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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-11

Senator Mallory Of Florida.
Writes from Pensacola, Fla: 81 have
used your excellent remedy, Peruna, and
have recommended il both us tonic and
safe catarrh remedy."-Stephon r.
Mallory.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
9Th. Messenaer
WE STAND by OUR RECORD.

There are only two distinct features
to the Watts law. the prohibition OF
the manufacture and sale Of liquor in
unpoliced districts and the giving TO
the opponents of the saloon a fair
chance to vote the saloon but, with the
choice Of prohibition or the dispensary
as a substitute. Which of these two
features does The Messenger disap-
prove of?"-Charlotte News.
The putting of the above query i'm
plies Ind leads the readers OF The
News to suppose that The Messenger
has in its editorial columns opposed
one OF the other OF these two features.
The editor Of The News-Standard
knew wher he wrote that paragraph
what false impression IL would create
and he knew also that because OF the
greater circulation that his paper has
in its home section than The Messen-
ger any reply the latter might make
would necessarily reach but few Of the
people who read the question in The
News. To e A. J. McKelway, ed
itor of The News ard Standard, We will
say that he cannot point to a single
line In the editorial columns OF this
paper disappearing OF any feature OF
the Watts law. We defy him as poll
ticaI and religious editor 10 quote any
such sentence from the editorials OF
this paper. We hope he will give this
statement as prominent position in his
pape as he did his query above allud-
ed to. Another statement We wish
our Reverend brother to publish for
us is that We denounce as false the
statement made by him that The Mes
senger is an acknowledged saloon
paper" The insinuation by this reli-
gio-politico editor that The Messen-
gers "fears are more for the safety of
its friends on the saloon side of that
question and perhaps for its w well
fare than for the democratic party"
is under the circumstances unworthy
>of an editor of a paper which lays just
claim to be a fair and honest political
Journalistic more unworthy of a
man who claims to be the representa-
tive of the holy church and an ex-
FOUNDER Of the gospel of truth to man.
kind.
The Messenger has eve stood for
the best interests of the people Of this
stale. 1t has eve todied to any Off
ciaI or public man. When it thinks
the conduct of an official, state or ma
tional, should be criticised it does not
hesitate to criucise it. Because it has
pursued this open, independent course
it has incurred the enmity of some edi-
tors who have not the independence or
The courage to pursue the same course.
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Who Are the Crackers?

The Statesboro tragedy has stimulat-
ed discussion of that peculiar element
of h southern population widely
known to fame as Crackers A writ
err in the Boston Transcript make a
notable contribution to the symposium.
~picturing very fairly on the whole the
virtues and vices Of the Cracker but
IN our opinion, extending the applica-
ton of that title much too far. More
over, the picture is vastly overlaid
with romance and imagination. AS a
matter OF fact. the term cracker was
originally applied by the southerners
who invented it to the low class whites
inhabiting the sal hills of South Caro-
Ina, Georgia and Florida, whereas the
corresponding class inhabiting the
highlands of North Carolina, Tennes-
see, the Virginias and Kentucky. were
almost invariably called mountain
GERS. No doubt, excepting some few
n comparatively Insignificant infus-
IONS, they have a common origin, to
wit: The criminals first sent over here
by the London Company, by Ogle.
thorpe and other pioneers of Englisl
occupation.
But Prof. John Fiske. of Harvard
University has left little room for con
troyersy in this regard. His great work
Virginia n Her Neighbors," tells the
whole story of the colonization o.
America SO far as the United Kingdom
is concerned, and novelists innumera-
bic have adorned il and beautiied II
with mingled fact and fancy. We know
that New England was settled by ths
yeomanry Of the old country: thai
Maryland received the fugitive Cathol.
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scheme and its success for the rescue
from prison of the assassin of the
Russian minister of the interior. 1t IS
yet undecided whether the two men
in officers uniform who presented the
order for the prisoner were friends dis
guised as staff officers or were really
members of the imperial staff. Their
scheme succeeded and they and the
assassin have disappeared. The ease
with which the thing was done causes
much concern in Russian official cir
cles.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
TOO Many Dogs Already.

