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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29
Senator Hanna Receives
a Telegram from
MIR. Roosevelt
MAKES NO BONES

Inform Senator Hanna That He
Desires Both His
and RenOmination Endorsed by
This Years Ohio Republican Con-
yention-Hanna Will Offer No Fur
Their Opposition.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29
DESTRU, TIVE FLOODS.

Chickasha. /. t, May 26.-The storm
situation at CE.ckasha tonight is con-
s.derably changed for the worst since
last night. The people awoke this
morning to see the Line creek. a small
stream running through the town n
emptying into WaShita river. had over
flowed its banks, and twenty on more
residences were under water. The
families living in the houses were all
rescued without loss Of life. Railroad
tracks are washed away in every di-
rCCtEOI.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29

Blanchard, Iowa, May ga tornado
struck the town of Elmo. eight miles
west Of Blanchard and just across the
Missouri line this evening, destroying
the town. Six persons are known to
have been killed and several others n
jured. The storm destroyed a Ihree
STORY brick hotel. Six bodies have
8an removed from the ruins Of the
building and other are believed 20 be
rIrtad in The debris
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
DARE NOT HINT AT MURDER
Turkish Newspapers Are Not Permit
ted to Refer to the Crime
of Regicide.

The sultan of Turkey lives in con-
slant dread of death at the hands of
an assassin and the most eXtraordi-
nary means are taken to guard his per-
son from their approach. He has like
wise prohibited any mention of the
crime of regicide in the newspapers
published in his domain. He insists
that every ruler or person of high po-
litical Importance should die natural
death. The Stampa of Turin says that
other manners of death are not Off
cially recognized by Nischan Effendi,
the censor. When King Humbert was
assassinated at Monza the Turkish
newspapers announced the sad event
in this way: "King Humbert left the
hall amid the frantic cheers of the peo-
pie. The king, much affected, bowed
several times and to all appearances
was Immediately dead" When the
shah of Persia was assassinated the
Turkish papers said: 'In the after
noon the shah drove to his summer
palace and there complained of illness.
His corpse was sent to Teheran." One
paper exeelled all others by this absurd
piece of euphemistic simplifca ton:
''The shah left a little i'll, but finally
his corpse returned to the palace"
This was too much even for the Turks,
who keep the phrase as one of their
proverbs.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND.
Court of Massachusetts
in 1888.

Slavery in New England began soon
after the settlement of the country.
In 1888 Pequot Indians were taken
from Massachusetts, and sold in the
West Indies. The vessel returning
brought a cargo of cotton and tobacco,
says the Boston Transcript. Slaves
were most numerous in New England
about the middle of the eighteenth
century. In 1854 there were nearly
5000 negro slaves in the state of Mas
sachusetts. In 1850, in the declaration
of rights, all men were declared to be
free and equal. In 1871 white man in
Massachusetts, was indicted for beat
ing and imprisoning black man. His
defense was that this was the neces-
sary and lawful correction for slave,
for a slave could not be held in sub
lection unless one could punish him
when he went away or refused to
work. In 1883 the supreme court of
Massachusetts, declared that the de-
tense was invalid. That put an end to
slavery in New England. Slaves were
mostly household servants, kept large
Iy by rich people for purposes of dis
play.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
SILK DRESSES OF TIN.
Metal Weighing Substance Has
Taken the Place of Vege-
table Matter.

A Chicago chemist declares that rs
per cent. of the so-called silk used for
skirts, blouses, and dresses is nothing
less than tin, pure and simple, says the
Tribune of that city. He asserts that
the practice of substituting tin for
vegetable weighing substances origi-
mated in Germany. The vegetable mat
tiers were no detriment, though equal
brilliancy of color was not obtainable,
and there was not the same sheen and
feel" when handled as that produced
by real silk, which has the rustic so
pleasing to the ladies' ears. 1.-THE prac-
tIce of the dyer" he explains, ''to whose
hands the silk yarn is intrusted for dye
ing and weighing, is to boil it, and in
so doing he reduces every 16 ounces to
II, thus eliminating the natural gummy
substances and the foreign matter
added for the purpose of spinning. The
IL ounces were then brought up to IA by
the use of fannie acid, etc. To-day by
the substitution of tin, the IL ounces
are raised to 16 ounces, or even 80
ounces"
1.-The proportion of weighing is
more than that in black silk" said a
manufacturer to whom this statement
was submitted. Frequently only one
fourth of the woven material is real
silk; the other three parts are tin and
dye"
Any woman can test for herself
whether the silk she is buying is tin
weighted. Let her hold some threads
IN a flame, and the genuine will leave
an ash resembling that of wool when
burned, with no traces of filament,
while the tin weighted simply loses its
color and tenacity, each thread re-
naming distinct in a thin wire gauze
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
THE BLESSED LETTER .B'."
Some of the BeneFcIen MT Things That
Come to the HOrticuIturist
Under This Letter.

