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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
PLAYED WITH A BEAR
Three-Year-oId Dallas Girl Spent g
Night In the SsZoo.c

Dallas, Texas, September 3O.-Lizzie,
the 3-year-Old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Self, of Canton street, was
missed by her parents late yesterday
evening from the sidewalk in front OF
the family home, there they had left
her playing. After searching the
neighborhood for an hour or more
Mr.. and Mrs. Self became extremely
alarmed n were committed 10 the
theory hat their child had been kid
mapped by some of the many strangers
attending the state fair. They noti-
fed the police department and an all
night search followed. Shortly after
daylight two of the mounted officers
found THE child in the Zoo at the
city park, seated in front of the iron
cage i'm which the big black bear is
confined. The little girl, all unmind-
full, of the peril she was in, had her
feet and arms extended into the cage
between h vars and was petting with
hands the face and paws of the
bear, and talking baby talk to him.
The officers hurried to police head-
quarters and soon Lizzie was restored
unframed to her parents. She Aad
wandered the distance OF about eight
blocks from the home and had slept
during the night on h park lawn
near h "Doo." Chief Price, in his
establishment, said: God saved that
baby. A grown person would have
lost an arm or leg for interfering with
that bear."-HouSton PoSt.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
Ghe Nlessenger.


Mr.. Bryan, that most marvellous OF
speakers. spoke sixteen times in one
day in Ohio, and confined himself
mainly to the all ~devouring trusts at
every place in which he addressed
the people. This shows in what light
he regarded the monsters and how very
important the subject is to III Amer
lean voters. We hold that the system
of robber taxation is cruel, immoral
and oppressive, and is to be exposed,
denounced and fought at every turn.
They are bad, dangerous and destruc-
tive, and none is much worse than the
villainous tobacco trust so popular
with a certain class of democratic ed
itors in North Carolina
Take the sugar trust to which we d.
rected attention lately. All the people
use sugar and are interested il the
question of prices. The are
h victims. The fellows who make
h money have been pretending all
along that trusts made things cheap
lowered the prices. Here is the way
sugar advanced for a month and a half
<hir vaa--
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
BREVITIES

1t is given out that trust syndicates
ish from off the face of the earth.
Silver is now quoted at GA cents-a
rise of Az cents this year.
The great London and Northwestern
railroad made last year on each mile
s34, 300, much larger han the earnings
of any American railroad.
There were 43 protestant missiona-
ries killed in China. There are Is who
are missing, but few of whom it is be-
lieved "a escape. OF these 66 are men
70 ONE and 80 children.
So Prince Tuan escapes death after
ers will be beheaded, it is supposed.
Perhaps!
A negro violently attacked Mrs.
Frank Price, while attending to her
dairy in Maryland. He beat her
over the head and body. drew a knife
upon her, and robbed her of s115. They
are hunting the villain. This is the
third attack in Hartford county by
negroes this year.
The New York Evening Post, anti
Bryan, thinks Teddy, the tooter, bids
fair to suffer more, We think, from the
melodramatic reporter who is person.
ally conducting him through the west.
than from roughs in Victor or hood
lums in Chicago"
Twelve years ago, JohnStown, Pa,
was destroyed. 1t had $4,000 inhabi-
tants. 1t is now a new city with about
"a. 900 inhabitants. Very wonderful!
Considering that the British report
the Boe val ended and $4,000 troops
are to be disbanded, it is curious to
read of a three days fight with Beers.
1t reminds n Of the end of the Phil
| ippine war eight months ago, and more
troops now needed.
Senator Pettigrew is much desir-
Gus of skinning MARI Hanna. But
that cunning fellow has no desire of
martyrdom, and prefers not to be skin
ned.
Mr.. Bryan told the people at his
birth place that his defeat may be COM
passed by corruption of the ballot-"by
bribery and corruption which are the
| agencies most to be feared" He will
be defeated if lying, intimidation, bri-
berry n general rascality can accom-
| plish it.
Roosevelt is the biggest blow-hard
in the field. He the democrats
with melting riot. Poor Teddy What
a blatherskite ard flounderer he is.
We can now understand why the
washington Post has always ridiculed
n hit hard that spouter of rhode
montade.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
WHO WILL BE ELECrEDs

