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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23. I90B. m HI' Entered at the Postoffice at WilmlBg ton, N. C, as Seconi-Class Matter, April 13, 1S7D. JACKSON & BELL COMPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPT!! THE DAIIiY MESSENGER t mail, one year, $6.00: six months, $3.00; tbree months, 81.50; one month, 50 cents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSEN GER (two eight pa?e papers), by mail,' ne year $1.00; six months, 50 cents tn ndvr.nce. WILMINGTON,- N. C. THURSDAY. NOV. 22, 1906. BETTER POLICE PROTECTION. Every city in the south should fol low the example of Asheville and Dur- ham in providing better protection for , jib civiua ---t" wuve , 1! conditions present or antici- and better armed rxjce force. The re- pated bich prevent that man from ac cent affair., in the former city shows j tlng the position who is the choice how futile It is for policemen armed j of the entire foard of trustees and. we only with revolvers to cope "with even J beijeve of a large majority of those one man "Who has a repeating rifle in his hands. The board of aldermen of that city has purchased thity-five rifles of the latest Winchester model and ten riot shotguns for the use of the policemen in case of riot or serious disturbance, instead of forcing tlfem to rely on their pistols, as heretofore. The Buncombe county commissioners have taken simi lar action and have ordered fifteen rifles and five riot guns for the use of the sheriff's posse rn case of emer gency. In Durham there came near being a serious race conflict a day or so ago. It s was avoided by the white men turning j loose a nesrro thev had arrested for j cutting a white man, because a crowd i of angry negroes had assembled and j showed disposition to rescue the pris- i oner. A military company was recent- ; ly organized in that city, and on apply ing for admission to the state guard was informed that it could not be ac cepted as the number of companies al ready reaches the limit provided by law. Recognizing the necessity of bet ter police protection the board of al dermen is considering the proposition that it appropriate fifteen hundred dol larsfor arming with rifles a body of forty men to be known as the police reserve. There is little doubt that the aldermen will adopt this pTan. Take our own city. Consider how it is policed. In the first place the force is not large enough, and in the second ! y ..o, 9UWiu . arms. We doubt if the city owns a! single rifle, riot gun cr pistol. Each policeman supplies himself with some kind of a revolver and with these they are expected to quell any disturbance that may arise. It is true we have two military companies here which could be called out in case of serious rioting, and would do effective work in quelling the same, as they have done in the past; but the city shoufd not be com pelled to rely solely on the military. The police force should be looked to primarily for preserving order and sup pressing incipient riots. As matters now stand, our policemen, armed only with revolvers and with no reserve cf rifles or riot guns, are not equipped for effective work should such occasion arise. We had an illustration of the defective arming of our police last Sat urday night. Had the squad which Went to the Cape Fear mill yards to capture the murderer, Frank James, been armed with Winchesters or riot guns they would have captured those negroes who fired on them or have pre vented their ever again having the de sire, or it may be, the ability to fire upon officers of the law. Our city should purchase and keep in a safe but convenient place a number of heavy arms for the use of the police; for there Is no knowing when they will be needed, and. it may be that on some occasion their time ly use may prevent the necessity of hm LIS ADAGE S AY &-j&$L A light purse is a heavy curse' Sickness makes a light purse. The LIVER is the seat of nine tenths of all disease go to the root of the whole matte;-, thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the action of the LIVER to normal condition. G7ve tone to the system an solid flesh to the 'body. Take No Substitute. calling out the state troops and avoid greater bloodshed by suppressing a dls-t turbance of the peace before It had grown to proportions demanding more rigorous action to quell. There is one more suggestion we would like to make to our city fathers, and we hope they will not consider us too officious in these remarks about our police force, and that is that our policemen ghcmld. be exercised in squad drill and pistol and rlfie firing