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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
BISHOPVILLE.

Our town is still alive and business is
rushing.
The new Odd Fellows Hall is nearing
completion and will be an ornament to
our town as il is a very handsome
building. 1t is located opposite where
Ryan & Rayner's store used TO stand.
The old house owned by Mr.. Elisha
Layton and know by the name Of 1.-THE
old lightning house." so called from its
having once been struck by lightning.
was burned down one night last week.
Origin of the fire unknown.
Mrs. Walter Hickman has been sud-
denly called to the bedside of her
mother, Mrs. John Saunders, of Machi-
pongo. Va, who is very sick.
Rev. Mr.. Todd. pastor Of the Method
list Episcopal Church, South, is holding
revival meetings in his church this
week.
Cupid is quite busy here now. Mr..
John Dukes and Miss Katie Gray, both
OF our town, were quietly married last
Wednesday night. Rumor predicts an
other wedding soon.
Mr.. Levi Bunting. living near our
place, was taken to Salisbury by DIR.
K. 7. Collins this week for a very
serious operation. We hope he may
soon recover.
Mr. William Taylor is critically III at
this writing and Mrs. Taylor, while at
tending upon her husband, fell and
broke her wrist the other morning.
DR.. and Mrs. Collins and Miss Helen
Bishop are visiting in Philadelphia this
week.
Mr. Lemuel Ryan has moved into the
store previously occupied by Mrs. Wal
ter Hickman. and is now ready with
his cups and brushes to lather and shave
our men while he laughs and tells jokes
as of yore.
Election will soon be here. Be sure
TO vote for Bryan. Kern and Covington,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
SNOW HILL. MD. OCT. 81.
Local Readers. lOC. a Line

Sweaters in all colors and at right
prices at Mrs. J. Cannon SHORTS.
For choice oysters served in any
style, come to Joseph G. Morgan. OPP
posite Court House.
For Sale-Fine stock of shoats and
pigs, mixed Berkshire and Poland China.
Apply to Paul Haase, Spence p. o.
(0ct. 3l-3t)
For all kinds of table delicacies go
to George w. Wonnell, the butcher.
the grocer and the man who feeds the
people.
If you have any Country Pepper
bring il to me and will give you the
highest market price. DIR. Paul Jones.
Druggist.
Just received: Full line of handsome
ready-made suits. from $40 up. y$lO
suit is exceptionally good value. Mrs.
j. Cannon Shortt.
Timber For Sale, O00.0 feet
first growth pine on high land. For
particulars address. N. w. Mock, Oman
cock, Va. (24-2t)
Just what you want in coats for
both ladies and children. Fall and WIN
ter coats, silk rain coats, in great varie-
ty and at reasonable prices, at Mrs. j.
Cannon Shorts.
i now have complete stock of
the famous American Lady" corsets,
to fit all figures. These corsets are ex-
tremely stylish and popular. The name
il sufficient guarantee. Mrs. j. Cannon
Short.
Come to me for your millinery.
New hats received this week. You will
find my trimmed hats a great bargain.
have seldom before offered such good
values at such low figures. Mrs. j..
Cannon Short
DIR. S. L. Mckee, Leading Optician
of Wilmington, DEL. will be in Snow
Hill, at the drug store OF 7. ID. Getting
ham 4 Co., on Nov. 9th and 10th. Any
one needing glasses or eyes examined
will please call.
-. There will be an exhibit of from
five to six hundred choice chrysanthe-
NUNS in the old Nj. p. Church. begin
ming Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5th, and
continuing until the following Tuesday.
Admission. 25 cts. for adults and Is cts,
for children.
Steam heat is being put in the
Presbyterian Church and as a conse-
uuence the three hot air furnaces which
have been used to heat that church are
now for sale. They can be had very
cheap. Apply to Marion T. Hargis,
Snow Hill, Nd,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
BIG MEETING
IN SNOW HILL
Court House Crowded With Peo-
pie Who Wanted To Hear
The Speakers.

