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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

best newspapers of the country are better
| than those in the magazines"
-
Recently I mentioned three remarkable
pseudonyms or pen-names. The custom Of
| using pen-names abounds. Scores of au-
| thors of more or less reputation have used
| fictitious signatures-the French call it
NOM -gurre. | give a few OF the very
many: John Oliver Hobbs is Mrs.
! Craigie. Lucas Malet" is Mrs. Harrison.
! Charles Egbert Craddock'' is Miss Muir
| free, of Tennessee, the best of Southern
novelists with possibly the one exception
of Mr.. j. l.. Allen, of Kentucky. Dickens
at first used Boz as Thackeray used
Michael Angelo Ttmarsh." OCTAVE
Thanet' is Miss French, of Missouri
Henry Seton Merriman" is Hugh Scott,
recently deceased. mark Twain" is
Samuel l.. Clemens. Henry M. Stanley"
is John Rowlands. Ian Mac Laren' is
Rev. John Watson 'Artemus Ward" was
Charles F. Browne. ELK Marvel is
Donald G. Mitchell, "Ouida" is Louise
de la Rance. Sidney Lee the we'll
known English author, is Solomon Levy
/ Eugene Sue was Marie Joseph Sue.
Joaquin Miller is Cincnnatus Haine.
In old times Washington Irving adopted
as his literary name at first. "Geoffrey
Crayon." Prof. John Wilson wrote him.
self Kit North" and made it famous.
The poet Bryan Waller Proctor used the
pen-namc of Barry Cornwall" The ia
NOUS Rev. Sidney Smith used peter
Phmly," as his anonymous name in his
great political Letters
Let me resume the brief work of taking
extracts from old poets:
Come, Sleep, o Sleep, the certain Knot of
peace
The batting place of wit, the balm of woe.
The poor mans wealth, the prisoners re-
lease.
Sir Philip Sidney
Born 1854, died from wound in battle
in 1886.
No inward nature. but an outward
seeming,
No solid truth, no virtue, holiness,
But types of these, which time makes
more or less.
Lord Brooke
Religion stands not in corrupted things,
But virtues, that descend have heavenly
wings.
Brooke.
Borr in 1854: died in 1928
Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
But in my heart her serveral torments
dwell.
Thomas Nash.
All friends!-no friends that then I'M
gentle frown,
When changing fortune casts us headlong
down.
Nash.
Born in 1864; died in 1901
THERE'S ONE
That wakes above, whose eye no sleep
can blind.
George Chapman.
Like the horror of winters thunder,
Mixed with a gushing storm, that suffer
nothing
To stir abroad on earth but their own
RACES.
Is sin, when it hath gathered head above
us. Chapman.
Through all the pomp of kingdoms still
he shines.
And graceth all his graces."
Chapman on Homer.
Born 1857: died 1884
Her little sweet hath many sours,
Short hap, immortal harms
Her loving looks are numbering darts
Her songs bewitching charms.
Robert Southwell.
Born 1860: died 1895.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the
reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it trea-
Sir John Harrington.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to
But yet she never gave enough to any.
Harrington.
=. Born in 1861: died 1912.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

The very unfortunate and abominable
Education Act" about which there is
such stir in Great Britain. will die an
early death it is to be hoped, and will
contribute no little to the defeat of the
Tories and greatly to be desired, who
have been in power for several years. 1t
was singular and most detestable Act
for the Twentieth Century 1t is believed
that the Act will die because of the anti
eipated triumph of the Liberals. God
speed the day, If the Tories do not hasten
to repeal it, there will be a strong reason
added for their reputation by the peo-
ple The Non Conformists are determined
to resist the law at every turn so far as
it is possible to do so. Sir George
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
WAS JUDAH P. BENJAMIN
BORN In FAYETTEVILLE?
DR.. Kingsbury Has an Impression That He Was--
Senator Vests Life of Benjamin---"The
One Woman

it embarrassed and enfeebled. Congress
then, and for many years after, was de-
scribed by John Adams as mot leeisla-
tive Assembly, nor representative assem-
bly,, but only a diplomatic assembly," No
central authority existed in America. The
local Governments of the separate prov
inces We're responsible for the ordinary
course of civil administration. and those
Governments, so far from being legally
and duly constituted, were not constituted
at ALL"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

