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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
AGUINALDO AT LIBERTY.

In accordance with the presidents
amnesty proclamation promulgated in
Manila on July 4th, the former Filipino
chief now has his liberty n is as free
as any other citizen of the Philippines.
Aguinaldo though does not seem to
relish his newly acquired freedom. On
being released he, in company with his
former custodian, called Upon General
Chaffee. He was told that he was
free to go anywhere he pleased. He
said he was going to visit relatives in
Cavite and asked what protection the
American authorities would afford him,
and seemed to get small comfort from
the reply that he would get the same
protection as n other citizen. He
made the further request that the civil
courts be prevented from requiring
him to testify in suits pending therein.
This General Chaffee informed him
was beyond his power.
Aguinaldo has not forgotten the as
sassination of General Luna, the Fill
pino leader, and the universal opinion
among the Iatter's friends hat he
caused the murder. He seems to fear
vengeance from Luna's friends and is
afraid to go upon the streets. When
told by General Chaffee that he should
call upon acting civil Governor Wright,
Aguinaldo said he woul do so, but
would go at night, as he was timid
about appearing on the streets in the
day time.
This is the man who had the am
bition to make himself the ruler of TO-
900. 900 people and establish a govern
ment by uniting a number of indepen-
dent, savage tribes. From beins the
idol of his people, many of whom
thought he had a charmed life and was
destined to become the ruler, he has
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
PROGRESS OF COTTON MANUFAC-
TURE AT THE SOUTH.

The Manufacturers Record says that
the starting of new cotton mills and the
enlargement of established ones has
been more marked at the south during
the quarter ending with June than for
any period of the same length of time
in the history of this section.
One important circumstance connect
ed with this progress i'll the milling in
dustry, and n that shows cotton man
u%facture at the south is on a sound
basis, is the fact that by far the great
er portion of capital invested in these
new mills and h enlargement of exist
ing ones is being furnished by expert
enced manufacturers or companies al
ready in the business. The Manufac-
turers' Record reports that while six
teen new mills were started during the
last quarter which have a capital of
81, $50, 900, there were engagements of
old mills to the amount of $4,000, 600 of
capital.
Of the sixteen new mills South Car
DINA n Alabama are credited with
three each, Mississippi four and North
Carolina two. AS to me number of
spindles and looms South Carolina leads
and this state comes second.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
GO AWAY FRoM HOME TO GET THE
news

One has to go away froCl home to
hear the news" This saying is well
illustrated by an article in The Out
look. OF New York, regarding recent
Ievents in North Carolina. The article
is in reference to the Offering Of re-
wards by Governor Aycock, amount
ling to $4,000 for the apprehension and
lconviction of the men who lynched the
negroes in Salisbury some weeks ago.
The paper commends the governor
for his action and then goes on to
lcomment upon some other actions OF
Jour governor-to recount certain cpl
Isodes in his gubernatortal career which
have never before been made public in
this state and when read will be news
to the home folks
In the first place The Outlook tells
us that when the legislature threat
lened to divide the school fund between
the W races IN proportion to the
taxes paid by them the governor said
he would veto the bill if passed, and IL
the legislature dared to pass it over his
veto he would resign his office and go
before the people for reelection on
that issue.
We venture the assertion hat no
imam in North Carolina ever heard of
this before or knew that our governor
had the veto power. If the governor
of this state has the veto power it
must be by an unwritten law inherited
from u British ancestors and su-
|perior to the bill of rights and the
constitution: for there Is nothing in
either that gives the governor of this
state the veto power.
In its remarks about Governor Ay-I
cock resigning and going before the
people the editor of The Outlook must
have ~momentarily COMPOUNDED the gov
ernor of North Carolina with the
premier OF England; for there this rule
obtains when the executive branch of
the government is defeated in an i'm
portant measure by the opposition in
the legislative branch.
In the next place were Governor Ay-
cock to resign he would he succeeded by
the lieutenant governor and would be
ineligible, under the constitution, to re-
election as successor to himself. A man
cannot be elected governor for two
terms in succession.
We thank The Outlook for it's CON-
comments on the action of
our governor in the matter of Offering
the rewards for tine apprehension Of the
Salisbury lynchers, but we hope 1t VIII
better inform itself as to the facts and
the laws of North Carolina when it
again undertakes to write about events
in this state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.

