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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
POSTAGE PREPAID.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1902.
CUBA AS = COTTON PRODUCER.

Cubans, according TO the Havana
correspondent of The New York Tri-
bune, have been experimenting in grow
ing sea island cotton, and wonderful re-
suits have been procured. 1t is pre-
dicted hat tn. islanders will take 20
this as a money crop in place Of sugar.
The experiments made a. year showed
that Cuba could surpass the coast is
lands Of South Carolina as to quality
n quantity per acre of this product.
Whereas the average yield pei acre of
the latter is 700 pounds of seed cotton.
Cuban lands produce from 1,50O to 1000
TO the acre. and. according to The Tri-
Dunes correspondent, the quality of the
south Carolina cotton is not to be COM
pared to that of Cuban growth. An
other great advantage The Cubans have
is that, it is alleged, the plant will grow
to the height Of from five to seven feet
n will produce for eight Or ten years
without replanting, making the ex-
pense, except as to gathering, practical
ly nothing to the farmer. Each year the
crop will require Il little working Just
before the blooming season.: this and
the gathering will be the only cost of
production.
There is an American company in the
field which will be prepared to do all
TIE required ginning by the time the
next crop is ready.
All the o statements are from
The Tribune's correspondent. He may
be drawing ON ais Imagination or he
may be stating facts. We give them
for what they are worth. If true, then
Cuba has a source of wealth that makes
her independent of her sugar crop and
she shout not care whether our gov
eminent grants her reciprocal reduction
of tariff on that commodity or not.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
A WARNING TO THE CITY OF NEW
ORLEANS.

A warning is given to the people OF
New Orleans by Major George Derby,
of the engineer corps. He says that
the 2o0,e0e residents of that city are in
constant danger Of determination be-
cause of the poor construction OF the
Ilevees and urges the government TO take
steps to remedy the evil
An engineering expert took the posi-
ton several years ago that the levee
system on the Mississippi river was all
wrong; hat it was building up a con-
dition that at some future day would
result in vast destruction of life and
property. AS the river fills UP with the
lwashings from above the Ievees have
to be raised. The bottom of the river
rises and the sides have to
keep pace with it. The result will be
that in the course of years the lower
trough built upon the surface of the
lands through which this great river
flows. When this time comes the
breaking OF a levee will result-not in
such destructive overfiows as We now
have, but in the empting of the entire
volume of water in the river over the
country for miles and miles about the
break. Many parts Of the city Of New
Orleans are now below the surface OF
the river at ordinary water, and in it's
present condition Major Derby declares
the city is in danger. How much great
.er then will be it's peril when the bot
tom of the river has been raised much
higher and the levees protecting the
city a gone up correspondingly.
The expert engineer above referred to
as declaring the dixie system as wrong
referred to existing conditions in China.
There for hundreds of years the great
rivers hundreds Of miles in length
leading down from the montains to the
sea nave been diked, and during all
these centuries the river bottoms have
been continually filling up and the
levees growing higher n higher until
now in many places the former are on
a level with the land on the other side
of the dikes. This expert declared that
this condition accounted for the appall-
ing loss of life whenever there was a
break in a levee of one Of these rivers.
The water actually poured upon the
land from above. This he predicted
in years to come be experienced
in the lower Mississippi country. This
levee system, he said, could not now
don away with because it has been
to that state where it would be
but his contention was that
it should never have been inaugurated.
while answering temporary purposes,
added to the dangers of uture
generations.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
MAGAZINES FOR AUGUST.

L Everybodys Magazine for August
is the continuation of Danny by Alfred
Ollevand, also six completed stories.
This number is especially interesting.
In the Cosmopolitan for August Cap
tains of Industry is continued. This is
a series of sketches of men prom
nent in the country's financial
schemes. This number also has its
usual amount OF pleasant reading.
Frank Leslie's for August has as
leading features "A Story of Marconi's
next Invention by Robert Barr, a
humorous story by "A. T. CUTLER
Couch. There are also stories by other
we'll known writers. .
In The Era Marie Antoinette, by
Henry Francis Is continued as is also
Gabriel Tolliver by Joel Chandler
Harris.
The Worlds Work for August has
its usual amount Of interesting and
pleasant reading. Its Illustrations are
especially good.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE Sun.

