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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
For Low Prices Try The Racket

ted fringe. extra wide, at 25c.
All grades of fine Table Linen from
15c to 81. Nice bleached Damask for
Csc and CSC. Doylies by the thousand
from 19c to $3.50 ner dozen; our $1.0o
Doylies are very fine. Our Linen de-
partment heads the list in assortment,
quality and low price.
$50 rolls of Mating from loo to CSC.
We have all grades, bought under the
hammer for the ard Isl
Fifty rolls of Carpet at extra low
prices. Hemp Carpet, extra heavy, at
13c; Coco Carpet at 15c; extra heavy
Coco Carpet fer 3sc; heavy Ingram
Carpet at Ice; better at CSC, 29c, .3Sc and
soc; our fine special all wool Carpet at
25c-less than half price.
Umbrellas and parasols by the guam
tity. Nice Congo handle, 26 inch Um-
brella, steel rod, turned top, at Soc:
better 75c. Silk top at 81 and up to $3.50.
1000 yards of fine Silk at any price,
from 19c to SIPS per yard. Our line
Of bright Silks are less than regular
price and 1 would be very glad to have
you lok at them.
Come AND get rich by saving a big
prifit on all your purchases you need
in the Dry Goods and Shoe line by trad
ing at the largest and most up-to-date
store in the state-Wilmingtons' Big
Racket Store, Front street, opposite
The Orion Hotel, rear h Postoffice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

Appendicitis is a dreadful disease.
We have been amazed how long in the
history of the human race it was before
the doctors found out it was a disease.
1t is one Of the most fatal of diseases.
But few recover we At the
American Surgical Convention that re-
Gently met in Chicago, there was a
great deal of discussion over this di-
sease, and as on other occasions 'fthe
differed" DR.. Richardson, of
Boston, Thought that operations were
ONLY permissible in the first hours
Others thought otherwise, tina there
was nothing else to do but to use the
knife. And still other distinguished
physicians insisted that there was too
much proneness to resort to the knife
and hence fatal results that might have
been avoided by other treatment. There
are cases in this city that were relieved
by internal medicine
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

The Messenger and other southern
newspapers have contended through
the decades for the superiority of the
south in advantages for cotton man.
ufacturing. 1t has urged again and
again that the best way, the right way
was to carry the mills to the cotton.
This is a common-sense view but the
Edward Atkinsons in New England
could not see it and laughed at it in
their self-confidence and imagined
superior wisdom. But light has come
to many men in that part Of the world,
and it is coming to people living in
other parts of the world. Manufac-
turing is going steadily to the centres
of coal, cheap transportation and sup
plies. Lord Kelvin recently said that
1.-The highlands of Scotland may be-
come industrially more important to
Great Britain than the Midland. Swift
zerland, Norway, Sweden, the Austrian
Tyrols and Pennsylvania may become
the industrial centres of Europe. In
India, the Himallayas feed the Ganges
the Hindus and the Oxus, and these al
make great leaps down the mountain
sides, and the Falls of Zambesi in AT.
RIGA may in a few decades be utilized
in the industrial development of thar
empire of the future"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

Lieutenant Henry Page in the Phil
-ippines is a young, educated Maryland
er and is a son of Judge Henry Page
OF the supreme court of that state. He
has been in the Philippines for some
ten months and has been carefully
studying the natives. He writes thai
he can unreservedly affirm that the
more evidence collected the greater
my respect for the native and his ca
pacity. He says they fought we'll and
retreated in good order He says that
a frequent exclamation along our lines
was, Haven't these little fellows got
grft?' They had more than grit-they
had organization" He also gives evil
dence of machinery in A~guinaldo's gov
and of the solicitude of the
natives for education. He saw in every
town captured neat, substantial school
buildings He says in closing his let
ter:
The pity of it-that We should be
killing these men by thousands. What
and ignorance, what blum
der1ng, what blind and brutal ambition
nave led up to this situation of despair
and death, for a people who are Just en-
ter1ng upon the fulfillment of the hope
or years-Who were engaged in perfect
ing a new government of their own
and extending their schools-only to be
ordered to turn about pass under
another foreign yokeI"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

