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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER FRIDAi'. SEPTEMBER 22, 1005 4 - 4 ml ibe Poiiiifflrr at Wll I. Cm mM 9eeonl-ri natter April 13. l7K. TEltKR OF SCBSCHIPTIOX. ; POITAGB PRBPAJD. THIS ME98RSGEft U Mr yer f6.0O alx month 3.00 three aoolbi fl.COj one montk 50 teta. ' Irv-d In the city a SO eent Mnth, one vreek IS cents, f lJ&O for tnree months or 9S.0o a rear. THE SEMI-WEKKLY MESSENGER Ctwo 8-page papers), br mall one year 91.00 six tnontfas 60 cents, In Friday, September 22, i905 the sounrs COTTON crop. The New York Commercial, than which there is no more reliable com mercial or financial paper in the coun try, is very encouraging to the south ern farmers in its :expression of opl y ion as to the outlook for the cotton planters. In its comment on the ac tion of the Asheville convention mak ing eleven cents the minimum price for cotton it says: There is nothintr compulsory about this decision. It is more a matter of information than anything: else, se cured for the "benefit of the farmer. It is a conclusion deduced not with out some trouble, as we have seen from the data laboriously gleaned from every section of the cotton belt by the association. Of course it is not compulsory oa ibe farmers. It was never intended to at tempt to make 't so, for that would be impossible and the members of the convention knew that; but the farmers can, by sticking together and stand ing by the agreement, make it compul sory for those who want the cotton to pay that price or do without it. If the price of cotton is regulated by Jbe law of supply and demand, the pncw increasing as the supply on the market decreases then let the cotton growers create such demand as will advance the price, by keeping the product off the market. They did this last year . notwithstanding they produced the largest crop on record. If they could do this with a crop of over thirteen and a half million bales, surely they can do so and to greater extent with a crop of from two and a half to three million bales smaller than last year's. It will take backbone to do it, and will cause temporary inconvenience and perhaps privation to many farmers, but it will pay in the end and the far mers who stick to their determination will be immensely benefitted by it. ... The Commercial sees a possibility of : the price going much above eleven cents. It says: If the crop estimate and condition are nearly accurate and it develops that the 1905 crop will be of ordinary dimensions, or smaller than now esti mated, there is no reason to believe that cotton will not sell at a much higher figure than 11 cents. Cotton at 11 cents now does not seem high. Some of those at the con vention thought 10 cents high enough. That would afford a reasonable profit to the farmer: but 11 will be much better and if heycan get more before the season is over, well and -good. Next year should be an extraordinarily good year. The so"h should get rich off this monopoly guaranteed by na ture and against which none in this country protests, and those abroad only futilel" By all means let the acreage be increased; let the south take advantage of the natural demand of the world. There should be no more occasion to curtail the dimen sions of the crop as growers were per suaded to do this year." - There is good profit in raising cot ton at eleven cents. Our farmers can well afford to sell it at that price; but if they can get more it is all the bet ter. They should not allow themselves, though, to be carried away by the idea of securing very high prices. It will not be well to hold for figures some of them are expecting to get, -or they may be disappointed. We do not agree with The Commer cial in its advocacy of an increase of 1 acreage. The better plan would be to increase the yield per acre. Two bai33 of cotton can be raised on one acre cheaperthan they can be on two. The crop should be increased, if it is found that the world's demand is greater than the supply, without adding an other acre to tte number now under cultivation, but by making the land now tilled produce more cotton. This the farmers can do easily enough if they will pay more attention to im s proved methods of farming, and when they do this they will increase the net value to them of the crop. Another very encouraging feature is the failure of experiments in raising cotton in west Africa. The reports N of our consuls show that the south Las nothing to fear from that quarter. Great Britain and Germany have made desperate efforts to break the south's monopoly by fostering cotton growing in Africa. The results of the experi ments show that it cannot be done. For years and years to