One intelligent man can guess as
wei who will be elected as to the sup
posed prophets On the watch-towers.
they have access to daily reports
and may be good guessers among the
best. The W. great party managers
have spoken. They are equally sue
cessful in electing their respective can
didates. The republican managers are
modest, in that they do not claim all.
They give to their Mckinley 26S cleo
toral votes. OIL % more than enough.
They give Bryan 112-leaving him OUT
in the cold. They put So votes in the
doubtful column. Hanna took out
from these the II votes Of Missouri.
giving them to Bryanrmaking his
total 129. But why did Mark leave in
h doubtful column Colorado, Indiana.
Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, and
Utah? Did he expect to carry them
for Mckinley? Hardly.
The democratic managers figure 23o
for Bryan-six more than enough to
elect him. They give Mckinley 100
certain. They have q votes in the
doubtful column. They put Kansas.
Nevada, Nebraska and West Virginia
as doubtful. That looks a little
strange when they put as certain for
Bryan Illinois, Indian, Montana, New
York, Colorado and Idaho. Who will
be elected? On the Sth, the New York
Journal, DEM, published as the result
of it's canvass of the country as fol-
lows: Bryan 156; Mckinley 49,, doubt
full 153.
The New York Tribune publishes a
half dozen or more specials from re-
who say Mckinley will carry these
states. The Tribune is so elated and
in the electing moo it says editorialIy
that bryan is already defeated"
The Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer,
that supported Mckinley in 1896 and is
doing so now, We believe, but it claims
to be democratic, says that the DEM
ocratic claim as to Ohio is not to be
trusted. The Philadelphia North
American, republican, says that a can
s. of New York by counties indi-
Gates that mckinley will carry the
state by from $4,000 to so, 900 votes"
Yet there is evidently room for much
work il the full party vote is to be
polled," it adds. Everywhere the
same difference prevails, n the cam
poign drags along without interest"
Now who will be elected?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

Wharton Barker, a republican de-
%serter, who is the populist candidate
for president, and tried to elect Bryan
in 1896, says Mckinley be elected. He
thinks that he, Barker, will receive
enough votes in three states to give
them to Mckinley. The three are Ne
braska, West Virginia and Indiana.
And that is the kind Of peoples man
he is. He wants to elect the man who
Of all men most antagonizes the prin-
ciples OF the populists and the true in
terests Of the entire country. He
counts on receiving from a half million
to a million votes, and the purpose of
his candidacy is to defeat Mr.. Bryan.
And that is ~played-out populism in
1900. He says if Bryan Is defeated the
democratic party will disappear, broken
up. The ~blatherskite!
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His Paper

Nowadays when a subscriber gets so
mad because the editor differs with him
on some trivial question that he dis
continues his subscription land stops
his paper" we remind him a good
anecdote of the late Horace Greeley.
the we'll known editor Of The New York
Tribune. Passing down Newspaper
Row, in New York city, one morning
he met one of his readers, who very
excitedly exclaimed:
Mr.. Greeley, after the article you
published this morning / intend to stop
your paper"
"Oh, no." said Mr.. Greeley, don't
do that"
Yes, my mind IS made up; 1 shall
stop the paper"
But the angry subscriber was not to
be %appeased, and they separated. Late
in the afternoon the two met again,
Greeley remarked:
Mr.. Thompson, I am very glad you
did not carry out your plan this morn
ing"
What do you mean"
why, you said you were going to
stop my paper"
And so 1 did: 1 went t. the office
and had it stopped"
You are surely mistaken. I have
just come from there, and the press
was running and business booming"
Sir" said Thompson very pompous-
ly, 81 meant I intended to stop my sub
scription to your.paper."
oh" CALCULATED Greeley, IT thought
you were going to stop the running of
the paper and knock me out of a living.
My friend, let me tell you something:
one man is as just a drop of water in
the ocean. You didn't set the machin-
cry of this world in motion and you
can't stop it. and when you are under
meath the ground things upon the
ground will wag on just the same as
ever."-Hackensack Republican.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
THE SAPPEKS AND MINERS AT
WORK.

The threats of the money kings
seem to be serious and if carried out
might prove very destructive. They
are so determined to re-elect their
plant tool, Mckinley, whom they own,
that they are making the most serious
threats of financial disaster, and are
moving to get up a great scare. They
make big contracts based upon Bryan's
defeat. If elected all these are to fall
through. But they do not stop at this.
They will do as Depew, the New York
millionaire republican senator in 1886,
said that could be done. He said he
could name ten men in New York city
and twenty miles around who could
in one hour p~recipitate such a panic
as the world never before heard Of, in
which every wheel of industry would
stop and all railroads would cease to
run. The enemies of the people are
now plotting a big scare, n it may
bring a big panic. Says the Baltimore
Sun, that is doing about the ablest
work for the people now of any paper
we see:
From what these prophets Of evil
say it might be inferred that GU man
ufacturing and commercial enterprises
would be wiped out of existence il the
imperial statesman from Canton,
Ohio, is not given another term in the
white house. Our banks and trust
companies, it is mysteriously intima-
ted, might close their doors and go
out of business if William Mckinley,
b guardian angel of American pros
perity, were retired to h shades of
private life to mediate upon the follleS
and misdeeds of his administration. In
brief, the MckinleyiteS assert that un-
less the trusts and financial institu-
lions and other favored interests are
allowed to elect what Mr.. Olney calls
another syndicate president the coun-
try will shut up shop and go to wreck
and ruin"
Not content with all of the robberies
perpetrated under a high tariff tax,
and all the robberies of the giant trusts
that are fostered by the tariff; not
content with the cry of commercialism
as a justification of foreign wars of
and murder, the Mckinley
ties are now raging for a panic on a
colossal scale. The country shall be
wrecked, says these enemies of the
American people, unless their man is
again elected president to do their vi
cious and baleful bidding. Is not this
"a pretty come off, in the N Of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
The Catholic University of America

