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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
No Legislation This Season.

Asked to respond to a New Year
sentiment last night, Uncle Joe Can
ion said, NO legislation is good legis-
lation." People who are looking for
ward to advanced legislation by this
congress can accept this terse sent
ence as an indication of what is going
to result from the efforts of senator's
and representatives under the dome of
the big white building on the hill this
winter. Mr.. Cannon's New Year SEN
is the slogan of every stand
patter. 1t will be modified in a very
limited way when the railway rate bill
comes mp for consideration, and only
SO because OF the strong sentiment in
favor of such legislation throughout
the country, and it will be forgotten
entirely by those responsible for legis-
lation when the ship subsidy measure
makes its appearance.
Mr.. Cannon has told the story of
the purpose of this congress. NO leg
~islation is good Observation-Disclosures
ington Special to News and Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
A CITY CENSUS NEEDED.

The Messenger has once or twice of
late suggested that it would be Il good
idea for the city authorities to cause
q censu of our population to be taken.
There is no doubt that it has increased
wonderfully since taking Of the federal
census in 1900. There has been quite
a change in the ratio of the two races
since that date also. In conversation
with city officials yesterday on this
subject the statement was made to us
that a census could be taken with the
aid of the members of the health de-
partment and police force at almost
nominal cost to the city. Such census
would show that our city had grown
wonderfully in the last five years and
it would reduce the percentage Of
city, showing the locality to be health
er than the reports as now made would
indicate. Now the percentage of
deaths is calculated on a basis of less
than twenty-one thousand inhabitants.
If we really have a population Of TWEEN
ty-lye thousand Or thirty thousand of
course the percentage of deaths is less
than is shown by the present calcula-
tions which are necessarily based ON
smaller number of inhabitants.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
THAT WEST-BOUND MIDNIGHT
TRAIN FROM RALEIGH.

That midnight train from Goldsboro
to Greensboro seems to be a serious
bone of contention for the papers
along the line of the North Carolina
railroad. Not long ago the Raleigh
Times put it's foot into it" by pub
fishing a communication from a travel
ing man who made a kick because the
train going west which reaches Ra-
leigh at 11:45 o'clock lay over at that
place for two hours instead of going
right on. This raised the ire of the
editor of The News and Observer, who
seemed to think that a movement was
it's western subscribers and he had a
lot of ugly things to say about The
Times until that paper called him
some ugly names and talked about
holding him personally responsible for
making false charges against The
Times and it's editor. Since then The
News and Observer has been as silent
as an oyster about that western train.
Now comes the Industrial News of
Greensboro with an editorial comment
on the holding of this train for two
hours in Raleigh to the great inconve-
nience of passengers. We are curious
to know what The News and Observer
will have to say in reply t O this edito-
rial, AS the editor of that paper lives
close on to a hundred miles from Ra-
leigh it may be that the Raleigh paper
will transfer to it the fight it started
and so suddenly dropped-against the
afternoon paper of it's own city. 1t is
safe to abuse some folks at long-taw,
and The News being a republican sheet
it can be considered good meat for
abuse by a certain class of democratic
editors. 1t is true the home of The
Industrial News is some distance from
Raleigh, but if that paper stands in
with Colonel Andrews and the south
ern railroad it's editor is mighty apt to
nave a free pass on that road and If
such be the case he is liable to light
down in Raleigh at any time when
least expected.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
CHARGED WITH A CRIME
w. s. Buchanan Had Letters of Rec
o~mmendation From enato Over
man and Other Members Of Com
gross.

