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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-13
AT PlTTsRuRe.
AT ST. LOUIS.

Pittsburg, postponed rain.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-13

Cairo lost to vineennes Sunday not
because she didn't hit the hardest for
Bittroiff piitpiched Whitley. but he.
cause of very dumb play in base
running which would have made the
score stand to In nine innings AMI
OF dumb Fielding play after an error.
which would have cut OIeary off at
the plate. The error amounted TO
iia'ight but the dumb play ON the part
Of two outfielders who played the
statue act let in the winning run.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
THE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN.

The country was surprised and
somewhat shocked when it was learned
hat Secretary Co%rtelyou had beer
chosen to manage the republican pres
idential campaign and he would do SO
without ~resigning from the casbinet.
1t is now known why Secretary CorteI-
You was chosen and why he was going
to remain in office during his admins
trations OF the affairs Of the Roosevelt
campaign. The following from the Ra-
leigh Posts Washington correspondent
will explain the whole matter:
President Roosevelt has prostituted
the government for political purposes
more than any other president in the
nations history. For months his eve
~ NOV has been to advance the Per
sonal and political interests of him
sef. Now it develops that one Of the
great departments of the government
Is being run as an auxiliary of the re-
publican campaign committee. Chair
Cowherd, the aggressive head of the
democratic congressional committee,
calls the turn. In an interview to-
night he said:
The speech of the secretary Of the
treasury, made at Wilmington, Del,
June 9Th, was of special interest to
democrats in at least two particulars.
The story has been current around
washington for e. that a corps of
clerks working under the head of the
department Of commerce, the future
chairman of the national republican
committee, were engaged in preparing
campaign literature for use by the re-
publican party. In fact, one New York
paper published a statement a few
days ago giving somewhat in detail the
number OF clerks engaged upon that
work, and stated hat the republican
campaign text book was being prepared
at an expense of about 500, 900 to the
national treasury. 1 was very loath
TO believe this report, but the following
statement from Secretary Shaw's
speech seems to give credence to the
story. He is reported to have said:
L am confident, however, that before
the campaign proceeds very far, there
will be furnished from the highest pos
sible authority in the United States
we'll authenticated data showing that
I the average wages have Increased in
larger proportion than the average ar.
tfcles Of ordinary household consump-
ton The secretary evidently o
nizes h pressing need of the repub-
Iican party for data of that kind, and
while expert statisticians may be able
to furnish figures to corroborate almost
n theory they will be hard put tC
n an excuse in law or good conscience
for the employment of government,
clerks to prepare campaign ma
terial. The secretary is also
reported to have said hat the demo
Gratis would endeavor to run their
| campaign on local issues fitted to the
particular community"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

Mallinckrodt and Cameron Buxton.
At n church of the Good Shepherd,
Bishop Cheshire presided, the speak
ers being Rev. DR.. Arthur s. Lloyd
and Rev III. Baldwin Dean. At st.
Ambrose, colored, Archdeacon CollarA
presided, the speakers being Rev.
John w. Perry, Virgil Bond and Wi
ley Latham.
A number of persons passed here
to-day on their way TO the annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly at Morehead. II is
the comment that the programme is
the best ever prepared. Among the
speakers to-day were Professor M
C. 6. Noble, of the University: c. A
Hammil. OF the State Normal and In
dustrial College,: Editor j. w. Bailey.
of the Biblical Recorder; S~uperintsn-
dent John E. Ray. of the State School
for the Blind; State Superintendent
w. W. Stetson, of Maine; Governor
Aycock. State Superintendent Joyner,
Charles H. Mebane. ex-state superin-
tendent, and others.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina branch OF the Woman $
Auxiliary OF the Board Of Missions OF
this Episcopal diocese is in session
at the Church Of the Good Shepneru
here. An address was made by the
genera secretary Of the board OF ms
SiOnS. and tomorrow lHeES VIII ~
an address by Archdeacon Hughson
missionary from the district OF Ashe-
Vile. Bishop Cheshire made the open
ing prayer.
About > o'clock this morning hon:
Henry G Turner. of Georgia, III
unite suddenly here at the nome Oh
his brother. DR.. Vines l.. Turner. ne
had been to Baltimore TO seer Iheun,
cal advice and became suddenly Ia
Monday His long service IN
ave him a national reputation.
A couple of months G he resigned
as associate justice OF the georgia
Sunreme court on account OF III
health. being a sufferer from serious
Lidnev trouble. He went to Baltimore
last week TO consult an eminent spsc-
ialist in regard to an operation ine
nhvsician encouraged him some"hal-
r was the purpose to have taken MIN
hack 70 Baltimore yesterday alteI-
noon. but his condition o not PEI.
nit. He was 65 years OF age. 4atie
If FRANKLIN county. this state: ne II
tered the Confederate army In Te.
gia hut served in the 23rd Nol 80
oroiina infantry until the close u
- var in the army of Nortneril
Virginia. This Afternoon the pout
taken to his late home, at Sul. ~
Sa accompanied by his brother' ~;
T,,rner the ~latter's son henry a nf
colonel Thomas S. keenan, cieih
the Supreme court.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

