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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
A GREAT CONTRAST.
In Closing Genes Of Our Legislatures
of Present and Past Times.

Time brings changes In all lines Of
business. In reading of h closing
scenes of h legislature which were
marked by the singing hymns, and sec
uiar songs, fn~terspersed with college
yeIis, we could but contrast them with
the scenes of other days. when the last
day Of the session was solemn and al
most a day of weeping. The last stroke
of the gaveI by Speakers Robinson of
Macon, Moring of Chatham, or Chas.
Price of Davie, the few members who
remained in their seats to the last
would leave h hall with an air Of re-
sponsibility which brought tears to the
eyes of the veteran door-keeper, john
II. Hill, and the pages. II the clock
was turned back it was to give time
to sign some important bills. Perhaps
the new way is the best. 1t takes away,
no doubt, any feeling of sadness at the
breaking of ties formed during the two
months the members are together-and
it is remarkable how strong these ties
become, with some, in 50 short a time.
1T no doubt creates a better feeling
among all and sends them on their way
rejoicing. We rather favor the songs
and the yell in preference TO long faces
and tears.-High Point Enterprise.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
Inland Water Way.

Especial to News and ObserVer.)
Washington, March 8.-Senator Sim
mons and Representative Small called
on the chief of engineers of the war
department today in the interest of the
survey of the inland waterway.
They had a g r satisfactory inter
view indeed, the chief promised TO de-
tail thoroughly competent men for the
work and to have the work thorough
ly DONE. The former survey was not
we'll done.
Senator and Mrs. Overman will take
dinner with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt tomorrow evening.
Representative Small has the ap-
pointment of a midshipman and three
aIternates to the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. Applicants should commu-
ntcate with Mr.. Small. His appoint
tees will be examined the third Tues
day in April and again on the third
Tuesday in June.
Representative and Mrs. Small leave
tonight for home. All the other men-
bcrs of the house from the state have
already gone home.
Your correspondent learns that a de-
termined fight will be made to prevent
collector Duncan's reappointment. 1t
is said most of the leading republicans
in Eastern North Carolina are against
hum. On the other hand it appears he
is certain of reappointment.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
STOP MY
The Cry of Some Who Differ With the
Editor.

We sometimes hear of a subscriber
stopping his paper because the editor
takes positions he does not like. There
arc some things which, if a paper con
tains, justify a subscriber in refusing
to take it and read it. If there is no
interest in a paper, if the editor has no
ability, or if he is vicious, dishonest or
untruthful, and such like things, then
a subscriber is fully justified in refus-
ing such a paper into his office or his
home. But the man who would stop
a paper simply because the editor dar-
ed to do a thing different from him, and
so express it, is too small for any use
at all. So far as we go, we like to get
such ~underbrush out of the way as soon
as possible. When a small nan is a
tyrant he is the worst to be found; a
negro overseer don't hold him a light.
Raleigh Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
CASE WILL CO TO JURY
MOTION FOR a VERDICT OF AC-
QUITAL OvERRULED.
Arguments i'm the Case of the Govern
nient Against Mrs. Chadwick Will
Bcgin Today-Only One Witness
Examined by the Defcnse-Mr. Car
ncgie Will Not be Called on the
Stand.