The sword against the pen. A mighty
conflict is soon to be waged between
these two instruments for settling and
ruling the.affairs of nations. The naval
and military authorities of the United
States, in behalf of the former have
thrown down the gage to the latter, and
the people may rest assured that the
challenge will be accepted.
The contest is to come off in Septem-
have it's. naval and army maneuvers
on the north Atlantic coast. AS pub
lished in yesterday mornings papers,
during these maneuvers the representa-
tives of the press are to De given no
showing; they will have to get their in
formation regarding the proceedings as
best they can. No correspondents will
be allowed upon the w%arships and no
information will be given them. All
movements by land and by sea will be
kept as secret as possible. The object
will be to mask as much as possible the
movement of both army n navy as
in case of actual war, and to keep all
rma tnereOI out Oh the neWSpd-
pers.
This is one of the chief objects In
view. The authorities wish to learn
how to keep the newspapers from get
ting the news and to find out where are
the leaks through which secret infor-
nation gets to the press.
This will be about the most arduous
task Secretaries Moody and Root have
ever undertaken, and we are confident
now that they will be badly worsted in
the fight. The people of the country
need have no apprehensions about not
being kept posted as to the maneuvers,
for the press will get the news and will
publish it. In this contest the pen will
down the sword.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
FRIDAY, JULY II. 1902
OPTIMISM.

The presidents Fourth of.July speech
one. One of the most remarkable
things about it was his sanguineness
over carrying through certain meas
ures on which he has set his heart.
This speech was made just after the
adjournment of a session of congress
in which his party had rejected nearly
every one OF the measures he most ear
nestly desired TO see adopted. Few
presidents mad received such treatment
from a congress of his own party and
yet he did not seem to be worried at
his failure, but spoke with the greatest
confidence of carrying through his
scheme for reciprocity with Cube and
other The failure of con
gress to enact any anti-trust-law did
not ruffie his temper; on the contrary,
he was as sanguine of success in this
matter as if it were the beginning Of
= the session and he had a majority of
h members pledged to support the
measure.
The treatment the president received
at the hands of congress was enough
to bring chagrin and dependency to
any man, but Mr.. Roosevelt did not
seem to be aware of the fact that his
party in congress had turned a leaf
ear 10 nearly every recommendation he
had made to them, one of them of so
geat concern to him that he had urged
it u second time in a special message.
The measures of Importance recon-
mended by him which congress passed
can be. counted on the fingers of one
hand, while those that he lost were
many, the chief ones being Cuban re-
ciprocity. the law against anarchism,
the reorganization of the army staff,
the reorganization of the consular SER
vice. the establishment of the depart
ment of labor and and the
extension of the civil service to our
insular possessions. At all these
points he had been defeated, but he did
not admit defeat, but showed deter
mination to continue the fight and with
increased vigor.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

Senator Pritchard publishes a two
column article in reply to the letter of
Senator Simmons as to the discovery
of a plot by the republicans to capture
the state at the coming election. Mr..
Pritchard denies all the charges made.
He says the provision requiring pay
ment of poll tax is constitutional; that
the constitutional amendment cannot
be attacked on this ground. He also
says it is ridiculous to assert that a
court would entertain a suit to annul
the amendment because of alleged I'M
constitutionality of the grand father
clause, brought by a person whose COM
plant was that he had been deprived of
his right to vote because he had not
paid his poll tax within the time pre-
Scribed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
THE MOSQUITO MUST GO.