marched out of the country at the
point of the bayonet. A state admin
istration hat should be preserving
the peace and attempting to bring
about a settlement of the trouble is
acting as a detective agency for the
mine owners. There is a reign of
terror and no mans life is safe unless
he is in one of the military camps.
Still We are told that prosperity
prevails everywhere and that the
whole country is happy and c%ontented
under the benign rule of the republi-
can party; that labor is getting its
dues and that capital is prospecting.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
ANARCHY IN

Under the heading "Civil War in
Colorado" The New York World gives
a startling narration of the conditions
existing in the Cripple Creek section
of Colorado. 1t says that war exists
there, though the popular definition
of the conditions is a strike" or a
Labor difficulty" but, The World
say it is as much war as the conflict
in the far east, except that in Colo
RADIO neutrals have no rights which
either belligerents respect and nc re-
spect is paid to the rules of the
Geneva convention. lie seems to be a
three-sided conflict; at least, there are
three belligerent parties-the strik-
ing union miners, the non-union min
ers and the state troops under control
OF the state authorities. All three
parties, The World avs, are violating
the law. The union miners are de-
stroying lige by the wholesale through
the use of Internal machines. Union
miners are shot down in riots with the
non-uaion men. The state troops are
attacking the union miners where
they find them assembled and are
making arrests on all sides without
the authority of legal warrants. Men
are being collected II bands and
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
JUDGE REDUCES VERDICT.
Against the Atlantic Coast Lime
Railroad Gives the Plaintiff n
Verdict for $40. Goethe Judge Re
duces This to S., o

At S o'clock Saturday night the
jury In the cas- OF w. A. Lilies, OF
Morven, against the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad, returned a verdict for
h plaintiff for $4,000 damages.
Judge Bryan. after listening to numer-
Gus motions or the part OF the defen-
dant's lawyers. reduced the verdict 10
$4,000, the plaintiff agreeing TO this
rather than have the verdict set aside
entirely. the judge indicating that he
would do this If the reduction was not
accepted.
This case was taken up Wednesday
morning of last week and was stub
bornly contested on 10Th sides. Rob
inson & Caudle appearing for the
plaintiff, and Jas. A. Lockhart & Son
and Geo. NJ. Rose. OF Fayetteville. for
the defendant railroad.
The ~inJuries complained of were re-
ceived in a collision of a dump car
with a lever car in April. 1900. be-
tween Morven and W~adesboro. II
was alleged that by reason of the
collision Mr.. Lilies was thrown under
the lever Of the car he was riding
on and crushed to the floor, causing
severe and permanent injury to, and
N'SPi'SSAiSit u, MS spinal column. If
was also alleged by the plaintiff that
the injuries were received by reason
or the negligence of the railroad COM
pany, in that Mr.. Lilies was directed
by the roadmaster to leave the place
Wnere ne was at work, repairing a
washout between Wadesboro and
Morven, and tax a number OF hands
on a lever hand car to the Jones sec
ton house for supper. the said road
master not at the same time isform-
ing him that another person had been
sent in the same direction after a
dump car. 1t was a very dark, drIsly
night, and a collision with the dunn
car followed. Another plea of negli-
gence set up by the plaintiff was that
neither the dump car nor the lever
car was provided with brakes. IT be-
ing contended that the collision could
nave been averted had they been so
provided.
The defendant railroads contention
was that the plaintiff contributed to
his own injury in falling to discover
the approaching dump car. as he
might nave done, in time to avoid the
collision. The railroad also claimed
that h plaintiff was debarred from
recovering damages on account OF the
injuries received for the reason thar
he was a member OF a relief depart
ment established by the railroad. the
said relief department being in the
nature of an insurance association,
which is maintained by monthly on
~tributions from the employees Of the
road, and that In signing an applica-
ton for membership in said associa-
ton and accepting benefits from II he
released the railroad from liability
on account of Its own negligence.
Judge Bryan decided this point
against the railroad. for the reason
that h association was not n legal
corporation at the time of the acct
dent, 1t not having complied with the
law applicable In such cases.
The attorneys for the railroad gave
notice OF appeal, so the case will 20
TO the Supreme OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
BREAKFAST TABLE
Nature Provides fs Own Remedies, which III .iso0
JudIoiously, Insure Perfect Health
at All Times.

