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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-06

Gunton's Magazine for June opens
with a Review Of the Month" COM
prising THE new Cuban republic, ."
President Palma's policy" "A side
light on the sugar tariff problem" 1.-THE
coal miners strike" Current price
comparisons" and other topics. slxto
Lopez answers the question: do the
Flllpinos Desire AMERICAN Rule?"
Warning from the Census" Is an in
structiye paper by the editor. Other
papers are Anomalies OF Danish Pol.
tiles" Harold C. Peterson; "The Gin
School CITY, James T. White. secretary
OF the Patriotic League; and Develop
ment OF the Coal Industry" William
Gilbert Irwin.-New York.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
PARTY ABOVE PERSON.

Is the democratic party Of this state
OF one man? Is the whole political
question in this state ~ be boiled down
to n ACKNOWLEDGMENT or repudia-
ton Of Justice Walter Clark? The party
is above all personal ambitions and as
:pirations Of it's Individual members.
For the sake of argument lets admit
that Major Wilson has not ~substanti-
ated the charges made against this as
pirant for the highest judicial office.
within the gift of the people of the state.
Lets 90 further. and. for the sake of
argument. admit that Justice Clark has
shown that he did not do all the things
charged against him by Major Wilson,
Even then can the democrats of the
state place him at the head of the
ticket? We say they cannot. If he is
nominated for chief Justice by the
democrats OF this state we Will go into
the campaign handicapped. We will
start out, on what should be an aggres-
sive. spirited campaign, with a man for
standard bearer for whom our speakers
on the stump will be forced from the
start to make excuses-be forced to de-
fend against charges than which no
more serious could be mad We will
go into the campaign with a heavy
burden on our hands. d burden that the
party should not be asked by any nan
or set Of men to shoulder. The party
owes 1t to itself and TO the people of
the state to refuse to take up any such
burden. Justice Clark knows. and his
friends know that there are thousands
OF men in this state vino believe that he
acted injudiciously and improperly.
Justice Clark and mis- friends know
that there are hundreds OF white men in
this state who are as Sood democrats as
he INT perhaps a great deal better. who
will not vote for him II nominated. His
nomination will jeopardize the party's
success. Why then should he be made
the party's leader, as an opportunity
TO vindicate himself? II Justice Clark
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
THE VOTE.
So mary of L oil &c of Con-
vfcts-Aftern"on Tea-The Gibson
~Pictares-The Military Mt Church.

Correspondence OF The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, y. c., May Il.
Deputy Sheriff j. c. Thomson and
Major A. A. McKethan, clerk of the
superior court, have prepared for the
correspondent of The Messenger the
following summary of the poll tax pay
ments in Cumberland county: Beaver
Dam TOWNSHIP, white 121, negroes u;
Black River. whites IT'S. negroes "a;
Cedar Creek, whites $50. negres so,
Carvers Creek. whites 100. negres A.,
Cross Creek, whites 365, negroes So:
Flea Hill, whites las, negroes 90; Grays
Creek, whites los. negroes 40; Little
River, whites 81. negroes IS; Pearce's
Mill. whites 50, negroes 19; Quewhiffle,
whites 126, negroes 20; Rockfsh,
whites 27S, n>SIoes %: total 2,340, %
which 1,S4S are whites and 492 are ne
groes. These figures show that nearly
four times as many negroes as whites
have d~iSfranchIsed themselves by fail
ure TO pay pol tax.
DR.. j. c. Thomson, in the sheriff'S
Office, has recalpted for $50, 500 taxes,
and has turned over $50, 200, or nearly
IS Per cent, which beats the fine record
OF Sheriff Frank Stedman, of New
Hanover. Mr.. Thomas is a we'll quail
fed young business man, a candidate
for sheriff with many supporters.
The county authorities have decided
to establish a convict camp on HyboSt
Hill, two or three miles west OF town,
which will be more convenient for
working the foI ce in the western part
of the county.
Mrs. Thomas j. Whitfield entertained
a large number of friends yesterday af-
ternoon at a very choicely served
luncheon, with a profusion of roses
forming the chief adornments of The
parlors and dining room. Mrs. Whitfield
was assisted in receiving by Mesdames
Jessup, ]. C. Thomson, r. A. Souther-
land, u. II. Ray, 7. II. Sutton, Charles
Rankin and jamie Mcclellan, Misses
Sutton and Katie d. Mcclellan. At
the table presided Misses Sutton. Mary
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

{ Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Greensboro, May l..
Police officer Wilmington. who has
suffered excrUtiatingly fol some time
with liver trouble. is reported this
morning to be IN a critical condition.
The negro Who stolG fifty of Mr.
Hancock's War Horse games ia the
past two months, was captured by Off
Ger IeffrI5s last night AMI toJ1y was
bound Over to u by a justice of
the peace. The negro cla1med that he
bought the Wa Horses from a wagon
er. but the owner identified him as a
prowler around Ms premises for q long
time. Several ether patches of stolen
chickens found by the police, are now
being traced to this Eugene Davis, who
seems to be = professional. when it
comes to Wholesale transactions ir.
chickens.
The Holton-iielms new drug store
On the corner of the MeAdoo Hotel
annex, has just been opened and Is one
Of the finest aHd most handsomely
equipped stores, perhaps in the south,
Everything abou it is first class, ami
it is an ornament to the city. At the
formal opening last night, over three
thousand ladies and gentlemen were
guests OF the proprietors during TIC
evening, n sandwiches, ice cream.
c~oca-cola, cake and other delicacies
were served 20 the strains of sweet
music. Electric lights flash from all
parts of h store, the counters are
carved mahogany highly polished, AMI
there are over ii thousand square feet
Of mirrors. In addition to this there
is a suit of physicians offices splendid
ly fitted up, sOuth of the store, all but
one of which having been taken by
prominent physicians here.
The Winston train was three hours
late last night. owing to a smash UP
by a switching engine and a freight
car on the yards at Winston. 1t is said
that the congestion of business there,
either from lack of yard room or
sufficient work force, is something be-
yond endurance: by the business men.
and a large delegation has recently
been to Washington, with hundreds of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

letters from the business men there
begging for relief. The Southern rail-
way seems to be overwhelmed with
business, and the frequent mix up on
the main line is becoming a serious
matter. 1t has been reported for years
that a double track was absolutely in
~dispensible from L~ynchburg to Char
lotte, and would be built. Nothing has
ever come of ii, but the rumor of build
ing, has broken out afresh, and this
time with some degree of hope that it
will be done. Speaking of wrecks, an
engineer told me that when the veSti-
bule ran into h freight at lawyers
station near Lynchburg last week, the
passenger was making about seventy
miles and hour; that When it struck tn
freight, the engine broke loose. most
fortunately, fol- the cars, and after the
impact, arose ike a deer and jumped
clear over the two smashed box cars
without touching them, and in addi-
ton to this forty foot leap landed
twenty feet away. He said it was the
finest action he ever saw in Ei4 life.
Another railroad employee, telling Of
the accident, said the freight crew
were on a siding, with instructions TO
wait until two trains passed by on the
main line before pulling out; that the
men had been without sleep for TWEEN
ty-two hours. Dropping off TO sleep.
they heard a train pass and thinking
1t was the last one, got on the main
line just in time to catch the full force
of the second train. He reported the
mad and magnificent leap Of the en-
CINE. and said the wreck lac cost the
road $4,000 In smashed cars, lost
freight, etc, lone. 1t was wonder
full that no lives were lost.
The Sunday-School class Of DIR. ]. H.
Wheeler, of the West Market street
church, composed of twelve young
ladies, gave a complimentary ride and
picnic to Guilford Battle Ground last
night to a party Of friends. and the
melody of their voices returning made
sweet the midnight air. The occasion
was greatly enjoyed by the party Of
| young men and women.
Mr.. Andrew j. Williams left for Raj.
eigh this morning in response to a tele-
gram telling of the death of his broth
er, Mr.. Joh L. Williams, who died
yesterday. TIE deceased was severely
burned while kindiing a fire sometime
ago and his death is the result. The
brother here Is foreman in The Chris
I tan Advocate office.
Messrs, Clark, of the Statesville
Landmark: Whitaker, of the Winston
Sentinel, and Sherrell, Of the Concord
Times. who compose the executive
committee Of the state press associa-
ton, met here yesterday, and after
some hours in wiring about rates for
board at the competing towns, con-
Guided to select Hendersonville, as the
| place. n JuEe 25th-26th as the time
for holding the next annual meeting
of the state press association. THIS
only hitch aboLt Jackson Springs and
Hendersonville was that they wanted
to entertain the convention free OF
charge. That kind of dead-headinc
seems to have gone into innocuous des-
uetude among the Independent editors
of the state. and after some telegraph
Ing, rates of bard were agree upon.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
INVESTIGATING THE PHILIPPINE
SITUATION.