come the world must look to the south for its supply of raw cotton, and every cotton fac tory that is built in the south leaves less of the raw material to supply the foreign demand. When the south's mills reach the consumption of all or even three-fourths of her output of raw cotton the world's demand for the manufactured goods will have become so greatly Increased that it wont mate much difference to the south whence the European" mills get their raw ma terial. The south, after taking what she needs to supply her tremendous domestic and foreign trade with thel products of her own mills will let the New England and foreign mills bid against each other for the balance. Those boys in Spencer who were caught taking a peep at a meeting of Masons through the ventilator in the ceiling must have been reading Sut Lovingood. It's a pity they did not meet with the same warm reception as did Sut when discovered. That lodge room had a lath and plaster ceiling. Sut undertook to sit on the laths, with his feet over a joist. The laths gave way.but not to sufficient extent to let through his entire body, which shut up like a jack-knife, his shoulders and legs remaining above the ceiling, and heeould not extricate himself. One of the Mason standing on a chair, went to work on Sut with a board. Great Scot! What stuff that Ra leigh dispensary hands out 'to its pa trons! From the News and Observer's account of the investigation by the al dermanic committee of .the charges brought against the dispensary man agement we take this: In the charges of lack of cleanli ness in bottling whiskey the men who swore to their own drunken habit3 swore that in some instances they had found straw, trash or flies in their "ticklers" while one swore that he had purchased whiskey at least once a day. for a year and had never made a purchase but that there was a fly! One witness testified that he saw a negro after drinking from a whhikey bottle spit out glass, and another that he had bought a pint of sherry wine and that there was an inch of flies in the bottom. This last testimony was explained by Captain Heilig. who made the sale, who said that the only way he supposed this could have occurred was that as the wine was fermenting on the shelf the cork flew out and was put back by some one after flies had gotten in to it: that in bottling the room was protected by screen doors, that all the bottles were carefully washed, that a fan was kept running above the place of bottling. He had expressed re gret at the occurrence and made the exchange. The hens of this country last year placed two hundred and eighty million dollars worth of chickens and eggs on the market. They have a right to make a great fuss every time they lay an egg. An exchange records the fact that a New York telephone girt" has married a man worth twenty million dollars. We bet she won him by never answer ing his call with "the line is busy now." The mayor of Durham, continues to have his long list of Monday morning cases before his court of "drunk," "drunk on Sunday" and "disorderly conduct." Durham has a greater number of such cases on its city court docket than any other city of its size in this state. That blind tiger liquor which is dished out there so freely must be of a fearful quality. The statement comes from Georgia that Mr. Sidney C. Tapp will enter the gubernatorial race. The chief purpose of his doing so seems to be that he may "answer Mr. Hoke Smith" in re gard to the latter s denial of the state ment that he promised his support to Mr. Guerry during the last guberna torial campaign and then did not give it. New York city has over sixty-seven thousand children who cannot get seats in the public schools, and still there is the cry that the average number of children to the family is too small. George W. Perkins, vice president of the New York Life Insurance company and a member of the firm of J. P. Mor gan & Co., began his business life in 1S97 as an office boy on three hundred dollars a year. We bet he saved some of his first year's salary. Now he can manage transactions involving hun dreds of thousands of dollars in which he as manager of one concern bargains with himself other. as a member of the If the policy holders of democratic persuasion in the New York Life Com pany had been given the choice we reckon many of them would have preferred voting for McKinley and Roosevelt and keeping those thousands of dollars in the treasury for the bene fit of their policies to having the com pany offset their votes by those heavy contributions out of their money. A. J. Drexell, of Philadelphia, is go ing to give up his American citizenship and move to Great Britain where he will become a subject