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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

People who lived in the baneful re-
construction times, and understood the
events that marked poor old North
Carolina under the rule of the robbers,
can revive their recollections as they
study daily the -blackening revelations
of the gang of fusionists who have been
~plundering the people with such a free
hand and with such insatiate appetite.
The treasury seems to have possessed
a grand magnetic power and the gang
illustrated the Scripture saying that
whree the carcass is there the eagles
gather. 1t should ~betbuZzards to apply
to the late situation. Let the tax-pay-
ers fully acquaint themselves with the
doings of the gang of cormorants, and
learn therefrom both the importance Of
putting honest, square men in Office and
of some of the good fruits already res
allied in the great victory Of 1898, and
the restoration Of government to the
white men. The lesson learned is bit
ter, but it is well to have it. With the
STERN facts starring the taxpayers In
the face OF robbery OF their pockets.
They will see more clearly it is not right
10 allow the state to tall again into the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Ridge Institute
July is a Dull Business Month.

But we have goods to sell hat reach
the plain people and the masses. We
sell good at h right price and keep
our store filled to overlooking with
bargains.
We have just received a lot OF new
Straw Hates. in the Cowboy shape, in
rough straw, from Csc to 1.00. Nice
Black Rough Straw Sailors, velvet
band, at soc.
25 bolts of new Shirtwaist Calico for
3Ac-pretty new styles.
5 dozen Duck and PiQue Skirts, from
Soc to CSC. 10 dozen black and all col
ors in Lined Worsted Skirts at CSC, N.25
and $3.50. Fine Mohair Skirts at S2.25
and 1928. Brocaded Silk Skirts at $4.50.
Ready Hemmed Bleached Skirts. 90xS1
inches, at 4Sc; 90x90 inches at Coo.
10-4 Unbleached Sheetin- at 12hc; 10-4
fine quality Bleached Sheeting at 22hc.
Pillow Cases at 1Oc and 121kc.
Good heavy Pants Cloth at &c, 12hc
and 15c. Nearly all woo Pants Cloth
at 1Sc.
Nice fine wool Boys Suits, from 5
to 1-5 years, trimmed in good style, at
$3.50.
Mems an wool medium weight Suits
at $500.
Mems job Crash suits from $3.50 up
to s2.25.
Mems fine Silk Bosom Laundered
Shirts for SOC. Mems fine Sea Island
Percafe Laundered Shirts. two collars
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

and separate cuffs, io- SOC. Gents
Laundered Peroale Shirts for 2Sc.
100 dozen new fine Gents n Ladies
Neckwear. The nicest line Of goods in
the city, from 1oc to soc. All fine silk
goods, beautiful styles TO show.
We have just received q big lot or nm
Shoes. We have put In our store a nm
Line OF Ladies' Shoes. old under n
brand OF the "Arista;'' they are fine
Dongola Welt, Button and Lace. man
ish toe. up-to-date goods. every pair
warranted TO wear asy and good, and
they are the latest style and up-to-date
shoes. Our special price OF this shoe
is $3.50. Ask to see this shoe and let
US convince YOU that We have b best
shoe in the city. We nave all styles
OF Shoes. We sell a Lady's fine Don
COLA, Button, up-to-date Shoe. war
ranted to give satisfaction. for s1.39 a
pair; n all solid Dongola Lady's But
ton. patent tip, shoe at S1.00.
Mems Dongola, tip sewed, Congress
or Lace Shoe. Gore elastic, good stylish
men shoe, for $1y00! and we also nave
Mems fine Shoes from s1.W to 1915 q
pair.
We want your trade and we have the
.goods-people know 1t. Come to our
store for bargains.
We have the celebrated self
Bath Sponge, we will sell Cor csc.
Remember the plaee-the Big Racket
Store, opposite the Orton Hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
ANuTHEK W1>E .DLoskhD usN,S
ADVICE.

