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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-18

insight into he passage copied. II a
pleasant conversation at Norfolk in
1866. with the late gifted James Barron
Hope, a journalist and poet of merit. We
remember to have said to him some
thing i X this: That owing to slavery
h white race had become no only
Of commanding temper, but it was be-
You'd doubt the most liberty loving peo-
pie on the globe. The peonage system
had intensified their love OF liberty.
He agreed with US at once and said he
had not thought OF it in that way be-
fore. Two years later in a public adj
dress at Danville, Va, this writer de-
clared that he believed after Liberty
had taken its flight from the north and
had sought refuge elsewhere that il
would be found intact in the mountains
Of the south. We were reminded of this
when We e the following from the
Standards editor, who is a native OF
Virginia, but thirty-six years later.
that slavery developed in the master
the spirit Of self-assrrtion which was
necessary to mastership. 1t also devel-
OpCo ii 4 va iCSGOliolDllIly lOI a.
under the masters care. And it taught
the absolute necessity of the cardinal
virtues, courage and sincerely. The
organization OF the plantation was de-
stroyed when the master betrayed his
fear of his slaves, or when he failed to
keep his word. 1t was due also in large
measure, to the easy conditions af life
in the south, with its Findly sun and
soil that the grace OF hospitality be-
came proverbial at the south"
The fair goddess of Liberty will
abide in this old state when she a
shaken the dust of other sections from
her ~sandalled feet. Let he south pre-
serve its virtue, it's manhood, it's lofty
ideals, its worship Of fair, pure woman
hood, it's gracious, refined manners. its
generous, Astounding hospitality, it's
freedom from inns" and new re-
ligions and fanaticism and idolatry and
genreous. Astounding hospitality, it's
freedom from issues and new re-
ligion, and fanaticism and idolatry and
p~ertinacous humbugery. The Stand
ard throws out a safe line OF warning
ing just here. 1t says n with fitting
phrasing and impulse:
The good should DC initiated. But
the south should make a firm
stand against the overwhelming of it's
own civilization by that which is for
eign to it. And it is in danger of los
ing those characteristics hat have
given 1t its greatest renown, without
gaining and adequate compensation for
the loss. We rejoice at the growing
prosperity Of the south and at the abil-
ity of some to heap up riches. But the
desire of wealth should never over
slaugh the old, noble conception, that
wealth must have something more than
itself to commend it, and that the
browning triumph OF vulgarity is the
aristocracy of money If we can sue
coed in winning wealth while despising
it for its own sake, then that wealth
will flow out into benefcent channels,
and the arts and sciences, literature
and invention will flourish as trees by
rivers of water. Nor should the haste
to be rich interfere with s~elf-culture,
nor the making of d living with the
making Of a life"
There is much more in the Standards
editorial that is suggestive and safe.
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THE NEGRO IN poLrrrcs.
He Does not Agree with His white
Brother as TO Dropping oat-Deae-
cratic Candidates for the sapreHe
Court.
Messenger Bureau

