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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27

We understand there Is a petition be-
ing circulated and numerously signed
in "French Greek township, Bladen
county to have that township annexed
to Fender county" 1t would add
greatly to the wealth of Fender as
that township contains some of the
finest farming lands in eastern North
Carolina, and certainly it would be
a great advantage to the citizens Of
that township to be in Pender county,
as it is difficult for them to reach their
county seat on account of the Cape
Fear river. With a good public road
from Burgaw through Atkinson to Cen
terville with a good steel bridge across
Black river near Mill creek would
make the county seat very accessible.
-Pender Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27
Goose Hunter Uses Photograph Deco,

Ace Goodwill, Of MillsDoro, is having
wonderful success cunning for wild
geese on the Indian river with the
aid Of a modern phonograph.
His method is to set the machine,
loaded with honk-honk in the bow Of
the boat, and then, when the geese
answer tie call, to pick them off. The
geese fly to the slaughter, he says, and
he had to shoot so fast that a rest was
necessary to cool his gun. He says he
brought in a boatful, and now fears
that the next legislature will pass a
law forbidding the use of the phono-
graphs.-Georgetown (Del). Dispatch
to Philadelphia Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27
Further DismissaIs of Clerks.

Further orders OF dismissal were
received yesterday by a number OF
clerks in the different departments at
the A. C. L. general Offices in this
city, these like the orders previously
issued becoming effective December
31st. 1t is stated that altogether about
100 men are effected.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27

Trial Catarrh treatments are be-
ing mailed out free, on request, by
DR.. Shoop, Racine, Wis. These tests
are proving to the people-without a
penny's cost-the great value of thi-
scientific prescription known to drua-
gists everywhere as DR.. Shops Ca
tarrh Remedy. Sold by r. r. Bel
lamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27
Mr.. JOHN MLAUR|N

Deceased Was About ]. Years Of Age
and Had an Active and Useful Life.
Many Year Owned and Edited the
North Carolina Presbyterian. Now
he Presbyterian Standard-was
Stricken With Apoplexy Four Years
Ago Since which Time He Has Been
q Complete Invalid.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-12-27

Fine Christmas Weather Predicted for
the State-Brunswick School Dis
trict Votes for Local Tax-MoOn-
shine Still Captured-Dispensary
People Confident of Winning.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19

does not want the open saloon on Sunday,
Mayor Busse, in persisting in giving it to the
city, is not misinterpreting the utterance of
the people-the people, in spite of abundant
opportunity to make their meaning clear,
simply misspoke.
If the harshest thing that has been said
about His Honor, the mayor, be admitted to
be true, and his official oath be considered
perjury, yet it is to be admitted that the men
who elected him, elected him to commit that
perjury; foresaw that, as their representative
and proxy, holding the power that they gave
him, he would swear to perform a duty
that he did not intend to perform.
We see no way in which Mayor Busse
can be exonerated from serious blame in the
matter, but we respectfully intimate to many
who are now loud in their condemnation
of him, that it would be well for them,
thoughtfully, even prayerfully, to review
their relation to the matter in the light of
their vote last spring.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
"GRAY-BEARDED USE"

The Louisville Com'ier-Jom again
gives almost column and a half of its space
to an editorial against Prohibition, which
is practically nothing but weak saying-over-
again of the by-no-means admirable remarks
that Colonel WATTERsoN has been indulging
in about the Prohibition movement ever
since he first took fright over the prospect
of the stopping of his grog. Looked at in
some lights, the editorial is pathetic One
can scarcely fail to be reminded of the lines
of WHITTIER:
"Gray-bearded Use, who old and blind,
CROPPED for his long-accustomed stone
Leaned on his staff and wept to find
His seat oerthrown"
Colonel WATTERsoN is evidently finding it
almost impossible to reorganize his thinking
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
WHAT MASSACHUSETTS SHOWS

