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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29

The trusts are said to la picked ouf
Senator Fairbanks for Roosevelt's run
ming mate. HOIlander and HoosIer-
now. there's a team for you.-Atlanta
Constitution
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29

of an old Hindu. who claimed to be none
other than the reincarnated General
Nicholson Of mutiny fame.
Nor were either persuasion or argu-
ment OF any avail against his dOgge0
assurance. The old chap had been Or
derby 70 the general, and had soothed
his last moments after he had fallen
motally wounded IN front of the Cash
mere gate.
Nhen Nicholson died in the flesh the
other Nicholson, the soul. spirit, call it.
what You Will, passed into the body Of
his servitor. How else" asked the vet
= simply. was it that 1. a simple
Sepoy. rose. ere the war ended. to be d
subadar. Was il l. aforetime a timid
man. who atterWard was always in the
forefront Of the battle? No. nv mas
ter. The form and the features were
mine, but the spirit was the spirit of
Nicholas Sahib.'
And in the end, to humor him. place
and precedence was given him in that
gorgeous. stately procession, amid ra-
jahs and maharajahs. princes, holkars
and niZamS.
You might live in Constantinoplc
many years without hearing aught con-
corning the Masked Prisoner Of the
Yildiz Kiosk for the Turk is naturally
secretive, and the spies of the govern
ment are everywhere. Nevertheless,
there is not a native but has heard OF
him., and is as sure of his identity as of
their own.
He is. so they aver, none other than
that Abodul Aziz who reigned as sultan
from 1861 to 1876, and who, on June 4,
of the latter year, was said to have
committed suicide by opening with a
pair Of scissors the veins of his arms.
But this say they, was a fairy saIe,-
devised by the present sultan, Abdul
Hamid. Afterward. in 1881, he was said
to have been murdered. But, this,
again, the populace will not believe.
Instead, they insist, he has been, all
these years, confined within the walls of
abdul's fOrtress-palace-prison, seeing
none save his guards cOnVersing with no
one dead. and yet alive.
And over his features he wears a wax
en- mask, cunningly nodded in the like
ness of his successor, Murad, the BROTH
er of the present sultan, who was de
posed after a reign lasting exactly three
months.
This letter it is, if the babel of the
Constantinople coffee houses is to be be
lieved, who was really murdered by
Midhat Pasha and his accomplices. And
in order to cover up the foul crime, the
truly Oriental plot was conceived, which
decreed that a man said to be dead. but
really alive, hould personate a man
said to be alive, but in reality dead
Atlanta Constitution.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29

What became of the infamous Mana
Sahib after the collapse of the Indian
muttny? The answer to this question
could it be correctly given, would unlock
one of the most puzzling and interest
Ing Of modern historical mysteries.
All that is known for certain is that,
after the fall of Delhi, he retired north
ward with a considerable following. that
he was attacked and defeated in the
JOrwah Pass by Sir Hope Grant in May
1859. and that he was afterwards re-
ported to be in considerable force in
Nepaul, on the frontiers of Dude, during
the autumn of the same year.
When, however, on this latter occa-
sion. a accommodating party was dis
patched against him, he suddenly md
mysteriously vanished. Nor from that
day to his has aught definite been
heard of him.
The Indian government gave out later
on that he too to the jungle and did
there Of fever. This was a convenient
and plausible theory, but there vas no
jOt Or title Of proof to substantiate it.
Nor did The authorities really believe
| very ~strenuously in it themselves, as IS
proved by the fact that they continued
long afterwards to offer periodical re-
| wards for his cature, and that so late
as 1874 a person said to be he, but
whose identity was afterwards disprov-
ed, was arrested by their orders at
Gwalior.
Nor do the natives of India credit il,
Indeed, they are practically unanimous
in asserting that he escaped, with a
small following, into Thibet, where he
turned priest, and rose to be a sort Of
permanent secretary and principal adj
wiser to the Grand Lama. and that is
why they will add, confidently and
confdentially, mo Englishman has been
permitted, during the past forty years,
to enter Lhasa."
Such is the story. All that can be
said is that, if Mana be really living in
HASA today, he must be a very old
man. for he was nearing his fOrtieth
year when the mutiny broke out.
1t is. of course. the eastern doctrine
Of the TRANSPORTATION of souls which
causes eastern lands to TEEN with stor-
les of dead people-dead, that is, to the
world at large-who are yet averred to
be very much alive to those who see
them with the eye of faith.
a striking instance of how deep-root-
ed is this belief was afforded by pres
ence at the Delhi durbar the other day
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family blood talnt.
Scrofula is bred IN the
bone, is transmitted
from parent to child,
the seeds are planted in
infancy and unless the
blood is purged and pu-
rifed and every atom of
the faint Scroll
ula is sure to develop at
some periodin Vour life.
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DEAD MEN WHO ARE LIVING.
= Story Concerning Curious Beliefs
About Deceased Celebrities.

