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2 Ufa Jtonpr, Entered at the Poatotflce at TTlhnng- ton. N. (X. ft Second-Class Matter. April 13. 179. POLITICS IX Ml'DDLK. Politics are getting pretty badly mi: ed. The republicans of Nevada in state convention have adopted a platform declaring for election of United States senators by direct vote of. the people. favoring "the largest use of silver as a money metal in all matters compatible with the best interests of our govern ment and. pledging tne nominee to congress to use his best endeavor to secure the greatest possible use of sil ver. The democrats of Colorado take up Senator Teller as their candidate for the senate, who has been republican, silverite and populist in the course of the last few years. In Vermont the state election results in no choice for governor. In this stronghold of republicans their nominee could not secure a majority and the election is thrown into the legislature, where both the regular republican nominee and the independent candidate is each claiming that he will have a majority of the votes. In one of the Judicial districts of western North Carolina the democratic nominee for solicitor was elected to that office at the previous term by the opposition party, and he is being oppos ed by a life-long democrat as an inde pendent. In a congressional district in this state some democrats are agreeing to oppose the democratic nominee in re turn for republican aid In securing the defeat of their Dartv's candidate for chief Justice of the supreme court. In almost every section of this state one hears of independent movements against county and legislative tickets. New York republicans held a confer ence last Saturday on the question of endorsing Roosevelt for the presidency In 1904, and they made a muddle of this, according to the conflicting statements of some of those present. Senator Piatt, and nobody knows where he stands on this matter if you knew where he stood today you would not know where to nlac him tomorrow said that it was decided to endorse the president's administration and "as far as in their novvpr" to endorse him for 1894. Mark the words quoted see what a loophole of escape the senator has made in case hf wishes to chance his mind. The senator further said there was opposi tiou to the resolution of endorsement but the final decision was "practically nnanimniis. " On the other hand the chairman of the republican state com mittee who was present, declared it to be the unanimous opinion that it was not only wise to endorse the administration of Mr. Roosevelt, but also to endorse him for 1904. Here is another political imi.i.iio mnrio ithp.r bv Mr. Piatt or Chairman Dunn. Some people think there is a possibil ity of the eighty thousand republican majority in Pennsylvania being wiped mit nr :it least greatly reduced. Penny- packer, who is considered a clean man and accepted by many anti-Quay re publicans on the supposition that he would somewhat "disinfect" Quay iwlitics, has greatly injured himself with these by endorsing the senator and his political methods. The people who say these things assert that ex Governor Pattlson's popularity and rep utation for success as democratic can didate for governor will go a long way toward pulling him through. Those who read the signs of the times look for some startling results from all these complications. UK. O. A. LO; AMI MIXKD SCHOOLS On September Tth TheMctsenger con tained an editorial on the fitness of Dr. D. A. Long, the republican nominee, for superintendent of public instruction, for that position. It was stated that there had never been made a denial of the! statement that Dr. Lons had for years been at the head of a school in Ohio, whose doors were open to stuoents from both races, and we argued that this was pretty strong evidence that he favored mixed schools. We have received a long letter from Dr. Long in regard to the above matter Inclosed he sends a copy of a card, a column and a quarter long, which he had published in the Mcrni.s Post, of Raleigh, in vindication or himself. Thej two communications me entirely too lone for us to publisn. 'I hey consist of denials in a very few word? of the as sertion that he favors mixed schools, then go on at great length to argue his qualifications to fill the of ho 3 Dr. Long tells us he was president of Antioch college for sixteen years; that both white and negro students were ad mitted. He denies emphatically that he "favors mixed schools. S far so good; we take his word 'or this: but he makes no statement as to what wer his views when at the head of an in stitution which was conducted on that principle, or when he changed his views n'the subject if he did not hold the same opinion then as now. As to the constitutional amendment Dr. Long says he was not in the state at the time of the election, but that in public speech made a short while before he. opposed it on constitutional grounds t I IT Tho Vpw -Vnrlr Tferald DUblishes a I scheme for suppressing trusts and ad vocates its adoption. It is the aboll . tion or reduction of tariff duties on the class of goods controlled by monopolies and publkation of the