Washington. October 10.-Cardinal
Gibbons, the chairman of the board Of
trustees Of the Catholic University of
America, presided at the annual meet
ing of hat body in Mcmahon hall to-
day. Two sessions were held during
h day. In the morning the cardinal
delivered a brief address in which he
spoke o. the success which had follow
ed the establishment of the university.
AT the afternoon session Archbishop
keane, formerly the rector of the uni
versity, who secured a two years leave
of bSenc from his studies in Rome
for the purpose OF raising funds for the
endowment Of the institution, reported
that during the year he had ecure
10000 for general expenses and $500. O0O
in pledges for the endowment. Rector
Conaty stated that during the wear he
had received $4,000 in cash, part for
current expenses and part for endow-
ment Of chairs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

The North Carolina State fair opens
on the 22nd of October, and will close
with the 9th, continuing for six days
Form a private letter we learn that
extraordinary efforts are being used to
make this fair the very best yet held
in this state. All North C~arolinians
naturally feel an interest in the pros
perity of their state, and as a success
full, we'll distributed fair is of benefit
they will wish all success to the State
Fair soon to open at Raleigh. The cat
alogue of premiums is unusually full
and inviting. If the weather shall be
favorable h attendance will in all
probability be large and encouraging.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

Ex-senator Germans letter announc-
ing his support Of Bryan will give
much satisfaction as he has a strong
following is Maryland, and in other
states. He is a very skilled party
manager and astute above most of his
fellows. In his letter he says this and
it is good reading for the day:
The democratic platform aptly and
truly says the paramount issue of the
campaign is the burning issue of impe-
rialism. When that shall have been
disposed of, We can devise and formu-
late legislation for just taxation, the
regulation of combinations Of capital
which injuriously affect the individual
the manner Of choosing United States
senators, upon the details of all OF
all of which questions many that are
Of the same political faith now differ
But each Of them viii be dealt
by the democratic party so that the
credit of, the government will be main
tanned and the rights of capital and
labor alike protected"
Ex-President Harrison'S statement
Jaac not fri oh ton tho danpaoroI+C
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
His Life Was Saved.

Mr.. j. E. Lilly, a prominent citi-
zen of Hannibal, Mo-, lately had a
wonderful deliverance from a frightful
death. In telling Of it he says: II was
taken with Typhoid Fever, that ran
into Pneumonia. My lungs became
hardened. / vas so weak I couldn't
even sit up in bed Nothing helped
me- / expected to soon die Of Con-
sumption, when / heard Of DR.. Kings
New Discovery. One bottle gave great
relief. 1 continued to use 1t, and now
am we'll and strong. / can't say too
much in it's praise This marvellous
medicine is the surest and quickest
cure in the world for all Throat and
Lung Trouble. Regular sizes SO cents
and S1.00. Trial bottle free at R. R.
Bellamy's Drug Store; every bottle
guaranteed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
Roosevelt Stoned by Roughs

Fort Wayne, Ind, October TO-
Hoodlums of Fort Wayne tonight en-
deavored to rival those who made an
attack upon Governor Roosevelt in
Victor. Colo, and in a measure sue
ceeded. On Calhoun street, shortly
before the head Of the procession
reached the rink. where the governor
was to speak a party Of roughs on the
sidewalk threw a shower of stones at
Colonel R~oosevelt's carriage. One
struck Governor Roosevelt on the
shoulder and another. aimed at the
governor, missing him. struck Colonel
Curtis Guild. Jr., OF Boston, in the
face. The governor was not hurt, and
laughed III matter Off. The horses
attached to the governors carriage
were whipped up and got away from
the roughs. who offered no further
violence and used no bad or insulting
language.
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this e