Cleveland, O., March 9.-Andrew
Carnegie is now definitely out of the
trial of Mrs. Chadwick. If h should
be acquitted this time, Mr.. Carnegie
might appear al a subsequent trial. out
so far as the existing cas- is conca-n-
ed, his pay is waiting for him and he
is at liberty to go home.
United states Marshal Chanler today
made out a check for s64.40 to Mr..
Carnegie. order and it is held i'll the
marshal's office, pending MI. Carnc-
gie's call for it. If he does not call, it
will be mailed to him.
The defense today made a desperate
effort to have the 5 AIKEN from the
jury and a verdict of acquittal render-
ed by the court. After arguments last
ing through the greater part of he
day Judge Taylor. just prior to h af-
ternoon adjournment, overruled the
motion. The defense also attacked
two counts of the indictment, and ask
ed that certain parts of the testimony
offered by h government be stricken
out. An admission o the judge that
he did not regard the two counts as
good was the extent of the satisfac-
ton secured by the defense. The &C
quittal of the defendant vas asked on
the ground that the indictment charg-
ed her with ~conspiring to commit an
offense against the United States, il
that she ~conspired with Beckwith and
Spear to certify illegally, checks of the
Obsrlin bank.
It was claimed by the attorneys for
the defense that Mrs. Chadwick, not
being an officer of the bank, cOuld not
certify checks and that she could not
be charged under the law with CON-
spring to commit am offense in con-
junction with others, which she aad
not the power to commit alone.
1t is probable that the case will be
given to the jury tomorrow evening.
That matter rests with he length cI
dhe arguments to be made by the law
yers and they were not able to say
this afternoon just how much time
they would require. If the arguments
are not finished tomorrow h case will
go over until Monday.
The only witness today was J. c.
Doolittle, the bookkeeping expert who
testified that there were items Of credit
to Mrs. Chadwick on the Oberlin banks
books of $4,000, $1,000 and $500.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
ANTI BUCKET SHOP BEL.
Grounds ON Which it is Considered
Unconstitutional.

Mr.. C.. NJ. Busbee and others Of the
best attorneys in Raleigh have advised
clients, who conduct cotton and pro-
duce exchanges not to close up at all
on account of the anti-bucket shop
bill that has just been ratified ,ry the
general assembly for the reason, as
they claim, that the entire act is I'M
cO%ntitutional and ineffective by reason
of the amendment that was tackled on
to it in the senate and concurred in
by the house providing that it do not
apply to manufacturers or wholesale
merchants. The principal precedent
on which counsel rely to overthrow
the act is the Texas antitrust case IN
which the supreme court of the United
States held that the clause in the law
exempting farmers from the operation
of the bill was class legislation and
in violation of the constitution maxi
ing the law a nudity. In the bucket
shop act the exemption OF manufac-
turers and wholesale merchants is a
similarly fatal defect.
Quite a number of members of the
legislature in speaking of the matter
last night admitted that they regard
ed the anti bucket shop act as a null
ity--absolutely Observation-Disclosures
Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
The ColOnel'S Waterloo.

Colonel John NJ. Fuller, Of Honey
Grove, Texas nearly met his Waterloo.
from Liver and Kidney trouble. In
a recent letter, he says: I was near
~ dead, Of these complaints, and, al
though 1 tried my family doctor, he
did me no good; so I got a soc bottle
of your great Electric Bitters, which
cured me. I. consider them the best
medicine on earth, and thank God
who gave you the knowledge to make
them" Sold, and guaranteed to cure,
Dyspepsia. Biliousness and Kidney
Disease, by r. r.. Bellamy, druggist,
at s0c a bottle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
I.AUGHINGHOUSE.
Pitt COunty's Aggressive and Strenu-
Gus Farmer Legislator.

There is one farmer i'm the Legislature
and he's a tartar. He is a great giant
of a fellow from Pitt, named Laughing
house, educated, well-to-dO and very
intelligent, but too hot-headed for
safety. He is a standby of all demo-
cratic conventions, where he often
causes a stir by a hot or ill-ti1ned
speech. ON n occasion while he was
making a speech somebody sang out,
Take him Gown!" DR.. Laughinghouse
invited the caller to come up and take
him down, but he didn't 80. He goes
for the lawyers in the legislature In
discussing the bill, which was defeated,
to allow new trials in criminal cases
when new evidence is discovered after
the trial, he said that it was remarka-
HE to see the interest some lawyers
took in the criminal classes. "They have
already got the laws so fixed" decl2r-
ed he. THAT it is next to impossible
to convict any one. Keep ON putting
beams into this structure to protect
the criminals of the Ian and soon a
mar might as we'll go to hell to look
for undeiled religion as to go to the
courts of North Carolina to look for
purity in the laws. And it's these GRIM
inal lawyers that are responsible for
this state of affairs. Let every layman
in the house sit down upon this BILL
They sat.-MOnrOe Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
DIVIDE ON PARTY LINES
SANTO DOMINGO TREATY WILL
BE REPORTED FAvoRARLY.
Every Republican on the Committee
Voted for the Treaty and Every
Democrat Against it-By a Strict
Party Vote in the Senate the DENT
ocrats Can Defeat the Measure.