of King Edward, It is not stated what has caused him to take this step. William Waldorf Astor, who did the same took that means to show his disgust at being defeated for the nomination as a can didate for congress. The United Statejs has gotten along very well without him; and, we reckon, can do as well without Mr. Drexell "as with him. When a man gets too big for his country it is best for both that he gets out of it. Bean the Signature cf The Kind Yoa Hava Always Bocgti AX IMPORTANT DECISION. It did not take the justices or our supreme court - long to decide that Judge Ward acted legally when he im prisoned and fined McCown for con tempt, but it seems to take them some time to give the reasoning by which they came to that conclusion. The publication of the opinion inhat ca33 is awaited by the members of the legal profession with much interest. This was one of the most important and far-reaching decisions that ha3 ben made in this state in a long time, wherein the rights of person are con cerned. This will form one of the leal? ing cases on the question involved. For that reason, we suppose, more than ordinary pains will be taken in the preparation of the opinion, of the court and of the justice who, while assent ing tothe finding of the majority of the court, reaches that conclusion by different reasoning and bases the le gality of Judge Wrard's action on the state statutes and not on the common law rights and powers of the court. The public generally will not care so much by what reasoning the con clusion i3 reached. What it is most interested in is the fact that now under the laws of this state such conduct as that of MeCowns is contempt of court, punishable by fine and imprisonment, n If the newspaper reports of the de cision of the court are correct it is a law which cannot be amended1 or re pealed by a legislative act. It will take an amendment of the state con stitution to change this law, or an over ruling of the supreme court decision in the McCown case by that court at some subsequent period. The court would hardly do this unless it was made very plain that the members of the present court had mistaken law in the case. -he The Washington Tost declares that Addicks is clamoring for honest poli ticians. Now that his means for cor rupting the politicians are exhausteu he starts out on a new track. When Mr. Bryan sent that telegram of congratulations to Mr. Roosevelt on the latter's success in bringing about peace he must not have known the 1 terms of the agreement as to Korea or does his oft repeated principle of gov ernment oniy" by consent of the gov erned apply exclusively to Americans? That sea captain will know better next time not to leave in distress upon the high seas a vessel on which Mrs. Roosevelt and the children take pleas ure trips, whether they are on board or not. According to the Washington Post C4eneral Wood insists that the Moros are pacificated and he is ready to prove, it by showing their graves to'lfriy doubting ones. The Americans must be becoming fonder of smoking cigars. During the last fiscal j-ear there were manufactur ed in this country over one hundred and eighty-five million more than in the year previous. If there is one man in this country who more than any other hopes that Mr. Addicks has gotten to the bottom of his barrel that man is Senator Allee. His term expires in March 1907 and it is said Mr. Addicks wishes to then try his luck again. Mr. Rockefeller snys he can see no cloud on the financial horizon. Why then did he put up the price of oil twi cein one week? How come so? The war depart ments has issued an order against the enlistment of any more negroes in the army. per cent, actual Potash Send for our books they tell why Potash is as necessary to plant life as sun and rain; sent free, if you ask. Write to-day. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York 93 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga-3i South Broad St. NICE LOT JUST RECEIVED. These Hams are scarce and going fast. PHOXi; YOUR WANTS. WILMINGTON GROCERY CO., JOHII L. BOATYRIGIIT, . Phone 14. Manager. isTCORN FIELDS ff JAREJ30LD FIELDS 6' (toZtheJfarmerwho under- Pf tstano3 now to ieea nis ii crops.! Fertilizers for Corn l r must contain at least 7 UJ 'J8 Hoi Carolina Hams ATTEfiUCE AT IIEW More Than Six Hundred Bare Registered. 