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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-08-03
An Ingenious Toner,

An eminent tragedian, given to in
toxicants, was once locked up In
room at the rear of the 'theater to keep
him in proper condition till he was call
ed to go on the stage. One door Of the
compartment opened on the street, and
while looking through the keyhole he
saw man passing.
Calling him up to the door, he pushed
some money through a crack and in
structed him to GO to the public house
at the opposite corner and procure
pint of gin and clay pipe, promising
to reward him for his trouble.
The man did as directed, and when
he returned with the articles, the actor
told him to put the stem Of the pipe
through the keyhole and pour the gin
carefully into the bowl.
These Instructions the accommodate
ing individual also followed, and the
result was that when the manager call
ed to notify him of his turn he found
him in a very happy frame of mind,
but not at all in condition calculated
to add to his fame as an actor.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits. s.st4s s ,Nr--,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-08-03

This Is how Spanish senorita bar
gains for her fan, according TO MISS
Katharine Lee Bates, who spent some
time In Spain studying the people and
customs of that sunny cline:
There is nothing sordid about II.
Her haggling is a social condescension
that ut once puts the black eyed young
salesman at her mercy.
"But the fan seems to me the least
bit dear, senor!
He shrugs his shoulders and filings
out his arm In protest.
"Ah, senorita You do not see how
beautiful the work Is. / am giving 1t
away at 6 pesetas."
She lifts her eyebrows half incredu-
lousy. all bewitchingly.
"At pesetas, senor."
He runs his hand through his black
hair in chivalrous distress.
"But the peerless work, senorita! And
this other too. sacrifice 1t at 4 pese-
tas."
She touches both fans lightly.
"You will let us have the two at Z
pesetas, senorT
Her eyes dance over his confusion.
He catches the CLEAN, laughs back.
throws up his hands.
"Bueno, senorita! At what you
pleasew
And the senorita trips away content
ed with sharp bargain, although-for
Spanish gallantry, even when genuine.
goes farther on the lips than otherwise
the price was probably not much
more remote from what pleased the
smooth tongued clerk than from what
she pleased.-Youth's Companion.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-08-03
From Sky to PaxYnah ON.

Pawnbrokers take some curious
pledges, but it is not often that they
receive one from another world. A
London pawnshop, however, exhibits
in it's window as an unredeemed pledge
metal that fell. as it were. from heaven
to provide poor man with his beer.
A ticket bears the statement that 1t
was brought from the arctic regions by
a sailor.-New York Tribune.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-08-03

Observation-Disclosures. You bought an ar
tiGciai ar;ii?
Wifc--Yes. Gccr. r. was n great bar
gain. and
Husband - Great Scott. What are
you thinking Of? You haven't any
earthly use ";rch thing.
Wife-But. dear, you know you trav-
eli or the railroads . Great deal. and
you can never tell what may happen
Philadelphia Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
NOT INFORMED.

Ignorance is tolerably dense even in
the so-called enlightened north, with
it's great schools and big newspapers
and wide opportunities. 1t is not to-
day we'll understood among educated
people what the constitution of the
United States really holds as to suf-
frage. The New York Times claims to
be able and informed. Writing of h
suffrage question in North Carolina
it holds that it is the same plan as
that of Mississippi. But that is wrong.
1t also thinks that if the congress ap-
plies the fourteenth amendment it will
reduce the representation in congress-,
and urges that this covers the denial
of suffrage by an educational test or a
property test as completely as it COW
ers the denial of suffrage on account
of color"
But The Washington Post, which OPP
poses the North Carolina amendment
because it discriminates against illit-
crate negroes and does not against il
literate whites, says this:
Isn't there a mistake there, too?
Does a state deny suffrage 10 a GU
izen, in the meaning of the constitu-
ton, when it says to him that, in
to vote, he must be able to read? Is
not that simply a qualification of suf-
frage of the same legal character as
a poll tax or a requirement that a man
must have been a resident Of a voting
precinct for ten, twenty or thirty days
prior to the election in order to have a
right to vote there? An educational
test does not necessarily close the bal
lot box to anybody but an idiot. No
great amount Of time is required for
the acquisition of sufficient knowledge
to pass the reading test"
When did the senators from Lou
isiana admit that the Louisiana amend
ment was unconstitutional? We doubt
if they lie any C thing. If it were
unconstitutional it would have been
tested long ago.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
HOME FOLKS.