Norfolk, Va. January 3.-W. s. Blu
chanan, of Travilian. Va, who, when
arrested here upon the charge of OBJ
tanning goods under false pretenses
from a Philadelphia firm, was found
to have letters of recommendation
from United States Senator Overman,
of North Carolina, and several rerre-
sentatives in Congress from Kentucky,
West Virginia and New York was plac-
ed on trial today.
Commemorative Attorney Tilton
asked for a verdict of from one TO
ten years in the pe%nitentiary. Attor-
ney Daniel Coleman, Jr., for the de-
Tense. claimed that neither a case OF
petit nor grand larceny had been made
out and asked for acQuittal The jury,
after a long consideration. failed 10
agree and took a recess.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
GoLDsBoRo UNION DEPOT
Merchants Association Take Action in
the Matfer-Chairman Dewey OF the
OF Public Works Resigns.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial TO The Messenger
Goldsboro, y. C., January while
waiting for the meeting of the rail-
road commission and the railroad Of
Gals, which is TO take place in this
city next Thursday to pass upon the
question of a union passenger depot
for Goldsboro, the Merchants Assoei
alton held a meeting last night ard
passed a resolution TO the effect that
the railroad tracks be taken up from
Center street, and laid ON the western
borders of the city, and that the de-
pot be built at some point convenient
Of approach from the central part of
town. This is undoubtedly the pre-
yailing sentiment in Goldsboro JUS
now on the depot question, but there
are those who oppose il for personal
reasons. The opposition is busy at
work getting up a petition 10 be pre-
scented to the commission and rail-
road officials. The outcome OF the
meeting next Thursday will be watch
ed with much interest by everybody in
GOldsboro. The passenger depot
question has been agitated in Colds
DOlO III yCdIS, dlu Uu tAC w VI @
final settlement of the question il is
but natural that the nerves of these
most interested should be drawn to
the highest tension.
Mr.. Charles Dewey, chairman of tie
board of public works, rendered his
resignation to the board of aldermen
last night. The board Of public works
has control of the city electric light
plant and the waterworks. For some
time complaint has been made frcm
all sources at the exorbitant rate
charged for lights, and many mer-
chants are d~iscarding electric lights
and lighting their places of business
by other means. The price has not
only been high, but the lights have
been very poor. Oftentimes the
streets are not lighted at all. The res
ignation of Mr.. Dewey is taken to
mean that he could not control or did
not have the power to control the sit
uation. The city had an opportunity
recently to lease the plant and it is
hoped that if it will improve the ser
vice that the board of aldermen will
make some such change.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
Gain i'm Production of Gold and Silver
i'm 1905.

Washington, January 2.-Jne pre-
liminary estimate of the director OF me
mint upon the production OF gold N
silver in the United States in the caien-
dar year 1905. shows a gain OF approx
imately Sc, 600, 600 in gold. and m MIL
lion ounces of silver over the produce
of 1904. The total production of gold
amounted to $~S6,337,700 in value and
the total production OF silver to 5S,-
s3s, 1855 ounces. The output OF south
ern states includes.
Alabama, gold s45.400, silver Ss7
n Georgia, gold $50,50O, silver
205 ounces; North Carolina, gold ss6,-
400. silver 2.547 ounces South Caro-
lima, gold s1O1, 600. silver 223 ounces:
Tennessee, gold $7.400. silver 27,733
ounces: Virginia, gold $500. silver /
ounces.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

Mrs. Oyerman was one of those hon.
cred with an invitation TO assist in
receiving with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt on the occasion of the New
Years reception yesterday. Mrs. Over
man stood i'm the blue room, where
the ladies of the cabinet and the spe-
cially invited wives OF senators and
others in official life, assisted I'm the
reception. The honor conferred on the
gracious wife Of the Junior senator
was a very high one. Mrs. Overman
wore q handsome rose gown OF velvet
In princess.-Washington Special to
News and Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
Looking After Cotton Manufacturers
Interests.

