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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
CONCERNING NORTH CAROLINA.

We CLEAN d few illustrative items
county there is 4 farm of $40 acres with
eighteen dwellings upon it. These are
rented out by Mr.. Morris Stackhouse,
the owner. The Marshall Enterprise
says:
1.-The aggregate rents amount to go
per month. Their sale of hay and feed
yearly amounts to 1900. They utilize
every stick of their timber and have a
coed income from railro4dsties. They
$50 ave 4 saw mill . do quite a
ls-ge business in the way of lumber.
The Carthage Blade tells how Mr.. w.
w. Mills moved from that town to Disco
1t says in July 1886. he began to work
at 40 cents a day and is now worth
S125. 900. earned by energy and business
capacity. Such a man is valuable to
town, county n state.
Yea, verify. fifty such men in each
county would soon make North Caro-
lima rival Massachusetts in production
and wealth.
New comes one phase of the recent
losses in North Carolina by the great
rains that recently fell and so widely
and ~sweepingly destroyed. The Burns
vile Eagle gives a gloomy, distressing
account OF the losses in it's section,
which it says cannot be estimated. 1t
says th:t Mr.. VIM. Parsons alone lost
near $500 in oak and walnut logs from
a yard at Huntdale. So far as learned
there were II houses in Yancey, and SO
in Mifchou oorriad aUau hv tho f1on5.
% of SO in Mitchell county were taken
from Bakersville by Cane creek. a
small stream passing through the town.
1t is said that the bodies of three err
sons, thought to be negroes and Sc -
eral head Of stock were seen going
down the river at Green Mountain"
The Charlotte Observer says the
losses in North Carolina are beyond
computation" After all the losses as
certainable have been gathered, item
lied and footed UP. there remains a loss
so serious hat only years can restore.
We quote:
But who shall put a price upon the
acres of top soil carried away, down to
the hard ground, and deposited in the
beds of the streams, the bottom
lands which this soil formerly made
fruitful now covered deep with sand?
1t will be years and years before these
bottoms can be restored to fertility.
And this enumeration takes no account
of the planted crops destroyed FOR the
loss suffered by the inability of the
owner to raise any crop at all lis
year. or adequate crops for years to
come upo the devastated lands. One
cannot figure it all in dollars and cents,
but it is certain that no equal disaster
befell these flood-stricken districts be-
FORE
The west lost far more than the east.
The suffering people in that section
not only should draw forth sympathy
but help of a practical kind.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
A WISE OPINION.

The republican and Cleveland news
papers are very hard on Mr.. Bryan
and delight to underrate and worry
him. But he is a noble man If not so
wise as his best friends would lave
him to be. If there is a more honorable,
perpendicular politician in this country
his name has not reached us. We see
men deriding and misrepresenting him
who are vastly below him In consis-
tency, in high ideals, in aspirations
and convictions. In his newspaper, the
Commoner. referring to the movement
to desert the grand old party and there
by divided and weaken if not destroy
it. this able. high minded statesman
of the Northwest, says this:
He who tells me how / can be a
Warwick If not a king. does me scant
honor when he assumes that L am
willing to purchase either position at
the expense of moral or political pr1n-
ciples. As an individual can better
afford to retain his ratner
h grow rich by dishonorable means
SO the democratic party can better
afford to appeal to the conscience OF
the people, even though it remains out
of power, than to enjoy power at the
expense of it's principles. What shal
if profit the democratic party If it gain
mower and lose the spirit that has made
If indestructible? What shall it profit
a nation if it's flag floats over every
sea and it's garrisons terrify every land
If in the language OF Lincoln. it loses
the spirit which prizes liberty as the
heritage of all people in all n every
where? This is no time for either de-
sertion or hesitation"
we believe this sentiment will ind a
cordial echo among real democrats
whether they preferred him or some
one else in 1896 and 1900. His purity IS
above suspicion. and his wisdom as d
whole is equal to that class of leaders
who are more for policy than prlncl-
nile $50
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
TIME Is A GREAT CORRECTIVE