1 Substantial Increase Over Last Year, Dr. Ilertjr Becomes Professor of Cemlstry Other Change? In the Faculty Secretary for the Y. M. C A. Bob Lawson Becomes Gymna sium Instructor- Football Proswcts and Schedule of Games. (Special to The Messenger.) Chapel Hill, N. C., September 19. The University of "North Carolina opens for the scholastic year of 190G-C under most favorable conditions. The number of students registered to date is COS, a substantial increase oveh the j registration last year at this time. Of L this number 20 are connected with the t medical department situated at Ra leigh. The last two years in medicine are furnished medical , students there and every possible facility required by advanced medicine science is complied with. The freshmen class is composed of 1 exceptionally well prepared students, j and is numerically larger than any pre- j vious class. Almost every preparatory i : C- J., A A A. A. 1 2 school in the state has representatives and every county has its quota of men. Students have matriculated who repre sent quite a number of other states, the southern states especially having sent quite a number of men. Several changes have been made in the faculty for tbe year. Leaves of absence have been granted to some members who go away for further study and for research work. The chemistry department has quite an addition in the person of Dr. C. H. Herty who comes from the University of Georgia to accept the directorship ! of the department here. Dr. Herty is 1 quite a celebrated scientist and is one of the most prominent members of his : profession in the south. ; K;"' " J"; t V, r , f t are here to assist m the medical depart- Tin I r.': 1 i t t x' 1 1 ment. They were members of the faculty at Raleigh but were transferred ! nere tms year, owing to the resignation ; of Dr. K. H. Whitehead, dean of the ; medical department who resigned re cently to accept a professorship at the University of Virginia. Dr. J. E. Mills, associate professor of chemistry has been granted a j'ear's leave of absence which he will spend in Germany. He goes abroad to do re search work. Mr. M. W. Stacy, instructor in math ematics, will leave in a few days for Cornell University wThere he goes for a years work in higher mathematics. Mr. F. H. Hickerson, lately with the Wm. Bingham School at Asheville, will have charge of Mr. Stacy's work dur ing his absence. Professor Edward Kidder Graham, of Charlotte, of the department of Eng lish, has resumed his duties after a year's leave of absence spent at Co lumbia University. Mr. Frank Mc Lean, a recent graduate of the'Univer sity, has been made an instructor in the English department. Professor Joshua W. Gore, of the school of physics, has resumed his duties after a year's leave of absence because of ill health. Professor Gore's many friends throughout the state will be glad to hear tbat he has entirely re covered. Mr. J. C. vTackson, a recent graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has been secured to fill the position of secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. He will have entire su pervision of the work and has already assumed his duties. This is the first year the association has had a secre tary and the University is one of the few southern institutions to have an association secretary. The new $15, 000 building of this organization is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy within a few weeks. It is one of the most attractive looking buildings on the campus and fills a long felt want. Professor X. W. Walker has been made professor of secondary school organization. This is a new office re cently created and Mr. Walker's duties will be to travel throughout the state visiting the different schools and or ganizing schools where there are none. Mr. Walker will work under the su pervision and direction of the presi dent of the University and of the state superintendent of public instruction. Professor, Walker will have profession al rank in the University faculty and when not engaged in his work of travel will deliver lectures "oh educational! topics at the university. ur. iiooert x. Sanson, oeuer Known in athletic circles as "Bob" Lawson will be in charge of the Bynum Memo- rial gymnasium. He is a skilled gym- nast and Is very popular among the students. Dr. Lawson coached the A .1. and the team he put forth defeated the University of Virginia team in both games played. He will be assist ed in his work by Mr. K. L. Wardlaw, i of Boston, The outlook for a good foot ball team Is very bright. Coach Warner has had the candidates out for "several days and has been putting them through a thorough course of light training preparatory to the harder work that Is to follow. Mr. Warner Is a Cornell University man, having play ed guard on that team for three years. He has coached several teams since his graduation and has developed fait teams wherever he has coached. Last year he coached the Sherman Institute team an Indian school in California and developed a teamthat won every game played. Foye Roberson of Chap el Hill. Is Carolina's captain this year. Roberson is one of the best foot ball players in the south. In addition to Roberson, Story, Seagle. WTngorne and Townsend of last year's team have re turned this fall. Carolina Is fortunate Cm Do you honestly no W turn asd tlON COFFEE de IIUX3. Of 111 MOUCX CCFTTXS. Millions of American Homes wdcomo LION COFFEE daily. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increas ing popularity. "Quality survives all opposition. (Sold only la 1 lb. package.. Iion-hed onjT package) (Save your Lion-headi for valuable premiuma.) v SOLD BY GHCCERS EVERYWHERE in having this year Gardner, Aber- r.athy and Sadler of last year's A. & M. team, and the Snipes brothers from Guilford's team. In addition to these men there are a number of candidates who are showing up exceedingly well ' in the practices. Manager A. II. Rahnson of Winston Salem has arranged the following schedule: September 30th, Guilford college at Chapel Hill. October 7th, Davidson College at Charlotte. October Htb, University of Penn sylvania at Philadelphia. October '21 sr. Navy at Annapolis. October 2Sth, Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Richmond. November 4th, Georgetown Universi ty at Richmond. November 11th, Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh. November 1Mb, Virginia Military In stitute at Winston-Salem. November .'iOth, University of Vir ginia at Norfolk. DIED FROM SUCKING MATCHES Peculiar and Saxl Deatii of u Six Months Old Iiaby Failure of the Firm of George B. Edwards & Co. (Special to The Messenger.) Goldsboro, N. C, September 20--The o?v v, f t . TT , . Henry xjecK raei wun a rainer peculiar, death this morning terday afternoon the not noticed by its mother until it had! opened the box and had several of the ! matches in its mouth. In a short while the infant began to grow ill and con tinued to get worse until death re lieved it at 4 o'clock this morning. The physician in attendance said that the child sucked the poison off the matches down its throat, and literally burned its stomach out. Contrary to all expectation the child did not have con vulsions, but went to sleep and breath ed its last very peacefully. The firm of George B. Edwards and Company, doing a merchant tailoring business, and selling gents furnishing goods, made an assignment this morn ing to Mr. H. C. Smith, bookkeeper m the National Bank, and cashier of the Savings and Trust Company. The lia bilities will foot up $5,000 or more and the assets will come something near that amount Poor business is put down as the cause of the failure. The announcement made as surprise to :he business circles of the city. The mem bers of the firm are young and popu lar and were thought to be doing a paying business. This Is the first fail ure of an established business house in Goldsboro for several years. The Goldsboro Merchants Associa tion have taken up the question of providing a suitable place for the re ception and comfort of visitors from the surrounding towns and country who come to the city to spend the day in shopping. A committee of five has been appointed to either have erected or purchase some building where la dies especially can go to make their toilet, eat their dinner that they bring with them, and take care of their chil dren. It is calculated that visitors to the city will greatly appreciate such a convenience and will cause many to come 10 the city who might possibly otherwise stay away. By providing for their comforts whilethey are in our midst it will show visitors that ih j people of Goldsboro appeciate tbir 1 visits 1 Stopped the Masons. There is somewhat of a stir at Spen cer today over the work of some mix. t noon or Saturday night (we do nor re call this) the masons were in sscre session and these boys broke up their meeting. They did It Intentionally. There !s a ladder by which they climbed up to the roof and entered the building from the top. The ventilator between, the ceiling and the roof made It easy to see and hear "what was going on amd the masons were forced to abandon their purposes temporially. The names of the boys were learned and warrants Issued for them. Several of them belong to the best families in Spencer. The aspect that the case is to as sume win be in teres ing. The boys ilia or iimv iifir. nt nrrKMntfM tv. io turbing the masons service, or thy , aTeea- Juasre Hoke formally dis may be indictei simply for tresspass.! 