Widespread interest has been shown
in the case Of Jack Reid, buried in
Griffin. Ga, II now there alive. Here
is an interesting story from Pearson's.
a weekly English magazine, concerning
some curious beliefs about deceased ce-
lebrities.)
Is General Gordon dead? OF course.
There can be only one answer to that
solemn question-an equally solemn at
irmative.
Nevertheless, it IS a curious fact thai
there are living, at this present moment,
some millions Of people who firmly be-
lieve that the question should be an
swered in the negative.
Al over the southern and central Su-
dan the natives are quite certain that
the Great White Pasha' is only biding
his own good time to reappear and rule
over them once more.
And even anon Englishmen the be-
lief is by nc means extinct that Gordon.
when khartOum fell, escaped the mas
sacre, and retired into the u~ntrodden
| wilds of western Kordofan.
1t is precisely what he would have
DONE say many of those who knew
him best. "Disgusted with the treat
ment meted out to him by a government
he secretly regarded as faithleSs to
its trust, he determined to efface himself
rather than return to England"
Thousands of Irish peasants hold a
somewhat similar belief with regard to
Parnell. Their great leader" they ar
que, "sa that the cause he a at
heart was, for the time being, ire
trievably lost, SO he arranged a preten-
ded death and a sham burial. intending
to return to life and his temporarily
abandoned task whenever the time
should be sufficiently opportune."
"Ridiculous!" you say. Of course it
is. But the belief is widespread and un-
shaken among an otherwise shrewd and
not particularly imaginative people
Very weird and very pretty is the
story which has grown up in Burma re-
garding her late majesty Queen Victo-
ria. 1t is only a legend, of course, but
it is a legend which is being today toll
seriously to their disciples by thousands
of Buddhist priests in hundreds Of
Buddhist monasteries.
Queen Victoria, they aver, was nee
a Burmese maiden, and they explain
their extraordinary allegation in this
wise.
Early in the nineteenth century there
lived in RangOon a girl, very poor, but
very pious, who devoted her life to
holy works, and became known far and
wide for her charity and her gentle
ness.
Eventually her assiduity in doing
good, coupled with her fasts and her
abstinence from sleep in order that she
might devote more time to praye un-
dermined her health. She felt herself to
be dying, and with her last breath she
prayed Gauttama Buddha that, when
she should be reincarcerated it should
he where she would be enabled to do the
maximum of good to the greatest num-
Der of her fellow creatures.
This was on May "a, 1919. Buddha
cast his eyes thwar the world, and
finally sent the soul of his disciple fit
ting across LAM and sea to London,
| where it passed into the body of the
daughter Of the duchess of Kent, hen
lying newborn in her cradle in Ken
sington palace.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29

Scrofula nanifests itself in many ways. Swelling OF the
neck and throat, Catarrh, weak eyes, white swelling, offensive
scesses, skin eruptions, losso of strength and weakness IN muse
1t is a miserable disease and traceable in almost every lrs
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29
At Least the Rector Was Safe.