We ead the state in Millinery. Our
season has been the best we have eve
had. Just received a bright lot Of fine
u~p-to-date Sailors. Fine line of Violets
and Roses, Cruicle Chiffon, Belt Rib
bonS.
New Belt Buckles from sc to soc. Hat
Pins, Beauty Pins, Shirtwaist Sets,
Gold Watches, Fancy Rings, Watch
Guards, Eye Glasses, Gold Thimbles,
Picture Frames.
Ladies' Worsted Shirts, we'll lined
and well made, at roc. Silk Skirts
at $3.50: Crash, Pique and Duck Skirts
from 25c to $500.
I will sell you this week a mans we'll
made fine percale Coat for % each, a
pair Of good Slippers for 25c; 1 pound
Of good Writing Paper for 10c; l big
line of Belts at wholesale cost from 13c
to SOC; a big drive in fine P~ocketbooks
from. &c to 50c-special nice line al Csc.
Window Shades from 10c to 35c. Best
Opaque Linen Shades for 25s. Poles
and Trimmings for 25c. Lace Cur
tains from 45c to $500 a pair. Beau
tiful Curtain Swiss, 80 inches wide,
at 10c, worth 15c.
A big lot of fine Towels. Best Bath
Towels, So inches long, for 1ec; the "a
inch Towel, extra made, worth 25c, now
19c- All grades of Linen Towels from
sc to 25c: 46 inches long, double knot
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
STATE PRESS

1T calls for no courage at all TO fight
] trusts" says the Washington Post.
The Post would have been nearer the
truth to make a pretense OF fighting
trusts.-Wadesboro Messenger.
No more contemplate creature ever
took On the shape Of man than the
dirty demagogue who undertakes 10
array class against class and create
prejudice and bitter feeling among his
fellow men that he may profit politi-
calys Observation-Disclosures Gold Leaf.
The Wilmington Messenger tells of a
young girl at Burgaw who placed a
note in a basket Of berries requesting
the purchaser 10 inform her Of the price
paid for the same. A reply was duly
received stating that So cents a basket
was paid for the fruit. Commission
house returns showed that the grower
received only s cents per quart. The
truckers are trying now 10 find a meth
d by which they a get more than
one-third of the retail price Of the Der
ries. Upon their success largely de-
ponds the future growth OF the i'm
nense trucking interests Of the east
Raleigh News-Observer.
People have become so accustomed
TO federal INSCRIPTIONS that no great
outcry has been made against the very
direct example Of government by in
junction which Judge Simonton has
just supplied. There is little semblance
left Of the barriers which used 10 de-
fend the states when it has come to
pass that a federal judge can do what
this judge has now done. He has re-
Quired the railroad commission of this
once sovereign state to refrain from en-
forcing their order to the Carolina
Central railway to reduce freight rates,
because a certain New York woman
owns mortgage bonds upon it.-Fay-
etteviIle Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
Discovered bya woman

Another great discovery has been
made. and that, too, by a lady in this
country. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her n for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital
organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months
she coughed necessarily, and could not
sleep. She finally discovered a way to
recovery. by purchasing Of US a bottle
Of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. and was so nuch relieved
on taking first dose, that she slept
all night; and with two bottles. has
been absolutely cured. Her name is
Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes w. c.
Hamnick & Co., Of SheIby,M. C. Trial
bottles free at R r. Bellakny's Drug
Store. Regular size SOC and 800. Every
bottle guaranteed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

a long state North Carolina - from
point to point in these two counties. Il
IS 500 miles. As We mentioned before.
II you will a K a string, and put its
end on the Utmost boundary OF Chero-
kee on the state line. and then stretch
it across the state 70 the extreme limit
Of Currituck, and then holding it at
that point and carrying the string due
north, It will land You in Lake Cham
plain in New York state. Il viii go
across Virginia. Maryland, Delaware,
New Jersey and into New York state,
more than half way.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
THE BRIDE MURDERED
shot to Death by Members of a chart.
vari Party.

