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THE W3XMmGTQ2ST MESSEKGKER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1902. Entered at the Postofflce at Wilming ton. N. C. as Second-Class Matter. April 13. 1S79. COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH CHINA The s-tate department announces that our reprecentative In China has concluded a treaty of commerce with representatives of that nation. This treaty provides for the repeal of all the old intricate tariff la-jvs of that country, espeilly of the likin tax, which was a. sories of duties imposed by officials at various interior points on importation. The new treaty pro vides for fixed duties at port3 of en try and allows no ethers. Similar treaties have been signed by represen tatives of most of the powers of Eu rope. The trea'.y has not yet been ap proved by the Cninese imperial govern merit. If it should make any changes, in the instrument, of course the signa-v tures of the representatives of the oth .r powers wouli be void: but it is hardly likely that any material changes will be made. The Austrian, Belgian and Dutch representatives signed the treaty with the understanding that it should be referred to their governments for approval: those of the British, American, German and -Japanese gov ernments sign-d i unconditionally. Portugal has thiown the only obstacle m the way by demanding cession of two small islands near Macao. These matters, though, wiir hardly prevent ratification of the treaties, which are to go into effect November 1st. This brings a.bout the principle, of the "open doo" ' for commerce with China, for union our government has contended from the beginning of the international negotiations with that government consequent upon the sup pression of the Boxer uprising. Mr. T. S. Sharre'.s was' sent to China a ye;.r ago by our government to nego tiate a treaty of commerce, and he has beK.i at work ever since, with the above result. This treaty will be of great impor tance to the southern states and es pecially so to iheir cotton manufac turing industries. Before the breaking out of the Boxer troubles the southern states had a lare and rapidly increas ing export trad? in cotton goods with China. In fact this nation was the chief customer ol the southern cotton mills for their coarse fabrics. This trade was almost entirely destroyed by the Boxer war. which had a serious effect upon the prosperity of these mills, but they are again beginning to work up these Chinese markets. Noth-i-.T could hardiy be of greaeter ad v ntage to the cotton milling industry he south than the opening up of the in:- rior of China to foreign trade. The gooJs made bv these mills are in great er demand in China than any other kin i ard the demand for them there is nipt COU.tl! be mure greatly benefited by these treaties than the south, and their rati fication comes at a very opportune time for our cotton factories. THE SC5D4Y MOU.M.VG PAPER. The Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, before its purchase by Mr. Ochs and consolidation with The Times was on! a six-day paper, having no Sunday morning Issue, being published Mon day morning instead, as was the Balti more Sun up to a short while ago. The reason the Ledger published no Sunday morning issue was that there were so many of its city subscribers who were too pious to read a secular newspaper on that day, no matter how clean and chaste its reading matter. These pioi3 people ignored the fact that in issuing a Monday mornings paper more Sun day work was required of the editors. news reporters and compositors than on a Sunday morning Issue. This wl no concern of theirs. The editors and printers had to look out for themselves. The attitude of these pious subscribers toward these men was if the same order as that of a very pious citizen of Xorth Carolina town toward a neighbor, reputed to have no religion, at the time the earthquke in 1SSC. While the houses were racking and shaking and the earth trembling and groaning this un godly man, frightened nearly to death, ran to the house of his pious neighbor and begged for his prayers. The re:'y to this request was: "Get away from here. I have no time to pray for any body but myself now. You must look out for yourself." On the consolidation of the two pa pers a Sunday edition was added, much to the horror and discomfort of these anti-Sunday newspaper subscribers. They do not want to read the paper, but do not care to miss any of the news. One of them has recentiy writi ten to the editor and laid the case be tore him, with the request that the Monday morning issue contain a synop sis of the news of the paper of the day before. This the editor has agreed to do thereby entailing additional Sunday work on one or