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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06

/, inclined to make facetious remarks at
l the soldiers.
l There is very little heard now about
\ London, and there seems to be a gen.
| eral feeling among the democrats and
| republicans alike that the mex regular
meeting Of the legislature will be held
in the capitol building. There has been
no announcement OF any intention on
| the part Of Governor Taylor, but IL
| seems to have become a tacit belief
that he will rescind his action of yes
terday before the time set for the
meeting at London
LETTERS THREATENING ASSAS-
SINATION.
Anonymous letters threatening as
sassination are going through the
mails in considerable numbers. They
have been received by the democratic
attorneys, by the republican attorneys
and by every judge Of the court of aD-
peals. They are all practically Of IL
nature. informing the recipient that
unless he mends the error Of his politi-
cal ways he Will be shot down.
Occasionally somebody threatens TO
stab, but the general trend of assaSsi-
nation sentiment seems to run toward
gunpowder.
BRADLEY'S HOUSE GUARDED.
Ex-Governor Bradley's house is
| guarded night and day by soldiers and
even III udy llHle the luSlue DllIluS Oh
the first floor are kept closed to prevent
anybody from being able to fire
through the windows with accuracy.
The apparent failure of Governor
Goebel TO place an adjutant general in
office leaves the troops entirely at the
disposition of the republicans and for
the time being at least has 1essened
all chance of trouble from that source.
The soldiers will continue to obey the
orders of General Collier, and there
will be no conflicting orders to confuse
them.
Governor Taylor remains in his office
in the executive building and pracJi-
caily denies himself to all callers. He
will not, moreover, discuss for publ
cation any action which he has taken
or may take hereafter.
HOUSE RECORDS RETURNED TO
THE CLERK.
The records Of the house of repre-
| SentativeS, which were taken from the
clerk of the house yesterday by the
militia while the Legislature was rae
ing around the streets in the vain en-
deavor to find a hall in which they
could hold a joint session and seat Mr..
Goebel, have been returned to him by
Governor Taylor.
Boxes of ammunition are being de-
livered to Adjutant General Collier.
The hall of his office is packed ceiling
high with cartridges. The greatest ac-
tivity prevails on the capitol grounds.
Blankets for the soldiers are arriving
and every evidence of a protract4d
stay is apparent.
TO ENJOIN TAYLOR.
FRANKFORT, KY, February 1.-Tomor-
row morning an injunction will be
asked from Judge Cantrin, of the fis-
cal court, restraining Governor Tay-
Tor from interfering in any way with
the proceedings of the legislature. Gov
ernor Taylor has announced before
this that he would pay no attention to
the orders of the fiscal court. The
probabilities are that some trouble
| will enSue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
\ Life and Death Fight.

Mr.. w. a. Hines, Of Manchester, Ia,
writing of his almost miraculous es-
cape from death, says: Exposure af-
ter measles induced serious lung trou-
BILE, which ended in Consumption. 1
had frequent hemorrhages and cough
ed night and day. All my doctors said
I must soon die. Then I began to use
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, which completely cured me.
[ would not be without it ever if it
cost S. a bottle. Hundreds have used
it on my recommendation and all say
it never fails to Ire Throat, Chest and
Lung Troubles" Regular size SOC and
LOO. Trial bottles free at r. r. Bel
lamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
THE ASSASSIN STILL FREE.