In accordance with a resolution
adopted at the recent meeting of the
board of governors of the American
Cotton Manufacturers Association, the
president was authorized to appoint a
standing committee on conference, the
duty Of said committee being to attend
all conferences between this associa-
ton and any other associations or or
CARNATIONS.
The following committee has been
named by President r. NJ. Miller, Jr.:
Messrs. T. L. Hickman, President,
Graniteville Manufacturing Company,
Augusta, Ga; A. H. Lowe Treasurer
Parkhill Manufacturing Company,
Ftchburg, Mass; s. B. Tanner, Presi-
dent Henrietta Mills, Henrietta. N.
c.; c. H. Fish, Agent Cocheco Manu.
featuring Company, Dover, N. H.; L..
w. Parker, President Olympia Mills,
G~reenville Mills Greenville, s. c. In
addition to the above, President
Miller and Secretary Bryant also being
members of the committee.
The committee is a very strong one,
and possibly a more representative one
could n have been appointed, the
members being among the largest and
most successful cotton manufacturers
in the country.
Some weeks ago a conference was
held In Charlotte. n. c., between the
board OF governors Of the American
Cotton Manufacturers Association and
a committee from the Southern Cotton
Association looking to the establish
ment OF closer relations between the
spinner and the producer, which win
no doubt prove b initiative of a num-
Der of subsequent important meetings,
and possibly the "Utopian IDEAL may
yet be realized by the getting togeth-
er Of the cotton manufacturer and the
cotton producer.
G. b. BRYANT,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

With all the talk by the big railroad
companies about issuing no more free
passes to officials, how many members
of congress do you suppose there are
who will not travel on free passes DUR
ing the present year?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

After all it's talk about cutting off
free passes the Pennsylvania Railroad
company has put itself in a most ridic-
ulous position. The new mayor of
New Brunswick, Nj, publishes his
letter to the officials of that
returning an annual pass for COG
which had been SEM to him upon his
entering upon the duties of his Office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

Charlotte claims over forty-one
thousand inhabitants for the city and
suburbs. Those words land suburbs
always come in mighty handy in guess
ing at the population Of a town.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

Perfection can only be attained in
the physical by allowing Nature TO ap-
uropriate and not dissipate her own
Cathartics grip. weaken
dissipate. while DeWitt's Little Early
Risers simply expel all putrid matter
and bile. thus allowing the liver to as
sumo normal activity. Good for the
complexion. Sold by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

Last year contained ffty-three Sum
days. The year came in on Sunday
and OF course, not being a leap-year
went out on the same day. The News
and Observer says such q thing has not
occurred before in a hundred years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
Design for Auditorium Accepted.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, n. c.. January 3-The trus-
tees OF st Mary's female school here,
this afternoon accepted a design for an
auditorium, In memory OF Miss Eliza
Battle Pittman, OF Tarboro, twenty
other architects competing, all under
nom de plume The building will be
OF white brick. oval I'm shape, with
bowl shaped floor, seating six hundred,
and gallery seating two hundred. Di-
mansions sixty by ninety feet Bids
are asked for construction.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05

It would not have been entirely out
of place if the Philadelphians had rung
fhe cid Liberty Bell again when the
returns care in.-Dallas News
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
RAISE FOOD CROPS FIRST

Directors Prepare Annual
Report for the Goyernor-Tria1 OF
Deputy Revenue Collectors VIII
Take Place Next June-Society of
Negro Labor-Farmers of Mcklen-
bury PrOsperous-Wake Forest Col
lego i'm Finer Shape Than Ever Be-
fore-Otber Items OF Interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

Smoking clay pipe, the circus actor
sat In the winter training quarters.
Under his supervision a thin boy was
learning to ride erect on a quiet horse
with broad, fat back.
In some towns they won't let as
SHOW" said the man, unless we have
no camels with us. Camels are seri-
Gus drawback to shows. Horses are so
much afraid OF them that lots Of towns
won't let camel enter their gates.
Il horse won't go near piece Of
ground q camel has stood on. The very
smell of camel in the air will make
horse tremble and sweat. And this
fear isn't only found occasionally in a
horse here and there. 1t Is found in
every horse all over the world. Queer.
isn't 1t? l often wonder why 1t is.
Cattle hate dogs in the same way, and
eats hate dogs so, too. Here, though,
we can account for the hatred. Dogs In
primitive times fed on cattle. 10 doubt.
and even to-day, here and there, they
Kill and feed on Kittens.
Horses lOve uoSs- III sure uon
know why. Dogs fear no animals but
pumas and leopards. You can take a
dog up to a lions or tigers cage and
lie will show no fear, but take him up
to the cage of puma or leopard and
he will tremble and moan and stink
away out OF sight.
"All very puzzling, isn't it?'-Phila.
delDhia Bulletin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
SMALLPOX IN PHILIPPINES.
Disease Almost Entirely Eradicate,
by Vaccination.

