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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-28
SILVER AND LEAD.

100
Bar silver, 5e14 cents.
Lead, brokers', $4.1o.
copper, casting, 1424 cents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-28
REPRESENTATIVES.

For King.-Betts, Cook, Fisher.
Greenwood, jackson, Larsen, Lapish.
Redd, Stewart, Wheeler-10.
For McCune. Bywater,
Clyde, Cummings, Farr, Fullmer,
Forman, Har EN-, Horne, Lloyd, Nc
Quarrie, Mansfield, o'Neil, Parry,
Robertson, Roylance, Shepard-17.
For Bagley = Callister, Chris
tianson, Crosby, Holmgren, c. q.
Harris, Miller, Murdoch, Richards,
Robinson, Sorenson, Taylor-11.
For Howell-Law-1.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24
PUBLIC PRINTING

If it be true that a private bid is 16s
per e less for the public printing,
and the parties are responsible, we an
not see wisdom in paying more to a
firm by contract. Skilled labor may
do the work for less money than other
skilled labor because it lives at less
expense and is willing to work for
less wages. The public printing should
be done well, but it should not be given
out to favor a particular firm or bidder
at the expense Of the people. Least
wise so it looks to those who are not
interested in the matter personally be-
yond seeing the work we'll done and at
lowest possible price. There has been
too much favoritism and excessive
expenditure for years in the public
printing. One member contended that
putting it at the lowest bidder had
proved a failure. Why? Was it not
because it was not given to a really re-
sponsible party? If good workman,
of character, who can give a strong
bond for faithful work, etc., are willing
to take the printing at a less figure
than others ask, then give it to him.
1t is so in house building and why not
in printing. If favorites are to be con-
sidered then give it to some good dem
ocratic newspaper that rendered great
service to the party in the great CAM
paign of 1898. How much will the
private printing establishment contri-
butte to the ratifi alton of the amend
ment? The democratic papers will do
more to make this assured than all the
speakers combined. 1t was so in 1898,
in electing the legislature. 1t will be
so again. The Messenger is not asking
for anything. But it believes if favors
are to be distributed for services
then some leading newspaper should
receive the printing provided the low
est bidder idea is not to prevail.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24
DRY GOODS PRICE-LIST
FOR THIS WEEK..

Unbleached Sheeting 2hc. l yard wide
Sea Island Sheeting at 3kc. Fine Sea
Island Sheeting at 4 and SC.
Calico in Navy Blue only at "a.
Splendid Calico at &c, best made al sc.
Nice Doublefold Worsted at 10c, any
color you want, nearly all WOOL.
Fine Percale, ! yard wide, at &c.
Fine Line of Outings at &c.
One yard wide Bleaching at Sc, bet
ter at 4 and sc.
Dragon colored Spool Cotton at 1c.
Chadwick's best 6-cord machine Cot
ton at &c, Coats Thread at &C.
300 pair Ladies' Kid Gloves at Csc. A
nice line Fine Kid Gloves in White.
Red and Black, at 81 per pair.
A big line of fine Buttons in Pearl
and Steel, cheap Buttons from &c per
dozen to 81 per dozen.
A nice line of new Buckles for Dress
Trimmings from Sc to 25c each.
100 pieces of Narrow Satin Ribbon for
Dress Trimming, from &c to 10c per
yard, any color and less by the roll.
200 pieces Of lev Ribbon for Ties.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