Probably many readers of The Mes
senger looking back for four. or five
years can recall how almost every re-
publican paper in the north. as well as
every mugwump organ. and a certain
class of papers in the south in SYM
pathy with northern policy and opin-
ion, were extremely severe, even de-
famatory Of all men and newspapers
that dared to question for a moment
the great wisdom, the exalted character
the lofty patriotism, the perfect purity
and independence of the judiciary, state
or national. We remember how bitter,
how truculent, how deliberate. how oft
recurring were >nere diatribes and
p%hilippics against the south, or any
other section hat dared to express
any apprehension as to the great abil-
ity and absolute -perfectibility of the
United States Supreme Court. 1t was
most infamous treason to utter a word
in disparagement or doubt as to the
body once held in great esteem and con
fidence. But with time and startling
developments "a change has come over
the spirit of the dream" Of many a
confident admirer who stood ready to
apply the blister of apprehension and
disgust to any man who should be so
reasonable as to attack in any way
the august judicial tribunal.
Lately the able and most scholarly
of American dailies. the New York
Evening Post. one Of the set that heap
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
Prevented a TRAGEDY.

Timely information given Mrs. George
Long, Of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre-
vented a dreadful tragedy and saved
two lives. A frightful cough a long
kept her awake every night. She had
tried many remedies and doctors but
steadily grew worse until urged to try
DR.. Kings New Discovery. One bottle
whollyreured her, and h writes this
marvRfoIus medicine cured Mr. Long of
a severe attack Of Pneumonia. Such
cures are positive proof Of the match
less merit Of this grand remedy for cur
ing all throat, chest and lung troubles.
Only SOC. M $1.00. Every bottle guar
anteed. Trial bottles free at R. R. Bel
lamy's DRUG Store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
STRIKING FACTORY GIRLS
Start Another Riot ar Passaic, Nd
|m The Police Attacked

New York, June 5.-There was an
other outbreak on the part of the girl
strikers at the Acheson-Harden Com
pany's handkerchief factory at Passaic.
n. j., today. The force of policemen
on guard at the factory had been re-
duced to two. The strikers ook adj
vantage of this and made a fierce at
tack, not only on the girls who report
ed for work, but on the factory itself.
Volleys Of stones were thrown at the
building and a number of windows
were smashed.
The two policemen charged on the
strikers, but were received with a snow
er of stones. A call was sent to head
Quarters for achievements The po-
lice arrested three Of the girl strikers
and n man who tried to rescue the
girls from the hands of the police. The
prisoners were hurried into a patrol
wagon which started al a rapid rate
for police headquarters, a mob num-
bering 300 or more following the wag-
on, hooting and yelling at h police
and throwing stones.
The mob pursued the wagon the
whole way to headquarters AND after
the prisoners had been rushed inside
the building, stormed the door, but
were unable to effect an entrance. The
lengine house Of fire company No. / is
in the same building with police head
lquarters, and b police finding that
1.-THE mob showed no disposition to dis
Iperse. called upon the firemen for as
distance. The latter responded, and
dragging out a line of hose to the pave
iment soon had a powerful stream of
water directed at h mob. This had
the immediate effect OF dispensing the
lcrowd. The three girls and the nan
were arrested were fined s. each.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

politics. not to talk about the consti-
tuition. not to insist upon his rights.
but to attend industriously to the work
Of getting himself well ready-which
he is not now-for what God and the
country and the future may have In
store for him.
Another foolish negro. but too far
Off to be in danger, one Charles III.
Williams, IN wisconsin, writes in re-
ply that if the negroes cannot get in
this country their rights" then they
u resort to violence and thus secure
them. The able. influential Chicago
Tribune say that this fellow lis not as
good a counselor of the colored people
as DIR. Parkhurst or as Booker T. Wash
ington is. His desire is to see his peo-
pie become manly men and womanly
women is c~ommendable. but the meth
DDS he wants to pursue are not the
right ones. DR.. Parkhurst bases his
advice upon the unalterable fact that
the southern people are determined the
negroes shall not exercise political
power in any form in their states. In
view Of this ~ingrained feeling against
the negro it is wisest for at present not
to try to vote. He a gain more by
saying nothing about his voting rights
under the constitution"
1t sees the folly Of violence just as
all sensible negroes in the south see it,
and all whites know it. The weaker
would be destroyed by the ronge
The Tribune says: LAS for the forci-
bly, II they must policy, hat is non
SENSE Attempts to gain real or i'm
aginaty rights by that method do not
succeed in the United States. A policy
OF quiet and patient industry is the
only practical nj wise one for the COL
ored people to adopt in the south"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
Story O q Slave.