Disease Almost Entirely Eradicated
by Vaccination.
The records of the bureau of health
at Manila show that within the last
twelve months 213.OOO people have been
vaccinated by officials and many more
by private physicians. When it is re-
membered that Manila's population is
not more than 100000, 1t can be under
stood why. in the year ended Dec. 81,
1904. there were only twenty-seven
deaths from smallpox. Ten of the
twenty-seven were Europeans or Amer
leans who had neglected or avoided
vaccination. says the New York Trib-
une.
During the Spanish regime law ex-
listed making vaccination compulsory.
but the chief good which resulted from
the law was that the people became ac-
customcd to its existence on the statute
books and did not greatly object to 1t
or strenously resist its application at
the hands Of the Americans. In a few
provinces difficulties were met. In
these cases vaccinators were at once
withdrawn and the pueblos left TO
themselves. Within six months the con-
trast between the vaccinated and I'M
vaccinated pueblos was so marked that
the chief men of the Directing munich
palities requested the vaccinators to
return.
AS smallpox is epidemic and pam
demic in the Philippines, the necessity
for division OF vaccination. in the
board of health Is very great. The or
iginal plan was to organize a corps of
$50 vaccinators. That number was con-
sidered necessary in order to vaccinate
the inhabitants of the islands within
three years. Owing to the depleted con-
dition of the insular treasury, the COM
mission has been unable to authorize
the employment of so large number.
and with the small number of men
available the question arises whether
vaccination will not, have to be prac-
ticed continuously for many years In or
der to immunize the 100000 inhabit-
ants who are now in those islands and
their offspring as it arrives.
Smallpox in the Philippines occupied.
prior to the advent of the Americans.
about the same position in regard to its
frequency, its mortality and its preva-
lence that it did in Europe PRIOR to the
discovery Of vaccination, and as was
the case In Europe, so in the Philip
pines. 1t seems to be almost a disease
of childhood. The explanation OF this
Is that all natives who have reached
adult age were exposed to smallpox in
childhood. and those who did not con-
tract the disease may be considered i'm
mune. Smallpox in Manila is no longer
to be feared, according to the annual re-
port of the bureau of health for the
Philippine islands, and not so many
cases occur in proportion to its inhaD-
itants as in the cities of Washington
and Baltimore.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08
Choosing a husband.

The best man does not always wear
the finest coat or the handsOmest face.
Girls learn that after a while, but
when they are first beginning to know
men and their ways they are very apt
to be carried away by good looks ana
good clothes. l do not by any means
intend to insinuate that some of the
both we'll dressed and handsome, but
only that very often girls do not look
beyond the surface-good looks and
good clothes are enough to satisfy
them. If a mau is plain of face and
badly dressed, they do not think him
worth cultivating.
You never can tell, girls, what the
development of the gawky, shy youth
may bring. Lincoln was plain, awk-
ward and badly dressed. and yet the
woman who married him would not
have exchanged him for the most per-
feet Adonis. Take the trouble to find
out what there Is in Il man before you
condemn him for his badly fitting
tiOlutS anu pam ldCC. my Siii ~"''
work wonders with the man WHO loves
her.
Supp0sing you fall in love with
man who has no regard for the little
niceties of dress. 1t will worry you,
of course, for every girl wants to be
proud of the appearance of her sweet
heart. But don't be unhappy over 1t.
Go to work and bring all your infiu-
ence to bear in persuading him to
take more pains with his appearance.
You will have to work Oh his vanity,
but you will win out in the long run.
No girl of sense will keep herself from
loving man simply because he is plain
of face. As long as he looks clean and
manly and honest any man Is good
looking. If he is not all of those three,
he can't amount to anything.
Don't waste your time and affection
on a dressed-up dummy. Remember
that 1t takes more than good looks to
make good husband. What you want
is good, honest man. a good pr0vider.
If he is also good looking, why ell the
better. but that is the least important
Of any quality in a husband. Don't
spoil your whole life by placing 1t
above the other qualities necessary in
the making of a good husband-Caro-
liue, In Chicago American.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