The Democratic mass meeting held
here Tuesday afternoon was the biggest
meeting held in the Worcester County
Court House in ten years. Every seat
was filed, the aisles were packed, and
there were several hundred who could
not get inside to hear the speakers.
Mr.. Edwin II. Taylor presided over
this immense assemblage and introduced
as the first speaker of the day. U. S.
Senator, John Walter Smith. Senator
Smith was given a perfect ovation.
The crowd cheered him for long time,
but finally he was permitted to COM
mence his address. He was very care
full in his speech. and emphasized that he
would do nothing to mislead his people
He eulogized Mr. Bryan as Christian
gentleman. an eminent statesman, and
undoubtedly the choice of the people
for President. Senator Smith said that
he had large business, which was SEN
sitive to business depression, but he
wanted Mr.. Bryan elected, because he
thought it would make business better
and his election would be for the good
of the country. Senator Smith spoke
with ringing voice. He showed vgor
and determination and let those who
have been disappearing him know
with forceful expression that he is in
the thick OF the fight leading the Democ-
racy of Maryland on to victory.
The next speaker was our candidate
for Congress. Mr.. James Harry Cow
ington. Mr.. Covington is considered
one of the best speakers in the state,
and he did not disappoint his hearers.
He was earnest and eloquent. and he
made a lasting impression upon his
audience that the Democracy had done
well to nominate such man. From
every quarter came the voters to him
after the speaking was over, pledging
him their hearty support at the polls
and their work for him in the mean
time. His election seems to be GER
tainty. From all over the Eastern
Shore comes the word "our people are
strong for Covington and he will win -
Another meeting was held at night,
which was presided over by Hon. George
NJ. Upshur, who made a short but tell
ing speech, after which he introduced
Hon. Lloyd Wilkinson, of Baltimore,
who showed the people how inconsistent
the Baltimore Sun is in its opposition
to Mr.. Bryan. quoting from the edi-
torials of the Sun the greatest praise
of Mr.. Bryan. The Sun declared his
earnest. manly character and ability to
be beyond question, and chastised with
burning lash those who differed with
the Sun. Mr.. Wilkinson showed the
difference between the Sun sober and the
Sun drunk He need not have taken
the trouble, however. for he was not
apparently aware that the people of
Worcester County have lost all respect
for the Suns editorials and all faith in
the truthfulness of its news columns.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31

The October term of the Circuit Court
for Worcester County was called Mon
day morning by Judge Robley ID. Jones.
Judge Holland joined him on the bench
at noon. The grand jury was drawn
by Clerk o. d. Collins. and was charged
by Judge Jones. The members of the
grand jury are
Alexander ID. Irwin, foreman, Bur-
ton Timmons, Sylvester A. Shockley,
Thomas p. Wharton, Frank M. Moore,
Nathaniel j. Pusey, George T. Bishop,
Jr., Sidney A. Bowen, William r. Pur-
nell, Jerome w. Johnson, King B. John
son. John j. Boston, Francis ]. Lloyd,
William Whaley, William f. Thomas.
George Townsend, James p. Dale, Geo.
e. Godfrey, George l.. Barnes, John
Warren. John w. Gordy. Reverdy j..
Dennis and James Ryan.
Judge Henry. who had been engaged
in the Court OF Appeals till Tuesday,
arrived here on Wednesday and took
his seat on the bench.
AS we go to press only two cases
have been tried, although considerable
routine business has been transacted.
The first case was an appeal; State
VS. John Reedy. charged with assault.
Guilty.
The second case was the State VS..
George Matthews. Matthews was in
dicted for obtaining money under false
pretense. His trial occupied the Court
for two days. He was found guilty.
The Peters and Robins land case came
up this morning and will likely take
several days to try.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
Every Voter Should Be A
Patriot!

The big-stick. trusts. special privileges.
destruction of states rights and the
Constitution, one-man power at Wash
ington, coercion Of voters by corpora
tions, dictatorship in Congress. a ten
dency to monarchy, and encroachment
upon freedom and atheistical denial of
Jesus. are but part Of the baleful al
phabet of Rooseveltism. andspell Taft.
Spell il otherwise and the pronunciation
would be ''Taffy."
The industrial questions involved in
this campaign are insignificant COM
pared with the questions Shall the
Church be revered, shall the Consti-
tuition be maintained and shall public
liberty be perpetuated? We are in a
great revolution.
ROBERT j. SHOWELL.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
LOCALS.