To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains Of disease Il the worst
form Of slavery. George D. Williams,
|of Manchester, Mich. tells how such a
slave was made free. He says: MY
wife has been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn owe IN bea
alone. After using two bottles Of Elec-
|tric Bitters, she is wonderfully i'm
and able to do her own work"
This supreme remedy for female dis
eases quickly cures nervousness. sleep
Ilessness. melancholy, headache, back
ache. fainting and dizzy spells This
miracle working medicine IL a godsend
Ito weak, sickly. run down people. Every
guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold
by R. r. BeIlamy. Druggist
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

The New York Medical News, wants
to know if it is regarded in insurance
E~circles as bad risks to take members
of christian Science" so-called. The
companies remain silent. The Medical
News is not satisfied and says: "It is
important that the insuring public
should know in what manner life in
|%surance companies intend to protect
their interests. Bad risks. if accepted
by such companies, mean diminished
returns on an insurance investment
and, since the protection of it's policy
holders is the foundation of any COM
|pany's success, some expression of
opinion on this point is their duty A
dispatch from Chicago to New York
Tribune tells of the death of Mrs. Bes-
sic Vance. 1t says that the Christian
Scientists are trying TO comfort the
|half-crazed husband. She had a new
born baby and died Of he~morrhage.
The dispatch says: For three weeks
Mrs. Vance died slowly, while the wo-
men stood at her bedside and bade her
not to think of pain"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
PIcK-UPs

Those universal dynamiters IN Mass
Iachusetts illustrate the great uplifting
Ipower of education as IL Is impaired
I"up there" Saturday Sabbath or your
Ichurch buildings shall be blown up
lSuch incendiaries know as much of
ltrue religion as a bulhrog does OF choir
practice.
In Texas there r forty counties
without a lawyer. How Is that? It Is
la good time for briefless lawyers to
lmove TO Texas.
| Tillman insists upon his resignation
lMcLaurin agrees not to resign now.
ISuppose Governor McSweeney should
take a notion to appoint Nc to b ions
l~unexpsred term OF Tillman or substi-
ltute some other republican tricked out
lin democratic forgery?
One j. ]. L~ttlejohn. OF ~Jonesville. s
&C.. writes TO the republican Manufac-
~fturers' Record hat the democrats in
ibis state are "a set OF demagogues."
Now let us hear what they think OF the
lSolomon come to Judgment"
One Of the greatest of theatrical
managers is Mr.. Tree OF his Majesty's
theatre in London. From the style he
"ridiculed the talk about the degener-
lacy in public taste. He said: Il have
ACTUALLY been able. out Of my profits on
shakespeare. to pay my losses on pop
lular plays"
Baldwin's arctic expedition will start
Ito Norway on 25th June.
Galveston is rapidly rebuilding. 1t
is stated that outside aid was but ST.
l1S4,OOO The relief committee has built
1.O73 cottages and repaired 1,lO9 dam
Jagged ones. Business has recovered.
The property lost amounted to ST.
loss. 275.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

mo men of sense ever denies the right
of choice and the right to think. Free
thought and free action belong to a FIRE
republic. No men of justice will ever
agree to surrender his own liberty of
free speech and free thinking or TO
deprive the humblest citizen of that
right. But there are men who will as
.sert that men have not the liberty of
conscience, Of choice, of action in the
democratic party, n that h way of
the wilderness is to enter that delecta-
BILE land in which Mark Hanna cor
the voters and buys them as so
many dumb driven cattle" Only get
into the republican party and you can
do as you please, and rob at will under
the most blessed forms of taxation and
get office and be happy. The democrats
believe and exercise the right of free
printing, free talking and free voting.
They deny that a fellow has a right to
pose as a democrat and strive to divide
lit and to W republican principles.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