assets and profits of the trusts. President Roosevelt fa vors the latter, but he has never had -a word to say about the former plan, which is really the only sensible and! effective means of breaking down thel monopolies. A TIMELY SUGGESTION. The following from The News, of Richmond, Va., should be considered by municipal authorities of the towns in the south. The performance xef erred to In one of the side shows of a circus that wilj during the fall and winter give ex hibitions in many southern towns. Be sides this side show being so disgusting and obscene that its exhibition should not be permitted. It should te suppress ed because of the effect it ir liable to have on a certain class of our citizens. In these days of such frequency of criminal assaults on white women by brutal negroes especial care should be taken that no women of the kind trav eling in this side show should be allow ed to exhibit themselves in the manner mentioned before the class men The N.ws tells us formed the chief specta tors or the performance in that city. Let the city authorities in the south look to it that no such exhibitions are allowed. The News says: "Isn't there some law In the state to prevent such exhibitions as were given In one of the side shows of the Robinson circus which showed here yesterday and last nignt? it is announced as 'for men only and Is the Turkish 'muscle dance Last night the tent was filled almost entirely with negro men and before them white women postured ond expos ed themselves in the mo3t obscene and lascivious movements that the imagina tion could conceive. That kind of thing is putting fire in tow. The horrors with which the newspapers make us too fa miliar and the resultinj lycchings are natural and almost Inevitable conse quences. Presumably the locai authori ties did not know the character of this exhibition and it is too iate now to ap ply any remedy here. It will be well, however, for the police of other com munities, at least in the south, to inter fere and see that it is not receated. It is not only a disgrace to humanity and to womanhood, but it is distinctly a danger. It should be suppressed by all means. HOSTKIt OF XORTII TROOPS. CAROLINA Tl TMIf - m- wiiiiam xi. .Key, of Company D, Third Georgia regiment of the confeder ate army, has in The Atlanta Journal an article urging that there should be prepared a complete roster of the Geor gia soldiers in the confederate service. He takes the action of our state as his text and urges Georgia to do as well v Dy ner men who went to the front. He says of the roster of our troops: "If it is what I hear it is, each volume is worth its weight In gold." He puts up a strong plea for the preservation in permanent form of the names of the oeorgia troops. What North Carolina has so nobly done Georgia can do also. Every state in the south should follow the example of the Old North State. We quote the opening paragraph of Mr. Key's letter: "I have seen a notice of a roster com- Plied by judge Clark, of the North Carolina troops in the Confederate ser vice. If this roster Is what I hear It is. each volume is worth its weight in gold. JThere was never better, truer and more gallatnt and fearless soldiers than the "tar heel" boys of the old North State. None endured music of the shot and shell with more alacrity than they. They are entitled to all the good that can be said or done for them. They were a noble representative of a grand old state and right well did they per form their part. While these things I write of the boys of old North Caroli na are true, I say in truth, the "Goober Grabblers" of Georgia were their equal in all things that constitute a soldier or a good, deserving son of a great state. And yet Georgia has no compiled record of her sons, save that of a pen sion roll. They will not all appear on that roll. Many of the bravest and best lie buried in distant states. Many of like character living -and dead will not appL..i- there. Are they to be for gotten?" Those Long Branch gamblers who are putting in the usual plea of guiltv and expecting to get a nominal fine, had their bre.-.th taken away when Judge Foster imposed a fine of $2,000 and a term imprisonmenL The lat ter part of t..e sentence the Judge sus pended "on i -od behavior," saying that his object vs not so much to punish the men rui..dng the gambling houses as to break v.d the practice, and he thought this the best means of doing so. Beauty Triumphs, 'Tim m f-VoM 7 No woman objects to being benuliful. Beauty is woman's charm, joy, pride and strength. The world has always petted and adored beau til. I women. A pretty woman drctds mat err. iy for fear of losing tl.ia pow er and lnnur ce over men. vv rial can l.e done to perpecuatetberace and keep women beautiful? T I ere Is a balm universally used by cultured 'd unnltured women In the ciisis. Ilusba -is will do well to investigate this remedy i -der to reassure their wives ontherjointo .