centrated form from fresh califoEni
Prunes, they = q natural dissoiven
acting on the contents OF the stonac
and bowels and not on the organ
themselves.
They regulate the Liver and Stou
ach, Cleanse the System and Purf
the Blood, Cure all Bowel Troubles
Biliousness, Bad Breath, Bad Blood
Wind on the Stomach, Bloated Bowel
Foul Mouth, Headache, Indigesdos
Pimples and Dizziness.
Every household should have I
family package of CALIFORN1
PRUNE WATERS, and a, the ff
signs of approaching Illness, or whs
under the weather, take q couple {
waters, and the doctors bills will 500
be MECH smaller than they are now.
You can eat what you please IL W
follow each meal with q CALIFORN1
PRUNE WAFER, which quickly d
solves the most ~indigestibie food, an
helps to carry 1t through and out OF th
system in q gentle and healthful MAJ
ner. without the slightest pain, gripin
or d 100 Waters for 2Sc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL EDITORS.
National Association AdjOurns EIeC
ton of New Officers.

Richmond, Va, June 9.-The National
Association Of Sunday School Editors,
which has been in convention here for
the last two days, adjourned after a
mass meeting tonight in Grace street
Baptist church..
Short addresses were delivered at the
mass meeting by Rev. DR.. 7. n. Pelou-
bet, of Boston; Rev. DR.. 1. j. VanNess,
of Nashville; Rev. c.. r. Blackall, of
Philadelphia and by Rev. J. A. Mckay,
OF Nashville.
At the session this morning, the
question of further suggestions to the
lesson committee concerning selection
Of future lesson courses and selecting
titles and golden exits for the lessons
was discussed.
The editorial association is a unit in
endorsing the present International
series of lessons, and is very cordial in
commentator of the work of the les
son committee. DR.. Hazard presented
a splendid paper on the question of
Tex Lessons Quarterly" and the point
was emphasized that the use of such
publications would encourage the use
of the Bible in the Sunday School.
4 Inc committee on nominations re-
| ported the following as their recommen-
| dation for officers for the ensuing year:
President, Rev. DIR. r. Douglas Fraser
| Toronto, Canada; ice president, Rev,
DR.. A. L. Philips, Richmond: secretary
| Rev. DR.. A. G. Blackall, Philadelphia;
/ executive committee, Charles G. Trum-
bull, Philadelphia; Rev. DR.. c. E
Wilbur, Pittsburg. Pa, and Rev. DR.
NJ. c.. Hazard, Boston. The report
was adopted.
The committee on resolutions, in its
report. recommended that membership
in the association shall include the right
Of participation in the s~yndication o.
material and that the invitation tc
meet in Toronto in 1905 be accepted
The recommendation was adopted.
The committee appointed last year Il
secure the adoption of a uniform nom
e%nclature on the part Of all Sunday
school publishing houses n denomina.
tons a to the names of various de
partments in the Sunday schools re
ported that the preference Of all partie!
interested had been secured by CORE
~spondence, and the following was thu
unanimous choice for names for tn
various grades or departments in tn
Sunday schools: % Primary, 90 Jun
ior, 90 Intermediate, ca Senior, go AID
v3n~tG.
This order of grades was adopted a
the official preference of the editoria
/ association.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
RUSSIAN HOSTILITY TOWARD
AMERICANS.

