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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12
Kansas City and Return $267, vi,
Santa Fe Route,

Account, National Convention Of the
Christian Church. Tickets on sale Oct
9Th, 18th, 18th. and 18th. Final limit
Oct. 10Th.
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Nearly five thousand people in To-
peha are now using and recommending
Gavitt,s Pain Extractor for all aches
and pains. Fifty cents per bottle All
druggists.
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'Tisn't safe to be a day without DR..
Thomas Electric Oil in the house. New
er can tell what moment an accident is
going to happen.
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BIobbs=''As a collector OF antiqui-
ties O1dboy is scarcely consistent"
Slobbs = tHow's that?" Blobbs - He
has just married a young WIFE
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ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.
Homeaeekers Excursion.

October IS the Rock Island will have
on sale tickets to points in Arkansas,
Arizona, Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
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Philadelphia. Pa. Oct. I2.-Conn was
Wild and his support was rnisera BILE. AS
4 result Boston won handily. Score:
...............O O oil "a
Boston ......................0 0 2 0 / 8 8 -
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See the Great Boat at Sea in the storm
in Wicked London
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12

You had another of your
"bad spells - this morning,
and a real old-fashioned sick
headache was its chief symP-
tom.
If you only had taken an
Ayers Pill last night
J. c. AVER COMPANY,
PEastcal Chemists, Lowell, Maa-
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See the Great Boat at Sea in the storm
in Wicked London.
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COL Topeka Avenue.

Louisiana. New Mexico and Texas at
rate of one fare plus $500 for the round
trip. with stopover privileges going,
final return limit November 6. See
Rock Island agents for full informa-
ton.
Everybody reads the State Journal
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ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.

Kansas City and Return $2.67
Tickets on sale October 8, IL, IS, and
Is Final return limit, October 20.
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See Wicked London Saturday night at
Crawford's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12

Wicked London at Crawford's satur-
day night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12

Ayers saruaParilla
Ayers Pills
Ague Cure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-12

Ayers Hair vigor
Ayers Cherry PeceoraI
Ayers Comatone
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Wicked London at Crawford's Satur-
day night.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
WHO MAY VOTE UNDER THE
AMENDMENT.

The effort to deceive the white voters
of the state-the illiterates-by the &C
tive agents of the republican office
holders and their leader, old Satan,
will in the end fail because it is an eff
for based on Misrepresentation and
falsehood. The end is evil and wicked.
An examination of the 4th and 9Th
sections of the franchise amend
ment to be voted upon in August
next will satisfy any one of ordinary
sense that two things are clear, are
apparent. First, all who read and
write nay vote under the 4th section.
Second that all whites who cannot read
and write may vote under 5th section.
And why? Because it distinctly sets
forth that mo male person, who was
on January l, 1867, or any time prior
thereto, entitled to vote under the laws
of any state in the United States
wherein ne then resided, and no lineal
descendant of any such person, shall
be denied the right to register and
vote at any election in the state by
reaso of his failure to possess the cd
ucational qualification prescribed IN
section 4 of his article: Provided he
shall have registered in accordance
with the terms of this article prior to
December /, 1905" And that means
simply that all the whites can vote
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
MAJOR Z. j. HALE.

When the state convention meets it
will nave a really important duty TO
perform when it selects the delegates
at-large to the democratic national
convention. Men of experience, of
ability, of character should be chosen.
Paying compliments to wrong men.
however personally clever, will not do.
The best available men should be Sc
lected-men who are loyal to party
and true to North Carolina. In the
last national convention Major Edward
J. Hale, editor of the Fayetteville OBJ
server, was one of these delegates-at-
large. His fidelity to democracy and
ability as a writer are above all ques-
ton He was n of the eight who
settled upon the original draft of the
Chicago platform in 1896, the night be-
fore the meeting of the convention, and
as the member of the platform COM
mittee from North Carolina, was the
author of several of it's important fea-
lures. This shows his usefulness and
1t will be we'll for the state
to have his services again in the next
national convention. He a do good
service for his state the south and the
party. He should be appointed a del
agate by the convention. We hope it
will be done.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN AFRICA.