The mosquito must go, is the decree
that has been issued by municipal and
state authorities from New Jersey to
New Orleans. Town. state and federal
authorities have entered into the cru
SADIE, and even European authorities
are considering the question of taking
action for the determination of this
pest. The success of the American au-
thorities in almost completely Kidding
Havana and other Cuban towns of the
yellow fever scourge through its war on
the mosquito has attracted great atten-
ton in this country and in Europe.
The ~entomologist of the federal de-
partment of agriculture tells in the last
number of the Century magazine of the
war that various communities in this
country are making on the mosquito.
He says that while the work Of its ex-
termination is now only in its incipi-
ency, it is the beginning Of a widespread
and general movement to rid the infest-
ed localities. Mr.. Howard, the ento-
mologist above referred to, says he has
received thousands of letters asking for
information as to the best methods for
carrying on the fight A number Of
cities and towns a V made it a part of
the public work, and public funds nave
been appropriated to the cause New
Jersey WI take the lead in this mat
ter, but such cities as New Orleans.
Baltimore. Nashville and Norfolk have
taken official action. The agricultural
college Of Michigan has begun a sum-
mer campaign against the MOSQUITO.
The New York state entomologist has
made preparations to AXE up the work.
One town on Long Island has appro-
J priated 81, 200 for the work. In the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
ORIGIN OF YANKEE DOODLE.

Some of the papers are discussing
the origin of the tune and the original
words of the SON Yankee Doodle"
We think the words OF the SOM begin
ming
Yankee Doodle came TO town upon
a III
Stuck a feather in his cap and called
himself macaroni,"
were written by some court wit during
the Hanoverian rsign in ridicule of
dudes from the American colony who
had come to town." that is. London,
and were putting on airs the London
dudes did not like. The tune to the
song is as old as the reign of Charles
III at least. During his reign there was
composed a ribald song on two of the
court ladies which began
Lucy Lockett lost her pocket; Katie
Fisher found it," etc,
which vas sung to the same tune as
Yankee Doodle.
The word macaroni was a term ap-
piled to tops or dandies in London in
the Eighteenth century.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

army medical school In Washington
City lectures on the subject are deIiv-
cred and the young men in preparation
for position of army surgeons are re-
quired TO attend them.
Drainage and petroleum are the weap-
ons used in this warfare. The mos
quito cannot breed without standing
water; where there is non there are
no MOSQUITOES, and he cannot rise from
stagnant water that has a skim OF Pc
troleum On its surface. These two
facts arr all that it is need to know In
order to conduct a su cessful crusace.
Where it can be done resort to DRAIN
age; where this is impracticable, use
petroleum.
On Long Island the mosquito has been
exterminated almost entirely in a sec
ton Of country five miles wide by fifteen
long. 1t was accomplished by digging
drains, filling in low places and using
oil on such water as could not be drawn
of. The man in charge of this woru
in his report
The writer has been informed that
in other years TO drive along the borders
OF his marsh was a perilous undertake
ing for man n beast, but he walked
over 1t many times during and after
the work, and did not encounter a sin
gle mosquito"
The citizens committee in charge OF
this work makes the following report:
1T was in every way successful and
gratifying. Although the season of 1901
was unusually favorable to the breeding
Of the pests, yet Center island was prac-
tically entirely relieved from mosquf-
toes, and, for the first time, at almost
all hours of the day and evening we
were able to enjoy the use of our piaz-
Zas and lawns without the annoyance
of these pests. The results achieved by
the use of fuel-petroleum were simply
remarkable, and we were astonished to
find how little it was necessary to use
to accomplish the results desired"
The following clipped from an ex-
change is apropos to this subject:
"It would be we'll if this paragraph
from an exchange were printed in big
type and posted in every home in North
Carolina. Nothing more timely could
be said just now:
Sanitary measures-oil On stagnanr
waters, lime in foul places, boiled drink
ing water, n frequent bathing-would
800, 900 in physicians and drug
bills in North Carolina this summer.
Try it yourself"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