Washington, March s.-The Senate
committee on foreign relations today
agreed TO report ~favorably the Santo
Domingo treaty as amended. The vote
was on party lines, every Republican
voting for the treaty and every Demo
GRAFT against ii. All members OF the
committee were present, and the vote
stood: For the treaty: Cullom, Frye.
Lodge, Clark Of Wyoming; Foraker,
Spooner and Kean. Against the treaty:
Morgan, Bacon, Money, Clark. OF Mon
tana, and McCreary.
There is n vacancy on the commit
tee caused by h election of Senator
Fairbanks to h vice presidency.
Senator Morgan presented a resolu-
ton, disclaiming tn necessity for the ap
pHcatfOn of the Monroe doctrine to the
case Of the Dominican government and
asked to have it adopted by the COM
m1ttee and offered in the Senate for
reconsideration. The sentiment of the
committee was against the adoption of
the resolution and it was voted down.
Tt was understood that in voting not to
report h resolution, the members did
not express AN opinion as to it's merits
but that the sentiment of the Senate
was shown by the amendments which
strike out of the treaty all that part
which seemed to define the Monroe
doctrine n give it specific application
TO the Santo Domingo s.
The division of the Senate committee
ON party lines caused considerable Cos
sip among Senator'S as to whether hat
division would be followed in the Sem
ate when h treaty is voted upon.
No n felt authorized to speak for the
different parties but the opinion was
expressed that if the Republicans
should all stand for the treaty it would
be doubtful il tine Democrats would
feel like taking the responsibility of de-
feating it as they could do by a strict
party vote. As the Senat stands now
there are Sc Republicans and 81 Dem
ocrats, with vacancies in Delaware
Missouri n Tennessee. 1t is expected
also that two Republican Senators,
Burton and Mitchell will not vote and
will not be paired ON this or any other
matter coming before the Senate. AS a
two thirds vote is necessary to ratify
the treaty it will require IS votes to
achieve this end.
The Republican leaders in the Senate
still lack assurance of tine full support
of their party in the Senate but on the
other hand have received limitations
a few votes may be secured from
the Democratic side of 'tae chamber.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
SUPREME COURT REPORTER.
j, Crawford Riggs OF Durham Elected.
Corporation Commission Inspecting
q Railroad.
Especial ITO The MeSsenger.)

Raleigh, N. C.. March 9.-The corpo-
ration commissioners left tonight FOR
Salisbury to make an inspection trip
over the Yadkin railroad from Sails
bury to Norwood. They make une N
spection on the strength of a complaint
filed by J. W. Boston, mayor of Able
marie. The complaint is to h effect
that the passenger service is very
poor and the road in bad condition.
The Supreme court elects J. Craw-
ford Biggs of Durham court reporter
to succeed z. V. Walser, Of Lexington,
whose term of office expired February
DIST. MI. Biggs is elected to hold office
at will Of the court instead OF a fixed
term which has been practised in the
past. He finished at the University
and was assistant professor OF law
there for several years resigning to he
gin the practice of his profession III
Durham six years ago. He is secre-
tary of the North Carolina bar asso-
citation. The salary as reporter will
be $1,000. the work will not interfere
with practice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
RAIDING PRIVATE HOMES.
Revenue Officers Search Durham Res
licences for Blockade NIliskcy and
Stills.