a writer in the Garden has discover
ed that many of the worst foes of the
horticulturist begin with wv" and he
instances worms, weevils, wind and
other workers of wickedness. This
suggests a question, says the London
Chronicle, as to whether there is any
natural grouping of good or evil things
under particular letters. Take bad, -
for example, and consider how many
Blooms and blessings to man begin with
it. The baker, butcher and brewer
bring him bread, beef and beer.
For additional foods he has bacon,
beans, bevril, bloaters, broccoli, broth,
bivalves. bananas, berries, biscuits,
buns and butter. After a banquet of
bonnes-bouches he may bring out his
briar and blow his baccy while he be-
strides his bicycle. Finally, with his
-.boko'' ON the bolster he may find bliss
In bed between the blankets. These
are but few of the-beneficent things
included under that blessed letter "b.' -
Now. as a contrast. take sd" and
among the first words we think of are
damp, dark, dreary, dismal, dirty, de-
pressed, despairing, dead drunk, and
SO on, the very sound of which is enough
TO drive one into doleful dumps.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
TEXAS "TURNIP KRAUT."
a Dish That Is Common Upon the
Tables of the Farmers of the
Lone Star State.

In many parts of Texas the question
in the fall is: What can we do with our
superabundance of turnips? In south
Texas a discussion is going on in re-
gard to this vegetable which may be
of interest to the people who do not
they have more than they can use,
says the Galveston News. The Hal
lettsville Herald has this to say:
The Herald clipped an item from
the La Grange Journal last week rela-
tive to 'turnip kraut, which that paper
stated was something previously I'M
known in this section. The editor ac-
knowledges that he had never heard
of turnip kraut before, but he has
since been informed by several parties
in Hallettsville that it is nothing new
There are many families in this city
who make it every year, and one in
dormant tells us that every German
farmer in Lavaca county either makes
t or knows of it. Turnip kraut is diff
ferent from other kraut, but is equal
~ as palatable. The turnips are cut
with either a cabbage or potato cut
ter and made with salt and vinegar.
1t is heavier and has more substance
than plain kraut, and has a firm, white
appearance. A day never passes but
what one learns something new, and
we have added turnip kraut to our de-
partment of knowledge"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
Chickamauga and Chattanoora.

The word Chickamauga means
"dull, sluggish stream" and it is
from the waters of the creek that
the Indians, who were among the
most daring and warlike of all the
tribes in east Tennessee, got their
names, says the Chattanooga Times.
The original Interpretation of Chat
tanooga has long been lost. The gen
eral occupation of the meaning of
the word is Hawks Nest" said to
have been suggested by the valley
nesting in the shadow of the ridges
and mountain. Others say that the
word is derived from the name Clan
owah, given by the Cherokees to
small, warlike hawks that made their
nests in the cliffs of Lookout noun
tain
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
WORLDS FAIR SLANG.
st. Louis VIII Now Set the Pace in the
Coming Of New Words and
Phrases.

One of the enduring effects of the
Chicago fair in 1893 was the amount of
slang originated there. The Philadel-
phia centennial is indissolubly con-
nected in the minds of many persons
with the disappearance of Charley
Ross, and from that exhibition dates,
practically, the host of jokes that have
flooded magazines and enlivened the
stage on the slothfulness of Philadel-
phia and Philadelphians, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
Now, st. Louis, in anticipation of the
opening of the Louisiana Purchase ex-
hibition, has been Furnishing up some
of the recent slang of the Mississippi
valley, and some of the items may be
obtained from advance sheets, so to
speak.
What is called in Chicago dead
one" or sleeper" is in ST. Louis a
Grape" The st. Louis version of the
expression 'the real thing" fora pref
ty girl is "a swell DOLL" "crown
guy" is policeman, a ''gitney' is a
nickel, and mugs landing" is the
Union station.
st. Lous has large southern and
southwestern population. The south
west has, in recent years, superseded
the west very generally as the starting
place of most American slang, and St.
Louis has some geographical advan-
tages in this respect that are not likely
to be obscured by the action of any
of its up-tO-date citizens.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
Linen for Large Hotel.