Miss Lille Mason left this week
for an extended visit to friends in Vir-
GINA.
Miss Nora Shockley is paying two
weeks visit to relatives and friends in
Salisbury.
DIR. w. l.. Robins, of Washington.
ID. c., is in Snow Hill this week attend
ing court.
Mr.. Samuel X. Dennis, of Beverly,
spent Saturday and Sunday with friends
in Snow Hill.
Mrs. E. Hance Fooks left for Balti-
more last Monday to visit her aunt,
Mrs. Anderson.
Mrs. ID. Frank Fooks is paying a
week s visit to her mother, Mrs. Barnes,
in Pocomoke City.
Mrs. Olin Bell, of Frostburg, Nd,
is spending few days with her sister,
Mrs. A. p. Barnes.
Mr.. George S. Payne and Miss Wini-
fred left on Tuesday for shopping ex-
petition to Baltimore.
Judge and Mrs. Dennis with their
daughter. Miss Dora. spent this week
at the Hotel Purnell.
Rev. DIR. and Mrs. J. b. North have
been in Salisbury this week attending
the meeting Of Synod.
Service and confirmation by Bishop
Adams at Holy Cross Chapel, Stockton,
next Sunday, at $3.50 p. NJ.
Miss Lola Moore has returned from
a visit 10 her brother. MIR. John p.
Moore. Jr.. at Topsail. N. c.
Mrs. r. J. MeAllenis paying two
weeks visit TO her sister, Mrs. J. w.
Raughley. near Bridgeville. Del
Mrs. Clayton ]. Purnell and Miss
Bessie returned on Thursday from their
three weeks sojourn at Ocean City.
Mrs. Breeding. of Philadelphia.
and her sister. Mrs. Calhoun. Of Oman.
Del, have been visiting their cousin.
Mrs. John T. Taylor. this week.
Miss Priscilla Devereaux. Of near
Snow Hin. left Monday for Crisfield.
where she will be the guest Of her sis
ter, Mrs. w. l.. MeDorman.
The vestry will meet at All Hal
lows rectory at p. NJ. next Monday.
The Womans' Auxiliary meets at the
rectory the same day at 3 p. NJ. g
The West End Club will exchange
books on Saturday between and 5 p.
NJ. win the member who has 1.-THE OPP
ponent" kindly return Il at that time
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
Letter to w. E. Bratten.
Snow Hill, Md.

Dear Sir: One of the ways to get rich
is to make a quarter look like thirty
cents.
There, a better: make il thirty cents.
II has this advantage: one keeps out of
Jail.
There are 200 paint manufacturers
making quarters look like 80, 40, so, 60
cents and all the odd cents between.
That is. their paints" profess to be
paints; and they are, in about the pro-
portions named: they get 80 to 60 cents
for a quarter 's-worth; some get 75
There's better way to paint: Devoe.
There are eight honest paints. BY
"honest, we mean not-adulterated and
full measure These honest ones diff
fer; no two are alike. In one, the
quarter is worth "a or 2S cents: in
another. 80 cents; there must be best
one in eight; 1t is the one that takes
least gallons to.cover job-Devoe.
To cover; that seems a light way to
speak of a paint No. it isn't. That
is what paint is for: to cover. II means
to hide and protect. The paint that
goes furthest is best, wears longest.
Go-far is all; and Devoe is the go-far
paint.
Yours truly.
IS F. w. DEVOE 4 co.
The Corddry Co.. Snow Hill, and Chin
colleague Drug Co.. Chincoteague.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
Presbyterian Church Notice.

Nov. Snow Hill, morning and
evening.
Nov. Stockton. morning and even
ing.
Nov. i5-Snow Hill. morning and
evening.
Nov. 22-Snow Hill, morning and
evening Stockton in the afternoon.
Nov. 29-Snow Hill, morning and
evening.
REV. ]. b. NORTH. Pastor.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
Fifty Years A Blacksmith.

Samuel Il. Worley. Of Hixburg. Va.
has been shoeing horses for more than
fifty years. He says: "Chamberlain's
Pain Balm has given me great relief
from lame back and rheumatism. II ID
the best liniment / ever used" For
sale by P. d. Cottingham & Co.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31

Sweaters in all colors and at right
prices at Mrs. j. Cannon SHORTS.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-31
Ube Messenger

ss-This paper has the largest circuIa-
tion Of amy paper In Worcester County
aud IL the Official paper Of the County.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
TABERNACLE
Monday Night, Mob. 23rd.---
Mrs. William Calvin Chill
ton, Monodrsmist.