haIelSn. ~ -. ApIu IL -
The negroes say that all the talk
the white republicans about the benefit
hat will result from the dropping Of
the negro is mere bosh: that the white
republicans claim that with the Negro
eliminated their party will get white
voters to join IL. but that this win not
happen, and that the negroes have real
ly created and kept alive the white re-
publicans.
Auditor w. Q. Call. OF Mississippi, -
here. He was asked Why his state had
few or no cotton mills and said It waS
because the banks made so much moaey
and the inteset rate Is unlimited. Ia
says some banks pay es per cent divt
bends a year and that there . no state
SUPERVISION OF them.
One OF the special events of this week
here will be the base ball game oetween
the University OF Virginia n the
University Of North Carolina. next Sat-
urday. 1t will be played at state
fair grounds. All the games here this
season are to be played at the fair
grounds
So far no one but Walter Clark il in
the field for the democratic nomination
for chief justice. but IL a today be
said to be entirely probable that he win
have opposition before the date OF the
state convention.
AS TO the associate ~iusticeships it 4
asserted by people on the inside sh4
H. G.. Common will defeat George U
Brown for the nomination for what may
be termed the eastern judgeship"
For the western judgeship" there are
four aspirants. all with a strong follow
ing. these being Plat D. Walker. ]. ~
Lockhart. G. III. Armfield and g A.
Moore.
Walter w. Mills. OF Biscoe. today
gave the Methodist orphanage here 81
900.
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The American use of the Spanish
mode of torture is one of the develop
ments of latter-day civilization" Save
the mark, 1t is called the water
cure" and it is really an Internal sys-
tenn Of torture quite worthy Of barbara
ans but wholly unfit for people wen
half civilized. 1t is another expression
of war that causes it to exemplify
hell" 1t is used in the Philippines by
Americans to extort confession, and it
is Internal in its iniquity and horror.
Here is the account:
According to the soldiers, who say
they were eyewitnesses, the subject
suspected of treason or harboring
knowledge, of the seditious sentiments
OF others, is stripped 10 the waist, with
arms securely pinioned. He is then
thrown under a tank holding about a
hundred gallons of water, which runs
into his mouth, held forcibly open. This
failing to lead him to do almost any
thing to enable him 10 escape the tor
ture, another degree Is added: that is,
the water this time Is supplied through
a syringe into his mouth. Sometimes
an adamant nature Will successfully re-
sist this, but The OF benevo-
lence are not yet at an end. The
syringe in the text stage is directed
into the subjects nostrils and allowed
to play with the hope Of bursting his
heart of it's secrets. At times, how
ever, even this is endured, and then the
last and most effectual of all remedies
is applied: Salt is thrown into the
water! 1t seems that this will dislodge
a confession no matter how remotely
hidden it might be-"
If thai is not barbararic and devilish
beyond belief then how will you charac-
terize it? Think of 1t. that men with
white skins sent out from a boastful
and arrogant republic claiming a high
civilization and great enown' are the
devils incarnate who ~perpetrate the
villainy and administer the torture.
| What must intelligent men every where
| think of such offenses against human
| ity? What can lend to lower the Amer
lean name more at nome and abroad?
The Baltimore Sun has these appropri-
ate words:
"All this is tolerated by a people who
| affect to be appalled, when a delegation
of citizens summarily remove from It's
| community a negro who has violated
a d~efenseless woman! What crime has
| the Filipino committed in refusing &c
disclose the motives for resisting alier
aggression? Is the water cure one
of the symbol of the superiority of the
'ciyilized'' over the semi barbarous
If it is, h the half-civilized people OF
the Philippines seem justified IN pre-
ferring to remain in that benlghteC
state which teaches them less or tn
elories of a superior mora! and menta
development"
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size. there being only about 5000 white
people. the remainder of the $1,000 popu-
lation being negroes
Mr.. Bruner says the exposition Is
certainly one of the greatest ever nsio
in the south, being only surpassed Dy
the exposition ut New Orleans in 1879
The North Carolina exhibit was VS.
tied during the winter by many nun
dreds Of people from the north ana
who examined every depart
ment with deep interest. All OF them
according high praise and many or
them declaring their intention to o
further into the desirabiiity Of the state
for business and rs a place OF resi-
dence."
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HOME FOLKS.

Durham is the first county to report
a rural library for every school. We
have an impression that General julie
Carr had a good hand in this good work
and pleasant contamination.
II - +
The papers are publishing the liss OF
the class that was graduated at the
university in 1852. The class of 1851 had
at n time 81 members. All did not
graduate. But Of the 81 il is believed
that not more than I'VE are yet living
possibly but four. Is this correct.
Mt. T K. Bruner, the efficient sec
rotary Of the state board Of agriculture,
Is back from Charleston, and brings
h gratifying report that already good
results follow the fine North Carolina
exhibit The Raleigh Post says:
MI. Brunere expresses qualification al
the success which Is being scored by the
exposition and especially by the North
Carolina exhibit He says the exposi-
ton Is a ~stupendoUs monument tc
the colossal cheek Of a city the size o,
Charleston to undertake a show Of that
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CLEANING AND COMMENT.

Great Britain has been forced already
to borrow more money than it did in its
Napoleonic war so long protracted- Its
armament then was on a much smaller
scale. The people are grooming literal
ly under the burden Of increased taxa
ton. The income a alone yielded for
the fiscal year ending the 31st of March
last. s174. 900. 200. 1t is so hard up
1t is about to tax the eatables Of the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-18
Hoods SGrsooariUG
and Pills

Make the blood pure, vigorous anfi
rich, create appetite, give vitality.
strength and animation, and care
ell eruptions. Have the whole family
begin to take them today
Hoods Sarsapariila has keen ussd in
our family for some tir-e, AID 2asa-s Nth
good results. Last spring ] IVES 81 run
Gown and got a bottle Of it. and IS ussal
received great benefit s.iss. BgULAE
BoYcE. Stowe. "
HOODS s~er-,r- e-o-r!ses &c
cure and kcessE ..lI r.cscsse.
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Spring TGedicine

There is no other season when good
medicine is SO much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverished-a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality.
loss of appetite, lack of strength, and
want of animation.
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POSTAGE PREPAID.