We venture the assertion that OF all
the readers OF The Messenger who
have read OF and talked abou rotation
in office and OF all the politicians of
the country who have advocated this
principle, as well as those who, when
they a once gotten into office op-
posed il, none has ever heard of but n
kind, that is, that the office should
rotate among the faithful party work.
ers: and that they thought this the
only kline of rotation in office. They
are mistaken, o ever. II remains for
a South Carolina o~fficeholder and poll
tician to discover another phase of this
principle in politics so popular with
the outs and unpopular with the
"ins.' This new species, though. viii
be as distastefuI 10 the outs" as is the
old kind with the ''ins." This new kind
or rotation in office is for the offices TO
rotate among the offiCeholders. This
great discoverer IS a judge of probate
in one of the counties of South Caro-
lima. He has held that office for eight
years. He publishes a card in his
county newspaper in which he says
that, having served the people of his
county for eight years as judge Of
probate, n believing that eight years
is long enough for any man TO remain in
one office. he himself as a
candidate for me office of county
treasurer in the ensuing democratic
primary elections
This is rotation in office with aven-
geance and If this man can just keep
it up he may be able to stay in office
all his life through the principle of
rotation in office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
FACULTY..
What Some of them Have Been Do
ing this Summer-Graduates as
School Teachers.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Chapel Hill, N. c.. July 81.
1t is worthy of note that twelve of the
graduates of the university have secur-
ed positions in the graded schools of
the state for the coming year, and an
equal number have places to teach in
the private and public schools of the
state. These strong, trained men will
do much for the educational develop
ment Of our state.
The following members of the univer-
sity faculty have spent from three to
six weeks this summer in training the
teachers of his state and the south for
their great work:
Taking first the summer school at the
University, NJ. c. S. Noble, superinten-
dent; Professor Bruner, French; Pro-
lessor Wilson, Latin; Mr.. McKie, ex-
preston.
AT the summer school at Knoxville,
Professor Alexander, Greek; Professor
Cobb, Geology; Professor Smith, Eng
lish; Professor Mangum, Physiology.
Five members of the faculty, namely,
Professors Gore, Holmes, Venable,
Baskerville, and Wheeler, attended the
meeting of the American Association
for the advancement of science, at
Pittsburg.
Professor Noble attended the meet
ing Of the National Educational Asso-
citation, at Minneapolis.
Doctors Whitehead and Manning have
been working In the laboratories of
Chicago and Harvard universities, re-
spectively, getting up the latest meth
DDS for their work next season.
Professor H. v. Wilson has sailed for
Europe, where he will spend a year in
study.
Professor Henderson has during the
summer been in charge of one Of the
surveying parties for the state geolog-
ical survey, and DR.. Mills has beer
working in the laboratory Of Cornell
university getting the latest methods
in physical chemistry.
Professor Noble n DR.. Venable have
been aiding In the educational move
ment in the state.
DR.. Battle, Professor Toy, and Pro
lessor Raper have been busted upon
literary work.
This is not a complete list of the ac-
tivities Of the faculty during the sum-
mer but will serve to show how much
Is being done for the state and the de-
velopment Of their departments.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
CHILD LABOR IN FACTORIES.

