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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1903. Still Rising. tContinned from Fist Page.) may set in any moment. But this pre diction would be extremely uncertain cs the drainage from the river by the break at Trice's Landing has been something enormous and the water continues to pour through the break at a rapid rate. The water behind the levees in the flooded portion of Ar kansas is within almost a foot of the height of the water on the river side and when this foot rise has been com pleted, the Mississippi river may show further rise. The situation in this flooded country is growing worse with each hour and it is evident that a general rise of a foot more must occur over the entire sub merged area, unless a very material fall takes place in the river before the gap at Trice's landing can get through this volume of water alone or with the as sistance cf other crevasses which may occur. Some persons were rescued from Ma rion, Ark., by means of skiffs and the situation there is somewhat relieved. Eight white families and fully two hundred negroes remain there in the second stories of buildings. Th- city all day has been filled with travelers who have been delayed on ac count f the washouts west of the river. To relieve this congestion has been the efforts of the railroad com panies and tonight relief Is in sight. Th--- railroads have chartered steam boats to carry westbound passengers t . points from whence every one can t ike trains. In the city there is practically no r ange. The refugees continue to ar rive in large numbers. The flooded portion of the city has grown consider ably with the advance of the river to di.y. Mississippi at atcber. Above Dan ger Line. Natchez, Miss., March 18. In spite of the great width of the river, a rise of a quarter of a foot is recorded by the quasre for the twenty-four hours end ing at 4 p. m. This makes the Missis sippi river at Natchez 4.25 above the danger line and rising. The water louring through the crevasse at Bou gere La., has filled the swamp lands in the lower fnd of Concordia paris'a nr.d is backing up the bayos, P.lack river at Jonesvirie, La., reached the danger line forty-eight foot today and is rising at the rate of two-tenths a day. The three local packets are making extra trips for the benefit of Tctugees who wish to move to higher ground. Jraeticnl1y I nchangeil at Xew Or leans. New Orleans. March IS. The rlvei s-tuation here remain ; practically un changed. The fact tr it there has been r.c rise of consequer.ee since Saturday and that the weatr ?r continues clea enabled the state, deral and district authorities mater'ally to protect the temporary levees front of the city. The members of '. levee board today said the situation was full of hopeanu that there was r. reason whatever for Iccal apprehenr - n.. All the levee- south of the Red river continue to he The Missis .pi valley patrol train is carrying ? en and material to the levee distric -. COXFEItLM I! K RACK IMtOIH.KM. Wiscon.r -i Senate Stronplr Against Si-.iator I'atten'H Hill. Madi. on. "Wis., IS. The joint resolu tion of Senator Patten, providing for a conference on the race problem came up in the senate today for action. Sen ato: Patten made a speech in favor of the resolution. He spoke of the impor tance of the question and citing vay ings ;f southern writers on the outlook. It was not proposed, he said, to have a gathering of politicians, but of econo mists and sociologists, to consider es tablishing training schools for teach ers in lu different branches, etc. He rad a let.er from Acting President of the Wiscv sin University E. A. Birge. recommending the conference and mov ed ic refer the resolution to the com mittee on education. The motion was carried. While the sentiment in the senate seems to be strong against the bill. Senator Patten is of th? opinion that when its intent and scope are better understood, the feeling regarding it will be different. SoriotiM Aeeiilent Cannes "Wreck on the (Irani! Trunk. Guelph, Ontario. March IS. A serious accident occurred on the Wellington, Grey and Bruce branch of the Grand Trunk today, seven miles north of here. Crie of the trucks of a passenger car jumped the track and all the cars of th train, consisting of baggage car, combination, mail and smoker and first vlass cars. left the track. The last car went over a trestle above a creek tak ing a drop of ten feet in the water which was swollen by the spring thaw. A two year old baby got caught under the seats and was killed. The father