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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
CONGRATULATIONS TO COTTON
PLANTERS.

Mr.. Harvie Jordan, the president OF
the Southern Cotton Association, issues
the following address of congratula-
tons to the cotton planers who have
held their cotton and thus forced UP
the price:
The south is to be congratulated on
the prospects for general prosperity
curing the next eighteen months. The
loyalty Of southern farmers IN stand
ing together during the first three
months of the wear and holding their
staple off a deDresSed cotton market
n following this by curtailing pro-
duction fer 1905 by materially reduce
ing the cotton acreage and use Of
guano rrder cotton is more largely
resp T sible for the present condition
of good prices than all other causes
combined
The LOYALTY of southern bankers.
cotton men. fertilizer companies and
business 1nen generally who have so
generously contributed funds to the
association. and the southern press
which. during the hard struggle of the
farmers for the past six months to
whip the fight they had undertaken.
has lone such valiant and effective
pubic service without price are other
AA4S III ~ (oiiI AASLolo III I IL
possible existing conditions.
All of these things coupled with had
seasOns following in the wake Of a
heavily reduced aCreag and an enor-
nous demand for SPOT cotton by the
SINNERS CT the world gives IT, cotton
the strongest statistical pOsition il
has occupied in many years. If crop
conditions do not rapidly improve the
supply of raw cotton for CONSUMPTION
in 1906 will fall far short of the de
mand and prices will go very much
higher. But ahnormallY high prices
will be as dangerous for the future to
the producer n spinning as ahnOrm-
ally low prices. and We must ondeavor
to lie conservative and consistent.
It will be the Dart Of wisdom for al
cotton producers to discourage sDecu-
latiVe Interests that GOULD tend tC
drive the price of Spot cotton above
l. cents per pound lust as it is irnper-
alive hat TO farner should yer again
sell a pound of middling cotton under
1G cents per pound Let us not encour-
age inflated prices that will hammer
the mills curtail consumption of cot.
ton and encourage the growth Of the
staple in foreign fields We hold :
cOmnlete monopolv of the cotton in,
dustV of the world up to - cents ne
pound III at that price >oood profit:
tc the producer Il be realized.
The recent advance in cotton is IN
ducing many farmers already tn sci
+hei~ e~or for delivery in October. Thit
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
BY TRAIN
Dead Body of b. F. Davis. Night
Waterman of Lexington Furniture
Factories. Found Near Track-Xas
Probably Struck by Fast FIR icht

The dead body Of B. F. Davis, night
Waterman Of the Dixie and Elk fulni-
ture factories, was found early this
morning by Policeman Taylor, lying
between the mai. line and side-track Of
the Southern Railway, not far from the
depot. The skull of the dead man was
crushed, his right leg broken and his
body was otherwise injured. County
Coroner G.. A. Julian, of Thomasville,
was notified ana empanelled a jury
After viewing the body and hearing
testimony of witnesses, the jury return
ed a verdict to the effect that Davis
death was due TO his coming in contact
with a passing train. 1t seems that
about 4:20 O'Clock, after making the
rounds Of the Dixie factory, Davis was
in the act of crossing the track 20 80
to the Elk factory, which is loca1ed
just across from the Dixie, when the
train hit him. He was asst seen by the
night fireman OF the Dixie factory near
the track. Soon thereafter the fast
freight No. II passed northward, and
it is this train which is supposed to
have killed him, as his dead body was
found only a few minutes later. His
lantern lay a few feet from him or the
ground, also his night clock, which Vas
still running. Deceased was a man Of
good habits, Sc years Of age, and leaves
a widow and five small children.-Lex-
ingtCn Special to Charlotte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
RL.DES COUNTY CAMP Z. c. v.