. Born in 1861: died 1912.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

AS friend of Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr
am glad to see it given authoratively
that for October his latest novel. so vari-
ously estimated, and so bitterly denounced
and so warmly praised, ''The One Wo-
man. was third among all recent novels
in the sales. Aliens last book. The
Mettle of the Pasture" and Fox's THE
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come stood
first and second. 1t is noticeable that
Pages rather inferior novel, Gordon
Keith" was fourth. So in October in the
chief cities and reading centres of the
Nation" the four highest selling books
were all Southern, representing three
States-Kentucky, North Carolina and
Virginia. OF six highest these four led. /
mention that Dixon's book among the six
highest stood first in Atlanta, Dallas,
Texas; Memphis, and New Orleans. 1t
was third at Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas
City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska first at
Toledo, Ohio; sixth at Washington, D.
c.. Salt Lake, Utah, and Toronto, Cana
da, and fourth at Pittsburg. Pa.
Two new books that will interest liter
airy men and scholars have just appeared.
They are Essays on Great Writer'S by
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Jr. Among
those written about are Scott, Thackeray,
Macaulay, Montaigne and Cervantes,
great themes and most engaging. The
other book is entitled. 'Aids to Study of
Dante" by Charles Allen Dinsmore He
published previous book on THE Teach
ings of Dante,'' and it has passed through
several editions. The Jew York Book
man says of it:
'The present book gives in a convenient
form Dante's famous letter to Can Grande
Boccaccio's narrative of Dante's life, in
formation from the chief authorities like
Scartazzini, Comparetti, Charles Eliot
Norton, Dean Church, Gaspary, and
Lowell The illustrations include tables
and diagrams. The book is designed for
the general public as we'll as for college
classes"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

Treason doth never prosper: what's the
reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it trea-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08

Chicago, September 3.-John Temple
Graves, of Georgia delivered an address
on The Problem Of the Races this
morning before the forty-eighth con-
vocation of the University of Chicago.
He said. in part:
Separation of the races is the way
the only way. If God hath made of
one blood all the nations Of the earth.
He hath also established unto them
the metes n bounds Of their habita-
ton He did not intend that opposite
and ~antagonistic races should i've to-
gether. The prejudice of race is a
pointing of providence and the antagon-
ism of peoples is the fixed law by which
God peoples the different portions Of
the universe and establishes the indi-
viduality of the nations.
The act that brought these people to-
gether or this continent was a sin of
h Fathers a sin of greed, an iniquity
of trade-and the sorrow and suffering
Of the present is for the sin of the past
"a sin against nature and a sin against
God. The curse can be lifted only
when nature is INDICATED and God is
obeyed and the problem will be solved
only when the negro is restored to the
u Of his habitation.' 1t is neither
impossible nor impract1cable. The ele-
ments are willing and the way is in
reach. This is not a day of impossible
tiles. The hand of the Almighty is
steadily opening the way. 1t may be
that the islands Of the sea were placed
by Providence in our keeping to fur
nfsh an answer to the problem of the
time.
1.-THE south is neither cruel nor I'M
patriotic, and the north knows it. The
north is neither immovable nor vindic-
tive, and the south knows it. If either
Of US IS mistaken, and if both Of is are
misunderstood, We are yet one people,
n we must meet upon the plain Of our
brotherhood and our DESTINY.
81 appeal for Caucasion unity. I APP
peal fer the imperial destiny Of our
mighty race. This is our country. We
made it. We moulded it. We control
it and we always will. We have done
great things. We have mighty things
yet to do.
The negro is an accident-an unwill-
ing, a blameless. but an unwholesome
unWelcome, helnless, unaSSimllable ele-
ment in our civilization. He is not
made for our times. He is not framed
to share in the duty n h destiny
which he perpleXes and beclouds. Let
us put him kindly and humanely out OF
the way. Let us give him a better
chance than he has ever had in history,
and let us have lone with him. Let US
solve his problem-frankly, fearlessly,
nobly and speedily. Let us put it be
him w. Let us purify our politics Of
the perplexity. Let US liberate the south
to vote and to think like free men upon
the mighty issues Of the times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
WHISKEY DISTILLERIES.
Production Will Not Fall Of-Distil-
leries Moving Into own