THE DAILY MESSENGER by mail
one year 500; six months $3.50; three
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served in the city at so cents a month,
n week Is cents. s1.7S for three months
or $500 a
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The St. Louis Republic., 1902-01-19

pounds. NOW We1gh one nuuulcQ anu ufty-
six pouuds-more than ever weighed before.
I was 30 bad would lie from day to day and
long for death to come and relieve my suffer
able drain, bearing down pain, and such distress
every month, but now never have q pain--do
MI my own work and am a strong and healthy
wofnan.s
Use Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets with
eFayorite Prescription" if the bowels
- inactive or irregular.
The St. Louis Republic., 1902-01-19
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

Jacksonville trial Mrs Mamie Barnes who accused of
n the of L. a
taken when tn
testify realizing inability
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.
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In 1897 Doctor Barnes gave signs of weak
ehing mental faculties. He was unnatural
~ forgetful. At times he could not recOS-
nize his relatives or friends.
Became Trained Nurse.
Forced to depend upon her own eXertionS,
Mrs. Barnes entered a hospital and became
a trained nurse. In that capacity she served
in Adams County, Illinois. for several years.
and such she entered into prisons and
tails. so coming in contact with the GRIM
inals, including Ferguson.
Subsequent to a desperate attempt at bank
robbery in Quincy, ILL.,, two of three men
who were suspected to be the safe-breakers
We're shot and the third was wounded by
Detective George Koch of Quincy and by a
Quincy policeman. The wounded man was
sent to the Quincy Jail, and thither Mrs.
Barnes went to nurse him. AT that time
Ferguson was in the jail. and also Sigmund
Friedman, Jew and alleged forger, and
who was expected to give evidence at the
trial partly corroborative u Ferguson's
damaging assertions.
The alleged plot. as the case for the
prosecution was outlined in the opening
statement made Thursday. was entered in
entirely inferential. Nothing is to show
attempt the life of Barnes and Mrs Barnes.
with her husband Gagged in an asylum, was
in fact widow. though not so in the
to show that Mrs. Barnes desired to marry
again. and would wish. on this or any other
account. TO rid herself of her husband.
Ferguson a ParOled Prisoner.
Ferguson was sent from Quincy to the
Chester Penitentiary. where he was paroled
upon the application of a Quincy lawyer.
The prosecution held that Mrs. Barnes
obtained the parole of Ferguson, but the
defense contradicted this assertion and said
that nothing of the kind could be proven. 1t
was admitted, however, that after return
ing to Quincy on parole. Ferguson cid some
house-cleaning in the home of Mrs.
Barnes That was about a week before the
sudden death of Doctor Barnes in the
Jacksonville institution.
About IL o'clock on the morning of May
T. a negro purporting to be William Winn
of Monticello, a barber. who had often
shaved Barnes, but who had been dad
for two years, appeared at the Central
Hospital. He carried a note addressed to
the superintendent of the institution. Doc
tor F. c. Winslow. and apparently written
by Mrs Dale c. Kelly sister of Barnes.
The missive identified the negro as Winn,
an old acquaintance of the patient, Doctor
Barnes, and requested that the former be
admitted to see Barnes. This letter. ac-
cording to the testimony of Mrs. Kelly.
given both at the Ferguson trial and
Thursday. during the trial just terminated,
was n forgery.
The note was taken to the superintendent,
and the negro was admitted to the recep-
tion-room of the institution. Attendants
went to the ward wherein was Barnes, and
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the chief one. excepting her needle and
thread. When she is not sewing she is
welding the broom. and brushes over and
over tie bare floor. which is already as
c'ean as years sweeping could make it.
She Tears newspaper men. but. to give
evidence OF sympathy for her hard position,
which Is her due. be she guilty or not
eunty' Is to melt her frigidity.
On. L am so tired" she said, as she
stood at her cell door. leaning on tho
broom. I can't last much longer. 1 know
l can't eat and l can't sleep.
Yes. my husband was Judge James Me-
Williams Pshaw. YOU people down in Mis-
eour1 knew him. He was Judge In Cape
Girardeau County and his pictures a-hang-
ing up right now in the Cape Girardeau
courthouse. He was well known all over
missouri. OF course he wasn't very rich
at ALL We was just comfortable. 1 always
rad TO work at the housekeeping and was
glad of it.
Ihen here comes all this trouble They
came over to Monticello, where l was liy-
ing. and brought me here, and here I've
been 'sVer since. And they haven't got any
evidence against US excepting that of black
legs and such
But 1 mustn't talk about that. The
lawyers say We mustn't talk about our
case"
Her Strength Is Waning.
AS she talked she lay down the broom
and sat down upon the edge of her cot. Her
face is thin and wasted and wrinkled Her
voice is weak, and her waning strength
warns her that she cannot be garrulous
as she would wish. She is evidently one of
those frequent old women who naturally
love to gossip about herself and others.
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CAPT. HORNE, U. S. A.,
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
Dal Porto, a Fruit Dealer, Saves
Officers Life After a Des-
perate Struggle.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
San Francisco. Jan. B-Captain w. ]. D.
Horne. u. S. A. Ninth Cavalry. made
deliberate attempt 10 commit suicide in the
fruit store of A Dal Porto in this city.
Porto was dressing a chicken at the back
part Of the store when the Captain walked
hastily up to him and asked whether the
knife he was using was sharp.
1T is, said Dal Porto. and in an instant
Horne grabbed 1t and slashed himself across
the throat. Dal Porto, Notwithstanding his
surprise, grappied with the Captain, and
desperate struggle followed. in which the
fruit man received a slight cash on the
right side of his neck.
The shouting and the scuf1e between the
two men, both standing 6 feet high and
crowd, and, with the aid of several men,
Horne was held down until quieted, when
he was taken by his captors TO the Union
Square Drug Store.
examined the wound, Horne the while de-
claring his wish to die.
He wriggled," said the doctor, ';n his
desire to aggrayate the wound and increase
the How of blood"
Four men held him down while Doctor
Farmer held his hands and head. He con-
tfnually asked the doctor to let his head go.
The ambulance from the Receiving Hos
pital was summoned and Horne was taken
there.
3 Captain Horne arrived from Manila in
December ana registered at the Occidental
He then left San Francisco and returned on
Friday, having received an order to appear
before the Retiring Board. held at the Pre-
sidio.
While doing service at Manila the Captain
was seriously Ill in the hospital, suffering
from dysentery and fever, and has been an
invalid for some time.
At the Occidental Hotel the news of the
Captains attempt at seif-destruction came
as a surprise.
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Who sat beside her mother, the defendant,
during the latter's trial for murder.
Death Of Doctor barnes,

