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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-17
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9RickD ASk for Them.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-17

S2-iDch Muskopee wide stripe ticking
especially FOR mattresses and straw
ticks, tan and white, and brown and
white stripes, Our Price &c Yd
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-17
DomeStiCS-- or Prices,
ATLAS" fine bleached muslin, 98.in.
VIDE worth 6tc yard; Our Price 5c Yd

Auburn "R'stcond TO Pepperell "R''
3Bin, fine brown muslin, worth &c yard
Our Special Price 5c Yd
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-17
Human Character

ia combination Of the ohrlsillks and
tho devlIlSh. Therefore, this paper Is
not run altogether as sheldon would run
u, and only partly as the devil would
more Of tho former than the latter, we
hope.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-17

OF ihls pnpot 10 to catch tho events as
they are eut down by Father Tine and to
touch them up With sunshine whom
possible, with cloud whom wO cant help
II, and throw In a little devlIiy when
occasion 0Hofo,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
LEXINGTON, \. G.
FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1900.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Every subscriber TO The Semi-Weekly
Messenger, who is in arrears, has had
mailed to him a statement of his in
debtedness, which We must insist shall
be given attention in some way.
The mount due by each individual
subscriber is small in itself, but in the
aggregate, it amounts to a sum that
would be of great benefit to us at this
tine in enabling us to further improve
the paper.
lac Semi-Weekly Messenger is mail
ed twice per week (over 100 copies per
yea-) for S1.OO cash in advance. We
have through oversight and for other
reasons, allowed some to receive the
paper without complying with the
rule, which is an injustice both to those
who pay in advance and ourselves.
We cannot grant much further ir Iui-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
A REPORT TO BE COMMENDED.

In q short paragraph some ten days
ago the Messenger referred approx
ingly to the good showing made by
Captain w. Fl. Day in his report of his
management of the penitentiary. 1t
was indeed a gratifying exhibit. SO
far as we are able to judge he has given
unremitting labor to the unpleasant
work in hand. The result is success,
and democrats have expressed decided
approval. He has evidently sought to
do his duty, and his report shows that
he. has succeeded. 1t is clear perhaps
now to all intelligent people that the
p~enitentiary can be made s~elf-support-
ing. AS Captain Day says, business
methods, carried to it's operations, will
always make it self-sustaining." This
is decidedly encouraging. The peniten-
tiary, as have been some other state
institutions, has been made a bid for
greedy partisans, to find what was
deemed a "soft-place.' When men are
put in places beyond their capacity,
and which they are incompetent to fill,
the result must prove unfortunate N
disastrous. Insteadof selecting men of
business habits and industry, the way
often pursued is to put in hungry parti-
sails "IlOSc OIlly UlCIlI 1ColiS 40 DSAh
"out of soap" and hungry for "a job"
An old friend writing to us lately a
''The trouble with the penitentiary has
been that it has been made the dumping
ground for '~politicianers' who are unfit
for any other position. They were sent
upon this institution to be supported
not for the urpose of making it self
supporting" This is quite true. 1t has
a wider application than the peniten-
tiary. There are perhaps now other
institutions that need o~verhauling. We
heard not very long age of a complaint
as to the management of another state
institution.
The institutions should not be used
as political footballs, or kept for the
bestowment of places On henchmen
without merit, that they might 'cush-
ion the carnal man" in soft seats. An
enlightened press ought to scrutinize
more closely, and frown upon the clam
orous demands of politicians for places
for themselves or their heelers.
By III way we hear hat Captain
Day is misrepresented when he is class
ed as a republican or a %populist. He
claims to be severely democratic. with
not the slightest leaning to populism.
The penitentiaTy is fully az we'll off as
his report shows. This We have an as
trance of one who is in a position to
know whereof he affirms. The Messen-
ger has sometimes criticised Captain
Bill Day, and, relying upon what we
read, it is possible injustice was done.
1t takes pleasure, therefore, in COM
mending the satisfactory character of
his report. That report, if representing
conditions without pXag2eratlOn de-
serves all the praise it has received.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
STOPPING LYNCHINGS WITH FINES