What would the ordinary woman
say to family that used every day
10000 napkins, 10000 towels, $500
sheets, 10000 plates and $4,000 knives
and forks? This is what is required
by one of the large hotels in New.
York, at which man cannot live for
much less than eight dollars a day.
The hotel will accommodate 5000
people, besides 1900 servants to wait
on them.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
LADIES' DRESS SKIRTS.

LADIES DRESS SKIRTS.
s. Black Skirts, 1.a5
So Skirts, $50.
81 Top Shirts, 3.
So Top S,airt.:, $40.
SHOES.
Mems Fine SEES, solid leather.
LIS Shoes fer 1.25,
2.5O Colt Skin Shoes, LIS,
$50 Wei Kid Shoes, 2,
3 Patent Leather Shoes, 2.25,
The best $50 Shoes on the mar
ket for 3,
Ladies' 1.50 Shoes for LOO,
200 Shoes, 1.50.
2.5O.Shoes for Ladies, 200,
LADIES' SLIPPERS.
1.50 Slippsrs. LOO,
200 Slippers, 1.50,
ESQ Slippers, 200,
MEMS LOW CUTS.
200 Low Cuts for $50,
ESQ Low Cuts for 200,
800 Low Cuts for ESQ,
1 have also reduced the prices
on Children's and Misses Shoes
Old Ladies' Shoes,
Old Gentlemen's Shoes,
Shoes to suit everybody.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
Patawonians DYING Ont

DR.. julius Boeckelmann, German
physician and scientist, who went to
Patagonia eight years ago to study
the conditions of the country, says
the Patsgonians win be extinct in
few years.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19
Established 1SS1-23 Year of
Continuous Publication,

Display advertisements, $1.00 per inch
for first time; 80 cents per inch each
subsequent insertion
Reading notices, 10 cents per line each
issue; reading notices in black type, 90
cents per line each issue
Cards Of thanks, calls on candidates,
and similar matter. 10 cents per line.
Special rates for big advertisements.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-05-19

I can't deny it any longer-that
[ am committing the great crime
in Bourbon County-seat of Paris,
at the G. O. D. Store, in front of
the ICourt- House the cutting OF
prices on Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats,
Clothing, and everything in the
house for ten days. Just that way.
Bleached Muslin, 4 Lie yd,
Brown Muslin, 4 lie I'd,
Calicoes, 4 lie yd,
Apron bingham, 4 lie yd,
Lonsdale Bleacbed Muslin,
Z IL yd,
81-3c Shifting Cotton, 6 1-4c yd,
Lawns, &c yd,
Bed Ticking, sc yd,
1Oc and IL 1-2c Percales, at
s 1-3c yd,
New York Mills Camlets, 10c yd
ga Brown Sheeting, 15c yd,
&c Corsets, 25c pair,
81-3c Embroideries, sc,
IL lie Embroideries, 7 lie,
15c Embroideries, 10c,
II lie Embroideries, IL lie,
Zoe Embroideries, 15c,
25c Embroideries, II Lie,
3Oc Embroideries, Zoe,
35c Embtoideries, 25c.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
TO RETIRE THE GREENBACKS
Is to be Main Feature Of New Currency Bill.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1o.-Congressman Chas. N.
banking and currency, is in Chicago to confer
with bankers on the details Of the financial
bill he is to Introduce at the expected extra
session of congress.
Mr.. Fowler has outlined the plan of his bill.
1t will include three leading features, each of
which would represent an important change in
the currency system.
The first feature provides for retirement of
the greenbacks, or for their "impounding'
through stipulation that the banks be COM
PEELED to hold 90 pei cent of their cash reserves
in the United States. AS the national banks
to-day are voluntarily holding $163 3,ooo. 900 of
the greenbacks, Congressman Fowler thinks
that this requirement would involve no hard
ships. 1t would, according to his idea, be an
efectual way of divestng the greenbacks of
their power tor harm.
The second feature is for the depositing of
all public money in the banks, the government
to get per cent interest, and be secured by
first lien on bank assets, the relationship be-
tween the government and the banks thus re-
sembling the present relationship OF states and
municipalities to the banks where they keep
their money on deposit. Deposits are not to be
larger than 50 per cent of the paid-up capital
of the banks receiving them.
The third feature of the bill will be provis-
ion for ''asset' or "credit" currency Ma
tional banks will be permitted to put out such
currency by dep ositing in the United States
treasury gold coin or government bonds equal
to per cent of the amount so put out. This
per cent, together with the per cent interest
on government deposits and per cent tax on
notes thus issued, would constitute "guaranee
fund" When this guarantee fund" amount
ed to $40, 900, 900, the excess over this amount
would be utilized in purchasing gold bullion
for converting the greenbacks into gold GER
ti6cates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
THIS, THAT AND TOTHER.