The largely increased vote for no-icense
in the cities and towns of Massachusetts, is
an illustration Of the fallacy of the oft-ex-
pressed theory that the revival of the Prohi-
bition movement in the South has no other
basis than the desire of the white people of
the South to keep liquor away from the
negro.
That the negro question has, in meas
ure, entered into the movement in the South,
no one disputes The Atlanta riot was one
Of the large factors in the revolution which
took place in Georgia, but in that case, even,
all intelligent people understood that it was
not merely the drinking negro-indeed,
hardly at all the drinking negro that was
the cause Of the riot but the drunken white
men who assaulted and murdered innocent
negroes and all but precipitated wholesale
massacre.
Still the fundamental reason for the en-
actment of Prohibition in Georgia and in
Alabama was the fact that the people of
those states recognize that the drink traffic
is wrong and detrimental to the interests of
all men, white or black.
Now comes Massachusetts, voting under
its local option system and increasing its no
license majorities, in a part of the country
w ere the negro question has no bearing Oh
anything. The event simply shows that the
American people are beginning, at length,
to get their eyes open about the infamy of
the liquor traffic; not enough yet to clearly
see the method by which it must be exter-
minated, but enough to know that it mast
be erterminated.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19

processes in harmony with the progress of
the twentieth century. Hear him:
The people of Kentucky can do as they please
They are still a free people. But they should
pause and think. If they want to kill great
productive industry hundred years old, with
its priceless trademark; to confscate hundred
millions of property and many hundreds more OF
contiguous values; to transfer two or three mil
lions of taxes from the dstillers and brewers
and vendors to the already overtaxed farmers
in order to make Kentucky as dry as Maine
which is not dry at ALT is within their right
and their power to do So"
1t is easy to fancy some old vassal of the
robber barons, protesting against the march
of civilization, five or six centuries ago, in
almost the same language.
We shall have to take Colonel WATTERsoN
about as his Kentucky friends seem to be
<irg him-love him for the past, pity him
for the present, and make the path for his
lettering footsteps in the future as smooth
as we can. But we cannot stop the Car Of
Progress because Age is timid at the mo.
ton
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
December f9, fg07

would seem to us little thing. Indeed,
it is little thing in the light of our own
generosity in the past We simply need to
catch the impulse of doing it all together
and doing it now.
Accomplish these three things: Give THE
NATIONAL PRoHIBITIoNIsT one hundred
thousand subscribers between now and the
sitting Of the Columbus convention show a
real awakening in the matter of local party
organization, of which, thank God, there are
some signs already, as indicated by the news
columns of this paper, and pour the money,
like patriots giving for the nations life, into
the treasures of our various communities
then if there be some great leader waiting
to place himself at the head of our hosts, he
can come knowing that he comes to a glori-
GUS chance for victory; or, if there be none
such, we can lay our hands upon any one of
hundreds of loyal men who have served in
our own ranks and make him our standard
bearer for such a campaign for national sal
walton as America never saw before.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19

1t is at least interesting to know thai
the numerous entertaining newspaper stories
concerning the patriotic resolve Of ADoLPHUs
BUSCH, the great St. Louis brewer of An
heuser-Busch fame, to devote the remainder
of his life to fighting the "evils of the liquor
traffic. appear in the Offices of the various
newspapers of the country as ''reading mat
ter notices." attached to liberal advertising
copy of the alcoholic slush poisons that Mr..
BUSCH manufacturers, with explanatory
notes telling the editors how pleased the
advertiser will be to see the "reading matter
run.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
THE MAYOR: STUDY OF AGENT
AND PRINCIPAL

