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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02
FRIDAY. MARCH ?. 1906.
ALDRICH'S COUP.

When we first heard of the action of
the senate committee On interstate
commerce in placing the rate bill in the
hands of the senior senator from
South Carolina on the motion of one
of the members who opposed the meas
ure we thought that there was some
thing behind the action Of that mem
Der which he had tried to keep secret.
We were not inclined to think that he
was moved in his action by a desire
to pay a compliment to Senator Till
man, but that he and those acting
with him had something UP their
sleeves which they would produce at
the proper time, and we think so still.
Mr.. Tillman and the other advocates
of the bill must be very careful, else
they will be caught mapping. AS
sure as you are living Senator Aid
rich and his followers in the opposi-
ton to the Hepburn bill have set a trap
of some kind for the republican advO-
Gates of the measure or else he is more
dense than the general public has
given public him credit for being.
Either he is playing a very smart
trick or he has done a very stupid act.
His reputation, based on his past re-
cord, would not lead one to think the
latter of his conduct. We are glad to
see that such a paper as the New York
Sun agrees with what The Messenger
has said in regard to this matter.
Showing its opinion OF the subject we
take the following from the Charlotte
Chronicle.
The New York Evening Sun init
mates that the placing of the rate
bill in the hands of Senator Tlllman
was clearly an effort to put the pres
ident in a hole, and that Senat Aid
rich cannot conceal delight at his
coup. The Sun thinks that it is an ev-
idence of malicious politics, and it
would seem so. Certainly it created
an interesting situation. The repub-
licans have a majority in the senate,
yet this rate bill, he most important
in congress-, by reason of presidential
fathering, is reported by a democrat
and, unamended as 1t comes from the
committee, is a democratic measure.
Senator Tillman," says The Sun,
never visits the White house. 1t can
not be said that his relations with the
president are strained-he has none.
The Senator in charge of an admins
tration bill is usually in consultation
with the president from time to time
by request. Mr.. Roosevelt will hardly
send for the man who attacked him re-
Gently in a speech so savage n un-
fair and viciously partisan that Mr..
Hale had to protest; and Senator TILL
man is not likely to take the respon
sibility thrust upon him so seriously
as to go to the White house for in
structions, If the democrat in charge
of the measure were an independent
like Murphy, of Louisiana, the situa-
ton would be different; now it is trag-
ic-not comic, as Senator Lodge says
This situation was brought about on
a motion made by Senator Aldrich.
Keene, Foraker and Crane, republic
cans. and McLaurin, democrat, voted
with him. 1t is not to De doubted that
President Roosevelt has made note of
the fact. Meantime. the opportunity
is opened for Mr.. Tillma to disap-
point some of his enemies in the man
ner Of his conduct during the final
diSpOSition of the bill.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02
Result of the Explosion i'm the Little
Cahaba Mine.

Birmingham, Ala, February o.
Authentic information received this
afternoon from Piper, where an explo-
sion occurred in the coal mines Of the
Little Cahaba Coal Company yester-
day, places the dead at eight and the
injured at fifteen. OF the dead, all but
one are white. The injured, with ex-
ceptions, are foreigners. 1t is believed
all the injured will recover An in
vestigation shows that the explosion
was due o a windy shot" at the hour
OF the day when the miners make dis
charges to knock coal down. About
$50 men and boys were at work at the
time and it is regarded as marvellous
that the loss of life was not greater.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02
Despcradoes Escape From Chain Gang

A daredevil escape from the chain
gang soon after it had commenced
work for the. day was made this morn
ing by 5 Representation Sutton,
John Brown. Will Tucker, James Ag-
new and Percy Lewis-under the guns
away at the swiftly moving forms, but
uselessly, as neither of them paused
an instant until the dense woods near
at hand a swallowed them up, max
ing ever pursuit almost hopeless. The
FIVE negroes were known to be the
most desperate characters in the whole
gang.-Elizabeth City Economist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

No doubt the unborn North Caro-
lima republican shudders through fear
that his reputation will be assailed
by the one side or the other in this
inter-party strife for control of the
political patronage.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Mr.. Wise is an agnostic. isn't hep
Not at all. What led you to think
that?" Miss Passay told me he didn't
believe the Bible" "Ah. she means
the Bible in which the record of her
birth is entered. He noticed that she
had cen tampering with the date
Philadelphia Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Just a little Kodol after meals will
relieve that ~fulness, belching, gas on
stomach, and all other symptoms of
indigestion. Kodol digests what you
eat, and enables the stomach and d.
gestive organs to perform their func-
tons naturally. Robt. r. Be.lamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