The Central Labor Union will carry
the strike question into politics in
Pennsylvania. Every candidate for the
legislature must pledge himself, if elect
ed to vote for the repeal of the law pro-
viding for the appointment of coal and
iron police" The candidates must
make the pledge or Iose the votes of
numbers Of this organization. Thus the
labor question will be forced into poll
tics. When his kind of labor agitation
once starts there is no telling where it
will stop.
Whether this mine police law gives
the mine operators an advantage over
the miners We cannor say, or whether
it's repeal would take from the owners
of mining property that protection to
which they are entitled. 1t looks,
though, is if the Central Labor Union
was attempting to force candidates for
the legislature to pledge themselves to
a line of class legislation. No legislator
should vote for a law T refuse to re-
peal one that gives one class of citizens
undue advantage Over another: but this
move of organized labor, begun while
a great strike is in existence. looks as
if the strikers were attempting to use
it as a means Of gaining a victory over
their former employers and forcing them
to terms in the labor dispute. If this
be the object it puts the labor question
in this country in a more serious aspect
than it has ever before assumed and
will have the tendency to more solidly
unite capital in its fight against labor.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

1.-The party is now in the position of
the man who wanted somebody to help
him let go Of the bear. Who will ac-
Icomplish the wonder? Certainly not
|Grover Cleveland. He is only making
the letting go process more difficult.
The more he interferes the more des-
|perately the party links itself to Bryan
|ism.'-New York Mail and Express.
The Mail and Express certainly did
not form this opinion from the reading
|of the platforms recently adopted by
state democratic conventions
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

Roosevelt has laid aside the dignity
and the cares of the presidential
office and retired to Sycamore Hill on
Long Island, where for a while he win
devote himself to romping with the chill
dren and reading for pleasure The
stars and Stripes has been raised over
the summer White house." but the
flag will come down some time In Au-
gust when the president viii return to
public life and the labors Of his Office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

It happened in a New Jersey town
several years ago. There was a casino.
a newspaper. a handsome church. and
numerous lovely women. whose nus
bands were commuters. said one OF the
latter: I'VE have reason to De proud
of one thing-we can safely trust our
minister. There Is not a family skele-
ton in any closet in -. Not every
community can say that" Another.
less emotional, replied: I'm not sure
of that. He's a good looking chap. and
impressionable." Have you any sus-
~picions?" Not Of a definite character.
But we can test his nerve by inserting
a notice in the paper / X this: All Is
known: fly at once!'" Accordingly the
notice was inserted, in big type, in a
conspicuous column, and the minister
Immediately disappeared. True story.
as the London Family Herald wouid
say.-New York Press
We cannot say whether rs following
item written before the was
postponed) is strictly true or not nutit
comes to US from The London GLOBE VIA
The New York Sun: Among the must
Interesting of the coronation visitors Is
Baron Fairfax, the n American Peer.
whose father was a Maryland physician
and whose uncle. the tenth Baron. was
J speaker of the California house OF dele
gates in 1854. Lord Fairfax, though
holding an ancient Scottish title. would
appear to be a citizen Of the United
States-indeed. his family have given
their name to one Of the counties or
Virginia-so that IL would seem he has
a double allegiance. In 1900 the eighth
Baron came TO England and successful
~ asserted his right to the title. n on
Thursday next Lord Fairfax will. by
proxy, declare TO the king that he be-
comes his 'Liege man Of Life and Limb.
and Of earthly worship and Faith ana
Truth will bear to Him, to live and die,
| against all n of Folk RICH
mond Dispatch.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

If the Venezuelans do not hold up OF
their periodical revolutions this country
will come to the conclusion that Mr..
would have done better if he,
when president, had told England to
take possession of the entire republic,
Instead of calliro a halt on her when
she attempted to swipe a narrow strip
of Venezuelan land along her Guiana
boundary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

fallen to the low condition of having to
skulk through the streets Of the city
he intended should be his capital, and
ask the protection of those he taught
his people to consider their enemies,
against his former followers. his fell
low citizens. The fear of assassina-
ton at their lands forces him Il ask
protection at the hand of their enemies.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