EliZabethtown. y C.. July 13--The
executive committee Of the Baden
county camp United Confederate Vet
eranS met in the court house here
Monday Ex-Sherif W. s. Clark pre-
sided and Captain T. s. Whitfield acted
as secretary.
On motion Of Captain 7 : Whitfield.
seconded by Mr.. &. Martin. ii was
unanimously decided To nave Il II
ion this year. Mr.. ". y. Campbell
moved that the reunion be held ut
E1iZaDethtown by Capt. +. y Whitfield
and carried unanimously.
Messrs. W. y. Campbell, {. Martin,
". ). Clark aud Captain L. 5. Whitfield
were appointed as II committee 10 select
a time for the reunion. Sheriff Clark
called Mr.. Alexander Cain TO the chan
and the committee retired and selected
Friday, August Is. as the late for the
reunion. Short and interesting speeches
We're made by Messrs. W. y. Campbell,
W. S. Clark and Captain I. S. Whitfield.
The following named gentlemen
We're appointed rs Il committee to Sc
curea 4 orator l3r the occasions Cap
soAA l.. o. NullLEu, w. ~ SdiupDeii
and c. Martin.
The committee on arrangements is
composed Of the following veterans:
Captain L. S. Whitfield, Ex-Sheriff l..
j. Hall, Lieut.. O.. W. Hall, Ex-Sheriff
w. ]. Sutton, Sheriff {. W. Lyon. Nh.
james Gillespie and Mr.. c. Martin.
y distinguished orator will be Sc
cured for the occasion and Il large
crowd is confidently expected. Dinner
will be served Oh the grounds and ey-
erybody is cordially invited to attend.
Sheriff Clark spoke very feelingly of
the fast depicting ranks of the veter-
ans ard noted that since the reunion
of 1903 several comrades had passed
away, notably among them being Cap
tain ID. Patterson, Capt. Daniel Num-,
Lieut.. T. c. Moore and Lieut.. Wash
ington Pridgen.
Hon. Z. +. McCulloch, Of White Oak,
has been chosen to deliver the address
for Baden county at the semi-century
anniversary of Harnett county, ut Lii
linston, Angst l..
Sheriff c. w. Lyon went up to Raj
eigh on official business Monday.
Dr.. w. II. G. Lucas has moved from
White Hall to White Oak, where he
will practice his profession.
Mr.. o.. l.. Clark and family, of Clark
ton, ven down to Wrightsville Beach
some days ago to spend a while.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

[ ave so fixed the habit in my own
mind that I never raise a glass Of wa
ter TO my lips without asking Gods
blessing. I never seal a letter without
putting a word of prayer under the
seal. [ never take a letter from the
post without a brief sending Of my
thoughts ~heavenWard. I never change
my classes in the section room with
cut a petition for the cadets
who go out and those who come in
StCneWan Jackson.
And yet he was a man who made N
display Of his religion. He never
thanked God that he was not like other
men were.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
War Tax i'm Time OF Peace