No one but a miserable liar can
charge the Messenger with hostility to
the negroes. 1t is a very strong friend
and hacker of the white men, and
stands boldly all the time for a White
Mans government. But it would help
the negroes in all ways that are bene-
fetal and proper and for heir true in
terests. Long ago it said that there
were two classes or divisions among
the. negroes-the worthy, industrious,
sober, la%w-abiding class; and the low,
lousy lazy, drunken, debased, lawless,
dangerous class. All intelligent ne
groes know this is true as we'll as the
whites know it. The Messenger has
been much pleased to copy from the
wise and educated leaders of the ne
groes-President Washington, Profess
sor Edwards, President Dudley and
many others. They are men of char
acter, of sense, of good motives, and
with a tender regard for the true in
terests and welfare of their race. There
is a class perhaps not of either Of the
two great divisions mentioned. 1t is
a set of ponpous, opinionated," vain
windy, half educated negroes, Of both
sexes, who think they are Solomons
or Lincolns, and have an everlasting
cinch upon the great facts connected
with their race, and how to make it
great, prosperous and happy. 1t is to
antagonize every white man of charac-
ter and force, in the entire south, and
to carry out their scheme of uplifting
by bitterness, lying and false-swear-
ing. They are public enemies and in
dustrious sewers of the seeds of discord
and dissatisfaction.
A negro man of intelligence and OBJ
servation lives in the new county of
Scotland. His name is w. P. Evans.
He writes to the Laurinburg Exchange
in the following very timely and sensi-
BILE way:
IF the negro will practice morality.
industry, Enterprise, economy, self-help.
self-respect, rae pride and business CO
operation with the same persistency and
-earnestness for the next ten years as
he has the practice Of politics for the
past thirty years, I warrant you, the
race question would be a hack number.
The Amendment viii regulate itself and
this great south OF our will be an
earthly sanctuary; yea more, It will be
J truly the home Of tha free, the land
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Hanaase Mime Deal

Cleveland, O., July 26.-The Iron
Trade Review tomorrow will say: On
Friday of this week papers will be
passed by which the National Steel
Company acquires the well known
Chaplin & Winthrop mines and the steel
fleets of the Mutual Transportation
Company and the Menomin Transit
Company. All these properties are IA
miliarly known in the trade as allied
to the Hanna interests. 1t is a stipu-
lation of the transaction just closed
that M. A. Hanna & Co. shall handle
the various properties involved.
Telegraph Messages Boys Strike
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

Rev. DR.. Walter r. Moore, one Of the
"greatst five North Carolinians under
fifty years of age attended the grand
Presbyterian reunion at Pen-Mar, Bal
timore. He made the first speech.
The Baltimore Herald says of him and
his effort:
CDR. Moore is a professor of Hebrew
literature in the Union Theological
Seminary at Richmond, the leading
seminary of the Southrn Presbyterian
Church. He is regarded as one of the
ablest of the United Presbyterian min
listers, and his address was conceded to
be one of the most eloquent ever de-
livered ON the mountain"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

Newport, R. l., July 26.-It was an
nounced today by the racing commit
tee Of the Newport Yacht Racing As
ISOLATION that the association has been
obliged to abandon the race arranged
for Saturday between the Columbia and
the Defender, owing to the fact that
the C~olumbia's steel mast will MOI be
read, in time. The race will | be
sailed next week, but the committee
has not been able to determine the
date.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Two Aer0nAuts Killed

Hillsdale, Mich, July 27.-Bert Kim
ball, of North Adams, Mich, an
aeronaut, was drowned at Bawbees
park this afternoon. His parachute
dropped in the middle of Bawbees lake
Streater, ILL, July 27-Aeornaut Thay-
er, of Niles, Mich, fell 200 feet and was
instantly killed here today. This was
to have been his wedding day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
THE sEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER. TUESDAY. NUGusT /, 1899

hands OF reckless. incompetent insati-
ate devourers. Spare old North Caro-
lima from a malignant curse again.
Stand four square against all bad men
who use ignorant and credulous people
70 the undoing OF the state and the op-
preston of the people.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Killed a Woman In Defense OF His
Mother

Fitzgerald, Ga, July 26.-Charlie
Williams, a 1~2-year-old quadroon, was
lodged in Jail today charged with MUIR
der. Yesterday he shot and killed q
negro woman named Jane Ford, six
miles in the country. The testimony is
to the effect that the Ford woman was
beating the boys mother with a ham
mer. Hearing her cries he seized a gun
and shot her assailant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
A Concert on ahs. ,,Iytnuia