7he Stevens antitrust bin has pass
e4the lower house Of the North Caro-
hha General Assembly. but even IL It
passes the senate and becomes a law it
VIII be only a drop in the bucket. A
law Is needed that is national in Its
scope before much relief car be had
from the trust evil, so deeply rooted as
1t Is. A note Of unusual alarm is being
sounded by the papers that come to
The Observers table, as the twentieth
century draws on apace and the ma
tional danger from a m~onopolies in
creases rather than diminishes.-Char-
lotte Observer.
We note with pleasure a bill before
the legislature to reduce the salary
and fees of state and county officers
about 20 per cent. The populists two
and four years ago failed to comply
with their promises and pledges to the
people in this respect, and the people
outside Of the office-holders, demand
that this legislature make reduction
In line with the greater purchasing
power of the dollar and the reduced
prices Of the farmers products. Let
economy be practiced along all the
lines Of all appropriations to the pub
lie institutions of the state, and let no
institution have the prominence in
securing additional legislative appro-
priations-Shelby Aurora
Among the recommendations made
TO the joint committee on education by
the leading educators of the state We
note the following: Fewer public
schools districts, and a concentration
Of money and brains in fewer schools,
For ten years there has been an undue
multiplication of schools, and the re-
suit being that all are weakened"
That this is n Of the Improvements
than can and should be made in the
public school system all who have
looked into the matter will at once re-
cognize. In this county last year many
schools were lept open with an aver
age attendance of less than a dozen
and had an average of only three,
while in some of the nor thickly pop
ulated districts hundreds of children
could not enter the schols for the rea-
SON that the buildings We're not large
enough and money at the disposal of
the board was not sufficient to N
ploy additional teachers. There are
numerous improvements that can be
made in the public school system, but
this is one Of the most Important
Durham Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

That was something thrilling that oc-
Cured in the senate when the consti-
tutional suffrage amendment was un-
der consideration. The News and OBJ
server gives this stirring report:
Yesterday when Senator Bob Glenn
was in the midst Of his eloquent appeal
for the constitutional amendment, he
had reached a point where he was say
ing that he had come as the represent
alive Of his people uninstructed and
without promise to his opponents in
the now memorable campaign, when
an old veteran Of the civil war stand
ing near the writer, exclaimed: Gun
trammelled!" Looking at his aged
form as he stood erect with quivering
excitement in his eye, which blazed
with his enthusiasm as he gazed upon
the senator. Some one reminded him
that he must keep quiet, but he said
without Withdrawing his gaze from the
speaker: "Id give five hundred dollars
for five minutes to tell him how I feel;
my blood boils within me and I'd freely
spill the last drop to perpetuate the
cause he pleads"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24
THE SACRED O

An honest confession is good for the
sou and relieves the mind. We wrote
in ignorance of a constitutional bar to
taxing the devouring dog. We have
sinned against the great states pet
and cry peccavi. We nave shown
hostility, blind and rabid, to the help
full, benign, blessed, blissful dog. We
are sorry. We did not know it was a
sacred animal in North Carolina. For
forty years there has been talk Of tax
ing the dog. We have never heard or
read until now that you could not tax
the dogs but a few cents, that kill and
devour how many sheep n lambs he
may, and he sometimes slaughters a
dozen in a night unless his dogship is
gular that CANNES cannot be taxed or
suppressed as a nuisance. But he is to
the IRON The fundamental law is on
his side. His sacred person may not
be touched and the hair of the dog
remains TO the end good for his bite"
The constitution builders probably had
no idea they were making the mighty,
~omnivorous "daug" a positive fetch, too
sacred TO be interfered with by iegisla-
tors. But there are people, it is lament
able to have to say it, in this old COM
monwealth who are friendly to the un-
defended sheep. and ave no more COM
passion and sense than to use shot
guns and repeating rifles upon the
roaming and killers-those
sacred dogs-and will not await the
slowly moving course of courts, when
sometimes in the ages to come the CIV
~ilization Of this State shall become
equal to fostering h very useful, COM
Portable, and profitable sheep industry.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