How many of Mr.. Tillman's coun-
trymen would like to be present at that
first conference between him and the
president On the railway rate bill-if
such conference ever occurs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Wee bills, of Indictment sent against
Judge Pritchard for the same offenses
as those on which Mr.. Blackburn is in
dicted and which he has admitted that
he oommitied we do not suppose he
would do otherwise than resist and
fight to the bitter end on the ground
that he was innocent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Are the Discrimination sang
taking lessons from the Georgia demo-
cratic editors who are after the Office
of governor or are they giving them
pointers in the game? 1t would be hard
to tell which was the case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

1t is hard to believe that such a man
as Mr.. Pritchard did not know that
there was a law prohibiting him while
senator to practice before the depart
ments.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02
Money, Also Coyereth q Multitude OF
Sins

!. Money can cover a multitude of sins,
or play an important part in hushing
the voice of scandal. The publicity in
connection with the Duke suit for di-
voirce has reached the point of af-
fecting the business of the tobacco
trust and is hurting its trade. especial
~ in Europe. That this may be check
ed negotiations are now on for the di-
vorce proceedings to be withdrawn and
the family trouble between Duke and
his wife ended.-Greenville Reflector.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

That Durham man Hodges still
maintains that he is not sorry For
what he did. He seems to be laying
up trouble for his lawyers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Those folks who expect to have
some fun u of the rate bill just be-
cause Mr.. Tillman is in charge Of it
in the senate are going to be greatly
disappointed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

All those republicans who are with
out a pull seem to be engaged help
ing balk those who have a pull on the
one side or the other.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

What will the Georgia papers have
to talk about when the election is over.
Those which get whipped mus
then abandon the fight and fall in line
with the advocates of the successful
candidate, for they are all democrats
and after the primary is over the nom
inee will be the candidate of all the
party men and those who have been
cussing him out will have to change
their tune and begin saying all kinds
of good things about him. The Con-
stitution will have to praise up Mr.,
Hoke Smith or The Journal will have
to say all manner of nice things about
Mr.. Howell,-provided one or the other
of these two candidates gets the nom
nation. But we hope neither of these
will be successful; for judging from
what has been said about each by the
friends of the other neither is fit to be
governor of the great state of Georgia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

The fact that the president has found
time t take a hand in the coal mine
troubles would indicate that he mas
quit bothering himself with the affairs
of the ~contending republican Office
seekers in this state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-02

Of course Mr.. Blackburn is ready to
make a fight in the matter of the
charges against him contained i'll the
three bills of Indictment. Nobody ex-
pected him to plead guilty of the
charges.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

binary black gunpowder so familiar to
every one The color of the modern
powder is not black, but the shade or
dark amber.
In the sense of a powder being finely
divided solid, smokeless powder is no
powder at all. 1t consists of a wax-like
composition, the size of the grains vary
ing according to the ealibres of the guns
for which they are designed.
For use in revolvers, rifles and sporting
guns, the grains resemble the tiny per-
forated glass beads of the sort used in
old time needlework. For the machine
guns, the rapid-fire guns and the heavy
rifles of battleships and forts, the grains
are cylindrical in shape, varying in size
from a third of an inch in diameter and
half an inch in length to three-fourths Of
an inch in diameter and about two inches
in length-each grain, in order to increase
the area exposed to ignition, being per-
forated equidlstantly and longitudinally
with from one to six holes, big as knit
ting needles, depending upon the size of
the grain
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
HARVARD PAYS MORE.
Faculty Salaries at Cambridge Are
Higher Than at Yale.

From the New York Sun.
Some surprise has been felt at the
report that the salaries of Yale pro-
fessors, even with an increase of from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year for thirty-five
members of the faculty, are still about
rs per cent lower than at Harvard.
The comparison is said by the Boston
Transcript to be inexact, but appar-
emily it is not far from true.
Harvard professors under the new
salary scale which went into effect in
1906 receive a minimum salary OF
$4,000 on appointment, and the maxi
mum, which many are receiving, IS
$500. This applies to the full pro-
fessors only, of whom there are ap-
proximately seventy-five in the depart
ments under the faculty of arts and
science.
For associate professors, of whom
there are only one or two, the mini
mum is $500 and the maximum $4,000.
For assistant professors the minimum
is $2500 and the maximum is $4,000.
This scale of salaries was made pos
sible by the teachers endowment fund
of more than $2,000,000, which was
ership of Bishop Lawrence. The ex-
press purpose of the fund was ito in
crease the salaries of teachers in Har-
ward college"
This was done by both making nu-
merous promotions which had bee,
long delayed by lack of funds and by
putting into effect the new salary
schedule, which increases the salary
of every grade by $500. A number OF
teachers thus benefited both by adj
yancement in grade and by the higher
salary of the grade attained.
No recent figures have been made
public showing the proportion of the
members of the faculty receiving DIFF
ferent salaries within the prescribed
schedule. The last figures published
were contained in tables in the Grad
uates' Magazine in September of 1904,
before the new schedule went into eff.
feet, and when there were only fifty
three full professors in the faculty OF
arts and sciences instead of about
seventy-five, as at present.
The principal figures, emitting two
or three odd amounts, were as follows:
Receiving $4,000, fourteen; $4,000, nine
$4,000. fifteen; $500, ten; $4,000, three
The average, weighted" in proportion
TO the number receiving each figure
was $4,000.
Adding to this general advance OF
$500 for each grade, the average now
is approximately $4700 for seventy-fiye
full professors, as C ompared with
$4,000 now to be paid, according to re-
ports, to thirty-fiye of the Yale faculty
This does not take into consideration
anv lower salaries paid at Yale.
These figures would indicatae dit
ference of about 17la per cent ~ aver
ages: but the maximum of $1,000 paid
to about fourth of the Harvard men
makes the comparison in this respect
more striking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
USE OF UNIFORM IN CRIME