good deal of unnecessary indignation is
being poured upon the head of Mayor Busse
OF this city by many well-meaning people
who have not paused to consider the facts in
the case which they are discussing. We have
no disposition to defend Mr.. Busse nor to
excuse his course in regard to the violation
of the law by the saloons of Chicago. His
course seems to us both indefensible and
inexcusable. Indeed, we are very much in
clined to assent to the truth Of all the serious
charges which are made concerning his off
cial acts. If to deliberately allow class of
laws of the state and to refuse to perform
clearly prescribed duties pertaining to his
office is not rebellion against the law and
against the sovereign state of Illinois, we, at
least, are unable to give it any milder name.
Even the. charge Of perjury which is made
against the mayor seems to us not without
foundation. We do not so look upon judi
cial oath that we are able, quietly and COM
placently, to see public official lift his hand
before the God of High Heaven and swear
that he will do the duties of his office, and
then refrain from doing them, under cir
cumstances that force the conclusion that he
never had the slightest intention of obeying
that OATH
Yet, admitting the truth of all this, it
seems to us that Mayor Busse is fairly called
upon to share only part of the blame. Not
one in ten thousand of all the good and re-
spectacle Christian people who voted for him
at the late municipal election so voted with
any expectation that his course in the matter
of the law breaking saloons would in any
respect be different from what it has BEEN
No sane man expected him to close the sa-
looms on Sunday. Unless we very much mis-
take, he publicly announced that he would
not. Nothing would have been greater
surprise to the churchmen who were his sup
porters than to have found him after the
election upon the moral side of any public
question.
He is giving the people of Chicago exactly
the kind of government that the people by
their ballots said they wanted. If Chicago
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19

When retail liquor dealers observe law because
it is law, and not from the fear of Prohibition
there will be great change in the outlook-but
not until them-Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circa-
lar
Yes; that time will come, the Irish OF
expression, when there retail liquor
dealers-"but not until then"
Just why the authorities continue to permit
blind pigs" to commit murder in St. Louis
county without let or hindrance is beyond hon
est understanding Within the week two men
have been killed with the poisonous stuff sold
at these illicit groggeries.-The Duluth Nezcs-
Tribune.
Oh fudge! You perfectly we'll know that the
unblind hogs, called saloons, have far bigger
bag" to their credit and the people have in
structed their servants to do nothing about it.
In the face of that, who's likely to worry about
the pigs?
Unless the saloon is kept strictly to its proper
line of vending refreshments in the form of
beverages, its tenure as an institution is threat
ened by the rising tide of public sentiment,
which can be seen by anyone who has eyes to
see-NidG's Criterion.
Don't fool yourself! That very proper line
is just the thing that an honest, awakened public
hates the saloon for. When you can perform
the Hamlet-with-H amlet-left-o act of separ-
ating the saloon from the beverage" then you
may talk about tenure-not before.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19

There is a new song, entitled "The Colonies
Take Their Toddes in Kentucky" But it doesn't
say how long they'll take 'em-The atlanta Con-
stitnttoM.
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
Effects of Sunstroke.

Violently insane, the sequence to ::
frightful night spent in the mountains
nearly freezing TO death, George l.
Grover, living at 1917 Blake street, was
taken to Denver recently from Love
land. and taken to the county hospital
Raving and struggling with his keep
ors for liberty, he fought them during
the long drive from the mountain camp
to the station. and weak and exhausted
he recalls over and over again in his
dClirium the awful night of privaton
His condition is serious, and little
hope is entertained that he will ever
again regain his normal condition.
Over year ago he suffered a sun
stroke while working with timber
gang in the mining camp, and since
then his mind has been unbalanced
3ubjeoting him to fits of insanity. Dur
ing these fss he would be violent, and
had it not been for the faithful care of
his wife he might have taken his life
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
cloudhurst Kills MANY.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Seven people
arc reported dead as the result of a
cloudburst Monday at Capitol Hill, a
suburb.
Many persons camped on the low
lands near the river We're caught un
awares and had but little time to
escape The river is bankfull and it
will be some time before it can be de,
tarmined whether any lives were really
lost
Following the cloudburst there was
another heavy rainfall, which caused
the river to rise higher, endangerins
property in the lowlands.
Three thousand people live on Capt.
to hill. which lies south of the North
Canadian river. opposite Oklahoma
City. The hill is drained into small
stream called lightning creek, which
enters the river just below Oklahoma
City The water came down the creek
and covered the lowlands in such vol
ume as TO force out people living in
tents. shanties and small houses upon
the low ground.
Oklahoma City proper was not at all
endangered.
An area covering several square
ands of dollars damage TO railway and
farm property. Railway traffic is par
alyzed One mile of Santa Fe tracks
out of Oklahoma City have been
washed out The Canadian river is ris.
ing rapidly and people in the lowlands
are moving out.
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
Shire Declares He LIS Guilty.