Wichita, kas-, une 11.-(Sunday.)-
Mrs. r. a. Higgins, a bride of two
hours. is dead and her husband and
young brother badly injured as the re-
suit of a charivari party given them
at their home near Watonga, Oklaho-
ma, Friday night. The charivari par
~, composed OF about twenty friends of
h young married couple. refused TO go
when requested 10 do so. but continued
to make -defeanening noises by beating
on pans and firing shot guns.
One Of the party. Harry Randall. de-
lberately pointed his gun at the young
couple and fired. The brides face and
breast Were filled with buckshot. She
fell, shot through the lungs, and died
an our later. The room was shot in
n face, and a small brother Of the
bride was also wounded, neither Of
them fatally. however. After the acct
dent, the -char9varing party fed. No
arrests have been made yet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
HOME FOLKS

Little Currituck county, in the ex-
IRENE east, gave the largest vote for
a special school tax and thus ecure
the generous offer of $500, which Gen.
Julian S. Carr offered to the county
registering such a vote. It would be
interesting TO know what the other
end of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Tt
is from Cherokee to Currituck," you
know the saying is. BY the way. what
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16
sne lfe~t PrescridtiO n for Ciifiis

and Fever is - bottle of Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic. The formula is plain
ly printed on each bottle, showing that
1t is simply Iron and Quinine in a taste
less form Imitators do not advertise
their formula because if they did they
now thar you would not buy th+IY
medicine b sure then that you get
Groves as the formula shows what you
are taking.
NO CURE NO PAY. Price So ,-t,-s
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

Prftchard is in good cheer. He pro-
fesses to believe that negro rule will
continue in North Carolina because
the amendment TO the constitution will
be defeated. When that comes 70 pass
look out for another battle for white
supremacy that will be ten times hot
ter than that of 1895.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-16

The arguments or the writs Of pro-
hibition, habeas corpus and ~certerari
in the Molineux case are postponed to-
day until Wednesday.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03

robbery is accomplished, the villainy
enacted; it is not for me to overturn
existing conditions" But l am rob-
bed!" shrieks MeCleary. put me
back where stood before | was rob-
bed. Give me back my own coat. Here
is this wretched rag. Give me an or
der for the arrest of the thief and
the return of my coat" ut can't be
did," says the justice, your demand
is equivalent to making u SIS coat
worth $500. It can't be did,-hot if
the court knows itself" And there
upon the indignant. professor sails in
to the justice Of the peace, blacks his
eyes, knocks out his front teeth and
punches him in the belly with his UNI
brella. And thereupon he is arrested
for assault and battery, with intent
to kill, tried by jury Of thieves (the
foreman wearing his overcoat), and
sent to prison. There let us leave him,
while he writes political address to
the voters of the Second district,
showing that representative govern
ment is failure, and threatening to
go back to Canada.
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
Flood of Silver.

Regarding the flood of silver that
would pour into this country should
bimetallism be adopted, l think that
entitled to less consideration than the
proposition that gold would instantly
disappear. They belong to the same
job lot of scarecrows. 1t. will be re-
membered that Mr.. Shurz said that
there would be a tremendous contrac
ton of the currency as a result of the
adoption of bimetallism. Other equally
sanguine monometallists predict, at
the same time, the rest of the world
would dump its silver here almost
Immediately. Now, silver could be
dumped" here only in exchange for
something else. If for wheat, cotton,
wool, or manufactured goods, do not
think it would be rejected, for our peo-
pie desire to sell their commodities. If
for gold, then it must take it's place,
dollar for dollar, and If it be a fifty
cent dollar, as Senator Thurston says
1t would be, then for every dollar of
gold driven out" two silver dollars
would take its place. Surely little con-
traction of the currency would take
place at the rate of substituting two
dollars for one. The two notions that
there would be contraction of the cur
rency and a flood of silver at the same
time are hardly compatible. No nation
can coin and retain more metallic
money than it has profitable use for.
because unless it is needed for business
purposes and finds profitable employ
ment, 1t will always float away to other
places where there is a greater demand
for it. Gold or silver money cannot be
piled away above the money level of
other countries and be made to stay
there. 1t will seek its level just the
same as anything else. Though the
minis Of the universe might be open
to the coinage of silver for our use, but
few million dollars more than could
find profitable employment would stay
here. Not sound political economist
from Adam Smith to the latest writer
can be found to dispute that PROPOSE
ton. They are all of the same opinion
as DR.. Wayland, who said OF any coun-
try, IF its trade with other places is
free, the superfuDus money will float
away, on the tide of commerce, to some
point where it is needed, just as a sur
plus of wheat or cotton goods or any
other commodity must do" II it can
not find profitable employment here as
money it will go to the east, there to
be used for money purposes, or to the
melting pot, to be used in the industrial
arts. You cannot heap" up gold or
silver in a free country and make it
stay "heaped," any more than you can
heap" up water and make it stay
"heaped."
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
A WORLDS BONDAGE.
WHY THE GOLD STANDARD Is
ADVOCATED HERE.
England, Having Become Great Creditor
Nation Drawing Vast Annuities from
All Other Nations, Wants Dear Money
Americas Folly In Being Buncoed.