The anti-lynching sentiment in the
south is advancing, and promises to
grow in spite of continued rapeS by
negro brutes n murders and so on.
Mississippi has a bill before it's legisla-
ture proposing to make counties pay
$1,000 for each lynching that occurs
within their limits, the money to go to
the families of those hanged. South
Carolina has a law Of the kind, embod-
led in the new constitution. that makes
it possible to collect 50, 200 in damages
from the persons l%ynching. The COVER
nor in his recent message said that
no mob violence occurred in the state
last year." The Charleston News and
Courier adds this to the governors
statement
How far the improved conditions in
to the provision in question we mo
say, of course, and it must be added,
unfortunately, that the law has not
been enforced in any instance in which
it has been applied. It is plainly a
right measure in itself, however, and
it's presence on the statute book and
consequent possible enforcement at any
time cannot fail to have a deterrent eff
feet, while the unwillingneSs of jurieS
to award the damages it calls for plain
ly exhibits the lively interest which the
average citizen and taxpayer feels in
matter of saving his county from extra
taxation as the penalty of it's indiffer-
ence to lawleSSneSS within it's borders"
1t is noticeable that in the congress,
in public meetings in the north, in the
newspapers of that section and in pub
lis speeches, the south is held up for
emphatic censure for lynching villains
of the deepest dye, the devils who as
sault defenceless white women and
children. and perpetrate the most awful
murders, and that too without a sylla-
BILE of condemnation of the Internal
brutes, or any sign of approaching the
real conditions in his part of the
great heritage. All know that no
lynchings would occur if the dreadful
murders and the devilish should
cease. The courts are not always GER
tain of hanging, and governors have
power to intervene and save the con-
demned from meeting their fate accord
ing to law. If lynchings can be ended
it will be a good thing, but the devils
must be hunted and the courts must
mete out stern justice and with a swift
hand.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26

that time, was that the United States
government did not dare to try Mr..
Davis for treason; that every lin of
the trial would have been read by the
people of the north, who would then
have seen for the first time, by the evil
.dence and the arguments CO Mr. Davis's.
lawyer Charles O'Connor, that the
south had an absolute constitutional
right to Secede."
The account in the Dallas News is in
teresting, if it did not settle really the
question of Mr.. Davis's trial. 1t is
this as given:
Salmon P. Chase. chief justice of the
United States supreme court, put this
query to his colleagues on the bench:
A man n IN be tried for treason I'M
less he is a citizen of the country, can
hep Certainly not was the answer
of every justice. Then said Mr.. Chase
Mr.. Davis cannot be tried for reason
unless he is a citizen of the United
States, can hep .Assuredly not was
the unanimous reply. Can you show
me under the authority of the conSti-
tuition, or any law of congress- went on
the chief justice, where any man is a
citizen of these United States? The
people Of this country are citizens of
their respective states, and not citizens
of the United States This position
being assented to Mr.. Davis vas not
tried"
1t is easy to show from historic re-
cords easy of access that in Washing
toms first term and onward for twenty
years New England talked glibly and
constantly of seeding from the union.
Webster conceded it was a compact"
and as all know a compact" can be
broken or annulled.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
THE FIRST REGIMENT TO GO.

We publish today a short communi-
cation from Major E. J. Hale, the able
editor of the Fayetteville Observer, a
paper that has survived so long, n
has done such faithful and effective
service for sound political principles
and the advancement of North Carroll
ma. 1t is concerning the first regiment
that entered the confederate service,
known as the Bethel Regiment"
Major Hale served with distinguished
gallantry in the great var for second
independence. He is now publishing a
history of the regiment in the Raleigh
News and Observer. 1t is not surpassed
by any of the many histories of North
Carolina regiments hat have preceded
it. We have reason for saying that a
gentleman of ability who has read them
all puts Major Hale's first in the list,
1.-The best of ALL" 1t is a pity it could not
appear altogether. But what a very
important work is that being lone I'M
der the general editorship of Judge
Walter Clari-. When Governor Vance
put Major .ames H. Foote, former
professor in Wake Forest college, to
work in the midst of the war upon a
roster of North Carolina soldiers in the
war, he was ceally exhibiting much in
telligent forecast and perhaps was
building better han he knew" 1t is
because of that most important work
executed amid the fiery pangs of war"
when the soldiers were known in each
company and names accessible, that
North Carolina has its roster, now pub
lished in fou- or five large volumes. 1t
is because OF that work that We know
that North Carolina had 126, 600 or even
more soldiers in the war.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
AN OLD. SUBJECT REVIVED.

We saw a paragraph recently taken
from the Dallas CTexas) News telling
why President Jefferson Davis was not
tried for treason. 1t was all on account
of Chief Justice Chase. said an ex-con-
federate officer. But that is not the
real cause as all men know who have
been close readers since 1865. The
north knew we'll it had no case in court
that the president could not be con-
victed because prior to the war the
right of secession was q constitutional
remedy. This has been most ably and
unanswerably demonstrated in that
great little book written by the late DR..
Albert Taylor Bledsoe he called rs jeff
Davis q Traitor" 1t ought to be re-
issued and sold by the ten thousand
for it is very meaty. President Davis
told our old schoolmate n friend,
Colonel Wharton ]. Green. of Fayette-
Vile, not a year before he died perhaps
il was, that the ablest of the several
able southern works On the war by
southern men, was Bledsoe's book For
thirty years and more it has been again
and again stated in the public prints
that the government was afraid to try
and that the great New York lawyer,
Charles O'Connor, had given 1T as his
opinion that the government could not
possibly convict. The Charleston News
and Courier OF a late issue says:
"The real reason, as explained by an
eminent Charleston lawyer, q. B.
who visited Washington at
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
THE WAR RAGING.

