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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
REASONABLE GAMBLING
 SORTS.


 The play-room at Saratoga is majes- tis in It's proportions. Its size IS about fifty by one hundred feet, and it's
 walls and lofty ceilings are handsomely l decorated. The great carpet which covers the floor is of the thickeet vel vet, deadening the noise of footsteps, l so that while the play is in progress ! the only sounds heard are the subdued voices of the players and the announce ments of the dealers, as the croupere are called in America, The tables are ranged on both sides of the room, and close enough to the wall to allow of | only enough space behind for the dea- lers to move up and down when paying and taking the stakes.
 When the play is at its height the 1 scene is an interesting one. The em- ployees of the house are all in evening dress, as are a majority of the players. Those who are not are in all the brav- cry of summer costume, and dot the scene with bits of lighter color About the tables in separate groups one for each table, are crowded the players They are intent and silent except when some individuals luck, good or bad, carries him beyond his self-con- trol, or when some exceptional recur- renee of a card color, or number pro- vokes exclamations of surprise from all the players.
 The gambling at Long Branch Is done mostly in the Pennsylvania Club, which is a club in the same sense and t.N of Gorn toga It's title has no special signiti- canoe, save that the wealthy citizens of Pennsylvania have for many years made their summer homes on the Jer- sey coast, and the selection of this name might have been thought to cater to local pride. The house itself is commodious but not imposing frame structure, surrounded by broad piazzas and located in the midst of carefully kept grounds. It faces but is quite a way back from Ocean Avenue, the famous drive that extends almost the entire distance from Sandy Hook to the southernmost point of New Jersey, and which during every afternoon of the season is crowded with the hand some equipages of the summer resi- dents of the vicinity
 The same rules prevail here as in Saratoga. Be of decent appearance and orderly behavior, and you are welcome to the club whether you play or not The restaurant, which may be used by ladies under escort, is rather elaborate ly furnished Oriental wood carvings abound, and there are several cages of mechanical birds which sing continu- ally under the inspiration of a prop erly wound clock movement. The play-rooms form continuous suite of four or five large chambets opening into one another by broad, open door ways. Each chamber contains sev- eral tables devoted to their respective games. Here during the hours of play, which never stop as long as there are patrons who wish to keep up the game, there prevails the same decor ous quietude which seems the tribute of respect which her devotees the world over pay to the goddess Fortune, There are cases, of course, where some person who has imblbed too freely in the restaurant or elsewhere becomes garralous or even obstreperous over his gains or losses, but he is quickly quieted or gently but firmly led off the mises.-Pearson
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

l can recommind mesef to yez very hoighly. "-Harper's Bazar
 Mrs. Newlywed returned in moment and offered the poor man at the back door a new pie of her own baking you'll find the axe in the she'd" she said. He looked at the pie. She was thinking all the time of the wood' Which teaches that we should be eX- plicit.-Detroit Free Press.
 The Dunner-So you cannot pay, and I have had my labor for my pains?
 The Dunned-Sorry, I'm sure. If you had only sent word you were coming, l might have let you know it would be worthless. You know me well enough to know that I would not Willingly put you to the trouble to call.-Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

Full wardrobes for late fall will in- cIude a great cozy top coat for heavy weather driving and for outing that involves standing about, as when one watches the best horse come in or spends day at the links to see her friends drive. These coats, too, are used by athletic women a good deal as men wear eweathers, that is, they are slipped on and off as occasion demands. She gets into her coat when she stands for a breath, and sheds it when she takes up the stick again. Some women who effect severity in public will wear such a coat in the hired cab or street cars, even if the costume un- derneath Is elaborate.
 Requisites of the figure now In style are sloping shoulders, long hips and a long throat, shapely arms, slender feet and a we'll shaped head As important as any one of these are waist that is not squeezed, a flat back between the shoulders and perfectly flat front be- low the belt As the belt line is now slipped some two inches below the waist line that means that the shapely beauty must put her dinner somewhere else than where nature intended. By long hips Is meant hips over which the curve is at once rounded and long. Bony hips are often the foundation for these because nothing is easier for the dressmaker than to pad we'll carried thin hips into shape. It is the full hip thrown forward that is hopeless. Cush- tony hips are bad and muet be hattened into curve by corsets especially made, but they cannot be merely compressed into shape, or that will cause a fatal roll below the corset edge.
 FLORETTE
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
FASHION NOTES.
Points of Beauty or Form,

Some of the new sleeveless boleros are so made that they can be worn with several dresses They are of the fanci- ful sort, original of cut and often richly trimmed. Of course that makes them expensive, but if they can be put to double service they are less likely to come within the extravagant grade. A bolero of this sort and one that is worth copying appears here. It was gray velvet embroidered in silver and white, and was worn over a cashmere in pinkish gray It would also serve nicely over a black gown, and was so ornamental that 1t would make an otherwise plain dress seem distinguish ed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