There Is progress in North Carolina.
very slow perhaps, but some. BY the
thirtieth century it may be recorded in
their capitol that dogs are SO taxed
that sheep thrive and multiply with
great remuneration to the agricultural
men.
The able constitutional staff-lawyer
of the Raleigh Post gives US a well
timed rebuke for our dense ignorance,
in which we must rejoice, for 1t is never
too late to mend and it ought TO be
that you should never grow too old
not to be taught. We are teachable
and receptive. and with ii we abound in
gratitude. Our thanks TO the Post for
a needed correction. 1t says the SUI
preme court has decided that the legis-
lature cannot tax dogs It says, and
we accept it as correct while deploring
the complete bondage of the farmers
to the insatiate dogs.
We quote: 'It would be a good
thing to tax every lady dog in
the state $500 each, and every son
of such from s1.O0 to $500 each ac-
cording to worthlessness; bu unfor-
~tunately the matter of taxing them
per capita" has been tested in our
court Of highest resort and supposed
to be of competent jurisdiction has for
mally declared it canno be lone under
our present constitution"
So the dog is on top, the sheep are at
the bottom and the defeated and dis
poiled sheep raisers stand off in anger
and try to grin and bear it," We really
had thought it true that law based was
upon common sense. and of all law
that constitutional law was based on
more common sense than any other
law. But it is very sense
law it seems. 1t is res judicata in the
dog question and there is no hope for
sheep industry and nc good to acrue
by the kicking of the injured farmers.
They are literally in the clutches of a
bad law and there is no appeal now.
A friend, who is a merchant, informs
us that the constitution says hat
taxation shall not exceed Sc 2-3 cents on
100 dollars worth of property which
would place the value of a dog at $3.50,
now there are very few dogs whose
owners would be wiling to swear that
their dogs was worth $3.50. Hence l
believe the law would be unconstitu-
tional. There would be no objection to
a law listing them as other property is
listed, ad valorem." AS most dogs are
literally ~valueless they would fetch
nothing to the treasury if taxed ad
valorem. We see nc remedy. The far
mers are plucked and the law sustains
the plucking. Woe to all men who
live under bad laws.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24
THE WHITE FOLKS VICTOR lou

The senate passed the suffrage
amendment to the constitution by a
great majority-42 to 6. Let the can
noneer to the annon speak, and let the
shouts of of the civilized people of
North Carolina ring out for joy. The
great question has been taken from the
legislative arena and will be sent to the
people for ratification or rejection.
White supremacy will come peacefully
or the white people will know the reason
why.
The intelligence, the virtue, the char
of North Carolina are all in this move
ment for good government, economical
administration, enforcement of law,
and preservation of the civilization of
North Carolina. The suffrage amend
ment if adopted will accomplish a
great deal in that most desirable and
important direction. 1t will be a bless
ing to North Carolina, and in the end,
will be a real boon to the negro race.
Outrages, mobs, expressions, robberies,
destruction, paralysis of public conf
dence and prosperity nave all come
out of bad voting for bad men, and the
negroes have done it all. II they had
voted wisely and we'll the conditions
would have been far better in all partic-
ulars.
The populists to a man in the legisla-
ture voted for the amendment. 1t is
most praiseworthy, and in doing this
they showed their preference for the
for party success or the reign of dis
order. But the old radical gang was
true to their instincts, habits and greed
they voted with the negroes against
white mans supremacy. The Raleigh
Post writing of the amendment says
this:
eff the average republican was not
so welded to his idols we would have
expected some Of them to have voted
for the amendment, as many hundreds
if not thousands of that party voted
| with the democrats for no other rea-
son than a desire to have this suffrage
question settled along the very lines
provided for in this measure. No class
| or party Of our people can stand an
L OllC1 SoS1 campaign as SAS AoSt Oi4Ct
nor permit an opportunity for such ar
| one to recur. 1t is with no unkindness
to any citizen that such a law is re-
| quired, but every honest, intelligent
man knows hat it is best for all thai
it should be enacted"
The thing to be dom next is for every
true man, every honest citizen, regard.
less of party affiliations or race, t.
work for its ratification. The peace
the order, the prosperity, the content
ment the very safety Of North Caro-,
lima depends upon the adoption of tn,
amendment The white men intend tt
rule in peace if it be possible, but the,
intend to rule. Nothing short of Divin,
Providence al prevent the control o.
North Carolina by the White Race.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