IT. There will be no more ~haphazard
grabbing"
Mckinley on his high expansion horse
began to think hat he was "an alone
in his glory that he had not limita-
tons upon his authority or ambition,
that he was indeed a law unto himself
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
But the five judges (his own tribal set)
dismounted him. and henceforth the
v~ain-glorious commander-in-chief Of
armies viii have to submit to congress
sional power N Legislation. This is
prove salutary.
1t is stated that the American army
is scattered over the archipelago in
more than 400 posts. And still Gen
eral Mckinley has said that there were
but "disloyal thousands" now as against
the loyal millions" in the islands. But
it takes a great army to keep b dis
loyal thousands" quiet. With so many
posts and such a great army how
comes it to pass that these 'disloyal
thousands" exist and continue to worry
the commander at Washington?
1t seems hat the supreme court
leaves some problems unmet and up-
settled. Mr.. Bourke Cochran, Of New
York. says hat the prevailing opinion
leaves the validity Of every extra-con-
stitutional law which congress may
pass concerning these islands, other
than revenue laws, an open question
to be settled by a separate suit"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

Mckinley put the breaks upon MINI
self when he looked to the supreme
co,,rt Tn sustain him in his arbitrary,
u~surping. one-man's policy abroad. Inc
court decides that the president hao
acted without constitutional authority
IN his Porto Rico performance. Inc
Philadelphia North American, Oldest
republican newspaper, says this, ana
there is a grain of comfort in it:
lesson a been learned at least
The next time the United States an
nexes new territory congress win have
to make UP its mind what to do with
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
Bfsmark,s Iron Nerve

Was the result of his splendid health.
Indomitable will and tremendous en-
ergy are not found where Stomach,
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of
order. If you want these qualities and
the success they bring, use DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. They developed every
power of brain and body. Only Csc at
r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
1t Saved His LEG.

+: A Danforth, Of LAGRANGE, Ga
suffered intensely for six months with
a fr1ghtful running sore on his leg. be-,
writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve
wholly r 1t in ten days. For VI
GERS, Wounds, Burns, Boils, Pain or
Piles it's the best salve in the worId
Cure guaranteed. Only Csc. Ser5 n,
X. r. BeDamy. Druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company has declared the
regular -semi-annual dividend Of 2hs
Der cent. on its preferred stock payable
August 1st.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07

of the United States has reasserted the
right of taxation without representa-
ton that the colonies fought to over
turn. 1t would have been better to
abandon our islands than our constitu-
ton, though il was not necessary to
abandon either the one or the other
The Chicago Record-Herald, indie
pendent says that the opinion of,
Justice Brown backed by the
votes of Justices Gray, Shiras, White
and McKenna, is the law of the
land today, though it tears the consti-
tuition limitations into shreds, and.
Justice Harlan says, launches US on
an area Of legislative absolutism.'"
The Philadelphia North American,
rep. has severely scored the court. We
have given heretofore some extracts
from it. 1t says that the decision
means European imperialism" and
adds: I'VE are drifting full in the tide
Of European imperialism. Even the
supreme court refers kpprovingly to
form of government for our new pos
sessions bearing great analogy to a
British crown colony Henceforth our
government AXE on a change of form
We shall be prosperous. powerful, sur
passing eve Rome in our imperial
grandeur, but we shall no longer be
the simple republic that the fathers
founded"
The New York Mail and Express. ex-
treme, rep. says that hereafter ii will
be 1.-The American empire" as it will
be firmly established.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-02-07
Uncle Jesse Peterson,s Hard Luck.

Uncle Jesse Peterson has been much
detected the past week, and Indirect
ly The grip is the cause Of it. 1t has
been his custom for many years at this
season to lay in supply of whlskey
and quinine so as to ward off from
himself and his wife attacks of grip,
or bad colds, or pneumonia, having
been advised by his physician that
whiskey and quinine was an excellent
remedy. 1t has also been his custom
to take the whiskey himself and let
Aunt Alkaline take the quinine. He
justified this action by saying that he
didn't like the taste Of quinine, while
he had no really serious objection to
the whiskey. His wife liked neither,
so he thought the arrangement was
fair one. Yesterday Uncle Jesse came
to the REGISTER Office in very low
spirits. Pressed to tell what his trou-
bic was, he said that Alkaline had re-
belled and turned the tables on him.
She herself was taking the whiskey
and was forcing him to take the qui-
nine. There was no use in trying to
oppose a woman will, so Uncle Jesse
was meekly taking his dose, though
the bitterness in his mouth was no
greater than the bitterness of his spir-
it. He asked for a nickle to buy some
asafoetida, with which to change the
ouinine taste.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-02-07
Myers Conklyn.