The revenue raiders have now come
inside the city limits and search pri-
vate homes for whiskey and blockade
ing equipments. This was done yes
terday afternoon but the raid did not
amount to anythins-nothing was
found.
Under the direction OF J. L. Dono-
hoe, collector for this district, raiders
entered the home Of Mrs. Peasants,
on Watkins street, yesterday after
noon and searched the premises for
whiskey and blockade stills After
searching the entire premises, every
room ir the house and ever the stable,
nothing was found and the officers
went ava empty-handed.
From what car be learned it seems
that the revenue officers received news
from some parties that one Or more
blockade stills were concealed in the
house. From United States Comanis-
sioner N[oye they received the neces-
sary papers that would permit them
to make the raid and search. It is
learned that when they entered the
house Mrs. peasants was not at nome
but a servant gave the officers ileys to-
all but two rooms, these she could not
find. Later when the search was still
on, Mrs. Peasants came In and
promptly gave them the keys to the
other two room Then the search
was completed and nothing was found.
Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
The Secret of Success.

Forty million bottles OF Angus,
Flower sold in the United States alone
since it's introduction! And the de-
mand for it is still growing. Isn't that
a fine showing Of success? Don't ii
prove that August Flower has had
unfailing uccess in the cure Of indi-
gestion and dyspepsia-the two great
est enemies of health aad happiness?
Does it not afford the best evidence
that August Flower is q sure specific
for all stomach and intestinal disol
ders?-that it has proved Itself the
best of all liver regulators? August
Flower has a matchless record Of over
thirty-fve years in curing the ailing
millions OF these distressing COM
plaints-a success that is becoming
wider in it's scope every day, at home
and abroad. as the fame OF August
Flower spreads. Trial bottles, CSC;
regular size, 75c. For sale by f. r.
Bellamy,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
AMERICA AND THE FaI, EAST.
We Lead Europe In Neus-Gathcriny
why Not in Commerce.

- dispatch from London saws that
English papers for a long time nave
practically ceased to receive war spe-
Gals from the Far East. and I'm this
respect are lacking much Information
that is received in the United States.
This condition emphasizes the marked
change in fae.. the revolution-that
has taken place as regards this coun-
try and tie Fan East within the past
few years. Formerly everything from
the other side of b world came ny
way Of London. and we knew nothing
OF conditions over there save thar
learned d. "se cond hahd." Now, how
ever. The United States ge. the news
first. BY reason of the existence of
the Pacific cable, news stories rom
the Far East-save those which come
via st. Petersburg through official
charEeis-"cach the United States be-
fore they are received in London. and
many of the reports from the present
war for Europe are routed via san
Francisco. OF course as enterprising
news-6atheIc rs, it is only natural that
American newspapers should be ahead
OF the balance of the warld. This
vas apparent during the Boer war,
when leading British papers purchased
news fr"tu South Africa from Ameri-
can newspapers and news agencies.
With the direct cable to the Philip
pines. the Far East is brought closer
to the United States than TO any other
of the western countries, and, there
fore. h news comes quicker.
With This change in the matter of
news dissemination, il would seem
that the sane revolution could be
made in trade. British and German
manufacturers now supply q large
part Of the wants. of the people Of the
Far East hat should, because of
proximity and for other reasons, come
TO us. The fact that the United States
are becoming closely identified with
affairs in the Orient is a hopeful sign.
We should come int a lot of trade
over there. just as We have gained
the supremacy in the matter of gath
ering news Of the present war.-Char-
1Otte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
JUST LUKE
Tho Open Door for the Negro at the
North.

1t is just like Mr.. Roosevelt to have
appointed Anderson, the colored man,
to a position in the revenue service in
the State of New York. For our part
we are for the open-doOr SYSTEM for
the North, if we are compelled to
have it in the south. We shall soc if
our Northern brethren can teach by
example in the future as ~eloquently as
they have done by precept in the past.
Chickens come home to roost."-Ra-
leigh Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
Incredible Brutality.