That shows how false the pretense
of the greedy fellows as to lowering
sugar and how steady the leaps-ten
points at a time. What made this
steady rise? The people who buy?
Who received the great benefits? The
fellows who own and constitute the
trust. Every householder has had to
pay into the tills of the rascals. He
has had to pay a heavy tax to the
robbers. A family using 10 pounds a
week would have to pay in a year 5000
in tax to the sugar trust robbers for
the rise in six weeks in prices. A pa
per said that the tax by the rise is equal
to city tax on $500 of property. The
illegal, rascally profits of the sugar
robbers amount to $500, O0O, 900 as they
are estimated.
In granulated sugars the margin of
profit is 1.04 cents between raw mate
rial and the refined product. The re-
iners receive two and a half times
more profit than the refiners used to
get The Philadelphia Record says
that the trust refiners make more than
a hall million a week on granulated
sugars.
So much for sugar, and the burdens
of consumers by reason of rascally
trust robberies. Now let us glance at
more trust examples. All the prices
are recent-that is in March last when
they were gathered. England and the
United States furnish the contrasts
in prices. We gives but a part at
hand. The prices are for 100 pounds
when not otherwise stated:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16
HOME FOLKS.

Linney, who will not get back to
Washington, North Carolinians re-
joice to know, is very active now in
shooting off his mouth at the white
folks in North Carolina. He is still
swearing that the late election was
carried by fraud. And hat too, from
a fellow whose gang in this state
lived upon frauds in elections.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

Homburg. October 1.-THE laying Of
the foundation stone of the imperial
museum to be erected at Saalburg, on
the site Of the old Roman fortress oc-
curs with considerable ceremony, in
the presence of the emperor and en-
press Of Germany.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

OCIIiCLt, 4 OI DNSS DDI -O0
The high tariff makes trusts N
trusts make high prices for buyers.
You see that English prices are far be-
low American prices.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

The governor of Alabama and his
stan send 10 he governor OF New
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

IT Is asserted hat archbishop Mar
tinelh will be raised to the cardf-
nalate at h next consistory.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

england and China are both assem-
bling troops in southern China.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

Ex-President HarriSon'S statemen,
does not brighten the democrats.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-05-26
BUILDING AN ARK.

Captain JudsOn, of Kent County, Has
Been Working on a Boat For Fifteen
Years-It is Two Miles From Water
Fifteen years ago Captain A. Judson, of
Kent county, began the erection OF an ark
in which he says he intends to cross the
ocean and has worked steadily on it alone
until he has set July 18th, as the day for
the launching. The boat is now over two
miles from the Chester River into which
she will be launched. 1t is rs feet long,
II feet beam and : feet hold. She will be
propelled by steam and is fitted up with
everything that goes to make yacht COM
Portable and snug. About twenty years
ago the Captain gave up following the sea
and engaged in the mercantile business in
Kent county. He retired however in a
few years, and bought farm which had
a large amount of timber upon it. He
erected saw mill, and sawed out all the
lumber for his ark. Every one along the
Chester River has spoken OF this boat for
years as Noah's Ark. During the fifteen
years that the Captain has had her under
construction many parts of the original
structure have rotted out and been re-
placed.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-05-26
TOO MANY SHAD.

Fishermen Along the Delaware River
Want the Fish Commission to Stop
Propagating For a While,-Prices are
Very Low.
The shad fishermen on the Delaware have
done curious thing. They want the Fish
Commission to stop propagating shad for a
quantity in the Delaware every season now,
and prices are so low fishing is improbable.
Some years ago shad had become so scarce
in the Delaware, that the Delaware and
New Jersey Legislatures, at the solicitation
OF those most interested in the shad fisher.
les, established artificial propagation. The
practical fishermen laughed at the idea OF
''hatching shad by hand and planting them
in the water" They weep now. Artif-
cial propagation has been so successful that
the river is overstocked and prices are be-
low the profit mark, so they want Matching
suspended for few years, that the fish will
chin out" 1t does not seem to occur to
these Delaware river fishermen that they
can make the supply what they please by
regulating the catch, like the coal barons
regulate the output of coal.
The increase in the size Of shad, both in
the Chesapeake and the Delaware, in the
last % years is very noticeable Twenty
five years ago six-pound shad from the
Delaware and four pound shad from the
Choptank were top weight. Gradually
they have been getting larger, until an
eight-pound shad from the Choptank or a
ten pound one from the Delaware excteB
no wonder. Why the Delaware shad are
larger than the Choptank is not clearly
known, but they are, and so are the Sus-
quehanna shad. As they come later Of
course they have longer to grow.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-05-26
Special Value
M
Muslin
Underwear!
Chemise % cts. to $1.OO.

Chemise % cts. to $1.OO.
Gowns 30 cts. to $1.25.
Skirts so cts. to S1.25.
Corset Covers % cts. to S1.0O.
Drawers % cts to SLIGO.
Ladies Medium Pants and Vest, % cts.,
worth 35 cts.
Ladies Summer Vests, 5, 10, 12l, Is, %
and 80 cents each.
Ladies Leslie Vests, 80 cts, worth rs cts.