FIREBRAND OF PRINCETON.


In revolutionary times American col
leges, which we are apt to regard as
little schools OF narrow theology, were
really centers Of light on practical
questions. Princeton played an i'm
portant part in the Revolution, not be-
cause battle was fought near the old
Nassau building. but because the presi-
dent, John Witherspoon, was vigor-
Gus liberal thinker.
He was the only clergyman in the
Congress which signed the Declaration
OF Independence. Scotsman by birth,
he had come to America when he was
forty-six years old. 1t did not take
him long to throw his whole sympathy
with the American people. He said
himself:
A man will become an American by
residing in the country three months"
His writings on religious subjects
were known on both continents. and
when he turned his direct and powerful
pen to American affairs, he became one
Of the most powerful pleaders of the
American cause. He knew the use of
vituperation, but most of his pamph-
lets are free from the abusive manner
of Thomas Paine, and approach the in
telligence and fair-mindedness of
Burke.
There is not the least reason yet"
he writes In 1774, ito think that the
king, the parliament, or even the peo-
pie OF Great Britain. have been able to
enter into the great principles of uni
versal liberty. or are willing to hear
the discussion of the point of right
without prejudice"
No wonder that Massachusetts Con-
gressmen on their gay to Philadelphia.
after they had been reyiled and hooted
In New York and several New Jersey
towns. found Princeton an oasis In the
desert; and no wonder the Tories call
ed Witherspoon a dangerous firebrand.
and honored him by burning his effigy
with those Of Washington, Lee and
Putnam
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

On many railways cement ties are
displacing wooden ties.
The Spanish ship to the United
States each autumn carries 100000
barrels of Almeria grapes.
Nearly 10000 tons OF cork are need
ed for the bottled beer and aerated
waters consumed annually in Britain.
The eating OF snakes, lizarls, scor-
pions, centipedes, tarantulas and other
reptiles is now prohibited by stature
I'm Kansas.
The reindeer moss" Of Alaska il
not a true moss, but a licben, Clado-
MIA, found in Scotland and the badge
of the Mackenzies.
Nine. Adolphine Kok, who has be-
come barrlster at the same time as
her husband, is the first woman to be
admitted to the Dutch bar.
Gambling among American workmen
is almost unknown as compared with
the same evil in Great Britain, says
the Moseley commissioners.
Experiments made in Germany show
that butter keeps best IL mixed with
to 8 per cent of salt II the per-
centage OF salt is over the result Is
less satisfactory.
Charles Dickens was fond OF wear
ing gaudy jewelry. and the clanking OF
his numerous gold chains announced
his coming while he was yet some dis
lance away.
The Educational Institute. of Scot,
land, at its annual meeting in Edin-
burgh, adopted proposal to raise a
fund of $4,000 to enable the institute
to nominate a representative OF the
teaching profession for Parliament
Charles Edward Magoon, who has
been made provisional Governor q
Cuba, was born in Minnesota in 1861,
and after a farm bringing up in that
State worked his way through the Uni
versity of Nebraska, graduating in 1881.
Jerusalem now has summer resort
at Ramalah, which is situated several
hundred feet higher, and commands a
view Of the Mediterranean. A new no
tel has been built there for Europeans
by an Arab. Most of the work Of con
struction was done by women, whose
| wages are IL cents day.