The question of child labor in fac
tories is again being agitated, especially
by certain people from the north who
have recently come down south and Wis
lifted some of our cotton mills. These
people go back home and, standing
within the shadows Of their sweatshops
where women and children exc u a
bare, miserable existence, hold up their
hands in holy horror while telling their
brethren Of what they saw in the cot
ton mills of the south-conditions that
Iare a paradise in comparison to those
to be found in every large city Of the
north.
While admitting that conditions in
our cotton factories are not what we
would like to see them, we cannot
stomach this hypocritical cant Of these
so-called philanthropists who, under
the guise of trying to do good, rant
about the horrible conditions in the
southern mills, for a secret, two-fold
lpurpose-to make the operatives discon-
tented and to prejudice the public
against our mills, their owners and
their products.
AS a broad proposition, children I'M
der a certain age should not be allow
ed to work in our mills. This prohibi-
ton should be by the mill authorities or
lby state law; but there are cases where
this works a hardship, as was pointed
out by The Messengers Raleigh cor
respondents reference a few days ago
to the case of a widow whose only
means Of support was what her two or
three children earned in one of the RAJ
leigh cotton mills. This is one of many
similar Instances in the state.
Their was much agitation of this
Question of child labor in mills during
the last session of the legislature and
that body was greatly inclined to pass
la bill for it's regulation, but was in
lduced not to do so by the mill owners.
These men entered into an agreement
with the legislature Git amounted to
this) and signed a formal, written
ipledge that they would not employ in
their mills children under a certain age
III the legislature would enact no law on
the subject. This agreement was
spread upon the journals Of the houses
lof the legislature. This agreement has
mot been observed by all the men who
signed it, and right here is where those
men have made a great mistake. n
Question will be sure to come UP before
the next session of the legislature, and
the bad faith of those who violated the
lagreement will be used to the fullest
extent for influencing the legislators by
the advocates Of the more extreme
measures for regulating child labor in
factories, and its tendency will be to
produce legislation harmful to the mill
ing interests, we fear, and also tc
make too stringent for the good of the
children the law against their WORKING
i'm our mills. Tt also takes from the
men who violated this agreement the
Ichance Of an impartial hearing before
the next legislature; nor will they have
lany right to complain If that q
lshould pass an act to enforce by law
the conditions which they, by signing
this agreement, admitted were good
land proper.
This question Of child labor is one
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
EXODUS OF CARPENTERS.
Score of Raleigh Wood Worker no
to N~orfolk-State Election Board
Other News.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh, y. c., August ..
Insurance Commissioners Young has
returned from Windsor. He says a very
strong case is made out against c. Z.
Collins and j. r. Stallings, two of the
men who are charged with buring their
store at Quitson. Harrell Golfers neph-
ew, also wanted on the same charge.
has fled and is at large.
Auditor b. T. Dixon goes to Gastonia
on the 14th to address a large gather
ing Of ex-Confederate veterans.
The tobacco breaks here yesterday
We're ever large than expected. Farm
ers were here who a not been for 10
years. On one o
there were 292 piles OF leaf, and on
the other 453. In all 232 farmers had
tobacco on sale. They all expect q
good season, n say the tobacco now
on sale brings about four times as
much as it did a few years Ar
engagements are to be made nex week
to build a stemery. The tobacco trade
Will have to take the place of the cotton
trade which is nearly at an end here.
The smaller places and tie mills absorb
nearly all the cotton. This seasons re-
ceipts are 10000 baes. against $4,000
twenty years ago.
ScLdlOI anu MIS- SlIIllIlOuS VIII 80 10
Beaufort the end of next week. Mrs.
Simmons health, feeble for a year past,
is slowly improving.
Twenty carpenters will leave here to-
morrow for Norfolk, 10 work. Most OF
them will take their families. They will
get $2.75 a day.
The drought is now practical at an
end in all parts OF this county. The
improvement of young corn in the past
five days is really remarkable. East
of here, in some sections, 1t is said the
drought is yet severe. Streams are very
low. Many small streams are dry and
so are many springs. =
The democratic convention of this
county met at moor today. The pri-
mary a week g settled the question
as to most of the nominees but not to
all of them. Returns were read and
Herbert Norris nominated for senator;
John c. Drewry. F. A. Whitaker and
A B.Hunter for the house; NJ. w.
Page, for sheriff; w. NJ. Rush, for
clerk; Joseph J. Bernard. for register
of deeds.
The state election board meets here
Monday. It's members are r. A.
Doughton. w. CT. Lamb and r. T.. Clay
well. democrats, and Clarence Call and
A. 3. Freeman. republicans.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