was badly hurt about the face and the mother was almost drowned. Four others were seriously and forty slightly injured. rnrolinn Detent Oak: Ridge. (Special to The Messenger.) Chapel Hill. X. C, March IS. In the tveo nd game of the season and one characterized by good batting but loose tU-Mir.g. Carolina defeated Oak Ridge h. iv today by the score of 12 to C. The batting of Donnelly and Green for Car olina and Bennett for Oak Ridge were features. Batteries were Carolina Hart and Noble Oak Ridge. Lyon. Warren and Markham. The score R. H. E. Carolina 12 13 C Oak Ridge 3 S 9 IVominent Spectator Witness n I'riie Fight. New York. March IS. The Evening Journal says that fifty prominent so ciety and business men, one-half of them being presidents of Boston's fash ionable back bay district, witnessed a livelv 13-round fight at a private club at Waterbury, L. I., last night. Ac cording to the story, the Boston men included two supreme court judges, who were guests of New Yorkers. The contestants were Jack Lowery, of New York, and Jimmy Lowe, of Boston. They went fifteen rounds and Lowery was awarded the decision. Copyright, 1903, by C. B. Lewis. M R. BOWSER had been read ing his evening paper for half an Lour when he sud denly looked up witb the remark: "It was all the man's fault. He ought to have had more dignity." "What is it, dear?" asked Mrs. Bow ser. "A citizen of Chicago was walking on the street when the boys began snowballing him. He lost bis temper, and while trying to overtake one of the boys he fell down and broke his leg." "The boys were very rude. One here on our street bit me with a snowball the other day." "Then it was your own fault." "How?" "If you had maintained a proper dig nity, no boy on earth would have dared snowball you. I've been a boy, and I know how it is." "I didn't suppose dignity had any thing to do with it," said Mrs. Bowser after a silence. "I presume not, but let me tell you it has everything. If that Chicago man had had any dignity about him, not a HE GOT DOWN ON HANDS AND KNEES TO. SHOO HER OFF. boy would have dared to more than look at him. Have I ever been brought home with a broken leg?" "But you've been snowballed." "Never that is, not since I had any dignity. It's all in the way a man bears himself. Two years ago, when there was a street car strike, didn't I pass a mob without a single brickbat being thrown at me? How did I do it? I was calm. I was unperturbed. I was dignified. I was master of the sit uation." "But you came home without a hat and with your clothes all covered with mud." "But why? It was because thn drunken driver of an infernal ash cart HIS DOWNFALL CAME knocked me down, not knowing wheth er I was a hitching post or a man. I'll bet dollars to cents I can pass a thou sand boys and not one of them will dare take liberties with me. What in blazes is that old cat choking on now? Have you been feeding her fishbones again?" The cat was sitting up in the chim npv corner and wheezing and gurgling. iMrs. Bowser knew that she was hav ing a cat laugh all by herself and prob ably at Mr. Bowser's remarks, but it wasn't good policy to say so. He picked up the paper and read for another ten minutes, but his mind was on that Chi cago man, and he harked back by say ing: "Yes, it served him just right, and I don't blame the boys a bit. By George, but" It was the cat again, and, seeing Mr. Bowser glaring at her, she fled under the lounge. He got down on hands and knees to shoo her out, but suddenly re membered his dignity and got up again to say: "One often sees a man fall down on an icy spot, but one never laughs if the victim has his dignity about him." "Haven't you ever been Jaughed at?" queried Mrs. Bowser. "I have never fallen, but if I had there would have been no merriment at my expense." A picture of Mr. Bowser slipping and eliding and clawing the air and coming down with a bump rose up before Mrs. :5 -C ;i i He Is Certain Eis Is the Variety That Compels Respect -O Bowser's eyes, and she had to laugh Id spite of herself. "Have I said anything funny?" be sarcastically asked. "Yes, rather. If you should happen to fall down some time" "But I shan't." "Or if some bad boy shouldn't be awed by your dignity and he should throw a" "But he never will That's you all over. I can never make a statement that you are not ready to dispute. Very well, we'll put this thing to test. I've got to go around to the drugstore. There are a hundred boys on, the street, but if a single snowball is thrown at me I'll buy you a dozen handkerchiefs. If 1 slip down, I'll make it two dozen." v