This would give them greater confidence in themselves individually and make them much more efficient when acting in a body when called on for hazardous duty. TALKING IN RIDDLES. There were two paragraphs in The Messenger's' special -dispatch, from Greensboro yesterday which struck us ; as being rather peculiar. One was in reference to Mr. Joyner's refusal of tbe presidency of the Normal and Indus trial college, which stated; The refusal of Jq.yher ia taken by many to mean an ;teute stage of politi cal conditions present and in future over the question nf educational poli- ! cies in te state.. must confess that we are com atgeaasto what are tne acute i people of the state who have given the matter any thought. Such conditions, if they exist, must be very peculiar and novel ones. The Industrial News in an editorial on the subject of Mr. Joy ner's refusal of the position says: The board of directors would nave voted for him to a man, but he asked that his name be not considered. "My heart," said he "is with the Nor mal, but my duty lies along the lines of the work I am now doing." That was his decision, and from it he could not be moved. Now, that is not so mystifying, and we can understand it. We recognize the force of Mr. Joyner's reasons and understand his position. No doubt he would personally prefer the presidency of the college, but feels that duty de- mauds he should remain at the post to which he was called by the people of - The other paragraph is in reference ) to the attendance on the Mclver memo rial exercises, held in Greensboro on Tuesday. On this subject the disparch says : One of the highest tributes to his worth and forceful life was the one paid inferentiaily by the emphatic ab sence of politicians, no state govern ment official, judge on the bench, con gressman or United States senator be ing present. But there was assembled at !rast five hundred out-of-town vis itors, representing the leading educa tors among the men and women of the state to pay tribute to the memory and the worth of the departed. Why none of the officers mentioned was present we do not know, but we suppose all had good reasons for 5 being absent. We suppose the remark about tne empnatic absence of the of . . v.. u... ficials being or. 3 of the highest tributes paid inferentiaily to Dr. Mclver's mem ory is intended for sarcasm. We can put no other construction on it. It is a pity that none of the officials were present and a still greater pity that their absenco should cause such feel ings on the part of the doctor's friends as the words above quoted indicate. The result of the elections for mem bers of the legislature in Delaware ia cited to show how important it is that every man should vote. That election was an important one, as the legisla ture will elect a United States senator. That body will be composed of thirty six republicans and sixteen democrats. If eighty-seven more democrats had voted in the different legislative dis tricts the vote on joint ballot in the as sembly would have been twenty-seven democratic to twenty-five republican, and the present republican senator would have been succeeded by a demo crat. A man who stays away from the polls never knows what harm his fail ure to vote is going to do. Baltimore medical men are puzzled over the case of a man who has stop ped breathing, but still lives. The action of his heart is natural, but there is not the least respiration discernible. He was found in this condition in bed and the police, thinking he was dead, were about to take him to the morgue, when a coroner discovered his heart was still beating. He was taken to a hospital where, he lies in an uncon cious condition, apparently dead except for the normal pulse. He is fed through a tube inserted into the stomach. President Roosevelt did not "scare worth a cent" at that denunciation by the republican committee of New York county of his order discharging ths negro troops. His reply was positive and to the point just what it should have been. We pin our faith to Mr. Roosevelt's doing the right thing in this ease, though on some former occa sions he has acted mighty shaobily toward the white people of 'the south on the negro question. New York state's treasurer-elect Is a man who has made a fortune as a bak er. Evidently he knows how to take care of the dough. SUNDAY CLOSING IX RUSSIA. xnax. is a peculiar piece or news which comes from Russia in this Twentieth century of theTJhristian era. The government will soon promulgate a law providing for Sunday closing, and what is more peculiar is that it is a political move on the part of the government to secure