England is cock-sure now that the
war will soon end in complete disaster
to the Beers. So it will if the world
stands aloof and lets he British have
their own sweet will with the Dutch
men. But there is to be some more
fighting before John Bull will run up
his Haunting standard of conquest.
The Washington Post thus lightly
touches up the bad conduct of the
wicked Beers who would not give up
the u without a further show Of
fighting:
.sThe Beers are not behaving we'll.
They compelled Lord Roberts to fight
all day last Saturday and get his horses
real tired, Just out Of pure ~cussedness.
They evidently did not intend to make
a serious stand in the Dreifontein
kopies. hence their very annoying be-
hayior was inspired by pure malice.
One hundred and two Beers, so Lord
Roberts reports, got themselves killed
as a result of his cantankerous con-
duct, but we do not know how many
of the British bit the dust on the other
hand. Lord Roberts seems to have had
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
SMALL EDUCATION DONATIONS

The south has done well. all innings
considered. since the year 1866. In be-
half of higher and popular education.
Among other remarkable things done
IL has expended more than S7e.ese.ooo
In behalf OF negro education. The whites
have not one all they might nave
done in behalf of their own schools and
donations and requests have not been
remarkable. The north gives more
literally in proportion to actual means.
We see IL given I'm the Baltimore Her
aid what a southern person says Of the
failure of the north TO help the south
He is glad the discrimination Is so
great. He is reported as saying that
the striking contrast in the hgures
nay impress some of our philanthropy
lists with the notion that he education
of the people OF the south is quite as
important as h education Of the peo-
pie of any section OF the country.
'Inded. il is sometimes asserted that
the lawlessness which is occasionally
manifested in the south is u TO a
lack OF education. II this is true. then
the south is the place to spend
the money TOT eOucatlonal purposes.
There are IS southern states, and the
average amount that they received last
year in the way of donations TO colleges
was about $50. 0O0-a pitiful sum In con-
trast with the money that flowed into
some other states" While some Of the
philanthropy in the north in behalf OF
southern education has been wisely as
we'll as generously bestowed in the
past. it a not always been prompted
by the right spirit. But the south
must rely upon itself more than ever
before. and reach higher things in be
half of educational enterprises. The
University Of North Carolina should be
more largely endowed by its alumni
and friends. So with some Of the
colleges.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

time to count the dead Beers, but
could not get the precise number of
our casualties Probably the Job was
little larger and more complicated. All
the same. we cannot feel that the Beers
were justified In their behavior. Lon
don had hailed the capture of Cronje's
$500 men by Roberts 5000 men as
the most glorious achievement In the
history of warfare, ranking 1t with
Agincourt and Waterloo; the English
had accepted 1t as the triumphant cli-
max Of the ar"
Sui the end will come and the Brit
isS empire will have triumphed and
have wiped put in it's onward march
OF subjugation and conquest, two
small, feeble republics that were anx-
ious to be left alone. The Post, like
all other fairly intelligent people. sees
the closing climax and h triumph Of
might over right, n 1t says that "of
course it will all come right in the end.
OF course 100000 British troops must
eventually overcome 10000 Beers.
But, meanwhile, let us spill our sorrow
on hat burning thirst and moisten
with our tears the itching palm"
1t seems that General Roberts hurried
his great force southwark declining a
battle with a strong force of Beers. BY
a flank movement he hopes to reach
the Free State capital without meeting
serious opposition. In the meantime
England is watching and fearing that
Russia and France together, or n OF
them, may intervene. The United
States at last were offered as the
medium of a formal proposition. But
no answer came. In London it is un-
derstood that no terms but complete
surrender and no independence will be
granted. The report from The Hague
is that the two republics have appealed
to the great European powers to inter-
vene on the basis of Boer indepen-
dence. In the meantime British SYM
pathizers in England with the Beers
are mobbed.
Hon. John Clancy. M. p, has re-
ceived a letter from DR.. Leyds the
agent of the Transvaal republic, thank
ing the Irish for their sympathy. A
resolution adopted by the Dublin cor
poration brings out this reply from
DIR. Leyds: The resolution is greatly
appreciated by me. 1 know how keen
ly it will be priced by u suffering
country, still struggling for indepen-
dence and liberty. 1t is a satisfaction
to know that a considerable part Of
the Irish population in the United
Kingdom, mindful of the blood being
shed in South Africa, continues to ex-
tend sympathy to our people. May
this sympathy be re-echoed by num-
bers of your countrymen."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
FREE BLOOD CURE.

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
BisENITIES.

The probability is that Uncte Sam
will soon begin to lay a cable fron San
Francisco to Honolulu and then or as
far as conQuests shall go
Did you ever hear of metals getting
tired n how necessary is the seventh
day of rest to them? The Philadelphia
Record says:
Metals get tired as well as living
beings. Telegraph wires are better
conductors on Monday than on Satur-
day, on account of their Sunday rest,
and a rest Of three weeks adds 10 per
cent to the conductivity Of a wire"
The Chicago Inter Ocean. an able.
asks this very pertinent question::
Why do we redeem I'll pledge to
extend equal rights to Hawaii and not
to Puerto Rico? Why do we open our
arms to the island of the Pacific and
u our backs on the island Of the
Atlantic?"
The Providence Rhode Island Jour
nal, Independent. says that the Puerto
Rican question sis broader than any
party. = - = matter upon which pub
lie sentiment is so nearly unanimous
that there is not a newspaper in New
England, apparently, that believes the
vote aught but a grievous mistake"
The Philadelphia Manufacturer calls
loudly for justice to Puerto Rico.
Hurrah for Schley. This distinguish
ed sailor was lionized in the Argentine
capital as the Hero of Santiago" and
so he is. The city was gaily decorated
in his honor.
The New York correspondent OF the
Chicago Record W
Il have not found in New York a
single man who favors q tax on the
trade of Puerto Rico. not one. and the
bill recently passed by the house OF
representatives is very unpopular here.
The wisest republicans look upon il as
a terrible blunder."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
TIE LOUD BILL TOO SWEEPING.