OF a certain bishop. famous as about
the plainest nsan in England. The
Liverpool Post" tell this pleasing tale:
One day. as this homely parson sat in
an omnibus. he "ds amazed b. the per-
sistent staring OF a fellow passenger.
who presently unburdened himself as
follows:
You're a paraon. ANT you"
We'll. yes: that Is So"
Look ere. parson. would you mind
comm 'ome with me t. see my wife?"
Imaging the wife was sick and need
Ing assistance. h clergyman. at great
inconvenience to himself. went with the
On arriving al the house the man
shouted to his wife 10 come downstairs,
and, pointing to the astonfshed parson,
said. with a grin of delight:
Look e ere. Sairry. Yer said this
mornin' as I wur the hugliest chap In
England. Now. just Yer look at this
bloksi" !.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Two young men Of Charlotte had to
pay pretty dearly for watermelons the
other day. They drove out in the coun-
try after dark to pay a visit. While
returning they drove into three melon
patches. taking a fine melon from each.
The owners traced them I'D the next
day. The young men found they had
appropriated very valuable melons.
They were told the melons were worth
five dollers a piece. and 1t was pay up
or b~eprosecuted for larceny.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
HIGH PRICES of NECESSARIES OF
LIFE.

1t is a generally accepted theory that
when the farmers of this country are
prosperous the balance of the people
are also in good financial condition. To
this, as to all other rules, there seems
TO be an exception, and that exception
the country is experiencing at the pres
sent time. The term prosperity with
the farmers is generally taken to mean
existence Of high prices for all farm
products, and right here may be where
the fallacy, if there is a fallacy, lies
in taking as synonymous the terms
prosperity among the farmers and high
prices of farm products. AS a rule
the two go together: but here the Eek
ception to all rules" again comes in
and upsets the theory for when the
prices Of the articles the farmers have
to buy rise proportionately to the prices
of their products their condition is not
advanced and when their advance is
greater the producers relative condi-
tion is lowered.
But where the prices of all articles
of consumption and use advance alike
the men who produce nothing, but are
simply consumers. and this class is
largely in excess of the other, are at a
great disadvantage and their condition
financially is thereby greatly lowered.
Not for years have the prices of farm
products-articles of food-been so
high, yet you will find no one jubilant
over the plentifulness of money or hi
larious over easy times. The truth is
the high prices of farm products are
not the result of flush times, but are due
to the m~anipulations of trusts and COM
binations. The farmers are not reaping
the benefit of these high prices, but the
millionaire monopilists who control
the prices and manipulate the markets
to suit themselves are the only ones
who profit by the present conditions.
Here is where the trust gets in its
work and where the burden of the men
who are not in with the trust is made
heavier.
The New York World has the follow
ing to say on this condition of affairs
and its probable effect on the fall cleo
tions:
4hG
hotels have felt obliged to raise their
prices for food. One Of the proprietors
explains to a reporter that it is a case
of put up prces or shut up shop. He
says that during the last five years
about the era OF Mckinley prosperity
food prices have advanced 90 per
cent, and SO per cent. of this has been
scored since last January
Every housekeeper who is obliged
TO take account of expenses is conscious
of an increase in the cost of living,
without Gin the great majority of cases.
any compensating increase in wages
or salary.
eff this state of things shall continue
until the fall ~elections-and there are
no signs of an abatement of the trou-
ble-it will very possibly affect the vot-
ing seriously for the party in power.
The farmers and the trusts may be
satisfied with prosperity but how
about the consumers-who outnumper
them many times.
when the republican party was de-
feated after the rise in prices due 70
the Mckinley tariff Mr.. Blame salo;
Tt was the shopping women VINO old IL.
May not the dining men and tine OH
paying housewives do something thiS
year?"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Raleigh, N. c., July 3I.-Stevenson,
Belfield and Bishop three negroes at
Windsor. N. c., Convicted of murder
a white man. James B. Stevenson,
on April 9Th in Berries county and SEN
to be hanged tomorrow took an
appeal to the supreme court and this
will not be heard till In September. II
Is mtimated that the appeal may be
dropped and IL 80 Governor Aycock viii
name the day Of execution.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Asbestos, shellac, ashes II dyeing
materials are the articles used by d
BILE. After subsection tc heavy pressure
the product becomes very tough and
can be easily worked with tools and is
capable Of 6. very high polish
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Norfolk, Va, July 31.-The United
States training ship Lancaster and the
United States collier Alexander passed
out of the Virginia capes this morning.
The Lancaster goes to New York and
thence to the New England a for a
cruise of four months. The Alexander
goes to Join the South Atlantic squad
ron
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Jury Grants Mrs. ROsemond Five
Thousand Dollars.
Especial to The Messenger