Frankfort, KY, January 31.-No pro-
gress has been made toward appre-
hending the mar who shot William
Goebel, n it is not likely that any
will be made. The police have practi-
cally abandoned the case, and there is
nobody but the police to take it up.
A force of armed mountaineerS is
still in the state house, from which
THE shots were fired, and no other out
ider has been allowed to enter it. Ac-
cess ITO the building is made still more
difficult by h force of soldiers which
is stationed at every gate. Nobody is
admitted to the capitol grounds with
out a paSS-and passes are not issued
in p~rOfuSiOn.
Harland Whitaker, who was arrest
ed on suspicion and taken to Louis
Wills, is known ITO be Innocent of the
crime
Superintendent of Public instruction
Burke, from whose offices the shot
that felled Goebel was fired, was not
in Frankfort at the time of the shoot
ing. He said today:
"On Monday night two well-appear-
ing strangers asked permission to
said they could find no place ito sleep
as the hotels were full. 1 gave them
permission, but suppose they left the
office the next morning."
could you identify either of them
if you were to see them again." was
asked.
II think 1 could" was THE reply. 81
will 20 all in my power Ito aid in the
detection OF the man on men who SC
foully shot down Mr.. Goebel."
| Former State Senator Charles q j
BronSton passed through Frankfort or
his way home to Lexington. He said
II will lead a mob that will hang tn
man who shot Goebel. 1 will go fur
ther. 1 will help to hang any man wht
is connected with the conspiracy. 1 d.
not approve of Goebel or his method:
and l am not in sympathy with hi:
| fight for the governorship, bur
sination is a poor way to check him
I believe in fair play and a fair fight
There is no punishment too severe TO
the men who ~conspired to end his life.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
TRAINING THE BoERs' PONIES.

An Englishman now in Baltimore who
spent several yea among the Beers
in South Africa said yesterday that the
Boer force was ronge in numbers
h it seemed to be, because every
man in the army was mounted and de-
tachments could move from one point
to another in an incredibly short time.
He was asked whether the Beers KEEP
their horses in the trenches with them,
and this question led to an explana-
ton.
Every Boer warrior has a horse"
said he, land their horses are so train
ed that they will stand where they are
left until their masters return. l have
seen them training their horses in this
trick n their method is effective,
though heroic
"A Boer will take a young horse, a
2-year-old or perhaps a yearling, and
attach a halter to him. From the hal
ter hangs a rope and at the end OF the
rope is suspended an iron ball, which
hangs about the animals knees.
THE horse is then turned loose in a
large lot. He Immediately begins to
prance around and the iron a keeps
striking against his knees. The horse
is driven wild and the ball keeps on
getting in it's work. The beast may
struggle against b annoyance and
pain for four or five hours. but he final
ly drops from exhaustion.
often it takes three or -four weeks
to nurse the horse. with his cut, bruis-
ed and bleeding knees, back into condi-
ton, but when he is 1T to ride he IL
just the horse the Boer wants. All the
Boer la to do when he dismounts Ii
to throw the bride rein over the
horses head. The horse feels the reir
hanging from his chin n he remem-
bers a previous experience with an iror
ball. He will stand stockstill in hi,
tracks as long as that rein hangs from
the bit and he will not move not ever
If sheells are bursting around him anc
IL the crash Of artillery Is but a few
feet aWaY."-Baltimore Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
Northeastern

We know that in thousands of cases
It has proved more than a blessing to
expectant mothers. 1t overcomes morn.
mo sickness. 1t relieves the sense OF
tightness. Headaches cease. and an.
ger from Swollen, Hard and Rising
Breasts is avoided. Labor itself Is
shortened and shorn of most of the pain.
We know that many doctors recon-
mend it, and we know that m~ult1tudes
of women go to the drug stores ana ouy
it because they are sure their physicians
have no objections. we ask q lrlatL 1-
inst a fair test. There is no possible
chance of injury being the result, be-
cause Mothers Friend is scient,hc'
ally compounded. 1t is sold at 81 a bot.
de, and should be used during o Oh
the period of CESSATION, although greai
relief is experienced if used only q shorf
time before childbirth. Send for our IL
Illustrated book about Mothers Friend
TaE BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co
ATLANTA. GA.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
= Word
to Doctors

We have the highest regard for the
medical profession. Our preparations
are not sold for the purpose of antagon-
izing them, but rather as an aid. We
lay It down as an established truth that
internal remedies are positively injuri-
GUS to expectant mothers. The distress
and discomforts experienced during the
months preceding childbirth can be al
leviated only by external treatment-by
applying a liniment that softens and re-
lakes the over-strained muscles. We
make and sell such a liniment, com.
bining the ingredients in a manner
hitherto unknown, and call it
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
SYMPATHY FOR GOEBEL.