more of the employ. of the paper in the way of summaris ing the contents of Sunday's issue for publication in that of the next day. Now these scrupulous Sabbath keepers are happy and feel that their virtue has been rewarded; for they are going to get the Sunday news without com promising themselves or abandoning their pisition on the Sunday news paper question. That their demand for reproduction of Sunday's news in the Monday paper causes more work on Sunday is nothing to them so long as it is some body else who does the Sunday work and they get all the news. PACKING THE SUPREME COURT. BOOiTIFt'L CROPS ALL OVER THE COrXTRY. REJOICING AT MORGAN'S RETURN. increasing. Xo section of this . ad perhaps of the world, will , LYNCIIIN'GS. All lynchings are violations of the law are crimes. Still, when a crime ngainst a chaste woman is committed and the brute is taken by a party of men and hanged to the nearest tree no man who has regard for the honor of woman and is billing to protect her can say that those men who meted out swift justice to her assailant should be punished. The great danger liable to result from lynchings even in such cases is that men grow calous and are led to take the law into their own hands in other cases where there is not the slightest reason for not allowing the law to take its own course. Vbrs than this there is danger of men, in the excitement of the moment, paying too little regard to the question of guilt or innocence of the accused. More than one innocent man has suffered death at the hands of a mob for a crime com mitted by another person. This is the most horrible phase of lynch law. An instance of this kind has just occurred in West Virginia, where two men were killed by a mob on the irtZt- nf havine murdered the chief of police of the town of Wilmoth in that state. It turns out now that these victims of mob law were innocent of the crime: that the murder was com mitted by a third person who is still .at large. , There is no excuse ever for lynch law to avenge a murder or any lesser -crime. Two wrongs do not make a right. The murder by a mob of a man who has committed the same offense does not satisfy the law's demands for the life of the first murderer. It creates disregard for human life and lessens its value in the eyes of the public, lawlessness begets lawlessness. Lynchings pave the way for. other lynchings. They create disregard for law and educate the crowds in the idea that they are above the law. They are a menace to society and calculated to destroy law and order. Unchecked they will lead to anarchy. The Wilmoth lynching was a most horrible affair and should make every mnTn stnirirtPTi xchn contemplates the ex- n -n-sr-v. tv.it vind of mob-law may CUW M4vu t w if tvi rmrts and the frrana juries do not check it by just and covoro minishmpiit of the cruilty ones. t-v, recent lynching in Leesburg, Va., and the killing by a mob of two men ooiichnrv in this state, while not otpndPd with the appalling fact that innocent men. were put to death, .were as unjustifiable lrom the viewpoint or the law The men. who committed these crimes should be brought to justice so n -mAni may be made; to know When it was announced in Wilkes- barre. Pa., that J. Pierpont Morgan had sailed from Liverpool for New York there was rejoicing among the coal mine strikers as well as among the op erators. Each side seemed to think the great money king would put an end to the strike as soon as he arrived on this side. The universal expression was He will make them come to terms." The "them" is supposed to refer to the coal roads. The general impresskm was that Mr. Morgan had snch control, over these railroads that he could force, or, anyhow, Induce them to come to terms with the strikers. Whether Mr. Morgan he the influence or control, and if he has it whether he will care to use it, the strikers seem: to think they have a friend in him who will look after their interests in this great labor war. Perhaps-Mr. Morgan's influence by reason of his money will be able to accomplish more than Sena tor Hanna's civic federation couldt do by volunatary advice. DEATH OF WIILAM A. HEMPHILL. Colonel William A. Hemphill, of At lanta, died Sunday night. The newsrof. his death caused a great shock to the people of that city in which he had made his home since 1S6.. While he had been in feeble health for. some time his death was quite sudden. Appoplexy was the cause of death. He. was down town attending- to business Saturday and even drove to churca Sunday morn ing, but returned to his heme without entering the church, because of a sod den attack of illness. Colonel Hemphill founded the Atlanta, Constitution nearly 35 yezrs ago. and was one of its principal owners up to 1S92. He was 60 years of are. He was as prominent in local and political life as in journalism. 