Especial to The Messenger.(
Raleigh, N. c., September Sit is said
by revenue officials that there is GER
tainly now no registered whiskey distil-
lery in operation in this district. The
distillers are steadily getting into the
towns. From the best information that
can be gathered there are three at Will
mIngton, one at New Bern, others at
Fremont, Greenville, Stokes III Beaufort
county and at Leland which is in
Brunswick county across the river from
Wilmington. 1t seems that Leland was
Incorporated by the last Legislature in
order that a distillery might be located
there. Richmond county seems to lead
in the number of distilleries.
The situation now is not normal. AS
is usual very few distilleries are bonded
at this time, where as now there is
quite a stir mons the diStillers. By
the first of November it is thought
that about all who can get into the
towns will be at work. 1t is further
the opinion that the production will not
fall off and hat there will really be
more whiskey manufactured than here
tofore, for the reason that the capacity
of the distilleries will be larger. There
will probably be a considerable corn
cror and this will naturally increase
the output of corn whiskey.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
The TURKISH QUESTION
STATE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES NO
ADVICES FROM LEISHMAN.
The Cruisers Will Probably Arrive
at Beirut Today and Their Com
manders Will Make Full Reports
About the Situation.

Ogdensburg, n. Y, September 3.-For
two days the state department has been
without advices from Turkey except a
brief dispatch from Minister LeiShman
telling Of the rortes warning to the EN-
bassies.
The position of the Washington gov
eminent continues unchanged in re-
gard to the Turkish question. 1t is ex-
pected that the Brooklyn n San
Francisco will arrive off Beirut tOmor-
row and the Machias off Port Said.
Upon arrival, their commanders will
cable full reports about the situation.
Upon the character of these adviceS and
the expected report Of Minister Leish-
man will depend the programme OF the
state department
AS there is no intention on the part
of this government to become involved
in the western question, it is desired
hal the ships shall go their way as
soon as their mission is fulfilled.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
THE COTTON MARKET.
The Government Report on Septem-
Der Causes Great Confusion.

New York, September 3.-Not since
the exciting days early TN the bull cam
paign has there been anything to equal
the confusion which attended the pub
LEGATION of the government September
conditions report in today's cotton mar
ket. The figures, 3D., reflect an inn
provement in condition for the month
Of "a e cent. and are 18.1 per cent.
above those of last year. The statement
proved better than generally expected
and was followed by a rush of liquida-
ton that carried prices off sharply.
Earlier in the day the market had
shown a declining tendency and prices
at noon were about 6 to ID points low
er.
In less thar ten minutes after the re-
port was read September sold at lib.
October at 1920, December at 9.95 and
~anuar at 9.92, these being net losses
of from II to IS points. Then realizing
by early sellers, relieved the strain and
led the slight recoveries. with the mar
ket verv irregular and unsettled.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
HILL ON COMBINATIONS
SENATOR ADDRESSES AN
IMMENSE CROWD.
He was at the ROckIand County
Fair-Great Combination Not Sane
toned by Scripture or Justified by
Public Policy.

Nyack. y. Y, September 3.-Former
Senator David B. Hill addressed five
thousand persons at the Rockland
county fair in New City today.
Regarding combinations Mr.. Hill
said:
II do not find anything in Holy
Writ which contemplates the accumu-
lation of wealth through the instru-
mentality Of gigantic corporate trusts
designed for the prevention Of legiti-
mate competition in trade or in the
creation of monopoly in business. or
anything that authorizes the watering
Of any took, except live stock upon our
farms. or anything that JuStlfleS the
richme of men except through the
old fashioned and Scriptural methods
Of earning thai which they shall pos
SeSS.
The tremendous combinations of CAPT
tai which have been forced in recent
years. whereby the prices of living has
been unduly advanced. the multitude
Of schemes which have been devised
to control the channels and venue
Of trade. the unreasonable restrictions
which ave been imposed by statue
upon our commercial freedom in tho
pecuniary interest of those who oSten-
tatiously stvle themselves the captains
Of industry. are largely the modern
creations of able and designing men,
intent upon vast and unearned riches
and are neither sanctioned by scrip
tural injunCtionS nor can they be JUST
flied by an honest and unSelf1sh pupIc
policy
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
A BOILER EXPLOSION.
A Panic Ensues, But No One Was
injured

Newark, N. J., September "a boiler
explosion which caused a panic for a
time in the business center of the town
occurred today in the engine room of
1.-THE Hanson Van Wrinkle Company,
manufacturers and dealers in acids,
chemicals and dye stuffs, on Market
I%street. Six men were badly injured as
a result of the explosion and damage to
the extent # &c. 900 was done.
Two pieces of the boiler weighing a
hundred pounds and fifty pounds re-
Ispectively, crashed through the roof Of
The Evening News building. They fell
into he composing room where many
men were working. The hundred pound
piece kept on going through the floor of
the composing room into the editorial
and although no n was
injured, something of a panic followed
the crash.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
Removed as Executor of His Father
Estate.