September IS. 1903.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-11

Leads all North Carolina Dailies i'm News and Circulation

one to go South with hi mand look over
the property, impersonating Brown. BY
this means, said Risdon, Capel could do
him favor, and he would divide his com
mission. This plan, said CapeI was duly
carried out, though so far he had received
only the $65, and the money he obtained
on the check indorsed by Risdon. He ad-
mitted that his anger at Risdon, his form
er ''pal'' induced him to make this con-
fession.
Risdon denies that Capcl was nis friend
Brown.
Also u. j. Carlisle" who was arrested
at the Raleigh Hotel the other night with
his bride from Minneapolis, says he's
from the South. When asked what State
he said: "Oh, way down in Dixie" and
declined to be more specific.
FRED L. MERRITT.
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WOULD IMPEACH HIM.
The House Finally Adopts a ResoIu.
tion Directing the Judiciary
Committee to Inquire Into
Judge Swayne's Official
Conduct.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Dec. 10.-The House today
adopted a resolution directing the Judi
ciary Committee TO inquire into the off
cial conduct of Charles Swayne, Judge OF
the United States District Court for the
northern district of Florida and to "re
port whether the action of the House is
requisite
Mr.. Lamar, Oein., Fa) offered the
resolution, announcing that he desired TO
impeach Judge Swayne. A lively debate
was had before the resolution was adopt
ed. A number of the members on the
majority side fought to have the resolu-
ton referred 10 the Judiciary Committee
that a recommendation might be had from
that committee before voting on its adop-
ton. The minority solidly supported Mr..
Lamar in his opposition to the motion to
refer, and several Republicans voted
against reference. There were but few
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dissenting votes on the motion to adopt
the resolution.
The first of the appropriation bills-the
Pension Bill-was reported to the House
today and notice was given that it viii
be called up tomorrow for consideration.
1t will be called up tomorrow for CON
sideration.
Mr.. Lamar, (Dem., Fla), rising t q
question of privilege after announcing
that he would offer a resolution, which
embodied joint committee of the Flor
ida Legislature, said:
In pursuance of that joint resolution
desire to impeach Charles Swayne,
Judge of the United States District Court
FOR the northern district of Florida, with
high crimes and misdemeanors.
The resolution, after reciting the reso-
luton of the Florida Legislature, says:
Resolved, That the Committee on the
Judiciary be directed to inquire and re-
port whether the action of the House is
requisite concerning the official miscon-
duct of Charles Swayne, Judge of the
United States District Court for the
northern district of Florida, and say
whether said judge has held terms of his
court as required by law; whether he has
continuously and persistently absented
himself from the said State, and whether
his acts and omissions in his office of
judge have been such as in any degree to
deprive the people of that district of the
benefits of the court therein to amount
to q denial of justice; wheher the said
Judge had been guilty of corrupt conduct
in office, and whether his administration
Of his office has resulted in injury and
wrong to litigants of his court
The resolution further authorizes the
Judiciary Committee to send for persons
and papers and to do other things essen
tial to investigation.
Mr.. Lamar moved the adoption of the
resolution.
Mr.. Grosvenor suggested that there
should be specific charges, that the House
should go slowly and be extremely care
full. The House is not a grand jury, he
said.
Mr. Lacey, (Rep., Iowa., moved to re-
fer the resolution to the Committee on
Judiciary.
Mr.. Payne, Rep., N. V, said the
House should proceed with care in so i'm
portant matter as this.
MIR Fuller, (Rep) Ills), said the reso-
luton should not be referred, but should
be voted Gown, charging that it did not
contain a single specification. The humb-
lest citizens, he said, was entitled to be
furnished with specific charges before be-
ing placed on trial He declared that it
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-11
HEARD or TIE BOIL WEEV!L.
He Indicf IS Plan to Check Them in
His Message.
(By the Associated Press }