Linn county captured the prize for the best
agricultural display.
Russia has new scheme to delay the evaeu-
alton of Hanchuria a year.
The American people pay over $Ioo, 900, 900
annually for sugar. Surely, the American has
a sweet tooth.
Young women as messengers will take the
places of boys in all the branch Offices of the
Western Union Telegraph Company at Kansas
City. The superintendent says the boys are
not attentive enough to business.
Senator Long is taking rest at Gueda
of congress do with great regularity and con-
siderable enthusiasm. One is to take rest,
and the other is to draw their salares.-Char-
ley Finch.
And yet, it is hardly possible that congress
will strike and gr home if they fail to get an
ncaease of salary. There are great many of
them who couldn't make $500 year if they
should, by any chance, lose their congressional
jobs. s.-Lawrence Jeffersonian Gazette.
A terrific earthquake occurred at Santiago de
Cuba last Saturday. The earth shook for fif-
teen seconds, but there were no undulations.
People rushed into the streets and cried and
prayed. Bricks and plastering dropped in all
directions and some walls fell but, strange to
say, nobody was injured.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

LABOR organizations continue to endorse
Mr.. Hearst for the presidency. This action is
complimentary to the young journalist, but
will prove of little real value in the contest for
the nomination. Candidates for the presidency
are not named to please labor unions for two
reasons. One is that the members have no
money to contribnte to the campaign fund, and
another is the well-known fact that trades
unionist doesn't permit his interests to interfere
with his politics on election day. This class
of citizens can hardly hope to WELD any great
influence in nominating conventions until they
win reputation for voting with some approach
to unanimity of purpose. Topeka State Joul-
nal (Rep.)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

Governor Bailey and his helpers saying
question of the padded appropriations by the
last legislature. Governor Bailey, if he keeps
on at this, will, some of these days, look like
the deaf man on the railroad track who insist
ed that there was no train coming behind him,
and refused to look around.-Lawren:e Jeffer-
sonian Gazette.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

the humanites are more powerful as force in
gain. He said:
"Senator Burton yesterday spoke concerning
the floods of water. l wish to speak of the
floods of humanity. l am not pessimist, but
an optimist, but l am not of that order of op.
timist which says there are no floods of human
woe that need looking after, and which are
sources of danger. l am reminded OF the man
who fell from he roof of New York sky
scraper. He was heard to remark as he passed
each floor: All right SO far What he re-
marked when he struck the cobblestone pave
ment is not reported. We as nation may
still say, Ne are all right so far but I do not
care to tryconclusions with the inevitable cob.
blestones if we iai to check our fall by such
means as are within our power.
"Let us give to the landless man the man.
less land.
"Domicide is worse than homicide, for the
destruction of he home is the destruction of
the nation
"The American poor ask not for charity,
but for opportunity"
Keen epigranl and wise aphorsm filled the
address, and the audience responded with cheers
to his demand that the man without money be
given chance.
The irrigation congress directs attention to
the remarkable system of irrigation and com.
munity building found to-day in Utah.
The Mor.nons owe their success, their con-
slant growth and enduring hold upon their
people-in single word, their power-to the
fact that they are deeply rooted in the soil.
From the nome mt that the first small party of
pioneers lighted the first campfire by the banks
OF City Greek, July 27, IS49, their policy has
been to get possession of the land and to make
that land yield up to them, individually and
collectively, a living and competence.
Brigham Young and his successors down to
the present hour have been guided by the true
instinct of empire builders. They grasped at
the beginning, and have held, throughout their
history, the grea- truth that the earth is the
source of all wealth, and that neither man nor
communities can be poor or helpless so long as
tney nave q uIln IOOtHOlu Oh TIE SOIL.
But this was only part of their wisdom.
The other part was the fact that they divided
the land among multitude of small proprie-
tors. According to the census returns, the
average farm in Utah is twenty-seven acres.
AS many large ranches were included in the
average, it is obvious that there must have
been many which were of even smaller dimen-
sons--and this is the fact 1t is not uncom-
mon to find people living comfortably on two
ur three acres, while some of the most famous
families, like the Woodrufs, have lived for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