The investigation into the state Of af-
fairs in the Philippines being made by
a nate committee continues to drag
along. The senators Of that committee
seem in no hurry to complete their in
vestigation. They think, perhaps, the
investigation of the conduct of the war
should keep pace with that war; that It
of this "most dignified legislative body
in the world" to show undue haste in
the unraveling Of this knotty skein Of
government policy. 1t would never do
for this committee to get ahead of the
procession. They must follow slowly,
najestically and with dignified mein IS
the rear guard of this parade of Amer
lean valor. 1t would never do for the
rear guard to move too fast and eaten
up with the head of the procession. We
must not expect this rear guard of
grave and reverend senator's to shoW
unseemly haste in arriving at a conclu-
sion OIL this point or any other. Were
they to push to the front Chaffee-and
Smith and others who are leading the
procession might become disconnected,
and might say something in hearing of
h public that the managers of the
procession would not care for the on
lockers to hear. We should not COM
plain. We should possess our souls in
patience. Do not hurry this committee.
Give these senators a plenty Of time.
Let them go slowly and deliberately
and perhaps in time to come when this
war is really over this senate commit
tee may be able to determine whether
cruelties AVE been exercised upon the
FilipinOs and whether we have con-
Quoted the war Upon humane prin-
ciples or not. Do not insist on I'M
due haste. There is plenty of time for
this committee to come to a decision
and make its report before the war in
h Philippines, which we have already
been told time and again was over, is
brought to a close.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

Williams, SaraE Brown, Margaret and
Bessie McNeIlI On the veranda little
Miss Whitfield received the cards OF the
guests, and ushsred them into the all,
Eliza Williams and jamie McKethan.
The Messengers concentrations of
Miss Georgia Ray Mcmillan are well
nerited. h conducted a performance
IN the opera house last n for the
benefit of the Hay Street Methodist
church organ <und. where there was
standing room only, and IN her cad
hgs evinced talent of very high
grade in ~elocution. Some OF the most
beautiful women of Fayetteville posed
IN the Gibson pictures, of which the
most taking We're the Golf Series, by
Miss Wheeler, OF Minnesota, and Mr..
q. G. Rose; Mrs. Tip, by Mrs.
s. II. MacRae; the widow, by Misses
Bessie Underwood and Mary Warren
Cameron: japanese Scene, by Mrs. E.
Hawley, Misses Roxie Dodd. Thorton
and Eliza Williams; Cupid, by little
John D. Williams. Jr.
BY invitation. the Fayetteville indie
pendent Light Infantry will in a body
attend the services in Hay Street
Methodist church tomorrow, where the
gifted pastor. Rev. T. a. Smoot, will
deliver an address suited to the 0ccas-
ION.
Miss Kate 3. Smith. OF this city, will
on June 1st open for summer guests
Clifton Cottage" on Wrightsville
Sound. Miss Smith is an accomplished
and charming woman of prominent
family notable for housewifery, who
will make her cottage an ideal home.
Venerable st. Patrick's Catholic
church on Bow street is in the hands
OF workman for renovation. repainting,
etc.
Joseph Ray, of Carver's Greek town
ship, standing on Market square yes
terday, vas seen to fall suddenly as if
dead. R~estoratives brought him to
himself again from what proved a fit
of vertigo.
Tomorrow Sunday the marriage
will take place of Mr.. B. F. Billiard
and Miss NJ. Z. Simmons, both of we'll
known families on the east side of the
Cape Fear.
Robbers broke into and made a haul
Of goods from the store of Mrs. NJ. l..
Fort, doing a general merchandise
business at Hope Mills. Rockship
township.
Extensive improvements will be
made on the McKethan building, corner
Of Person street and Market square
one of the handsomest structures In
town, with large store and two public
halls, erected by the late lamenled z
7. McKethan.
The Husk Hardware Company was
the purcaher of the Goddard hotel and
livery stable property, as it adjoined
their large new warehouse. and greatly
increased the Value Of their real estate
holdings IN that part of the city.
Mr.. Walter l., Holt is in New York
city on business.
Mrs. Robinson. of North Wilkesboro,
is making a visit to her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c.. McDear-
mid, On Green street.
Mr.. w. G Houston, president of the
Hope Mills Manufacturing Company,
has been here OH business for the past
two days
Mr.. r.. G. Mallett, who died at Mo-
bile, Ala, and whose remains will be
buried in Wilmington, has a brother,
Mr.. c. E. Mallett. and other relatives
in this place.
Messrs. A. 5. Williams and G.. G..
Thomas, of Wilmington. registered at
h Hotel Fayetteville yesterday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