Mr.. Mccormick, Our ambassador at
the Russian court, and Mrs. McCor-
mick are not having the pleasantest OF
times just now in st. Petersburg. The
Russians are giving them the cold
shoulder and are doing all they can to
mak their sojourn at the Russian cap
ital unpleasant. There has, as YET,
been no open ~affront, but a number OF
petty Sights have occurred. Mr.. Nc
Cormick has been given notice that he
must vacate the palace which he has
been occupying as the American en-
bassy. This belongs to a prominent
Russian prince who says he cannot al
low it to be occupied by enemies of
his country" This thing will keep up
until some affront so gross is offered
to the representative of our govern
ment that Uncle Sam will feel called
upon to ask the Russian government
for an apology and then if the naughty
autocrat of all the Russias feels in
suited at such a request and refuses to
make proper amends the Japs may
have closer allies in their struggle
against Russian aggression in the east.
A smaller thing la this has been the
origin of war between nations. This
show of unfriendliness toward Ambas-
sador Mccormick and his official house
hold grows out OF Russia's anger at
American sympathy for the Japanese.
Such conduct is calculated to increase
that sympathy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

Aside from the pleasure Of eating
seasonable fruits before beginning the
first meal of the day, this custom has
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from the well known
fact that nearly all fruit and more par
ticularly piums and PRUNES contain
natural laxative prnciplesswhich act
directly on the stomach and bowels.
Constipation, that dread and trouble
some complaint which Is undoubtedly
the basic cause Of nine-tenths of tho
dyspepsia. indigestion, biiiousness, etc.
90 prevalent among our people to-day,
and which, if neglected. surely leads
to more complicated and serious or
ganic diseases, can surely be prevented,
and when not o far advanced can be
absolutely cured by the judicious use
Of the modern laxative and cathartic
California Prune Waters.
They are not O patent medicine In
the ordinary sense Of the word, being
compounded from fresh California
Prunes, which every intelligent person
knows is truly natures laxative.
A dainty little wafer. always tn
Same, compounded in q highly CON
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

The Raleigh Times has evidently be-
come tired of so much talk in certain
newspaper quarters about preserving
the liberty of the press, martyrdom in
the interest of the rights of the people
and all that sort of bosh we have had
so much of OF late. 1t says:
The history of Joe Turner simply
shows that a man with a good cause
may effectually ruiH himself and his
cause by continually belaboring people
with the same dc stories. He was like
the good woman who insisted on her
guests drinking tea, and drinking tea,
till finally she found their bach jaw
Eeeth were completely under water.
It's we'll to look out and stop when the
people have enough.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

The New York World of Wednesday
contains a cartoon entitled -'Buttin'
In" 1t represents Colonel w. ]. Bryan
butting his head against a door on
which is the label New York" In
n hand Mr.. Bryan has a scroll on
which are the words: My advice
Parker cannot carry New York" In the
other hand he bears a rather dilapidat-
ed banner on which is written: My
record in New York-1S96, McKinley's
plurality 26S, 469-19OO, McKinley's plu-
rality 143, 6O6." Mr.. Bryan has suspend
ed by a cord from his shoulder a bun
die labeled crown of thorns'' and in
the distance are two sinking ships one
named Chicago III the other Kansas
City.
Owing to failure by the Atlantic and
North Carolina train dispatcher to an
null a first order when S~uperSeding it
with another the 'shoo-fly'' was delay
ed on the siding at Failing Creek last
night so long that it missed the con-
nection in G~oldsboro. The '.shoo-hy''
was ordered on the Failing Creek side
track by the last order for the truck
lld1h " pass, Jul ILLS Tram ndu Deen
ordered in to the side track at Boston
previously and there being no telegraph
station at either place both trains were
there for some time, or until the diem
ma was remedied by a second section
of the truck train coming out from
GoldSboro with orders to clear the
line. President Bryan was on the
Shortly and did o get away from
Failing Creek until 9:45.-Kinston Free
Press.
Brilliant railroading that. But then,
it is safer thar having the dispatcher
trying to make two trains pass each
other on a single track.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
No Vacancy