nearly two generations on twenty-acre place.
The Mormon church has been, from the first,
great scheme of co-ope. ative colonization. 1t
has taken poor men and made them prosper
ous-converted tenants into proprietors, tramps
into tax PAYERS, hired men into employers, and
made the outcast partner in store, factory and
bank.
And how has it done all this? First by
knowing the value of our great public domain
and proceeding to help itself to the wealth
thereof, in strict accordance with the letter and
spirit of the law.
Then, by dividing the land among those who
use it, and seeing that the land owner is also
the owner of the water and of all the facilities
of its distribution
Fortunately for them the pioneers and those
who followed them were poor. No man was
rich enough to exploit the mass. The work to
be done was beyond the reach of individuals,
and the only capital available was the brains
and muscle of leaders and followers. This
capital was organised and employed in co-ope-
ration. 1t was the only way. And it won.
National irrigation, growth of cooperation,
repeal Of the land laws, by means of which
the public domain is being absorbed by specu-
lators-this is the solution of many social and
economic problems, including the Mormon
question.
The question before the country is this:
Will the American people wake up before it is
too late, or will they procrastinate until the en-
terprising speculator holds all the strategic
points along the pathway of the home maker?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

EAT AT THE RED LIGHT
the best place in town.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-07-09
CHARTER RECEIVED.
New Glass Factory to be Operated at
Randall by M0rgantown People
What they Expect to do.

The cnarter was received this morn
ing from Secretary of State Dawson for
The Randall Glass Company, capital
lied at 500, 900. The charter is for
the new plant at Randall, work on
which has already begun. The stock
holders are as follows: o. Price War
rick, August Beehler, Joseph A,
Marschner, Leopold Sigwart, Frank
Schmidiger. j. A. Kammerer, and
Otto Sigwart. The company Will con-
duct a business for the manufacture
and sale of glass bottles, glassware
and glass products Of all the various
forms and kinds, whether pressed or
blown, and for the purpose of buying
and dealing in patents pertaining to
the manufacture of glassware in all
it's different forms and machinery,
tools and appliances for the making
of the same and erecting factories,
sale depots and store houses in this
and other states.
This company as it will be seen
is backed by men of special glass max
ing experience. Mr.. Warrlck being the
manager of the W. r Jones glass fac
tory here, and Leopold Sigwart being
the manager and August Boehler the
president OF the Seneca factory, gives
the new company the best of backing
and the advantage Of these men Of ex-
perience. The workmen are to be
brought from Indiana and New Jersey
by Sept. 1st.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-07-09
Locals and Personals.

sKeep sour eye on Chaneery
Hill"
Sergeant st Clair has returned from
a visit of some length to Plttsburg.
Mrs. Lewis COPYRIGHT has gone for
visit of couple of weeks to her old
home at Mount Pleasant.
Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Beard, Mrs.
jason CLARK, Raymond Clark and
Clarance Kincaidsleft this afternoon
for a visit to Atlantic City.
Mrs d. =. Donley has returned
from visit TO her sister Mrs. ID. b.
Adams at Pittsburg Pa. She has
gone on to her home at Mt. Morris,
after brief stop with her son here,
Il. g. Donley.
A SOCIAL is to be given on Friday
evening by the G. +. society OF the
Christian church on the lawn in
'front.' OF the church on Spruce street.
The social begins at seven o'clock
and cordial invitation is extended
tc every one to attend.
You are invited to eat free ice cream
az Powell & Mlller's on Friday and
Saturday.