DR.. Cyrus Thompson is the populist
candidate for governor. He hardly ex-
poets to be elected whether he con-
tinues in the race or takes the place
of Adams. He may retire for there is
not much glory IN the business. Let it
no be forgotten that he has expressed
himself as to elimination Of the negro
vote, and in a more sweeping way
than the amendment provides. He
said after the overwhelming defeat OF
fusion in North Carolina in 1895. his:
1T is evident hat the democrats
will have to eliminate the negro cues
ton now. 1 do not think that TIE peo-
pie who have given the democratic
party power will be satisfied with any
thing else than the elimination Of the
negro from politics in North Carolina"
There are a great many republicans
and %populists of intelligence and force
who hold with DR.. Thompson.
Maj. H. A. London, who edits the
Pittsboro Record with ability and dis
crestion, and who has been so long in
the editorial harness, has been nomi-
mated for the state sena by the faith
full democrats of Chatham county. 1t
is an admirable selection and he will
make a safe, j%udicious legislator for
the state. We congratulate the demo-
Gratis of Chatham upon their wise
choice. May he get there by a
great majority.
Praise from Virginia newspapers for
North Carolina troops has been mig
gard and infrequent. Since 1862. we
have seen but little that was not spite
full and derogatory. We read with
pleasure what the Winchester News
Item a lately of our soldier boys.
1t comes late, but even it is not too
late to mend after nearly forty years
of Misrepresentation and ever Islander.
The News-Item said this:
1.-The North Carolina troops fought
in almost every engagement of impor-
tance in the civil war and their valor
is attested by the number who fell
while in the performance OF their
duty, inspired by love Of home and
fealty to their sentiments. More
North Carolinians sleep in Stonewall
cemetery than any other state of the
confederacy. The old North state fur
nished her quota during the conflict.
For instance, in he battles around
Richmond General Lee had sky regi-
ments, thirty of which were North
Carolina state troops, comprising more
than half OF his army as these regi-
ments were fuller than the others.
North Carolina not only furnished in
trepid fighters but such 4 great num-
Der of them" The North
Carolinians were brave men, their
courage is u%ndisputed, ard as soldiers
they were equal to any occasion"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

Rear Admiral Schley will not accept
any office to which he might be nomi-
mated or elected He will not be in Ad-
miral Dewey's way for the second place
on the democratic ticket. The talk for
Dewey is rapidly spreading, it is re-
ported, and he may be the running
mate with Bryan. The treatment of
Schley by the present administration
has been most infamous. SIMPSONS
ship was not in the great fight at San
tiago. nor did lie fire a gun. and yet he
gets the mney and is said to have been
in command by the corrupt court of
claims. The American people we'll un-
derstand the real merits of the San
tiago conflict, and they know who won
the fight and who are entitled to the
highest honors. No administration,
however corrupt and vicious, can undo
the facts Of history and make truth
out of a lie.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

Japan has a grievance against Rus
STA, but it will not declare war. If it
did, it is thought it would clean out the
Russian war ships in Chinese waters
as the Japanese cleaned up the Chinese
ships in the late war. In London the
talk is that war between Japan and
Russia is inevitable. There is GOODNESS
between them and growing, but there
will not necessarily be war. Japan Is
sore of Russia's course when Japan
had licked China Russia was plotting
to taxi certain japanese islands. 1t is
said that Japan regards war as merely
deferred. but that it will come.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
DAM AT HOME.

1t is not surprising that the true
White men of that fine old county of
Caswell are not much elated oil flat
tered at the republican nomination of
Spencer Adams for governor. 1t is
true the selection is a travestie upon
the name of honest government, but
he is in the field for the present and
will remain unless ordered down by
Squire Holton, chief bottle-holder of
the black RAIDS for 1900. He is Pritch-
ards man Friday, and a sweet COM
bination it is. The people-the real
white folks of Caswell-know this fell
low Adams, of the tribe Of the office
seekers. We see an extract taken from
the county paper. called The Caswen
Democrat. 1t is close enough to Ad-
ans to understand the fellow and
know of his 1t says. but we
only take a small part:
The nomination of Judge Adams by
the republicans for governor, suggests
to the white men of Caswell a negro
picnic party, or colored camp meeting
at ? o'clock of a summer day, and in
dictates that he is the same old peram-
bulating niger tank who
himself many times along with the
frowsy coons of Caswell. Let us exam
inc the record of this man when he
lived in Caswell, whom the republican
party of North Carolina now wish to
make their chief executive.
Judge Adams said in a speech in
1890, when he was a candidate for
clerk, that h white men of CaSwell
were so mean, INSCRIPTIONS and dirty
that vultures had gotten the scent N
ceased to fly owe the place, and the
man in the moon puked on every
cleaning star hat shone upon the be-
fouled beds of the rotten, degraded
white men of Caswell.
Again in 1894 when he and his mig
ger luck were all in their glory, he
went to the polls and exclaimed as fol-
lows: AL you white people come n
see me vote for negroes And his he
did. and at that election a negro was
elected to the legislature to represent
this good old county"
This is enough for one day. There is
more to come al another time. You see
the manner of man, a low, british fell
low of the baser sort. who when on
the bench was quite capable of play
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