votes for its party in the coming elections. The proposition was made by the minister of commerce ssi has been a subject of discussion by the cabinet Up to two years ago Sunday closing was unheard of in Russia; but within that time a strong movement In Its favor has sprung up, and there have been strikes in its behalf. The administration de sires to take advantage politically of this growing sentiment It Is not act ing from a sense of duty or from Chris tian motives.. Railroading in the iQountains is. not the safest occupation in the ?orld. An Asheville dispatch gives an account of; the wreck of a freight train on the! Western North Carolina railroad the! other day. The engineer lost control of the train and it rushed down the mountains at a speed or sixty or seven ty miles an hour for eight miles before it left the track when all the crew were killed or. injured and fifteen cars were demolished. The chances are t"hat the Asheville papers could put their fingers cn the man who sent out those sensational stories and they should call his name out in nveeting' and tell him what he is. -Ourham Herald. We do not Intend to defend any man who sends out false or sensational re ports about accurenees in his commun- ity; but we must say that some of the. dispatches above referred to impress us with the idea that they were wd'- ten in the offices of the papers in j which they were published. A laborer at the Baltimore Manufac turing Company's plant falls into a vat of boiling molasses. After being extri cated he walks home, but dies after seven hours of intense suffering. We wonder if the company threw away that vat full of molasses or if some of the consumers of its products will have to eat it? Our congratulations to Brother Reese and his excellent paper, the Greensboro Record. The latter lias reached its sixteenth year. We are glad to know that it is in first rate nealth, as its out ward appearance indicates, and we hope it will continue to grow and to prosper as the years go by. So, Mr. Carnegie denies the report that he has promised to give a mil lion dollars to be usea m promoting universal and perpetual peace between I nations. He is not quite that anxious j to die a pauper. Nov it's the Philadelphia ice men's turn. Four of them are on trial on j charge of conspiracy to raise the price cf ice. Let the good wcric go on. A Kansas man, aged 94 years, takes unto himself a bride of Co. This is his fourth wife. She, no doubt, thinks she has a better chance than any of her predecessors of becoming a blooming widow. A Maryland legislator favors a. law imposing a fine of ten dollars on every registered voter who falls to vote un less he can show a valid excuse. That codfish trust they are forming ud in Maine is welcome- to all it can make out cf it so far as we are con cerned. We hope it will scoop in the smell too. Harry Thaw has ordered three new suits of clothes for his trial. He must expect it to last a long time, or, per haps, he decs not wish to have to pur :h?.se another for the electrocution. We have not heard of Mr. Rooeve't trying his hand at shoveling dirt in tre Culebra cut; but he has done a litMe! of everything else since he has been down there. dlBlllEfnllir.rf Gives men health and strength to surmount all difficulties. A pure, high grade gin that has won great favor.,- Popular everywhere. Sales enor mous. Every man needs it. Try it today. :: :: All good dealers sell it "B&B" Atlanta 111 1 To prove naoucstiaQAhlT.andbeTcod ut 5nrfct ' - that Catarrh oi tha note and throat can b cored. ' I am fcmlihinx paUeots throoga drarcita, arsail 1 fn Trial Boxm of Dr. Shoop'i Catarrh Cere. juu wu &ecau l am o certain, Uutf Dr. Fhoop g I Catarrh Core wfU brln actual nxhstanti&i k?t Nothing certainly. It to oonrincinx as a rhrsicai test ox any article of real. gmotSne martt. But that articl must recce troenwlt. tins tat tt will cscsui. fauar than adrance it. Dr. Shoop'i Catarrh Core U a saoar white, healicjr actUeptic balm, put ao ia befal alcael cacpad tlau Jars at 60c Such soothiaf aftots as OU Eucalyptus, Thymol, Menthol, ew.. ara incorporated to to a jelrety. cream like Patrolatoaa. importad by Dr. Ehocp from Europe. If Catarrh of tha com acd throa$ ha extended to th stomach, then by all ineans aTaocAe internally. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, ftomaeh distress, a lack of general strength, bloating, belching. biliousness, bad taste, etc rarely call for Dr. Shoop's Restorative. For mi complicated catarrh only of tha nose and throat nothing else, howerer, need be used but Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Cure ROBERT R. BELLAMY. TO Tim. FLA., AAD RETURN VIA AILiI COAST ACCOUNT TAMPA FAIR. Tickets cn sale Ncve.bsr 13th to 27th inclusive and 2Stti; limited to return, leav ing Tampa not later than 15th day from date of sals including date of sale For further information Phone ISO. T. C. WHITE, W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. Pass. Trf . Mgr- WILMEVGTOiW IV. C. nov 16-39. a ls vg? :Jt utf vvi E53S 5. ii nine ume hwer i TiTuat Bear E-ieriturc of See Fac-S.r:c Wrapper Below. 1 Very I'jn.iall aud us ee.y to taizs 03 sugar FC-R KEASACHE. F23 ZmiKfSS. JTTLE IVER PILLS- FCR 2JLWUSKtSS. F8R TiRPIO LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION FOR SAU0V SKtff. FOR THECCftPLEXICK CtJETCUXTOa MUST WAVt PWATUWI. Purely Tegctaile .&?e&crC CURF fllC HEADACHE. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Southern National Bank At Wilmington, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business No vember 12, 1906. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts -$506,795 15 Overdrafts, secured aud unsecured. 9T7 if U. S. Bonds to secure circulation... 200,000 t U. S. Bonds to secure U. S. detosits 50,fX CO Premiums on U. B. Bonds .' 9,2;; W Furniture aad fixtures , 5,t2v Due from National Banks not reserve agents) 284,947 41 Due from State Banks and Bankers 221,539 00 Due from approved reserve agents 67,829 44 Checks & other cash items 1,670 69 Notes of other National Banks 10,900 00 Fract'o.ial paper curren cy, nickels, nd cents... 686 12 587,572 6C Lawful money reserve la Bank, viz:- Spocifi 25,168 00 Ltai-tender notes 5JiS0 00 30,245 00 liedemption Fund with U.S. Treas urer (5 per ceut. of circulation) 6.238 25 Total 1,397,047 41 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in s2C0,O'X 00 Suroius t ur.d liO.UOO VJ Uii iivided proStR. less expenses s.nd tciAC-s paid ;5,&27 O National B;iuk notes outRlandintf. .. C't.Ai Cc Due to otLet National Banks n,ZA 2 Duo to Mate Banks and Bankers Zli:. t ' Due to Trust Companies aod Savings Baraks 28,6-3 4J Due to Approved reserve Airents 00,75 13 I :ul:viaril deposits mbjct t check... 220,637 60 tr cmea ciieots ;jj U. S. depojits ! . 00 831,519 Total 1.C37.04T 41 State of North Carolina, County of New Hanover, ss. I, C. N. Evans, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. C. N. EVANS, ' Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of November. 1906. C. E. TAYLOR, Jr. Notary Public. Correct Attest: MATT J. HEYER, Z. W. WHITEHEAD. ISADORE BEAR, Directors. HUGH MacRAE & CO. We Bay and Sefl on Ccamissicn Cotton 31111s stocks, North and South j Carolina State Bonds and all stocks. ' Pi - 4 t m .. . r i t STATEMENT The Murchison a J. At OF WILMINGTON, N. C. At the close of busings' November 12tlta 1906. RESOURCES : Loans and Discount.. U. S. EonU (At par) . Bank Buildlny CasS 2S,CX 00 6:.&3 S3 DEPOSITS : Noveiror ei,iS.,rc.49. November, l,ftfcV3.0. November, EXTRA NICE HOBSES AND BUGGIES, surreys and traps, and heavy wagons to do heavy liaullng in and about tho city. We solicit your partonxigc. Yours Respectfully. F. T. m ALU CLOTHES .MAKERS BALTlMORfi EWYORK MSB r Pr. Sfe I Monarch Sluliptts New lot of Hawes Soft Hats and Derbys just received Upto'date line of Gents' Furnishings. . SIBIEE. y Sxs Lfeis to Order From $13.50 Up. The ver 'Sill Fox Co Recognized in ihis country and abroad as the finest BuWer made. For sale by the following Dealers only: Hall & PearsalS, J. A. Taylor, Hcyer Bros., WHliams Bros., F. E. Hashagcn Co , People's Supply Co., CarpcMer Grocery Co., Sternberger Bros., Crow & Taylor. Try it Take no other. It makes friends every where. It siands pure food test for absolute purity. Be convinced. i A MiSlSion x The. Insurance, agitation seems to have irrigated, fertilized and cultivated the soil for the special benefit of N'ORTmVESTEUY MUTUAL LIFn INSURANCE COMPANY OF M1LWACKCT! i v r 2 t 1 Th5 Company i av.ra-in- a Million a month In new Ktt i " cc-s of 1905 Tliis after 1905 had sure with 14 BOATWRIGHT & SON, Agts, 17 Prlncc&s Street. VVIlminnton, N. C lAl 1 . Cca tcr J. Brume JiaSfT .9 3: CONDITIO!! National Bank 1 i V JL i V X 4- T V T LIABILITIES : , Capital t 3OX)(U X Surplus and Net ProflU 17P.2M 03 T Circulation 3W.O0O 00 X Deposit lfc, I,TG4,?2.7i. J 4 'H-KM III!? I'frH l! I I I II M 1 I I I I i I H I B SAY. BOYS. We have tlecidcil to add to our Iioreo, mule, buggy ami liarnoss business some. ; TiTQ MILLS & SON. w$' & Co.'s SUITS, OVERCOATS and'GRAVANETTES FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN 10.00 22.50, every garment guaranteed. Celebrated River Butter a Month ! largely exceeded lOt. Better in E AH PH. MOTT iveforxneaandi and renews U i