Death of Doctor Barnes.
Doctor Joseph L. Barnes. a man OF
middle age, whose life had been blast
ed by a mental disease. on May
last forgot the black melancholy
which oppressed him and gleefully laughed
an unsuspecting, childish laugh, when he
received box of candy, supposedly a
present from his sister, in the Central In
sane Hospital, State asylum at Jackson
vile. Ill.
An hour later he was seized with convul-
sions. Another hour and he was dead.
Experts found traces of strychnine at a
post-mortem examination
Murder was the immediate hypothesis.
Mrs Mamie Barnes. the dead mans wife.
was arrested on a charge Of having con-
spired to poison her husband, and Of using
ex-conVicts as her tools to this end.
States Web Of Evidence.
Lawyers Of the highest reputation were
pitted against each other, and the State
hoped to prove q motive and to weave a
web Of circumstantial evidence about the
accused widow. from which there could be
no escape for her.
Mrs. Mary l. Mcwilliams. an aged
widow Of 70 years. whose long life, until
eight months ago. was of unbroken pros
perity. was Jailed at Jacksonville, as an
accessory.
And now. Also negro, veteran in peni-
tentiary service. known variously as Will
liam Webb. William Winn and william
Webb Ferguson, Is convicted on the charge
OF administering the strychnfne. and is sen-
fenced to twenty years of hard labor.
The sudden ending Of the trial of Mrs.
Barnes came as a complete surprise to
every one In Jacksonville.
The gallery and lower floor of the court
room at jacksonville were daily crowded
with hundreds OF men and women, whom
interest In the case had attracted.
Little Louise Barnes.
But Of all who thronged to hear the pro-
ceedings and to stare at Mrs Barnes for
none had the trial greater significance than
for little Martha Louise Barnes, IL years
old, and daughter of the defendant. Yet
no one was more innocently unaware of the
seriousness Of all that she heard and saw,
Of the fact that her mothers liberty and
standing In the community were at stake.
Each day, clad in a neat frock, with her
brown hair hanging loose In long curls she
sat at her mothers side. Her big brown
eyes wandered curiously from Judge to jury,
from the witness to the lawyers, as II she
were wondering what kind Of game all these
people and her mamma were playing.
When the court adjourned each evening
she went to the home of one of her mothers
attorneys, parting from her mother without
asking reasons. since the recurring sep
arations had become customary.
Child Grows Tired.
Sometimes, during the wearisome day.
when cross-examiner was marrying witness
or lawyer clustering at Judge, apparent
ly about nothing at all. she grew tired. She
twisted and turned in her seat, and then
took to making pictures upon a tablet
Of the lawyers and the Judge. They were
funny pictures" and she laughed over
them. and showed them to her mother, even
though they may have been crude carica.
tures of the jurymen who were to decide 80
much for Mrs. Barnes.
During recess Of court one day littls
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soc and $1,oo a Bottle.