Richmond, Va, February 1.-The
general assembly today adopted a joint
resolution declaring indignation and
sorrow at the dastardly attempt to as
sasinate Hon. William Goebel, of Ken
lucky" n expressing to Governor
Goebel its sympathy in his sufferings
and its sincerest hope tina he nay be
speedily restored I o health and to the
peaceable execution of the high Office
to which he was elected"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
He Fooled the surgeons.

All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of
West Jefferson. o., after suffering
eighteen months from Rectal Fistula,
he would die. unless a costly operation
was performed; but he cured himself
with five bottles of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, the surest Pile cure on earth,
and the best Salve in the world. Is
cents a box. Sold by r. r. Bellamy.
druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
NEGRO POLITICAL LEAGUE.

Norfolk, Va, February 1.-The ne
groes OF h con congressional dis
trict have organized what is 10 be
known as the Central League. with
headquarters in this city. This action
OF h republican state committee in
the matter of census supervisors a
been condemned and the passage OF
the Jim Crow" car and steamboat
laws a been condemned by resolu-
tons
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
What it Costs to XIII One Soldier.

A statistician, with nothing better to
do, has been wrestling with the ven
cradle question, How much lead does
it take to kill a soldier in battle" This
is the result of his figuring: Suppose
there are 10000 British engaged against
as many Beers. If they succeed in kill
ing 5000 Beers and wounding 10, 900,
as many as So 1000 of the British marks
men would have fired without hitting
one of the enemy. If so, 900 men fired
1000 shots each t o kill 5000 Beers and
wound 10, 900, it would entail the use of
1OO, O00, 900 bullets, or 5000 to disable one
Boer In other words, shooting ten
shots a minute, every British soldier
would require ten hours to hit one
Boer. So much for the mathematics of
Wharf.-The Verdict.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06

II Shiloh's Cough and Consumption
Cure. which is sold for the small price
OF % cents, so cents and $1.00. does not
cure take the bottle back and we will
refund your money. Sold for over fifty
years on this guarantee. Price % cents
and so cents. Sold by AID Druggists.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
OVERDUE STEAMER ARRIVES.

Norfolk. Va. February 1.-The Brit
ish steamship Chickahominy, nearly a
week overdue. arrived here tonight
The tug Edgar F. Luckenbach start
ed tonight In search Of the abandoned
schooner Charles B. Leet, owned by
Norfolk and Suffolk parties.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
BULLER'S THIRD TRIAL
TO PUSH THROUGH THE B0ER LINES
TO LADYSMTTH.
ENGLAND'S IMMENSE ARMY

soon to be Assembled In south Africa
Within n Fortnight: She VIII Have
Over eco. 900 soldiers In the Field.
Her Present Strcngth-Report That
Butler Has Crossed Tugela River and
Attacked the Boer Po~ition-Ncws
from Kimberley.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
ANARCHY STILL REIGNS.
ICYIL GOVERNMENT IN KENTUCKY Is
OETHR0NED.
MILITARY STILL IN CONTROL

The Legislature Makes Several At
tempts to Enter Its Halls Thrust
Back by Armed Soldiers-Governor
Taylor Unable to Draw State Funds.
signs of Weakening by Republicans.
Their Proposals to Democrats for a
settlement Rejected
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06

Near Lakeland. Fla. a passenger
and a freight train collide. The enRf-
neer OF the former and q tramp are
killed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-06
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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26
ENEMY OF LABOR.
Great Now York PubllcAt..