Fighting between British and Beers
on Saturday and Sunday was protract-
ed and very holly contested. Brave
men are trying to end each other after
the fashion of mankind much given to
brutality. Who will triumph in the pres
ent battle is not known as we write. The
British may succeed for they are in
deed splendid fighters. AS far as cour-
age goes, lead pluck, stubborn fighting,
there is no sign of decay in them. The
Beers may be driven out and defeated,
but it will be attended with great loss
to each side. The Beers contest brave
ly every step of advance and if they
are in sufficient strength they may be
able to repel the final assault. May the
God of battles be on the side of right.
All Americans should be able to- say
amen. to that. You cannot put conf
dence in war critics at a distance who
fight the battles of the heroes at the
front. The men on the ground can not
fOresee the end. Many a victory has
been won at the very close of a bloody
conflict. Som times a seeming little
thing turns the tide of battle. The
Beers are doing their best to repel
their enemies. They are showing great
endurance and game. The British con-
-cede that, as they are now cOncedinS
as to earlier battles. There is no at
tempt now to ~disparage the fighting
qualities of the Dutch.
The extent of the attacking line is
great. 1t is said to be not less than
twenty-six miles. The excellent Lon
don correspondent of the New York
Tribune says:
1.-The British army is attacking in
force at one end, and is only capable
of making reconnaissance at the other
extremity. The Beers can concentrate
their forces in the west and leave the
trenches at Colenso empty, but they
will be exposed to the risk OF a flank
attack by General White. They can
also deliver a counter attack of their
own at Chieveley or Springfield. The
entire situation is one of the finest mil
itary problems presented in the recent
history of scientific warfare.
The magnitude of the British under
taking is very noticeable. Butler is
thanking his enemy. The Tribune says
,editorially:
He is trying to flank not merely the
Boer Notifications on the Tugela at Co
ienso, but the whole scene of conflict
around Ladysmith itself. He is not go
ing to strike the ColenSo fortreSses in
flank. but to strike in the rear the Boer
Notifications around the ~beleaguered
town. Ladysmith is to be relieved
first. After hat the reduction of the
river forts will be a simple matter.
Nor is tha all. General Warren's army
is now in the vicinity of Acton tonnes
That is about twenty-five miles west
OF Ladysmith. 1t is also only fourteen
miles from Tintwa Pass and eighteen
miles from Van Reenen's Pass, and is
between them and the Boer army. That
is to say, it is cutting off the Orange
Free State army from the passes by
which it invaded Natal and through
which alone it could retreat homeward
in case of defeat"
If the British are repulsed it will not
end the war. But if the Beers are de-
feated what will follow? Will they
abandon hope and ask for terms?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26

<E
Guilty which eliminated, as above
stated. yesterday.
James Jefcoat is said to have made
al a-nte-montem statement about as
follows: That he went to the field on
the land in dispute yesterday and
found employees of his father doing
work thereon: that he caused them TO
quit work; that his father and his
brother, Willie. soon after appeared on
the scene armed with shotgun and
rife, respectively; that the father shot
him in the thigh, and he returned the
fire with a gun, but missed his faith
er. His brother Willie h came TO
the help of his father and shot at
James with a rife. the ball striking a
medium-sized oak tree and passed
through il striking James on the arm
and Shaatering II TO such an extent as
70 totally disable him. He then appeal
ed 10 another brother. Grover, who was
present, TO prevent further attack
upon him.. as he was disarmed. At this
j~uncture, however, the elder Jefcoat
fired again, having advanced upon him
and the load OF buckshot tool effect
in the stomach. The range of this last
shot was so close that the powder
ignited his clothing.
The wound proved fatal and he died
las night ii 9 O'Clock.
The inquest is being held today. and
the whole truth might come out.
though il seems as if there were none
present save those doing the shoot
ing.
This is a o deplorable tragedy, the
parties being prominent in the Lime
stone section of this county.
There is considerable means repre-
sented by both sides. hence nearly
every lawyer at this bar has been EN-
ployed in the case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
The Bethel Regiment.
Fayetteville, n. c., Januar