At the last meeting of the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Sci ence Sir Archibald Geike delivered an address upon the lapse of time since the anpearance of life on the earth. At q former meeting of the association Lord Kelvin had submitted an estimate of 9O. 900. 900 years. Sir Archibald was more liberal and gave reasons for his liberal- itv. He said: "So far as l have been able to form a conclusion one hundred million years would suffice for that por- ton of history which is registered in the stratified rocks of the crust. But if the paleontologists find such period too narrow for their requirements l can see no arguments on the geological side why they should not be at liberty to en- rarge it as far as they may find needful for the evolution of organized existence on the globe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

The Supreme court of Ohio has decid- cd that will bequeathing sum of money to a Methodist missionary soci- ety is invalid because the witnesses, who acknowledged their signatures, did not know that they were witnessing will when they signed it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

One hundred divorces, majority of them uncontested, have just been granted in two days by court in Bos- ton. Can Chicago beat this?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

The original cost of the Americas cup was about one hundred guineas, but it is estimated that over 40,000,000 has been spent in contests to keep or win it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

door. Undoubtedly the puppy went and asked the old dog to show her how
 he gained admission. How else can one explain the ct?-Correspondence London Spectator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

A Chicago man named Przshestrashel- sky has gone into court to have his name changed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
Skirt Bindings.
Miscellaneous
 .e Nicknacks.

Tracing Wheels Pc. Stocking Darners, with handles, Pc. Tailors' Tape Measures. 60 inches.
 double sateen, stitched Sc value, Pc. Nickel Safety Pins, all sizes, Pc. dog. Stewards Duplex, all sizes, 4c doz. Silk Prussia Binding, 14c. piece Silk Taffeta Ribbon, black and colors,
 Sc. piece Emery Cushions, Sc. Bees Wax, large, 1c. Cotton Corset Laces, 1-2 yards, Sc. dog.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

A bill to establish travelling libraries passed the New Jersey legislature last winter, and there are to be a score of such libraries of fifty books each, ready to loan, November l. Each community receiving a library, must appoint trustee and librarian who shall be re- sponsible for the books
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES, ,, Situations, Wants Rents. and other sinnA advertisements, One Cent a Word each ih sertion. Five Gents Word for full "eeA tseven times). tn Display advertisements. per incn, one sn sertion, $1.20; each suDsequent insertion, N. o cents: one week, $3,20; one mou'h' PA'' one year, $40 ,x Obituary Notices, In prose or verse; o ID ID cents per line Notices of Birtns, aach fMges Deaths, and Funerals, 30 cents e"eA Local Notices, 1j cents per line
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

The city of Paris, in Missouri, has brought suit against the Missouri, Kan sas and Texas railroad for s1,5OO, the amount expended by the city in main taining a quarantine and caring for negro smallpox patients. The city re- cites as cause for the suit the fact that the disease was brought to Paris by Charles Sanders, an employe of the railroad, who was allowed to leave the hospital at Sedalia while suffering from a contagious disease. A precedent for this suit is said to have been furnished by the successful suits brought by citizens of Paris against the railroad for damages at the time a number of cows died from Texas fever contracted from steers that escaped from train that was wrecked in the city limits sev- eral years ago.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

DELIVERED RY CARRIERS IN THE OlIf, 10 CENTS WEEK, 90 GENTS M oNTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS. S6
 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

An interesting feature of MT. Booker T. Washington's Atlanta speech was his candid expression of the opinion that the southern negro owes large debt to slavery. After saying that the welfare of the negro depends upon his ability to make his energy and skill in- dispensable factors in the industrial life of the South, and that consequently his first need is careful, intelligent and pro- gressive training, he added: American slavery was great curse to both races, and would be the last to apologize for it. But in the providence of God, be- lieve that slavery laid the foundation for the solution of the problem that is now before us in the South. During slavery the negro was taught every trade, every industry that constitutes the foundation for living"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

The rate of depreciation of warships has long been a mooted question, but it has remained for the Japanese naval authorities to place themselves on rec ord with a definite statement of what they regard as reasonable figure. In the estimates for repairs and rebuild ing the Japanese have given 39 per preciation for armored vessels and 5.4 per cent. for unarmored craft. The figure for the various types of torpedo craft is given as 65 per cent. per an- mum.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06

Professor Barrett Wendell of Harvard protests strongly against the tendency toward making that university a CO., educational institution. The first in- tention in respect to Radcliffe has been far exceeded, until women students are being admitted to constantly widening The men in Harvard, he adds, are all on the defensive, and he asks: Shall we not preserve one spot where men may be educated by themselves?"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25
THE BEL>ks tZZAR,S GANG