Theodore Roosevelt 10 pleads for
the vote of the laboring man. On
Labor Day he stood upon the same
platform from which Mr.. Bryan spoke
and said nice things to the horny
handed sons OF toll" Mr.. Bryan voiced
the laboring mans complaint against
the Republican doctrine OF Govern
ment by Injunction" and In a round-
about way TEDDY" voiced the same
sentiments. OF course, Roosevelt Is
in sympathy with the laboring man..
He is opposed to Government by In
junction'-at least he says he is; he
Is a candidate for vice-president now.
you know. There is, however, food
for thought in an article published In
the Review Of Reviews" for Septem-
hey, 1896, and written by Theodore
Roosevelt, at that time not a candi-
date for vice-president. In that arti-
Gle, page 295, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
THE men who object to what they
style Government by Injunction are,
as regards the essential principles of
government, in hearty sympathy with
their remote skin-clad ancestors who
lived in caves, fought n another
with stone-headed axes. and ate the
mammoth and woolly r%hinoceros.
They are interesting as represent
ing a geological survival. but they
are dangerous whenever there is the
least chance OF their making the prin-
ciples Of this ag~es-buried past living
factors in present life.
They are not in sympathy with
men Of good minds and sound civic
morality" IF
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26

Of the "open door" policy, and she alb
serbs the lions share Of China's trade,
which is the backbone of her CONNER
cial empire. England is also vitality
interested in curtailing the growth OF
Asiatic Russia, which is a growing
menace to her Chinese trade and her
Indian empire. This administration
by the terms Of Its secret, unwritten
alliance with England, is bound to
aid Great Britain in her schemes Of
"expansion" and plumber in the far
east. AS a matter OF fact. the United
States is nov standing between Great
Britain and the European powers and
preventing the latter from demanding
a pro rata division Of the spoils. In
pursuance of this policy this admins.
tration will call upon the American
people to SOW blood and treasure in
these profitless fields Of the crime.
stained east, from which naught but
tears and taxes can ever be reaped.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26
TO KILL

Today the Fusionists accuse the Re
pubi1cans of aiming at Imperialism
In a feeble sort Of way the Hanna ma.
chine denies that it's tendencies are i'm.
Derial.
But let the country vote to continue
Observation-Disclosures in office, and ur
VIII go the cry that imperialism has
been formally Endorsed.
In 1896 the Fusionists declared that
the Republicans intended to put thu
country or a single gold standard
This was denied by the Republicans
and Mr.. Mckinley expressed great anx.
iety that other nations should come
in on a 16 to 1 basis.
But the election was decided against
the Fusionists. and what happened In
the silver matter? A bill was passed
by Hanna via Mckinley. This bill
permanently-or as permanently al
Republicans could do it-outlawed the
white metal.
Disclaimer today and frank confes.
sion tomorrow. Such is the Republi.
can scheme.
Re-elect Mckinley. Imperialism viii,
be pushed to its extremes, the grea,
standing ~army-ready for China OF
any American city with a strike on
hand-will be built up out of American
families.
Then If you voters cry out you will
be laughed at. You will be told:
Why. the whole election turned on
Imperialism. Bryan said it was the
paramount issue. When Mckinley was
reelected imperialism was Endorsed
by the American nation. and the will
of the nation must be obeyed."
II you want to kill Imperialism you
must kill 1t now. at this election.
II you do not want a great army
ready to march hither and yon at Han.
mas command, You must vote against
that army this fall.
II o don't want to see the power
of trust money backed Up by a great
standing army controlled by trusts.
you would do we'll to vote against the
whole trust brood this fall.
II you vote for Imperialism this year.
don't complain when you get imperial
ism in big doses right after election.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26
H open DOOR,"