Butte, Mont.-When Jack Shire, the
self-confessed murderer of Maurice
Caplan. was shown the statement of
his aged mother that she could fur
nish an alibi which would clear him of
the crime. he said
THE way look at it is this-a man
that commits murder is a bad man and
ought to be hung for it. killed Cap
Ian all right. was on Hamilton's
ranch, as my mother says, but | came
to town lot"
The murderer is getting weaker each
of collapse that he can hardly.read
TO him. Il can't make it out" he
mumbled.
When he heard the statement he
said: "Oh, pshaw! l was on the
ranch, all right, but went to town
whenever | could. Hamilton is my
brother-in-law, all right, and he tried
to do lot for me- but it was no use
The ranch was near the edge of town.
Hc tried TO make me straighten up and
be man. | stayed there few weeks,
tut could not stand it. | had to have
LIQUOR. Kosli, damn him: kept me-
fun of whiskey all the time. l killed
him, all right no matter what they
say. They will hang me, know, and
I expect that"
Shire then went into a long, ram,
bling story about Mrs. Alexander, the
woman who came from Denver with
him. He SAYS he wants to see her
again before he dies and will send for
her when he gets back to Denver
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
DUMPED INTO THE SEA.
Pier colaoses and browns Half a
Dozen People.

Baltimore, Md.-A section of 500 feet
of the new pier being erected at the
immigration station at Locust Point,
South Baltimore, for the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad for the use of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company,
collapsed April 9th, carrying down be-
tween twenty and twenty-five work
men, of whom six are known to be
dead, ten missing and fifteen injured.
Among the injured is w. n. Edison,
general superintendent of the Balti-
more Bridge Company, who had charge
of the steel construction. 1t is not yet
known how seriously hurt he is. He
was caught while warning the work
men off the pier.
Dead:
Tony Wolf. Robert Sweetman and
four unidentified men.
The latter We're drowned.
The pier is a two-story structure L.
600 feet long. Its estimated cost is
100000.
Warning of the disaster was had sew
eral days ago when some of the piles
began settling. Shortly before the dis
aster the piles settled in such an
alarming manner that orders to leave
the pla re was circulated among the
fifty odd workmen. 1t is due to this
fact that the casualties were not
greater. Those caught were at the end
of the pier upon the roof.
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
Sleep and Old AGE.

There is no question that tn,
quantity of sleep required steadily dim
inishes from infancy to old age This
is rather interesting exception to
the general rule that, as in so many
matters, old age returns to the needs
of infancy. AS regards sleep, says
London Pail Mall Gazette, old age is
more remote in its needs. from infancy
than is any other period of life. II
elderly people obtain good sleep dur.
ing the first few hours, and if they
nave not lost that delight in reading
which we all had in youth, but which
SO many of us curiously lose, their
case is not TO be grieved over The
special value of the earliest hours OF
sleep, by the way, has been proved by
psychological experiment The popu.
lar phrase beauty sleep" is well war.
ranted. 1t is the early (the deepest)
hours of sleep that make for health
and beauty.
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
Jndenendent of the Trust.

The promoters of the North Ameri-
can Sugar Company, which will build
sugar beet factory near Berthoud,
Colorado, declare that no inducements
to enter the trust will be considered.
They are offering terms to the beet
growers which were denied by the
trust pants.
1t is Believed that the population of
Berthoud. now placed at 1000, will
be increased to $500 in a few months
after the factory starts operation.
Work will be commenced in July and
the factory must be completed a year
from that date.
The company now has about las
farmers under contract, and the con-
tracts call for So ton for the beets,
without SLIDING, terms which were re-
fused the farmers by the trust com
panies.
The factory is to cost S750,000 and
will take care of the product of 5000
acres. 1t will be about an eighth of a
mile outside of Berthoud and will en-
ploy $50 men.
The new plant is to be operated with
electricity from the Lafayette plant
Of the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany. 1t probably will be the first
sugar beet factory in the country to be
ST. operated.
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
WAR is I'M MINENT
MEXICO AND GUATEMALA BUCK.
LING ON THEIR ARMoR.
DEMAND tIMA's SURRENDER
Two Thousand Troops Are Already on
Their Way to Enforce Mex
ico's Demand,