England with the accumulated
wealth of centuries has the whole
world in bondage. in that little book
of interest tables" said Napoleon.
lies a great fact concealed which
threatens to devour the world There
are some Americans who contend that
we are rich enough to become money
lenders to the world like John Bull,
and therefore we must have the gold
standard, like England, says Eugene
B. Beebe. Yes, and many of our citi-
zens who fed from the misery and
oppression of the gold standard in Eu-
rope advocate that system Which mas
reduced the masses of the people OF
England and Europe to hopeless pow
erty, misery and degradation. They do
not consider that this is a new coun-
try and needs cash legal tender money
for the development of its vast re-
sources without further bondage to
Europe. Wall street will find by FUR
ther sad experience that the capacity
of this country for cash legal tender
money is greater than John Bull can
supply. With our enormous Indebted
ness abroad the gold we import is SIM
ply borrowed and when we cannot bor-
row more to keep it and it is with
drawn, a panic follows 1t is the ir-
resistible logic Of events. The reason
that free silver shows such vitality
is that the gold standard is imprac-
ticable and this is shown by the appre-
citation of gold. This great central fact
stands up like the rock of Gibgaltar.
Mr.. Carlisle, before he was seduced
by the money power, said that reduc-
ing the world to the gold basis was
like destroying by fire half the prop
erty of the people. The equilibrium
between gold and silver must be re-
stored, for now gold buys too much
and silver bullion sells for too little.
1t is fate, it is the logic of events, it
is the decree of the Almighty. The
attempt to kill free silver is like try
ing to turn back Niagara into the
lakes. 1t cannot be further exploited
without panics and misery, and then
it will not succeed.
In New England the opponents OF
the gold standard are increasing In
numbers, as shown by the election Of
Mr.. Thayer to congress in the Worces.
ter district. The manufacturers and
employees see that the yardstick Is
| frightening and have learned the in.
stability of the gold standard. They
know by bitter experience that thu
raw cotton when made into clothe.
fails to buy as many 200-cent dollars
as were paid for it.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
When Mckinley Was All Right.

On the 18th of February, 1891, only
little over seven years ago, Mr.. Nc
Kinley said:
During all of Grover Cleveland's
years at the head of the government
he was dishonoring one of our precious
metals, one of our own great products,
discrediting silver and enhancing tho
price of gold. He endeavored even be-
fore his inauguration to office to stop
the coinage of silver dollars ard after
ward and to the end Of his admins
tration persistently used his power to
that end. He was determined to con-
tract the circulating medium, and to
demonetize one Of the coins of COM
merce, limit the volume of money
among the people, make money scarce
and therefore dear. He would have in
creased the value of money, and dimin-
ished the value Of everything else
money the master everything else the
servant. He was not thinking of "the
poor" then. He had left their side"
He was not standing forth In their de-
Tense. Cheap coats, cheap labor and
dear money. The sponsor and promot-
er of these protesting to stand guard
over the welfare OF the poor and low
ly! Was there ever more irlconsist-
ency or reckless assumption
All these things sound very strange
when compared with Mr. McKinley's
utterances since he accepted the nomi-
nation for president on a gold stand
ard platform, and they seem to justify
sincere people in having but little
faith in the man.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
Starved to Death.