.H#-H. L.E. EE-@e A-
The policy Of the United States
seems to be largely directed by Great
Britain. It is apparent to the student
of public affairs that America is a cats
paw for England.
We are spending blood and treasure
to preserve English prestige in the
Orient, with nothing to gain for our
selves.
The Oriental policy of this admins
tration is based upon the assumption
that the open door, must be main
tanned at whatever cost and at all haz-
ards; and that the partition of China
must be delayed as long as possible.
For years the imperative necessity
for preserving the open door, in Chi
ma has been argued with considerable
force until the public has come to have
an almost oppressive OF the high
significance Of this policy-whatever it
may mean. Now that the veil Of diplo-
matte and political mystery has been
suddenly rent asunder and American
blood has been poured out on the soil
Of China, we are suddenly awakened to
the fact that the open door," in.
which we have hitherto believed as a
sort Of national fetch, really swings
inward and the hinges work but one
way.
The "open door is only an euphoni-
u manner Of expressing forcible free
trade with nations too weak to oppose
us. In a way, this sort Of policy has
been profitable to England. But how
about the United States? England is,
after all. the only great civilized power
which holds the door open to all COM
ers. All the other national doors in
the civilized world are closed to our
merchants. And yet, despite those
closed doors, American exporters sent
abroad and sold last year goods to the
value Of $3.50. 000, 900.
Our own door is closed with an auto
matte, high tariff attachment Yet the
merchants Of other countries sold us
goods last year to the total value of
31.750.o00.000.
Our exports to the Chinese empire
last year were less than $40, 200, 900.
and our imports were less than $780,
0OO, 1000.
Do you see the point? No?
England Is the principal beneficiary
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26
SECRETARY WILSON ON I'M
PERlALlSM.

The Hon. James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, lately delivered a
speech to his home neighbors and
friends at Toledo, Ia, and not only
placed imperialism as the foremost is
u in the present campaign, but dis
cussed it with a frankness that betraya
the vicious purposes behind the ad-
mi%nistration's policy of expansion.
Basing his arguments largely on the
low plane Of commercialism, he main
tains that the American people must
have and control foreign colonies and
dependencies, and arrogantly adds:
"Those island possessions will have
all the local self-government of which
they are capable. They will get the
hammer and the looking glass when
it is safe for the looking glass. They
will eventually get as much control
in our islands as is good for them"
What is good for them is not. OF
course. to be determined by them
selves, but by some pro-consul or mill
tary satrap selected by trust mag
mates. In Manila and the island OF
Luzon there are universities, schools,
churches, scholars, artists and scien-
lists, but to give the people there con
troll Of themselves and their own in
terests would not be good for them.
To trust them with hammers would
endanger the plate glass of our pinch
back Christian civilization. The use
of Mckinley hammers must be re-
served exclusively for the task of Sc
curely mailing in the coffin of imper-
ialism the rights and liberties of the
Tagals. The people over there are,
we are told. at best but "niggers,'
and although we may hold fast to the
doctrine of human rights here, II
would never do to proclaim such g
doctrine in the Philippines. Like
James Russell Lowell's ''pious editor
McKinley's benevolent assimilator'
in Manila says:
l do believe IN Freedoms cause
As far way as Paris Is;
l love to see her stick her claws
In those Internal Pharisees;
It's very well agin a king
To draw resolves and triggers,
But liberty's a kind of thing
That don't agree with niggers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26
Nees Governor Of Maine.

Neto GoJernor Of Moine.
John f. Hill. who will be the next
governor Of Maine, is one of the few
physieiains Of the country who have.
entered or have been successful in the
political field. He abandoned practices
many years ago to become a publisher.
He was born only forty years ago at
Eliot, Me-, and was educated at the
South Berwick academy. He after
ward studied medicine and took his
degree Of NJ. D. from Bowdoin Medical
school. After he made a success of
his publishing business DR.. Hill in
vested his profits In industrial enter
'prises in his own state. He is inter-
ested In several electric railway plants
and Is a director in a number of them.
He Is n of the developers of Angus
ta's big shoe factory and is the builder
and owner of numerous valuable busi-
ness blocks in the same town. His ca
reer In the legislature has extended
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-10-26

Canada is beginning to realize that
however great the timber OF
a country may be they are not mex
haustible. The United States is but
now coming to a realization Of the
same fact. and as a result the extinc-
ton of the timber supply is threatened
and afforestation has proceeded slow
ly. The northern forests of the Do
m1nion of Canada stretch northward
3.7O0 miles. A new forestry associa-
ton just organized at Ottawa is arous-
Ing public sentiment against the
wasteful destruction of these vast for
ests and 1t has been promised the co.
operation Of the Canadian minister of
the interior. II the Canadians are wise
they will set apart a certain portion OF
their timber as a forest reserve ana
also will take steps to provide for the
replenishing of that which is de-
stroyed.