Senator Dick. of Ohio. has q remedy
for the Treasury deficit and a very
efectual one. He would reimDose the
Spanish war taxes on numerous ar
ticles. There is no difficulty in under
standing the Senator's position. It is
perfectly clear. The present extor-
Tomato tariff rates are to be maintain
ed. n to preserve them the people
are to be oppressed with wal taxes
in times of profound peace. Can it
be that Senator Dick has been study
ing English history and is fascinated
with WentWorth's policy Of Thor
Cugh?"
Senator Elkins foresaw the dilemma
that his rarity is confronted With when
the war were repealed. and he
pleaded with his colleagues to retain
some of them. Had his advice been
taken there would have been no de-
fCtt: blu war taxes would have been
a heavy load for the G.. 0. P. to tote.
and as embarrassing in a political
sense as the deficit is in a financial
| ems
No doubt every standpatter would
be glad to settle the question on the
Lick plan. Would the President stand
it? We know that some thousands
of Massachusetts business men would
| lafsc a row over it. We know that
Governor CummiEs would become
very active. We know that Mr.. Taw-
ncy would seriously object t. it.
Senator Dick. and those who think
as he Goes. and that includes all the
s~tsndDatters. will rot allow the pres
ent tariff to be touched. and the wal
taxcs he would retmDose are a. inter,
nal. This blessed tariff that is be
come SC holy enables I'll manufac.
turers to m~OnOrolize the home marke
Which takes. at extortionate nrices. 81
per cent of their goods, The Other
1 per cent. is dumped into neutra
markets and sold for what the ware:
will fetch.
And vet the public patience has
been abused and the public c0nscienc,
outraged by tales Of What tremen
1ous things our manufacturers Were
going TO do If foreign markets ",
were tc drive England and German,
out of business. The door of China
was to L. held open while our manu-
factUrerS poured our God through il
How long will it take us to out Eng
land and GERMANY out cf business a
the gait we have been soing2 Tt is 81
humiug The foreign market give
our manufacturers no concern. TIL
home market is what they are inter
ested in.
Senator Dick will make. some poli
tics III coneresS when he fetni1es hi
war taxes on the Observation-Disclosures,
Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
OLE Wrssengn.
GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Inadequate, inperfectly trained and
totally unfit to uphold Great Britain
as a first class power" is what the COM
mander in chief of the British army
says of that military organization
Field Marshal Lord Roberts declares
that the army Of mis- government IS 1t
terly unfit for any practical use. Not
long ago it was stated on the floor CT the
house of commons that the British ma
Wy was a fraud on the public; that~she
had a number of warships classed as
first class which we're entirely worth
less. These two statements coming
from high authority should be taken
into consideration in the classification
as to the war footing of the several
nations of the world. By common con-
sent Great Britain is ranked as the
first naval power of the world end
until the Boer war she was considered
almost invincible On land. The boer
war, though, showed that the world
was DllSldkth do W hCl otACA5NA fA
land. Her weak condition in this re-
spect was as much a surprise to ner
own people as it was to the balance OF
the world.
This condition of the British sea and
land forces should be a warning to our
government. It IS against the princi-
pies of American democracy to keep a
large standing army in time of peace.
but we are all Of one opinion thai II
tine Of peace we should prepare fol
war. There is no doubt that the po-
sition which the American govern
ment now holds among the nations d
the world was Won by the demonstra-
ton Of her preparedness for war when
it was threatened us by Spain and OF
our exhibition of readiness, since then
to meet any hostile demonstration
which might be made against us. The
powers of Europe which a few years
ago took no consideration of the Wash
ington government in their negCria-
lions and treaties have come to looh
upon the United States as the chief
power among the nations of the world,
These powers of Europe can take nc
important step concerning their inter
national affairs without first consulting
the American government and hel
word goes in all matters where she
or her people are concerned.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
i NEW LINE TO THE NORTH.

What does that plan for a railroad
from Norfolk 20 Beaufort mean: Al.
we to have Il coastal line from Norfolk
t o Charleston at last. This has been
talked Of for years. but no company
would undertake the building OF the
line. The indications are that N last
the scheme has been taken up and that
efforts will be made to put it through.
This will put Wilmington on another
Forth and south line and give rs Il
competing route to the northern mar
kets. 1t will take years to complete
such a line after work has once begun
OIL it, but the mere starting Of such u
plan will be of advantage 10 our peo-
pie, and when 1t is completed we will
be in a position to dictate rates 10 tie
railroads instead Of having the roads
distate them TO US. What Il glorious
thing it would be for Wilmington il
she had two Independent railroads TO
the north. 1t is remarkable that this
one system for its traffic connection
with the northern markets. Really we
have only n line to the north and to
the south. Our people are at the MGR
cy of this II system. Let Us get this
new road and our people will then
have something to say, where now
their mouths are closed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
The Diamond Cure.