Five minutes later Mr. Bowser, with his silk hat on and his cane under his arm, was pacing along the street with the air of a Roman senator. He had taken about seven stage strides from the gate when the United States jump ed at him, and his heels flew into the air. He wasn't over ten seconds find ing the sidewalk with all his body, but the time seemed to him to be an hour and a half. His hat flew one way and his cane the ether, and two servant girls who were passing leaned up against the fence and snorted and gig gled and said it was better than vaude ville. Mr. Bowser got up. They generally do. He looked all around. Most men do that. Then he gathered up his cane and hat and told those giggling girls to giggle and be hanged to them and passed on. It took him two minutes to get into his dignified stride again and make up his mind that it was Mrs. Bowser's fault, and he arrived at the drugstore without further adventure. The snow on his back and the dent in his hat gave him away at once, and the druggist laughingly observed: "Hello, Bowser! Been sitting down on the sidewalk to rest?" "Sir, are you addressing me?" was the stern reply. "Why, yes, I was speaking to you. Had a fall, haven't you?" "Sir, I never fail . If you are through asking tomfool questions, you can now hand me out a box of chloride of lime." The druggist had no more to say, and, with his purchase in his overcoat pocket, Mr. Bowser headed for home. The boys had spotted him and been making ready. They had observed that silk hat and cane and Roman stride, but they had not been awed a little bit. They gave him time to got into a gait, and then the signal was piven, and a hundred snowballs flew at once. Of the hundred only ninety eight struck Mr. Itowser. but there were others to folio . It was such a surprise that he was stunned for a moment. Then. like the Chicago man. he forgot his dignity and rushed about bareheaded with uplifted cane. Hi downfall came a refute A MINUTE liATER. later. The same old United States, .with a part of Canada added this time, jumped in on him again, and the cir cus performance he went through with was declared to be the best thing ever given in the cause of charity. As he lay there the snowballs contin ued to come and the boys to yell, and it was not until a policeman came along that the youths of the country fled away in search of a new victim. Mrs. Bowser, sitting with her book, heard the front door softly open, and she stepped into the hall to find a hu man wreck. The wreck glared at her out of two swelling and tearful eyes and then got a move tn its legs and began to climb the stairs. "Has anything happened?" she ask ed. No reply from the wreck. "Did the boys snowball you, or did you fall down?" The wreck halted, straightened up and got its dignity, and, turning tc look down on her as a king regards a peasant, it slowly and firmly replied: "Woman, you go to Texas!" Mrs. Bowser returned to her book, and the cat gurgled and gasped till tears came to her eyes and she had to stretch out on the rug. M. QUAD. Whooping the Whoop. "Im so sorry they can't go," said the wife of a distinguished actor-managei to a friend who had invited her chil dren to tea, "but they're whooping the whoop." London Daily News. The Xegro and Music. . Editor Messenger: The north has recently learned and the south has ever known of the nat ural musical endowment of the negro. The Fisk university jubilee singers taught England of his wonderful gi?t, and the singing of Black Patti to for eigners coming to this country has helped in finally carrying his fame the round of the world. Making music with lard cans, tin boxes, funnels, quills, bottles, harps and sometimes using the mouth to represent a band or to imitate a bird j in song, are musical traits peculiar to i the negro, and such as have added to j his skill as a musical genius. The cultured south applauded very t recently an editorial appearing in the j Atlanta Constitution. Commenting up- j on the concert given at the "Atlanta j t y l. !J. eii vuiigxess me payer saiu. "With an accuracy that would have done credit to the best choruses that come from the musical centers of the United States, and from under the training of so-called masters, the chorus of negroes rendered the classics such as Et Camatus' 'Qui Tollis and others." A trend of facts the length of this article could be given complimentary to the negro's handling of this higher art: but that is not my purpose. Ac companying this praiseworthy feature in the negro's life there comes one very sad fact that he must not allow to