toPtcIaI 10 IHt Htssenger.D
Raleigh, N. c., August LIN the SUI
perior court here today the jury gave
a verdict for $1,000 in favor Of Mrs. An
ME Rossemond in her suit for $50, 900
damages for killing Of her husband, a
locomotive engineer killed in a washout
on the Seaboard Air Line in South Car
olina last year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
No Money for Company Doctor

HaZelton, Pa, July Sc. B. Markle
& Co., operating the Jeddo. Ebberva1e.
Highland and Oakdale collieries, issued
a notice today that on nj after Au-
gust /, no money will be collected
through their officers for the mainten-
ance Of the company doctor. This re-
moves n Of the grievances Of which
the miners have complained for some
time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Suicide a become very fashionable
among young women in some sections
Of Cuba. The most popular mode of TAX
ing their own lives is for six or eight
women to tie themselves together and
walk into deep water.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Judge George H.. Durand, the nominee
ton of Michigan is a pronounced gold
democrat. The platform ndorses popu
lar election Of United states senator's.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

The tide of British politics seems tc
have turned toward the liberals since
the close of the Boer war. The latest
change is hat Of Earl Beauchamp, g
staunch conservative. who has joined
h Liberal League.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

The government Will start another
land lottery this fall. a half million
acres of fine farming lands In South Da-
kota will be disposed Of in this manne-.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

Mrs. r. D. Garner and Master Harry
Garner came home yesterday from Ra-
leigh.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-06-05
WATTS FIRST EXPERIENCE.
A South Audrain Farmer, Aged Fifty
Eight Years, Rides on the Rail-
road For the First Time.

John Thomas Watts, farmer, aged
5s years, added a new chapter to his
book Of experience Friday. For the
FIRST time In his life OF over half
century he road on a railroad.
Mr. Watts went to st. Louis to see
his sister, Mrs. William Staples, who
i ~ at her home, l6Os Tower Grove
avenue,
Mr., Watts was born In Audrain
County Mo-, ia 1874 and has been out
Of the county three times before his
experience Of Friday. These three
events Of his life we're when he went
to Bates county several years ago, to
Kansas 20 years ago and again 0 years
ago. All these trips we're taken in a
wagon.
The old gentleman, who, by the way,
is well-to-do farmer, talked with a
LEDGER reporter a short time before
leaving for ST. Louis and said that he
experienced no little excitement in
anticipation Of his initial trip behind
a steam engine.
Mr.. Watts was born south of Mex
leo and when six months old his par
ents moved toa new farm near what is
now the Freeman farm, near the Cal
laway county line Mr.. Watts says
that he has lived there ever since
nearly 5S years.