Baltimore, Nd. September 3.-Judge
Dannis Of the circuit court Of this city
signed an order today. removing Will
liam T. Tucker as executor Of the
estate of his father. the late Wesley T.
Tucker. a leading shoe merchant. Tuck
ed who in conjunction with his mother,
the co-eXecutor of the estate, had ac-
cess to the money and ~valuables be-
longing to h estate and deposited IN
a safe in the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company. OF these he is accused by
his mother Of abstracting and convert
to his own use $3.50. 900. Tucker has dis
appeared and is said to be in Central
America. Tucker and his mother are
the only heirs to the estate and she an
ounce that she will lake no further
legal steps against him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
|AERODROME WOULDN'T START
THE TROUBLE WAS CAUSED BY A
BROKEN VALVE.
Professor Langley Says the After
noon Work Was a Great Disap-
paired at Once.

Whitewater. Va, September EFF
sixty foot man carrying aerodrome
had to be abandoned at 6 o'clock this
levening. owing to the failure of the
gasoline motor to work properly. For
-four hours Professor Charles NJ. Man
lily. the inventors right hand man. la
bored hard to get the machine in shape.
He was not successful.
The trouble was caused by a broken
lvalve in the engine. When Professor
Langley at last reluctantly called the
experiment off the aerodrome was re-
turned to the interior of the house
boat. The inventor then made the fol
flowing statement:
| The work Of the afternoon has been
la great disappointment to US all. The
failure to have an experiment was
lcaused by the discovery of a broker
lvalve in the motor. This can be re-
lpaired, l think, during the forenoon to-
morrow.
When the signal was given, by firing
la sky rocket from the houSe-boat to
lapply the motor that furnishes the mo-
tive lower to the machine. Professor
lManley tried in vain to get his engine
lin operation. Several subsequent at
ltemptS were made. Once the propelers
were got going for five minutes. but
revolutions instead Of reaching l.
200, did not exceed 500 and work was
very IRREGULAR. Professor Manly was
lattired in a light costume when he en-
tered the aeronauts cabin. He wore
la pair of white duck trousers. His
Jacket was padded with cork to assist
in keeping him above water at the ter
mination of the light. tache to his
left knee was a watch to register the
exact time Of starting and the duration
of the flight.
Throughout the whole of the trying
Iordeal he appeared remarkably calm
composed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08