The black radical co~nspirators at the
a~nxiously over the best way to bam-
boozle afresh the North Carolina
"greenies," and get their feet again in
the feed-trough where they had long
trampled and munched. There were
no negroes present. Mark that. Sam
DO might vote and help them, but he
shall not come into the Feast of talk
and grub. His place is to vote, to
run around to beat up recruits, as Of
yore The populists were not invited.
1t was simply a band of the old time
hungry black radicals, seeking whom
they might devour. The Tennessee
Pritchard is evidently the big dog in the
barn now. His bow-bow now is signal
and force. Even Belshazzar is over
awed and plant in the presence of
the man from Brownlow's country. Well
may these c~onspirators be fearful that
they cannot intimidate and control the
white men of their party who believe
in a white mans government forever
and will take no more negro rule in
their cup. The greedy and reckless lit
tie gang nay crack their whips over
the white men in the republican party,
but when it comes to a choice between
negro dominancy restored and the per-
p%etuation of a White Mans Govern
ment, these white republicans Of the
East will assert their manhood and
sense of right and love of race, and
stand by North Carolina, and the reign
Of law and order and intelligence and
virtue. The year 1900 will witness to
triumph Of the African over the Anglo
Saxon in Nerth Carolina
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25

The black radical party is as COM
pletely dead in North Carolina SO far
as bossing it again as a Nova Scotia
mackerel in brine for a year. There
are a few offices they hold still and
hunger for more. They remind one of
a poor little boy half clad on a Christ
mas Eve and nearly freezing with cold
as he stands gazing through great win
dows filed with good things for the
children, and with a mouth watering"
for a taste turns away in despair sOr-
rowful and unhappy. The Russell
Pritchard gang have had their dreadful
day in North Carolina. Nothing could
possibly be worse for the civilization,
peace, prosperity and honor of our
state except negro rule restored. The
white men of North Carolina will never
again wear the shackles placed upon
them by the bad white traitors who
got the offices by the help of the ne
groes and then ruled in sin and riot
ing and expressions multitudinous and
unbearable.
But the remnant of teat SUCKERS are
again at Raleigh, and Russell in all of
his pride of place and pomposity of
display spread to the delectation of the
greedy insincere, treacherous gang a
BelshaZzar's Feast. Russell may get
to the mate by a swap, a purchase or
by trickery but he will never be kept
there by the voice Of the honest,
worthy, faithful white men of North
Carolina. They abominate most heart
lily the braggart and the demagogue.
Russell has sense enough to pursue a
judicious course, out he is incurably
bad. T~hirty-five years of bitter ha-
tired of the white men have grangrened
him so he thinks it about the whole of
life and its duty to injure North Car
Dina and aff1ict the women and chill
dren because he hates and fears the
real white men who have sworn in their
hearts that never again shall the blacks
rule North Carolina, and never shall
the public enemies who mislead and
abused the negroes to their undoing,
again control the destinies of their
state. If the Russell-Pritchard con
spirators can by any combinations de-
feat the amendment, they will awake
a storm in North Carolina that will be
so incomparably severe that the affair
of 1898, will seem but a soft summers
breeze. These c~onspirators are walk
ing on very thin ice.
Russell a United States senator from
the grand old conservative, heroic
North Carolinai Shades of Macon and
Badger and Graham and Haywood and
Strange an9 Bragg and Vance! Very
like a whale"
i, The people he true manly, up
J right, patriotic people will have their
i rights and preserve their liberties, and
no amount of dickering and plotting On
the part Of the cleft" can prevent it.
thine at last sets all things even,
And if We do but watch the hour,
There new yet was human power
Which could evade, if u~nforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long .
OF those who treasure up a wrong
So the conspirators against the people
may look out for they are playing with
edged-tools.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25
The Epworth League Convention

Indianapolis. Ind, July 2i.-The first
sunrise prayer meeting OF the Epworth
convention was held at $50 o'clock this
morning in Monument place. Prob
ably 1000 delegates congregated on the
west side of the e~splanade and cluster
ed about the fountain. Rev. DIR. w. 4.
Spencer, of Philadelphia, led the meet
ing.
In Tomlinson hall. the first meeting
was devoted to the discussion of spirit
ual work. Rev. w. A. Frye, OF kala-
mazoo, Mich, presided. In the opera
house the department OF Charity, Mer-
cy and Help was conducted by w. f.
GOreth, of New York.
Lectures and patriotic concerts con-
stituted the programme Of the league 8
night session. The first half hour was
devoted to patriotic songs, after which
Bishop c. u. Fowler, OF Minneapolis.
lectured IL ne tent, and Rev. jam 80.
Buckley, OF New York, and Rev. A.
Carmen, Of Toronto. in an opera house.
General John b. Gordon, Of Atlanta,
Ca, who was to have been heard IN
Tomlinson hall, was prevented by in.
disposition and Bishop McCabe, ecll
known as the Chaplain OF Libby PRS
on" lectured instead. His topic was:
The Bright Sid OF Life In Libby
Prison."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25