Mrs. William Calvin Chiffon en-
tertained large audience at the
opera house last night. it being the
closing lyceum event of the season.
To prove that Mrs. Chiffon is a
pleasing entertainer, it is only nee
essary to say that she is typical
southern woman, beautiful in per-
son, attractive in manners and with
a voice whose cadences are like mu-
sic. Being of southern blood. she
thoroughly understands and appre-
ciates the negro, and her impersona-
tons were perfect when introduc-
ing the negro dialect in the fascinat-
ing stories by southern writers. She
discriminates carefully in the shades
of difference between the dialects Of
the states, and her enunciation in
the Virginia story was perfect
Chattanooga CTenn.) News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
SOME INTERESTING DECISIONS

Cities Liable For Damages When Per-
sons Are Hurt or Killed by M. o.
Electric Current.
1t has been claimed that municipal
electric light plants are not liable to
one item of expense. which in the case
Of private plants is sometimes a very
large one-viz, damages for injury or
death due to contact with a live wire.
If this were a fact, it would only go
to show the unfairness resulting from
municipal ownership in making an in
nocent individual bear all the burden
of an accident which may result from
municipal parsimony or carelessness.
While the decision Of inferior courts
has sometimes been in line with this
claim, recent decisions of higher courts
are opposed to this view.
In the case Of Davoust versus the
city of Alameda the supreme court OF
California held the city liable for dam
ages, but the case was complicated by
the fact that the municipal lighting
plant was engaged in a commercial
business as we'll as in lighting the
SIACClo' AHC SupLSllS COuIL VI luuldud
has just handed down decision where
this complication is not involved. In
the case of Aiken versus the city Of
Columbus it holds that municipal own
ership and the management of munich
pal utilities do not make such bust
ness a government function to the ex-
tent of relieving the city from liability
for negligence, and it must pay dam
ages to person injured by the fall Of
a defective live wire. Although they
are not at hand for reference, we re-
call similar decisions by the courts Of
other states
1t is worth noting that in general
where damages have been assessed
against municipal plants or where ex-
traordinary legal expenses have been
incurred on account of them the
amounts have not been charged I'D
against the operation of the plants, but
have been paid out of the general tax
levy, thus enabling the plants to show
a lower cost" Of operation than would
be the case if the items had been prop
erly charged
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
"CARE, SENSE, CONSCIENCE"
These Three Are Neglected In Public
Ownership Enterprises.


The Brooklyn Standard Union in a
recent editorial dealt at length with
municipal socialism. After enumerat-
ing several of the ways in which the
city suffers from the maladministration
of the utilities already committed to
It's care the writer sums up as follows:
Whats the good Of extending the
list of failures and utilities? All that
it would do would be to illustrate a
point already sufficiently patent and
painful-that nation, state or city does
any job intrusted to it with less care,
sense and conscience than the indi-
vidual manifests when he is working
for himself. Care, sense, conscience
that is the trinity Of gods whose affairs
grow dusty when the municipality
keeps the temple. In every failure and
difficulty that the city has experienced
You see red tape. q conflict cs author
ity, an absence of foresight, the pref
erence Of party or patronage to the
public welfare, low civic conscience,
perhaps a lower civic intelligence, the
unhappy consequences Of collective re-
sponsibility, or, rather, of irresponsi-
bility, as compared with individ-
ual responsibility. The other fellow
pays-in welfare, health or taxes. The
public servant is not exposed to the
.uil operation of cause and effect"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
100000 LOST IN TOLEDO.
How Brand WhtlocIs's City Tried to
Run q Gas Plant.

/
Run . Gas Plant.
When Toledo installed her natura
gas plant in 1896. to be abandoned
I eight years later, it was expected that
the price of gas would be brought to q
very low figure.
The original cost, $1,500OO0. was met
by the issue Of Az per cent bonds
81. O5O,OO0 of which is still unpaid. The
business was unsuccessful from the
start and the very men who had ad.
vocated the undertaking and made
their private profit from it soon adj
vised that it be sold As its gas field
became exhausted the city tried to Sc
cure a new supply, but its efforts were
frustrated by the fact that it had to
advertise it's intention for sixty days,
giving others a chance to get in be-
fore it,
Finally the main part Of the plant
was leased and in 1903 the lines and
mains outside the city were sold for
100000, of which $4,000 was protest
ed by the purchasers on the ground
that several miles of pipe included In
the sale was not delivered, having pre-
viously been stolen from the city. 1t is
impossible to tell how much the city
will ultimately lose by this expert
ment, but it will be undoubtedly in ex-
cess of S1,OOO,OOO.
A request to the mayor for informa-
ton ELECTED reply from his secretary
which gave no hint that n loss had
been incurred except the following:
However, the experiment was Of
much greater benefit to the city than
the figures show, for this reason: The
consumers Of natural gas in Toledo
have been given lower rate than any
other city in the country, with perhaps
one or two exceptions, for practically
the last fifteen years. The low rate
was brought about by the competition
that began when the city entered the
field"
If this were true it might be an ade-
quate Offset to the loss on the plant,
but unfortunately the facts do not
bear out the statement The 1907 edi-
ton Of Browns Directory of Amer
lean Gas Companies gives more than
100 cities and towns in Ohio alone
where the rate for natural gas is low
er than in Toledo. This is a good ex-
ample of the sort of information"
which is given out by city officials who
are in favor of municipal ownership
for political or other reasons.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
Poultry Printing.