This sIory of Lincoln seems 10 be a
new one, says the Youths Companion.
1T was related at an old settlers meet
ing at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, by the
late Senator James Harlan, of Iowa,
who served as secretary of the interior
under Mr.. Lincoln, M whose daugh-
ter, Mary, is the wife of Robert Lin
coin, ex-secretary of war and now a
leading lawyer n capitalist of Chi
cago.
Some politicians had called on Pres
ident Lincoln to III the appointment
Of some of their friends to positions
in a certain department. BY way Of
refusal the president told the following
story:
Gentlemen, the conditions in that
department put me in mind of the time
that a young friend and myself tried
to court the two daughters of a pep
perry widow living near our homes. The
old lady kept a lot of hounds
1--WE had not been n the house long
before Of the hounds came in
the room and lay down by the fire. In
a little while another n came to the
door. He didn't get in for the old lady
gave him a kick, saying:
"tGet out of here! There's too many
dogs in here now!"
w concluded to court som other
girls"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

But We would save u contempo-a-
ry before it commits itself to this new
doctrine of republicanism too far. Is
it really in favor of the country distil-
lery and GROCERY? Or is it opposed 10
giving the opponents of the saloon a
fair chance? Which? We commend
the question to it's prayerful attention.
Rev. A. j. McKelway in h Charlotte
News.
The readers of The Messenger will,
no doubt. be surprised to hear that the
above was written by Rev. A. j. Nc
Kelway, a Presbyterian minister of
Charlotte, who has put aside his holy
calling and substituted therefor the
editing of a political paper in that
city. The paragraph quoted above is
in reference to an editorial in The
Messenger urging the democrats of
this state not to let the dissensions
owe the Watts law divide them on the
political issues. What sense there is
in such a reply to our article We leave
to our readers to judge. That there is
division in the party on that question
any maj who Ia any sense well knows
and that there is danger to the party
from both the over Jealous advocate;
and opponents of the law all who know
anything of the situation must admit.
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THE COURTESY or THE PRoFEs.
SION.

There is a rule among newspaper
men, as in all other professions. that
they should assist one another. There
are no prescribed limits in this mat
ter. Each editor is the judge Of to
what extent he shall extend this cour-
tcsy to other members OF the profess
sion. The Messenger must return It's
thanks to The Charlotte News for
courtesies of his kind recently extend
cd IL. That paper has on two occa-
sions MS week devoted a column and
a half or more of it's valuable space on
the editorial page 10 advertising The
Messenger. The railway schedules De
tween Wilmington and Charlotte are
such that we cannot get The Messen-
ger in hat city as early as We would
like, but IL the editor Of The News
standard will continue 10 give US such
liberal advertisement We. no doubt.
viii greatly increase our subscription
list in that city, notwithstanding the
fact that our paper reaches It's sub
scribers there at so late an hour. We
fully appreciate the disinterestedness,
the unselfshness of the editor of The
News-Standard in giving up SO much
OF his editorial space to free adver-
tisement of our paper. We fee high
ly complimented by his editorial com
ments OF The Messenger.
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les and Delaware. Ner Jersey and
Charleston. & C.. were sought in great
numbers by h H~uguenots- But the
earlier ~colonists sent out TO Virgins
and the Carolinas were criminals-po-
iitical and otherwise-and those exc
ported to jamestown by the Londoa
Company were under bonds Of servi-
tude- O~giethorpes earlier recruits
were perhaps the worst OF ALL But
these conditions did not last. the
bondsmen as they completed their
terms OF service. moved south n west.
finding refuge in the mountains and
the sandy lands, and the labor problem
in the rich agricultural regions was
solved by the Importation OF negro
slaves from Africa The Dutch began
t.. but our good seafaring friends %
New England o % monopolized the
traffic, n hen a REIMBURSEMENT Of The
population was effected The fertile
plantations were occupied by n aris-
tocrats and their slaves The towns
filed up with tradesmen. artisans, doc
tors, attorneys, ETC., and the earlier
~colonists retreated TO the poor lands
and the mountains, where they live to-
day. very much as their ancestors did
two hundred years ago. Their loyalty"
during the civil wal was merely an ex-
preston of their antipathy to the priv
ileged class. Their feeling toward the
negro today is the legacy OF an ancient
hate.
Fol- ourselves, We d~iferentiate tn.
crackers" and the mountaineers- Orig
inally they may have had a common
or at least equally forlorn origin; but
today the highlander of the Virginias,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
lucky is greatly the superior of the
Florida and Georgia sand hitler in
everything that makes for manhood.
They have their feuds-bitter and cruel
as can be found in any chronicle of
Scotland-but they are bold and self
reliant men, respecting women with
chivalrous vigilance, h~ospitable, loyal,
brave to heroism. 1t may please out
siders to call them crackers" Such,
however, is not our idea OF propriety.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
THE YANKEE AND THE NEGRO

