulate profits in aid Of
rates, but to build up a fine service, both
cheap and efficient.
1t meets the interest (e13, 497) on the
capital and sinking fund charges (e1i,-
O75), and in addition has this year set
aside the large sum of e22, 6S4 ($113,-
42O) for depreciation, which is written
off capital.
There still remains a net surplus of
$50, 387 ($196, $3.50, which, added to the
payment to the common good fund,
would be sufficient to pay a dividend Of
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Kansas City Live Stock.

KANSAS CITY, July 26.-Cattle-Receipts, g.
OOO; steady; native steers, s4.0OGD5.2O; Texas
steers, s3.l0g455; Texas cows, S2.5Gg3.5O; native
COWS and heifers, sl.5G94 400; stockers and feed
ers, Sa0O9495; bulls, s2G1lgl.0O. Hogs-Receipts,
10000; weak to sc lower: bulk OF sales, s3.7Os3
$50; heavy, $3,s5QgS.O0; packers, $3.75g3.a
mixed, s3.70g3.90; Light, s3.65@3.s5; workers,
pigs. S3.2og3.so. Sheep-Receipts, 81
700: firm; lambs, S3.O0Ya.N0; muttons, s2.0O04. 90.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Bucklen's Arn,ca Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, Or NO
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price % cents per box.
For sale at w. T.. Gardeners Drug
Store.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Defend Your Institutions.

Since the money press has deemed it
proper and necessary to attack the Unit
ed States postal service it behooves all
friends Of good American institutions
to come to their aid. The fight is IN. If
the American people desire to retain
possession Of the postoffice service, they
must stand ready to protect it. Leading
metropolitan papers are declaring that
it is a failure and should be placed in
the hands Of private capital.
They lie, and they know they lie. They
lie for an object. The postoffice is an
object lesson to the people. 1t shows
them what government service can do
for them even under the most unfavor-
able circumstances. 1t points the way
to the national ownership of railways,
mines and other natural monnopolies;
hence it is necessary for the corporation
press to traduce the p%ostoffice and point
to a tri1ing deficit as a reason why it
should pass into the hands Of a Rookie
Teller or a Morgan.
If a 3 cent stamp were used instead
of a 2, the surplus would be
AS it is, there has been a slight deficit.
There are no fractional parts of a cent
in use. One-half Of one mill added to a
stamp would create a surplus.-New
Time.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
Telephones In Great Britain.

at a conference of representatives Of
British municipalities held in London
May %, the following resolution was
passed on motion of the mayor Of Bel
fast:
"That in the event of the p~ostofice
being unable to take wei the whole
telephone service of the country it is
practicable and advisable that the mu-
nicipal authorities should be empower
ed to provide such service in their re-
spective localities on the understanding
that every facility will be afforded for
close cooperation between the local au-
thorities and the postoffice."
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-07-30
Free Pills

Send your address to H. f..
Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get
a free sample box of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. A trial will con-
vince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure
of Constipation and Sick Head
ache. For Malaria and Liver
Troubles they have been proved
invaluable. They are guaranteed
to be perfectly free from every
deleterlous substance and to be
purely vegetable. They do not
weaken by their action, but by
giving tone to the stomach and
bowels greatly invigorate the
system. Regular size 25c. per
box. Sold by F. G. Alworth u
Co., druggists.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-07-30

Chas. E. French has been on
the sick list for the past two
weeks, but is better at this
writing.
Miss Inez Martin has gone on a
visit to Cltra and Tuscawilla.
Duncan Martin, who IS driving
a delivery wagon for the city
market in Ocala, has been at
home for few days ON account
Of illness.
We miss our CROUCH riders"
more than we can tell, and we
long to hear once more their eva
hoos" as they go securing the
woods around in search of the
cow-bell brigade.
A recent letter from Mrs. s. S.
Hall says the weather is very
hot where she is stopping at
Lansingburgh, n. Y, although
there has been d frost and over
coats were in use since she has
been there.
Mrs. Sarah Fenstermaker has
sold her five acre tract to Alex.
Peterson for $40 per acre.
Jno. Bently has taken charge
of DR.. G.. Stills property: George
Young having too much to at
tend to.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-07-30
Don't

Buy garden Or field seeds before
getting my prices. Ny twenty
two years experience in Florida
planting, testing and handling
seeds from every section Of coun-
try, enables me to procure the
best at lowest prices. Send for
price list. J. B. SUTTON,
Seedman, % Exposition St.,
Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-07-30

Ii is Foul BIood's Advertise.
nent


But it 10 Soon Cured by Moods
Sarsapariiia.
Yes, scrofula, IL anything, may be called
the advertisement Of foul blood. 1t is the
scourge of the world offensive, painful,
facilitating, stubborn and well nigh
uncomfortable.
Outward applications do not cure, they
only drive the difficulty to new quarters.
Emollients may palliate, they cannot
abolish the evil. There ia but one sure
way out, and that 10 to eliminate the
faint from the blood.
There is one remedy that can effect this,
and it is the only one that, so far as we
know, has almost invariably succeeded -
even where the system has been poisoned
by long years OF faint, and the ravages to
be repaired are tremendous. That remedy
ia Hoods Sarsaparilla. Read this:
"My daughter was afflicted with i'm
pure blood. There were running sore.
all over her body and they caused her
much suffering. We tried medicines that
were recommended as blood purifiers,
but could not see that they did any good.
A friend told me about Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and began giving the girl this med
icine. The result was that she was per-
fectly cured after taking few bottles.
She has had no symptoms OF scrofula
sores since that time" MARIETTA Nj.
SMITH, South Middleboro, Mass.