We beg pardon of the Charlotte OBJ
server for the misquotation from it.
The mot" was marked but in proof,
but it was not corrected. What it said
should have read as follows:
1.-The Wilmington Messenger copied
with approbation-and The Messengers
appreciation is always valued-an ex-
tract from a paragraph editorial, in
The Observer. 1t makes our final SEN
tence read thus:
A time should be set within which
this proper and necessary equipment
should be provided and the date should
not be arbitrary.
The word not should come out Of
the foregoing. The date. should be ar
bitrary. Our quarrel with the inter-
state commerce commission on this
question Is that it has temporiZed with
it, extending the day Of grace from
time to time until the law has been
practically repealed"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

People will think Of the looks of peo-
pie they never saw. Some how we had
put Hon. Thos. G. Skinner, ex-repre-
sentative in the congress, and a sound
democrat, as a mar of forty or so, dark
haired perhaps, and fresh with the
7vigor of youth. Lo, and behold! a pic
ture of him in the Raleigh News and
Observer presents a gray haired, ven
cradle, vigorous, elderly man of strong
and resolute face. May his good
gray head" long do its own thinking
for the good of the state. He is chair
man of the democratic joint caucus in
the legislature.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

The legislature is working day and
night to complete it's very important
work. Will it not pass a proper,
stringent law bearing on cruelty to ami
mails? Our attention has lately been
called more than once by a good citi-
zen to the cruelty practiced in this city
upon the dumb and faithful animals.
We believe the legislature has not more
than twelve more working days to fin
ish up their labors. Will the legisla-
ture adjourn sine die or take a recess?
Much may hang hereafter upon the
decision.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, ILL.,,
makes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse. He told
her she was a hopeless victim of con-
sumption and that no medicine could
cure her. Her druggist suggested DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton; she bought a bottle and to her
delight found herself benefited from
first dose. She continued its use and
after taking six bottles, found herself
sound and well; now Toes her own
homework, and is Is well as she ever
was. Free trial bottles Of this Great
Discovery at r. r. Bellamy's Drug
tore, large bottles 50 cents and $1On
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

The lowest mark at Oxford was 5
degrees below, which is more than
10 degrees lower than We ever saw it
there, even when the weather was cold
ser upon the average than the winters
of recent years. Perhaps when Roam
.oke river froze over with such thick ice
wagon drawn by six horses passed
over it without and difficulty. the re-
cord may have been lower than it was
recently, but that was before our re-
collection, probably in the very early
thirties. When a boy we have skated
almost daily for six weeks upon ice
from three to six or seven inches thick.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Sashes and Hat Trimming at bottom
prices.
A nice line OF new Hats between sea-
son goods.
Our Clothing Stock cannot be match
ed. We sell you a nice Suit OF Clothes
for So. s3.25, sass, s3.75. $500. Very Inc
we'll made Suits at 1915. $50. $500 and
$1,000.
We handle Boys Suits from si.00 e
$500. We have Boys Pants from i0c,
15c, 1sc, 25c. S5c. 45c to coo. from 4 to Is
years old.
Our Underwear has been reduced to
a small price as We want TO move this
line.
Mems Fine Rubber Shoes at CSC a
pair.
Ladies and Gents Mackintoshes from
$1.25 up to $1,000.
We want to do business with You and
prices are what counts. We sell more
goods for the money than any house
in the state. Remember to bring -FOUR
card and get it punched with every
cash purchase at Wilmintton's Big
Racket Store, opposite The Orton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Kipling's poem, "The White Mans
Burden" has a peculiar application to
the south. 1t has been lately happily
illustrated by positive action in North
Carolina. At the polls in November
last and by the action of the present
white mans legislature, the inspiration
has been felt and the deed done, and
they have responded in taking up "the
white mans burden"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Judge Norwood resigned and the
governor has accepted the resignation.
Humane people will have sympathy
with the unfortunate gentleman, who is
regarded, we believe, by good lawyers as
a jurist of learning. When himself he
bore himself we'll when presiding. He
neither stormed, nor bullied, nor
threatened, nor played the mountebank
as others may have done.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