-ase with which children can -be born sad -.1 beauty of form and figure letameu. Moiker s Friend is the simple nam by which this tnvataable remedy is known. It will diminish a'l pain allied to Eic'herhoot:. Used throughout nrtmincT it a ill dispel morula sickness. cure sore brt .u-ts, make elastic all tendons and fibres csJltrd upon to hold in position the expanding burden. Muscles soften under i soothing influence and the patient anticipate favorably the issue, in the comfort tbuv bestowed. Mother's Friend Is a liniment for ex ternal application. Women's own pretty fingers rab it gently on the parts so severely taxed, and It is instantly absorbed and so lubricates the parts. Your dmgvist sells it for $1 per bottle. ' You may have our book M Motherhood i free. THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, OA. I J TIIE SOtTirS FINANCIAL 1XDEPEN- PE5CE. There is a gjod deal being said now in the newspapers about' the tight money market and the scarcity of money in the financial centers. Last Saturday's bank statement issued by the New York banks showed that the reserve tad been reduced to $4,000,000, and fear was expressed in some quar ters that this sum would be wiped out 17 the time of issuing the next state irenL which Is oday. This drain on the New York banks has been caused by the demand south and west for money ,to move :he crops of those sec tions. The cotton crop is much earlier than usual and is being rushed to market. The Immense grain crops of the west make the demand for money from that quarter very heavy, Through these two crops this money Is put in circulation In the rural dis tricts of the south and west .The New York newspapers announce that the banks of that city are not loaning this money to the southern and west em banks, but are simply returning It to its owner?. It is money these northern banks have held on deposit for the southern and western banks In other words, the south Is moving her cotton crop with her own funds. She has not had to borrow the money necessary to haivest and market the cotton. This money has been lying in the New York banks, much of it drawing two per cent, interest. This is quite a change in the finan cial condition of .the south. Hereto fore it was necessary every year to borrow the money from the northern banks with which to move the cotton crop. But this year the south is in dependent of the money, lenders. She uses her own. money to get her staple crop to market. In a few months a good deal of this money will find its way back into the banks of New York, placed there on deposit by our banks, who again will become creditors of the northern banks instead of borrowers from them, as was the rule formerly whenever cotton marketing time rolled around. This condition is an unmistakable evidence of increasing prosperity at the south. Until now the south raised its cotton crop on a credit and had to borrow money lo get it on the market. It was simply a tran3fering of the money paid for the crop from one creditor to another. Now the crop is paid for with cur own money and this is kept at home or loaned at inter est to the men from whom we used to be compelled to borrow. This is a re markable change in the condition of our people. A complete reversal of their position has been brought about by hard work, energy and pluck of our people, who cot last have' their re ward in being independent of the monied men of the north ho ever since the war have had them in. their grasp. Now we are free once more, and with each year this financial in dependence will r.dd more and more to the prosperity of our section. THIS GROWTH OF I 'ATE It !V A I jI S M There seent3 to be a fetir among, the people of Savannah a3 to what expense the city should incur in the matter, of reinterment of the remains of General Nahaniel Greene. The city council, has placed the limit at five hundred dollars This amount saems to have been somen thing of a compromise. The statement was made by a membii of the council that. If a larger amount was appropri ated, an injunction against using any of -the public funds for this purpose would be applied: for. Of late years the purposes for which city, county, state and national funds are used have been greatly multiplied and extended. The principle of pater nalism is making rapid strides, and the public treasuries are now drawn upon for purposes for which a few years agoj there would have been no thought of asking government aid. "We have wan dered for away from the tenets of the! strict constructionists of the ante-bel-' lum democratic party. Even the loose! construction whigs of those days would be appalled could they return to lifej and see some of the objects tor which the people's money is voted by national,' state and municipal legislators. What would those men think cf some of the modern appropriations, who held that under the federal constitution congressl had no right to make an appropriation for improvement of our navigable rivers and harbors. The old time whigs could never have been brought to vote appro priations to pay the deit3 of exposition companies. They would hav- opposed appropriation in aid of our own people in cases of great disaster such as the Jacksonville fire, the Galveston storm! and overflows of the tig rivt-is of the west as unconstitutional, and when it came to devoting the public (funds in aid of the subjects of a wealthy foreign na-l tion because