Trieste, July 25.-Admira1 Dewey this
afternoon entertained Frederick w.
Hossfeld, the United States consul here,
n a number of other Americans at a
concert given IN the Olympia by h
ships band. Admiral Dewey did not
leave the ship today. He will sail
about August 1st for Naples.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
South CarOIina,s Farmers, Alliance

Columbia, S. c., July 25.-The annu-
al meeting of the State Farmers ALI
ance convened in the state capitol to-
night. At midnight a discussion of the
financial end of the organization is in
progress. Tomorrow there will likely
be a fight on the continuance of the
alliance exchange. There are but
twenty-five delegates in attendance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

Richmond, Va, July 26.-It is report
ed tonight that the Western Union TEL
egraph messenger boys here have or
ganized a strike for an increase in the
rates of pay they receive, and that tho
ing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Dreyfus, Condition Excellent

Rennes, July 27.-The illness of Cap
tain Dreyfus was but slight, and he
has recovered. His friends say hat his
lent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

Charlotte News: Julius Alexander
has been condemned to death. The
sentence was pronounced by Judge Dos
sey Battle at 12:45 today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
Crippled by
Rheumatism

Those who have rheumatism find
themselves growing steadily worse all
the while. One reason of this is that
the remedies prescribed by the doctors
contain mercury and potash, which ul.
timately intensity the disease by caus-
ing the joints to swell and stiffen.
producing a severe aching of the bones.
s. S. 8. has been curing Rheumatism
for twenty years-even the worst ease.
which seemed almost incurable.
Capt. .. E. Hughes, the popular railroad
conductor, OF CDiumbi@, S. C., had an expert
ence with Rheumatism which convinced him
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

A leading populist in Haywood coun-
ty, Mr.. George E. Boggs, is out in
favor of the very important and very
much needed suffrage amendment to
the state constitution. He shows he
has intelligence and proper regard for
his a and the safety ind welfare of
his state.
The "Jim-Crow" arrangement has
been roundly denounced by many faith
full democratic papers as a poor execu-
ton of the lava sort of arrangement
that does not separate. 1t also appear
tina the arrangement pleases the ne
groes while disgusting the whites. The
Raleigh News and Observer says:
"The Southern bit off a "big chaw"
when it set out to make the Jim Crow
Car unpopular, by running it for the
comfort and advantage Of the negro and
to the sore discomfort and disadvantage
Of its white patrons. . . But no, it
sent out to put the law into execution
in the most objectionably I'M posi-
BILE. Result: A loss Of business to and
from Competitive points and a lacking
up before the Corporation Commits
SION"
The Atlantic Coast Line did much
better. It's plan Of separation is good
and works well. 1t has three cars, the
third being divided for first and second
class colored. The whites have two
coaches, first and second class. The
Charlotte Observer says that certain
it is that the Jim Crow arrangement,
as seen in this part of the state, is a
wretched failure; worse than a failure
"a nuisance; and something will have
to be done about it." The best plan is
do the right thing. This applies to
many things other than railroads.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01
HOME FOLKS

We have received a copy Of the first
annual announcement Of the Baptist
Female university OF North Carolina,
It Raleigh, N. C. It will be opened on
9th September 1893. It's faculty will
consist of seventeen teachers, all of
whom are females but four. A large
and handsome brick building has been
erected, and will accommodate 125
boarders. 1t has other accommodations
for 300 students. It will be ~up-to-date
in all particulars. The president is
James c. Blasingame, NJ. A., Ped. D.
The Messenger wishes it great success.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-01

II IL llcTc IL cHls Sne
cure for that painfui is
ease. He says: Iv sa
great sufferer fra is
cular gor
two years. 1 could get
no per m { relief
from any medicine pre-
scribed by my physician.
I took about a dozen bot
ties of your s. s. s., and
now / am as well as /
ever was inmy life. lam
sure that your medicine
cured NE, and I would
it tn any one
suffering from any blood
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
1T IS IMPORTANT.
Comment Relative to the Duties of
County Officers.