The latest news from Paris, is, that
they have discovered a diamond cure
for consumption If you fear consunp-
ton for pneumonia, it will, however,
be best for you to take that great rem
edy mentioned by w. T. MCGEE. Of
Vanleer, Tenn. Il had a cough, +or
fourteen years. Nothing helped me
until | took DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
which gave instant relief and effecte1
a permanent cure" Unequally quick
cure for Throat and Lung Troubles.
At r. r. Bellamy's drug store; price
SOC and s1.00, guaranteed. Trial bottle
free.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

is cad policy n If generally indulg-
ed in VIII deluge such an enormous
amount CT h staple on the market
during tina month as to break prices
and Irove injurious to those who must
sell. Learn TO market the crop slow
" and do net go into SPECULATIVE Drop
ositions.
BY cooperative action refuse to sell
ony cotton under 10 cents and 80
market the staple as to keep the iegiti-
mate demand active and healthy Ut
good prices.
The Southern Cotton association in
its meeting at Memphis. June go. 1905.
endorsed the plans for immediate
construction of warehouses under the
plans and specifications Of the insur-
arce companies and to be owned and
operated by the local In
which they are built. The rapid de-
velopment of a cotton warehouse sys-
tenn is absolutely essential to the best
system of marketing cotton for high
prices and this matter should be push
Ell at every cotton point in the south.
II is now imperative that the farm
| els rally in each county and build I'D
| the membership Of the association.
| These counties which have not vet Or
ganiZed should get into n at once
Ihose that are organized hould be
pushed by the local officers and the
membership Ct each RAPIDLY increased
after the crops are laid by.
w want to be in a strong position
by September to handle the situation
| next fall and winter. The outlook is
| most encouraging. The state and
county officers of the association are
to be congratulated on the splendid
work they have lone. and now that
success is assured they should redcu-
bic their efforts.
We have everything to be proud Of
and must not let the eoldtn opDortu-
nity now in reach to still better for
t:fy our position for the future. sir
| by or fail to measure uD to the high
| est standard Of our duty n to an
| other.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

Our brother editor, Toe King, of the
| Durham Herald has established an Z
viab1e reputation among newspaper
men and newspaper readers as a para
grapher. He gets off as pungent squibs
! as can be found in the columns of any
| paper in the country. The following
| are some selections from The Herald o.
the 18th:
While there may be some doubt as
to the sacrifice made by Mr.. Root. no
one has accused him of going around
hunting for the lob.
Municipal ownership of the water
works system in Charlotte appears to
be a good thing for those who can
manage to catch On.
Some people are shocked and sur
Drjsed when a thing that they know
has been going on all the time hap
cen to be made public.
Mr.. Price Will have a hard time O
vincing the country that he would not
have met Holmes half way if he had
had the opportunity.
It makes no difference what argu-
ment the president used in pursuading
Mr.. Root to accept if. provided he is
the mar for the place.
JNdlciSH Ids SuCCCcuSu IL Chill SiIlS
it Up to the hack drivers and We can
Now hope to lear no more Of it.
What we cannot understand is how
come Mr.. Tillman to let the South
Carolina d~ispensary system so wrong.
OF course the promoters Of those re-
rutlican dailies will start uD business
if the stockholders have no more sense
than to roke up the money.
If neither Mr.. Caldwell nor the OBJ
server company had been worth any
thing wonder what DR.. McKelway
would have done about it.
When the reforn,ers finally fix it so
that we will not have the opportunity
to sin even if we have the inclination.
why then We will all be good.
Those of us who did not know that
money would heal ones wounded feel
ings n satisfy his honor had simply
underestimated it's
Hold on a minute. Maybe two re-
publican dailies in Greensboro would
be nc worse than two democratic dali
lies in Raleigh.
IF Raleigh cannot reform the hack
drivers she might try the experiment
of unning them out of town.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

Banker Dewey a. New Bern was con
yicted Of stealing one hundred thous-
and dollars from 4 bank and the trial
Judge sentenced h m to six years in the
penitentiary. OF curse an appeal has
been taken and everything possible Will
be done 10 rob Justice. With a clear
understanding Of the circumstance
connected with Dawev's case we Trims
six years is a very light sentence ant
he should be thankful.-Charfotte
News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18
A Sunrise T'arfy.