of a fearful disaster such as the disaster of French and British towns in the West Indies they would have called a halt and most cmphatical ly opposed such a measure. But the times have changed and 'prlcclples as well as men have changed with them Now there Is hardly any object of a public nature which Lhe "servants of the people" think should be refused aid from the public treasury. The people are being educated to demana from thel government financial aid In matters which a few years ago no one wouldJ think of calling for such assistance. CASTOR O A For Infanta and Children. Tt3 KM Yea Haw Atasjs C::ght Bears the Signature of KING EDWARD AS A POLITICIAN. Some of the descendants of the old Jacobites of England are trying to es tablish a claim to the British throne for a member of the house of Stuart. The younger branch has become extinct but of the descendants of James I and Charles I. there are about twelve hun dred presumptive heirs to thr throne, some six hundred of whom would have better title than King Edrord but for the act of succession, passed by parlia ment on the expulsion of James II, which limited the succession to certain issue of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. This movement is in behalf of Mary Theresa, archduchess of Austrla-Este-Modena, a descendant of Hen rietta, daughter of Charles I. To counteract this there is to be made publication of the old Stuart manu scripts. These have passed by pur chase at various times into the hands of the present reigning family. The reason assigned for the publication is that at Is in the interest of history. The publication will contain the memoirs and secret letters of the later kings of the Stuart line, including those of James II, written after his deposi tion and of the two pretenders and their friends and abettors during the time of 'their attempts to regain the throne. The true reason for this action, it ap pears, is to check any disposition there might be at the present day to favor the return of any Stuarit to the throne: and it is said the revelations made in some of the papers, which have never heretofore been laid before the public, will have great tendency in that direc tion. All the secret scheming of the exiled Stuart and much pri vate family history of a kind not edifying to refined and chaste society will be brought to light. The publication of these papers has been 'suggested several times in the past, but opix)sition to laying these matters open to public gaze has won on every previous occasion. King Ed ward is so firmly seated on the British throne that we cannot see the least necessity for his trying to strengthen his hold on the crown by the publication at this late day of such literature. If all are published it is said there will be made some dis closures which will be a shock to many prominent British people, whose an cestors were parties to the proceedings narrated in the documents. ThiaJt the, determination is now reached to pub lish these papers would indicate that some reason exists therefor which has arisen since the last effort was made to give ithem to the public. The following editorial on Mr. Roose velt's silence regarding revision of the tariff as the best and surest means to check trusts appeared in Th'; Madison Observer of September 11th and in The Greensboro Record of the next day. The Messenger readers can exercise their own discretion as to which paper to credit the article. "Tariff revision as a method of get ting at the trust directly is a subject on which President Roosevelt can not per sist in keeping silent. He must speak to establish his own sin&rlty. The charge is freely made tha his speeches about restraining trusts are only decla mation; that he knows nothing can be done; that his constitutional , amend ment will take years to get, if it is ever secured at all. But in cutting away tne tariff protection of trusts, there is something definite that can be done immediately. The republicans of the west are demanding that it be done. Unless the president is willing to rest under suspicion that he is talking clap trap for political purposes, and that he has not really enlisted for a war against trusts, by every legitimate weapon, he will have to come out and take a posi tion on the subject. The Savannah News comments Presi dent Roosevelt for what he haa aaid in his recent speeches regarding the two sections of the country. We would have more regard for the president's compli mentary allusions to the south if his federal decoration day speech in which his remarks against the confederate vet erans were so bitter and denunciatory had not been so fresh in our memory. The one was on northern soil, ad dressed to an audience of federal veter ans; the other on southern soil and during a tour made to secure votes in the national convention. We did not feel flattered either at the president's frequent allusion In his speeches on his trip through Tennessee and this state to the fact that his .mother was a southern woman. He should have borne this in mind while making his memorial address last May. There is still mystery surrounding the death of the two young men who died of poison in . Dover last Monday. The father of one of the men denies the rumor of suicide. He says there was some great mistake somewhere; that his son had no reason in the world to take his own life. Shortly before his death the young man had gone to a physician and gotten a dose of medicine calomel and salts, which he took and soon become unconscious, never rally ing at alL It seems there was no truth In the statement of there being a young lady Involved in this case. The more facts we learn about this sad af fair the more mysterious it becomes. A Philadelphia judge recommends the establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters. How would It strike the Philadelphia politician to establish It for the punishment of vote buyers and purpetrators of election frauds. A Massachusetts man whe recently escaped from a lunatic asylum has started for New York to get, as he de dares, "an idea of helL" This man is not as insane as one would suppose. "Some of these oeonlfv" nrotested the. telephone girl, would try the patience or a saint "Ana ao you consider your self a saint?" "Well. I . always have a 'hello' around my heart." c TZi Kind Ton Hare Always In i5c for over 30 years, All Counterfeits, Imitations and 44 Just-as-good" are but experiments that trifle with and endanger the health cf anJ Children Experience against experiment. What is CASTORAA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Cantor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It eures Diarrhoea and Wind Oollc. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation ami Flatulency It assimilates the Food, regulates the stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep Thi C2d!drenvs Panacea The Mother's Friend CASTORS A ALWAYS S7 Bears the The Kind You Me Always Bought in Use For Over 30 Years thk exMTAvn eoMMurr. tt mar 17 su. W. rl fiS3 Da Fall Dress WILMINGTON'S BIG RACKET STORE I wish to-say to the ladies that cur stock is complete. It represents th. most complete assortment of Foreign and Domestic goods ever shown ?n the city. A beautiful line of waisting in Flan nelsall colors at 25 c per yard. A full line of Lahjlon Flannels also at 25c per yard. Three pieces of best quality French Flannels at 38c per yard. Seven pieces of the best quality French serge all wool 44 inches wide for 50c per vard all colors, they are cheap at 75c. Two pieces very fine Melton cloth for skirts 54 inches wide, blue and black only for 50 c per yard . The best quality of yard wide B'.ack Taff etta Silk for $1.19 per yard every yard guaranteed. Very fine Black Taffetta for 50c par yard. For ladies waists and suits we have 20 pieces Liberty Satin all colors they are the best 75c quality we are ?elling for 50c. All colors in Taffetine Silks at 23c per yard. Three pieces 54 inch reversible all Wool Rainy day skirt goods goods that are worth $1.25 per yard special this week for 50c per yard. Tbe best quality F. F. Cashmere that are standard 35c-values; we sell them for 25c per yard.'. The Big Racket Store, GEO. O. GAYLORD. - - Proprietor. Cotton Ties AND BAGGING o o -ARE HOW Dont make any contract until vou et our prices. We ofler besides all kinds of HEAVY GROCERIES, CANNED GOODS, GRAIN, HAY, NAILS, LIME AND CEMENT. PRICES LOW FOR CASH. THE WORTH CO AGRICULTURAL MID INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION : - A combination of theory and practice, of book study and manual work In ENGINEERING, AGRICULTURE. CHEMISTRY, ELECTRIC ITY, MECHANIC ARTS AND COTTON MANUFACTURING. Full Course (4 years). Short course (2 years), Special Course (5 months). Tuition and room, $10 a term; .beard, S a month. 20 teachers. 29 students, new buildings for 500. "Write for booklet "A Day at the Agri cultural and Mechanical college. President GEO. T. WINSTON. Raleigh r. Bought, and which has beea. has born? the slgnatnre cf and has been xnado under his per sonal supervision since Its infancy Allow no ono to deceiTP you in this. Signature of mvumv vtkct. new vew Goods Sale AT r Six-quarter serges In all pretty shai for 12c per yard. Two pieces nice. quality of Corduroy, regular price 75c, our price 45c. Just received 60 pieces beautiful Per cales that were selected by Miss Aim? Brown and we think the colors are ex-Vjl cellent; they are 8, 10 and 12Hc per yardi We have a full line of Fall califs in. all colors. Standard goods at 5c per yard. A full line of Moire Silk for waists at TCer per yard. Peau-de-le Silk in Black for 75. 90 and $1.00. 36 inch Tricots at 40c per yard 45 and 59c per yarcL A complete line of Broadcloths 51 inches wide for 9Sc per yard. I would like to say to the ladles of the two Carol lnas that we claim to be head quarters In the Dress goods business. First our stock is the largest and most up-to-date of Its kind. Second, we sell our goods for cash and sell for smaller profits. Third, we buy for cash and save all discounts and give them to you. We would like to ask you before buying- to look at our stock and remember a dollar saved fs a dollar made. Our buyer has Just returned from the north with the most complete etock ever shown in Wilmington. This large rtoek is at o a THE ORDER OF THE DAY3. MECHANICAL COLLEGE. (A