The German ide hat the place for
women is in the house and not in the
church led recently TO a curious com
piication. which The Philadelphia
Evening Telegram reports. In a small
town in Pennsylvania there Is a female
preacher. One afternoon she was pre-
pairing her sermon for n following
Sunday when she heard a timid knock
at the parsonage door. She answered IL
herself. and found a bashfuI young
German standing OF the step. He was
a stranger. but the minister greeted
MIN pleasantly. and asked him what he
wished.
"Dey say der minister lifted In dis
house. hey?"
Yes, sir"
"Yess? Veil. I want to kit marrit."
All right; I can marry you"
The German jammed his hat on his
head, turned and hurried down the
walk.
What is the NATTER" called the
parsoness after him.
You kits no chance init met he call
ed back Il don't want you; / hat got
me a girl aireatyl'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
Ghf Messengrr.
OUR PATY,s n

stand by your party. Vote for the
devil II he is the party nominee" say
party men. That is all right; but the
people think the devil should get the
nomination fairly and by a vote OF a
majority OF the party; and not by a
handful of wire-pullers. For this rea-
son we insist hat we Quiz have a
lesalized primary, so that every can
didate shall have the benefit Of what
strength he has in each county, town.
ship or voting precinct. It will be
greatly to the interest and conducive
to the future welfare OF the democratic
party in this state for the state con
vention to endorse the legal primary
system and for the mex legislature TO
pass an act providing for such primary
elections. such course would do more
toward heading off growing discomfort
in the party than anything that could
be done. That this discomfort exists
and that there is a growing disposition
to throw off ring rule cannot be denied
by men who are not blinded to the
existing conditions. Concessions in the
way OF greater fairness in making
nominations have got TO be made to the
masses of the party II the democrats
are to retain the supremacy of past
years in this state. We say this not
by way OF a threat to the party lead
ers but as a solemn warning. The DEM
ocratic part in North Carolina cannot
-nnfhnIC u-hiah nrn-
vailed in those days when all tina was
necessary to unite the white people and
secure a solid vote for any candidate
nominated, no matter how distasteful
he might be to the general public or by
what methods his nomination was Sc
cured, was to cry white supremacy
That day has passed. The people are
thinking for themselves and are going
to act independently of the leaders
when the action of those leaders does
not suit them.
We repeat, we are not making a
threat, but sounding a note OF warn
ing. We want TO see the state remain
democratic, but we also want to see
the people OF the party given a fair
share in the selection of the men they
are called upon to support for the va
rious offices. This is their right. And
it is a right which they are going to de-
mand. The ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
negro was the acknowledgment of the
white voter. Before, the white man
was bound hand and foot to the will
of the political wire-puller n county
convention manipulation Now he is
free to think for himself and to act as
he pleases and he is going to demand
that the concession be made to him
that he be allowed to participate in the
management of his party's affairs and
in the selection of his party's cand1-
dates.
Those who think this wild talk and
refuse TO give heed to the growing sen.
timent and to realize the changed con.
ditions will do so at their own peri
and to the great danger Of their party
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
n IT FOR MI. WinIams.

John Sharp Williams democratic
leader Of the House OF Representatives
who has been mentioned as a presi-
Dental possibility. has given up all
thought of the presidency. This in
terview in the New York Telegraph
explains his action:
Why" relied MI. Williams, "the
correspondent of a Western paper asked
me that question yesterday. Are you
a candidate for the presidency, Mr..
WiIliams?' asked he.
well, 1 looked the young man over
and l saw he was in earnest.
81 was. l told him. AT least I
saw a good deal about it in the papers.
Then 7 commenced to e from my
constituents. The municipal council at
YaZoo passed resolutions to the effect
that the municipality preferred that I
should remain in my present proud posi-
ton in the legislative branch, n not
aspire TO executive onors
Then / heard from the intelligent
voters of Shubuta. Then Narkeeta
spoke; then STEMS Siding. They were
all vehemently against my running for
President
"'Then you are not a ~candidate2'
put in the correspondent.
"tOh. / think / could fix those fell
lows down in Mississippi all right
Then you are not a candidate?'
Moo. Fact is, about that time
Mrs. Williams came up to Washing
ton city, and I took her for a drive.
We were passing the White House
when she turned to me and said.
What's this i a about u running
for President. Mr.. Williams"
"'"Oh, nothing much" says I.
says Mrs. Williams 81
n want to hear any more about IL.
You know perfectly well. John that
with my sick headaches I couldn't DOS
sibly live in that big white house owe
yonder- / must have the Yazoo air."
80 / rays to the correspondent. i
guess I'll have to give up the presi-