house proceedings was Mr.. Locke
Craig's denunciation of the present
corrupt supreme court, "for it's gross
and palpable pa~rtisanship." He also
lifted the hair of certain fusion
judges on the superior court bench"
Probably MOI since 1S69-70 has the ju-
dietary of the state commanded less
of the respect and confidence of the
intelligent n respectable people of
the state. We suppose very few honest,
informed men confde in either the wis
dom or fairness of the party and
judges. A great many would rejoice TO
see some of these fellows put on trial
for their bad conduct.
The legislature did it's work relative
the election law that were deemed
necessary with marked dispatch. Read
the law and see how plain il is, and
how little excuse there is for mistak-
ing it's meaning, its intent.
1. The two sections stand together or
fall together.
2. All males who could vote before
. JdilUdIy >loot, Vi Oh lHdl Qdgs Sdi
vote after the amendment is adopted.
3. No descendant of any white voter
shall be deprived Of the right to reg
lister and to vote at any election be
cause he can not read and write
Provided, he shall register before 1st
December, 1908.
8. Provided, he shall have paid his
poll tax on or before Is May in the
year in which he proposes to vote.
6. The general law as to registra-
ton requires a person to be able to
read and write any section of the con-
%stitution in the English language.
But note: This has nc application
whatever to the classes noted above,
and in paragraphs we have marked 2
and 3.
The man who cannot understand the
conditions of the amendment is really
too simple and deficient in brain to be
fit for an elector. The man who under
takes to tell lies about the amendment
is too low and mean for white counte-
nance or affiliation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
STATE PRESS.

II the republicans and populists sue
coed in defeating the amendment IL
Will be most demoralizing because il
will tend TO confirm their belief that
there is luck in Iying-Tarboro South
erner.
The issue before the people of North
Carolina is simply, whether the state
shall be controlled by all the negroes
and a few whites OF by a majority of
the whites. Which do you prefer
Winston Sentinel.
CHI. Mebane, Esq, state s~uperinten-
dent Of public instruction, was yester-
day elected president Of Catawba col
eye, at Newton. Mr.. Mebane is an ex-
perienced educator. has made a most
efficient superintendent of public in
struction, and will prove a successful
college president--Charlotte Observer.
The great issue at stake in North
Carolina will permit of no soreness
from defeats or disappointments in
conventions this rec The principles
Of the democratic party are above all
personal interests and every democrat
must grid himself for the fray with
unSelfiSh devotion TO the cause we all
have al heart.-Marion Democrat.
What has become of help asks
Rev. G. w. Shinn, D. D., in the cur
rent North American Review. Really,
doctor, no one knows positively. and
there is not likely to be a great scram-
BILE to get the information necessary
to answer the question intelligently.
In fact, the scramble is TO keep from
securing this Notwithstanding
Citizen.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, ID. D., Of
New York, is a fin-de-siecle Sadducee,
having declared that he does not be-
lieve in a literal resurrection from the
dead, but he is very popular as a bac-
calculate deliverer at Southern col
leges.He has been to Converses in
South Carolina; Trinity in North Car
DINA, and is now winging his way to
Austin, Texas, to pronounce the bene-
diction on some graduating class there.
Charlotte Observer.
If the republican bosses order the
negroes in this county to support this
ticket it will be interesting to see what
the negro will do for a party which
declares against the negro holding
office but wanting his vote. The dem
ocrats in the county n all who favor
the amendment should take notice and
warning now that an i%nSidious, thought
determined fight is to be made against
white supremacy and for the reStora-
ton of fusion rule. The friends o
good government must close UP thei
ranks. The fight will be one to a fin
ish. The white man has much to gain
but everything to lose. The %fusionists
care naught how many negroes hold
office 50 they can stay at the pie
counter .themselves.-Tarboro South
erner.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
CHAIRMAN JONES
Goes to Kansas City to Look Into Con-
ventiOn Matters.

Kansas City, Jun Ex-senator
James K. Jones, chairman of the DEM
ocratic national committee, arrived
here today, to preside over the sub
committee meeting tomorrow. The
Committee will decide finally on ar
engagements for the national w
ton in July.
Mr.. Jones visited the convention
hall. in course of erection, and talked
with the local committees The prin-
cipal theme discussed will be the
charge that exorb.tant rates are being
asked by the hotel proprietors.
National Committeeman Campau, of
Michigan, also arrived and together
they visited the hall. Chairman Jones
said: Il will talk the hotel situation
over with the subcommittee and then
issue a statement to the Associated
Press, telling exactly how matters
stand.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
TWO WRECKS ON THE SOUTHERN
FeStfble Train Derafled Near Ashe-
vile Passenger and Freight Trains
Collide Near Atlanta-Two Men
Killed