Senator Spoener is about to get his
reward. He is to be sent to Paris, at
the expense of h government of
course, to investigate the ability of the
Panama Canal Company to make d
clear title to our government in ex-
change for the $40, 900, 900 President
Roosevelt is authorized by the Spoon
err bill to pay for its property on the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

British papers are making great COM
Iplaint of the large amount of %swindling
Americans are carrying on all over
Europe. These confidence men are
probably trying to bring home some OF
the none the titled Europeans have
carried away from America as dowries
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

Senator Hanna's civic federation does
not seem to be a success in stopping
strikes. The senator must mend his
ticks or this move of his won't pan out
much in 1904.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

The Washington Post coins a new
word. 1t speaks Of the ~Gomezesque ar
our government can prob
ABLY make with Aguinaldo.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

President Roosevelt's speech at Pitts
burg sounded very much like an ap-
peal to the people against the action of
the republican majority in congress on
the Cuban reciprocity question.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

The worlds output of gold increased
from STAG, 900, 900 in 1892 to 3O7, 600, 900 in
1899. During this period Europe has
paid heavy tribute to the United States
in gold
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

President Roosevelt is receiving val
liable assistance from the democratic
press in his fight with his party in con-
|gress for Cuban reciprocity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

The trial of Charles Bright, in Lon
don, the civil engineer of Sandusky,
o., charged with c~oncealing $500, 200 in
connection with bankruptcy proceed
ings, resulted in his acquittal. Those
charged with being accessories were
.tso acquitted.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

1t is now claimed thai Mr.. R~oosevelt's
new internal evenu collector for South
Carolina, Major Micah Jenkins, like his
recent appointee to the Charleston
postmastership, is not a citizen of that
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11

Boston is going to see if it cannot be
more successful than Memphis in start
ling an Olney boom.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-11
Disfgured Skin

Wasted muscles and decaying bones
What havocl
Scrofula, let alone, is capable Of all that,
and more.
1t il commonly marked by punches IN
the neck, infammations in the eyes, dys-
pepsia, catarrh, and general debility.
Ii Is always radically and permanently
cured by
Hoods CdESdpariHo
Which expels all humors, cures all erup-
tons. and builds up the whole system,
whether young or old.
Hoods Pills cufS HveF Ms: the non1nffaftng and
only c.thaEtic % take With Hooda 6asaspeEiIlA.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-12-10
AkRON-0FFICIAL.

brick or block asphalt in aceoR6ance
with the plans, profile and speeifcat
tons relating to SAID improvemenS on
file in the office of the City OWL En-
gineer.
That the cost and expense of said ina
provement except one-hftieth and the
cost of intersections, shall be assessed
upon the abutting, and such adtasent
aud contiguous or other benefited lots
and lands. between the points afores
said, IN proportion to the banantp
which may result from said ihprov9
ment. -
Said assessments shah be payable "a
ten dOD equal, annual inssaHrnents5
and bonds shall be issued IN aDticlnss
ton Of the collection of the sama. pros
vided that said assessment shall III ne
case exceed the linoita tions imposed
by section 2270 OF the Revised StatutaS
of Ohio; and the Council find and neret
by declare that only the ahutting and
such adjacent and contiguous, or other
benefited lots and lands, between tie
points aforesaid, will be specially ben6s
tted by the improvement thereof, and
that no other property than that speoS
fed shall be assessed tor said improve.
ment.
The Clerk is hereby authorized to
cause this resolution to be legally pubs
Iished, and Charles Doegler is hereby
appointed to serve notice of the pass
sage hereof as is required by law,
Recommended by the Board of City
Commissioners.
oHAs. II IsAELb Clerk.
Adopted December 2nd, 1902.
J. W. sE1pELL
President City Council
CHAs. H. IsBELL,
City Clerk.
Dec, Q, 10.