'A -If: - i ft 1 ?. s df&Uflil && Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of 5ee Fac-SImlle Wrapper Below. Yery mH avd to taXe s rossx. CARTER'S IVER PILLS. J Met I Cents I FOB HEADACHE FOB DLZZIUEtt '- m m erne m aVefc roaxoasTtPATi::? rU4 HlbbWMrUMbii GJcrrcxzai muotmc CURE SICK HEAO&CH?. When, during President Grant's ad ministration, the membership of the supreme court was increased from seven to nine judges it was stated and generally believed that it was done for the express purpose of securing a court of the last resort which would declare the "greenback" currency a legal ten der. As the court stood before its increase of membership a majority of the judges wer opposed to this con struction of the law. It was well known at the time that the views of the two additional judges were known by the president to be In accord with the de sire of the administration and Wall street on this point before they were appointed and that they were placed on the supreme court bench for the purpose of securing this very decision by that court. Again in later days another promi nent railroad lawyer was placed on the bench of this court, the appointing power well knownlng his views im portant railroad questions before the office was tendered him and it was promised that the big railway corpora tions would subscribe a large sum to the republican campaign fund If this man was given the appointment. . Thes appontments were made when the court was almost evenly divided on the questions which the administration and its supporters were most anxious to have decided In a certain way. A majority of only one on this court. composed of nine members, is too close to be comfortable to the powers that be, for some one of the majority might change his mind. The income tax case. decided by the supreme court a few years ao, is an illustration. It will be remembered there was not a full court when the case was first argued and those of the judges present requested a re-argument before a full court before they would decide the case. The ab sent justice came, the case was again argued and the income tax law decided unconstitutional by a majority of one, four holding it valid and five declaring against it. To the surprise of every one, though,, it was not the justice ab sent on the first argument who cast the deciding vote against the law, but one of those present at the first hearing and who up to the time of the second ar gument was of. opinion that the law was constitutional; but the second argu ment or something else changed his views on this most important question, the judge who was absent on the firat hearing voting for the constitutionality of the law. This shows how dangerous it-is for the administration jo rely upon- the slim majority of - one member of. this court of last resort for deciding meas ures involving the legality of measures it wishes' to carry through. In the appointment of Hon. Oliver WCndell Holmes to the vacancy on. the supreme court bench President Itoose- velt seems to have- remembered these past circumstances in connection with the appointments: to this court and. has governed himself accordingly, withithe view of strengthening the administra- tion's position aato the novel principle that in matters pertaining to our new possessions an act of congress is supe rior to the constitution and that only such provisions of th latter apply to them as congress chooses to make. ap plicable. The supreme court, by a-di- vislon of five to four. decided that con Xres8 had absolute control over Irto Rico and the Philippines and thar.the constitution did. not . onver these por tions o the United States, except rhen put in force by the will of congress. This majority of one was too small for tha president;' so on the first opportu nity that-off ers .he takes steps to sacure the permanency of thia construction of the Lvr and the constitution. Thisho does by finding out before hand . the opinion of the propose new justi-aebe- p fom lie tenders .