continue. Thinking the candy striped serpent in reality a piece of candy, the child hurried to satisfy its appetite. Hurrying to eat it hurried to die. The negro in his crave to satisfy his musical passion has forerot to take along his discretionary power, and hurrying to eat he is fastly hurrying to death. In the days of old while clearing the forests and making the old earth sing at the approach of the plow, our fathers with a true melody sang themselves every day through the skies into heaven with God. About the kitchen and in the big house the Kongs of Israel kept our mothers' thoughts pure and chaste. But today, going after a tune and forgetting all moral sentiment, the average young negro sings himself every day through perdition into hell with the 'devil. I come now to speak of the one agent thats now at work and is to a large degree sapping out the moral life of the young negro. And I do this not to criticise but to call the attention of the thinking part of us to the fact that we should do something to stop this evil which, if left alone, will overthrow us. Coon singing and Ragtime music. I deplore the fact that the colored girl who works honestly in the kitchen helping to support her aged mother has .been, by a hellish writer, portrayed to the world as a moral leper. And I deplore all the more the fact that thoughtless negroes by singing this in famous music help to make this lie a verity. Every negro girl doing this honored piece of work is represented by this fiendish author thus: A para mour or a negro vagabond: stealing for his support; expelling him at will only to take up the same life with an other little more bright in complex ion. Such songs as this, connected with others as: "I Wish My Color Would Change," "Pack Your Trunk and Go," "I Don't Like no Cheap Man," and others too ridiculous for moral print are the agents that are now deadening the moral ear of our young women and are opening up a thirsty hearing for the vulgar, and consequently are making possible the fall of the young negro girl concern ing whom we are so anxious. I have heard our own mothers teaching these songs to their children because thev were pretty in tune. I have heard them sung m our cultured (and yet I don't see how thats true) negro homes. And to beat all I heard in one of our prom inent negro schools such song played for the children to march by. Now I appeal to every negro lover, every mother, father, brother, sister and es pecially do I appeal to our negro preachers; asking that we begin a cru sade against this demon. It is to the negro worse than whiskey. And let us, if possible, create a sentiment that will drive these songs from our ranks and that will help us back to the place which we have lest since the fathers. Let us drive this music out of the slums, out of every child, out of our parlors, knowing that this is but the devils way of taking advantage of the negro society. I have just returned from a trip reaching a thousand miles over our southern section, where I have been speaking upon this question and I complimented the record made last year by the young colored men of Wilmington. Namely, that of stopping the midnight serenade and brawling upon the street corners. I take again this chance to pitch publicly this flower to the same people. And now that summer is coming on let us not lose the record already made. Let us not fall again into the temptation of making ourselves the laughing stock of the entire community: and let us protect our sisters, defying such songs to be sung in our homes and in their presence. JOHN ADAMS, Pastor Christ Cong. Church. Yon Know What Yon Are Takinj? When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No cure no pay GOc. Carnegie Wants to Pay for Cornell Filtering Plant. Ithaca, x. Y., March IS. President Schurman, of Cornell university today received the following letter from An drew Carnegie, offering to pay for the projected Cornell filtering plant: "Dungeness, Fernandina, Fla,, "March 13, 1903. "My Dear Mr. President: "I have followed with anxious inter est your sad plight regarding pure wa ter. Today I read with relief that Cor nell has contracted for a filtering plant of its own. If the trustees would per mit me to pay for it I shall be very grateful indeed. "Yours truly, "ANDREW CARNEGIE." The trustees undoubtedly will accept Mr. Carengie's offer. Cardinal Gibbons Callx on the Presi dent. Washington, March IS. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, accompanied by Rev. Dr. D. J. Stafford, of St. Patrick's church this city, called upon the presi dent today by appointment. Cardinal Gibbons said that the president had ex pressed a desire to talk to him concern ing some matters which, he was not at liberty to disclose. O earstle JS'JPG The Kind Yaa Hats Afoafs esir The ARIZONA KICKER Breezy Items From the Pen, of a Fearless Editor Copyright, 1902. by C. B. Lewis. !T is remarked In a St. Louis paper that the game of poker would never hsve hfn known in this town but for our efforts. We re ply that it was here and in full swing when we arrived, and the only part we have played in the matter has been a losing one. We have never had an ace full that somo one else hadu't fours to beat us. We lo not know the name of the man who waylaid us last Tuesday night cn Cochise place a9 we were re- mm HE WAG LIMPING WHEN HE DISAPPEARED IN THE DARKNESS. turning home from Mrs. McGee's high tea, but as he was limping when he disappeared in the darkness we are willing to pay a doctor for digging the bullet out of his leg. It is stated in a Buffalo paper that we have made four different attempts to as'issin:ite the editor of the other weekly pa-: or published in this tow:: Here we liiugh. It is a well known faci that our csteeni'V. h;:s pegged away ::t us ;:lout thiv-.- . . s .-; w.vk ft r the last live yc;'. i. . . u,' to tiate has net even cut a but ton from our co:it. We find in a Montana p.: tlu state ment that '.V- -ce a nraeOv of kill ing at least i.. i "i;i::ar:;ep each month in the year. ;.i i- e has been with us for the last live years as prt-ssiuan and i ;Ii-.-.' :::d well today, and all conimu!::c:iii;r.s on this subject can be addressed to him. It was reserved for a Detroit newspa per to announce that we stood by and laughed in fiendish glee while a grizzly bear ate up a companion who was hunting with us. We have never hunt ed the grizzly. We have never seen one, dead or alive, in this territory. In fact, we have not seen a bear of any species, and, as for "fiendish glee," we couldn't come within forty rods of it if we tried ever so hard. A Baltimore paper gives credence to the report that we shoot men dead in their tracks for refusing to subscribe to our paper. This is an original way of building up a circulation, and we call the attention of our contemporaries to it An Ohio editor has learned from a reliable source that we are constantly surrounded by a bodyguard of twelve desperate men and but for that fact we would be lynched within an hour If that editor saw us strolling around town, with our hands clasped under our coattails, he'd probably invent some other canard. We bought another mountain the oth er day, making five that we now own, and if any of our esteemed eastern contemporaries can spare a couple of weeks this winter we wilj. give them no end of sliding down hill on the trail of grizzly bears. We believe we are the only editor in the world owning five mountains and each and all of them wild and untamable. We proceeded to the general offices of the Giveadam Gulch Stage company the other day and leveled two guns on the president and demanded that our annual pass be renewed. After a blutf or two it was renewed. It always is, but we ha e to go through the same eld progr. :;r.ie year after year. The fact that we now and then take n. hand in a game of poker is not con ! fidered by the postmaster general to : be against our usefulness as postmas ; Jer, and the people who are trying to make a hnndie of it might as well i save their breath. A Tucson paper announces that we have the cheek to aspire to the gov ernorship of Arizona. 'Tis true, and we'll bet a hat that we get there; afterward the presidency! We are a critter of such aims and ambitions that it makes our hair stand up now and then. M. QUAD. Rubbing It In. "An' de text say," remarked the old colored parson, " 'An' he shall sep'rate de sheep from de goats.' Now, brudren an' sistern. Ah ain't castin' no 'flec shuns on dis eougregashun; but, know in' hit as Ah does, Ah's willin to bet fouh dollahs dat when de day ob judg ment done rolls eround dar will be somethin' doin in de goat market Cleveland Plain Dealer.