Weihave a very large and COM
plete line of poultry cuts and are
prepared to do any and all kinds of
printing for poultry raisers at low
prices.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21

In accordance with the above ruling all
mail subscribers to the KentuCkian who are
in arrears six months must be dropped from
our mailing list on April l. The Depart-
ment will compel US to do this. Subscrib-
ers may pay any fraction of year, if they
prefer, SO that they keep within the limit.
RENEW NOW
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21
In Memory of
Cincinnatus d. Bell.

Realizing our great loss in the
death of our former superin-
tendent CD. Bell, who departed this
life on March 9Th, 1908, we desire to
place on record this humble tribute
of our tender love and deep sorrow.
The life Of our beloved brother was
a great spiritual force in his church,
a blessing to his community, and a
veritable benediction in his home.
He was especially fond of the
young people of the church, and
they were devoted to him. No sup.
erintendent was ever more greatly
loved and honored by a Sunday
school. We feel our great loss in
his going away from US, and yet
even our sadness is touched with Joy
when we think of him rejoicing with
the redeemed Of the Lord. There
has been brought to him the gracious
fulfillment of our Savior's words, II
go to prepare place for you. And
if l go and prepare place for you,
will come again and receive you un-
to myself, that where I am there We
may be also." He has gone from us
to dwell forever with the Lord. We
grieve that he shall meet no more
with US in the old church he loved
so well, but the memory of his pure
life, and his activity and zeal in all
good works, shall ever abide with
US. We extend to the broken-heart-
ed wife and devoted sons, our deep
est sympathy in their sorrow. May
God, who alone can fill the vacant
place, sustain and comfort them by
His unbounded grace.
Done by order of Salem Baptist |
March 9Th, 1908.
Mr.. P. B. Pendleton
Mrs. F. B. Lacy Com.
Miss Elizabeth CARROT
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21

The Cost is Just the Same
to hang cheap paper, as good. We
buy Wall Paper in large quantities
and sell you good paper, new styles
at cheap paper prices.
Forbes Manufacturing Co.,
Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-21

Fix Up Your Parlor or
Your Sitting Room
with some of our handsome Cabinet
Mantels and Tile Hearths.
Forbes Manufacturing Co. =,
Incorporated.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-26
POOR MOBILE

Telegraphic dispatches from Mobile are
detailing at length the calamities which have
fallen upon the schools of that city because
of the adoption of Prohibition. The state
ment is made that kindergartens, musical
and manual training departments have been
eliminated; tuition fee of SIG per year has
been fixed for the high school and teachers
wages have been reduced all around.
Mobile gave herself most unenviable
reputation last year when she drove her
public school teachers to the state capital to
oppose Prohibition, under the threat Of dis
charge, and is now to be congratulated upon
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-26
LINCOLN

The effort which is being made just now
by the liquor interests, in the columns of the
daily papers of Chicago, to prove that ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN was drinking man, would be
laughable were it not so pettily mean.
No fact concerning any great man in
American history is better substantiated than
the fact that ABRAHAM LINCOLN, during all
the active years IF his life, was consistent,
total abstainer from the use of alcoholic
liquors. His own testimony that that absti-
nence was lifelong is in clearest record. His
public utterances upon the temperance ques-
ton are by no means few and are we'll known.
The files of the papers published in his home
town record him repeatedly as a speaker at
temperance meetings, and it is matter of
history that he took part in the campaign
which resulted in the enactment of Illinois
early Prohibition law.
It is altogether too late in the day for some
broken down old drunkard to gain any hear
ing, except among his like and those who
prey upon them, when he tells how he "drank
with Lincoln fifty years ago."
The Northwestern Christian advocate we'll
says "Mr. LINCOLN, If zivimg today, would
probably be Prohibitions"