-hlma the appointment Before appointing Justice Holmaes- his views on thist important point ?f: law wera ascertained. The president. wasJ informed that, Justice. Holmes' opinion was mat ir.t cunsuuuuu exiaiu5 u.c our colonies only to- the degree o which the congress of. the United .States carries it hyr legislation". So now tha the advocatBOf this remarkable, conr struction of. the constitution that, the creator is subject ta the will of the created have , a court of final resort in which thera is less danger of overruling the former decision, and taking frmi the president and thfi congress absolute, despotic rule over, those colonies. It is true, Justice Holmes' title to the office is not yet.camplete; hisnomina- tion muai be confirmed by the seaate before it becomes so; but there la no danger there; the republicxaii senators will be sure to confirm the nomination of a man who they know ifr reely to carry aut their ideas on this very im portant question and will decide in favor of their aontention fjor absolute rule in these islands. The descendants of Beajamin Frank lin make claim against the cities of Philadelphia and Bostor for money left to those cities by their ancestors to b u&d for the benefit of printers and ar tisans of tb printers craft. They con tind that the gifts hare been forfeited because never used foe the purposes In tended fcy tbe donor. The original sum was two thousand, on hundred pounds sterlings It is claimed that the amount is now about four hundred thousand dollars. Tha Liewiston (Me.) Journal, once edited by the late ISelsoa Dingley, says: "A general revision of the tariff will be in order alter iwh-' irom a republican standpoint what great changes are yoing to occur which will make necessary a revision two years hence of tariff laws - that need, no change now Is not It a covert .way of besrsing for two more years, of pillage, tor thetiusts? The 'average production of corn in this country from 1S35 to 1900 was a lit tle over VW,000,000 bushels a year. Last year the crop was cut short by hot winds and drouth, so that the yield was only about l,tt0,000,e00 bushels. This year, though, will mako up for last year's shortage. The government de partment of agriculture estimates the present crop at 2,600,000,000 or over 1,000,000,000 greater than last year and 300,000.000 larger than the crop of 1S06, which was the largest ever produced. The indications are for a wheat crop thia year of 650,000,000 bushels. This. while not as large a yield as the crop of last year, is, excepting that and the crop of 1SSS, the largest on record. In the aggregate the grain crop of the country thi3 year will be the largest ever produced, and the generally good seasons throughout the country have ensured extraordinary good crops of other kind. From all parts of th' country there com reports of greater prosperity than in many years among the agricultural interests. COTTON -FUICA. IX SOUTH A rumor was recently sent out that a British syndicate had been formed and had taken options on immense tracts of land In the "cotton zone" of Africa and would begin the production of cotton On a scale that would threaten the su premacy of the United State as the cotton producer for the world. This rumor was promptly cVnied though. Regarding this report and the question of cotton- production in South Africa. The Manufacturers Record says: "On its face the story was a dream. and it was denied within forty-eight hours after its first' publication. That the growing of cotton in Africa may be extended is a possibility.- That its extension stall theaten the supremacy of the United States is a very distant contingency, and an utter impossibility should the cotton-grower of America adopt more generally the policy of in creasing the production of the staple per acre alonff with the natural increase of acreage devoted to the crop." flip AYcgdable PfrparalionfcrAs simHating the Faxl andEe da ting thcStomacbs aruiBowcls of Promotes DigeslioaChrerfur ness andRcst.Contains neither Opimorphine norxGoraL OT"NARC OTIC. EmkalU SmlM- A perfect Remedy forCortsCpa tton.SouTStorarJi.Diarrtoca Worms Convulsions Jcvcrish- ju?ss and Lo SSOF SLEEP. Far Simile Signature of KEW YORK. mm m m mmm m m m B H e M Minify u mm For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature AgF Use EXACT C3PY OF WRAPPER. 1V . For Over Thirty Years lo) JllU TMK CINTUH eOHMNI. M TOMM StTV. &uxr 17 am. w. tA ami ! Three new diseases have lately de veloped. Each is confined to a distinct class of our population. Th man whose necessities compel him to stand on his feet about fourteen hours x-day and handle the laver and brake of-an electric car is inject to the "trolley car stomach." A man who can not conceive of any thing more enlighten ing or profitable than to dance around aitaale after a ping-pong ball hours at a time is liable t; suffer from "ping- pong ankle." Tho man whose most arduous duties are- clipping coupons is. now Tvarned against the dreadful dis ease of "coupon -wrist." King Edward's gift of Osborne House to the nation was nut such a magnani mous deed after all. It is now learned that t&e king when: he first arx;ended the thrown decided not to use the place a a residence. Being his individual property the expense of keeping it np falls upon his private funds and amounts to a considerable sum annual ly- A year ago h3 proposed to Lord Salisbury that the government buy It at a fair price. The premier refused to 1 so. Now, to