The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-21
Amounting to s1O,O0O a Year
Received in Response to Prayers.
BERNARD HEARD FROM
Assessment OF Property OF Common
Vile VIII Invite Convention OF Labor
Statisticians tan Meet There Next
Ycar-TarTners Favor Compulsory
Education With the Nesrs. Left Gut.
Messenger Enreau.

SaIeaEn, y. T., July lo-
Chairman Mcneil. OF the state cor
commission. say that as the
state board Of tax assessors IL has
nearly completed It's assessment OF the
property of common carriers. h
reports &c n few Of these are rcom-
plete and 50 had To he returned.
State Auditor Dixon. who il very
popular as a speaker. has n lumber OF
Invitations 10 deliver addresses ut va
.rious points but says he has been COM
.relled TO decline all OF them except
one TO deliver an address at his homc
town, Shelby, on the occasion Of what
is known as the home coming OF
cleveland people, August 1Gth.
State Treasurer Lacy has returned
from his mountain trip which occupied
Just oae month. He went as the guest
of Marshal W. Bell. of Cherokee oun
lty, into Graham county. on Il 10000
lacre game preserve, the other Aem-
lbers Of the party being tn sister Of
Mr.. Bell and Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dill
lard. They lived in log cabins and had n
grand time in the primeval forests, in
which M axe has ever felled Il tree.
J They caught more trout daily han
lthey could eat and enjoyed that grand
fish three times II day. Mr.. Lacy says
his trip WAS 4 delight from start to
finish. On the way home he stopped At
Marion II visited the Elhanan or
lphanage, of which Miss Perry is the
head. There are 100 orphans and she
receives in gifts $4,000 Il year for
Them. everything coming in response TO
Drayc". lie StTS that though some
FINES there is hardly anything left to
eat yet Il fresh supply comes in and
that it is one Of the most remarkable
lplaces he eve visited.
Judge Allen did not take any further
step today so far as the sentence of
Rowan Rogers and j. L. Sorrell Is con-
lcerned. He ave them six months In
ljail yesterday. though n longer SEN
Itence was expected by Il good many
Ipeople. 1t has been said that the judge
lsaid he would mitigate the sentence.
Ihut he did not really make this state
lment. The grand jury today contin-
lued its investigation into what may
|be back OF the action of Rogers and
lSorrell in talking to jurors in the CAT
ltls-Kilgo case.
One Of the closest friends Of Claude
BERNARD said today: He is in good
life good spirits and good health. and
soon will return TO his home here. l
lhavc seen him within n few days, but
will not tell you where"
State Labor Commissioner Warner
Icoes to San Francisco September >,
Ito attend the convention of labor sta
l.isticians Of America. including the
limited States and Canada. II is said
THAT Asheville will invite this conven-
ltion there next year year. 1t embraces
l45 bureaus.
Labor Commissioner Warner says
THAT replies have come iii from 500
Farmers regarding wages. labor, educa-
ltion. etc. and hat Il very large ma
licrity favor compulsory education
with the negro left out. In tine east
land in a good deal Of the center of the
Estate the objection Is almost solely on
account Of the negro. as a great many
farmers c'"im that to educate the lat
ter ruins him as 4 farm laborer. \
lorfat majority Of the farmers, there
ltorn. faTor compulsory education and
lin fact alucation genealiy for the
whites only. \ few favor II for both
Traces and say the negro ought To have
In practical education. Very nearly all
ltIi" farmers complain of 4 tendency on
1.-The Drt Of Wagc-earners both white
la1d black 80 leave the farms and 90
Itn here there * labor in factories,
saw mills, railways. etc. There Is great
land general complaint Of the shortage
: LOT labor. this coming from everywhere.
| III is somewhat significant that some
; lnf the most ardent supporters of com
lEu.eoTy educ't;on declare that they
|. have this idea because tiiev believe II
l " III benefit ge~-oarners h. preparing
: Them for more useful work on the
farm, where 1T is felt that al agricul-
ttHral education i Of special value
The farmers in n number Of cases ex-
lrress their appreciation Of the instruc.
l ition given n the agricultural college
T here. The labor commissioner says hs
is impressed i'm booking over these let
tiers from over sol farmers reportin;
from every county in the state by tn
improvement in penInanship. expires
: lsinn. etc. This, in fact. amounts 10 (:
= revelation. The replies nave also beer
: IIGarkad by promp:ness-