Comment Relative to the Duties of
County Officers.
To the Editor of the Standard: @
Your editorial this morning abiding to
the case of Mr.. Kinds. county treasurer
of Silver Bow county, discussing the
question of the payment of a salary to a
county officer where he does no work to
earn it, is not only timely, but suggests a
subject of considerable public import
ance.
l know nothing as to- the facts as to
whether Mr.. Kinds remains in his office
and does his work or not: but it does Of
ten happen in Montana that the deputies
in county offices do the work of the Office,
While the principal official is engaged in
his private affairs or doing nothing.
In the particular instance which you
| mention, assuming that the facts alleged
to be true, the blame is not so much in
the Office named as in the board of county
| commissioners, II they pay the deputies
Now, it goes without saying. that in con
temptation of law, every officer is re-
CURED to attend personally to the affairs
of his office. If he can do the work of the
office without help then he is required to
do it without help, or pay for the help
himself.
So far as the salary of the county treas
| urer of Silver Bow county, a first-class
county. is concerned. $500, it is certainly
NV S->SSSSifC, CONSTRUCTIVE tHe size Ol lne
county, the. amount of money handled
and the responsibility connected with the
position. The treasurer of that county
| is entitled under the law to two deputies
| and additional ones during certain months
| II necessary. at an annual salary of not
to exceed $1,000 each, all of which is at
the discretion of the board of county
| commissioners. The board can allow these
deputies or not, within the limits, as they
see fit, and as the occasion demands.
Now, if an officers fails or neglects to
attend to or give his personal attention
to the duties of his Office and the board
of county commissioners furnish deputies
and pays them to do the work, the re-
sponsibility falls as much, if not more,
upon the board as upon the officer. 1t is
made the express statutory duty of the
board of county commissioners "to SUI
pervise the official conduct of all county
officials and officers of all districts and
other subdivisions of the county charged
with assessing, collecting. safe keeping,
management or disbursement of the pub
lie revenues, and to see that they faith
fully perform their duties
The remedy for the condition of affairs
| suggested lies. therefore. not in any new
enactment or change of salary. but in the
laws already on the statute books. 1t is
In the hands of the board of county COM
missioners, whose duty it is to use it.
Anaconda, Mont, Feb. 2. 1899.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
HE HAD THE GRIP.
w. Sampson Takes II Couple of Bottles of
Rock and Rye as Cure.

w. Sampson Takes a Couple of Bottles of
Rock and Rye as a Cure.
In Judge Kennedys court yesterday
w. Sampson was brought up IN a
charge of disturbing the peace. Samp-
son, it appears, had not tasted a drop
of liquor for two years until a week
ago. At that time he was seized 10y an
attack of the grip. A friend of ms
told him that there was nothing in the
world for the grip like rock and rye.
Sampson therefore proceeded 10 get
some rock and rye. He drank one bot
tie of the liquor. That made him feel
so much improved in health that he
got another bottle, which made him
feel still better. During the period of
consumption of this second bottle
Sampson kicked up quite a fuss and
was arrested
When he was brought up before
Judge Kennedy yesterday the court
asked If he was sure that his old ap-
petite for liquor would not come hack
If he We're not restrained. He didn't
know but that it would.
wouldn't it be better for you II you
went to Jail for 80 days, 81 as to Sive
you an opportunity to thoroughly sober
up AGAIN." asked the court
IT haven't the slightest objection in
the world" said Sampson.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
PROPOSED BOUNTY LAW
Big Hole Stockmen Opposed to
the Reduction.
COYOTES ARE PLENTIFUL
The Pests Annually Destroy Thousands
OF Dollars Worth of Calves and
Lambs = Hunters Will Not Kill sFy.
Them for 81 Head.