get rid of the expense -of. keeping it up, the king gives it to the nation, as it Is useless to him. According to the decision of the su perior court of thisstatft In an indisU anent tried in Charlotte, sun time and not standard time is statutory in this state. A saloon keeper was indicted for k selling liquor after J o'clock, the time the bass are required' to close. The evi-i Lence was that the' sale was made at 5:18 o'clock standard time. This time at Charlotte is about thirty minutes ; faster than sun time at that point. On "this evidence the 3'Jdge decided thode- fenderjt was not guilty. That little boom for the vice-presidency- gotten up Sir Governor Yates is saiii to have been started to side track him in the gubernatorial race. You 3e his friends cannot pu.cu his name for the latter while he is being "urged for the former by so-called sup port ars. FOR CASH, EVKRY . DOLLAR DOWN, i bought the itire stock of fine oei of Mr. I. L. Greenewaid on Market iraroeft. Mr. Greeneald sold me his entm? stoe& and his good vJl h? has re tired. This stock is all hew end fresh and nlc. It represent s to my trade about S00 pairs Infants and Children's Shoes. 1000 PAISfcS- L.ADIES MIOES AND A UIG LOT OK Men's and Boy's Shoes, and m full line of Kuniiers of the best i lality. can truthfully.aay lr behalf of Mr, Greenewaid that he kept the cleanest, and morft up-tOMlate stock I ever bought. I woul i like to say to Mr. Greene-oald's trade that rbousbt these shoes aheap and I roarw nto sell them Just one half of his price. Hb $4.00 shoes will be sold for $2.00 His $3.00 shoes wilt be $1.50 and his 52.0a shoes $1,00;: kis ;i.50 shoes ?Cc;. a $1.00 shoes L0c and hi 73c shoes 38c. and his chil dren's 50c shoes wiS be 25c. Ladies vri3hingrh fit fit themselves and families up for the fall can now do so at our store at one half price. W are selling mn's Goodyear Rubber Jl.CM. shoes for GOc. Ladies' Robbers ve fitting Rubbers worth 5dc now 23c. -worth 75c for -Sc. Little- children's glo Men's and Ladies' Felt shoes foc houser -wear are also half price. In adition to Mr. GreeiKwald's steels we hav on hand abouL 7.00 pairs of our iwn goods bought from the largest factor isa In the country. W ask that you. bring your feet to us and we wiH 'save ymx 23 per cent of your rhoe leath er bill. You say I di.'t believe it hxwt.can they do It? I will tell you how I do it. I am a wholesale shoe dealer and I buy my shoes a cheap as any jobber and can sell? shoes cheaper because I have less expense attached to it. Cormr and look over the- G-eenewald stock anI fit your self nit. Hem ember the old adage a dollar saed is a dollar, made. Save your money ly buying youn shoes of us. The Big IRacket Store, GEO. O. GAYLORD. - - Proprietor. Th& color line 10 again drawn ?n New York. A negro is employed in the con struction of the Bast River briofce and all the white laborers quit work. In the-south the whites and blacste work togsther: the so-called friend of the negra at the n.th will not allow it tlwsre. Th populist Barty does ncn seem to t- growing fast: in Texasi Its state convention wa held the other day. "Eh two hundrml and forty-seven coun ties of that state were rerjrpsnted by fifty delegate.. Wonder how: Mr. Littlefiid. is getting' n with tha preparation of his anti trust bill. We have not heard of ajsy conferences, between hinvth president and the atUwmey generaliOf late on the subject. It has Jeen suggested, that the Brit ish insurance companies, who did such a big business insuring King Edward's life up to the Lime of his coronation. started and "boomed" the prophecy that h would not live to bo crowaed- Poor Tillman, the Lesser, lie is so mortified at the treatment he receives from the press of his state that he sheds tears when aHudiiyc to it upon the stump. Governor Aycock Is being universally young man charged with betraying a the arrest of Paul McDonald, the commended for offering a reward for young girl in Harnett county. Bird S. Color's friends are trying to start a boom for him as the democratic ' candidate for srovernox of New York- O O Cotton les o a. AMD BAGGING -ARE HOW THE ORDER OF THE DAY Dont make any contract until vou -et ojir prices. We ofler besides all kinds of FTRAW GROCERIES, CANNED GOODS, GRAin, HAY. NAILS, LIME AND CEMENT. PRICES LOW FOR, CASH THE WORTH CO, flCl VDTOUTV iFTEnK!:: The great remedy forfcerrous prostrmtloa sad aU diseases ol the reaentiT iyjKS??7, N1?H.Vy E5i?sil?1?' YtMul Errors, Uental Worry, excessive qm of tobacco or Opium, which lead to Consumption and lasanitT. Wlta eTery 9 S order we gxaraateg to cure or reload the moner. SoU A.OO Sr boZ w wuotw .ww fix a 1 COm CleYcl&nrf. Ahlik f OLD DT J. C 8 HEPARIN Ttt. T5TIL 2UHGTOJT, H. C. roar su, ir nr. that the lav is supreme.