Whenever a negro down south COM
mits a heinous crime and he is captur-
ed and lynched the northern papers
raise a great outcry about the lawless-
ness Of the men of this section and
thu brutal in which the poor
negro is treated. They. have a differ
ent way of managing such affairs up
north. There when a negro commits
a crime he brings down h vengeance
of the white people on his whole race.
At the south the man who commits the
his race suffers for his misdeeds. A
dispatch to the Raleigh Post of yes
terday from Philadelphia shows the
luminosity of the white people of the
City of B~rotherly Love to the brother
in black. 1t says:
Philadelphia, September EN-
d~eavoring to escape an angry mol
composed of men. women and chill
dren, James Parker, Olored, twenty
four years old, who had beat two white
boys, raced madly through the streets
near Ontario Park tonight, beating
with a blackjack every one who block
ed his path.
when the negro was nndlly corner
ed in a cigar store at Eleventh and
Poplar streets, it was all the police
could do to restrain The mob from
1ynching h man. The combined eff
forts Of four policemen finally landed
Parker in the police station out of the
way of the Infatuated mob. Then be-
ban a reign of terror for all the negroes
in that section of the city. Until far
into the night thousands of men and
women and their children paraded the
streets seeking colored men to beat
and crying vengeance. Several times
the police of the Tenth and Thomp.
son street station arrested colored men
from the midst of the wild crowd who
had ropes for %lynching, a locked
them up to protect them nm physi-
cal injury. There were e mt in the
station house after midnight.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

Bears the The Kind You Have MRaE Borett
S's. q &1NlZM

They do kill 'em by trolley car loads
in ST Louis every day-onIy OCCASION
ally 0 Observation-Disclosures .pournaI
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

Mr.. Beckwith gives the
credit for forcing a lease. The news
apers simply published the facts and
n common sense of the people did
the rest.
The above is from the Durham Her
aid. That paper hits the nail square
on the head. The Charlotte News,
though, will differ with Brother King
and insist that The Post, The Obser-
yer n The Messenger. bulldozed the
governor, the nine directors and the
private stockholders into accepting a
proposition which they knew or would
have known. had they been endowed
with the brains of the editor of The
News-Standard. was not to the advan-
tage of the state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

It's a poor rule which does not
work both ways. If it is wrong for
men who oppose the Watts law to de-
clare that they will not ID the
democratic nominees who favor that
law, is it not also wrong for men who
their party candidates because they
are not advocates Of that measure
We ask Brother McKelway, of The
News-Stahdard to answer this ques-
ton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

candidates in secret caucus to take
down candidates after they are nomi-
mated and put up other candidates by
committees without consulting their
people. They have even gone So far
in some cases in disregard of the vot-
ers of their party as to refer all nomi-
nations to committees Is it possible
that the bosses have now reached the
point where they have dared to change
the platform after the adjournment Of
their convention?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
Boatswain Haley Adiudged Insane