: It would hardly be possible for a well
regulated mind. however much 1t might
revolt at the principles laid down, to
resist the conclusion that Colonel w.
]. Bryan was a close, conservative
thinker. OF a decided practical turn Of
mind, and with a wide observation.
His brief speech al Chicago TO the au-
ditorium meeting was a mastery con-
d~ensation Of his policy and principles
in regard TO silver, the trusts and i'm
periaiism- You may kick high al his
Endorsement or bimetallism and tram
pie 1t under foot; you may despise the
propositions stated as 10 the omnivorous
and internal trusts, and even repudiate
the statement that 1.-The republican
party is powerless 10 extinguish the
trusts so long as the trusts furnish
money to continue the republican party
in power" and you may in your in
fatuation for the British policy of
broad expansion involving extensive
foreign conQuests, reject and antagonize
his declaration, but you cannot with
out disqualification deny the logical
precision OF his propositions and the
deductions to be drawn from them.
Among American speeches we do not
now recall one SO compact, so severely
logical, SO admirably consistent as this
very short speech Of the foremost
young statesman of America, and all
that in the teeth of ridicule and malev-
olence and misrepresentation and de-
famation. II is intense, short, virile,
clear as sunlight and sets the sum to be
worked out in 1900. We were specially
gratiied to read from this very wise,
very honorable and very gifted young
man OF the west, the following in the
very opening Of his admirable short
effort:
ut is not my business to establish a
secret service in order to ascertain
what democrats are most devoted to the
principles set forth in the last party
creed. D.. All Chicago platform demo-
Gratis look alike to me, and instead Of
trying to drive any professed believer
in that platform out Of the party, my
act is to impress upon all democrats the
Importance Of the triumph of demo-
cratic principles that all local differ
ences will be lost sight of in the de-
termination to restore the government
to the foundations laid by the fathers"
The democrats should lend no ear
and give no heed to the would-be-lead-
ers of the Bill Bynum and Henry Wat
terson stripe. But they should en-
deavor to harmonic for victory and
the salvation Of their country. UNITED
they stand; divided they fall" We
hold that it is within the power of the
democracy to elect their ticket in 1900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25

There is so much Ignorance even
among people who profess scepticism
as to the Bible, that it is healthful
when one of the sapient disciples Of
Tom Paine and company, or one Of the
members of the Agnostic crowd comes
to grief at the hands of a disciple Of
the Lord Almighty. We read amusing
ly the other day the following W. saw
in a religious organ. 1t is positively too
keen and appropriate to be thrown
aside, so we give it a place here:
"Sixty-two," replied DR.. Emmons,
quietly, although his eyes showed his
surprise. May 1 ask your age in
turn?"
give been alive since the creation in
one form or another" said the physi-
clan, CURLY.
."Ah, then, 1 suppose you were with
Adam and Eve in the Garden Of
Eden?" inquired the doctor.
Certainly" came the reply.
UNI" said DR.. Emmons, placidly,
meditating on the others face. II al
ways thought that there was a third
person there, but some differed from
me-"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25

We were interested in a communica-
tion in The Atlanta Constitution rel
alive to negro poets and novelists. 1t
is claimed that a Savannah negro NAM
ed Whitman-a preacher-is a genuine
poet and superior to Dunbar. He is an
o%ctaroon, while Dunbar is an African.
They are educated and gifted. Dunbar,
We know, has written clever dialect
verse, and W. have read one or two
other Kind by him that were very
pretty and flowing. Dunbar was taken
up i nthe north by HOwells and other
men of letters, and his two or three
volumes have brought him good none
tary returns. The writer in The Con-
stitution, w. P. Reed, says:
Dunbar is making money. The
Century publishes his poems, and The
Saturday Evening Post welcomes his
stories.
He writes a very admirable short
story, and his dialect verse is about as
remarkable for it's barbarous jargon
as other monstrOSities in that line per-
petrated by his white competitors.
That he possesses some literary tai
ent cannot be denied, but he is still on
trial.
It have said that there is no reason
why the negro should not succeed in
poetry and fiction, but I do not expect
to see many of h black race make a
serious effort in literature.
There is too much patient BRAIN
work in it-too many obstacles-too lit
tie remuneration.
"The race prejudice will always in
terfere. Even when a negro writer of
genius appears he will ave a hard
road to travel"