New Orleans, La, Dee. 10.-Governor
Heard, III his message to the special SEES
sion OF the Legislature which convened
at Baton Rogue today fer the purpose of
discussing the boil weevil sltuation and
passing necessary laws to check the
weevil, said:
The weevil first coming from Mexico,
has now spread across the State of
Texas and this year has injured the cot
ton crop of that State, according to va
rious estimates from s15,000,00 to $780,
000,000. If a check is not found it is only
a question Of time when Louisiana and
the entire cotton belt will become a
prey to its ravages. AS to the law 70
be passed by the special session, a sepa-
rate board of commissioners with plenary
powers may be appointed or the State
Board of Agriculture may be authorized
to carry into effect any laws that may
be passed. My own opinion is that the
work may be done by creating a board
OF commissioners composed of the Com
missioner of Agriculture, the director of
experiment stations, the State entomolo-
gist and two prominent and practical cot
ton planters"
A bill carrying these suggestions into
effect was introduced and will probably
re passed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-11
A CAR IS WRECKED
And Non Union Men are
Beaten in a Riot in
Chicago.
(By the Associated Press.)

Chicago, Dec 10-In a riot today, grow
ing out of the recent strike on the Chi
cago City Street Railway, car was
wrecked by mob of union sympatRlzers
who furiously attacked the non-uni0n
conductor and motorman, badly injuring
both The crew of the car escaped into
a nearby building where they We're guard
ed by police. The riot occurred on the
Ralsted Street line near Archer avenue.
The riot was participated in by hun
dreds of men and boys. Forced to fee
from the car the two non-union men
were knocked off their feet and severly
pummelied. Struggling up again, the vie
tins fled in different directions, pursued
by the mob. The mob, failing to recap
ture the fugitives, returned to the car,
which had been abandoned at Halsted
street and Archer avenue and wrecked
vengeance upon the conveyance, destroy
ing tn wood work and rendering the
coach unfit for use. A patrol wagon load
of police in the meantime rescued the
two non-unionists.
The trouble occurred owing to the re-
fusal of passengers, among them several
women, to pay fare to the conductor who
wore no union button. When the nickelF
were refused him he announced that the
car would stop unless the money was
paid.
At this several of the passengers in the
car seized him, while others proceeded
to the front platform and ordered the
notorman to start the car. at first the
motorman refused but when one of the
passengers exhibited revolver concealed
in the folds of his overcoat he started
the car and did not stop until Archer
avenue was reached. Then he leaped
from the conveyance and ran, pursued
by a crowd of men. The conductor was
then attacked Both of the victims, it is
said, were employed as strike breakers
during the recent strike.
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rather extensively in the district criminal
courts. 4 .. III
Today Benjamin F. Patterson, who was
yesterday brought back from North Car
o,na to answer a charge of passing worth
less drafts, waived examination and was
held for trial in the upper court.
But an even more sensational case is
that of Robert c. Capel, who was this
morning arrested, charged with false pre-
tense On the strength of statements
made by Capel, the detectives also arrest
ed Hugh C. Risdon. They are charged
with passing bogus checks as well as with
false pretense. Complaint against them is
Grove, N. c. Ropert G. Capel was ar
rested this morning by detectives, charged
with false pretenses, and on the strength
of statement made by him, Hugh C. Rs-
don, of 525 Spruce street, was also placed
in custody. Henry B. Graeber of China
Grove, N. c., is one of the sufferers by
CapeIs alleged actions, which include the
passin gof bogus checks.
Craeher is a stockhoder in the China
Grove Furniture and Manufacturing
Company, which failed. But there was
hope of a reorganization Risdon went
down there and proposed to undertake re-
organization. He referred to Geo. W.
Brown, a capitalist, of Chicago who, he
said, could be induced to put up SIS, 900
necessary for the reorganization. For
procuring his services Risdon was to re-
ceive q commission of $500. 1t was de-
cided by the company to send for Brown,
and SOS was advanced for his expenses.
Brown came in due time, and finally
agreed to advance the money on certain
conditions. He returned to Chicago and