Washington, September S.-Boatswain
Haley, who recently was ordered curt
martialed for drunkenness, has been
~adjudged insane and will be brought to
Washington for confinement in an asy-
lum. The court had assembled at PEN
sacola to conduct his court martial
when the condition of his mine was
discovered.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
Affairs Of Norfolk Navy Yard.

Washington, september Rear Adj
miral Harrington, commandant of the
navy yard, Norfolk, was at the navy
today in conference with
Secretary Morton and other officials,
regarding work and affairs at the Nor
folk yard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13

We have no intimation that any
other nation wants to take Russia's
place in an endurance contest with
Japan.-Washington Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
Can for condition of National Banks.

Washington, September S.-The comp
troller OF the currency has issued a call
for the condition OF National banks at
b close Of business September 6
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ton to ourselves as much as to our
Ohj Iron

ton to ourselves as much as to cur
children.
For a moment leave the men to
themselves and look at the other side
ofthe family. See the girI..who is SO a. :
sorted IN her tennis or golf cham plon-
ship OR her bicycle record or her canoe
ing that she is in danger of lpjuring
herself by undue attention to one
thing. The Injury will not be physical
alone, but will affect her mental atti-
tude as we'll. She will grow one-slded
and ursymmetrical.
4. This is the girl who should te
Introduced to domestic matters. Her
mother sl,'uld do her best possible to
make her daughter feel that a wou.an's
home training is as important as phys
ical culture. She sboulJ strive to in
terest the girl in all that goes to make
housekeeping and home-making I'M
portant. The girl should have her les
sons in the chemistry of fool as well as
in cookery, should know something of
domestic sanitation as vel as Of wash
ing dishes Once she is infected with
enthusiasm in this direction she Will he
better able to strike balance between
indoor occupations an! outdoor sports.
While the mother Is doing this, she,
too, must not overlook the chance she
has for her own symmetrical develop.
ment. If the gir! needs to be taught
the importance OF indoor pursuits, so
the mother needs to learn what there
Is for her in active physical exercise.
Probably she, belonging to an earlier
generation which did not see the ad-
vautages Of athletic sports, has been
too much given to staying at home or
going cut only when business called
her for a small round OF social or do
mestic duties Now is her chance to
learn something of the JOY there is in
living when the bo1y is IN 6 2od trim.
II she does not feel up to golf Gr tennis,
she should, if possible, ride whesI.
Or ii she does not do that, sic sht uld
cultivate the habit Of taking 'ong
walks mot Ieisurely strols, but lard,
rapid walks, that send her home tira1,
but IN glow.
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SUED BY HIS DOCTOR.

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Go6's Country.

Forward.
''Thls Is q beautiful country" said
visitor, watchdog a man at work in the
heart Of the woods in Nor. hern New
Ham psLsre. The native Was drilling
holes IA stone On hillside, and from
time to time lcoEing up over the lake
beneath, whose waters could be seen
through tie troes, and over the far
reaching forests aud bills. Yes" he
replied, Cod has douo al he could for
this country, and man has done al lie
ment on many beautiful parts of our
country. II some OF them the beauty
has not been destroyed yet, and In
soIe. thanks 30 mans folly, it l. gone.
We should be grateful that man cannot
deface tho sky. It's beauty abides over
many great country ruined by man.
Each OF us should epdaavor to protect
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full extent OF our opportunities. II wa
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woods lie: Us be guilty OF no destruc-
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behind. After tie great feast which
Jesus spread when he led the multi
tudes in the Wilderness, be ordered the
disciples to gather up what re!rained.
There was no disli curing rubbish tft
behind that visit into the country.
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