o the ballot box Is not the place for
him to seek vindication. If Major VIII
sons letter was a libel on the Justices
character he should 90 to the courts
with his complaint and have the mat
ter settled there.
out his case or not, whether Justice
Clark did the things charged against
him by Major Wilson. is a question on
which each person must form his own
opinion. The charges have been pub.
lished and a reply made through the
press. The democrats Alye the case
and each one must decide for himself
what he will do.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
THE RIGHT STEP.

Every ordinary cold deserves
serious attention.
1t is only a step from it into
grippe, pneumonia, or con-
sumption; and it is only a
short step the other way to
cure the cold.
Nature and SCOTS Emul-
sion work together to make a
cold take the right step. Ma
ture works all the time and
SCOTS Emulsion works if you
take it.
SCOTS Emulsion cures all
kinds of colds.
Send for Free Sample.
SCOTT S BOVINE, Chemists, 49 Pearl ST., n. Y.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

stomach, which became aggrcvc:ed
every time I caught 4 slight cold. 3y
food did not digest propcrly. and life lost
its best charm until I tried Peruna. Ii
made a new woman of me. 1t took eight
bottles to effect q complete cure, but /
would not be back in the former eondi-
ton for q thousand dollars. / am most
grateful for being cured completely and
feel better than / have done for years.
Catherine Il. Bertos.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

Five years aga dyspepsia took such
hold of me that I could scarcely CO."
writes Geo. s. Marsh, Nocona, Texas.
II took quantities of medicine but
nothing helped me. As a drowning
man grabs at a straw I grabbed at
Kodol. Dieting is unnecessary. After
a few bottles I am sound and we'll"
Kodol digests i good food and cures
any form Of stomach trouble. r. r.
Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

The laboring nan Dime pail may
be full along about these times. but
We doubt that many Of them contain
porterhouse steaks.
+
The Concord Tribune suggests that
the best way to put an end to the
Tillman-McLaurin fight would be for
the president to appoint the latter to a
~judgeship and the people Of South Car
DINA to call the former home.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20

monument at Fayetteville on Memorial
day was attended by many citizens or
Robson. This is the second monument
that Fayetteville women hav erected
Ito the heroes in the dust"
Nom
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
JULIA w.
MRS.
NARY R92DY

almost constant backache for the last
year. The other two suffered from ca
tarrh Of b head and throat.
az have used it after a most unpleasant
experience with an attack OF Ia grippe,
and found that three bottles completely
restored me to health."|ulia V. Teller.
Mrs. Mary Hardy, Of 5S W. Polk
street, Chicago, H., writes:
81 find IL necessary each spring 10
take some kind of a tonic and haye
tried q great many but have found
none Of such value as PeruaG.
"Affer taking a few doses I feel tbe
good effects and seldom need TO take
essse inan orc bottle IS q spring medf-
cine. "--.Mrs. Mary Hardy.
Mrs. Catherine r. Bertos, sos n. Elm
street, Centralia, H., writes:
al have found Peruna the most salts
flying medicine 1 ever tried in my life.
I suffered for years with catarrh of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-20
TERMS OF
POSTAGE PREPAID.

TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1902.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-23
ONLY one DEATH.
Smallpox Is Far from Being Very
Fatal Disease, According to
scranton's Experience.

That smallpox is far from being a
very fatal disease is shown by an en-
animation of the reports of Secretary
Sweeney, of the bureau of health.
The present epidemic broke out in
January of this year. That month there
were six cases reported. February had
five; March, none; April, 10; May, 16;
June. IL, and July, thus far, A. Out of
a total of fifty cases only one death
occurred, making the percentage of
deaths smaller than that for any con-
tagious disease that has prevailed DUR
ing the same period. The one death
was that of the Brace child, in West
Scranton, and the fatal termination OF
the case was due in measure TO the
fact that it's character was not early
recognized.
The disease is still prevalent, but Is
being gradually stamped out. The four
cases reported this month are in the
same community in North Scranton.
The nine patients in the emergency
hospital are all doing well and recovery
is confidently expected in each instance.
TO the efficient manner in which the
health authorities have coped with the
disease is attributable in some degree
the small percentage of deaths, but the
primary explanation of the small num-
ber of deaths is found in the fact that
smallpox Is not very fatal disease.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-23
IS A GOOD FIELD.
Local Recruiting Station Does q
Rushing Business-Wilkes-B Barre
Station Is Abandoned.

a rushing business is being done
these days by the local recruiting office
of the United States army, and hardly
Il day passes THAI the soldier boys in
charge do not write a new name on
their books.
Scranton is now the centre of the
entire Northeastern Pennsylvania re-
cruiting division, of which Captain Ed
ward Lloyd, of the Fifteenth United
States infantry, is in charge. Last
month twenty recruits were sent away
by the local station, and every man
was a resident of this city. The July
roster, however, shows a goodly per-
centage of Wilkes Barreans, who are
now learning the joys of 'rooky's"
life.
The enlisting bureau formerly had
station at Wilkes-Barre, but the vol
ume of business there was so slender
that it was closed, and Luzernites who
have military aspirations must now
have them gratified through the Scran-
ton office.
The offices at Hazleton and Towanda
have also been done away with. The
majority of infantry recruits sent away
from here so to Columbus, o., bar
racks Thus far in July, eight men
have enlisted, and Il large number of
others have signified their intention of
coming in for eXaminato during the
latter part of the month.
William l.. Eagan, of Forest City,
was the first July recruit. He was as
signed to the Twenty-third infantry,
which is now stationed at the Platts-
burg, N. Y, barracks. William Head
leW of Wilkes-B Barre. enlisted July Z,
and was sent to the Columbus barracks.
Ernest Brown. another Wilkes-B Barre
an, enlisted the same day. and was
assigned to the Eleventh battery of
field artillery, located at Fort Hamil-
ton, n. Y.
Hawley A. Gould. of 732 Adams ave-
nue., enlisted July s. and was assigned
to the same battery as Brown. John
a. McHugh. of Peclvile, enlisted July
10, and obtained berth with the Coast
artillery, at Port Slocum, n. Y. Ed
ward j. Ruane, Of Wilkes Barre, who
underwent examination July is, is now
at the Columbus barracks.
Martin LanSan, young man from
Duryea, enlisted in the cavalry July
Is, and was assigned to the Jefferson
barracks, Miss. Joseph Keller, another
Wilkes Barrean, was the last man to
enlist up to date. He signed his name.
July 21, and was assigned to the Coast
artillery at Port Slocum.