Killed.
Asheville, n. c., June 14.-The north
bound vestibule on the Southern rail-
way, which left here at $40 o'clock this
morning, was wrecked four miles east
Of here. The train consisted of eight
coaches and two engines. Both en-
gines left the track, rolled down an
embankment, taking two coaches with
chem The engines were completely
wrecked. A colored fireman was ia
tally hurt, n the baggage master
and one engineer badly bruised. The
Tennessee editorial association was on
board but none of the editors was in
jured beyond sever shaking Up.
Atlanta, Ga, June IA northbound
passenger train on the Southern rail-
way collided this morning with an in
coming accommodation, near Belt
junction five miles from Atlanta.
Both trains were filled and running 50
miles an hour when they came togeth-
er.
Killed: Reuben r. Mayfield, engi-
neer of the accommodation train n
Benjamin Davis, brakeman.
+ n Insur edemyni " n. H Ehsrn Of Grs At
willie, S. C.; Miss Davies, Gainesville,
Ga; w. c. Davis, Atlanta, engineer;
Robert Mcbride, fireman; Junius Will
heit, of Atlanta, express messenger;
j. H. McGregory, of Atlanta; baggage
master, severe internal injuries.
Engineer Mayfield applied the air
brakes when he saw the ~northbound
train rounding a curve and stood at
his post.
The wreck was caused by the failure
of the operator at Belt junction to hold
the northbound train.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
4 Big Mortgage Registered.

Portsmouth, Va, June 1.-THE big
gest thing in the way in a mortgage
that ever came to the Norfolk county
clerks office was received to-day
when a deed of trust from the Sea
board Air Line railway to the CONT
nental Trust company of Baltimore
was recorded. conveying all property
or every description of hat road, to
secure the issue Of S75, 0O0, 900 first mort
gage fifty year 5 per cent bords. The
mortgage was first recorded in Peters
burg, and will be recorded in six states
as follows: Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Florida The state tax was $751; 900 and
the United States internal revenue tax
ST., 500.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
Night of Terror.

Awful anxiety vas felt for the
widow of the brave General Burnham
or Machias, Me-. when the doctors said
she could not live till morning" writes
Mrs. S. II. Lincoln. who attended her
that fearful night All thought she
must soon die from Pneumonia. but
h begged for DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, saying it had more tina once
saved her life, and had cured her Of
Consumption. After three small doses
h slept easily all night, and its fur
Their use completely cured her" This
marvellous medicine is guaranteed TO
cure all Throat, Chest and Lung dis
eases. Only SOC and s1.00. Trial bottles
free at r. R.. Bellamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

When the man and the hour suit.
there is success. Many a man became
famous through the accidents of life
or the chances of war. Lord Roberts is
a very small man, too low of stature
for the present law of the British
army. Major General Baden-Powell
regulations. A war saved him, and he
got on a staff.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

ing the disgusting part he did when
holding Columbus court at Whiteville.
He is the sort of stuff of which black
radicals like to fashion their govern
ars. Like party. like candidates
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

The Kentucky democrats endorse
Bryan and the Chicago platform.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

CORPORATION COMMISSIONERS.
FRANKLIN MCNEIL, of New Hanover.
SAMUEL [. ROGERS, Of Macon.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

COMMIS'NR LABOR & PRINTING:
H. B. WARMER, of Davidson.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:
THOMAS F. T00N, Of Robson.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
The Messenger.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR
CHARLES B. AYC0ck, of Wayne.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
WIlFRED D. TURNER, of IredelI.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

OF STATE.
]. BRYAN GRIMES, Of Pitt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19

ATTORNEY
ROBERT D. 6ILMER. of Haywood.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-01-13
Liquid Electricity

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Mr.. SNODGRASs:-
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-01-13
NEW CEREAL.
Interesting Crop Grown by M j Shields
ia Lltall County

g
NJ. j. Shields is handling new GER
cal, says a Moscow dispatch 10 the Spo-
kane Reoiee, which is called corn
wheat. The kernels look very much
like wheat, except that they are about
twice i large and the yield per acre Is
about twice as great, running from SO
to 100 bushels. Mr.. Shields has rails ed
1873 sacks. weighing 100 pounds each.
from only two bushels of seed. prac-
tically the same kind of meal can be
made from it that Is m ade from corn,
meal that Is palatable and has superior
fattening qualities. It's believed that
this grain will solve the problem of fat.
tening hogs and cattle in wheat coun-
try. Even the straw after threshing
has been found to contain fattening
qualities to such an extent that stock
thrive on it almost as well as they do
on hay. If all the things claimed for
it are true, this new grain is one OF the
most Important products ever intro.
duced into the Palouse country.