Mexico City-It is known here that
war between Mexico and Guatemala is
imminent and may be declared by the
Diaz government within week AL
ready troops are moving to the Guate-
malan frontier. Minister of Foreign
Affairs Mariscal made formal de-
mand upon the Guatemalan President
for the Surrender of Gen. Jose Maria
Lima, whom Mexico accuses of hiring
the assassins who murdered former
President Barillas in this city two
weeks ago.
The demand recites that Barillas was
making Mexico his refuge from his
successor, President Cabrera. and
other political enemies, who sought his
life. Investigation, it adds. has shown
that Cabrera's friend, General Lima,
paid the transportation of the two mur-
derers from Guatemala to Mexico. with
the understanding that they were to
kill Barillas and then return to him for
their reward.
Through this act, says the minister's
note, Lima committed a grave offense
against the Republic of Mexico. He de-
mands that the Guatemalan govern
ment arrest the general forthwith and
hold him until Mexican soldiers can
convey him to this city for trial. The
penalty for refusal to deliver Lima.
Mexico warns, will be the severance of
diplomatic relations between the two
countries.
In palmer language, the minister
threatens war Two thousand troops
are already on their way to the Guate-
malan line to enforce Mexicos de-
mand. More are under orders to mo-
billie in readiness for hurry orders to
the frontier, and the railroads have
been given notice that they may be re-
Questioned for the transportation of
! troops and supplies at any time. Some
fear is expressed in official circles here
that Guatemala may have already de-
termined not to accede to the eX-
pected demand.
Lima, whose surrender is demanded,
is the closest friend and adviser of
President Cabrera. 1t is even said that
he is the power behind the throne and
the real ruler of Guatemala. in which
event the little Central American coun-
try would even risk disastrous war
with her more powerful neighbor
rather than surrender him.
The Daiz government still talks
peace, but 1t is known that unless a
prompt acquiescence to the demand
upon Guatemala is made the Mexican
minister will be recalled within a week.
Hostilities would probably follow with
in the next fortnight
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
As a Woman Thinketh.

New Sork.-Under the influence of
her dentists laughing gas, Miss Agneg
l-oven of the Bronx hugged the dentist
until the police interfered. The girl
who is twenty-five and pretty, has
been undergoing series of dental op-
erations at the office of DIR. John Tay.
lor Finally it was necessary to pull a
tooth, and laughing gas was admins
tered.
The moment the gas took effect Miss
Loven leaped from the chair and
clasped DR.. Taylor about the neck with
hug that would do credit to polar
bear. The doctor tried to extricate
himself from her embrace in vain.
Then he called for help, and Mrs. Tay-
lor telephoned for police. The girl was
finally torn from the dentist and car
ried to a hospital
The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03
The Colorado chautauqua and Summer
School,

The tenth annual session of this pep
ular assembly and school will open at
Boulder, July ith, and continue for six
weeks. Special efforts have been made
to make platform program of the very
best talent in America, and to engage
a faculty for the summer school which
will attract teachers and students both
at home and abroad.
The nucleus of the platform program
will be fifteen-piece orchestra under
the leadership of Signor Cavallo of
Denver. He is a leader who is well
known both East and West, and mas
gathered around him a group of artists
which will make his orchestra one of
the best of its size. Around this nu-
cleus has been grouped such we'll
known talent as the Kellogg-Haines
Singing Party, Dunbar Male Quartet.
Senators Tilman and La Folette, Par
land-Newhall Company, Nicoli, the Ma
gician; Slayton's Jubilee Singers,
Youna the Juggler; the Pierces, DR..
Frank NJ. Bristol, and large number
of others.