LESS THAN ONE CENT A DOSE
Refuse substitutes. There is none '.just
as good as Warmers Safe Cure. 1t has
cured all forms of kidney disease during
the last thirty years. 1t is prescribed by
all doctors and used in the leading hospi-
taIs as the only absolute cure for all
forms of disease of the kidney. liver and
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led him down to the reception-room. A
this time. say the physicians who tendc'
him. Barnes was in good health. save fo
his mental affiction, and a semiparalySi
of the lower limbs.
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But the press of ner present trouble weighs
her down.
The trial of Mrs Barnes began early
this week. but II required three days to Sc
cure jury. The first testimony was taken
ana the statements of prosecution and de-
Tense made on Thursday. The case against
Mrs. Barnes, as announced by the prosecu-
tion rested on the testimony of witnesses
who. it was claimed. would be produced to
show that an alleged conspiracy existed
which aimed at the life of Barnes, and to
which Mrs. Barnes was party.
What the Theory Involves.
The fact that this theory of conspiracy
could be entertained involves the history of
the married life of Doctor and Mrs. Barnes.
their separation when he became insane.
and her subsequent movements.
They were married about fourteen years
a time he practiced at Loekport, H., but
finally moved to Monticello. Ill. where he
gradually secured paying clientele. But
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WHO CONDUCTED THE BARNES TRIAL

Miss Barnes confided that she didn't know
whether she liked trials or not.
"But do you understand what It IL all
about?" she was asked
'oh. yes" said she; 'they are trying
mamma"
''why?'
Mamma. what are they trying you for? ?'
she popped out suddenly to her mother.
Another Dramatic Picture.
Just as interesting and dramatic a picture
was aged Mrs. McWilliams. feeble and sick,
Gagged In her cell In jail. awaiting trial.
The Jail itself. from the exterior. is very
comfortable-appearing country house.
which Is. in fact the home Of Sheriff
Charles Widmeyer. Small rooms in the
rear Of the house are partitioned into cells
and barred with iron In one of these
Mrs. Barnes and her mother slept.
The old lady. though she has been a
prisoner for months. has not quite forgot
ten lifelong habits as q housekeeper. Her
facilities are limited. Indeed . broom IL
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forth and was contagious. so that Judge

forth and was contagious. SO that Judge
and jury Joined in.
circumstances of the poisoning. and the wit
nesses were either expert physicians or at
tendants at the Jacksonville Insane Asy-
lum. Nothing was brought to light which
had not figured in the evidence aeainst
Ferguson. when the latter was convicted.
F'erguson's testimony and that OF others
pected to follow early next week. His sud-
den determination not to testify upset all
plans and expectations and brought the rel-
ebrated case to sudden end.
HASTINGS MacADAM.
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NEGRO FERGUSON REFUSES TO TESTIFY;
CASE AGAINST MRS. BARNES DISMISSED.

fheSt
y o tn Tha
BanP Pde Candy Unusual
Feam to a un Piturs"
in t-Ag il Case
Is N very Fl