There is much demand in state ex-
changes for a racing of fees and
salaries. Do not starye worthy
officials or cut off really needed sup
plies from the state institutions, but do
not play the part of spendthrift.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Greensboro has swung into line and
has a curfew law. In some places
has not worked satisfactorily, we be-
iieve. The law at Greensboro has ap-
.plieation to all boys under sixteen, and
even reaches Thackeray's Young
America who declared his declaration
of independence before he could read
it."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

The great book fight is on in
Raleigh. The Messenger is taking no
hand. 1t thinks however that it is
really full time that southern books
for southern school should be the de-
mand of parents and patriots and legis-
lators and ar enlightened public press.
Teach the children the truth. Give the
best of southern books for schools.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

ould quickly leave you. IL you used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Thov~ ands
sufferers have proved their hatch
less merit for Sick and Nervous Head
aches. They make pure blood and
strong nerves and build up your
health Easy TO take Try them. Only
Is cents. Money back IL not cured.
Sold by r. r. Bellamy. druggist
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

So it is Scotland county after years
of battle. In North Carolina among its
most honest, best, most patriotic citizens
have been the immigrants from Scotia
and their worthy, intelligent descend
ants. Astounding prosperity to them
and much glory for the new county.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Hon. John Manning was a native Of
Edenton and a son of Captain John
Manning, Of the old United States
navy, a fine gentleman We had the
pleasure of knowing. DR.. Manning
was born Goth June 1880. So he was in
his Goth year and we guessed right.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

Boys, how many states now in the
union? Is it forty-ive or forty-six or
more? How many counties in North
Carolina? Write it now ni~nety-seven
for Scotland has been added to the list,
and a worthy name it is.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

The Raleigh News and Observer says
of Mr.. George Rountree's speech in be-
half of the suffrage amendment:
"Hon. George Rountree, of New Han
over, chairman Of the committee that
drafted the bill, made the opening
speech, and it was an able, strong,
clear, statesmanlike speech-worthy of
the history making occasion"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

That was between 1S10-45. We have
s N thirty or forty skaters cutting
"didoes" on the ice, playing DANDY"
and running races and it was indeed
"a gay old time"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24
Ghe Jflessengm.


Mr.. Isaac Kronheimer, a worthy and
much respected Hebrew OF Oxford, is
dead. He was a successful merchant,
a native Of Germany, and of advanced
age. He leaves a family.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-30
snecnlatlyr sollIouny.

The following from the Wall Street
Journal was read with some satlsfac-
ton by Salt Lake spectators yester-
day.
To buy or MOTTO buy; that is the ques-
Whether It's better in the mind TO SUI
fer
The fret and worry Of outrageous
chances
Or to resist my brokers' importunlngs
And by liQuldatlng end them; 10 buy;
to hold;
No more!-and by mo more" mean
no more
Would have left with which to yen>
ture more.
l might 90 broke, It's not a consum.
nation
Devoutly to be wished. To buy; 10
hold
My all in quiverlng margins; there's
the rub
For on the tricky tape what bulge may
come,
When | have staked my last slmoleon,
To make me rich; there's the respect
Associates give to him Of flinty nerve,
And should | win, such bigger worlds
20 conquer.
But then perchance there come another
slump
And / be swiftly chalk marked of the
earth
a sickly counterfeit Of 80 cents.
There is something somewhere chokes
me off
And tells me TO let bad enough alone
TIL all THE panic palpitations gone
And can once again see where I'm at.
A crazy market makes us towards ALL