2 eo l! raa3L herd the Whatever nroeePdinirW t iriettrV Sur,reme court In banc, thus taking uarin? themm n?ri ilt about 0x9 same cours a-s the McCown Shpfp Srhml SLf toterest eT3r- cae from Durham. This course was where. Salisbury Post, j referred to by . Juctee PurnelL of the " V 1 Federal court, who said the only thing Madam "Have yoa had experience". to be ae. if anything, was to sret a Cook "I've had . tin place this ' cPe fcfcrethe State Supreme court, month." Harper's Bazar. then before the Federal court on wri of error. " JT WSNV.fcVV- V bcliere, that coffee sold loose (in bulk), exposed to dust, germs and insects, passing them not oTcr-dean), "blended! j i UwU V wn mrj w mm is fit for yonr tool Of coureo you don t. But wm (Dowi benies. selected by fodfleset tbe plantation, are eUDlfnUy roastCd at oar fac tories, where precautions yon would not dream ol are takes to secure perfect cleanliness, flavor, strength and uniformity From the time the cotfee haves the factory no hand tmichc it till it is opened in your kitchen. "WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toioao, vnio. A NERVOUS WRECK Mrs. llcasley Ilroodinc Over Mysteri ous Disappearance of Her Younc Son. Elizabeth City, September IS. Sen ator S. M. Beaslcy, of Poplar Branch, Currituck county, passed through this city today en route to his home. He has just returned from Norfolk, wu?r-3 he carried his wife to a hospital 10 be treated for nervous debility, resulting from the mysterious disappearance of their small son, Kenneth, February 13 last. Mr. Beasley rtated that the mental strain upon his wife was wearing hrr life away and he expressed strong doubt as to hor complete recovery un less the missing boy was found. He says there have been no developments, no new clues, since the search was abandoned. He still thinks, howcv r. that the boy is alive, but cnterUjn no hope of recovering him. bpera to the News and Observer. L Weekly Crop Bulletin. Raleigh, N. C, September 18. The weather lor the past wek wa characterized by warm days and cool nights, but the mean temperature for the week was about normal. The only rain of consequence fell on the l.'Jth and 17th and was very lenelicial to all .crops. liio weatner m general nas been very favorable for picking cotton. ury in niosi piace; 111 a uw loeauu.. however, some wheat, rye, and oats nave ueen sown. There has ben no improvement in the cotton crop during the past week. The warm weather -aused it to open rapidly, and in some places prema turely. The crop will nowhere be more than fair, and in places it will be very light. It is generally reiorted that there will be no top crop, owing to shedding; many correspondents state that the bolls are small and the lint short: in the south-central counties and in the extreme northeastern iortion of bolls are opening prematurely, owing to rust: army worms are doing -on-siderable damage to late cotton in Beaufort, Craven, Jones, and Duplin counties. Tobacco curing is completed in the eastern portion of the state. Cutting and curing is in progress in the cen tral district, where the crop is rejxirted improved and in good condition, except in Rockingham county where some of it is badly burnt and .specked; it is cur ing well, color and texture are good but the leaf Is light. In the western portion slight damage by worms is re ported. Corn improved during the past week, but late com in some places suffered from drought, and some correspon dents report that it will not mature: a poor crop is expected in the eastern, while the prospects are for good crop in the western and central portions. Weekley Cotton Crop Report. Washington, September 19. Th'i weekly summary of crop conditions is sued by the weather bureau tolav. says: While a slight improvement in the condition of cottpn 13 reported from Oklahoma and Indian Territories and portions of Louisiana and northern Texas, the crop as a whole over most of the belt has experienced little or no change, with a tendency toward deterioration. Premature opening is extensively reported In the eastern and western districts but only a few com plaints of this character are received from the central portion. Boll .weevils are increasing in Texaa and are causing Injury in western Louisiana. A poor top crop is prom ised. Picking is advancing rapidly and is nearing completion in some fieH in southern Georgia. RALEIGH'S POLICE COURT Its Constitutionality Brought Before Supreme Court on Habeas Corpus. (Special .o The Messenger.) . Raleigh. X. C. September 19. -Application was made to Judge Hoke, of the Supreme court, for a writ of ha beas corpus to test In the state courts the constitutionality of the act jrtvinsr the police Justice Of Ralf-lch nnwpr to -"Km.c -niuiuui iurv xnai ir ih ru. - - - - - fui vim? fodder, meadow and pea vino IV at 4 o'clock. Yes-: nav Farmers in all parts of the state! V baby was given a have been ready to plow land for fall yi i, tu j : sowimr but the ground has been toa f