1t would have been incredible bru-
tality If Chas. F. Lemberger, of SYRIA
cuse. n. 2, had not done the best he
could for his suffering son. My
boy he says, "cut a fearful. cash
over mis- eye, so 4 applied Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, which quickly healed it
and saved his eye. Good for burns
and ulcers too. Only CSC at r. l..
Re1!amy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14
Startling Mortality.

Statistics show sartling mortality.
from appendicitis and ~peritonftis. To
prevent and cure these awful dis
eases, there is just one reliable rem
edy, DR.. Kings New Life Pills. VI.
Flannery, of II Custom House Place.
Chicago, says: They have no equal
70, Constipation and BiEliousness'
CSC at r. r. Rellamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

A bracing spring tonic. Cures all
spring disorders. Makes red blood,
bone and muscle. A wonderful eme
.dy for making sick people we'll. Foi-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea. 50 cents
Tea or Tablets. r. E. BellamN.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Winston Is going to have two eles-
tons on the question OF issuing bonds
for railroads. One Is the Southbouni
railroad and the other the electric rod
to High Point. They evidently NEAR
to have better railroad facilities. -
Greensboro Telegram.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Since General Kuropatkin's efforts all
along have been devoted to escaping
from the Japs, we would like to know
why he didn't place a great many more
miles behind him when he had the
chance. It begins to look now as If
he has Ioyed with danger once too
often.-Charlotte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

A spring tonic that makes rich, red
blood. Bring strength, health and hao-
pinsss to the whole family. Nothing
equals HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea as a spring tonic. s. cents. r. r.
Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

An exchange says a Chicago preach
or has zone into the saloon business.
We suppose the sermons he ground out
were So dry that he was driven to
drink.-Greenville Reflector.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Hives are a terrible torment TO the
little folks, and to some older ones.
Easily cured. Doan's Ointment never
fails. Instant relief, permanent cure.
At any drug store. SO cents.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

1r is town has perhaps lost more in
futu,e than any other town in the
state. yet we al. rot SO certain that
bucket shop law is going to stop it
Iurahm Herald
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Colds cause congestion n costlTe-
ness. Fluids which should pass through
the bowels n kidneys r secreted
by the nose and throat. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea will positively
cure. So cents. r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Mrs. ~Goodley-'Do you really mean
10 say you are looking for work."
Weary Willi-<No, lady; L said I ives
looking for employment. For instance
I could employ myself eatin' pie
Philadelphia Ledger.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

III next time the Democratic party
wants whiskey for campaign purposes
the chances are it will pay for it
Durham Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Robinson-'1t GEMS as though wom-
had a mania for spending money"
Rawiins-'T know it. Why, whenever
my wife is too sick to go down town
shopping she sends for the doctor
Judge.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

A household necessity-Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil. Heals burns. cut. wounds
OF any sort; cures sore throat, Group,
Catarrh, asthma; fails.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

It is said that the Oregon legislature
is preparing to investigate Senator Full
ton and discover why he has not also
leca Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

He-"Was Charlie Roxum the best
man at her wedding?" Shelves, but
he didn't propose, so she had to take
the groom"@Detroit Free Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-14

Ar least General Miles must be sorry
for It If me did do it, or he would not
be attempting to deny iE-Durha.n
Herald.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-03

then condemn the legislators for fol.
lowing their advice.
The appropriation bills can be speed.
lily put through and every department
allotted the Territorial share the in.
come warrants, II the legislators will
continue the work as they have be.
gun. The division for adaptation to
new county conditions is a new prob.
lem but one that can be quickly mas
tered and the work then remaining
for the Territory is lessened.
The county elections and the estab-
fishing Of the county organizations Is
coming on and the legislators should
get home to their districts to assist
as far as possible in starting the coun.
ties out right. The county law will
not be defeated, notwithstanding the
determined efforts Of its few enemies
to brighten the people into a state Of
inactivity and the desire, II not plan,
to railroad the law out Of existence.
There is no occasion for delay or
hesitancy at any point along the line
and especially not within the Legisla.
ture that is doing the business of the
people.