The Baptist church at BeTryvile, Va was the scene
Of beautiful marriage Thursday afternoon, Janu-
AIRY 81. 1907. and was witnessed by large assembly
that filed the church The contracting parties were
Miss Alma Cinthy Conklyn daughter OF Mr.. JameS
H. Conklyn. formerly Of Jefferson county. and Mr..
William E Myers, OF Clarke county. While the peo-
pie were assembling and awaiting the arrival OF the
bridal party, Miss Julia Merchant Of ChaIiesiown.
presided at the organ and gave ine and artistic rem
ditons of a number Of selections and also rendered
Lohengrin's and Mende!ssohnS wedding marches as
the bridal party entered and left the church, and
during the nuptal ceremony rendered very softly one
Of Archers sweet selections.
As the organ. under the magnetic touch of the
skilled organst pealed forth the sweet strains OF the
march, all eyes were turned to the central isle when
the ushers Edgar d. and William r. Conklyn.
brothers Of the BRIDE Henry Myers, brother OF the
groom, and John r. Crown preceded the maid OF
honor, Miss Bessie Myers, sister Of the groom and
the bride leaning the arm Of her uncle. MI O.
Mason Conklyn. who gave her away, 20 the altar
where they were met by the groom and the best man
Mr.. Neil Galloway. Of Wauenton. Va The nupnal
ceremony that made the couple husband and wife
was performed by the Rev. L. K. Mbourne Of the
ChaTlestown Baptist church. in his usual Impressive
manner.
The pulpit platform vas adorned with ported plants
The fair bride was exquistely gowned in handsome
cream silk bTillIanteteen trimmed with cream saun
and chiffon ruehins, and wore gloves and Shippers 20
match. also handsome gold Maltese cross nearly
sixty years old family heirloom Of the brides faith
ers family, and carried brde roses The maid OF
honor wore handsome gown Of cream crepe de-
chene. trimmed with Saun and Lace, and wore gloves
and slippers 70 match and carried la France roses;
The groom and his attendants wore the conventional
black with white ties and white rosebud butionereS
After the wedding reception followed al the home
Of the brides father for the wedding party and lew
intimate friends Al which an elegant collation. was
served.
The high esteem in which the bride was held by her
host OF admring friends IN measure 2uested by
the large and handsome collection OF presents re
ceived including fine linen. china. silver and hand
somely bound volume of poetry. Our Wedding Bells,
with her marriage certificate from the bndes pastor
the officiating minister. Mr. and Mrs. Myers vail
reside IN Clarke county and multitude OF .inends
extend congratulations.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-02-07
Church Notes.

Church N0teS.
There will be service in the Re-
formed church in ShepherdstOwn on
Sunday at IL a. m. There will be SER
vice at Kearneysville on Thursday and
Friday at 7 p. m. and preparatory SER
vice on Saturday at 3 p. N. The COM
munion of the Lords Supper will be
celebrated on Sunday at 3 P. m.
Rev. Thomas S. Dunaway, the new
pastor of the Baptist church at Mar
tinsburg, has assumed charge of his
new field of labor. He came from
Accomac, Va. and succeeds Rev. G.
P. Stealey, who had gone to Richmond,
Va.
Rev. J. B. Stonesifer, who has been
pastor of the Reformed church of
Winchester, for a number of years,
has moved to Westminster, Nd, where
he takes charge of another congrega-
ton.
There will be service and commun-
ion Sunday in the Episcopal chapel at
Duffields at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Service every two weeks regularly at
the same hour.
Rev. D. P. T. Crickenberger, pastor
of the Lutheran church at Luray for
the past four years, has accepted call
from st. Paul's Lutheran church, at
Dubois, Pa.
Preaching Sunday in the NJ. E.
church at Mt. Wesley at II a. M,
Shepherdstown II a. M, and Sharps-
burg p. m. Epworth League 6 P. m.
There will be services in the Pres
byterian church Sunday, if Providence
permits, at Kearneysville at II a. m.
and in Shepherdstown at 8 p. m.
Preaching in the NJ. E. Church
South Sunday at Bethesda at $50 a.
m, Uvilla II a. m, and Shepherds
town 7 p. IN. League 6 P. m.
There will be services in the Cath
Ole church next Sunday at II a. II.
and 7.30 p. IN. Mass the following
day at s a. m.
There will be service Sunday in the
Lutheran church at II a. IN.