- NEW RAILROAD PROJECT The Charter Granted by- the Legis lature for a Railroad from Wil mingrton to Elizabeth City The Chances for Building the Road Said to be Good. Robert G. Grady, Esq., attorney for the company, secured from the general assembly at is session recently adjourn ed, a charter for the "Elizabeth City and Carolina Through Line," a railroad which the projectors propose to build from Wilmington to Elizabeth City. He has received a certificate of the charter, and from it we learn that the corporators are Messrs. R. G. Grady, of Wilmington, D. L. Farrior, of Pender county, G. B. D. Parker, of Duplin county, J. F. Johnson, of Pender coun ty, N. H. Carter, of Duplin county, S. P. McNair, of Wilmington, and D. L. Carlton, of Duplin county. The authorized capital stock of the company is $2,000,000 and the term of the charter is for 60 years, provided the work shall begin in two years from the passage of the charter. The char ter empowers the company to build branch lines in the counties through which the main line Is to run, and to consolidate with other roads that have lines through the territory. We understand that the company is soon to effect an organization! and that the prospects are good for the building of the road, as it is backed by parties who mean business. The projectors propose to build the road from Wil mington through the counties of New Hanover, Pender, Duplin, Onslow, Jones, Craven, Lenoir, Wayne, Greene, Pitt, Beaufort, Edgecomb, Martin, Ber tie. Hertford, Gates, Chowan, Perquim ans and Pasquotant. Out of Wilming ton the route will run twenty miles east of the Northeast Cape Fear river and then cross the river and Intersect the counties named. Twenty miles out of Wilmington it will strike one of the finest agricutural and best timbered sections of the state. The road will run through a country that is 30 miles from any railroad. UNITED STATES COURT Jnrors Drawn Yesterday for the Term Which Begins on the First Monday in May. The United States jury commission er on yesterday drew the jurors for the next term of the United States district court, which convenes in Wil mington, on Monday, May 4th. The jurors, however, are not expected to answer to their names until 10 a. m. Tuesday, May 5th. The following is a list of the jurors: New Hanover County James EJder, Thomas D. Meares, D. C .Love, George Honnet, Sr., Wm. Goodman, Ed. A. Orrell. Brunswick County R. W. McKeath en, Martin WThite, W. T. Gilbert,. EW. Taylor, E. B. Stevens. Columbus County W. H. Thompson Ira Lennon, Forny Richardson, C. Ramsbottom. Bladen County Thomas J. Freeman,. James Sherman, R. C. Squires, John D. Currie, Robert H. Mashburn. Robeson County Alexander Parham, W. R. McNeill,. A. C. Oliver, R F. Currie. Scotland County E. L: McNair, G. W. Wright, W. R. Spivey, J. A. Rus sell. Richmond County Billie Watkins, B. Whiting, W. A. Everett, S. T. Coop er. Cumberland County J. A. Gainey A. D. McGill, W. C. Fields, A. G. Thorn ton. Sampson County L. R. Highsmith, Luke A. Kennedy, Geo. W. James, Marshal Kornegay. Duplin County Y. F. Jones, John A. Gavin, Sr., W. B. Southerland, Sam B. Newton, Daniel Moore. Pender County J. F. Johnson, G. P. Duncan. Jesse F. Lucas, Elijah Shiver, F. M. Foy. BRUNSWICK COURT John R. Watson Sentenced to the Roads of Xew Hnnorer for a Year. Francis 31. 3Ioor nins the Coast Line for $( Damnes. Solicitor C. C. Lyon, of Elizabeth town, came up yesterday from South port, where he has bsen prosecuting in the Brunswick superior court 'this week. The criminal docket was com pleted yesterday. This side of the docket was light, the principal case be ing against John li. Wa:?cn, who was convicted of the larceny of ?5 in money and also for assault and battery. He was sentenced to the public roads' of Nev.- Hanover county for 12 months eleven months for larceny and one month for assault and battery. He has been brought up and delivered to our county authorities. He was con victed of assaulting G. W. Smith on the public highway and taking $5 in money from him after having given him a beating. Judge Chas. M. Cooke remained over in Southport to try civil cases. Yes terday the court began the trial of the suit of Francis M. Moore against the Atlantic Coast Line for $300 damages to timber by reason of fire alleged to have been dropped from the defendant company's locomotives. Messrs. Her bert McClammy and Meares & Ruark appear for the plaintiff, and Messrs. John D. Bellamy and Davis & Davis for the defendant. Southern Classification Committee in Session. Washington, March 18. The South ern classification committee of the rail reads south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi is holding its quarterly session here. The members of the committee are the general freight agents of the roads In the territory named, and the meeting is for the purpose of adjusting rates. P. J. McGovern, of Atlanta, is the chairman, and Joseph. C. Colquitt, of the same place, secretary of the com mittee. Cholly My horse never shies at any thing. She Well, he's used to eeelag you, Cholly. Judge.