On the Goth inst, the Loud bill comes
up in the United States house. 1t is
the bill by Representative Loud, of
California, to radically change the laws
governing the carrying Of s~econd-class
matter in the United States mails. 1t
may do a great deal of injustice, and is
too drastic, too radical in it's sweep. 1t
abolishes the sample copy privilege Of
newspapers. 1t gives the postmaster
oversight and power to decide who
are the real subscribers to a newspa-
per. 1t restricts publishers in many
particulars and places them really at
the mercy of the postmaster general.
1t will tax the people to make up the
losses by extravaganza on the part Of
the post office department. 1t gives to
the party in power the privilege to deny
second-class mail rates to any paper
for motives political or otherwise.
Mr.. Loud has persistently urged the
passage of this bill at several sessions
of congress-, and This time ii is possible
that the bill will become a law unless
sufficient public interest is promptly
aroused to evoke a protest TO which
our law makers will give heed.
He failed in his pet scheme in the
last congress. But he renews the fight
and may possibly get it through by
failure of members to understand its
ultra assault upon the publishers at
large. If he is successful he will help
the cause of ignorance. Let southern
members be on the alert.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
THE PRICES OF COTTON.

There is a saying that figures do
not lie? But they do often make false
and misleading Impressions. Take the
rise in the price of cotton. 1t came
after perhaps more than half of the
crop had passed out of the hands of the
producers. When it got to s cents not
one-third of the crop was probably on
the farms. When it got to 9, 9h and
10 cents it was nearly all gone and in
the hands of manufacturers and specu-
lators. Now the figures are at work
to show how vastly the south was en-
riched by the great rise in prices of cot
ton. You would suppose that it was
the farmer and not others who had de
rived all the benefit from the advance.
The cause of the increase was the
threatened failue in Egypt and the
short crop in India, and our own short
crop, some 1000, 600 bales off. We copy
some bewildering figures we find in the
New York Evening Post. You can
read and hollow with the crowd:
Crop of 1S99-1sO0 about 1000
600 bales, 5000, 900 of which
sold at average price, ~
cents, or S35 per bale, or. 1925. 0OO, 900
100000 sold at average price
of 9 cents or s45 per bale.
or........ ............. -. 1885, 900. 900
Total value of CROP. 1886, 000, 900
Crop of 1900 TO 1901 likely to turn out.
under favorable weather. Il. 000. 900
bales.
Farmers under present sys-
tenn of future" trading
could sell for October to
January delivery, at s
cents or $40 per bale $40, 900 900
Total value of two crops
as indicated....-.- $1,000. $500 ,000, 600
That looks well on paper. But the
farmers hardly realized $3.50, 000. 900.
The crop for this year. if there are ia
vorable circumstances, will probably
exceed 1900, 900 bales. 1t may even
reach 1900, 000- The south can easily
grow that number if the prices are
sufficiently stimulating.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
SOUTHERN RACIAL CONFERENCE