and gain his permission to buy it. Her
companion would remain in the shop dur
ing her absence as hostage. The jeweler
was delighted with the suggestion.
The lady departed in her carriage Time
passed. Quarter of an hour-half an
hour-three quarters of an hour-the lady
in the jewelers. shop grew impatient APP
prehensive, almost hystercal.
Suddenly there rushed into the shop
two police agents, who announced their
authority, and showed their official
badges. They assured the astonished
Fauberge that he had been swindled. The
jeweler trembled, but produced his hos
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
He Got Off Easy.

From Success Magazine"
Clark Howell of Atlanta tells of the sad
case of an elderly darky in Georgia
charged with the theft of some chickens.
The negro had the misfortune to be de-
Tended by a young and inexperienced at
torney. although it is doubtful whether
any one could have secured his acquittal,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

tage. The detectives seized upon her.
Protesting. she was hustled into hack
and driven away to the police office.
1t was the last the jeweler saw of the
woman, the police agents. or the dia-
monds. The detectives were the coach
man and the footman of the brilliant
eduipage who had changed their clothes
and returned to rescue their accompliee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

the commission of the crime having been
proved beyond all doubt.
The darby received "A pretty severe SELL
tence. THANK YOU. sail said he.
cheerfu1ly. addressing the Judge, when
the sentence had been announced. Oats
mighty hard, sab. but it amt anywhere
near what | 'spected. | though, sab,
dat between my character and dat
speech of NAH lawyer dat you'd hang
me shore!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Dark Outlook.
-om the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News.
How was the proposal"
.'Oh. it was general turn down"
"rhat SOP
Yes: when Dick started to tell the
old, old story. Katharine turned down the
parlor shade"
"Yesg'
And then Dick turned down the gas"
"We1l?"
"Then the old gentleman rushed in and
turned down Dick"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25

ConcusSion-Proof Powder.
He might pound 1t with hammer to
his heart content, you yourself might
place it on an anvil and bring a forty
pound sledge down on it. 1t would mere
ly ouash like so much soap or putty.
So concussion-proof Is this powder that
YOU might drop a house on a heap Of
fiftv tons of it and it would not explode.
So proof is it against explosion by fire
that you might place stick of cannon
nowder on a saucer in your bedroom,
iigne it with a match, and go to bed by
a .fickerng. sizzling light, as burning
fat.
In short, you simply cannot explode
This powder unless you go to the trouble
of combining it, and even then you can
explode it only by using illuminate OF
mercury detonator
The quickest way to picture smokeless
powder is to dismiss all ideas OF the Or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
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Source of information

From the Chicago News.
Waggs-I hear old Misery has untold
wealth.
Jaggs-Who told youP
Waggs-The tax collector.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-13
THREE ARE DEAD ION THE RIVERS
Steamer Natchez Brought to Cairo to
Be Have Her Repairs Finished
Be Here a Week.

The steamer Natchcz. one Of the bic
cotton carriers Of the southern river
arrived IN Cairo yesterday from PA
ducah. and viii he here week 10 be
finished She has been on the ways At
Faducah several weeks undergoing Il
complete oyerhauliHg ana II ii claim,
ed that about s25, 900 has been spent
on her. She was brought here yes.
terday by the steamer Wash Honshell
and is lying just below The ferry land
Ing al Fourth stree She wa: brought
here 10 be finished because it Is feared
that II the work We're done at Padu-
caf she would be caught by the low
water which is expected during the
next few days, Only one Of her smoke
stacks Is up, The other will be set
up here. These weigh two tons each
ami stand IS feet above the water line,
The painting remains to be done also
ana some work on her machinery The
is a fine looking boat.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-13
Strike on at Howard,s.