A pleasant surprise party may ce
given TO your stomach and liver. By
taking a medicine which will relieve
their pain and discomfort, viz: Er
Kings New Life Pills. They are a
nos wonderful remedy, affording sure
relief and cure FOR headache, dizziness
and constipation 25c. at r. r. Bel
lamys drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

Wilmington gsis there every time.
What other town in the union. could
get up a serious contention over the
carving Of a ham? In any other town
it would be classed as a homeless
contention" but with us a homeless
ham does not necessarily make the con-
tention a homeless one. There was
much meat in it anyhow for the law
yers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

Secretary Wilson says this cotton
crop report leak is a quarrel among
gamblers. The News and Observer
amends that statement by saying it is
a quarrel between Wall street gamh-
lers and the agricultural department
grafters.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

The efforts Of the papers of the state
10 stir the county officials up to the
point Of attempting an enforcement Of
the Watts law seems tc be meeting
with but little success.-Durham Her
aid.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-18

What are we going to do in the way
OF entertaining the governor when he
comes down to attend the state guard
encampment?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-05
FIX BLAME FOR DEATHS.
Responsibility Placed on Engine
Direr and B. and Ms System. q

Cambridge Mass, Dec. 4-Horace W. Lyons,
the pilot engine driver of the Montreal Express.
is held responsible for the railroad accident 11T
November % at Bakers Bridge, on the Boston
and Maine Railroad when seventeen persons
were killed, and the running of the express train
so closely behind waytrain is characterized as
dangerous by Justice John s. Keyes, of the Con-
cord District Court, who held the inquest on the
disaster Judge Reyes finds that Lyons was, BIZ
his negligence in driving by the green signal ana
the red torches displayed the railroad. at
high speed, the cause of the deaths The accf-
dent was caused by the express running into the
tear end of the 8: ID Marlboro local.
With reference to the responsibilities OF the
Boston and Maine Railroad, the Justice said:
The system of this railroad in running express
one as is shown by this and two other collisions
Of trains on this railroad in one week.
The plan of detailing new and inexperienced
and overworked men to SUCH dangerous runs as
those express trains following waytrains is not
consistent with due regard for the safety OF pas
sengers or employees on this railroad
Justice Keyes points out that Lyons had been
promoted from fireman to engine driver five
months before the accident, and that he had
never before run an express passenger train in
the night following a local train He was tne
engine driver of the pilot locomotive. He IS
under arrest on the charge Of manslaughter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-05
ELIZABETH HUTCHINSON.
4 relic of the Wordsworth circle.

From The London Saturday Review.
There was laid to rest last week In West Nal
vern churchyard q venerable lady Miss Eliza
beth Hutchinson, who must be the last dlrecI
personal link with the poet Wordsworth having
lived with him, and also with his W1doW, hef
fathers sister, at Rydal Mount. She was con-
nected by a close intimacy ana affection with
Wordsworths favorite daughter Dora, or
Dorina who married Edward pullman MISS
Hutchinson had lived for sixty years at west
Malvern her brother the first vicar OF tHe
newly constituted parish of st. James, ana
and niece at the Vicarage This aged genlle-
woman was not only institution of the place
but kind of permanent eleemosynary proNl-
dence to any number Of INDECENT bedesmen ana
medieval or Jacobean character in quaintness
simplicity. regularity and disprOportlOn TO her
means Well in her appeared the ancient Gus
tom of the antique world. In her eighty-ftth
year she took TO reading, and enjoying Tenhy-
son.
intimate with Southey and with the Coleridges..
though Miss Hutchinson had no recOllections or
Samuel Taylor himself. She was always pleased
to talk to visitors. though she grew TO be very
deaf about far off days and TO show souvenirs
Of Rydal Mount and books given to her by heF
uncle and by Southey with their writing inside
She. of course was not the Miss hutchinson
who correspondent with Lamb but she might
have remembered him; and Lamb oVerIappe9
Johnson Her uncle. she used to say. only cared
for children in the abstract, though he TOOK
great deal of trouble to make friends with them
and her earliest recollectiOns of him were those
70 some extent, of alarm. Miss Hutchinson
life faded out very calmly. with scarcely d
flicker and with something of WordsWortn ina
phrase on her lips Sunset, and then sunrise.
We are entering a little age, and any per
Sonality which links to a great one mas an
interest for us which is not merely sentimental