Regarding the bill proposing the reduc-
ton of the coyote bounty from 50 to 81.
which it is probable will have hearing
in the legislature this session, gentleman
from the Big Hole valley, who is thor
ouhgly conversant with the cattle bust
ness in that section, in an interview had
this to say about the proposed reduction:
1.-THE reduction is unanimously con-
! demned in the Big Hole valley. There
are no wolves there but an unlimited num-
Der of coyotes, who kill a great many
calves in the spring of the year There
are many thousands of dollars worth of
stock destroyed in the Big Hole valley
each year by the coyotes. If there is any
timber, willows. coulees or any other
good place COW will find it, and there
she will place her calf. She then roams
off, the coyote comes along and it's all
over with the calf.
Below the Big Hole Basin, near the
railroad. and south on the Medicine
Lodge river, where thousands of sheep
Craze, the coyotes work great havoc
among the lambs and often get away
with the old sheep
Il consider it a very unwise plan to
cut down the bounty as no one can afford
10 HuHl coyotes at d reduced Inquire from
the present price. Under the proposed
law, which. the heads behind the ears
will have to be cut off and kept by the
county clerk for the period of month.
The market price of a coyote hide is
about IS cents, but with the head off it
is of no value, for no one will purchase
coyote or a wolf skin that is decapita-
ted. The proposed law would probably
work fairly well in locality where there
yolx = d
a large area of Montana where there are
no wolves or very few of them but where
there are plenty of coyotes. These wolf
less sections are compelled to pay their
share of the bounty, but in return they
will not receive any benefit, as no one can
afford to hunt coyotes at 81 per head and
have the skin mutilated in such way
that they will find no buyers for it.
Surely the bill can't be put forward
in spirit of economy for the tax now is
so light that no stockman feels it, at least
have never heard one kick about it yet
If the proposed bill becomes a law no
professional wolf or coyote hunting man
will continue in the business.
THE trainers of the bill claim that
man hunting wolves would not let a
coyote pass unmolested. That is true, but
then that man would not go out of his
way to hunt a coyote with only 81 bounty.
and, besides. have to wait year or two
for his pay. | believe it would be better
to fix the bounty at S. on coyotes and 81
on wolves
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
TREE FULL OF SLEEPING cooNs
Lucky Find by Frank Brown When
Fresh Meat Was Getting Scarce.

"A LuChS Emu DS FRANK brown "nen
Fresh Meat Was Getting Scarce.
A special correspondent of the New
York Sun at Dedham, Me-, says since
the Wardens began to enforce the game
laws prohibiting the shooting of deer
after December 81, fresh meat has been
rarity in Frank Browns lumber camp
on the shores of Big Pond. This week,
however, Brown has struck a streak of
good luck which promises to keep his
crew in fresh and tender raccoon meat
for month to come. Good, plump rae
coons have always been hard to kill
The autumn hunters, who go out by
moonlight and skulk about corn fields
and orchards where sweet corn and
sweet apples abound, never capt are
coons of any size, seldom ever getting
anything larger than yearfings, with
an occasional tough and toothless old
settler that had grown desperate from
hunger. AS soon as the dogs were put
on the trail of fat coon, the willy an
imal led them through the woods to
some Doggy marshlands that We're in
undated, and swimming out for half a
mile or so among the ooze and lily pads,
climbed the stub of some old pine that
had been drowned out by the water,
and hid itself away in the hollow cavity
at the heart of the tree. AS the water
could not hold the scent for the dogs
to follow, the coon coiled up and " ant
to sleep until the barking subsidized
when it stole out after nightfall to visit
new fields.
Every year dry wood grows more
scarce in the Maine forests, the HINT
ers and woodsmen using it for kin ding
faster than 1t is produced from natural
causes. Two days ago as Brown was
cruising in the woods in quest of dry
fuel, he saw a giant pine stub on a
knoll in the middle of an icy marsh
and cut it down, intending to load it
onto his sled and carry it to camp. AS
Brown was splitting the butt cuts so
he could load them on his sled, his axe
broke through the shell and entered
something that felt like clay or putty,
and on removing the axe he saw the
blade was smeared with fresh blood
Thinking he had found bear, he pro-
ceeded cautiously, using wooden
wedges instead of his axe, and When
the trunk fell apart he looked in 1he
cavity and saw eight fat coons housed
away for the winter. The cut above
contained two more coons, while the
stump held a 50-pounder, the biggest
one of the lot.
He secured two cords of nice, dry
wood and more than 200 pounds of fat
coon meat from the tree, since which
time he has neglected the woodchop-
ping and turned coon hunter. He
walks through the woods a few days af-
ter a damp snowstorm, and if he sees
thawed spots along the trunk of a ilol-
low tree, he knows they are the telltaie
signs which indicate that an animal is
inside, and has melted the snow with
its breath. Then he cuts down the tree
and pulls out the sleeping raccoon.