the stockholders voted on the proposition.
All consented but one man, ard he had
to be bought out, to carry through the
scheme, at a cost of $500 This made a
total of s715 now expended on the re-or-
ganization scheme.
Brown" that Risdon came to him in this
city ard said to him that he had a real
Chicago Brown, who would take up the
furniture stock, but that he wanted some
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-11
The Effort to Unseat Smoot.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Dec. 10.-Congressional
callers at the White House are manifest
ing increasing interest in the case involy-
ing the seat of Senator Smoot of Utah.
That thorough investigation of the
subject will be made by the Senate Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections now
appears to be beyond doubt. An effort
will be made to ascertain accurately the
attitude of the Mormon Church toward
the government of the United tSates and
to learn whether or not a member of that
organization is bound by any pledge or
oath, tie taking of which is Incompatible
with his oath as Senator of the United
States.
1t is believed ty some at least, of those
who are opposing Senator Smoot, that any
effort made to prove he is a polygamist
would result in failure, and while that
point cannot be said TO have been aban-
doned absolutely, it is quite certain the
opposition will concentrate It's endeavors
to prove that the position ne holds in the
Mormon Church is incompatible with the
oath of allegiance he has taken to the
United States. That proof must be ample,
in the opinion of Senators, before he can
be unseated.
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would be useless to refer ~a-vS1Ss
TO the Judiciary Committee, saying tnaU
that committee would be obliged to report
it back with a report ha here was moth
ing in it to warrant action.
Mr.. Lamar said: "As / understand
this objection made by the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr Grosvenor) is that l do
not charge Judge Swayne with any specific
crime / do charge him generally with
high crimes and misdemeanors. Why
should 1 be forced to state when the proof
is to be submitted to the Committee on
Judiciary, the specific matters upon
which that general allegation is made?
Every single crime that this judge is cap
able of committing, is charged when
charge him of high crimes and misdemean
ors. But if the gentleman desires that 1
shall make any charges seriatim, 1 charge
this judge first, with continued, persist
ent, and if you please, pernicous absentee
ism from his district; second, with cor
dupt official conduct based on several mat
ters; third, 1 charge Judge Swayne with
maladministration Of judicial matters in
his court, so much as to embarrass bank
rupts and annihilate the assets of liti-
gants and others appearing within his
jurisdiction.
Mr.. Williams, the minority leader, con-
tended for the adoption of resolutions,
citing former cases and arguing that the
verbal statement of Mr.. Lamar is suffl-
cient.
Mr.. Mann, (Rep, Ills.), asked Mr.. La
mar if it was his idea that the Judiciary
Committee should proceed with an in
quiry without specific charges
Mr. Lamar replied that the committee
had full power.
Mr. Clayton Oem., Ala), said Mr.. La
mar had pursued a course similar to that
followed in other cases. ''This is merely
the Inauguration of an Indictment" he
said
Mr.. Lacey, (Rep., Ia.), spoke for his
molten 10 refer.
The motion to refer the resolution to
the judiciary Committee was lost, when
the resolution as ffered by Mr.. Lamar
was adopted with few dissenting votes
The House adjourned until tomorrow.
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The CIiIdren's Home Society.

(special to News and Observer)
Greensboro N. c., Dec 10.-Mr. Will
liam Streeter, president of the North
Carolina Children's Home Society, return
ed last night from a two weeks trip to the
mountains spending most of the time IN
Ashevlle. He reports great interest In
= e work in the mountain section, and
peaks enthusiastically OF the work done
Tor destitute or homeless children by the
Burconbe County Society in the past few
!, ears.
! There are receiving homes now IN Raj
gh and Ashevilie, and one IS to be es-
ablhsed IN Greensboro
At High Point the Friends Orphanage
as ofIered to take care of both boys and
ris while waiting to be placed, and this
norous offer Will probably be accepted.
pit. j. w. Fry, State Treasurer of the
ety, speaks most encouragingly of Mr..
eeter's work, and says that correspond
shows that the people of the State
taking great interest in it. AS soon