On May 9Th there will be held at
Montgomery, Ala, an Interstate meet
ing, and it will continue for three days.
1t is called to discuss the welfare of
the south in connection with certain
pressing and important race problems.
1t is the to hold this conven-
ton or meeting annually. Montgom-
cry starts this movement. 1t is per-
haps wise n NEEDED tog i've unusual
attention to this matter. The south
must settle its own affairs without i'm
from the north. The southern people
are the chief sufferers and they alone
comprehend the situation. The state
ment of plans and policies sent out by
the committee in charge at Montgom-
cry says this:
I'VE are persuaded that he people of
the south are best fitted by knowledge
and experience to deal with these diff
ficulties intelligently and helpfully.
Suggestions from the north offered
with the best motives have frequently
been based upon inadequate acquaint-
ance with our conditions"
The questions to be considered in this
first meeting are four: 1. The Fran
chise. 2. The negro in relation to edu-
cation. 8. The negro in relation to re-
ligion. 4. The negro in relation to the
social order. Under the last head, the
scope is very wide. We give what is
officially stated:
rs the negro to remain a permanent
element in southern life? Is there an
tipathy to the negro in the south? If
SO, is it industrial or racial, or both?
Is race ~antipathy a curse, or a bless
ing to both races? How far has the
agitation of the question Of social
equality increased difficulties, n re-
suited to the disadvantage of both
or decreasing in the south? Is lynch
ing an effective remedy? If not, why
not? Are there adequate legal penal
ties for the offenSes often punished by
lynching? How cal the legal provi-
sionS for the punishment of crimes
the effect of lynching, as a remedy, on
the public mind-of the whites?-of the
blacks? Has the increased severely
of mob penalties tended to the greater
security of the home?
We learn from the secretary that
Colonel A. M. Waddell is among the
DPOoLhSlS IN ~ opSoh III INV
Negro in relation to the Franchise"
Among other speakers selected and who
have accepted are Colonel Hilary A.
Herbert, ex-secretary of the navy, the
Hon.. Alex. King of Georgia, ex-Gov-
ernor MacCorkle of West Virginia, and
DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry of Washington.
The range of the discussion in the
four suggested themes is wide enough
to open UP many opinions. The good
results OF the gathering will much de-
pend upon the wisdom, perception and
ability of these who will engage in the
debate. The Messenger hopes that the
greatest good to the greatest number
will result, and that broad statesman
ship and true philanthrophy may be
present in all that shall be said.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

The Charlotte Observer after copy
ing a few lines from the first editorial
of the Messenger on the Hayne-Web-
ster debate, makes the following judi
cious comment, and it is no doubt true,
as a lie yer started is hardly ever
overtaken, and people live and die be-
lieving the lie and rejecting the truth:
THE Messenger says that this view
Of the matter is not new to it, it hav-
ing a few years g printed an edito-
rial in which it tool the ground that
in the great debate in question Hayne
had achived a signal victory. This, in
deed, is the opinion of many critical
judges, who have been close students
of both of these notable speeches.;
but, if it is correct, it is too late to
convince the country of it. The north
wrote the history of this dramatic
event and ven the south accepted the
opinions of it derived from that source.
The country, with here and there an
exception, will believe hat Webster
was the victor and Hayne the van
pushed, just as it will always believe
that, as according to Writers poem,
Barbara Freitchie waved a union flag
as the confederate army of invasion
passed through Frederick, Md"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

under that section for the plain reason
that there Is not a single white man in
all the state whose father or grand
father could not vote in the year
indicated, 1867. There can be no posi-
bit Acknowledgement of the whites un-
der that section. and all the liars in
the state cannot make any other thing
appear however much they may lie.
In h amendment there is another
most wise. fair and necessary provi-
sion 1t is compulsory to have each
voter to pay a poll tax. This is just
and proper. All voters not otherwise
exempt should pay something towards
The support OF the state government.
The poll tax is the best way to reach
ali, n IL Is needed to carry on the
state government The law makes pro-
per exemptions from h law governing
he poll tax. All persons over fifty
years Of and all persons who are
exempt by the county commissioners
will not ave to pay a poll tax. The
whites are the burdenbearers . OF all
taxes paid in 1898. 90 % were paid by
the whites. Surely the negroes who
may vote should be forced by law to
pay something for hat privilege. for
the privilege Of citizenship, for the
support Of the government. They are
poor citizens who do not help TO sustain
public government in some way. No
poll tax paid no vote given. Hereto
fore the neglect as to poll tax collect
ing in the state has been greatly
abused.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

Buncombe nominated Theodore F.
Davidson for governor. He is a man of
parts and is popular in the west. That
leaves three candidates still in the field.
Mr.. Davidson spoke, and is reported
by a correspondent of the Raleigh News
and Observer as saying: The adop-
ton of the amendment is the para
mount issue. 1t is above party. The
welfare of the commonwealth is at
stake, and the adoption of the amend
ment is essential to preserve good gov
eminent"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

Mike Bowling is a dreadful sample
of keeping mighty bad company. When
he broke down so far as to be become
a tool of Duckry he was a "goner."
The result of levi communications is
seen in his being jagged in Washington
for robbing a drunken man. He is a
nice witness that Duckry relied upon
to help him cheat Representative Bel
lamy out of his seat. 1t is a very sad
affair and suggests melancholy refiec-
tons to the old man in his wickedness
and vengeance. Dowling's testimony
for Duckry seems to fit the opinion Of
the old English poet Herbert:
Dare to be true. Nothing can need
a lie,
The fault that needs it most grows
two thereby"
Duckry ought to look after his com-
fort while in Jail.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

The Buncombe democrats in their
convention passed resolutions severely
condemning Richmond Pearson for his
course in robbing Representative
Crawford of his seat. The resolutions
are defiant, earnest and blistering and
long. Omitting the long preamble We
give the three resolutions adopted, as