Fayetteville, n. c., January %.
Editor of The Messenger, Whining
ton. n. c.:
Dear Sir: l thank you for your kline
mention of the history of the First reg
iment, now appearing in a Raleigh pa
per, and ava myself of the opportuni-
ty to correct a missapprehension on
your part. Naturally, you attribute to
me the averment in the heading to that
publication that this regiment was
First at Bethel, and Last at Appomat-
tox." That is the publishers heading,
which / have asked him to correct.
along with several errors, in the body
of the article, the result of my not hav-
ing a proofs of the article before
it's publication.
The regiment was disbanded, as is
we'll known, and as is stated in the ar
ticle itself, after six months service.
and therefore it could not have peer at
Appomattox. (The companies compos-
ing it, however, had volunteered for
the war;
But, Notwithstanding it's short ser
vice, it is, as has been said by a high
authority, North Cardinals "favorite
regiment" and this because it was the
first regiment organized by the state;
the first regiment to cross the border
into Virginia; the first regiment in the
confederate army to engage in battle;
the first to win a victory; the first to
spill blood in battle in defense of the
south, and, finally, because, in conse-
quence of it's exceptional material and
early disarmament, it was a greater
contributor of officers to the service
than any other of the states regiments.
In the course of the article you will
find the highly interesting list of these
officers given in detail demonstrate
ing the fact last mentioned Moan
while, it may interest your readers to
know that the list shows 1S9 officers
contributed to other commands, 1874 of
these being officers of the army which
surrendered at Appomattox, the Army
of Northern Virginia. OF the total
number there were: One lieutenant
general, one major general, two briga-
der generals, sever officers of the gen.
eral staff, fourteen colonies, nine lieu
tenant ~colonelS, nine majors, eleven ad-
jutantS, ten other staff officers, fifty
eight captains, thirty-five first ~Iieuten-
ants n forty-three second lieuten-
ants. CThiS footS up a total Of 200 from
which eleven is deducted for names
appearing more than once.) To these
must be added two sergeant-majors.
So far as I have been able to ascer-
tain, but twelve of those who found
their way into the Army of Northern
Virginia, whether as officers or men,
survived the hammering to which that
army was subjected, or escaped the
other changes and chances of war, to
reach the famous. field of surrender.
AS a regiment, therefore, the Beth
ell regiment fulfilled but one part of
the now historic inscription on the Sol
dierS' at Raleigh, though
undoubtedly inspiring the whole.
Respectfully yours,
E.. J. HALE.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
MORE COTTON MILLS.

Charlotte, N. c., January 23.-Capital
has been subscribed for a 5000 spindle
cotton mill at Lowell, in CASTOR coun-
fy. The organization a been per
fected. S. NJ. Robinson is at the head
Of the enterprise.
A large mill is 10 be erected also al
Bessemer City. near by. j. S. Rags
Gale, of jamestown, GuilfOrd county,
is organizing a company to erect a new
cotton mill at that place. The Hollis
Of Alamance, and the Fries, of Win
ston-Salem, are interested with him in
the movement. Citizens of Clayton, y.
c.. last night ~orranized a company
with a capital Of So 900 TO build a o
ton mill.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
Especial to The State.)

Orangeburg, S. c., January 21.-An
unseemly scramble over a small piece
of land resulted in a tragedy yester-
day in which James Jefcoat was killed
by r.. Addison Jefcoat, his father, the
latter being backed and encouraged by
another son, Willie. The testimony
goes to show that some years ago when
peace and harmony We're a part of the
possessions of this family, Jefcoat, the
elder, bought a tract of land, and, being
well-to-do, thought il would be nice to
have his better half enjoy the pleas
ures of ownership of property, and,
therefore. had titles made to her.
Things changed, however, and the
peace of the family became badly and
unfortunately disturbed, a separation
of husband and wife being the result.
This also caused a division of feeling
among the children, some taking the
side of father and some mother. Then
the land became a matter of dispute.
The wife sold to the deceased and the
father declared his purpose to continue
TO cultivate and enjoy its fruits. To
this James demurred, and an attempt
on his part to dispossess the elder JEFF
coat. his father. brought on the diff
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
60 Nassau ST., New York.

forms of taxation. Taxes are burdens
and expensive, but the congress does
not appreciate that opinion or regard it
in the least when it levies a Ia Of
$145, 600, 900 a yea upon the poor and
rich to pay pensions to men for killing
southerners. Colonel Bryan then pre-
scented the bad conduct of the govern
ment:
I'm an hour of peril, this government
can take the sol from his mother, the
husband from his wife, the father from
his child and stand them up in front
of an enemy's gun, but in an hour of
danger this government cannot lay
it's hands upon accumulated wealth
and make that wealth bear it's share
of the expenses.
why is it? 1t is because the repub-
lican party has made money more prec-
ious than blood. My friends, you
heard men denounce our income tax
plank in 1896. I want 20 say that it
is stronger today than it was then"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
INCOME TAX.

Mr.. Bryan in his speech in Baltimore
on Saturday made a strong point
against the government when he was
urging the adoption of an income tax,
doubtless the most absolutely righteous
of all taxes, because it comes out Of
wealth and not out of poverty. 1t is
a taxathat prevails in many states of
the American union, and it also obtains
in other countries. There is no just,
valid argument that can be urged
against it, that can not be with equal
propriety and justice be plied to all
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-26
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