At Howard's shipyards. in Jefferson
vile a peculiar strike has been in
aueurated by two reamers. who de.
mand an increase of pay from $175
per day TO 50 and when refused walk.
ed out They were followed by six
pankers, who struck through sympa-
thy The reamers are practically help.
ers for the calkers and their part of
the work is to use iae mauls white
The calkers hold the irons in forcing
the oakum into the seams Of the yes.
sells under construction They are not
ealssed as skilled mechanics, but are
hard to get because there is so little
demand for them that but few learn
the trade. without the reamers the
caikers cannot work ana eight of them
are idle, too. Little Roadway is being
made in settling the trouble and It
may be some time before the two de-
partments resume
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-13
Snaus Removed.

The sang boat n. G Wright leaves
Memphis this morning for Cairo and
St Louis. On her way down she re-.
moved snags as follows. between
Cairo and Memphis. Two CAROLS is
land, Fines bluff, ] Mo. Meramec.
/ Fl. Calico island Lilly's and re-
moved 80 piles, below Dandy. I
Kidd Point. Brckly's | Dickey felA.
IT. Charities. ] ST. Genevieye island.
2 Cranes island, Bishop Fl. Wilk-
ms island. ! Birmingham. ! above
b rmingham. Hamburg / Davidson
3 Gibney's. shorts. 4 Aliens. !
Prices. 3 Dog Tooth. ] Greenleafs. .
Eliza T H. ] Putney Bend. Lucas
Bend, ler's. ] I.aforge. ] Darnails
! Hathaway, ] Bell Point. I Island Is.
; Mitchelis ! Island 90 / Island p,
? Hale's Point { Cars. 2 Drivers 3
Pecan Point, Dean Island. Island
40. Arthur Bend Chicks. Total
~ snags and % piles.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-13
PADUCAH PROTESTS
Complains That Travellers From That
City to Chicago Must Buy Sleeper
Tickets in Cairo.

Sleeping car accommodations from
Paducah 70 Chicago !, the demand of
Paducah business men. who will
make concerted effort to compel
recognition Of local passenger traffic
from the Illinois Central railroad.
The practice is for Paducah PEG.
pie. wishing TO take the night ride
10 Chicago. to purchase sleeping car
ticket, 10 Cairo for a quarter and
there gel their through tickets TO
Chicago. This practice gives Cairo
credit for all the travel while. as q
matter of fact Paducah travel o.
Chicago is heavier than that from
the river town.
As an example last night nine Padu
cahans came from Chicago. They
secured sleeping car tickets from
Chicago 10 Cairo and from there 10
Paducah. Nine tickets that should
have been credit ID 20 the Padu.ah
traffic went TO swell the business De-.
tween Cairo and the metropolis ol
the plains
Sleeping car tickets can be- pur
chased from Paducah o. Chicago.
saving the - GEMS ezra to paducah.
if the passenger insists on the &C
and he will be provii-
ed with a slip by the local ticket
agent.
1T may bee a little thing aside
from the extra cost" said one wide
awake Paducahan. but here We ar,
buying tickets and swelling the pas
senger traffic between Caiu and CHI
-ago. ani az he same time heiftlfnz
Paducah's business. Cairo can secu % +
concessions from the road by reason .
IF this travel. while Paducah will con /
inue throwing away every chance .
he has by playing into The hands Of f.
he Illinois town. All Padncahanz /
going 10 Chicago sho'ild insist on 4
yeting his Pullman ticket here and ga /
his way boosting the ciiy."
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-13

For the first time in five yearc Whit
comb admitted to himself that he was
| tired, that he had at last wearied OF
throwing impossible trestles across i'm.
possible canyons. of climbing the un-
climbable and accomplishing that which
neither nature nor man ever had meant
to be accomplished,
He leaned against the rope which
served for a railing on the old pontoon
bridge and looked up the canyon,
where the massive iron structure that
was the work Of his brain was silhouet.
ted against the sky. 1t was an April
afternoon in the mountains Il Sunday
afternoon, SO that the ring of steel, the
putting Of engines. the shouts of work.
men, We're stilled The guIch was as
peaceful as 1t would be SIX months
hence. when the army Of aboregs
would depart, leaving only the great,
silent bridge TO mark their occupancy
Whitcomb was frank with himself.
He did not deny In these meetings
with himself face to face that this
restlessncss had appeared because OF
the presence Of the camping party ut
the Ride-a-Wee hunting lodge up in
Smiths peak. Not that he had actual
~ met the party as a whole. The men
had wandered down 10 the bridge,
had asked many fool" questions and
wandered back to the camp, At dis
lance he had seen women in we'll made
riding habits and outing gowns who
had given him horseback thrill Sud
denly he wanted to get back TO the
land of swallowtalled coats and SHIN
merry frocks.
Whitcomb sighed and looked down at
his c0rduroys and hunting boots dis /
The poutoons rocked, and /
a horses hoofs sounded suddealy at I
the end of the bridge Coming toward /
aim was a girl leading sturdy little +.
mountain pony-a girl with a bare +
lead. where the sun glanced aud glim-