Charlotte, y. c., September Spas
senger train Nc. Is, north bound on the
South Carolina and Georgia extension
railroad. formerly the Three C's now
operated by the Southern Railway went
through a trestle fifty feet high over
Fishing Creek, three miles east of
here about 1870 o'clock today. killing
six men and injurlng twenty-four,
five of whom will likely die. Three of
the latter are negro passengers.
The dead are as follows:
Engineer Brickman.
Fireman Fred Rhyme.
Postal Clerk Smnth and three un-
known negroes.
The injured, (white):
Julius Johnson, of Rock Hill, S. c.,
perhaps fatally.
w. L. Slaughter, Hickory Grove, S.
c., seriously.
Fred Poag, Lancaster, S. c.
P. w. Spence, Roddys, S. G.
J.. n. McLaurin, Bethune. S. c.
Mrs. j. C. Boyd, PRESLEY. N. C.
Mrs. H. B. BUST Rock Hill, S. c.
B.. F.. Willlford, Charlotte.
T. c. Hicks, Lancaster, S. c., seri-
ously.
w. Harry Wise, Jr., Rock Hill, S. c.
R. A. Willis. Edgemore, S. G.
F. NJ. Stephenson, Kershaw, S. c.
- Cunningham, Lancaster, S. c.
O. B. Hill, Rock Hill, S. c.
Mrs. Sadie McCaskill, Kershaw, S. G.
Two children named Jenkins, OF
Rock Hill.
Conductor Ed. Turner.
Baggagemaster Dukes.
Flagman Whisnant.
Colored-Billie Beard, Rock Hill
Frank Burris, Sharon, S. c.; Alex,
Hurry, McConnellsville. S. c.
All the bodies have been taken out
save those of h engineer and fire
man.
The train consisted of an engine and
three cars. 1t left Rock Hill about
IL O'Clock with about forty passengers
on board. When the train passed VI
on the ~trestle, the entire structure u n
der the cars gave way, hurting the
| engine and cars to the bank of thu
creek, about fifty feet below. Engineel
Henry Brickman, Fireman Fred Rhine
and three negro passengers were In,
Stantly killed. Conductor Ed Turner
suffered a broker shoulder and W.. T
Slaughter of Hickory Grove, S. c.. an(
Julius Johnson, of Rock Hill, S. G.
were perhaps fatally injured. Marvin
H. Morrow, of Blacksburg, S. c.: T. c
Hicks, of Lancaster, and r. A. Willis
of Edgemore, S, c., have broken bones
while a dozen or more other passen,
gers were less seriously injured.
B. F. Williford, of Charlotte, whC
was slightly injured, displayed rar
presence of mind in helping the pas.
sengers. The timbers of the bridge
were rotten and to this fact is ascribed
the cause of the wreck.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
BAGLEY SUCCEEDS DEWEY.
New Director of the A. and n. c.
Big Sale of Swamp Lands.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, n. c., September 3.-The
gov. today appointed William Henry
Bayley, of Raleigh, a director of the
Atlantic and North Carolina railway
TO succeed Thos. Dewey, of New Bern.
In this correspondence it was stated
that the debt Of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway is 1926, 900 and the in
terest rate 3 per cent. Governor Ay-
cock says the rate is 6 per cent. Speak
ing of the Atlantic and North Caroline
road, the governor said that none of
the great systems had attempted to
lease or buy it during his administra-
ton. Some persons have an idea that
the Seaboard railway might be behind
a movement to lease, but the gentle
men who attempted to secure the lease
deny this. 1t is said to be certain that
neither the Southern nor the Atlantic
Coast Line want the road.
The state board of education met this
afternoon and sold nine thousand acres
of swamp lands.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
NOT GUILTY OF MANSLAUCHTER
CASE AGAINST NORTH JERSEY ST.
RAILWAY OFFICIALS DISMISSED.
the Jury to Bring in n Verdict OF
Not GuiIty-Other Judges Oncur
red With the Chief Justice.

Newark, n. j., Sept. 3.-Chief Justice
Gummerie, in the Essex county court Of
ICyer and Terminer. today announced
that he had decided to grant the mo-
ton for the dismissal # the indictment
for manslaughter against the directors
land ocials Of the North Jersey street
railway company. who were accused of
Having. by alleged neglect of their
lduties, caused the death of Ernestine
Miller. Miss Miller. who was a high
1school pupil. was killed with eight 9th
iers in the Clifton avenue crossing acct
dent on February 10th.
The motion to dismiss the Indictment
was made at the trial yesterday by
Richard V. Lindabury of counsel for
the defendants.
I~nstructlng the jury 20 find a verdict
of not guilty, the chief justice said that
lin order to hold the defendants crimi-
lnally responsible it must be shown
that they had failed to perform some
lspecific act. This, the state had failed
Ito do he said. The chief justice refer
red to the duties of the North Jersey
lstreet railway company as laid down to
Its employees as sufficient safeguards
under ordinary circumstances if they
Ihad been carried out. He said that
from the evidence it was apparent that
If sand had been used as called for by
the rules, had the car been stopped
thirty feet from the crossing, as the
rules called for, and had the conductor
lgone ahead to the crossing to signal
the motorman. the accident wOuld not
have happened.
Justices Van Sickle and Dixon both
honoured in the opinion of Chief JUS
ltice Gummerie.
The jur- announced a verdict of not
lgul1ty without leaving their seats.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
Great Damage by a Recent Hurri-
cane.

Mobile. Ala. September 3.-Letters
of August 18th and 18th from George
town. Grand Cayman report the dam
age by hurricane of August 18th much
worse than at first reported. Arthur
*. Roberts writes describing the storm
and the deSolation caused by it, CON
Guiding IF h island is not afforded
relief ever one will be starved in the
course of a week. The stock of food is
Show this letter to the news
papers that they may let the world
know of the condition Of the island and
the people. If any subscriptions are
had in Mobile. 1 shall be glad to dis
them to the needy"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
Stomach

81 have been troubled with my stom-
ach for the past fou years" says D.
L. Beach. of Clover Nook Farm, Green
field, Mass. "A few days age / was
induced to buy a box of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. I have
taken part of them and feel a great deal
BETTER If you have any trouble with
your stomach try a box of these Tab
let's. You are certain to be pleased
with the result. Price % cents. For
sale by all druggists.