The time has been when the news
that a human being had starved to
death In America would have sent a
thrill Of horror through the national
heart. OF late our feelings have be-
come calloused on this subject. So
many cases of starvation and suicide
have sprinkled the trail Of these bitter
years that it takes an unusually tragic
episode of this sort to move US. But
sometimes there are instances so uIl-
utterably pitiful that they force them
selves upon the jaded sympathies Of o
people stated with spectacles of suffer
ing and will not be denied.
What do the comfortable philoso-
pliers who hold that everything is for
the best in the best of all possible
worlds think of the fate of Mamie Nc
Carthy, starved to death at seventeen
in the richest city of America? None
of the customary apologies for the
misery that shadows our civiliza-
ton are available here. There was no
question of drunkenness or crime, in
volving the innocent in the retribution
of the guilty. Here was a deserving
and formerly happy and reasonably
prosperous family brought down
through no fault of its own. The
father had been a lawyers clerk,
earning comfortable living. He died,
and the illness of his widow in the
course of years absorbed the provision
he had left for his family. With the
mothers death the orphaned brother
and sister were left to make their own
way. AS long as the boy could find
work they were independent, but for
seven months he had been trudging
the streets searching vainly for a
chance to make use of his industry.
Reduced at last to sharing the crusts
| picked out of garbage barrels. the girl,
delicately nurtrlred. proud and sensi-
tive, faded away, and at last she died.
Where we're the charity organizers
when this tragedy was contaminated
the organizers who protested last
winter against the informal relief of
distress on the ground that they were
capable of taking care of all the suffer-
ing in the city? And what lessons will
the SNUG economists who teach that
our present social system is incapable
of improvement deduce from it? Re-
membering what Mamie McCarthy's
father was dozen years ago, the CON-
fortably situated professional man who
thinks of the possible future Of his own
tenderly guarded child may reflect,
with a shock, that perhaps the reform
of social conditions may not be mat
| ter exclusively in the interest Of the
degraded proletariat after all.-New
| York Journal
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03

Narrow waists and narrow minds
often &c together.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03

las letter says:
The acute distress caused by four
cent cotton may easily be appreciated
when it is stated that the average cash
yield of the staple at this price is less
than So an acre gross. Out of this the
tenant pays one-tourth to the landlord,
and, If he hires the cotton picked.
about SO an acre goes for that expense.
The net result to the farmer is less
than 81 an acre, and this pittance is
more than exhausted If he is compelled
to hire help to plant and cultivate the
crop. The best authorities agree that
the day when cotton would pay wages
to the producer passed when the price
dropped below seven cents a pound"
This report is in conflict with the
testimony of Southern bankers who
were recently asked by the New York
Journal of Commerce as to the effect
the fall in the price of cotton would
have on the producers. The bankers
thought the producers would get goods
enough cheaper than when cotton sold
for 6 or cents to compensate them
for the loss. When tenants run away
from a crop that they have been at
the expense of growing to work by
the day in some other mans field. the
reasonable conclusion is that the prices
of cotton have about reached bedrock
A fallacy is easily discovered in the
theory that the producer does not lose
by a fall in prices that covers his ex-
penditure as well as his income. II
wages fall 20 per cent and food and
clothes also fall 20 per cent, it is con.
tended that the wage Garner is as well
off in one case as in the other. II will
be found, however, upon a close ex-
animation, that there are certain fixed
expenses that do not fall in proportion
to wages. Rent, interest money and
taxes are two or three years behind
wages in taking note of reduction in
prices. Taxes often rise in the face of
reduction in wages Probably one
third of the expenses Of average fam
lilies are SO fixed that they can only
be reached by inability to meet them.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
The Cause of the Deficit.

The Republicans will have ma
iority in both branches of the Fifty
sixth congress This insures the con-
tinuance of the war tax until 1900,
says the Silver Knight Waterman. The
Dingley bill continues to produce its
regular monthly deficit and good times,
the Dingley bill would produce large
surplus, but under the gold standard
it will need the aid of the war tax
to raise revenue sufficient to meet the
current expenses of the government.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-03
Work in the Vineyard.

If you do not have the interest in
social problems in your neighborhood
that you would like to see, whose fault
is it? Certainly not the peoples, for
how can they know what is wrong un-
til you or some one else has called their
attention to principles of eauity?--Ap-
peal to Reason.